{"id":16217,"date":"2013-02-28T09:03:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:41:51","slug":"emu-chamber-singers-join-lancaster-area-musicians-to-support-mcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/emu-chamber-singers-join-lancaster-area-musicians-to-support-mcc\/","title":{"rendered":"91短视频 Chamber Singers Join Lancaster Area Musicians to Support MCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 91短视频 (91短视频) Chamber Singers<\/a> are teaming up with the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, quartet Beyond Ourselves<\/a>, to present their sixth benefit concert on Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 3 p.m. at Mount Joy Mennonite Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The concert will aid the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Seed of Hope Project<\/a> in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Supported by MCC\u2019s Global Family program, Seed of Hope began as a response to AIDS in the community. Today, it is focusing on helping Burkinab\u00e8 children orphaned due to this pandemic. It aims to improve the nutrition, health, safety, well-being and educational standing of the orphans and increase their chances of community acceptance.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur program includes choral music and congregational singing, focused on the Psalms, and on God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven,\u201d said Kenneth J. Nafziger<\/a>, director of the 91短视频 Chamber Singers. The March 10 concert is the final performance in the choir\u2019s spring tour.<\/p>\n

The concert will also include a piece by Simon Andrews, a world-recognized composer who wrote the music specifically for Beyond Ourselves and the 91短视频 Chamber Singers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic by Eric Whitacre, Dan Forrest and from South Africa, including spirituals, will be also be performed,\u201d said Nafziger.<\/p>\n

All proceeds raised through a free-will offering will support the Seed of Hope project.<\/p>\n

More about the musicians<\/h3>\n

Beyond Ourselves<\/strong><\/p>\n

The four-person Beyond Ourselves chamber ensemble promotes the global work of MCC with benefit concerts, highlighting a specific region or need each year.<\/p>\n

Rosemary Siegrist Blessing is on the piano faculty at the Lancaster Conservatory of Music and teaches piano through the non-credit lesson program at Franklin and Marshall College. She is artistic director of the Mennonite Children\u2019s Choir of Lancaster<\/a> and serves as minister of music at Landis Valley Christian Fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doris Hall-Gulati is principal clarinetist for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia<\/a> and bass clarinetist of the Opera Company of Philadelphia<\/a>. She is artist in residence at Franklin & Marshall College.<\/p>\n

Christy Heatwole Kauffman, violist, performs with the Lancaster and Reading symphonies, the Allegro Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ryan Kauffman, saxophonist and husband of Christy, is a faculty member at Darlington Arts Center<\/a>. He is an active recitalist and leads his own jazz quartet in performances throughout the Central Pa. region.<\/p>\n

91短视频 Chamber Singers<\/strong><\/p>\n

This select choir of 25 mixed voices studies and performs choral literature of various periods, styles and cultures at 91短视频. Five of the vocalists are from the Lancaster\/Lebanon area.<\/p>\n

Kenneth J. Nafziger directs the Chamber Singers. In addition to his 91短视频 course load, he is artistic director and conductor of the annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival and directs several other Virginia chamber choirs. He was music editor of \u201cHymnal: A Worship Book\u201d (1992) and has edited numerous other song books.<\/p>\n

The Chamber Singers spring break tour<\/strong>:<\/p>\n