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Messiah College Concert Choir to perform annual spring concert

	Messiah College Concert Choir Click on image to download print-quality version
	Director Linda Tedford Click on image to download print-quality version

GRANTHAM, Pa. (March 11, 2005) — The Messiah College Concert Choir will perform their annual spring concert on April 3 at 3 p.m. in Hostetter Chapel, located on the college’s Grantham campus. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call (717) 766-2511, extension 3310.

Directed by Linda Tedford, Messiah College’s director of choral activities, the 50-voice ensemble is selected by audition from a student body of nearly 2,900 students. The concert will feature several well-known motets from various historical periods: “Bogoroditse Devo (Ave Maria)” by Sergei Rachmaninoff, sung in Russian; “The Heavens are Telling” from Haydn’s “Creation,” and “Salmo 150” by Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar. Three pieces for Lent will be featured, including: “O Vos Omnes” by Pablo Casals, “God So Loved the World” from John Stainer’s “Crucifision,” and “Agneau de Dieu (Lamb of God)” by Rupert Lang.

Spirituals, early American hymns and “The Dream Isaiah Saw” by Pittsburgh composer Glenn Rudolf will also be presented. Rudolf began composing “The Dream Isaiah Saw” in July 2001 and finished after Sept. 11, 2001. He said he was moved by the appropriateness of the words from the book of Isaiah and the prophet’s vision of peace and harmony among God’s creatures. The Messiah College Concert Choir travels throughout Pennsylvania and neighboring states during the academic year and has traveled internationally to Canada and Ireland.

Also performing will be the Messiah College Chamber Singers. They will present “Jubilate Deo” by Hassler; “Sing Me to Heaven” by Gawthrop, and “ Kittery” by American colonial composer William Billings. The Organ and Brass ensemble will accompany several of the pieces.

The department of music at Messiah College is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. The department offers majors in music and music education. Through a variety of junior and senior recitals and choral and instrumental ensembles, students gain performing experience both on- and off-campus.

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 200
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-035-05