On Sunday, May 5th, at 7:00 p.m., 55 singers from 24 area churches join together in the 29th annual St. John’s Choir & Friends concert. This year’s program, entitled “Psalms and Spirituals,” features Psalm settings by John Ness Beck, Randall Thompson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and César Franck and Spirituals including Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, There is a Balm in Gilead, Give Me Jesus, This Little Light of Mine, Ain’t Got Time to Die, and Take Me to the Water. Director of Music Tom Snyder conducts and accompaniment is provided by John Quinn playing both organ and piano. John is joined by Derek Maninfior, Music Director at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Phoenixville and flutist Andrea Engle.
Last year over 60 singers from 25 area churches joined in Sacred and Secular Christmas selections. Past programs have included Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine, W. A. Mozart’s Requiem and Te Deum, Franz Schubert’s Mass in G, Howard Hanson’s Song of Democracy, John Rutter’s Te Deum and Requiem, a concert version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Glorias by Antonio Vivaldi and Francis Poulenc, J. S. Bach’s Magnificat, Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem, Maurice Durufle’s Requiem, parts II and III of G. F. Handel’s Messiah, Patriotic Selections, Broadway Selections and Spirituals.
Plan now to attend this inspiring concert. Come early as we anticipate a full-house. A reception follows the program.