On Sunday, May 6th, at 7:00 p.m., over 60 area singers join together in the twenty-eighth annual St. John’s Choir & Friends concert. This year’s program includes both sacred and secular selections including a set of Four Appalachian Carols set for brass quintet and choir and audience favorites Jingle Bells, The Christmas Song (chestnuts roasting on an open fire), Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and The Twelve Days After Christmas. Director of Music Tom Snyder conducts and accompaniment is provided by a professional brass quintet and Organist John Quinn on piano.
Last year over 70 singers from 31 area churches joined in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living accompanied by orchestra and harp. Past programs have included 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.