BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free concert event entitled\, "With Cheerful Vo ice." Christ Lutheran Church in Hellertown will be the first site for th e \;77th Annual Spring Tour of the Lebanon Valley College Concert Ch oir on Thursday\, March 21\, at 7 PM. A dessert reception will follow in the social hall. There is no admission charge\, although a free-will of fering will support the churches&rsquo\; music ministry.\nThis year&rsqu o\;s program is entitled With Cheerful Voice\, which is a reference to L ouis Bourgeois&rsquo\; 1551 setting of the Old One Hundredth\, All Peopl e That On Earth Do Dwell\, the anthem that will open most of our perform ances. It introduces a varied program of choral works representing many types of music from several countries around the world.\nOther works inc lude a Missa Brevis Eclectica\, which includes the Kyrie movement from P alestrina&rsquo\;s Missa Brevis \;(1570) and a setting of the Gloria movement written 500 years later in 1970 by contemporary Swedish compos er\, Lars Edlund: from the Renaissance to the Scandinavian avant-garde\, complete with quarter tone singing and tone clusters.\nContinuing the c ontemporary theme\, the choir will perform an exquisite setting of Lux A eterna by the late Edwin Fissinger\, scored for 8-part choir\, soprano a nd baritone soloists. They will also perform Eric Whitacre&rsquo\;s Lux Aurumque.\nWe celebrate the 100th \;anniversary of British composer\ , Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)\, by including his Wolcum Yole \;and This Little Babe from his Ceremony of Carols\, as well as Britten&rsquo\ ;s setting of Psalm 100\, Jubilate Deo in C for organ and choir. John Ru tter&rsquo\;s setting of Psalm 81\, Choral Fanfare is also featured.\nAt the core of the program are four related works: a song composed by Blak e Henson for the Westminster Choir\, a setting of Robert Herrick&rsquo\; s My Flight for Heaven\, and another Henson setting composed for the 201 0 Ohio All-State Choir\, And Dream Awhile\, which is based on the poem T he Sleeping Beauty by Samuel Rogers. Between the Henson settings\, the c hoir will perform Morten Lauridsen&rsquo\;s Sure On This Shining Night a nd conclude the quartet with Shawn Kirchner&rsquo\;s setting of the trad itional Appalachian song\, Bright Morning Stars for choir and baritone s oloist.\nAudiences will hear Kirchner&rsquo\;s arrangement of the Kenyan folk song\, Wana Baraka\, Jester Hairston&rsquo\;s TTBB arrangement of the African-American Spiritual\, \;Poor Man Lazrus\, and Susan Brumf ield&rsquo\;s setting for women&rsquo\;s choir of the Acadian folk song\ , La Violette. The program will conclude with Moses Hogan&rsquo\;s tradi tional African-American spiritual arrangement\, I Can Tell the World\, a nd the Concert Choir&rsquo\;s traditional benediction\, The Lord Bless Y ou and Keep You by Peter Lutkin. The 20-voice select LVC Chamber Choir w ill also contribute at least one selection at the concert.\nMark Mecham\ , chair of the department of music and Carmean Professor of Music\, dire cts the 81-voice Lebanon Valley College Concert Choir.\nThursday\, March 21\, 2013\, 7 p.m.\nChrist Lutheran Church\n69 Main Street\nHellertown\ , Pa. 18055\n[Stephen Wysocki &rsquo\;84\, host]\nAbout the LVC Concert Choir\nThe Lebanon Valley College Concert Choir has toured each year\, p rimarily in the Northeast\, since 1936. In addition\, the choir has been heard on more than 30 NBC national radio broadcasts including National Radio Pulpit and Great Choirs in America. The choir has performed with t he Harrisburg Symphony orchestra and holds a standing invitation to appe ar at the National Cathedral\, Washington\, D.C.\, and the Cathedral Chu rch of St. John the Divine\, New York City. Other non-tour appearances h ave included the Lighting of the National Christmas Tree\, the Festival of Lights at the Washington\, D.C. Temple Visitor&rsquo\;s Center\, perf orming at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church\, and ap pearances before the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and the Mu sic Educators National Conference Eastern Division Convention in Washing ton\, D.C. The choir has toured internationally to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1973)\, Great Britain (1999)\, Italy (2001)\, Central Eu rope: the Czech Republic\, Austria\, and Hungary (2007)\, and Scandinavi a: Norway and Denmark (May 2011). Plans are underway for an LVC Sesquice ntennial Choir Tour to New Zealand in December 2016-January 2017.\nAbout Mark Mecham\nMark Mecham has been Chairman of the Department of Music a t Lebanon Valley College since 1990. He was named the D. Clark and Edna Carmean Distinguished Professor of Music\, and received the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998. As Director of Choral Acti vities he conducts the LVC Concert and Chamber Choirs. In August 1992\, he appeared as guest conductor of the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir\ , and from 1993-2002 served as the musical director of the Lebanon Count y Choral Society. At the May 2012 commencement\, the Lebanon Valley Coll ege Student Government honored Mecham as Educator of the Year.\nProfesso r Mecham graduated from the University of Utah with degrees in music edu cation and choral conducting. He completed his Doctorate in Musical Arts in Choral Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mecham has taught at Southern Utah University\, the University of Texas at Tyler\, and the University of Mary in Bismarck\, North Dakota. Active in the American Choral Directors Association\, he was Utah State Presid ent\, 1989-90\, and president-elect in North Dakota\, 1978-80\, and serv ed as the Repertoire and Standards Chair for College and University Choi rs 1999-2001 for ACDAPA. He has conducted\, adjudicated and given choral clinics in 19 states\, the District of Columbia\, Austria\, the Czech R epublic\, Great Britain\, Italy\, Hungary\, Denmark and Norway. URL:http://hellertown.patch.com/events/81-voice-lebanon-valley-college-co ncert-choir-to-perform-at-christ-lutheran-69-main-st-hellertown SUMMARY:81-Voice Lebanon Valley College Concert Choir To Perform at Chris t Lutheran\, 69 Main St.\, Hellertown LOCATION:Christ Lutheran Church of Hellertown: 69 Main St\, Hellertown\, PA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR