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2007-2008 Season

A MEDITERRANEAN CHRISTMAS

Celebrating Christianity’s roots in the Middle East and Mediterranean, our program this December includes Arab Christian melodies, a Coptic chant, a Jewish song about longing for the Messiah, and Christmas songs from Spain, Italy, Hungary, and Greece – as well as beautiful contemporary and renaissance compositions featuring Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Music includes Palestrina’s Surge illuminare Jerusalem, a beautiful piece based on the Hebrew word ‘Selah’ by American composer Dan Forrest, a new setting by Sheena Phillips of the Advent hymn Rorate coeli desuper, and compositions by Sandström, Busto, Ingalls, and Ives.

bulletSunday December 2, 2007, 4 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Findlay, Ohio
Admission free, donations accepted

 

bulletSunday December 9, 2007, 6 pm
St Francis of Assisi Church, 386 Buttles Ave, Columbus 
Admission free, donations accepted

 

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Friday December 14, 2007, 8 pm
St James Episcopal Church, Clintonville (at Calumet & Oakland Park)
Admission free, donations accepted

 

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Saturday December 15, 2007, 8 pm
St John’s Episcopal Church, 600 High Street, Worthington
Admission free, donations accepted

 

Our collection at St Francis of Assisi Church in December 2007 raised $690 for the work of the International Red Cross in the Middle East.

THE SOUND OF AMERICA

A combination concert, singalong, and musical history tour, based on our well received program of American choral music. Shake off the January blues and come along to warm your voices and souls with a feast of strong traditional tunes and songs of worship.

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Sunday January 20, 2008, 7 pm
All Shepherds Lutheran Church, Lewis Center

Admission free, donations accepted

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Sunday January 27, 2008, 3 pm
Covenant Presbyterian Church, Upper Arlington

Admission free, donations accepted

DANCES AND LULLABIES


A program of delightful madrigals, secular and sacred dances, evening hymns, and lullabies. The menu includes dances from Argentina, Brazil, Haiti, Croatia, Georgia, India, and the British Isles, and works by John Dowland, Gustav Holst, Henry Purcell, Alec Wilder, Alice Parker, and Vaughan Williams.

 

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Sunday May 25, 2008, 3 pm, Maria-Joseph Chapel, Dayton

 
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Sunday June 1, 7 pm, Bethel Lutheran Church, Grove City

 

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Sunday June 8, 2 pm, First Congregational Church, Columbus

 

 

Other performances and details will be listed as they become finalized – please check back with us again.

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