Candlelight Christmas
Sat, Dec 17
|Leffler Chapel, Etown College
It’s Christmas—time to sound the trumpet, light the tree, and gather once again for a holiday celebration with the Susquehanna Chorale. The majestic opening processional, Personent Hodie, will set the stage for what promises to be a spectacular concert filled with wonder and joy.
Time & Location
Dec 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM EST
Leffler Chapel, Etown College, 1 Alpha Dr, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USA
About the event
Susquehanna Chorale Candlelight Christmas
It’s Christmas—time to sound the trumpet, light the tree, and gather once again for a holiday celebration with the Susquehanna Chorale. The majestic opening processional, Personent Hodie, will set the stage for what promises to be a spectacular concert filled with wonder and joy.
The featured selection is John Rutter’s magnificent Gloria, scored for chorus, organ, brass, and percussion. This three-movement work captures the mood of the season with joyful exuberance contrasted with tender lyricism. The organ accompaniment will be rendered on the Musser Auditorium’s fabulous two-manual Clifford B. & Hazel K. Huffman Electronic Organ. If it were a pipe organ, it would have 1,930 pipes arranged in 33 ranks.
The reverence of the season will be captured in Jim Clements’ Gabriel’s Message and Eric Whitacre’s hauntingly beautiful Lux Aurumque. The Chorale will bring holiday cheer with Jerry Rubino’s setting of It’s the Most Wonderful Time…