Susquehanna Chorale Candlelight Christmas

Sunday, December 21 at 4 pm

Etown CoB Sanctuary

All are welcome to join us for this special Candlelight Christmas concert with Susquehanna Chorale.

The Christmas season is one of Linda Tedford’s favorite things, and she’s chosen a marvelous collection of holiday pieces ranging from the works of Bach and Praetorius to the sacred and secular music of our own time, featuring accompaniments by brass and solo cello. You’ll hear Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, Biebl’s Ave Maria for men’s voices, premiers of works composed by Linda’s former Messiah University colleagues, Richard Roberson and William Stowman as well as Dan Forrest’s Let the Stable Still Astonish, commissioned in honor of the Chorale’s 40th Anniversary.

As always, there will be a majestic opening processional, spirituals, carol singalongs, fabulous organ and instrumental music, and then singers will surround the audience, light their candles, and express the true meaning o…