News and Notices

The Susquehanna Chorale will perform its annual Candlelight Christmas concerts on Dec. 13, 14 and 15 at Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Elizabethown College, Elizabethtown, Pa; and Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Pa.

The Chorale is a nationally acclaimed adult chamber ensemble of 38 auditioned singers, founded in 1981 by Artistic Director and Conductor Linda L. Tedford.

This year’s concerts will include beloved classics interwoven with new and creative settings of familiar texts, some featuring guest cellist Ai-Lin Hsieh.

The Chorale will perform Elaine Hagenberg’s O Come, Emmanuel, Ola Gjeilo’s Serenity, John Rutter’s Carol of the Magi, Donald McCullough’s arrangement of What Child is This?, and the spirituals Rise Up Shepherd and Follow (Stacey Gibbs) and Mary Had a Baby (Uzee Brown Jr.). The audience will be surrounded by candlelight and song for the Chorale’s traditional finale, Malcolm Sargent’s exquisite setting of Silent Night.

A pre-concert prelude by Ms. Hsieh and organist Daniel Dorty will be presented 15 minutes prior to each performance.

Special thanks to our 2019-20 concert sponsor, Fulton Private Bank, and our Christmas concert series sponsor, The Anne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter III Family Foundation.

For tickets, visit www.susquehannachorale.org, or call the Messiah College Box Office, 717.691.6036.

Over the summer, I was interviewing and hiring another staff member to join our chorus’s team. Once we had completed the job description, we then had to find appropriate places on which to post it. With limited budget to spend, we focused our efforts on niche job centers that targeted choral, art, and nonprofit professionals.

I’ve since compiled this list into a resource for you to use during your next leadership transition and/or new staff hire. So, from me to you, here are some of the best places you can post your choral job opportunities!

It’s that thankful time of year again.

While you’re stuffing your face with pumpkin pie, watching the Macy’s parade, and spending time with the family, take some time this weekend to reflect on how you can appreciate the many people who keep your chorus afloat.

Here are some people you’ll probably want to thank and even a few ideas for how to show your gratitude.

The ZêzereArts Festival is currently welcoming applications from choirs wishing to be selected as a Featured Choir of the 10th ZêzereArts Festival in 2020.

As a Featured Choir, you will have the opportunity to present a concert programme of your choice in addition to participating in rehearsals and performances with the ZêzereArts Festival Choir in the unique surroundings of the 12th century world heritage site, the Convento de Cristo in Tomar, Portugal. This programme will include a Portuguese celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, with a work by his Portuguese contemporary, Domingos Bomtempo, couples with pieces by Beethoven and César Viana, the 2020 ZêzereArts Composer in Residence.

ZêzereArts is also accepting applications from individual singers wishing to join the 2020 Festival Choir.

Full details are available at

Announcing a great event in Thessaloniki next summer. Dan P. Ryan, Kevin Meidl, and composer Lina Tonia will be sharing the podium, musically supporting international friendship and goodwill. The 2020 Olympic Summer Games will be in Tokyo but all of Greece will celebrate. Singers…choirs…all are invited to join us for the Olympian Festival!

The festival will feature outstanding choirs from America alongside local Greek musicians. The finale concert will include a world premiere of a work by Lina Tonia…one of Europe’s most dynamic contemporary composers.

Don’t miss this memorable musical experience in an unforgettable historic location! Contact Melissa if you are interested in more information!

Members of the GMChorale will join the the vibrant Chancel Choir of Cheshire’s First Congregational Church and singers from the Cheshire community, to welcome the holiday season with the 16th edition of A Festival of Carols, the much-loved annual presentation of seasonal readings and choral anthems, with all joining to sing traditional Christmas carols. Listen as the Christmas story unfolds in song and story within the beautifully decorated, candlelit, historic sanctuary of this classic New England church. The music is directed and accompanied by Joseph D’Eugenio, Artistic Director of the GMChorale and Director of Music at First Congregational Church. Free-will offering. Doors open at 4:30 pm.

SNOW DATE: Sunday, December 15, 2019, 5:00 pm.