Mount Vernon Nazarene University will present the 47th annual performance of G. F. Handels Messiah on Sunday, December 7 at 7:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in MVNUs R.R. Hodges Chapel Auditorium. Messiah will be performed by the MVNU Choral Union, faculty and guest soloists, and chamber orchestra. The 160-voice Choral Union includes the combined choirs of MVNU and community singers. Conducting the performance will be Dr. Robert Tocheff, Professor of Music in the MVNU Music Department. The featured soloists are Elizabeth Barrett, MVNU music faculty member and adjunct professor of voice at Otterbein University; and Carolyn Redman, 1989 MVNU music alumna, classical performer, and adjunct voice professor at Kenyon College and Otterbein University. A newcomer to the presentation this year is tenor Robert Bux, voice professor at Otterbein University and regular performer with Opera Columbus. Returning for his seventeenth year as bass soloist is David Templeton, Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Opera at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. MVNU Music Department Chair John Packard and guest musician James Becker will assist on trumpet. David Robinson will return as the harpsichordist and Sharon Blaydes is the concert master. The program is free and open to the public; donations will be accepted for the MVNU Music Department Student Scholarships. Parking is available in front of the chapel off of Martinsburg Road and Campus Drive.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:48:49 +0000
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