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Festival Choral Vespers for Advent
to Light up the Darkness
(11/17) Music, Gettysburg’s! Schola Cantorum will begin the season of Advent and light up the winter darkness with a festive choral setting for vespers on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 7:30pm. in the chapel of the Lutheran Theological Seminary. The one hour festival choral setting for evening prayer is free and open to the
public.
The Schola Cantorum of Gettysburg, under the direction of Stephen P. Folkemer, will augment the evening prayer liturgy with Bach cantatas for Advent, Wake Awake! (Wachet Auf) and Come Now, Savior of the Nations (Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland) and the lovely early choral setting of the "Magnificat" by Heinrich Sch ütz,
musically set psalms, and hymns.
The full list of music to be performed during the hour long vespers includes Johannes Eccard’s German song "Over the Hills, Young Mary Hastes," a traditional Advent hymn "Fling Wide the Door" newly arranged by Stephen Folkemer, a medieval setting of Psalm 146 newly arranged by Andrew Rosenfeld, and the familiar favorite
chanted worship setting.
Choral Vespers is a form of evening prayer, traditionally sung with candlelight to magnify the beauty of the setting, including special prayers, psalms and hymns as well as a setting of the magnificat.
Music, Gettysburg! is a free concert series featuring international, regional and local musical artists supported by both the Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Gettysburg community. For more information about this and other concerts in the Music, Gettysburg! schedule, please call 717-334-6286 ext 2197 or visit the web
site: www.musicgettysburg.org .
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