Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers and University Chorale, along with a brass ensemble, will headline “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,” the university’s Christmas choral concert, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 in Yoder Recital Hall.
The Friday evening performance will be the only presentation of the full concert. A shortened version will be presented as Bluffton’s weekly forum, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, also in Yoder Recital Hall.
The program is designed around a historical structure of Scripture readings and Christmas carols. The readings, taken from prophetic writings about the Messiah’s coming and from the Christmas story, are interspersed with various Christmas pieces.
Tickets for the Dec. 5 performance are $8 for adults and non-Bluffton students. They are available online athttp://tickets.bluffton.edu or at the box office at the Marbeck Center information desk. Admission to the Dec. 2 forum presentation is free.
Dr. Mark J. Suderman, professor of music, conducts both Camerata Singers, a select chamber choir, and the University Chorale, a 66-voice, mixed ensemble. Accompanying the choirs—and the audience during three carols—will be pianist Ana Yoder Coulter, an adjunct instructor.
Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, is coaching a unique brass ensemble assembled for the concert. Including university faculty, staff and administrators, as well as students, the ensemble will open the program. Four of its student members will form a brass quartet that will also perform with the choirs, and students from the choirs will serve as Scripture readers.
