Bluffton University

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4:00 p.m., Sunday, December 11 at Yoder Recital Hall
Free tickets at www.bluffton.edu/messiah-tickets

Bluffton University’s music department has announced the soloists for its 128th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Yoder Recital Hall. Soloists are Misook Yun, soprano; Elizabeth Frey, mezzo-soprano; Brian Skoog, tenor; and Max Pivik, bass.

Dr. Bo Young Kang, director of choral activities, will conduct the oratorio. The Bluffton Choral Society including students, faculty, staff and community members will accompany with an orchestra. While tickets are free, space must be reserved at www.bluffton.edu/messiah-tickets. The event will also be streamed live at http://www.bluffton.edu/messiah.

Lyric soprano Misook Yun has been praised as a singer of “exquisite clarity” and “virtuosity.” She has performed in Italy, Austria, Hungary, South Korea and the U.S. An accomplished operatic performer, Yun has appeared in the roles of Mimi from “La Boheme,” Cio Cio San from from “Madame Butterfly” and Nedda from “Pagliacci,” among others.

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Dr. Martina Cucchiara, associate professor of history at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, “Life and Death in the Shadows: Hiding Jews in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe during the Holocaust,” at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December. 2 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. 

Cucchiara’s topic was inspired by the Bluffton University student play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation. After more than two years, in August 1944, the Germans discovered their hiding place and arrested the family along with four other Jews. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.

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Caroling sing-a-long part of the program

Bluffton University will host the Holiday Collage Concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 4 in Yoder Recital Hall.

Become wrapped in the sounds of the season during this holiday concert where the Bluffton music ensembles come together to celebrate. Singers and instrumentalists from the University Chorale and Concert Band will present a selection of holiday music including a medley of favorite Christmas songs.

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Rev. Joanna Harader, pastor, Peace Mennonite Church, from Lawrence, Kansas, will present the Forum “Expecting Emmanuel: Entering Advent with the Women of Jesus’ Genealogy,” at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29 in Yoder Recital Hall.

The author of a new Advent devotional book shows how the Bible can provide a space for authentic conversations through a discussion of four women from the Hebrew scriptures in Jesus’ genealogy.

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Bluffton University’s Chamber Ensembles will perform a fall concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20 in Yoder Recital Hall. 

The concert will include vocal solos and duets with chamber instrumental selections from the Baroque era of classical music. 

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Dr. Melissa Friesen, professor of theatre, chose “The Diary of Anne Frank” as this year’s fall play at Bluffton University for both its historical elements and continued importance as a story today.  

“The danger of hatred, fascism, political and ideological differences separating society so strongly that some people want to destroy other people, sadly feels very relevant in the world right now,” said Friesen. 

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