The Center for Sacred
Music at Virginia Wesleyan College will host a hymn festival, "Let
Heavenly Music Fill This Place," on Thursday, July 30, at 7:30pm at
First Presbyterian Church, 300 36th Street, Virginia Beach.
Co-sponsored with the
Tidewater Chapter of the American Organists Guild, it features organists
Dr. Martin Sunderland (Eastern Shore Chapel, Virginia Beach), Aaron
Renninger (St. Bede's Catholic Church, Williamsburg), Holly Sunderland
(St. Michael Lutheran, Virginia Beach), Carina Sturdy (North Carolina
School of the Arts), and Dr. Antoinette Anglin (First Presbyterian,
Virginia Beach), with the Wesleyan Festival Brass, and the combined
choirs of Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal Church, St. Michael Lutheran
Church, and First Presbyterian Church, along with FPC's Handbell Choir.
Hymn festivals celebrate
and promote congregational singing and include preludes based on hymn
tunes, with introductions followed by an opportunity for the
congregation to sing the hymn. In addition, the combined choirs will
lead in several "concertatos" which are anthems for choir, congregation,
brass and bells.
All are welcome to this
great evening of singing which is offered as part of Virginia Wesleyan's
week-long "2015 Worship & Music Conference." Donations will be
accepted to support the work of both the CSM and the AGO chapter. For
further details, call 757-455-3376. For further details on the
conference, see www.vwc.edu/csmsummer.
