‘Sounds of the Season’ concert

PENNSBrRv - The Pennsbury Community Chorus has enlisted the Pennsbury High Chamber Choir, the Ewing (NgF Presbyterian Bell Choir and a guest orchestra to present works by such famous musicians as Bach, Berlioz, sivaldi, Leontovych, even one by “unknown” as they offer their Sounds of the Season on Sunday, Dec. 16.

The concert, under the direction of PCC Artistic Director games D. Moyer, will be start at 3 p.m. in Keller Hall on the West Campus of Pennsbury High School, 608 S. Olds Blvd., Fairless Hills. Tickets - A12 for adults, A8 for seniors 65 and over and A6 for students with ID – can be purchased at the door or preordered at 215-949-6780 ext. 70975. Group tickets of 20 or more ordered by phone will receive a 20 percent discount.

)HDWuUHG wRUN wLOO EH WKH 0DJnLfiFDW B:9 243 of gohann Sebastian Bach, a 20-minute cantata based on the Canticle of Mary found in the Gospel of Luke. Composed by Bach in 1733, it musically retells the wonders unfolded by Mary, then pregnant with gesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, who is carrying gohn the Baptist. Moyer will lead the orchestra, Community Chorus and Pennsbury Chamber Choir.

The concert will conclude with the musical work of an unknown 14th or 15th century composer. The work, in Latin, has achieved renown in later centuries as Personent Hodie and its most common English translation as On This Day Earth Shall Ring. The PCC chorus will be joined by the Pennsbury Chamber Choir and Ewing Presbyterian Bell Choir in this work.

In addition to the Bach and “unknown” work, the community chorus will sing the grand opening movement of Antonio sivaldi’ Gloria in Excelsis; The Shepherd’s Farewell by Hector Berlioz; Of the Father’s Love by Barry Talley based on a 2nd Century Latin hymn of Aerelius Prudentius, and Carol of the Bells.