CONWAY, Ark. (November
22, 2013) – The Hendrix College Choir, under the direction of Dr. Nancy
Fleming, will present two special tour performances of the annual Candlelight
Carol Service.
The choir will
perform on Thursday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m., at First United Methodist Church in
Springdale, Ark. For more information, contact music director Kerry Johnston at
479-751-4610.
The choir will
perform on Friday, Dec. 20, at 7:30 p.m., at Trinity United Methodist Church in
Little Rock, Ark. For more information, contact music director David Glaze at
501-666-4610.
The program
will include:
- If You Would Hear (Dutch carol adapted by Ralph
Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw)
- Adam lay ybounden by Frank Boles
- God is with us by John Tavener
- And the glory of the
Lord (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
- Ave maris stella by Javier Busto
- O magnum mysterium by Nancy Galbraith
- The Kings and the
Shepherds by Daniel
Pinkham
- The Virgin Mary had a
baby boy (West
Indian carol arranged by John Leavitt)
- WZlobie Lezy (Polish carol arranged by Roger
Ames)
- Nunc dimittis in A
by Charles Villiers Stanford
- Once in Royal David’s
City and familiar
hymns of the season
The Hendrix
Choir will perform the Candlelight Carol Service
on campus on Thursday, Dec. 5 – Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday,
Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. in Greene Chapel. The campus services are free and open to the
public but reservations are required. Reservations can be made by calling
501-450-1495 on Monday, Nov. 25 and Tuesday, Nov. 26 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Monday,
Dec. 2 – Friday, Dec. 6 from noon – 2 p.m.
Founded in 1876,
Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the
country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report.
Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of
Colleges That Change
Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton
Review’s
The Best 378 Colleges,
Forbes magazine's list of
America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.