Clarion Community Choir to Present 41st Annual Spring Concert May 8

Jake Bauer

Jake Bauer

Published May 2, 2016 4:30 am
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clarion-choirCLARION, Pa. – The Clarion Community Choir will present its 41st annual Spring Concert on Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 7:30 PM at the First Presbyterian Church of Clarion.

(Photo: Zachary Covington, Asst. Director: Stuart Estes, Director: Mary Brooks, Accompanist)

The Choir will perform a variety of sacred and secular selections, including J. S. Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze,” “It Is Well with My Soul,” the Irish Rover’s “Years May Come, Years May Go” in an arrangement by Choir Director Stuart Estes, and a medley from the Whoopie Goldberg movie “Sister Act.”

Mr. Estes is retired from teaching in the Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District, where he taught elementary instrumental music and elementary general classroom instruction. Accompanist Mary Brooks has been organist at Clarion First United Methodist Church for many years and has been accompanist for several local theater groups. Assistant Director Zachary Covington, who is the General Manager of the Barrow-Civic Theatre in Franklin, has appeared in musical stage presentations and solo performances, and is a private teacher of voice and piano.

Admission to the concert is free but donations will be accepted to help cover the costs of the Choir.

The Clarion Community Choir is completing its 41st season since being founded in 1975 by the late Fran Shope, and is sponsored by the First United Methodist Church of Clarion. Activities have included annual Christmas Concerts, Spring Concerts and ALF Concerts locally, as well as performances at Chautauqua Institute; Clarion, Iowa; Washington, D.C.; a two week tour to Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Italy; joint concerts with the Venango Chorus; and other special appearances for concerts in western Pennsylvania.

The choir rehearses from 6 to 8 p.m. on alternate Sundays from late August through early December and from late January through early May in the First United Methodist Church, 600 Wood St. Rehearsals for the fall season will start on Sunday, Aug. 28. The choir is open to new members.

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