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NOVEMBER 3, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 18
Hershey Public Library Welcomes New Director
The Susquehanna Chorale
preview of Dan Forrest’s new work commissioned for the chorale’s 40th anniversary, “Let the Stable Still Astonish.” This year’s Candlelight Christmas concerts will include classics interwoven with new settings of familiar texts. Performances will take place on Friday, Dec. 17, at the High Center at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 18, at Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, 777 S. Mount Joy St., Elizabethtown, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 19, at Market Square Presbyterian Church, 20 S. Second St., Harrisburg, at 4 p.m. This year’s Candlelight Christmas concerts will bring back the traditions of audience sing-alongs of familiar carols and closing moments featuring candlelight and “Silent Night.” Attendees will hear
selections from past concerts - “The Work of Christmas,” “This Christmastide,” and the spirituals “Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow” and “Go Where I Send Thee” - all of which have been included on the chorale’s new 40th anniversary double CD, “Legacy.” The chorale’s May concerts will be “A Celebration in Song!” They will be filled with sacred and secular music from throughout the chorale’s four decades, including Schubert’s “Holy, Holy, Holy”; Bruckner’s “Locus Iste”; Philip Stopford’s “Do Not Be Afraid”; two classic early American folk hymns, “Down to the River to Pray” and “No Time”; and “Java Jive,” made famous by Manhattan Transfer. The concerts will end with Rollo Dilworth’s “Shine the Heavenly
Light” and a special performance of “Shenandoah” with chorale alumni. Performances will be held on Friday, May 13, 2022, at 8 p.m. at the Derry Presbyterian Church in Hershey and on Sunday, May 15, at 4 p.m. at the Messiah University’s High Center. Audience members are invited to a reception following each of the Christmas and spring concerts. The Susquehanna Chorale will continue to livestream concerts to reach listeners unable to attend in person. For tickets and more information, visit www.susquehannachorale.org or call the Messiah University Box Office, which handles tickets for all the chorale’s concert venues, at 717-691-6036. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more people.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Pop-Up Community Drive Scheduled . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Christmas Bazaar Set . . . .2
MAHS Class Of 1971 Holds Reunion . . . . . . . . .4
House Of Worship . . . . . . .9
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .9
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eason subscriptions and tickets are now available for the Susquehanna Chorale’s 2021-22 40th anniversary concert season. The chorale is a nationally acclaimed adult chamber ensemble of 40 auditioned singers. It was founded in 1981 by artistic director and conductor Linda L. Tedford. The Youth Choral Festival will kick off the season on Sunday, Nov. 21, at 4 p.m. at the High Center for the Performing Arts at Messiah University, 1 College Ave., Grantham. This intergenerational event will features performances by the 160 voices of the chorale’s educational choirs for children, youths, and young women, as well as the Susquehanna Chorale. At the concert, the adult chorale will feature a
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The Township of Derry recently welcomed Alison Trautmann as the new director of the Hershey Public Library. Trautmann has worked in libraries across Pennsylvania for eight years. She comes to the Hershey Public Library from the Berks County Public Libraries, where she was the outreach services coordinator. Prior to holding that position, she served as the youth services director at the Cleve J. Fredricksen Library in Camp Hill. “My greatest passion is connecting people with the resources they need for learning and living full, enriched lives. I’m looking forward to bringing that excitement to the Hershey Public Library and the residents of Derry Township,” said Trautmann. “The Hershey Public Library is a fantastic resource for its community, and I’m honored to be entrusted with a leading role in its future success.”
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