Hershey/Hummelstown/Palmyra
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE: TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY SLATED page 3
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXI • NO 33
CPYB To Perform Classic Holiday Show
2018
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) will present the annual holiday tradition of the region’s only production of George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” on local stages. Performances will take place at Whitaker Center, 222 Market St., Harrisburg, on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 and 16, as well as at Hershey Theatre, 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey, on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 22 and 23. Saturday performances will be at 1 and 5 p.m., with Sunday performances at 2 p.m. The dancers of CPYB will bring Balanchine’s winter classic to life with largerthan-life sets and costumes set to the music of Tchaikovsky. Two casts totaling 175 students will perform. CPYB will present Story Telling
Through Movement, a free, interactive pre-performance reading where attendees can learn “The Nutcracker” story, meet the characters, and dance. The event will take place at Whitaker Center on Dec. 15 at 12:15 p.m. and Dec. 16 at 1:15 p.m. Maestro Stuart Malina will lead the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra’s live performances of the score at all three Hershey Theatre performances. CPYB is the only central Pennsylvania organization licensed to perform the Balanchine version of “The Nutcracker.” CPYB is known to be the only school to receive license from The George Balanchine Trust to perform the work since 1991. To purchase tickets, readers may visit www.CPYB.org/Performances.
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Derry Presbyterian Church in Hershey will present “An Irish Christmas” on Sunday, Dec. 9. audience sing-along of favorite carols. The Derry Ringers will open the concert with “I Saw Three Ships” and will later perform “In the Bleak Mid-Winter.” The Sanctuary Choir and Festival Orchestra will perform “Past Three O’Clock,” arranged by John Rutter. The choir will perform two traditional Irish carols, “Love Came Down at Christmas” and “Wexford Carol,” which will also feature Derry’s youth and children’s choirs. The young voices will also sing the Welsh cradle carol “Suo-Gan.” All the choirs and handbells will join together to close the first half with an arrangement of “I Saw Three Ships.” See “An Irish Christmas” pg 3
Scouts Mark Veterans Day
In honor of Veterans Day, Scout Troop 203 in Hershey had the opportunity to hear Lt. Col. Ken Smith. In addition to explaining the parts of a flight suit, Smith described the types of helicopters that he has flown, peacekeeping missions in which he has taken part, and some of the work done at Fort Indiantown Gap, including natural disaster responses. Youths interested in becoming part of a Scouting program are invited to an open house with Troop 203 on Monday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 64 W. Chocolate Ave., Hershey.
Church Plans Breakfast, Open House Palmyra Church of the Brethren, 45 N. Chestnut St., Palmyra, will host its annual Christmas Breakfast and Open House on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 8 to 10 a.m. The event will include a breakfast buffet from 8 to 10 a.m., a story with Santa at 9 a.m. and a gift
basket auction at 9:30 a.m. Gift-in-a-jar items, cookbooks, and Christmas cookies will be available for purchase. There is an admission fee, but children under age 3 will be admitted for free. For more information, readers may call 717-838-6369.
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Derry Presbyterian Church, 248 E. Derry Road, Hershey, which was founded by settlers from Northern Ireland nearly 300 years ago, will go back to its roots to present “An Irish Christmas” on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m. The holiday concert will combine adult, youth and children’s choirs, along with handbells, an orchestra and guest soloists. Derry Church’s director of music and organist, Dr. Sean McCarthy, will conduct the Sanctuary Choir, Celebration Choir, Chrysalis Youth Choir and Derry Ringers handbell choir, in addition to four guest soloists and a 20-piece orchestra in a concert that will include Irish folk carols and an
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet will perform “The Nutcracker” at Whitaker Center on Dec. 15 and 16 and at Hershey Theatre on Dec. 22 and 23.
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