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Lancaster Mennonite School announces three Christmas concerts

The Messiah

Lancaster Mennonite High School students, alumni and other friends will perform Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, December 9, at 3 p.m. in the school’s Fine Arts Center. LMS music director John Miller introduced high school students to the Messiah in 1992 during his first year of teaching at Lancaster Mennonite. This is his sixth and last Messiah performance at LMS since he plans to retire at the end of this school year. Persons who have sung the Messiah and are still interested in joining the chorus should contact Miller at millerjj@lancastermennonite.org. Campus Chorale, the school’s most advanced choir, consists of 44 juniors and seniors.

Messiah solos will be performed by Madeline Bender, LMS alumna and international opera singer; Madeline's husband, Paul Whelan, also an international opera singer; also an international opera singer; Amy Yovanovich, accomplished local soprano who has studied with John Darrenkamp; and Timothy Bentch, international singer and recently returned from serving in mission work in Hungary and other Eastern European countries.

The orchestra will also include LMS alumni: Joe Gascho, who is doing his doctoral work in harpsichord at the University of Maryland; Tara Bare Kenkelen, leading the orchestra; and Janelle Engle Benner, leading the violin II section. Other alumni are Nathan Bontrager, cello; Laura Kautz, viola; Charity Shenk, viola; and  Lauren Fairfull, oboe.

High School Instrumental Concert

Lancaster Mennonite High School students will present an instrumental Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 16, at 3 p.m. in the school’s Fine Arts Center. Directed by Bill Mitten, the program includes some piano solos plus the following:

Concert band: “Fanfare Prelude: Adeste Fidelis,” “Divinum Mysterium,” “Joy to the World,” “Vaughan Williams Christmas,” and “I Saw Three Ships.”

Jazz band: “Go tell it on the Mountain” and others.

Flute choir: “What Child is This?” “Angels on High,” and “Good Christian Men Rejoice.”

Middle School Christmas Concert

The Lancaster Mennonite School middle school students from the Kraybill, Lancaster, and Locust Grove campuses will perform a joint Christmas concert Thursday, December 20, at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center.

An offering will be received at each concert. Everyone is welcome. For more information call 299-0436, ext. 343.