Choir Performs Traditional Festival Service
What happens when a group of volunteers form an ensemble? They could create a choir that has become so respected they have performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ars Nova Musicians, the Greater Buffalo Opera Company, and with Opera Sacra, they performed Schubert’s Deutsche Messe, James McMillan’s Cantos Sagrados, and Dave Brubeck’s La Fiesta de la Posada and Pange Lingua Variations. The Choir of the Blessed Sacrament Church is all-volunteer using members of their parish as well as members of the community. Their repertoire includes nine centuries of sacred music and almost every single style of western composition.
Now this accomplished choir will be performing a tradition that stems from King’s College Chapel from Cambridge University that is nearly a century old. Lessons and Carols traces through scripture and song the Nativity story as told by the Old Testament prophets and narrated by the Gospel writers. It is repeated in churches all over the world and in many different denominations. The featured carols and anthems will be by Willan, Ord, Posten, Wilcocks, Waters, Yon, and others.
The choir will perform this special Festival Service under the direction of Frank Scinta on December 21st at 4 PM at the Blessed Sacrament Church at 1025 Delaware Avenue. For more information, send Scinta an e-mail or stop by the church when the choir is practicing. They rehearse every Thursday evening and they lead the church in musical worship every Sunday at 11:30 AM.
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