George Frideric Handel's Messiah 2012
Start Date: December 07 7:30 PM
This event is open to the public
The Phillips Academy Music Department will
sponsor its 25th annual holiday concert featuring excerpts from
Handel’s oratorio, Messiah on Friday,
December 7, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. This concert is given in support of Neighbors in
Need, a food pantry in the Merrimack Valley, and will also support the
Merrimack Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross. The program, under the
direction of Christopher Walter, will feature the Phillips Academy Community
Chorus and the Academy Chamber Players made up of students, faculty and staff
of the Academy and musicians from the Merrimack Valley, Boston, and North Shore
areas. This year our special guests as soloists are Sarah Moulton Faux, soprano, Eve Kornhauser, alto, Eric Christopher Perry, tenor Donald Wilkinson, baritone.
The public is cordially invited to support
this benefit. General admission is $5.00; senior citizens and students may be
admitted with a donation of nonperishable or canned food. The concert will be
held in Cochran Chapel on the school campus, 180 Main Street, Andover. Cochran
Chapel is handicapped accessible. Any inquiries regarding this performance may
be made to the Phillips Academy Music Department by calling (978)749-4260 or
e-mail the department at music@andover.edu.