Wednesday, Apr 27, 2016
The day after Westminster Choir College’s Commencement, the Westminster Concert Bell Choir and conductor Kathleen Ebling Shaw will fly to California to begin a three-week concert tour that will take it along the California coast, through the Southwest and across America’s heartland.
The tour program, titled “Songs of America,” includes arrangements of patriotic favorites and American songs and hymns, as well as original works, performed on the world’s largest range of handbells and Choirchimes. Many are featured in the ensemble’s newest recording “Let Freedom Ring!” The patriotic favorites include Battle Hymn of the Republic, a medley of songs by George M. Cohan and an arrangement of Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever that showcases the ensemble’s virtuosity. Amazing Grace and Ezekiel Saw the Wheel are two of the hymns and spirituals in the concert repertoire. The ensemble will also perform two works that were composed to honor the memory of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks: Cathy Moklebust’s Reflections on the Plains and Arnold Sherman’s Song of Peace.
Westminster Concert Bell Choir
2016 Songs of America National Tour
TUESDAY, MAY 17 - 7 p.m.
Valley Church
Cupertino, CA
www.valleychurch.org
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 - 7 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
Monterey, CA
www.fpcmonterey.org
FRIDAY, MAY 20 - 7 p.m.
St. Mark Presbyterian Church
Newport Beach, CA
www.stmarkpresbyterian.org
SATURDAY, MAY 21 - 7:30 p.m.
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
Pasadena, CA
www.ppcmusic.org
SUNDAY, MAY 22 - 7 p.m.
Ascension Lutheran Church
Paradise Valley, AZ
www.ascensionparadisevalley.org
MONDAY, MAY 23 - 7 p.m.
St. Mark Catholic Church
Tucson (Oro Valley), AZ
www.stmarkov.com
TUESDAY, MAY 24 - 7:30 p.m.
Gold Canyon United Methodist Church
Gold Canyon, AZ
www.goldcanyonumc.org
FRIDAY, MAY 27 - 7 p.m.
Mountain View Presbyterian Church
Las Vegas, NV
www.mviewpc.org
TUESDAY, MAY 31 - 7 p.m.
Grace Lutheran Church
Lincoln, NE
www.egrace.org
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 - 7 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
Iowa City, IA
www.firstpresiowacity.org
THURSDAY, JUNE 2 - 7:30 p.m.
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church
Fort Wayne, IN
www.stcharlesfortwayne.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 - 7 p.m.
Wooster United Methodist Church
Wooster, OH
www.woosterumc.org