Organ recital

Kevin Dill, First Presbyterian's Director of Music, will present an organ recital at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenville on Sunday, March 15 at 3:30 PM. This recital is part of the church's Friends of Music series, which features both local talent and visiting artists offering a variety of concerts throughout the year.

Dill's recital on the two-manual, 42-rank Casavant pipe organ will include free works and chorale preludes of J.S. Bach, movements from Francois Couperin's Messe Pour Les Convents, shorter works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Vierne, and the first concert performance of Dill's own Three Etudes.

Holy Trinity is located at the corner of Penn Avenue and Clinton Street in Greenville; phone (724)588-8870 for details.

March music list posted

Music list for choral services (11:00 unless otherwise noted)

Mar. 1 – 1st Sunday in Lent
Chancel Choir
Introit: Kyrie Eleison (Missa Orbis Factor)
Motet: Agnus Dei, from Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd, 1543-1623)
Postlude: Prelude in a minor (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Mar. 8 – 2nd Sunday in Lent
Liberty Bell Choir & Chancel Choir
Prelude: What Wondrous Love is This (arr. Barry Braman, b.1947)
Anthem: O Saviour of the World (John Goss, 1800-1880)
Postlude: Grand Dialogue, Suite du 1er Ton (Jacques Boyvin, 1649-1706)

Mar. 15 – 3nd Sunday in Lent
Junior Choir & Gentlemen of the Chancel Choir
Introit: Kyrie Eleison (Missa Kyrie Magnae Deus Potentiae)
Anthem: I Give You a New Commandment (Peter Aston, b. 1938)
Postlude: Fantasia in b minor (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Mar. 22 – 4th Sunday in Lent
Chancel Choir
Introit: Kyrie Eleison (Missa Orbis Factor)
Anthem: View Me, Lord (Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Postlude: Erhalt Uns, Herr, Bei Deinem Wort (D. Buxtehude, 1637-1707)

Mar. 29 – 5th Sunday in Lent
Liberty Bells & Musica Divina Chamber Choir
Introit: Put Me Not to Rebuke (William Croft, 1678-1727)
Offertory: Thy Holy Wings (arr. Cathy Moklebust, b.1958)
Postlude: Fugue in G (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847)

Muskingum College Choirs Concert at First Presbyterian

The choirs of Muskingum College from New Concord, Ohio, will make a stop at First Presbyterian as part of their 2009 spring tour. The 48-voice Concert Choir and 12-voice Chamber Singers will present a program of choral delights on Monday, March 2 at 7:30 PM. The singers will showcase a wide variety of repertoire, from Renaissance madrigals to folksong arrangements to Broadway showstoppers. Muskingum alumnus Robert Owen Jones, Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at the college, will take the podium for the performance.

Muskingum college, founded in 1837, is a broad-based liberal arts institution serving over 1600 students. The Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, comprised of 60 percent non-music majors, have met with enthusiastic responses from audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The choirs tour annually during the spring semester, with Meadville representing one of 12 engagements on this year’s tour. For further information contact Kevin Dill at 333-2161.