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Festival Celebration Choir Presents its 40th Anniversary Concert: “Love Endures”

 

Festival Celebration Choir, a multi-faith community choir, will celebrate its 40th anniversary concert entitled “Love Endures” on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at 3:00 pm at the First United Methodist Church of East Greenbush, 1 Gilligan Rd., East Greenbush, NY. The choir is directed by Julie Panke and accompanied by Daniel White, piano, Kathryn Svatek, French Horn, and Susan Gierthy, oboe.

Concert repertoire will include songs with Biblical references to love, including music by Dan Forrest, Olaf Christiansen, Joan Szymko, Alfred Fedak, Thomas Savoy and Z. Randall Stroope. A newly commissioned piece, “Abounding in Love”, by former director Philip Spaeth, will be premiered at the concert.

Guest artists will be the men’s vocal ensemble, “One Man Short”, directed by Paul Hook and the recipient of the Neil Hook Vocal Music Scholarship. The concert will be dedicated to J. Neil Hook, the choir’s first and longest serving director.

Tickets are $20 each, children 12 and under are free and are available at the door.

More information can be found at www.festivalcelebrationchoir.org and on facebook.com/festivalcelebrationchoir.

From Thomas Odell, Organist & Director of Music, The Cathedral of All Saints - todell@thecathedralofallsaints.org 
 
You and your choir to the Cathedral of All Saints for a "Come and Sing" Evensong on May 17, 2026. We hope this event will highlight the outstanding amount of fine choirs and choral singers in the Capital Region. This is being done in place of last year's "Easter Choir Festival" with the intention of giving everyone more opportunity to sing as a part of a larger ensemble.
 
Information
 
Church choirs in their entirety will be welcome at this service, as will representatives from groups, or people who perhaps do not have enough time to commit to choir on a weekly basis. Please register by May 10th. Registration link
 
Rehearsal will run from 1:45pm-3:00pm in the Cathedral Nave, the service will begin at 4:00pm and last approximately an hour.
 
Please dress as you would for a church service at your own church. We will not be wearing vestments.
 
You are expected to be familiar with the repertoire before our rehearsal.
 
Please feel free to share with anyone who would be interested. If you have any questions or concerns do not hesitate to contact me.
 
Repertoire:
Preces and Responses: Ayelward recording 1 recording 2
Psalm: 47 Abdenour
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Stanford Evening Service in B flat recording (M) recording (N)
Anthem: God is gone up Finzi recording
Office Hymn: "All my hope on God is founded" tune; MichaelSermon Hymn: "How can I sing that majesty" tune; Coe Fen
Worship in the Pines
Voices to God Concert

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