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From the start of Myers Park Baptist Church more than 60 years ago, thoughtful, formal, liturgical worship has been the tradition. Throughout our history, we have had a deep sense of connection to the classical music of the church. Our choirs sing Gregorian and Anglican chant, psalms, motets, anthems, master choruses, hymn-based compositions and spirituals within the context of worship.
Each Sunday, the great classical literature for organ is played on the church's magnificent Aeolian-Skinner organ. Several times a year, the church's adult and youth choirs perform major choral/orchestral works.
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Wednesday evening, February 29 at 6:15 in the Sanctuary
The Mercer University Chorale under the direction of Stanley Roberts will sing a concert. Mercer University is a Baptist University located in Macon, Georgia. They have enjoyed a wonderful reputation for excellent choral singing throughout the past decades. They will sing the following day for the American Choral Directors Association convention in Winston-Salem. This concert will be a fantastic event. It is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.
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Friday evening, March 9 at 7:30 in the Sanctuary
Press Release
The Baylor A Cappella is “flinging the green and gold afar” through this spring’s tour up the eastern seaboard. Concerts begin in Atlanta, GA on March the 8th then on to Charlotte, NC; Richmond, VA ; Haddonfield, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; New York City, NY; Washington D.C.; Columbia, SC and ending with its’ gala homecoming concert back in Waco on Tuesday, March 20th at 7:30 p.m.
For over ninety years, the Baylor A Cappella Choir has established a long tradition of leadership in choral music across the nation, in ten foreign countries, and in most major concert venues in the United States. It has been selected to performances at major state conventions including the Texas Music Educators Association and regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. Since the formation of the School of Music in 1921, the Choral Department has been under the leadership of only four Directors of Choral Activities: Euell Porter, Hugh Sanders, Donald Bailey and the current Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Music, Alan Raines.
The group will be performing the music of Victoria, Bach, Mendelssohn, Rhineberger, Karlsons, Hrusovsky along with American composers and arrangers Blake Henson, Moses Hogan, Mack Wilberg and Bob Chilcott. Please make plans to hear a concert near you!
Friday evening, March 9 at 7:30pm the famed Baylor University A Cappella Choir (Waco, Texas) will be in concert in our Sanctuary. Tickets for $15.00 will be sold through the MPBC music office and in the foyer of Heaton Hall before the concert. High School and College students with valid ID's will be given a free ticket. To order your tickets, contact Deb Steiner at dsteiner@mpbconline.org or at extension 21 (704.334-7232).
We need housing for these 74 college students. Their needs are simple: Take them home with you that Friday evening; feed them a snack, if you wish; feed them breakfast the next morning; and bring them back to the church at a designated time. If you can be of help in keeping 2, 3, or 4 of these students, please contact Deb Steiner through the information given above. We thank you greatly for your help.
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Thursday evening, April 12 at 8:00 in the Sanctuary
By Meg Whalen, UNC Charlotte, College of Arts + Architecture
This April, the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture will present a remarkable project, Violins of Hope. The product of 15 years of research and restoration, Violins of Hope represents the ongoing work of master Israeli violinmaker Amnon Weinstein, who has been recovering violins from the Holocaust and bringing them back to playing condition. Some of the violins were played in concentration camp orchestras; others belonged to klezmer musicians.
Never before exhibited or played in North or South America, 18 of these violins will come to Charlotte for a series of programs that explore the instruments’ extraordinary stories and will give voice to the power of memory and art to transform anguish into hope. The opportunity to bring the violins to Charlotte has inspired a collaboration among some 20 institutions, including Myers Park Baptist Church, to present educational projects, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, and film screenings.
The Violins of Hope concert series opens on April 12 with a musical performance at Myers Park Baptist Church honoring the people who led and supported the resistance movements of World War II. Featuring the extraordinary soprano Christina Pier and violinists David Russell and Julia Hwang, the concert begins with the screening of "Weapons of the Spirit," an award-winning documentary about the brave residents of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, who saved an estimated 5,000 Jews from deportation and death during the war.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.violinsofhopecharlotte.com.
Hope in Resistance: Music and Stories inspired by the Resistance Movement
April 12 @ 8 p.m.
Myers Park Baptist Church
$20; free for students
Shostakovich: Prelude for 2 violins and piano
Film Screening: Weapons of the Spirit
John Tavener: Song of the Angel
Francis Poulenc: Two Poèmes de Louis Aragon
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
John Williams: Theme from Schindler’s List
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The Motet is one of 8 choirs that provide music for the worship experience of Myers Park Baptist Church. The 24-voice Motet Singers of MPBC was founded in 1999 to explore the more demanding choral literature of many styles — from Medieval to Contemporary Music. Selected by audition from the large 70-voice adult Chancel Choir, the Motet’s members are comprised of professional singers, music educators, and other professionals chosen for their advanced vocal abilities and musicality. Their smaller numbers allow them to explore works that require the flexibility of a smaller, more intimate sound.
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DO YOU LIKE TO SING?
MPBC has a place for you. We offer musical opportunities for pre-schoolers through adults.
.....3 and 4 year olds (Cherub Music)
.....meets Wednesdays from 4:45-5:15pm
.....TK & K's (Kinder Choir)
.....meets Wednesdays from 5:45-6:30pm
.....Grades 1-2 (Carol Choir)
.....meets Wednesdays from 5:45-6:45pm
.....Grades 3-5 (Chapel Choir)
.....meets Wednesdays from 5:45-6:45pm
.....Grades 6-12 (Youth Choir)
.....meets Sundays from 5:00-6:00pm
.....Adults (Chancel Choir)
.....meets Thursdays from 7:00-9:00pm
.....Adults (Motet Singers)
.....meets Sundays from 12:15-1:15pm (by audition)
Rehearsals begin in early September, so call the music offices at 704.334.7232 for more information: Jonathan Crutchfield, ext. 58 (Adults), Fran Morrison, ext. 17 (Youth), Deb Steiner, ext. 21 (Children).
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Dr. Jonathan E. Crutchfield, Minister of Music
Frances L. Morrison, Associate Minister of Music
Dr. Matthew Manwarren, Assistant Organist
Deborah A. Steiner, Music Associate for Children
The Music Ministry of Myers Park Baptist is led by Dr. Jonathan E. Crutchfield.
Dr. Crutchfield has received degrees from Southern Wesleyan University (BA in piano performance); Florida State University (MM in choral conducting performance); and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (DMA in choral conducting). He has taught on the music faculties at Southern Wesleyan University, The University of Alabama at Huntsville, and at Indiana University, Southeast. In addition to conducting, Dr. Crutchfield has provided piano accompaniment for singers, instrumentalists, and conductors throughout the world. He has accompanied choirs at the regional and national levels of the American Choral Directors Association. He has been heard on the British Broadcasting Corporation as service organist for the International Church Music Festival (Bern, Switzerland). Other organ venues have taken him to Japan, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Crutchfield is a published choral and organ composer.
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Dr. Jonathan Crutchfield, Minister of Music, talks with WDAV in Davidson, N.C. about the Motet Singers' appearance at the 2007 Piccolo Spoleto's Festival of
Churches.
Listen to interview (mp3) »
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