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  • Paige Driver (left) and Sara Gregory joined fellow members of the the Edgecombe Community Chorus in a rehearsal Tuesday evening at First Baptist Church. The chorus will hold a free concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, only soliciting donations for Tarboro Community Outreach.

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October 17, 2012

Chorus to perform Sunday

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

Staff Writer MIRANDA BAINES

TARBORO — “We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord, and they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love.”

The words of the contemporary Christian song echoed through the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Tarboro Tuesday evening, as the Edgecombe Community Chorus rehearsed for its upcoming concert Sunday afternoon. The theme of the free concert — although a donation of food or money to Tarboro Community Outreach would be appreciated — is sacred music through the years.

“It’s a celebration of Christian song,” said George Anderson, president of the Chorus’ board of directors. The concert will encompass “classical and romantic music to gospel/contemporary Christian,” said chorus member and co-director Becky Johnson.

Among the songs audience members will hear are “Gloria” from Handel’s “Messiah” and the contemporary Christian piece, “Midnight Cry,” about “the second coming of Jesus, seeing His face,” Johnson noted.

Chorus member Johanna Owens said she has enjoyed blending the classical and contemporary styles of music.

“It [the chorus] stretches the boundaries of what we’re used to singing,” she said. A choir member at Calvary Episcopal Church, Owens said the chorus also gives her the opportunity to sing with a larger group of people.

“It’s fun to sing with 40 or 50 voices,” she said.

Johnson called the chorus “a good mixture of good voices and kindred spirits.” While the chorus is mainly comprised of choir members of churches in downtown Tarboro, it is open to “music lovers” of all ethnicities and denominations, said Johnson. She founded the chorus in 2004 and Robert Sparks later joined as a co-coordinator.

The chorus’ first project was a “classics and carols” program at Christmastime. At that time, the chorus was comprised of 85 singers. One of the chorus’ “proudest moments” was a concert to celebrate the 250th birthday of Tarboro in November 2010, said Johnson. The chorus meets about once every 18 months to rehearse and spends three or four months rehearsing for each concert.

The chorus’ upcoming concert will feature two guest composers, Bill Hilderbrandt, organist/ choir director at Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church, and Lloyd Owens, choir director/ organist at Calvary Episcopal Church. Chamber (string instrument), brass and percussion players will accompany the choir.

The concert will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday at Edgecombe Community College’s Keihin Auditorium.

 

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