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Starr's Mill holiday concert Thursday

The Starr's Mill High School Choruses will present their

annual Holiday Concert Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Duke Auditorium at

the school complex in Tyrone. The concert will feature the

Treble Chorus, Concert Choir, Advanced Women's Chorus, and

Chanticleer.

The groups will be singing a wide variety of songs of the

season from standard sacred choral literature to lighter

contemporary arrangements of popular holiday tunes. The auditorium will

provide a festive setting, adorned with greenery, wreaths and

hundreds of twinkling white lights.

The concert will begin in darkness, with Chanticleer

singing Robert Shaw's and Alice Parker's a cappella arrangement of

"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." Then the auditorium will come

aglow as the 140 members of the choral program proceed with

candles while singing the traditional Renaissance chant

"Personent Hodie," complete with

handbells, hand drum and period instruments.

The Treble Chorus performance will include "Gesu

Bambino," "Balulalow," Patapan," and

a mixed meter arrangement of "Jingle Bells." The Concert

Choir will present a variety of holiday music including "The First

Noel" (featuring a violin duet), "Rise Up, Shepherd, and

Follow," "Scarborough Carol," and

"Sleigh Ride."

The Advanced Women's Chorus will feature "This Little

Babe" from Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols,"

Mendelssohn's "Lift Thine Eyes," a novelty

arrangement entitled "Jingle Bell Fantasy," and an a cappella

arrangement of "Coventry Carol."

Chanticleer will continue the evening's presentation with

a cappella versions of the Spanish carol "Fum, Fum, Fum," the

calypso carol "Mary's Little Boy Chile," and "I'll Be Home

For Christmas."

The free concert will conclude in candlelight with all choirs

encircling the audience and singing the traditional favorites

"Silent Night" and "Joy to the World."

For information, call Starr's Mill High School, 770-486-2710.

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