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Festival of Carols

FESTIVAL OF CAROLS

 

2009 Festival of Carols 

Friday, December 4th at 8:00
Saturday, December 5th at 8:00
Sunday, December 6th at 3:00
 
$10 for adults and $3 for students and children. Tickets can be purchased directly from the Heritage Center Box Office at (989) 463-7304

 

 

 

 

2009 Carols

O Come All Ye Faithful, Star in the East

One Day Shall Dawn, What Sweeter Music

Angels we have heard on high, Go Tell it on the Mountain

Go Where I Send Thee, The Crimson Drum

Deck the Halls, The Twelve Days of Christmas

For God Commanded Angels to Watch Over Thee

Still, Still Night,  and many more


The Festival of Carols marks the beginning of the Advent and Christmas seasons for the campus community and for families from all across Michigan.  Performances play to standing-room-only audiences and attract a family audience that returns year after year.

 

Festival of Carols 2008

 

 The Festival of Carols is not a worship service; rather it is a community celebration welcoming people of all faiths for a concert of familiar carols and sacred masterpieces that are part of our shared heritage. The concert attracts an audience that is looking for a chance to slow down and be reminded of the peace and wonder of Christmas.

The 180 members of the Glee Club, Chorale and The Alma Choir are joined by student instrumentalists from the College's marvelous Percussion Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. Choral singing is the centerpiece of the Festival of Carols, and audiences will know many of the carols by heart.

 

The Alma College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team claimed its ninth consecutive regional championship at the SIFE USA Regional Competition in March 2009. The competition awards the SIFE teams that are most effective in teaching the principals of market economics through outreach projects in their communities.

 

Graduate Profile

Erik Janners

Erik Janners
Graduation: 1994
Major: Music Performance

The most important thing Erik Janners learned during his time at Alma College was to care for each individual performer under his direction.

“No matter how large the band, orchestra or choir, each person in the group is still an individual with his or her own problems, successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses,” the 1994 graduate says. “The Alma music faculty got to know me, and all of us in the program, as individual people, and gave each of us what we needed personally to grow.”