||| FROM LYNN BAKER for ORCAS CHORAL SOCIETY |||
Orcas Choral Society presents the world’s best-beloved choral work, Handel’s Messiah, in three performances, Dec. 1-3, at the Orcas Center. Come and listen. Or, on Sunday, come and sing along.
“Why is music for choir and orchestra, written 280 years ago, setting a text almost 2,000 years old, still so popular?” mused OCS Artistic Director Bruce Langford. “Come hear Orcas Choral Society perform Messiah and learn why.”
Langford guarantees a good time, with surprises enlivening the familiar score. It’s the perfect way to kick off the holiday season with meaning and joy.
The 2 p.m., Sunday matinee on December 3 will be a sing along. Bring your own score or borrow one at the door.
Or, let the music lift your heart at the 7 p.m. performance, Friday, Dec. 1 or Saturday, Dec. 2. Tickets are available at the Orcas Center website.
Children attend free, and youth 13-18 get in for $5. See you there!
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I just want to publicly thank everyone who makes it possible to sing such glorious music together. I honestly do not know what I would do if it was not possible to escape the present and enter into music time. Thank you all donors and staff and board and director, my fellow singers and musicians, hope you all had as good a time as I did and see you in spring….