From: Young Center <youngctr@etown.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Subject: Please Announce October 13 and 20, 2024
To:
Greetings!
Please include this announcement in your church bulletin or announcement list on October 13 and 20. In addition to the announcement below, attached is a poster if you wish to use it.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and the School of Arts and Humanities at Elizabethtown College presents "Celebrating the Music of Ephrata with Ephrata Cloister Chorus," on Mon., Oct. 21, 7:00 p.m., in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Opening the program, Etown College Archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh will describe conservation work on two rare Ephrata music manuscript books housed at the College. Both books were created by hand at the Cloister in the mid-eighteenth century and contain beautiful examples of Pennsylvania German Fraktur. Continuing the program, Ephrata Cloister Chorus will perform four pieces composed at Ephrata and found in the Ephrata Cloister's 1739 hymnal, Zionitischer Weyrauchs- Hügel. Also included is music composed at the Lititz Moravian community; selections from the Shaker community of Mt. Lebanon, NY; music of William Billings; African American Spiritual hymnody; and contemporary sacred anthems. For details visit www.etown.edu/youngctr/events or call 717-361-1470.
Thank you.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Phone: 717-361-1470
Website: www.etown.edu/youngctr
