3rd Sunday of Advent

Benton Methodist Church

4615 Palmetto Road

Benton, Louisiana

December 15, 2024, at 6:00 pm

A Christmas Cantata

Logan & Hannah Spataro (NSU alumae)

 

4th Sunday of Advent

First United Methodist Church

400 East 6th Street

Texarkana, AR

Larry Dymott, Music Director

December 22, 2024, at 10:30 am

Christmas Canticles: a Cantata of Carols in Four Suites .... Benjamin Harlan

Introit and Processional

Suite I: the Announcement

Suite II: the Promised Coming

Suite III: the Child in the Manger

Suite IV: the Light of Christ 

Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols

Trinity Episcopal Church

533 Second Street

Natchitoches, Louisiana

December 12, 2024, at 7:00 pm

 

The Lessons

 

Genesis 3:1-22 ... The First Sin and it's Punishment

 

Isaiah 40:1-11 ... God's People are Comforted 

Jeremiah 31:31-43 ... A New Covenant

Isaiah 35:1-10 ... The Return of the Redeemed to Zion

Baruch 4:36-5:9 ... Look Towards the East

Isaiah 7:10-15 ... Isaiah Gives Ahaz the Sign of Immanuel

Isaiah 11:1-9 ... The Peaceful Kingdom

Isaiah 65:17-25 ... The Glorious New Creation

Luke 1:26-56 ... The Birth of Jesus Foretold

 

Dr. Sam Stokes, organ, piano, choirmaster

Paul Christopher, cello

Patricia Brown, soprano

Dr. John Dunn, tenor

Dr. Tony Smith, bass

 

 

Yoga at the WRAC

December 9, 2024, at 5:30 pm

WRAC

Natchitoches, Louisiana

 

Providing music for a Brett Garfinkle's yoga class

 

 

A Jolly Holiday

Rapides Symphony Orchestra

Coughlin-Saunders Performing Art Center

Alexandria, Louisiana

December 8, 2024, at 2:30 pm

PROGRAM

Carnival Overture, Op. 92 ... Dvorak

Fantasia on Greensleeves ... Vaughn Williams

Hanukkah Festival Overture ... arr. Richman

Sinfonia Pastorella ... L. Mozart

    Movement 3

        William Rose, Alphorn

Thunder and Lightning Polka ... J. Strauss, Jr.

Sleigh Ride ... Anderson

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Pola & Wyle

Jesu Bambino ... Yon, arr. Ryden

Santa Clause is Coming to Town .. Coots, arr. Farnon

White Christmas ... arr. Bennett

Holiday Pops Sing-Along ... arr. Cerulli

God Bless Us Everyone ... Silverstri & Ballard

9th Living Library: Everyone Has a Story

We've Got the Music

Ora G. Williams Electronic Media Center

Kyser Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

November 20, 2024, at 6:00 pm

Panelists included Drs. Douglas Bakenhus, Burt Allen, Anthony Pursell, Mr. Paul Christopher, and student Rikki Landry, and moderated by Donna Baker.

Click here to watch a recording of the event.

MUS 1500 Student Recital

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

December 3, 2024, at 12:30 pm

PROGRAM includes:

Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 ... JS Bach (1685-1750)

    Prelude

Maira Avellaneda Pabon, cello

Storytime at NPL

Natchitoches Public Library

450 Second Street

Natchitoches, Louisiana

November 26, 2024, at 10:30 am

Children's Librarian read aloud "Meow Cello" by Kristen Halverson while Paul Christopher played his cello for storytime.

Handel's Messiah

The Conclusion 

Dr. David Hobson, director

November 24, 2024, at 3:00 pm

Sanctuary of First Methodist Church

Shreveport, Louisiana

PROGRAM:

The Lord Gave the Word

How Beautiful are the Feet

Their Sound is Gone Out

Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?

Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder

Thou Shall Beak Them

Hallelujah

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Since By Man Came Death

Behold, I Tell You a Mystery

The Trumpet Shall Sound

Then Shall Be Brought to Pass

O Death, Where is Thy Sting?

But Thanks Be to God

If God Be For Us

Worthy is the Lamb

NNSO Concerto Competition

Sunday, November 17, 2024, at 2:00 pm

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Auditionees included:

Maira Lizeth Avellaneda Pabon, cello .... Haydn Cello Concerto, movement 1

Anselmo Mata Erick Cabrera, piano

Jesus Calderon, cello .... Elgar Cello Concerto, movement 1

Dr. John Price, piano

Santiago Rovira, cello .... Faure Elegy

Dr. John Price, piano