Ninth Annual Celebration of Lessons & Carols
A Gift to the Community
Sunday, December 23rd, 2018 4:00 p.m.
At the Kinderhook Reformed Church
Readings & Music of the Season
Choral & Organ Works of Bach, Britten, Daquin, Howells, Lauridsen, Ord, and others
David Smith, Music Director
Kinderhook Reformed Church
Founded 1712
Rev. Rudy Visser, Pastor
21 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
For further information: www.kinderhookreformedchurch.com, or 518-758-6401
Early arrival recommended. Preludes begin at 3:45 p.m.
Handicapped accessible. Free-will offering.
The ninth annual Celebration of Lessons andCarols in Kinderhook begins at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, December 23rd, at the Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook, NY 12106.
This event has proven very popular throughout the region, drawing attendees from the Capital District, the Berkshires, and Dutchess and Greene Counties, in addition to Columbia County. Included are readings, congregational singing, and choral and organ music of the Christmas season. Last year’s Celebration of Lessons & Carols was very enthusiastically received, with over 350 attending.
Nine readers from throughout the larger community will be joined by a choir of forty experienced singers under the musical direction of David Smith. Pastor Rudy Visser will preside.
Arrival by 3:45 p.m. is recommended, when the preludes to this year’s Celebration of Lessons & Carols will begin. Throughout the service all will be invited to sing traditional hymns and carols. Choral offerings will include works from the 17ththrough the 20th centuries, by Bach, Holst, Howells, Lauridsen, Saint-Saëns, Vaughan Williams, and others.
The church is handicapped accessible and parking is available. For further information please visit www.kinderhookreformedchurch.com or call 518-758-6401.
Some Photos
Concerts in the Village
presents choral and instrumental classical music in Kinderhook, NY.
“A stunning all Handel concert at the Kinderhook Reformed Church on November 9 was one of the finest musical events of its kind in many seasons. Maestro Smith has brought his musical forces to heights of musical grandeur. . . . This third Handel concert of the series reached heights of sustained musical beauty….In a short time ‘Concerts in the Village’ has taken on a major musical role in the Upper Hudson Valley.” -John Paul Keeler, On the Scene, Columbia-Green Media, Nov 15, 2014
19th-20th c. Music for Orchestra and for Voices with Orchestra
Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 3:00pm
Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St (US Route 9), Kinderhook, NY 12106
- Broad Street Orchestra
- Singers from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
- David Smith, Artistic Director and Conductor
Highlights of the 2018-2019 Season
September 23, 2018, 3:00pm
The School l Jack Shainman Gallery
Orchestral Music for Strings, including works of Bartok, Sibelius, Dvorak
- Broad Street Orchestra
- Andrea Bargabos, soprano
October 20, 2018, 4:00pm
Van Buren Hall
18th c. Music for Orchestra and for Voices with Orchestra
- Broad Street Orchestra
- Singers from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
November 11, 2018, 3:00pm
Kinderhook Reformed Church
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364, Requiem, K. 626 (Robert Levin completion)
- Broad Street Chorale
- Broad Street Orchestra
- Helena Baillie, violin
- Judith Nelson, viola
- Paulina Swierczek, soprano
- Chloë Schaaf, mezzo
- Eric Carey, tenor
- Wayne Paul, baritone
February 24, 2019, 3:00pm
Kinderhook Reformed Church
19th-20th c. Music for Orchestra and for Voices with Orchestra
- Broad Street Orchestra
- Singers from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
March 23, 2019, 4:00pm and March 24, 2019, 2:00pm
Van Buren Hall
Igor Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale)
- Benjamin Luxon, Narrator
- Anni Crofut, Dancer
- Broad Street Chamber Players
April 14, 2019, 3:00pm
Kinderhook Reformed Church
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45
- Broad Street Chorale
- Broad Street Orchestra
- Soloists to be announced
Note: The dates and times of two additional chamber concerts (February – April, 2019 at Van Buren
Hall) will be announced by September 1, 2018.
CITV concerts are made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered in Columbia, Greene and Schoharie Counties by the Greene County Council on the Arts through the Community Arts Grants Fund. Generous funding has also been received from the Hudson River Bank and Trust Company Foundation, T. Backer Fund, Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation, Stewart’s Shops, and The Price Chopper Golub Foundation, as well as from many individual and business supporters. Kinderhook Reformed Church is especially acknowledged for its many in-kind donations.
