{"id":14564,"date":"2007-11-26T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/music\/2007\/11\/26\/varsity-singers-host-annual-community-christmas-concerts\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:01:39","slug":"varsity-singers-host-annual-community-christmas-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2007\/11\/26\/varsity-singers-host-annual-community-christmas-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Singers host annual community Christmas concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &mdash; The Bemidji State University Varsity Singers will present its sixth annual &ldquo;A Community Christmas,&rdquo; a double event held on Sunday, Dec. 9 featuring the choir, the BSU Symphonic Band, two vocal ensembles and vocalist Linda Wagner, reigning Mrs. Senior America.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will be held at 3 p.m. followed by a second performance at 6 p.m. in the Main Theatre of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex.&nbsp; Admission is a canned food donation for the Bemidji Community Food Shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Always a family-friendly concert, the event will feature performers dressed in Christmas colors, an hour of fun Christmas music and an audience sing-a-long.&nbsp; The Varsity Singers and Symphonic Band will perform separately and then join together to present &ldquo;Sleigh Ride,&rdquo; the sing-a-long and a special &ldquo;&rsquo;Twas the Night Before Christmas&rdquo; written specifically for the Varsity Singers by composer Dr. Patrick Riley of the BSU Department of Music.<\/p>\n<p>Directing will be Dr. Janice Haworth with the Varsity Singers and Dr. Del Lyren with the Symphonic Band.&nbsp; The vocal ensembles will include The Fundamentals, a men&rsquo;s group from the Varsity Singers, and Damestimmen, a group of ladies from the Department of Music.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call the BSU Department of Music at (218) 755-2915).<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR YOUR CALENDAR<br>\nDec. 9 <\/strong>&ndash; 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. &ndash; A Community Christmas presented by the Varsity Singers of Bemidji State University.&nbsp; Location:&nbsp; Main Theatre of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex, BSU campus.&nbsp; Admission: canned good donation for the Bemidji Food Shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &mdash; The Bemidji State University Varsity Singers will present its sixth annual &ldquo;A Community Christmas,&rdquo; a double event held on Sunday, Dec. 9 featuring the choir, the BSU Symphonic Band, two vocal ensembles and vocalist Linda Wagner, reigning Mrs. Senior America. The concert will be held at 3 p.m. followed by a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44597,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions\/44597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}