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Cloister Chorus Performance

Date(s): 10/21/2024
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Celebrate the music of Ephrata Cloister with the Ephrata Cloister Chorus’ performance at 7:00 PM on Monday, October 21st at Leffler Chapel and Performance Center at Elizabethtown College. The Ephrata Cloister Chorus will perform four pieces composed at Ephrata Cloister found in the 1739 hymnal Zionitischer Weyrauchs-Hugel. The program will also include music by the Moravians, the Shakers, William Billings, and an African American spiritual. This performance by the Ephrata Cloister Chorus is FREE!

Preceding the concert, Archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh will describe extensive conservation work completed in 2023 on two rare manuscripts from Ephrata Cloister that are now housed at Elizabethtown College’s Hess Archives and Special Collections. Both manuscripts were created by hand at Ephrata Cloister in the mid-18th century and contain beautiful examples of Pennsylvania German Fraktur.

The Ephrata Cloister Chorus, directed by Mark Herr and accompanied by Juliet Mitton, revitalizes the unique, original music of Ephrata Cloister as an educational program of the Ephrata Cloister Associates.

This event is part of the School of Arts and Humanities’ Monday Series Concerts and is cosponsored by the Young Center.

Written by Sandra Faller on . Posted in Chorus, Ephrata Cloister

Ephrata Cloister

Administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission:
Josh Shapiro, Governor – Hayley Haldeman, Chair – Andrea Lowery, Executive Director

Ephrata Cloister is one of 26 historic sites and museums on the Pennsylvania Trail of History.

The Ephrata Cloister Associates is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, supporting the mission of preservation and education at this National Historic Landmark.

 

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
Ephrata National Bank, Black Forest Brewery/Americana 1777 Inn, Blue Ridge, Conestoga Animal Hospital Inc., Country Homestead, Dairy Queen of Ephrata, Dr. David and Rebecca Fuchs, G.R. Klinefelter Underwriters, Inc., Gus’s Keystone Family Restaurant, Hampton Inn & Suites – Ephrata, Historic Smithton Inn/Weathered Vineyards Ephrata, Horst Auctioneers, New Cloister Restaurant, Olde Lincoln House, Pour Man’s Brewing, Rick Jackson, ELA, Rosenberger North America Akron LLC, Seventh Day Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Tru by Hilton Denver, PA, and Woman’s Club of Ephrata
Historic Ephrata Cloister Fall 2024 Hours of Operation: Open 9am-4pm Wed. through Sat. & 12pm-4pm Sun. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
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