Elizabethtown College hosts holiday concerts

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (11/30/2011)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College musicians, along with Lionheart, bring the seasonal sounds of music to the College. All concerts are in the College's Leffler Chapel and Performance Center.

Gretna Music offers Lionheart, the world's most recognizable a cappella ensemble, performing Medieval and Renaissance interpretations of holiday tunes with an antique but modern feel. Tickets for the concert -- 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3 -- are $19 to $30 and can be purchased online.

The Symphonic Band, led by Dr. J. Robert Spence, assistant professor of Music and director of Instrumental Studies at Elizabethtown College, performs classical music and popular tunes for wind and percussion instruments. The free concert is at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4.

A free performance by students and faculty members of the College's Department of Fine and Performing Arts takes place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, and the College-Community Chorus, Women's Choir, Camerata, Concert Choir, Arioso Flute Choir, the Sax Quartet and the Jazz Band perform traditional holiday music at the American Family Christmas concert, under the direction of Matthew Fritz, associate professor of music, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. In addition to lively holiday music, the concert includes visits from special holiday characters. Tickets for American Family Christmas are $5 for adults, $3 for students and free for children 10 and under. Contact Matthew Fritz by calling 717-361-1112. Tickets also may be purchased at the door.

Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu.

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Elizabethtown College, in south-central Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Through personal attention, creative inspiration and academic challenge, Elizabethtown College students are encouraged to expand their intellectual curiosity and are given the opportunity to become a bigger part of the world through experiential learning-research, internships and study abroad. Elizabethtown College's overall commitment to Educate for Service is fulfilled as students are taught intellectually, socially, aesthetically and ethically for lives of service and leadership.

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