Holiday Concert
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Sunday, December 14, 2008
5:00 p.m.
St. John’s United Methodist Church
104 Newberry St. NW

The tradition of A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols began in 1918 at King’s College in Cambridge, England. It was planned by Eric Milner-White, who believed the Church of England needed a more imaginative worship. Performances began to be broadcast in 1928 which increased the service’s popularity and continues to serve as the basis for many other performances all over the world during the holiday season. Regardless of where the lessons and carols are heard, the center of the service is for those who go “in heart and mind” and follow where the story leads.

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Valentine’s Concert
An Evening of Champagne, Dessert, and Love Songs
Saturday, February 14, 2009
8:00 p.m.
University of South Carolina Aiken
Etherredge Center
471 University Parkway

An annual favorite, An Evening of Champagne, Dessert, and Love Songs celebrates the music of great 20th century song writers Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Kurt Weill, among others. These beautiful ballads and love songs will be performed by members of Masterworks Chorale and special guests.

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Spring Concert
The Composer’s Muse – Poems of Love and Beauty
Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:00 p.m.
University of South Carolina Aiken
Etherredge Center
471 University Parkway

Celebrating two contrasting yet equally beautiful works, Masterworks Chorale concludes the season with a performance of Randall Thompson’s Frostiana and Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes (“Love Songs”). These works, while composed a century apart, share a romantic idiom that was inspired by the German poet and philosopher Georg Friedrich Daumer and American poet Robert Frost.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

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