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Double choral concert coming to St. John’s

By: Tracy Simmons

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March 18, 2015

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The St. John’s Concert Series will welcome Spokane Choral Artists and the Mid-Columbia Mastersingers, who will present a program of music for double chorus on March 22 at 3 p.m, with a pre-concert talk at 2:30 p.m.

The program includes Vivaldi’s “Dixit Dominus,” Brahms’ “Fest-und Gedenksprüche,” John Rutter’s “Hymn to the Creator of Light,” and will include works by Tavener, Whitacre and Northwest composer John Muehleisen’s Alma Redemptoris Mater.

Mid-Columbia Mastersingers are based in the Tri-Cities and conducted by Justin Raffa. Max Mendez is the founder and director of Spokane Choral Artists.

General admission is $15 ($18 at door); student/senior admission is $12 ($15 at door). Tickets are available from http://www.spokanechoralartists.com.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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