THE CORNERSTONE CHORALE & BRASS PRESENTS A POWERFUL MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATION AND UNITY
Bruce Vantine’s Cornerstone Chorale & Brass, a widely acclaimed professional touring ensemble, presents a new concert production Wednesday, October 17, 7:00 pm, at First Presbyterian Church, Muscatine, 401 Iowa Avenue, Muscatine, IA.
The program features a unique combination of traditional choral and instrumental music with narration -- woven together with newly composed musical themes. The 2018 Tour program offers a unique faith experience reflecting on 3-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer Archibald MacLeish’s famous work describing the July 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing: “To see the earth as it truly is,…is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together: brothers [and sisters] in the eternal cold.”
Cornerstone is the creation of its conductor, Dr. Bruce Vantine, and consists of 30 professional vocalists, instrumentalists, narrator and staff currently on a 3½ week tour including 20 performances in 11 states across the Midwest and South. Members of the ensemble include experienced professional performers from all over the United States. The group has presented more than 460 performances since 1988, offering unique and uplifting programs which often help raise awareness and funds for charities in the local sponsoring community.
This engaging, high quality and accessible program is designed to encourage individuals to live their faith at a higher level of commitment – especially in reaching out to those in need.
Each year, composer and conductor Bruce Vantine chooses a specific theme to develop, often from scripture. He chooses a variety of choral and instrumental pieces of music, collects quotations from both sacred and secular sources and composes musical interludes which develop thematically, somewhat like motion picture music.
A free will offering will be collected. For more information, call FPC Muscatine at (563) 263-2696 or visit their website.
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