CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE HANDBELL INVITATIONAL CONCERT April 24

Posted on April 21, 2010
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See the best of Southern California handbell ringing!

The Eighteenth Annual
CONCORDIA HANDBELL INVITATIONAL 

CONCERT SERIES 2010, Concert #2

Saturday, April 24, 4:30 pm,
at Concordia University Center for Worship and the Performing Arts
1530 Concordia West, Irvine, CA 92630

            Concordia’s Concert Handbells and Spirit Bells, directed by Dr. Herbert Geisler and Nancy Jessup,
are joined by ringers from 

            The Master’s College

            Point Loma Nazarene University

            Rosary High School
            Valley Christian High School, and 

            the Concordia Alumni Handbell Ensemble.

            Each ensemble performs its own music and then all join in a mass ring directed by Nancy Jessup.  

            Tickets: $8 general/$6 students and seniors available at the Music Office, (949) 854-8002 Ext. 1526
Information:  (949) 854-8002 Ext. 1526 or <handbells@cui.edu> or see the Concordia handbell web site at
http://web.mac.com/hgeisler/iWeb/Concordia%20Handbells/Welcome.html

Program includes:

Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless,         J.S. Bach, arr. Kathleen Wissinger   
A Spoonful of Sugar,              Robert & Richard Sherman, arr. Betty B. Garee
Rhythmic Rip,             John A. Behnke         
Brethren, We Have Met to Worship,                arr. Dan Edwards
Best of John Williams,            arr. Douglas Wagner
Be Thou My Vision,   Traditional Irish Melody, arr. Paul A. McKlveen
Toy Story Too!,   Ashman/Menken,  arr. Timothy Waugh
Prisms,  William Payn
Rainbow Connection,   Williams and Asher  
Earth and All Stars,  David N. Johnson, arr.Christian Guebert
Aria,    Cynthia Dobrinski                                                                                 
Balm in Gilead, Spiritual, arr.  Douglas Mears
I’ve Got the Joy Down in My Heart, Anon, arr. Valerine W. Stephenson                                                                          
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho,  Spiritual, arr. Martha Lynn Thompson
Marstaccato Blues,  Roderick Davenport
The All-American Hometown Band, Walter and Carol Noona, arr. William R. Wood
Spring Wind,  Hungarian Folk Tune “Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt,”  arr. Alex Guebert
The Ball from Children’s Games,   Georges Bizet, arr. Betty B. Garee

Massed Choirs, Nancy Jessup, Director
They’ll Know We are Christians       Peter Scholtes, arr. Jeffrey Honore

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