Upcoming Concerts This Season

First Baptist Church presents the Sanctuary Choir with instrumentalists from our community, singing and performing Ovid Young’s Images of Christmas. Call the Music Office (246-4655) for more information.

 

Mark your calendars and bring your friends and family to see the Youth Choir of First Baptist Church of Easley, SC perform Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz with music and lyrics written by Harry Chapin just before his death in 1981. Based on the book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John by Clarence Jordan, the story retells the life of Jesus as if in modern day, rural Georgia.

The Chapel Choir, under the direction of Kely Hatley, is traveling through the colonial cities of Philadelphia and Washington, DC spreading the good news of the Gospel through song and drama. A homecoming concert will be presented on June 10 at 6:00 PM in the Sanctuary. Please plan to attend this concert in support of the Chapel Choir. It will be an amazing and uplifting evening as our youth share God’s love with us through song and word.

2012-2013 Concert Series Patron Interest Coffee
Sunday, April 15, 4 PM, Blue Room

Over the past four years we have all enjoyed the musical gifts of many talented artists.  The 2012-2013 concert season will be our fi fth anniversary of the Concert Series. In  recognition of that fact, we are planning a concert season fi lled with “favorites of the past.” Are you interested in getting a sneak peek at who is coming back for the upcoming concert season? I invite you to come to the Blue Room on Sunday afternoon, April 15 at 4:00 PM. Enjoy light desserts and coffee. Hear about concert events for the 2012-2013 season and learn about the different ways to help with these events. Don’t let this coffee pass you by — I think you’ll be pleased!

Sunday, May 1 ~ 4:00 PM ~ Blue Room

What a great concert season we experienced this past year! Are you interested in getting a sneak peek at the upcoming concert season? In anticipation of fall and the beginning of the new season, come to the Blue Room on Sunday afternoon, May 1. Enjoy light desserts and coffee. Hear about concert events for the 2011-2012 season and learn about the different ways to help with the concert series events. Don’t let this coffee pass you by — I think you’ll be pleased!

“Great Music, Great Artists”

Sunday, September 26
The Isaacs
The Isaacs, a family group that has traveled for over 30 years, are based out of LaFollette, TN. Current group members are Lily Isaacs, Ben Isaacs, Sonya Isaacs, Rebecca Isaacs Bowman, and John Bowman. They have a unique style that marries bluegrass harmonies and instrumentation with modern southern gospel lyrics. Their musical influences immerge from all genres of music including bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk, contemporary acoustic and southern gospel.

They perform frequently at the Grand Ole Opry, are active members on the Gaither Homecoming Videos and Concert Series and travel throughout the year performing nationally. Concert venues include civic centers, auditoriums, arenas, fair grounds, parks, churches and other locations. They have been asked to perform the National Anthem for many events, including a Cincinnati Bengal’s football game, several Nashville Predators Hockey games, various political rallies, and most recently at Carnegie Hall for a Gaither Homecoming video.

Sunday, October 17
Praise, Honor, and Glory Gospel Choir
Harold Wheat, conductor
Praise, Honor and Glory began as Celebration Mass Choir on May 15, 1993. The first concert was performed in Calhoun, Georgia on August 22, 1993. The group’s debut concert featured the Richard Smallwood Singers at the Colston Center for the Performing Arts at Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee. The choir performed the encore selection T’will Be Sweet with the Richard Smallwood Singers. Since then, the group has performed with several other major artists and productions. Later, the ministry officially adopted the name Praise, Honor and Glory, with reference to Revelation 5:13.

Sunday, December 5
FBC Sanctuary Choir and Instrumentalists: Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi
The Sanctuary Choir will be joined by area instrumentalists for a glorious evening of singing this beautiful Baroque work combining solos and duets with lovely choruses. The choir will also be singing several other inspirational Christmas selections.

Sunday, February 20
Colin Howland, organist
Colin Howland grew up in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. His formative musical years were spent as a student and assistant to Keith Chapman, who presided over the largest playing musical instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ in Philadelphia. Colin is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he was a student of John Weaver. He continued study at Baylor University with Joyce Jones.

Colin currently serves as Director of Music and Arts of the Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas, where he plays the organ for services and concerts, and oversees a comprehensive music program including a concert series, a graded children’s choir program, an Arts Academy, and six full-time staff positions. While at Park Cities, Colin worked closely with the Schoenstein Organ Company in the design and installation of their new 90 rank pipe organ. Former church positions include the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he was the Organist from 1992 to early 1998. While at Coral Ridge, Colin could be seen on the church’s weekly television broadcast, The Coral Ridge Hour.

Colin Howland has been active as an organ recitalist for over 20 years, playing concerts throughout the United States. He has appeared as soloist with the Florida Symphonic Pops Orchestra and the Irving Symphony Orchestra in such works as Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante, Camille Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3, and Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto. Colin’s recital career has also taken him as far away as England and China. Colin is also a founding member of the Philadelphia Organ Quartet, a unique ensemble which arranges and performs music for four organs and organists!

Sunday, March 6
YouthCUE Festival of Praise
Founded in 1990, Youth Choirs, Inc. (dba YouthCUE) is a non-profit interdenominational organization which seeks to “radically impact the lives of youth” through the youth choir experience. Currently, YouthCUE is the largest organization in the world, with roughly 30,000 youth in-network, that directly prepares and equips them to be leaders and ministers in their lives.

Additionally, YouthCUE seeks to minister to youth choir directors, providing them with a network of support, programs, and printed resources that will help them in-turn minister more effectively to their choirs. Over the past decade, YouthCUE has breathed new life into youth music in churches and schools and has been largely credited with the resurgence of youth choirs across the country. The expanding network of youth choir directors now represents forty states, six countries, and eleven denominations.

Schedule

Friday- PM
8:30- Mass Rehearsal 1

Saturday –AM
9:00- Mass Rehearsal 2

Saturday- PM
12:30- Mass Rehearsal 3
2:30- Mass Rehearsal 4
4:30- Mass Rehearsal 5

Sunday- AM
11:00- Morning worship

Sunday- PM
4:00- Festival Grand Concert

April 18, 2010, 4:00 PM, Blue Room

What a fantastic concert season we experienced this past year. Are you interested in getting a sneak peek at the upcoming concert season? Join Kely Hatley in the Blue Room on Sunday afternoon, April 18 to enjoy some light desserts and coffee while he tells you about all of the concert events for the 2010-2011 season. You will also learn about the different ways to help out with the concert series events. Don’t let this sneak peek pass you by—we think you’ll be pleased!

Sacred Choral Concert by Furman Singers, Dr. Bing Vick, conducting

Join the Furman Singers for a magnificent hour and a half concert of sacred choral works as well as lighter fare to close out the evening. This tour will be the final tour for Dr. Bing Vick as conductor of the Furman Singers after a successful 40 year career as their leader. A love-offering will be taken during the concert.
 

Concert Series 2009-2010

First Baptist Church of Knoxville

“Great Music, Great Artists”

Sunday, August 23

FBC Sanctuary Choir and the choirs of Mt. Zion Baptist Church Choir

Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit!  Our own Sanctuary Choir will combine with the choir from Mt. Zion Baptist Church to sing an evening of southern gospel and African-American spirituals.  We will be celebrating together 400 years of Baptist History in North America.  We will hear the spirited music and then enjoy a fellowship between our congregations on the front lawn of the church. There will be no charge for this concert.

Sunday, September 13

Bruce and Lisa, flute and violin

Bruce is a Grammy-nominated violinist and composer who has performed with Michael W. Smith, Josh Groban, Martina McBride, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, Alan Jackson and Michael Jackson. Former first violinist with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, he now tours regularly with Christian artist, Twila Paris. Bruce’s solo violin can also be heard on VeggieTales videos, including, “Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler.”

Lisa made her New York debut at the age of 20, toured as concert soloist and premiered over fifty works for flute. She is a Yamaha clinician and performing artist and the former professor of flute for Florida International University. Her amazing experience as the survivor of multiple brain tumor surgeries over the past ten years has given birth to a strong, new side to their ministry. Lisa has become a sought-after women’s ministry speaker bearing witness to the power of prayer and God’s healing.

BRUCE & LISA have recorded several Praise & Worship CDs, including their latest release, “Lord of the Hymn.” Released on the Cool Springs Records label, and distributed by Word Music, “Lord of the Hymn” is a collection of well-known hymns arranged by Bruce Wethey and Don Marsh in an exciting new Celtic style.

Sunday, October 11

Kely Hatley and Bill Shiell

Kely Hatley and Bill Shiell will be combining their talents to sing solos, duets, inspirational stories and dramas for an evening of praise to God and thanksgiving for the good news of the gospel. Join us for an inspiring concert of worship together.

Sunday, November 22

Dr. Charles C. Callahan in the Dedication Concert for our newly renovated organ

Charles Callahan is one of America‘s leading organist-composers. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Catholic University of America. Well-known as an improvisateur, he made his debut in this realm at the International Eucharistic Congress in 1976. He has collaborated with many of this country’s leading conductors as both composer and organist and has worked with noted stage and screen personalities in both theatre and the concert hall.

Orchestras, choirs, chamber music ensembles and soloists all over the world have performed compositions by Dr. Callahan. He has been commissioned to compose music twice by Harvard University. In recognition of his service to the church and his commissioned compositions for Papal visits to the United States, he was awarded in 1999 the Papal Honor of Knighthood in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

In addition to compositions and performances, Charles Callahan is a noted educator and author; his two books on American organ building have become standard reference works. He is frequently in demand as a consultant for organ projects and his work in this area includes significant instruments for the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, St. Agnes Cathedral, Long Island, NY, All Saints Church in Buffalo, NY, First United Methodist Church in Beaumont, TX, and his alma mater, Curtis Institute.

Sunday, December 6

FBC Sanctuary Choir and Instrumentalists

Christmas Oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns—The Sanctuary Choir will be joined by area soloists and area instrumentalists for a glorious evening of singing this beautiful oratorio combining solo and soli work with lovely choruses. The choir will also be singing several other inspirational Christmas selections. This concert will be free to all attending, however, tickets are required.

Sunday, February 21

A Festival of Praise!

Join the choirs of First Baptist Church Knoxville; Central Baptist Church, Bearden; Broadway Baptist Church; Central Baptist Church, Fountain City; Monte Vista Baptist Church, Maryville; First Baptist Church Oak Ridge; and Brentwood United Methodist Church as we form a 300-voice choir to fill the Sanctuary with the music of hymns selected from the new Celebrating Grace Hymnal, produced in cooperation by Mercer University. Dr. Gregory Bunn will be our guest organist and Mary McDonald will be our guest pianist for the evening.

We will be premiering many new hymns and arrangements of old favorites from the new hymnal as we celebrate our final dedication event of the newly renovated Schantz organ by RA Colby and Associates.

Sunday, March 7

Sacred Choral Concert by the Furman Singers, Dr. Bing Vick, conducting

Join the Furman Singers for a magnificent hour and a half concert of sacred choral works as well as lighter fare to close out the evening. This tour will be the final tour for Dr. Bing Vick as conductor of the Furman Singers after a successful 40 year career as their leader.  A love-offering will be taken during the concert.

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