Press Release – This Sunday evening, December 4th, the Music Ministry of First Baptist Church Brownwood will present its annual Christmas concert featuring music performed by the FBC Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra. The concert will be given during the regular Sunday evening worship hour, and will contain opportunities for audience participation. Included on the program will be Carols for Seekers by Joseph M. Martin, as well as the familiar Christmas hymns “O Come, All Ye Faithful”, “The First Nowell,” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” The center piece of the concert will be What Sweeter Music, a collection of Christmas hymn arrangements by John Leavitt. This work is based on the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which was introduced in 1918 at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. The service includes various scripture readings related to the Christmas story, and contains such familiar Christmas hymns and carols as “People, Look East,” “He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child,” and “We Three Kings of Orient Are.”
“The Sanctuary Choir at FBC Brownwood is one of the finest volunteer church choirs that I have had the privilege to conduct” said Dr. Gregory Church, Minister of Music at the church. “It is always a pleasure to share music of the Christmas season as part of our ministry to our church and community,” he said. The Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra are each made up of members of the FBC congregation, and students from the Howard
Payne University Department of Music. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the sanctuary of the historic church. FBC Brownwood is located at 208 Austin Avenue.
