The Vassar College Department of Music and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life will present a Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 3, at 7 p.m. in the Vassar College Chapel. It is free and open to the public.
Advent and Christmas readings will be given by students, faculty, administration, and staff of Vassar College. Charles Kamm will direct the Vassar Lessons and Carols Choir and organist Merellyn Gallagher. Sam Speers, director of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at Vassar, will lead the service.
In addition to the choir, the service will include musical offerings by independent student groups. Alive!, a new 10-member Christian a cappella group at the college, will sing, as will pianist and vocalist Peter Lakes '01, a student who serves as organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Poughkeepsie.
Kamm is a visiting assistant professor and director of choral activities at Vassar. He formerly taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was associate conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Kamm has recently recorded with the Choir of the Church of the Advent for BBC radio and the Arsis CD label.
Gallagher is Vassar College's organist, and has been a member of the music faculty since 1972. She has served in various capacities in the Central Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and was the festival organist for two Dutchess County interfaith music festivals (1977, 1990).
For more information call the Vassar College Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at (845) 437-5550. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities, (845) 437-5370, as far in advance as possible to request reasonable and appropriate accommodations for the event.
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