Mount Olive Music and Fine Arts

In a broader sense of ministry, bringing a different kind of food to the hungry, Mount Olive seeks to bring beauty to our community through the Music and Fine Arts Series. This series is another way for us to share the tremendous value we place on Music and the Fine Arts, especially as they intrinsically relate to our soul as God's people.

Annual features include hymn festivals (continuing the great tradition begun in this place by Cantor Emeritus Paul O. Manz), Vespers with Cantatas, the Advent Procession Service, organ recitals, art shows, and a variety of other arts, drama, and musical offerings.

The 2007-2008 Music & Fine Arts brochure will be available soon.

Support Music and Fine Arts at Mount Olive

This series is supported by a patron system, and draws support from all over the Twin Cities area.

Patronage to Mount Olive Music and Fine Arts makes these events possible. Contributions are recommended at the following levels:

  • $1000 - Guarantor
  • $500 - Contributor
  • $250 - Sponsor
  • $100 - Supporter
  • $50 - Donor

Gifts supporting the Music and Fine Arts program may be submitted through the church office.

 

 

2007-2008 Season

Sunday, October 14, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Trumpeter Charles Lazarus – and Friends
An Afternoon Jazz Concert, with Minnesota Orchestra Trumpet player, Charles Lazarus, joined by jazz musicians on piano, bass and drums. Come and experience an afternoon of delightful tunes in a variety of jazz styles.  
   A reception will follow in the Chapel Lounge.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
8:00 am and 10:45 a.m. Eucharists Mozart, Missa Brevis in D, K194
Ensemble Sebastian
Mount Olive Cantorei
David Cherwien, conductor
The movements of Mozart’s Mass in D, K 194, will be embedded in a Festival Eucharist, including the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. The chamber orchestra for this event will be Ensemble Sebastian, a group of players who specialize in baroque techniques and instruments. The mass will feature the Mount Olive Cantorei, with organist and conductor David Cherwien.

December 8, 2007 - 4:00 pm
Advent Eve Procession Service. 
A Service of Lessons and Carols for the Season of Advent, featuring the choirs of Mount Olive and David Cherwien, cantor and organist.

Friday, January 11, 2008, 7:30 pm.
Hymn Festival – “The Church’s Song: Justice and Peacemaking”
National Lutheran Choir
David Cherwien, organist and conductor
Dr. Marva Dawn – commentaries
The Hymn Festival, a tradition which spiraled from the walls of Mount Olive through the work of Dr. Paul Manz and the congregation, continues with the help of world-renowned author and theologian Marva Dawn and one of the Twin Cities’ premier choral ensembles, The National Lutheran Choir, under the leadership of Cantor David Cherwien. Included will be a variety of hymns and choral anthems exploring the making of peace through song. This event is held in conjunction with our annual Conference on Liturgy.

Sunday, February 10, 2008, 4:00 pm
Music for Trumpet and Piano
Timothy Lovelace, Piano
Charles Lazarus, Trumpet
Charles Lazarus returns and teams up with Timothy Lovelace, pianist, for this concert of an entirely different nature – classical chamber music. A reception will follow in the Chapel Lounge.

Sunday, April 27, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Angelica Cantanti
Nancy Grundahl and Jim Hawthorne, conductors
Two choirs of this fine organization combine for a wonderful afternoon of choral music. The Concert Choir, under the direction of Nancy Grundahl, is made up of children in grades 6-8, and the Cantanti Singers, a high school choir under the direction of James Hawthorne, team up to perform diverse and delightful music sung artistically by angelic singers. A reception will follow.

Saturday, June 14 and 
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Second Annual “Bach Tage” at Mount Olive

Saturday, 4:30 pm – All Bach Concert
Toccata and Fugue in F, Cantor David Cherwien, organ
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Layton James, harpsichordist, with Ensemble Sebastian.

Sunday,  4:00 pm – Evening Prayer with Bach Cantatas 22, 23
Kathleen Romey, conductor, with Ensemble Sebastian
Cantor David Cherwien, Organist.