Christ Church Music Series

Presenting Deo Gloria - Feb. 19, 2012

Deo Gloria will perform ....traveling through musical time and space with Gregorian chant, Renaissance motets, shape note songs, and contemporary music. The concert is free but donations are encouraged.

A meet-the-artist reception will follow the performance.

Deo Gloria includes three couples who met while singing in a Roanoke church choir. The group members, who live in the Roanoke and New River Valleys, have been singing together since 1992. True to their name, the group loves to sing "to the glory of God."

The repertoire includes a wealth of styles from early European Medieval and Renaissance music to contemporary selections. While most performances are a Capella, the group is occasionally accompanied by Becky Crowder, a pianist and music educator from Salem.

Deo Gloria has performed in many venues locally and beyond, including:

• Downtown Roanoke "Dickens of a Christmas"
• Roanoke City Festival in the Park
• Roanoke Medieval and Renaissance Festival
• Virginia's Explore Park Appalachian Folk Festival
• Harper's Ferry Olde Tyme Christmas
• Holidays at Smithfield
• Blacksburg Winter Lights Festival
• Historic Brattonsville, SC
• Historic Buchanan Theater

Past Special Music Events

• PanJammers - July 10, 2011 - concert on the lawn, 7:00 p.m.
• JugBusters - July 11, 2010 - concert on the lawn, 7:00 p.m.
• Duo Firenze - Robert Trent, guitar and Pamela Trent, fortepiano - Friday, February 12, 2010 8:00 p.m.
• Kat Mills Polys - July 19, 2009
• Douglas Beck, organist-choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, VA, February 20, 2009 at 8:00p.m. He presented works from the 17thc. to the present day. Composers included Bach, Mendelssohn, and Widor, among others.

Christ Church's Moller Pipe Organ Specifications