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Show Heritage Choir Will Sing At Panguitch LDS Fireside The Southern Utah Heritage Choir, under the direction of Floyd Rigby, will present a special Choral Cho-ral Fireside in the Panguitch Stake Center at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 16. The public is invited to attend and bring their friends. There is no charge. This concert is under the direction direc-tion of the Panguitch stake, President Presi-dent Shannon D. Allen, presiding. Elder Thomas L. Fyans, General Authority Emeritus, with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Latter-Day Saints, and spokesman for the choir will deliver an Easter message. mes-sage. The Southern Utah Heritage Choir is comprised of 200 members from all walks of life in Southern Utah and Nevada. They have been organized for two years and have made their home in the St. George Tabernacle, following their sanctioning sanc-tioning by the LDS Church as an official missionary arm of the St. George Temple Visitors Center and Historical Sites. They present monthly concerts in the St. George Tabernacle, and regular firesides for (See Heritage Choir Will Perform At Panguitch Fireside On Page 4A) Heritage Choir Will Perform From Front Page the visitors' Center, under the direction direc-tion of Elder Verlyn Thomas. With a desire and mission to draw people closer to Christ through music, the choir will present pres-ent a program which will include sacred hymn settings, famous choral cho-ral master pieces by Handel and Mendelssohn, Sing Unto God and He Watching Over Israel, along with two selections from the Faure Requiem. Two moving spirituals will be followed by a tribute to the Easter Season, with He Is Not Here, Go to Dark Gethsemane and softly and Tenderly, Jesus is calling. call-ing. The program will conclude with a moving arrangement of Oh beautiful for Spacious Skies. The choir is preparing for a European Tour, which will depart on April 20, 1997. They have been invited to join with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in a three-city three-city tour, including a concert in Prague. They will also present firesides for the LDS Church Members Mem-bers and missionaries in that area. All members of the choir pay their own expenses and buy their own music. Floyd Rigby, choir director stated, "living in Southern Utah, we enjoy the comforts and beauty of this area due, in a large part, to the great pioneers who carved these farms, home sites and cities out of a rugged and vast territory. We have much to be grateful for and a significant part of our experience with this choir has been to recognize recog-nize these wonderful people and sing their praises. We are pleased to share this concert with the choice people of the Panguitch area in a celebration of the blessing of living in this unique and beautiful Southern South-ern Utah". The Choir is accompanied by local celebrated pianist and music teacher, Phylis Tonks, and local piano and organ instructor, Suzette Fradella. |