Music on the Hill Presents Music for Harp, Bells and Voices

Music on the Hill welcomes harpist Wendy Kerner for "Song of Light," music for harp, bells and voices, opening its 2018 season. The concert is Sunday, March 18, at 3 p.m. at WEPCO Parish Hall, 48 New Canaan Road, Wilton. It is presented free of charge as a gift to the community.

"Song of Light" is an uplifting program featuring songs of comfort, renewal, and joy. It will include Fauré's much-loved "Cantique de Jean Racine," original works for handbells by Artistic Directors David H. Connell and Ellen Dickinson, and two new songs by prolific New Canaan composer Gwyneth Walker.

The Festival Chorus will also reprise the "Glory" movement from Dickinson's Threads of Light, which was enthusiastically received at its fall 2016 premiere at Norwalk Concert Hall. Threads of Light: A Tapestry of African-American Spirituals weaves together more than thirty spirituals in three movements: Hope, Journey, Glory. It will be performed in this concert with harp and bells. Ms. Dickinson conducts.

Guest artist Wendy Kerner is the principal harpist with the Norwalk, Bridgeport, and Ridgefield Symphonies and has appeared in concerts throughout the United States and abroad. She is an adjunct Professor of Harp at Sacred Heart University and a founding member of the Irish music group "Themselves."

Music on the Hill is a non-profit organization promoting engagement with music through workshops, a Summer Sings series, and four performing ensembles. It is funded by generous donors and by a grant from the CT Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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