InVocation Spring Concerts

InVocation Spring Benefit Concert Series 2008: “Love is in the Air (…and so is Pollen… and MUSIC!)”

 “What’s in a name? That which we call a concert   By any other name would sound as sweet.” — William Shakespeare (more or less)

We may have left the “rose” out of that quote, but we’re giving it plenty of play at our Spring Benefit Concerts! Roses, daffodils, daisies… and love — lots of love! God’s love for us, our love for God, and (of course) the oldest story in the world: Shepherd meets Shepherdess, Shepherd gets Shepherdess, Shepherd loses Shepherdess…

Seriously, though, we’ll be singing the music of English and American composers: Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, William Billings, P.D.Q. Bach, John Rutter, our own Daniel Pederson, and more… Madrigals, jazz, and (inevitably) jazz madrigals — all set to lovely texts by poets as diverse as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Peter Schickele, King David, and (naturally) William Shakespeare.

Admission is free, but a freewill offering will benefit Feed My Starving Children, a locally-based charity whose volunteers pack nutritious meals that are distributed to malnourished children worldwide. Come and celebrate spring with us — and help feed hungry children across the globe!

• Thursday, May 1, 7:00 pm St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish, 8701 36th Avenue North, New Hope

• Friday, May 2, 7:30 pm St. Anthony Park United Methodist Church, 2200 Hillside Avenue, St. Paul

• Saturday, May 10, 7:00 pm Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4120 17th Avenue South, Minneapolis

• Sunday, May 11, 4:00 pm Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln Ave, St. Paul

Additional information about the concert series, InVocation, and Feed My Starving Children can be found at www.invocationsingers.org.

Note: Kim Goodman, a minister member of the Presbytery and a chaplain in St. Paul, is a member of InVocation along with her husband, John.