Addie Liechty '06 collaborated on an album called The Midnight Hymn Sing album, released on Nov. 21, an eclectic collection of spirituals and hymns that is being sold to help benefit Mennonite Central Committee’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Greg Yoder's '09 Walking Roots Band is funding a new Christmas CD through Kickstarter, with some proceeds going to support Mennonite Central Committee.
"What got me hooked was my interview with the students that morning; to hear their opinions … their strong feelings and beliefs about things that are very important to me: peace, justice, volunteerism, things like that."
Goshen College will present the 14th annual musical celebration of Christmas, “A Festival of Carols,” on Friday, Dec. 1 and Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 3 at 4 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Author, poet, singer, songwriter and Goshen College alum, Carrie Newcomer, visited with The Mennonite about spirituality, news, art and her top five most influential artists.
GC Associate Professor of Music Jose Rocha conducted the Elkhart County Symphony in collaboration with musician Ben Folds during a concert on Saturday, June 24.
Jean Kidula's '45 African musical instrument collection got quite a boost earlier this year when Mary Oyer '45, Kidula's former professor, gave her more than 70 African musical instruments the that Oyer had collected in trips to the continent.
In the first undergraduate program of its kind, Goshen College students are learning to teach music based on the principles of El Sistema.
Ken Nafziger '63 stepped to the front of the crowded room and, as he has for countless times over the last 40 years, asked his Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) colleagues to sing. This time, it was “Amazing Grace,” the first two stanzas together and then the first stanza in rounds.
Recent GC grad Maggie Weaver '17 writes about Women’s World Music Choir and its founder, Dr. Debra Detwiler Brubaker '79.
