Festival of Carols 2009 December 4, 2009 Date of Event: December 4-6, 2009 Photos taken by: Tim Blaum ’10 Goshen College Music Department presented its sixth annual musical celebration of Christmas, “A Festival of Carols,” on Dec. 4-6 in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall. This special celebration of the holiday season will feature five choirs and orchestra, along with audience participation on traditional carols, all in a concert hall festively decorated with garlands, lights and trees. The audience joined the choirs to sing familiar carols during the performance. “A Festival of Carols” is patterned on a traditional English worship service, and features Christmas carols, spirituals, Scripture readings and works by Handel, Francisco Guererro, Paul Basler, Morten Lauridsen, Steven Sametz, Harold Darke, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and more.