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This will be a "Greatest Hits" concert. We will sing some of our most popular selections from the past ten years, including classical, spirituals, gospel, and folk songs.

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Celebrating the beginning of our 10th season, the concert will feature the choir, several vocal soloists from the choir, ECU trumpet professor Gabriel DiMartino, trumpeter Dr. Dan Crocker, and organist Virginia Vance. We are grateful to our friends who have made gifts to RMCC since our founding. It is our hope that this benefit concert will offer a convenient opportunity for our audience members to make a gift that will help us continue to offer concerts free of charge. Due to dangerous weather conditions on the afternoon of last year's Christmas concert, the decision was made to cancel the performance. This benefit concert will allow us to recoup some of the costs associated with that cancellation.

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Haydn's "Achieved Is the Glorious Work" will open the program, followed by sacred selections in anticipation of All Saints Day, including Dan Forrest's "No Night There" and Parker/Shaw's "Saints Bound for Heaven." We'll close the first half of the concert with a couple of prayers, including an arrangement of "Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying." Three selections on the second half of the program are focused on the joy of singing, as in Norwegian composer Kim Arnesen's "Flight Song" - "All we are, we have found in song..." The women of the choir are featured in a folk song from Malaysia, while the men have fun with a Neapolitan art song. Shawn Kirchner's wonderful "I'll Be On My Way" closes the concert.

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The concert will be the program that was canceled last year due to the weather. Included will be John Rutter's "Gloria" for choir, brass (four trumpets, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba), tympani, and organ, along with carols and popular songs of the season, with chamber orchestral accompaniment, including "O Come, All Ye Faithful" - "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas" - "Believe" from "The Polar Express."

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The program will include a wide variety of songs about love, including settings of poetry by Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and other well-known writers.  Following an intermission reception catered by Chef Sal Zappulla, the second half of the program will include popular and jazz standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, the Beatles, and others.  The price of admission is $40, purchased in advance.  Make checks payable to Rocky Mount Chamber Choir and mail to P. O. Box 8228, Rocky Mount, N. C.  27804-1228.  Please include your email address so that we may notify you of receipt of your check.  A limited number of tickets are available after February 5th.