{"id":7849,"date":"2016-11-23T05:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T10:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2016-11-27T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:56:55","slug":"diocesan-festival-choir-to-help-haiti-and-wortley-home-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/diocesan-festival-choir-to-help-haiti-and-wortley-home-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocesan Festival Choir to Help Haiti and Wortley Home for Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }\n--><\/style>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7850\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7850\" alt=\"DFC Presentation to Wortley Home.DSC 0763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763-800x536.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763-223x150.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DFC-Presentation-to-Wortley-Home.DSC-0763-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Robert Thompson, Chairman of the Choir&#8217;s Management Committee presents a $150,000 donation to Mr. Raphael &#8220;Keith&#8221; Sangster, Chairman of the Wortley Home. Miss Delores Bailey (second left) Superintendent of the Home; and Mrs. Marva Greig, a Director, joined them for the presentation on November 21. The funds are part proceeds from the Choir&#8217;s 2015 Concert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Wortley Home for Girls and victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti will be the beneficiaries of proceeds from this year\u2019s Diocesan Festival Choir Christmas concerts. The 91 year-old choir will perform on November 27 and December 4, under the baton of accomplished Director, Geoffrey Shields<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> at the University Chapel, Mona and the Kingston Parish Church<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> respectively.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Dubbed the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><b>\u2018Magic of Christmas\u2019,<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> the two-concert series will feature excerpts from Handel\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><b>\u201cMessiah\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> (The Christmas Section), other seasonal favourites and negro spirituals, as well as performances by Jamaican virtuoso Paulette Bellamy, who will lead the instrumental group, Touch of Elegance. Dr. Richard Beckford, Professor of Music at South Carolina State University, will be guest organist. Rounding out the package is mezzo soprano Dawn Fuller-Philips.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Geoffrey Shields promises that the concerts will launch the Festive Season with a musical bang. \u201cThis year, we have an exciting blend of pieces we\u2019ve never performed before, including choruses that have thrilled audiences worldwide for ages,\u201d said the Director who has led the Choir for two years, and whose<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> keen musical ear and creativity are legendary. \u201cLast year was a success and we have raised the bar further,\u201d affirmed Shields.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><b>\u201cMagic of Christmas\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> concerts will be presented under the distinguished patronage of the Venerable Dr. Alvin Stone retired Anglican Archdeacon of Kingston, and Mrs. Stone; and will begin at 6pm on November 27 at the University Chapel and at 5pm at Kingston Parish Church on December 4.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wortley Home for Girls and victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti will be the beneficiaries of proceeds from this year\u2019s Diocesan Festival Choir Christmas concerts. The 91 year-old choir will perform on November 27 and December 4, under the baton of accomplished Director, Geoffrey Shields, at the University Chapel, Mona and the Kingston Parish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":7850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}