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Come sing in Missa Luba
Missa Luba is an exciting Congolese style Mass, written by Father Guido Haazen, a Belgian missionary in the Congo in the 1950s, who wrote it for the choir that he founded there. Missa Luba is scored for voices, drums, and tenor solo, and uses African style call and response, and other traditional singing patterns.
Missa Luba will be the closing piece of a Choral Festival concert during the Columbus Arts Festival on Friday June 6 at First Congregational Church, 444 E Broad Street, Columbus. The singers will include members of the Columbus Women's Chorus, the choir of First Congregational Church, the Columbus Children's Choir, the Dublin Singers, and many other interested people from central Ohio, all coming together to form a community chorus of over 100 singers.
All singers and drummers are welcome to join in rehearsing and performing Missa Luba.
Missa Luba rehearsal schedule
Monday May 19, 7 pm - 9 pm at Summit on 16th United Methodist Church (web site and directions at www.summiton16th.org) (SINGERS only)
Tuesday May 27, 7 pm - 9 pm at Summit on 16th (SINGERS only)
Sunday June 1, 2 pm - 3:30 pm at First Congregational Church (web site and directions at www.http://www.first-church.org/) (ALL performers)
Monday June 2, 7 pm - 9 pm at Summit on 16th (ALL performers)
Performance: Friday June 6, 2008 at 7:00 pm (final item in the concert)
Scores: Missa Luba is published by Alfred (LG51401). The cost is $6.95, and it can be ordered from Stanton's Sheet Music, tel 614-224 4257.
Recommended recording: Missa (Philips label 475 6133) which includes a recording directed by Guido Haazen himself, and also a DVD of a Kenyan performance.
Inquiries: please contact Sheena Phillips with any questions, email sheena[at]columbus.rr.com
This concert is generously supported by the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC).
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