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Michelle Kingsbury
  • Music Education and Music
  • Class of 2013
  • Aurora, OR

Michelle Kingsbury of Aurora performs in George Fox University's annual Christmas concert

2012 Nov 13

Michelle Kingsbury, a Senior at George Fox University, is among the more than 120 performers taking part in the university's annual Christmas concert, "Star of Wonder, Star of Light!," scheduled Friday through Sunday, Dec. 7-9. All performances will be held in Bauman Auditorium on the university's Newberg campus.

Kingsbury sings/plays Clarinet for the Symphonic Band and Strings. The concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7-8, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9. Preconcert music will be offered half an hour before each performance. The cost is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and George Fox alumni, and $6 for students and children.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting music.georgefox.edu.

Featured groups include the university's Concert Choir, Men's and Women's Chorale, Chamber Singers and Symphonic Band and Strings. A special guest this year will be a choir from Newberg High School.

Loren Wenz, associate professor of music, will direct the choral portion of the concert, and Pat Vandehey, assistant professor of music, will direct the instrumental portion. Richard Elliott will serve as associate conductor of the Symphonic Band.

The student musicians will tell the Christmas story through well-loved carols and traditional compositions. Complementary staging, complete with authentic environmental elements, Scripture reading and narration, will be featured. The concert will also be interspersed with opportunities for the audience to join in singing familiar Christmas carols.

Among the selections presented will be "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," "Climb to the Top of the Highest Mountain," "Silent Night," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "The First Noel," "The Little Drummer Boy," "Joy to the World," "What Child Is This?" and "We Three Kings."

The event is the largest production of the year put on by the university's performing arts department, which offers a music major and a music education major.

For more information on concert specifics, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at 503-554-2620.

George Fox University is ranked by Forbes among the top Christian universities in the country and is a Christian college classified by U.S. News & World Report as a first-tier regional university. Nearly 3,500 students attend classes on the university's campus in Newberg, Ore., and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond, Ore., and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor's degrees in more than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for working adults, five seminary degrees, and 11 master's and doctoral degrees.