{"id":121042,"date":"2022-11-24T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=121042"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:31:37","slug":"oacc-announces-christmas-concert-for-dec-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=121042","title":{"rendered":"OACC announces Christmas concert for Dec. 4, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Oneida Area Civic Chorale will present \u201cAn American Christmas,\u201d a collection of contemporary and traditional Christmas music at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program will open with \u201cDo You Hear What I Hear?\u201d which was written in 1962 by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some of the familiar pieces that will be performed include \u201cWhite Christmas,\u201d \u201cSleigh Ride,\u201d \u201cIt Came Upon the Midnight Clear\u201d and \u201cLet It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.\u201d \u201cI Heard the Bells on Christmas Day\u201d will be presented with a narration describing how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem that eventually became the beloved carol.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mark Bunce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The OACC is one of the largest non-auditioned community choruses in the Central New York region and is celebrating 55 years of bringing live choral music to the Central New York area. The 95 singers in this concert are under the direction of Mark Bunce and accompanied on the piano by Heather O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest musicians for this concert include Liz Simchik, who will join the Chorale playing fiddle on several pieces, including the toe-tapping \u201cBrightest and Best.\u201d Also playing will be Shawn DePalma on bass and Aaron Decker on percussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is tradition with Chorale Christmas concerts, the audience will be invited to join the Chorale in singing some favorite Christmas carols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets for the concert are $10 and may be purchased from Chorale members. Tickets are also available at the door or may be purchased at oneidachorale.org<\/a> through Event Brite. Be sure to \u201cLike\u201d and \u201cFollow\u201d the Oneida Chorale on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oneida Area Civic Chorale will present \u201cAn American Christmas,\u201d a collection of contemporary and traditional Christmas music at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School auditorium. The program will open with \u201cDo You Hear What I Hear?\u201d which was written in 1962 by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne as a plea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-vui","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/March-2022-official-photo-1-1.jpg?fit=1730%2C357&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}