Susquehanna Chorale will usher in festive season
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
In 1981, Linda Tedford founded the Susquehanna Chorale after she and her husband moved to central Pennsylvania from the Philadelphia area. More than 40 years later, the chorale is still going strong, and several ensembles will present holiday concerts this month and next.
The Susquehanna Chorale’s season, “A Kaleidoscope of Song,” will feature the 42-member adult chamber ensemble nationally known for its musicality and emotional connection to the music.
The season will kick off with the Youth Choral Festival at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24. The concert will be held at Messiah University’s Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts, University Avenue, Mechanicsburg. The festival will feature the Children, Youth, Alta Voce and Adult chorales.
“Both the youth and adult groups perform on their own, and then at the end, we come together to sing this beautiful anthem of peace, written to commemorate the revolution in Estonia,” Tedford shared. “It’s maybe 170 people on stage, an intergenerational choir singing a piece that concludes the whole concert, a plea for peace in the world. It’s a goosebumpy moment.”
The youth choral group is made up of high school and college students throughout central Pennsylvania. “These kids are all here because they really want to sing,” Tedford said. “They have high motivation to do things really well. The conductors expect nothing but the best from them, and they get it. It’s an inspiration to see these kids working to the top of their ability and the talent they have.”
Candlelight Christmas concerts will celebrate the season with music including traditional carols. These concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13, at Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, 777 S. Mount Joy St., Elizabethtown; at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14, at Messiah University; and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, at Market Square Presbyterian Church, 20 S. Second St., Harrisburg.
The chorale will perform several carol arrangements to honor the late Alice Parker, well-known in chorale circles for her contributions to the genre. Parker passed away last year at the age of 98. Selections will include “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” and “Angels We Have Heard on High.” Brass accompaniments will add depth to pieces including “Gloria Fanfare” and “Festival First
Guest artists will include the Messiah University Brass and Percussion, which will perform a pre-concert recital 15 minutes prior to each concert.
“In all of my programming, I emphasize the element of communication with the audience,” Tedford said. “We hold singers to a high standard for technique, but we also talk about ‘What would you want the audience to feel at this moment? What do you want them to get from this piece?’ We work very hard on interpretation and facial expression and showing the love we have for choral music as a group.”
At the Christmas concerts, audiences can enjoy beautifully decorated venues, she said, noting that each concert will feature a candlelight procession and recessional.
The Susquehanna Chorale is a recipient of Chorus America’s most prestigious award, the Margaret Hillis Award for
Artistic and Organizational Achievement, and several of the chorale’s recordings have been considered for Grammy nominations.
Conductor Tedford has been honored by the American Choral Directors Association of Pennsylvania with the Elaine Brown Award for lifelong commitment to excellence and leadership in the choral art. She has also received Theatre Harrisburg’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts in the Capital Region, among other honors.
The chorale is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Spring concerts will be held in Hershey and Harrisburg. For more information, visit www .susquehannachorale.org/per formances. Both in-person and livestream ticket options are available.
CDC helps kids comprehend reading in entirely different ways
BY JEFF FALK
Dyslexia is something that we might not fully understand. Dyslexia may be something we don’t talk enough about. Dyslexia might be more prevalent than we realize.
It’s a learning disorder that Children’s Dyslexia Center (CDC) of Lancaster can help manage and, in some instances, even overcome.
“What everyone needs to understand is that (dyslexia is) neurological, it runs in families and it affects language processing,” said Heather Brown, who’s been CDC of Lancaster’s director for 10 years. “What it’s not is reading backwards. It’s about how kids process language, how the brain processes language. Words and sentences look the same, but it’s daunting to read. Students work so hard to get through paragraphs that by the end of them they don’t remember the meaning. You have to break the reading code. We teach kids how to break that code, so it frees the brain up.”
Located at 213 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, CDC of Lancaster teaches school-age children with dyslexia from Lancaster, Dauphin, York, Chester and Lebanon counties how to read, write and spell. Much of the work is performed in one-onone settings after school.
CDC of Lancaster also trains adults how to tutor kids with dyslexia. All of its services are provided free of charge.
“(The number of people affected by dyslexia is) a hard number to quantify,” said Brown. “It’s estimated that
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Youth and adult ensembles perform with the Susquehanna Chorale at a previous concert.
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between 10% and 20% of the population has some form of dyslexia. I’d say that half of our parents are undiagnosed dyslexics. But only 8% of the population is getting tested.”
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the literacy rate among adults in the United States is 79%.
CDC of Lancaster, which employs about a dozen instructors, works with about 20 kids with some form of dyslexia each semester, or about 40 per year.
“They come here after a day of school and push through an hour of hard tutoring,” said Brown. “For a lot of our kids, it takes them two or three times longer to read than their peers. When they see how easy it is for their peers, it becomes frustrating. They’re on the same
level, but they’re putting forth so much more effort. But you need to read to succeed. We accomplish our goals by putting one step in front of the other every day. We teach kids how to be confident readers and writers.”
“Most of our students are born with dyslexia, so it can be hereditary,” Brown continued. “It’s neurological. It’s how we’re born. Somebody can be really good at math and others not as good. It’s the same with reading. For some kids, it takes longer to read. There are even different kinds of dyslexia. We teach kids the steps to overcome the challenges with dyslexia.”
A regional organization associated with the Scottish Rite of Masons of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, CDC operates more than 40 centers in 13 states in New England,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of the Midwest. Since being established in 2002, CDC of Lancaster has helped more than 260 kids with dyslexia, 150 of whom have graduated from its program.
“The science behind this isn’t fancy,” said Brown. “It’s breaking down the reading code, and a lot of it hasn’t changed. We want to build confidence in our students so they can succeed. We teach the why behind language to make meaning of it.”
CDC of Lancaster performs its work independently and is not associated with any public or private schools.
“It costs money to treat (dyslexia), and it’s expensive,” said Brown. “The good news is that Pennsylvania is starting to recognize it and they’re starting to teach the science of reading. They are requiring reading teachers to take classes in the science of reading.”
“I wish we didn’t exist,” Brown added. “I wish we didn’t have to have a Children’s Dyslexia Center because schools were teaching their students with dyslexia.”
For additional information, go to www .childrensdyslexiacenter oflancaster.org.
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The dinner will include half of a chicken, a baked potato, applesauce and a dinner roll. Desserts will also be available for purchase. Presales must be picked up from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; walk-ins will be accepted from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. To purchase tickets in advance, call 717-944-6181.
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Civil War Roundtable to meet
The Hershey Civil War Roundtable will meet on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 542, 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg. Guest speaker Scott Hartwig will present “Antietam: The Soldiers’ Experience.” The program will also be livestreamed via Zoom and Facebook, and the recording will be posted at www.hersheycwrt .org after the meeting.
Although soldiers on both sides had already experienced hard fighting in the Seven Days Battles and Second Manassas Campaign, the Battle of Antietam still shocked those who took part in it. Hartwig will tell the story of how the soldiers, both enlisted men and officers, experienced the battle. He
will discuss not just the shooting part, but the mental and physical preparation for combat and how some withstood the frightful shock of battle while others crumbled. The meeting is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Ricky Hollis at rickyhollissr@gmail.com or visit the aforementioned website.
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Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (SSBVM) Catholic School, 360 E. Water St., Middletown, will hold an open house event for prospective families on Sunday, Nov. 17, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. The event will celebrate the school’s new LabLearner program.
LabLearner, a new program in science education, was originally established to increase science enthusiasm in the classroom for students and teachers alike. As the program has evolved over the years, a more substantial objective of improving American science education has become the core mission of LabLearner.
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Prospective families are invited to attend the upcoming open house event. More information and the full schedule can be found at www.sevensorrowsschool.com.
Audubon Society posts activities
Quittapahilla Audubon Society has posted a program and a field trip. The activities are open to people of all ages, and there is no fee. Registration is not required. For more details, visit www .qasaudubon.org.
Steve Rannels will present “Birding Highlights from Brazil” on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 723 Lehman St., Lebanon. Attendees are asked to enter the church from the parking lot off of Spruce Street.
The program will highlight distinct regions of Brazil such as the Amazon, the Atlantic Southeast,
and the Pantanal. Rannels will emphasize bird life, but additional aspects of tropical natural history, including the diversity of insects and moths, will be covered. Rannels has been interested in the natural world since childhood. He studied zoology at Penn State University followed by a career at Penn State Hershey in physiology. Now retired, he is active with local bird clubs and conservation groups and is an amateur photographer of moths and birds.
The field trip will be held on Sunday, Nov. 24, along the Lebanon Valley Rail Trail (LVRT)
Open house set at Fort Indiantown Gap
The Pennsylvania National Guard invites the public to Fort Indiantown Gap for an open house on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature live demonstrations, fly-overs, displays of military equipment and vehicles, food trucks, live music, a visit from Miss Pennsylvania, and resources for veterans and military families. The festivities will take place along Clement Avenue, near the
Fort Indiantown Gap Community Club and on the southern portion of Muir Army Heliport. Visitors should plan to enter Fort Indiantown Gap through the main access control point near the intersection of Fisher Avenue and Biddle Drive.
Vehicle drivers will need to show a driver’s license or government-issued photo ID to enter the installation. They will then be directed to parking areas.
The open house is free of charge. For more information, visit www.ftig.ng.mil/ Community/2024-Open-House/.
The event is a joint effort between the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and other tenant organizations at Fort Indiantown Gap.
For more information, contact Maj. Travis Mueller at 717-639-5990 or travis.k.mueller.mil@army.mil.
at Jonestown. Participants will observe any flora and fauna along the trail. Attendees should meet at 2:30 p.m. at the LVRT Jonestown trailhead. There is a parking area on the northwest side of the bridge crossing the Swatara Creek on Jonestown Road. For more details, contact trip leader Fritz Heilman at 717-273-0487.
Church to host rummage sale, soup sale
Hummelstown United Church of Christ, 104 E. Main St., Hummelstown, will have an indoor rummage and soup sale on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All kinds of treasures will be for sale, along with soup and other goodies. Proceeds from the church’s rummage sale table and food sale will go toward building repairs.
Dance group plans event
Harrisburg USA Dance 3009 will host a dance on Sunday, Nov. 17, at PA DanceSport, 585 E. Main St., Hummelstown. The event will kick off with a country two-step lesson by Fred Shipley at 2 p.m., followed by three hours of dancing to music by Jane Wolf. Dancers with any level of experience are welcome. There is an admission fee, with discounts for members and students.