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Final Concert Program 2000

Posted on January 15, 2007 | Filed Under 2000, Clinicians, Music

April 1, 4:00 pm

Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church – Arnold B. Sherman, Conductor and Clinician

• Procession of Praise – Arnold B. Sherman
• Halle, Halle, Halle – arr. Bock/Lamb
• For As the Rain Come Down – Lee J. Afdahl
• I’m Just a Poor Wayfaring Stranger – arr. Hart Morris
• Mississippi Mud – arr. Valerie Stephenson
• Soliloquy for Bells – Karen Buckwalter
• Meditation on “Beautiful Savior” – Cathy Moklebust
• Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace – Kevin McChesney
• Praise to the Lord the Almighty – Linker/McFadden

Arnold B. Sherman, currently living in Tyler, Texas, is a free-lance composer, co-founder of Red River Music, and Music and Arts Director at First United Methodist Church in Henderson, Texas. His undergraduate work in Music Education was done at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, and Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Arnold is the founder and Director of the East Texas Handbell Ensemble, a community handbell choir located in the Tyler area. In frequent demand as clinician and guest conductor, he has led numerous choral and handbell workshops, festivals and reading sessions throughout the United States, Canada, England, Japan and the Bahamas. Arnold has numerous choral and handbell pieces in print, and has been the recipient of an ASCAP Standard Award each of the last seven years. An active member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, he is Past Chairman of Area IX.

Our thanks to:

• Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church for the use of their facilities and for preparation of “Coffee Hour.”
• Messiah Lutheran Church for the programs
• Diane Farris, saxophone, on Poor Wayfaring Stranger
• Brass Ensemble and Percussion on Praise the the Lord, Procession of Praise, and Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace.

Festival Committee:

• Becky Kidd, Chair
• Ashley Burrell
• Allan Hoke
• Tim Lett

Scanned copy of the 2000 program (pdf)

Timeline of clinicians and locations for the festival

Posted on January 1, 2007 | Filed Under 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Clinicians

• 2010: Christine Anderson, Grace Lutheran, Knoxville
• 2009: Lloyd Larson, Grace Lutheran, Knoxville
• 2008: Beth Watson, Second Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 2007: Fred Gramann, Grace Lutheran, Knoxville
• 2006: Robert Ivey, Second Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 2005: Lee Afdahl; Second Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 2004: Monica McGowan; Grace Lutheran, Knoxville
• 2003: Tim Waugh; Grace Lutheran, Knoxville
• 2002: Fred Gramann; Grace Lutheran, Knoxville
• 2001: Beth Watson; First Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 2000: Arnold Sherman; Cedar Springs Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 1999: Phyliss Kirk; First Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 1998: Anna Laura Page; Second Presbyterian, Knoxville
• 1997: Dr. Larry Smith; Church Street UMC, Knoxville
• 1996: Valerie Stephenson; First Presbyterian, Knoxville