Muskingum University invites the community to celebrate the holidays during two special events.
The university celebrates the annual lighting of its campus to welcome the holiday season. The Celebration of Light will open with music from Muskingum University students. The program will feature prayers, poetry, scriptures, carols, and songs on the theme of light by Muskingum students, faculty, and staff, as they reflect on the meaning of light in their own faith traditions. The event is Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 6 p.m. in the Roberta A. Smith Library’s McCalmont Colloquium Center.
Members of the Muskingum Concert Choir participates in the annual Celebration of Light ceremony in 2021. The event is held at the Smith Library.
A candlelight procession outside to the fountain for the lighting of the campus will celebrate light dispelling darkness and how it brings hope to the world.
Following the ceremony, all are invited back into the library to conclude the evening with hot chocolate and fellowship. The community is invited to walk or drive throughout the campus to enjoy the lights. The lights will remain lit until January 2023.
Muskingum will host its annual Christmas Festival Concert Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in Brown Chapel. Featuring the Muskingum Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, the Muskingum Valley Brass, and guest artists, the program’s central musical selection this year is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on Christmas Carols.”
Other selections include a range of Christmas favorites along with Claudio Monteverdi’s “Deus in adjutorium/Domine et adjuvandum.”
Muskingum student Grace Hamilton at the 2021 Celebration of Light. Hamilton shared her personal reflection on what light means to her.
The musical performances will be interspersed with readings, and the congregation will join the musicians in singing Christmas carols during this very meaningful evening.
The concert is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live on WMCO 90.7 FM, on the WMCO app, or online.
The concert also will be rebroadcast on WMCO 90.7 FM on Dec. 17, 18, 24 and 25 at 2 p.m.
New Concord’s Christmas in the Village is Monday, Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. with the lighting of the New Concord Christmas tree. The Christmas parade follows at 6:30 p.m. Listen to the event live on WMCO 90.7 at 6 p.m.
