Menno Singers, the popular Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.-based choir, turned 50 this year. To celebrate, the choir performed a variety of special concerts, including the recent "Silver & Gold" performance with the 25-year-old Guelph Chamber Choir, and published a retrospective of its half-century of music-making. The following are excerpts from Menno Singers: Celebrating 50 Years of Song by Betti Burkholder Erb.
If an occasion crystallized as the beginning of Menno Singers, it was at 3 p.m. on December 18, 1955, in a program of some Christmas music offered by 25 singers at Erb Street Mennonite Church in Waterloo. At that time, Abner Martin, the choir's young director, inspiration …
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