KEYSTONE CLIPS Grove City College choirs to perform

Grove City College choirs have a busy schedule of holiday performances in western Pennsylvania.
The chapel and touring choirs will perform at 6:30 p.m. today in the free annual choral concert in the college's Harbison Chapel. At 6:15 p.m. Thursday, the touring choir will perform in the grand lobby of Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall in conjunction with a college alumni event. At 8 p.m. Friday, the touring choir will join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for the popular holiday pops concert in New Castle's Scottish Rite Cathedral.
Back at the college's Harbison Chapel, the choirs will sing at the annual Christmas candlelight services at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. next Sunday.
The college urges guests to arrive early, because the candlelight services are extremely popular and seating is limited.
Honors band
Grove City College and its student chapter of the Music Educators National Conference will host the 2003 Mid-West District 5 Honors Band Dec. 11-13.
On Nov. 18, 386 high school students from the Mid-West District 5, consisting of Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties, auditioned for the 120-member group that will perform on Dec. 13. On Dec. 11 and 12, the students will rehearse together on the Grove City College campus.
The 2 p.m. Dec. 13 concert in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center will be led by guest conductor James Curnow, conductor and composer from Curnow Publishing. Musical selections will include "The Last Spring;" "Finale from Symphony No. 3;" "Fiddle Tunes," written by Curnow; "Diamond Prelude," and "Stephen Foster Songbook."
The concert is free and open to the public.
'Legislative Journal'
The state budget and the expansion of PACE and PACENET will be the topics of "Legislative Journal" with state Rep. Chris Sainato of New Castle, D-9th.
The program will run at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through December on Adelphia Cable channel 10.
XCONTRIBUTORS: Laure Cioffi, Vindicator New Castle Bureau, and Peter H. Milliken, Vindicator staff writer.