The return of Mannheim Steamroller highlights a weekend full of holiday activities, but some rock icons might also have something from the Christmas album to offer at Penn's Peak.
For the last several decades, Henry’s Woods has been preserved as part of the Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center state park in Northampton County. It was recognized Thursday by the Old-Growth Forest Network, a nonprofit that’s creating a network of protected and accessible old-growth forests, or forests that could someday turn in to old-growth forests.
It has been since March, the last time the Bach Choir of Bethlehem sang together, but in October, the choir s 65 members got together for the first time in more than six months at Little Pond Arts in Moore Township, Northampton County, where the group â socially distanced and outdoors - recorded music for its first-ever virtual Christmas concert.
The choir s concert, Opening Up Our Hearts: The Music and Inspiration of Christmas, will premiere online at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
The event is the result of 52 separate rehearsal sessions of small groups of eight led by choir director Greg Funfgeld.
The program includes Robert Parsons Ave Maria; traditional favorite Ding Dong Merrily on High; Go Tell It on the Mountain; as arranged by Paul Sjolund; and the choir s traditional concert closer, Franz Xaver Gruber s Silent Night.