The 70-voice Coshocton Community Choir, including auditioned singers traveling from 11 Ohio counties, will share its Spring concert, ‘In All Things, Love,’ at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at First Moravian Church, 319 Walnut Street, in Dover, Ohio. The concert will feature a selection of sacred and secular choral music, including arrangements and settings of familiar Easter hymns, classical works, spirituals and more.
Concert selections include new songs for the Choir, Dan Forrest’s In All Things, Love, which inspired the concert theme, and Elaine Hagenberg’s Through Love to Light. The concert will also include special settings of familiar sacred tunes, St. Theodulph’s Hymn (All Glory, Laud and Honor); Wondrous Love; Jesus Loves Me; When I Survey The Wondrous Cross; and Down By The Riverside. The concert will also feature moving works Love Held Him To The Cross arranged by Choir friend Len Thomas and Jane M. Marshall’s My Eternal King, in addition to two spirituals by Jester Hairston, Angels Rolled De Stone Away and Amen. The Choir will conclude the concert with F. Melius Christiansen’s setting of Beautiful Savior and Peter Lutkin’s The Lord Bless You and Keep You.
The Legacy Ensemble from Legacy Christian School will also join the Choir again this year, singing a few selections of their own on April 13. Tickets are not required, and free will gifts will be accepted after the concert.
Now in its 54th season, the Coshocton Community Choir was organized in 1971 by Charles R. Snyder, an accomplished Ohio teacher, choral conductor, and church musician. Since its founding, more than 900 singers have sung with the Choir, which has become known for its renditions of sacred a cappella literature. The Choir’s singers, who come from all backgrounds, vocations and walks of life, rehearse together weekly through the fall and winter and traditionally perform a narrated Christmas concert and spring concerts.