Sunday, November 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM Clen-Moore Presbyterian Church
The performance is free to the public,
however a free-will offering will be collected to help defray production expences.
Clen-Moore Presbyterian Church 220 Clen-Moore Blvd. New Castle, Pennsylvania 16105 .;
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This year's selections
And the Glory of The Lord
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And He Shall Purify
Chorus
For Unto Us a Child is Born
Chorus
Glory to God
Chorus
All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
Chorus
Their Sound is Gone Out into All Lands
Chorus
Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
Chorus
Hallelujah!
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But Thanks Be to God
Chorus
Worthy is The Lamb
Chorus
Amen
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Soprano
Jennifer Jones Mosher
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Soprano soloist Jennifer Davis Jones Mosher graduated from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, holds a Master's in Opera degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, and served apprenticeships with opera companies in Miami and San Francisco. She studied Italian at L'Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. Her concert repertoire includes Handel’s MESSIAH, J.S. Bach's Cantata #51, Mozart's REQUIEM and Exultate, Jubilate, Strauss’ FOUR LAST SONGS, and Samuel Barber's KNOXVILLE: Summer of 1915. She made her Carnegie Hall debut as soprano soloist in Boccherini’s Villancicos.
Her operatic roles include Mimi in LA BOHEME (Des Moines, Sacramento, Western Opera Theater, and New York City Opera's national tour), Liu in TURANDOT (Des Moines), SUOR ANGELICA (Natchez, Des Moines), Violetta in LA TRAVIATA (Merola, Western Opera Theater tour), Fiordiligi in COSI FAN TUTTE (Piedmont Opera, Opera Carolina), Pamina in MAGIC FLUTE (Greensboro), Donna Anna in DON GIOVANNI (Dayton, Piedmont Opera, Natchez), Micaëla in CARMEN (Opera Carolina, Augusta Opera), and Marguerite in FAUST (Des Moines).
She has taught voice lessons at Ashland University, the MasterWorks Festival, and Thiel College. Jennifer currently maintains a private voice studio in Canfield, as well as teaching voice and related subjects at Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music. She is active in Cornersburg Baptist Church, and a member of Warren-Youngstown Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae chapter. Always passionate about singing, especially sacred music, she is delighted to make music alongside her husband, Allan, in this season’s presentation of Handel’s MESSIAH with Edward Petrus and.the New Castle Music Club.
Alto
Karen Campman Emmett
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Karen has been singing and studying voice for the greater portion of her life, and an active soloist and recitalist in the tri-state area for many years. Among her many accomplishments as a singer are performing the mezzo-soprano roles in Handel's MESSIAH, The MOZART REQUIEM, Bernstein's CHISCHESTER PSALMS, Renee Clausen's A NEW CREATION, Vivaldi's GLORIA and various other roles including Mrs. Noah in Benjamin Britten's opera NOYE'S FLUDDE, Lola in Pietro Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, Aunt Zita in Giacomo Puccini's GIANNI SCHICCHI and more. She has also performed the NATIONAL ANTHEM for many organizations including the Pittsburgh Pirates and World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers.
Karen has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education and Voice as well as a Pennsylvania Certificate in Elementary and Secondary School Administration and Curriculum from Westminster College. She also has a Masters Degree in Student Personnel and Counseling Services and an Elementary Education teaching certificate from Slippery Rock University. In the years after Westminster she studied voice with the eminent Joseph J. Klein of the Klein Vocal Studio in Glendale, CA, James Uselman of Pasadena CA and St. Louis, MO, and locally with Diana Walters of Grove City and now Sarasota, FL.
In 2008 Karen retired from the West Middlesex Area School District as the junior/senior high school vocal music teacher and gifted student coordinator. In her years there she directed the various vocal ensembles, both curricular and extracurricular, as well as the musicals and plays. For many years she gave private voice lessons in her home studio. Karen now enjoys a second but equally serious career as a busy retiree volunteering for many organizations in and around the Shenango Valley as well as singing with her church and Shenango Valley Chorale. Karen is also past president of the Westminster College Alumni Association and currently chairperson of the Alumni Council's Philanthropy and Stewardship Committee.
Karen, her husband Paul, reside in West Middlesex, PA.
Tenor
Edward Graybill
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S. Edward Graybill is a tenor from Pittsburgh, PA. He holds a degree in vocal performance from Saint Vincent College. Graybill has performed as a tenor soloist in works such as Hayden's “Missa Sancti Nicolai,” Handel’s “Messiah,” Beethoven's “Symphony Number 9” and the world premiere of Nancy Galbraith's “The Passion According to Saint Matthew.” Graybill has also performed the role of Belmonte in Mozart’s “Abduction from the Seraglio” with the D’Angelo Summer Opera program. In addition to being a participant in the Bologna International Opera Academy, he was chosen as a finalist in the Fiorenza Cossotto International Voice Competition. When not performing classical music, Graybill can be found performing with his band, The Compadres.
Bass
Dr. Allan R. Mosher
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Dr. Allan R. Mosher, Emeritus Professor of Voice at the Dana School of Music, joined the faculty of Youngstown State University in 1992, retiring in 2021. Dr. Mosher holds four earned degrees: the first in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University, as well as three degrees in Music: a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, and D.M.A. from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Mosher, a baritone, has performed widely. His performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in J. S. Bach’s MAGNIFICAT was termed “exemplary” by the New York Daily News. He has also performed in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall with the Manhattan Philharmonic in Haydn’s CREATION, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (under David Zinman and Jerzy Semkow), and with the Buffalo Philharmonic (under Eiji Oue). Dr. Mosher has sung many opera roles, including: Germont in LA TRAVIATA, Tonio in I PAGLIACCI, Peter the Woodcutter in HANSEL AND GRETEL, Count Rodolpho in LA SONNAMBULA, Dr. Dulcamara in L’ELISIR D'AMORE, Sharpless in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Scarpia in TOSCA, Marcello in LA BOHEME, Count Di Luna in IL TROVATORE, Alfio in CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, Monterone in RIGOLETTO, Valentin in FAUST, and the title role in DON GIOVANNI. Dr. Mosher has directed over twenty-five operas, mostly in collegiate settings. He is an active recitalist, an emeritus member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and was named a Friend of the Arts by Sigma Alpha Iota. In 2008, he was invited by his alma mater, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, to teach in Lucca, Italy, for the Opera Festival of Lucca. In 2015, he directed opera scenes and taught voice lessons at the MasterWorks Festival. For several years he taught voice for the Area Community Theater of Sharpsville (ACTS) Summer Music Theater program. He is married to soprano Jennifer Davis Jones, and they reside in Canfield, Ohio.
Since 1983, Dr. Mosher has presented memorized dramatic recitations of the Gospel according to St. Mark in the 1611 King James Version for various events in many states. In more recent years, he has added Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians, 2 Timothy, 2 Peter, and Jude. In the past year, he has added the book of Revelation to those he dramatically recites. For more information, please visit his website biblicalrecitations.com, or look for his Facebook and Youtube channel.
Trumpeter
Andy Erb
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Dr. Andrew Erb has been a music educator in the Western Pennsylvania area for 29 years and is currently the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Grove City College. He directs the “Wolverine” Marching Band, Symphonic Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, and coaches the trumpet ensemble, flute choir, and brass quintet. He also teaches brass methods, beginning conducting, orchestral literature, wind band literature, jazz history, and assists with student teacher observations.
Dr. Erb remains an active adjudicator, guest conductor, and presenter in the region. He has presented workshops at both PMEA and OMEA events, served as an adjudicator for large ensemble assessment festivals in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and guest conducted both PMEA and OMEA honors, district, and region band festivals. He was selected to present at the annual PMEA Conference in April 2024 and at the regional PMEA Professional Development Day in March 2025.
An active trumpeter, Dr. Erb holds the principal trumpet chair with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and performs with 2nd Avenue Project, Pipe Dreams, and the Youngstown Fine Arts Brass Quintet. He is a member of the Northwest Passage Trumpet Trio whose first album, “Expeditions,” received rave reviews in the International Trumpet Guild and the American Guild of Organists Journals. The trio performed at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Miami, Florida in July 2019, and was featured in recital during a live radio broadcast on WQLN, Erie, in November 2019. Dr. Erb has performed as a freelance trumpeter with Ben Vereen, Wayne Newton, Marie Osmond, Lena Prima, and Tony Butala, and appeared with the Commodores, Average White Band, Bobby Blue Bland, Foreigner, and Kansas.
Dr. Erb holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Westminster College, a master’s degree in trumpet performance from Youngstown State University, and a doctorate in music education from Boston University. Dr. Erb lives in West Middlesex with his wife Diana and their children Jonathan, Benjamin, and Madison.
Organist
Kathy Miller
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Kathryn received her Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from The Ohio State University. She earned her Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music in organ performance. While attending CCM she was on a full accompanying scholarship working in the studios of Andrew White and Patricia Berlin. While serving on Adjunct Faculty at Youngstown State University in the early 1980s Kathryn received her Bachelor of Engineering degree majoring in Industrial Engineering Kathryn is currently College Organist at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania teaching organ, piano, accompanying class and sacred music courses. She is on the adjunct faculty of Youngstown State University working in the choral department. At Westminster Presbyterian Church in Boardman, Kathryn serves as Director of Music/Organist directing the adult choir, children’s bell choir, and adult bell choir. She also serves as Organist/Director at Congregation Rodef Sholom in Youngstown. She has over thirty years of accompanying experience in the tri-county area of Ohio and throughout Western Pennsylvania.
Pianist
Larry Baumgartner
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Larry Baumgartner is a proud native son of the Shenango Valley, being born and raised in Hickory (Hermitage). He started piano lessons at age seven, learning a new hymn every week. He began his musical career playing for Junior Church at Pentecostal Holiness Church of Sharon, PA. His first job was at the now defunct Sharon Methodist Church on Elm Street. Next, he played at St Paul's United Church of Christ for three years. Larry attended Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music as a voice major.
Larry successfully married his church organist/pianist career with a 30-year career as an over the road driver for PI&I (PA, IN, IL) Motor Express. Larry played piano at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Sharon for 30 years, and also served as organist for five years. To continue to utilize his talents in a traditional worship service, he then moved to Sharon First United Methodist Church where he served as organist for five years, retiring on 31 Dec 2017. He continues to substitute at various churches in the area, as well as Eagle River Presbyterian Church, Eagle River, Alaska in the Summers.
Flutist
Laura Bowden
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Laura Bowden is a sophomore at Youngstown State University, Dana School of Music as a flute performance major. Laura participates in the YSU wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, flute ensemble, woodwind quintet, marching band, and has performed as a guest flutist for the jazz ensemble. She is a member of both the flute studio and piano studio. Laura was selected as a participant in the 2023 Renova Music Festival in New Castle, Pennsylvania. While in high school, she was the principal flutist of the Youngstown State University Youth Orchestra and the Stambaugh Youth Concert Band. Laura was selected as the Senior Concerto Soloist for the YSUYO. She also participated in numerous festivals for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. These included Honors, District, District Jazz, Region bands, and the All-State Wind Ensemble. Currently, Laura is a freelance flutist. She plays flute at many local music events, including Mercer Community Band and the Boar’s Head Festival. She is also the flutist at her church.
Director
Edward X. Petrus
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Edward X. Petrus is the current president of The Music Club. He was the Director's Assistant for the Music Club Chorus from 1996 until 2023, and sang with the chorus since 1991. Ed was the adult choir director at St. Camillus Catholic Church in Neshannock Township for 36 years, and has previously been the choirmaster at St. John Neumann's Church in Lancaster, PA, and St. Joseph's Church in Oil City, PA. Ed has sung with many groups, including the Hoyt Singers and the Penn State Glee Club. He was a trumpeter in the Penn State Blue Band and performed in the Cotton Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and the Gator Bowl. When he lived in Venango County, he was a member of the renowned Franklin Silver Cornet Band. Some years ago, Ed was part of a group that sang in the background for numerous television commercials for a Pittsburgh station. Ed is a former president of the board of the Lawrence County Historical Society, and is currently the secretary for the Lawrence County Partners for Preservation. He likes restoring things large and small, from his 3 1957 DeSotos to the Oak Park Manor residence at Oak Park Cemetery where his son lives. He writes a monthly article, “Ideas from Ed” which give homeowners how-to advice on many around-the-house projects. He and his wife Lorraine have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.
