Sunday concert

Music to Help Others series at 4 p.m. today will support Academie Musique Scholarship Fund

Apr 22, 2023

DAVID STONE | OUR TOWN TEMPLE

Who’s up for some Sunday afternoon music?

Christ Episcopal Church is hosting a concert featuring advanced violinists and violists, as well as All-State choir vocalists. The concert will be at 4 p.m. in the church sanctuary.

The concert is part of Christ Episcopal’s Music to Help Others series and donations will benefit the Academie Musique Scholarship Fund. The program is open to the public.

Christ Episcopal, located on the northern end of downtown Temple on Main Street, sponsors the ongoing music series to raise money for community charities.

“The concerts utilize the abundant number of professional and semiprofessional musicians in Central Texas,” said Ami Hooper, the church’s communications director.

“The Sunday afternoon concerts range in genres from jazz, opera, classical, instrumental and contemporary gospel,” she said.

So far, the church has raised thousands of dollars to help the homeless, food banks, medical clinics serving the poor and children’s charities.

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The Academie Musique’s Suzuki and Orchestra Spring Concert will be at 4 p.m. April 29 is the Christ Episcopal Church Parish Hall. The concert is free and open to everyone.

“This hour-long recital will include a Suzuki play down by hour violins, violas, cellos and guitars,” said Shelley Dennis, the school’s executive director. “Our two youth orchestras also will perform.”

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Academie Musique will present Rain or Shine, a choral dinner theater, at Christ Episcopal Church Parish Hall at 6:30 p.m. on May 5 and noon on May 6. Reservations can be made at cdennis@amcentex.org through May 2.

“Curtain Up music theater classes, our children’s choirs and the adult show choir will all perform for this event,” Dennis said. “We are serving a meal from Bird Creek Burgers.”

The cost for the show is $15 for students and $20 for adults. Gluten free and vegetarian options are available upon request.