Program to air on Pennsylvania Cable Network, Blue Ridge Cable TV-13, & Service Electric TV 2
Bethlehem, Pa., December 23, 2014—Audiences across the state will share in the tradition of Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ College Vespers, featuring the Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ Choir and Women’s Chorus, on Christmas eve—when the program is broadcast on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN). The program of inspiring choral music will air on PCN affiliate stations on December 24 at 8:30 p.m. For those outside Pennsylvania, the program can be viewed on YouTube at .
The program will also air numerous times on BRC TV13 Blue Ridge Communications beginning on Wednesday, December 24 at 8:00 p.m.; and repeated on Thursday, December 25 at 10 a.m., 5 p.m, and 10 p.m. It will air again after Christmas on December 26 at 7 p.m. It will air on Service Electric Cable TV 2 (Lehigh Valley) on Christmas Eve at 9:30 p.m.
The Vespers services, with Paula Ring Zerkle conducting the Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ Choir and Eduardo Azzati conducting the Women’s Chorus, was recorded on Saturday, December 6, 2014, in Central Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ Church in historic Bethlehem, Pa., (The Christmas City).
The Vespers service is an expression of two traditional forms of worship in the Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ Church, the Singstunde and the Candlelight Service. A Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ Singstunde (Singing Hour) is a service of music with no preaching. Since the 1720s, Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥s have been known for their worshipful singing. For the service, the music has been carefully selected and arranged to bring the Christmas message without need of a sermon. The Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ candlelight service originated in 1747 in Marienborn, Germany, when candles with red trimming were distributed at the children’s Christmas service. Bethlehem’s first candle service was in 1756.
Blue Ridge Communications (TV-13) produced the program on behalf of the College as a gift to be enjoyed by the Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ campus community, the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and beyond. TV-13 delivers quality local programming to your prospective customers in Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Schuylkill, Northampton, Lackawanna, Berks and Lehigh Counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ College is a private coeducational liberal arts college, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college and the first to educate women. The College emphasizes the deliberate integration of a broad-based liberal arts curriculum with hands-on learning experiences to prepare its 1,600 students, not just for jobs, but for successful careers. Â鶹ÊÓƵֱ²¥ College excels at transforming good students into highly competent graduates who are ready to enter the workplace with confidence or shine in graduate school. Visit the Web site at .