The Hershey Community Chorus will hold an open house and the first rehearsal of its spring season on Monday, Jan. 13, beginning with registration and fellowship at 6 p.m. The rehearsal will follow from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Hershey Free Church, 330 Hilltop Road, Hummelstown.

The chorus rehearses on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. under the direction of Matt Dickinson with Karen Kline as accompanist. No auditions are needed.

The upcoming season will culminate with the spring concerts on Friday, May 2, at 7 pm at the Hershey Story Museum, 63 W. Chocolate Ave., Hershey, and on Sunday, May 4, at 7 p.m. at the Hershey Free Church.

With the theme of "Celebrating Ninety Years of Singing," the spring concert will feature patriotic musical selections connected in some way to the years 1934 and 1935; connections include composers or performers who were born or died, works released, concerts presented, and founding of groups.

The Hershey Community Chorus was founded in 1934. Members hail not only from Hershey itself, but also from Middletown, Harrisburg, New Cumberland, Landisville, Elizabethtown, Palmyra, Columbia, Hummelstown, Camp Hill, and Lebanon. Seventy-five members performed in the Christmas concerts. 

Dickinson teaches music at Lower Dauphin Middle School. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Lebanon Valley College.

For more information, visit http://www.hersheycommunitychorus.org or email info@hersheycommunitychorus.org.