Church To Host Flute and Harp Concert

Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 36 Church St., Rothsville, will host Duo Harpyn for a concert of flute and harp music on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m.

Flutist Lois Herbine has a varied musical career as a soloist and recording artist, a chamber and orchestral musician, and a teacher and clinician. A native of the Philadelphia area, she graduated from the New School of Music, receiving the school's highest honors in performance. Herbine has played piccolo with the Reading Symphony Orchestra for over 25 years and has performed with dozens of other orchestras and ensembles, including four years as the principal flutist for Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and the Mann Festival Orchestra. In addition to maintaining an active private teaching studio, she has given performance master classes at various schools, including Baylor University, Rice University, Temple University, and the University of Michigan.

Harpist Rong Tan is an active chamber musician and freelance harpist who has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Ballet, the Philly Pops, Opera Philadelphia, and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Born in China, Tan graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she was a student of Marilyn Costello, the former principal harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Tan currently serves as the principal harpist of Opera Delaware and has been featured as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the National Repertory Orchestra, the Allegro Society, the Pennsylvania Pops, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, and the Bay Atlantic Symphony.

Pieces performed in the concert will include "Flute Sonata No. 1 in F Major" by Benedetto Marcello, "Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits" by Christoph Willibald Gluck, "The Fog Is Lifting" by Carl Nielsen, "Entr'acte for Flute and Harp" by Jacques Ibert, "Claire de Lune" by Claude Debussy, "Piece en Forme de Habanera" by Maurice Ravel, "Phantasy on Themes of Japanese Folk Songs" by Josef Molnar, "Meditation" from "Thais" by Jules Massenet, and an arrangement by Lois Herbine of John Legend's "All of Me."

A freewill offering will be received. Handicapped-accessible parking is available on the right side of the building, with elevator access through the double glass doors under the canopy. For more information, call the church office at 717-626-8972.

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