{"id":10646,"date":"2013-12-02T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/rainier-youth-choirs-home-for-the-holidays-concert-is-dec-14\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:15:39","slug":"rainier-youth-choirs-home-for-the-holidays-concert-is-dec-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/rainier-youth-choirs-home-for-the-holidays-concert-is-dec-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainier Youth Choirs&#8217; Home for the Holidays Concert is Dec. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Join Rainier Youth Choirs&#8217; for its Home for the Holidays concert at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 19800 108th Ave. SE, Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Guest artist Margaret Shelton, principal harpist for the Olympia Symphony Orchestra, accompanies the young RYC singers for a magical performance, including selections from Benjamin Britten&#8217;s beloved &#8220;Ceremony of Carols&#8221;, marking the 100th anniversary of his birth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The artistry of the singers in all groups is quite remarkable, and the variety of programming offers something for everyone,&#8221; said Leora Schwitters, RYC artistic director and founder. &#8220;A popular RYC tradition is an audience sing-a-long of several familiar carols with Janice Moen on the organ. First Evangelical Presbyterian church is a beautiful venue, which offers great views and acoustics for the entire audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>RYC alumni also will be invited to the stage to sing some holiday favorites.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Once again, RYC is holding a food drive for the Kent Food Bank in conjunction with the concert. For each nonperishable food item concert attendees donate, they will receive a raffle ticket for a door prize.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A &#8220;cookie mingle&#8221; follows the concert.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Concert tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors\/students if purchased advance (available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RainierYouthChoirs.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.RainierYouthChoirs.org<\/a>) or $15\/$12 at the door. Tickets are available at the door starting at 2:15 p.m. Doors open at 2:45 p.m. with festival seating and season ticket holders have preferred seating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Singers in grades 4-14, who wish to join RYC in January, can schedule a private, informal audition through Dec. 19 by contacting RYC at 253-347-0180 or ryc@rainierchoralarts.org.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Rainier Youth Choirs&#8217; for its Home for the Holidays concert at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 19800 108th Ave. SE, Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}