Two area residents will present An Evening of Music at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Brockport to benefit the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, September 27, in the church located at the corner of Main Street and State Street. Admission is package(s) of shelf stable food such as canned soups, fruits, vegetables or meats, pasta, dried beans, and cereal. A freewill offering will also be collected.
Emory Morris, baritone, and Margaret Johnson, piano, will present works by Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem, Vincent D’Indy, Gabriel Fauré, and Hugo Wolf. The program concludes with Folksongs of Britain and America.
Emory Morris is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at The College at Brockport; he retired in May, 2009 after teaching biochemistry and other chemistry subjects for 42 years. He currently is a member of the Eastman Rochester Chorus and the Choir of the Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester. He was a 30-year member of the Rochester Bach Festival Chorus. He also sang in the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Music of the Baroque, the Rochester Oratorio Society, the Brockport College Community Chorus, the Madison Civic Chorus, the Cornell University Glee Club, and the Cornell University Chorus. He has appeared as soloist with some of these groups. He currently studies voice with Professor Robert McIver of the Eastman School of Music.
Margaret Johnson earned B.M. and M.M. degrees at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Brooks Smith. After a short career teaching vocal music in Brockport High School, she pursued a career accompanying soloists in venues nationwide, and at Roberts Wesleyan and Ithaca colleges, and Syracuse University. She taught piano privately for many years. She was for many years the choir director of the First Baptist Church in Brockport, and accompanist for many local high school choirs and the Spencerport Community Chorus. She is again this season accompanying the Spencerport Community Chorus.
Since September 2011, when the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf began offering clients choice of their food items, the number of families asking for food assistance has approximately doubled. In July and in August 2013, the facility, located in the parish house next to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Brockport, assisted more than 190 households in the 14420 and 14430 zip codes. Food is delivered to homebound clients.
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9/15/13
