Handbell choirs from seven local churches, numbering about 80
ringers, will come together May 8 to rehearse all day with
Littleton Bell Choir Festival clinician Michael Kastner — and then
present a joyful concert at 4:30 p.m. at South Suburban Christian
Church, 7255 S. Broadway, Littleton.
Some selections on the program will feature the choirs en masse,
while others will highlight individual groups.
Kastner has worked with handbells for more than 40 years:
composing, ringing, conducting and leading workshops nationally and
internationally. He publishes music, supplies handbells and has a
day job as an integrated circuit designer. He has composed and
arranged music for solo, duet, small ensemble and up to full choir,
seven octave works.
The participating choirs include: The Gloria Dei Ringers,
Ascension Lutheran Church; Grace Note Bells, Grace Presbyterian
Church; Jubilate Ringers, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church; Chancel
Ringers, Littleton United Methodist Church; Glory Bells, St.
Timothy’s Episcopal Church; Kapella Bell Choir, South Suburban
Christian Church; Campana, St. James Presbyterian Church.
A free will offering will be collected to benefit God’s Garden,
a ministry that supports orphaned children in Ngundu, Zimbabwe,
where more than 500 children have lost their parents to AIDS. It
tries to meet immediate needs, including food and farming
assistance, school fees, clothes and medicines.
