The King's Heralds Music at Walla Walla College Early Advent Music
The King’s Heralds Music at Walla Walla College Early Advent Music And Ellen White Winter/Spring 2007 President’s Message hand or at the piano and assisted by us have not been moved by the message the Andrews University Symphony in his enduring hymn We Have this Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Hope? His passing in February of this Claudio Gonzales, and Marc Elysee, year deepens our longing for the Lord’s Assistant Director, gave us magnificent soon return. beauty in concertos for the violin, cello, There is more in this issue that is clarinet, and the piano by composers so special and of great interest. Early Henri Wieniawski, Edward Elgar, hymns sung by members as the Seventh- Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig van day Adventist Church developed in Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms. These the Northeast and spread to the West were young people from Bolivia, Japan, catch our interest and attention. It is South Korea, Romania, and Tennessee, fascinating to know which hymns were all students from around the world who sung in the early days of our church’s had come to continue the development history, in the 19th Century, and then, as th Elsie Landon Buck of their musical talent. The results of the years went by, into the 20 century. their achievements were evident in the In these pages of NOTES, we also How often does one sit in the audience brilliant performance we had just heard. learn more of our musical history in where a musical concert has just taken I am continually amazed and the continuing series on music at our place, totally captured by the immense deeply grateful to students and teachers Adventist colleges and universities, and beauty of what has been performed, alike who pursue challenges and reach the story of how the King’s Heralds hesitant to leave—indeed, spellbound? heights of accomplishment that are truly started and evolved to today’s group.
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