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Please enjoy our MMF Moravian music and Festival videos, and Central Moravian Church’s videos of past performances.

Hymns Meditations with Central Moravian’s Chapel Organist, Richard Miller, and tenor soloist, David Charrier.

Rebecca Lepore, piano (Organist and Choir Director of Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Old Chapel.

The quickest and most fun way to experience some of the unique musical culture of the Moravians is to view the videos posted on our YouTube Channel.  You may go to MoravianMusicFndn or click on the YouTube symbol at the top right sidebar of most MMF webpages.

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Singstunde, Nov. 11, 2019

Unity Moravian Church, Lewisville, NC

Instead of a lot of words from me this week, I offer a gift of music … a live performance from the 2017 Moravian Music Festival. You hear Morgenstern auf finstre Nacht (Morning Star in Darkest Night) by Ernst Julius Otto (1804-1877). Performers are Jill Bowen Gardner, soprano; Erik Salzwedel, trombone; Joni Roos and Rhonda Burnham, violins; Shelly Bareham Matthews, viola; and Maureen May, cello.

May your remembrance of the birth of Jesus bring blessing and peace, and a renewed commitment to do justly, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.

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After the holidays – the Unitas Chorale!

Nov. 20, 2016 at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

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Nov 20, 2016 at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

Raleigh Camerata in Concert The Moravian Music Foundation presents Raleigh Camerata playing Chamber Music from Moravian Collections. A Carolina Winter Music Festival Event, January 31, 2016 3:00 p.m. Calvary Moravian Church

https://www.raleighcamerata.com/

Francis Florentine Hagen, Moravian Composer and Bishop from Salem, NC. (born, Franz Florentin)
Moramus Chorale and works for piano and organ and the singing of Morning Star

Saturday, October 17, 2015
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
James A. Gray, Jr. Auditorium
(900 Old Salem Road)

A concert in celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Salem Composer Francis Florentine Hagen (1815 – 1907) the composer of “Morning Star,” who was born in Salem. Featuring a pre-concert talk : “The Man Who Wrote ‘The Morning Star” by The Rev. Dr. Nola Reed Knouse, Director of the Moravian Music Foundation.

This performance will include choral works performed by The Moramus Chorale, the singing of “Morning Star,” and works for organ and piano.

FREE and open to the public.

Hagen was born on October 30, 1815, grew up in Salem, and attended the Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is best known as the composer of “Morning Star,” a favorite Moravian Christmas hymn.As a pastor Hagan served Moravian congregations in North Carolina, Iowa, New York, and Pennsylvania, where he retired. He died in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on July 7, 1907.