Music

MP3 recordings of Mt Pleasant Mennonite chorus.

A 2010 album sung by the Mt Pleasant Mennonite Chorus.

Soprano: Sandy Chandler, Viola Lehman Dickerson, Connie Zook Jones, Nancy Miller Deal, Holly Keffer Meeks, Martha Yoder Miller, Linda Nash Yoder

Alto:  Dorothea Keffer, Neady Keffer Harris, Joanne Keffer Hershberger, Jean Douglas, Sharon Dickerson Keffer, Judi Miller Leader, Dorothy Yoder Miller, Doris Nash Zook

Tenor: Robin Hershberger, Marilyn Beiler Hicks, Lynn Keffer, Brent Miller, James Mast, Kenneth Miller, Paul Overholt

Bass: Jamie Bradshaw, Edward Buckwalter, Dale Keffer, Philip V. Miller, Rodney Miller, Olin Slabaugh, Merv Troyer, Jerry Wood, Willie Yoder

Director – Alan Keffer

2011 album by Mt Pleasant Mennonite Chorus

Soprano: Amberly Bradshaw, Sandy Chandler, Viola Lehman Dickerson, Nancy Miller Deal, Tina Lehman Johnson, Connie Zook Jones, Liisa Kephart, Martha Yoder Miller, Robin Miller, Kathy Dickerson Showers, Carolyn Miller Yoder, Linda Nash Yoder

Alto: Dorothea Keffer, Neady Keffer Harris, Joanne Keffer Hershberger, Jean Douglas, Carol Lehman, Esther Troyer Mast, Dorthy Yoder Miller, Fern Miller Vasquez, Doris Nash Zook

Tenor: Robin Hershberger, Marilyn Hicks, Lynn Keffer, Brent Miller, James Mast, Paul Overhold, Mark Wirt

Bass: Jamie Bradshaw, Lyman Byrd, Alan Keffer, Dale Keffer, Michael Kephart, Jacob Lehman, Philip V. Miller, Rodney Miller, Olin Slabaugh, Merv Troyer, Jerry Wood, Wilie Yoder

Directors:  Alan Keffer, Jerry Wood

Ass’t Director: Nancy Dickerson

2011 album by Mt Pleasant Mennonite Chorus

Soprano:  Amberlyn Bradshawn, Sandy Chandler, Viola Lehman Dickerson, Tina Lehman Johnson, Connie Zook Jones, Liisa Kephart, Martha Yoder Miller, Kathy Dickerson Showers, Patricia Wynne, Carolyn Miller, Yoder, Linda Nash Yoder

Alto:  Neady Keffer Harris, Joanne Keffer Hershberger, Nancy Miller Deal, Jean Douglas, Carol Lehman, Esther Troyer Mast, Dorothy Yoder Miller, Fern Miller Vasquez, Lisa Wirt, Doris Nash Zook

Tenor:  Robin Hershberger, Lynn Keffer, Brent Miller, James Mast, Paul Overhold, Mark Wirt

Bass: Ray Bergey, Jamie Bradshaw, Lyman Byrd, Alan Keffer, Dale Keffer, Michael Kephart, Philip V. Miller, Olin Slabaugh, Willie Yoder

Director:  Alan Keffer w/ asst Nancy Dickerson

2012 album recorded at Virginia Mennonite Conference Assembly by Mt Pleasant Mennonite Chorus and guests from across the conference.

1. We Are People of God’s Peace – One of the oldest “Mennonite” songs, written by Menno Simons as a communion hymn in 1552.
2. How Can I Keep From Singing – Though often cited as a traditional Quaker hymn, it was written by Baptist minister, Robert Wadsworth Lowery, first published in 1868.
3. For These Tears I Died –  Written by Marsha Stevens at age 16 shortly after becoming a Christian. The writer may be controversial but the message is universal.
4. Home – Written by Amos Esh, one of a singing Amish family who was killed along with his mother, father three sisters and five others on March 26, 2010 in a collision on I-65 in Kentucky.  An especially poignant song and used by special permission of the family
5. Be Thou Mi Vision – An Irish song from the 6th century, part of the Irash monastic tradition and set to the music if the Irish folk song “Slane” in 1927 by Welsh composer David Evans.
6. Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace – Based on Isaiah 26:3, composed by Sebastian Wesley, grandson of Charles Wesley and famous in his day as an organist and choirmaster in the Anglican church.
7. It Could Happen in a Moment – Joe E. Parks, a prolific but little known song writer composed this call and response song in a tight harmony more typical of the Andrews Sisters and similar groups of their era than in the open harmonies of most southern gospel.
8. The Music of Heaven –  By Rev. E.A. Hoffman, Presbyterian, author of over 2000 gospel songs including What a Wonderful Saviour, Are You Washed in the Blood and I Must Tell Jesus.
9. My Wonderful Lord – Church of Nazarene Rev Haldo Lilleman (1885-1959), minister, evangelist and composer of many songs including one our favorites Wonderful grace of Jesus.
10. Holy, Holy, Holy – An old German hymn written by Jahann Neuman and set to music by Franz Shubert in 1826.
11. Mennonite Anthem – Praise God from Whom all Blessing Flow, 606, or by whatever name you know it, a Mennonite favorite.  The congregation joined the chorus in singing this song on the album.

Recorded in 1970 by the Mt Pleasant Mennonite Chorus directed by Jane Burkholder, produced by Avis Kephart and financed by Emery & Nettie Hochstetler.