Chamber Concert At

St Rose Oct. 5

St Rose of Lima Church will begin this year’s concert series with a chamber music concert on Sunday, October 5, at 4 pm.

The concert will feature Joseph J. Jacovino, Jr, organist and choir director at St Rose, on the piano and guitarist Andy LaFreniere with members of the Western Connecticut State University music faculty performing “The Picnic Suite” by Claude Bolling.

The St Rose of Lima Church Adult Choir is planning a series of five musical events in Newtown beginning October 5 and an 11-day musical pilgrimage to Italy in July 2005.

On Friday and Saturday, October 17–18, at 7:30 pm, there will be a cabaret show, “It’s a Grand Night for Singing,” in the church hall. The traditional Christmas concert featuring the music ministries of St Rose Church in Concert will be held on Sunday, December 7, at 4 pm.

The fourth annual St Rose Festival Chorus featuring the cantata “I Am” by David Clydesdale for chorus and orchestra will be held on Palm Sunday, April 4, at 7 pm. The series will conclude on Sunday, May 30, at 4 pm with an afternoon of famous opera highlights featuring the Litchfield Hills Opera Ensemble.

For more information, call the church rectory at 426-1014.