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Local Graduate Lands Spot The Emmitsburg Community
in Professional Internship Chorus Prepares to
Program at Center Stage Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Emmitsburg local Rosalyn Courtesy Photo Since its beginnings in 1946, the Emmitsburg Community Chorus has
continued to be a non-auditioned chorus, consisting of members who
Smaldone (pictured right) will spend love music. The chorus remains viable in the community, having sung at
the next nine months in Baltimore as various events throughout the years. In the early years, the chorus presented
the Sharon & Jay Smith Marketing Handel’s Messiah for their Christmas concert each year. On January 7,
and Communications Intern for 1967, they presented their Christmas Concert at Fairfield Lutheran Church;
Center Stage, the State Theater of on December 21, 1969, at St. Joseph College Auditorium. In 1970, the
Maryland. As the marketing and Emmitsburg Community Chorus did a Haydn concert. Other more notable
communications intern, she will learn participation events were: January 3, 1971, Eucharistic Sacrifice Mass for
skills that will make her a valuable the 150th anniversary of the death of “Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton.” The
asset to any theater in the country. state of Maryland declared January 4th “Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton Day.”
Smaldone recently graduated from Also in January 1971, the chorus participated in the Mass celebrating the
Mount St. Mary’s University, with Bicentennial of the birth of Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton.
a major in communications and a
minor in English. At the Mount, The highlight of the chorus throughout the years has been singing at
she directed a musical revue of her the Canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton at St. Peters Basilica in Rome,
own conception and co-directed a September 1975, of which several of our current members was able to be a
production of Jason Robert Brown’s part.
Songs for a New World. Last spring,
she interned with the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick. This past Other significant events of the chorus over the years include the 41st
summer, Smaldone had the honor of directing the final show for the Thurmont International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976;
Thespians, a teen production of Footloose. Interfaith Bicentennial Celebration at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in
“Our marketing and communications intern is an integral part of the Conewago, Pennsylvania; New Year’s performance for the Celebration of
department and contributes to all departmental activities,” said Beth Hauptle, Frederick County 250th anniversary at Winchester Hall in Frederick in
the director of marketing and communications at Center Stage. “By the 1998. Christmas 2004, the chorus recorded a rendition of “Go Tell It On the
end of the season, Rosalyn will have experience in press relations, social Mountain,” which aired on Key103. In June 2007, the chorus performed at
media marketing, and market research, among many other aspects of arts the Frederick Festival of the Arts, and most recently, the chorus participated
marketing.” in the Mass celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sainthood of Elizabeth Ann
The Katherine Vaughns Internship Program gives recent graduates an Seton.
opportunity to spend a season working in a professional theater setting.
For more than twenty-five years, Center Stage has helped cultivate the The chorus is one of many groups that perform annually at the Night
next generation of theater makers through its highly competitive program, of Christmas Spirit at the Carriage House in Emmitsburg—at least the
which helps bridge the gap between university and professional theater by last twelve years. Through the years, the chorus has participated in the
providing early-career artists and administrators with hands-on experience ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service at the Grotto, even before the Glass Chapel
and guidance. Center Stage welcomes a new class of roughly twenty different was there. Until recently, the chorus sang often for the annual Emmitsburg
administrative, artistic, and production interns each season. Lions Club July 4th celebration.

10th Annual Foothills Artists Over the years, the chorus has sung classics, opera, Broadway, folk,
Studio Tour in Fairfield Area spirituals, novelty, sacred, and a little jazz. The chorus has selected music
from each of the decades to present in their Christmas Concert celebrating
The 10th annual Foothills Artists studio tour will be held the weekend their fiftieth anniversary, which will be held on November 27, 2016, at 4:00
before Thanksgiving, November 19 and 20, at nine locations in the western p.m. at the Basilica of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. Following the concert,
Adams County (Pennsylvania) communities of Fairfield and Cashtown. Ten there will be a time of fellowship with a light reception and memorabilia
artists and artisans will open their homes and studios in a special pre-holiday display.
show and sale, from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. both days. Approximately half
of the tour sites are in historic homes. See first-hand where the artist create The thirty-four member chorus has several long-time members singing
their work and have the opportunity to buy direct. The respective studios will in this concert. The chorus is hoping many former members will come to
feature original paintings, pottery, sculpture, furniture and woodworking, the concert to sing along with the Hallelujah Chorus, which will close the
stained glass, printmaking, photography, fabric arts, and jewelry. concert.

Visit www.foothillsartists.net for biographies and artwork examples Peggy Burrier Flickinger is the current director of the chorus. She
for each artist. The website includes a map of each studio’s location and graduated from Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with
street address, as well as links to each artist’s individual website. Limited a degree in vocal music performance, and she is starting her tenth year
refreshments will be served. The tour is self-guided and may be completed in directing the chorus. Lisa Mattia is the current pianist for the chorus. Lisa
any order. received a B.A. degree in music education and a B.S. degree in business
administration from Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia,
Share Your Creative Side followed by dual Masters in business administration and arts administration
Email to: [email protected] from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She is starting her
ninth year as pianist for the chorus.

Other scheduled concerts for the season are: November 29—St. Joseph
Ministries at 7:00 p.m.; December 5—Night of Christmas Spirit; December
11—Homewood at Crumland Farms in Frederick at 7:00 p.m.; December
13—Creagerstown Union Chapel at 7:00 p.m.

For more information about the chorus, please contact Betsy Graham, the
chorus president, at 301-898-7821.
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