Singing Our Hope

Name: Singing Our Hope
Start: 2024-11-10T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 1835 Young St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201

Schedule

Sun Nov 10 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1835 Young St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201 | Dallas, TX

ABOUT
In a time when divisions and fractures erode our common life, music restores us and keep us on the road. Led by Dr. Tony McNeill and Eric Wall, join us on November 10 at 5 PM as we gather for shared hymn singing, common ground, and renewed hope.
EVENT DETAILS
This event is a community event—free and open to everyone—and is presented by The First Presbyterian Church of Dallas Music Ministry. The gathered community will be led in communal singing by Dr. Tony McNeill, Eric Wall, and members of the FPC Dallas Chancel Choir. This event is sponsored by The Presbyterian Association of Musicians South Central Region.
For detailed event information, musician bios, and a downloadable event poster, visit our official event page: https://tinyurl.com/2js88vfb
ABOUT DR. TONY MCNEILL
Dr. Tony McNeill, affectionately known as "Dr. T.," is a sought-after workshop clinician, lecturer, consultant, mentor, and choral conductor. "Dr. T” currently serves as Affiliate Professor of Worship and Seminary Musician at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. During the summer months, he is a guest lecturer in the newly-developed master’s degree program in Black Sacred Music Program housed jointly at the Arkansas Center for Black Music and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He was Director of Choral Activities and Chairman of the Department of Performing Arts at Clinton College in Rock Hill, SC, from 2019-2022. Dr. McNeill also served four and a half years as the Director of Worship and the Arts at Atlanta's Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, “America's Freedom Church.” (Full bio available at the link above)
ABOUT ERIC WALL
Eric Wall serves as the Gene Alice Sherman Associate Professor of Sacred Music and Dean of the Chapel at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He is the seminary musician, helps oversee the worship life of the campus, and teaches courses in church music and worship. He joined the faculty in 2016. He earned a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in organ performance and a master’s degree in choral conducting from Florida State University.
He is also the staff musician at Montreat Conference Center, a national conference center of the PC(USA) in Montreat, North Carolina, where he spends the summer season overseeing the music for summer worship, directing the Summer Staff choir, offering concerts, and lectures, being available as a resource musician for summer events, and engaging in the life of the conference center as a music and worship consultant. (Full bio available at the link above)