Moravian Music Festival

Jesus, Still Lead On

July 26-30, 2022
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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Communications

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Festival Communications

This website has most of the information you need for the Festival.
However, things change, sometimes at the last minute.

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Find

A map of the Festival campus and links to other resources.

Facilities & Venues

Need Assistance

Contact information for the Festival Committee, MMF staff, and Festival helpers.

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Notifications

Notifications will be sent to the Festival participants through the Festival app (SMS mass text and push notifications). This is a process by which everyone gets the same message, instantly.

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More information to follow, once our Festival App is activated.

NOTE: while Moravian University and the Hill have Wifi that Festival participants are welcome to use, Central Moravian Church must reserve its bandwidth for live-streaming. Therefore, please plan to use your data while on Central’s campus. Thank you for your consideration.

Festival Communications

Festival Website

The website will continually be updated and improved, with more information added as plans come together.

Festival Email

Once you register, you will begin to receive regular updates in a Festival Email.

Festival App

Most of your daily information needs in one place, at your fingertips!
Festival app to receive reminders and important changes or updates.

We are also able to segment the list, so that we can send a more specific note, say, from the Handbell Director to ringers to adjust the start time or remind you to ‘bring gloves.’ Or, from the prelude Band Director to everyone to request that everyone bring ‘both green and blue chorale books.’

Festival App

Meals

Detailed information on the registration site.

  • A meal plan will be available for on-campus residents, during Festival. (details)
  • A meal plan will be available for commuters during Festival. (details)

Meals will be served in Clewell Dining in the lowest level of the building behind Brethren’s House. campus map

UNIVERSITY WEBSITE; Clewell Dining (the website says “closed for summer,” but it is definitely open for us!)

All registered participants will attend the opening banquet on Wed. evening. (location TBD)

Smaller Ensembles

Smaller Festival Ensembles 2022

All participants singing in the Festival Chorus or playing in the Concert Band may also choose a smaller ensemble.
These groups meet in the mornings, just after breakfast and before devotions.

About Festival Chorus
About Festival Concert Band

Trombone Choir

for slide trombones.

  • SATB
  • music provided
  • bring arrangements to share
more info
About Don

Handbell Choir

Intermediate level and above

  • Limited Space
  • music provided
  • bring gloves
more info
About Jan

Steel Pan Ensemble

This will be as much a learning adventure, for most of us, as it is a rehearsing and performing ensemble. AKA steel drums

  • first time at Festival!
  • no experience necessary
  • instruments provided
more info
About Tory & Janique

New Music Ensemble

This group will seek to create some new experiences and directions by using instruments and voices with

  • songs, hymns, instrumentals
  • bring arrangements to share
  • bring an open mind
more info
About Riddick

Small Ensembles / Chamber Music

We can help you find music to match an instrumentation or help you assemble a group for a particular piece.

  • sacred or secular
  • vocal and instrumental
  • traditional or creative
  • bring instrument and arrangements to share
more info
About Joni

Random Acts of Music

Partly, this is a continuation of the small ensembles, but could even be a solo.

These projects are self-led; self-planned; but, we will have a coordinating chart so we don’t overlap.

  • first time at Festival!
  • choose your location
  • choose your time
more info

Festival Health & Safety

Developed and Approved by the Festival Committee and
MMF Board of Trustees:

May 18, 2022

Any future updates or changes to this Policy will be posted here.

Please help us care for our participants and audience,
and keep you, and all our sisters and brothers, safe.

Festival Health & Safety
Protocols & Policy

The goal of the Moravian Music Festival CoVid-19 policy is to protect everyone involved from this dangerous disease, recognizing that singing is one of the riskiest activities in terms of spread of the virus. The Festival Committee strongly feels its responsibility is to make every effort to keep participants safe. The most vulnerable are the young and the older people with other health concerns, and those who for medical reasons cannot take the vaccine. We recognize that the vaccine does not prevent all cases, but it does provide significant protection against the most severe manifestations of the virus.

All visitors and participants must follow the Moravian Music Festival’s health and safety protocols to minimize the chances of transmission.

Awareness of the Issues

In light of ever-changing trends in the spread of Covid, we have determined that certain health precautions are important during the Festival, since our participants and audience represent a wide range of ages and will be coming from regions of the country/countries with different community Covid levels.

The Festival Committee respects the choices of each individual regarding vaccination. This policy is intended for the protection of all, especially those most vulnerable.

An inherent risk of exposure to CoVid-19 exists in any public place where people are present. CoVid-19 and its variants are highly contagious diseases that may result in personal injury, severe illness, and death. By attending concerts, events, workshops or other activities, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to CoVid-19.

Infection rates continue to fall and rise in areas of the United States. Different variants are arising in different locations, and science shows that the virus is mutating among the unvaccinated.

To bring unvaccinated people together puts them at a higher risk of contracting the virus, as well as increasing the possibility of the vaccinated being exposed to a different variant. These new variants seem to be less transmissible among the vaccinated.

Audience

When you arrive for a public performance, there will be an area to check documents and hand out masks, prior to entering. Thank you.

Safety Protocols and Requirements
  1. Wear masks indoors, covering mouth and nose.
  2. Social distancing
  3. Up to date vaccination cards and ID required.

Detailed Requirements

The Moravian Music Festival will require face masks and social distancing for all indoor Festival events. Masks will be worn covering both nose and mouth. Masks will be provided if needed. Preferred masks are KN95 and KF94 (see below).

Proof of vaccination, or a medical waiver signed by a doctor, must be presented with ID at the door for entrance. Proof of vaccination may be a physical vaccination card, or a photo/scan of a vaccination card on a mobile device.

Registered Participants

Festival participants, simply show your badge upon entry.

Safety Protocols and Requirements
  1. Wear masks indoors, covering mouth and nose.
  2. Social distancing
  3. Up to date vaccination cards and ID required.

Detailed Requirements

An up-to-date vaccination card or a medical waiver signed by a doctor, and ID are required for every participant at check-in on Tues. July 26.

Proof of vaccination can be a physical vaccination card, or a photo/scan of a vaccination card on a mobile device.

After registration your name badge is your “pass” to Festival venues and must be presented for admittance.

Masks and social distancing will be required when attending Festival events (e.g., concerts, workshops, etc.). A mask will be provided if you do not have one available. Masks preferred are KN95 and KF94. Masks will be worn covering the nose and mouth.

It is strongly recommended that you bring some CoVid testing kits with you should you become symptomatic. This will simplify the process. Testing will not be done at the Festival. You will need to go to a local site or healthcare facility for testing.

Should you test positive, there is a local hotel that will accommodate your isolation, if rooms are available.
[NOTE: Hotel accommodations will be at your own expense.]

Definition of UP-TO-DATE

“Up-to-date” means two doses of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine plus at least one booster; or the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine plus at least one booster.

About BOOSTERS

Booster Dose     
Everyone ages 18 yrs. and older should get a booster of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna  5 months after the last dose of their primary series.

Teens 12-17 yrs should get a Pfizer-BioNTech booster dose 5 months after the last dose of their primary series.

Children: On May 17, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, authorizing the use of a single booster dose for administration to individuals 5 through 11 years of age at least five months after completion of a primary series with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.

About Vaccinations

Details about each vaccine and boosters.

About Community Infection Levels

How to find facts and statistics about Covid.

About PPE

Recommended items and sources.

Definitions

Terminology and Definitions.

PDF of Festival Health and Safety Policy

COVID-Policy-Approved-by-Festival-Committee-May-11-2022

With Appreciation
Jan Christensen, Health & Safety Consultant / Festival Nurse
for her expertise in formulating and refining the Festival policies and protocols.

Festival Experience

About

Open to all;
and, designed specifically for both amateur and professional musicians in the Moravian Church.

More Info

A Festival Memory by Bishop Sam Gray

The first… Festival that I attended. I was a bit nervous ,,, and (I was) also somewhat in awe of Thor Johnson and Ewald Nolte. But a group of women, the “Unionville Altos,” took me under their wing and made me feel right at home.

In 1987, I attended the Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada… it was a beautiful and meaningful experience. Director Dick Schantz told me that one of the soloists was ill and unable to sing in the evening concert and …asked me to fill in on the quartet. My five minutes of fame!

Another good memory is from the 1990 Festival … I was serving as a missionary in Honduras at that time. I brought a small group from Honduras – “Prana” – with me and we were invited to present a mini-concert to raise awareness of “Moravian music” with a Central American flavor.

It was a very joyful experience for me to be able to take part in the 2013 Festival in Bethlehem with my son, Christian, playing (string double bass) in the orchestra, and my wife, Lorena, present in the congregation.

Great music, great fellowship, great memories!
—
Bishop Sam Gray
Pastor, New Philadelphia Moravian Church

Enjoy some sights and sounds from past Festivals:

Past Festivals

ACTS Youth Musical Theater

ACTS is the main focus for the Children’s and Youth Program for the 26th Festival, with lots of other fun activities and programs.
For a wide range of ages!

IN BETHLEHEM, JULY, 2022!

Children will be learning music and dialogue for a musical theater production with an historic Moravian theme. There will be fun projects, games, outings, and music.

Youth have options to play a role in ACTS or to work on production for the musical. They also have options to sing in the Chorus or play in the Band. There are also smaller ensembles you may join.

All the Details

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Moravian Music Festival

a celebration of music, created with inspiration, and presented with joy.

Public Concerts & Services
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Complete Listing of Festival Administration

Moravian Music Foundation Staff
& Festival Committee Contacts

(click on names for email)
— Note: staff will not be available at these office phones during the week of Festival —

For Payments, Donations, Packets, Registration Information, Room & Board, Sales, and general inquiries

Sarah Wright

336-725-0651

For Sessions, Music Editions, Concerts, Concert Programs & Odes, Events, Sponsorships

Nola Reed Knouse

336-725-0651

For Schedules, Registration (technical), Room & Board, Ensembles, Publicity, Website, YouTube, Festival App

Erik Salzwedel

336-725-0651

For Sessions, Music Editions, Sponsorships, Copyright, Events, Children’s and Youth Music

Gwyneth Michel

610-866-3340

Chair of Festival Planning Committee
For General Questions about Festival Planning, Scheduling, Meals & Housing, Facilities, etc. and Offers to Volunteer

Hank Naisby

610-346-8064

For General Info, Announcements, Updates, Reminders…

Festival app

Registered Participants only

Children & Youth Program Leaders

You are welcome to reach out directly to leaders of your child’s program area.

Sarah Hriniak

Children’s Program Leader
Photo/Bio

ACTS Musical Theater Production Leader; Playwright/Director of the Youth Musical Theater production of ACTS.

CONTACT

Myra Jones

Children’s Program Leader

Children’s Activities Leader will organize meals, schedules, games, activities, field trips, that are not directly related to the ACTS musical.

CONTACT

Lynnette Delbridge

Youth Program Leader

Program Leader for Middle and High School Youth will facilitate youth social gatherings and activities.

Contact

— Keep in mind: staff will not be available at these office phones, below, during the week of Festival. Please use email or the Festival central number. —

The Festival is managed by the

Moravian Music Foundation

www.moravianmusic.org

Office

Archie K Davis Center
457 S Church Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

and

Moravian Archives
41 W Locust Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018

Via Email

info@moravianmusic.org
sales@moravianmusic.org
sarah@moravianmusic.org

Via Phone

in Winston-Salem: 336-725-0651
in Bethlehem: 610-866-3340

www.MoravianMusic.org