Members of the Bay Area Choral Society are, front row, from left, Jo Branch, Shari MacKay, Megan Lamb, Cindy Fender, Sara Freer, Anna Robbins, Joy Tracy, Marilyn Freeman, and director Dana Langford. Second row, from left, are Susan Galloway, Sophia Fonseca, Dr. Tamara Marsh, Carolyn Williams, Diane Brewer, Carla May, Elizabeth Sisung, Debra Olds and Diane Peevy. Third row, from left, are Ina M. Meyer, Melissa Watson, Martha Milas, Robin Paulson, Frances Campbell, Betty Ray Weston, Meg Elliot, Annette Cederholm and Sandra McInnis. Back row, from left, are Mike Giere, Brooks Jones, Desmond King, Dan Paulson, Tyler Freeman, David Davis, Bill Hamilton, Sam Anttila, Scott Davis and Randy Mims. Not pictured are Randy Jones, Carol Barfield, and Rennie Edwards. [ Royce Rolstad ]
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Bay Area Choral Society to perform at Carnegie Hall 

Members of the Bay Area Choral Society will travel on Friday, Nov. 29, to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall. 

The group will participate in two half-days of rehearsals and clinics on Saturday and Sunday with the performance on Monday, Dec. 2. 

The society will be part of a 200-member choir and will perform the cantata “A Weary World Rejoices.” written and conducted by Joseph Martin. This cantata was orchestrated by Ed Hogan who was commissioned last year by the society to write “The Maker’s Song” that was performed at the group’s Spring concert.



This year’s Bay Area Choral Society Christmas Concert, “In The Mood for Christmas!” will be Friday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m. ET at First United Methodist Church in Port St. Joe and Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Apalachicola. 

The concert, which opens with the cantata performed at Carnegie Hall, will include popular Christmas songs with full choir, solos and ensembles. There will also be orchestral accompaniment by students from Florida State University.

Tickets, now on sale, are $20 ($5 for students) and can be purchased from members of BACS or at either BACS-PSJ.eventbrite.com, or BACS-Trinity.eventbrite.com



Meet the Editor

David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.

Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.

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