{"id":23474,"date":"2017-03-14T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:17:12","slug":"10th-beech-memorial-concert-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23474","title":{"rendered":"10th Beech Memorial concert, March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/camp-sunshine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3483\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/camp-sunshine-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 The Tenth Annual Jonathan Beech Memorial Concert \u00a0will take place on Saturday, March 25, 2 P.M., at Kennett High School.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> This year&#8217;s large work will be five movements of Gabriel Faure&#8217;s peacefully uplifting &#8216;Requiem&#8217;.\u00a0 A unique and meaningful part of this year&#8217;s concert will be the premier of the specially-commissioned anthem\u00a0&#8216;Peace Will Always Be With You&#8217; by Delaware composer and colleague Dr. Michael Larkin.\u00a0 For children, adults, strings, and piano, this anthem combines Phil. 4:8-9 with a sentence from Jonathan&#8217;s writings (&#8220;To truly enjoy life, one must not only cherish time, but actively work to make the world a better place.&#8221;).\u00a0 The concert concludes with three short works performed by the\u00a0large combined choir, which includes adults from various area community and church choirs as well as \u00a0well as chorus students from Kennett High School and Middle School, accompanied by the professional orchestra.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year&#8217;s concert will benefit Camp Sunshine, of Casco, Maine &#8212; the terrific camp for families of children with life-threatening illnesses.\u00a0 The Beech family has\u00a0attended this camp&#8217;s brain tumor sessions for three summers as a family of four, and have gone back each summer since 2008 as volunteers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Feel free to check our website: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanbeechmemorialconcert.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">www.JonathanBeechMemorialConcert.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over the past nine years, the concert has raised an average of about $10,000 contribution per concert, so\u00a0this might be the concert that enables us to hit the $100,000 total contribution mark!\u00a0 We&#8217;re proud and touched\u00a0that Jonathan continues to &#8220;make the world a better place&#8221; in this way as well as through music.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, write a check to &#8216;Jonathan Beech Memorial Concert, Inc.&#8217; and mail to us at 474 Greenwood Road, Kennett Square, PA 19348. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 The Tenth Annual Jonathan Beech Memorial Concert \u00a0will take place on Saturday, March 25, 2 P.M., at Kennett High School.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s large work will be five movements of Gabriel Faure&#8217;s peacefully uplifting &#8216;Requiem&#8217;.\u00a0 A unique and meaningful part of this year&#8217;s concert will be the premier of the specially-commissioned anthem\u00a0&#8216;Peace Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4921,4206,8655],"class_list":["post-23474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-benefit","tag-camp-sunshine","tag-jonathan-beech-memorial-concert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23475,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions\/23475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}