Pepperdine Chamber Choir Ushers in Holiday Season With Performance of Handel's Messiah Sing-Along at Calvary Church

Pepperdine University helped usher in the Christmas season for the local community by participating in Calvary Church’s 2024 Handel’s Messiah Sing-Along on Friday, December 13. The eighth annual musical event, which drew almost 1,000 attendees, was directed by Ryan Board, professor of music/conducting and director of choral activities at Pepperdine’s Seaver College, and featured ten members of the University Chamber Choir.

“The production value of this event is so impressive,” says Board, who has directed the event every year since its inception. “Each year Calvary Church’s Handel's Messiah Sing-Along succeeds in creating a great, festive atmosphere. It is fascinating to give people the opportunity to hear music from a composer writing in 1741. Here we are today, still singing it hundreds of years later—still coming together to celebrate its message.”

Read more about the special production on the University Newsroom.