Sacred songs featured in concert series

Friday, Jan. 18, 2002 | 10 a.m.

The Rev. Dr. Lisle Stewart will sing sacred classics, gospel songs and show tunes Saturday as part of Green Valley Presbyterian Church's third annual concert series.

The tenor, a former Navy chaplain and a United Methodist minister who moved to Las Vegas from Olympia, Wash., 15 months ago, is a soloist in the church choir. He will be accompanied by classical pianist Graef Crystal.

Songs to be performed include "Blessed Are the Peacemakers," "If With All Your Heart" and "O, Calm My Soul."

Others are "The Blind Man Stood By the Road and He Cried," "Weary Traveler" and "Deep River."

"Some of the hymns are really old hymns that are seldom heard," Stewart said. "They are new to many people because they are so old."

The second half of the evening's performance, he said, will include show medleys and old favorites such as John Denver's "Annie's Song," "Sunrise, Sunset," from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and "If Ever I Would Leave You" from "Camelot."

The concert series' past performers and groups have included the church's own Chancel Choir, the Celebrity City Chorus of Sweet Adelines and the University of Nevada, las Vegas' Chamber Chorale.

Upcoming concerts will bring in such groups as the Youth Choir from First Presbyterian Church in New Jersey, which will perform "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in February, and the local Myron Heaton Chorale in May.