CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Sunday, December 13, 2009: 5pm
Rehearsal schedules will eventually be posted here. The following list is a work in progress, will be both added to and cut, and is certainly not in performance order:
Opening Piece (Senior Choir)Senior Choir (pieces under consideration):
People Who Walk in Darkness
Then Mary Magnifies the Lord
Joseph and the Angels
Star of Bethlehem ("Out of the East")
Come Flood This Heart
Dance of the Stars (no mp3 for this one)
Children's Choir:
TBA
Senior Bells:
Wexford Carol (arr. Charles Turner)
Czech CarolYouth Bells:
The Christ Child's Lullaby (Scottish melody arr. Malcolm C. Wilson)
On This Day Earth Shall Ring. The tune, Personent Hodie, appears in Theodoric Petri's 1582 collection of Christmas carols traditionally sung in Finland, Sweden and Germany, called Piae Cantiones. Words: Latin from 12th Century, German from about 1360
Chimes Choir:
TBA
Instrumental Solos and small groups (not final)
Nash Ryder (violin) and Rod Drapala (piano)
Ave Maria (melody set by Charles Gounod over J. S. Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier)
Nash Ryder, violin:
? Celebrated Air (by Johann Sebastian Bach)
Trio (Jennifer Tilton, clarinet; Sarah Vandewalle, flute; Nancy Rexford , piano)
TBA
Vocal Solos and small groups (not final)
Jennifer De Lorenzo:
Christ is Born (solo with possible choir backup)
Al Cianfrocca:
O Holy Night
Joseph's Song
Mixed Quartet (working with Jennifer DeLorenzo)
John Rutter: Candlelight Carol (a recording can be heard here)
Sarah Vandewalle's singing group
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (by Bernie Herms, Mark Hall, Dale Oliver)
Rebecca Bay
