Salut Printemps!

(Welcome Spring!)

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

  • Alleluia – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Wallingford Riegger
  • Virgam Virtutis – Marianna Martines
  • “Gloria” – Joseph Michael Haydn
  • Two Duets from “Spanisches Liederspiel”, Op. 74
    • Liebesgram (Love’s Torment)
    • Von dem Rosenbusch (From the Rose Bush)
  • Salut Printemps – Claude Debussy
  • ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple – American Shaker Hym arr. Alice Parker
  • Shenandoah – American Folk Song arr. Mary Goetze
  • Queen Jane – Traditional Kentucky Folksong arr. Stephen Hatfield
  • Come at Dawn – Eugene Butler

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The Flame of Love

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Accompanist

A variety of works drawing on the themes of the power of mountains and the mesmerizing flow of rivers.

Program

  • Hymn to the Waters – Gustav Holst
  • Hotaru Koi (Ho, Firefly) – Arr. by Ogura
  • On a Mountain Path – Peter Knell
    • natsu kodachi
    • sumiregusa
    • hibari yori
    • kiri shigure
    • tsuki no tomo
  • Five Fragments of Jade. op. 40 – Jeno Takacs
    • Song on the River
    • The Leaf on the Water
    • The Fisherman
    • Intoxication of Love
    • On the River
  • Nodle Kanghyon (Beside the Nodle River) – Traditional Korean Folksong Arr. Wallace Hornady
  • Ahrirang – Korean Folk Melody Arr. Mitchell Covington
  • Chinese Mountain Songs – Chen Yi
    • When will the Scholar Tree Blossom
    • A Ma Lei A Ho
    • Gathering in the Naked Oats
    • Mt. Wuzhi
    • Ga Da Mei Lin
  • Lift Thine Eyes – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  • By the Rivers of Babylon – Charles M. Loeffler
  • Hoj, hura hoj! (O Mountain, O!) – Otmar Macha
  • Three Mountain Ballads – Traditional American Folksongs Arr. Ron Nelson
    • He’s Gone Away
    • Will He Remember?
    • Barbara Allen
  • Selections from Moravian Duets, op. 32 – Antonin Dvorak
    • A ja ti uplynu (Flow, Danube, Ebb and Flow)
    • Velet’, vtacku (Fly, Oh Little Bird)
    • Prsten (The Ring)
  • At the River – Aaron Copland Arr. Raymond Wilding White

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Today, This Spring

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Accompanist

Program

  • Spring – Gustav Holst
  • April is in my mistress’ face – Thomas Morley
  • Now is the Month of Maying – Thomas Morley
  • It was a Lover – Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Three Love Song Waltzes – Johannes Brahms
    • Wie des Abends schöne rote
    • Vögelein durch-rauscht die Luft
    • Nein Geliebter, setze dich
  • An Emily Dickinson Mosaic
    • To be Alive
    • Exhilaration is the Breeze
  • From the Twelve-Winded Sky – Jeremy Rawson
  • A Soft Sea washed around the House – Alice Parker
  • Today, this Spring – Libby Larsen

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Viva Voci! Music of Joy and Peace

Jude Navari, Artistic Director & Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Asst. Conductor
Sharon Lee, Piano

Program

  • Laudamus Te (Gloria, RV 588) – Antonio Vivaldi
  • Hark, How All Things Agree – Henry Purcell
  • Laudamus Te (Gloria, RV 589) – Antonio Vivaldi
  • Myn Lyking – R. R. Terry
  • Wither’s Rocking Hymn – Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Mariä Wiegenlied – Max Reger
  • Das Glück, Op. 79, No.16 – Robert Alexander Schumann
  • Liebesgram, Op. 74, No. 3 – Robert Alexander Schumann
  • Triolett, Op. 114 No. 2 f – Robert Alexander Schumann
  • I’ve Got Rhythm – George and Ira Gershwin
  • Ode to Music – Catherine Cricket Crawshaw
  • Day Song – Libby Larsen
  • Black Anemones – Joseph Schwantner
  • Dona Nobis Pacem (premier) – Jude Navari

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Spring Forward

Program

Anne Hege, Artistic Director
Kate Campbell, Accompanist
With Guest Artists: Members of REDSHIFT on piano, flute and clarinet

  • O virtus sapientiae (O strength of wisdom) – Hildegard von Bingen
  • April Is in my Mistress’ Face – Thomas Morley
  • Armahan kulku (The Lover’s Path) – Pekka Kostiainen
  • To an Angel (From “Three Chants for Female Chorus”) – Ruth Crawford Seeger
  • Lullaby (Offertory: Felix namque (13th century English plainchant) – Eve Beglarian, Text by Janet Lewis
  • The Gift – Anne Hege, Text by Czeslaw Milosz
  • The Year’s at the Spring – Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Text by Robert Browning
  • Spring is Here (From the 1938 musical “I Married an Angel”) – Richard Rogers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
  • Le Violette (The Violets – From “Pirro e Demetrio”) – Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Våren (Spring) – Edvard Grieg, Text by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
  • What a Wonderful World – George David Weiss & Bob Thiele, Arr. by Audrey Snyder

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Sweet Joy!

Anne Hege, Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano
Molly Holm, Guest Performer

Program

  • A-Tisket, A-Tasket – Ella Fitzgerald & Al Feldman, Arr. David J. Elliott
  • Infant Joy (from Songs of the Innocence by William Blake) – Karl Korte
  • Der Bräutigam (The Bridegroom) – Johannes Brahms, Poem by Josef von Eichendorff
  • We Are – Ysaye M. Barnwell
  • Love’s Stricken “Why” (From a Song Cycle of Poems on Love and the Rain) – Ned Rorem, Poem by Emily Dickinson
  • Donde Lieta Usci (Whence Happy Leaving, from La Boheme) – Giacomo Puccini
  • Se Florindo e Fedele (If Florindo is faithful, from La Donna Ancora e Fedele) – Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Mr. Sandman – Pat Ballard, Arr. Edna Yeh
  • Unexpected Song (From Song and Dance) – Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Love in the Rain

Dr. Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Accompanist
With Guest Artists: Duo Camaraderie (Laura Scarlata, Flute and Sharon Lee Kim, Piano)

Program

  • Blue Skies – Irving Berlin Arr. Ron Caviani
  • Fire, Fire My Heart – Thomas Morley
  • Excerpt from Gesang aus Fingal (Song from Fingal) – Johannes Brahms
  • La Lluvia (The Rain) – Stephen Hatfield
  • Singing in the Rain – Nacio Herb Brown, Text by Arthur Freed, Arr. Anita Kerr
  • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin’ All the Time) – Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler
  • Sólo las flores sobre ti – Federico Mompou
  • Våren (Last Spring) – Edvard Grieg
  • If Music Be the Food of Love – Henry Purcell
  • Java Jive – Milton Drake & Ben Oakland, arr. Kirby Shaw

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a romantic affair

Mitchell Covington, Guest Conductor
Anne Rainwater, Piano
Helen Newby, Cello

Program

  • Three Romances – Robert Schumann
    • Nicht schnell (Not Fast)
    • Einfact innig (Simply, intimately)
    • Nicht schnell
  • Lost is my Quiet – Henry Purcell
  • Always – Irving Berlin (arr. Kirby Shaw)
  • Breaking Up is Hard To Do – Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield (arr. Edna Yeh)
  • Habanera L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Love is a rebellious bird, from Carmen) – Georges Bizet
  • Looking Back – Arthur Sullivan
  • Dome epais le jasmin (from Lakme) – Clement Philibert Leo Delibes
  • Rise up My Love – Eleanor Daly
  • Dirait-on (So You Say) – Morten Lauridsen
  • Gracias a la vida (Thanks be to Life) – Violetta Parra

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A Viennese Romance

Mitchell Covington, Artistic Director
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Guest artists Anne Rainwater and Sharon Lee Kim, piano
Hosts: Linda and Jeff Rosenthal

Program

  • Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You) – Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love) – Franz Schubert
  • Nagen am Herzen (I feel a Poison) – Johannes Brahms
  • Sull’aria (A Little Song) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Allegro – W. A. Mozart
  • Liebeslieder Waltzes – Johannes Brahms
    • Nein, Geliebter, Setze Dich (No my love, don’t sit)
    • Wie des Abends Schöne Röte (Like the Evening’s Lovely Sunset)
    • Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft (The little Bird Rushes through the Air)
  • Gentle Breezes, Softly Blow – Johann Strauss II, Arr. Henry Geehl
  • A Viennese Affair – Melody by W.A. Mozart, Arr. & text by Mitchell Covington

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Salut Printemps

Mitchell Covington, Artistic Director
Amy Belles, Piano

Program

  • Reverie – Claude Debussy
  • Beau Soire (Beautiful Evening) – Claude Debussy
  • Lydia – Gabriel Fauré
  • Voici que le Printemps (Here is Spring) – Claude Debussy
  • Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure (Rose, Lily, Springtime, Greenery) – Guillaume de Machaut
  • Sonatine 1st movement: Allegro – Claude Arrieu
  • Attente (Waiting) – Lili Boulanger
  • Le Colibri, Op. 2, No. 7 (The Hummingbird) – Ernest Chausson
  • Trio from Béatrice and Bénédict – Hector Berlioz
  • Salut Printemps (Hail to Spring) – Claude Debussy

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