Category: Fundraiser

Voci’s Summer Fundraiser

The Fundraiser event featured pieces from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro along with a variety of other arias conducted and sung by Voci singers.

Conductors: Pauline Ma-Senturia, Lezlee Flagg, Susan Swerdlow and Terry Meyers

• Cantemus – Lajos Bardos
• Nigra Sum – Pablo Casals
• Ubi Caritas – Ola Gjeilo
• Cape Breton Lullaby – Kenneth Leslie
• This We Know – Ron Jeffers
• Blackbird – Paul McCartney
• Damozel/My Love – Michael Senturia
• Art is Calling Me – Victor Herbert
• The Marriage of Figaro – Amadeus Mozart
  • Coro: “Giovani liete fiore spargete”
  • Non so piu cosa son
  • Porgi amor
  • Voi che sapete
  • Dove sono
  • Sull’ aria
  • Deh vieni non tardar
  • Coror: Piu docile/Ah tutti contenti

Program PDF

(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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• Three Romances – Robert Schumann
  • Nicht schnell (Not Fast)
  • Einfact innig (Simply, intimately)
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• 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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