Category: Past Season

Spring Forward

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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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Sweet Joy!

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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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Love in the Rain

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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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a romantic affair

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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

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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

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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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The River Has Many Voices

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Voci’s 20th Anniversary Retrospective

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

Program

  • Silvery Blue – Ann Callaway
  • Wind & Stone – David Meckler
  • Pollerita Roja – Gabriela Lena Frank
  • All ‘Round the Maypole – Steven Clark
  • On a Mountain Path – Peter Knell
    • natsu kodachi
    • sumiregusa
    • hibari yori
    • kiri shigure
    • tsuki no tomo
  • Day Song – Libby Larsen
  • Melodys of Earth and Sky – Stephen Paulus

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Midwinter’s Idyll

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Voci’s eleventh Voices in Peace concert offered soothing reflections on peace, birth and nature, including Charpentier’s pastoral setting of the nativity story from Luke — “In Nativitate Domini nostri Christi Canticum” H. 421, lush and romantic selections by Rheinberger, Rachmaninoff and Dvořák, as well as sublime and other-worldly selections by Britten and Harvey.

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Piano and Organ

Program

  • O Magnum Mysterium – Jakob Handl
  • O Magnum Mysterium – Cristóbal de Morales
  • In nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi canticum – Marc-Antoine Charpetier
  • Puer Natus in Bethlehem – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
  • Selections from Six Choruses for Treble Voices – Sergei Rachmaninoff
    • Nochka (Night)
    • Sosna (The Pine)
  • The Sleigh Ride – Traditional, Arr. Nedda Choruzi
  • Two Latvian Carols – Andreis Jansons
    • Ziemas svētki sabraukuši (Winterfest)
    • Balts sniedziņš snieg uz skujiņām (A Gentle snow is on the ground)
  • Two Moravian Duets – Antonín Dvořák
    • Možnost, from Op. 38 (Hoping in Vain)
    • Zelenaj se, zelenaj…, from Op. 32 (Grow Green)
  • The Tree of Peace – Gwyneth Walker
  • The Tree – Jonathan Harvey
  • The Song of the Tree of Life – Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • In the Bleak Midwinter – Gustav Holst
  • In the Bleak Midwinter – Benjamin Britten
  • Velvet Shoes – Mary Howe
  • Day Break – Stephen Paulus

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Mighty Aphrodite

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Music of Romantic Desire

An exploration of the power and passion of romantic desire, invoking Aphrodite — the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Featuring flirtatious English madrigals, ardent German partsongs, steamy Italian and French opera duets, provocative twentieth-century settings of Shakespeare by Britten, Finzi, Kodaly, and Vaughan Williams, sensual selections by Gwyneth Walker and Paul Carey, and more!

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

Program

  • Caro! Bella! – George Frideric Handel
  • Pur ti miro, pur ti godo – Claudio Monteverdi
  • Four Arms, Two Necks, One Wreathing – Thomas Weelkes
  • It was a Lover and Her Lad – Thomas Morley
  • Thus Sings My Dearest Jewel – Thomas Weelkes
  • Le Tre Gratie a Venere – Barbara Strozzi
  • “Ah, perdona al primo affetto” – Wolfgang A. Mozart
  • Ständchen – Franz Schubert
  • Love Songs from Liebeslieder-Walzer – Johannes Brahms
    • Wie des Abends schöne Röte (Like the sunset’s crimson splendor)
    • Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft (Bird in air will stray afar)
    • Nein Geliebter, setze dich (Seat thyself, my dearest heart)
  • Selections from Cantigas de Amigo – Paul Carey
    • No puedo apartarme (I can’t give up)
    • Moreno mío (My dark-skinned lover)
  • Selections from Songs for Women’s Voices – Gwyneth Walker
    • Love is a Rain of Diamonds
    • I Will Be Earth
  • It was a Lover and Her Lad – Gerald Finzi
  • Fancy – Zoltán Kodály
  • An Immorality – Aaron Copland

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Reflections on Home

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Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano

Program

Part I: Home and Unity

  • Hodie (This Day) – Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
  • Beatus Vir (Blessed is the Man Who Shall Continue in Wisdom) – Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)
  • In the Valley of the Moon – Felicia Sandler (b.1961)
  • Night – Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
  • Reverie – Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
  • Beatus Homo (Blessed is the Man Who Findeth Wisdom) – Orlandus Lassus

Traveling

  • Snow – Alan Vincent
  • Oculus Non Vidit (The Eye Has Not Seen) – Orlandus Lassus
    • Justus Cor Suum Tradet (The Just Man Will Give His Heart)
    • Expectatio Justorum (The Expectation of the Righteous)

Part II: Away from Home

  • Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons (Christmas Carol for Homeless Children) – Claude Debussy
  • A Dark Raven – György Ligeti (1923-2006)
  • To An Angel – Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)
  • A German at Stalingrad – Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
  • Qui Sequitur Me (He Who Followeth Me) – Orlandus Lassus

Traveling

  • Flight – Anne Hege (b. 1976)
  • Justi Tulerunt Spolia (Spoils of the Wicked) – Orlandus Lassus
  • Sancti Mei (O My Saints) – Orlandus Lassus

Part III: Homecoming

  • Peace Upon You, Jerusalem – Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
  • All the Seasons – Poem by Susan Marquez Owen, accompanied by Peace Song, arranged by A. Hege
  • Peace Song – Hanns Eisler
  • Qui Vult Venire (He Who Will Come After Me) – Orlandus Lassus
    • Serve Bone (O Thou Good and Faithful Servant)
    • Fulgebunt Justi (The Righteous Shall Flower Forth)
    • Sicut Rosa (As a Rose)
  • Linden Lea – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
  • Hodie (Recessional) (This Day) – Benjamin Britten

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