Holiday Concerts – Songs of Praise for a Winter’s Day
December 8, 9, and 12, 2007
Please join us for a concert of sacred and secular choral music interweaving pieces about praise, joy, sorrow, winter, and Christmas. The first part of the program features Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu Meine Freude and Wounded Dove by University of New Hampshire Professor of Music David Ripley. Scored for mixed chorus and solo ‘cello, Wounded Dove is dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. The second portion of the concert begins with Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans by Claude Debussy, which sets the stage for the “Winter” portion of the program with its concluding phrase, “Winter, you are nothing but a villain.” This is followed by a group of Latvian folk songs and wintry seasonal carols, including In the Bleak Midwinter, Masters in this Hall, and Good King Wenceslas. The chorus will be joined by guest instrumentalists Abbey Hallberg Siegfried on organ and Victoria Myers on ‘cello.
Saturday,
December 8, 2006, 8:00
p.m. – St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1 Park Court, Durham, NH
Sunday,
December 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m. –
Christ Church, Pine Street, Exeter, NH
Wednesday,
December 12, 2006, 7:30 p.m. – Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church, 22 Fox Run Road, Newington,
NH
Program
David Ripley: Wounded Dove; Victoria Myers, ‘cello
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu Meine Freude (Jesus, My Joy);
Abbey Hallberg Siegfried, organ; Victoria Myers, ‘cello.
Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans:
Dieu! Qu’il la fait bon regarder
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
Anita: Kupriss: Sidrabiņa lietiņš lija (The Silver Rain Fell)
Gustav Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Daniel Pinkham: Christmas Eve
Andrejs Jansons: Winterfest
Andrejs Jansons: Riding to Church on Christmas Eve
Andrew Carter, arranger: I Wonder as I Wander
Alfred Burt: Caroling, Caroling
David Willcocks, arranger: The First Noel
Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, arrangers: Masters in this Hall
Reginald Jacques, arranger: Good King Wenceslas
David Ripley: Wounded Dove; Victoria Myers, ‘cello
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu Meine Freude (Jesus, My Joy);
Abbey Hallberg Siegfried, organ; Victoria Myers, ‘cello.
Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans:
Dieu! Qu’il la fait bon regarder
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
Anita: Kupriss: Sidrabiņa lietiņš lija (The Silver Rain Fell)
Gustav Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Daniel Pinkham: Christmas Eve
Andrejs Jansons: Winterfest
Andrejs Jansons: Riding to Church on Christmas Eve
Andrew Carter, arranger: I Wonder as I Wander
Alfred Burt: Caroling, Caroling
David Willcocks, arranger: The First Noel
Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, arrangers: Masters in this Hall
Reginald Jacques, arranger: Good King Wenceslas
Spring
Concerts – Bound for Glory
March 29, 30, and April 2, 2008
March 29, 30, and April 2, 2008
Join Amare Cantare for a concert about remembrance, peace, and freedom. The centerpiece of the performance is Eleanor Daley’s Requiem for unaccompanied voices, an ethereal 7-movement work whose text combines liturgical Latin, English psalms and prayers, and original poetry by Carolyn Smart.
The intent of the program is to create a progression from sorrow and remembrance to peace and joy. We begin with the poignant messages of both grief and comfort in Daley’s Requiem, moving next to a set of Hebrew songs that takes us further into sorrow and remembrance with the heart-rending, yet life-affirming text of Birdsong, written in the Terezin Concentration Camp during World War II. This is followed by two very different pieces about peace, an Israeli folk song (Shir Lashalom) and a Renaissance setting of O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem by Thomas Tomkins. The first half ends with Kumah Echa’s joyous assertion of brotherhood. The second half of the program begins joyfully with Heinrich Schütz’s Shout and Be Joyful for double chorus, and ends with a set of African-American spirituals emphasizing the notion, embodied in the genre, that the sorrows of this life will melt away in the triumph of the spirit over death. Hence the concert title, Bound for Glory.
Saturday, March
29, 2008, 8:00 p.m. — St. Mary's Church, 71 Lowell Street,
Rochester
Sunday, March 30, 3:00 p.m. — Christ Church, Pine Street, Exeter
Wednesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. — Holy Trinity Church, 22 Fox Run Road, Newington
Program
Requiem by Eleanor Daley
Sim Shalom
Birdsong by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Shir Lashalom, arranged by J. David Moore
O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem by Thomas Tomkins
Kumah Echa, arranged by Alice Parker
Psalm 100 by Heinrich Schütz
Oculus non vidit by Orlandus Lassus
Cantate Domino canticum novum by Heinrich Schütz
Done Made My Vow to the Lord by Moses Hogan
If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?, arranged by Robert Shaw
Same Train, Parker, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Little Innocent Lamb, arranged by Marshall Bartholomew
My Lord What a Morning, arranged by Harry T. Burleigh
Shout On, arranged by Alice Parker
Sunday, March 30, 3:00 p.m. — Christ Church, Pine Street, Exeter
Wednesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. — Holy Trinity Church, 22 Fox Run Road, Newington
Program
Requiem by Eleanor Daley
Sim Shalom
Birdsong by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Shir Lashalom, arranged by J. David Moore
O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem by Thomas Tomkins
Kumah Echa, arranged by Alice Parker
Psalm 100 by Heinrich Schütz
Oculus non vidit by Orlandus Lassus
Cantate Domino canticum novum by Heinrich Schütz
Done Made My Vow to the Lord by Moses Hogan
If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?, arranged by Robert Shaw
Same Train, Parker, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Little Innocent Lamb, arranged by Marshall Bartholomew
My Lord What a Morning, arranged by Harry T. Burleigh
Shout On, arranged by Alice Parker
Renaissance
Performing Arts Festival
June 1, 2008
The chorus’s 31st season will culminate in the presentation of its second annual Renaissance Performing Arts Festival at the Mill Pond Center for the Arts, an event that draws in both performers and participants from the surrounding community. This project reflects Amare Cantare’s goals of bringing people together through the arts and making a significant contribution to the cultural life of the community. Last June, a wide array of performers came together for the festival, including actors, instrumentalists, singers, and jugglers. This year, we are planning a Shakespeare performance by a class of 3rd and 4th grade students from a local elementary school, which we expect will attract more local families to the festival.
June 1, 2008
The chorus’s 31st season will culminate in the presentation of its second annual Renaissance Performing Arts Festival at the Mill Pond Center for the Arts, an event that draws in both performers and participants from the surrounding community. This project reflects Amare Cantare’s goals of bringing people together through the arts and making a significant contribution to the cultural life of the community. Last June, a wide array of performers came together for the festival, including actors, instrumentalists, singers, and jugglers. This year, we are planning a Shakespeare performance by a class of 3rd and 4th grade students from a local elementary school, which we expect will attract more local families to the festival.
Sunday, June
1,
2008, noon to 5:00 p.m. — Mill
Pond Center for the Arts,
Durham, NH