Past Performances
Scenes from past performances
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Conductor -- Linda Blanchard
Accompanist -- Sean Fleming
Featured Work: “An Appalachian Nativity”
Lewis Henry Horton -- 1955
Other Works:
“Advent”
Supply Belcher (1751-1836)
“Sleigh Ride”
Leroy Anderson, arr: Hawley Ades
Three carols by Alfred Burt (1920-1954)
“O Hearken Ye”
“The Star Carol”
“Caroling, Caroling”
“I Wonder As I Wander”
John Jacob Niles (1892-1980)
arr. John Rutter
“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Traditional arr., Howard Helvey
“I'll Be Home for Christmas”
Kim Gannon & Walter Kent, arr. G. L. Leaman
“Jungle Bells”
J. Pierpont (1822-93), arr. David Willcocks
March 24 -25, 2007
Conductor: Linda Blanchard
Accompanist: Sean Fleming
Featured Work: World Premiere of "I Am Singing."
on a Text by Bristol Poet George V. Van Deventer
by English Composer Terence Deadman
Other Works: Set Me as a Seal, R. Nance
Set Me as a Seal, E. Daley
Till there was you
Nigra Sum, Sed Fomosa, Palestrina
Nigra Sum, Sed Fomosa, Casals
Clair de Lune
Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One, H. Willan
Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One, J. Mccray
Popular Opera Choruses
December 5, 2004
Conductor: Linda Blanchard
Accompanist: Sean Fleming
Featured Works: John Rutter's "Gloria": and Giovanni Gabrieli's "Gloria"
Other Works:
Entrata Festiva, Let All Mortal Flesh, Shepherds' 'Farewell to the Holy Family, Carol of the Bells, Deck the Halls, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
December 6, 1998
Conductor: Linda Blanchard, Accompanist: Sean Fleming
Featured work: Rafe Vaughan Williams' "Hodie"
Other Works Performed: A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas, Sans Day Carol, Myn Lyking, Infant Holy Infant Lowly, Wassail Carol, A Merry Christmas, Count Your Blessings, White Christmas, Happy Holiday.
A Short List of Past Performances
October 4, 1992
Conductor: Jeanne Daniels
Accompanist: Genie O'Connell
Featured Work: Johannes Brahms' "A German Requiem"
April 1, 1990
Conductor: Jeanne Daniels
Accompanist: Ann Wight
Featured Work: Selections from "Messiah"
April 12, 1987
Conductor: Albert Packard
Accompanist: Paul Havenstein
Featured Works: Gabriel Faure's "Requiem," and Antonio Vivaldi's "Gloria"
June 3, 1984
Conductor: Albert Packard
Orchestra Director: Dennis Harrington
Accompanist: Ann Wight
Featured Work: Selections from "Oliver"
December 11, 1981
Conductor: Albert Packard
Orchestra Director: Richard Tarr
Accompanists: Jim Colby & Polly Steele
Featured Work: Franz Schubert Mass in G Major
May 18, 1980
Conductor: Jim Thibodeau
Orchestra Director: Richard Tarr
Accompanist: Nancy Tarr
Featured Piece: Antonio Vivaldi's "Gloria"
