2002 Spring Concerts – “Take Up the Song”

Concert Program

CompositionComposer / ArrangerNotes

1. O viridissima virga Hildegard von Bingen
2. Duo Seraphim Tomas Luis de Victoria
3. Sound the Trumpet Henry Purcell
4. Pueri Hebraeorum Randall Thompson
5. Alleluia Randall Thompson

   from The Place of the Blest

6. Largo from the "New World" Symphony Antonin Dvorak
   
   Arr: Margaret Dryburgh Norah Chambers

   Song of Survival, 1943 Sumatra, 1942

7. Pastoral Symphony G.F. Handel
   
   Arr: Margaret Dryburgh

   Song of Survival, 1943

8. Tece Voda Tece Deems Taylor
9. Der 23. Psalm Franz Schubert
10. Psalm 121 Libby Larsen

    Commissioned by the PWC

11. Pie Jesu Michael Cleveland
12. Da pacem Domine Håkan Olsson
13. Salmo 150 Ernani Aguiar
14. Mila begi Javier Busto

    words by Inazio Mujika, in memoriam: Patricia Hennings

15. Shells Knut Nystedt

    Words by Kathleen Raine

16. Tjak! Stephen Hatfield
17. The Milky Way David Conte

    from The Dreamers

18. Candles in the Wilderness David Conte

    from The Dreamers

19. The Winged Joy - 4. A Farewell Kirke Mechem
20. I Shall Keep Singing! Brian Holmes

    for the Peninsula Women’s Chorus in memory of Patty Hennings, words by Emily Dickinson

21. Dos Cantos Ron Jeffers

    Music and Poetry Project. composed in 1999

22. Jabberwocky Ron Jeffers

    words by Lewis Carroll, commissioned by the PWC

23. Take Up the Song Ron Jeffers

    words by Edna St. Vincent Millay; world premiere 1999 with Elektra; US premiere by the PWC 2000

24. Wonfa Nyem Anonymous

    song from Ghana, edited by Abraham K. Adzenyah