Friday, December 15, 2017 @ 8:00pm
Mission Santa Clara, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
Saturday, December 16, 2017 @ 2:30pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA

Transeamus (let us cross over) celebrates the PWC’s next chapter after its milestone 50th anniversary this past season. To launch this new era, the PWC performs one of the great choral landmarks of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols.

Then come travel with us to the Southern Hemisphere to explore rhythmic drive and rich double-choir textures in newer works from Australia and New Zealand. We send you home with beloved carols (including an Australian one!) to welcome a new holiday season.

Concert Teaser:

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Concert Program

    CompositionComposer / ArrangerNotes

  1. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
    Arr: J. Edmund Hughes
  2. Sanctus Richard Oswin

    composed in 2002
  3. A Ceremony of Carols Benjamin Britten
  4. There is no Rose Joshua B. Himes

    composed in 2013
  5. Five Carols from Quem Quaeritis: 1. Fader of Hevene Ross Edwards
  6. The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy Traditional Trinidad
    Arr: Stephen Hatfield
  7. Dawn Canticle Ross Edwards
  8. Hodie Christus natus est Sandra Milliken
  9. Snowflakes Sandra Milliken
  10. Patterns on the Snow Mari Esabel Valverde

    commissioned by the PWC through the ACDA Women’s Consortium
  11. Carol of the Drum Katherine K. Davis
  12. Carol of the Birds William G. James

    text by John Wheeler
  13. Go Where I Send Thee!
    Arr: Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory

    gospel spiritual
  14. Candlelight Carol John Rutter