Snyder & Associates LLP
presents
Scherzo Encore
with Greenwood Singers
Friday, April 8, 2016
All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral
(10035 103 Street)
8:00 PM
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Greenwood Singers, under the direction of Founder & Artistic Director Robert de Frece, presents Scherzo Encore on Friday, April 8, 2015 at All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral (10035 103 Street) at 8:00 PM. The choir will be joined by panist Helen Stuart. This concert is proudly presented by Snyder & Associates LLP and CKUA Radio. This concert concludes the choir’s 36th Season.
In 2006, Greenwood Singers presented Scherzo (Italian for “joke”), a program of choral music with humorous texts. Ten years later, it’s time to do it again. Enjoy the lighter side of choral music from Renaissance to Broadway when Greenwood Singers presents Scherzo Encore. The concert will include humorous madrigals and chansons from the Renaissance, Paul Sjolund’s Love Lost (Four Satirical Love Poems), Norman Luboff’s Much Ado About Nothings (Thirteen Pardoxical Pithy Paraphrases), J. Michael Diack’s settings of two nursery rhymes in the style of Handel, and Eric Whitacre’s Animal Crackers on words by Ogden Nash. The program will conclude with selections from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeoman of the Guard.
| I |
| O La, O Che Bon Eccho |
Orlando di Lasso |
| II |
| Monsieur L’Abbé |
Orlando di Lasso |
| O Bella Fusa |
Orlando di Lasso |
| Il Est Bel et Bon |
Pierre Passerau |
| III |
| Love Lost (Four Satirical Poems on Love) |
Paul Sjolund |
- One Perfect Rose (Dorothy Parker)
- When You’re Away (Samuel Hoffenstein)
- Careless Talk (Mark Hollis)
- Your Little Hands (Samuel Hoffenstein)
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| IV |
Much Ado About Nothings:
Thirteen Paradoxical Pithy Paraphrases |
Norman Luboff |
- Something Lovely
- Punctuality
- Prayer (with apologies to Charles Ives)
- Age Before Beauty
- Mother
- A Fool
- Two Heads
- The Centipede
- My Aunt
- Love
- Tally Ho
- Air Pollution
- That’s All
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Helen Stuart, Piano
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| INTERMISSION |
| V |
Two Nursery Rhymes
in the style of George Frederick Handel |
J. Michael Diack |
- Jack and Jill
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
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Helen Stuart, Piano
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| VI |
| Animal Crackers (Words by Ogden Nash) |
Eric Whitacre |
- The Panther
- The Cow
- The Firefly
- The Canary
- The Eel
- The Kangaroo
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Helen Stuart, Piano
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| VII |
| Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard |
Words by William S. Gilbert
Music by Arthur Seymour Sullivan
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- O Sergeant Meryll, Is It True?
- The Prisoner Comes to Meet his Doom
- As Escort for the Prisoner
- Strange Adventure
- With Happiness My Soul is Cloyed
- I Have a Song to Sing, O!
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Helen Stuart, Piano
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Tickets for Scherzo Encore are $20 for Adults and $18 for Students/Seniors (plus agency fees) and are available from TIX on the Square (9930 102 Avenue) 780.420.1757, from choir members, and at the door.
Greenwood Singers is very grateful to the following:
Presenting Sponsor
Snyder & Associates LLP
Silver Sponsor
Henry Bereznicki
Bronze Sponsor
Edmonton Vocal Arts
Media Sponsor
CKUA Radio Network
Ongoing Support Provided By:
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Edmonton Arts Council, City of Edmonton
The Greenwood Chamber Singers Society is a Registered Canadian Charity
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