Snyder & Associates LLP
presents
Greenwood Singers
Pastorale:
Music Inspired by Life in the Countryside
Friday, April 10, 2015
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 Pastorale: Music Inspired by Life in the Countryside on Friday, April 10, 2015 at All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral (10035 103 Street) at 8:00 PM. The choir will be joined by pianist Helen Stuart and poetry reader James DeFelice. This concert is proudly presented by Snyder & Associates LLP and CKUA Radio. This concert concludes the choir’s 35th Season.
Each spring since 1981, Greenwood Singers has presented a programme of choral music from Renaissance to Broadway. The theme of the 2015 spring concert is Pastorale: Music Inspired by Life in the Countryside. The programme will open with Italian and English pastoral madrigals extolling the beauty of life in the country and Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), op. 103 by Johannes Brahms with pianist Helen Stuart. Ms. Stuart will also accompany the choir in Randall Thompson’s Frostiana (Seven Country Songs) on poems by Robert Frost. Each poem will be read by James DeFelice prior to the choir singing Thompson's setting of the text. The programme will conclude with choral selections from the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!
PROGRAMME
I
El Grillo – Josquin dez Prez
Scaldava il sol – Luca Marenzio
II
In Midst of Woods – John Mundy
We Shepherds Sing – Thomas Weelkes
All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded – John Bennet
III
Zigeunerlider, op. 103 – Johannes Brahms
(i) He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten ein!
(ii) Hochgetürmte Rimaflut, wie bist du trüb
(iii) Wißt ihr, wann mein Kindchen am allerschönsten ist?
(iv) Leiber Gott, du weißt, wie oft bereut ich hab‘
(v) Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze
(vi) Röslein dreie in der Reihe blühn so rot
(vii) Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn
(viii) Horch, der Wind klagt in den Zweigen traurig sacht
(ix) Weit und breit schaut niemand mich an
(x) Mond verhüllt sein Angesicht
(xi) Rote Abendwolken ziehn am Firmament
Helen Stuart, Piano
INTERMISSION
IV
Frostiana (Seven County Songs) on words by Robert Frost – Randall Thompson
(i) The Road Not Taken
(ii) The Pasture
(iii) Come In
(iv) The Telephone
(v) A Girl’s Garden
(vi) Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
(vii) Choose Something Like a Star
James DeFelice, Poetry Reader
Helen Stuart, Piano
V
Selections from Oklahoma! – Music by Richard Rodgers, Words by Oscar Hammerstein II,
arr. Walter Ehret
(i) Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
(ii) The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
(iii) People Will Say We’re In Love
(iv) Oklahoma!
Helen Stuart, Piano
Tickets for Pastorale: Music Inspired by Life in the Countryside 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, choir members and at the door.
Greenwood Singers is very grateful to the following:
Presenting Sponsor
Snyder & Associates LLP
Bronze Sponsor
Henry Bereznicki
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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