Snyder & Associates LLP
presents
Greenwood Singers
Sing Me a Love Song
Friday, April 12, 2019
McDougall United Church
10025 101 Street & Macdonald Drive NW, Edmonton, AB
7:30 pm
Edmonton’s Greenwood Singers, under the direction of Robert de Frece, closes its 39th season with Sing Me a Love Song.
Join us for a diverse program opening with madrigals by Thomas Weelkes, John Farmer, John Dowland and Thomas Morley. The theme of love continues with works by Healey Willan, Daniel Gawthrop, C. Armstrong Gibbs, Z. Randall Stroope, David Dickau, Robert H. Young, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, and Eric Whitacre. The balance of the program includes popular love songs by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein. Don’t miss this evening of romantic songs from Renaissance to Broadway.
The choir will be joined by pianist Helen Stuart, bassist Jeff Johnson and percussionist Murray Smith.
| PROGRAM | ||
|---|---|---|
| I | ||
| The English Madrigalists | ||
| Hark! All Ye Lovely Saints Above | Thomas Weelkes | |
| O Stay, Sweet Love | John Farmer | |
| Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite | John Dowland | |
| Fire, Fire, My Heart | Thomas Morley | |
| II | ||
| Heavenly Love | ||
| Caritas et Amor | Z. Randall Stroope | |
| Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One | Healey Willan | |
| Sing Me to Heaven | Daniel Gawthrop | |
| III | ||
| In Praise of Love | ||
| Amor de mi alma | Z. Randall Stroope | |
| A Lover’s Song (from Five Elizabethan Lyrics) | C. Armstrong Gibbs | |
| If Music Be the Food of Love | David Dickau | |
| Helen Stuart, Piano | ||
| IV | ||
| Two Madrigal Love Songs | Robert H. Young | |
| Words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ||
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| Heart’s Music | R. Vaughan-Williams | |
| This Marriage | Eric Whitacre | |
| Words by Rumi | ||
| V | ||
| Gershwin & Porter on Love | George Gershwin & Cole Porter | |
| Arr. Lou Hayward | ||
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| Helen Stuart, Piano Jeff Johnson, Bass Murray Smith, Drums |
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| VI | ||
| In the Still of the Night | Words & Music by Cole Porter | |
| Arr. Ralph Hunter | ||
| Catch a Falling Star | Lee Pockriss & Paul Vance | |
| Arr. Peter Sicotte | ||
| What the World Needs Now Is Love | Music by Burt Bacharach | |
| Lyrics by Hal David | ||
| Arr. Roger Emerson | ||
| Adam Robertson, Narrator Helen Stuart, Piano Jeff Johnson, Bass Murray Smith, Drums |
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