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2008 Performance Schedule

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Saturday, June 21 in the Chan Centre
Jon Washburn, conductor and artistic director of the Vancouver Chamber Choir
Healey Willan - Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs

Jennie Such, soprano
Anita Krause, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
Tyler Duncan, bass-baritone

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Sheffield, Massachusetts



Saturday, July 12 in the Rovensky Concert Shed
  Craig Jessop, music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
All American Program
Mack Wilberg
– Requiem
(Northeast Premiere)
Mack Wilberg – Epilogue
Randall Thompson – Alleluia
Randall Thompson – Frostiana
Howard Hanson – Psalm 150 (“Praise Ye the Lord”)
Norman Dello Joio – A Jubilant Song
Laura Garff Lewis,
mezzo-soprano
Christophèren Nomura,
baritone

 
Saturday, July 19 in the Rovensky Concert Shed
Tom Hall, music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Ludwig van Beethoven Ninth Symphony (4th Movement)
Penelope Shumate,
soprano
Keri Alkema,
mezzo-soprano
Scott Ramsay,
tenor
Alexander Tall,
baritone

 
Saturday, July 26 in the Rovensky Concert Shed
Kent Tritle, music director of the Oratorio Society of New York and Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
George Frideric HandelSolomon
Ian Howell, countertenor
Leslie Fagan, soprano
Jamet Pittman, soprano
Theodora Hanslowe, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Garrett, tenor
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Christine Gevert, continuo

 
Saturday, August 2 in the Rovensky Concert Shed
John Alexander, music director of the Pacific Chorale
Water Music from the British Isles
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Sea Symphony
John Rutter – The Keel Row
John Rutter – I Know Where I’m Going (for women’s voices)
John Rutter – Afton Water
Percy Grainger – Shallow Brown (for men’s voices)
Percy Grainger – Scotch Strathspey and Reel (for men’s voices)
Rochelle Ellis, soprano
Timothy LeFebvre, baritone
Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo




Canterbury, England

Saturday, August 16 in the Canterbury Cathedral
  Joseph Cullen, director of the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the Huddersfield Choral Society
Mendelssohn - Lobgesang (Cantata from Symphony No. 2)
Mendelssohn Motets -
  Frohlocket ihr Völker auf Erden
  Ave Maria
  Laudate Pueri (for women’s voices)
  Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Alice Gribbin, soprano
Clara Meloni, alto
Mark Guerin, tenor


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Canterbury, England

Saturday, September 20 in the Mondsee Basilica and Sunday, September 21 in the Salzburg Cathedral
  Heinz Ferlesch, artistic director of the Wiener Singakademie, Vienna, Austria

Mondsee Basilica concert:
Josef RheinbergerKyrie; Gloria
Anton BrucknerOs justi; Tota Pulchra es Maria
Johannes BrahmsSchaffe in mir
Maurice DurufléUbi Caritas
Morten LauridsenO Magnum Mysterium
Cyrillus KreekPsalm 104
Traditional SongBaba yetu

Salzburg Cathedral concert:
BeethovenMass in C (sung as part of the Sunday morning Mass)

Elisabeth Flechl, soprano
Martina Steffl, alto
Michael Nowak, tenor
Matthias Helm, bass