Shrewsbury Chorale

Spring Follies
June 9, 2001 @ 8:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
1475 West Front Street, Lincroft.
(see map to Church)
An evening of lighter "fare" showcasing the music of
Stephen Sondheim, favorites of the 50's, and solos, duets, trios and more!
...with light refreshments!
Were you there with us for this memorable performance and SOLD OUT show??!!
We hope so, as it was a night we will never forget.

Program

Act 1: LOVE

Comedy Tonight (a Sondheim medley).........................................................................Chorus

Solos by Suzy Smith and Pete Arnold

Only Love and I Remember .............................................................................Rebecca Kutz

Gestillte Sehnsucht.......................................................................................Ingrid Rehwinkel Cello accompanist: Nicholas Saunders

A Man and a Woman..................................................................Jack Burdy and Laurie Morris

I Will Never Leave You..............................................................Cindy Allen and Gina Barnett

Lullaby from Gallantry...........................................................................................Gina Barnett

And This Is My Beloved..................................................................................Peter Goldsmith

Not a Day Goes By (a Sondheim Medley)......................................................................Chorus

Solo by Gina Barnett

Intermission with light refreshments and piano by Bill Wollman.

Act 2: HAPPINESS

Opening.........................................................................................................................Chorus

Three Little Fishies..............................................................................................Laurie Morris

Perfidia and Mood Indigo................................................................................The 7 Survivors

Steve Leech, Dan O'Sullivan, Pat McCall, Jack Burdy,
Ray Radcliffe, Pete Arnold, and Don Robinson

Teach Me Tonight................................................................................................Ray Radcliffe

We Go Together.........................................................................The A-1 Four (a saucy group)

Cindy Allen, Christina Basile, Susan Gardiner, and Linda McCall

I'm Just a Broadway Baby.................................................................................Rebecca Kutz

Lost In the Fifties Tonight ( medley)............................................................................Chorus

Solos by Steve Leech and Dan O'Sullivan

Finale.............................................................................................................................Chorus

Piano accompanists:

                Clair Maxwell
                          Comedy Tonight medley, Act 2 Opening, Teach Me Tonight, Broadway Baby,
                          Lost In the Fifties Tonight medley, Finale

                Carolyn Moore
                          Only Love, I Remember, Gestillte Sehnsucht, A Man and a Woman,
                          I Will Never Leave You, Lullaby from Gallantry, And This Is My Beloved,
                          Not a Day Goes By medley, Three Little Fishies
Choreographer:

Heidi Miller
Act 2 Opening and Finale

Where Everything is Music
Saturday, April 28, 2001, 8 PM.
First Presbyterian Church, 118 W. Main St., Freehold, NJ
(see map to Church)

Arvo Part Berliner Messe

Paula Kimper
Where Everything is Music
(a New Jersey premiere)
Poetry by Rumi
(see text below)

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings

Benjamin Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia

Where Everything Is Music
Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.

So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark

This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out.

- from The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.

Moments of Wonder
December 16, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, 118 W. Main St., Freehold, NJ.

Johann Pachelbel
Magnificat in G
and Canon
(Chamber Orchestra)

Bethlehem Down,
I Saw a Fair Maiden
and Lullaby My Jesus
Peter Warlock

Quem vidisti pastores dicite
Francis Poulenc

Ave maris stella
Edvard Grieg
Clair Maxwell, Guest Conductor

Lowell Mason
(arr. Rutter)
Joy to the World

Malcolm Williamson
This Christmas Night

German Carol arr. Ledger
Still, still, still

French Carol
Ding dong! Merrily on high

INTERMISSION

O sacrum convivium
Olivier Messaien

Jeffrey Van
O Be Joyful and
El Rorro (The Babe)

The Lamb
John Tavener

Magnificat
Franz Schubert
~Allegro maestoso
~Andante
Peggy Noecker, soprano
Susan Gardiner, alto
Bob Spencer, tenor
Pete Arnold, bass
~Allegro vivace
Carolyn Penna, soprano
Alison Beyer, alto
David Altemose, tenor
Marty Israel, bass