Concert: Sing a Song of Christmas - The Wayne Gilpin SINGERS

Past Concert

Sing a Song of Christmas

Traditional Carols & Popular Songs, with jazz stylings based on Handel's Messiah!

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Date & Time

Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 8:00 p.m.

Location

First United Church
16 William St. W., Waterloo, ON, N2L 1J3

Conductor

Wayne Gilpin

Accompanist

Andrew Gilpin

Guest Artists

Andrew Gilpin, Tom Hazlitt, John Johnson, Wilson Laurencin, David Puttock.

Repertoire

* indicates performance by guest artist(s)

italics indicate a reading

* That Holy Thing

George MacDonald

The First Nowell

arr. Doug Andrews

* On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

John Milton

Masters in This Hall

Traditional (arr. Mark Hayes)

* Christmas Bells

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ding Dong! merrily on high

arr. David Blackwell

* Santa's Rag

Andrew Gilpin

* The First Noel

Traditional (arr. Andrew Gilpin)

* Joy to the World

Isaac Watts, Lowell Mason (arr. Andrew Gilpin)

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

George Wyle, Eddie Pola (arr. Mark Hayes)

* Christmas in the Sun

Margaret Mahy

White Christmas

Irving Berlin (arr. Mac Huff, John Moss)

* Winter Days

Gareth Owen

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn (arr. Kirby Shaw)

~ Intermission ~

* Overture (from "Messiah")

G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)

* Isaiah 40: 1-3

The Bible

Every Valley

Patti Drennan

And the Glory (from "Messiah")

G.F. Handel

* Malachi 3: 1-3

The Bible

His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful

Dick Tunney, Melodie Tunney (arr. Camp Kirkland)

* Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7

The Bible

* For Unto Us a Child is Born (from "Messiah")

G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)

* Behold the Lamb of God

G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)

* Psalm 22: 1-7

The Bible

He Trusted in God (from "Messiah")

G.F. Handel

* Psalm 24: 7-10

The Bible

Hallelujah!

G.F. Handel (arr. Mervyn Warren, Michael O. Jackson, Mark Kibble, John Higgins)

Choir Members

Soprano

Louise Adolph, Nadine Bell, Cheryl (Soltysiak) Bruder, Tanis Day, Beverly Dietrich, Mary Flewelling, Valerie Grzesiak, Jennifer Lloyd-Smith, Susie Metzger, Cheryl Meyer, Dianne Peters, Margaret St. Pierre, Sylvia Stahle, Lynn (Lathey) Vannatter, Dianna Weltz.

Alto

Susan Brooks, Gloria Cardey, Ginny Ehrlich, Joyce Freeman, Carol Gilpin, Mary Jane Lanteigne, Martha Leonard, Anne Lowe, Anne Munroe, Leslie O'Dell, Lynn Souliere, Mary-Lou Zylstra.

Tenor

Ryan Baer, Beth Breen, Philip Cochrane, John Nighswander, Jim Vanderleeuw, Bruce Weber.

Bass

Terry Green, Neil Hunt, Geoff Miller, Rodger Seeley, Milton Williams.