Since 1998...
101 concerts, 170 choir members
569 choral pieces, 65 guest artists
729 composers, 157 arrangers
1029 pages of concert programmes
Past Concert
Hallelujah!
Christmas Classics plus our unique Jazz Messiah!
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Date & Time
Saturday, December 2, 2006 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
First United Church
16 William St. W., Waterloo, ON, N2L 1J3
16 William St. W., Waterloo, ON, N2L 1J3
Conductor
Wayne Gilpin
Accompanist
Andrew Gilpin
Guest Artists
Bob Brough, Andrew Gilpin, Tom Hazlitt, David Puttock, Dave Wilson.
Repertoire
* indicates performance by guest artist(s)
italics indicate a reading
* Overture (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* Isaiah 40: 1-3
The Bible
Every Valley
Patti Drennan
* A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds
Richard Crashaw
* For Unto Us a Child is Born (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* Isaiah 40:11/Matthew 11:28-30 (altered-from "Messiah")
The Bible
His Yoke is Easy (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* A Christmas Sonnet - For One in Doubt
Edward Arlington Robinson
* Behold the Lamb of God
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* Isaiah 53: 3-6
The Bible
Surely he hath borne our griefs (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel
* The Cherry-Tree Carol (excerpt)
Hallelujah!
G.F. Handel (arr. Mervyn Warren, Michael O. Jackson, Mark Kibble, John Higgins)
~ Intermission ~
African Angel Carol
arr. Sheldon Curry
* Some say... (from "Hamlet")
William Shakespeare
Silent Night
Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr (arr. Doug Andrews)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Traditional Spiritual (arr. Philip Kern)
* Midnight Rag
Andrew Gilpin
* Angelic Rag
Andrew Gilpin
* The First Noel
Traditional (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
L. van Beethoven, Henry Van Dyke (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
Glad Tidings of Joy
Mark Hayes
* The Madonna, To Her Sleeping Child
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio
Mary, Did You Know?
Mark Lowry, Buddy Greene (arr. Jack Schrader)
* O Little Town of Bethlehem (excerpt)
Phillips Brooks
Great, Great Joy!
Mark Hayes
Choir Members
Soprano
Louise Adolph, Cheryl (Soltysiak) Bruder, Tanis Day, Beverly Dietrich, Rebecca Fleisig, Mary Flewelling, Margaret Fontaine, Valerie Grzesiak, Gloria Heimbecker, Jennifer Lloyd-Smith, Susie Metzger, Dianne Peters, Margaret St. Pierre, Sylvia Stahle, Lynn (Lathey) Vannatter, Dianna Weltz.
Alto
Susan Brooks, Gloria Cardey, Ginny Ehrlich, Joyce Freeman, Carol Gilpin, Audrey Gleeson, Mary Jane Lanteigne, Martha Leonard, Anne Lowe, Leslie O'Dell, Lynn Souliere.
Tenor
Shawn Jackson, Jim Vanderleeuw, Bruce Weber.
Bass
Joe Bruder, Philip Cochrane, Terry Green, Neil Hunt, Rodger Seeley, Milton Williams.
