Concert: Silent Night, Holy Night - The Wayne Gilpin SINGERS

Past Concert

Silent Night, Holy Night

The music of Christmas in all its beauty and variety

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Date & Time

Saturday, December 19, 1998 - 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, Frédéric Julien, David Puttock, Sophie Roland.

Repertoire

* indicates performance by guest artist(s)

italics indicate a reading

* Bird of Dawning (from "Hamlet")

William Shakespeare

Of the Father's Love Begotten

Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (arr. Andrew Gilpin)

There Shall a Star

Felix Mendelssohn

Messiah (excerpts)

G.F. Handel

* Joseph's Suspicion

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Cherry Tree Carol

Traditional (arr. C. Wilson)

Christmas Lullaby

John Rutter

Mary Had a Baby

Traditional Spiritual (arr. David Blackwell)

* Et exultavit

J.S. Bach

* Jesus de Nazareth

Charles Gounod

* The Oxen

Thomas Hardy

Were You There on That Christmas Night?

Natalie Sleeth

A Christmas Carol

G.K. Chesterton, Norman Dello Joio

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Traditional Spiritual (arr. Roger Emerson)

~ Intermission ~

Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav'nly Light

J.S. Bach

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

Traditional (arr. David Willcocks)

* Minuit, Chrétien

Adolphe Charles Adam, C. de Roquemaure

* Adeste Fideles

John Francis Wade, Frederick Oakeley

* Jesus Ahatonhia

Fr. J. de Brebeuf, J.E. Middleton

Jesus Child

John Rutter

Silent Night

Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr (arr. John Rutter)

Angels' Carol

John Rutter

* The Ballad of Befana

Phyllis McGinley

A Merry Christmas

Traditional (arr. A. Warrell)

Choir Members

Soprano

Cheryl (Soltysiak) Bruder, Christine (Porter) Collins, Mary Flewelling, Sharon Gowland, Valerie Grzesiak, Kari Kokko, Dianne Peters, Megan Piercey, Gloria (Schumacher) Scheerer, Sylvia Stahle, Lana Tiller, Lynn (Lathey) Vannatter, Dianna Weltz, Sharon Wittich.

Alto

Roz Adelberg, Gloria Cardey, Helen Edney, Ginny Ehrlich, Carol Gilpin, Anne Kendall, Marcia Lee, Anne Lowe, Rebecca Rowe, Margaret Schmidt, Charlotte Thompson, Anita H. Wolting-Visser.

Tenor

Arvin Hill, Al Kehn, John Milne.

Bass

Philip Cochrane, Morgan Hultquist, Neil Hunt, Geoff Miller, Lloyd Scorgie, Derek Tiller.