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May,
1990 - Festival of American Music
This concert was a musical celebration of our American heritage. Music
in the first half of the program included "The Rose of Sharon",
"Now
Shall My Inward Joys", featuring Frances Cresswell, Judy Donelan, Skip
Decker and Philippe Hensel, and "Chester" featuring Tom Clark on
percussion. "Camptown Races" and "Some Folks Do" are Stephen
Foster favorites. In the 'Black Spiritual Tradition', Rachel Clement sang
"Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot". "Steal Away" and "Joshua Fit the Battle"
were sung with Ed Nordby singing tenor. In 'The Hymn Tradition' John Wyeth's
"Come
Thou Font" and Lowell Mason's "When I Survey" were performed.
The second half of the program featured 'The Folk Tradition', 'In the Twentieth
Century' and'The Patriotic Tradition' with favorites such as "Cockles
and Mussels", "Hava Nagila", "Shenandoah" and an Irving
Berlin medly, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor".
December,
1990 - Vivaldi for the Christmas Season
Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741) is the featured composer for this holiday
concert which includes "Gloria" and "Magnificat". The text
for "Gloria" originates with the words sung to the Bethlehem shepherds
by the angels on the night of the Nativity. "Magnificat" takes place
nine months earlier as a devine canticle sung by the Virgin Mary on the
occasion of her visit from the archangel announcing the birth of the Messiah.
Douglas Smith performed the "Concerto for Flute in D Minor, Opus 10",
also known as "The Bullfinch" because of the apparent birdcalls
throughout the movements. This was performed in the beautiful, St. Mark's
United Methodist Church, the first performance permitted in the church's
sancturary by an outside group. Featured in this concert was a string orchestra,
harpsicord, oboe and trumpet, as well as the church's 2,332 pipe organ,
played by Ray Brokamp.
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