Spring Concert - May 20, 2007 3:00 PM
 

Following are the pieces we performed in our 2007 Spring Concert at Holy Family Catholic Church in Mason City, Iowa. MAP



Concert Lineup:
Totus Tuus - Henryk Gorecki
Hymn to the Mother of God - John Tavener
Gloria from Missa Missericordiae - Egil Hovland
Song for Athene - John Tavener
The Sixty-Seventh Psalm - Stephen Paulus
Nelly Bly - Stephen Foster, arranged by Roger Wagner
Hard Times Come Again No More - Stephen Foster, arranged by Mark Keller
Old Folks at Home - Stephen Foster, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Five Canzonets - Jean Berger
A Boy and a Girl - Eric Whitacre
His Voice - Arranged by Larry L. Fleming
Dere's No Hidin' Place - Arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Beautiful River - Robert Lowry, arranged by William Hawley
Steal Away - Arranged by Carol Barnett

Tickets were $8.00 each and were sold at the following locations:

    Clear Lake
  • Clear Lake Chamber Office
  • Jitters Coffee
  • Design Studio
  • Thrifty White Pharmacy
    Mason City
  • Soyphisticated Candles
  • Jitters Coffee

Concert Program Note Sources:
Learn more about the music and composers from our concert with the following links.

Totus Tuus, Goreki
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/sp_ss_scv/insigne/totus-tuus_en.html
http://www.napervillechorus.org/tuus.html

Hymn to the Mother of God, Song for Athene, Tavener
http://brevechoir.co.uk/programme_britishchoral.asp
http://resurgence.org/resurgences/articles/tavener.htm

Gloria from Missa Missericordiae, Hovland
http://www.lutherinst.org/Pages/AWARDS_bio.cfm?AwardID=28&CFID=2489803&CFTOKEN=24957220  (Luther Institute)
http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/hovland  (Classical Composers Database)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_in_Excelsis_Deo  (Wikipedia — Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06583a.htm   (Catholic Encyclopedia: Gloria in Excelsis Deo)

Sixty-Seventh Psalm, Paulus
http://www.stephenpaulus.com/  (Stephen Paulus homepage)

Nelly Bly, Hard Times Come Again No More,  Old Folks at Home, Stephen Foster,
Roger Wagner, Mark Keller, Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw  (Wikipedia — Robert Shaw)
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/foster/page1.asp (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster  (Wikipedia — Stephen Foster)
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/snd/foster.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly  (Wikipedia — Nelly Bly)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Folks_at_Home)  (Wikipedia — Old Folks at Home)

Five Canzonets, Jean Berger
http://Encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861594596/canzonet.html  (MSN Encarta Premium Dictionary)
http://members.cox.net/abradford/BALS/RenMusic.html  (Renaissance Music Definitions)
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Berger  (Wikipedia — Jean Berger)

A Boy and a Girl, Eric Whitacre, Octavio Paz
http://www.ericwhitacre.com/main.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Whitacre  (Wikipedia — Eric Whitacre)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz  (Wikipedia — Octavio Paz)

His Voice, Larry L. Fleming
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/NLCR.htm  (National Lutheran Choir)
http://nlca.com/about/fleming  (Larry Fleming, Founder — National Lutheran Choir)

Dere’s No Hiding Place, Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw  (Wikipedia)

Beautiful River, Shall We Gather at the River, Rev. Robert Lowry, William Hawley
http://williamhawley.net/bio.htm  (William Hawley, Biography)
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/blowry.html  (Christian Biography Resources)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/s/w/swgatriv.htm  (Shall We Gather at the River?)

Steal Away, Carol Barnett
http://carolbarnett.net/biography.htm  (Carol Barnett homepage)
http://www.osblackhistory.com/stealaway.php  (History of Steal Away text)