Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz
     (Op. 29, No. 2)
Johannes Brahms: O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf (Op.s 74, No. 2)
Johannes Brahms: Es is das Heil uns kommen her (O. 29, No. 1)
Johannes: Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz (repeated)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor (Op. 34)
     (The Charleston String Quartet with Gary Chapman, piano)
Johannes Brahms: Neue Liebeslieder Walzer (Op. 65)
     (Chorus, with pianists Patrick Aiken and Gary Chapman)
Johannes Brahms: Geistliches Lied (Op. 30)

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers
The Charleston String Quartet
Gary Chapman and Patrick Aiken, piano

Traditional: Once in Royal David’s City
William Mathias: Sir Christèmas
J. Kirkpatrick (1838–1921): Away in a Manger
Herbert Howell (1892–1983): A Spotless Rose
Traditional: O Come, All Ye Faithful

Performed in alternatum:
Traditional French: Sing We Now of Christmas
Marcel Dupré (1886–1971): Variations on a Noel
     (Peter Krasinski, organ)

16th Century French: Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Traditional English: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional: The Snow Lay on the Ground (venite adoremus)
16th Century: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Franz Gruber: Silent Night
Traditional Danish: Kimer, i klokker (Chime, O Ye Bells)
Traditional Danish: Et barn er født i Betlehem
     (A Child Is Born in Bethlehem)
Traditional Danish: Dejlig er Jorden (Lovely Is the Earth)
Traditional Russian: Snow Flurries
Traditional Polish: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Traditional Puerto Rican: De Tierra Lejana Venimos
     (From a Distant Home)
Traditional Japanese: Hitsuji wa nemureri (Sheep Fast Asleep)
Marjorie Louise Burgess: Child Is Born
Traditional American: O Little Town of Bethlehem
J. Pierpont (1822–1893): Jingle Bells

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers
Peter Krasinski, organist

4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, 1997, at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Providence

Six Elizabethan Madrigals
     Thomas Greaves Come Away Sweet Love
     Thomas Morley: My Bonny Lass She Smileth
     John Bennet: Weep, O Mine Eyes
     Thomas Morley: Sing We and Chant It
     Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan
     John Farmer: Fair Phyllis
Folk Songs of the British Isles (John Rutter, ed.)
     Gustav Holst (arr.): My Sweetheart’s Like Venus
     John Rutter (arr.): Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron
     John Rutter (arr.): O Waly, Waly
     R. Vaughan Williams (arr.): Greensleeves
     Percy Grainger (arr.): Londonderry Air
Michael Tippett (1905-1998): Spirituals (from A Child of Our Time)
     Steal Away
     Nobody Knows
     Go Down, Moses
     By and By
     Deep River
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Reincarnations
     Mary Hynes
     Anthony O’Daly
     The Coolin

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers

8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, 1998, at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Providence
4 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 1998, at St. Mary’s Church, Bristol

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847): Elijah

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers
The Back Bay Chorale

Guiping Deng, soprano
Gale Fuller, mezzo soprano
Mark Nemeskal, tenor
David Murray, baritone
Daniel Rothschild Stone, treble

8 p.m. Friday, May 8, 1998, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence
3 p.m. Sunday, May 10, 1998, at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Mass.