1998-99

The 27th Concert Season of the Providence Singers

 


Poetry in Song

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): from Five Flower Songs
      1. To Daffodils
      4. The Evening Primrose
      5. Ballad of Green Broom
Paul Bowles (1910 –): Blue Mountain Ballads (baritone solo)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Trois Chansons
      Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder!
      Quant j’ai our le tabourin
      Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Chansons Gaillardes (baritone solo)
Morten Lauridsen (1943 Ð): Les Chansons des Roses
      En Une Seule Fleur
      Les Chansons des Roses
      Dirait-on
Five British Songs
      Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924): The Blue Bird
      Edward Elgar (1857-1934): As Torrents in Summer
      Edward Elgar: My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land
      Hubert Parry (1848-1918): Music, When Soft Voices Die
      S. Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Summer Is Gone
Ned Rorem (1923 –): Five Poems of Walt Whitman (baritone solo)
Julian Wachner (1969 –): Sometimes I Feel Alive (world première)
      there is a moon sole
      as is the sea marvelous
      somewhere i have never traveled

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers
Mark Aliapoulious, baritone
Linda Osborn-Blaschke, piano

8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, 1998, at Trinity Church in Newport
4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, 1998, at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Providence


An Oxford Christmas

J. F. Wade (c.1711-1786): O Come, All Ye Faithful
William Mathias (1934 –): A Babe Is Born
Traditional English (David Willcocks, arr.): Sussex Carol
Traditional German (Philip Ledger, arr.): Still, Still, Still
Peter Wishart (1921-1984): Alleluya, A New Work Is Come on Hand
Traditional English: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Traditional English (R. Vaughan Williams, arr.): Wassail Song
Arthur Warrell (1883-1939): A Merry Christmas
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): A New Year Carol
J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (organ)
Traditional French: Shepards in the Field Abiding
Harold Darke (1888-1976): In the Bleak Mid-Winter
Lowell Mason (1792-1872): Joy to the World
Traditional Celtic (John Rutter, arr.): Child in a Manger
Traditional Welch: Deck the Halls
J. Pierpont (1822–1893): Jingle Bells

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers
Peter Krasinski, organ
Neil Mueller, trumpet

6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, 1998, at St. Martin’s Episcopal, Providence
4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, 1998, at St. Mary’s Church in Bristol RI


Mystical Music from Eastern Europe

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Verleih uns Frieden
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896): Motets
      Ave Maria
      Christus Factus Est
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Prelude and Fugue in G minor
      (Patrick Aiken, organ)
Anton Bruckner: Motets
      Os Justi
      Locus Iste
Johannes Brahms: Geistliches Lied
Zolt‡n Kodaly (1882-1967): Missa Brevis

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers Patrick Aiken, organ

8 p.m. Saturday, March 6, 1999, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence


Mass and Passion

Elaine L. Bearer: The Magdalene Passion (world première)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass)

Julian Wachner, conductor

The Providence Singers
Claire Stadtmueller, soprano
Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
Georgette Ross-Hutchins, mezzo-soprano
Mark Evens, tenor
S. Mark Aliapoulios, baritone

8 p.m. Saturday, May 22, 1999,Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence