Choirs Concert

Washington University Choirs present “No Place Like Home” featuring works by St. Louis musicians and poets.

PROGRAM:

Concert Choir

I. Pine Apple Rag (1908) Scott Joplin (1867-1917) arr. Robert De Cormier (1922-2017)
 
II. Justus ut palma florebit (1869) Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)
   Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (1865)
 
III. Davids 23:e psalm Alice Tegnér (1864-1943)
Refuge (2016) Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979)
name, cellist
 
IV. Fly Away Home (2014) Pinkzebra 
 
V. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/Follow the River (2018) Ron Kean
name, soloist
Henry Claude, marimba
name, kalimba
 
INTERMISSION
 
Chamber Choir
 
I. Deus, qui beatum Marcum (1597) Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1550-1612)
 
II. Three Dunbar Hymns (2009) Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)
When Storms Arise
Lead Gently, Lord 
Little Lamb
 
III. Nine Hundred Miles (2001) Traditional American folk song arr. Philip E. Silvey (b. 1965)
 
IV. The Road Home (2005) Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)
 
V. Long Time Trav’ling (2006)   American shape note hymns arr. Abbie Betinis (b. 1980)
 
VI. St. Louis Blues (1914/1936) W. C. Handy (1873-1958) arr. Hall Johnson (1888-1970)
Rima AbiSamra, soloist
 
Combined Choirs
 
From The Wiz (1978) Charlie Smalls (1943-1987) arr. Andy Beck and Michael Spresser
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