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Mystic Moorings: A 25th Anniversary Concert

The Mystic River Chorale
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
St. Mary's Church, Groton, CT


Frank Martignetti - Artistic Director & Conductor
Kathleen Bartkowski, - Accompanist & Guest Conductor
Stephen Bruce, Joan Cook, & Michele Holt - Guest Conductors

PROGRAM

“Gloria” from Missa Sancti Nicolai

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Ave Verum Corpus

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

La Passagiata

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Mystic River Chamber Singers
Stephen Bruce, conductor

Selections from Mystic Moorings

Alice Parker (b. 1925)
        “Mystic Mooring”

 

        “Devotion”

 

Selections from Frostiana *

Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

        “The Road Not Taken”

 

        “Choose Something Like a Star”

 

Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal

American Folk Hymn, arr. Shaw/Parker

Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Thomas A. Dorsey, arr. Ringwald

Amazing Grace

John Newton, arr. Schrader

Frank Martignetti, conductor

Shenandoah *

American Folksong, arr. Erb

Bashana Haba'ah

Manor/Hirsch, arr. Leavitt

Neighbor’s Chorus

 Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

Michele Holt, conductor

Herr, nun lassest du deiner Diener

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

When David Heard

Thomas Tompkins (1572-1656)

Mystic River Chamber Singers

Ave Maria

Franz Biebl (1906-2001)

Stephen Bruce, conductor

 

 

Intermission

 

 

Praise His Holy Name

Keith Hampton

Sing Me to Heaven

Daniel Gawthrop

You Are the New Day *

John David, arr. Knight

Joan Cook, conductor

Live-A-Humble

Spiritual, arr. Peter Bagley

Ride the Chariot

Spiritual, arr. William Henry Smith

Kathleen Bartkowski, conductor

Jamaican Market Place

Larry Farrow

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Duke Ellington

That Lonesome Road

James Taylor, arr. Simon Carrington

What a Wonderful World

Douglas & Weiss

The Mystic River Chamber Singers

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw

Gaelic Blessing *

John Rutter

Battle Hymn of the Republic *

Julia Ward Howe, arr. John Rutter

Frank Martignetti, conductor

 

 

* Chorale Alumni will join us for these numbers.