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Listed below are highlights from performances since 2005 (recent concerts are listed first). Benefit recitals are noted in the column at left.
Spring 2008 Concert The Club performed 18 pieces, including the following: "I Bought Me a Cat" (Aaron Copland); "Auf Flugeln des Gesanges" (Felix Mendelssohn); "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; "With Cat-like Tread" (from The Pirates of Penzance); medley from South Pacific; "Sweet and Lovely"; and "Vive L'Amour." Guest artist: Mezzo-soprano Elspeth Kincaid.
Co-performance with the Harvard Glee Club
2007 Spring Concert Date: Tuesday,
May 15, 8 pm Program highlights: The Club performed music from Broadway, grand opera, operetta, and American and world folk songs. A medley from the musical Annie, included lyrics written by Annie lyricist Martin Charnin especially for the Mendelssohn Glee Club. Also performed were "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern), "Pilgrim Chorus" (Richard Wagner), "Italian Street Song" (Victor Herbert), and "Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim). Guest artist: Soprano Kristin Sampson performed works by Giacomo Puccini, including "Ch'il bel sogno” from La Rondine; ”Vilia” from The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár, ”Ain’t it a Pretty Night” from Susannah by Carlisle Floyd; and pieces by Charles-François Gounod and Jerry Bock.
2006 Winter Holiday Concert Date: Tuesday,
December 12, 8 pm Program highlights: To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, the Club (with soprano Jessica Julin) performed the "Allelujah" from the motet Exultate Jubilate. The arrangement for male chorus was written by previous MGC conductor John Rover Bogue. The Club also sang the "Lacrymosa" from Mozart's Requiem. Also offered was music of the season, including "Light One Candle," Robert DeCormier's setting of Peter Yarrow’s (of Peter, Paul & Mary) Chanukah song. There was music from Guys and Dolls, Verdi, and songs and spirituals. Guest artist: soprano Jessica Julin; works in various languages from diverse musical periods and moods by Bizet, Mozart, Bellini, and Strauss among others.
2006 Spring Concert Program highlights: music from the late Renaissance through the twentieth century, including composers from Purcell to Thompson. A men's choral arrangement of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from the Messiah was offered, and, with soprano Daena Mireau, the Club sang Schubert's Omnipotence. Guest artist: soprano Daena Mireau; "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca (Puccini), "Ave Maria" (Bach-Gounod), and "Ecco L'orrido Campo" from Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) as well as works by Rodgers and Hart, J.J. Niles, and Smith and Herbert.
2005 Winter Holiday Concert Program highlights: seasonal music; pieces by Mozart, MacDowell, Sullivan, Sodero, Speaks, Anka, von Flotow, and others; works: "Sylvia," "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," "My Way," "Chorus of Peers," and "Inno di Mameli" among others. Guest artist: soprano Manon Strauss Evrard; works by Fauré, Rossini, Satie, Gounod, and Mozart among others.
2005 Spring Concert Program highlights:
arrangement
for men's chorus and soprano of "O Triumph All Ye Ransom'd" from Beethoven's
The Mount of Olives and "Easter Hymn" from Mascagni's
Cavalleria Rusticana; folk songs from around the world; pieces by Bacharach,
Sondheim, and Porter. Phillip Hagemann, whose arrangement of Porter's "Don't
Fence Me In" was performed, was in attendance. click here for current concert information |
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