2015 - 2016 


November 22, 2015
St. Mark's School

Rutter — A 70th Birthday Tribute

VOICES Boston:
Dominus Vobiscum, Jacob Narverud (b. 1986)
Celebrate a New Day, Rich Campbell (b. 1958) (U.S. Premiere Performance)
The Lord Bless You and Keep You, John Rutter (b. 1945)

Heritage Chorale:
I Will Sing with the Spirit, Rutter
O Clap Your Hands, Rutter
Musica Dei donum, Rutter
— Meghan Jacoby, flute
A Choral Fanfare, Rutter

VOICES Boston and Heritage Chorale:
Mass of the Children, Rutter
I. Kyrie | II. Gloria | III. Sanctus and Benedictus | IV. Agnus Dei | V. Finale
—Jean Danton, Soprano and Garrett Murphy, Baritone


February 28, 2016
Keefe Technical High School

Escaping the Winter Blues

Snow, Music/lyrics – Irving Berlin
Skating with My Baby, Music/lyrics – Phil Naish, Lowell Alexander, Senator Orrin Hatch
Baby, It’s Cold Outside, Music/lyrics – Frank Loesser
Sleigh Ride, Music – Leroy Anderson, lyrics – Mitchell Parish
Let It Snow, Music – Jule Styne, lyrics – Sammy Cahn
Winter Wonderland, Music – Felix Bernard, lyrics – Dick Smith
Dream a Little Dream of Me, Music – Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt, lyrics – Gus Kahn
California Dreamin’, Music/lyrics – John Phillips, Michelle Phillips
Surfin’ U.S.A., Music/lyrics – Chuck Berry
Under the Boardwalk, Music/lyrics – Artie Resnick, Kenny Young
Aloha ‘Oe, Music – Queen Lili’uokalani
Hawaii Five-O, Music – Mort Stevens
Here Comes the Sun, Music/lyrics – George Harrison
Island in the Sun, Music/lyrics – Irving Burgie, Harry Belafonte
Kingston Market/Jamaica Farewell, Music/lyrics – Irving Burgie
Kokomo, Music/lyrics by Mike Love, Terry Melcher, John Phillips, Scott McKenzie
Margaritaville, Music/lyrics – Jimmy Buffet
— Solo: Neil Cudmore
Come Fly With Me, Music – James Van Heusen, lyrics – Sammy Cahn
Happy Together, Music/lyrics – Gary Bonner, Alan Gordon
Happiness, Music/lyrics – Clark Gesner
Put On a Happy Face, Music – Charles Strouse, lyrics – Lee Adams
Winter’s on the Wing, Music – Lucy Simon, lyrics – Marsha Norman
Cabaret, Music – John Kander, lyrics – Fred Ebb


May 14, 2016
St. Mark's School

Shakespeare & Friends

Heritage Chorale:
Sigh No More, Ladies, Gary Walth
Reading by Neil Cudmore: If music be the food of love (from Twelfth Night)
Three Elizabethan Part Songs, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
1. Sweet Day
2. The Willow Song
3. O Mistress Mine
Reading by Cindy Courtney: When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29)
Hor che’l ciel e la terra, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Young Women's Chorus of the Handel & Haydn Society:
Who Is Silvia?, Franz Schubert (1797-1828), arr. Alyson Greer
Early Spring, Newfoundland Folk Song, arr. Kathleen Allan
Sigh No More, Ladies, Edmund Hughes, Mary Ellen Loose

Heritage Chorale:
Reading by Elaine Recklet: Orpheus with his lute (from Henry VIII)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, John Purifoy
Reading by Jonathan Guest: Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
Romeo and Juliet, John Purifoy
Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Reading by Jennifer Ward: Titania
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Sarah Quartel (b. 1982)
Reading by Terri Wroten: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8)

Young Women's Chorus of the Handel & Haydn Society:
Hexenlied, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, arr. Paul Neal
Through the House Give Glimmering Light, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
How Do I Love Thee?, Nathan Christensen

Heritage Chorale:
Reading by Ann Harris, David Johnston: Serenade to Music (The Merchant of Venice)
Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, George Shearing (1919-2011)
– Live with me and be my love
– When daffodils begin to peer
– It was a lover and his lass
– Spring
– Who is Silvia?
– Fie on sinful fantasy
– Hey, ho, the wind and the rain