The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 201st Birthday Choral Concert

and

First Annual Longfellow Chorus International Composers' Competition

3 PM, Febuary 24, 2008
(2 PM Preconcert Lecture by William D. Pardus)

The First Parish in Portland, Maine, 425 Congress Street.
425 Congress Street

The Longfellow Chorus

Charles Kaufmann, Director
Heidi Kim, soprano; John D. Adams, bass-baritone
Shirley Curry, pianist; Albert Melton, organist; David Pontbriand, sitarist; Amos Libby, Hindustani tabla performer

Bridge
Sheetmusic cover of "The Bridge," song by Mrs. J. Worthington Bliss, (a.k.a. Miss M. Lindsay), published ca. 1866
[image courtesy Eileen Hooper-Bargery, Music by the Score.co.uk]


PROGRAM


The Singers (premiere performance)      David Hamilton
Winner of The 2007 Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

A Boy's Will is the Wind's Will, ca. 1870       "Nicrine", English, dates unknown

Andy Graichen, alto; The Full Chorus; Shirley Curry, piano

Footsteps of Angels      John Blockley, 1800-1882

Sarah Johnson, soprano

The Rainy Dayicon   Erminia Rudersdorff, 1822-1882
(Recording Copyright 2007, The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.)

Maggie Vishneau, soprano; Joyce Moulton, pianist

The Rainy Day Duett      John Blockley, 1800-1882
"One of a number of composer/publishers...it has been said of Blockley that he ransacked the poetry of Longfellow and particularly Tennyson even before the ink was dry on the paper."
The Full Chorus

A Psalm of Life (premiere performance) 2007      Jason A. Heald
Winner of a 2007 Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

Three Songs of the Coast (premiere performance) 2007      William D. Pardus
Winner of The 2007 Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize in Solo Song Composition
Amanda Day, soprano

King Witlaf's Drinking Horn      John Liptrot Hatton, 1808-1886, a.k.a. "The English Schubert"

Timothy Neill Johnson, countertenor; Stuart Bailey, first tenor
Peter Blackwell, baritone; John Adams, bass

Christmas Bells (premiere performance) 2007      Lauren Bernofsky
Winner of a 2007 Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

The Slave's Dreamicon      Johan Gustav Emil Sjoegren, 1853-1918
(Recording Copyright 2007, The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.)

John D. Adams, bass; Shirley Curry, pianist

The Slave Singing at Midnight (premiere performance) 2007      Peter J. Durow
Winner of a 2007 Longfellow Chorus Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus; Bill Wieting, baritone

INTERMISSION

The Old Bridge at Florence (premiere performance) 2007      Emanuela Ballio
Winner of the 2007 Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Solo Song Composition
Heidi Kim, soprano

A Psalm of Life, 1875      Rajah Sorindro Mohun Tagore, 1840-1914
(Recording Copyright 2007, The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.)

John Adams, bass; David Pontbriand, sitarist; Amos Libby, Hindustani tabla performer

The Longfellow-fellow-fellow-fellow-fellow Chorus, 1874icon       Edward E. Rice, 1849-1924
(Recording Copyright 2007, The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.)

Andrea A. Graichen, alto, as "Gabriel, the Roving Romeo"; The Full Chorus

The Kissing Song, from "Evangeline", 1874      Edward E. Rice, 1849-1924

Andy Graichen, alto

Rondel: Love, What Wilt Thou?, Opus 16, No. 3, 1894      Sir Edward Elgar, 1857-1934

Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor

Ships that pass in the Night, 1914, "Sung by Madame Clara Butt"      T. Wilkinson Stephenson
"This song may be sung in public without fee or license.
"The public performance of any parodied version, however, is strictly forbidden."
The Full Chorus

Autumn Within (premiere performance) 2007     Melissa Tosh
Winner of the 2007 Longfellow Chorus First Prize in Solo Song Composition
Heidi Kim, soprano

Finale from Tales of a Wayside Inn (premiere performance) 2007      Micky Landau, b. 1958
Winner of a 2007 Longfellow Chorus Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Longfellow Chamber Chorus

The Singers (premiere performance) 2007      Bob Moore
Winner of the 2007 Longfellow Chorus First Prize in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

Nocte Surgentes Vigilemus Omnes (from The Golden Legend)      Sir Arthur Sullivan, 1842-1900

Albert Melton, organist; The Longfellow Chorus




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