The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 203rd Birthday Choral Concert

and

Third Annual Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition

MASTER CLASS

4:30 PM, Friday, February 26, 2010, Admission Free of Charge (Angela Brown-Robert Honeysucker Master Class)

The First Parish in Portland, Maine, 425 Congress Street

CONCERTS

8 PM, Saturday, February 27, 2010, $20 Suggested Admission Donation
(7:30 PM Pre-concert Discussion featuring soloists and winning composers)

The First Parish in Portland, Maine, 425 Congress Street

and

3 PM, Sunday, Febuary 28, 2010, $20 Suggested Admission Donation
(2:30 PM Pre-concert Discussion featuring winning composers)

The First Parish in Portland, Maine, 425 Congress Street

The Longfellow Chorus

Charles Kaufmann, Director

Angela M Brown, soprano

Robert Honeysucker, baritone

The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875-1912, at the piano, 1910. Photo by Addison N. Scurlock, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Used by permission.


PROGRAM

I.

A Day of Sunshine      Elaine Hagenberg
Winner of a 2010 Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction
The Full Chorus

Two Southern Love Songs, Opus 12      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875-1912
1. She is a maiden of artless grace, (Longfellow's translation of a Spanish song)
2. If thou art sleeping, maiden, (Longfellow's translation of a poem from the Portuguese by Gil Vincente, 1465-1536)

Mark Sprinkle, tenor; Geoffrey Wieting, piano

The Haunted Chamber      Martin Westlake
Winner of the 2010 Longfellow Chorus Award in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

Snow-Flakes      Christopher Wicks
Winner of the 2010 Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize in Solo Song Compostition
The Little Moon      Bryon Page
Winner of a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Solo Song Composition
Mark Sprinkle, tenor; Jara Goodrich, harp

Alone Gd. Sufficeth      David Walther
Winner of the 2010 Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

SHORT INTERMISSION

II.

A Day of Sunshine for Chorus and Orchestra      Keane Southard
Cantata Finalist, 2010 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition
The Stars, for string orchestra and soprano (a poem by Kathleen Easmon, 1892-1924), WoO      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875-1912
Angela M. Brown, soprano

The Quadroon Girl, for baritone solo, women's chorus and orchestra, Opus 54, No. 4 (re-orchestration by Charles Kaufmann)      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875-1912

Robert Honeysucker, baritone

Suspiria for Chorus and Orchestra      Marcus Karl Maroney
Cantata Finalist, 2010 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition
SHORT INTERMISSION

III.

Announcement of the winner of the Cantata Prize of the 2010 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition

Charles Kaufmann

The Death of Minnehaha, 1899, Opus 30, No. 2      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875-1912

Angela M. Brown, soprano; Robert Honeysucker, baritone

The Longfellow Chorus and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra

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