Location: First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, 301 Cottage Road, South Portland, Maine. Call 207-232-8920 for more details.
Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt, Opus 23 Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra
Prelude from Sigurd Jorsalfar, Opus 22 Edvard Grieg
Arve Tellefsen and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra
Arabian Dance, from Peer Gynt, Opus 23 Edvard Grieg
Elissa Alvarez, soprano, and The Longfellow Chorus and Orchestra
From Polacca Guerriera, (The Polish Warrior), 1835, revised 1864 Ole Bull (1810–1880)
Arve Tellefsen and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra
Solveig's Song, from Peer Gynt, Opus 23 Edvard Grieg
Rachele Schmiege, soprano, and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra
Et Sæterbesøg, (A Visit to a Mountain Farmstead), 1848–1849, revised 1864 Ole Bull
Arve Tellefsen and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra
In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt, Opus 23 Edvard Grieg
The Longfellow Chorus and Orchestra
A Mother's Prayer, also known as Adagio Religioso, Opus 1 Ole Bull
Arve Tellefsen
Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso, 1837, revised 1840 Ole Bull
Arve Tellefsen and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra
The Longfellow 205th Birthday Choral Festival, Ole Bull, Longfellow & Elgar: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, is supported in part through grants from The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Sons of Norway Foundation, The Elgar Society Elgar in Performance Fund, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Music Information Centre Norway and from on-going contributions from our friends and patrons.
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Mission Statement of The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.:
The Corporation shall organize and maintain a chorus to perform and
record vocal and choral settings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, written from 1840 to the present, shall inspire and commission new vocal and choral
settings of Longfellow's poetry, and shall perform choral music of the
Romantic and immediate post-Romantic eras, ca. 1825–1920.
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The Longfellow Chorus
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Portland, Maine 04101
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