The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 202nd Birthday Choral Concert

and

Second Annual Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition

8 PM, Saturday, February 28, 2009
(7:30 PM Preconcert Discussion featuring winning composers)

The First Parish in Portland, Maine, 425 Congress Street

and

3 PM, Sunday, March 1, 2009
(2:30 PM Preconcert Discussion featuring winning composers)

First Congregational Church of South Portland, Maine, 301 Cottage Rd.

The Longfellow Chorus

Charles Kaufmann, Director
John D. Adams, Bass-baritone
Shirley Curry, pianist; The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra

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PROGRAM

Dedicated to the memory of Carol Adsit, a US Navy Captain, Vietnam War veteran and a founding member of The Longfellow Chorus alto section.

I know very few people who have so tirelessly devoted time and energy to choral music groups — Elaine Kondrat, Longfellow Chorus soprano.


The Day Is Done (premiere performance)      Valerie Showers Crescenz
Winner of a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

Allah, 1878 (Longfellow's translation of a poem by Siegfried August Mahlmann, 1771-1826)      G. W. Chadwick, 1854-1931

The Tenors and Basses of The Longfellow Chorus

The Challenge (premiere performance)      Marienne Kreitlow
Winner of a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Solo Song Composition
John D. Adams, Bass-baritone

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (premiere performance)   Maxim Vladimiroff
Winner of a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Longfellow Chamber Chorus

Rainy Day      John Knowles Paine, 1839-1906
The composer grew up in a neighborhood several blocks north of both First Parish in Portland and Longfellow's childhood home.
Shirley Curry, piano

It Is Not Always May (premiere performance)       Elaine Hagenberg
Winner of a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

Endymion (premiere performance)      Klaus Miehling
Winner of a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in Solo Song Composition
John D. Adams, Bass-baritone

The Snow Flakes      Henry Pontet, 1840-1902

Danielle Vayenas, Soprano

Snow-Flakes (premiere performance)       Graeme Hopson
Winner of The Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

All' Illustrissimo Signor Professore Lowell: Prescrizione Per Il Mal Di Gola (premiere performance)      Riccardo La Spina
Winner of The Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize in Solo Song Composition
John D. Adams, Bass-baritone

Christmas Bells, 1916      John Sebastian Matthews, 1870-1934

The Full Chorus

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (premiere performance)       Kevin Jones
Co-winner of The Longfellow Chorus Prize in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

The Children's Hour, 1901      Charles Ives, 1874-1954

John D. Adams, Bass-baritone

Autumn Within (premiere performance)      Traci Mendel
Winner of The Longfellow Chorus Prize in Solo Song Composition
John D. Adams, Bass-baritone

Nature (premiere performance)       Stanley M. Hoffman
Co-winner of The Longfellow Chorus Prize in Choral Composition
The Full Chorus

INTERMISSION

The Black Knight, 1893 (Longfellow's translation of a poem by Johann Ludvig Uhland, 1787-1862)      Edward Elgar, 1857-1934
Sponsored, in part, by The Elgar Society
The Longfellow Chorus and The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra

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