Johanna Geremia, Hannah Klein, sopranos Timothy Ayres-Kerr, Lucas Guzman, tenors. HMS Aspects of Light – Hymn to the Creator of Light – John Rutter (2015 orchestrated version) Lauda Sion – Mendelssohn Requiem – Fauré. Mariah Wilson soprano, Rosario Caltabiano tenor, James Dargan baritone. Grant Anderson clarinet, Leo Kenen bassoon, Veronica Kenney oboe, Jeff Stewart hornįPC A Tribute to Robert Shaw and Alice Parker – American hymns and spirituals arranged by Shaw & Parker piano selections featuring 9th grader Katie Painter instrumental ensemble including flutist Katherine Kleitz HMS Lost in Paris – Berlioz Messe solennelle Mozart (attributed) Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds K297b. MA– Ola Gjeilo ‘Sunrise Mass’, Morton Lauridsen ‘Lux Aeterna’, Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for Violin and Viola Tim Arnold violin, Joe Simcox viola Songs of Love, Lilt, and Laughter: A Celtic Spring Fling – Folk music of the British Isles, with special guests Billy Novick, Berit Strong, and Brian O’Neill Mechanics Hall, Worcester – Britten War Requiem – in collaboration with Worcester Chorus, Worcester Children’s Chorus, Master Singers of Worcester, and Salisbury Singers Charles Anderson trumpet, Sharon Juhasz horn, Siri Smedvig violin
The Silver Chain of Sound – Schubert Mass in E-Flat, Copland ‘Quiet City, Vaughan Williams ‘The Lark Ascending” Vale Southard soprano Cara Sanford alto Nathan Ramsayer and Michael Pfitzer tenors Giovanni Spanu baritone. 2018 The Lure of the Sea – Jerome Epstein ‘Blow Ye Winds’, Cynthia Gray ‘The Tide Rises’, Phillip Lawson ‘Keel Row’, Allister MacGillivray “Away from the Roll of the Sea”, Brent Pierce ‘Dance of the One-Legged Sailor’, Vaughan Williams ‘The Lover’s Ghost’ and ‘Just as the Tide Was Flowing’, Gwyneth Walker ‘I Will Be Earth’, Eric Whitacre ‘Seal Lullaby”, traditional sea chanties including ‘Drunken Sailor’ and ‘High Barbary’
Handel ‘ Samson’ – with Charles Blandy, Jessica Cooper, Mark Andrew Cleveland, Ulysses Thomas, Deborah Rentz-Moore, Nicole Estima, Jay Lane MaMozart Requiem – with Margot Law, soprano Martha Remington, mezzo Ray Bauwens, tenor Jason Jordan, baritone Mozart Concerto for Flute & Harp in C (Katherine Kleitz, flute Charles Overton, harp) Life Cycle of a Plant (Liz Sharma) Katherine Kleitz, Jennifer Chiapella, and Jennifer Leland, flutesīlue in Green, Miles Davis, How Insensitive (Antȏnio Carlos Jobim), Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) Marc Lauritsen, pianoįor the Beauty of the Earth (John Rutter), Song of the Earth (Randall Stroope/ text: traditional Mohawk), The Pasture (Randall Stroope/ text: Robert Frost), Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’ (Rodgers & Hammerstein arr: Mark Brymer) Jason Jordan (baritone)Īudience singalong: We Are the Earth (Jim Scott) La Paloma (Sebastián Iradier Spain 1809-1865), Sons de Carrilhões (João Pernambuco Brazil, 1883-1947), Spanish Romance (Anonymous) Gil Silver, guitar
von Goethe, English translation, Robert Carl), Lockung (Joseph Rheinberger/ text: Joseph von Eichendorff), Innisfree (Gerald Custer/ text: William Butler Yeats) Sounds of Stow Chorus Accompanist Pauline Oliver Director Barbara Jones The Bounty of the Earth – Round and Round the Earth Is Turning (Anonymous), Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (Eugene Butler/ text: Walt Whitman), Green Cathedral (Carl Hahn, arr., Barbara Jones/ text: Gordon Johnstone), Auf Dem See (Felix Mendelssohn/ text: J.W. Bach (English text edition by Lara Hoggard) soloists: Nicole Estima, soprano Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo Jason Wang, tenor James Dargan, baritone Margot Law, narrator Kyle Spraker, trumpet 2018-2019 40th Anniversary
Many of them are available for purchase on CD! Please see Recordings for more info or Contact Us to get in touch. HMS means the concert was held at Hale Middle School Auditorium and FPC means we performed in the sanctuary of First Parish Church of Stow & Acton. Unless otherwise noted, all choral and orchestral performances were directed by Barbara Jones, and all recordings of concerts were made by Scott Glorioso. Established in 1973 as the Stow Festival Chorus and performing during Stow’s annual Springfest, Sounds of Stow Chorus & Orchestra has been performing in three annual concerts since 1980.