Friendship Concert, Sunday, September 30, 2012 — 4:30pm, Kresge Auditorium

Program

• Jinwook Park, conductor
• Hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Boston
• Joint Performance of:
  MIT Concert Choir
  Boston Korean Chorus
  Nashoba Valley Choral
  First Unitarian Society of Newton Choir
  First Korean Church in Cambridge Choir
  Haffner Sinfonietta
  

Rossini: Overture to William Tell

Keeyoung Kim: Choral suite “Spring in my hometown”

1. Spring Waltz & Spring In My Hometown
2. A Rainbow Pink Flower
3. The Song Of a Scops Owl
   • Heejin Ahn, soloist
4. How Far is My Mom?
5. Frogs in the Rice Fields
6. The Winter Ducks

Verdi: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (from Nabucco)

Verdi: Triumphal Scene (from Aida)

Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Fourth Movement

• Michelle Trainor, soprano
• Shinja Choi, alto
• Jungrae Kang, tenor
• Wesley Ray Thomas, bass

The Music of Alice Parker

Friday, December 7, 2012 — 8pm, Kresge Auditorium
Dr. William Cutter, conductor
Joseph Turbessi, assistant conductor and pianist

Program

Arrangements of Alice Parker and other American composers and arrangers.

Hymns

Saints bound for Heaven, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

Wondrous Love, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

Anonymous Hymn, arr. Charles Ives

Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal, arr. Alice Parker

• Lauren Burke, soprano
• Anders Kaseorg, baritone

Spirituals

My Lord, What a Morning, arr. Harry Burleigh

I Got Shoes, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

There’s a Light, arr. William Cutter

Elijah Rock, arr. Jester Hairson

Folk Songs

St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, Gustav Holst

1. Jig
2. Ostinato
3. Intermezzo
4. The Dargason

My Gentle Harp, arr. Alice Parker

• Rebecca Bogers, harp

Old Grandma, arr. Alice Parker

• Zhu Zhu, conductor
• Joseph Turbessi, pianist

Irish Folk Song, arr. Arthur Foote

Three Hungarian Folk Songs, arr. Matyas Seiber

1. The Handsome Butcher
2. Apple, Apple
3. The Old Woman

Auprès de ma Blonde, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

• Tommy Barth, conductor

Christmas Carols

Bethlehem Down, Peter Warlock

• Rachel Fernandes and Maria Elena Martinez, sopranos
• Kelly Alioth Drinkwater and Aishwarya Narayan, altos
• Bhaskar Balaji and Victor Abraham Morales, tenors
• Chris Jones and Troy Welton, basses

From Seven Carols for Christmas, arr. Alice Parker

1. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
2. Away in a Manger
3. So Blest a Sight
   • Julia Berk, soprano
   • Troy Welton, bass
4. Good Christian Men, Rejoice