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2005-06

Spring concert, May 8

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Program

GMEA, January 26, 2006

The Chorale was invited to sing at the Georgia Music Educators Association Thursday night choral concert in Christ Church in historic downtown Savannah.

Our program included the premiere of a piece we commissioned from Earlene Rentz, nationally known composer:

Earlene Rentz is a free-lance composer/arranger who received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Montevallo (Alabama) and both Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Music Education from Florida State University.  A native of Georgia, she taught choral music for seven years in Georgia public schools at elementary, junior high, and high school levels.  She has taught choral music education courses at California State University, Long Beach, the University of Texas at Austin, and Baylor University.

Dr. Rentz has more than two hundred choral publications with fourteen different publishers.  In addition to her musical activities, she is a choral clinician and speaker on choral music education and choral arranging.  She has conducted All-State choirs in Florida, Georgia, and Kentucky, and has presented research papers at the International Society for Music Education, the National American Choral Directors Association convention, the Southeastern Music Education Symposium, the Texas Music Educators Association, and has presented research studies at several national conventions of MENC.

She is married to Bill Turner, and they live near Lexington, Kentucky, where they enjoy living in the country.

Your Voices Tune, from Alexander's Feast, G. F. Handel/ed. Malin
If Music Be the Food of Love, David Dickau
Let Me Be the Music, David Friedman, arr. Anne Albritton
I'm Gonna Sing 'Til the Spirit Moves in My Heart, Moses Hogan
There Is Sweet Music Here, Earlene Rentz
The Awakening, Joseph Martin

Holiday Concert, December 18, 2005

The Many Moods of Christmas, suites of holiday favorites by Robert Shaw and Robert Russell Bennett; accompanied by our orchestra and joined by soprano Sarah Taylor and brother-sister pianists Deborah and Daniel Lee.

Kathy Bizarth, director
David Kinrade, piano

Suite I: Good Christian Men, Rejoice; Silent Night; Patapan; O Come, All Ye Faithful

Reading, Marc Honea

Midwinter, arr. Chilcott; Sarah Taylor, soprano

Carol of the Bells/We Three Kings, arr. Inman; Daniel Lee, Deborah Lee, piano duo

Reading, Marc Honea

Suite II: O Sanctissima; Joy to the World; Away in a Manger; Fum, Fum, Fum; March of the Kings

—intermission—

Reading, Marc Honea

Polish Lullaby, traditional; Sarah Taylor, soprano

O Holy Night, arr. Hayes; Deborah Lee, piano

Reading, Marc Honea

Suite IV: Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light; The First Nowell; O Little Town of Bethlehem; I Saw Three Ships; Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

Fall Concert, October 24, 2005

Kathy Bizarth, director
David Kinrade, piano

Your Voices Tune, from Alexander's Feast, G. F. Handel
Let Me Be the Music, David Friedman/Anne Albritton
If Music Be the Food of Love, David Dickau
I'm Gonna Sing 'Til the Spirit Moves in My Heart, Moses Hogan
How Can I Keep from Singing, arr. Bob Burroughs & Joseph Morris
The Awakening, Joseph Martin

2004-05

Spring Concert

Part 1: Masterworks Chorale

Mass in G, Franz Schubert
Kathy Bizarth, director
David Kinrade, piano and organ

soloists: Emily Parrott, soprano; Andy Lane, tenor; Lee Chitwood, baritone
instrumentalists: Billy Farmer, violin; Michael Chapman, violin; Carol Statella, viola; Roberta Jacobs, cello; Robert Goin, bass

Part II: Young Singers

Sue Brown, director
Debbie Smith, accompanist

Simply Gregorian, Gregorian melody, arr. Donald Moore
The Drunken Sailor, sea chantey, arr. Emily Crocker
Song of Spring, Audrey Snyder
The Glory Train, Gene Grier/Lowell Everson

Part III: Masterworks Chorale & Young Singers

Dale Lyles, conductor
David Kinrade, accompanist

Hope for Resolution: a song for Mandela and de Klerk, Paul Caldwell/Sean Ivory

featuring the drum group Alaafia: Linda Banks, Dan Coleman, Suzanne Faulk, Tommy Haywood, Robyn Hok, Craig Humphrey, Andy Thompson, Gary Waters
instrumentalists: Billy Farmer, violin; Michael Chapman, violin; Carol Statella, viola; Roberta Jacobs, cello; Robert Goin, bass; Gena Cason, flute; Mariano Pacetti, soprano saxophone

A Holiday Celebration

December 21, 2004

Featuring pianist/composer Linda McKechnie

Deck the Halls
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
We Three Kings
O Come, All Ye Faithful
How Great Our Joy
Still, Still, Still
Come, All Ye Shepherds/The First Noel
Christmastime is Here
Feliz Navidad
Visions of Sugar Plums
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Christmas Medley
I Wonder as I Wander
Messiah Medley
Christmas Bells
O Holy Night
Joy to the World

An American Odyssey

October 26, 2004

Kathy Bizarth, director; David Kinrade, accompanist

Part I: Spirituals

Ride On, King Jesus, Hogan; soloists: Eleanor Lefevers, Bruce Patterson, Rachel Gordon, Mike Ferrante
Goin' to the Holy City, Martin; soloist: Freddie Britt
At the River, Copland/White
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal, arr. Parker

Part II: Romances

If Music Be the Food of Love, Dickau
A Red, Red Rose, Mulholland; Chris Powell, oboe
Flower of Beauty, Clements
Danny Boy, arr. Printz; Chris Powell, oboe

Part III: Broadway Favorites featuring Glenn Rainey

Skylark, Carmichael
Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat, Loesser
The Prayer, Sager; Jenny Grote, soprano
How Glory Goes, Guettel

Part IV: Young Singers of the Centre

Sue Brown, director; Debra Smith, accompanist

Climbin' Up the Mountain, Ford-Simms
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Kistler

Part V: Folk Songs

The Gift to Be Simple, arr. Chilcott; with the Young Singers
Sleep, Kentucky Babe, arr. Rogers
The Water is Wide, arr. Clausen; Dian Ciccarello, soprano; Staci Culbreth, clarinet; Roberta Jacobs, cello; Jeffrey Cook, horn
Cindy, arr. Wilberg; David Kinrade & Suzanne Logue, piano; David Carroll, xylophone; Roberta Jacobs, cello; Doug Moore, percussion

2003-2004

An Evening for Celebration

April 20, 2004

Kathy Bizarth, director; David Kinrade, accompanist

Part I

For the Beauty of the Earth, Rutter
How Can I Keep from Singing?, Burroughs/Martin
Deep River, arr. Rutter; Deondria Jeffries, soprano
Simple Gifts, arr. Copland
If Music Be the Food of Love, Dickau

Part II

Gloria, John Rutter

featuring Sarah Taylor, soprano; Katie Moore, Lacey Fuller, dancers

Trumpets: Lee King, Joel Schultz, Suzanne Scott; Dennis Marsengill
Trombones: Don Cheyne; Steve Tindall; Bill Daggett
Tuba: Michael Puckett
Percussion: Lisa Gillespie; Clint Gillespie; Matthew Moore

Inaugural Concert

November 18, 2003

Kathy Bizarth, director; David Kinrade, accompanist

Ain't-a That Good News, arr. Hayes
Simple Gifts, Copland/Brunner
Alleluia, Thompson
How Can I Keep from Singing?, arr. Burroughs/Martin; Brooke Burrell, soloist
Georgia on My Mind, Carmichael/Shaw; Wendy Moore, soloist
Feel the Spirit (Joshua Fit the Battle, Deep River, When the Saints), Rutter; Deondria Jeffries, soloist