BCE’s 2003-2004 Season

Christmas in Italy

December 12, 2004 at 8:00pm
Arlington Street Church, Unitarian Universalist
Boston, Massachusetts
December 14, 2004 at 3:00pm
St. Leonard's Church
Boston, Massachusetts

Thomas Cunningham, conductor

Giovanni Maria NANINO
:
Gloria in excelsis
Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA
: Dies sanctificatus
Adrian WILLAERT
: O magnum mysterium
Luca MARENZIO
: Hodie Christus natus est
Giovanni Francesco ANERIO
:
Dialogo pastorale al presepio di nostro Signore
Nel l'apparir
Gloria cantaro
Onde la verso
Qui vi trovaro
Giunti i pastori
Poi cominciaro
Io non vo chieder
Et io vo gir
trad., arr. Ezra KESHET
:
Mille Cherubini in Coro
Ezra Keshet, tenor
trad., arr. Ezra KESHET
: Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle

Copland's In the Beginning
and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms
with the Dartmouth Chamber Singers

March 20, 2004 at 6:00pm
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Cunningham, conductor

Boston Choral Ensemble & Dartmouth Chamber Singers
Aaron COPLAND
:
In the Beginning
Mellissa Hughes, soprano
Dartmouth Chamber Singers
Hans Leo HASSLER
:
Ihr Musici frisch auf!
Sergei RACHMANINOFF
: Chorus of the Spirits
F. MENDELSSOHN HENSEL
: Morgengruss
Heinrich SCHÜTZ
: Selig sind die Toten
arr. Virgil THOMPSON
: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Boston Choral Ensemble
Leonard BERNSTEIN
:
Chichester Psalms
Lewis Rocco, boy alto
Heinrich Christensen, organ
Martha Moore, harp
Robert Schulz, percussion

Springtime in Boston:
an evening of folksongs and partsongs celebrating spring

May 15, 2004 at 7:00pm
Arlington Street Church, Unitarian Universalist
Boston, Massachusetts

Thomas Cunningham, conductor

Benjamin BRITTEN
:
Five Flower Songs
1. To Daffodils
2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
3. Marsh Flowers
4. The Evening Primrose
5. Ballad of Green Broom
Samuel BARBER
: Reincarnations, The Coolin
Samuel BARBER
: To Be Sung on the Water
Gustav HOLST
: I love my love
arr. Virgil THOMPSON
: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
arr. Joseph FLUMMERFELT
: Danny Boy