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