schedule

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All regular rehearsals:
Thursday 6:30-9:30
Barre Universalist Church

Christmas 2023

• Thurs Nov 9, 6:30-9:30pm – reh 1 – Barre Universalist Church
• Thurs Nov 16, 6:30-9:30pm – reh 2
• [possibly Thurs Dec 7. 6:30-9:30pm – reh 2.5]
• Sun Dec 10, 2:00-5:00pm – reh 3
• Sun Dec 10, 6:30-9:30pm – reh 4
• Mon Dec 11, 6:30-9:30pm – reh 5
• [possibly Tue Dec 12, 6:30-9:30pm – reh 5.5]
• Wed Dec 13 – 3:00 call for 7:30 – Saint Mike’s (Recital Hall) – joint with Saint Michael’s Singers
• Thurs Dec 14 – 6:15 call for 7:30 – Warren United Church
• Fri Dec 15 – 5:30 call for 7:30 – Newport United Church – Lake Region school chorus joins
• Sat Dec 16 – 3:45 call for 5:00 – Grafton White Church
• Sun Dec 17 – 2:15 call for 4:00 – FCC Manchester – Burr and Burton Academy chorus joins

Farmers’ Night: Turn the World Around – see program order below

• Thurs Jan 11, 6:30-9:30pm – reh 
• Wed Jan 17 – 5:45 call for 7:30 – Statehouse

Brahms and Beethoven – Romani and Scottish Songs

• Thurs Feb 22 – reh 1 – Barre Universalist Church
• Thurs Feb 29 – reh 2
• Thurs Mar 7 – reh 3
• Thurs Mar 14 – NO REHEARSAL
• Thurs Mar 21 – reh 4
• Thurs Mar 28 – NO REHEARSAL
• Thurs Apr 4 – reh 5
• Thurs Apr 11 – reh 6
• Thurs Apr 18 – reh 7
• Thurs Apr 25 – reh 8 – with instrumentalists (?)
• Sun Apr 28 – 1:00 call (full reh) for 4:00 – St Paul’s Cathedral Burlington
• [Brush-up rehearsal TBA]
• Sat, Jun 8 – 5:45 call for 7:30 – Bennington Performing Arts Center/Oldcastle Theater
• Sun Jul 14 – 2:30 call for 4:00 – The Church on the Hill, Weston VT [not confirmed, need electronic keyboard, no Brahms]
• Sun Jul 21 – 1:45 call for 3:00 – The Chandler, Randolph VT
• [Date TBA, Salisbury Congregational Church]
• [Date TBA, Wake Robin, Shelburne]

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Concert Dress

1. All clothing must be completely black, hemmed at the edges, and not made of denim or leather (except leather shoes and possibly belt, of course). No athletic wear, see-through material, or visible rips. No glitter, sparkles, reflective patterns, or logos.
2. Clothing must cover the arms past the elbows and the legs past the knees. No constrictive clothing (e.g. skintight pants) on the outside.
3. No undergarments or lines of undergarments may be visible
4. The shirt must have a modest neckline. If it has cuffs they must be buttoned, and collared button-up shirts must be tucked in.
5. If pants have belt loops, a black belt must be worn. No skin may be visible from the waist down. Where skin would be exposed, legs must be fully covered either by opaque black tights, socks, etc.
6. Shoes must be completely black, not be made of canvas, and have closed toes. No athletic shoes or flip-flops.
7. Singers may wear either a purple tie (if the shirt or blouse allows it) or a purple scarf. (These will be supplied.) Ties may only be worn tied in a standard fashion on a shirt with a collar.
8. Hair may not obscure the face. No extravagant jewelry.

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Personnel

Farmers’ Night Allison Devery Steinmetz Colleen Flynn Campbell Miranda Bergmeier Sudie Marcuse Anne D’Olivo Rebecca Wood Linda Radtke Maria Lamson Aaron Young Brian Clancy Cameron Brownell Kevin Quigley Neil Wacek Zebulun McLellan

Christmas 2023 Allison Devery Steinmetz Anne D’Olivo Colleen Campbell Carolyn Dickinson Linda Radtke Maria Lamson Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman Brian Clancy Cameron Steinmetz Neil Cerutti Scott Czerwinski Kevin Quigley Zebulun McLellan

Brahms/Beethoven TBA

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Repertory

Christmas (provisional)

1. RDC, Good King Wenceslas
2. RDC, The Friendly Beasts
3. RDC, Dormi dormi
4. RDC, Here We Come A-Wassailing
5. Carol Wood, The Christmas Truce (premiere)
6. Do You Hear What I Hear?
7. Santa Baby
8. Hannukah in Santa Monica
9. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
10. Gwyneth Walker, Go Tell It on the Mountain
11. [encore: Willcocks, O Come All Ye Faithful]

Turn the World Around – (Farmer’s Night order)

1. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Spring is Here, arr NGL
2. Joseph Kosma and Johnny Mercer, Autumn Leaves, arr Andrew Carter
3. Dreams in the Dark, a Jerome Kern Medley, arr Nathaniel G. Lew
4. The Water is Wide, arr RDC
5. Frankie and Johnny, arr RDC
6. Black is the Color, arr Patricia Julien
7. Un Canadien errant, arr RDC
8. Man of Constant Sorrow, arr Kevin Quigley
9. James Stevens, The Frozen Logger, arr RDC
10. Harry Belafonte & Robert Freedman Turn the World Around, arr RDC
11. Erik Nielsen, Resilience (premiere – reference recording below)
12. John Blackburn & Karl Suessdorf, Moonlight in Vermont, arr Michael Neaum
13. Perrin Batchelder Fisk, Maple Sweet, arr NGL
14. Diane Martin, These Green Mountains, arr NGL

Brahms and Beethoven

1. Brahms, Four Romani Songs, op 112b
2. Brahms, Romani Songs (Zigerunerlieder), op 103
3. (Hensel, Lied from Piano Trio)
4. (C Schumann, Andante from Piano Trio)
5. Beethoven arr Lew, Scottish Songs

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Farmers’ Night

Erik Nielsen “Resilience”

 

Christmas Reference Recordings

The Christmas Truce

 

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Brahms-Beethoven Reference Recordings