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Resounding Joy

Resounding Joy

Get into the holiday spirit by attending this festive concert of music for choir and pipe organ, featuring organist Michael Burroughs.

The program includes Kim André Arnesen’s transcendent “Magnificat” with soprano soloist Danielle Marie, along with inventive arrangements of holiday favorites by Healey Willan, David Willcocks, and John Rutter.

Join us for this festive concert featuring the incredible organ at:
First Congregational Church 
1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA.

Resounding Joy

Kristina Nakagawa, conductor, Resounding Achord
Michael Burroughs, organ

Prelude and Fugue in f minor, BWV 534 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Hodie, Christus natus est Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Magnificat Kim André Arnesen (b.1980)
Danielle Marie, soprano
Annie Yung, soprano
INTERMISSION
In Dir ist Freude Giovanni Gastoldi (1554-1609)
Improvisation on “In Thee is Gladness” Michael Burkhardt (b. 1957)
A Babe is Born William Mathias (1934-1992)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel arr. Allan Robert Petker (b. 1955)
Ding dong! Merrily on High arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015)
The Wexford Carol arr. Douglas E. Wagner (b.1952)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming arr. Bradley Nelson (b. 1962)
Christina Galisatus, french horn
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella arr. Peter Latona (b. 1968)
Silent Night Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), arr. Sandra Peter
Away in a Manger arr. Antony Baldwin (b. 1957)
Joy to the World arr. John Rutter (b. 1945)

Passages

Passages

Join Resounding Achord for this dynamic program of music from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and America. The concert will include Kristina Vasiliauskaite’s Missa Brevis in Honorem Beata Maria Virginis, Eriks Esenvalds’ “Amazing Grace,” and two rousing spiritual arrangements by Stacey V. Gibbs.

Passages

Kristina Nakagawa, conductor, Resounding Achord

Our Journey Clive Blake
Katherine Doar, Doug Byron, & Alison Schultz
Riga Dimd arr. Jānis Cimze
Latvian Folk Tune
Dziedot Dzimu, Dziedot Augu arr. Alfrēds Klaniņš
Latvian Folk Tune
Music Walter de la Mare
Molly Shaw, Monica Bacon-Proctor, & Peggy Spool
Muusika Pärt Uusberg
Missa Brevis in Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis Kristina Vasiliauskaite
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus, Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Someone Like You Lang Leav
Galt Johnson
Tykus, Tykus Vaclovas Augustinas
Latvian Folk Tune
INTERMISSION
In Meeting We are Blessed Troy D. Robertson
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Charles H. Gabriel, arr. Paul Rardin
Jo Taubert, Christina O’Guinn, & Kyla Blili, trio
Down by the Riverside arr. Stacey V. Gibbs
Traditional Spiritual
Your Freedom Marian
Annie Yung & Pauli Wilhelmsen
Amazing Grace Traditional Hymn, arr. Ēriks Ešenvalds
Andrea Bolivar & Michelle Dreyband, soloists
Some Fill With Each Good Rain Andrea White & Talia Orsetti-Ng
Hafiz
Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan, arr. Chris Ng
Happiness Alfred D. Souza
Maly Hughes
Way Over in Beulah Lan’ arr. Stacey V. Gibbs
Traditional Spiritual

Mozart Requiem

Mozart Requiem

7:30 pm  First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Rd., Palo Alto

Resounding Achord joins forces with the San José State University Choraliers and Peninsula Cantare in this performance of one of Mozart’s most famous choral works. The soloists are:

The second half of this program will feature folk songs from the Baltic nations and America in preparation of the singers’ tour of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in mid-June 2018.

Tickets available at www.peninsulacantare.org.