2009-2010
Concert Season
Spring Concerts: Circle of Life
with Maine Gay Men's Chorus
Saturday* May 15, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Sunday* May 16, 2010 3:00 p.m.
Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland, Maine
* Special guests - the Maine Gay Men's Chorus will join WIH to sing a set of their own songs, and both choruses will sing a number of songs together.
Program for Circle of Life Concert
Women in Harmony May 15~16 , 2010
Catherine Beller-McKenna, Director, Deana Ingraham Gurney, Pianist
ASL Interpreter: Meryl Troop
Special guests: Maine Gay Men’s Chorus
Arthur Kenne, Artistic Director
Tom Wallace, Associate Director, Composer-In-Residence, Collaborative Pianist
To the Ploughgirl Folk Song
arr. R. Vaughan Williams
The Circle Game Joni Mitchell
arr. John Coates, Jr.
Soloists: Sat. – Staci Alvarez, Ingrid Ayer-Richardson, Susan Mathews
Sun. – Lisa Bridgham, Ingrid Ayer-Richardson, Susan Mathews
A Girl’s Garden Randall Thompson
words by Robert Frost
La Lluvia (“The Rain”) Stephen Hatfield
(Based on a panpipe melody from Ecuador)
The Water Is Wide English Folk Song
arr. Clifton J. Noble, Jr.
Soloists: JoAnn Daigle, Ingrid Ayer-Richardson, Monica Fischbach,
Amy Liston, Kate Mann, Amy Murphy, Julie Rothrock
Peace Is Fred Small
adapted for WiH by C. Beller-McKenna
Eu e Você Brazilian Folk Song
arr. J. Edmund Hughes
Maine Gay Men’s Chorus
As Long As You Love Me Max Martin
As sung by The Backstreet Boys arr. Tom Wallace
It Was A Lover And His Lad 16th-17th century English Tune
Sung during Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”
Words by William Shakespeare arr. Tom Wallace
Could It Be Magic Music by Barry Manilow
As sung by Take That Lyrics by Adrienne Anderson
arr. Arthur Kenne and Tom Wallace
Intermission
One Voice Ruth Moody
arr. Marcelline Moody
The Land o’ the Leal words by Lady Nairne
arr. Sir G. A. MacFarren and C. Beller-McKenna
Soloist: Sara Foster
Breaths Ysaye Barnwell and Birago Diop
Sing Me to Heaven Daniel E. Gawthrop and Jane Griner
arr. Paul Carey
Sister, Carry On Carolyn McDade
Soloist: Nancy Anderson
Uh Huh Holly Near
arr. J. David Moore
Fairies’ Song Ernst Krenek
William Shakespeare)
My Favorite Things R. Rodgers and O. Hammerstein II
(From The Sound of Music) arr. Joy Ondra Hirokawa
With Maine Gay Men’s Chorus:
You Raise Me Up Brendan Graham and Rolf Lovland
arr. Roger Emerson
The Road to Freedom Traditional
(Follow the Drinking Gourd) arr. Gwyneth Walker
Please join us for a reception after the
concert downstairs in Memorial Hall
June Concerts with Maine Gay Men's Chorus
Women in Harmony will perform as special guests of the Maine Gay Men's Chorus in their June concerts on June 18 and June 19, 2010.
