Since 1998...
96 concerts, 168 choir members
562 choral pieces, 65 guest artists
723 composers, 154 arrangers
969 pages of concert programmes
Past Concert
Never Been a Night Like This!
Christmas carols, songs, and our 15th annual Jazz Messiah
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Date & Time
Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 8:00 p.m.
Location
St. John the Evangelist Church (Anglican)
23 Water St. N., Kitchener, ON, N2H 5A4
23 Water St. N., Kitchener, ON, N2H 5A4
Conductor
Wayne Gilpin
Accompanist
Andrew Gilpin
Guest Artists
Russ Boswell, Bob Brough, Andrew Gilpin, Ernest Porthouse.
Repertoire
* indicates performance by guest artist(s)
* Overture (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
And Then the Glory
Andrew Gilpin
Good tidings to Zion
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* For Unto Us a Child is Born (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
His Yoke is Easy (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* Behold the Lamb of God
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
All we like sheep have gone astray (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* All they that see him laugh him to scorn
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
He Trusted in God (from "Messiah")
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* I know that my redeemer liveth
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
Hallelujah!
G.F. Handel (arr. Mervyn Warren, Michael O. Jackson, Mark Kibble, John Higgins)
~ Intermission ~
The Angel Gabriel
19th Century Basque Carol (arr. John Leavitt)
Never Been a Night Like This!
Lloyd Larson
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Phillips Brooks, John Cornish
Tell It on the Mountain
John W. Work II (arr. Joel Raney)
* Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Charles Wesley, Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* What Child Is This?
Traditional English Folk Song (arr. Andrew Gilpin, Chick Corea)
* Jingle Bells
J. Pierpont (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
Glorious Light
Keith Getty, Kristyn Lennox Getty, Ian Hannah (arr. Tom Fettke)
A King in Swaddling Clothes
Bert Stratton (arr. Brad Nix)
Sing Gloria!
Mark Hayes
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
Choir Members
Soprano
Sandra Armstrong, Connie Burton, Florence Hall, Gloria Heimbecker, Helen Kim, Margaret Lennox, Donna Russo, Jennifer Shahi, Margaret St. Pierre, Sylvia Stahle, Lynn (Lathey) Vannatter, Dianna Weltz.
Alto
Cheryl (Soltysiak) Bruder, Ginny Ehrlich, Carol Gilpin, Mary Jane Lanteigne, Jeanne Leis, Martha Leonard, Anne Lowe, Jessica Roth, Lynn Souliere, Pat Townsend, Rita Witt, Trish Wynowsky.
Tenor
Paul Boadway, Kevin Donelson, Neil Hunt, Donna Kechnie, John-Michael Pocsai.
Bass
Joe Bruder, Philip Cochrane, Brian Walters.
