Since 1998...
96 concerts, 168 choir members
562 choral pieces, 65 guest artists
723 composers, 154 arrangers
969 pages of concert programmes
Past Concert
Amen
Our 17th annual "Jazz Messiah" - Handel's music reimagined for the 21st century
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Date & Time
Saturday, December 9, 2023 - 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
Tara Davidson, Ernest Porthouse, Denis Rondeau.
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)
* He was cut off out of the land of the living
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* But Thou didst not leave his soul in hell
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
Hallelujah!
G.F. Handel (arr. Mervyn Warren, Michael O. Jackson, Mark Kibble, John Higgins)
* I know that my redeemer liveth
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
Amen
G.F. Handel (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
~ Intermission ~
A Celtic Noel
Traditional English Carol (arr. Patrick Tierney)
Heavenly Peace
John Thomas McFarland, Anonymous (arr. Andrew Gilpin, Joel Raney)
Star Carol
John Rutter
* It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Edmund Hamilton Sears, Richard Storrs Willis (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
* Joy to the World
Isaac Watts, Lowell Mason (arr. Andrew Gilpin)
O Holy Night
Adolphe Charles Adam, John Sullivan Dwight (arr. Mark Hayes)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Gustav Holst, Christina Rossetti (arr. Joel Raney)
His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful
Dick Tunney, Melodie Tunney (arr. Camp Kirkland)
Choir Members
Soprano
Mary Blott, Connie Burton, Kristie Fontaine, Florence Hall, Margaret Lennox, Jennifer Shahi, Margaret St. Pierre, Sylvia Stahle, Lynn (Lathey) Vannatter, Dianna Weltz, Catherine White-Onukywycz.
Alto
Cheryl (Soltysiak) Bruder, Terry Ellen Christophersen, Ginny Ehrlich, Carol Gilpin, Anne Lowe, Lynn Souliere, Rita Witt, Trish Wynowsky.
Tenor
Tim Miller, John-Michael Pocsai.
Bass
Joe Bruder, Neil Hunt.
