SOUNDING JOY!
PAST PERFORMANCES
Brahms
Cole Porter
Palestrina
Walker
Robert de Cormier
Poulenc
Mozart
Haydn
J.S. Bach
Faure'
Domenico Scarlatti
McClure
Ariel Ramirez
1984 - 2009
February 8 & 9,
2009: Sounding Joy! celebrated the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln by performing
"Abraham Lincoln in Story and Song" at Bethany Church, Randolph,
VT. The program included a script written by artistic director Marjorie
Drysdale, which wove together Stephen Foster love songs, Yankee and Rebel
war songs, American folk songs, Sacred Harp shape note hymns, and rousing
spirituals. With guest narrators Paul Kendall, Tom Harty and Dawn
Butterfield, guest singer Dawn Butterfield, and guest orator/civil war
historian Howard Coffin.
October 15, 2008: Sounding Joy Youth Chorus participated in a performance by the Boston-based folk group, "Sol y Canto" by singing five lively songs in Spanish at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, VT.
September 27, 2008: Sounding Joy! joined the choruses Bella Voce, Counterpoint, Maple Jam, Pumpkin Hill, Social Band, and Syrinx, in various choral renditions at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington, VT. The audience participated in "We Shall Overcome" and in "Dona Nobis Pacem."
May 18, 2008: Sounding Joy! and the Sounding Joy! Youth Chorus presented al program of show tunes covering a century of American musical theater favorites, representing such legendary composers as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Steven Sondheim and Andrew LLoyd Webber, at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church, Randolph, Vermont
March 16, 2008: Sounding Joy! sang three selections from the Bach Magnificat, and five Renaissance motets (by Tallis, Boyd, Palestrina, Ingegneri, and Hassler). Two solos (by Chaplin and Franck) were sung by Sounding Joy! soprano Marge Crowe and Sounding Joy! tenor Jeff Mather, at the new Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in Randolph, VT.
February 3 & 10, 2008: Sounding Joy! sang the Bach Magnificat with the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra and the singing group "Northsong," at the Barre Opera House, Barre, VT and at the Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, VT.
November 18, 2007: The Sounding Joy! Youth Chorus sang a selection of folksongs, Thanksgiving songs, rounds, descants, and show tunes in conjunction with the Waitsfield Kids Kabaret as part of the Central Vermont Youth Symphonia at the Bethany Church in Montpelier, VT.
November
16, 2007:
The Sounding Joy! Youth Chorus
sang a selection of folksongs, Thanksgiving songs, rounds, descants, and
show tunes at the Three Bean Cafe in Randolph, VT.
November
5, 2007: The Sounding Joy! youth chorus sang folk songs,
Thanksgiving songs, rounds, descants, and show tunes at the Menig Extended
Care Facility at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, VT
October
14, 2007, Sounding Joy! joined the Thetford Chamber Singers, the
Colchester Community Chorus, the Feminine Tone Chorus, Bella Voce, and
Northsong in the Gwyneth Walker Choral Festival. The performance
included such Walker favorites as "How can I Keep from Singing,"
"Now Let us Sing," "So Many Angels!," "Walk that
Valley," "Never Sit Down," "Let Evening Come,"
"Mule Named Sal," "Long Ago Lady," "Crossing the
Bar," "New Millennium Suite," and "Every Life Shall be
a Song." Also, Sounding Joy! sang its theme song,
"Sounding Joy!," written by Justin Morgan and arranged by
Walker.
September 23, 2007, in a program called "Vermont Wonder Workers," at the Calvin Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont, Sounding Joy! sang songs by Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker: "Mule Named Sal," "I Will be Earth," "Love is a Rain of Diamonds," "Crossing the Bar," and "O, Sinner Man," as well as the Sounding Joy! theme song ("Sounding Joy!" by Justin Morgan, as arranged by Walker. Songs by Vermont composer Robert de Cormier were: "Let Me Fly," "Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'," and "Turn the World Around." Other Vermont songs were "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge," by Bruce Harper, "Long Ago Lady" by John Gailmore, (the latter arranged by Walker), and Sounding Joy! by Justin Morgan (also arranged by Walker).
May 6, 2007, in a joint program with the Randolph Singers, Sounding Joy! sang the following songs arranged by Robert de Cormier: "Let me Fly," "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," "Hear the Lambs A-Cryin," and "Turn the World Around." In the same program, the Sounding Joy! Youth Chorus sang four songs from the Fabulous Fifties: "Splish-Splash," "Bye, Bye Love," "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," and "Doo-Wah-Ditty," at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, Vermont.
March 9, 2007, the Sounding Joy! Youth Chorus sang "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" at the Mini-Mud Season Talent Show for children at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, Vermont.
January 7, 2007: A Multicultural Twelfth-Night Celebration at Bethany Church, Randolph, VT, featuring "Gloria" (with Lynette Coombs on the organ), Poulenc; "Navidad Nuestra" (with percussionists Barbara Smith and Scott Paulsen, and flautists Marvin and Carol Rogers), Ramirez; "Guadalupe Magnificat" (with percussionists Barbara Smith and Scott Paulsen), McClure; Sounding Joy! Youth Chorus performed Mexican, Spanish, and Venezuelan traditional songs and danced in the conga line for the Guadalupe Magnificat.
May
6 & 20, 2006:
"Requiem," Mozart, and excerpts from "Marriage of Figaro,"
performed with the "Northsong"
Chorus of Newport; orchestra. in-house soloists, and guest high school
soprano Grace Chris. May 6 concert in
January 7 & 8, 2006: "Lord Nelson Mass," Haydn; "Dona Nobis Pacem" from Bach's b-minor Mass; and "Ave Maria," Josquin Des Pres; with guest conductor Dick Drysdale, bass soloist Gary Moreau, including in-house soloists and orchestra. At Bethany Church, Randolph.
April, 2005: Bach Cantata 150 and "Table Graces" by Kathy Eddy
March 5 & 6, 2005: "Just a Song at Twilight:" Sentimental Favorites with children's chorus, at Vermont Technical College and Chandler Gallery, Randolph.
Feb. 6, 2005: Fauré Requiem with chidren's chorus and VT Philharmonic Orchestra
December,
2004:
Christmas cameo with
April 3
& 4, 2004:
Copland, "Old American Songs" at Unitarian
Church, with Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, Catherine Orr,
conductor. Also at Chandler
March
31, 2004:
Copland, "Old American Songs" at VT State House with
January,
2004:
"Magnificat," John Rutter, with "Northsong" of
June, 2003: Vermont History Expo, Tunbridge American classical and folk melodies
Spring,
2003:
Concert of Sacred American Treasures
March, 2003:
Benefit Performance, Kimball Library
February 2003: Cameo performance at 100th birthday celebration of Gifford Memorial Hospital, at Chandler Music Hall, Randolph.
January, 2003:
Concert of Secular American Treasures, Cameo at
Governor's Ball
June, 2002: Vermont History Expo, Tunbridge American popular and folk melodies and music from World War II
Spring, 2002: Gypsy Journeys Concert, including "Zigeunerlieder," Brahms; excerpts from "Carmen," Bizet. At Bethany Church, Randolph.
February, 2002: Repeat of Civil War program at VT State House
November
18, 2001:
2nd
June
23, 2001: Civil War Music, Vermont
History Expo, Tunbridge
May 30,
2001:
A Patriotic Presentation.
March
17 and 18, 2001:
"Flos Campi," Ralph Vaughan Williams, with
February
9, 2001: "The
Best of Sounding Joy!" Favorites
from 15 Years of Singing Together.
January 6, 2001: "12th Night Celebration, " Bethany Church, Randolph. "Missa Brevis," Palestrina; assorted carols.
December,
2000:
An Evening of Carols at La Sallette Shrine,
March,
2000:
"Sounds and Colors of
January, 2000: "Magnificat" by Jonathan Willcocks and works by Scarlatti, Handel, von Weber. With brass, percussion, organ, and guest clarinetist Bronwyn Cathey, grade 10.
Spring, 1999: Benefit concert for Kosovo, Bethany Church, Randolph. Classical works, sacred and secular, from six centuries. Included Randolph Union High school poetry students and Serbian exchange student.
February,
1999:
"Dido and Aeneas," chamber opera by Henry Purcell, Chandler
Gallery, Randolph. With string quartet,
continuo, Randolph
April, 1998: "Arise, My Love, and Come Away!" Classical works from four centuries, with the theme of love, seversal based on the Songs of Solomon.
November,
1997:
Music by
April,
1997:
Shaker Songs by Gwyneth Walker at
February 8, 1997: English, American and Hungarian folk songs; also popular American songs from the 1950's. Chandler Gallery, Randolph.
December, 1996: Rachmaninoff, selection from Vespers. Cameo appearance at Randolph Singers Christmas concert.
May,
1996:
"Carmina Burana," Orff.
Joint concert with South Burlintgon Community Chorus and the
People's Performance Children's Chorus of
January, 1996: "A Ceremony of Carols" (complete), Britten; “Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, ” Gustav Holst; both with harp.
Christmas,
1995:
Selections from “A Ceremony of Carols,”
Britten; motets by Lassus and Praetorius;
cameo at
April
9, 1995:
An Evening of Sacred Music For the Lenten Season Bethany Church,
Dec.
11, 1994:
Nov. 11, 1994: USO Show repeated, ELKS Club, Barre
Oct.
16, 1994:
USO Show repeated,
Oct.
3, 1994: "Songs
from World War Two" (USO Show). Second
taping and broadcast with VT Public Radio. For “Interlude” with Peter Fox Smith
May,
1994:
Songs from World War II,
April
20. 1994:
Works by
December,
1993:
Motets by Gallus, John Gardner,
November
7, 1993: Brunch
With Bach (second invitation),
October,
1993:
VT Public Radio taping and broadcast of first collaboration with
Peter Fox Smith and his “Interlude” radio program. Program: Songs from
Fall, 1993: Repeats of Civil War program
•Braintree
Hill Meetinghouse, fall, 1992
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April
3, 1993: A
Celebration of
April, 1992: Songs of the Civil War, Chandler Gallery, Randolph.
February, 1992: Durufle Requiem, with Middlebury College Choir, Mead Chapel, Middlebury, VT.
December,
1991:
Works by Palestrina, Bach. Cameo
appearance at
May,
1991:
Bach Cantata #4. Benefit
concert for Randolph
Food Shelf. Bethany Church, Randolph. With children’s chorus and small local orchestra.
February
17, 1991:
Mozart Requiem. With Middlebury
College
Choir, at Mead Chapel,
Christmas,
1990:
Alfred Burt Carols, cameo at
October,
1990:
Guest artists, "Brunch with Bach,"
April
8, 1990:
Evening at
April
7, 1990:
Sacred Renaissance Music for Voices and Brass, Chandler
February
3, 1990:
Fourth Madrigal Diner: "Hey,
Ho! To the
December,
1989:
Three Spirituals (cameo appearance w/
Spring,
1989:
“Elijah," Felix Mendelssohn, with The
Randolph
Singers and VT Symphony Orchestra.
February, 1989: "Liebeslieder Waltzes," Brahms; "The Peaceable Kingdom," Thompson; Piano Concerto in A-minor, first movement, Grieg, with pianists Mary Hill and son Jamie Hill, 1989 Vt. Philharmonic Toung Artist Concerto Award Winner, Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
December,1988: "The Peaceable Kingdom," Randall Thompson
May,
1988:
"Liebeslieder Waltzes,"Brahms; "Liebeslieder
Polkas,"
P.D.Q. Bach, with guest pianists Mary Hill and her son, Randolph Union
High School freshman Jamie Hill, at Chandler
Music Hall.
February,
1988: Third
Madrigal Dinner, Chandler Gallery, and
South Royalton House, South Royalton, VT.
December,
1987:
Excerpts from Pinkham Cantata; carols, with
Central VT Brass and the Randolph
Singers at Chandler
May 23,
1987:
"Frostiana", Randall Thompson; "Gone the
Rainbow," Gwyneth Walker, at
Chandler
Music Hall
and at VT College,
December,
1986: Clasical
motets, with
May,
1986:
English and American folk songs with
February 7, 1986: First Madrigal Dinner, Chandler Gallery, Randolph
December 1985: Bach, Schutz, Handel, with Randolph Singers.
June 9, 1985: Medieval and Renaissance madrigals, motets and rounds. Benefit, Kimball Public Library