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Justin Morgan

Gwyneth Walker

David Gunn

Kathy Wonson Eddy

Erik Nielsen

Walker favorites that were sung:

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
Every Life Shall be a Song
Sounding Joy! (arranged by Walker)

September 23, 2007: "Vermont Wonder Workers,"
at the Calvin Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont,

Songs by Gwyneth Walker

Mule Named Sal
I will be Earth
Love is a Rain of Diamonds
Crossing the Bar  
O, Sinner Man

Songs by Robert de Cormier

Let Me Fly
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Hear the Lambs a-Cryin
Turn the World Around  

Vermont Songs

Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge
               (by Bruce Harper; arr. by Marjie Drysdale) 
Long-Ago Lady
            (by John Gailmore; arr. by Gwyneth Walker)
Sounding Joy!
             (by Justin Morgan; arr. by Gwyneth Walker)         

November 18, 2001: 2nd Randolph Composers Concert
Chandler Music Hall , Randolph

Works by Gwyneth Walker, Kathy Eddy, Erik Nielsen

I Thank You God
Banks of the Ohio
Our Wish This Year is Peace
Harlem Songs
Come into Our Solid House
Dona Nobis Pacem                                           
Graciously Open the Door (women)
Green Olive (women)
Of All That God Has Shown Me (women)
Jesu Sweet 
A Stable Lamp is Lighted 
Like a Bird Who Rivers the Air

March, 2000:   "Sounds and Colors of Vermont "
City Hall, Montpelier and Chandler Music Hall,
Randolph .

With Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, Catherine Orr
conducting.

Klezmer Mass     by David Gunn
River Songs          by Gwyneth Walker

November, 1997: Music by Kathy Wonson Eddy
          At Bethany Church, Randolph and at the First 
          Congregational Church in Hanover , NH :

For the Fruit of All Creation   
Those Who Love and Those Who Labor      
Holy Spirit, Be at Home in Me
O Wind Of Heaven Brisk And Free   
Mary Washed Linen       
Frankie with Wind in His Hair
Great Blue Heron
Ave Maria  
Table Graces                  
Come Lord Jesus, Be Our Guest                  
Be Known to Us In Breaking Bread             
Take Our Minds and Inspire Them             
St. Brigid’s Blessing         
Go Your Way, May Angels Guide Your Steps       
We Want to Love  

December 11, 1994:     SINGERS Christmas Concert
“STAR” theme concert

O Morning Star                                 Marjorie Drysdale
Hodie Christus Natus Est,                  by Palestrina

          With Singers:

How Brightly Shines the Morning Star    by Bach 
(Cantata #1)                                             
A Stable Lamp is Lighted                        by Kathy Eddy

April 20. 1994:  Vermont Composers' Symposium
Woodstock , VT

Table Graces                                           Eddy (repeat)
I Will Be Earth                                        Walker (repeat)
Love is a Rain of Diamonds                    Walker (repeat)

November 7, 1993: Brunch With Bach
College Hall , VT. College, Montpelier

Repeated material.                                    
3 madrigals:  Sing We, Rest Sweet Nymphs, One Smiling
Summer Morning Motet:  "Ave Verum Corpus", Palestrina     
"Sounding Joy!" by Justin Morgan and Gwyneth Walker    
"I Will Be Earth," by Gwyneth Walker
"Love is a Rain of Diamonds," by Gwyneth Walker    
"Trim the Cruisie’s Failing Light," by Kathy Eddy
"Table Graces," by Kathy Eddy

October, 1993:  Broadcast of first collaboration with Peter
Fox Smith.  “Interlude” radio program, Vt. Public Radio.

             Broadcast included songs from Randolph Composers
(spring, 1993 concert--most recent--)plus selected madrigals,
motets,  and songs from the Civil War.

April 3, 1993: A Celebration of Randolph Composers

          National Emblem March (with kazoos), by E.E. Bagley            
Instruments:  piccolo, flute, euphonium, piano.

Songs by Justin Morgan: 
Huntingon           
Amanda               
Sounding Joy

Songs by Gwyneth Walker:               
Sounding Joy                 
My Love Walks in Velvet         
Cheek to Cheek

Three Songs for the Earth, by Erik Nielsen            
Benefits of Civilization            
Lament                
The Garden

Songs by Gwyenth Walker:               
I Will Be Earth               
Love is a Rain of Diamonds              
Long Ago Lady, (Jon Gailmore/arr. Walker.)

Songs by Kathy Wonson Eddy           
The Eye of God              
Round OurSkiff be God’s Aboutness                    
        Tom Cooch, baritone              
Trim the Cruisie’s Failing Light          
If I keep a Green Bough                    
        Jan Fowler, soprano; Marjorie Drysdale, flute               
Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me                      
        Bob Eddy, baritone                 
Your Life Was Precious in My Sight Today                     
        Children’s chorus, Sounding Joy! men, M.Drysdale, flute                  
There is a Garden Walled Around                        
        Miranda Harris, soprano; John Dunlop, cello                
Kyrie                   
        Marjorie Drysdale, kyrie; John Dunlop, cello                
When Jesus Entered In            
Turning 'Round (Jennifer Moore, soprano, women’s chorus)            
Lord Jesus, Be Our Guest from “Table Graces”

October, 1990: Brunch with Bach
Vermont College , Montpelier

Sounding Joy                                      Justin Morgan     
Sounding Joy                                      Gwyneth Walker 
Amanda                                              Justin Morgan 
Huntington                                        Justin Morgan                           

May 23, 1987: Concert at Chandler Music Hall

Frostiana                                      Poetry by Robert Frost,           
                                               Music by Randall Thompson
Gone the Rainbow                              Gwyneth Walker                
(Repeated at Vt. College, with Gov. Madeleine Kunin
in the audience.)