Please direct inquiries to: Rebecca Winnie, Homestead High School Choir Director (262) 238-5845 [email protected]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 5, 2013 A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING! MEQUON, WI. — The Homestead Choirs will be performing their first concert of the season on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:00 P.M. in the Homestead High School James Barr Auditorium. A Grand Night for Singing will feature all of the HHS choirs –Tartan, Treble, and Highlander Choirs, as well as the co-curricular Camerata – performing music of many different eras and traditions. The concert will open with the Broadway tune after which this annual performance is named and will include a variety of choral gems from such composers as Monteverdi, Copland, Greaves, Sullivan, Schubert, Hassler, Aguiar, and Vaughan Williams. Music of different genres from America, France, Italy, England, Brazil, and Germany will be featured in the program. Traditional music including a spiritual, a gospel song, and a shape-note tune, as well as musical theatre pieces and vocal jazz arrangements will also grace the stage. Come and meet the 2013-2014 HHS Choirs and hear their first term of learning. We hope to see you all on November 12 th ! (Please see the flyer on the following pages for a listing of the entire repertoire)
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Please direct inquiries to: Rebecca Winnie, Homestead High School Choir Director (262) 238-5845 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 5, 2013
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING! MEQUON, WI. — The Homestead Choirs will be performing their first concert of the season on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:00 P.M. in the Homestead High School James Barr Auditorium. A Grand Night for Singing will feature all of the HHS choirs –Tartan, Treble, and Highlander Choirs, as well as the co-curricular Camerata – performing music of many different eras and traditions. The concert will open with the Broadway tune after which this annual performance is named and will include a variety of choral gems from such composers as Monteverdi, Copland, Greaves, Sullivan, Schubert, Hassler, Aguiar, and Vaughan Williams. Music of different genres from America, France, Italy, England, Brazil, and Germany will be featured in the program. Traditional music including a spiritual, a gospel song, and a shape-note tune, as well as musical theatre pieces and vocal jazz arrangements will also grace the stage. Come and meet the 2013-2014 HHS Choirs and hear their first term of learning. We hope to see you all on November 12th! (Please see the flyer on the following pages for a listing of the entire repertoire)
THE HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
A GRAND NIGHT FOR
SINGING
Featuring THE HOMESTEAD CHOIRS
Rebecca Renee Winnie, Director Sarah Zietlow, Student Teacher
Michelle Hynson, Piano
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:00 PM
Homestead High School James Barr Auditorium 5000 W. Mequon Road, Mequon, WI 53092
FREE ADMISSION
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING 2013
COMBINED CHOIRS
The Star-Spangled Banner F.S. Key/J.S. Smith It’s a Grand Night for Singing Rodgers/Hammerstein, Arr. Huff You'll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel) Rodgers/Hammerstein
HIGHLANDER CHOIR Ah, comme c'est chose belle 14th Century, France O rosetta, che rosetta Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) I'm Goin' Up a Yonder Walter Hawkins, Arr. Martin Sirvatka
HIGHLANDER & TARTAN CHOIRS Miri it is 13th Century, England At the River Adapted by Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Arr. White
COMBINED CHOIRS Hark, I hear the harps eternal Arr. Alice Parker
CAMERATA Come away, sweet love Thomas Greaves (1570-1604) If I loved you (from Carousel) Rodgers/Hammerstein, Arr. Kirby Shaw
TARTAN Echoes Arthur S. Sullivan (1842-1900) Salmo 150 Ernani Aguiar (b.1950)
TARTAN & TREBLE Great Day Spiritual, Arr. Warren Martin
TREBLE Measure me, sky James Quitman Mulholland (b.1935) Don't Get Around Much Anymore Duke Ellington (1899-1974), Arr. Ward Swingle The Lord is my shepherd Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
TARTAN & TREBLE Ihr Musici, frisch auf! Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
COMBINED CHOIRS Blue Skies Irving Berlin, Arr. Steve Zegree Whether men do laugh or weep Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
