1939 – 1940 Season
April 24, 1939 Alden High School,
Schubert – Rosamunde Overture
Mozart – Symphony No.40 in G Minor
Palestrina – Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus
Warlock – Balulalow
Baird – Easter Alleluia!
Wagner – Die Meistersinger, Wach Auf
Bantock – O What a Lovely Magic Hath Been Here
Jelley – The Bird’s Courting Song
Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty, waltzes
Mendelssohn – Elijah: Behold! God the Lord Passed By
Mendelssohn – Elijah: Thanks Be to God
Ruth Hill, soprano
Symphony Training Orchestra
Carroll C.Geiger, Jan Wolanek, conductors
Franco Autori, Honorary Conductor
April 27, 1939 Bennett High School
Beethoven – Egmont Overture
Haydn – Symphony No.88 in G Major
Boccherini – Concerto for Cello in B flat Major
Weelkes – Hark All Ye Lovely Saints
Purcell – With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come
Schindler – Spanish Folk Dance
Cui – Nocturne
Vaughan Williams – Just As the Tide Was Flowing
Holst – Psalm no.148
Mendelssohn – Elijah, Thanks Be to God
Ilse B.Retter, cello
Symphony Training Orchestra
Jan Wolanek, conductor
Maurice Poummit, assistant conductor
Schola Cantorum
Jessamine Long, Director
February 29, 1940,Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Mendelssohn - Elijah
Paola Autori, soprano
Dorcas Gehman, soprano
Laura Duerstein, contralto
Kathryn Schwob, contralto
John Priebe, tenor
Kenneth Sours, tenor
Bertam Rowe, baritone
Squire Haskin, organ
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Jessamine Long, Conductor
May 2, 1940 Bennett High School
Beethoven – Egmont Overture, Op.84
Boccherini – Concerto for Cello in B flat Major
Weelkes – Hark All Ye Lovely Saints
Purcell – With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come
Schindler – The Silversmith
Cui – Nocturne
Vaughn Williams – Just as the Tide was Flowing
Haydn – Symphony No.88 in G Major
Holst – Psalm No.148
Ruth Kather, piano
Ilse B. Retter, cello
Jessamine Long, Director
Symphony Training Orchestra
Jan Wolanek, conductor
Maurice Poummit, assistant conductor
Franco Autori, honorary conductor