1968-1969 Season
December 21, 22, 1968 Kleinhans Music Hall
Handel – Messiah
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Lukas Foss, conductor
Anne Elgar, soprano
Betty Allen, contralto
Joseph Sopher, tenor
Raymond Michalski, bass
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
University Choruses
Peter Van Dyck, chorus master
Fred Boldt, assistant chorus master
Melvin Strauss, continuo
Catharine Theidt, organist
February 28, 1969 Kleinhans Music Hall
Handel – Two Coronation Anthems
“Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened”
“Zadok, the Priest”
Bruckner – Three Motets
“Liber Usualis”: Gradual for the Dedication of a Church
“Liber Usualis”: Gradual for the Mass of Doctors of the Church
“Liber Usualis”: Gradual for Maundy Thursday
Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown Region
Stravinsky – Cantata: Babel
Ives – Circus Band
Ives – General William Booth enters into Heaven
Ives – Psalm 90
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Peter Van Dyck, conductor
Laurence Bogue, baritone
May 4, 1969 Kleinhans Music Hall
Music for Double Choir & Brass
Pachelbel – “Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord”
Schutz – “Absolom Fili Mi”
Weelkes – Motets
Scheidt – Motets
Palestrina – “Surge, Illuminare”
G. Gabrieli – “In Ecclesiis Benedicite Domino”
Vaughan Williams – Mass in G Minor
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
The University of Buffalo Chorus
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Peter Van Dyck, conductor
Fred Boldt, Assistant Choral Director
Gwenellyn Leonard, soprano
Lynne Wickenden, mezzo soprano
Warren Hoffer, tenor
Laurence Bogue, baritone
The New Age Brass Quintette
Richard Meyers, trombone
Richard Smith, trumpet
John Hall, trumpet
Roy Waas, French horn
Raymond Nutaitis, tuba
Squire Haskin, organist