1997 – 1998 Season
October 17, 1997 Westminster Presbyterian Church
Benefit concert for the Concerned Ecumenical Ministry
Gardner - If Music Be the Food of Love
Lauridsen - Four Madrigals on Renaissance texts
Carew - To One that Desired to Know my Minstris
Jonson - Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Carew - To My Mistris, I Burning in Love
Carew - Mediocritie in Love Rejected
Byrt - Among the Leaves so Green, O
James - Bushes and Briars
Rutter - Black Sheep
Willcocks - Bobby Shaftoe
Biegl - Ave Maria
Mendelssohn - Abendlied
Trinkley - How Can I Keep From Singing
Gaspard - Deep River
Vaughan Williams - Mass in G Minor
Mendelssohn - Sechs Spruce
Smith - There is a Balm in Gilead
Thayer - Ain't Got Time to Die
Eileen Yu, flute
Paul Furlong, bassoon
Sally Martin, violin
Alfred Frenning, cello
Kirk Brundage, tambourine
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus; Chamber singers, Men's Chorus
Double Quartet:
Cynthia Mayo, Nancy Seel, Marilyn Barber, Paula King
Paul Kight, Paul Litwin, Patrick Barrett, Calvin Vandermey
Thomas Swan, conductor
December 11, 12, 13, 14, 1997 Kleinhans Music Hall
December 15, 1997 Bradford, PA
Holiday Pops
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Doc Severinsen, conductor
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
Thomas Swan, director
December 20, 21, 1997 Kleinhans Music Hall
Handel - Messiah
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, guest conductor
Jayne West, soprano
Christina Wilcox, mezzo-soprano
David Gordon, tenor
Jonathan Hayes, bass
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
Thomas Swan, director
March 25, 1998 Assumption Roman Catholic Church, 435 Amherst Street
60th Anniversary Concert
Beethoven – Missa Solemnis, Op.123
Cheryl Hudson, soprano
Mary Ann Vilaitis, mezzo soprano
Timothy Schuman, tenor
Brian Zunner, bass
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
Thomas Swan, conductor
April 30, 1998 Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Lackawanna
Verdi – Requiem
Amanda Halgrimson, soprano
Christina Wilcox, mezzo soprano
Jon Garrison, tenor
Kevin Deas, baritone
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
David Lockington, conductor
May 9, 10, 1998 Kleinhans Music Hall
Mozart - Mass in C
Michala Petri, recorder
Julia Kierstine, soprano
Marguerite Krull, mezzo-soprano
Frederick Urrey, tenor
Robert Wells, baritone
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Maximiano Valdes, conductor
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
Thomas Swan, director
May 16, 1998 Kleinhans Music Hall
Daemen College Commencement
May 17, 1998 Westminster Presbyterian Church
Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Singers
Thomas Swan, conductor
June 27, 1998 St.Matthias Episcopal Church, East Aurora
Four English Madrigals
Thomas Morley - Sing we and chant it
John Willbye - Adieu, sweet Amarillis
Thomas Weelkes - Lady, your eye my love enforced
Henry Purcell - In these delightful, pleasant groves
J.S. Bach - Motet VI
Lobet den Herrn, Alle Heiden (Psalm 117)
Praise the Lord, all ye nations
Stephen Paulus - Meditations on Li Po (701-762 A.D.)
... and even my soul remains quiet
I lift my eyes to watch the mountain moon
... and now the last cloud drains away
Stephen Paulus - Musiquotes
Music
Is Very Close To
Sensual Pleasure
Sweet Sounds
Insist
Infuse Strength
John Rutter - Birthday Madrigals
It was a lover and his lass
Draw on, sweet night
Come love with me
My true love hath my heart
When daisies pied
Bettyalice Riehle, Piano/harpsichord
Bryon Eckenrode, cello
James Colemon, bass
Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Singers
Thomas Swan conductor