1940-1941 Season
December 4, 1940 Kleinhans Music Hall
Brown – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, arr.
Burleigh – Go Down, Moses, arr.
Alexandroff – Night (Russian Folk Song), arr.
Sharp – Oh, No, John (English Folk Song), arr.
Nardini – Concerto for Theremin in E Minor
La Touche – Ballad for Americans for baritone and chorus
Moussorgsky – Within Four Walls, The Orphan, Evening Song, After the Battle
Lalo – Symphony Espagnole, Andante
Ravel – Piece en forme de Habanera
Cassado – Requiebros
Stanford – She is far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
Fraser – Eriskey Love Lilt
Brown – Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen
Brown – Joshua fit de battle ob Jerico
Lawrence Brown, piano
Paul Robeson, bass baritone
Clara Rockmore, Theremin
December 15, 1940
Praetorius – Lo, How a Rose
Praetorius – To Us Is Born Immanuel
Mendelssohn – Gloria in Excelsis (Barr, Schoenthal, Sours, Seitz)
Bach – Chorale: Break forth, thou beauteous, heavenly light
Bach – Chorale: How shall I fitly Meet Thee
Debussy – Gold Fish
Palmgren – May Night
Prokofiev – March
Mompou – Little Maidens in the Garden
De Severac – Minstrels and Gleaners
Di Lasso – Echo Song
Brahms – Mary’s Walk to Church
Davis – Early One Morning (Carolyn Newell, soprano)
Parkes – Erie Canal
Vaughan Williams – Just as the tide was flowing
Ruth Kather, piano
Marjorie Wetter Ralls, piano
Mary Alice Barr, soprano
Carolyn Newell, soprano
Helen Schoenthal, contralto
Kenneth Sours, tenor
Herbert Seitz, bass
Jessamine Long, Director
May 6, 1941 St. Paul’s Cathedral
Verdi – Requiem
Jessamine Long, Director
Beth Bowman Wolanek, piano
Dorcas Gehman, soprano
Laura Duerstein, mezzo-sprano
John Priebe, tenor
Bertram Rowe, baritone
Rosamond Olief Abate, organ