1943 – 1944 Season
December 19, 1943 Buffalo Museum of Science
Gluck-Mottl - Iphigenia in Aulis Overture
Schein - From Heights of Heaven to Earth I Fare
Bach - Christmas Oratorio, How Shall I Fitly Greet Thee'
Holst - Lullay My Liking
Sweelinck - Hodie Christus natus est
Bach - Cantata No.142, To Us a Child Is Given
German - Three Dances from Nell Gwyn
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Jessamine Long, Director
Jan Wolanek, conductor Symphony Training Orchestra
Laura Duerstein, contralto
Bertram Rowe, baritone
John Crossan, tenor
Frances Engel Messersmith, accompanist
April 26, 1944 Kleinhans Music Hall, Mary Seaton Room
Hassler - Dancing and Singing
Hassler - Sweeheart, you have caught me
Scandelli - The Little White Hen
MacKinnon - Sheep and Lambs
Odak - Gospodi va pomoc moju (Slovenian), baritone solo
Franck - The Lord is arisen
Rimsky-Korsakoff - Le Coq d'Or; Hymn to the Sun
Grieg - Peer Gynt: Solveig's Lied
Puccini - La Boheme: Musetta's Waltz
Parkes - Erie Canal
James - Tuku, Tuku, I'm calling (Finnish folk song)
Vaughan-Williams - Shenandoah
Cowan-Wood - Waltzing Matilda (Australian)
Candlyn - What shall we do with the drunken sailor
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Frances Engel Messersmith, accompanist
Gertrude Lutzi, Guest Soloist
Edith di Bartolo, accompanist
Marth Gomph, Harp
William Whitehead, baritone
Jessamine Long, Director
June 7, 1944
June 5-8, 1944: American Nurses’ Association 34th Convention
Buffalo Schola Cantorum performs in Memorial Auditorium Arena