1967-1968 Season
December 15, 1967 Kleinhans Music Hall
Handel – Messiah
Jeanette Walters, soprano
Florence Kopleff, mezzo-soprano
Jon Crain, tenor
Squire Haskin, continuo
Kenneth Smith, bass/baritone
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Ulrich Meyer, conductor
Buffalo Schola Cantorum,
Robert S. Beckwith, director
SUNYAB Women’s Chorus,
Peter Van Dyck, director
SUNYAB Men’s Glee Club,
Federic Ford, director
March 3, 1968 Trinity Church
Interfaith Festival of Music
Bach – O Sacred Head Now Wounded
Felciano – Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy
Felciano – Angelic Hymn
Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah
Schutz – The Last Supper
Felciano – Prayer After Preface
Dawson – Ain’a That Good News!
Felciano – Lord’s Prayer
Felciano – Preparation for Communion
Felciano – Double Alleluia
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckworth, Conductor
March 14, 1968 St. John Vianney Seminary
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, Music Director
March 24, 1968 St. Brigid’s Church
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, Music Director
April 6, 1968 Amherst Central Junior High School
Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Overture
Mahler – Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Haydn – Mass in Time of War
Jan Valerio, soprano
Dorothy Piepke, alto
Richard Rodes, tenor
Sebastian DiTondo, bass
Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Wincenc, conductor
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, director
April 7, 1968 Delaware Avenue Baptist Church
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
Handel – Surely He Hath Borne Our Grief
Bach – Lamb of God
Merete Bekkelund, mezzo soprano
Pamele Gearhart, violin
Wardell Lewis, baritone
Mrs. Albert Thompson, piano
Squire Haskin, organ
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, conductor
May 12, 1968 Central Park Methodist Church
Bach – Cantata No. 158, Der Friede Sei Mit Dir
Robert Beckwith, bass-baritone
Darrell Berg, violin
Robert Martin, cello
Marjorie Metz, continuo
Dawson – Ain’a That Good News?
Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah
Schutz – Two Psalms from the Becker Psalter; Psalm 23; Psalm 145
Schutz – Motet: The Last Supper
Felciano – Double Alleluia
Haydn – Mass in Time of War: “In Tempore Belli”
Arlene Beckwith, soprano
Marie-Therese Robillard, soprano
Manning Richards, tenor
Sebastian DiTondo, bass
Instrumental Ensemble
Deryck Aird, violin
Darrell Berg, violin
Hazel Cheilek, viola
Robert Martin, cello
Herbert Nasgowitz, contrabass
Manuel Alvarez, trumpet
Carlton Wagner, trumpet
Jan Williams, timpani
James McKinnon, organ
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, Conductor
July 14, 1968 Knox Presbyterian Church, Canada
Bach – Aria Duetto
Schutz – Psalm No. 23
Judith Sherman, soprano
Dorothy Piepke, contralto
Buffalo Schola Cantorum
Robert Beckwith, Conductor