STOCKTON CHORALE A Christmas Festival Stockton Chorale, Master Chorale, Youth Chorale, Valley Youth Chamber Choir, and Stockton Singers

This concert is generously underwritten by Phillip K. Spohn and Mary Hickman Friday, December 6, 2013 — 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 13, 2013 — 7:30 p.m. Central United Methodist Church, Stockton The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Lodi

Magen Solomon, Artistic Director and Conductor Joan Calonico, Youth Chorale Conductor Ric Campero, Assistant Conductor Ric Campero, Stockton Singers Conductor Esther Roche, Accompanist Mary Monroe, Accompanist Germán Aguilar, Valley Youth Chamber Choir Conductor Susanna Peeples, Assistant Conductor Earnest Little, III, Accompanist Special Guest Artists Tuba Express Chris Anderson, Artistic Director & Euphonium Molly Hazelwood, Euphonium Brian Schlegel, Tuba Rob Barnes, Tuba

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Hodie, Christus natus est Stockton Chorale & Master Chorale Benjamin Britten O Magnum mysterium William Byrd Jubilate Deo Orlando di Lasso Vamos al Portal Francisco Guerrero Master Chorale

Audience Sing-along: O Come All Ye Faithful O come, all ye faithful, Sing, choirs of angels, Joyful and triumphant, Sing in exultation, Oh come ye, Oh come ye to Bethlehem; Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above; Come and behold him, Glory to God Born the King of angels. In the highest.

O come, let us adore him, Oh come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord. Ukrainian Bell Carol Traditional, M. Leontovich, Walter Ehret, Arr. Child of Peace Nicolas Fraire, flute Don Besig While By My Sheep Hugo Jungst, Dr. Th. Baker, Arr. Stockton Singers

Audience Sing-along: Angels We Have Heard on High Edward Shippen Barnes Angels we have heard on high Come to Bethlehem and see Sweetly singing o’er the plains, Him whose birth the angels sing, And the mountains in reply Come adore on bended knee Echoing their joyous strains. Christ the Lord, the newborn King. Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Canzona per Sonare No. 1 Tuba Express Giovanni Gabrieli The Sussex Carol Youth Chorale Trad. English, Roderick Bliss, Arr. The Snow Lay on the Ground Treblemakers Anglo-Irish Carol, Vicki Hancock Wright, Arr. Gifts for the Child Concert Choir Spanish Carol Tune, Eugene Butler, Arr. There is No Rose Youth Chorale Thomas Hale

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Hodie, Christus natus est Britten A Hymn to the Virgin Britten Stockton Chorale & Master Chorale The Holly and the Ivy Trad. Engl., Robert Shaw & Alice Parker, Arrs. What Sweeter Music John Rutter Ya Viene la Vieja Trad., Shaw & Parker, Arrs. Silent Night David Conte Deck the Halls (in 7/8) James McKelvy Stockton Chorale

Sleigh Ride Tuba Express Leroy Anderson Peter Rauch, Arr.

INTERMISSION

An English Christmas Traditional Country Dance Gary Buttery, Arr. Tuba Express The Boar’s Head Carol All Choirs English Traditional The Polar Express Concert Choir Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri, Teena Chinn, Arr. Caroling, Caroling Alfred Burt Hanerot Halalu (We Kindle the Lights) Matthew Erickson, clarinet Trad. Chanukah, Neil Ginsberg, Arr. Silver Bells Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Kirby Shaw, Arr. My True Love Gave to Me Andy Beck & Brian Fisher Valley Youth Chamber Choir

Audience Sing-along: Hark the Herald Angels Sing Hark the herald angels sing Join the triumph of the skies; Glory to the newborn King With th’ angelic host proclaim Peace on earth and mercy mild, Christ is born in Bethlehem. God and sinners reconciled Hark the herald angeIs sing Joyful, all ye nations, rise, Glory to the newborn King. Bells-A-Plenty Tuba Express Eugene Anderson, Arr. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Elizabeth Poston Hodie, Christus natus est Healey Willan Master Chorale

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Britten (1913-1973) Selections from A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Britten No. 1. Procession No. 2. Wolcum Yole! No. 3. There is No Rose No. 6. This Little Babe No. 10. Deo Gracias Amen (from “Messiah”) George F. Handel Stockton Chorale

Audience Sing-along: Joy to the World Joy to the world! The Lord is come Joy to the Earth! The Savior reigns; He rules the world with truth and grace, Let earth receive her King. Let men their songs employ; And makes the nations prove Let every heart prepare Him room, While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains The glories of His righteousness, And heaven and nature sing. Repeat the sounding joy. And wonders of His love.

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