Our Spring Concert 2013 ...

Our Christmas Concert 2012

The Program:

Our concert was performed on

Sunday June 9th, 2013 at 6:00 pm

in the Kleiner Kursaal in Bad Cannstatt.

The concert commemorates the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. Kennedy was shot 50 years ago, on the 22nd of November, 1863 in Dallas. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. He died on April 15th, 1865 in Washington, D.C.

We are proud to be premiering a special arrangement by Christopher J. Hoh: “Memories of Lincoln” (written by William H. Neidlinger for a solo middle voice), rewritten for SATB and piano.

Requiem - Memories of Lincoln and Kennedy

Part One:

“Memories of Lincoln”, music by William H. Neidlinger, Arranged by Christopher J. Hoh, Text by Walt Whitman
“Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing” by Herbert Howells (To the honored memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States of America)
“Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg, 1863”, Text by President Abraham Lincoln, Music by Don “Orfeo" Rechtman
“The Testament of Freedom”, Parts One and Two, Text by Thomas Jefferson, Music by Randall Thompson

Part One:

"The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee”, Psalm 145, Music by Jean Berger
“Sleep” by Eric Whitacre
“Psalm 3” by T. Charles Lee
“Psalm 150” by Cesar Franck
“Soon Ah Will Be Done” by William L. Dawson
“Ride the Chariot”, Arranged by Wm. Henry Smith
“Dark Water”, by Will James
“Walk Through the Valley in Peace”, setting by Douglas E. Wagner