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Cantus at First Congregational Church, December 4, 2014
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
[8:04 PM lights down, announcements]
Prelude: Carols for male voices (1942) arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
[8:05 PM] God Rest You Merry
[8:08 PM] As Joseph Was a-Walking
[8:09 PM] The First Nowell
[8:12 PM] Coventry Carol
[8:14 PM] I Saw Three Ships
[8:16 all off briefly, then back]
Prologue
[8:20 PM] Will Ye Go to Flanders?, (Scottish folksong, arr. Erick Lichte)
the Optimistic Departure
[8:22 PM] Alexander’s Ragtime Band, (1911) by Irving Berlin (1888–1989) ¢
[8:23 PM] God Save the King, (English traditional) ¢
[8:25 PM] Good-bye-ee, (1917) by R. P. Weston (1878–1936) and Bert Lee (1880–1946) ¢
[8:26 PM] It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, (1912) by Jack Judge (1872–1938) and Harry Williams (1874–1924)
[8:27 PM] Les Godillots, arranged by Paul Briollet and Eugène Rimbault, based on a traditional French song
the Grim Reality
[8:30 PM] Pack Up Your Troubles, (1915) by George Henry (1880–1951) and Felix Powell (1878–1942) ¢
[8:33 PM] The Old Barbed Wire, (English traditional) ¢
[8:33 PM] I Want to Go Home, (1917) by Lieutenant Gitz Rice ¢
[8:35 PM] Deutschlandlied, (1797) by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
[8:35 PM] Keep the Home-Fires Burning, (1914) by Ivor Novello (1893–1951) ¢
[8:38 PM] O Come, O Come Emmanuel, (Twelfth-century plainchant)
Christmas
[8:39 PM] Christmas in the Camp, by Harrington and Scott
[8:39 PM] We Wish You a Merry Christmas, (English traditional carol)
[8:40 PM] Die Wacht am Rhein (1840), by Karl Wilhelm (1815–1873)
[8:41 PM] Christmas Day in the Cookhouse, (English traditional) ¢
[8:42 PM] O Tannenbaum, (traditional German carol, arr. Timothy C. Takach)
the Truce
[8:45 PM] Silent Night, (1818) Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863) (arr. Lichte)
[8:53 PM] Angels We Have Heard on High, (French traditional) ¢
[8:55 PM] Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella, (French carol) ¢
[8:56 PM] In Dulci Jubilo, (German carol) ¢
[8:58 PM] Wassail, by Erick Lichte, based on traditional texts
[9:00 PM] Minuit chrétiens (O Holy Night), (1847) Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803–1856), harmonized by Erick Lichte
[9:03 PM] Will Ye Go to Flanders? (reprise), (Scottish folksong, arr. Lichte)
[9:04 PM] Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, (German traditional) ¢
[9:05 PM] Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, (1597) by Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608), arr. Lichte
[9:11 PM] Good King Wenceslas, Piæ Cantiones ¢
the Return to Battle
[9:13 PM] Auld Lang Syne (Scottish folksong, arr. Takach)
Epilogue
[9:15 PM] The Last Post (English bugle call – played over the PA from a recording)
[9:16 PM] Silent Night (reprise), (1818) Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863) (arr. Lichte)
[show ends 9:17 PM, all off, back for the ovation, then off up the aisle into the lobby to mingle and sign CDs by 9:18 PM]
Cantus
Cantus
Zachary Colby: tenor vox;
Chris Foss: bass vox;
Matthew Goinz: baritone vox;
Samuel Green: bass vox;
Aaron Humble: tenor vox;
Blake Morgan: tenor vox;
Paul J. Rudoi: tenor vox;
Shahzore Shah: tenor vox;
Matthew Tintes: baritone vox.
Readers
Patrick Bailey: reader;
Matt Rein: reader;
David Roberts: reader.
Production Credits
Songs marked by ¢ have been harmonized by Cantus
Notes