Concert For Life 2011 - Music to Lift the Soul - A serenade

Concert Info

Music that Lifts the Soul......A Serenade

Show-Stopping Music

Stanley J. Thurston, Concert Director

Featuring:
The Foundry Choir
Concert For Life Orchestra
Gay Mens Chorus of Washington, DC
Washington Performing Arts Society's Men, Women, and Children of the Gospel Choirs
Davey Yarborough, Saxophonist

Program

America, the Beautiful Samuel A. Ward & Katherine Lee Bates
Arranged by Marvin Gaspard
The Older I Get, from Changing Hearts Alan Shorter
Justin Richie, soloist
Changing Hearts Changing Hearts Alan Shorter
Never Ever, from Naked Man Robert Seeley & Phillip Littell
Gay Mens Chorus of Washington, DC
Danielle DeSweert, piano
Jeff Buhrman, director

Audience sing-along

The Impossible Dream, from Man of La Mancha Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh
Come Sunday Duke Ellington, arr. Davey Yarborough
Duet: Emily Jordan & Davey Yarborough, saxophones
Stanley Thurston, piano
Shout the Whisper Davey Yarborough
Davey Yarborough, saxophone
The Foundry Choir
His Eye Is on the Sparrow Horace Boyer, arr. Davey Yarborough
Davey Yarborough, saxophone
Stanley Thurston, piano; Christopher Suggs, bass guitar; Richard Slye, percussion
I Will Bless the Lord Tye Tribbett
WPAS Children of the Gospel Choir
Anthony Walker, piano; Christopher Suggs, bass guitar; Richard Slye, percussion
Clap Praise Diane White-Clayton
Annisse Murillo, soloist
Excellent Lord Walter Hawkins
Joy Swafford, soloist
He Never Failed Me Yet Robert Ray
The Foundry Choir, WPAS Men, Women & Children of the Gospel Choirs,
Jubalate & The Foundry Youth Choir
Kathleen Borgueta, Natalie Carter, Greg McGruder, soloists
Stanley Thurston, director

INTERMISSION

Serenade to Music Ralph Vaughan Williams
Text by William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The Foundry Choir, Soloists & Orchestra
Jeffrey Thurston, violin solo
Sara Metcalfe, Ashley Briggs, Kathleen Borgueta, Yolanda Bryant, sopranos
Pam Wanamaker, Susan Marquis, Frances Prince, altos
Wayne Jennings, Keith Craig, Rollin Marquis, tenors
Louis Davis, Michael Arichea, VaShawn McIlwain, Ashep Herser Neter, basses
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, from Cantata No. 51 Johann Sebastian Bach
"Praise God, in all lands"
Sara Metcalfe, soprano
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!
Was der Himmel und die Welt
an Geschöpfen in sich hält 
müsse dessen Ruhmer höhen;
und wir wollen unserm Gott gleichfallsjetzt 
ein Opfer bringen, daß er uns in Kreuz und Not 
allezeit hat beigestanden.

Exult in God in every land!
Whatever creatures are contained
by heaven and earth
must raise up this praise; 
and now we shall likewise bring an offering
to our God, since he has stood with us
at times of suffering and necessity.
O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion, from Messiah George Frederic Handel
Natalie Carter, alto
Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
  1. Allegro
  2. Menuetto
  3. Rondo
Concert for Life Orchestra
Laudamus te, from B minor Mass Johann Sebastian Bach
"We Praise Thee"
Yolanda Bryant, mezzo-soprano
Laudamus te, benedicimus te.
Adoramus te, glorificamus te.

We praise Thee (O God), we bless Thee.
We adore Thee, we glorify Thee.
Let the Bright Seraphim, from Samson George Frederic Handel
Ashley Briggs, soprano
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing arr. Mack Wilberg
The Foundry Choir
Concert for Life Orchestra
Stanley Thurston, conductor