Location: First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, 301 Cottage Road, South Portland, Maine. Call 207-232-8920 for more details.
Snow, premiere performance George Chave
The Longfellow Chorus; Jesse Feinberg, piano
Woods in Winter, premiere performance Ray Downey
Vera Savage, soprano; Melissa Mielens, flute; Stef Burk, English horn; Karen Beacham, clarinet; Charles Kaufmann, bassoon
Et Sæterbesøg, (A Visit to a Mountain Farmstead), 1848–1849, revised 1864 Ole Bull
Arve Tellefsen, violin; Geoffrey Wieting, piano
My Cathedral, premiere performance Niccolo D. Athens
The Longfellow Chorus; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Karen Beacham, clarinet
Three Songs, premiere performance Kevin Hartnett
Vera Savage, soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano
1. Changed
2. A Day of Sunshine
3. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Christmas Bells, premiere performance M. Susan Brown
The Longfellow Chorus
Daylight and Moonlight, premiere performance Chirstopher M. Wicks
Vera Savage, soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Melissa Mielens, flute; Stef Burk, oboe; Karen Beacham, clarinet; Charles Kaufmann, bassoon
The Skeleton in Armor, premiere performance Charles Kaufmann
The Longfellow Chorus; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Melissa Mielens, flute; Stef Burk, English horn/oboe; Karen Beacham, clarinet
1. Speak ! speak !
2. Once as I told in glee
3. I woo'd the blue-eued maid
4. Three weeks we westward bore
5. Thus seam'd with many scars
Ole Bull's Polka, unknown origin, transcribed 1926 Paganini / Ole Bull / Christian Olsen
Arve Tellefsen, violin; Geoffrey Wieting, piano
Excelsior, premiere performance Ross C. Bernhardt
The Longfellow Chorus
The Longfellow 205th Birthday Choral Festival, Ole Bull, Longfellow & Elgar: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, is supported in part through grants from The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Sons of Norway Foundation, The Elgar Society Elgar in Performance Fund, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Music Information Centre Norway and from on-going contributions from our friends and patrons.
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Mission Statement of The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.:
The Corporation shall organize and maintain a chorus to perform and
record vocal and choral settings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, written from 1840 to the present, shall inspire and commission new vocal and choral
settings of Longfellow's poetry, and shall perform choral music of the
Romantic and immediate post-Romantic eras, ca. 1825–1920.
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