March 2003
There is Sweet Music:
The English Choral Tradition, Then and Now
Our March a capella concert features the beautiful Howells
Requiem and other sacred and secular works from England's great
composers then and now; from early masters as Purcell and Byrd;
and such 20th-century icons as Tavener, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Elgar.Program Notes by director Sanford Dole.
Complete Program
| Purcell | I Was Glad |
| Byrd | Emendemus in melius |
| Christopher Tye | Omnes Gentes Plaudite/Psallite Deo |
| Orlando Gibbons | O Clap Your hands |
| Thomas Morley | Hard by a crystal fountain |
| Thomas Tomkins | Music Divine |
| William Byrd | This sweet and merry month of May |
| Thomas Weelkes | Sing Me at Pleasure |
| C. V. Stanford | Coelos Ascendit |
| Herbert Howells | Requiem |
| John Tavener | Hymn to the Mother of God |
| R. Vaughan Williams | Shakespeare Songs |
| Elgar | There is Sweet Music |
| Britten |
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