A Holiday Family Theatrical Concert: Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors"

Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
Dolce Suono Ensemble, Choral Arts Philadelphia, and First Baptist Church present A Holiday Family Theatrical Concert
Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 5:00pm - First Baptist Church, Philadelphia

@04:27 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), "Fantasia on Christas Carols"
Baritone Soloist: Reginald Pindell

@16:04 Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630), "'Sonata quinta sopra un'Aria Francese" & "Sonata duodecima sopra La Bergamasca"

@23:02 Traditional Jewish Songs: "Papirosn" (traditional; Herman Yablokoff (1903-1981)
"Cuando el Rey Nimrod" (traditional)

@30:22 Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007), "Amahl and the Night Visitors - An Opera in One Act"
Amahl - Troy Larsen
The Mother - Rebecca Carr
Kaspar - Siddhartha Misra
Melchior - Brian Ming Chu
Balthasar - Reginald Pindell
Page - Chris Hodges
Shepherds and Villagers - Choral Arts Philadelphia
Dancers - Lisa Lovelace, Gretchen Studlien-Webb

Dolce Suono Ensemble
Mimi Stillman, flute
Geoffrey Deemer and Samuel Nemec, oboes
Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet
Michelle Rosen, bassoon
Shelley Showers, French horn
Stanford Thompson, trumpet
Marc Rovetti and William Polk, violins
Che-Hung Chen, viola
Yumi Kendall, cello
Rob Kesselman, double bass
Alan Morrison, piano
Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, percussion

Choral Arts Philadelphia
Soprano
Lisa Barton - Carolyn Brunelle - Takla Bude - Karen Fung Dante - Patty Fisher - Claire Mulvey - Laura Nagle - Ellen O'brien, Treasurer - Addie Payronnin - Meredith Quirin
Alto
Amey Hutchins - Victoria McManus - Maren Montalbano - Jenny Mosher - Jenifer L. Smith - Katia Strieck - Jennifer Zohn
Tenor
Steven Bradshaw - Glenn Ferguson, Registrar - Girard Hemminger - Bryan Park - Thomas Pilcicki - Judd Serotta - Ben Starr - Dylan Steinberg
Bass
Thomas Alton - Geoffrey Becker, President - Colin Dill - Will Dowling - Michael Melow - David Mosteller - Ryan Shaeffer - Timothy Stopper - David Reiman

Matthew C. Glandorf, Conductor, Artistic Director of Choral Arts Philadelphia
Mimi Stillman, Artistic Director, Dolce Suono Ensemble
Alan Morrison, Music Director, First Baptist Church
Bernard Kunkel, Accompanist and Off Stage Choral Conductor
Lisa Lovelace & Melinda Tatum Kaiser, Choreographers

Audio/Video: DTR