San Francisco Girls Chorus Presents: Spirit of the Season

Spirit of the Season: A Global Celebration of Baroque and Early Music, presented by San Francisco Girls Chorus

PROGRAM: https://bit.ly/3q22hNe

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San Francisco Girls Chorus
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director

Featuring SFGC’s Premier Ensemble & Chorus School

with special guests:

Edwin Huizinga, violin
Robert Huw Morgan, organ
Starr Sutherland with Atypical Project, video production

Lulla, Lullaby
William Byrd

Cúnnla
Michael McGlynn, with traditional Irish text

Lassus Medley created from Sicut Rosa and In pace in idipsum
Orlandus Lassus, arr. Level IV choristers

Non nobis, Domine
William Byrd

Xicochi Conetzintle
Gaspar Fernández, arr. Ariel Estebez and Christopher Wemp

El cant dels ocells I
Catalan Folk Song, arr. Bernat Vivancos

Te lucis ante términum
Juan de Lienas

Behold a Wonder Here
John Dowland

For Unto Us A Child is Born from Messiah
George Frideric Handel, arr. Jeff Tincher

Au Clair de la Lune
Jean-Baptiste Lully

Adoramus te, Christe
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Felix Mendelssohn, arr. David Willcocks

Joy to the World
“Antioch” pieced together from Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Setting: Lowell Mason, arr. William Llewellyn

Excerpt from Ciaccona in D minor from Partita No. 2
Johann Sebastian Bach, with chorale reconstructions by Helga Thoene

Silent Night
Franz Gruber, arr. John Rutter, SSAA voicing by Pat Parr


Taylor Joshua Rankin, audio and video engineering
Starr Sutherland with Atypical Project, video production for El cant dels Ocells I and Ciaccona in D minor from Partita No. 2
Omar Akrouche, audio engineering
Carolyn Donarski, graphic design


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