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About 100

A Spring Concert by The Michael Teolis Singers

Holiday Song  

Motet pour 4 voix mixtes
Op. 28, No. 4  

Messe Breve
I. Kyrie
II. Gloria
                                                          Michael Shawgo, organ


O Pulchritudo
Motet from Missa "O Pulchritudo"
                                                             Susan Woltz, soprano
                                                                            Sidni Kiely, alto
                                                                  W. Kim Lyons, tenor
                                                                 Walter Shalda, bass

Sure on This Shining Night   


Negro Mother*
*Midwest Premiere
                                                           Alfreda Burke, soprano
  
Johnny Appleseed   


O Lady Moon
                                                            Allen Sterwalt, clarinet


Michigan Morn
From the folk opera, Michigan Dream
                                                          Fred Schwaneke, tenor
                      Susan Woltz and Mary Hobein, sopranos
 
Guys and Dolls (medley)
                                                                             Mark Stickney
                                                                                    Carl Janas
                                                                            Mark Peterson
                                                              Erik Johnson (May 16)
                                                                  Shelley Greenwood
                                                                                  Cam McAra
                                                                               Nancy Greco
                                                                                    Ben Beach

Sing, Sing, Sing
                                                                          Jim Teolis, bass

                                                               Aldo Mazzotti, drums
William Schuman (1910-1992)  

Jean Martinon (1910-1976)
  Text by St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle

Nino Rota (1911-1979)






Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)






Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Text by James Agee

Alex North (1910-1991)
Text by Langston Hughes


Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991)
Words by Rosemary Benet

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Words from "A Japanese Micellany" by Lafcadio Hearn


H. Owen Reed (b. 1910)
Words by John Jennings



Frank Loesser (1910-1969)
Arranged by Mac Huff








Louis Prima (1910-1978)
Arranged by Philip Kearn

Popularized by B. Goodman (1909-1986)

Our spring concert on May 1, 2010, About 100, celebrates composers whose centenary year is 2009, 2010, or 2011. Music of Gian Carlo Menotti, Elie Siegmeister, Nino Rota, Alex North, Jean Martinon, William Schumann, and Samuel Barber will be featured. The centerpiece will be "Negro Mother" by film composer Alex North with text by Langston Hughes. This will be the Midwest premiere of this amazing, insightful, and jazzy work, written in 1940. The program closes with a rollicking version of Louis Prima’s Sing, Sing, Sing, popularized by Benny Goodman.
Saturday, May 1, 2010 7:30PM
First United Methodist Church of Oak Park
324 N. Oak Park Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60302
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