Choral Concert:

"Her Inspiration"

The University of California Alumni Chorus

University of California Men's Chorale

University of California Women's Chorale

Mark Sumner, Director

William Garcia Ganz, Associate Director

with accompanists and soloists including

Nancy Cooke-Munn, soprano

Alfred Hertz Memorial Hall

University of California, Berkeley

Sunday April 22, 2007 at 7 PM

Parking can be difficult: allow plenty of time to find a spot, and

bring at least $7.00 in small bills.

Tickets $15 regular, $10 senior/disabled, $6 Registered UC Berkeley Student

Advance sales email Cricket Evans and put "April Concert" in the subject line

The Concert Program

(subject to change without notice)

Hildegarde von Bingen's "De Spiritu Sancto Spiritus sanctus vivificans"

Francesca Caccini's "Aure volanti"

Vittoria Aleotti's "Hor che la vaga Aurora" full UCAC a cappella

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's "Choral Music, Volume 2: Komm, Schweigend sinkit die Nacht, Waldeinsam" Amy Beach's "Sea Fever"

Felicia Sandler's "Time does not bring relief" (premiered locally last year)

Kristina Vasiliauskaite's "Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei"

Jean Belmont's "If Music Be the Food of Love"

Gwyneth Walker's "Psalm 23" (The composer will be present)

Gwyneth Walker's "The Road Goes Ever On" (World Premiere*)

Intermission

George Dyson's Magnificat

Debussy's "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regard" from Trois Chansons

Joseph Haydn's "To the Women"

Vincent Persichetti's "Maggie, Milly Molly and May" followed immediately by
Gwyneth Walker's "To My Girls"

Mark Popeney's "The Splendour of God" (Northern California Premiere: the Composer** will be present.)

Allister MacGillivray's "Song for the Mira"

Wilby's "Marianne"
Break

Gwyneth Walker's "No Ordinary Woman" song cycle for soprano and piano.

Mark Sumner's Quintessential Sumner Medley of songs

* World Premiere. Poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, set for SATB by Dr. Gwyneth Walker. Choral work commissioned by the UC Alumni Chorus for the University of California Choral Ensembles in memory of Ronni Kordell Gravitz, lifelong UCCE member.

** Northern California Premiere. Text by Joseph Mary Plunkett, set by Mark Popeney. Mr. Popeney sang with UCCE when he was a student at Berkeley.

Useful Links:

http://www.gwynethwalker.com/

http://www.berkeley.edu/map/

http://www.berkeley.edu/visitors/traveling.html

http://pt.berkeley.edu/parking/public-visitors/index.html