Concert at Sweet Briar (1943)

The 1943 Virginia Glee Club Concert at Sweet Briar was held May 8, 1943 at Sweet Briar College. The concert, conducted by Stephen Tuttle with accompaniment by Randall Thompson, featured a performance of the newly composed The Testament of Freedom, and was part of the Glee Club 1942-1943 season. The concert was a joint performance with the Sweet Briar Glee Club, conducted by Agnes McLean.

Program

• The National Anthem

Sweet Briar Glee Club

• May Night (Brahms/Wick)
• Four Love Songs (Johannes Brahms)
  • A Tremor’s in the Branches
  • The Spiteful Neighbors
  • The Nightingale
  • From Yon Hills the Torrents Speeds

Virginia Glee Club

• The Fifteenth Psalm (Daniel Purcell)
• The Testament of Freedom (Randall Thompson)

Sweet Briar Glee Club

• To Varuna: Hymn from the Rig-Veda (Gustav Holst) (Sweet Briar)
• Comes Kolyada (Rimsky-Korsakoff) (Sweet Briar)
• Turn Ye to Me (arr. Katherine Davis) (Sweet Briar)
• Listen to the Lambs (arr. R. Nathaniel Dett) (Sweet Briar)

Virginia Glee Club

• The Joy of the Water (from ‘’Derfreischuetz) (von Weber)
• “Water Parted from the Sea” by Artaterxes (Thomas A. Arne)
• “Lovely Peggy” (Anonymous) (solo Charles Edwin Butterworth, Jr.)
• “Vaudeville” from The Padlock

Joint Glee Clubs, conducted by Randall Thompson

• Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones (arr. Archibald T. Davison)

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