Concert at Sweet Briar (1944)

The 1944 Virginia Glee Club concert at Sweet Briar College was conducted by Stephen Tuttle and featured the Sweet Briar College Glee Club, Agnes McLean, director. The concert was held at Sweet Briar on April 22, 1944, in the latter part of the 1943-1944 season.

Program

The Joint Glee Clubs

• Star Spangled Banner
• Now Thank We All Our God (Johann Sebastian Bach)

University of Virginia Glee Club

• Jesu Salvator (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
• Ave Coelorum (Josquin Des Prez)

Sweet Briar College Glee Club

• Why Smilest Thou Sweet Jewel? (Michael)
• Haste Thee Nymph (Handel)

University of Virginia Glee Club

• Greetings (Johannes Brahms)
• The Trysting Place (Brahms)
• I Hear a Harp (Brahms)

Sweet Briar College Glee Club

• Lullaby, Finnish Tune (arr. Archibald T. Davison)
• The Star (Folk Song)
• Wake Thee Now, Dearest (arr. Deems Taylor)
• Waters Ripple and Flow (arr. Deems Taylor)
• Dancing Song (Kodaly)

University of Virginia Glee Club

• To All You Ladies Now On Land (Calcott)
• Choruses from Patience (Arthur Sullivan)
• Drake's Drum (Coleridge Taylor)

Sweet Briar College Glee Club

• 'Gwine Ride Up in de Chariot (Mansfield) — solo: Anne Pearson
• Old Ark's Amoverin' (Mansfield)
• Water Boy (Robinson) — solo: Suzanne Fitzgerald

Joint Glee Clubs

• Ave Verum Corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Let Their Celestial Concerts (Handel)

Gallery

1944 Sweet Briar concert program

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