Fall Concert (1974)

The 1974 Openings Concert of the Virginia Glee Club was held November 10, 1974 in Old Cabell Hall, and was conducted by Donald Loach as part of the Glee Club 1974-1975 season. The concert featured a guest appearance by the Harvard Glee Club, F. John Adams conducting, and was a fundraiser for the Glee Club European Tour Fund.

A recording of this concert is available at the University of Virginia Library.

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Cantate Domino / Hans Leo Hassler
Here is the God who looks both ways / John Crawford
Geist der Liebe ; Nachthelle (Louis Burkot, tenor) ; Trinklied / Franz Schubert
Der Jaeger Abschied / Felix Mendelssohn
Lamentations / G. P. de Palestrina
Two Masonic choruses. Dir, Seele des Welthalls : K. 429 ; Laut Verkünde uns're Freude : K. 623 / W. A. Mozart . reel 2. Makedonska humoreska / arr. Skalovski
Loch Lomond / arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Glorious Apollo / Samuel Webbe
There is a balm in Gilead / arr. William L. Dawson
Shenandoah / arr. Marshall Bartholomew
Two Harvard songs
The defense of Corinth / Elliott Carter (Robert Miller and James Richardson, pianos ; David Ward, narrator)
American folk songs and spirituals. The soldier and the sailor ; The poor wayfaring stranger ; The wife of Usher's well ; This train / arr. Lehman Engel, Douglas Moore, Lehman Engel, Fenno Heath
Two motets for double chorus / Jacob Handl
The alma maters