
Kickoff Concert Poster
The 1990 Kickoff Concert of the Virginia Glee Club was the first concert of the Glee Club 1990-1991 season. The Club, under the direction of Michael Butterman, collaborated with the Washington and Lee Women's Chorus, Courtney Birch director, in a concert held October 27, 1990 at 8:00pm in Old Cabell Hall.
A recording of this concert is available at the University of Virginia Library.
Program[]
Washington and Lee Women's Chorus[]
- Folk Saga of the Four Seasons (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
- The Unquiet Grave
- John Barleycorn
- O Swallow, Swallow (Gustav Holst) (semichorus)
- Peter Gray (Vaclav Nelhybel) (Linda Stratton, soprano)
- Come in (Randall Thompson)
Combined Choruses[]
- Early American Songs (Aaron Copland)
- Simple Gifts (transcribed for chorus by Irving Fine)
- At the River (transcribed for chorus by R. Wilding White)
- Two Choruses (Samuel Barber)
Virginia Glee Club[]
- Madrigal for Men's Voices: April is in my mistress' face (David Davis)
- Broken Glass (David Davis)
- Selections from the Album for Men's Voices (Edvard Grieg)
- I laid me down to slumber
- Little Thora
- Kvaalin's Halling
- There is no folly half so great
- The great white host
- When I take a stroll
Soloists: Matthew Benko, baritone; Cleve Bosher, tenor; Chris Foster, bass; Todd Stone, tenor; Daniel Weigand, baritone