The 1971 Openings Concert of the Virginia Glee Club was held November 12, 1971 in Old Cabell Hall. Featuring a guest appearance by the Chatham College Choir, Lorenzo Malfatti conducting, the Glee Club's performance was directed by Donald Loach as the first concert of the Glee Club 1971-1972 season.
Program[]
Virginia Glee Club[]
- Hark all ye lovely Saints (Thomas Weelkes (1578-1623))
- Mon coeur se recommande a vous (Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594))
- Su su su pastorelli vezzosi (Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643))
- Shoot, false love, I care not (Thomas Morley (1557-1603))
- Lauds of Saint Anthony of Padua (Francis Poulenc (1899-1963))
Chatham College Choir[]
- Confitemini Domini (Alessandro Constantini (fl. 17th c.))
- Oculus non vidit (Orlando di Lasso)
- Alleluia (Orlando di Lasso)
- Core mio (Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612))
- I lift up my eyes (Psalm 121) (Russell Wichmann)
- Make a joyful noise (Psalm 100) (Russell Wichmann)
- Under the Willow Tree (from the opera "Vanessa") (Samuel Barber (b. 1910))
- A Nun Takes the Veil (Heaven-Haven) (Samuel Barber)
- Enchanting Song (Béla Bartók (1881-1945))
- The Wooing of a Girl (Béla Bartók)
- A Cluster of Folk Songs
Virginia Glee Club[]
- Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Benjamin Britten (b. 1913))
- Summer Songs (David Davis) - On poems from Michael B. Stillman's "The Owl's Parasol"
- Love is a green girl
- Alas, Alack!
- By the farmer's fields
- A Shadow's on the sundial
- Virginia Yell Song (arr. F.H. Ford)
Combined Choir and Glee Club[]
- Stomp Your Foot! from the opera "The Tender Land" (Aaron Copland (b. 1900))
- The Alma Maters
Gallery[]
Program courtesy of the collection of Donald Loach.