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GRATITUDE
A Retrospective Concert Celebrating Our
50 Seasons of Song 

Saturday, May 20, 3:00 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
2117 Walnut St., Bellingham

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GRATITUDE

A RETROSPECTIVE CELEBRATION OF OUR 50 SEASONS OF SONG 
FEATURING FAVORITE WORKS FROM THE 16TH TO THE 21ST CENTURIES 

 Saturday, May 20, 3:00 PM                                     St. Paul's Episcopal Church
                                                                              2117 Walnut St., Bellingham

Whatcom Chorale celebrates 50 years of making beautiful music! Join Chorale, 
featured guest percussionist Kay Reilly and other instrumentalists and soloists
on Saturday, May 20, 2023, 3:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. We raise
grateful voices to you, our enthusiasticaudience, and all who have supported
our love of song. Don’t miss this exciting retrospective concert, sure to transport
listeners, from the joy of the madrigal through the spiritual devotion of Monteverdi,
Vivaldi, and Bach, to the genius of Handel and Mozart, the syncopated exuberance
of Latin America, and the sublime melodies of Mendelssohn, Brahms, Fauré, and
Lauridsen, culminating with the irrepressible optimism of Bernstein, The Podd Brothers,
and Caldwell and Ivory. 

As Whatcom Chorale embraces the advent of another 50 years, come celebrate 
with us and share this uplifting offering of hope.


50th Anniversary Concert Program

How It All Began

“Now Is the Month of Maying” – Thomas Morley

“The Silver Swan” – Orlando Gibbons

“Cantate Domino” – Claudio Monteverdi

“Domine Fili unigenite” from Gloria in D major, RV 589 – Antonio Vivaldi

Chorale prelude to Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 – J. S. Bach

Classical Era

“Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthems – George Frideric Handel

“Ave Verum Corpus,” K. 618 – W. A. Mozart

“Psalm 23,” D. 706 – Franz Schubert

American Contemporary

“Under the Light, yet under,” III from Heavenly Hurt – Alice Parker

“Great Day!” – Hal Hopson

“Dirait-on” from Les Chansons de Roses – Morten Lauridsen

Feliz Navidad

“Como Busca el Tierno Infante” from Three Venezuelan Christmas Carols – Bruce Trinkley

“En Belén Tocan a Fuego” from Carols and Lullabies – Conrad Susa

“Los Reyes Magos” from Navidad Nuestra – Ariel Ramirez

“A King Is Born” – Sy Gorieb and Tim Hosman, arr. Tim Sarsany

 European Tour

 “Verleih uns Frieden” – Felix Mendelssohn

“O Schöne Nacht” – Johannes Brahms

“Cantique de Jean Racine” – Gabriel Faure

Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi

Commissions 

Ordinary Prayers – Scott Henderson

    “My Baby Sleeps”

    “The Way of Things”

“The Mountain Spoke” from Heart Mountain Choral Suite – Sarah Mattox

Sing On!

“Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide – Leonard Bernstein

“How Can I Keep from Singing?” – Robert Lowry, arr. Matt and Adam Podd

“Hope for Resolution” – Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory