Women's Music Concert

Date: May 8, 2009

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Location: Pennsylvania, USA

Choir type: Chamber Choirs and Vocal Ensembles

Voicing: Mixed

The Williamsport Chamber Choir & Orchestra will present The Feminine Touch,

A Celebration of Women in Music, under the direction of Peggy Dettwiler on

Friday, May 15, 2009 at 7:30 pm in Trinity Episcopal Church, 844 W. Fourth Street,

Williamsport, PA.

The program includes:

The Settling Years....................Libby Larsen

Three Pioneer Texts set with wind quintet accompaniment

1. Comin’ to Town

2. Beneath These Alien Stars

3. A Hoopla

Hymne au Soleil.....................Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Jumping Jacks, Op. 29.............Stefania Maria de Kenessey

1. Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens

6. Today I’m Going Yesterday

Every Night When the Sun Goes Down......Gwyneth Walker

Traditional Appalachian

Walk on Up to Heaven.....................Gwyneth Walker

Based upon the traditional song “I Got Shoes”

Changed My Name............arr. Linda Twine

1. Changed My Name

2. The Auction

3. The Good Old Righteous Way

4. Changed My Name/Go Down Moses

5. The Runaway

6. The Old Ship of Zion

7. I’m Goin’ Through

Changed My Name is a cantata inspired by spirituals and the lives of Sojourner Truth

and Harriet Tubman. I Told Jesus It Would Be All Right If He Changed My Name

is the spiritual from which the title was taken.

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