Ann Arbor Civic Chorus
Linda Jones, Director
Ted Wyman, Accompanist

“Wade in the Water:  Solace for these hard times”

Sunday, April 25, 2010
Forsythe Auditorium
3 PM

Program

Skyborn Music                                      Carl Johengen
     Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dirait-on, from Les Chansons des Roses                   Morten Lauridsen
          Rainer Maria Rilke

Zum Schluss                                    Johannes Brahms
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Homage                                    Z. Randall Stroope
                    W. L. Stroope
             “Dedicated to the loving memory of our lost fathers”

Wade in the Water                                        Moses Hogan
                Traditional Spiritual
    Soloists: 

Hard Times, Come Again No More             Stephan Foster, arr., Gerald Custer

America, the Beautiful                    Samuel Ward, arr., Gerald Custer
                    Katherine Bates

Intermission

It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Swing                Duke Ellington, arr. Mac Huff

Lullaby of Birdland                         George Shearing, arr., Carl Strommen

You Are the New Day                           John David, arr., Peter Knight

I’ve Got You Under My Skin                             Cole Porter, arr., Teena Chin
    Soloists: 

They Can’t Take That Away From Me    Ira and George Gershwin, arr., Kirby Shaw
Stompin’ At the Savoy                Razaf, Goodman, Webb, Sampson, arr., Teena Chin