2018-2019 Season

Dusty Francis, conductor
Melanie Spector, soprano
Natalie Rumer, mezzo-soprano
David Charles Tay, tenor
Hào Jiang, baritone
Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia
Collegiate School Upper School Chorus and the UnDutchables

Puer Natus in Bethlehem
Gregorian Chant (Anonymous 14th c.)

Estampie Natalis
Václav Nelhybel

We’ve Got Good News to Tell
Don Besig

Betelehemu
Via Olatunji
arr. Wendell Whalum

Ave Maria
Franz Biebl

Messiah(s) / Messiah Reimagined
Georg Freiedrich Händel
Solo movements by Emily Lau

1. Sinfonia
2. If all the beasts were gone
   (text by Chief Seattle)*
3. The beauty of the trees
   (text by Dan George) *
4. And the glory
   (from Isaiah 40:5)
5. Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain
   (from the Bhagavad Gita)*
6. Just as with her own life
   (from the Khuddakañatha Mettã Sutta)*
7. And he shall purify
   (from Malachi 3:3)
8. Let children walk with nature
   (from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf )*
9. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
   (from Isaiah 40:9-11 and 60:1)
10. Some do not understand
    (from Yammakavagga: The Pairs)*
11. Even as a solid rock
    (from धम्मपद Dhammapada)*
12. For unto us a child is born
    (from Isaiah 9:6)
13. Pastorale
14. I want to say a few words #1
    (from Ar’nt I a Woman)*
15. I want to say a few words #2
    (from Ar’nt I a Woman)*
16. I want to say a few words #3
    (from Ar’nt I a Woman)*
17. Glory to God
    (from Luke 2:14)
18. I will not allow
    (text by Sojourner Truth)*
19. With the new day
    (text by Eleanor Roosevelt)*
20. I have decided
    (text by Martin Luther King Jr.)*
21. His yoke is easy
    (Matthew 11:28-30)
22. Hallelujah
    (from Psalm 146:10)