Prep Spring Festival

 The young musicians of the Preparatory School trumpet their accomplishments at the final ensemble concerts of the year.

The Program:

Children’s Choir and Preparatory Chorus
Sarah Houghton, Director

Johannes Brahms: Ladybug
Eric H. Thiman: The Path to the Moon
Hozhonji Song (Navajo Song adapted by Lee Kesselman)
Laura Varas, percussion
Cy Coleman: Hey, Look Me Over (arr. by Carl Strommen)

Children’s Chorus
Orlando di Lasso: O Occhi Manza Mia (arr. by Russell Robinson)
The Water is Wide (American folk song arr. by Mark Hayes)
Gabriel Fauré: Pie Jesu (arr. and adapted by Jill Gallina)
Elijah Rock (Traditional Spiritual adapted and arr. by Roger Emerson)

Chamber Chorus
Duke Ellington and Irving Mills: It Don’t Mean a Thing (arr. by Roger Emerson)
Anders Edenroth: Chili Con Carne

Combined Choruses
Jim Papoulis: Give Us Hope
Annabella Sloan, Alba Clarke, speakers, Lana Crosson, Delilah Doeleman, Edward Lee, Oliver Muz, Sasha Kondratenko, Kalina Kotzev, Vishni Samaraweera, small group

String Training Orchestras
Peter Jarvis, Conductor

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, mvmt. 1 (arr. by Elliot Del Borgo)
Tracey Rush: Fantasia in F
Bob Phillips: Commemorative Overture
Don Brubaker: El Toro
William Owens: Court Promenade
Sean O'Loughlin: Ancient Hunters
Richard Meyer: Dragonhunter

Preparatory String Orchestra
Marta Zurad, Conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Contrapunctus II
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus (arr. by Elliot A. Del Borgo)
R. Sugar: Cantilena II. Orchestral Etudes
J. Williams: Trilogy
 
String Repertory Orchestra
Lawrence Wolfe, Conductor

Edvard Grieg: Prelude from 'Holberg Suite'
Benjamin Britten: Boisterous Bourrée from 'Simple Symphony'
Lawrence Wolfe: Hesitation (world premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Allegretto from Symphony No. 7
Gustav Holst: Jig from 'St. Paul's Suite'

Junior Repertory Orchestra
Adam Grossman, Conductor

Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Preciosa, J. 279
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200