Festival Chorale: All Around the Blooming Heather
The arrival of Spring will be lauded in song with some traditional folk songs, including “The Water Is Wide,” and selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copland, and more. With special guest Marcia Sloane, cello.
Matthew Evans, Director; Robin Knutson, piano; Marcia Sloan, cello; Claire Armstrong, four-hand piano on “The Promise of Living”
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning – Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Music by Richard Rodgers, Arranged by Buryl Red and Joseph Joubert
Down By the Salley Gardens – Traditional Irish folk-tune, Poem by William Butler Yeats, Arranged by Craig Courtney
The Willow Tree – English folk-song, Arranged by John Rutter
Afton Water – Scottish folk-song, Poem by Robert Burns, Arranged by John Rutter
Linden Lea – Words by William Barnes, Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arranged by Arthur Sovervell
Nun ruhen alle Wälder (Now All the Forests) – Chorale by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 392
The Rose – Text by Christina Rossetti, Music by Ola Gjeilo
The Water Is Wide – Traditional folk-song, Arranged by René Clausen
Wild Mountain Thyme – Scottish folk-song, Words by Robert Tannahill, Arranged by Benjamin David Knoedler
Red Is The Rose – Irish folk-song, Arranged by Mark Brymer
Fields Of Gold – Music and Lyrics by STING, Arranged by Philip Lawson
The Promise Of Living from The Tender Land – Words by Horace Everett, Music by Aaron Copland
- Soprano: Barbara Barkovich, Claire Armstrong, Cynthia Frank, Rachel Lahn, Katharine O’Shea, Linda Perry, Raquel Taylor, Laura Vague
- Alto: Cathy Boxell, Ann Early, Deborah Farmar, Evelyn Harris, Bessy Krause
- Tenor: Ann Cole, Kom Dixon, Pamela Hudson, Ernest Witt
- Bass: James Blanton, Alexander Brittain, Paul Friesen, Jason Kirkman, Randy Knutson
Matthew Evans, Chorale Director
Saturday, May 3, 2025 and Sunday, May 4, 2025, at 3:00 PM.
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The Mendocino Music Festival Chorale was formed in 2018 as an offshoot of the much larger Festival Chorus, whose members were invited to audition. The work has been ongoing, even throughout the pandemic, creating heart-warming and memorable concerts. If you’d like to support this excellent singing, please consider joining the Friends of the Chorale.
Festival Artistic Director Allan Pollack: “I’ve been touched by the dedication of the members of the Festival Chorus, and so have wanted to create an opportunity for people who are ready to take their choral singing to the next level.”