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A Concert this Friday, February 6 at the Advent



In case you want to hear the concert for which the choir is practicing tomorrow evening --

Friday, February 6, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.


A Collaborative Concert: the Advent Choir & the Harvard Musical Association present a concert at the Church of the Advent.


Admission is free.

Featuring Ursula Holliger, Harp in works by Brahms and Rheinberger for Harp & Chorus, Glenn Billingsley, Baritone, singing the Vaughan Williams "Five Mystical Songs" and Allen Combs, Tenor, singing "Ave Maria," op 23, of Mendelssohn.

The Program:

Erhaben, O Herr, über alles Lob, op 79, no 3 - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Advent Choir

Vier Gesänge, op 17 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
The Choir; Ursula Holliger, Harp; Tom Haunton, Richard Menaul, Horns

Sonata in A major for Organ, Op. 65, No. 3 (1844) - Felix Mendelssohn
Mark Dwyer, Organ

Five Mystical Songs for solo Baritone and Chorus (1911) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Glenn Billingsley, Baritone; The Choir; Mark Dwyer, Organ

Ave Maria, op 23, no 2 - Felix Mendelssohn
Allen Combs, Tenor; The Choir; Heinrich Christensen, Organ

Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, op 35 - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)
The Choir; Ursula Holliger, Harp; Heinrich Christensen, Organ

Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, op posth - Felix Mendelssohn
The Choir

Serenade to Music (1938) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Choir; Peter Zazofsky, Violin; Heinrich Christensen, Organ