Yale Alumni Sing Their Way Across China
Performance Today
National Public Radio
Aired Nationally September 3, 1998

Written, produced, and narrated by
Naomi J. Lewin '74

YALE ALUMNI CHORUS PRODUCTION
TOUR TO CHINA 1998

Joy and Music!
Beijing • Xi'an • Shanghai
July 23 to August 4, 1998

David H. Connell, director

Robert Blocker, piano

Yale Alumni Chorus

In performance at the
IV International Chorus
Festival of China

Opening Ceremony
with
Yin Hui Tie, Conductor
and the
United National Symphony Orchestra of China

Olympic Hall, Beijing
Saturday, July 25, 1998

Joy and Music!
with
Yin Hui Tie, Conductor
and the
United National Symphony Orchestra of China
and the
Pomegranate Flower Singing School Children's Choir

Beijing Music Hall, Beijing
Monday, July 27, 1998

In performance at the
Joy and Music!
with the
Shaanxi Province Symphony Orchestra

People's Theater of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an
Friday, July 31, 1998

Joy and Music!
with
Muhai Tang, conductor
and the
Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra
and the
Cao Yang Senior Citizen Society Chorus

Shanghai Music Hall, Shanghai
Monday, August 3, 1998

 

Program

PART I (TTBB: Yale alumni before 1972)
Mother of Men-Seth Bingham '04
Ave Maria-Franz Biebl. John Matilaine, Peyton G. Craighill '51, Roger W. Englander '56, soloists
Away to Rio!-arranged by Marshall Bartholomew '07S
Shenandoah-arranged by Marshall Bartholomew '07S
The Turtle Dove-Ralph Vaughan Williams. Kyle D. Pruett '65, soloist
Little Innocent Lamb-arranged by Marshall Bartholomew '07S
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child-arranged by Fenno F. Heath '50
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?-arranged by Fenno F. Heath '50

PART II (SATB: Yale alumni after 1972)
Gaudeamus Igitur-traditional
Ubi Caritas-Maurice Duruflé. Michael Bales '71, soloist
High Barbary
The Lamb-Fenno Heath '50
Fenyang Song-arranged by Chen Yi
Jasmine Flower (Mo Li Hua)-arranged by Chen Yi
Diu Diu Deng-arranged by Chen Yi
The Bells of Yale-Charles Ives. Darby Tench '78, soloist, Peter W. Sipple '62, clarinet
'Neath the Elms-Gustave J. Stoeckel
Deep River-arranged by Norman Luboff. Paul Downey '61, soloist
Ride the Chariot-arranged by William Henry Smith. Sonya Gabrielle Baker '87, soloist
Football Medley-arranged by David Connell, Thomas Duffy, Fenno Heath

PART III
Good News from Beijing Comes to the Small Village of Frontier Regions-Zhenh Lu/Ma Hongye
Rhapsody in Blue-George Gershwin. Robert Blocker, piano

PART IV (SATB: combined choruses plus spouses and friends)
Ode to Joy: Finale from the Ninth Symphony-Ludwig van Beethoven/text by Friedrich Schiller. Sonya Gabrielle Baker '87, Naomi J. Lewin '74, John D. Rouse '72, Donald C. Barnum '66, soloists
Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?-German Folk Song
Cao Yang Senior Citizen Society Chorus
Star Spangled Banner-John Stafford Smith/text by Francis Scott Key
Yiyongjun Jinxingqu (March of the Volunteers) Chinese National Anthem-Nieh Erh/Tian Han. Peter W. Sipple '62, clarinet