FREEDOM TOUR 2006

The Hague, Leiden, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  September 12-18, 2006

A Yale Alumni Chorus Production • Jeffrey Douma, Director

U.S. Ambassador Arnall Presents
Yale Alumni Chorus–The Power of Song Concert

A reception and concert hosted by U.S. Ambassadaor and Mrs. Roland E. Arnall celebrating a shared vision that the power of song can lift, heal, unite, and provide hope

Yale Alumni Chorus

Stephanie Gregory-Conductor

Kloosterkerk

The Hague, the Netherlands

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Program selected from the following

Gaudeamus igitur–Traditional

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Neely Bruce

Deep River–Norman Luboff (arr)

Go Down, Moses – Michael Tippett (arr)

Steal Away – Michael Tippett (arr)

Ride the Chariot – William Henry Smith (arr)

Shenandoah – Bartholomew-Heath (arr)

'Neath the Elms – Gustave Stoeckel – Jonathon Clune (arr)

Alleluia – Randall Thompson

Dona nobis pacem–Ralph Vaughan Williams. (Laura Stanfield Prichard, Conductor) Stephanie Gregory–Soprano; Michael James Prichard–Baritone; Jan Hage-Organ

University of Leiden

Leiden Student Choir & Orchestra (LSKO) Collegium Musicum

&

Yale Alumni Chorus (YAC) with

Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS)

Conductors

Gilles Michels (LSKO)

Jeffrey Douma (YAC & CUMS)

Pieterskerk

Leiden, The Netherlands

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Program

Nederlandse volksliedjes–Jetze Bremer (arr) (Michels)Doulce Memoire–Albert de Klerk (Michels)Psalm 121–Daan Manneke (Michels)Michelle–The Beatles (Michels)Exsultate Jubilate – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Douma). Stephanie Gregory–Soprano

Gaudeamus igitur–Traditional (Douma)

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States–Neely Bruce (Douma)

Alleluia–Randall Thompson (Douma)

Deep River–Norman Luboff (arr); (Douma)

Go Down, Moses–Michael Tippett (arr) (Douma)

Steal Away–Michael Tippett (arr) (Douma).

Shenandoah–Bartholomew-Heath (arr) (Douma)

Io vivat–Jetze Bremer (Michels)Dona nobis pacem – Ralph Vaughan Williams (Douma). Stephanie Gregory–Soprano; Michael James Prichard–Baritone; Albert Jan Roelofs–Organist

’Neath the Elms–Gustave Stoeckel, Jonathan Clune (arr) (Douma)

Eli Yale–Fenno Heath (arr) (Douma)

Ride the Chariot–William Henry Smith (arr) (Douma).

Gergiev Freedom Festival, Rotterdam

Closing Concert

Valery Gergiev-Conductor

Maximilian Schell-Narrator
 Viktoria Yastrebova mezzo-soprano
Marcel Reijans tenor
Alexei Tannovitsky bass

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Yale Festival Singers* – Jeffrey Douma, Conductor

Grote Zaal, De Doelen

Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Sunday, September 18, 2006

Program

A Survivor from Warsaw–Arnold Schoenberg

Symphony No. 9–Ludwig Van Beethoven

*Yale Festival Singers were comprised primarily of singers from the Yale Alumni Chorus as well as graduate students and faculty from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music and singers from the Cambridge University Musical Society.

A special note of thanks to the following Yale faculty:  Robert Blocker, Dean of the School of Music; Thomas Duffy, Interim Dean of the School of Music, 2005-2006; Martin Jean, Director of the Institute of Sacred Music; Simon Carrington and Marguerite Brooks, Professors of Choral Conducting; James Taylor, Professor of Voice

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TRADITIONS TOUR 2006
Sharing Music Across Borders & Generations
Cambridge, Ely, and London England.  February 12-19, 2006
A Yale Alumni Chorus Production • Jeffrey Douma, Director

Traditions Tour Benefit Concert
Celebrating the singing traditions of Yale & Cambridge, and the 50th Anniversary of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra

Yale Alumni Chorus
Cambridge University Musical Society and Alumni
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Members of the Philharmonia of Russia

Conductors
Stephen Cleobury
Jeffrey Douma
Constantine Orbelian
Sir David Willcocks

Ely Cathedral
Ely, England
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Program

Alleluia-Randall Thompson (Douma)
Spartacus: Introduction and Dance of Nymphs from Suite No. 1, and Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Suite No. 2-Aram Khachaturian (Orbelian)
Messe de Requiem Op. 48-Gabriel Fauré (Cleobury). Alison Hill, soprano; Richard Lloyd Morgan, baritone
Mlada: Cortege des Nobles-Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Orbelian)
Fantasia (Quasi Varizione) on the "Old 104th" Psalm Tune-Ralph Vaughan Williams (Douma).  Robert Blocker, piano
Serenade to Music-Ralph Vaughan Williams (Douma).  Ali Hill, Gussie Hebbert, sopranos; Ruth Taylor, Kate Symonds, mezzos; John Rouse, Kyle Pruet, tenors; William Flanders, bass
I Was Glad When They Said Unto me - Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (Willcocks). Jonathan Vaughn, organ



Barbican Great Performers

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone

Philharmonia of Russia
Style of Five
Yale Alumni Chorus
with Members of the
Cambridge University Musical Society

Constantine Orbelian, conductor

Barbican Hall
London, England
Friday, February 17, 2006

Program

Mlada: Cortege des Nobles Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Aleko: "The whole camp sleeps" and "How tenderly she caressed" Sergey Rachmaninov
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Demon: "Don't Cry, Child" and "On the oceans of air" Anton Rubinstein
Khovanshchina: Prelude Modest Mussorgsky
Prince Igor: "No rest, no sleep" Aleksandr Borodin
The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Skomorokhi Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nero: Vindex Epitalama "I sing to thee, divine Hymen!" Anton Rubinstein
Soviet-era Popular Songs, Arranged by Evgeny Stetsyuk
"The Soldiers are Coming" Molchanov/Lvovsky
"Dark Is the Night" Bogoslovsky/Agatov
"On a Nameless Hill" Basner/Matusovsky
The First Echelon: Waltz Dmitry Shostakovich
"Wait for Me" Molchanov/Lvovsky
"The Roads" Novikov/Oshanin
"Somewhere Far Away" Tariverdiev/Rozhdestvensky
"The hills of Manchuria" Shatrov/Mashitov
"Cranes" Frenkel/Gamzatov
"Last Battle" Nozhkin
"Katyusha"
"Moscow Nights"

 
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