Harvest Home: Thanksgiving with the Dale Warland Singers
Thursday at 10 a.m.

 

When the Dale Warland Singers decided to create a special Thanksgiving concert, it became a huge hit. As America's premier a cappella choir for more than 30 years, the Dale Warland Singers crafted a beautiful hour of newly arranged favorites, quiet and simple Shaker tunes and rousing folk songs. With brief, evocative poems by John Keats and Meridel LeSueur interspersed among the songs, Harvest Home is the perfect dessert to set before your guests.

Program Rundown:

TRADITIONAL: Simple Gifts (Dale Warland, arr.)
Linda Chatterton, harp; Nikki Christopher, flute

KEVIN SIEGFRIED (arr.): "Peace" and "Lay Me Low" from Five Shaker Songs

WM. HAWLEY (arr.): Not One Sparrow Is Forgotten

POEM: "Communal Global Day" by Meridel LeSueur
(Tom Crann, narrator)

STEPHEN PAULUS: "We Gather Together" and "The Old Church" from Prairie Songs

JOSEPH JENNINGS (arr.) We Shall Walk Through the Valley

CAROL BARNETT: An American Thanksgiving
"Webster," "McKay," and "Psalm 93" from The Sacred Harp

MATTHEW CULLOTON (arr.): My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Linda Chatterton, flute; Nikki Christopher, harp

POEM: "Ode to Autumn" by John Keats
(Tom Crann, narrator)

STEPHEN PAULUS (arr.): The Road Home
Marie Spar Dymitt, soprano

CAROL BARNETT (arr.): By and By
Joel C. Fischer, tenor
Jack Nelson, baritone
Lynette Johnson, mezzo-soprano

STEPHEN PAULUS: "Pilgrim's Hymn," from The Three Hermits