HVC – Spring 2006

Ain’a That Good News – The Many Voices of Freedom

 

 

Spirituals

Dawson:                     Ain’a That Good News

 

arr. Ringwald             Deep River

 

Hogan:                        Battle of Jericho

                                    Down by the Riverside

 

Dawson:                     Ezekiel Saw da Wheel

 

 

Poems and other Texts

Stephen Paulus:        The Road Home

                                    Impart (text by Albert Schweitzer)

 

Marjorie Herman:      How Can I Keep from Singing

 

 

Broadway

Ahrens:                       Medley from Ragtime

 

 

INTERMISSION

 

Other Lands

Gutierrez                    Alma Llanera (Soul of the Plains)

arr. Rutter                   Gaelic Blessing

Verdi                           Va Pensiero  (from the opera Nabucco)

 

 

American Classics

Stephen Foster         Stephen Foster Tribute  (medley)

Bob Dylan                  Blowin’ in the Wind

Pete Seeger              If I Had a Hammer

Woodie Guthrie         This Land is Your Land

                                     

Gershwin                    I’ve Got Rhythm