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Program Proposal 2025

Program Proposals Due on July 1

It’s time to think about performing for us next year. We’d like to receive the program proposals by July 1.

Here’s the link to the program proposal form. If you are on a computer** you can fill in this form online and then send it directly to the email address at the front of the form.

**If you are using a phone or a tablet you will not be able to fill in the form online and will have to print it, fill it in and mail it to the address at the front of the form or scan it and email it.

Performance Meeting, April 2, 2025

Program

Program Leader: Pat Yingst

Song Leader: Susan Ashworth Accompanist: Kathryn Govier

Song: “The Spacious Firmament on High” (sheet music)

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Solveig’s Song from “Peer Gynt” by Edward Grieg (1843-1907)

La Pastorella (The Shepherd Maid), Lieder D 528  by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)                                          

 La Danza (Tarantella Napoletana) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Performed by Elise Ragland, soprano, and Brian Grothues, pianist

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Allegro con brio from “Sonata in C Major, Op.53 (“Waldstein”)” by Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770-1827)

Performed by Melanie Richards, pianist

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l Moderato and ll Vivace from “Sonata for Piano” by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Performed by Tim Woolsey, pianist

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IV Allegro mosso from “Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19” by  Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1945)

Performed by Terri Freeland, cellist, and Brian Grothues, pianist

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Performance Meeting, March 5, 2025

Program

Program Leader: Melanie Richards

Song Leader: Katharine Shields Accompanist: Charles Smith

Song: “O Life that Maketh All Things New” UUA 12

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Three Songs by Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): 

Les Berceaux, Clair de Lune, and Notre amour

Performed by Katharine Shields, soprano, and 
Andrei Zimbalist, guest pianist

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Lullaby (Wiegenlied) Op.49, No. 4 by Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Transcribed for violin and piano by Fabrizio Ferrari

 La Ci Darem La Mano from “Don Giovanni” by W. .A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Performed by Gregory Shields, violinist, Katharine Shields, soprano, and 
Andrei Zimbalist, guest pianist

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Concerto in C major for Four Violins by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
  l Grave, ll Allegro, lll Largo e staccato, lV Allegro

Performed by Dixie Addington, Kay Mueller, Catherine Van Zanten, Gregory Shields, violinists

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Spanish Dance No.1  and Spanish Dance No. 2 by  Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)

Performed by Kathryn Govier and Marcia Edwards, pianists

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Performance Meeting, February 5, 2025

Program

Program Leader: George Edwards

Song Leader: Elise Ragland Accompanist: Pat Yingst

Song: “It’s a Small World” (sheet music)

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II Danses from “Medailles Antiques” by Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941)

Performed by Pat Yingst, flutist, Bowie Lin, guest violinist, and Ely Guest, guest pianist

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Three songs by George Gershwin (1900-1938):

Embraceable You 

Somone to Watch Over Me

Love is Here to Stay

Performed by Charles Palmer, tenor, and
Kathryn Govier, pianist

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Favorites from the Great American Songbook:   

       As Time Goes By by Herman Hupfeld (1931)    

   Lady’s A Tramp by Rogers & Hart (1937)    

                   Night and Day by Cole Porter (1932)   

                 There Will Never Be Another You by Harry Warren & Mack Gordon (1942)    

               Performed by Helen Young, pianist

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   My House from “Peter Pan” by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Home  from “Phantom” by  Maury Yeston (1945-    )

My House from “Matilda” by Tim Minchin (1975-     ) 

                 Wouldn’t It be Loverly?  from “MyFair Lady” by Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)

Performed by Elise] Ragland, soprano, and
Mary Parse, pianist

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Performance Meeting, January 15, 2025

Program

Program Leader: Katharine Shields

Song Leader: Liz Cass Accompanist: Cynthia Mills

Song: “Seek Not Afar for Beauty” UUA 77

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Hold On  by Margaret Bonds (1913 -1972)  

                     Standing’ in the Need of Prayer and Sit Down Sister from “Songs of the Spirit” by Gwyneth Walker (1947-  )  

Performed by Elise Ragland, soprano, and Judy Skaggs, guest pianist

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Soul Journey by Melanie Richards (1946 – )

Performed by Melanie Richards, pianist

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The Irish Washerwoman  Traditional

Swallowtail Jig Traditional

Moderato from “Duet No. 4 for Two Violins in B-flat Major” by Johann Christian Bac (1735-1782)

Performed by Ruby Jane Smith, violinist and fiddle 1, and Gregory Shields, violist and fiddle 2

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Holiday Celebration, December 4, 2024

PROGRAM

Program Leader: Linda Tietz

Song Leader: Deborah Hammons Accompanist: Melanie Richards

Song: “People, Look East” UUA 226

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A sing-along of Hanukkah songs,

Sue Bilich, song leader, with Sarah Avnet, guest guitarist

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Allegro Molto and Rondo from “Christmas Festival” (comp. 1899) by Carl Buttshardt (unknown dates)

Meditation – Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod (1685-1750) / (1818-1893)

Performed by Kathryn Govier and Marcia Edwards, pianists

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Allemande and Corrente from “Partita in A minor for Solo Flute” by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Performed by Pat Yingst, flutist

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Panis Angelicus by Cesar Franck, 1822-1890

My Christmas Song For You Music by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1982), Lyrics by Furniss Peterson (1890-1956)

I’ll be Home for Christmas by Walter Kent (1911-1994)

White Christmas by Irving Berlin (1888-1989)


Performed by Charles Palmer, baritone, and Kathryn Govier, pianist

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    A Sing-along of Christmas Carols

    Deborah Hammons, Christmas Carol Song Leader, with Kathryn Govier, pianist

    Opening of 2024/2025 Season, November 6, 2024

    PROGRAM

    Program Leader: Angela Smith

    Song Leader: Katharine Shields Accompanist: Andrew Zimbalist

    Song: “Morning Has Broken” UUA Hymnal 38

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    III Adagio and II Scherzo from Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 64  by Melanie Bonis (1858-1937)

    Performed by Sheryl Goodnight, flutist, and Stephen Burnaman, guest pianist
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    Transcendental Etude No. 9 “Ricordanza” by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

    Performed by Grace Huang, pianist

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    Three Short Pieces from Salon Violin Gems Collection:

            Sarabande   by Carl Bohm (1844-1920) / arr. Paul Alverez

        Romanze in F by Carl Busch(1862-1943)  / arr. Theo. Moses-Tobani 

                       La Brunette (Valse de Concert) by Edmund Severn (1862-1942 )

    Performed by Dixie Addington, violinist, and Brian Grothues, pianist

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    Lia’s Recitative and Aria from “L’Enfant Prodigue” by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

    Performed by Katharine Shields, soprano, and
    Andrei Zimbalist, guest pianist

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    Four Mazurkas by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849):

    Op. 56, # 2 in C Major

    Op. 59, # 2 in A minor

    Op. 30, # 3 in D-flat Major

    Op. 30, # 4 in C# minor

    Performed by Tim Woolsey, pianist

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