December 11 - A Christmas Concert!


DAVIS COMMUNITY CHURCH presents...

A Christmas Concert!  

4pm, Saturday, December 11, 2022


Davis Community Church

Corner of C and 4th Streets, Davis, CA



Lewis Redner (1831-1908)

     O Little Town of Bethlehem (1868, Philips Brooks, 1835-1893)

          (Please join in!  Hymn 121, verses 1-2)

          C Street

                        Ukulele Band

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1897)
     Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (1892)
          IIIc. Russian Dance (Trepak) (arr. Douglas Wagner, b. 1952)

          DCC Handbell Choir

Franz Gruber (1787-1863)       
     Silent Night (1818, arr. 2019, Dan Forrest, b. 1978)

          DCC Chancel Choir and String Quartet

Sally Beamish (b. 1956)
     In the Stillness (2008)

         DCC Chamber Choir

Jim Strathdee (b. 1941)
     Summer Sun or Winter Skies (2003, Shirley Erena Murray, 1931-2020)

         DCC Worship Band

Spain (c. 1850)
     A La Nanita Nana (Sleep, Sleep My Little Jesus) (c. 1830, arr. Sondra K. Tucker, b. 1957)

         DCC Handbell Choir

Alan Silvestre (b. 1950)


     The Polar Express (2004, Glen Ballard, b. 1953)
          Believe

          DCC Kid's Choir

Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)       
     Ecce Novum (Behold a New Joy) (2014)


         DCC Chamber Choir and String Quartet

John Wesley Work (c. 1835-1895)
     Go Tell It On the Mountain (c. 1865, arr. 1993, Howard Helvey, b. 1968)

          DCC Chancel Choir

Intermission



Mark

          Alburger

                           (b. 1957) 

    
     The Nativity According to

                                               St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)

          I. Now the Birth of Jesus Christ Was On This Wise
          II. Now at Jesus's Birth in Bethlehem
          III. In Bethlehem
          IV. Where Is the King?
          V. Find Me the King
          VI. When They Saw the Star
          VII. And Being Warned of God in a Dream
          VIII. Then Herod
          IX. An Angel of the Lord

                   

          Evangelist, Amy Golden-Jones
          Angel / Priest / Prophet, Megan Cullen
          Joseph, Juan Carlos Ruiz Guajardo
          Mary, Jadi Galloway
          Kaspar, Jack Jett
          Melchior, Lee Riggs
                                                                       
          Balthazar, Michael Coleman
          Herod / Stage Director / Conductor,  Mark Alburger
          Angels / Priests / Prophets, DCC Chancel Choir
          DCC Chamber Orchestra

Gian

         Carlo

                  Menotti

                                   (1911-

                                               2007)   

     Amahl

                 and

                       the

                           Night

                                     Visitors

                                                     (1951)

          The Mother, Jadi Galloway
          Amahl, Carmen Ruiz Turnbull
          Kaspar, Jack Jett

          Melchior, Juan Carlos Ruiz Guajardo
                                                                       

          Balthazar, Michael Coleman
          Page / Costumes, Deborah Jory

          Shepherds,

                               DCC

                                        Chancel Choir

          Stage Director / Production Manager, Harriet March Page
          Set Design and Construction, Robin Houston
          Costumes and Props, Linda Scott

          DCC

                    Chamber Orchestra

MARK ALBURGER (b. 1957) is an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He is Music Director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; Conductor-Founder of the DCC Chamber Orchestra, and Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley.  Dr. Alburger has composed 410 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. The Bible, Op. 168, is an ongoing compilation of Biblical text-settings, of approximately 14 hours.  His complete catalogue is available from New Music. YouTube/DrMarkAlburger, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger, imslp.org/wiki/Category:Alburger,_Mark, markalburger.blogspot.com, markalburgerworks.blogspot.com.         



THE NATIVITY ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, Op. 72 (1998), began as a series of musical Christmas cards several decades ago.  Each of its nine movements is based on an Advent or Yuletide Carol as found in the Presbyterian Hymbook, 1960 ("O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" through 8 following).  To these are immaculate-conceptioned incarnations of G.F. Handel, Gian Carlo Menotti, Gustav Mahler, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gregorian chant, and Medieval mystery plays -- in an overall context of Igor Stravinskian vernacular postminimalism.  Today's World premiere of the operatic Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72, has been made possible by a generous $10,000 grant from DCC member Tony Tanke and family. 



OLA GJEILO (b. 1978) is a Norwegian composer and pianist, living in the United States.  He writes choral music, and has written for piano and wind symphony, publishing through Walton Music, Edition Peters, and Boosey and Hawkes.



ECCE NOVUM (2017) is featured on Ola’s Winter Songs (Decca Classics), performed by the Choir of Royal Holloway and 12 Ensemble.

     Ecce, novum gaudium,             Behold, a new joy,
   
     Ecce, novum mirum!                Behold, a new wonder!
   
     Virgo parit filium,                     A Virgin, who knew not a man,
     Quae non novit virum.             Bears a son.
   
     Sed ut pirus prium,                  She knew not a man but as the pear-tree bears the pear,        
   
     Gleba fert papyrum,                The flourishing papyrus brings
   
     Florens lilium.                         The lily from the soil.        
     Ecce, quod natura                   See how nature
     Mutat sua iura!                       Changes her laws!
   
     Virgo parit pura                     A pure virgin bears
   
     Dei filium.                              The son of God.



FRANZ XAVER GRUBER (1787-1863) was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to Stille Nacht (Silent Night). 



DAN FORREST (b. 1978) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and music editor.


SILENT NIGHT (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, 1818) is a popular German Christmas carol, composed to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.  It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011.  The song was first recorded in 1905 and has remained a popular success, appearing in films and multiple successful recordings, as well as being quoted in other musical compositions.



GIAN CARLO MENOTTI (1911-2007) was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. One of the most frequently performed opera composers of the 20th century, his most successful works were written in the 1940s and 1950s.  Highly influenced by Giacomo Puccini and Modest Mussorgsky, Menotti further developed the verismo tradition of opera in the post-World War II era. Favoring neoclassicism, rejecting atonality and the aesthetic of the Second Viennese School, Menotti's music is characterized by expressive lyricism which carefully sets language to natural rhythms in ways that highlight textual meaning and underscore dramatic intent.  Like Richard Wagner, Menotti wrote the libretti of all his operas. He wrote the classic  Christmas first-opera-for-TV Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste.


AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (1951) is a one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti, with an original English libretto from the composer.  It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where then broadcast live on television, as the debut production for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Amahl was the first opera specifically composed for television in the United States


C STREET UKELELE BAND

Lynn DeLapp and Karen Johns     Directors


DCC CHANCEL CHAMBER, and KID'S CHOIRS; WORSHIP BAND

Emma Turbull          Music Minister
Joanne Chamber      Organist and Pianist


DCC HANDBELL CHOIR

Rev. Deborah Grundman     Director


DCC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Made possible by a $10,000 gift from Tony Tanke!  Thank you!


Mark Alburger          Conductor
 and Founder

Flute / Piccolo
Natalie Laurie

Oboe I
Trey Markler

Oboe II / English Horn
Benjamin Saetern

Clarinet / Bass Clarinet
Thibaut Mastrolia

Bassoon
Michael Garvey

Contrabasssoon

Lori Garvey



Trumpet

Dan Jett

Horn
Bob Satterford

Soprano
Megan Cullen



Tenor

Mark Alburger

Guitar

Sharyn Orris



Harp
Gennaro Porcaro


Piano
Emma Turnbull


Percussion
Victor Flaviani

Violin I
Kristen Kline

Violin II
Sharon Williams



Viola
Nansamba Ssesalo


Cello
Aaron Urton


SOUND, CAMERA, and SLIDES

Jeff Pelz, Aaron Jones, and Brian Borhani


Many thanks to everyone involved today for many months of
prepaing, rehearsing, and ongoing support for DCC's Music Ministry.
Thank you to Community Life for our intermission refreshments and snacks.
There will be two donaton baskets in the narthex after the show;
the proceeds wil go to support the Music Ministy.
DCC wihes you all a joy-filled and restful Holiday Season. 
We hope to see you again!


***

Fantastic show! 


On


the


36th



day of


Fall,


high down 


5 to 53


(54 in Davis) --


participating


in


the



morning


service


by


singing


with


the


band (oh!  Isaiah reading -- might have to do something about that...)


Friendly


but


controversial



sermon --


and,


afterwards,


immediate


preparation


for


the


concert


(OK


including geting a bite


to eat) --


setting


the

stage,


assembling


the


orchestra


seating,


greeting


folks


as


they


arrive


(or

re-arrive)

with a bonus rehearsal since so many Chamber Orchestra members arrive quite early.


Emma gets a shot at


conducting the


String Quartet, and


there's even a little time for Nativity extra-practice for several who are new to this all...


After the


shining show,


cleanup and


celebration at


Taqueria El Burrito,


and


a

good


time

is


continued


to


be


had


by all!


Late night, post


Broke Dance Intermezzi: R, Op. 314 (May 1, 2019)



on the Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2019/05/broke-dance-intermezzi-r-op-314.html

while partially engaged with


Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Agon (1957)


Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)
     Symphony No. 7 ("Angel of Light") (1994)


     Symphony No. 8 ("Journey") (1999)...