May 17, 2008. 5:00pm
Twenty-eighth Annual Memorial Vespers
St. Peter's Church
Lexington Ave at 54th Street, New York City

A Program of Psalms

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Psalm 23, D. 707
Tov lehodos (Psalm 92), D. 953

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Psaume 24
Vielle priere bouddhique

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339

Gregg Smith Singers, Saint Peter's Choir and Orchestra
Gregg Smith and Thomas Schmidt, Conductors

free admission

AMERICAN MASTERPIECES
CHORAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

April 24th Thursday Evening at 8 p.m.:
Saint Peter’s Choir, Thomas Schmidt conductor
Gregg Smith Seven Stanzas at Easter
Roosevelt Andre Credit  Spirituals
Walter Hilse Missa Brevis
Cantori New York, Mark Shapiro conductor
Paul Crabtree Dive: a Water Music premiere

April 25th Friday Evening at 8 p.m.:
Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith conductor
Edmund Najera Prayer of St. Francis premiere
Burt Goldstein Pater Noster premiere
Dale Jergenson Age of Ash premiere
Charles Ives Psalm 90
LISCA Gregg Smith & Thomas Schmidt conductors
William Schuman The Mighty Casey
A Baseball Opera

April 26th Saturday Afternoon at 3 p.m.:
Syracuse Children’s Chorus, Barbara Tagg conductor
Works by: Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Nick Page, H. T. Burleigh, Stephen Paulus, Francisco Núñez and Papoulis
Featuring Gregg Smith’s Now I Walk in Beauty, Little Lamb, and Spring Songs with soprano Eileen Clark
. . . and Libby Larsen’s The Ballerina and the Clown

April 26th Saturday Evening at 8:00pm.:

Cantori New York
Samuel Barber Three Reincarnations

Saint Peter’s Choir
The Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey Precious Lord
William Dawson  Spirituals

LISCA
William Billings Be Glad Then America
Aaron Copland A Long Time Ago
Virgil Thomson My Shepherd will Supply My Need
Duke Ellington Hit Me with a Hot Note

Gregg Smith Singers
Jacob Druckman Two Madrigals
Louise Talma House Blessing, from A Wreath of Blessings
Irving Fine Design for October from The Choral New Yorker

Intermission

Syracuse Children's Chorus
Gregg Smith Songs of Innocence

Massed Choirs
Gregg Smith Mass in Space
premiere revised version