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Fall Choir

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CONTENTS Theater Staff.......................................................................................................... 2 Whitney Morse on The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center........................ 3 Program.............................................................................................................4-6 Chorale Roster...................................................................................................... 8

STAFF Director of Operations................................................................... Jason Goedken Artistic Director.............................................................................Whitney Morse Technical Director..................................................................... Kenneth Constant Production Manager..............................................................................Jon Cronin Booking Coordinator & Administrator....................................Elizabeth Constant Executive Administrator.................................................................... Sean Graham Lighting Director..............................................................................David Krupla Assistant Lighting Director.............................................................. Lindsey Young Artist Liaison/Hospitality Management........................................... Leslie Munson Cassandra Francois Audio/Visual.........................................................................................Luke Bezio Sound/AV Designer.........................................................................Nick Erickson House Manager...................................................................................Heather Ard Director of Ticketing & Customer Relations............................... Yasmeen Stogden Promotion & Marketing...................................... The Villages Sales & Marketing Ad Sales.........................................................................The Villages Media Group

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WHITNEY MORSE on

The Sharon L. Morse ®

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Dear Patron of the Arts

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Welcome to The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center!

We are so grateful to re-open our doors after such a trying season. We invite you back to view the national and international performing art tours we host here for your entertainment.

Much like the building’s namesake, my grandmother, Sharon L. Morse, we love all varieties of the performing arts here. It is in her memory that I, along with my amazing team of artists and arts administrators, strive to bring many different types of the highest quality entertainment here to The Sharon.

Since opening in 2015, we hope we have established a relationship of trust; that any show at The Sharon will be a show worth seeing. Perhaps you find yourself here today to see a concert of one of your favorite musicians, or to take in the national tour of a Broadway show. Either way, we encourage you to consider trying out a new show that perhaps you haven’t heard of before, knowing that it has been intentionally curated by our team.

We welcome you to The Sharon: a place for you to see an old favorite, but also a place to discover your new favorite. I sincerely hope you enjoy the show today, and I look forward to seeing you here again soon!

Whitney Morse

See You at The Sharon,

Artistic Director

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PROGRAM From Edgar Allan Poe House Combined Sopranos and Altos "Old Abram Brown" from Friday Afternoons................................ Benjamin Britten Old Abram Brown is dead and gone; You’ll never see him more.

He used to wear a long brown coat That buttoned down before.

Chorale Nightmare Before Christmas Medley from Nightmare Before Christmas........................Danny Elfman, arr. Alan Billingsly Combined Tenors and Basses Grim Grinning Ghosts...................................... Buddy Baker, arr. Rodger Emerson Chamber Singers The Bells IV: Iron Bells................................................................................. Mark Lehnowsky Hear the tolling of the bells— Iron bells!

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone!

For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.

And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A pæan from the bells!

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And his merry bosom swells With the pæan of the bells!

And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the pæan of the bells— Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells— Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. text by Edgar Allan Poe

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PROGRAM Everyone Jabberywocky from Through the Looking Glass.........................................Sam Pottle ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

He chortled in his joy.

He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!

text by Lewis Carroll

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PROGRAM To Honor Our Veterans Chamber Singers Battle Hymn of the Republic................................................ arr. Peter J. Wilhousky Chorale Lift Every Voice and Sing.....................................Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson, Rosamond Johnson, arr. Rollo Dilworth Lift every voice and sing, 'til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has brought us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on 'til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, 'til now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.

Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand, True to our God, true to our native land.

Everyone Tribute to the Armed Services.......................................................arr. Lloyd Larson

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PROGRAM Combined Sopranos and Altos God Bless America.............................................Irving Berlin, arr. Joseph M. Martin Combined Tenors and Basses God Bless the USA............................................................................Lee Greenwood

For the Holidays Chorale Silver Bells...................................Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, arr. Audrey Snyder Chamber Singers Bogoroditse Devo.....................................................................Sergei Rachmaninov text from the Eastern Orthodox Vespers—part of the All-night vigil Bogoróditse Dyévo, ráduisya, Blagodátnaya Maríye, Gospód s tobóyu.

Blagoslovyéna ty v zhenákh, i blagoslovyén plod chryéva tvoyevó, yáko Spása rodilá yesí dush náshikh.

Rejoice, virgin mother of God, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, for you have borne the Savior of our souls.

Ya Ba Bom..................................................................................Maurice Goldman Everyone Ave Verum Corpus........................................................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine, vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine.

Cuius latus perforatum unda fluxit et sanguine: esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.

Hail the true body, born of the Virgin Mary: You who truly suffered, sacrificed on the cross for mankind.

Whose pierced side flowed with water and blood: Be a foretaste for us in the trial of death.

First Noel........................................................................................arr. Dan Forrest 12 Days After Christmas................................................................. Frederick Silver

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CHORALE ROSTER CHAMBER SINGERS Berkley Barton Jacqueline Campbell Brie Cook Ronan Cook Angelina Cosentino Mia Delavega

Sara Hughes Ally Kenny Anna Kuns Lexie Osterman Hailey Piecewicz Hannah Popson Bella Ramsell

Kaitlin Ritch Alexis Rose Emily Shpur Katelyn Shpur Camryn Waters Maggee Wellman Noah Winslett

CHAMBER SINGERS Savannah Afu Cliff Bridges Anna Brock Janik Buranosky London Campbell Thatcher Clarke Anna Gordon Emma Gordon Wesley Hubbard Aaron Jones Janaiza Justin Hannah Kennedy

Trace Kirkland Ava Logan Ace McCracken Mekhi McCullough Josie McDonald Carlos Montanez Cruz Juan Montenegro Ethan Perry Julia Perry Savannah Pierce Sydney Rich

Alex Rixie Ranee Gardner Julie Sanchez Mallorie Simpson Madelyn Symonds Aaron Veri Emily Veri Madison Ward Dylan Weston Kelly Wilbanks Caleb Windham

Mark Lehnowsky, Conductor Gary LaCroix, Piano Abbey Martin, Percussion

Please join us for our VHS Winter Choral Gala. Students from the VHS Choral Department will perform music from the holiday season and will be joined by instrumentalists from across central Florida. Our gala is a formal event, catered by Sammy Joe’s, so please come dressed well and with an appetite. In past years, this event has been known as Madrigal Dinner and Winter Follies, but this year, we are proud to present the VHS Winter Choral Gala. Tickets are available here:

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KEEP YOUR BRAIN TOP OF MIND.

Whether or not I paid the cable bill.

Exact location of car keys.

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