2024 Messiah Program

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Danielle Tobin , soprano Crystal Zimmerman, mezzo-soprano Dan Colgan, tenor Paul Nakhla, baritone SOGO Conservatory Orchestra

DIRE MUSIC DIRECTOR

Cameron May

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12.23.24

7 PM

Handel’s MESSIAH

sing-along

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NEXT SEASON...MESSIAH SING-ALONG Monday, December 22, 2025

MESSIAH SING-ALONG

Monday, December 23, 7pm | Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO) Cameron May, Music Director & Conductor Greg Allison, Artistic Director Featuring SOGO Conservatory Orchestra, Alumni & Community Musicians 1.

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OVERTURE

RECITATIVE (No. 2, p. 7—Schirmer Edition) Dan Colgan, tenor Comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

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AIR (No. 3, p. 10)

Dan Colgan, tenor Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill made low, the crooked straight, and the rough places plain.

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CHORUS (No. 4, p. 16) Choir And the glory, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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CHORUS (No. 7, p. 36) Choir And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

RECITATIVE (No. 8, p. 47) Crystal Zimmerman, mezzo soprano Behold! A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel: God with us.

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AIR & CHORUS (No. 9, p. 47) Crystal Zimmerman, mezzo soprano & Choir O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain! O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength, lift it up, be not afraid. Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, Arise, shine, for thy light has come; and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

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RECITATIVE (No. 10, p. 60)

Paul Nakhla, baritone For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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AIR (No. 11, p. 62)

Paul Nakhla, baritone The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

10. CHORUS (No. 12, p. 66) Choir For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

11. PASTORAL SYMPHONY (No. 13 p. 77) 12. RECITATIVE (No. 14, p. 79) Danielle Tobin, soprano There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night.

And lo! the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.

13. RECITATIVE (No. 15, p. 80) Danielle Tobin, soprano And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

14. RECITATIVE (No. 16, p. 81) Danielle Tobin, soprano And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying: 15. CHORUS (No. 17, p. 82) Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will towards men.

Choir

16. AIR (No. 18, p. 87) Danielle Tobin, soprano Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee. He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen.

17. CHORUS (No. 21, p. 98) His yoke is easy and His burthen is light.

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18. CHORUS (No. 44, p. 193) AUDIENCE PLEASE STAND Choir Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; And He shall reign for ever and ever.

King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah!

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CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA Violin Isabel Arslanian Capital HS (11) Isabella Dibenedetto-Campos Pope John Paul II (10)* Moriah Fuchs Homeschool (12) Carol Gao Olympia HS (12) Ellie Hambly Timberline HS (10) Elena Heider Charles Wright Academy (10) Arlo Homewood North Thurston HS (10) Matilda Homewood North Thurston HS (9) Nayeli Howard Centralia College (12) Liam Kendall Olympia HS (10) Joy Kim Olympia HS (9) Piper Lawler Northwest Christian (10) Max Liedtke River Ridge HS (10) Annin Lima Olympia Christian (8) Jayden Lin Olympia HS (9) Audrey Liu Olympia HS (9) Sophia Myers WF West HS (12) Sophia Quinn Washington MS (8) Samuel Reymer Northwest Christian (11) Shane Rhoads-Weaver River Ridge HS (9) Koyuki Sakae Olympia HS (10) Dylan Shaughnessy Olympia HS (9) Quinn Tomita Avanti HS (10) Alluzai Villanueva North Thurston HS (12) Silas Wilson North Thurston HS (10) Viola Noah Cornwall Ash Hegewald Michelle Hegewald Matthew Shen Rayna Sterlin-Stephens Simon Tang

Yelm HS (12) Olympia HS (9) SPSCC (12) Olympia HS (11) Capital HS (11) Black Hills HS (9)

Cello Maia Aurelio Olympia HS (10) Zoey Bernal North Thurston HS (10)* Emmilia Brooks Timberline HS (11) Simon DiCrescenzo Timberline HS (11) Andrew Gorrell Capital HS (10) Owen Tudor Olympia HS (12) Bass Heidi Cornwall Yelm HS (10) Hunter Downing Black Hills HS (11)+ Nadine Jensen River Ridge HS (9) Luke Mathes Post-graduate Campbell Patterson Olympia HS (10) Gabriel Rosales North Thurston HS (11)

Flute Cole Hamilton Olympia HS (11) Gloriana Smith Post-graduate Serenia Thibodeaux Capital HS (9) Oboe Nicholas Chappel Black Hills HS (12) William Cummings WF West HS (12)~ Adeline Rice Black Hills HS (11) Fiona Tang Black Hills HS (12) Clarinet Diego Cortes-Monroy Ayman Ehrlander Myah Goldsmith Noah Hagelberg Maegan Shen

Olympia HS (12) Olympia HS (10) Elma HS (11) Olympia HS (11) Olympia HS (11)

Bassoon Luke Thornton

Tumwater HS (12)

French Horn Spencer Cornwall Alex McBride Sean Miniken

Yelm HS (11)+ Yelm HS (11)+ Black Hills HS (10)+

Trumpet Isiah Bergkamp Bo Milam Auden Taellious Allison Walker

Olympia HS (12)+ Homeschool (12)+ Capital HS (9)+ Capital HS (12)*+

Trombone Josephine Bright David Grady Kyan Porter

River Ridge HS (11)+ WF West HS (10)+ WF West HS (11)~+

Tuba Ezra Birchard Braxton Martinez

WF West HS (12)+ River Ridge HS (10)+

Percussion Dario Morbello

Capital HS (12) +Brass Choir Member *Student Board Member ~Student Representative

TEACHING ARTISTS Daniel Boschee, violin Caddie Derby, violin+ Anne Edge, viola Joe Bichsel, cello Dan Meuse, bassoon

GUESTS Violin Maria Aurelio+ Henning Gjertsen Jo Gjertsen Bethany Hermann Kylie Huss+ Camille McLean+ Livvy Rowley+

Viola Iila Kennelly Will Livingston+ Ryan Nguyen Cello Sky Lin+ Maddie Nelsen+ Shriya Prasanna+ Lynlea Swanson+

Bass Kalee Verd+ Trumpet Taylor Hopps+ Trombone Cade McBride+ Max Minjares+

+SOGO Alumnus

CAMERON MAY, SOGO Music Director & Conductor

CAMERON MAY is Music Director of SOGO and the SPSCC Symphony Orchestra at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington, and the Portland Festival Symphony in Portland, Oregon.

During his tenure at SPSCC, in addition to conducting the orchestra, Mr. May has taught courses in college and career success, ear training, music fundamentals, and music theory, served as interim director of the SPSCC Jazz Band, and helped to build and launch the Associate in Music direct transfer degree.

Mr. May received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He continues to maintain his violin playing through his position as Principal Second Violin with the Lake Chelan Bach Fest Orchestra each July. When not conducting, teaching, or playing violin, Mr. May can be found reading on his back porch, walking in the woods, or going out of his way to chase after Amtrak trains.

GUEST SOLOISTS DANIELLE TOBIN, soprano, is a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. She’s sung roles and partial roles such as Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Frau Fluth in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Pamina in an English translation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. As a previous SOGO student for half a blink, she’s very excited to be able to sing with the orchestra today.

DAN COLGAN, tenor, is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. He has served as the Organist and Director of Music at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Olympia, WA since November of 2010. He is also the voice instructor at Centralia College, a co-Dean of the Olympia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and the Founder and Director of the Capital City Chorus of Olympia.

CRYSTAL ZIMMERMAN, mezzo-soprano, has made her home in the Pacific Northwest since the summer of 2004. Currently, she works as Music Faculty at St. Martin’s University, along with being a founding member of Olympia Opera Theatre, Vox Olympia, and Forza la Femme. In 2022 she performed as a soloist with the Vratsa Symphony in Bulgaria under the baton of Nickolas Carlson. Crystal Zimmerman received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University.

A resident of Shelton, WA, PAUL NAKHLA, baritone, performs regularly in the South Puget Sound, primarily in concert settings. He is a charter member of Vox Olympia, the premier chamber choir of the region, and has sung professionally with Seattle Pro Musica, the Olympia and Bremerton Symphonies, St. Martin’s University Symphony and Chorale, The Great Bend Chorale, and numerous other music organizations. Nakhla has served on the music faculties of South Puget Sound Community College and Olympic College and directed choirs at Shelton High School for the past two decades.

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