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Barn Door Baking, p. 23

Calm ’n Sense Animal Care, p. 4

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Coach House on Dutch Neck, p. 4

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Damariscotta-Newcastle Lions Club, p. 28

DaPonte String Quartet, p. 28

Direction Woodworks, p. 32

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Heartwood Theater, p. 14

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Lincoln County News, p. 27

Lincoln Theater, p. 6

Lind Building and Renovation, p. 32

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Main Street Grocery, p. 10

Midcoast Energy Systems, p. 36

Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, p. 30

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Riverside Butcher, p. 8

Round Pound Coffee, p. 2

Salt Bay Framers, p. 4

Schooner Cove & St. Andrews Village, p. 12

Second Congregational Church, p. 8

Sheepscot Valley Chorus, p. 6

Shelley’s Flowers, p. 2

Skidompha Secondhand Bookshop, p. 20

Spear’s Vegetable Farm, p. 2

St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, p. 10

St. Patrick’s Church Choir, p. 4

Stepping Stone Housing, p. 26

Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, p. 34

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The Lincoln Home, p. 18

The Beach Plum Company, p. 30

Wallace Piano Service, p. 15

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Our Sponsors

Tapestry Singers gratefully acknowledges the contributions from the following:

Soloist Sponsor

First National Wealth

Management

Ru Monsell and John Longmaid

Instrumentalist Sponsor

Oliver and Janet Cusano

Cathy and Hayden Sears

Patron

Anonymous

Gary and Rosie Bensen

Judy and Fred Grey

Franklin and Joanna Holland

Catherine Lyons

Beth Preston

Sponsor

The Bausch family (for Bill)

Jim and Sarah Birkett

Dirk and Linda Brunner

Ann Creamer

John and Davilynn

Cowperthwaite

Elizabeth and Gordon Davis

Nancy Gault in memory of Robert T. Gault

Karen Haney and Keith Langendorfer

Donna Main in memory of Bill Bausch

Nadine Raley

Byron Stuhlman in memory of Hester Stuhlman

The Tolley Family

Sarah Tomasello in memory of Don Osier

Supporter

The Audy's

Griff and Joy Braley

Mary and Richard Chase

Anne and Chris Frost

Frazier Meade and Susan Meade

Friend

John D. Adams

Cally and Tom Aldrich

Carol Preston

Become a Tapestry Singers sponsor by by using the envelope insert or going to our website: TapestrySingerMaine.org/donate.

Tapestry Singers

Soprano

Sharon Abair

Cadence Balbo Towle

Linda Blomquist

Germaine Connolly

Hildy Ellis

Clara Fagan

Anne Fanelli

Nancy Gault

Violet Holbrook

Sarah Loud

Pam Meier

Jessica Picard

Kim Relick

Alto

Rosie Bensen

Taylor Briggs

Laurie Brown

Barrie Brusilla

Debby Carroll

Charlotte Cramer

Barbara Cray

Patty Hammar

Karen Haney

Leah Hayes

Dana Isenberg

Gabby Kimball

Catherine Lyons

Zora Margolis

Neptune Martin

Jaja Martin

Sue McLeod

Rachael Schuster

Sarah Tomasello

Tenor

Benjamin Agosto Matos

Sam Bailey

Mal Briggs

Oliver Cusano

Rick Horton

Niall Lessard

Hayden Sears

John Strong

Bass

Fred Bowers

Gordon Clark

Jim Crowley

Randy Cruz

Ivan DeGroote

Mark Freese

Justin French

Franklin Holland

Matthew Howarth

Gordon Lind

Dewey Meteer

Skip Simonds

Music Director

Beth Preston holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Brigham Young University and a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from University of Southern Maine. She directs the Newcastle-based Tapestry Singers, a community choir that has become known for championing the works of living composers. She was a founding member of Vox Nova Chamber Choir in Brunswick (now Una Voce Chamber Choir).

Ms. Preston also teaches privately, coaching singers who win awards, scholarships, and acceptance into prestigious postsecondary programs. Ms. Preston has provided the vocal coaching for both amateurs and professionals in Heartwood Regional Theater Company’s musical theater productions. She was awarded “Distinguished Choral Director of the Year 2010” from Maine American Choral Directors Association, “Music Educator of the Year 2013” from District 3 Music Educators, and “Maine Music Educator of the Year 2019” from Maine Music Educators Association.

June 2019 marked Ms. Preston’s retirement from Lincoln Academy and a thirty-seven-year career in the public schools where she conducted award-winning choirs and directed musical theater productions of the highest caliber. She has recently enjoyed working with older students to help them rebuild their voices and rediscover the joy of singing. She is the happy director of Classic Harmony, a group sponsored by Tapestry Singers for singers who are 55+.

Special Thanks

Pastor Marilee Harris and the folks at Damariscotta Baptist Church

Sean Fleming for arrangements and transcriptions

Karen Haney for behind-the-scenes work

Rehearsal and concert setup volunteers

Advertising volunteers

Concert front-of-house volunteers

EDUCATION • ENSEMBLE • EXCELLENCE 22ND SEASON

Program

Audience is kindly requested to turn off cell phones. There will be no intermission.

While By My Sheep arr. Hugo Jüngst (1853–1923)

Christmas Overture

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)

arr. Robert Longﬁeld (b. 1947)

Winter Solstice Carol William Beckstrand (b.1962)

Go Tell It on the Mountain arr. John Rutter (b. 1945)

O Little Town of Bethlehem

arr. Stephen Paulus (1949–2014)

Gesu Bambino Pietro Yon (1886–1943)

arr. John Leavitt (b. 1956)

I Wonder as I Wander

The Huron Carol

Fantasia on Greensleeves

John Jacob Niles (1892–1980)

arr. Ruth Elaine Schram (b. 1956)

Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649)

arr. Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

Prayer to Jesus George Oldroyd (1887–1956)

Stille Nacht

Rise Up Shepherd and Follow

Haneirot Halalu

Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863)

arr. Chip Davis (b. 1947)

arr. André Thomas (b. 1952)

arr. Stanley M. Hoffman (b. 1959)

O, ir kleyne likhtelekh Traditional Hanukkah Song arr. Sean Fleming

Zora Margolis, Alto

Debby Carroll, Accordion

A Holiday Sing Along arr. Audrey Snyder (b. 1953) (lyrics on p. 19)

Jingle Bells James Pierpont (1822–1893) arr. Gordon Langford (1930–2017)

Auld Lang Syne Mairi Campbell and David Franci arr. Michael Hanawalt and Justine Sasanfar

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, arr. Mark Hayes (b. 1953)

Instrumentalists

Carol Preston, Violin

Julia O’Brien-Merrill, Violin

Jeanie Wester, Viola

Karen Jung, Cello

Eileen Bonine, Flute

Kristen Fox, Oboe

Rachel Boddie, Clarinet

Carolyn Kanicki, French Horn

Debby Carroll, Accordion

S h a r e laughter & companionship.

C o n n e c t with culture & community.

E n g a g e intellectually, actively & creatively.

D i n e on locally sourced innovative cuisine.

E x p e r i e n c e nature & the outdoors.

R e l a x knowing all your needs will be met.

J O I N U S

Deck the Hall

A Holiday Sing-Along Lyrics

Deck the hall with boughs of holly

(chorus) Fa la la la la la la la la ’Tis the Season to be jolly

Don we now our gay apparel

Troll the ancient yuletide carol

Fast away the old year passes

Hail the new, ye lads and lasses

Sing we joyous all together

Heedless of the wind and weather

Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh

O’er the ﬁelds we go laughing all the way.

Bells on bobtail ring making spirits bright.

What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight!

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way.

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way.

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

O Christmas Tree

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are your branches.

Not only green in summer’s glow

But ever green in winter’s snow.

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are your branches.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year!

Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin.

Glad tidings for Christmas

And a Happy New Year!

We wish you a merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year!

Haneirot Halalu

Translations

These Chanukah lights we kindle

In honor of the miracles, the wonders

And salvation wrought and wars

You fought, for our fathers, In days of yore and in present time

By the hands of Your holy priests.

And throughout Chanukah's eight days

These lights, these lights shall be sacred:

No right to make use of them have we

Only to look at them and see, That Your great Name we may thank and praise

For the miracles and salvation

You brought

And for Your wondrous deeds.

O ir kleyne likhtelekh

O you little candles

You tell of histories

Uncountable stories

You tell of combat, Of resourcefulness and courage, Miracles of long ago.

O you little candles

Your lessons of history

Awaken my torment

It moves my heart

And with tears it asks What will happen now? What will happen now?

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Accompanist

Sean Fleming is an in-demand keyboard artist, accompanist, and arranger. He performs regularly with Classic Harmony, the Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival Chorus, St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, and Tapestry Singers. He performs regularly with his two bands, the Sean Fleming Ragtime Band, and the Sean Fleming Dixieland Band. He is on the roster of the Amethyst Chamber Ensemble, and is a member of the Maine Friends of Music chamber ensemble. He was recently the music director for the Hearts Ever Young troupe. He regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals. He has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Chorus, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Colby College Chorale, Down East Singers, Maine Pro Musica, Midcoast Community Chorus, Oratorio Chorale, Renaissance Voices, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, University of Southern Maine Chorale, University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, and Vox Nova Chamber Choir.

Sean Fleming has directed or accompanied over eighty musical theater productions nationwide. He has served as the music director, orchestra conductor, and accompanist for Heartwood Regional Theater Company‘s productions of “Big River,” “Into the Woods,” “Man of La Mancha,” “The Secret Garden,” and many others. With the Watts Hall Community Players he was the music director for “Once Upon A Mattress,” “The Pirates of Penzance,” “The Music Man,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” the premiere of the new musical “Count Me In!,” “H.M.S. Pinafore,” and most recently “Spamalot.”

A piano and organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Mr. Fleming studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past thirty years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. Over his long career he has played for Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Congregational, Methodist, and Baptist services.

He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation grant award.

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SSHI, Inc. owns several properties in Bremen, Bristol, and Damariscotta, with the intention of expanding the number of housing units in the years to come. We currently serve over a dozen individuals.

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Guest Artists

Kayleigh Tolley, mezzo-soprano, grew up in Waldoboro, Maine, and attended Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in opera performance at the Boston Conservatory, studying with Dr. Rebecca Folsom. She is a recent graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory where she earned a Bachelor of Music in voice performance and a B.A. in psychology. Most recently, she portrayed Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel at Chicago Summer Opera. Her operatic repertoire also includes Nancy in Albert Herring, Zandra in the world premiere of Melissa Dunphy's Alice Tierney, La Zelatrice in Suor Angelica, and Fidalma in Il Matrimonio Segreto. Her artistic journey has been enriched by collaborations with student composers, workshop experiences of new operatic works, and a memorable residency with composer Jake Heggie.

Anne Fanelli, soprano, grew up in Maryland and completed her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance at the New England Conservatory of Music. Some of her previous engagements include the roles of Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème and Virtù in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with the New England Conservatory's (NEC's) Undergraduate Opera Studio. She also sang in the chorus of Gounod's La Reine de Saba and Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orlean with Odyssey Opera in Boston, and in the chorus of Puccini's La Bohème with Boston Opera Collaborative. Anne has performed as the soprano soloist for various concert works including Mozart's Missa Brevis in D Major with the Blue Lake Fine Arts Festival in Michigan and Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer with the NEC Chamber Singers.

Ms. Fanelli was raised outside of Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Maine this past June.

Ethereal Weaves of Air

Passionate & Fiery Compositions

Guest Artists (continued)

Jonas Rimkunas, tenor, is a native Mainer and recent graduate of the University of Southern Maine's Osher School of Music and the Maryland Opera Studio. Planning to pursue a career in wooden boat building, he shifted course when singing with a barbershop quartet inspired him to seek a degree in music performance. He found his love of opera when he performed the role of Tamino in USM's production of Die Zauberﬂöte. With the Miami Music Festivals, Mr. Rimkunas sang the role of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, as well as multiple roles in their production of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. He performed with Opera Maine in L'elisir d'amore in 2021, and The Flying Dutchman in 2022, when he was named the 2022 Ellen Chickering Young Artist. At the University of Maryland Opera Studio, he sang the title role of Albert Herring and Arcadio ni Florencia en el Amazonas. Most recently he performed in The Crucible with Opera in the Pines based in Scarborough, Maine.

Joshua Miller, baritone, is a Maine native hailing from Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine's Osher School of Music, where he studied vocal performance with Ellen Chickering. After graduation, Josh moved to New York City where he sang Harasta in Janáöek's Prihody Lisky Bystrousky with Dell'arte Opera Ensemble, Pish-Tush in New York Gilbert & Sullivan Player's reimagined Gilbert and Sullivan classic The Mikado, and Sam in Metro West Opera's staging of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. In recent years, Joshua has turned his attention to oratorio, performing as the baritone soloist in Mendelssohn's Elijah, VaughanWilliams' Five Mystical Songs, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt. Joshua is a keen outdoorsman, an amateur naturalist, and an International Society of Arboriculture-certiﬁed arborist, all of which brought him back to Maine in early 2022 to live permanently.

Board of Directors

Sue McLeod, President

Randy Cruz, Treasurer

Rosie Bensen, Secretary

Gordon Clark, Director at Large

Jaja Martin, Director at Large

Skip Simonds, Director at Large

Niall Lessard, President-Elect

Ann Springhorn, President Emeritus

Personnel

Bookkeeper: Taylor Briggs

Webmasters: Karen Haney and Jean Haney

Advertising and Publicity: Karen Haney,

Beth Preston, Rosie Bensen

Formalwear: Taylor Briggs and Debby Carroll

Program Editor: Carol Preston

Audition for January-June 2025 Semester

Tapestry Singers is an auditioned group with a mix of professional and skilled amateur singers who perform classical choral music, championing the work of living composers. The audition includes checking voice range, quality, and music reading skills. Ability to read music is preferable but willingness to learn your part outside of rehearsal is a must.

To request and audition: tapestrysingersmaine.org/sing-with-us