Acorn House

CIRCA 1830ACHORN HOUSE

PSYCHOTHERAPY LCPC Carol Sherman Hayes, LCSW Lisa Katz, LCSW Christine Kimball, LCSW Jane McKinney, LCSW Kristen Sheppard, LCSW Kristin Stone, LCPC Jody Telfair-Richards, PHD

MASSAGE THERAPY , LMT

ACUPUNCTURE Sharon Gordon, M.AC., DIPL.AC.

YOGA , Yoga Instructor

Director’s Notes

The Tapestry Singers are excited to reconnect as a group and with their audience! It's been a long time since community choirs have been able to sing together inside and in person. What better way to rejoin the world of song than with a good, old-fashioned Christmas concert with audience sing-along songs? We are very happy to have nine new members and a number of returning singers. The group includes members from high-school age through 80-somethings. The singers have a range of musical training, but everyone it is expected that everyone will practice on their own and then rehearse hard for two hours on Monday nights. The pieces for this concert were selected with the thought that the rehearsal schedule might have to be modified due to CDC cautions or restrictions.

The December concert borrows its title, "Ring Those Christmas Bells,” from the peppy tune recorded back in 1959 by Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians. Though it feels a little “cheezy”, it features some difficult close harmonies and a dazzling piano four-hand part. First recorded in1954 in its original choral arrangement, “Caroling, Caroling” found its way into the mainstream with recordings by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, and Perry Como. The Alfred Burt Carol collection is of musical Christmas cards that were shared, one each year by the patriarchs of the Burt family.

“Ding! Dong! Merrily On High” is delightfully arranged by Mack Wilberg, director of the world-famous Tabernacle Choir. The tune first appeared in the 1500s as a dance tune known under the title “Branle de l’Official." It was first published as a carol in 1924 with lyrics by George Ratcliffe Woodward which combine both English and Latin. Ola Gjeilo (pronounced Yay-lo) was born in Norway in 1978 and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in