Sorellanza March 2011 Concerts

When	Where: please follow links for directions
Saturday March 12, 2011 7:30pm	The Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church 323 Locust Street Danvers, MA 01923
Sunday March 13, 2011 4pm	First Parish Church 225 Cabot Street Beverly, MA 01915
Friday March 25, 2011 7:30pm	St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 1123 Washington Street Lanesville, Gloucester, Ma 01930
Saturday March 26, 2011 7:30pm	St. John's Episcopal Church 48 Middle Street Gloucester, Mass. 01930
Sunday March 27, 2011 4pm	St. Mary's Episcopal Church 24 Broadway Rockport, MA

Tentative Program:
Sail Away Ladies!  Traditional, arr. by J. Harrington
Because   John Lennon, arr. by P. Pike
The Rose   Amanda McBroom, arr. KirbyShaw
Hallelujah   Leonard Cohen, arr. by Deke Sharon
Time After Time  Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman, arr. by Deke Sharon
Ave Maria    Fabio Fresi
Yih'yu L'ratzon  Traditional, arr. by Sherry Kosinski
Wondrous Love  Hymn, arr. by James Christopher
Objetos   Matthew Harris
O jesu mi dulcissime  Adam Krieger
The Nightingale   Thomas Weelks, arr. by Henry Leslie
Shenandoah   Traditional, arr. by William G. Lycan
Tuxedo Junction   Buddy Feyne, etc. arr. by June Dale

Save the Dates!

We are preparing a wide variety of new music to present in 4 concerts in March 2011:
Saturday and Sunday:  March 12th and 13th
Saturday and Sunday: March 26th and 27th

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We are having so much fun rehearsing arrangements of Because (Beatles), Wondrous Love (hymn), Sail Away, Ladies! (traditional), Yih'yu L'ratzon (Hebrew hymn), Ave Maria (Fabio Fresi, b. 1979), Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper), The Rose (Amanda McBroom), Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen), Objetos (Matthew Harris), O Virtus Sapient (Hildegard von Bingen)...and more!

Sorellanza to perform 2 Best Of Concerts in October

Sunday, October 3rd at 4pm at St. John's, 48 Middle St., Gloucester, MA
Saturday, October 23rd at 7pm at St. Adelaide's, 708 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA

The program will include the following beloved pieces:

Yemaya Marytha Paffrath
Sentimental Journey Green, Brown & Homer
My Star Bedrich Bedrich Smetana
Bright Morning Star Traditional, arr. Paul Siskind
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lennon & McCartney
The Swallows Arrived Smetana
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree Tobias, Brown & Stept

Now I Walk in Beauty Navajo lyrics, music Gregg Smith, arr. A. Coates-Vinson & P. Pike
This Girl Lennon & McCartney
Prayer from “Haensel and Gretel” Englebert Humperdinck
Motherless Chil' Traditional
Sunset Smetana
Fix You Coldplay
When You Wish Upon a Star Washington & Harline, arr. P. Pike
Honey in the Rock Spiritual

Our Most Recent Concert, April 2010

Walking On Sunshine

Niño y Trompo music, Matthew Harris; lyrics, Octavio Paz
Ave Maria Javier Busto
Vere Longuores Antonio Lotti (circa 1667–1740)
Somewhere music, Leonard Bernstein; lyrics, Steven Sondheim
Motherless Chil’ traditional spiritual, arr. Carol Maillard
Amazing Grace traditional melody, arr. Kirby Shaw
Walking on Sunshine Kimberley Rew, arr. Deke Sharon
Embraceable You George and Ira Gershwin, arr. Kirby Shaw
Beauty and the Beast music, Alan Menken; lyrics, Howard Ashman
Till There Was You Meredith Wilson, arr. Kirby Shaw
Stand by Me Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller arr. Mac Huff
There’s Honey in the Rock traditional spiritual

Selections from our first concert, April 2006

Songs of Love and  Companionship

Yemaya arr. Marytha Paffrath
O Virgo Splendens 14th-century Spain
Fire, Fire Thomas Morley, arr. Russell Robinson
Mon Coeur Se Recommande à Vous Orlando di Lasso arr. Russell Robinson
Here, There and Everywhere Paul McCartney
“Lift Thine Eyes” (from Elijah) Felix Mendelssohn
Benedictus Johannes Brahms
Sentimental Journey Bud Green, Les Brown
And the Women Dancing Debbie Friedman arr. Patti Pike
Sure as the Wind Terry Dash

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