Isthmus Vocal Ensemble, Inc.

Friday, August 7, 2009
7:30 pm
Luther Memorial Church
1021 University Ave. Madison, Wisconsin 53715

Thanks to all who joined us for our eighth annual performance on Friday, August 7, 2009, for an evening of extraordinary choral works from the British Isles. Five centuries of masterworks spanned Byrd, Weelkes, and Wilbye through Britten and contemporary selections. All in the glorious acoustics of Luther Memorial Church.

Special guests included organist Kathrine Handford and pianist Jane Peckham, alongside our crew of world-class choral singers under the baton of Scott MacPherson.

It's once a year. It's gone in a moment. It was a night to remember!

CONCERT PROGRAM (subject to change)
O Sing Joyfully	Adrian Batten
Be unto me, O Lord	William Byrd
Draw on Sweet Night	John Wilbye
Thule, the period of cosmography The Andalusian Merchant	Thomas Weelkes
Three Shakespeare Songs 1. Full Fathom Five 2. The Cloud Capp'd Towers 3. Over Hill, Over Dale	Ralph Vaughan Williams
Rejoice in the Lamb	Benjamin Britten
Intermission
Let the people praise thee, O God	William Mathias
Song for Athene	John Tavener
Nunc dimittis	Gustav Holst
Ring Out, Wild Bells	Jonathan Dove
I love my love	arr. Gustav Holst
I'm seventeen come Sunday	arr. Percy Grainger
ENCORES
I sat down under His shadow	Edward Bairstow
Oliver Cromwell	Benjamin Britten