Choral Christmas, December 4, 1996

Recorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, December 4, 1996, 8:00 p.m., the 203rd concert of the School of Music's 1996-1997 season.Collegiate Singers, Thomas Kasdorf, conductor ; Treble Chorus, Elena Sharkova Aron, conductor ; assisted by: Brian Katona, Sean Mirate, accompanists ; Karl Schrock, organ ; Eric Shumsky, viola ; Evelyn Iverson, harp ; Brian Urso and James Becker, trumpet ; Keely O'Hara, horn ; Paul Mundo, trombone, Michael McDonald, tuba ; Keith Horn, timpani ; various vocal soloists.Information from performance program.Contrapunctus IV / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Audience carol: O come, all ye faithful / arranged by John Ferguson -- O come, o come, Emmanuel / French processional ; arranged by John Ferguson -- Magnificat. Magnificat ; Et misericordia (Susan Greenman, soprano ; Christine Anderson, alto) ; Deposuit potentes ; Suscipit Israel (Daniel Bursch, bass ; Michael Clark, tenor) ; Sicut locutus est ; Sicut erat in principio / [attributed to] Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; [beginning likely composed by Francesco Durante] -- Come leave your sheep / arranged by John Rutter -- What sweeter music / John Rutter ; text, Robert Herrick -- Ding dong merrily on high / arranged by Chester L. Alwes -- Audience carol: Joy to the world / [attributed here to George Frideric Handel] -- A ceremony of carols : for treble voices and harp, op. 28. I. Procession ; II. Wolcum yole! ; III. There is no rose ; IVa. That yongë child (Jamie Jancek, soprano) ; IVb. Balulalow (Amberlee Haynes, soprano) ; V. As dew in Aprille ; VI. This little babe ; IX. Spring carol (Jenn Roth and Amberlee Haynes, soprano) ; X. Deo gracias / Benjamin Britten -- Audience carol: Hark! the herald angels sing / Felix Mendelssohn ; arranged by John Ferguson -- A feast of carols / arranged by Randol Alan Bass