HOLIDAY CONCERT

Eastern Symphony Orchestra

EIU Choral Ensembles: Concert Choir
University Mixed Chorus
Oratorio Society
Richard Robert Rossi, conductor
Cameron Craig & Michael Brandon Morales, graduate conductors

with special guests:

Charleston High School Advanced Chorus
Juliane Sharp, music director
Iroquois High School Chorus
Montana Thomason, music director

Dvorak Concert Hall

Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 4PM

Sponsored in part by the Charleston Area Charitable Foundation

and a generous gift from Herbert and Jane Lasky

PROGRAM

CHRISTMAS MUSIC FROM ENGLAND BY PHILIP LANE (b. 1950)

Wassail Dances
I. Somerset Wassail (Vivace)
II. Yorkshire (Andantino)
III. Gloucestershire Vivace)

The Night before Christmas

Cameron Craig, narrator

Three Christmas Pictures

I. Sleighbell Serenade
II. Starlight Lullaby
Cameron Craig, graduate conductor
III. Christmas Eve Waltz

Michael Brandon Morales, graduate conductor

INTERMISSION
 EASTERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORAL ENSEMBLES

Gloria…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…….Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Desirée Hassler, soprano

I. Gloria
II. Laudamus te
III. Domine Deus
IV. Domine fili unigenite
V. Dominus Deus, Agnus Dei
VI. Qui sedes ad desteram Patris

In the Bleak Midwinter…………………………………………………………………………………………….………….Richard Robert Rossi (b. 1962)

Desirée Hassler, soprano

We Wish You A Merry Christmas…………………………………………………….………Traditional Carol/Arranged by Arthur Warrell

EASTERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2016-2017 SEASON PERSONNEL

FLUTE
Kristen Alberty
Haley Borchers (co-princ.)
Tia Cowger
Alison Stangel (princ.)

OBOE
April Lee (co-princ.)^
Maja Malina (princ.)+

CLARINET
Jaymee Findlay (co-princ.)
Don Fisher (Bass Cl./Cl.)
Courtland Walters (princ.)

BASSOON/CONTRABASSOON
Bernard Borah*
Dillan Dorjahn (co-princ.) ʃ
Tyler Harr
Belle Moushon (princ.)

HORN
Joseph Goldstein (princ.)
Laura Hanrahan (co-princ.)
Jacob Hardy
Peter Hesterman*
(FacultyEmeritus)
Anthony Napolitano

TRUMPET
Chris Fryer (princ.)
Alexander Hoese (co-princ.)
Keaton Shumard

TROMBONE
Eric Dawson (princ.)
Jacob Hardy (co-princ.)
Tyler Harr
Max Kestner (bass)
John Wengerski

TUBA
Nickolas Arnold (princ.)
Marcial Bustamante (co-princ.)

PERCUSSION
Cheyenne Brickner
Craig R. Buckner
Carlos Maxwell
Laura Stephani Cohen G.
(princ./timp.)
Ben Damann (co-princ./timp.)

VIOLIN I
Sadie Armstrong ʃ
James Calderon^
Noel Chi ʃ
Charlotte Erickson ʃ
Tobias Gamino
Laurel Swenson-Hultz ʃ
Sharilyn Spicknall,
(concertmaster)
Kristin Stine
Sterling Stowell ʃ
Karen Swenson*
Abby Tolar^

VIOLIN II
Hannah Andersen ʃ
Judy Barford *(Faculty Emeritus)
Mikkel Beavers
Antonique Burnett
Rebecca Corwin ^
Terry Coulton^ (princ.)
Samantha Dominis
Emily Erickson ʃ
Heidi Erickson ʃ
Cameron Fisher ʃ
Casey Fisher ʃ
Abigail Hopkins ʃ
Nora Kollar
Hannah Warfel ʃ

VIOLA
Mikkel Beavers
Linda Dietzen^
Abigail Erickson ʃ
Elaine Fine^
Andrew Fuller^
Ruth Riegel*
Elizabeth Trower* (princ.)
Leonard Perkins^
Tanya Reed^
Rebecca Saul^

CELLO
Jenny Chi*
Andrew Emata^
Jonathan Fong
Kirsten Landowne^
Martha Lhamon^ (princ.)
William Schultz, Jr.*
Taylor Smith

BASS
Eliot Crispin
Julia Ford
Todd Gallagher^ (princ.)
Grayson Proffitt

HARP
Julia Jamieson^

PIANO
Jessica French

CELESTE
Laura Stephani Cohen G.
Tyler Harr

* = Faculty
ʃ = SHIP
^ = Community
+= Eastern Symphony
Chamber Orchestra