
Claire Kelm, soprano; Katherine McKee, contralto; Daniel Harper, countertenor/tenor; Colby Roberts, tenor, Mark Sumner, bass; Jason Jia, piano
THE CECILIA CONSORT
The Cecilia Consort, (named in homage to the patron saint of music), was created in the spring of 2019. Its ad hoc roster is composed of some of the Bay Area’s finest vocalists and instrumentalists. Performances in 2019 included an Evensong service at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in the Haight, (featuring music by Renaissance composers Edmund Hooper, John Sheppard, Peter Philips, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd), and a Christmas concert of motets by Hans Leo Hassler, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Tomás Luis de Victoria as well as a wide assortment of English and American carols. This performance marks the Consort’s first post-pandemic appearance.
‘Tis the season
The Noontime Concerts holiday program
Ding dong, merrily on high English Traditional, arr. David Willcocks
Facta est cum angelo Raffaella Aleotti
Christe, redemptor omnium Claudio Monteverdi
Sweet was the song the Virgin sang Anonymous
In the bleak midwinter Harold Drake, arr. Mark Sumner
Rocking Czech carol, arr, David Willcocks
Balulalow Peter Warlock
Cherry Tree Carol English Traditional, arr. David Willcocks
The Little Road to Bethlehem Michael Head
Stille Nacht Franz Gruber, arr. Donald Cashmore
A Christmas Carol Charles Ives
A Christmas Vision James Hurd
Maria walks amid the thorn 19th-century German carol, arr. Christoph Lahme
Christmas is coming! Walford Davies
Sussex Carol English Traditional, arr. David Willcocks
Gesù Bambino Pietro Yon
I saw three ships English Traditional, arr. David Willcocks
A Merry Christmas West Country Traditional, arr. Arthur Warrell