Repertoire for 2005 Spain/France Tour

The following is the repertoire of songs the MBCC Senior Choir took along with us on our tour of Spain and France, 25 June to 12 July 2005, though of course we didn't sing all of them at each concert! The songs are of several styles, and include many that the MBCC congregation has heard us sing in services, as well as some secular songs we presented in our "La Musique de la Nuit" pre-tour concert on 20-21 May 2005.

Sacred: Classical Style

• Agnus Dei, by Thomas Morley, edited by Henry Clough-Leighter
• Cantate Domino, by Giuseppe Pitoni, edited by Norman Greyson
• I Have Longed for Thy Saving Health, by William Byrd, arranged by Alfred Whitehead
• Kyrie Eleison, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Of A Rose, A Lovely Rose, by John Rutter (from Magnificat)
• Sanctus, by Craig Courtney
• Tenebrae Factae Sunt, by Robert H. Young
• The Christ-Child, by Robert H. Young
• Ubi Caritas, by Bob Hurd, arranged by Craig Kingsbury
• Salve Regina, from Liber Cantualis
• El Virolai, by Jacint Verdaguer, traditional Catalan hymn of Montserrat
• For the Beauty of the Earth, by John Rutter

Sacred: Spirituals/Contemporary Style

• Down to the River to Pray, traditional, arranged by Sheldon Curry
• Elijah Rock, traditional, arranged by Jester Hairston
• For the Beauty of the Earth, by John Rutter
• Mary, Did You Know?, by Mark Lowry & Buddy Green, arranged by Bruce Greer
• On Jordan's Stormy Banks, attributed to C. F. Letson, arranged by Howard Helvey
• Order My Steps, by Glenn Burleigh, arranged by Jack Schrader
• Poor Man Lazrus, arranged by Jester Hairston
• Rise and Shine, by Todd Jolly, arranged by Allan Robert Petker
• Spirit, Now Live in Me, by Brian Leech
• 23rd Psalm, by Bobby McFerrin
• Lord, Listen to Your Children, by Ken Medema, arranged by Jack Schrader

Jazz

• Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce!, by Don George & Duke Ellington, arranged by Kirby Shaw
• I'm Beginning to See the Light, by Don George, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington, & Harry James, arranged by Kirby Shaw
• Blue Skies, by Irving Berlin, arranged by Steve Zegree
• The Nearness of You, by Ned Washington & Hoagy Carmichael, arranged by Mac Huff
• I'll Be Seeing You, by Irving Kahal & Sammy Fain, arranged by Linda Steen Spevacek

Other Secular

• Medley from The Phantom of the Opera, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. various
• Dirait-on, by Morten Lauridsen (from Les Chansons des Roses, a setting of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)

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new 30 May 2005, revised 12 July 2005