The Program for the WVC’s Fall 2024 Concerts

Gloria Antonio Vivaldi

Popular Choruses from Opera & Broadway

Do You Hear the People Sing from Le Misérables    Claude-Michel Schönberg arranged by R. De Fesi

Bring Him Home from Le Misérables    Claude-Michel Schönberg arranged by R. De Fesi

Evening Prayer from Hänsel und Gretel Englebert Humperdinck arranged by R. De Fesi

Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini edited by R. De Fesi

Regina Cœli from Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni edited by R. De Fesi

Va Pensiero from Nabuccco Giuseppe Verdi edited by R. De Fesi

Viens dans ce séjour paisible from Orpheé et Euridice C. W. von Gluck arranged by R. De Fesi

You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel Rogers & Hammerstein arranged by R. De Fesi

Traditional Holiday Songs

Go Tell It on the Mountain arr. by Harry Simeone

Hanukkah Shalom arr. by Dan Schwartz

Holiday Favorites (medley) arr. by R. Emerson

The holly and the ivy arr. by John Rutter

Sing and Dance, It’s Hanukkah Ruth Elaine Schram

Sing We Now of Christmas arr. by John Leavitt

We Need A Little Christmas arr. by Mac Huff

Hallelujah    from Messiah   George F. Handel

(This program listing is not in the order for the December concerts.)

Gail's practice tracks for Vivaldi's Gloria can be streamed and/or downloaded to your computer, tablet or smart phone.

New ==> Practice tracks for the "Popular Choruses from Opera & Broadway" and for the "Holiday" section of the program are now available streaming and downloading.  Click on your section to find these tracks.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Sopranos.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Altos.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Tenors.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Basses.

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Click here to sing along with a WVC performance and YouTube videos of  Vivaldi's Gloria. 

Click here to see the Wikipedia article on the Vivaldi Gloria.

Here are links to online sites for practicing the voice parts to the Gloria:   Cyberbass   and   Choralia

Click here to listen and sing along with "all-voices" versions of Ron's arrangements of "Popular Choruses from Opera & Broadway".

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Pronunciation guides to Ron's arrangements of choruses from opera and Broadway

Courtesy of Google Translate  here are four guides to the pronunciation of the texts in four of Ron's arrangements:

For learning the pronunciation of the text in the Vivaldi Gloria, listen and sing along to these recordings on YouTube:   here   and   here.

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Documents for Fall 2024

The document "Vocal Score for Vivaldi-Gloria from IMSLP ..." is a vocal score "in the public domain" for Vivaldi's Gloria.  It was downloaded from the IMSLP web site:  https://imslp.org.  Down load this version for a preview of the piece and for singing along with practice tracks and YouTube videos.

At registration, singers will be handed printed scores of the piece from the WVC library.