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Concert FAQ
The NCS is supported in part by grants from the
Amesbury, Georgetown, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury
Cultural Councils,
local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural
Council, a state agency.
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Past
Concerts
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2006-2007 Season
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Winter Concert Program
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Bach's Mass in B Minor, Kyrie and Gloria
movements
Music of the Holiday Season |
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2005-2006
Season
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Spring Concert Program
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Solemn Vespers
Coronation Mass
Regina Coeli
Ave Verum |
Winter Concert Program
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Advent and Christmas Portions of Handel's Messiah |
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2004
- 2005 Season
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Spring
Concert Program  |
Holst: Hymn of Jesus
Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass |
Winter
Concert Program
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Selected
holiday music
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2003-2004
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Opera Choruses
Bizet: "March of the Toreadors" (Carmen)
Bizet: "Habanera" (Carmen)
Tchaikovsky: "Chorus of Peasant Girls" (Eugene Onegin)
Mussorgsky: "Coronation Scene" (Boris Godunov)
Verdi: "Brindisi" (La Traviata)
Verdi: "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" (Nabucco)
Verdi: "Triumphal Scene" (Aida)
Verdi: "Anvil Chorus" (Il Trovatore)
Beethoven: "Prisoners' Chorus" (Fidelio)
Borodin: "Polovetsian Dances" (Prince Igor)
Wagner: "Procession and Chorale" (Die Meistersinger)
Mozart: "Priests' Chorus" (The Magic Flute)
Mascagni: "Easter Hymn" (Cavalleria Rusticana) |
Winter
Concert Program
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Vivaldi: Magnificat
Rutter: Nativity Carol
Harris: Bring Us O Lord God
Vaughan Williams: Old Hundredth Psalm
Berlioz: The Shepherds' Farewell
Elgar: Lux Aeterna
Wood: Hail Gladdening Light
Other audience participation carols, some featuring community
guest conductors |
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2002-2003
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Mendelssohn:
Elijah |
Winter
Concert Program 
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Willcocks:
Magnificat
Willcocks: Il est ne' le divin enfant
Rachmaninoff: Selections from All-Night Vigil, Opus 37
No.3 "Blessed Is The Man"
No.6 "Rejoice, O Virgin"
No.7 "The Six Psalms"
Dawson: arrangements of Spirituals
Ain'-a That Good News!
There Is A Balm In Gilead
Soon-ah Will Be Done
Other audience participation carols, some featuring community
guest conductors |
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2001-2002
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Handel:
Coronation Anthems
Chorus: "Zadok the Priest"
Chorus: "Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened"
Handel: from Samson
Soprano
Solo: "Let the Bright Seraphim"
Chorus: "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite"
Mozart: Requiem |
Winter
Concert Program
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French traditional
melody: A Maiden Most Gentle
Old German carol: In Dulce Jubilo
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria
Appalachian Carol, arr. John Rutter: I Wonder As I Wander
John Rutter: Mary's Lullaby
Captain Kidd, arr. Alice Parker: God Is Seen
Traditional hymn, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw: Wondrous
Love
Negro spiritual, arr. Robert Shaw: Set Down, Servant!
Vivaldi: Gloria
Other audience participation carols, some featuring community
guest conductors |
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2000-2001
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Handel:
Judas Maccabaeus |
Winter
Concert Program
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Medieval
carol, arr. David Willcocks: Angelus ad Virginem
Michael Praetorius: Lo, How a Rose e're Blooming
English traditional carol, arr. John Rutter: Here We Come
A-Wassailing
Peter Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Canadian Brass, arr. Howard Cable: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Melody from Piae Cantiones, arr. David Willcocks: Good King
Wenceslas
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
English traditional carol, arr. David Willcocks: God Rest
You Merry Gentlemen
Traditional west country carol, arr. Arthur Warrell: A Merry
Christmas
John Rutter: Jesus Child
John Rutter: Gloria
Other audience participation carols, some featuring community
guest conductors |
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1999-2000
Season
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Spring
Concert Program (65th Anniversary)
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Verdi: Te Deum
Francis Poulenc: Gloria
Marjorie Merryman: One Blood - premier performance of
this work commissioned by NCS |
Winter
Concert Program
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Britten:
Saint Nicholas
Morten Lauridsen: O Nata Lux
English carol, arr. John Rutter: I Saw Three Ships
German carol, arr. Phillip Ledger: Still, Still, Still
English carol, arr. John Rutter: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Other audience participation carols |
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1998-1999
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Bach:
Mass in B minor |
Winter
Concert Program
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Susa: Carols
and Lullabies
Bruckner: Virga
Jesse Pachelbel: Nun Danker
Other audience participation carols
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1997-1998
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Bizet: "Habanera"
(Carmen)
Bizet: "March of the Toreadors" (Carmen)
Borodin: "Polovetsian Dances" (Prince Igor)
Handel: "Chorus of Enchanted Islanders" (Alcina)
Mascagni: "Easter Hymn" (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Purcell: "Dido's Lament" (Dido and Aenaeus)
Purcell: "Final Chorus" (Dido and Aenaeus)
Verdi: "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" (Nabucco)
Verdi: "Triumphal Scene" (Aida)
Verdi: "Triumphal Scene" (Aida)
Wagner: "Pilgrims' Chorus" (Tannhauser)
Wagner: "Procession and Chorale" (Die Meistersinger)
Wagner: "Spinning Chorus" (The Flying Dutchman) |
Winter
Concert Program
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Bach:
Magnificat
John Rutter compositions and arrangements:
What Sweeter Music
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Mary's Lullaby
Jesus Child
English Christmas carol: I Saw Three Ships
Other audience participation carols |
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1996-1997
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Handel:
Israel in Egypt |
Winter
Concert Program
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Rachmaninoff:
Lord Now Lettest Thou
Rachmaninoff: Having Beheld the Resurrection
Praetorius: Psallite
Holst: Lullay My Liking
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Other audience participation carols |
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1996
Season
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Spring
Concert Program
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Verdi:
Requiem |
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