Songs of Home
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Contents:

Harmonium Choral Society:
1. Dide ta Deo, arr. Uzee Brown, Jr. (b.1950)
2. D’ror Yikra, arr. Alice Parker (b.1925)

The Combined Choirs:
3. Ah, Wide Steppe, arr. A.V. Sveshnikov (1890–1980)
4. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)

Harmonium Choral Society:
5. My Heart’s in the Highlands, Donna Gartman Schultz (b.1948)
6. My Cape Breton Home (fiddle solo), Jerry Holland
7. All Too Soon, arr. Stephen Hatfield (b.1956)
     Marilyn Kitchell, Max Kreiger, soloists;
8. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, arr. Rosephanye Powell (b.1962)
     Ellie Escher, soloist;

The Combined Choirs:
9. My God Is a Rock, arr. Ken Berg (b.1956)
     Joan O’Donnell, David Green, Murray Spiegel, Sarah Krieger, soloists;

Harmonium Chamber Singers:
10. O How Amiable, Thomas Weelkes (1575–1623)
11. Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil), Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
12. In My Room, The Beach Boys, arr. Friedman
13. Old Rosin the Beau, arr. Lee R. Kesselman (b.1951)

The Gargoyles:
14. The Promised Land, Miss M. Durham (fl.ca.1850), arr. Larry Bennett
15. Bound for Jubilee, Joyce Eilers (b.1941)

Harmonium Choral Society:
16. Bonaparte’s Retreat (fiddle solo), American, arr. Jay Unger
17. The Road Home, arr. Stephen Paulus (b.1949)
     Marilyn Kitchell, soloist;
18. When I Can Read My Title Clear, arr. Alice Parker
19. A Door Not Opened, Thomas Barth (b.1989)
20. How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place, Jonathan MacMillan (b.1989)
21. Nine Hundred Miles, arr. James Bennighof (b.1957)
     Kiera Casper, PJ Livesey, soloists;

The Combined Choirs:
22. Cluck Ol’ Hen, arr. Phillip Rhodes (b.1940)

Rehearsal accompanist: Joan Tracy;
Connor Leszczuk, fiddle;
Joe Keefe, Diane Pivarnik, Mark Hewitt, percussion;
Lindsay Preseau, flute;
George Leszczuk, bodhran;