Sing and Rejoice! CD - 2009 Spring Concert

ChildrenSong of New Jersey presents its 2009 Spring Concert Sing and Rejoice!.

The concert will feature jazz, gospel, blues, folk, and spirituals by Aaron Copland, Moses Hogan, Irving Berlin and others, sung by the ChildrenSong choirs. Guest artist Michael Trotta will conduct his 2009 work When I Sing to Make You Dance, commissioned by ChildrenSong and written for ChildrenSong’s changed voices ensemble Cantate Singers.

Enjoy performances of these wonderful compositions:

1. Morning - words by Emily Dickenson / music by Janet Gardner
2. It’s Only a Paper Moon - lyrics by Billy Rose and E.Y. Harburg / music by H. Arlen / arr. Steve Zegree
   Lucas Ronner, percussion
3. The Storm is Passing Over - Charles A. Tindley / arr. Barbara Baker
4. Appalachian Suite - arr. Christine Jordanoff
5. Simply Alleluia - Donald Moore/William Boyce
   Polly Murray, flute
6. Silver the River - Stephen Paulus
7. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burnin' - arr. Greg Gilpin
8. My Landlord - Maureen Kenney
   Lucas Ronner, percussion
9. Mary Had a Little Blues - Charles Collins
   Lucas Ronner, percussion
10. Zion’s Walls - adapted by Aaron Copland / arr. by Glenn Koponen
11. On the Sunny Side of the Street - text by Dorothy Fields / music by Jimmy McHugh / arr. Ron Caviani
    Lucas Ronner, percussion
12. A Tisket, A Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman / arr. David Elliott
    Lucas Ronner, percussion
13. Music Down in My Soul - arr. Moses Hogan
    Rosemary Quigley, soloist
14. When I Sing to Make You Dance - music by Michael Trotta / words by Rabindranath Tagore
    Betsy Carter, soloist
    ChildrenSong of New Jersey 2009 Commission
15. Like a Mighty Stream - arr. by Moses Hogan / words and music by Moses Hogan & John Jacobson
16. Let My People Go - arr. by Roger Emerson
17. Bridge Over Troubled Water - words and music by Paul Simon / arr. Mark Hayes
18. O Give Thanks - text by Chaim Stern / music by Wayland Rogers
19. I Love a Piano - Irving Berlin / arr. Don Besig and Nancy Price
    Lucas Ronner, percussion