March 13 and 14, 2004

Program

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Capitol Hill Chamber Chorus

• "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!" - Claude Debussy, words by Charles d'Orléans
• "Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis" - Maurice Ravel, words by Paul Painlevé
• "Luire" - Francis Poulenc, words by Paul Eluard

Capitol Hill Chorale Women, with the Capricorn Sextet

• "To a Wild Rose" - Edward MacDowell, words by Hermann Hagedorn

Piano Solo: "Blue Lullaby" - George Gershwin, from Prelude II

Capricorn Sextet

• Medley: "I'm Comin' Virginia" - Heywood Cook
  "I'll Be a Friend with Pleasure" - Maceo Pinkard
  (with the Capitol Hill Chorale)

Piano Solo: "In the Dark" - Bix Beiderbecke (with a reading by Rod Jellema of his poem "In the Dark")

Capitol Hill Chorale, with the Capricorn Sextet

• "Star Dust" - Hoagy Carmichael, words by Mitchell Parish
• Medley: "Blue River" - Joseph Meyer, words by Alfred Bryan
  "Davenport Blues" - Bix Beiderbecke
• "Skylark" - Hoagy Carmichael, words by Johnny Mercer
• "Old Gander's Weeping" - Charles Mead, words by Johan Moser
• "Snowfall" - Claude Thornhill, words by Ruth Thornhill
• "Circles" - Dave Brubeck, words by Wendell Berry
• "Iroquois Prayer" - Charles Mead, text from Iroquois Law of Great Peace