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Northwestern College Choir and Strings
Tour Program 2008
Timothy Sawyer and David Kozamchak, conductors


In Praise of Music: A Gift from God

I wish to see all arts, principally music, in the service of Him who gave and created them. Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I would not for the world forego my humble share of music......the devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.” (Martin Luther – from his foreword to the Wittenberg Gesangbuch, 1524)

I.
Laudate (Choral Fanfare)

Leland B. Sateren (1913-2007)

Seek Not Afar for Beauty
Leland B. Sateren

Singet Dem Herrn (Sing to the Lord a New Song)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
(motet BWV #225 for double choir; sung in German)
with continuo (cello, bass, keyboard)

II.
Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’

Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958)

III.
Psalm 100
René Clausen
arr. Drew Collins
Four hands piano arr. David Schut

There is No Rose
René Clausen
Solo cello and harp

God Thou Art Love
Craig Courtney

Jesus, I Adore Thee
13th century Chant arr. Stephen Caracciolo

Intermission/Offering
Presentation of Northwestern College




IV.
Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)


I. A tempo giusto
II. Allegro
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro
V. Allegro

V.
Let All The World in Every Corner Sing
(Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Four hands piano arr. Stuart Macintosh

Cantique de Jean Racine, Opus 11
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
ed. by John Rutter


In Christ Alone
Stuart Townend and Keith Getty
arr. David Angerman

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Four hands piano arr. Howard Helvey

Benediction:
Stay With Us (From Captive and Free)
Egil Hovland

Additional Repertoire:

Congori Shangó

Arr. William Belan

Quien Fuéra Como el Jasmín (from Indianas)
Carlos Guastavino

What a Wonderful World
Arr. René Clausen

Praise His Holy Name
Keith Hampton