High Spirits Choir - It Is Good To Be Merry!

High Spirits Choir with director Ieva Wool presents our Spring 2023 concert It Is Good to Be Merry at St. Philip's Anglican Church in Vancouver, BC.

Song List:

00:00:55
Sorída (a Zimbabwe greeting)
Rosephanye Powell
soloists: Jen Balfour, Kate Chang, Megan Reiter

00:05:38
Hawai’i Aloha
words by Lorenzo Lyons, music by James McGranahan, arr. Jordan Sramek

00:10:48
It Is Good To Be Merry
trad. text, music by Jean Berger
soloists: Anita Perkins, Johanne Lemaire

00:14:50
On Children
words by Kahlil Gibran, music by Ysaye Barnwell

00:17:30
O Vos Omnes
Tomás Luis de Victoria

00:22:08
We Dance
lyrics by Janet Galván and Dominick DiOrio, music by Dominick DiOrio

00:24:42
Love
poem by Marjorie Pickthall, music by Matthew Emery

00:28:00
Cloudburst
poem by Octavio Paz, music by Eric Whitacre
soloists: Caroline Sniatynski, Connie MacLaren, Jürgen Stumper

00:38:40
Log Driver’s Waltz
Wade Hemsworth, arr. Ron Smail
soloist: Anita Perkins

00:43:20
Gee, Officer Krupke
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein

00:49:35
Sure On This Shining Night
poem by James Agee, music by Morten Lauridsen

00:54:46
Easy to Love
Cole Porter, arr. Paris Rutherford
soloists: Jen Balfour, Kate Chang, Megan Reiter
saxophone: Simon Hunkin

1:00:55
Smack Dab in the Middle
Jesse Stone writing as “Charles Calhoun,” arr. Darmon Meader
soloists: Rob Shaw, Shelley Waldie
saxophone: Simon Hunkin

1:13:35
Everything Possible
Fred Small, arr. Willi Zwozdesky

1:18:40
Irish Blessing
Joyce Eilers Bacak, trad. Irish text

1:21:45
Down By the Riverside
trad. spiritual, arr. Rosephanye Powell