Goode Cheare

Performers

Guelph Chamber Choir
Gerald Neufeld, conductor
Alison MacNeill, accompanist

Featured Instrumentalists

Oliver Whitehead Jazz Ensemble
Henry Janzen, viola

Description

Much of the music on this compact disc is about the integration of the Christmas story into a society's myths, and the mode of their presentation is an adaptation of old carols and texts to the jazz and world-music idioms of the 21st century. Accompanied by the Oliver Whitehead Jazz Ensemble, these carols, old and new, are alternately soulful and lively with instrumental improvisations that give them their distinctive character.

Programme

1. Masters in this Hall/Bryan O'Lynn's Jig | arr. Shaw/Parker/Oliver Whitehead - trad. French

2. Carol of the Birds | arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Spanish

3. Fum, Fum, Fum | arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Spanish

4. All Hayle to the Dayes | arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. English

5. Gaudete | arr. Oliver Whitehead

6. Huron Carol | arr. Stephen Holowitz and Whitehead - trad. Canadian/Huron

7. Hodie | Oliver Whitehead

8. Patapan | arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Burgundian

9. I May Not Go to Bethlehem | Jeff Smallman

10. A 'Soalin' | arr. Donald Patriquin - trad. English

11. Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day | arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. English

12. Voices of Light | Paul Halley

13. The World Awaits | Stephen Holowitz

14. Carol of the Bells | arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Ukranian

15. In the Bleak Mid-winter | Gustav Holst - arr. Oliver Whitehead

Available for $20

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