Songs of the New World

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On Christmas Night

 

Performers

  • Guelph Chamber Choir
  • Gerald Neufeld, conductor
  • Alison MacNeill, accompanist

Featured soloist

  • Kevin McMillan, baritone

Description

This collection of songs evokes the bygone spirit and character of parts of North America that were once known as the New World. They will take you on a journey through Upper Canada (Ontario), the New England states, the deep South, and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Some of the ballads depict amusing events while others express the melancholy love and longing of people in hardship. Many of the songs are rousing expressions of love for the land of their origin.

Program

Folk Songs of Ontario -- Ruth Watson Henderson

  1. Come all You Bold Canadians
  2. The Maggie Hunter
  3. The Banks of the Don
  4. Les Raftsmen

Soloists: Marcus Kramer, Neil McLaren

The Spell of Times Long Past -- Nancy Telfer

  1. Love Song
  2. Solitude
  3. The Wind and the Flower
  4. The Sailor's Sweetheart

Three Mountain Ballads -- Ron Nelson

  1. He's Gone Away
  2. Will He Remember
  3. Barbara Allen

Shenandoah -- James Erb Spirituals

  1. Deep River -- arr. Roy Ringwald
  2. Soon ah will be done -- arr. Dianne Loomer
  3. Witness -- arr. Jack Halloran

Maritime Folk Songs -- arr. John Beckwith

  1. Farewell to Nova Scotia
  2. The Banks of Newfoundland
  • Soloist: Kevin McMillan, Percussion, David Campion

Song for Canada -- Paul Halley

Soloist: Kevin McMillan