Constance Price leads the Essex Children’s Choir in VPR"s annual live holiday concert. Founded in 1985, the Choir has performed in Europe and on a Prairie Home Companion. Founder and Director Constance Price has dedicated her life to the music education of children at the highest level. She has been honored as Vermont Music Teacher of the Year and has been made a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Essex Children’s Choir of Vermont
Constance J. Price, founding
director
Karen Reed, accompanist
with
Vermont Artists members of VSO
Heidi Soons, harp
Anne Janson, flute/piccolo
Tom Toner, percussion
Essex Children’s Choir Ensemble
Katherine Botula, Essex
Casandra Besso, Jericho
Caryn Devins, Essex
Emily Johnson, Essex
Noelle Kichura, Underhill
Sarah Reed, Williston
Ellen Seyller, Essex
Gabriela Tellez, Essex
Junction
PROGRAM
Set I
a. ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime – Huron Carol, arr. J. Alban
Hinton;
piano and melodic percussion (3:20)
b. I Know A Flow’r – Melchoir
Vulpius 15th Century Canon; a
cappella (1:31)
c. Maria Walks Amid the Thorn –
Medieval German Carol, a setting
in melodic minor by Healey Willan
piano (3:00)
Set II Lullabies to the Christ Child
a. Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabelle – From Tableau de Noel French Carol arr. Stephen Mager;
harp & flute (3:15)
b. Infant
Holy – Polish Carol arr. by Mary
Goetze a cappella (3:30)
c. The Coventry Carol –
Traditional English, setting by Douglas E. Wagner; harp
(2:45)
Set III
a. Carol of the Drum – Czech Carol arr. by Katherine Davis; a cappella
& percussion; published 1941
Adapted in a setting in the sixties as The Little Drummer Boy by
Harry Simeone (2:28)
b. Japanese Christmas Carol –
Traditional arr. by T. Charles Lee;
harp (2:58)
c. Shepherd’s Pipe Carol – by
John Rutter; harp (3:00)
d.- 1 North
Winds Blow by Zoltan Kodaly- a cappella ( :25)
d- 2 Christmas
Dance of the Shepherds – by
Zoltan Kodaly a cappella (1:55)
Set IV Songs for the Holiday Season
a. Prayer from “Hansel & Gretel” – by Engelbert
Humperdinck piano (2:18)
b. Hanerot Halalu – Baruch J.
Cohon, arr. by Blanche Chass (A Song
for Hanukah) piano (2:08)
c. Sleigh Ride – Leroy
Anderson, arr by Hawley Ades; piano/percussion (3:15)
d. Carol of the Children – John
Rutter; harp (3:21)
e. Go Tell it On the Mountain
– American Art Song arr. by Harry T.
Burleigh; piano (3:00)