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Please join the members of InVocation for our fifth annual Christmas Concert Series:
“Be Like the Bird”
InVocation presents our fifth annual Christmas concert season: Be Like the Bird, in which we’ll celebrate the season through the eyes of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Our music soars through most of the northern hemisphere as we honor Mary’s courage, generosity and wisdom in music and in the poetry of Mary Oliver, Denise Levertov, Luci Shaw and St. John of the Cross. We’ll also be joined by harpist Tonya Anderson and flutist Diane Kirchmann Wood.
Concert Dates and Locations
Concert Program
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There Is No Rose
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music: John Joubert
text: trad. English folk song
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Be Like the Bird
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music: Abbie Betinis
text: Victor Hugo
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music: Tomas Luis de Victoria
text: trad. prayer (derived from Luke 1)
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Nova! Nova!
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music: Luc Jakobs
text: trad. English folk song
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music: trad. Basque carol, arr. Paul Lohman
text: Sabine Baring-Gould
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Maria Walks amid the Thorn
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music: Hugo Distler
text: trad. German folk song
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music: trad. Filipino folk song, arr. Jodi Gustafson
text: Luke 1:46-55, trans. Henry W. Kiley
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Three Movements from
Ceremony of Carols:
Interlude
There Is No Rose
Deo Gracias
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music: Benjamin Britten
text: medieval English
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music: William Billings
text: trad. English folk song
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music: Igor Stravinsky
text: trad. prayer (derived from Luke 1)
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Cradle Song
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music: trad. Flemish carol; arr. John Rutter
text: John Rutter
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Mary Had a Baby
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music: trad. African American spiritual; arr. Sam Batt Owens
text: trad. African American spiritual
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music: Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson
text: Gudmundur Högnasson, from Hymnodia Sacra
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Ave Maris Stella
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music: “Scribere Proposui” from Pie Cantiones, adapt. & arr. Eleanor Daley
text: Vespers hymn, Bernard of Clairvaux
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Pengyou, Ting!
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music: trad. Chinese folk song, arr. Carolyn Jennings
text: trad. Chinese folk song
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music: Vytautas Miskinis
text: trad. liturgical Latin
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Joy to the World
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music: Lowell Mason, arr. Michael Culloton
text: Isaac Watts
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Accolades
Attendees of our previous concerts have had this to say:
- “What delightful and fresh music!”
- “Beautiful voices, beautiful sound.”
- “Your harmonies were right on.”
- “Lovely — I liked the focus on beauty & multiculturalism.”
- “Thank you so much for the audio treasure! I loved it — what talent!”
- “The readings were so thought-provoking and reflective.”
- “What a great way to welcome in Advent!”
- “I’ll come again!”
Song Samples
Click any of the links below to hear brief samples of InVocation in performance.
Past Concerts
To view information about our Spring 2010 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Christmas 2009 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Spring 2009 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Christmas 2008 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Spring 2008 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Christmas 2007 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Spring 2007 concerts, click here.
To view information about our Christmas 2006 concerts, click here.
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