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WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED

Friday, December 22nd, 2023

7:30 PM

Trinity Parish Church

609 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

RADIANCE AUDITIONS (Facebook Post (Landscape)) (Instagram Post (Square)) (2160 × 1080 px)

Saturday, December 23rd, 2023

2 PM

Orcas Island Community Church

176 Madrona St, Eastsound, WA 98245

Running Time:

75 minutes, with intermission

SOPRANO

Ruth Schauble, Julia Baker, Camille Watson, Julia Bezems

 
ALTO

Teresa Clark, Lauren Kastanas, Jessica Martin, Haley Gabler


TENOR

Tim Blok, Jacob Buys, Stephen O'Bent, Orrin Doyle, Isaiah Ragland


BASS

Robin Wyatt-Stone, Benjamin Rogers, Matthew Bosley, Gus Labayan

PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY

Lauren Kastanas

Ring in the holidays with our annual performance of early American music from Appalachia and New England. Powerful, rousing shapenote tunes and lively Shaker songs bring the cheer of Christmas to life. These uniquely American music traditions are part of a vibrant cultural heritage, passed down through oral traditions, singing schools, and community practice. Shaker and shapenote music beautifully showcase the simple power of communal singing – in fact, the most common shapenote book, The Sacred Harp, is named after that sacred musical instrument given to us at birth: the human voice. Join Radiance for this festive, joyful celebration!

PROGRAM

Jeremiah Ingalls - Redemption

Joseph Stephenson - Anthem from Luke

Frederick William Evans - Sweetest Music Softly Stealing

William Walker - The Babe of Bethlehem

Sister Patsy Roberts Williamson - Pretty Home

Eldress Paulina Bryant - This is Jesus' Birthday

John McCurry - Raymond

Himes - Joys Seven

Timothy Swan - Rainbow

Mt. Lebanon - Give Good Gifts

Kevin Siegfried (arr.) - Rolling On

Jordan Sramek (arr.) - Morning Dawn

Jordan Sramek (arr.) - Bozrah

William Billings - Bethlehem

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This project was supported, in part, by 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax
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This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission.
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