Festival Celebration Choir Presents High Notes from Opera to Broadway
May 20th at 3pm
Habanera from Carmen
Georges Bizet
Chorus of Wedding Guests from Lucia di Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti
Voyagers’ Chorus from Ideomeno
W.A. Mozart
Spinning Chorus from Der fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco
Giuseppi Verdi
Brindisi from Traviata
Giuseppi Verdi
Almost Like Being in Love from Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe
Arr. Harry Simeone
Can’t Help Lovin that Man from Showboat
Jerome Kern
Arr. Kirby Shaw
Circle of Life from Lion King
Elton John
Arr. Keith Christopher
We Sail the Ocean Blue from H.M.S. Pinafore
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Arr. Bryceson Treharne
I Got the Sun in the Morning from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Arr. Kirby Shaw
Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Arr. Ed Lojeski
All Good Gifts from Godspell
Stephen Schwartz
Arr. John Leavitt
If I were a Bell from Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Arr. Mark Brymer
Featuring
Soprano Rosanne G. Hargrave, artist member and past president of the Monday Musical Club of Albany, has studied voice with Karen Ranung and coaches with Michael Clement. She has performed roles with Opera Excelsior, Family Players of Northeastern New York, and collaborated with comic baritone, Mark Levy, in a cabaret entitled “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus…The Musicale” (2005). Rose is featured vocalist on the CD entitled, “Mis Suenos de Tango” (2006) with Spiral Ensemble, and a more recent recording, “Armenian Genocide Centennial Memorial Concert” (2015) with Andrew Krystopolski (piano). She performs benefit concerts throughout the Capital region and greatly enjoys collaborating with other musicians. She can be reached at rosehargrave@nycap.rr.com.
Tenor John Spinelli has appeared with the Octavo Singers as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Rossini’s Stabat Mater. He has performed as a soloist with the Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady Choir, the First Reformed Church of Schenectady Choir, the Union College Choir, and Upstate Chamber Opera. He won first place in the adult division of the 2017 ENY/NATS Art Song Festival and has been a member of several area choral ensembles, including the Octavo Singers and the Albany Pro Musica Masterworks Chorus, for many years. When he is not singing, John is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Union College. He studies voice with Michael Clement.