SPRING CONCERT
Passover Eastertide & Liberation
Saturday, April 9, 2022, 8 pm
The Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland
Dr. Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director
Kymry Esainko, Pianist
ACT 1
Mah Nishtanah
Ashkenazic melody, arr. by Joshua Jacobson
Gia White and Linda Lipner
Loyisa Goy
Hebrew Folk Song, arr. by Michael Isaacson
Samachti B'omrim Li
by Charles Osborne
Yom Gila
Sephardic folk song, arr. by Simon A. Sargon
L'Dor Vador
by Meir Finkelstein, arr. by Joshua Jacobson
Jim Stenson, Karen Rossi, Ricardo Pastor, Ken Saltzstine
Praise God, Hallelujah
Robert Schoen
Sim Shalom
Jewish Folk Song, arr. by John Leavitt
The Song of the Sea
by Cory A. Weiss
Susan Hernandez and Suzanne Freedman
Go Down, Moses
African American Spiritual, arr. by David Eddleman
Israel in Egypt
G. F. Handel
He smote all the first-born of Egypt
But the waters overwhelmed their enemies
And Israel saw that great work.
And believed the Lord and His servant Moses
ACT 2
Messiah
G. F. Handel
He trusted in God that He would deliver him
Since by Man came Death
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Amen.
Sanctuary Road
Music by Paul Moravec
Libretto by Mark Campbell
Inspired by William Still’s The Underground Railroad Records.
Commissioned for and by the Oratorio Society of New York
through the generous support of Joanne Spellun.
Write
Quietly
Reward
I Waited
Ensemble (Interview 3)
War Interlude
Finale
Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus
Swen Erwin, Narrator (William Still)
Kymry Esainko, Piano
Ward Spangler, Percussion
The 2021-2022 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the East Bay Music Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program.
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