Mendelssohn's Elijah
Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7:30 pm
The Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax
Presented by Nice Moves, Jules Chamberlain – Red Door Realty
Featuring Jeff Joudrey, conductor
Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano
Vicki St. Pierre, contralto
Isaiah Bell, tenor
Daniel Okulitch, baritone
Margaret Currie, soprano (The Youth)
The Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus, with the Halifax Camerata Singers
Symphony Nova Scotia
On the program
| Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Elijah PART THE FIRST Introduction: As God the Lord of Israel liveth Overture 1. Chorus: Help, Lord! 2. Duet with Chorus: Lord, bow thine ear to our pray’r 3. Tenor Recit.: Ye people, rend your hearts 4. Tenor Aria: If with all your hearts ye truly seek me 5. Chorus: Yet doth the Lord see it not 6. Alto Recit.: Elijah, get thee hence Elijah 7. Double Quartet: For He shall give His angels charge 8. Aria & Duet: What have I to do with thee 9. Chorus: Blessed are the men who fear Him 10. Recit. with Chorus: As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth 11. Chorus: Baal, we cry to thee 12. Recit. & Chorus: Call him louder! for he is a God 13. Recit. & Chorus: Call him louder! he heareth not 14. Bass aria: Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel 15. Quartet: Cast thy burden upon the Lord 16. Bass Solo with Chorus: O Thou, who makest thine Angels 17. Bass Aria: Is not His word like a fire! 18. Alto Arioso: Woe, woe unto them who forsake Him 19. Recit. with Chorus: O man of God, help thy people 20. Chorus: Thanks be to God |
| INTERMISSION: 20 minutes |
| PART THE SECOND 21. Soprano Aria: Hear ye, Israel! 22. Chorus: Be not afraid, said God the Lord 23. Recit. with Chorus: The Lord hath exalted thee 24. Chorus: Woe to him! he shall perish 25. Recit.: Man of God, now let my words 26. Bass Aria: It is enough, O Lord 27. Tenor Recit.: See, now he sleepeth 28. Terzetto: Lift thine eyes to the mountains 29. Chorus: He, watching over Israel 30. Recit.: Arise, Elijah 31. Alto Aria: O rest in the Lord 32. Chorus: He that shall endure to the end 33. Recit.: Night falleth round me, O Lord 34. Chorus: Behold, God the Lord passed by 35. Recit. & Quartet: Holy is God the Lord 36. Chorus-recit. & Bass Solo: Go, return upon thy way 37. Bass Arioso: For the mountains shall depart 38. Chorus: Then did Elijah the prophet break forth 39. Tenor Aria: Then, then shall the righteous shine 40. Quartet: But the Lord, from the north hath raised one 41. Chorus: And then, then shall your light break forth |
Additional players: Anna Genest, Hok Kwan, David Adams, and Sarah Frank, violin; Charlotte Paradis, viola; Norman Adams, cello; Brett Dill, oboe; Julie Cuming (acting Principal), Natalie Alcorn, and Randal Ulmer, horn; Jim Tranquilla, Colin Traquair, and Bob Nicholson (bass), trombone; Mark Bonang, tuba.
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