SPRING CONCERT: Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. 

Where: Fisk Memorial United Methodist Church, 106 Walnut Street, Natick MA 01760 (directions).

Tickets available at the door:  $20 for adults; $15 for seniors and students.  We accept cash or Venmo (@ACSingers).

Program: view online, take a paper program at the door, or print your own using this file (set the printer to "Print on both sides of paper" and "Flip on short edge")

Program at a Glance

To Be Sung on the Water, Samuel Barber, text by Louise Bogan

Alleluia, Amen from The Place of the Blest, Randall Thompson

Gloria Tibi from Mass, Leonard Bernstein, text from the Liturgy of the Roman Mass

Long Time Ago, Aaron Copland, adapted by Ken Straker Traditional

Some Laughter, Some Tears, Samuel Adler, text Samuel Rosenbaum from Jewish folk sources

4. There’s a Tree

6. Come, Join in Our Dance

Sketches on Paintings, No. 3, "Portraits of the Sea", Brett Abigaña. Performed by Simonida Spasojevic, Piano

1. John Constable: Seascape Study with Rain Cloud

2. Joseph Turner: The Regatta Beating to Windward

3. William Duke: Flurry

4. Ivan Constantinovich: Moonlit Seascape with Shipwreck

Intermission

Songs for Women’s Voices, Gwyneth Walker, text by May Swenson

4. Love Is a Rain of Diamonds

6. I Will Be Earth

The Canticle of the Sun, Libby Larsen, text St. Francis of Assisi

Sugartime, Charles Phillips and Odis Echols, arr. Kirby Shaw

Begin the Beguine, Cole Porter, arr. Ellis Bretton

How Can I Keep from Singing?, Gwyneth Walker, text  Quaker Hymn

Sing-a-long

American the Beautiful (1893)

Chester (c. 1776)

My Country, 'Tis of Thee (1832)

This Land Is Your Land (1940)