About Our Programming
Mission statements are all well and good, but if you want to see what a musical organization is really about, you need to check out its programming. Some of the programs below are linked to downloadable PDF files with the full text of the concert program.
- 2007/08-
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 7:30 pm
Avon Lake United Church of Christ
Sunday, May 18, 2008, 4:00 pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
"Music to Hear" by George Shearing (with texts by Shakespeare), as well as compositions by Barber, Handel, Monteverdi, and others, and folksong arrangements. With Sharon Marrell, flute, and Susan Lezan, piano.
Sunday, January 6, 2008, 4:00 pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
“Christmas Cantata” by Daniel Pinkham, and compositions by Brahms, Rossini, Praetorius, Rutter, Lauridsen, Frank Ferko, Healey Willan, Halsey Stevens and others. Assisting artists were a brass ensemble and Margaret A. Limkemann, organist, and Susan Lezan, pianist.
Sunday, December 2007, 2:00 pm
Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
9606 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Selections from the January 6, 2008, concert, including the Pinkham cantata. Presented as part of the University Circle Holiday CircleFest.
- 2006/07 -
Sunday, May 20, 2007, 4:00 PM
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
"The Peaceable Kingdom Revisited"
Works
included Randall Thompson's beloved "The Peaceable
Kingdom," and several settings of Hebrew texts and secular works about
beasts of the kingdom.
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 4:00 pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
"Heavenly Noise"
Works by Pinkham, Parry, Finzi, Brubeck, Ravel, and Hailstork.
Sunday, November 19, 2006, 7:30 pm
Bethany English Lutheran Church, 15470 Triskett Road
"The Saints Preserve Us!"
Works by Britten, Pinkham, Bruckner, Biebl and others
-2006-
Sunday, June 11, 2006 4:00 pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Works by Chatman, Britten, Poulenc and others.
Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 4pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 4 pm
Fairmount Presbyterian Church
"Mid-Winter Music"
Susan Lezan, accompanist; David Gooding, organist
Works by Bruckner, David Gooding (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, commissioned by Good Company, Fall 2005), J.S. Bach, Whitacre, Lauridsen
- 2005 -
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 4:00 pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
"Fairest Isle: Music From Great Britain"—a tenth anniversary celebratory concert presented by
Assisted by Susan Lezan, Pianist, Margaret A. Limkemann, Organist
and Bruce Biggin, Oboist
Works by Handel, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Wilbye, Ravenscroft, Elgar, and Henry VIII (arr. by W. Swingle)
Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 4:00 pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Masterworks from the French School
featuring the Duruflé Requiem & Debussy Trois Chansons
- 2004 -
Sunday, November 7, 2004 at 7:30pm
Community Chorus Festival
Avon Lake High School
Sunday, May 9, 2004 at 4:00 pm
America Resounds
American sacred and secular work, featuring works by Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, and Leonard Bernstein at Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 4:00 pm
My Heart’s Delight
sacred and secular works by English and German composers, including Britten, Distler, Bach, Haydn, & Holst featuring Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude at Lakewood Presbyterian Church
- 2003 -
Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 4pm
Women's Work
a program of music and texts by and about women featuring a new work by Cleveland composer Lisa Rainsong, commissioned by Karen Weaver in memory of her mother at Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 6:00 pm
Service of Choral Evensong
premiering a Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis by Cleveland composer Lisa Rainsong at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
February 2, 2003 at 4pm
Goulash for the Soul
sacred and secular works by Eastern European composers including Dvorak, Bartok, & Rachmaninoff featuring the Kodaly Missa Brevis at Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 3:00pm
A Red Christmas - guests of Red {an orchestra}
featuring Heinrich Schütz The Christmas Story (arr. Jonathan Sheffer) at St. Stanislaus Church, Cleveland, Ohio
Saturday, December 13, 2003 at 8:00pm
A Red Christmas - guests of Red {an orchestra}
featuring Heinrich Schütz The Christmas Story (arr. Jonathan Sheffer) at Plymouth Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at 6 pm
a Service of Choral Evensong
featuring the Robert Parsons Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis from the First Service(for double choir), Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio
- 2002 -
April 14th, 2002 at 4pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
On Life, Love, and Loss
featuring the Fauré Requiem with guest conductor Karen Haley
January 27th, 2002 at 4pm
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
"The French Connection"
works by Poulenc, Copland, Lili Boulanger, Virgil Thomson and David Conte
- 2001 -
December 12th, 2001 at 6pm
a Service of Choral Evensong
featuring the Charles Wood Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in F for double choir
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Cleveland, Ohio
June 27th, 2001 at 7:30pm
Summer Serenade
in the Garden Court of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
June 10th, 2001 at 4pm
Waltzing to the Altar
featuring the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Lakewood, Ohio
March 14th, 2001 at 6pm
a Service of Choral Evensong
featuring the William Walton Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Cleveland, Ohio
- 2000 -
November 26, 2000 at 4pm
Lauds & Lamentations
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Lakewood, Ohio
July 23, 2000 at 10pm
GALA Choruses Festival 2000
Civic Auditorium
San Jose, California
June 24, 2000 at 8:00pm
Touching Hearts, Changing Lives
(guests of the North Coast Men’s Chorus)
Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
April 16, 2000 at 4pm
The Peaceable Kingdom
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
- 1999 -
November 21, 1999 at 4pm
Songs of the Wood & the Wold
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
April 18, 1999 at 4pm
Meditations on Life, Death, & Resurrection
the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Cleveland, Ohio
- 1998 -
November 29, 1998 at 4pm
A Rose E’er Blooming
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
June 6, 1998
It's Our Party!
(guests of the North Coast Men's Chorus)
Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
March 29, 1998
Rites of Spring
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
- 1997 -
November 23, 1997
Stirrings of the Heart
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
June 1997
Chevrei Tikva Interfaith Pride Sabbath Service
Suburban Temple
Beachwood, Ohio
June 1, 1997
An American Quilt
a program in memory of Jack M. Hennette, Jr.
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
April, 1997
Human Rights Campaign Cleveland Fund-Raising Dinner
Marriott Society Center
Cleveland, Ohio
- 1996 -
December 14, 1996
Company for the Holidays
(guests of the North Coast Men's Chorus)
Euclid Avenue Congregational Church
Cleveland, Ohio
November, 1996
AIDS benefit concert
(with Cleveland’s North Coast Men's Chorus
& the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus)
National Association of Social Workers National Convention
Stouffer’s Inn on the Square
Cleveland, Ohio
November 10, 1996
Stranger, Share Our Fire
a program of warmth & light to benefit
the Archwood UCC Boiler Fund
Archwood United Church of Christ
Cleveland, Ohio
June 14, 1996
Chevrei Tikva Interfaith Pride Sabbath Service
The Temple-Tifereth Israel
Beachwood, Ohio
March 9, 1996
Love in a Leap Year
Bethany English Lutheran Church
Cleveland, Ohio
- Our first season: 1995 –
September 17, 1995
Good Company in Concert
Avon Lake United Church of Christ Musicale Series
Avon Lake, Ohio
June 16, 1995
Chevrei Tikva Interfaith Pride Sabbath Service
Unitarian Society of Cleveland Heights
Cleveland Heights, Ohio