United States Navy Band
Sea Chanters Chorus & Quarterdeck Consort
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Program
75th Anniversary Celebration Event
Continuing its long history of presenting military music ensembles, Phillips Music proudly presents the US Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus and Quarterdeck Consort. The Sea Chanters perform patriotic selections by Eric Whitacre, Peter Wilhousky, René Clausen, Irving Berlin, and Mark Hayes. The Quarterdeck Consort, an octet of vocalists drawn from the Sea Chanters, specializes primarily in early sacred and secular a cappella chamber music.
PROGRAM
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, MUSIC BY JOHN STAFFORD SMITH
National Anthem
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL, ARRANGED BY JOHN RUTTER
When the Saints Come Marching In
SEA CHANTEY, ARRANGED BY ARTHUR E. HALL
High Barbary
HUDDIE “LEADBELLY” LEDBETTER, ARRANGED BY MOIRA SMILEY
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
JOHN DAVENPORT & EDDIE COOLEY, ARRANGED BY JIM CLEMENTS
Fever
COLE PORTER, ARRANGED BY ROY RINGWALD
I Love You
POEM BY OCTAVIO PAZ, MUSIC BY ERIC WHITACRE
A Boy and a Girl
TRADITIONAL, ARRANGED BY JAMES ERB
Shenandoah
MUSIC BY IRVING BERLIN; GIVE ME YOUR TIRED POEM BY EMMA LAZARUS, ARRANGED BY ROY RINGWALD; GOD BLESS AMERICA, LYRICS BY IRVING BERLIN, ARRANGED BY JOSEPH MARTIN
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor/God Bless America
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Prelude No. 1 in Bb Major (Caroline Evans)
THOMAS TALLIS
If Ye Love Me (Quarterdeck Consort)
WILLIAM BYRD
Vigilate (Quarterdeck Consort)
K. L. BATES, ARRANGED BY CARMEN DRAGON
America the Beautiful (a cappella)
GREG GILPIN AND JOHN PARKER
Nothin’ Gonna Stumble my Feet
WALLIS WILLIS, ARRANGED BY JOHN STAFFORD II
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
TEXT BY MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA, MUSIC BY RENÉ CLAUSEN
Prayer
SEAN AND FRANK O’MEARA, ARRANGED BY MARK HAYES
Grace
WILLIAM STEFFE/JULIA WARD HOWE, ARRANGED BY PETER J. WOLHOUSKY
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Watch & Listen
US Navy Sea Chanters on deck of USS Constitution Singing “Anchors Aweigh”
US Navy Sea Chanters on the Deck of USS Constitution Singing the “National Anthem”