SVGMC History | Concert Archives | Other Appearances Making Spirits Bright

December 13-14, 2001, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Act One

Rainbow Women’s Chorus
Walk on a Rainbow Trail  Berta Poorman, Donja Poorman
We All Come from the Goddess/Full Moonlight  Karen Beth, Z. Budapest
Blue Skies  Irving Berlin, arr. Steve Zegree
Soloists: Sally Nixon, Kim Wallace
Solstice Carol  Diane Benjamin
Deck the Halls  arr. James McKelvy
Al Shlosha D’varim Pirkei Avot (Mishnah), Allan E. Naplan
Miss Celie’s Blues (The Color Purple)  Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Lionel Richie, arr. J. David Moore
Carry the Spirit On  Ruth Huber
Joined by the Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
Rainbow Women’s Chorus
Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
Shenandoah arr. James Erb
Betelehemu Via Olatunji, Wendell Whalum, arr. Barrington Brooks
Sing Me to Heaven  Daniel E. Gawthrop , Jane Griner
Ríu, Ríu, Chíu Traditional, ed. Noah Greenberg
All Alone Beneath the Mistletoe Jay Althouse 
  
 Act II
Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
Now Is the Caroling Season  Dorothy Priesing, arr. J.A. Kawarsky
Nightwatch Craig Carnahan
OUTBurst
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer  Johnny Marks, arr. Tim Isbell
Joy to the World  arr. Tim Isbell
Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
The Only Christmas for Me  arr. J.A. Kawarsky
Variations on "Jingle Bells" John Pierpont, arr. Mark Hayes
The Reindeer Hula  Stephen L. Lawrence
Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
Rainbow Women’s Chorus
Voices for Diversity
Make Them Hear You (Ragtime) Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, arr. Jeff Funk
Soloists: Abel Olivas, Micki Morales
Voices for Diversity
I Come from Good People  Robert Seeley
Rainbow Women’s Chorus
Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus
Good King Kong Looked Out  P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele)
Caroling, Caroling  Alfred S. Burt, Wihla Hutson, arr. Greg Gilpin
Children, Go Where I Send Ye  arr. Samuel Lancaster, trans. J.A. Kawarsky