HS HOLIDAY CONCERT PROGRAM 2021

 

Oil City High School Music Department presents its annual… 

Holiday Concert

 Daniel J. Cartwright - Instrumental Director

Steven W. Luxbacher - Choral Director

 Narrators:

Emily Bly, Payton Burk, Eric Goughler,

Kaleigh McDonald, Johnathan Pardee,

Jaden Wagner, and Alexandra Webster

 

PROGRAM
The Bass Choir

Ut Queant Laxis - Guido di Arezzo
Translation:

So that your servants may, with loosened voices

Resound the wonders of your deeds,

Clean the guilt from our stained lips, O Saint John

 

Your skeptic father, doubting Heaven’s promise

Promptly and fully lost all voice and language

But what was taken, ruined past all healing

Your birth restored it.

 

We praise the Father and the Son begotten;

We praise the Spirit, who has equal power.

One God and holy for all times and seasons, all generations.

Amen.

Good King Wenceslas - Traditional, arr. Ruth Elaine Schram

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - John Rox

 

Blond-ish

Nursery Rhymes - arr. Sweet Adelines International / Sylvia Alsbury

Warm and Fuzzy - David Malloy and Don Cook, arr. Peter Benson

The Treble Choir

Jingle Bell Rock - Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, arr. Mac Huff

Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi

Winter Lullaby - Pinkzebra

The 5 Naturals

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - arr. Barbershop Harmony Society

The Rhapsody in Blues

Bring a Torch - Traditional Carol, arr. Ed Lojeski

I Hear the Prophet Callin' - Pepper Choplin
ALEXANDRA WEBSTER, DE'VAUGHN GRIFFIN, AND SAVANNAH SHARRAR - SOLOISTS

It Must Be the Holiday Season - Mark Hayes

Hannah Krug - Soloist

Grown Up Christmas List - David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner

The Concert Band

Christmas Sketches - arr. Sean O'Laughlin

Holiday Mash-Up - arr. Patrick Rozell

Deck the Halls with Chips and Salsa - Ed Huckeby

Caribbean Christmas - West Indies Carol, arr. Gene Milford

The A Cappella Choir

Betelehemu - Nigerian Carol, Via Olatungi and Wendall Whallum, arr. Barrington Brooks

SIMON BURKETT, ERIC GOUGHLER, BAILEY MCMAHON, ELI MOSER,
MATTHEW MYERS, AND MASON STEPHENS - PERCUSSION

Translation: 

We are glad that we have a Father to trust.

We are glad that we have a Father to rely upon.

Where was Jesus born? Where was He born?

Bethlehem, the city of wonder.

That is where the Father was born for sure.

Praise, praise, praise be to Him.

We thank Thee, we thank Thee, we thank Thee for this day, Gracious Father.

Praise, praise, praise be to Thee, merciful Father.

 

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Albert Hague, arr. Jeff Funk

DRAYTON DILL - NARRATOR

Silent Night - Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber, arr. Russell Robinson

The Combined Choirs

Russian Lullaby - Jewish Melody

Carol of the Bells - Mykola Leontovich, arr. Peter Wilhousky

Down to the River to Pray - African American Spiritual, arr. J. Guy Stalnaker

The Combined Bands and Choirs

"Hallelujah" from MESSIAH - George Friedrich Handel

"The Hallelujah Chorus” has been the traditional closer for the annual holiday concert for many years.  We would invite our alumni and community members to sing with us from their seats this evening.  Copies of the piece are available in the back of the auditorium.  We look forward to inviting you back to the risers next holiday season!

Those people not joining us on the risers for the performance are encouraged to stand in the grand tradition of the piece.

Special Thanks to the OCHS Custodial and Maintenance Staff for all of their efforts with tonight’s concert.

 TONIGHT’S CONCERT WILL BE LIVESTREAMED / ARCHIVED AT:

www.youtube.com/oilernews

 

THANKS TO MRS. JENNIFER MOSHER-JOHNSON AND THE OCHS MEDIA

CLASSES FOR RECORDING TONIGHT’S CONCERT!