May 2026:

Music for all

Program:

“Music Inspires All” — Rollo Dilworth
“nipîy (Water Song)” — Sherryl Sewepagaham
“Earth Teach Me Stillness” — Wally Kleucker
“Chester” — William Billings
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” — Arr. Peter L. Wilhousky
“Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” — Arr. Alice Parker
“Peace I Leave with You” — Amy Beach
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” — Margaret Bonds
“Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit” — Arr. William L. Dawson
“I Sing Because I’m Happy” — Rollo Dilworth
“It Gets Better” — Arr. Mac Huff
“A Song of Life” — Connor Warren Smith
“Sentimental Journey” — Arr. Hawley Ades
“Old Cape Cod” — Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus, Allan Jeffrey
“Edelweiss” — Rodgers & Hammerstein; Arr. Linda Spevacek
“Take Me Home, Country Roads” — Arr. Roger Emerson
“The Rainbow Connection” — Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher; Arr. Audrey Snyder
“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor” — Irving Berlin
“Mi Lugar” — Carlos Cordero
"United in Purpose" — Rollo Dilworth

May 2025:

Harmony for Hope and Resilience

We joined together with Cape Cod Chorale and a full orchestra, over 120 singers and musicians total, to celebrate Danica's 20th season conducting with CAS. The concert, “Harmony for Hope and Resilience” featured three great choral-orchestral works:

• Johannes Brahms “Nanie”
• Florence Price “Song of Hope”
• Ralph Vaughan Williams “Dona Nobis Pacem.”

DECEMBER 2025:

WINTER LIGHT

Program:

Movement 1 of BWV 191 – “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” and “Et in Terra Pax” — Johann Sebastian Bach
“O Come, All Ye Faithful” — Arr. Dan Forrest
“Ave Maria” — Nathaniel Dett
“Midnight Stars Make Bright the Skies” – Arr. Mark Sedio
“Jul, Jul” — Gustaf Nordqvist, Arr. Chris de Silva
“Good King Wenceslas” —  Piae Cantiones; Arr. David Willcocks
“Winter Bluejay” — Trent Worthington 
“Solstice Moon” —  Cheryl B. Engelhardt
“Solstice Song” —  Jan Garrett, Arr. Larry Nickel
“Light” — Lisa Loeb & Cliff Goldmacher
“Glow” —  Eric Whitaker
“Light in the Heart of Winter” — Arr. Lloyd Larson 
“Star so Bright” —  Mary Donnelly and George L.O. Strid
“Looking for the Light” — Adam Podd and Matt Podd 
“Deck the Hall” — Arr. Charles Wood
“Bright was the Star” — G.J. Thornett
“Night of Silence” — Dan Kantor
“For Unto Us a Child is Born” — George Frideric Handel
“Hallelujah” — George Frideric Handel

April 2024:

I Hear America Singing

Program:

• Act I: Songs for the People:
• “Music Inspires All” Rollo Dilworth
• “Songs for the People” Words by Frances E.W. Harper, Music by Rollo Dilworth
• “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Words by Langston Hughes, Music by Margaret Bonds
• “I Dream a World” Words by Langston Hughes, Music by André J. Thomas
• “I Will Sing” Rosephanye Powell
• “I Hear America Singing” André Thomas
• “United in Purpose” Words by Maya Angelou, Music by Rollo Dilworth
• “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor” Irving Berlin, Arr. Roy Ringwald
• Act II: The American Songbook, 1924-1956:
• “Fascinating Rhythm” George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Arr. Mark Hayes
• “Ain’t Misbehavin” Thomas “Fats” Waller and Harry Brooks, Arr. Mark Hayes
• “I’ve Got the World on a String” Harold Arlen, Arr, Paul Langford
• “It’s De-Lovely” Cole Porter, Arr. Jay Althouse
• “They Can’t Take that Away from Me” George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Arr. Mark Hayes
• “All the Things You Are” Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern; Arr. Mark Hayes
• “Long Ago and Far Away” Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern; Arr. by Mark Hayes
• “Too Darn Hot” Cole Porter, Arr. Mark Hayes
• “When Sunny Gets Blue” Jack Segal, Marvin Fischer; Arr. Paul Langford
• “Anything Goes” Cole Porter, Arr. Philip Kern