Concert program
The 1956 Virginia Glee Club Concert at Sweet Briar was conducted by Donald MacInnis as part of the Glee Club 1955-1956 season. Held April 27, 1956 in Manson Hall at Sweet Briar College, the concert was primarily a solo performance by the Glee Club, though it featured selections by the Sweet Briar Sweetones and the Virginia Gentlemen.
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- Chorale: Gott, wie Gross ist deine Güte (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Chorale: Now let every tongue adore Thee (Bach)
- From The Testament of Freedom (Randall Thompson)
- The God who gave us life
- I shall not die without a hope
- Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel (spiritual, arr. Alexander Russell)
- Deep River (arr. H.T. Burleigh)
- Set Down Servant (arr. Robert Shaw)
- Were you there? (Spiritual) — tenor solo: Lawrence L. McEvoy, Jr.
- Selections by the Sweetones and the Virginia Gentlemen
- From the musical "Oklahoma!" (Richard Rodgers)
- Pore Jud
- Kansas City
- Careless Love (Folk Song, arr. Keith McLeod)
- Charlottown (Folk Song, arr. Charles Bryan)
- Coronation Scene, from Boris Godounov (Modest Moussorgsky)