Best Of Sondheim

Meet Me for Noche Buena (SSAA) 
by Saunder Choi
poetry by Aileen Cassinetto

performed by the Peninsula Women's Chorus
Anne Hege, conductor

Meet Me for Noche Buena (SSAA) (Saunder Choi)  - Peninsula Women's Chorus

Performed by UCI Chamber Singers 

This is a new version of my AUTUMN, for two-part choir (soprano & alto) and piano, now available for PDF download | https://bit.ly/45VCfBy



Commissioned by Highland Chamber Choir, AUTUMN is the choral version of a track from my SEASONS piano EP. There was something about it that made me reminisce about Vestmarka, the tranquil national park that nearly borders the doorstep of my childhood home in Norway. I asked Tony Silvestri to write the text, based on pictures from the area and my memories of countless hikes through the radiant forest in the fall.

Feel the falling air,
The light becoming golden;
Trees their colors wear,
Deep and all-enfolding.

The autumn leaves embracing;
But soon they all must fall,
The summer green erasing,
To answer winter’s call.

And here once again
Familiar paths I wander;
Through the westmark wend
The living earth I ponder.

Though fading days are colder,
And soon the darkness long,
My spirit-fire grows bolder,
And in my heart a song.

Even when shadows lengthen,
I’m here where I belong.

Autumn (Two-Part)

1 - 05 The Worst Pies In London

2014 Live at Meany Hall, University of Washington (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.)
1. Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus - Albert Alcaraz Pastor 
2. Ceciliada - Marcin Wawruk
3. Veniki - Arr. Feodosiy Rubstov
4. Mongolian Boots - Se Enkhbayar
5. Usahay - Nitoy Gonzalez/ Arr. Ramon Acoymo
6. Everytime I Feel the Spirit - Arr. Moses Hogan
Solo: Roberto Gabriel Tagalog 
7. You Could Drive A Person Crazy (from "Company") - Stephen Sondheim 
Solos: Irene Quiso-Ednave, Sophia Chkarat, Eunice Margaret De Castro, Kristel Deocampo
8. Old Friends (from "Merrily We Roll Along") - Stephen Sondheim/ Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.

2009 Live at St. James Church (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
9. Alles Was Odem Hat Lobe Den Herrn - Johann Sebastian Bach 
10. Ave Maria - Morten Lauridsen
11. Erziminai - Jonas Tamulionis
12. Magtanim Ay Di Biro - Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.
13. Dandansoy - Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.
14. Scenes From the North - Fidel Calalang Jr.
Solos: Florencia Marlia Kustandi, Ma. Pilar Charlene Ramos
15. Learning to Let Go (from "Elegies for Punks, Angels, and Raging Queens") - Janet Hood/ Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.
Solo: Roberto Gabriel Tagalog

2010 Live at Llangollen Eisteddfod (Wales, the United Kingdom) 
16. Her Sacred Spirit Soars - Eric Whitacre 
17. Gabaq-an - Ruben Federizon
Solo: Noel Azcona 

07 You Could Drive A Person Crazy (S. Sondheim)

Losing My Mind

another cover.

Mademoiselles...
You and me, pal...
Second bottle...
Ah, she looks for me...
Bonnet flapping...
Yapping...
Ruff!...
Chicken...
Pastry...
Yes, she looks for me.
Good.
Let her look for me to tell me why she left me.
As I always knew she would.
I had thought she understood.
They have never understood,
And no reason that they should.
But if anybody could...

Finishing the hat.
How you have to finish the hat.
How you watch the rest of the world
from a window
while you finish the hat.
Mapping out a sky.
What you feel like, planning a sky.
What you feel when voices that come
through the window
go
until they distance and die.
Until there's nothing but sky.

And how you're always turning back too late
from the grass or the stick,
or the dog or the light.
How the kind of woman willing to wait's
not the kind that you want to find waiting
to return you to the night.
Dizzy from the height.
Coming from the hat.

Studying the hat.
Entering the world of the hat.
Reaching through the world of the hat
like a window,
back to this one from that.

Studying a face.
Stepping back to look at a face
leaves a little space in the way like a window.
But to see-
It's the only way to see.

And when the woman that you wanted goes,
You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give."
But the woman who won't wait for you knows that, 
however you live, there's a part of you 
always standing by,
mapping out the sky.

Finishing a hat.
Starting on a hat.
Finishing the hat.
Look, I made a hat.
Where there never was a hat.

finishing the hat

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The premiere mixed choral group of Asia's oldest Catholic university, the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas.
Founded in 1992 by Prof. Fidel Gener Calalang Jr.

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