A Civil War Christmas

Jacqueline Schwab

A Civil War Christmas
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150 years ago many hymns and carols were composed in the Boston area,
along with the No.1 Hit of 1863, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
Joseph Holmes, Holly Zagaria and the Festival Strings are joined
by Jacqueline Schwab,Ken Burns’ pianist from The Civil War series.

Sunday, December 23, 2012 7:30pm

“Jacqueline Schwab brings more feeling and intensity to music than anyone I know.
Her playing is insistent, physical, heartfelt, and . . . unusually moving.” - Ken Burns

The program includes solo carols written in the Boston area
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cambridge, MA
O Little Town of Bethlehem - by Phillips Brooks, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - by Edmund Sears, Unitarian minister in Wayland
Jingle Bells - by James Lord Pierpont of Medford

German Carols
Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming
A German Christmas – by Margaret Tucker

English carol set
In the Bleak Midwinter – music by Gustav Holst
What Child is This? – sung to the music of Greensleeves

Instrumentals
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker excerpts
Ashokan Farewell and Appalachia Waltz
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
and Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.”

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Standing Room Only concerts
Proceeds benefit The Building Fund
326 Main St, Wakefield, MA
info@sroconcerts.org

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