The Mount Desert
Summer Chorale
David Schildkret, Music Director
presents
Handel’s Messiah
Jayne West, soprano • Brianna Kramer,
mezzo-soprano
David Britton, tenor • Donald Wilkinson, baritone
David Schildkret, conductor
August 4 and 5, 2007 at St. Savior's Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor.
Program
Messiah George
Frideric Handel
(1685
– 1759)
Part One
Sinfony
Comfort ye my people (Tenor
Recitative)
Every valley shall be exalted
(Tenor Aria)
And the glory of the Lord
(Chorus)
Behold, a virgin shall conceive
(Alto Recitative)
O thou that tellest good tidings
to Zion (Alto
Aria and Chorus)
For behold, darkness shall cover
the earth (Bass Recitative)
The people that walked in
darkness (Bass Aria)
For unto us a child is born
(Chorus)
Pifa
There were shepherds abiding in
the field (Soprano Recitative)
Glory to God (Chorus)
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano Aria)
Then shall the eyes of the blind
be opened (Alto Recitative)
He shall feed his flock like a
shepherd (Alto-Soprano Duet)
His yoke is easy (Chorus)
Intermission
Part Two
Behold the Lamb of God (Chorus)
He was despised (Alto Aria)
Surely he hath borne our griefs
(Chorus)
And with his stripes we are healed (Chorus)
All we like sheep have gone astray (Chorus)
All they that see him laugh him to scorn (Tenor
Recitative)
He trusted in God (Chorus)
Thy rebuke hath broken his
heart (Tenor Recitative)
Behold, and see if there be any
sorrow (Tenor Arioso)
He was cut off out of the land of the living (Soprano Recitative)
But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Soprano Aria)
Lift up your heads, O ye gates (Chorus)
Why do the nations so furiously rage together? (Bass
Aria)
Let us break their bonds asunder (Chorus)
He that dwelleth in heaven (Tenor Recitative)
Thou shalt break them (Tenor Aria)
Hallelujah! (Chorus)
Part Three
I know that my redeemer liveth
(Soprano Aria)
Since by man came death (Chorus)
Behold I tell you a mystery (Bass Recitative)
The trumpet shall sound (Bass Aria)
Worthy is the Lamb (Chorus)
Our thirty-ninth season
