Handel Choir Past Repertoire
2006-2007 Concert Season
Bach Fest!
November 5, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
St. Paul's School Chapel, Brooklandville
Bach motet "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227
Bach Cantata BVW 55 for tenor solo, "Ich armer Mensch, ich Sünderknecht"
Bach Wedding Cantata BVW 196, “Der Herr denket an uns.”
- Clara Rottsolk soprano
- Tony Boutté tenor
- Phillip Collister baritone
- Stephen Bard baroque oboe and oboe d'amore
- Colin St. Martin baroque flute
- and Emily Noel, John Bradford Bohl, Kristen Dubenion-Smith and David Kirkwood
- with period instruments
Handel's Messiah
December 2, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Grace United Methodist Church, Northern Parkway and N. Charles Street, Baltimore
- Susan Consoli soprano
- Kristen Dubenion-Smith mezzo soprano
- Jeffrey Fahnestock tenor
- Sumner Thompson baritone
- with the Handel Choir Period Instrument Orchestra
Courtly Splendor
A collaboration if Pro Musica Rara, Peabody's Early Music Department and Handel Choir of Baltimore
March 25, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
Friedberg Hall, Peabody Institute, 1 E. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore
Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Selections of late Renaissance music
and
Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (“Eternal Source of Light Divine”), HWV 42
- Jennifer Ellis soprano
- Christopher Dudley countertenor
- David Arnold baritone
- Cynthia Roberts violin
- Stephen Bard baroque oboe
- John Thiessen baroque trumpet
- Barbara Weiss harpsichord
- Allen Whear Director of Pro Musica Rara
- Mark Cudek Director of Peabody Early Music
- Melinda O'Neal Conductor of Handel Choir of Baltimore
Haydn's The Creation (Die Schöpfung)
April 29, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
The Church of the Redeemer, 5603 North Charles Street, Baltimore
- Clara Rottsolk soprano
- Tony Boutté tenor
- Craig Phillips bass-baritone
- with the Handel Choir Period Instrument Orchestra



All programs of the Handel Choir of Baltimore are made possible by support from the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.