Tickets: $15, 25, 50, 100*; Free to Bard students, call the Box Office to reserve.

*Guests at the $100 level are invited to join Dawn Upshaw onstage for a postconcert reception of spirits and sweets in the Sosnoff Theater immediately following the performance. Limited tickets are available for this exclusive opportunity; please reserve early. To purchase the $100 tickets, please contact 845-758-7928.

LISTEN:

Dawn Upshaw and singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Piano Fellows, and the brass quintet Monstrare present a program of festive songs and ensembles to benefit The Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

Program includes

William Billings	Bethlehem
Giovanni Gabrieli	Canzona per Sonare, No. 2 from Canzoni per sonare con ogni sorte di strumenti
Peter Warlock	The First Mercy
Ralph Vaughan Williams	This is the Truth Sent from Above
Richard Hundley	Maiden Snow
Ned Rorem	Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Dominick Argento	Winter
Traditional, arr. Aaron Copland	Simple Gifts
Irving Berlin	White Christmas
Richard Rodgers	Sing for Your Supper
Marc Blitzstein	The New Suit (Zipperfly)
Claudio Monteverdi, arr. Raymond Mase	Ah dolente partita Quel augellin che canta from Madrigals, Book Four
Hugo Wolf	Fussreise Auf eine Christblume
Hugo Distler	Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Traditional, Arr. Charles Ives	In the Mornin’
Traditional, Arr. Stephen Richards	R’tzei
Traditional, Arr. John Jacob Niles	I Wonder as I Wander
Robert MacGimsey	Sweet Little Jesus Boy
Walter Kent	I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Traditional, Arr. Michael Blubé	Jingle Bells
Traditional, Arr. Arthur Warrell	We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Conservatory Sundays: Dawn Upshaw and Friends

A Winter Songfest