Upper Valley Open Sings - Hal Sheeler, Music Director, Henry Danaher, Co-director and  Pianist and Organist.  Offering Upper Valley New Hampshire and Vermont singers the opportunity to gather together and sing/read through major choral works. Much appreciation to our host, First Congregational Church in Lebanon, New Hampshire.


 NEXT OPEN SING 
June 24

will be something DIFFERENT.
We will read through Gilbert and Sullivan's

THE MIKADO
We will read through the choruses, ensembles, solos.
For the solos and ensembles, everyone who wishes to sing them may.  

  • ACT I 
  • 1. "If You Want to Know Who We Are" (Opening Chorus and Recitative) 
  • 2. "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" (Solo and Chorus) 
  • 3. "Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man" (Solo and Chorus) 
  • 4. "Young Man, Despair" (Song) 
  • 4a. "And Have I Journeyed For a Month" (Recitative) 
  • 5. "Behold the Lord High Executioner" (Chorus and Solo) 
  • 6. "Comes a Train of Little Ladies" (Chorus) 
  • 7. "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (Trio and Chorus) 
  • 8. "So Please You , Sir, We Much Regret" (Quartet and Chorus) 
  • 9. "Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted" (Duet) 
  • 10. "I Am So Proud" (Trio) 
  • 11. "With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride" (Finale of Act I) 

  • ACT II 
  • 12. "Braid the Raven Hair" (Opening Chorus) 
  • 13. "The Sun, Whose Rays are All Ablaze" (Song) 
  • 14. "Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day" (Madrigal) 
  • 15. "Here's a How-De-Do" (Trio) 
  • 16. "Mi-Ya Sa-Ma" (March of the Mikado's Troops, Chorus, and Duet) 
  • 17. "A More Humane Mikado" (Solo and Chorus) 
  • 18. "The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down" (Trio and Chorus) 
  • 19. "See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot" (Glee) 
  • 20. "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring" (Song) 
  • 21. "Alone, and Yet Alive!" (Recitative and Song) 
  • 22. "Willow, Tit-Willow" (Song) 
  • 23. "There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast" (Duet) 
  • 24. "For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum" (Finale of Act III) 

Come to sing or to listen. Will be a fun session.
Sunday, June 24 at 3:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church Lebanon, NH
If you know you will be coming please send
an email to hsheeler@gmail.com and
let us know your voice part.



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