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Trinity Episcopal Church

Saturday December 7, 2019 3:00 PM

Cover artwork by Nancy Brockmon

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First Half Season of Light Tippette/Tippette

Mele Kelikimaka Anderson, arr Jay Althouse

Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John Grace Notes P.D.Q. Bach, Edited by Prof. Peter Schickele from "A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols"

Snowscape If Time Stood Still Battat-Rantala Alanna Battat-Rantala

Light the Legend Nurenberg/Isaacson

Merry Christmas Darling Carpenter/Pooler Christina Tolomeo

Polar Express Medley Ballard/Silvestri, arr Audrey Snyder from Warner Bros. Pictures "The Polar Express"

Angel Sarah McLachlan Jill Klock

Jamaican Noel Kirby Shaw, arr Tom Gentry

Glow Esch/Whitacre, arr Lisa Edwards

Today’s concert is being recorded by LoraNoyd

Productions, Nora and Lloyd Frank, Recordists

A special thanks goes out to Nancy Brockmon who provided this season’s artwork!

Please browse our raffle baskets and buy tickets for our 50/50 drawing during our brief intermission

Second Half

Enjoy refreshments following the concert!

Star Carol John Rutter

Marshmallow World Sigman/DeRose, arr Greg Gilpin

Sounds of the Season! Festival Strings

Sure on the Shining Night Grace Notes Lauridsen/Agee

To Remember and Reflect A four part arrangement for accordion Duane Quenzel 1. For Fallen Veterans of Wars Past 2. Reverse Order of the Life of Christ 3. "Sins of the World" ( Played in Minor & Diminished Chords) (Root Cause of Parts # 1. 2.) 4.Last Three Notes Played: "Peace On Earth"

Season of Light Narverud Grace Notes

Thankful Bayer Sager/Foster/Page, arr Mark Hayes Solo—Matt Mizuhara

All is Well - Michael W. Smith Jake & Lisa VanHeldorf

Silent Night Grϋber, arr Dan Forrest

Festival String Quartet

Virginia Herrmann - Violin

Lawrence Major – Violin

Peggy Acker - Viola

David Inloes - Cello

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Thank you to all members and friends who donated items for our raffle baskets. Drawings will be held after concert!

Sponsored By:

Abyss Coffee Salon 463 - Horsham

Ambler Pizza Scout and Molly's

Giant Springhouse Village Pharmacy Springhouse

Pumpernick's Barron Consulting Group

Jackets n’ Things From The Boot

Giant - Maple Glen Jarrettown Hotel

Fresh Market - Horsham TruMark Financial

Ambler Station Singers is a 501(c)(3) charity, so your donations are fully tax deductible. We hope you will consider helping to support us! If you would like to help us out, simply see any of our singers, or visit us

at AmblerStationSingers.com

Lisa VanHeldorf, Director: With a Master’s Degree in Music and Voice Performance from Notre Dame, a Bachelor of Music and Voice Performance from New England Conservatory, and additional training in Advanced Choral Conducting from Temple University; Lisa has attracted a group of talented, and joyful singers to Ambler Station Singers. She has performed with choral and stage groups, and

was the founder of SHOWSTOPPERS!, a professional musical theatre company in South Bend, IN. Lisa has also appeared as organizer and director of a local corporate choir that performed on TED talks. Bringing over 20 years of choral conducting for local churches and community groups to Ambler Station Singers, Lisa’s passion for choral singing and performance is truly contagious!

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Chris Henkel, Accompanist: Organist extraordinaire, Chris received his Bachelor’s in Finance with a minor in Music from Millersville University. He has performed at Summer Arts Festivals for the American Guild of Organists in Lancaster County, and was a runner up in the Violet Cassel Organ Scholarship competition. With nearly 30 years as a church organist (also overseeing the care for those pipes and keyboards), and choral accompanist, Chris is himself a talented vocalist. You’ll often see him sliding from behind the piano to sing with the male tenor voices in Ambler Station Singers.

Jackie Cohen, Accompanist: Sharing keyboard responsibility and often playing four-hand piano with Chris, Jackie is an accomplished musician and entertainer as well. With a Bachelor of Music from Boston University, Jackie has also studied Music Education at Chestnut Hill College, and Four-Hand Piano at Temple University. Some evenings you’ll find Jackie at local restaurants, department stores, theatres and country clubs providing piano music for patrons of those venues. She is also the music director for a local church and gives private piano lessons. She too will often be found sliding from behind the piano to sing with the female alto voices in Ambler Station Singers.

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Gold Level Alan Kober

Lynn Straub Cummings Annabelle and James Rogers

Dennis and Sharon Rogers-Barron Robb Bettiker & Bob Grundmeier

Gregg Klemm

Silv_r L_v_l Scott, Erinn, and Charlie Kober

The Tolomeo Family (Chrissy, Bob, Mike & Matt) Ginny & George Bibler

Pete McManus Carole Witt

Tom and Rawya Kyle Joan Klyle

Joanne Tolomeo The Robinson Family

The Salice Family Mac’s Beverage Maple Glen

Bronz_ L_v_l Spring House Cleaners

Virginia Glorieux Trudy O’Leary Richard Farrell

Bob Gleason Barb Keeney

Pat Duffy

A special thanks goes out to Trinity Episcopal Church and Fr. Emmanuel Williamson for hosting our rehearsals and concerts!

All are invited to attend services here at 8am and 10am Sundays

Director’s Notes Lisa VanHeldorf There is nothing more joyful than putting together a holiday program! The flip side of that is that putting a holiday program together is stressful…very short amount of time to get all the pieces to performance level. It is very demanding of all involved. I want to thank each member of Ambler Station Singers for going above and beyond getting your music prepared and to such a high level. Thank you to our wonderful accompanists Jackie Cohen and Chris Henkel for working so hard and bringing such joy to each rehearsal. Thanks to Duane Quenzal for the accordion wonderland! Thank you to Alanna Battat Rantala for driving from Boston to make music together after all these years! Thank you to the excellent string quartet with us today! Thanks to Trinity Church and its staff for making this concert possible at such a beautiful location. Thanks to my son Jake for singing a duet with me – a dream come true for a mom! And most especially, thanks to the tireless efforts of John Dziel (and Sandi, too!) without which this could not happen. You are appreciated more than you know!

Alanna Battat Rantala holds degrees from University of CA, Davis and New England Conservatory where she studied with renowned pianist Leonard Shure. She has performed in several cities throughout the US, as well as London and Australia. Alanna has been on the faculties of Boston’s Community Music Center, Brookline’s Yamaha Music School, Fitchburg State University, Worcester’s Joy of Music Program, and did vocal accompanying for Holy Cross College. She recorded “Winter Music” by John Cage for MODE

records (1991). Her students have won awards for performance and composition. While living in Northern CA and raising her 2 boys, Alanna maintained a private piano studio and held recitals several times a year. She did freelance performing, including collaborative piano and the US premiere of “Serpents Mecanique” by George Antheil. Alanna enjoys her hobby of composing, and in 2016 she released her first solo CD of original piano music, titled "Recognize", which is available on Spotify, iTunes, etc. She enjoys practicing yoga and traveling.

@m\l_r St[tion Sing_rs would gratefully love to thank our wonderful accompanists, who put up with hours and hours of nonstop work and are

near saint-like for doing so!

Christopher Henkel & Jackie Cohen And our percussionist, who keeps our cylinders in sync,

Scott Berry

Special Thanks go out to our Soundman TJ Wilson , Sandi Dziel our spot operator, and Lynn Koenigsburg our raffle and basket coordinator,

as well as all of our family and friends who support us and try to add water to our boiler and wood to the fire to keep us steaming along !!

President: Sharon Rogers-Barron Vice President: Sandi Dziel Treasurer: Joan Kober Secretary: Chrissy Tolomeo Operations Manager: John Dziel Director of Sponsorship and Promotion:

Claire Meashey

Fundraising: Barbara Zieper Joan Lettieri

Singer's Liaison: Maria Rosen Publicity: Michelle Wilson Venue Coordinators: Nancy Gold

Doris Hurst Welcoming: Sheila Bistany Members at large: Jesse Shutt