Concert

Friday, December 15, 2017 8:00 p.m.       TICKETS AVAILABLE
Mission Santa Clara, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
Saturday, December 16, 2017 2:30 p.m.       SOLD OUT
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
Transeamus (let us cross over) celebrates the PWC's next chapter after its milestone 50th anniversary this past season. To launch this new era, the PWC performs one of the great choral landmarks of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols.
Then come travel with us to the Southern Hemisphere to explore rhythmic drive and rich double-choir textures in newer works from Australia and New Zealand. We send you home with beloved carols (including an Australian one!) to welcome a new holiday season.

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Program
CompositionComposer/ArrangerNotes
Lo, How a Rose E'er Bloomingarr: J. Edmund Hughes
SanctusRichard Oswin 1957-composed in 2002
A Ceremony of CarolsBenjamin Britten 1913-1976
There is no RoseJoshua B. Himes 1987-composed in 2013
Five Carols from Quem Quaeritis: 1. Fader of HeveneRoss Edwards 1943-
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby BoyTraditional Trinidad
arr: Stephen Hatfield
Dawn CanticleRoss Edwards 1943-
Hodie Christus natus est Sandra Milliken 1961-
SnowflakesSandra Milliken 1961-
Patterns on the SnowMari Esabel Valverde 1987-commissioned by the PWC through the ACDA Women’s Consortium
Carol of the DrumKatherine K. Davis 1892-1980
Carol of the BirdsWilliam G. James 1895-1977text by John Wheeler
Go Where I Send Thee!arr: Paul Caldwell/Sean Ivorygospel spiritual
Candlelight CarolJohn Rutter 1945-