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Alright, children, sit up straight and pay attention. It’s time for your music lesson. Can anyone tell me what Motet means? Sue? No, dear, it’s not someplace you stay on the way to Disneyland. Good heavens, Garn, it is not another swig of mother’s milk. Where on earth would get such a bizarre notion? We can be sure it didn’t come from Mr. Shaw, even though he would likely tell us much more than we want to know about MADRIGALS, MOTETS & MISCELLANEOUS MELODIES, which is an alliterative topic if ever there was one.
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It all goes to show, children, that Mr. Shaw’s taste in music is eclectic, elastic, and excruciatingly exuberant (heavens! More alliteration). And what lesson have you learned from all this? Jennifer?
Absolutely right! Always ask Mr. Shaw and always pretend that he knows everything about everything! Okay, it’s grade time. Let’s see now. Sue gets a C-, and Garn an F, which is much more than he deserves. But for Jennifer the wise, an A++++++++
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THE ENTIRE PROGRAM
Fa Una Canzona
Orazio Vecchi
I’ll Say it Anyway
Pierre Certon
April Is in My Mistress’ Face
Thomas Morley
Weep, On Mine Eyes
John Bennett
Lucus Iste
Anton Bruckner
O Vos Omnes
Pablo Casals
The Flower Duet
Leo Delibes
O Magnum Mysterium
Terrence R. B. Shaw
Ave Maria
Anton Bruckner
Almighty God of our Fathers
Will James
Ave Verum
W. A. Mozart
Ain’t Got Time to Die
Hall Johnson
Dixie
Arr. Norman Luboff
How Can I Keep from Singing
Arr. Norman Luboff
Woodpecker
Stephen Chatman
Old Horatius Had a Farm
Arr. Samuel A. Goldberg and Z. Randall Stroope
Somebody’s Calling My Name
Arr. Wendell P. Whalum
Brown Bird
Haydn Wood
Alleluia
Randall Thompson
Prayer of the Children
Kurt Bestor
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Arr. William Dawson
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