Artists We FreudigJacques Arcadelt d.1568Malcolm Archer Harold Arlen John Armesto Felix Bernard Robert Bridges Dietrich Buxtehude d.1707 Piae Cantiones Stephen Cleobury Emily Dickinson Edward Elgar d.1934 Ira Gershwin Moosburger Gradualia Oscar Hammerstein d.1960 Calvin Hampton E Y Harburg Lorenz Hart Henry VIII d.1547 George Herbert d.1633 Robert Herrick John Hofmann Gustav Holst d.1934 A E Housman Ted Koehler Andrew Lloyd Webber b.1948 Henry Longfellow Johannes de Lymburgia James MacMillan C L Mais Nicolas Martin Roland E Martin, Sr Ron Martin Johnny Mercer Gerald Near b.1942 Leo Nestor Ben Parry James Pierpont Daniel Pinkham Eddie Pola Cole Porter d.1964 Leonel Power Michael Praetorius d.1621 Richard Rodgers d.1979 Billy Rose Christina Rosetti John Rutter Jonathan Scarozza Will Schmidt Heinrich Schultz Jean Sibelius d.1957 Peter Siedlecki Bianco da Siena Dick Smith Arthur Sullivan d.1900 Ursula Vaughan Williams Persis Vehar T L de Victoria Hildegard Von Bingen Gwyneth Walker William Walton Peter Warlock Arthur Warrell Walt Whitman Martin J Wimmer b.1964 Brian Wren George Wyle Thank you for your visit |
Seriously FreudigThe AltarAs Torrents in Summer The Cathedral of the Universe Christ is the World's Redeemer Come Down, O Love Divine Consider Eternity Father We Praise You Finlandia From far, from eve and morning How Did I Find You? Hymn of a Grateful Heart Hymn for St Cecilia In Peace and Joy I now Depart King of Glory, King of Peace Laus Trinitati Let Down the Bars, O Death! Lord, Keep Us Steadfast In Thy Word Love On My Heart Magnificat A Mighty Fortress Is Our God My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord Nunc Dimittis Nun Danket Alle Gott Music, The Food of Love One Thing I Have Desired Quem Pastores Laudavere Pie Jesu Requiem da Camera Rest A Small Requiem A Song of Resurrection To A Stranger The Voice of the Rain When Shadows are Falling With Rue my Heart is Laden White Horses |
Christmas FreudigAd Novum AnnumAll This Time Ave Maria Balulalow Beata Progenies Boar's Head Carol Brightest and Best Care is all Fiddle-dee-dee Christmas Day Christmas Lullaby Conditor Alme Siderum Dame, Get Up Ding Dong! Merrily on High Ecce, Quod Natura Evergreen Giv mig ej glans (En etsi valtaa, loistoa) God, Stir the Soil Here We Come A-Wassailing I Sing the Birth In Natali Domini It's the most wonderful time of the year Jesu the Baby Joys Seven The Lamb Let's Get Ready A Merry Christmas Nouvelles, Nouvelles O l'Heureuse Journee O Magnum Mysterium The One Horse Open Sleigh Or Vous Tremoussez Parvulus Nobis Nascitur Pastyme with Good Company Rapping Paper A Repeating Alleluia Salve Virgo Regia Shepherd's Carol Sur le mont de Sion Verbum Patris Humanatur What is this Lovely Fragrance? Winter Wonderland Who Comes? |
Popular FreudigAcCenTchuAte the PositiveAnything Goes Bewitched Climb Every Mountain Do Re Mi Edelweiss Embraceable You From Alpha to Omega Get Happy Grant Avenue Hooray for Love I Am Loved I Got Rhythm I'm Going to Wash that Man... In the Still of the Night It's a Grand Night for Singing It's Only A Paper Moon I've Got a Crush on You June Is Bustin' Out All Over Let's Misbehave Lonely Goatherd The Man I Love My Shining Hour Nice Work If You Can Get It Over the Rainbow Someone To Watch Over Me Strike Up the Band Ten Minutes Ago There Is Nothing Like a Dame They Can't Take That Away From Me The War that Ended War Use Your Imagination With a Song in My Heart Yankee Doodle Rhythm You Do Something To Me You Don't Remind Me |
About Freudig music
Welcome to choral music nirvana!Four times a year, Freudig Singers delight audiences all over Western New York. Here is the music we have sung within memory. Below are brief backgrounders and links to audio clips we have recorded. (If you are in the office, check your sound settings or put your headphones on before you "play"!) In October and March we offer eclectic programs, selected by our director Ron Martin, often featuring music he has himself composed (which is luscious and rich.) Our Christmas Pie concert in early December sets the tone perfectly for the coming excitement. We sing this show with children (real kids!) and we bake and auction pies. Consequently the show is a sellout. In May we perform a pops show featuring composers of the 20th Century. In recent years we sang songs composed by Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin and Harold Arlen. This May past we performed the music of Richard Rodgers who collaborated with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. There are clips from that show below. Listen! Listen! Listen to how we sing!Ave MariaJacques Arcadelt died in Paris in 1568. A french composer who served Charles of Lorraine in 1551 and possibly King Henry II, he was one of the earliest madrigal composers and his first volume was one of the first major successes of the printing trade, enjoying 33 editions in a century.Nearly four hundred and fifty years later, count them, 1, 2, 3... the Freudig Singers performed this piece at the Kenmore Presbyterian Church at the Christmas Pie concert of 2006. The recording sounds dated, deliciously dated, but this may just be how goodness sounds... To listen to the Freudigs sing Ave Maria, turn up your loudspeakers and click here Boar's Head CarolThis carol, as sung every Christmas at Queen's College, Oxford, is from Dibden's Typog. Antiq. of 1812. It is attributed to Jan van Wynken of Worth in 1521. van Wynken was the apprentice of printer William Caxton and became his successor. Of his publication Christmasse Carolles dated 1521 only the last leaf survives.Here is a lusty entrance to our Christmas Pie show of 2006 recorded at the Kenmore Presbyterian Church. To listen to the Boar's Head Carol, click here Christmas DayBritish composer Gustav Holst was underappreciated in his day and only after his death did he grip the imagination of listeners seeking more of Britten and Tippett. "It would be difficult too to exagerrate his influence as a teacher with a genius for encouraging amateurs and beginners to strive after the highest and most uncompromising standards." ¹Here is a stunning arrangement of four Christmas carols in a single piece by Gustav Holst from our show Christmas Pie 2006 at Kenmore Presbyterian Church. To listen, turn up your speakers and click here There Is Nothing Like a Dame!Here are the gung-ho Sailors, Seabees and Marines from Oscar Hammerstein's musical South Pacific. You can just imagine fists clenched, elbows pointed and chins jutting in this rousing military song.This whimsical piece from our Brava! concert in 2005 was repeated in our Richard Rodgers show on May 5 and 6, 2007. To listen, turn up your turn up your speakers and click here I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of my HairThe feminine but determined response to the lusty Marines of Oscar Hammerstein's South Pacific.This whimsical piece from our Brava! concert in 2005 was repeated in our Richard Rodgers show on May 5 and 6, 2007. To listen, turn up the loudspeakers and click here ¹ Michael Kennedy, The New Oxford Companion to Music, © Oxford University Press, 1983 | |||
