2024-2025 Program

Organ Concert by Members – Benefitting the WAGO Scholarship Fund, and a local food pantry.
Sunday, November 3, 3 p.m.
First Congregational Church, Waterbury
222 West Main St. (on the green)

Host: Stewart Crouse

Free admission, but non-perishable food items will be accepted for a local food pantry, and a free-will offering will be taken for the WAGO Scholarship Fund

Chair:  Ron Ebrecht
ronald.ebrecht@yale.edu

Epiphany Pot-Luck and Carol Sing
Friday, January 3, 2025, 6 p.m.
Naugatuck United Methodist Church
208 Meadow Street

Chair:  Michael Petruzzi
pianoman087@yahoo.com

Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Organ Crawl
Monday, January 20, 9:15 a.m.
Meet at First Church, Congregational, Fairfield
148 Beach Rd., Fairfield   06824

Chairs:  Bill Degan and Christian Muller (combining with GBAGO)

Choir and Hymn Festival, Gabriel Lofvall, director, and Chorus Angelicus, guest chorus – Benefitting GWIM
Sunday, March 23, 4:30 concert
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Waterbury
16 Church St.  (on the green)

Arrive at 1:45; 2-4 p.m. rehearsal

Host/Chair:  Bob Havery
rhavery20@gmail.com

Repertoire:

Opening Round:   When Jesus Wept – William Billings, 1770   
   In 3 parts: choir broken up to sing from the chancel and both side galleries
   D-4 handbell to be used for intonation – in Chalice hymnal, #199

The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune/All People That On Earth Do Dwell – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
   (doubles as a congregational hymn for some verses)
   [Bill Degan can lend copies – dblopen32@gmail.com ]

Cathedral of Praise – Joseph Martin      Harold Flammer   A 8551
   -includes a verse for Youth Choir

There Is a Time   – Craig Courtney          Beckenhorst Press BP 1463
   -Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 text

This Little Light of Mine     spiritual, arranged John Helgen    
   Gladsong/Augsburg Press  978-1-5064-4756-8
   -spiritual, jazz/gospel piano accompaniment

*For women and S A Youth Choirs:

   For the Beauty of the Earth    -Peter Niedmann     Note:  Contact Bill Degan (email address above) to get a reproducible copy.  The work is copyrighted but not published.  PN has given us permission to print this music for this festival. 

OTHER HYMNS:  When in Our Music God is Glorified     -Chalice #7

Cantad al Señor     (ELW hymnal #882)    -select English and Spanish verses

Solo Choirs:   Chorus Angelicus      (2-3 selections + PN anthem above)

Individual church choirs – Contact Bob Havery if interested (email address above)

Annual Meeting and Picnic
Sunday, June 8, 4 p.m.
24 Cathy Drive, Southington – home/yard of Michael Petruzzi

Host:  Michael Petruzzi
pianoman087@yahoo.com