Celebrates its 49th Season

Welcome All Wonders

Our concerts this year celebrate the wonders of

work and play, love and bravery, hope and faith, dancing and joy.

October

Adam and Eve - music for Men’s and Women’s Voices

Jerry, McCoy conductor

We begin our season with an Adam and Eve concert – Music for Men’s and Women’s voices, featuring the resonant beauty of our women’s voices in works by celebrated American composers Moses Hogan, Gwyneth Walker and Craig Hella Johnson, as well as music by Claude Debussy, Frode Fjellheim, and Canadians Donald Patriquin and Stephen Hatfield. The men of Schola will bring their thrilling, powerfully expressive sound to bear in performances of Poulenc’s Four Short Prayers of St. Francis of Assissi, Frank Murphy’s moving Tell My Father, Jerome Kern’s Ole Man River, and works by Morten Lauridsen, Ippolotov-Ivanov, and Vjay Singh. The singers will close the concert with a rowdy setting of Cindy set for 4-hand piano and double choir by Mack Wilberg.

December

Strike the Harp and Join the Chorus

Jerry, McCoy conductor

Schola will give three performances of its eagerly anticipated A Gift of Music at Christmas. This year’s concerts will showcase music for harp and chorus, including Britten’s beloved Ceremony of Carols and arrangements of carols of the season by Stephen Paulus. February Love bade me welcome… Schola Cantorum of Texas Chamber Choir Nathan Frank, conductor In February, Schola’s associate conductor, Nathan Frank, will lead a concert titled Love Bade Me Welcome featuring the 22 voices of the Schola Chamber Choir. This is a concert you won’t want to miss, featuring performances of Schubert’s Mass in G Major, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs for organ, baritone soloist and chorus, and some of America’s favorite Afro-American Spirituals.

Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 6:00pm, Bagby-McMahan Performing Arts Center, Granbury High School, 2000 W. Pearl Street, Granbury

Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 7:00pm, Concerts at Arborlawn presents Schola! Arborlawn United Methodist Church, 5001 Briarhaven Road, Fort Worth

Monday, December 12, 2011 - 7:30pm, Trinity United Methodist Church, 3321 W. Park Row Drive, Arlington

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 7:30pm, White's Chapel United Methodist Church, 185 S. White's Chapel Boulevard, Southlake

February

Love bade me welcome…

Schola Cantorum of Texas Chamber Choir

Nathan Frank, conductor

 Monday, February 6, 2012 - 7:30pm, Peace Lutheran Church, 941 W. Bedford-Euless Road, Hurst

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 7:30pm, First United Methodist Church-Plano, 3160 E. Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano

April

Make the listening shores rebound…

 - music for chorus and brass

Jerry, McCoy conductor

We’ll close our 49th season with a concert of music for brass and choir in Arbor Lawn Methodist Church’s stunning new sanctuary. The choir and brass will perform music spanning five centuries, including music by Gabrieli, Bruckner, Handel, Effinger and audience favorites by John Rutter and Stephen Paulus.

Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 3:00pm, Concerts at Arborlawn presents Schola!, Arborlawn United Methodist Church, 5001 Briarhaven Road, Fort Worth

Monday, April 16, 2012 - 7:30pm, Peace Lutheran Church, 941 W. Bedford-Euless Road, Hurst