A partial reprise of our May 1996 concert, with new material as well, this program includes everything from “Boogie-woogie Bugle Boy” to Holocaust songs to a rediscovered composition on the blessings of peace. This program honors the women’s experiences of war. As we have learned this music, it has become our way of partaking of the courage women have shown, even in their unimaginable suffering, when the fires of war swept over their lands. Performed on Sunday, January 26, 2003.
Program
| Da pacem Domine | Håkan Olsson |
| When Johnny Comes Marching Home | Louis Lambert |
| The Press Gang | arr. Elizabeth Poston |
| Johnny’s Gone A-Sailing | arr. Ruth Watson Henderson |
| Madame Jeanette | Aan Murray, arr. Edward S. Breck |
| Angels of Mercy | Irving Berlin, arr. Milton James |
| Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy | Don Raye & Hughie Prince, arr. Ed Lojeski |
| Song of Survival: The Captive’s Hymn | Margaret Dryburgh |
| Coventry’s Choir | Gena Branscombe |
| Cradle of Fire | arr. Michael Isaacson |
| 1. Stiler, stiler | Alec Volkoviski |
| 2. S’brent | Mordekhai Gebirtig |
| 3. Zog nit keyn mol | D. Pokras |
| 4. Babi Yar | Rivka Boyarska |
| 5. Ani maamin | Azriel David Fastag |
| Kyrie, from Mass for the Dead | Plainchant |
| Out in the Rain | Brian Edward Galante |
| Shir Lashalom | Yazir Rozenblu, arr. J. David Moore |
| Pax nobiscum | Amy Beach |
| Peace | Martha Alter |