Rick Skillman has posted the 9/11 concert to You Tube.  The link from is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKAxHJtNvhY  Rick says:  You may want to see it in high definition if your internet service is fast enough.  On the lower right hand side of the YouTube screen the default resolution is 360p.  Try clicking on it and scrolling up to the highest speed your service allows.  The high definition resolution is 720p.

The centerpiece of the concert is "Dona Nobis Pacem", by Ralph Vaughan Williams.  This major 35-minute cantata is easily one of my five favorite works for chorus and orchestra, and I am utterly thrilled that we are doing it.  We will present the composer's version with strings and piano, to which we will add brass quintet.  The work will feature soprano Jennifer Krikawa and baritone Andrew Krikawa.  Vaughan Williams composed it as Europe was preparing for the not-quite-yet-inevitable Second World War, choosing texts from the Bible, the Mass, three poems by Walt Whitman, and the famous "Angel of Death" speech by John Bright.  More information about the work is available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dona_nobis_pacem_(Vaughan_Williams)

The second half of the concert will consist of the following works:
-- The traditional "Dona Nobis Pacem" round.  We will perform this while walking into the hall -- exciting!
-- Two sing-along Christmas carols as arranged by Sir David Willcocks. Many of you will recall that we performed excerpts from this cycle two years ago.
-- Two excerpts from "Eight Days of Chanukah" by Abraham Kaplan, who was my conducting professor at the University of Washington.  He was also Leonard Bernstein's go-to choral guru in New York in the 1950s and '60s, and while head of the choral program at Juilliard he worked with most of the great luminaries of that golden era.  Since retiring in 2004, he has devoted himself to composition more fully.  He completed this cycle earlier this year; the publishers haven't even got it out to print yet, it's just that new.

-- "Ave Maria" by Franz Biebl.  This is one of the great choral standards of the twentieth century, and a piece that many of you have requested we perform.  Well, here ya go!  This calls for soprano, alto and tenor soloists, who will be selected by audition.
-- We will close with "Peace, Peace", a gentle tune that counterpoints an audience sing-along of "Silent Night".