Notice. Version 1 was released in 2023. It is replaced with version 2, released in 10/6/2024. It is a remastered and restored digital version of The Crucifixion from the 1959 LP, which is a monaural, amatuer, consumer grade recording made in Spring 1959 of the live performances by the 3 Annapolis High School choirs.
NOTES about The Crucifixion
Stainer's score of The Crucifixion contains 20 numbered parts, some containing multiple subparts. They consist of:
All 15 of those numbers are included as part of the 1959 AHS performances.
Since the Annapolis High School choirs' 1959 production was a performance, not a chruch service, the 5 Congregational hymns are omitted from the performances.
In the playlist below, for completeness purposes of the score, all titles (including the hymns) contained in the score are shown. (The playlist notes that the hymns are omitted from the AHS 1959 performances.)
Each of the numbers shows what performer type is designated in the score. Stainer designed the score to be easier for church choirs to perform, assigning many recitatives and arias to soloists.
To make maximum use of his 3 choirs. the AHS choral director deviated from designations in Stainer's score. He substituted the 2 womens choirs for all but one of the major solo parts designated for arias and recitatives. That makes this version of The Crucifixion dramatically more choral than the score's designations. The playlist indicates whether mixed or womens choirs performed the numbers.
For the multiple small solos Stainer designated as by members of the choir, student members from the mixed choir were used. For one tenor part, the director substituted 2 sopranos from the mixed choir. The student soloists in the 1959 AHS performances are shown on the line following the subtitle of those parts.
We have those student soloists names because they are on the private LP record, clearly in order by first appearence. That enabled filling in the individual soloists' names.
(Unfortunately, no information is available to differentiate which of the 2 women's choirs sang which solos and recitatives, or if they sang them together. If anyone can help with this information, please click on the comment button at the bottom to send information. Your contact information will only be used if clarifications are needed.)
NOTE. If the information can be found, my goal is to build a webpage containing names of the choir members in each of the 3 choirs. A possible source for that might be the Wake yearbook for 1959. (My recollection is the yearbook did not cover the choirs.) To verfy if any such information is contained in yearbook, I need to find my copy (buried in a box as part of a previous move), or someone needs to loan me a copy. (Can anyone help??? with either of these? Reply via comment button below!!)
David (Tim) Goettee (1959)
Play Order |
Major Title Subtitles Performer |
Play Length |
---|---|---|
1 |
And They Came to a Place Named Gethsemane Organ Introduction AHS's auditorium Hammond Organ used throughout with Marilyn Riecke playing Score indicates a Tenor recitative (text from Mark 14:32) Performed by Womens choir |
1:19? - 1:20 |
2 |
The Agony (Sources include texts from Mark 14:46, 53, 60, 61–64, 15:1, 15–16) "Could Ye Not Watch with Me" Score indicates Bass from choir Student soloist: David Goettee "Jesus, Lord Jesus, bowed in bitter anguish" Score indicates chorus Performed by: Mixed chorus "Could Ye Not Watch with Me" Score indicates Bass from choir Student soloist: David Goettee "Jesus, Lord Jesus, bowed in bitter anguish" Score indicates chorus Performed by: Mixed chorus "Could Ye Not Watch with Me" Score indicates Bass from choir Student soloist: David Goettee "And they laid their hands on him and took him" Score indicates a Tenor solo Performed by: Womens choir "Art thou the Christ" - Bass from choir Score indicates Bass from choir Student soloist: Douglas Hubbard "Jesus saith" - Tenor solo Score indicates Tenor Solo Performed by: Womens choir "I am, and ye shall see the Son of man" Score indicates Bass from choir Student soloist: David Goettee "Then the high priest rent his clothes" - Tenor solo Score indicates Tenor solo Performed by: Womens choir "What need we any further witnesses" - Bass solo from choir Score indicates Bass from choir Student soloist: Fred Eucare "And they all condemed him" Score indicates Tenor solo Performed by: Womens choir |
6:19? - 6:21 |
3 |
Processional to Calvary Organ solo "Fling Wide the Gates" Score indicates chorus Performed by: Mixed chorus "How sweet is the Grace" - Tenor solo from choir Score indicates Tenor from choir Split into two parts, performed by Sopranos: Pat Tanner Lucy Phelps "Then on to the end" Score indicates chorus Performed by: Mixed chorus |
8:20? - 8:22 |
4 |
And When They Were Come Score indicates Bass recitative (text from Luke 23:33) Performed by: Womens choir | 0:58? - 0:50 |
5 |
The Mystery of the Divine Humiliation (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
6 |
He Made Himself of No Reputation Score indicates Bass recitative (text from Philippians 2:7–8) Performed by: Womens choir |
1:07? - 1:12 |
7 |
The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation Score indicates Tenor solo Performed by: Womens choir |
3:13? - 3:12 |
-- End of side 1 of the original record -- |
||
8 |
And As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent Score indicates Bass recitative (text from John 3:14–15) Performed by: Womens choir |
1:03 |
9 |
God So Loved the World (text from John 3:16–17) Score indicates chorus Performed by: Mixed chorus |
3:04 |
10 |
Litany of the Passion (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
11 |
Jesus Said, 'Father, Forgive Them' "Jesus saith" - Tenor solo Score indicates Tenor solo Performed by: Womens choir "Father forgive them" (text from Luke 23:34) Score indicates chorus of Tenors and Basses Performed by Tenors and Basses of mixed choir |
0:38 |
12 |
So Thou Liftest Thy Divine Petition Score indicates a Tenor and Bass duet Performed by: Womens choir |
4:00 |
13 |
The Mystery of the Intercession (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
14 |
And One of the Malefactors Score indicates Bass narator, from the choir Performed by: John Phelps "If thou be the Christ" - Another Bass, from the choir Performed by: Marshall DeGraw But the other answering rebuked him - Bass narator, from the choir Performed by: John Phelps "Dost thou not fear" - Bass from the choir Performed by: James Nicewarner And he said unto Jesus - Bass narator, from the choir Performed by: John Phelps "Lord remember me" Bass from the choir Performed by: James Nicewarner And Jesus said unto him - Bass narator from the choir Performed by: John Phelps "Verily I say to you" (text from Luke 23:39–43) Males from the mixed choir Performed by: Mixed choir |
2:13 |
15 |
The Adoration of the Crucified (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
16 |
When Jesus Therefore saw His Mother When Jesus therefore saw (text from John 19:26–27, Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:34) Score indicates - Tenor solo Performed by: Womens choir "Woman behold thy son" Score indicates Tenors from mixed choir Performed by: Mixed choir Then Jesus saith to his deciple Tenor solo Womens choir "Behold thy mother" Mixed Chorus Mixed choir "There was darkness over the earth" Bass solo from choir Richard Vogelsang "And at the ninth hour" Bass solo Womens Choir "My God, My God" Tenors from mixed choir Women's choir | 2:05 |
17 |
Is It Nothing to You? - Bass solo from choir Score indicates Bass recitative Performed by: David Goettee |
1:01 |
18 |
The Appeal of the Crucified "From the throne of his cross" Score indicates chorus Performed by: Mixed choir |
4:25 |
19 |
After This, Jesus Knowing That All Things Were Now Accomplished Score indicates Tenor solo from choir (text from John 19:28, 30, Luke 23:46) Performed by: Carroll Dove "I thirst" Score indicates Tenors from mixed choir Performed by: Mixed choir When Jesus had received ... Score indicates Tenor solo from choir Performed by: Carroll Dove "It is finished" Score indicates Tenors from mixed choir Performed by: Mixed choir And He bowed his head Score indicates Tenor solo from choir Performed by: Carroll Dove |
1:55 |
20 |
For the Love of Jesus (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
Total Playing Time |
41:36 |
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