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Choir Members for
The Crucifixion

1959 Performance by:     
Annapolis High School Choirs   
(Classes of 1959, 1960 and 1961)   

NOTES.

For the 1959 performances from which this recording was made, Mr. Kunkle had 3 choirs he needed to showcase:

• Mixed choir; plus
• 2 womens choirs.

Like Bach's St. Matthews Passion and Handle's Messiah, John Stainer's score for The Crucifixion is perhaps half solos, consisting of arias and recititives. Mr. Kunkle took advantage of those other number and had the womens choirs sing the parts of the score designated for solo as arias and recitative parts. That created dramatically more choral content than indicated by Stainer in the score.

In addition to the major solo parts, Stainer also included additional minor solo parts he designated to be sung by members from the choir. Mr. Kunkle selected singers for those roles from his mixed choir. Because their names are listed on the private LP made from those performances, they are included below under Mixed Choir.

Unfortunately, no information is available to me to:

• Know who was in which choir; and
• Differentiate which of the 2 women's choirs sang which solos and recitatives, or whether they did it jointly together.

Help from anyone with this information is requested!!!! Click on the comment button at the bottom to send the information, or your contact information, so I can contact you.

NOTE. The goal is to expand this webpage to contain names of the choir members in each of the 3 choirs. A possible source for that might be the Wake yearbook for 1959 (if it contains information about the choirs. I don't remember the yearbook covering the choirs.) To verify whether the yearbook contains information about the choirs, I need to find my copy (burried in a past move), or someone needs to loan me a copy.

Can anyone help???

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Robert F Kunkle, Choral Director

Marilyn Riecke, Organist

Mixed Choir

[Minor soloist roles from the mixed choir, in order of appearance.]

David Goettee
Douglas Hubbard
Fred Eucare
Pat Tanner
Lucy Phelps
John Phelps
Marshall DeGraw
James Nicewarner
Richard Vogelsang
Carroll Dove

{Plus other choir members}

Women's Choir 1

Women's Choir 2

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