The Donald Brinegar Singers and JPL Chorus will sing new and timeless music. The songs performed embody the enduring spirit of faith, hope and love in compositions by Morten Laurisden, Randall Thompson, Charles Standford, Sean McLean, Samuel Barber, Z. Randall Stroope, Rosephanyne Powell, David García Saldaña’s and Katherine Saxon.  

 

We are honored to present the live premiere of David García Saldaña’s “Credo” and the choral premier of “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Katherine Saxon.

 

The Donald Brinegar Singers and JPL Chorus is a combined community choral ensemble that meets in Pasadena directed by Donald Brinegar.

 

The Program

 

“Beati Quorum Via”- Charles Villiers Stanford

“Alleluia”- Randall Thompson

“Credo,” David García Saldaña

“Pange Lingua”- Sean MacLean

“Hope is the thing with Feathers”- Katherine Saxon

“To Sit and Dream”- Rosephanye Powell

“The Coolin” (from Reincarnations), Samuel Barber

“Ya Eres Mia”- Morten Lauridsen

“The Pasture”- Z. Randall Stroope


Conductor Donald Brinegar is Professor Emeritus of Music at PCC. He is also director of Choruses for the Pasadena Symphony and POPS. He is an adjunct professor at Cal State Los Angeles Masters Program in Choral conducting. Brinegar has published five books on Choral Music. 

Guest conductors for some of the repertoire presented are Jenny Tisi and Evan Roberts.

 

Jenny Tisi has been a music educator and choir director for thirty-four years. Currently, she directs children’s and youth choirs at All Saints Church. Tisi has a Masters in Choral Conducting program at California State University: Los Angeles. She has sung with Seattle Pro Musica and currently sings with The Donald Brinegar Singers.

 

Evan Roberts is Choral Director of the Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts. 

He holds Master’s degrees in Music Education Research from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and in Choral Conducting from California State University: Los Angeles.

Along with singing with the Donald Brinegar Singers, he also sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles (C3LA).