Spring 2026: Change

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Spring Concert 2026

Tickets: General Admission $25; $20 Senior; $10 Students and Limited Income

Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester
April 17 and 18, 2026 | 7:30 PM

In April 17 and 18 we sing of "Change," a major feature in our life: making, resisting, surviving, welcoming, CHANGE, through growth, loss, revolution, transformation. We are reaching deep to explore this theme, and have some fascinating choral works to guide us. We hope you shall join us for this. You may be changed!

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Spring Concert 2026

Tickets: General Admission $25; $20 Senior; $10 Students and Limited Income

Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester
April 17 and 18, 2026 | 7:30 PM

In April 17 and 18 we sing of "Change," a major feature in our life: making, resisting, surviving, welcoming, CHANGE, through growth, loss, revolution, transformation. We are reaching deep to explore this theme, and have some fascinating choral works to guide us. We hope you shall join us for this. You may be changed!

Program Details (subject to change)

Here Comes the River
Music & Lyrics: Patrick Watson, Mikhail Stein, Joseph Grass, and Jules Buckley
Arranged by: George Chung

Warrior
Music & Lyrics: Kim Baryluk
Chant by: Stacey Howse
Arranged and Adapted by: Natasha Blackwood (Indigenous-led group Eastern Owl)

Good Night, Dear Heart
Music: Dan Forrest
Lyrics: Robert Richardson and Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Keepsake Mill (from A Child’s Garden of Verses)
Music: Morris Haigh
Lyrics: Robert Louis Stevenson

When Memory Fades
Music: Eric Nelson
Lyrics: Mary Louise Bringle
Tune: Jayne Southwick Cool

Sunrise, Sunset (from Fiddler on the Roof)
Music: Jerry Bock
Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick
Arranged by: John Leavitt

Today I Will
Music: Ellen Gilson Voth
Various Anonymous Authors, Text Compiled and Used by Permission of Westminster Choir College of Ryder University

Marat/Sade
Music: Richard Peaslee
Verse Adaptation and Lyrics: Adrian Mitchell

The Girl with the Numbers
Lyrics and Music: Marie-Claire Saindon

You are a New Day
Words and Music: John David
Arragned: Peter Knight

There is No Magic Anymore
Music: Cary Ratcliff
Text: Sara Teasdale

The Unexpected
Music: Joshua Fishbein
Text: Paulo from Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop

The Times They Are A-Changing
Music & Lyrics: Bob Dylan
Arranged: Adam Podd

They are Mother
Music & Lyrics: Jennifer Lucy Cook