The use of cameras or recording equipment during the

performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell phones,

pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off.

Music Department

National Gallery ofArt

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Concerts are made possible in part through the generosity of donors

to the National Gallery ofArt through The Circle. Reserved seating is

available in recognition oftheir support. Please contact the development

office at (202) 842-6450 or circle@nga.gov for more information.

COVER: John Toole, Skating Scene (detail), c. 1835, National Gallery ofArt,

Washington, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

The Seventy-Third Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt 

3,029th Concert

Thomas Circle Singers

James Rreger, artistic director

Alec M. Davis, pianist

December 20, 2014

Saturday, 3:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court
Program

Sing-along carols will be interspersed throughout the progra

Bob Chilcott

Nova! Nova!

Matthew Culloton

In dulcijubilo

Eleventh-century trope

Ofthe Father’s Love Begotten

Eric Whitacre

Lux Aurumque

Austrian carol, arr. Norma Luboff 

Still, Still, Still

Robert Convery 

YoungJesus Sweit

Thomas L. Hale

There Is No Rose

French carol, arr. Donald McCullough

Angels We Have Heard on High

Frank Ferko

From A Festival ofCarols

Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Christmas Bells

The Musicians

THOMAS CIRCLE SINGERS

The Thomas Circle Singers’ dual artistic and social service mission sets

it apart from other choral ensembles and arts organizations in the

region. The group performs diverse chamber choral works ofthe highest

quality for Washington-area audiences while also raising awareness and

support for local social service organizations dedicated to underserved

communities. Founded in 1976, the Thomas Circle Singers (tcs) grew

out of a music group based at Thomas Circle’s Luther Place Memorial

Church. The new group believed that sharing music’s beauty could help

transform what was at that time a neglected community. By donating its 

proceeds to underserved communities and providing a forum for living 

composers to discuss their new works with the audiences who hear

them in its concerts, TCS has evolved to fill a unique niche in a city that

offers numerous choral groups.

JAMES KREGER

Artistic Director James Kreger, now in his twenty-sixth season with the

award-winning Thomas Circle Singers, continues his long-time advocacy of contemporary American music and performances of emerging

composers’ works. In recognition for his work with TCS, Kreger was 

honored with weta-fm’s Hometown Hero award. Formerly the director

of choral programs in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and the Virgin 

Islands, he has led workshops and choir festivals throughout the

Mid-Atlantic region and guest conducted the Metropolitan Chorus

and the Germantown Oratorio Society.

He holds bachelor ofmusic and master of music degrees from

Westminster Choir College and was the recipient of an Alumni Merit

Award in 2008. A member ofthe music faculty ofthe Landon School,

he also serves as organist and choirmaster at Saint John’s Episcopal 

Church in Olney, Maryland.