Our commissioned theme song

Our commissioned piece, Raising Voices, by award-winning composer and jazz vocalist Krisanthi Pappas, premiered at our June 10, 2018 Donor Appreciation Concert. We're thrilled! She captured perfectly who we are and what we love doing!

Our recordings

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Music to Warm the Heart, our third CD, was recorded at the Storrs Community Church in 2015-2016, and released in October 2016. It features 13 favorites from our winter repertoire.
Track Listing
  • Personent Hodie (German Tune (1360), arr. Andy Beck)
  • Coventry Carol (Arr. Ola Gjeilo)
  • Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard/Dick Smith, arr. Michele Weir)
  • Carol of the Bells (Traditional/Kirby Shaw, arr. Kirby Shaw)
  • Lo V’Chayil (Elliot Z. Levine/Zachariah IV.6)
  • Jazz Gloria (Natalie Sleeth)
  • Ubi Caritas (Ola Gjeilo)
  • Bugler’s Holiday (Leroy Anderson, arr. Sally K. Albrecht)
  • Oseh Shalom (Nurit Hirsh, arr. Elaine Broad-Ginsberg)
  • Deck the Halls in 7/8 (Arr. James McKelvy)
  • The Winter’s Night (Nicholas Myers)
  • Wana Baraka (Traditional Kenyan, arr. Shawn Kirchner)
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, arr. Doug Andrews)

Copies of this CD are available at each concert.
Take Note! Take Two, our second CD, was recorded at the Storrs Community Church in 2011, and released in mid-December 2011. It features 17 Take Note! favorites.

Track Listing
  • Siyahamba (Collected and ed. Anders Nyberg) 
  • The Flight of the Moon (Audrey Snyder, Oscar Wilde)
  • Music, When Soft Voices Die (Earlene Rentz/Percy Bysshe Shelley, adapted text by Earlene Rentz)              
  • You Stole My Love (Walter Cecil MacFarren, ed. and arr. John Leavitt)
  • Earth Song (Frank Ticheli)
  • Isn’t It Romantic (Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, arr. Teena Chinn)
  • Orange Colored Sky (Milton Delugg and Willie Stein, arr. Deke Sharon)
  • I Am Not Yours (Z. Randall Stroope/Sara Teasdale)
  • In My Life (John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Roger Emerson)
  • i thank You God (Elliot Z. Levine/e.e. cummings)
  • Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen, arr. Philip Lawson)
  • That Ever I Saw (Darmon Meader/Anonymous text)
  • Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen/E. Y. Harburg, arr. Andy Beck)
  • Come Go With Me (C. E. Quick, arr. Kirby Shaw)                                 
  • Nothin’ Gonna Stumble My Feet (Greg Gilpin/John Parker) 
  • Soon I Will Be Done (Traditional Spiritual, arr. Mark Hayes)
  • Love Psalm (Darmon Meader)

Copies of this CD are available at each concert.
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Recorded in fall 2006 and released in spring 2007, our first CD, Sweet Sounds from the Quiet Corner  features 15 of our favorite songs. The recording was made possible by the generosity of John Zatowski, Eastern Connecticut State University and the wonderful acoustics of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Windham Center.

This CD is now a collector's item, as all copies have been distributed, although it is available at some local libraries.