EVERYBODY SING
Rick Whitaker, director
presents
ROUNDS AND SOLOS
Grace & St Paul’s Church
September 1, 2026 at 7 PM

Felicity Howlett, piano
Juan Suelto, guitar
Beverly Brooks, music librarian/coach
William Delp, production manager  

This Little Light of Mine

Where or When (Rodgers and Hart)
Marie Sicari  

Sumer is icumen in (13th century)

Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John & Bernie Taupin)
William Muller

The Agreement (Richard Browne, 17th century)

Cucurrucucu Paloma (Tomás Méndez)
Tatiana Tresca with Beverly Brooks and Juan Suelto

Care, Thou Canker of Our Joys (John Garth, 1782)

Holly Holy (Neil Diamond)
Julian Lepcan

An Ape, a Lion, a Fox, and an Ass (Henry Purcell, 1686)

La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf)
Emanuela Villorini

Banbury Ale (17th century)

O Sole Mio (Eduardo di Capua and Alfredo Mazzucchi)
Eungyul Yoo

A Kiss to Build a Dream On
(Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II)
Gail Buchwald

Come Follow Me (John Hilton, 1652)

The Black Angel (William Delp, 1982; poem by Henri Coulette)
*see text below
William Delp

Do Re Mi Fa (19th century)

Meantime (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
M. C. Waldrep

Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis (Richard Brown, 17th century)

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley)
William Muller and Everybody Sing with Juan Suelto

Goodnight to You All

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from “The Black Angel” *
Where are the people as beautiful as poems,
As calm as mirrors,
With their oceanic longings—
The idler whom reflection loved,
The woman with the iridescent brow?
For I would bring them flowers.

I think of that friend too much moved by music
Who turned to games
And made a game of boredom,
Of that one too much moved by faces
Who turned his face to the wall, and of that marvellous liar
Who turned at last to truth.
They are the past of what was always future.
They speak in tongues,
Silently, about nothing.

They are like old streetcars buried at sea,
In the wrong element, with no place to go. . . .
I will not meet her eye,
Although I shall, but here’s a butterfly,
And a white flower,
And the moon rising on my nail.
This is the presence of things present,
Where flying woefully is like closing sweetly,
And there is nothing else.

--Excerpt from “The Black Angel” by Henri Coulette published in 1963 in the New Yorker

Everybody Sing is a community choir open to everyone who’d like to sing with us. Just come to one of our rehearsals to get started. Up to date details can be found on our website: everybodysingnyc.com.

  Upcoming: Starting in mid-September, Everybody Sing will rehearse and perform at Goddard Riverside’s Community Arts Program at the Bernie Wohl Center on Columbus Avenue at 91st Street.  
December 2, 2026: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , premiere of a performance based on the classic American book about tenant farmers in Alabama circa 1941 by James Agee with photographs by Walker Evans.