Performance Santa Fe celebrates the holidays with the heart-wrenching production All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914!
All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 relives a remarkable moment during World War I when Allied and German troops laid down their weapons to celebrate Christmas together with food and drink, carols, games, and a chance to lovingly bury their dead. Written and directed by Theater Latte Da’s artistic director Peter Rothstein with musical arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach, this heart-wrenching theatrical concert weaves together Christmas Carols, World War I songs, and patriotic tunes with soldier diary entries, letters home, and official war documents. Critics hail All is Calm as “one of the top live events for Christmas in North America” (BBC Music Magazine) and “a classic to be repeated for years to come” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
For more information about the production: https://alliscalm.org/
Will Ye Go to Flanders?
Scottish Folk Song, arr. Erick Lichte
Come on and Join (Alexander’s Ragtime Band)
Irving Berlin
God Save the King
English Traditional
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
Jack Judge and Harry Williams
Les Godillots
Paul Briollet and Eugene Rimbault, based on Traditional French song
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag
George Henry and Felix Powell
The Old Barbed Wire
English Traditional
I Want to Go Home
Lieut. Gitz Rice
Deutschlandlied
Franz Joseph Haydn
Keep the Homefires Burning
Ivor Novello
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
12th c. plainchant
Christmas in the Camp
Harrington and Scott
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
English Traditional Carol
Die Wacht Am Rhein
Karl Wilhelm
Christmas Day in the Cookhouse
Traditional English
O Tannenbaum
German Carol, arr. Timothy C. Takach
Silent Night
Franz Gruber, arr. Erick Lichte
Angels We Have Heard on High
French Traditional
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
French Carol
In Dulci Jubilo
German Carol
Wassail
arr. Erick Lichte, based on traditional wassail texts
O Holy Night (Minuit, Chretiens)
Adolphe Adam, harmonized by Erick Lichte
Will Ye Go to Flanders (Reprise)
Scottish Folksong, arr. Erick Lichte
Wie Schön Leuchtet der Morgenstern
Philip Nicolai, arr. Erick Lichte
Good King Wenceslas
Piae Cantionis
Auld Lang Syne
Scottish Folk Tune, arr. Timothy C. Takach
The Last Post English Bugle Call
(performed by Tom Garvin, trumpet)
Silent Night (Reprise)
Franz Gruber, arr. Erick Lichte