Fall 2011
Magnificat!
J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D-dur
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Magnificat Primi Toni
Arvo Pärt: Magnificat
Peggy Hart: Canticle of the Creatures
David Childs: O Magnum Mysterium
Spring 2011
Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
J.S. Bach: Lobet den Herrn
Winter 2010
An Evening of Mystery and Song:
Victoria: Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Spring 2010
Slavic Lights, Russian Songs, and Slovak Dances:
Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Bartok: Slovak and Hungarian Folk Songs
Winter 2009
Ralph Vaughn Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei
Featuring: Mark Bruce, Organ
Spring 2009
El Abrazo Largo (The Long Embrace): Latin American Songs from the Old and New World
Featuring music from Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico and a composition from composer-in-residence Peggy Hart
Winter 2008
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Spring 2008
Poulenc: Mass in G major and music by Ravel, Massenet, Saint-Saens, and Faure
Featuring: Nadia Blank, piano
Winter 2007
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor and Brahms Quartets for Choir and Piano
Featuring: Nadia Blank, piano, and Asher Davison, clarinet
Spring 2007
Her Infinite Variety: Four Centuries of Shakespeare in Song
Featuring songs by Morley, Verdi, Vaughan Williams, Shearing, Mäntyjarvi, Harris, P.D.Q. Bach, and more.
Winter 2006
Bach: Mass in B minor
Spring 2006
A Choral Menagerie
Benjamen Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, plus Hindemith, Copland, Carmichael, madrigals, and more.
Winter 2005
To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Featuring the Tomás Luís de Victoria O Magnum Mysterium Mass, plus Rossi, Lassus, del Encina, Eccard, and more.
Spring 2005
America in Song
featuring Morton Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, and songs by Billings, Joplin, Ives, Bernstein, Hogan, and Callaway
Winter 2004
Winter Concert
Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers)
Spring 2004
Spring Concert
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Brahm’s Schicksalslied, and Zoltán Kodály’s Missa Brevis, performed in collaboration with The Prometheus Orchestra (Eric Hansen, conductor)
Winter 2003
La Rose Complète
Morten Lauridsen’s Les Chansons des Roses, Benjamin Brittin’s Hymn to St. Cecelia and String music of Byrd and Holborne
Spring 2003
A Night at the Opera
Selections from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, plus opera choruses from Bizet, Offenbach, Mussorgsky, and Verdi, and the world premiere of the complete Songs from the Gardener song cycle by composer-in-residence Ann Callaway.
Winter 2002
A Winter Concert
Program included Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Ann Callaway’s ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ and ‘Unspoken Things’ from Songs from the Gardener
Spring 2002
O Sacred Earth; Early Music of the Sacred and Secular
Program included works by Bach, Rossi, le Jeune, Josquin, de Lasso, Morley, Monteverdi, Weelkes, Hildegard von Bingen and Ann Callaway
Winter 2001
Beethoven, Weber, Callaway
Beethoven: Mass in C Major, Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Callaway: Valentine
Spring 2001
Isn’t it Romantic? Songs of Love and Romance Through the Centuries
Program included works by Haydn, Bartók, Brahms, Barber, Rodgers, Ravel, Billings, Callaway (world premiere), & Ellington, and also included chamber and solo pieces featuring chorus members.
Winter 2000
Dona Nobis Pacem: Songs to Peace
Program included excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein, Barber, and Callaway
Spring 2000
A Bouquet of Italian Music
Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle, and works by Verdi, Monteverdi, Josqin, Vecchi and two premieres by Ann Callaway
Winter 1999
Two Faces of Sacred Space
Pärt’s Te Deum, and The Missa Luba, a Congolese Mass. Guest artists: Otello Jefferson, tenor Malonga Casquelord, Tacuma King and Sanga of the Valley; percussion
Spring 1999
Brahm’s Piano Concerto #1 in C minor, Bizet’s Symphony in C major
Featuring: Matthew Edwards, Piano
Spring 1999
Sure On This Shining Night…
Bach – Lobet den Herrn, Barber – Sure on this shining night, Bartók – Two Slovak folk songs, Bernstein – Dona nobis pacem from the Missa Brevis, Britten – Deus in adjutorium meum, Fauré – Madrigal, Ligeti – Ejszaka and Reggel, Poulenc – Un soir de neige, Thompson – The road not taken from Frostiana, Poulenc – Un Soir de Neige, Brahms – Cappriccio Op 67, Brahms – Intermezzo Op 118, Brahms – Intermezzo Op 119,
Winter 1998
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Barber: Adagio for Strings, Barber: Agnus Dei, Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin
Spring 1998
Fauré: Requiem, Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24, Brahms: Schicksalslied
Winter 1997
Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor and Vivaldi: Concerto for two trumpets
Spring 1997
Orff: Carmina Burana
Winter 1996
Bach: Magnificat and Charpentier: Messe de Minuit
Spring 1996
Brahms: Deutsches Requiem