laurentian singers tour repertoire 1955
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Laurentian Singers Tour Repertoire
1955
“My Spirit Sang All Day” Finzi
“O Magnum Mysterium” Victoria
“German Folk Songs”
I’d Enter Your Garden
The Fiddler
How Sad Flow The Streams
Awake, Awake!
A House Stands ‘Neath The Willows’ Shade
Brahms
“French Suite, No. 5” (Gigue) Bach
“Fantaisie Impromptu” Chopin
“There Is Sweet Music Here” White
“Six Chansons”
The Doe
A Swan
Since All Is Passing
In Winter
Orchard
Hindemith
“Hodie Christus Natus Est” Willan
“Since First I Saw Your Face” Ford
“He Is Good And Handsome” Passereau
1957
“Madrigal for a Bright Morning” Wayne Barlow
“In Festo Transfigurationis Domini” Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
“Allon, Gay Bergeres” 16th
Century Chanson Guillaume Costeley
“Set Down Servant” Arr. Robert Shaw
“Balm in Gilead” Arr. William Dawson
“Live A-Humble” Arr. Jester Hairston
1959
“The Carols of Death” William Schuman
“Salvation is Created” Tschesnokoff
“Hodie” Healey Willan
“Te Deum” William Schuman
“Glory Be to God” Arr. Jean Berger
“Choir Blues” George Greeley, arr. J.R. Gilbert
“He’s Gone Away” Arr. Walter Schuman
“Elijah Rock” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Hold On” Arr. Jester Hairston
1960
“Six Chansons”
“The Doe”
“A Swan”
“Since All Is Passing”
“In Winter”
“The Orchard”
“Springtime”
Paul Hindemith
“Tarantella” Randall Thompson
“The Peaceable Kingdom” Randall Thompson
“The Testament of Freedom” (excerpts from
the writing of Thomas Jefferson)
“The God who gave us life”
“We shall not die without a hope”
Randall Thompson
“Te Deum” William Schuman
“Laurentia” Traditional
“Fides et Veritas” Nelson L. Robinson ‘77
“Carols of Death” on texts by Walt Whitman
“The last invocation”
“The unknown region”
“To all, to each”
William Schuman
1961
“Hodie Christus Natus Est” Palestrina
“Jesu Dulcis Memoria” Victoria
“Rejoice, My Soul” Balekirev
“The Falcon” John Gerrish
“Requiem Mass, C minor” Cherubini
“Glory to God in the Highest” Randall Thompson
“Hymn to St. Cecilia” Benjamin Britten
“The Stars Are With the Voyager” Houston Bright
“The Peaceable Kingdom”
“The paper reeds by the brook”
“Have ye not known”
“Ye shall have a song”
Randall Thompson
“There is a Balm in Gilead” William L. Dawson
“Hold On” Jester Hairston
“Sixteen Tons” American, arr. J.R.G.
“Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees” J. Richard Gilbert
“Love Is Where You Find It” Nacie [sp.?] H. Brown, arr. J.R.G.
1962
“Holy Radiant Light” Alexandre Gretchaninoff
“Brazilian Psalm” Jean Berger
“A Festive Psalm” Richard S. Saylor
“Frostiana: Seven Poems by Robert Frost”
“The Road Not Taken”
“The Pasture”
“Come In”
“The Telephone”
“A Girl’s Garden”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“Choose Something Like a Star”
Randall Thompson
“Catulli Carmina”
Praelusio— “Eis aiona”
Actus I
“Odi et amo”
“Vivamus, mea Lesbia”
“Ille mi par esse”
“Nulli se dicit”
Actus II
“Jucundum, mea vita”
“Desine”
Actus III
“Odi et amo”
“Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla”
“Ameana, puella defututa”
“Miser Catulle”
“Nulla potest”
Exodium— “Eis aiona”
Carl Orff
“Hold On” Arr. Jester Hairston
“If I Got a Ticket” Arr. Robert Shaw
“He’s Gone Away” Arr. Walter Schumann
“Coffee Grows” Arr. J. Richard Gilbert
“Choir Blues” George Greeley; arr. J.R.G.
“Asleep in the Deep” H.W. Petrie; arr. J.R.G.
“Love Is Where You Find It” N.H. Brown; arr. J.R.G.
“Laurentia” Arr. J.R.G.
“Varsity” Arr. J.R.G.
“Fides et Veritas” Nelson L. Robertson ’77; arr. J.R.G.
1963
“I Cannot Conceal It” Certon
“To Lovely Groves” Tessin
“Cupid, That god” Costiley
“Cold Winter” Debussy
“Nicoletta” Ravel
“Margoton Poulenc
“The White Snow” Poulenc
“Catulli Carmina” Carl Orff
“Ode et amo”
“Vivamus, mea Lesbia”
“Da mi basia mille”
“Nulla potest mulier”
“Rainsong” Houston Bright
“If I Got My Ticket” Arr. Robert Shaw
“Motherless Child” Arr. J.R.G.
“He’s Gone Away” Arr. Walter Schumann
“Every Night” Appalachian Folk Song; arr. J.R.G.
“Band of Angels” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Summertime” George Gershwin; arr. J.R.G.
“Winter Wonderland” Arr. J.R.G.
1964
“Sacrae Symphoniae”
“Jubilate Deo”
Giovanni Gabrieli
“The Peaceable Kingdom”
“The paper reeds by the brook”
“Have ye not known?”
“Ye shall have a song”
Randall Thompson
“Brazilian Psalm”
“My country is desolate”
“Woe to them that destroy”
“My dwelling place is removed”
Jean Berger
“Vision of Peace”
“Let all the nations be gathered together”
“Violence shall no more be heard in the
land”
Jean Berger
“All Things That Rise” Jean Berger
“Madrigals”
“My true-love hath my heart”
“Are thou that she”
“All ye that lovely lovers be”
Jean Berger
“Trouble in Tahiti” Leonard Bernstein
“Susannah”
“The trees on the mountains”
Carlisle Floyd
“Porgy and Bess”
“Summertime”
George Gershwin
“Sixteen Tons” Merle Travis; arr. J.R.G.
“I Wonder As I Wander” John Jacob Niles; arr. J.R.G.
“Andalucia” Ernesto Lecuona; arr. J.R.G.
“I Hear a Voice A-Praying” Houston Bright
“Rainsong” Houston Bright
“Our Troubles Was Hard” Jester Hairston
“Hallelujah” William David Brown
1965
“Messiah” G.F. Handel
“Alleluia” Randall Thompson
“Alleluia” W.A. Mozart
“Alleluia” William David Brown
“Prelude” William Shuman
“Madrigal for a Bright Morning” Wayne Barlow
“The Falcon” John Gerrish
“Winter Night On The Mountain” Houston Bright
“The 150th
Psalm” Jean Berger
“I Wonder as I Wander” Niles; arr. J.R.G.
“Summertime” Gershwin; arr. J.R.G.
“Our Troubles Was Hard” Jester Hairston
“I Got a Key” Arr. Shaw-Parker
“Granada” Lara; arr. J.R.G.
“Motherless Child” Spiritual; arr. J.R.G.
“Garota de Ipanema” Jobim; arr. J.R.G.
“Sixteen Tons” Travis; arr. J.R.G.
“Choir Blues” Greeley; arr. J.R.G.
1966
“Hodie Christus natus est” Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
“Ave Maria” Tomas Luis De Victoria
“Gloria” Anonio Vivaldi
“Hear Thou My Prayer” P Tschesnokov
“Holy Radiant Light” Alexander Gretchaninov
“In The Beginning” Aaron Copland
“Alleluia” Randall Thompson
“Triptych” Relly Raffman
“Hallelujah” William David Brown
“Soon-ah Will Be Done” William Dawson
“Hold On” Jester Hairston
“Lonesome Road” Jester Hairston
“Go Down, Death” Harold A. Decker
“Weep, O Willow” Sven Lekberg
“Choir Blues” George Greeley
“St. Louis Blues” William C. Handy
“Laurentia” Traditional
“Fides et Veritas” Nelson L. Robinson ‘77
“The Scarlet and the Brown” Charles Kelsey Gaines ‘76
“St. Lawrence, Mother Dear” Harry F. Landon ‘13
1967
“Call to Remembrance” Richard Farrant
“Ave Maria” Tomas Luis de Victoria
“Lo, In the Time Appointed” Healey Willan
“Brazilian Psalm” Jean Berger
“Anthem” Igor Stravinsky
“Symphony of Psalms” Igor Stravinsky
“Triptych” Relley Raffman
“Here is thy Footstool” Paul Creston
“My Lord, What a mornin’” H.T. Burleigh
“Our Troubles Was Hard” Jester Hairston
“Lonesome Valley” Arr. J.R.G.
“Ipanema” A.C. Jobim, arr. J.R.G.
“St. Louis Blues” W.C. Handy, arr. J.R.G
1968
“Jubilante Deo” Relly Raffman
“Like as the Culver” Halsey Stevens
“Jesus and the Traders” Zoltan Kodaly
“Rejoice in the Lamb” Benjamin Britten
“Axis” Donald Jenni
“In the Beginning” Aaron Copland
“Rainsong” Houston Bright
“Summertime” George Gershwin; arr. J.R.G.
“The Shadow of Your Smile” Johnny Mandel; arr. J.R.G.
“King of the Road” Roger Miller; arr. J.R.G.
“Love is Where You Find It” Brent-Brown; arr. J.R.G.
“Sixteen Tons” Merle Travis; arr. J.R.G.
“Very Last Day” Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey; arr. J.R.G.
“Choir Blues” George Greeley; arr. J.R.G.
1969
1970
1971
“Misa Criolla” Ramirez
“Harlem Suite”
“Apollo”
“Sunday in de Evenin’”
“A Little Love”
Cunningham
“Magnum Mysterium” Handl
“Heilig” Mendelssohn
“Alleluia” Thompson
“Rockin’ Jerusalem” Arr. Work
“Wade in de Water” Arr. Hairston
“Turtle Dove” Arr. V. Williams
“By the Time I Get to Phoenix” Arr. Gilbert
“Close to You” Arr. Gay
“The Preacher” Arr. Gay
“Wonderful Day” Arr. Gay
“Make it Easy on Yourself” Arr. Gay
“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” Arr. Gay
1972
“I Got Love” from Purlie Geld and Udell; arr. G.E. Gay
“What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” Legrand and Bergman; arr. Gay
“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” Bacharach and David; arr. Gay
“On A Wonderful Day Like Today” Bricusse and Newley; arr. Gay
“Laudate Coeli” Orazio Benevoli
“Psalm CXX” Otto Olsson
“Heilig” Felix Mendelssohn
“Friede auf Erden, Opus 13” Arnold Schonberg
“Missa: Laudate dominum de coelis”
“Kyrie”
“Gloria”
“Credo”
“Sanctus”
“Benedictus”
“Agnus Dei”
Orlando di Lasso
“Petite Camusette” Josquin des Frez
“The Riddle” Arr. Gregg Smith
“Wade in de Water” Arr. Jester Hairston
“This Little Light O’ Mine” Arr. John W. Work
“Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord” Arr. Undine Moore
“World Goin’ Down” Arthur Cunningham
“Sandy Beaches” Peter Galligan; arr. Gay
“Everything’s All Right” from Jesus Christ
Superstar
Webber and Rice; arr. Gay
“Company” S. Sondheim; arr. Gay
1973
1974
French Choruses from “The Lark”
“Spring Song”
“Court Song”
“Soldier’s Song”
Leonard Bernstein
“Sixty-Seventh Psalm” Charles Ives
“Kyrie Eleison” Milton Dieterich
“Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit” Heinrich Schütz
“Tenebrae factae sunt” Michael Haydn
“Poema Ultrasonico”
“Voces Intercosmicas”
“Extension de Huracanes”
“Dimension de Luz”
“Geografia de los Gemelos”
“Latigo Quemando”
Norman Dinerstein
“El Canelazo”
“Juanito Laguna Remonta Un Barrilete”
“Triste me voy”
“La Naranja”
“I Want Jesus” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Honor! Honor!” Arr. Hall Johnson
“Anything Goes” Cole Porter
“Nights in White Satin” Redwave and Knight; arr. Glen Daum
“’Tiptoe’ Song” Arr. John Watkin
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Cory and Cross; arr. G.E. Gay
“Walk With You” John Johnson; arr. G. Daum
“Cabaret” Kander and Ebb; arr. G.E. Gay
1975
1976
“I Got Love” from Purlie Geld-Udell; arr. G. Errol Gay
“Never On Sunday” Towne-Hadjikakis; arr. Gay
“Where Is The Love” MacDonald-Slater; arr. Glen Daum
“Save the Country” Laura Nyro; arr. Gay
“Modern Music” William Billings
“Psalm 54” Charles Ives
“Improperium Exspectavit” [Psalm 69:20-21] Norman Dello Joio
Three Chorales from “Tagore”
“Thou hast made me endless”
“Here is thy footstool”
“Where the mind is without fear”
Paul Creston
“Ye Shall Have a Song” from “The Peaceable
Kingdom”
Randall Thompson
“Simple Gifts” Arr. Maurice Goldmand
“Oh! Susanna” Stephen Foster; arr. Shaw-Parker
“Who’ll Be A Witness for my Lord” Arr. Jester Hairston
“I hear a Voice A-Prayin’” Houston Bright
“Lullaby of Birdland” Forster-Shearing; arr. John Fenwick
“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” Stevie Wonder; arr. G. Daum
“A Salute to George Gershwin” Arr. G.E. Gay
1977
1978
“O Magnum Mysterium” Jacob Handl
“Crucifixus” Antonio Lotti
“Spem in alium nunquam habui” Thomas Tallis
“Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe” Felix Mendelssohn
“Christus factus est” Anton Bruckner
“Exultate Deo” Francis Poulenc
“Kyrie Eleison” Milton Dieterich
“Hosanna” Norman Lockwood
“The Passionate Shepherd” William Valente
“Trois Chansons”
“Nicolette”
“Trois beaus oiseaux du Paradis”
“Ronde”
Maurice Ravel
“Fragen” Johannes Brahms
“Sehnsucht” Franz Schubert
“Two Balletti”
“Il Bell ‘Humore”
“Caccia d’Amore”
Giovanni Gastoldi
“Ola! O che bon eccho!” Orlando de Lasso
“Go Down in the Lonesome Valley” Jester Hairston
“No Hidin’-place” Arr. Hall Johnson
“Elijah Rock” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Charlottown” Arr. Charles Bryan
“Auprès de ma Blonde” Arr. Shaw-Parker
“The Preacher” Arr. Gay
“Send in the Clowns” Arr. Sondheim-Gay
“I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” Arr. Bacharach-Trowbridge
“Italian Street Song” Arr. Gay
“Wonderful Day Arr. Bricusse-Gay
“Feelings” Arr. Albert-Cassey
Medley from “West Side Story” Arr. Bernstein-Gay
1979
“Cabaret” Kander-Ebb
“Nights in White Satin” Redwave-Knight; Arr. Gay
“Open Up Our Lives” Todd-Riley; arr. Glen Daum
“Haec Dies” William Byrd
“Miserere mei” Orlando di Lasso
“Cantante Domino” Heinrich Shütz
“Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz” Johannes Brahms
“To be sung on a summer night on the water” Frederick Delius
“Hallelujah!” William Brown
“Circus Band” Charles Ives
“Two Cat Songs”
“Two Cats”—words by Ewart Milne
“Cats”—words by Bernard Kops
Wilfred Joseph
“When Love is Kind” Arr. William Hall
“Lonesome Valley” Arr. J.R.G.
“Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord” Arr. Undine Moore
“I Know Where I’m Going” Arr. G. Russell-Smith
“Just as the Tide was flowing” Arr. R. Vaughan Williams
“There is a Balm in Gilead” Arr. William Dawson
“I Hear Music” Loesser-Lowe; arr. Gay
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Cory-Cross; arr. Gay
“discO” (for chorus and computer) Dexter Morrill
1980
1981
“Something Big: Gibson-Allen; arr. G.E. Gay
“Close to You” David-Bacharach; arr. Gay
“The Preacher” Arr. Gay
“Exsultate Deo” Alessandro Scarlatti
“Christe Elison” Francesco Durante
“Sing Joyfully unto God” William Byrd
“Quaerens me” from “Requiem” Hector Berlioz
Latin Choruses from “The Lark” from the play
by Jean Annouilh
“Prelude”
“Benedictus”
“Santus”
“Requiem”
“Gloria”
Leonard Bernstein
“Londonderry Air” arr. Aruthur Frackenpohl
“Creep Along, Moses” Gail Kubik
“Yom She Le-Yisrael” Trad. Sabbath Table
Hymn
Dudley Cohen
“My God is a Rock” Arr. Shaw-Parker
“Wonderful Day” Bricusse-Newley; arr. Gay
“Alley Cat” Frank Bjorn; arr. John Fenwick
“St. Louis Blues” W.C. Handy; arr. J.R.G.
“Broadway Title-Tune Medley” Arr. Gay
1982
“I Got Love” Geld-Udell; arr. Gay
“The Wind of Life” Strommen-Feldstein
“New York, New York” Kander-Ebb; arr. Elliot del Borgo
“Alleluia” Sven Lekberg
“A Hymn to the Virgin” Benjamin Britten
“Four Motets”
“Help Us, O Lord”
“Thou, O Jehovah, Abideth Forever”
“Have Mercy on Us, O My Lord”
“Sing Ye Praises to Our King”
Aaron Copland
“O vos omnes”
“All ye that pass by, behold and see if there
be any sorry like unto my sorrow”
Pablo Casals
“Ye Shall Have a Song” from “The Peaceable
Kingdom”
Randall Thompson
“Ola! O che bon eccho!” Orlando de Lasso
“I Know My Love” Arr. Shaw-Parker
“Oh! Susanna” Stephen Foster; arr. Shaw-Parker
“Swansea Town” Arr. Gustav Holst
“Who’ll Be A Witness for My Lord” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Deep River” Arr. H.T. Burleigh
“Poor Man Lazrus” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Motherless Child” Arr. Linda Williams
“Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord” Arr. Undine Moore
“Summertime” from Porgy and Bess George Gershwin; arr. J.R.G.
“Where Is the Love” Roberta Flack; arr. Glen Daum
“A Russian Greeting” Arr. G.E. Gay
1983
“The Preacher” Horace Silver; arr. Gay
“Nights in White Satin” Redwave-Knight; arr. Glen Daum
“New York, New York” John Kander; arr. Elliot Del Borgo
“Omnes gentes plaudite” based on medieval
tune
Arr. Judith Otten
“Sicut cervus desiderat” Giovanni P. da Palestrina
“Das Deutsche Te Deum for Three Choirs” Michael Prastorius
“Crucifixus” Antonio Lotti
“Christus factus est” Anton Bruckner
“Motets for the Season of Lent”
“Timor et tremor venerunt super me”
“Vinea mean electa”
Francis Poulenc
“”Hallelujah!” William Brown
“The Tutle Dove” Arr. R. Vaughan Williams
“I Hear A Voice A-Prayin’” Houston Bright
“Annie Laurie” Arr. Gail Kubik
“Mighty Day” Marvin Curtis
“Cabaret” Kender-Ebb; arr. Gay
“Evergreen” Streissand-Williams; arr. E. Del Borgo
“Medley of Song by George Gershwin” Arr. Gay-Gilbert
1984
“I Feel A Song” McHugh-Fields-Oppenheimer; arr. Gay
“A Man and a Woman” Francis Lai; arr. J.R.G.
“Save The Country” Laura Nyro; arr. Gay
“Exultate Deo” Giovanni P. da Palestrina
“O Admirabile Commercium” for Double
Chorus
Jacob Handl
“Alles, was Odem hat” from “Signet dem
Herrn ein neues Lied”
Johann S. Bach
“Salvation is Created” Pavel Tschesnokoff
“Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe” for Double Chorus Felix Mendelssohn
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart” William Walton
“Hosanna” Normand Lockwood
“The Drunken Sailor” Arr. Gregg Smith
“Lonesome Valley” Arr. J.R.G.
“I, John Saw The Holy Number” Arr. John W. Work
“Dundai” Arr. Sonya Garfinkle
“New York, New York” Geld-Udell; arr. Elliott Del Borgo
“The Girl From Ipanema” Arr. J.R.G.
Medley from “My Fair lady” Lerner-Lowe; arr. Gay
1985
1986
“It’s A Good Day” Lee-Barbour; arr. Gay
“Nights in White Satin” Redwave-Knight; arr. Glen Daum
“Cabaret” Kander-Ebb; Gay
“Cantate Domino” Heinrich Schutz
“Justorum Animae” William Byrd
“Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied” Johann Pachelbel
“O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf” Johannes Brahms
“Sixty-Seventh Psalm” Charles Ives
“Alleluia” Randall Thompson
“All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the
Lord!”
Rene Clausen
“Live-a-humble” Arr. Peter Bagley
“You May Bury Me in the East” Arr. John W. Work
“John Henry” Arr. Robert DeCormier
“In That Great Gettin’ Up Morning” Arr. Noble Cain
“Italian Street Song” Young-Herbert
Arr. Gay
“Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night
Music
Stephen Sondheim
Medley of Songs from “Cats” Eliot-Webber
1987
“The Preacher” J. Fred Coots; arr. Gay
“Misty” Burklee-Garner; arr. Kirby Shaw
“Anything Goes” Cole Porter; arr. Gay
“Sing Joyfully unto God” William Byrd
“Agnus Dei” Michael Praetorius
“Oehn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen” Felix Medelssohn
“O vos omnes” Pablo Casals
French Choruses from “The Lark”
“Spring Song”
“Court Song”
“Soldier’s Song”
Leonard Bernstein
“Hallelujah!” William Brown
“Poor Man Lazrus” Arr. Jester Hairston
“Londonderry Air” Arr. Arthur Frackenpohl
“My God is a Rock” Arr. Shaw-Parker
“Now I walk in Beauty” Navajo Prayer Arr. Gregg Smith
“Yom She Le-Yisrael” Arr. Dudley Cohen
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Cory-Cross; arr. Gay
“Tip-toe Song” James Burke; arr. John Watkins
“St. Louis Blues” W.C. Handy; arr. J.R.G.
“A Salute to Broadway” Arr. Gay
1988
“Sing to the Lord” Heinrich Schutz
“Bless Be the Lord God” Thomas Tallis
“Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit” Heinrich Schutz
“Laudate Pueri Dominum” William Byrd
“Beatus Vir” Claudio Monteverdi
“Geographical Fugue” Ernest Toch
“Bourée” from “English Suite, No. 2” J.S. Bach; arr. Ward Swingle
“El grillo è buon cantore” Josquin des Pres
“Matona mia cara” Orlando de Lasso
“Weep, o mine eyes” John Bennet
“My bonny lass, she smileth” Thomas Morely
“My bonny lass, she smelleth” P.D.Q. Bach; ed. Peter Schickele
“Come again, sweet love” John Dowland
“It fell on a summer’s day” Thomas Campion
“I Bought Me a Cat” Arr. Aaron Copland
“Long Time Ago” Arr. Copland
“Ching-a Ring Chaw” Arr. Copland
1989
1990
“Singet dem Herrn” [sung in English] Heinrich Schütz
“Ye Shall Have a Song” Randall Thompson
“Shto za pesni raspevaet nasha Rus’” [sung in
Russian]
Arr. Alexander Sceshnikov
“What is I never speed” John Dowland
“Shoot, false love, I care not” Thomas Morley
“Grace my lovely one, fair beauties” Thomas Weelkes
“I hear a voice a prayin’” Houston Bright
“Sometimes I feel” Arr. Shaw/Parker
“John saw duh numbuh” Arr. Shaw/Parker
“Metelitsa (Snowstorm)” [sund in Russian] Alexander Varlamov
“Black is the color of my true love’s hair” John Jacob Niles
“Someone To Watch Over Me” George Gershwin; arr. Chinn
“Za Rekoyu, Za Bistroyu” [sung in Russian] Pavel Chesnokov
1991
“Haleluya. Haleli nafshi” [sung in Hebrew] Salamone Rossi
“Sicut cervus” [sung in Latin] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
“O pray for the peace of Jerusalem” Thomas Tomkins
“Psalm 142” Ned Rorem
“Four Haiku”
1. “White Cloud” by Bashō
2. “Morning Breeze” by Buson
3. “Poor Rooster” by Kikaku
4. “Mirror Pond” by Sora
Paul Parthun
“Roving” [men only] Arr. Alec Rowley
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” William Lawes
“Tho’ I am young” Nicholas Lanier
“I got shoes” Arr. Robert Shaw/Alice Parker
“The water is wide” Arr. Roger Folstrom
“Four Robert Burns Ballads”
1. “A Red, Red Rose”
2. “Green Grow the Rashes, O!”
3. “The Banks O’ Doon”
4. “Highland Mary”
James Mulholland
1992
“Cantigas de Amigo”
“Ondas do mar de vigo”
“Madad’ei comigo”
Martin Codax; arr. Barbara Phillips-Farley and
Stanley Romanstein
“Thus saith the high, the lofty one” William Billings
“The Mariner’s Anthem” Billings
“I hear a voice a-prayin’” Houston Bright
“Same train” Arr. Shaw/Parker
“Ave Maria” Igor Stravinsky
“Simple Song” from Mass Leonard Bernstein
“Gloria tibi” from Mass Bernstein
1993
“Sanctus No. IV in G Major” J.S. Bach
“Kyrie” from “Mass in G” Franz Schubert
“Quatre Motets sur des themes Grégoriens”
“Ubi caritas et amor”
“Tu es Petrus”
“Tantum ergo”
Maurice Duruflé
“Four Chansons from Les Meslanges”
“Sauter, Danser”
“Monsieur l’Abbé”
“Quand Mon Mari”
“Un Jour Vis Un Foulon”
Orlando di Lasso
“Im Walde, Op. 41, No. 1” Felix Mendelssohn
“Das Wandern, Op. 25, No. 1 from Die schöne
Müllerin”
Schubert
“Heidenröslein, Op. 3, No. 3” Schubert
“Der Traurige Jäger, Op. 15, No. 3” Robert Schumann
“Ruhethal, Op. 59, No. 5” Mendelssohn
“A quand’s quand’haveva una vicina” Adriano Willaert
“Amuri, amuri” Sicillian folksong; arr. Paul Hendrickson
“Sempre mi ride sta” Willaert
“A Rose Touched by the Sun’s Warm Rays” Jean Berger
“Memory” from Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber
“I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’” from Porgy and Bess George Gershwin
“All My Trials” West Indian Lullaby; arr. Ralph Hunter
1994
“Gaudete” Traditional Carol; arr. Brian Kay
“If Ye Love Me” Thomas Tallis
“Call to Remembrance” Richard Farrant
“When David Heard” Thomas Tomkins
“Also hat Gott die Welt geleibt, SWV 380” Heinrich Schüz
“Sicut Moses serpentem, SWV 68” Heinrich Schüz
“Six Texts by William Shakespeare”
1. “Under the Greenwood Tree” (from As
You Like It) Op. 10, No. 1
Robert Baksa
2. The Willow Song” from Othello) from
Three Elizabethan Part Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams
3. Who is Sylvia?” (from Two Gentlemen of
Verona)
Franz Schubert
4. “It was a Lover and his Lass” (from As
You Like It)
Thomas Morley
5. Songs of Ophelia” (from Hamlet)
[Women only]
Johannes Brahms; arr. Heskel Brisman
6. Fancie” (from The Merchant of Venice)
Benjamin Britten
“Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11” Gabriel Fauré
“Madrigal, Op. 35” Gabriel Fauré
“Don’t Be Weary, Traveler” Spiritual; arr. Jester Hairston
“Ain’a That Good News!” Spiritual; arr. William Dawson
1995
“Cantate Domino” Orazio Vecchi
“Saint John Turned to See the Sound” Paul Paccione
“Sicut cervus” Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
“Locus iste a Deo factus est” Johann Michael Haydn
“To All, To Each” from Carols of Death William Schumann
“Sometimes I Feel” Spiritual; arr. Robert Shaw, Alice Parker
“Three Madrigals”
1. “O Mistress mine, where are you
roaming?” (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night)
2. “Take, O take those lips away”
(Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)
3. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more”
(Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing)
Emma Lou Diemer
“I’m Sad and I’m Lonely” American Mountain Ballad, arr. Alf S.
Houkom
“Shoot, False Love, I Care Not” [women only] Thomas Morley
“Being the Beguine” Cole Porter; arr. Alan Billingsley
“I’ll Take Sugar in My Coffee-o” Jester Hairston; arr. Nathan Scott
“Ríu, ríu, chíu” Traditional Spanish Villancico; ed. Noah
Greenberg
“Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel” Spiritual; arr. James Miller
“Old St. Lawrence, Here’s to You” Alexander Black ’08
1996
“Cantate Domino” Orazio Vecchi
“Saint John Turned to See the Sound” Paul Paccione
“Sicut cervus” Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
“Carols of Death”
1. “The Last Invocation”
2. “The Unknown Region”
3. “To All, To Each”
William Schuman
“Ave Maria” Igor Stravinsky
“Adoramus te, Christe” Antonio Lotti
“Resonet in laudibus” Jacob Handl
“Warm-Up: A Round for Mixed Chorus” Leonard Bernstein
From “Four Motets”
1. “Help Us, O Lord”
4. “Sing Praise to Our King”
Aaron Copland
“Misericordias Domini” Orazio Vecchi
“Velociter exaudi me” Vecchi
“My God is a Rock” Arr. Shaw/Parker
“Sometimes I Feel” Arr. Shaw/Parker
“I Hear A Voice a-Prayin’” Houston Bright
“You May Bury Me in the East” Arr. John Wesley Work
“Three Canons”
1. “When Jesus Wept”
2. “Wake Ev’ry Breath and Ev’ry String”
3. “Thus Saith the High, the Lofty One”
William Billings
“Five Madrigals for Three Voices”
1. “Come, Let’s Begin”
2. “The Gods Have Heard My Vows”
3. “Four Arms, Two Necks, One
Wreathing”
4. “Say, Wanton, Will You Love Me?”
5. “Ha Ha, This World Doth Pass”
Thomas Weelkes
1997
“Two Vespers Motets”
“Ave Maria”
“Jesu dulcis memoria”
Tomás Luis de Victoria
“from Cantata 78, Wir eilen, mit schwachen” J.S. Bach
“David’s Lamentation” William Billings
“I Am the Rose of Sharon” William Billings
“from Mass in G Minor”
“Gloria”
Emmanuel Chol
“Two Contemporary Psalm Settings”
1. “De profundis” (Psalm 121)
Arvo Pärt
2. “Dominus Regnat” (Psalm 93) Knut Kystedt
“from Requiem, Op. 9”
“Intröit et Kyrie”
Maurice Duruflé
Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland
(text by Lewis Carroll)
Irving Fine
1. “The Lobster Quadrille”
2. “Lullaby of the Duchess”
3. “Father William”
Three Modern Settings of Rose Poetry
1. “A Rose Touched by the Sun’s Warm
Rays” (text by Maria Brubacher)
Jean Berger
2. From Les Chansons des Roses, (text by
Maria Rilke) “Dirait-on”
Morten Lauridsen
3. “A Red, Red Rose” (text by Robert
Burns)
James Mulholland
“Folksongs of the World”
1. “O Whistle and I’ll Come to Ye”
(Scotland)
Arr. Mack Wilberg
2. “Congori Shango” (Costa Rica) Arr. Rolando Brenes
3. “Song for the Mira” (Canada) Arr. Stuart Calvert
4. “Sailing Song” (Korea) Arr. Hee Jo Kim
1998
Two Canons
“When Jesus Wept”
“Thus Saith the High, the Lofty One”
William Billings
“Exultate Deo” [sung in Latin] Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
“The Lords is My Shepherd” Psalm 23, from
Requiem
John Rutter
“Alles was Odem hat, lobet den Herrn” [sung
in German] from Signet dem Herr nein neues
Lied, BWV 225
Johann Sebastian Bach
“Hiney Mah Tov” [sung in Hebrew] Hebrew Folk Song; arr. Iris Levine
“Ceremony of the Carols, Op. 28”
“Hodie, Christus natus est”
“This Little Babe”
Benjamin Britten
Slovak Folk Songs
1. “Zadala mamka”
2. “Rada pila”
3. “Gajdujte, gajdence”
Béla Bartók
“Lider aus dem Jungbrunnen”
1. “Nun stehn die Rosen in Blüte”
2. “Und gehst du über den Kirchof”
Johannes Brahms
“J’entends le moulin” French Canadian Folk Song; arr. Donald
Patriquin
“Elijah Rock” Spiritual; arr. Jester Hairston
“If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?” Spiritual; arr. Robert Shaw
“Deep River” Spiritual; arr. Parker/Shaw
“Jabula Jesu” Zulu Folk Song; arr. Stephen Hatfield
1999
“Modern Music” William Billings
“Psalme 100” Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter
“Psalme C” William Parsons
“Ave Christe, Immolate” Josquin des Prez
“Polly Wolly Doodle” Traditional American
“Beautiful Dreamer” Stephen Foster; arr. Alice Parker and Robert
Shaw
“Dixie’s Land” Dan D. Emmett
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” William Stefee
“Tenting on the Old Campground” Walter Kittredge
“Precious Lord, Take My Hand” George N. Allen; arr. Thomas A. Dorsey
“Stardust” Hoagy Carmichael; arr. Michael Farley
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” Don Raye and Hughie Prince; arr. Frank Metis
“Can’t Help Falling in Love” George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, and Luigi
Creatore; arr. Barry Torres
“A Natural Woman” Carole King
“Good Vibrations” Brian Wilson and Mike Love; arr. Barry Torres
“Shall We Gather at the Rive?” Charles E. Ives
“Ave Maria” Alan Hovhannes
“The Road Not Taken” Randall Thompson
From The Peaceable Kingdom
VII. “Have ye not known?”
VIII. “Ye shall have a song”
Randall Thompson
2000
“Gaudete” from Piae Cantiones
“Blessed are those that be undefiled in the
way”
Thomas Tallis
“O virdissima virga” Hildegard von Bingen
“Bogoroditse Devo” Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Cantique de Jean Racine” Gabriel Fauré
“Sik Folk Songs”
1. “I’d Enter Your Garden”
2. “The Fiddler”
3. “How Sad Flow the Streams”
4. “At Night”
5. “Awake, Awake!”
6. “A House stands ‘neath the Willow’s
Shade”
Johannes Brahms
“El Fuego” Mateo Flecha
“Songs of Innocence”
“Infant Joy”
“Little Lamb”
“Laughing Song”
Earl George
“So Much in Love” B. Jackson, R. Stagis, and G. Williams
“My Girl” William “Smokey” Robinson and Ronald
White
“One Fine Day” Gerry Goffin and Carole King
“Ezekiel Saw de Wheel” Traditional Spiritual; arr. Clay Warnick
“Showboat Medley” Jerome Kerne; arr. Clay Warnick
2001
“Laleyo” and “Balebe” Songs from Kenya
A Pastiche Mass, “Aeterna Christi Munera” 16th
Century Chant
“Kyrie” from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
“Gloria Tibi” from Mass Leonard Bernstein
“Sanctus” from St. Cecilia Mass Charles Gounod
“Agnus Dei” from Mass for Four Voices William Byrd
From A Ceremony of Carols
“Wolcum Yole”
“Spring Carol”
“Deo Gracias”
Benjamin Britten
Selections from Old American Songs
“Long Time Ago”
“Simple Gifts”
“I Bought Me a Cat”
Adapted from Aaron Copland
“Overture to The Marriage of Figaro” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; arr. Howard
Cable
“Blue Monk” Thelonius Monk; arr. Barry Torres
“The Man I Love”
“Someone to Watch Over Me”
“Fascinating Rhythm”
“I Got Rhythm”
George Gershwin
“En Primavera” Edmundo Disdier; arr. Rubén Colón Tarrats
“Las Plenas” Traditional Puerto Rican; arr. Angel Mattos
2002
“Coronation Anthem no. 4”
I. “Let thy hand be strengthened”
II. “Let justice and judgement”
III. “Alleluia”
George Frideric Handel
Three Songs from Bulgaria
“Domakine, sipi vino” (Pirin)
“Molih ta majčo” (Rodop)
“Mori mom bega” (Kjustendil)
Traditional Bulgarian
“Dirait-on” from Les Chansons des Roses” Morten Lauridsen
“Viri Galilæi” Gregorian Chant
“If ye love me” Thomas Tallis
“Non vos relinquam orphanos” William Byrd
“Cantate Domino” Heinrich Schütz
“If I got my ticket, can I ride?” Spiritual; arr. Robert Shaw
From Didos and Aeneas
Recitative: “The hand, Belinda”
Aria: “When I am laid in earth”
Chorus: “With drooping wings”
Henry Purcell
“A Natural Woman” Carole King; arr. Barry Torres
“And So It Goes” Billy Joel; arr. Bob Chilcott
“You Are the New Day” John David; arr. Peter Knight
“This is my song” arranged from the
symphonic poem Finlandia
Jean Sibelius
2003
“The Neighbors’ Chorus” Jacques Offenbach
“Magnificat” Dietrich Buxtehude
“Ave verum corpus” Josquin des Prez
“Ave verum corpus” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Zawadi za Mungu” Contemporary Swahili Gospel Song
“The Lord is my shepherd” Fr. Thomas Koschat
“Psalm 23” Franz Schubert
“Hark, all ye lovely saints” Thomas Weelkes
“Blow, blow thou winter wind” George Shearing
“Can’t Buy Me Love” John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Keith
Abbs
“Sing for your Supper” Richard Rodgers; arr. Hugh Martin
“Blue Moon” Richard Rodgers; arr. David Blackwell
“The Irish Blessing” Bob Chilcott
“Praise His Holy Name” Keith Hampton
“Geistliches Lied, Op. 30” Johannes Brahms
2004
“Song of Peace—V’chit’tu” Ezra Gabay; arr. Alice Parker
“Introit” and “Kyrie” from Requiem, Op. 48 Gabriel Fauré
“Bogoroditse Devo” Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Sanctus” from Requiem Gabriel Fauré
“Ave maria” David MacIntyre
“Agnus Dei” from Requiem Gabril Fauré
“In Remembrance” from Requiem Eleanor Daley
“In Paradisum” from Requiem Gabriel Fauré
“Valiant-for-truth” Ralph Vaughan Williams
“True Light” Keith Hampton
“Fool on the Hill” John Lennon and Paul McCartney; arr. Mac
Huff
“En Primavera” Edmundo Disdier; arr. Rubén Colón Tarrats
“Fly Me to the Moon” Bart Howard; arr. Kirby Shaw
“Good Vibrations” Brian Wilson and Mike Love; arr. Barry Torres
“Amor de mi Alma” Z. Randall Stroope
“Las Plenas” Traditional Puerto Rican; arr. Angel Mattos
2005
“Old St. Lawrence, Here’s to You” Alexander Black ‘08
“Alleluia” Randall Thompson
“Like as the Culver on the Báred Bough” Halsey Stevens
“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” Williametta Spencer
“O magnum mysterium” Morten Lauridsen
“Songs of Nature (V přírodě), Op. 63”
1. “Melodies steal into my heart”
2. “Vesper bells ring"
3. “Golden sunlight”
4. “Slender young birch”
5. “This day”
Antonín Dvořák
“Sometimes I feel” Trad. Spiritual arr. A.Parker and R.Shaw
“Sing Me to Heaven” Daniel Gawthrop
“The Continental” Con Conrad, arr. D. Blackwell
“Can’t Help Falling in Love” George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, and Luigi
Creatore; arr. B. Torres
“Acadian Driftwood” J.R. Robertson
“Laissez les bon temps rouler” Jesse Winchester
2006
“Kyrie de Angelis” Anon. English, 15th
Century
“From Znalezienie sw. Krzyza (The Finding of
the Cross), Op. 35”
Parce, Domine
Felix Nowowiejski
“Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt” Johann Christophe Bach
“Tu solus qui facis mirabilia” Josquin Des Prez
“Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren, Op. 30” Johannes Brahms
V přírodě, Op. 63”
1. “Napadly písně”
2. “Večerní les rozvázal zvonky”
3. “Žitné pole”
4. “Vyběhla bříza běličká”
5. “Dnes do skoku a do písničky!”
Antonín Dvořák
“Sleep” Eric Whitacre
“Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees” Trad. American, arr. J.R. Gilbert
“Autumn Leaves” Joseph Kozma, arr. A. Carter
“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” George Gershwin
“I Got Rhythm” Gershwin
“I Got Rhythm” Gershwin, arr. C Wernick
“St. Louis Blues” W.C. Handy, arr. J.R. Gilbert
“Amazing Grace” Trad. American, arr. B. Torres
From A Peaceable Kingdom
VII. Have ye not known?
VIII. Ye shall have a song
Randall Thompson
2007
“Cantate Domino” Claudio Monteverdi
“Selig sing die Toten” Heinrich Schütz
“Ascendente Jesu” Giaches de Wert
“Ständchen” Franz Schubert
“Liebeszauber, Op. 13 nr. 3” Clara Schumann, arr. V. Davidson
“Waltz” Frédérick Chopin
“The May Night” Johannes Brahms
“I Have Had Singing” Steven Sametz
“Columba aspexit” Tarik O’Regan, after Hildegard von Bingen
“There will be rest” Frank Ticheli
“In My Life” John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. R.
Emerson
“Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” Lennon and McCartney, arr. B. Ives
“Blackbird” Lennon and McCartney, arr. D. Runswick
“MLK” U2, arr. B Chilcott
“The Storm is Passin’ Over” Trad. Spiritual, arr. B. Torres
“The Word Was God” Rosephanye Powell
“Ezekiel Saw de Wheel” Trad. Spiritual, arr. W. Dawson
2008
“Benedicta es, caelorum regina” Josquin Des Prez
“Rise up, my love, my fair one” Healey Willan
“Vayimalet Kayin (Cain Fled)” Yehezkel Braun
“Lamentations of Jeremiah” Manuel de Sumaya
“Heart, We Will Forget Him” James Quitman Mulholland
“Earth Song” Frank Ticheli
“Salseo” Oscar Galián
“Silencio” Rafaél Hernández, arr. R. Colón Tarrats
“Capullito de Alelí” Rafaél Hernández, arr. R. Colón Tarrats
“Canciones por las Americas”
I. Noche de Lluvia
Sid Robinovitch
“Las Plenas” Trad. Puerto Rican, arr. A. Mattos
2009
“Down to the River” Trad. Appalachian, arr. B. Phillips-Farley
“Wondrous Love” William Walker’s Southern Harmony
“Wondrous Love” Arr. A. Parker, R. Shaw
“A Southern Hymnody Medley” Arr. B. Phillips-Farley
The Peaceable Kingdom Randall Thompson
1. Say ye to the righteous
2. Woe unto them
3. The noise of a multitude
4. Howl ye
5. The paper reeds by the brook
6. Recit: But these are they that forsake
the Lord—For ye shall go out with joy
7. Have ye not known?
8. Ye shall have a song
“In the Mood” Joe Garland, arr. P. Gritton
“So Much in Love” George William and Bill Jackson, arr. B.
Torres
“Respect” Otis Redding, arr. B. Torres
“Where is the Love?” Black Eyed Peas, arr. B. Torres
“The 23rd
Psalm” Bobby McFerrin
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement—“Woke
up this mornin’,” “Ain’t gonna let nobody,”
“Freedom Train,” “Freedom Now,” “The
Storm is Passin’ Over,” and “This May Be the
Last Time”
“There is a Balm in Gilead” Arr. J.H. Jennings
“Keep your Hand on the Plow”
“John the Revelator” Trad. Gospel Blues, arr. P. Caldwell and S.
Ivory
2010
“Old St. Lawrence” Alexander Black, 1908
“Heilig” Felix Mendelssohn
“Motet: Schaffe in mir ein rein Herz, Op. 29,
no. 2”
Johannes Brahms
“Sehnsucht” Franz Schubert
“Departure, Op. 59, no. 3” Mendelssohn
“Träume” Richard Wagner, arr. N. Cain
“Beautiful Dreamer” Stephen Foster, arr. R. Shaw and A. Parker
“Oh! Susannah” Foster
“Hard Times” Foster
“Night and Day” Cole Porter, arr. A. Carter
“Moonlight in Vermont” John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf, arr. R.
Gilbert
“As time goes by” Herman Hupfeld
“Laura” David Raskin and Johnny Mercer, arr. R.
Williams
“I get a kick out of you” Cole Porter
“Serenade in Blue” Harry Warren and Mack Gordon
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” Don Raye and Hughie Prince, arr. F. Metis
“They can’t take that away from me” George Gershwin
“Begin the Beguine” Cole Porter, arr. A. Carter
“Heart” Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, arr. E. Waesche
“Ain’t Misbehavin’” Thomas “Fats” Waller and Harry Brooks, arr.
P. Gritton