Repertoire
Ades, Hawley
A Sentimental Journey Thru the 40's

Adler, Samuel
A Song of Hanukkah

Bach, Johann Sebastian
A Child is Born to Save Us (Uns ist ein Kind geboren), Cantata BWV 142
Dona Nobis Pacem from Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Here, Yet Awhile from St. Matthew Passion
Sanctus from Mass in B Minor

Barber, Samuel
Sure on This Shining Night

Bass, Randol Alan

A Symphony of Carols

Christmas Flourish
Gloria
Seasonal Sounds

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Choral Fantasy, Opus 80
Hallelujah Chorus from The Mount of Olives

Beibl, Franz
Ave Maria

Berger, Jean
My True Love Hath My Heart

Berlin, Irving

There's No Business Like Show Business from Annie Get Your Gun

Berlioz, Hector
Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling from L'enfance du Christ

Bernstein, Leonard
Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
Tonight from West Side Story

Biegel, Jeffrey
Christmas in a Minute

Billings, Williams
Hail, Sacred Music, Hail!

Bizet, George
Habanera from Carmen
March of the Toreadors from Carmen

Bock, Fred, composer and arranger
Scarborough Fair

Brahms, Johannes
A German Requiem
Liebeslieder Waltzer, op. 52
The May Night (Die Mainacht)

Britten, Benjamin
A Ceremony of Carols

Brubeck, Dave
We Three Kings

Bruckner, Anton
Ave Maria

Burt, Alfred
Caroling, Caroling
Some Children See Him

Carter, Andrew
I Wonder As I Wander (trad. Appalachian Christmas carol)
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (15th century French melody)

Cavallaro, Carmen
Después de Pasar

Choplin, Pepper

Silent Night For All The World

Clausen, René
O My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose

Cohon, Baruch J.
Hanerot, Halalu

Copland, Aaron
Ching-A-Ring Chaw
Long Time Ago
Simple Gifts
Stomp Your Foot from The Tender Land
The Promise of Living from The Tender Land

Courtney, Craig
Twelve Days of Christmas

Crutchfield, Jonathan
Bethelehemu (African folk tune)

Darke, Harold
In the Bleak Midwinter

De Cormier, Robert
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy (West Indian spiritual)

De Victoria, Tomàs Luis
Jesu Dulcis Memoria
O Magnum Mysterium

Di Lasso, Orlando
I Know A Young Maiden

Dickau, David
America the Beautiful
Come, O Come, My Life's Delight
If Music Be the Food of Love
in time of

Diemer, Emma Lou
Three Madrigals

Donizetti, Gaetano
Chorus of wedding guests from Lucia di Lammermoor

Duruflé, Maurice
Requiem

Elgar, Edward
The Snow

Erb, James, arranger
Shenandoah

Fauré, Gabriel
Requiem

Ferguson, John
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Finney, Glenn H.
Going Over Home

Gawthrop, Daniel E.
Sing Me to Heaven

Gershwin, George
Porgy and Bess medley

Gilpin, Greg
The Music of M-G-M (A Choral Medley)

Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj
Totus Tuus

Greenlee, Robert
Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier (American folk song)

Gregorian Chant
Ubi Caritas

Gounod, Charles
Soldiers’ chorus from Faust

Hairston, Jester
Amen
In Dat Great Gittin’ Up Morning

Halloran, Jack
Camptown Races

We Wish You The Merriest
Witness

Handel, George Frideric
Chorus of enchanted islanders from Alcina
Hallelujah, Amen from Judas Maccabaeus
Messiah
See, the conquering hero comes from Judas Maccabaeus
Sing Unto God from Judas Maccabaeus
Zadok the Priest

Handl, Jakob
Resonet In Laudibus

Hassler, Hans Leo
Cantate Domino

Haugland, A. Oscar
Magazine Madrigals

Haydn, Joseph
Mass No. 3 in D Minor, “Lord Nelson Mass"

Te Deum in C Major, H. 23 c/2

Hayes, Mark
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Danny Boy (old Irish air)

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Eddie Pola/George Wyle)
Some Folks (Stephen Foster)
Variations on “Jingle Bells”

Helvey, Howard
O Lux Beatissima

Hogan, Moses
The Battle of Jericho

Holst, Gustav
Christmas Day

Huff, Mac

Let It Ring, Let It Swing, Let It Snow

   1. Ukranian Bell Carol

   2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

   3. A Marshmallow World

   4. Frosty the Snow Man

Isaacson, Michael
Light the Legend

Jacobson, Joshua / Netsky, Hankus
Al Hanissim (Sing to God)

Jacques, Reginald
The Holly and the Ivy

John, Elton
Can You Feel the Love Tonight from The Lion King

Kean, Ron
American Mass
Ise Oluwa (Nigerian folk song)

Kern, Jerome
The Way You Look Tonight

Kirchner, Shawn

Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Kopylov, Aleksandr
Heavenly Light

Kuykendall, Frank
Joy to the World

Larsen, Libby

The Settling Years

   I. Comin' to Town (text by Robert V. Carr)

   II. Beneath These Alien Stars (from Pioneer Women by Vesta Pierce)

   III. A Hoopla (from The Song Primer, 1907)

Lauridsen, Morten
Like Snow from Mid-Winter Songs
Lux Aeterna
O Magnum Mysterium

Lerner, Allan Jay & Loewe, Frederick

Paint Your Wagon

Levine, Iris
Hiney Mah Tov (Hebrew folk tune)

Liles, Joe

Santa Claus is Coming to Town (H. Gillespie/J.F. Coots)

Liszt, Franz
The Beatitudes

Lojeski, Ed
Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert
Fiddler on the Roof
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
Medley from Les Misérables
Winter Wonderland

Luboff, Norman
Tender Love

Luciuk, Juliusz
Nie Bede Plakala (I Will Not Cry)

Maddux, David
O Sifuni Mungu

Mancini, Henry and Mercer, Johnny
Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Mancini, Henry
Days of Wine and Roses from Days of Wine and Roses

Marsh, Don
Christmas Classics
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)
It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas (Meredith Willson)
A Christmas Song (Torme and Wells)

Marvin, Jameson

He's Gone Away (American Folk Song)

Mascagni, Pietro
Regina coeli (Easter Hymn) from Cavalleria rusticana

Mathias, William
Sir Christèmas

McCullough, Donald
Canite Tuba

Mechem, Kirke

Skip to My Lou (Trad. Folk Song)

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Elijah
Gott ist Mein Hirt
He Watching Over Israel from Elijah
Schlusschor from Vom Himmel hoch
There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob

Montoya, David V.
African Processional: Jambo rafiki yangu

Morricone, Ennio
River from The Mission

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Ave Verum Corpus
Mass in C Major, “Coronation Mass,” K.317
Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great Mass)
Priests’ chorus from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339
Voyagers’ chorus from Idomeneo

Neufeld, Ken
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane)
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)

Offenbach, Jacques
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman

Orbán, György
Daemon Irrepit Callidus

Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana: Cantiones Profane
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana

Pärt, Arvo
Bogoróditse Djévo (Mother of God and Virgin)

Parker, Alice
Hush
I Know the Lord
Witness

Pergolesi, G.B.
Glory to God in the Highest

Petker, Allan Robert
Canticle of St. Augustine
Cherry-Ripe
The Circle
Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus (Ralph R. Prime)
Come to Me, O My Love
Deep In a Winter’s Night (Ralph R. Prime)
Do You Carrot All For Me?
Early American Hymn Festival
O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Prelude & Postlude to Dancing Day
Rejoice and Sing Noel
Sing A Merry Madrigal
Sing Gloria

Te Deum to Music

   1. God is Singing Over You (Zephaniah 3:17)

   2. We Sing to the Majesty of God (I Chronicles 16: 23 - 25)

   3. We Sing to the Grace of God (Colossians 3:16)

   4. Music Itself Glorifies God (Traditional Te Deum text and When in Our Music God is Glorified 

       by Fred Pratt Green)
When Morning Breaks

Pierce, Brent
Sing Noel

Porter, Cole
In the Still of the Night from Rosalie
Night and Day

Poulenc, Francis
Gloria
O Magnum Mysterium

Praetorius, Michael
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
To Us is Born Immanuel

Prentice, Fred
Danny Boy

Puccini, Giacomo
Humming chorus from Madama Butterfly

Puerling, Gene
Michelle (Lennon/McCartney)

Purcell, Henry
Dido’s lament, and final chorus from Dido and Aeneas

Quintana, Ariel

Hodie Christus Natus Est
Mass for Two Worlds

Rao, Doreen
Siyahamba

Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Glory Be to God from All Night Vigil

Riese, Mark

Christmas Comes Anew

I Saw Three Ships

What Child Is This?

Rodgers, Richard
It’s a Grand Night for Singing
Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific

Rutter, John
Ave Maria
Behold the Tabernacle
Cantique de Jean Racine (Gabriel Fauré)
Deck the Hall
Draw On Sweet Night
Feel the Spirit
Gloria
The Holly and the Ivy
Il est né le divin enfant
Magnificat
Mary’s Lullaby
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Sanborn, Jan
Caroling, Caroling! (Alfred Burt)
The Christmas Song (Mel Torme)
Disney Medley
Heart of Christmas
Irving Berlin Medley
The Loren Janes Silver Screen Medley

   Before the Parade Passes By from Hello, Dolly!

   Hello, Dolly! from Hello, Dolly!

   Put On A Happy Face from Bye Bye Birdie

   Camelot from Camelot

   If Ever I Would Leave You from Camelot

   Theme from The Sand Pebbles

   It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

   Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate

   Themes I, II and III from How The West Was Won
Mary’s Little Boy Child (Jester Hairston)
No Longer a Baby
O Hearken Ye (Alfred Burt)
Some Children See Him (Alfred Burt)
Star Carol (Alfred Burt)
Velvet Shoes

Sanctus from Missa Luba, an African Mass

Schalk, Carl
Before the Marvel of This Night

Schikele, Peter
A P.D.Q. Bach Christmas (selections)
Throw the Ule Log On, Uncle John
O Little Town of Hackensack
Good King Kong Looked Out

Schmit, Nolan E.
A Native American Prayer

Schram, Ruth Elaine
Every Night When the Sun Goes In

Schubert, Franx
Du bist die Ruh (You Are Repose)
Mass in G, D. 167

Scott, K. Lee
Christmas Cantata: “The Incarnation”
    I. “Glory Be to God on High” (Text: Charles Wesley)
    III. “In the Beginning Was the Word” (Text: John 1:1-5; 10-14)
    V. “That Virgin’s Child” (Text: John Gwyneth)
    VI. “See, See, the Word Is Incarnate” (Text: Godfrey Goodman)
A Welsh Lullaby

Shaw, Robert
A-Rovin'
The Many Moods of Christmas (w/Robert Russell Bennett)

Sjolund, Paul
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Silent Night

Snyder, Audrey
O Lux

SPEBSQSA

I'll Be Home For Christmas (K. Gannon/W. Kent & B. Ram)

Sondheim, Stephen
Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music

Spevacek, Linda
Beau Soir (Beautiful Evening)/Claude Debussy

Stanford, Charles V.
Beati Quorum Via

Stroope, Z. Randall

Goin' to the Auction
Hodie

Susa, Conrad

A Christmas Garland

Swingle, Ward
All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern)

Szabo, Burt

Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks)

Thomas, Andre
African Noel
The Drinking Gourd
Keep Your Lamps

Thompson, Randall
Glory to God in the Highest
The God who gave us life from The Testament of Freedom
I shall not die without a hope from The Testament of Freedom
The Last Words of David

Tiomkin, Dimitri
The Green Leaves of Summer from The Alamo

Traditional
Freedom is Coming (South African)

Tschesnokov, Paul
The Angels’ Song

Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Wassail Song of Gloucestershire

Verdi, Giuseppe
Anvil chorus from Il trovatore
Brindisi from La traviata
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco
Triumphal scene from Aida
Witches’ chorus from Macbeth

Vivaldi, Antonio
Gloria in D, RV 589

Wagner, Richard
Bridal chorus from Lohengrin
Pilgrim’s Chorus from Tannhauser

Webber, Andrew Lloyd
Phantom of the Opera Medley

Wells, Linda
Christmas Star

Whalum, Wendell
Keresimesi Qdun De O (Nigerian Christmas song)

Whitacre, Eric
Lux Arumque

Water Night

White, R. Wilding
The Little Horses (adapted by Aaron Copland)

Wilberg, Mack

Bile Them Cabbage Down (American Folk Song)
Cindy
I’ll Ay Call In By Yon Town (Scottish Folk Song)
I'm Goin' Away (North Carolina Folk Song)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Joy to the World
Master in This Hall

Old Joe Clark (American Folk Song)
O Whistle and I’ll Come to Ye

Shenandoah (American Folk Song)

Williams, John
Exsultate Justi

Willcocks, Sir David
Deck the Hall
Five Christmas Carols

   1. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

   2. O Come, All Ye Faithful

   3. The First Nowell

   4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Jingle Bells
See Amid the Winter’s Snow
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

Willcocks, Jonathan

Magnificat

Williams, Peter O.

Carols of the Heart

Wood, Dale
Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying

Yarrow, Peter
Light One Candle

Young, Robert
There Is No Rose
To Him We Sing

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Concerts and Events

Tis the 10th Season
The Chorale kicks off its 10th concert season with a merry collection of traditional holiday favorites, including Britten’s captivating ‘Ceremony of Carols’ with harp accompaniment. The musical celebration continues with a carol sing-along, well-loved seasonal favorites from classical to gospel and an invitation to "Let it Ring, Let it Swing, Let it Snow”!
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A British Invasion
This choral tribute to our friends across the sea will also entice you with love songs from William Shakespeare, English folk tunes, and John Tavener's haunting "Hymn to Athena," performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Water Music:
Songs for a Thirsty Soul

The Chorale will slake your thirst with two short summer classics from Mozart, Monteverdi, to Mancini and Mercer, also on tap Eric Whitacre, Eric William Barnum Gustav Holst and more ...
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