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-Heather Mitchell -

Listening Assignment

Holiday Music

Intro to the Oratorio

Carissimi - Jepthe

Handel - Jephtha

Beethoven - Christ on the Mount of Olives

Elgar - Dream of Gerontius

Schoenberg - Gurrelieder

Tippet - A Child of Our Time (background on the piece)   

Handel - Messiah, Esther, Solomon, Saul, Israel in Egypt

Haydn - Creation

Mendelssohn - Elijah

Berlioz - L’enfance du Christ

Gounod - Redemption

Saint-Saens - Christmas Oratorio

Walton - Belshazzar’s Feast

Honneger - King David

Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex

Block - Sacred Service

Orff - Carmina Burana

Vaughan Williams -  Hodie, Dona Nobis Pacem

Shnitke - Nagasaki

Penderecki - Dies Irae

Rorem - An American Oratorio

Wynton Marsalis - Blood on the Fields

McCartney - Liverpool Oratorio

Hella Johnson - Considering Mathew Shepard

Final Meeting - Choir Feedback

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