60th Anniversary Concert
SPRING 2020
Carmina Burana: Carl Orff
*Postponed due to Covid-19. Date to be determined
THE MARVEL OF THIS NIGHT
WINTER 2019
Five Hebrew Love Songs: Eric Whitacre
Before the Marvel of the Night: Carl Schalk
El Rorro (The Babe): Arr: Jeffrey Van
A Ceremony of Carols: Benjamin Britten
SPRING 2019
Cantate Domino: Claudio Monteverdi
“Inflamatus et accensus” from Stabat Mater: Giaocomo Rossini
“Libera Me” from Messa da Requiem: Giuseppe Verdi
Gloria: Antonio Vivaldi
VIVA L'ITALIA
RESOUNDING JOY
WINTER 2018
A Carol for to Sing: Greg Gilpin
Light the Legend: A Song for Chanukah: Isaacson/Nurenberg
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas: Meredith Wilson, arr: Huff
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas (Audience Singalong)
To Drive the Cold Winter Away: John Playford, arr: Rishel
Calypso Christmas: Natalie Sleeth
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Audience Singalong)
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm: Irving Berlin, arr: Shaw
O Magnum Mysterium: Morten Lauridsen
Hot Chocolate: Ballard/Silvestri, arr: Roger Emerson
Riu, Riu, Chiu: Traditional Spanish carol, arr: Spevacek
Harambee: Joseph Jennings and Dorothy Winbush Riley
Silent Night: Franz X. Gruber, arr Christopher Walker
Nowell: Randall Thompson
WITH HONOR
SPRING 2018
O, My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose: René Clausen
Whistler’s Daugher: arr. by Valerie Nelson*
A Clear Midnight: Rich Campbell
Here is the World: Allen Borton*
Glory to God in the Highest: Giovanni Bastia Pergolesi
Verleih uns Frieden: Felix Mendelssohn
My Spirit Sang All Day: Gerald Finzi
Our Dream of Freedom: Gwen Walker
Blackbird: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
*World Premiere
DECK THE HALLS
FALL 2017
Ave Maria: Xavier Bursto
Caroling, Caroling: Alfred Burt
Dona Nobis Pacem: W.A. Mozart
The First Noel: Traditional
March of the Kings: Georges Bizet
Sleigh Ride: Leroy Anderson
Spanish Carol: Andrew Carter
Song of Galilee: Julius Chajes
A Song of Good Cheer/Shchedrik (Ukranian): Leontovich
Throw the Yule Log on, Uncle John: P.D.Q. Bach
We Need a Little Christmas: Jerry Herman
RHYTHM OF LIFE
SPRING 2017
Sing, Sing, Sing
Rhythm of Life
Old Def Woman
Bridge over Troubled Water
And So It Goes
Goodnight, My Angel
Down by the Riverside
Nelly Bly
Boil Them Cabbage Down
AN AIR OF SPRING
SPRING 2016
Cantate Domino: Pitoni
Fa una Canzona: Vecchi
O, Eyes of My Beloved: Orlando di Lasso
Kyrie: Vierne, arr. Huntington
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, from Nabucco: Giuseppi Verdi
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings: Josef Rheinberger
As Torrents in Summer: Edward Elgar
Sure on This Shining Night: Samuel Barber
A City Called Heaven: Poelinitz
Wade in the Water: Moses Hogan
Soon Ah Will Be Done: William Dawson
A ROSE IN WINTER
WINTER 2015
Seven Unaccompanied Secular Songs Op. 62: Brahms
White Christmas: Berlin
Magnificat: Charpentier
Lay Down Your Staffs: Parker and Shaw
Ose Shalom: John Leavitt
Wishes and Candles: Stephen Paulus
Mary Had a Baby: William Dawson
Psallite: Praetorius
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Martin, Blane and Kerr
The Shepherds’ Farewell: Berlioz
Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child: Stainer
SPRING CONCERT
SPRING 2013
Il bianco e dolce cigno | Chickens: Jack Prelutsky – Lynn Ebeling | Il est bel et bon: Passereau | A Wise Old Owl (nursery rhyme) – Kate O’Neill | Sweet Suffolk Owl: Vautor | Hope is a thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson – Joe Lazar | Die Nachtigall: Mendelssohn | A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square: Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz, arr. Billingsley | The Blackbird by Humbert Wolfe – Susan Jane Thistle | Blackbird: Lennon and McCartney, arr. Daryl Runswick | 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens – Donna Raskin | Bye, Bye, Blackbird: Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon, arr. Althouse | A Warbler by Walter de la Mare — Gwen Samuel | Dainty fine bird: Gibbons | Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeney Todd: Sondheim, arr. BeckBird City by Richard Greene – Bob Woodford | The Blue Bird: Stanford | A Boy’s Protest (anonymous) – Rachel Henk | Be Like the Bluebird from Anything Goes: Porter, arr. Zuckman | Over the Rainbow: Arlen and Harburg, arr. Beck | The Pelican by Dixon Lanier Merritt – John Emmons | Birds in the Garden (anonymous) – Tami Kaplowitz | The Rockin’ Red Robin Comes Bobbin’ Along: arr. Ramsey | A Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine by Mary Oliver – Chris Piatek | I Shall Keep Singing!: Harris
FALL CONCERT
FALL 2012
A Ceremony of Carols: Britten
The Boar’s Head Carol: traditional English carol, arr. Brian Ramsey
Irish Lullaby: Sametz
The Holly and the Ivy – traditional English carol, arr. Stephen Paulus
I Saw Three Ships: arr. Lewis
A Welsh Lullaby: arr. K. Lee Scott
Hanerot Halalu – Meir Finkelstein
A SPRING BOUQUET
SPRING 2012
Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: Wilbye
I am the Rose of Sharon: Billings
The White Rose: Daley
My Wild Irish Rose: Olcott
A Red, Red Rose: Mulholland
Dirait-on: Lauridsen
The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring from
The Mikado: W.S. Gilbert, A. Sullivan
Everything’s Coming Up Roses from Gypsy: Styne, arr. P. KernI
Won’t Send Roses from Mack and Mabel: Herman, arr. M. Zuckman
Heather on the Hill from Brigadoon: Lerner and Loewe, arr. M. Zuckman
Flower of Beauty: ClementsFields of Gold, Sting: arr. Jasperse
Make Our Garden Grow from Candide: Bernstein, arr. R. Page
FALL CONCERT
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light from Christmas Oratorio: J.S. Bach
Candlelight Carol: John Rutter
There Shall a Star From Jacob Come Forth: Felix Mendelssohn
Do You Hear What I Hear?: arr. Harry Simeone
Ocho Kandelikas: Flory Jagoda
Siyahamba: arr. Donald Moore
Keep Your Lamps!: arr. Andre Thomas
Lux Aurumque: Eric Whitacre
Behold! Rise Up! Go Tell! Shine!: arr. Mark Hayes
True Light: Keith Hampton
Light the Legend: Michael Isaacson
FALL 2011
DONA NOBIS PACEM
SPRING 2011
Choral Reflection on Amazing Grace: Roger Ames
Ose Shalom: John Leavitt
Gaelic Blessing: Z. Randall Stroope
Dona Nobis Pacem: J.S. Bach
Anthem of Peace: Mack Wilberg
Down by the Riverside: arr. RutterI
Dream a World : Andre Thomas
If I Had a Hammer
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Imagine
50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
SPRING 2010
O Magnum Mysterium: Tomas Luis de Victoria
O Magnum Mysterium: Morten Lauridsen
The Snow: Edward Elgar
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening from
Frostiana: Randall Thompson
Hail blessed virgin: Peter de Mets
Shepherds’ Chorus from Amahl and the Night Visitors: Gian Carlo Menotti
The Shepherds’ Farewell to the Holy Family: Hector Berlioz
In the Bleak Midwinter: arr. Stacey Wong
Durme, Durme, Ladino lullaby
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind: John Rutter
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind: George Shearing
Baby It’s Cold Outside: Frank Loesser, arr. Kirby Shaw
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm: Irving Berlin, arr. Kirby Shaw
Winter Wonderland of Snow: arr. Mark Hayes