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Spring 2009
Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Four selections by Stephen Paulus—
Each Day (Celtic invocation)
Afternoon on a Hill (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The Day Is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Pilgrim’s Hymn (from The Three Hermits)
Ireland: Greater Love Hath No Man
Ireland: Te Deum in F Major
Ireland: Jubilate Deo
Winter 2008
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Four selections by Samuel Barber—
Twelfth Night
Must the winter come so soon (Vanessa)
Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)
Sure on This Shining Night
E la Don Don Verges Maria
Dadme Albricias Hijos d'Eva
Praetorius: En natus est Emanuel
Nelhybel: Estampie Natalis
Music by contemporary British composer Paul Ayres—
So Hallow'd and So Gracious Is the Time
Icicles
Entre le Boeuf et l'Ane Gris
Still, Still, Still
I Saw Three Ships
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Good King Wenceslas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Spring 2008
Vivaldi: Gloria
Helvey: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Helvey: There Is a Balm in Gilead
Helvey: Glory, Glory Hallelujah!
Poems of Langston Hughes—
Thomas: I Dream a World
Dilworth: The Dream Keeper
Dilworth: Dreams
Copland: Simple Gifts
Copland: At the River
Copland: The Promise of Living (The Tender Land)
Bernstein: Make Our Garden Grow (Candide)
Winter 2007
Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio
Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
Spitzer: Eytz Chayim
Steinberg: Shalom Rav
Janowski: Sim Shalom
Longfellow Tribute—
Elgar: As Torrents in Summer
Shaw: The Tide Rises
Gawthrop: My Cathedral
Kaufmann: Snow-Flakes
Gawthrop: Night
Gilpin: And the Night Shall Be Filled with Music
Hansen: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Spring 2007
Purcell: Excerpts from Dido and Aeneas
Three Songs by Gena Branscombe—
Auld Doctor Ma'Ginn
How Do I Love Thee
Ah, Love, I Shall Find Thee
Three Songs by Amy Marcy Beach—
Far Awa'
I send my heart up to thee!
Juni (June)
Offenbach: Duet from Tales of Hoffmann
Stephen Chatman: Nature Songs (commissioned by the Acadia Choral Society)
Winter 2006
Three Carols by Stephen Chatman—
Voices in the Mist
Shepherds Rejoice
A Cradle Song
Ding dong! Merrily on high
Ballet: Lute-book Lullaby
Darke: In the bleak midwinter
The First Nowell (arr. Willcocks)
Scheidt: A child is born in Bethlehem
There is no rose
Goss: See amid the winter's snow
I saw a maiden
Good King Wenceslas
Still, still, still (arr. Ledger)
Mathias: Sir Christemas
Spring 2006
Music of Maurice Durufle—
Mass "Cum jubilo"
Motet "Tota pulchra es," Op. 10
Notre Pere, Op. 14
Requiem, Op. 9
Winter 2005
Billings: Shepherd's Carol
The Coventry Carol (arr. R. Rossi)
S. Rossi: Al Naharot Bavel
Praetorius: Lo, How a Rose
Buxtehude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Eden Ensemble—
For C.W.B.
Young and Old
A Merry Note
A Wintry Sonnet
Songs of Stephen Chatman—
As I Lay upon a Night
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Remember
Shaker Songs—
Holy Habitation
Christmas Greeting
Sanctum te
Simple Gifts
Joyful Praises
Wallace: Boy at the Window
Rossini: Cum Sancto Spiritu
Winter 2004
C.T. Pachelbel: Magnificat
Byrd: Magnum mysterium
Byrd: Deo gratias
Byrd: Lullaby
Charpentier: Christmas Cantata
Noel nouvelet
Gems of day
Ding dong! Merrily on high
Guerrero: Three Christmas Carols
Susa: Three Mystical Carols
Britten: Three Hymns
Spring 2004
Tallis: If Ye Love Me
Faure: In paradisum (Requiem)
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Andiasov: Meditation
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Winter 2003
Respighi: Laud to the Nativity
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
TeHennepe: I Sing of Maiden
Five Spanish Carols—
Ximeno: Ay, Ay Galeguinos
The Son of the Virgin
Twenty-fifth day of December
Verbum caro factum est
Riu, Riu, Chiu
Spring 2003
Music of Morten Lauridsen—
Dirait-on
O magnum mysterium
A Winter Come (Six Songs on Poems by Howard Moss)
Where Have the Actors Gone
Lux aeterna
Winter 2002 (with Acadia Handbell Choir*)
Durufle: Four Motets on Gregorian Themes
Buxtehude: Der Herr ist mit mir
Gorecki: Totus tuus
Britten: Jubilate Deo
Early American and English Carols—
*The Holly and the Ivy (arr. Sanders)
Personent hodie
Stepheson: Milford
I Saw three Ships
Brightest and Best
Jolly Old Hawk
Wondrous Love
While Shepherds Watch'd Their Flocks
Oaken Leaves
The Lord of the Dance
Exultation
Kentucky Wassail
*God Rest Ye Merry (arr. McChesney)
Winter 2001
A. Gabrieli: Magnificat
Telemann: Laudate Jehovam (Psalm 117)
Jesus the Christ is born (arr. Warrell)
I wonder as I wander (arr. Smith)
Niles: What songs were sung
Rutter: Gloria
Spring 2001 (with Eden Children's Choir)
Carter: Te Deum
Part: Berliner Messe
Charpentier: Te Deum
Winter 2000
Finzi: In terra pax
Stevens: All this night shrill chanticleer
Biebl: Ave Maria
Five Carols by Norman Dello Joio—
The holy infant's lullaby
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Silent night
O come, all ye faithful
A Christmas carol
TeHennepe: I Sing of Maiden
Carols of Peter Warlock—
What cheer? Good cheer!
Bethlehem Down
Benedicamos Domino
The First Mercy
Where riches is everlastingly
Tyrley, Tyrlow
Balulalow
The Sycamore Tree
Winter 1999 (with Eden Children's Choir*)
Brahms: Marienlieder
Praetorius: Magnificat
*Sweetly the bells are ringing
*O most blessed night
*O thou joyful day
*Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine
Resonet in laudibus
Handl: Resonet in laudibus
Scheidt: Joseph lieber, Joseph mein
Cantional: Gaudete!
Praetorius: Puer natus in Bethlehem
Spring 1999
Lauridsen: Les Chansons des Roses
Honegger: King David
Spring 1998
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus
Spring 1997
J. S. Bach: St. John Passion
Spring 1996
Mozart: Requiem
