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PAST PERFORMANCES


Spring 2011—If Music Be the Food of Love, Sing On

Dickau: If Music Be the Food of Love
Dickau: I Am Not Yours
Dickau: I Love My Love

Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs

Seelig: When I Have Sung My Songs to You

Stroope: i carry your heart with me
Stroope: Amor de Mi Alma
Stroope: Omnia Sol

Walker: Love—By the Water

Winter 2010—Rejoice!

Selections from The New Three Log Night Songbook

Wexford Carol
Shepherds, Arise
Quem pastoresThe Lord at First Did Adam Make
Time to Remember the Poor
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Gaudete

Durante: Magnificat in Bb Major

Walker: Rejoice!

What Child Is This?
Love Came Down at Christmas
Good Christian Friends Rejoice!

Walker: Appalachian Carols

Wondrous Love
Cherry Tree Carol
Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
Go Tell It on the Mountain

Spring 2010

J. Willcocks: Lord, Make Me an Instrument
J. Willcocks: From Darkness to Light (A Requiem of Hope)

A. MacGillivray:Song for Peace
A. MacGillivray: Away from the Roll of the Sea
A. MacGillivray: Song for the Mira

Rutter: The Lord Is My Shepherd
Rutter: To Everything There Is a Season
Rutter: Distant Land

Winter 2009

de Victoria: O magnum mysterium

Haydn: Missa Sancti Nicolai (“Nikolaimesse” HXXII:6)

Thompson: Four selections from Frostiana:
The Road Not Taken
Come In
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Choose Something Like a Star

Gustav Holst: Christmas Day

Spring 2009

Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232

Paulus: Each Day
Paulus: Afternoon on a Hill
Paulus: The Day Is Done
Paulus: 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

Barber: Twelfth Night
Barber: Must the winter come so soon (Vanessa)
Barber: Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)
Barber: Sure on This Shining Night

E la Don Don Verges Maria
Dadme Albricias Hijos d'Eva
Praetorius: En natus est Emanuel
Nelhybel: Estampie Natalis

Selections by 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)

Spring 2002

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
Purcell: With drooping wings (Dido and Aeneas)
Rossini: Prayer (Moise)
Tchaikovsky: Chorus of Peasant Girls (Eugene Onegin)
Tchaikovsky: Waltz (Eugene Onegin)
Verdi: Brindisi (La Traviata)
Mozart: Priests’ Chorus (Die Zauberflote)
Wagner: Pilgrims’ Chorus (Tannhauser)
Wagner: Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin)
Mascagni: Easter Hymn (Cavalleria Rusticana)

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

Spring 2000

Brahms: Schicksalslied
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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

Winter 1998

Motets by Palestrain, G. Gabrieli, Poulence, Lauridsen, and Spencer

Hodie Christus natus est
Poulenc: O magnum mysterium
Lauridsen: Dirait-on
There is no rose of such virtue

Britten: Ceremony of Carols (excerpts)

Monteverdi: Beatus Vir

Green grows the holly
The Holly & the ivy

Tavener: Song for Athene
Tavener: Lamb, The
Tavener: God is with us

TheTwelve days of Christmas, The

Spring 1998

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus

Winter 1997

O l’heureuse journee
Certon: Chanton Noel

Charpentier: Midnight Mass

Ding, dong! Merrily on high
O come, O come, Emmanuel
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Sing Lullaby

Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio

Spring 1997

J. S. Bach: St. John Passion

Spring 1996

Mozart: Requiem

Winter 1996

Bogh predvichniy

Stetsenko: Nova rada stala
Stetsenko: Dnes pyushche
Stetsenko: Nebo i zemlia
Stetsenko: Slava, Slava

Billings: A Virgin unspotted
Read: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Holden: Hark! The herald angel sing
Holyokee: Joy to the world
Ives: AChristmas Carol
Niles: Carol of the Angels
Fissinger: I saw three ships
Martinson: There is no rose
Masters in this hall
J. Carter: In time of softest snow
Tate:Wassail all over the town
Bennet:What sweeter music
Davies: O little town of Bethlehem
Hadley:I sing of a Maiden

Spring 1995

Verdi: Requiem

Winter 1995

de Victoria: Gloria in excelsis Deo
de Victoria: O magnum mysterium
de Victoria: Ay, Ay Galeguinos

Britten: St. Nicholas

Spring 1994

Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer
Purcell: Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day

Winter 1994

Charpentier: Midnight Mass for Christmas
Poulenc: Gloria

Spring 1993

Haydn: The Creation

Winter 1993

J. S. Bach: Magnificat in D
Pinkham: Christmas Cantata
V
aughan Williams: The First Nowell

Winter 1992

Handl: Omnes de Saba venient
Huxley: Of a rose
Jesus, Jesus, Rest your Head

Schutz: The Birth of our Lord

Vaughan Williams: Wither’s Rocking Hymn
Boar’s Head Carol
How deep the snow
Cox: Heap on more wood!
Spencer: Nowell, Nowell, out of your sleep
Poston: Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree

Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (excerpts)

Joubert: Nowell