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PAST PERFORMANCES


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