Category: Past Season

Judit Hartyányi, Guest Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

• Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar
• Ave Maria – Gregorian chant
• Ave Maria – Zoltan Kodaly
• Ave Maria, Op.12 – Johannes Brahms
• Suo-gan – Welsh Slumber-Song
• Canticum Sponsae – Erzsebet Szonyi
• Traditional Music from Mexico and Cuba
• Tavasz (spring) – Bela Bartok
• Ne Menj el – Bela Bartok
• Ein Bernelis per Laukeli – Lithuanian Folksong Arr. Kristina Vasiliauskaite
• Dujnel idi ut jufcetja – Bulgarian Folk Song
• Wainamoinen Makes Music – Zoltan Kodaly

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Judit Hartyanyi, Guest Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

• Ave Maria – Gregorian Chant
• Ave Maria – Zoltan Kodaly
• Ave Maria – Johannes Brahms
• Tota pulchra es – Maurice Durufle
• Maria Mater Gratiae – Gabriel Faure
• Salve Regina – Miklos Kocsar
• O Gloriosa – Gyorgy Orban
• Hold the Wind – English Folk Ballad Arr. Mary Goetze
• Canticum Sponsae – Erzsebet Szonyi
• Rise Up My Love – Eleanor Daley
• My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land – Sir Edward Elgar
• The Dance
• LXXV (World Premier) – Andras Feher
• Selections from Vier Gesange – Johannes Brahms
  • Song from Twelfth Night
  • The Gardner
• Queen Jane – Traditional Kentucky Folksong Arr. Stephen Hatfield
• Ne Menj el! (Don’t leave me) – Bela Bartok
• Tavasz (spring)
• Wainamoinen Makes Music – Zoltan Kodaly

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Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

• December – Paula Foley Tillen
• The Snow – Sir Edward Elgar
• Twelfth Night – Samuel Barber
• Winter Cantata, Op. 97 – Vincent Persichetti
  • A Copper Pheasant
  • Winter’s First Drizzle
  • Winter Seclusion
  • The Woodcutter
  • Gentlest Fall of Snow
  • One Umbrella
  • Of Crimson Ice
  • The Branch is Black
  • Fallen Leaves
  • So Deep
  • The Wind’s Whetstone
  • Epilogue
• Selections from “This Wonderful Feeling” – Joan Szymko
  • In my quiet place
  • Purple night
• Noel des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons – Claude Debussy
• Les Angelus
• Little tree – Judith Weir
  • little tree
  • i carry you in my heart
  • now is a ship
• Avinu Malkeinu – Traditional
• Canon in Five Parts – Leonard Bernstein
• Selections from “Three Settings of the Moon” – Ron Nelson
  • The Moon Does not Sleep
  • Ask the Moon

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Baroque and Classical Music for Treble Voices

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Organ

Program

• Virgam virtutis tuae (The Lord will send forth the sceptre) – Marianna von Martines
• Domine Dominus noster, quam admirable (O Lord our Lord, how admirable) – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana
• Deh! cosi ogno – Marianna von Martines
• Miserere in D – Johann Adolph Hasse
  • Miserere
  • Tibi soli peccavi
  • Ecce enim
  • Quoniam si voluisses Benigne fac Domine Tunc acceptabis
• Psallite, superi – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
• Compositions for the Feast of the Holy Innocents
  • Introit: Ex ore – Gregorian Chant
  • Mass in Honor of Saint Leopold – Johann Michael Haydn
  • Gradual: Laudate Pueri Dominium – Johann Michael Haydn
  • Mass: Credo – Johann Michael Haydn
  • Offertory: Anima nostra – Gregorian chant
  • Mass: Johann Michael Haydn

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Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Accompanist

A musical meditation on the powerful seasonal themes of fire, angels, and peace. Featuring Karin Rehnqvist’s “To the Angel with Fiery Hands” and Daniel Pinkham’s “Angels are Everywhere,” along with works by Martha Alter, Håkan Olssen, Arvo Pärt and Joan Szymko.

Program

• Gloria – Agneta Skold
• Da pacem Domine – Hakan Olsson
• L’adieu des bergers a la sainte famille – Louis Hector Berlioz
• Peace upon you, Jerusalem -0 Arvo Part
• Cherubic Hymn (no.2) – Pavel Chesnokov
• “The Angel” – Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Till Angeln med de brinnande handerna (To the Angel with Fiery Hands) – Karin Rehnqvist
• Peace – Martha Alter
• Fire – Mary Goetze
• Hymn to the Virgin – Giuseppe Verdi
• Two Plato Settings – Martha Alter
  • Country Gods
  • Country Music
• Angels are Everywhere – Daniel Pinkham
  • Angels are Everywhere
  • The Angel at Eden’s Gate
  • The Angel in the Fiery Furnace
  • The Angel at the Manger
  • The Angel on the Cloud
  • The Angels on the Head of a Pin
• Selections from “Ten Blake Songs” – Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Infant Joy
  • The Piper Fish
  • Eternity
• Variations on a Theme by Rilke – Joan Szymko

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A musical exploration of the poetic power and beauty of the natural world.

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Accompanist

Program

• Hymn to the Waters – Gustav Holst
• Hotaru Koi (Ho, Firefly) – Japanese Children’s Song
• On a Mountain Path  (Premiere) – Peter Knell
  • natsu kodachi
  • sumiregusa
  • hibari yori
  • kiri shigure
  • tsuki no tomo
• Five Fragments of Jade, op. 40 – Jenő Takács
  • Song On the River
  • The Leaf On the Water
  • The Fisherman
  • Intoxication of Love
  • On the River
• Nodle Kangbyon (Beside the Nodle River) – Traditional Korean Folksong, Arr. Wallace Hornady
• Ahrirang – Korean Folk Melody, Arr. Mitchell Covington
• Chinese Mountain Songs – Chen Yi
  • When Will the Scholartree Blossom?
  • A Ma Lei A Ho
  • Gathering in the Naked Oats
  • Mt. Wuzhi
  • Ga Da Mei Lin
• Lift Thine Eyes from “Elijah” – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
• By the Rivers of Babylon Psalm 137 – Charles M. Loeffler
• Hoj, hura hoj! (O Mountain, O!) – Otmar Mácha
• Three Mountain Ballads – Traditional American Folksong, Arr. Ron Nelson
  • He’s Gone Away
  • Will He Remember?
  • Barbara Allen
• Selections from Moravian Duets, op. 32 – Antonín Dvořák
  • A já ti uplynu  (Flow, Danube, Ebb and Flow)
  • Velet’, vtáčku  (Fly, Oh Little Bird)
  • Prsten  (The Ring)
• At the River – Adapted by Aaron Copland

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Medieval, Romantic and Twentieth-Century music on a Marian theme

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Piano

Program

• Gedeonis Area (Gideon’s courtyard) -0 Anonymous

• O viridissima virga – Hildegard of Bingen

• Hodie Christus natus est – Anonymous
  • Alleluya:L a nywe werk – 13th & 15th English

• Lullay, Lullow – Arr. Jude Navari, based on 15th c. English carols

• Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63 – Benjamin Britten

• O frondens virga – Drew Collins

• Ave Maria – Gabriel Faure

• Tota pulchra es – Maurice Durufle

• Litanies a la Vierge Noire – Francis Poulenc

• Hac In Anni Ianua (in this, the doorway to the year) – Anonymous

• Ave Maria, Op. 12 – Johannes Brahms

• Belle, bonnem, sage – Baude Cordier

• Rose, liz, printemps, verdure – Guillaume de Machaut

• Ave Maria – Rebecca Clarke

• Mass in G Minor, Op. 187 – Josef Rheinberger

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Musical Contemplations on Time and Space

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Piano

Program

• Today, This Spring – Libby Larsen
  • Today, this spring
  • She piped for us
  • If I can stop one heart from breaking
• An Emily Dickinson Mosaic – Daniel Pinkham
  • The Brain is Wider than the Sky
  • The Heart is the Capital of the Mind
  • The Mind lives on the Heart
  • To be alive
  • Exhilaration is the Breeze
  • Each Life Converges to some Centre
• From the Twelve-Winded Sky – Jeremy Rawson
• Selections from Préludes – Olivier Messiaen
  • La colombe (The Dove)
  • Plainte calme (Calm Plaint)
• Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda (Group II) – Gustav Holst
  • To Varuna (God of the Waters)
  • To Agni (God of Fire)
  • Funeral chant
• Gate Gate – Brian Tate
• Whitman “Credo” – Ron Jeffers
• To Be Sung on the Water, Op. 42, No. 2 – Samuel Barber
• Three Seas – Alice Parker
  • There is a solitude of space
  • As if the Sea should part
  • A soft Sea washed around the House
• Songs Eternity – Steven Paulus
  • Melodys of earth and Sky
  • Mighty Songs
  • Sing Creations Music On

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In memory of Alison Howard (1939-2010

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee, Piano

Program

• Es ist ein Ros entsprungen – Melchior Vulpius
• Herself a Rose, Who Bore the Rose – Eleanor Daley
• Vesperae Pro Festo Sancti Innocentium – Michael Haydn
  • Dixit Dominus
  • Confitebor tibi  
  • Beatus vir  
  • De profundis  
  • Memento Domine David
  • Hymnus
  • Magnificat
• Passing – Peter Knell
• Miserere in C Minor – Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Miserere
  • Tibi soli
  • Ecce enim
  • Libera me
  • Quoniam
  • Benigne fac, Domine
• The Place of the Blest – Randall Thompson

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