Category: Past Season

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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Music of Seers, Sorcerers and Sprites

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

• Selections from Prophetiae Sibyllarum – Orlando di Lasso
• Witches Choruses from Dido and Aeneas – Henry Purcell
  • Prelude for Witches
  • Harm’s our Delight
  • The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate
  • Ruin’d ere the set of sun (Witches’ Trio)
  • But ere we this perform (Witches’ Duet)
  • In a deep vaulted cell
• Ellen’s Second Song – Franz Schubert
• Spinnt! Spinnt, Fleissig Mädchen – Richard Wagner
• Two Choruses from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1826) – Felix Mendelssohn
• O Fons Bandusiae – Reynaldo Hahn
• Hymn to Dionysus – Gustav Holst
• Trio of Canons – Arr. Libana
  • Seers’ Canon: Sure as the Wind
  • Sorcerers’ Canon: A Circle is Cast
  • Sprites’ Canon: Full Moonlight Dance
• Four Russian Peasant Songs – Igor Stravinsky
  • On Saints Days in Chigisakh (1916)
  • Ovsen (1917)
  • The Pike (1914)
  • Master Portly (1915)
• Three Songs from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2006) – Cary Ratcliff
  • I do wander everywhere
  • Philomel with melody
  • I will wind thee in my arms
• UROK (1987) – Lojze Lebič
  • Spell Against Swelling
  • Spell Against Snakebite
  • Spell Against Bad Blood
• The Witches’ Trio (2001) – Libby Larsen
• Witches’ Chours (1847) – Giuseppe Verdi

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A rich spectrum of musical styles, from the post-romantic expression of Rachmaninoff to the experimental and aleatoric music of Voci Composer-in-Residence Julie Herndon as well as music by composers from the United States, Australia, Russia and England, influenced by different world cultures.

Mitchell Covington, Artistic Director
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Anne Rainwater, Accompanist

Program

• Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda – Gustav Holst
  • To Agni (God of Fire)
  • Hymn to the Waters

• National Weather Forecast – Henry Mollicone

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