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Winter 2007 Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor and Brahms Quartets for Choir and Piano
Featuring: Nadia Blank, piano, and Asher Davison, clarinet

Spring 2007 Her Infinite Variety: Four Centuries of Shakespeare in Song
Featuring songs by Morley, Verdi, Vaughan Williams, Shearing, Maentyjarvi, Harris, P.D.Q. Bach, and more.

Winter 2006 Bach: Mass in B minor

Spring 2006 A Choral Menagerie
Featuring the Benjamen Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, plus Hindemith, Copland, Carmichael, and more.

Winter 2005 To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Featuring the Tomás Luís de Victoria O Magnum Mysterium Mass, plus Rossi, Lassus, del Encina, Eccard, and more.

Spring 2005 America in Song
featuring Morton Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna, and songs by Billings, Joplin, Ives, Bernstein, Hogan, and Callaway

Winter 2004 Winter Concert
Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (Vespers)

Spring 2004 Spring Concert
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Brahm's Schicksalslied, and Zoltán Kodály's Missa Brevis, performed in collaboration with The Prometheus Orchestra (Eric Hansen, conductor)

Winter 2003 La Rose Complète
Morten Lauridsen's Les Chansons des Roses, Benjamin Brittin's Hymn to St. Cecelia and String music of Byrd and Holborne

Spring 2003 A Night at the Opera
Selections from Leonard Bernstein's Candide, plus opera choruses from Bizet, Offenbach, Mussorgsky, and Verdi, and the world premiere of the complete Songs from the Gardener song cycle by composer-in-residence Ann Callaway.

Winter 2002 A Winter Concert
Program included Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Ann Callaway's 'O Magnum Mysterium' and 'Unspoken Things' from Songs from the Gardener

Spring 2002 O Sacred Earth; Early Music of the Sacred and Secular
Program included works by Bach, Rossi, le Jeune, Josquin, de Lasso, Morley, Monteverdi, Weelkes, Hildegard von Bingen and Ann Callaway

Winter 2001 Beethoven, Weber, Callaway
Beethoven: Mass in C Major, Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Callaway: Valentine

Spring 2001 Isn't it Romantic? Songs of Love and Romance Through the Centuries
Program included works by Haydn, Bartók, Brahms, Barber, Rodgers, Ravel, Billings, Callaway (world premiere), & Ellington, and also included chamber and solo pieces featuring chorus members.

Winter 2000 Dona Nobis Pacem: Songs to Peace
Program included excerpts from Handel's Messiah, Bernstein, Barber, and Callaway

Spring 2000 A Bouquet of Italian Music
Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle, and works by Verdi, Monteverdi, Josqin, Vecchi and two premieres by Ann Callaway

Winter 1999 Two Faces of Sacred Space
Pärt's Te Deum, and The Missa Luba, a Congolese Mass. Guest artists: Otello Jefferson, tenor Malonga Casquelord, Tacuma King and Sanga of the Valley; percussion

Spring 1999 Brahm's Piano Concerto #1 in C minor, Bizet's Symphony in C major
Featuring: Matthew Edwards, Piano

Spring 1999 Sure On This Shining Night...
Bach - Lobet den Herrn, Barber - Sure on this shining night, Bartók - Two Slovak folk songs, Bernstein - Dona nobis pacem from the Missa Brevis, Britten - Deus in adjutorium meum, Fauré - Madrigal, Ligeti - Ejszaka and Reggel, Poulenc - Un soir de neige, Thompson - The road not taken from Frostiana, Poulenc - Un Soir de Neige, Brahms - Cappriccio Op 67, Brahms - Intermezzo Op 118, Brahms - Intermezzo Op 119,

Winter 1998 Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Barber: Adagio for Strings, Barber: Agnus Dei, Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin

Spring 1998 Fauré: Requiem, Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24, Brahms: Schicksalslied


Winter 1997 Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor and Vivaldi: Concerto for two trumpets

Spring 1997 Orff: Carmina Burana

Winter 1996 Bach: Magnificat and Charpentier: Messe de Minuit

Spring 1996 Brahms: Deutsches Requiem