| Season |
Concert Title |
Works |
Detailed program (pdf) |
Audio Sample |
| 2010 |
Summer
|
Duruflé - Mendelssohn |
Maurice Duruflé — Requiem
Felix Mendelssohn — Te Deum in D |
program |
|
Spring
|
Music Expresses |
Robert Train Adams -- Music Expresses
Gerald Finzi --My Spirit Sang All Day
Gerald Finzi -- I Praise the Tender Flower
Gerald Finzi -- Haste On, My Joys!
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Springtime of the Year
Gustav Holst - I Love My Love
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dark Eyed Sailor
J. David Moore - Searching For Lambs
Halsey Stevens - Like as the Culver
Robert Lucas Pearsall - Lay a Garland
Jonathan Quick. - Loch Lomond
George Shearing - Music to Hear:
1. Music to Hear
2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
3. Is It for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
4. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
5. Sigh No More, Ladies
Matthew Harris - Shakespeare Songs, Book I
1. Hark, Hark, the Lark
2. Full Fathom Five
3. Who is Silvia
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music |
program |
|
| 2009 |
Fall
|
What Sweeter Music |
Anonymous, ca. 1450 -- Ther Is No Rose
Harold Darke -- In The Bleak Midwinter
John Joubert -- There Is No Rose
Michael Praetorius -- Est Ist Ein Ros Enstsprungen
Boris Ord -- Adam Lay Ybounden
Robert Pearsall - In Dulci Jubilo
Tomás Luis de Victoria - O Magnum Mysterium
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Hodie Christus Natus Est
John Gardner - Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
John Tavener - The Lamb
Benjamin Britten - This Little Babe from Ceremony of Carols
John Rutter, arr. - Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant
Francis Poulenc - Quatre Motets Pour le Temps de Noël:
O Magnum Mysterium
Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite
Videntes Stellam
Hodie Christus Natus Est
John Rutter - What Sweeter Music
Robert Train Adams - Christmas Fantasy |
program |
|
Summer
|
Mozart - Schubert - Mendelssohn |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K. 339
Franz Schubert -- Mass in G
Felix Mendelssohn -- Beati Mortui
Felix Mendelssohn -- Say Where Is He Born (from Christus)
Felix Mendelssohn -- There Shall A Star From Jacob (from Christus)
Felix Mendelssohn - Kyrie in D Minor
Felix Mendelssohn - Lift Thine Eyes (from Elijahl
Felix Mendelssohn - He, Watching Over Israel (from Elijah)
|
program |
|
Spring
|
Classical Music of Brazil & Canada |
José Maurício Nunes Garcia -- Requiem
Stephen Chatman -- Gloria
Healey Willan -- O Sing Unto the Lord A New Song
Imant Raminsh -- Ave Verum Corpus
Stephen Chatman -- Two Rosetti Songs: Song and Music; Remember
Healey Willan - Rise Up, My Love
Ruth Watson Henderson - Sing All Ye Joyful
Srul Irving Glick - What I Have Learned Is This
Srul Irving Glick - The Hour Has Come
|
program |
|
| 2008 |
Fall
|
Celebration! |
Louis Vierne--Solemn Mass
Heinrich Schütz -- Hodie Christus Natus Est
Michael Praetorius -- In Dulci Jubilo
Michael Praetorius --Psallite
Robert Lucas de Pearsall -- In Dulci Jubilo
Javier Busto – Ave Maria & Ave Maria Gratia Plena
Virgil Thomson – O My Deir Hert
Ned Rorem – While All Things Were In Quiet Silence
William Bolcom & Joan Morris – Carol
John Rutter – Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Randol Bass – Gloria
|
program |
|
Summer
|
Te Deum! |
Plainchant--Te Deum Laudamus (Latin rite, solemn tone)
Geroge Frideric Handel --Te Deum in A Major
Joseph Haydn --Te Deum in C (Hob. XXIIIc, No. 2)
Benjamin Britten --Festival Te Deum
Antonín Dvorák --Te Deum
|
program |
|
Spring
|
An American Sampler: Choral Music
by American Composers |
Randall Thompson --The Last Words of David
Lucas Foss --Cool Prayers from 'The Prairie'
Virgil Thomson --Four Southern Hymns
Robert Adams --It Will Be Summer--Eventually
(West Coast Premiere)
Wordless Shaker Song --Mother Ann's Song
Jeremiah Ingalls --Northfield
Alfred Marcus Cagle --Soar Away
Emma Lou Diemer --Three Madrigals
Samuel Barber--The Monk And His Cat
Irving Fine--Lobster Quadrille; Father William
from "Alice in Wonderland"
Daniel Gawthrop --Close Now Thine Eyes
Eric Whitacre --Sleep
Steven Sametz--I Have Had Singing
Sheldon Curry, arr. --Down To The River To Pray
J. David Moore & Dare To Breathe, arr.--How Can I Keep From Singing
|
program |
|
| 2007 |
Fall
|
Magnificat! |
Francesco
Durante--Magnificat
Franz Schubert--Magnificat
Herbert Howells--Hymn
for St. Cecilia
Herbert Howells--Magnificat
Collegium Regale
Arvo Pärt--Magnificat
Francis Poulenc--Gloria
|
program |
|
Summer
|
Amy Beach Grand Mass in E Flat
Major |
Amy
Beach--Grand Mass in E Flat Major
John Blow--Begin
the Song; Ode on St. Cecilia¹s Day, 1684 (selections)
Henry Purcell--Come
Ye Sons of Art (selections)
Concert
Review
|
program |
|
Spring |
|
Kaleidoscope: Different Cultures/Different
Voices |
Juan
Pérez Bocanegro - Hanacpachap
Cuisicuinnin
Gaspar Fernandes -
Xicochi, Xicochi
Gaspar Fernandes -
Tleicantimo Choquiliya
J. David Moore -
Annua Gaudia
Chen Yi -
Arirang
Chen Yi -
Sakura
Zhou Long -
Words of the Sun
Se Enkhbayar - Neiman Sharag (Eight
Chestnut Horses)
Lee R. Kesselman -
This Grand Show Is Eternal
James Mulholland -
Highland Mary
James Mulholland -
A Red, Red Rose
Joseph Spivak, arr. Donald
Bannett - Ma Navu (World Premier)
Lee R. Kesselman -
Shona Mass
-
Tenzi (Kyrie)
- Mbiri Kuna Mwari (Gloria)
- Akakomborwerwa (Benedictus)
- Hwayana Yamwari (Agnus Dei)
Stephen Hatfield -
Nukapianguaq
|
program |
|
| 2006 |
| Fall |
Mozart Celebration & Great
English Anthems |
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart - Kyrie in D, K. 341
- Ave Verum Corpus
- Missa Solemnis, K. 337
William
Byrd - Sing Joyfully,
- Ave Verum Corpus
George
Frideric Handel - The King Shall
Rejoice
Charles Villiers
Stanford - Beati Quorum Via
Charles Wood -
Hail Gladdening Light
Gerald
Finzi - God is Gone Up
David Willcocks, arr. -
Angelus Ad Virginem |
program |
|
| Summer |
Haydn/Vaughan Williams |
Michael Haydn
- Requiem
Ralph
Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem
|
program |
|
| Spring |
American Spiritual Landscapes |
Ernest Bloch
- Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service)
Charles Ives -
Psalm 67
Kirke Mechem
- Give Thanks Unto the Lord
Lee
Kesselman - This Grand Show is Eternal
Ludwig Altman -
Choral Meditation |
program |
|
| 2005 |
| Fall |
An English Christmas |
Thomas Tallis
- If ye love me
- Missa puer natus est nobis
William
Mathias - Sir Christèmas
Gustav Holst -
Personent Hodie
Benjamin
Britten - Hymn to the Virgin
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The
Blessed Son of God
- No sad thought his soul affright
- Fantasia on Christmas carols |
program |
|
| Summer |
Brahms Requiem |
Johannes Brahms
- Ein Deutsches Requiem |
program |
|
| Spring |
Austrian Masters |
Joseph Haydn
- Harmoniemesse
Anton
Bruckner - Mass No. 1 in D minor |
program |
|
| 2004 |
| Fall |
Choral Music of France |
Guillaume Dufay
- Gloria ad modum tubae
Josquin
des Pres - Ave Maria
Marc
Antoine Charpentier - In nativitatem
Domini canticum, H314
Gabriel
Fauré - Messe Basse
Cesar
Franck - Psaume 150
Francis
Poulenc - Hodie
Camille
Saint-Saëns - Calme des nuits
- Les fleurs et les arbres
- Des pas dans l'allée
Hector
Berlioz - L'adieu des bergers from
L'enfance du Christ
Arthur
Honegger - Selections from Une cantate
de Noël |
program |
|
| Summer |
Calm & Passion |
Charles-Marie
Widor - Mass (French, 1878)
Pytor Tchaikovsky -
Selections from the All Night Vigil
Sergei
Rachmaninoff - Bogoroditse Devo
- Cherubim Hynm No. 8
Joseph
Jongen - Mass (Belgian, 1945)
|
program |
|
| Spring |
Laudes Organi - Works for Choir and Organ |
Kodaly
- Laudes Organi
Dvorak
- Mass in D
Mendelssohn
- Hear my Prayer
Dvorak
- Going Home, God is my Sheperd |
program |
|
| 2003 |
| Fall |
A Holiday Festival for Chorus and Harp |
Benjamin Britten
- Ceremony of Carols
Medieval
Carol - Nova, Nova
William
Walton - All This Time
Marjorie Hess -
The Oxen
Steven Heitzeg
- Little Tree
William
Hawley - The Snow That Never Drifts
Arnold Bax -
I Sing of a Maiden That is Makeless
William
Garrett James - The Three Drovers
P.D.Q. Bach -
A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols |
program |
|
| Summer |
Kirke Mechem's Operas |
Kirke Mechem
- Arias & Choruses from John Brown
Kirke Mechem -
Arias & Choruses from The Newport Rivals |
program |
|
| Spring |
Messe des Morts: Requiems from France |
Maurice Duruflé-
Requiem
André Campra-
Requiem |
program |
|
| 2002 |
| Fall |
Music of Harvest and Thanksgiving |
Kirke Mechem -
Give Thanks Unto the Lord (ps. 136)
J.S. Bach -
Nun danket alle Gott (Cantata No. 192)
Alice Parker -
God is Seen
- Wondrous Love
- Invocation: Peace (Omaha Indian Prayer)
Srul Irving Glick -
The Hour has Come
Aaron Copland -
Promise of Living
Leonard Bernstein -
Choral suite from Candide |
program |
|
| Summer |
Choral Gems of the Romantic Era |
Franz Schubert
- Deutche Messe
Johannes
Brahms - Denn alles Fleisch es ist
wie Gras (2nd movement from the German Requiem)
Sergei Rachmaninoff -
Ave Maria (from the Vespers)
- Cherubic Hymn No. 8
Dmitry
Bortniansky - Cherubic Hymn No. 7
Giuseppe Verdi -
Laudi alla Vergine & Te Deum (from Four Sacred Pieces),
- Sanctus (from the Requiem) |
program |
|
| Spring |
Dona Nobis Pacem: Grant Us Peace |
Joseph Haydn
- Mass in Time of War
Ralph
Vaughn Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem |
program |
|
| 2001 |
| Fall |
The French Choral Tradition |
Marc-Antoine
Charpentier - Messe de minuit
pour Noël
Jean Langlais
- Messe Solennelle
Francis
Poulenc - Hodie
Maurice
Duruflé - Ubi Caritas
Olivier Messiaen -
O Sacrum Convivium
|
program |
|
| Summer |
Classical Masterpieces: 5th Anniversary Season
finale |
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart - Great Mass in C Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach -
Magnificat
|
program |
|
| Spring |
The New Choral Sound |
Arvo Pärt
- Cantate Domino
Arvo
Pärt - The Beatitudes
William Albright -
Chichester Mass
Javier Busto
- Salve Regina
John
Tavener - A Hymn to the Mother of
God
John Tavener -
Magnificat and Nunc Dimmitis
Mack
Wilberg - Cantus In Harmonia (to
St. Cecilia)
David Conte
- The Waking
Morten
Lauridsen - Dirait-on (from Les Chansons
des Roses)
Morten Lauridsen
- O Nata Lux (from Lux Aeterna)
Kirke Mechem -
Island in Space
Charles Stanford
- Blue Bird
Kenneth
Leighton - Lully, Lullay, Thou Little
Tiny Child
Humphrey Clucas
- The Lord Is My Shepherd
Humphrey
Clucas - O Salutaris Hostias
|
program |
|
| 2000 |
| Fall |
Masterpieces of the Renaissance |
Tomás Luis de
Victoria - Requiem
Tomás Luis de Victoria -
Ave Maria
Claudio Monteverdi
- Missa a 4 Voci
| o
program |
|
| Summer |
An All-American Concert |
Alice Parker
and Robert Shaw, arr. - American
Folk Hymns:
- Hark, I Hear the
Harps Eternal
- Wondrous Love
- Saints Bound for Heaven
-
Come Away to the Skies
Leonard
Bernstein - Missa Brevis
Leonard Bernstein -
Chicester Psalms
Charles
Ives - Psalm 67
Kirke
Mechem - Blow Ye the Trumpet |
program |
|
| Spring |
English Masterpieces |
John Ireland
- Greater Love Hath No Man
Herbert
Howells - Requiem
Herbert
Howells - Magnificat
Herbert
Howells - Te Deum |
program |
|
| 1999 |
| Fall |
Messe Solennelle |
Morten
Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Maurice Duruflé - Quatre Motets
sur des Thèmes Grégoriens
Louis Vierne - Messe Solennelle |
program |
|
| Concert at St. John's |
Concert at St. John's Episcopal
Church, Ross
(November) |
Hildegard
von Bingen - Columba Aspexit
Gabriel Fauré - Messe Basse
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Antiphon (from
Five Mystical Songs)
American traditional - Nobody Knows the
Trouble I've Seen
Maurice Duruflé - Quatre Motets
sur des Thèmes Grégoriens
Morten Lauridsen - O Nata Lux (from Lux
Aeterna)
Louis Vierne - Kyrie (from Messe Solennelle)
|
program |
|
| Summer |
Opera Sacra - Sacred Works |
Hildegard von
Bingen - Columba Aspexit; O Ignis
Spiritus
Francis Poulenc - Quatres Petits
Prieres de Saint François d"Assise
Gabriel Fauré -
Mess Basse
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
Five Mystical Songs
Giuseppi Verdi -
Four Scred Pieces |
program |
|
| Legion of Honor |
Organ/Choral Concert, with Robert Gurney,
organist (May) |
Kenneth Alford
- Colonel Bogey March
Kirke Mechem - Blow Ye the Trumpet
Amy Beach -
Panama Hymn
- The Year's at the Spring (Barbara Greeno, solo)
-
Prelude On An Old Folk Tune, "The Fair Hills of Eire, O"
Randall Thompson -
Alleluia
Edward Elgar
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D
Gus Kahn and Kaper-Jurman -
San Francisco |
program |
|
| Spring |
Musical Poetry: 20th Century British and American
Choral Settings of Poetry |
Kirke Mechem
- Blow Ye the Trumpet (from the
opera John Brown)
- To Music
- Blessed Are They
Randall Thompson -
Alleluia
- The Best of Rooms
Benjamin Britten -
Rejoice in the Lamb
William Harris
- Faire is the Heaven |
program |
|
| 1998 |
| Fall |
The English Sound: Choral Gems
Celebrating Cathedral Sonorities |
Thomas
Tallis - Missa Puer Natus Est Nobis
Orlando Gibbons
- Hosanna to the Son of David
Robert Parsons -
Ave Maria
Gregorio Allegri
- Miserere
Paul Manz - E'en So, Lord Jesus,
Quickly Come
Ralph Vaughan
Williams - The Blessed Son of God
-
Fantasia on Christmas Carols |
program |
|
| Summer |
Brahms Requiem |
Johannes Brahms
- Eine Deutsches Requiem (A German
Requiem) |
program |
|
| Spring |
Music of Our Time: Multicultural Music from
Around the World |
Leonard Bernstein
- Chichester Psalms
Stephen Hatfield -
Nukapianguaq
- Missa Brevis
Lee R. Kesselman
- Shona Mass
Andre Thomas,
arr. - Keep Your Lamps!
traditional -
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Charles
Albert Tindley - The Storm is Passing
Over
James Erb,
arr. Shenandoah |
program |
|
| 1997 |
| Fall |
Winter Concert |
Benjamin
Britten - Ceremony of Carols
Kirke Mechem
- Christmas the Morn
-
Seven Joys of Christmas
- Gloria (from Three Motets)
Marcel Samuel-Fosseau -
Variations Pastorales sur un Vieux Noël (harp solo) |
program |
|
| Summer |
Summer Concert |
Franz Schubert
- Mass in G Major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ave Verum Corpus
- Requiem |
program |
|
| Spring |
The Music of Amy Marcy Beach (Mrs. H.H.A.)
|
Amy Beach
- On an Old Folk Tune 'The Fair
Hills of Eire, O' (organ solo)
- Wind o' the Westland (vocal solo)
- The Year's at the Spring (vocal solo)
- The Lotos Isles (vocal solo)
- Let This Mind Be in You (choral anthem)
- The Panama Hymn (choral)
- The
Grand Mass in Eb Maj (choral)
|
program |
|
| 1996 |
| Fall |
Winter Concert |
Josquin
des Pres - Ave Maria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Ave Maria
Igor Stravinsky-
Ave Maria
Arvo Pärt-
Magnificat
Robert Witt - Four Motets to the
Blessed Mary
Francis Poulenc
- Gloria |
program |
|
| Summer |
Sacred Music of the 20th Century |
Maurice Duruflé
- Requiem
Herbert Howells
- Te Deum
Charles Villiers Stanford
- Beati Quorum Via
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
- Totus Tuus |
program |
|
| |
Choral Evensong |
Joint
Concert with Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choir, San Jose
Brad Osness - Magnificat
-
Nunc Dimittis
Franz Schubert
- Deutsche Messe
|
program |
|
| Spring |
Songs of Love and Spring |
Johannes
Brahms - Liebeslieder Waltzes
Three Settings of the Song of Solomon:
Healey Willan
- Rise Up, My Love
Patrick Hadley
- My Beloved Spake
William Billings
- The Rose of Sharon
Aaron Copland -
The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land)
Leonard Bernstein
- Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide)
Maurice Duruflé - Ubi
Caritas |
program |
|
| |
Trinity Episcopal Easter Service |
Joint
Concert with Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choir, San Jose
Brad Osness - Magnificat
-
Nunc Dimittis
Franz Schubert
- Deutsche Messe
|
program |
|
| 1995 |
| Winter |
A Festival of Carols
(Joint concert with SF Choral Society and SF Brass) |
Biebl
- Ave Maria
Gabrieli
- O Magnum Mysterium
Praetorius -
In Dulci Jubilo
- Psallite
Courtney -
Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas
Rutter -
What Sweeter Music |
program |
|
| Fall |
Debut Concert |
Louis Vierne
- Messe Solennelle
Gabriel Fauré
- Requiem
- Cantique de Jean Racine |
program |
|
| Summer |
Hiroshima Commemorative Service |
The Chorus
joined with Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choir of San Jose in the premiere
of Brad Osness' Lamentations, performed at an ecumenical commemorative
service on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima |
|
|
| Spring |
Founding Meeting |
March 20, 1995
Helene Whitson, Susan Quinlan, Barbara Greeno, Claire Diepenbrock,
Anne Trapani, Russell Miller and Tracy Schilling, met with Robert
Gurney, at Trinity Episcopal Church, to discuss the possibility of
forming a new chorus. All of the singers except Tracy Schilling were
members, or former members, of Winifred Baker's San Francisco Civic
Chorale, which had just been merged with the Winifred Baker Chorale
of San Rafael. The members of the Civic Choral, who wished to continue,
would from then on have to go to San Rafael to rehearse. Some preferred
to find a way to continue to sing together in the City. Tracy Schilling
and Helene Whitson were at that point singing in the San Francisco
Choral Society, where Robert Gurney served as Assistant Conductor
and accompanist, in addition to his position as Organist and Choirmaster
in Trinity Episcopal Church. Helene Whitson was instrumental in bringing
everyone together. |
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