Repertoire of the Choirs

Each semester the repertoire of the choirs changes. Over the course of four years, it is the conductor’s intention to expose a singer to the breadth of music written in the tradition of Euro-American choral singing, including music from the 15th-21st centuries, with 20th and 21st century music representing a variety of stylistic traditions, some of which are influenced by popular musics or by musics from outside of the Euro-American traditions. We sing texts written by poets and others that express a range of human experiences and a variety of texts—religious and non-religious texts, texts from Jewish and Christian faiths as well as from cultures that observe other religious traditions (taking into consideration that the concert performance of sacred musics from other traditions may be considered insensitive), secular texts that explore love and even sexuality in a variety of ways, and texts that may deal with issues of race, class, gender, or identity differences.

Recent choral/orchestral works

  • van Beethoven, Ludwig, Choral Fantasy (with Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • van Beethoven, Ludwig, Symphony No. 9 (with Claremont Chorale and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Brahms, Johannes, Ein deutsches Requiem (with Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Dvořák, Antonin, Te Deum (with Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Fauré, Gabriel, Requiem (with Claremont Chorale and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Handel, George Frideric, Messiah (Part One) (with Orange County Symphony; with Claremont Chorale)
  • Haydn, Joseph, Harmoniemesse (Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Haydn, Joseph, Te Deum (with Chaffey College Chamber Choir and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Lin Yuan, Symphonic Epic: The Echoes of Hakka Earth Buildings (with Xiamen Philharmonic)
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang” (with Chaffey College Chamber Choir and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, “Coronation” Mass (with Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Requiem (with Chaffey College Chamber Choir and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Poulenc, Francis, Gloria (with Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Poulenc, Francis, Litanies a la Vierge Noire (with Chaffey College Chamber Choir and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Orff, Carl, Carmina Burana (with Claremont Chorale and Claremont Concert Orchestra)
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Dona nobis pacem (with Claremont Concert Orchestra)

A sampling of other works

  • Aleotti, Vittoria, Hor che la vaga Aurora
  • Aleotti, Vittoria, Lasso quand’io credei d’esser felice
  • Allegri, Gregorio, Missa “Che fa oggi il mio sole”
  • Alves, Bill, The Cracked Kettle (world premiere)
  • Alves, Bill, Li Po Declines (world premiere)
  • Alves, Bill, Stein Song #3 A Sonatina (premiere of choral version)
  • Andreoni, Roberto, Miguel Mañara: Four excerpts from the stage music (U.S. premiere)
  • Arcadelt, Jacques, Il bianco e dolce cigno
  • Baas, James, My November Guest
  • Bach, J.S., Lobet den Herrn
  • Banchieri, Adriano, Contrapunto bestiale alla mente
  • Barber, Samuel, Agnus Dei
  • Barber, Samuel, Reincarnations
  • Barber, Samuel, Sure on this Shining Night
  • Barnwell, Ysaye, Breaths
  • Barnwell, Ysaye, Wanting Memories
  • Bartholomew, Greg, The Tree
  • Batten, Adrian, O Sing Joyfully
  • van Beethoven, Ludwig, Elegischer Gesang
  • Bernstein, Leonard, Chichester Psalms
  • Bernstein, Leonard (Edgarton, arr.), Somewhere
  • Betinis, Abbie, Be Like the Bird
  • Betinis, Abbie, Dormi Jesu
  • Betinis, Abbie, In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Bonds, Margaret, St. Francis’ Prayer
  • Brahms, Johannes, Four Songs for Horns, Harp, and Women’s Voices
  • Brahms, Johannes, Liebeslieder Walzer
  • Brahms, Johannes, O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf
  • Brahms, Johannes, O schöne Nacht
  • Brahms, Johannes, Warum ist das Licht gegeben
  • Britten, Benjamin, A Ceremony of Carols
  • Britten, Benjamin, Five Flower Songs
  • Britten, Benjamin, Rejoice in the Lamb
  • Britten, Benjamin, The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
  • Bruckner, Anton, Virga Jesse
  • Byrd, William, Ave verum corpus
  • Byrd, William, Haec dies
  • Byrd, William, Mass for Four Voices
  • Byrd, William, O magnum mysterium
  • Caccini, Francesca, Aure volanti
  • Carmichael, Hoagy (Huff, arr.), Skylark
  • Carrillo, Juan, arr., El Gavilán
  • Chen Yi, Fengyang Song
  • Chesnokov, Pavel, Hvalite Ghospoda s nebes
  • Chilcott, Bob, A Tree of Song
  • Chilcott, Bob, The Shepherd’s Carol 
  • Chilcott, Bob, The Rose in the Middle of Winter
  • Cipriano de Rore, O sonno
  • Clearfield, Andrea, Tse Go La
  • Copland, Aaron, American Songs
  • Costeley, Guillaume, Mignonne, allon voir si la Roze
  • Dart, Alison (Scripps ’21), November Night (world premiere)
  • Debussy, Claude, Trois chansons
  • Dello Joio, Norman, A Jubilant Song
  • Dilworth, Rollo A., Jordan’s Angels
  • DiOrio, Dominic, if there is
  • Dorsey, Thomas (Arnold Sevier, arr.), Precious Lord
  • Dove, Jonathan, I am the Day
  • Dufay, Guillaume, Pange lingua
  • Duruflé, Maurice Ubi caritas
  • Duffy, Coreen, Oseh shalom
  • Elgar, Edward, Weary wind of the west
  • Fauré, Gabriel, Cantique de Jean Racine
  • Fine, Irving, Choruses from Alice in Wonderland
  • Finzi, Gerald, Part Songs on Poems of Robert Bridges
  • Gabrieli, Giovanni, In ecclesiis
  • Gabrieli, Giovanni, O magnum mysterium
  • Gjeilo, Ola, Prelude
  • Gorecki, Henryk, Totus tuus
  • Goble, Jodi, A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever (world premiere)
  • Goble, Jodi, True Witness: A Civil Rights Cantata (commissioned world premiere)
  • Grases, Cristian, Tottoyo
  • Grau, Alberto, Kasar mie la gaji
  • Gregorio, Joseph, Thy Eternal Summer (world premiere)
  • Gregorio, Joseph, When Music Sounds
  • Harris, Matthew, Shakespeare Songs
  • Harrison, Lou, Nuptiae
  • Hassler, Hans Leo, Dixit Maria
  • Hassler, Hans Leo, Verbum caro factum est
  • Hawley, William, Vita de la mia vita
  • Hildegard von Bingen, O viridissima virga
  • Hogan, Moses, arr. Wade in the Water
  • Howells, Herbert, A Spotless Rose
  • Hrusovsky, Ivan, Rytmus
  • Janacek, Leos, Laska opravdiva
  • Janequin, Clement, Le Chant des Oyseaux
  • Janequin, Clement, Le Rossignol
  • Jennefelt, Thomas, Salut de la vielle des O
  • Johnson, Craig Hella, Will there really be a morning?
  • Josquin Desprez, Ave Maria
  • Kamm, Charles, arr., A Merry Christmas
  • Kamm, Charles, arr., The Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Kern, Jerome (Rutherford, arr.), Long Ago (And Far Away)
  • Khunau, Johann, Tristis est anima mea
  • Kim, Earl, Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge
  • Kirchner, Shawn, Bright Morning Stars
  • Kodaly, Zoltan, Esti dal
  • Kuula, Toivo, Auringon noustessa
  • LaBarr, Susan, Hope is the Thing with Feathers
  • Lauridsen, Morton, En Une Seule Fleur
  • Lauridsen, Morton, Mid-Winter Songs
  • Lauridsen, Morton, O magnum mysterium
  • Lauridsen, Morton, O nata lux
  • Lauridsen, Morton, Sure on this Shining Night
  • Lindberg, Nils, Shall I compare thee
  • Lockwood, Annea, Malolo
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko, Four Shakespeare Songs
  • Marenzio, Luca, Cantava la piu vaga pastorella
  • McDermid, J. Aaron, Te lucis ante terminum
  • McDowall, Cecilia, Now is the Time
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, Hör mein Bitten
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, Jubilate Deo
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, Richte mich, Gott
  • Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny, Abschied vom Walde
  • Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny, Im Wald
  • Merryman, Marjorie, Chinese Moon Poems
  • Monteverdi, Claudio, Beatus vir
  • Monteverdi, Claudio, De la bellezza le dovute lodi
  • Monteverdi, Claudio, Ecco mormorar l’onde
  • Monteverdi, Claudio, O primavera
  • Monteverdi, Claudio, Quel augellin che canta
  • Moore, J. David, arr., Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Muhn, Yoojin, arr., Doraji
  • Norgård, Per, Flos ut rosa floruit
  • Nystedt, Knut, Immortal Bach
  • da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi, Canite tuba—Rorate caeli
  • da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi, Missa “Repleatur os meum laude tua”
  • da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi, Sicut cervus
  • Pärt, Arvo, an den wassern zu babel
  • Pärt, Arvo, Magnificat
  • P.D.Q. Bach, Good King Kong
  • P.D.Q. Bach, My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth
  • Perotin, Viderunt omnes – Dominum
  • Philips, Peter, O beatum et sancrosanctum diem
  • Pinkham, Daniel, Christmas Cantata
  • Pinkham, Daniel, Wedding Cantata
  • Poulenc, Francis, Chansons francaises
  • Poulenc, Francis, Exultate Deo
  • Poulenc, Francis, Motets for Christmas
  • Powell, Rosephanye, I Wanna Be Ready
  • Praetorius, Michael/Sandstrom, Jan, Es ist ein Ros
  • Purcell, Henry, Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry?
  • Purcell, Henry, O God Thou Art My God
  • Rautavaara, Einojuhani, Lorca Suite
  • Robinovitch, Sid, Prayer before sleep
  • Rossi, Salamon, Haleluyah Haleli Nafshi et Adonai
  • Rossi, Salamon, Mizmor letoda
  • Rutter, John, arr., Mass of the Children (excerpts)
  • Rutter, John, arr., Noel Nouvelet
  • Rutter, John, arr., The Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Schroyens, Raymond, Six Dickinson Miniatures
  • Schumann, Robert, Dunkler Lichtglanz
  • Schumann, Robert, Herbstlied
  • Schumann, Robert, In meinem Garten
  • Schumann, Robert, Ziguenerleben
  • Schütz, Heinrich, Cantate Domino
  • Schütz, Heinrich, Die mit Tränen säen
  • Schütz, Heinrich, Jauchzet dem Herren
  • Schütz, Heinrich, Lobe den Herren meine Seele
  • Schütz, Heinrich, Wohl dem der nicht wandelt
  • Scroggins, Debra, A Dream Within a Dream
  • Sibelius, Jean, Rakastava
  • Sibelius, Jean, Sydämeni laulu
  • Siegel, Karen, We Will Stand Up (co-commissioned premiere)
  • Sjolund, Paul, Love Lost
  • Smiley, Moira, Stand in that River
  • Sperry, Ethan, arr., Desh
  • Stanford, Charles Villiers, Beati quorum via
  • Still, William Grant, Where Shall I Be?
  • Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, Angelus ad Pastores ait
  • Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, Hodie Christus natus est
  • Thompson, Randall, Frostiana
  • Telfer, Nancy, Butterfly
  • Tomkins, Thomas, Weep no more, thou sorry boy
  • Valverde, Mari, Patterns on the Snow
  • Vasquez-Lopez, Ayan, Alleluia
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph, The Turtle Dove
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Three Shakespeare Songs
  • de Victoria, Tomás Luis, Ave Maria
  • de Victoria, Tomás Luis, Missa “O magnum mysterium”
  • de Victoria, Tomás Luis, O magnum mysterium
  • Vierne, Louis Solemn Mass
  • Vinci, Pietro, Stella del nostro mar
  • Vujic, Aleksander, Hasydic Song
  • Walker, Gwyneth, The Dreamers
  • Walker, Gwyneth, The Tree of Peace
  • Walton, Anna (Scripps ’14), A Clear Midnight (world premiere)
  • Watson Henderson, Ruth, Awake My Heart
  • Whitacre, Eric, A Boy and a Girl
  • Whitacre, Eric, Lux aurumque
  • Whitacre, Eric, Sleep
  • Whitacre, Eric, Sainte Chapelle
  • Wikander, David, Kung Liljekonvalje
  • Williams, Jonathan (HMC ’14) Aeolian Fibonacci (world premiere)
  • Yii Kah Hoe, Forest Threnody (world premiere)

Folk songs, spirituals, and carols from the United States, Bosnia, China, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Russia, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, and others