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A World of Holiday Joy

Welcome the season with a joyful collection of music from around the world. Featured in this international program of holiday music will be Italian composer, Ottorino Respighi's lovely "Laud to the Nativity," an earthy and simple Christmas work that focuses on the simple shepherds and Mary herself. Respighi's folksy tunes combine quite harmoniously with the poetry of 13th century Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi. These Bolognese gentlemen give us music with plenty of sweet and joyous moments for the season.

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The French Requiems

The Chorale presents two setting of the Requiem mass by two great French masters – Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle. These evocative works paint both tender and passionate musical pictures of our yearnings for comfort and the promise of hope. You will hear both an eloquent voice of human grief, and cinematically perfect songs of joy and "peace at the last."

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A Musical Menu

From Bach to Broadway – "food, glorious food" is celebrated in a delightful array of choral music to suit every taste. Come indulge your musical appetite with Bach's light-hearted family drama about coffee; a scrumptious feast of music from the fellow that gave us West Side Story; and a "sweet" of musical offerings fit for the pickiest foodie from our own artistic director, Allan Petker.

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A Sentimental Journey Thru the 40's

Adler, Samuel
A Song of Hanukkah

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Salmo 150

Anderson, R. Alex
Mele Kalikimaka

Bach, Johann Sebastian
A Child is Born to Save Us (Uns ist ein Kind geboren), Cantata BWV 142
Dona Nobis Pacem from Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Here, Yet Awhile from St. Matthew Passion
Sanctus from Mass in B Minor

Barber, Samuel
Agnus Dei
Intermezzo from Act II of Vanessa
Nocturne
Sure on This Shining Night

Barnum, Eric William
Sweeter Still
The Lady in the Water

Bass, Randol Alan
A Symphony of Carols
Christmas Flourish
Gloria
Seasonal Sounds

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Choral Fantasy, Opus 80
Hallelujah Chorus from The Mount of Olives

Beibl, Franz
Ave Maria

Berger, Jean
My True Love Hath My Heart

Berlin, Irving
There's No Business Like Show Business from Annie Get Your Gun

Berlioz, Hector
Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling from L'enfance du Christ

Bernstein, Leonard
Chichester Psams (In Three Movements)
Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
Tonight from West Side Story

Betinis, Abbie Burt
Run, Tobaggan, Run

Biegel, Jeffrey
Christmas in a Minute

Billings, Williams
Hail, Sacred Music, Hail!

Bizet, George
Habanera from Carmen
March of the Toreadors from Carmen

Bleckner, Andrew
Sheheckeyanu: Prayer of Gratitude

Bock, Fred, composer and arranger
Scarborough Fair

Brahms, Johannes
A German Requiem, Opus 45
Liebeslieder Waltzer, Opus 52
The May Night (Die Mainacht)

Britten, Benjamin
A Ceremony of Carols
Ballad of Green Broom

Brown, Nacio Herb
Singing in the Rain

Brubeck, Dave
We Three Kings

Brunner, David L.
I Am In Need of Music

Bruckner, Anton
Ave Maria

Burt, Alfred
Ah, Bleak and Chill the Wintry Wind
Caroling, Caroling
Come Dear Children
Some Children See Him

Carmichael, Hoagy
Lazy River

Carter, Andrew
I Wonder As I Wander (trad. Appalachian Christmas carol)
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (15th century French melody)

Cavallaro, Carmen
Después de Pasar

Chilcott, Bob
The Singing Heart
Where Riches is Everlastingly

Choplin, Pepper
Silent Night For All The World

Clausen, René
O My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose

Cohon, Baruch J.
Hanerot, Halalu

Coleman, Cy
Rhythm of Life

Copland, Aaron
Ching-A-Ring Chaw
Long Time Ago
Simple Gifts
Stomp Your Foot from The Tender Land
The Promise of Living from The Tender Land

Coulter, R. Scott
Oh, my love's like a red, red rose (Robert Burns)

Courtney, Craig
Twelve Days of Christmas

Crutchfield, Jonathan
Bethelehemu (African folk tune)

Curry, Sheldon, arranger
Down to the River to Pray

Darke, Harold
In the Bleak Midwinter

De Cormier, Robert
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy (West Indian spiritual)

De Victoria, Tomàs Luis
Jesu Dulcis Memoria
O Magnum Mysterium

Della Joio, Norman
A Jubilant Song

Di Lasso, Orlando
I Know A Young Maiden

Dickau, David
America the Beautiful
Come, O Come, My Life's Delight
If Music Be the Food of Love
In Time of Daffodils
Laughing Song
Three from Shakespeare
   1. O Mistress Mine
   2. Silvia
   3. Lovers Love the Spring

Diemer, Emma Lou
Three Madrigals

Donizetti, Gaetano
Chorus of wedding guests from Lucia di Lammermoor

Duruflé, Maurice
Requiem

Elfman, Danny
Alice's Theme from Disney's Alice in Wonderland

Elgar, Edward
The Snow

Ellingboe, Bradley
Be Music Night

Erb, James, arranger
Shenandoah

Fauré, Gabriel
Requiem

Ferguson, John
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Fine, Irving
Father William from Alice in Wonderland
Lullaby of the Duchess from Alice in Wonderland
The Lobster Quadrille from Alice in Wonderland

Finney, Glenn H.
Going Over Home

Gawthrop, Daniel E.
Sing Me to Heaven

Gershwin, George
Porgy and Bess medley

Gilpin, Greg
The Music of M-G-M (A Choral Medley)

Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj
Totus Tuus

Greenlee, Robert
Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier (American folk song)

Gregorian Chant
Ubi Caritas

Gounod, Charles
Soldiers’ Chorus from Faust

Hairston, Jester
Amen
In Dat Great Gittin’ Up Morning

Halloran, Jack
Camptown Races
We Wish You The Merriest
Witness

Handel, George Frideric
Chorus of Enchanted Islanders from Alcina
Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110)
For Unto Us a Child is Born from Messiah - A Sacred Oratorio (HWV 56)
Glory to God from Messiah - A Sacred Oratorio (HWV 56)
Hallelujah from Messiah - A Sacred Oratorio (HWV 56)
Hallelujah, Amen from Judas Maccabaeus
Messiah - A Sacred Oratorio (HWV 56)
See, the Conquering Hero Comes from Judas Maccabaeus
Sing Unto God from Judas Maccabaeus
Zadok the Priest

Handl, Jakob
Resonet In Laudibus

Hassler, Hans Leo
Cantate Domino

Haugen, Marty
Children, Go Where I Send Thee

Haugland, A. Oscar
Magazine Madrigals

Haydn, Joseph
Mass No. 3 in D Minor, “Lord Nelson Mass"
Te Deum in C Major, H. 23 c/2

Hayes, Mark
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Carolaré
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Danny Boy (old Irish air)
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Eddie Pola/George Wyle)
Some Folks (Stephen Foster)
Variations on “Jingle Bells”

Helvey, Howard
O Lux Beatissima

Hogan, Moses
The Battle of Jericho

Holst, Gustav
Choral Hymns for the Rig Veda, Third Group, H.99
   1. Hymn to the Dawn
   2. Hymn to the Water
   4. Hymn to the Travellers
Christmas Day

Huff, Mac
Let It Ring, Let It Swing, Let It Snow
   1. Ukranian Bell Carol
   2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
   3. A Marshmallow World
   4. Frosty the Snow Man
White Christmas (Choral Medley) (Irving Berlin)

Humperdinck, Engelbert
Scene III from Hansel and Gretel

Isaacson, Michael
Light the Legend

Jacobson, Joshua / Netsky, Hankus
Al Hanissim (Sing to God)

Jacques, Reginald
The Holly and the Ivy

Jenkins, Karl
The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

John, Elton
Can You Feel the Love Tonight from The Lion King

Kean, Ron
Agnus Dei from American Mass
American Mass
Ise Oluwa (Nigerian folk song)

Kern, Jerome
The Way You Look Tonight

Kern, Jerome and Hammerstein II, Oscar
Selections from Show Boat

Kirchner, Shawn
Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Kopylov, Aleksandr
Heavenly Light

Kuykendall, Frank
Joy to the World

Lantz III, David
Patapan

Larsen, Libby
The Settling Years
   I.   Comin' to Town (text by Robert V. Carr)
   II.   Beneath These Alien Stars (from Pioneer Women by Vesta Pierce)
   III.  A Hoopla (from The Song Primer, 1907)

Lauridsen, Morten
Like Snow from Mid-Winter Songs
Lux Aeterna
O Magnum Mysterium

LeBaron, Anne
Waterfall at LuShan (WORLD PREMIERE)

Lerner, Allan Jay & Loewe, Frederick
Paint Your Wagon

Levine, Iris
Hiney Mah Tov (Hebrew folk tune)

Liles, Joe
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (H. Gillespie/J.F. Coots)

Liszt, Franz
The Beatitudes

Loesser, Frank
Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat from Guys and Dolls

Lojeski, Ed
Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert
Fiddler on the Roof
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
Medley from Les Misérables
Winter Wonderland

Luboff, Norman
Tender Love

Luciuk, Juliusz
Nie Bede Plakala (I Will Not Cry)

Maddux, David
O Sifuni Mungu

Mancini, Henry and Mercer, Johnny
Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Mancini, Henry
Days of Wine and Roses from Days of Wine and Roses

Marsh, Don
Christmas Classics
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)
It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas (Meredith Willson)
A Christmas Song (Torme and Wells)

Marvin, Jameson
He's Gone Away (American Folk Song)

Mascagni, Pietro
Regina Coeli (Easter Hymn) from Cavalleria rusticana

Mathias, William
Bell Carol
Sir Christèmas

McCullough, Donald
Canite Tuba
What Child Is This?

Mechem, Kirke
Skip to My Lou (Trad. Folk Song)

Memley, Kevin
Ave Maria
Danny Boy
Magnificat (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE)
There is No Rose of Such Virtue

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Elijah
Gott ist Mein Hirt
He Watching Over Israel from Elijah
Schlusschor from Vom Himmel hoch
There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob

Menotti, Gian Carlo
Shepherds' Chorus from Amahl and the Night Visitors

Monteverdi, Claudio
Ecco Mormorar L'Onde

Montoya, David V.
African Processional: Jambo rafiki yangu

Moore, J. David
The Ditchling Carol

Morricone, Ennio
River from The Mission

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Ave Verum Corpus
Mass in C Major, “Coronation Mass,” K.317
Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great Mass)
Priests’ Chorus from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339
Voyagers’ Chorus from Idomeneo

Neufeld, Ken
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane)
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)

Newman, Randy
You've Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story

Offenbach, Jacques
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman

Orbán, György
Daemon Irrepit Callidus

Orff, Carl
Carmina Burana: Cantiones Profane
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana

Pärt, Arvo
Bogoróditse Djévo (Mother of God and Virgin)
Te Deum

Parker, Alice
Hush
I Know the Lord
Witness

Pergolesi, G.B.
Glory to God in the Highest

Petker, Allan Robert
Canticle of St. Augustine
Cherry-Ripe
The Circle
Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus (Ralph R. Prime)
Come to Me, O My Love
Deep In a Winter’s Night (Ralph R. Prime)
Do You Carrot All For Me?
Early American Hymn Festival
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Prelude & Postlude to Dancing Day
Rejoice and Sing Noel
Sing A Merry Madrigal
Sing Gloria
Te Deum to Music
>    1. God is Singing Over You (Zephaniah 3:17)
   2. We Sing to the Majesty of God (I Chronicles 16: 23 - 25)
   3. We Sing to the Grace of God (Colossians 3:16)
   4. Music Itself Glorifies God (Traditional Te Deum text and When in Our Music God is Glorified 
       by Fred Pratt Green)
Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)
When Morning Breaks

Pierce, Brent
Sing Noel

Porter, Cole
In the Still of the Night from Rosalie
Night and Day

Poulenc, Francis
Gloria
O Magnum Mysterium

Praetorius, Michael
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
To Us is Born Immanuel

Prentice, Fred
Danny Boy

Prima, Louie
Sing, Sing, Sing

Puccini, Giacomo
Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly

Puerling, Gene
Michelle (Lennon/McCartney)

Purcell, Henry
Dido’s lament, and final chorus from Dido and Aeneas

Quick, Jonathan, arranger
Loch Lomond (Traditional Scottish)

Quintana, Ariel
Hodie Christus Natus Est
Mass for Two Worlds

Rao, Doreen
Siyahamba

Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Glory Be to God from All Night Vigil
Vocalise

Redford, J.A.C.
Napili Bay, 2 PM

Respeghi, Ottorino
Laud to the Nativity

Rheinberger, Josef
Abendlied, Op. 69, Number 3

Riese, Mark
Christmas Comes Anew
I Saw Three Ships
What Child Is This?

Robison, Kevin
Silver Bells

Rodgers, Richard and Hammerstein II, Oscar
Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music
It’s a Grand Night for Singing
Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific

Rutter, John
Ave Maria
Behold the Tabernacle
Cantique de Jean Racine (Gabriel Fauré)
Deck the Hall
Draw On Sweet Night
Feel the Spirit
Gloria
The Holly and the Ivy
Il est né le divin enfant
Magnificat
Mary’s Lullaby
Mass of the Children
Monday's Child
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
The Reluctant Dragon
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Sanborn, Jan
Caroling, Caroling! (Alfred Burt)
The Christmas Song (Mel Torme)
Disney Medley
Heart of Christmas
Irving Berlin Medley
The Loren Janes Silver Screen Medley
   Before the Parade Passes By from Hello, Dolly!
   Hello, Dolly! from Hello, Dolly!
   Put On A Happy Face from Bye Bye Birdie
   Camelot from Camelot
   If Ever I Would Leave You from Camelot
   Theme from The Sand Pebbles
   It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
   Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate
   Themes I, II and III from How The West Was Won
Mary’s Little Boy Child (Jester Hairston)
No Longer a Baby
O Hearken Ye (Alfred Burt)
Some Children See Him (Alfred Burt)
Star Carol (Alfred Burt)
Velvet Shoes
Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)

Schalk, Carl
Before the Marvel of This Night

Schikele, Peter
A P.D.Q. Bach Christmas (selections)
Throw the Ule Log On, Uncle John
O Little Town of Hackensack
Good King Kong Looked Out

Schmit, Nolan E.
A Native American Prayer

Schram, Ruth Elaine
Every Night When the Sun Goes In

Schwartz, Stephen
Wicked (Choral Highlights)
    1.  No One Mourns the Wicked
    2.  The Wizard and I
    3.  One Short Day
    4.  For Good
    5.  Defying Gravity
    6.  Finale

Schubert, Franx
Du bist die Ruh (You Are Repose)
Mass in G, D. 167

Scott, K. Lee
Christmas Cantata: “The Incarnation”
    I. “Glory Be to God on High” (Text: Charles Wesley)
    III. “In the Beginning Was the Word” (Text: John 1:1-5; 10-14)
    V. “That Virgin’s Child” (Text: John Gwyneth)
    VI. “See, See, the Word Is Incarnate” (Text: Godfrey Goodman)
A Welsh Lullaby

Shaw, Robert
A-Rovin'
The Many Moods of Christmas (w/Robert Russell Bennett)

Simeone, Harry
The Nutcracker Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Sjolund, Paul
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Silent Night

Snyder, Audrey
O Lux

SPEBSQSA
I'll Be Home For Christmas (K. Gannon/W. Kent & B. Ram)

Sondheim, Stephen
Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music

Spevacek, Linda
Beau Soir (Beautiful Evening)/Claude Debussy

Stanford, Charles Villiers
Beati Quorum Via
The Blue Bird (Mary Coleridge)

Stravinsky, Igor
Symphony of Psalms

Sterling, Robert
The Spirit of the Season

Stroope, Z. Randall
Goin' to the Auction
Hodie

Susa, Conrad
A Christmas Garland
Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest

Swingle, Ward
All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern)

Szabo, Burt
Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks)

Tatti, James
To the God Who Gave Breath (Allelulia) (WORLD PREMIERE)

Tavener, John
Song of Athene

Thomas, Andre
African Noel
The Drinking Gourd
Keep Your Lamps

Thompson, Randall
Glory to God in the Highest
The God who gave us life from The Testament of Freedom
I shall not die without a hope from The Testament of Freedom
The Last Words of David

Tiomkin, Dimitri
The Green Leaves of Summer from The Alamo

Traditional
Freedom is Coming (South African)

Tschesnokov, Paul
The Angels’ Song

Underriner, Chaz
A Mountain in Labor (WORLD PREMIERE)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Wassail Song of Gloucestershire

Verdi, Giuseppe
Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore
Brindisi from La Traviata
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco
Triumphal scene from Aida
Witches’ Chorus from Macbeth

Vivaldi, Antonio
Gloria in D, RV 589

Wagner, Douglas
On with the Snow

Wagner, Richard
Bridal chorus from Lohengrin
Pilgrim’s Chorus from Tannhauser

Walker, Gwyneth
Let Music Fill the Air

Webber, Andrew Lloyd
Phantom of the Opera Medley

Wells, Linda
Christmas Star

Whalum, Wendell
Keresimesi Qdun De O (Nigerian Christmas song)

Whitacre, Eric
Animal Crackers, Vol. I
    i.  The Panther
    ii.  The Cow
    iii.  The Firefly
Animal Crackers, Vol. II
    i.  The Canary
    ii.  The Eel
    iii.  The Kangaroo
Cloudburst
Lux Arumque
The Seal Lullaby
Water Night

White, R. Wilding
The Little Horses (adapted by Aaron Copland)

Wilberg, Mack
Bile Them Cabbage Down (American Folk Song)
Cindy
I’ll Ay Call In By Yon Town (Scottish Folk Song)
I'm Goin' Away (North Carolina Folk Song)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Joy to the World
Masters in This Hall
Old Joe Clark (American Folk Song)
O Whistle and I’ll Come to Ye
Shenandoah (American Folk Song)
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

Williams, John
Double Trouble from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Exsultate Justi

Willcocks, Sir David
Deck the Hall
Five Christmas Carols
   1. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
   2. O Come, All Ye Faithful
   3. The First Nowell
   4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Jingle Bells
See Amid the Winter’s Snow
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

Willcocks, Jonathan
Magnificat

Williams, Peter O.
Carols of the Heart

Wood, Dale
Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying

Yarrow, Peter
Light One Candle

Young, Robert
There Is No Rose
To Him We Sing