Concert History

2011-12 | 2010-11 |2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05
2003-04 | 2002-03 | 2001-02 | 2000-01 | 1998-99

2011-12 SEASON

Winter 2011 - Christmas on the Coast

David Conte: Christmas Intrada
Williametta Spencer: Angelus ad Virginem
Emma Lou Diemer: Four Carols
- I. Rejoice Thee, O Heaven
- II. Come Hasten, Ye Shepherds
- III. Carol of the Flowers
- IV. Let Our Gladness Know No End
Kirke Mechem: Seven Joys of Christmas
- I. The Joy of Love: This is the truth
- II. The Joy of Bells: Din don! Merrily on high
- III. The Joy of Mary: Joseph dearest, Joseph mine
- IV. The Joy of Children: Patapan
- V. The Joy of New Year: New Year song
- VI. The Joy of Dance: Fum, fum, fum!
- VII. The Joy of Song: God Bless the master of this house
Ruth Huber: Winter (world premier arrangement)
Frank La Rocca: O Eve!
Mexican Lullaby, arr. Peter Hunt: Senora Santa Ana
Henry Mollicone: Lullaby
Traditional, arr. Richard Felciano: Somerset Wassail

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2010-11 SEASON

Tour 2011 - Palo Alto, CA

Felix Mendelssohn: Veni, Domine
Felix Mendelssohn: Laudate Pueri
Luca Marenzio: Two Madrigals
- Al primo vostro squardo
- Occhi dolci e soavi
Rebecca Clarke: Ave Maria
Gabriel Fauré: Ave Maria
Gabriel Fauré: Puisqu'ici-bas toute âme
Eleanor Daley: Rise Up, My Love
Kirke Mechem: A Farewell
David Conte: The Milky Way
Traditional Irish, arr. Stephen Hatfield: Colcannon
African-American Spiritual, arr. André Thomas: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray

Summer 2011 - Eat, Pray, Love

Irving Fine: Beautiful Soup
Traditional Irish, arr. Stephen Hatfield: Colcannon
Traditional Israeli, arr. Mark Glick: Chad gadya
Rebecca Clarke: Ave Maria
Eleanor Daley: Rise Up, My Love
African-American Spiritual, arr. André Thomas: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
Sharon Farber: When Music Sounds (World Premiere)
Luca Marenzio: Two madrigals
- Al primo vostro squardo
- Occhi dolci e soavi
Gabriel Fauré: Puisqu'ici-bas toute âme
Nathan Christensen: How Do I Love Thee?

Spring 2011 - Mozart Requiem

Felix Mendelssohn: Veni, Domine
Felix Mendelssohn: Laudate Pueri
Franz Schubert: Psalm 23
Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
- I. Requiem aeternam
- II. Dies irae
- III. Tuba mirum
- IV. Rex tremendae majestatis
- V. Recordare, Jesu pie
- VI. Confutatis maledictis
- VII. Lacrimosa dies illa
- VIII. Domine Jesu Christe
- IX. Hostias et preces tibi
- X. Sanctus
- XI. Benedictus
- XII. Agnus Dei
- XIII. Lux aeterna

Winter 2010 - Ice Age

Veljo Tormis: Virmalised (Aurora Borealis)
Vincent Persichetti: Winter Cantata
- I. A Copper Pheasant
- II. Winter's First Drizzle
- III. Winter Seclusion
- IV. The Woodcutter
- V. Gentlest Fall of Snow
- VI. One Umbrella
- VII. Of Crimson Ice
- VIII. The Branch is Black
- IX. Fallen Leaves
- X. So Deep
- XI. The Wind's Whetstone
- XII. Epilogue

R. Murray Schafer: Snowforms
Ukrainian Folk Song, arr. Earlene Rentz: Sleigh Bells
Cécile Chaminade: Noël des marins (Sailors' Carol)
Henry Mollicone: National Weather Forecast

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2009-10 SEASON

Summer 2010 – A Voice of One’s Own

Libby Larsen: Today, this spring
- I. Today, this spring
- II. She piped for us
- III. If I can stop one heart from breaking

Francis Poulenc: Petites Voix
- I. a petite fille sage
- II. Le chien perdu
- III. En reentrant de l’école
- IV. Le petit garçon malade
- V. Le hérisson

Alice Parker: Invocation—Peace
Dale Trumbore: Tribute (WORLD PREMIERE)
Maria Löfberg: O Virtus Sapientiae
Joan Szymko: My Soul Magnifies the Lord
Manuel de Falla: Nana
Atahualpa Yupanqui, arr. Emile Solé: Duerme Negrito
Jameson Marvin: Each Future Song
Sandi Peaslee: And Ain’t I a Woman?
Suffragette song, arr. Bob Gunn: Everything But Vote
Brian Holmes: I Shall Keep Singing

Spring 2010 – The Roots of Rhythm (with Valley High School Women’s Choir and Sage Hill School Women’s Choir)

Québécois folk song, arr. Donald Patriquin: Ah ! Si mon moine vouait danser
American spiritual, arr. Michael Cleveland: Down in the Valley to Pray
Victor Paranjoti: Dravidian Dithyramb
Atahualpa Yupanqui, arr. Emile Solé: Duerme Negrito
Swahili song, arr. Sally K. Albrecht: Furaha! (Valley High School Women’s Choir)
Slovenian folk song, arr. Jakob Jež: Igraj Kolce
Huron dance song, arr. Donald Patriquin: Innoria
Joan Szymko: It Takes a Village
Native American song, arr. Ulali: Mahk Jchi (Sage Hill School Women’s Choir)
Serbian Gypsy dance, arr. Nick Page: Niška Banja
Korean folk song, arr. Wallace Hornady: Nodle Kangbyon
Tamil song, arr. Stephen Hatfield: Ödi Ödi
African song, arr. Donald Moore: Siyahamba (Valley High School Women’s Choir)
Rosephanye Powell: Still I Rise
Kenyan folk song, arr. Shawn L. Kirchner: Wana Baraka
David L. Brunner: Yo Le Canto El Dia (Sage Hill School Women’s Choir)

Winter 2009 - The Strangest Moment In History

Christine Donkin: Magnificat
Christopher Wicks: Anthem for the Annunciation of the Lord
Paul Chihara: Magnificat
Antonio Vivaldi: Esurientes (from Magnificat)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Quia Respexit (from Magnificat)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Magnificat
Alan Hovhaness: Quia Respexit and Omnes Generationes (from Magnificat)
Gwyneth Walker: Magnificat (from Bethesda Evensong)
Joan Szymko: My Soul Magnifies the Lord (WORLD PREMIERE ARRANGEMENT)
Ryan McSweeney: Herself a Rose Who Bore the Rose (WORLD PREMIERE)
Z. Randall Stroope: Magnificat

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2008-09 SEASON

Summer 2009 – You Can’t Sing That! Banned books set to music

Norman Dello Joio: A Jubilant Song
Eric Whitacre: She Weeps Over Rahoon
Linda Tutas Haugen: Sunshine and Cloudless Sky, from Anne Frank, A Living Voice
Sergei Prokofiev: Sunlight Streaming in the Chamber and There is Nothing Comparable with Love
Henri Duparc: L’Invitation au Voyage
Brian Holmes : The Mermaid
Robert Young : How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps
Quincy Jones: Miss Celie’s Blues
Irving Fine: Three Choral Settings from Alice in Wonderland
I. The Lobster Quadrille
II. The Lullaby of the Duchess
III. Father William
Rosephanye Powell: Still I Rise

Spring 2009 – Stabat Mater

Sulpitia Cesis: Stabat Mater
Daniel Pinkham: From Three Lenten Poems of Richard Crashaw
I. On the Still Surviving Marks of Our Savior’s Wounds
III. O Save Us Then
Antonio Lotti: Vere languores nostros
Francis Poulenc: Ave verum corpus
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi : Stabat mater
I. Stabat mater dolorosa
II. Cujus animam gementem
III. O quam tristis et afflictis
IV. Quae marebat et dolebat
V. Quis est homo qui non fleret
VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum
VII. Eia, mater, fons amoris
VIII. Fac ut ardeat cor meum
IX. Sancta mater, istud agas
X. Fac ut portem Christi mortem
XI. In flammatus et accensus
XII. Quando corpus morietur
XIII. Amen

Winter 2008 – Angels in the O.C.

Rollo Dilworth: Jordan’s Angels
Daniel Pinkham: Angels Are Everywhere
Joan Szymko: Angels Singing Out of Tune
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Duo Seraphim (“Two Seraphim”)
Orlando di Lasso: Tragico tecti syrmate (“Clothed in tragic robes”)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gottes Engel weichen nie, BWV 149
Georg Frideric Handel: Angels Ever Bright and Fair (from Theodora)
Georg Frideric Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim (from Samson)
Johannes Brahms: Der englische Gruss (“The Angelic Greeting”)
Sergei Rachmaninov: Angel
Kathryn Chomik Parrotta: Ave Maria 2
Gabriel Faure: Ave Maria
Matt Dennis & Earl Brent: Angel Eyes
Traditional, arr. Joan Szymko: African Lullaby
Engelbert Humperdinck: Evening Prayer (from Hansel and Gretel )
Basque, arr. Melissa Roth: A la puerta del cielo (“At Heaven’s door”)
Spiritual, arr. Clifton J. Noble: Listen to the Angels Shouting

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2007-08 SEASON

Summer 2008 – The Perfect 10: Favorites from our First Decade

Moses Hogan: Music Down in my Soul
Felix Mendelssohn: Lift Thine Eyes
Johannes Brahms: The 13th Psalm
Béla Bartók: Cipósütes
Philip Kutev: Dragana i Slaveya
Joan Szymko: Ave Maria
Kirke Mechem: A Farewell
Zae Munn: The Stove
Caroline Kohlsaat and James Oppenheim: Bread and Roses
Si Kahn, arr. David Moore: We All Sang ‘Bread and Roses’
Mark Sirett: Watane
Ruth Huber: To My Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship
Cary Ratcliff: I Will Wind Thee in My Arms
Spiritual, arr. Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory: Go Where I Send Thee!
Dame Ethel Smyth: March of the Women
Shaker tune, arr. Gwyneth Walker: How Can I Keep from Singing?

Spring 2008 – Living Voices

Linda Tutas Haugen: Anne Frank, a Living Voice
Angel Lam: Oh Stars, from the Abyss (WORLD PREMIERE)
Kirke Mechem: Songs of the Slave

Winter 2007 – Sing It, Sister!: Six Centuries of "Girl Groups"

Cole Porter, arr. Dot Calvin: Another Op'nin', Another Show
Chiara Maria Cozzolani: O Gloriosa Domina
Antonio Vivaldi: Magnificat (Ospedale version)
Johannes Brahms: Ave Maria
Philip Kutev: Dragana i Slaveya
Various, arr. Bob Gunn: Sing It, Sister!
Margaret Dryburgh and Norah Chambers: The Captives' Hymn from Song of Survival
Harry Warren, arr. Mac Huff: Chattanooga Choo Choo
Bernice Johnson Reagon: I Remember, I Believe
T. Johnson and M. Morgan, arr. Mac Huff: Some Days You Gotta Dance
Mel Torme and Robert Wells, arr. Ruth Emley: The Christmas Song

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2006-07 SEASON

Summer 2007 – Shakespeare’s Sisters

Emma Lou Diemer: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his Lute
Hilary Tann: Contemplations 21, 22
Ruth Huber: To My Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship (WORLD PREMIERE)
Mary Carmichael: Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred
Mary Carmichael: Who Is Sylvia
Emma Lou Diemer: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
Franz Schubert: Horch, horch, die Lerch
Anon. Scottish, arr. Sheena Phillips: Lady Lothian’s Lilt: One Yeir Begins (UNITED STATES PREMIERE)
Emily Crocker: It Was a Lover and His Lass
Lana Walter: To My Dear and Loving Husband
Robert Young: How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps
Cary Ratcliff: I Will Wind Thee in My Arms
R. Paul Drummond: Sigh No More, Ladies

Spring 2007 – The Divine Presence

Lou Harrison: Here Is Holiness
Ryan McSweeney: Pied Beauty (WORLD PREMIERE)
Johannes Somary: Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church (WEST-COAST PREMIERE)
Trad., arr. Stephanie Feder: Eli, Eli (WORLD PREMIERE)
Hilary Tann: Contemplations 21, 22 (WEST-COAST PREMIERE)
Olivier Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (Three Little Liturgies of the Divine Presence)

Winter 2006 – Epiphanies (with Men Alive)

William Walker: Hail the Blest Morn
Zoltán Kodály: Vizkereszt
Gustav Holst: Hymn to the Dawn and Hymn of the Travellers
Vincent Persichetti: maggie and milly and molly and may
Ned Rorem: Gentle Visitations
Cecil Effinger: Silence
Wilfrid Holland: Selections from Epiphany
Jeffrey Biegel: Hey Ho, the Wind and the Rain
Daniel Pinkham: Manger Scenes
Spiritual, arr. J. David Moore: Follow the Drinking Gourd
Margaret Bonds: Selections from Ballad of the Brown King
Spiritual, arr. Ron Huff: Wonderful Counselor

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2005-06 SEASON

Summer 2006 – Sun, Moon and Stars

Carl Orff: Song of the Sun
Ka Nin Chan: Ave Maris Stella
Mark Gresham: The Young Galileo
David Conte: The Milky Way
Cécile Chaminade: Ronde du Crepuscule
Zoltán Kodály: Esti Dal
Gwyneth Walker: Silver Apples of the Moon
Robert Young: How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps
Alan Hovhaness: O Lady Moon
Stephen Hatfield: When the Stars Fall
R. Murray Schafer: Miniwanka
Goffin and King, arr. Raugh and Sharon: Up on the Roof
Spiritual, arr. J. David Moore: Follow the Drinking Gourd

Spring 2006 – Six Degrees of Clara Schumann

Felix Mendelssohn: Veni, Domine
Felix Mendelssohn: Lift Thine Eyes
Johannes Brahms: The 13th Psalm
Johannes Brahms: Four Songs for Women's Chorus, Two Horns, and Harp
Clara Wieck Schumann: Two Songs
Robert Schumann: Spruch
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Wandl'ich in dem Wald des Abends
Antonin Dvořak: Three Moravian Duets
Ernst Krenek: In Paradisum
Aaron Copland: An Immorality

Winter 2005 – Music Down in My Soul (with Agape Voices of Praise)

Moses Hogan: Music Down in My Soul
William Walker: Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
William Walker: Hail the Blest Morn
William Billings: Judea
William Walker: The Hills are Bare at Bethlehem
Jeremiah Ingalls: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Shaker tune, arr. Gwyneth Walker: How Can I Keep from Singing?
Raymond Egan: Epiphany Hymn
Spiritual, arr. Andre Thomas: Keep Your Lamps
Spiritual, arr. Clifton J. Noble: Hold On
Spiritual, arr. Ysaye Barnwell: There Is a Balm in Gilead
Spiritual, arr. Marylou India Jackson: Steal Away
Spiritual, arr. Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory: Go Where I Send Thee!
Keith Hampton: Praise His Holy Name
Jason White: Emmanuel

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2004-05 SEASON

Spring 2005 – Carmina (with Men in Blaque and The All-American Boys' Chorus)

William Mathias: O Aula Nobilis
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

January 2005 – Presence (with St. Joseph Ballet at the REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall)

Alan Terricciano: Jasmine; Cosas Alegrias; Canon

Winter 2004 – Ceremony

Trad., arr. Caroline Lyon: Two South African Ceremonial Songs
Libby Larsen: I Just Lightning
Giuseppe Verdi: Three Witches' Choruses from Macbetto
Solo works for harp (performed by Brian Noel)
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols

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2003-04 SEASON

Spring 2004 – Listen More Often (with StoryWerx)

Ysaye M. Barnwell: Breaths
Trad. Japanese, arr. Ro Ogura: Hotaru Koi
Daniel Pinkham: Bugs
Mark Sirett: Watane
Gioacchino Rossini: Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti (Comic Duet for Two Cats)
Arsenio Giron: Autumn Wind
Veljo Tormis: Kevadkillud (Spring Sketches)
Irving Fine: Beautiful Soup
Lana Walter: The Old Woman in a Basket

Spring 2004 – Presence (with St. Joseph Ballet)

Alan Terricciano: Jasmine; Cosas Alegrias; Canon (WORLD PREMIERE)

February 2004 – ACDA Western Division Convention

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: O Gloriosa Domina
Giuseppe Verdi: Laudi alla Vergine Maria
Kirke Mechem: Selections from The Winged Joy
Joan Szymko: Ave Maria

Winter 2003 – I Sing of a Maiden

Anon., 12th century.: Castitatis Thalamum
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: O Gloriosa Domina
Francis Poulenc: Ave Maria
Giuseppe Verdi: Laudi alla Vergine Maria
Lana Walter: Elizabeth's Ave
Joan Szymko: Ave Maria
Pablo Casals: Cançó a la Verge
Max Reger: Mary’s Cradle Song
Javier Busto: Ave Maria
Charles Wood: Mater Ora Filium
Kirke Mechem: Selections from The Winged Joy

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2002-03 SEASON

Spring 2003 – On This Island (with Men in Blaque and Tonal Loop)

Amy Beach: Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Lili Boulanger: Les Sirènes
Javier Busto: La Noche en la Isla
English folksong, arr. Eleanor Daley: The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle
Leonard Bernstein: There is a Garden (from Trouble in Tahiti )
Samoan folksongs, arr. Christopher Marshall: Pusi Nofo and Moemoe Pepe
Arr. Francisco Nuñez: Three Dominican Folksongs
Arr. Electo Silva: Four Haitian Folksongs
English Folksong, arr. Margaret Dryburgh and Nora Chambers: Londonderry Air (from Song of Survival )
Margaret Dryburgh: The Captives' Hymn (from Song of Survival )
Aruban folksong, arr. E. Toppenberg: Balia di Sehu

Spring 2003 – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (with Saddleback Master Chorale and South Coast Symphony

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (with Saddleback Master Chorale and South Coast Symphony)

Winter 2002 – Places of the Blest

Conrad Susa: Carols and Lullabies, Christmas in the Southwest
Randall Thompson: The Place of the Blest
Malcolm Forsyth: Auyuittuq (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE)
Francis Baxter: Snow on the River
Trad. Nigerian, arr. Babatunde Olatunji and Wendell Whalum: Betelehemu

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2001-02 SEASON

Spring 2002 – Goddesses and Other Working Women

Zae Munn: The Muse and The Stove
Hildegard of Bingen: O Virtus Sapientiae
Maria Lofberg: O Virtus Sapientiae
Henry Purcell: Sing, Sing, Ye Muses
Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (set 3)
Israeli folksong, arr. Nina Gilbert: Artsa Alinu
Stephen Hatfield: Chant for a Long Day
Ivan Spassov: Twche Donka Platno
Béla Bartók: Three Treble Choruses
Atahualpa Yupanqui, arr. Emile Sola: Duerme Negrito
Caroline Kohlsaat and James Oppenheim: Bread and Roses
Si Kahn, arr. David Moore: We All Sang 'Bread and Roses'

Winter 2001 – Shades of Winter: Music to Make You Shiver

Emma Lou Diemer: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Trad., arr. G. Emlen: Breton Carol
Vincent Persichetti: Winter Cantata
Andrejs Jansons: Two Latvian Carols
Louis M. DeShantz: A Teasdale Winter Trilogy
R. Murray Schafer: Snowforms
Meredith Willson, arr. Mac Huff: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Karl Jenkins: Sleep, Child of Winter
Ruth and Claude Thornhill, arr. R. Emerson: Snowfall
Irving Berlin, arr. H. McCarthy: White Christmas

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2000-01 SEASON

Spring 2001 – Women on the Verge: Songs of Love, Rapture, Liberty and Survival

Hildegard of Bingen: Quia Ergo Femina (antiphon)
Maria Lofberg: Hildegard Motets
Alo Ritsing: Sulle Mulle
Miina Harma: Ei Saa Mitte Vaiki Olla and Nooruse Unenagu
Johannes Brahms: Selections from Liebeslieder-Walzer and Neue Liebeslieder
Kirke Mechem: Selections from The Winged Joy: A Woman's Love by Women Poets
American Civil Rights Song: Stayed on Freedom
Spiritual, arr. Jester Hairston: Poor Man Laz'rus
Trad. South African, arr. Nyberg: Freedom is Coming and We Are Free
Antonin Dvořak, arr. M. Dryburgh and N. Chambers: Largo (from Song of Survival)
Margaret Dryburgh: The Captives’ Hymn (from Song of Survival)
Dame Ethel Smyth: Laggard Dawn and March of the Women
Ruth Huber: Big Dogs, Music, and Wild, Wild Women