Repertoire

CANTALA repertoire


2013-14 Season


North Central ACDA Conference - Des Moines, IA - March 20, 2014

AND

Winter Concert - 2/28/14


  1. •Stephen Paulus - Sing Creations Music On

  2. •Joanne Metcalf - Seikilos

  3. •Gustav Holst - To Agni (Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda, Second Group)

  4. •Franz Schubert - Gott In Der Natur, D. 757

  5. •Kim Baryluk - Warrior

  6. •arr. Otar Taktakishvili, ed. Clayton Parr - Sach’idao

  7. •Corin Overland - Tantum Ergo

  8. •Gyöngyösi Levente - Gloria Kajoniensis (Movement 1)

  9. •Alice Parker - Dickinson: The Definition of Beauty

    1. ◦(2014 ACDA Raymond Brock Commission, North Central ACDA Premiere)


Lawrence University Choirs – 11/15/13

  1. •Franz Schubert – Gott in der Natur, D. 757

  2. •Abbie Betinis – An Caoineadh (from Aililiú, ó Íosa)

  3. •arr. Otar Taktakishvili, ed. Clayton Parr - Sach’idao


Fall Choral Preview Concert - 10/12/13

  1. •Jean-Baptiste Robin - En Clara Vox

    1. ◦(US Premiere)

  2. •Edie Hill - The Bike Let Loose

  3. •Daniel J. Hall - The White Birds

  4. •Stacey V. Gibbs - Now Let Me Fly

    1. ◦(Consortium Commission - World Premiere)


2012-13 Season

Spring Choir Concert - 5/24/13

  1. •Johannes Brahms - Ave Maria

  2. •Lojze Lebic - Urok

  3. •Daniel Kallman - Carmel Highlands

    1. ◦(2012 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, Wisconsin Premiere)

  4. •Dale Trumbore - Flare

    1. ◦(2012 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, Wisconsin Premiere)


Winter Concert - 2/22/13

  1. •Francis Poulenc - Litanies à la vierge noire

  2. •Timothy Takach - And I Saw

    1. ◦(Consortium Commission - World Premiere)

  3. •arr. Cristian Grases - Los Dos Gavilanes

  4. •Paula Foley Tillen - Sky-Born Music

  5. •Eric Barnum - Spark!

  6. •Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Pseudo-Yoik Lite


That Life Should Be! – 11/9/12

  1. •Cristobal de Morales – O Magnum Mysterium

  2. •Giselle Wyers – The Waking

  3. •Daniel Kallman – That Life Should Be!

  4. •Three Settings of American Women Poets – 2012 Consortium Commission Premiere

    1. ◦The Grass So Little Has To Do (Emily Dickinson)

    2. ◦The Wonder of It (Harriet Monroe)

    3. ◦A Birthday! (Christina Rossetti)


Fall Choral Concert – 10/12/12

  1. •Umberto Giordano – O Pastorelle, Addio

    1. ◦(from Andrea Chenier)

  2. •Philip E. Silvey – Morning Moon

  3. •Paul Carey – Full Fathom Five

    1. ◦(2012 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, World Premiere)

  4. •Otar Taktakishvili – Satamosho


2011-12 Season

Old and New – 5/25/12

  1. •Anonymous – Congaudeant Catholici (from the Codex Calixtinus, c. 1130s)

  2. •arr. Shawn Kirchner – Leshana Haba’a bi Yerushalayim

    1. ◦(2011 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, Wisconsin Premiere)

  3. •Igor Stravinsky – Four Russian Peasant Songs (with four horns, 1954 version)

    1. ◦On Saints’ Days in Chigisakh

    2. ◦ Ovsen

    3. ◦The Pike

    4. ◦Master Portly

  4. •Jocelyn Hagen – Moon Goddess

    1. ◦(2011 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, Wisconsin Premiere)


  5. Winter Term Choir Concert – 2/24/12

  6. •Libby Larsen – The Womanly Song of God

  7. •Franz Schubert – Psalm 23

  8. •Sydney Guillaume – Chapo Pou Fanm (Hats Off to Women)

    1. ◦(2011 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, World Premiere)

  9. •Vijay Singh – Tutto Il Di Piango

  10. •Carol Barnett – Song of Perfect Propriety


Heaven and Earth – 11/11/11

  1. •arr. Alberto Grau – Mata del Anima Sola

  2. •arr. Paul Carey – Sing Me To Heaven

  3. •Ola Gjeilo – Tundra (with piano and string quartet)

    1. ◦(2009 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, Wisconsin Premiere)

  4. •Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Chorus of the Water-Sprites


Loss, Reflection, and Hope (Reflections on 9/11) – 10/15/11

  1. •arr. David Childs – Weep No More

  2. •Brad Burrill – Remember

  3. •Paula F. Tillen – A Prayer for Peace

  4. •arr. Scott Farthing – How Can I Keep From Singing

  5. •Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory – Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down


2010-11 Season

  1. •Joanne Metcalf – Seikilos

    1. ◦(World Premier – written for Cantala)

  2. •Daniel J. Hall – Reflections from Yad Veshem

    1. ◦(World Premier – commissioned by Cantala)

  3. •Laurie Altman – The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (World Premiere)

  4. •Anonymous (14th Century Polyphony) – Flos Regalis

  5. •Johannes Brahms – Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang (from Op. 17)

  6. •Abbie Betinis – suffer no grief (From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hâfez, mvt. 2)

  7. •Yosif Ketchakhmazde – Archaica II (Lasharis Gzaze)

  8. •arr. Ron Smail – The Log Driver’s Waltz

  9. •Joan Szymko – saboo (from This Wonderful Feeling)

  10. •Gwyneth Walker – Now I Become Myself
     

  11. •Johannes Brahms – Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor, Op. 17

    1. ◦Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang (The Harp Resounds with Wild Refrain)

    2. ◦Lied von Shakespeare (Song from Shakespeare)

    3. ◦Der Gärtner (The Gardener)

    4. ◦Gesang aus Fingal (Song from Fingal)
       

  12. •Andrew Rindfleisch – Klangfarben (World Premiere)

    1. ◦Gong

    2. ◦Die Vogelrufe (The Birdcalls)

    3. ◦An Die Musik (To Music)
       

  13. •Eleanor Daley – Rose Trilogy

    1. ◦A Red, Red Rose

    2. ◦A White Rose

    3. ◦The Lost Rose
       

  14. •Joan Szymko – The Roses


2009-10 Season

  1. •arr. Glen Adkins – Járba, Màré Járba (from Two Gypsy Songs)

  2. •Elizabeth Alexander – Reasons (for the perpetuation of slavery)

    1. ◦(2009 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, World Premiere)

  3. •Abbie Betinis – Chant for Great Compassion

  4. •Charles B. Griffin – El Paso de la Siguiriya

  5. •arr. Hendrik Hofmeyr – Thula, Babana (Xhosa Lullaby)

  6. •arr. Glen Adkins – Erdö szélen sátoroznak (from Two Gypsy Songs)

  7. •Paul Halley – The Seeds of Love (from Love Songs for Springtime)

  8. •J. David Moore – Mad Girl’s Love Song

  9. •Daniel Kallman – There Will Be Rest

  10. •Joanne Metcalf – O Shining Light

    1. ◦(U.S. Premier)

  11. •David MacIntyre – Ave Maria

  12. •Jeffery L. Ames – Holy Is The Lord

  13. •Felix Mendelssohn – Lift Thine Eyes (Trio of Angels, No. 28 from Elijah)

  14. •Ramona Luengen – Missa Brevis

    1. ◦Kyrie

    2. ◦Sanctus

    3. ◦Agnus Dei

  15. •Gwyneth Walker – I Thank You God


2008-09 Season

  1. •György Orbán – Fülemüle (The Nightingale)

  2. •Arne Mellnäs – Aglepta

  3. •Abbie Betinis – From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hâfez

    1. ◦we have come

    2. ◦suffer no grief

    3. ◦closer to the fire

    4. ◦boatpeople

    5. ◦we have come (reprise)
       

  4. •Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Chorus of the Peasant Girls (with full orchestra)

  5. •Richard Wagner –  Spinning Chorus (with full orchestra)

  6. •Giuseppe Verdi – Witches Chorus (with full orchestra)

  7. •Georges Bizet – Cigarette Chorus and Fight Chorus (with full orchestra)

  8. •Gustav Holst – Ave Maria

  9. •Henry Purcell – In these delightful, pleasant groves

  10. •Thomas Weelkes – Aye Me, Alas, Heigh Ho

  11. •Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sigh No More, Ladies

  12. •(adapted from his opera ‘Sir John In Love’)

  13. •Gustav Holst – Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Second Group

    1. ◦To Varuna (God of the Waters)

    2. ◦To Agni (God of Fire)

    3. ◦Funeral Chant
       

  14. •Joanne Metcalf – Quivi è la rosa (from Il nome del bel fior)

  15. •Abbie Betinis –  closer to the fire (From Behind the Caravan:  Songs of Hâfez, mvt. 3)

  16. •Francisco J. Núñez – Crióme Mi Madre (from Four Spanish Lullabies)

  17. •Joan Szymko – Variations on a Theme by Rilke


2007-08 Season

  1. •Victor Paranjoti – Dravidian Dithyramb

  2. •Charles B. Griffin – The Moon of the Floating World

  3. •Joan Szymko – The Singing Place

    1. ◦(2007-08 ACDA Women’s Composition Consortium, World Premiere)

  4. •Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Pseudo-Yoik Lite

  5. •arr. Alice Parker (setting byJames Rodde) - Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal

  6. •David Conte – In Praise of Music (complete work)

  7. •Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman, arr. David J. Elliot - A-tisket, A-tasket

  8. •Daniel J. Hall - Indian Summer

  9. •arr. Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory - Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down

  10. •Tomas Luis de Victoria – O Regem Coeli/Natus est nobis

  11. •Mark Sirett – Song of the Angels

  12. •Harri Wessman – Water Under Snow Is Weary (Vesi väsyy lumen alle)

  13. •arr. Auvo Sarmanto – Hanget soi

  14. •arr. Neil Ginsberg – Hiné Ma Tov

  15. •arr. Corin T. Overland – The Sussex Carol

  16. •arr. Stephen Hatfield – The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy

  17. •Nancy Hill Cobb – Laudate Pueri

  18. •arr. Vaclav Nelhybel – All Through The Night

  19. •Jonathan R. Pieslak – Solar Flares

  20. •David A. Sasso – Night

  21. •Jorma Panula – Are You Sleeping, Brother John?


2006-07 Season

  1. •Benjamin Britten Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28

    1. ◦Procession

    2. ◦Wolcum Yole!

    3. ◦There is no Rose

    4. ◦That yongé child

    5. ◦Balulalow

    6. ◦A dew in Aprille

    7. ◦This little Babe

    8. ◦Interlude

    9. ◦In Freezing Winter Night

    10. ◦Spring Carol

    11. ◦Deo Gracias

    12. ◦Recession
       

  2. •Susan Botti – Cosmosis (2004)

            (for Wind Ensemble, Soprano and Women’s Voices)

    1. ◦Overboard (Prologue)

    2. ◦The 1st Night

    3. ◦Interlude

    4. ◦The 2nd Night
        

  2. •Ramona Luengen – Salve Regina

  3. •arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel – Denko

  4. •Paul Basler – Sing A New Song To The Lord

  5. •Daniel Friderici – Cantate Domino

  6. •Corin Overland – Tantum Ergo

  7. •Marie-Claire Saindon – Le Train D’Hiver

  8. •Lee R. Kesselman – Kadosh/Benedictus

  9. •arr. Amy Dalton – Simple Gifts

  10. •Einojuhani Rautavaara – “Suite” de Lorca

    1. ◦Canción de jinete (Song of the Horseman)

    2. ◦El Grito (The Scream)

    3. ◦La luna asoma (The Moon Rises)

    4. ◦Malagueña
       

  11. •arr. Francisco J. Nuñez – Can You Hear


2005-06 Season

  1. •Nicola Porpora – Magnificat

  2. •Maurice Duruflé – Tota Pulchra Es

  3. •Tomás Luis de Victoria – Duo Seraphim

  4. •Andrew Rindfleisch – Me! Come! My Dazzled Face!

  5. •David Conte – In Praise of Music (First Section)

  6. •Alberto Grau – Caracolitos Chicos

  7. •Otmar Mácha – Ho-ja-ja, ho-ja-ja

  8. •arr. Arkadi Serper – Overture to Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

  9. •Johannes Brahms – Nun stehn die Rosen, op. 44, no. 7

  10. •arr. Dwight Okamura – Sakura Sakura

  11. •Vijay Singh – Upon Julia’s Voice (Cantala Commission, World Premiere)

  12. •arr. Jeremy Fox – Land of Pure Imagination

  13. •Randall Thompson – A Girl’s Garden

  14. •Joan Szymko – maggie and milly and molly and may

  15. •Michael Cleveland – Jesu, dúlcis memoria

  16. •arr. Stephen Hatfield – Job, Job


2004-05 Season

  1. •Gustav Holst Choral – Hymns from the Rig-Veda

    1. ◦Hymn to the Dawn

    2. ◦Hymn to the Waters

    3. ◦Hymn to Vena (The Sun Rising through the Mist)

    4. ◦Hymn of the Travelers
       

  2. •    Gwyneth Walker – My Girls

    1. ◦This Morning

    2. ◦To My Girls

    3. ◦Sisters
       

  3. •    Allen Koepke – Dance On My Heart

  4. •    Michael Kregler – The Baby’s Dance

  5. •    Scott Tucker – Dancing

  6. •    Janika Vandervelde – Dance Ablaze!

  7. •    arr. Ro Ogura – Hotaru Koi

  8. •    Liu Zhuang – Three Chinese Songs

    1. ◦Lan Hua Hua

    2. ◦Da Mai Hao Zi

    3. ◦Yang Guan San Dei
       

  9. •    arr. Jeremy Fox – I Just Found Out About Love

  10. •    William Dawson – Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit

  11. •    William Dawson – There Is a Balm in Gilead


2003-04 Season

  1. •    Eric Whitacre – Five Hebrew Love Songs

  2. •    Robert A. Harris – What Passion Cannot Music Raise Or Quell!

  3. •    James Mulholland – Heart We Will Forget

  4. •    Richard Nance – Set Me As A Seal

  5. •    ed. Ricardo Soto – Cuncti Simus

  6. •    Edward Elgar – The Snow

  7. •    R. Murray Schafer – Snowforms

  8. •    Gary Garcia – There Is No Rose

  9. •    arr. Ron Jeffers – Le Sommeil de l’Enfant Jésus

  10. •    Taras Nahirniak – Hodie Christus

  11. •    Michael Haydn – Litanie della Madonna ( Regina coeli)

  12. •    Frode Fjellheim – Psalm

  13. •    Francisco Muro – El Romanton (Pasadoble)

  14. •    arr. Jeremy Fox – Moondance

  15. •    arr. Zigmas Venckus – Nepusk, vejeli

  16. •    Nick Page – Niska Banja

  17. •    Lloyd Pfautch – Laughing Song

  18. •    Daniel J. Hall – Out of the Morning

  19. •    Gwyneth Walker – Sisters (from My Girls, no. 3)

  20. •    Joan Szymko – Nada te turbe

  21. •    Clifton Noble, Jr. – Elijah Rock


2002-03 Season

  1. •Veroslav Neumann – Lamento di arianna abbandonata

  2. •Donald Patriquin – Ah, si mon moine voulait danser!

  3. •Eric Whitacre – She Weeps Over Rahoon

  4. •David N. Childs – Weep No More

  5. •Michael Cleveland – Come To Me

  6. •William L. Dawson – Ain’-a That Good News!

  7. •Greg Knauf – Praise the Lord

  8. •Jonathon M. T. Roberts – Psalm 46 (World Premiere)

  9. •Johannes Brahms – Der 13 Psalm, op. 27

  10. •Johannes Brahms – Benedictus

  11. •René Clausen – Psalm 100

  12. •Jackson Berkey – Ave dulcissima Maria

  13. •Malcohm Daglish – Reel á Bouche


Previous Seasons

  1. •    Otmar Mácha – Hoj, hura, hoj

  2. •    Zoltán Kodály – Hegyi éjszakák I

  3. •    Lajos Bárdos – Magos a rutafa

  4. •    arr. Caldwell/Ivory – Go Where I Send Thee

  5. •    Pablo Casals – Nigra Sum

  6. •    Robert A. Harris – The Lamb

  7. •    arr. Marylou India Jackson – Done Foun’ My Los’ Sheep

  8. •    arr. Moses Hogan – Ride On, King Jesus

  9. •    arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel – Ise Oluwa

  10. •    arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel – Take My Hand, Precious Lord

  11. •    Charles H. Gabriel – His Eye is on the Sparrow

  12. •    Johannes Brahms – Vier Gesänge, op. 17

  13. •    Benjamin Britten – Missa Brevis in D


Major Works

  1. •Sir William Walton – Coronation Te Deum

  2. •Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C

  3. •Arvo Pärt – Te Deum

  4. •Morten Lauridsen – Mid-Winter Songs

  5. •Franz Joseph Haydn – Lord Nelson Mass

  6. •Johannes Brahms – Ein duetsches Requiem, Opus 45

  7. •George Frideric Handel – Messiah

  8. •Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona nobis pacem

  9. •Carl Orff – Carmina Burana

  10. •Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat, BWV 243

  11. •Krysztof Penderecki – Credo

  12. •Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9

  13. •Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem, KV 626

  14. •Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata

  15. •Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms

  16. •Benjamin Britten – War Requiem