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World Premieres |
Harrison Boyle |
| Your Body Is Stars, op. 37.
For male chorus | Text (1933) by Stephen Spender (English, 1909-1995)
Premiered March 27, 1992 |
Joseph Castaldo |
| Ancient Liturgy
For Narrator, SATB Chorus, Percussion, Piano, and Strings |
Andrea Clearfield |
| Awake at Dawn | Text by Manfred Fischbeck
Premiered May, 2000 |
Robert Convery |
| Israfel | The text is the poem "Israfel" by Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)
Premiered March 11, 1994 |
Gyula Fekete |
| Elegy: In Memoriam Hannah Senesh | Text selected from poems in Hungarian and Hebrew by Hannah Senesh (Hungarian, 1921-1944) and entries from her Diary, from The Jewish Service in Hebrew and in English, from The Bible, and from the prose of St. Bernard of Cluny (French, c.1145)
Premiered May 2, 1997 |
Margaret Garwood |
| Flowersongs |
Michael Kaulkin |
| Cycle of Friends | Texts: poems by Sappho (Greek, 650-590 BC), Meng Hao-Jan (AD 689-740), Emily Dickinson (American, 1830-1886), Li Po (Chinese, AD 701-762), and from the Aztec
[1.] Tell Everyone (Sappho) [2.] My Old Friend Prepared a Chicken with Millet (Meng Hao-Jan) [3.] Are Friends Delight or Pain? (Emily Dickinson) [4.] Blue Hills Over the North Wall (Li Po) [5.] Friendship (Aztec)
Premiered May 3, 1996 |
Jan Krzywicki |
| A Precipice Garden
Cantata for chorus and chamber orchestra | Texts by James DePriest, from "This Precipice Garden" (1986) and "The Distant Siren" (1989)
I. Now was II. The days run III. A threshold lowered IV. A sweet soft silence V. Another loaned day.
Premiered May 15, 1998 |
Kirke Mechem |
| Winging Wildly, Op. 64.
A Choral Cycle | Texts: No. 1 by Sara Teasdale (American, 1884-1933) No. 2 by Siegfried Sassoon (English, 1886-1967) No. 3 by Paul Lawrence Dunbar (American, 1872-1906).
1. Birds At Dusk 2. The Caged Bird 3. Everyone Sang
Premiered March 13, 1998 |
Luis Prado |
| Cantata Humana, Movement IV
El Agua Negra (Samsara Oscuro) In memory of a dark age | Text by Luis Palés Matos. Translation by Luis Prado
Premiered May 1999 |
Eric Sessler |
| Songs of the King
For Soprano Solo, Mixed Chorus, Five Obbligato Instruments and String Orchestra | Text from "Idylls of the King" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (English, 1809-1892)
[1.] "Blow, trumpet" [2.] "Turn, Fortune" [3.] "Sweet is true love" [4.] "Free love -- free field" [5.] "Late, late, so late" [6.] "For an ye heard a music"
Premiered May 12, 1995 |
United States Premieres |
Béla Bartók |
| Seven Songs for Women's Choir and Orchestra |
[1.] Hussar [2.] Don't Leave Me [3.] Loafer's Song [4.] Wandering [5.] Bread-Baking [6.] Only Tell Me [7.] Boy's Teasing Song
Premiered May 3, 1996 |
Miklos Csemiczky |
| Da Pacem, Domine |
Miklós Kocsár |
| Magnificat | Text: Saint Luke 1:46 - 55
Premiered 1999 |
Zoltán Kodály |
| Tricinia Pieces
from the Tricinia Songbook | Wordless
Pieces 1, 4 and 5
Premiered Dec. 2007 |
| Szép KonYorgés |
György Orbán |
| Stabat Mater |
Traditional |
| Amazing Grace | Text by John Newton (1725-1807)
Premiered March 26, 1993 |
| My Lord, What a Mornin' | Arranged by Seán Deibler (arr.)
Premiered March 26, 1993 |
János Vajda |
| Alleluia |
| Ave maris stella |
| Cantata No. 1 |
| Missa in A |
[1.] Kyrie [2.] Gloria [3.] Credo [4.] Sanctus [5.] Benedictus [6.] Agnus Dei
Premiered March 17, 1995 |
Peter Zagar |
| Apocalypsis Iohannes | Text: Revelation, English from the King James Version
Premiered May 1999 |
