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Past Seasons

2009-2010 Season
Die Capelle, Op. 69/6
Robert Schumann
Ecce Maria genuit
Michael Praetorius
Esti dal
Zoltán Kodály
Four Russian Peasant Songs (original version)
    1. Near the Savior's Church in Chigisy
    2. Ovsen
    3. The Pike
​    4. Fatso
Igor Stravinsky
Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)
Samuel Barber
He's Gone Away
arr. Jameson Marvin
In Meeres Mitten, Op. 91/12
Robert Schumann
In te, Domine, speravi
Josquin des Prez
Laudate pueri, Op. 39/2
Felix Mendelssohn
Long Time Ago (No. 3 from Old American Songs I)
arr. Aaron Copland
Nigra Sum
Pablo Cassals
O Kind, o wahrer Gottessohn
Anton Heiller
Song of Awakening
    Performed with Harvard Glee Club and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum; composed in honor of Jameson Marvin
    Part I: Lament – "O Lord Hear My Cry"
​    Part II: Psalm – "Through God Within"
Robert Kyr
Tenebrae factae sunt
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Túrót eszik a cigány
Zoltán Kodály
2010-2011 Season
Der 23. Psalm
Franz Schubert
Dixit Dominus
Michael Haydn
Four Persian Folk Songs, Set No. 5
Reza Vali
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
arr. Alice Parker
An Immorality
Aaron Copland
Jul, jul, strålande jul
Gustaf Nordqvist
Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63
Benjamin Britten
O gloriosa Domina
William Byrd
Old Abram Brown, Op. 7, No. 12
Benjamin Britten
On the Transmigration of Souls
John Adams
Pilgram Psalms
Ross Lee Finney
Recordare, Virgo Mater
Josquin Deprez
Sancte Deus
Thomas Tallis
Symphony No. 9, Op. 125
Ludwig van Beethoven
Te Quiero
Alberto Favero
Übers Gebirg' Maria geht
Johannes Eccard
2011-2012 Season
At the River
adap. Aaron Copland
​arr. Raymond Wilding-White
Ave maria, Op. 12
Johannes Brahms
Ave Regina Caelorum
Guillarme Dufay
Canzonette d'Amore, SV2
Claudio Monteverdi
Chorus Mysticus, Op. 6
Cesar Cui
Daphnis et Chloé (Part 2)
Maurice Ravel
Il Mio Martir, SV 6
Claudio Monteverdi
​Jul, jul, strålande jul
Gustaf Nordqvist
O Magnum Mysterium
Cristobal de Morales
O Rubor Sanguinis
Hildegard von Bingen
O Salutaris (from Messe, 1919-20)
Andre Caplet
Orpheus with His Lute
Ralph Vaughan Williams
​arr. Archibald McDowell
Polegnala e Todora
arr. Philip Kutev
¡Qué buen año es el del cielo!
Francisco Guerrero
Requiem, K626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Winter (From the Forgottens)
    ​World premiere, commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard Glee Club
Dan Locklair
Wondrous Love
arr. Paul Christiansen
2012-2013 Season
Agnus Dei from Missa in G, Op. 187, No. 6
Josef Rheinberger
Alleluia, laus et gloria
Orlando di Lasso
Ave verum corpus
Josquin des Prez
Ca' the Yowes
Scottish Folk Song
​arr. Jameson Marvin
Choose Something Like a Star
Randall Thompson
Das verlassene Mägdlein
Robert Schumann
Der Wassermann
Robert Schumann
Dixit Dominus
Johann Michael Haydn
Domine, non sum dignus
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ergen Deda – Song of Schopsko (Bulgaria)
arr. Petar Liondev
Great-Plain
William Billings
Les Angélus
Claude Debussy
​arr. Clytus Gottwald
Milost' mira, Op. 9, No. 10
Paul Chesnokov
O Salutaris
André Caplet
Regina coeli
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Sanctus from Missa in A
Miklós Kocsár
Serenity
Charles Ives
Wake Ev'ry Breath
William Billings
2013-2014 Season
August 26, 1970 (2013, world premiere)
​Stella Fiorenzoli, ’15
​Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
Huddie Ledbetter
​arr. Moira Smiley
The Choral New Yorker (1946)
    II. Scherzando: Caroline Million​
Irving Fine, '37
Dorothy Poems (2012)
    1. Don’t Make Lists
    2. I Cannot Tell You
    3. Order of Melchizedek
    4. Until Even the Angels
Craig Hella Johnson
Haec dies (ca. 1607)
William Byrd
If Ye Love Me, Op. 739 (2007)
​Carson Cooman, ’04
Jerusalem
Traditional Irish Melody
arr. Michael McGlynn
Let Me Fly
American Spiritual
arr. Robert DeCormier
The Lone, Wild Bird
Southern Folktune
arr. David N. Johnson
Magnificat, quarti toni (1591)
​Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
​Messa da Requiem (1874)
  ​  ​Performed with the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
​Giuseppe Verdi
Nada te turbe (2000)
​Joan Szymko
Quam Pulchra Es (ca. 1430)
John Dunstable
Ride On, King Jesus
American Spiritual
arr. Moses Hogan
Sing Creations Music On (2000)
Stephen Paulus
Three Poems of Miguel de Unamuno (2013, world premiere)
    1. By the Lake of El Christo at the Hamlet of Yeltes on a Night of Full Moon
    3. The Snowfall is So Silent
​Nancy Galbraith
Tikho Nad Reechkoya
Ukrainian Folk Song
arr. Robert Page & Christine Jordanoff
Truth Tones (2009)
Trevor Weston
Tundra (2010)
Ola Gjeilo
The Water is Wide
arr. Doug Andrews
RADCLIFFIANA & HARVARDIANA
Dear Radcliffe (1909)
Walter R. Spalding
Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee (1908)
Emily Coolidge
arr. Noam D. Elkies, 2013
R-A-D (1911)
Alice Hunnewell-Hemmens
2014-2015 Season
Ave Regina Caelorum
Guillaume Du Fay
Be Like the Bird
Abbie Betinis
Beata Viscera Mariae Virginis
Pèrotin
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
Huddie Ledbetter
Deep River
Afro-American spiritual
​arr. Donald Patriquin
"Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt" (from BWV 4)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Deo Gratias
Benjamin Britten
Echoes
Paul Fowler
Evening Morning Day
David Lang
The First Noel
Hymn
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Hymn
Jerusalem
Traditional Irish Melody
​arr. Michael McGlynn
Joy to the World
Hymn
​Jul, jul, strålande jul
Gustaf Nordqvist
Law Me Low
Shaker Song
​Addah Potter arr. Siegfried
Lo How a Rose E'ver Blooming
Praetorius
​arr. Jan Sandstrom
Night of Silence
David Kantor
Now Shall My Inward Joys Arise [Africa]
William Billings
​arr. Beth Willer
O Come All Ye Faithful
Hymn
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Hymn
O sacrum convivium
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Peace
Shaker Song
​arr. Kevin Siegfried
Requiescat
William Schuman
Utopia
Moira Smiley
arr. Beth Willer
Weinachten
Felix Mendelssohn
2015-2016 Season
Abbeville
The Sacred Harp
Adinu
Abu-Khader/André de Quadros
Bright Morning Stars
The Wailin' Jennys
​arr. Margaret Weckworth
Bring Me Little Water Silvy
Huddie Ledbetter
Cantique de Jean Racine
Gabriel Fauré
Considering Matthew Sheppard
     Performed with the Harvard Glee Club and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
Craig Hella Johnson
Deo Gracias from Ceremony of Carols
Benjamin Britten
Golden Callings
Carson Cooman, '04
Hold On
Traditional Spiritual
​arr. Stacey V. Gibbs
Janger
Budi Susanto Yohanes
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Elizabeth Poston
Kyrie from Missa Sine Nomine
Johannes Ockeghem
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
Jan Sandström
Maengket
Minahasa trad.
The Planets (Neptune)
Gustav Holst
¡Qué buen año es el del cielo!
Francisco Guerrero
Requiem, Op. 9
Maurice Duruflé
The Salley Garden
arr. Noam Elkies
Sheng, Sheng, Man
Sam Wu, '17
Spaseniye sodelal yesi
Pavel Chesnokov
Trillo
Sweden trad. arr. A. Möller
Until Even the Angels Sing
Craig Hella Johnson
Walk Together Children
Moses Hogan
We Are
Ysaye M. Barnwell
Welcome, Ev'ry Guest from Southern Harmony
arr. William Walker
2016-2017 Season
Be Like the Bird
Abbie Betinis
Bright Morning Stars
The Wailin' Jennys
​arr. Margaret Weckworth
Cantique de Jean Racine
Gabriel Fauré
A Child of Our Time
Michael Tippet
Deal Gently, Lord, With Thy Servants
arr. John Delorey
Die Capelle
Robert Schumann
Golden Callings
Carson Cooman, '04
Griot Legacies
Trevor Weston
Haec Dies
William Byrd
Hodila Doina Za Voda
Petar Krumov
In My Life
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
​arr. Greg Jasperse
O virtus sapientiae
Karen Thomas
One Voice
Ruth Mood
One Word
Carson Cooman, '04
The Peace of Wild Things
Joan Szymko
Saro
Joshua Shank
Tundra
Ola Gjeilo
Until Even the Angels Sing
Craig Hella Johnson
Winter: A Dirge from Winter Songs
Paul Moravec
We Are
Ysaye M. Barnwell
2017-2018 Season
Ave verum corpus
Francis Poulenc
Chichester Psalms
Leonard Bernstein
Disturbed Earth
Rosephanye Powell
Duo Seraphim Clamabant
Tomás Luis de Victoria
A Farewell from The Winged Joy
Kirke Mechem
Fog Elna Khel
Traditional Syrian / Iraqi Song
​arr. Salim Bali
The Harmony of Morning
Elliott Carter
In Praise of Music
David Conte
Lineage
Andrea Ramsey
No Time
American Camp Meeting Song
​arr. Susan Brumfield
O Frondens Virga
Drew Collins
Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Gustav Mahler
Song of the Universal
Ola Gjeilo
Spark (To Music)
Eric William Barnum
Still I Rise
Andrea Ramsey
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Traditional Appalachian
​arr. J. David Moore
2018-2019 Season
Antigone: The Writings of Sophie Scholl and The White Rose Movement for SSSSAAAA chorus and three celli (2018)
    Performed with the Lorelei Ensemble
James Kallembach
Be Like the Bird
Abbie Betinis
Birds at Winter Nightfall (2018)
    In collaboration with the Harvard Glee Club
Karen P. Thomas
Gloria, FP 177 (1959)
​    Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Francis Poulenc
A Jubilant Song (1945)
Norman Dello Joio
Jul, jul, strålande jul
Gustav Nordqvist
Love is like the wild rose-briar (2018)
    ​Commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society Foundation
Karen P. Thomas
Moon Goddess (2011)
Jocelyn Hagen
Mother of Exiles (2018)
Mary Montgomery Koppel
O Salutaris from Messe (1919)
André Caplet
The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-1916)
    ​Performed at Symphony Hall with the Boston Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustav Holst
A Sea Symphony (1903-1909)​
    ​Performed with the Harvard Choruses and Professional Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sure On This Shining Night (2005)
Morten Lauridsen
Tenebrae factae sunt (1585)
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tundra
Ola Gjeilo
We Are
Ysaye M. Barnwell
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Traditional Appalachian
​arr. J. David Moore
Zwölf Lider und Romanzen, Op. 44, No. 7-10 (1583)
​    Vier Lieder aus dem Jungbrunnen
Johannes Brahms
2019-2020 Season
Abendlied
    ​Performed with the Harvard Glee Club and Yale Glee Club
Josef Rheinberger
Anne Frank: A Living Voice (2004)
Linda Tutas Haugen
Be Like the Bird
Abby Betinis
Bring Me Little Water Silvy
Huddie W. Ledbetter
​arr. Moira Smiley
El Cumbanchero
R. Hernández
​arr. Evy Lució
Die Mainacht (1868)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Erhöre mich, wenn ich rufe, SWV 289
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Even When He is Silent (2011)
Kim André Arnesen (b. 1980)
Fanfare for a Festival
    Performed with the Harvard Glee Club and Yale Glee Club
Ron Nelson
Four Songs for Soprano and Women's Chorus (2008)
Lewis Spratlan (b. 1940)
Habe deine Lust an den Herren, SWV 331 (1639)
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Kyrie from Missa Sine Nomine​ (before 1460)
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410-1497)
O! What a Beautiful City! (2018)
Traditional Spiritual
arr. Shawn Kirchner
Planetarium (2019)
  world première, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative
Jenny Yao, '22
¡Qué buen año es el del cielo!
Francisco Guerrero
The Road Home (2005)
from Southern Harmony, 1835
adapted by Stephen Paulus
A Sense of Decency (2020)
  world première, commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society
Katherine Pukinskis
Les sirenes (1911)
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Wand!' ich dem Wald des Abends (1835)
Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Traditional Appalachian
​arr. J. David Moore
RADCLIFFIANA & HARVARDIANA
Dear Radcliffe (1909)
Walter R. Spalding (1865-1962)
Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee (1908)
Emily Coolidge
R-A-D (1911)
Alice Hunnewell-Hemmens
The Cherry Ribbon
Mildred Clark, Radcliffe Class of 1914
Fair Harvard
Traditional Irish Melody
​arr. Samuel Gilman
Harvardiana Suite
arr. Noam Elkies
10,000 Men of Harvard
arr. Harry Sage '22 and Noam Elkies, Ph.D '86
2020-2021 SEASON
Anne Frank: A Living Voice (2004)
Linda Tutas Haugen
Cycles (2021)
  World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative.
Eddie Raj, '24
Planetarium (2019)
  World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative. Performed with the Parker String Quartet.
Jenny Yao, '22
A Sense of Decency (2020)
​​  Commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society. Performed with the Parker String Quartet​​
Katherine Pukinskis
Tranquility: Sudden, Vast, Candescent (2021)
  ​World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative.
Chinyere Obasi, '24
​RADCLIFFIANA & HARVARDIANA
Dear Radcliffe (1909)
Walter R. Spalding (1865-1962)
Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee (1908)
Emily Coolidge
R-A-D (1911)
Alice Hunnewell-Hemmens
2021-2022 SEASON
Abendlied
  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901)
Between the Narrow Places
  World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative.
Rebecca Araten '23
Cantate Domino
  World premiere, commissioned in honor of Eileen Southern by the Harvard University Department of Music
  Performed by the Aeolians of Oakwood University, the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, and the Harvard Choruses

Marques L.A. Garrett (b. 1984)
Cantate Domino
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
ed. ​G. Wallace Woodworth
Ceremony of Carols
  III. There is no rose
  X. Balulalow
  XII. This Little Babe
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Cycles
​  World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative
Eddie Raj '24
Don't Faint
  Performed with the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College
Braxton Shelley (b. 1990)
Duo seraphim clamabant
​Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611)
ed. Kevin Leong
Four Nature Canticles
  Performed with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Nancy Galbraith (b. 1951)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
​  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
arr. David Willcocks
In stiller Nacht
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
ed. Maynard Klein
Jul, jul, stralande jul
Gustaf Nordqvist (1886–1949)
Laudamus te from Gloria in D, RV 589
​Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Land Sea Sky
  ​World premiere, Radcliffe Choral Society commission
  
Performed with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968)
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
​  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Jule Styne (1905–1994)
Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville
  Performed with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) and André Messager (1853-1929)
O magnum mysterium
​  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548–1611)
The Parting Glass
Traditional Irish Song
arr. The Wailin’ Jennys
Quiet Revolutionary
  I. Quiet Revolutionary
  II. Blow the Trumpet
  III. Song in a Strange Land
  World premiere, commissioned in honor of Eileen Southern by the Harvard University Department of Music
  Performed by the Aeolians of Oakwood University, the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, and the Harvard Choruses

Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
Silent Night
​  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Franz Gruber (1787–1863)
Simple Song from ​Mass
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Seven Principles
Bernice Johnson Reagon (b. 1942)
Spaséniye, sodélal, Op. 25, No. 5
Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)
Tranquility: Sudden, Vast, Candescent
​  World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative
Chinyere Obasi '24
Tundra
​Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
Winter Wonderland
​  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club
Felix Bernard (1897–1944)
朝聞道​
  World premiere, created through the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative
Nancy Wenxin Hu '22
2022-2023 SEASON
Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
Huddie W. Ledbetter (1888-1949), arr. Moira Smiley
Estrella é lua Nova
arr. Hector Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Haec Dies
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Laudate pueri
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
La Guantanamera
Joseito Fernandez (1908-1979), arr. Conrado Monier
The Moon Bridge
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Nuit d'etoiles
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Alan Raines
O Salutaris Hostia
Hyun Kook
On Children
Ysaye Barnwell (b. 1946)
Until Even the Angels
Craig Hella Johnson (b. 1962)
Sure on this Shining Night
Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)
Cycles
Eddie Raj '24
"I Pant For the Music, Which is Divine" from In Praise of Music
David Conte (b. 1955)
Non Nobis, Domine
Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
Arirang
arr. Shin-Hwa Park
The Things We Dare Not Tell
Sin Young Park
Weihnachts-Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio), BWV 248
  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Messa da Requiem
  Performed with the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
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