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Fall 2022 (Holiday Concert)

Concert Repertoire
  • A Jingle Bell Christmas - arr. Mac Huff
  • Boar’s Head Carol - arr. Michael R. Hassell
  • Breath of Winter - David Waggoner and Greg Gilpin
  • Carol from Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 - Gerald Finzi
  • Do You Hear What I Hear? - Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, arr.    Harry Simeone
  • Freedom and Light (A Song for Hanukkah) - Mark Weston
  • Housetop Carol - arr. Catherine Bennett
  • Light the Menorah - Douglas Wagner
  • Lo, How a Rose/The Rose - arr. Craig Hella Johnson
  • On The Roof (I Saw Santa Claus) - Tim Bell, arr. Jay Althouse
  • Solstice - Randall Thompson
  • The Twelve Days After Christmas - Frederick Silver
  • Unending Flame - Paul Carey
  • Wake Up, Little Bethlehem Town! - Jean Anne Shafferman
  • Winds Through the Olive Trees - Robert Lau
  • The Work of Christmas - Dan Forrest
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Fall 2022 (October concert)
     Songs of Social Conscience

 
Concert Repertoire
  • Build Me a World -Ginger Littleton
  • But a Flint Holds Fire - Andrea Ramsey
  • Dona Nobis Pacem - May Lynn Lightfoot
  • Down By the Riverside - American Traditional Song, arr. John Rutter
  • Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - Irving Berlin, arr. David Chase
  • Harriet Tubman - Walter Robinson, arr. John Coates, Jr.
  • I Have a Dream - Max Exner
  • Imagine - John Lennon, arr. Mac Huff
  • Iraqi Peace Song - Traditional Iraqi Song, arr. Lori Tennenhouse
  • On Justice, Truth, and Peace - Amy F. Bernon
  • One Breath - Julie Shannon, arr. Kirby Shaw
  • Prayer of the Children - Kurt Bestor, arr. Mark Hayes
  • Reflections of Peace - Linda Spevacek-Avery
  • Song for a Russian Child - Andera Klouse
  • Song for Mother Earth - Native American Chants, arr. Lana Walter
  • Song of the Earth Spirit - David L. Brunner
  • This Pretty Planet - Tom Chapin, arr. Jim Scott
  • Two Suffrage Songs - Gwyneth Walker
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Spring 2022 (Welcome Back!)

Concert Repertoire
  • All My Trials - African American Spiritual, arr. Victor C. Johnson
  • All the Children of the World - Jack Noble White
  • America, the Dream (Words from "Freedom's Plow" - Rollo A. Dilworth
  • The Dream Keeper - Rollo A. Dilworth
  • Give Us Hope - Jim Papuolis
  • Hold Fast to Dreams - Susan LaBarr
  • How Can I Keep from Singing - arr. Marjorie Herman
  • I Dream a World - David L. Brunner
  • In Time of Silver Rain - Audrey Snyder
  • Let All the Children Sing! - Larry E. Schultz
  • May the Music Live On! - Russell Robinson
  • Mother to Son - Dwight Bigler
  • Rejoice and Sing! - Rollo A. Dilworth
  • To the Hills [Wester Caputh] - Brendan Taaffe
  • When Children Sing - Mary Goetze
  • Winter Sweetness (Poem by Langston Hughes) - arr. Ruth Lewis
  • With a Banjo On My Knee - Songs by Stephen Foster, arr. Linda Spevacek
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Fall 2019 (Holiday Concert)

Concert Repertoire
  • Adeste Fideles - John Francis Wade, arr. John Purifoy
  • Breath of Winter - David Waggoner and Greg Gilpin
  • Carol of the Bells - Mykola Leontovich, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky
  • Freedom and Light (A Song for Hanukkah) - Mark Weston
  • Go, Tell It on the Mountain - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Howard Helvey
  • Here We Come A-Wassailing - Traditional English Carol, arr. John Rutter
  • I Want to Stare at My Phone with You (A Millennial Holiday Song) - Nathan Howe
  • A Jolly, Jazzy Christmas - Douglas E. Wagner
  • Light One Candle - Peter Yarrow, arr. Robert DeCormier
  • The Lights of December - Audrey Snyder
  • Psallite - Michael Praetorius
  • Solstice Song - Jan Garrett, arr. Larry Nickel
  • Somewhere a Child - Gilbert M. Martin
  • There shall a star come out of Jacob (from the oratorio Christus) - Felix Mendelssohn
  • This Christmastide (Jessye's Carol) - Donald Fraser
  • The Work of Christmas - Dan Forrest
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Fall 2019 (October Concert)

 Concert Repertoire
  • A Place in the Choir - Bill Staines, arr. Janet Wheeler
  • Awake, My Soul, and Sing! - Victor C. Johnson
  • Be Thou My Vision - arr. Kinley Lange
  • Choral Highlights from Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken, arr. Audrey Snyder
  • Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - Irving Berlin, arr. David Chase
  • Hallelujah, Amen (from Judas Maccabaeus) - George Frideric Handel
  • Jubilate Fanfare - Andy Beck
  • Miniatures from a Bestiary - Ron Nelson
  • O Music - David L. Brunner
  • The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere - Gwyneth Walker
  • The Tiger - Sherri Porterfield
  • Total Praise - Richard Smallwood, arr. Doreen Rao
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Spring 2019

 Concert Repertoire
  • And Nature Smiled - Allan Koepke 
  • Aya Ngena - arr. Ruth Morris Gray
  • Daffodil, Too - B. Wayne Bisbee
  • Fame Is a Fickle Food - Ruth Morris Gray
  • Hope Is the Thing with Feathers - Susan LaBarr
  • Kore Evohe - John Schrag
  • Like a Mighty Stream - Moses Hogan and John Jacobson
  • Make Them Hear You (from Ragtime​) - Stephen Flaherty, arr. Mark Hayes
  • Mama Never Forgets Her Birds - Mary Lou Prince
  • Prayer of the Children - Kurt Bestor, arr. Mark Hayes
  • Sakura - arr. Michael Scott
  • Three Poems by Emily Dickinson - Emma Lou Diemer
  • We Shall Overcome - arr. J. David Moore
  • We Sing of Spring - Robert Nelson
  • Will There Really Be a Morning? - Ruth Morris Gray
  • Winter's on the Wing (from the Secret Garden) - Lucy Simon, arr. John Leavitt
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Fall 2018 (Holiday Concert)

 Concert Repertoire
  • The Biggest Brightest Holiday Lights! - Andy Beck
  • Burgundian Carol (Pat-A-Pan) - arr. Robert Sieving
  • Christmas at the Movies (Choral Medley) - arr. Mark Brymer
  • The Danish Star Carol – arr. Carl J. Nygard, Jr.
  • Eight Bright Candles - David Weintraub (arr. Joyce Merman)
  • Light the Legend - A Song for Chanukah - Michael Isaacson
  • Light the Menorah - Douglas Wagner
  • The Lights of December - Audrey Snyder
  • Lo, How a Rose / The Rose - arr. Craig Hella Johnson
  • Masters in This Hall - arr. Pat Willet
  • The Peace Carol - Bob Beers (arr. Joseph M. Martin)
  • On Winter's Eve - John Parker and Ruth Elaine Schram
  • Psallite - Michael Praetorius
  • Sing We Now of Christmas (A Seasonal Fanfare) - arr. Jay Althouse
  • Solstice - Randall Thompson
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Fall 2018 (October Concert)

 Concert Repertoire
  • A Dark and Stormy Night (Ode to Edgar Allan Poe) - Mark Burrows
  • Amazing Grace - arr. Jack Schrader
  • Autumn Vesper - Audrey Snyder
  • Consider Yourself (from Oliver!) - Lionel Bart (arr. Norman Leyden)
  • Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - Traditional Spiritual (arr. Greg Gilpin)
  • Give Us Hope - Jim Papoulis
  • Gloria - David Giardiniere
  • Hallelujah (from the Oratorio Athalia) - George Frederick Handel
  • Happiness (from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) - Clark Gesner (arr. Greg Gilpin)
  • The Impossible Dream (The Quest, from Man of La Mancha) - Mitch Leigh (arr. Mac Huff)
  • In a Consort of Voices - Henry Purcell
  • It Takes a Village to Raise a Child - Julie Gardner Bray
  • The Music of the Night (from Phantom of the Opera) - Andrew Lloyd Webber (arr. Ed. Lojeski)
  • The Ride-by-nights - Benjamin Britten
  • The Road Not Taken (from Frostiana) - Randall Thompson
  • Shady Grove - Appalachian Folk Song (arr. Jerry Estes)
  • Verleih' uns Frieden (Grant unto us thy peace, O Lord) - Felix Mendelssohn
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Spring 2018

Concert Repertoire
  • Altos' Lament - William Bowlus
  • Banquet Fugue - John Rutter
  • Con la Música (With Music, We Are One) - Jay Althouse
  • Hine Ma Tov (Psalm 133:1) - Allan Naplan
  • How Beautiful Is the Rain! - Mary Lynn Lightfoot
  • I Choose Love - Mark A. Miller
  • In These Delightful Pleasant Groves - Henry Purcell
  • K'Ayal Ta'arog (Psalm 42) - Nick Page
  • Lightning! - Greg Gilpin
  • No Complaints Whatsoever - JD Martin & Jan Garrett (arr. Larry Nickel)
  • Sicut Cervus (Psalm 42) - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • Simple Gifts - Traditional Shaker Tune (arr. Mark Hayes)
  • We Are One - Brian Tate
  • We Sail the Ocean Blue (from H.M.S. Pinafore) - Sir Arthur Sullivan (arr. John Leavitt)
  • With a Voice of Singing - Willis Bodine
  • World Without Music - Dave and Jean Perry
Concert Videos
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Fall 2017 (Holiday Concert)

 Concert Repertoire
  • Carol of the Bells - Mykola Leontovich (arr. Peter J. Wilhousky)
  • Celebrate Kwanzaa - Marti Lunn Lantz and Lois Brownsey
  • The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - Mel Torme and Robert Wells
  • Down, Down the Chimney - Irv Rothenberg
  • Festival Processional - Audrey Snyder
  • Good Kind Wenceslas - arr. Sir John Stainer
  • Hanukkah Holiday - Linda Swears
  • Happy Chanuka! (with "S'vivon") - Mary Donnelly and traditional folk song (arr. George L.O. Strad
  • Housetop Carol - arr. Catherine Bennett
  • I Saw Three Ships - arr. Jerry Estes
  • In December - Jay Althouse
  • The Last Month of the Year - Vera Hall (arr. The Fairfield Four)
  • Mary, Did You Know? - Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene
  • Mary Had a Baby - arr. Victor C. Johnson
  • Night of Silence - David Kantor
  • Rock 'n' Roll Reindeer - Kirby Shaw
  • Santa Baby - Joan Javits, Phil Springer, and Tony Springer
  • Wake Up, Little Bethlehem Town! - Jean Ann Shafferman
  • Winds Through the Olive Trees - Robert Lau
Concert Videos
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Fall 2017 (October Concert)

 Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • All Ye Who Music Love - Baldassarre Donato
  • Cold and Fugue Season (based on J.S. Bach's Fugue in G Minor) - arr. by Ellen Foncannon
  • Double Trouble (from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) - John Williams, arr. by Teena Chinn
  • Dry Bones - arr. by Mark Hayes
  • Flight Song - Kim André Arnesen
  • Kyrie (from Missa Brevis) - Andrea Gabrieli
  • Kyrie - John Leavitt
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah - Z. Randall Stroope
  • The Power of a Song - Roslyn K. Sieh
  • The Ride-by-nights - Benjamin Britten
  • Things That Go Bump in the Night - Douglas E. Wagner
  • The Seal Lullaby - Eric Whitacre
  • Sicut Loctus Est (from Magnificat) - Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Sing for Joy! (from the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus) - George Frederick Handel, arr. by Linda Spevacek
  • Choral Medley from the Wizard of Oz - Harold Arlen, arr. by Greg Gilpin
Concert Videos
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Spring 2017

 Concert Repertoire 
  • Ahrirang - Korean Folk Song, arr. by Robert DeCormier
  • Aya Ngena - Traditional Zulu Folk Song, arr. by Ruth Morris Gray
  • Cindy - American Folk Song, arr. by David Eddleman
  • Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Greg Gilpin
  • The Drinking Gourd - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by André J. Thomas
  • Garbe Rame - Gujarati Folk Song, arr. by Sheena Phillips
  • Haida- Chasidic Round, arr. by Henry Leck
  • Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Jean Ashworth Bartle
  • Heleluyan - Traditional Muscogee (Creek) Indian Chant, arr. by Jerry Ulrich
  • Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier - English Folk Song, arr. by René Clausen
  • Roll, Jordan, Roll - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Ken Berg
  • Shady Grove - Appalachian Folk Song, arr. by Jerry Estes
  • Shenandoah - American Folk Song, arr. by Jeff Funk
  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Jay Althouse
  • Wade in the Water - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Larry Shackley
  • Walk in Jerusalem - Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Rollo A. Dilworth
  • Who Can Sail without the Wind? - Swedish Folk Song, arr. by Dan Forrest
Concert Videos
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Winter 2016

 Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Festive Processional - Audrey Snyder
  • A Jingle Bell Christmas - arr. by Max Huff
  • Celebrate Kwanzaa - Martin Lunn Lantz and Lois Brownsey
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High/He Is Born! - arr. by Anna Laura Page
  • Eight Bright Candles - David Weintraub, arr. by Joyce Merman
  • Hanukkah Holiday - Linda Swears
  • Here We Come A-Wassailing - arr. by John Rutter
  • Holiday Lights - Jill Gallina
  • How Can I Keep from Singing - Marjorie Herman
  • Night of Silence - Daniel Cantor
  • O Holy Night - arr. by Rebecca Brown
  • On the Roof (I Saw Santa Claus) - Tim Bell, arr. by Jay Althouse
  • On Winter's Eve - John Parker and Ruth Elaine Schram
  • Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow! - arr. by Mark Hayes
  • Rock 'n' Roll Reindeer - Kirby Shaw
  • Sing We Now of Christmas - arr. by Jay Althouse
  • Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson, arr. by Mark Brymer​
Concert Videos
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Fall 2016

 Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Jubilate Deo - Michael Praetorius
  • Ave Verum - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Magnificat - Johann Aiblinger
  • Total Praise - Richard Smallwood
  • Al Shlosha D'varim - Allan Naplan
  • Feel Good - L. Craig Tyson and Leonard Scott
  • How Can I Keep from Singing - Marjorie Herman
  • I Will Sing Hallelujah - Neil A. Johnson
  • Hallelujah - Karisha Longaker and Sarah Nuttig
  • We Rise Again - Leon Dubinsky, arr. by Stephen Smith
  • Harvest Song - Mary Lou Prince
  • The Moon - Andy Beck
  • Wind - Carolyn Jennings and Joan Wolf Prefontaine
  • What Do the Stars Do - Sherry Porterfield
  • Lightning! - Greg Gilpin
  • Come to My Garden - Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, arr. by John Leavitt
  • Wick - Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon
  • Double Trouble - John Williams, arr. by Teena Chinn
  • ​The Lion King (medley) - Tim Rice and Elton John, arr. by Mark Brymer
Concert Videos
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SPRING 2016

 Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Beauty Is Before Me - Penny Blake
  • Clap Yo' Hands - George and Ira Gershwin, arr. by Greg Gilpin
  • Erev Shel Shoshanim - Josef Hadar and Moshe Dor, arr. by Jack Klebanow
  • Everything's Coming Up Roses - Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne, arr. by Russ Robinson
  • Exsultate Justi In Domino - Brant Adams
  • Lord of Feasting and Hunger - Carl Schalk
  • Musica Dei - Mary Lynn Lightfoot
  • Newtown Requiem - Joe Utterback
  • No One Is Alone (from Into the Woods) - Stephen Sondheim, arr. by Mark Brymer
  • On Silver-Tipped Wings - Mark Patterson
  • One Mind, One Heart - Catherine Dalton
  • The Riddle Song - Traditional, arr. by Vincente Chavarria
  • ​West Side Story (medley) - Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, arr. by Len Thomas
Concert Videos
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FALL 2015

 Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Autumn Vesper - Emily Bronte and Audrey Snyder
  • Ching-A-Ring-Chaw - Aaron Copland, arr. by Irving Fine
  • Frostiana (Seven Country Songs) - Robert Frost and Randall Thompson
  • Gloria - David Giardiniere
  • Jubilate Fanfare/Shall We Gather at the River - Andy Beck
  • No Complaints Whatsoever - JD Martin and Jan Garrett, arr. by Larry Nickel
  • The Power of a Song - Roslyn K. Sieh
  • Sing Dem Herrn - Michael Praetorius, arr. by Wallace DePue
  • We Will Be a Shelter for Each Other - Tom Long and Allen Pote
  • ​When the Saints Go Marching In - John Rutter
Concert Videos
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SPRING 2015

Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Adorable Flujo - Paul Basler and Gabriel Navar
  • Come to My Garden - Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, arr. by John Leavitt
  • For the Beauty of the Earth - Ann MacDonald Diers
  • Heleluyan - Traditional Muskogee (Creek) Indian Song, arr. by Jerry Ulrich
  • In These Delightful, Pleasant Groves, Henry Purcell
  • Kore Evohe, A Hymn to the Wheel of the Year - John Schrag and Sabina C. Becker
  • Returning - Hugh Mitchell and Richard Wilder
  • Song of the Earth Spirit - David L. Brunner
  • Song for Mother Earth - Native American Chants, arr. Lana Walter
  • ​This Pretty Planet - Tom Chapin, arr. by Jim Scott
  • We Sing of Spring - Robert Nelson
  • Wind - Carolyn Jennings and Joan Wolf Prefontaine
Concert Videos
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FALL 2014

Concert Repertoire
  • All Ye Who Music Love - Baldassare Donato
  • Altos' Lament - William Bowlus
  • Banquet Fugue - John Rutter
  • Can You Feel the Love Tonight, from The Lion King - Elton John, arr. Keith Christopher
  • How Lovely Are the Messengers - Felix Mendelssohn
  • ​Inscription of Hope - Z. Randall Stroope
  • Iraqi Peace Song - Traditional Iraqi Song, arr. Lori Tennenhouse
  • O Music - David L. Brunner
  • The Seal Lullaby - Eric Whitacre
  • Sicut Locutus Est, from Magnificat - Johann Sebastian Bach
  • We Are the Music Makers - Victor C. Johnson
  • We Sail the Ocean Blue, from H.M.S. Pinafore - Sir Arthur Sullivan, arr. John Leavitt
  • When Will the Fighting Cease? - Music by Melchior Franck, Words by Nick Page and Nita Penfold
Concert Videos
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SPRING 2014 
Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen arr. by Roger Emerson
  • If I Had a Hammer - Pete Seeger
  • Jubilate Deo - Michael Praetorius
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah - Z. Randall Stroope
  • The Music of the Night - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Charles Hart/Richard Stilgoe arr. by Ed Lojeski
  • N'Kosi Sikelel'i Afrika - Enoch Mankayi Sontonga/Sek Mqhayl arr. by Ysaye M. Barnwell
  • Sakura - Japanese Folk Song arr. by Michael Scott
  • Shenandoah - American Folk Song arr. by Jeff Funk
  • Sicut Cervus - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • Side by Side - Harry Woods/Jay Althouse
  • Skye Boat Song - arr. by Jay Althouse 
  • ​Walk in Jerusalem - African American Spiritual arr. by Rollo A. Dilworth
  • We Rise Again - Leon Dubinsky arr. by Stephen Smith
  • Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Pete Seeger arr. by Mark G. Sirett
  • With a Banjo on my Knee (Medley) - American Folk Songs arr. by Linda Spevacek
Concert Videos
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Walk in Jerusalem, Just Like John. Traditional Spiritual arranged by Rollo Dilworth. Copyright (c) 2004 by HAL LEONARD CORPORATION. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation. “Walk In Jerusalem,” Hal Leonard No. 8744361; $1.90; Available via www.musicdispatch.com or at your local music retailers nationwide.

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FALL 2013
Concert Repertoire and Photos
  • Al Shlosha D'varim - Allan E. Naplan
  • Blue Skies - Irving Berlin arr. by Roger Emerson
  • Exsultate justi in Domino - Brant Adams
  • Gracias Por El Amor - Anonymous arr. by Clif Hardin
  • We Are One - Brian Tate
  • Welcome, Welcome! - Clif Hardin
  • Zions Walls - Aaron Copland arr. Glenn Koponen
  • Zither, Zinga, Zing! - Vicki Tucker Courtney and John Parker
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