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Index of Concerts
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Spring ​Concert 2025 (coming soon)
Repertoire
  • Everyone Suddenly Burst Out Singing - Peter Willsher
  • In these delightful, pleasant groves - Henry Purcell (1658-1695)
  • Kyrie - John Leavitt
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah - Z. Randall Stroope
  • The Moon - Andy Beck
  • The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere - Gwyneth Walker
  • Now Let Me Fly - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Victor C. Johnson
  • The Power of a Song - Roslyn K. Sieh
  • Shenandoah - American Folk Song, arr. Jeff Funk
  • This Little Light of Mine - Traditional Song, arr. Mark Hayes
  • Total Praise - Richard Smallwood, arr. Patrick Barrett & Doreen Rao
  • Tyger - Elaine Hagenberg
  • We Are the Sounds of Singing - Kirby Shaw
  • Wind - Carolyn Jennings
Holiday ​Concert 2024
Repertoire
  • A Candy Cane Christmas - Dave and Jean Perry
  • Carol of the Bells - Mykola Leontovich, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky
  • Celebrate Kwanzaa - Marti Lunn Lantz and Lois Brownsey
  • Eight Bright Candles - David Weintraub, arr. Joyce Merman
  • Fum, Fum, Fum! - Traditional Spanish Carol, arr. Greg Gilpin
  • Hanukkah Holiday - Linda Swears
  • Hodie! Alleluia! - Mary Lynn Lightfoot
  • Holiday Tango - Linda Spevacek
  • In Dulci Jubilo - 14th Century Carol, arr. Audrey Snyder
  • The Lights of December - Audrey Snyder
  • Midnight Clear - Russell Schulz-Widmar
  • Mrs. Claus! - Lon Beery
  • On Winter’s Eve - John Parker and Ruth Elaine Schram
  • Rock ’n’ Roll Reindeer - Kirby Shaw
  • Sing We Now of Christmas (A Seasonal Fanfare) - arr. Jay Althouse 
Fall ​Concert 2024
Repertoire
  • A Bridge of Peace - Gwyneth Walker
  • All Ye Who Music Love - Baldassare Donato (1548-1603)
  • Amazing Grace - from Virginia Harmony, arr. Jack Schrader
  • Ave Verum, K. 618 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  • Duo for Two Clarinets - IV. Rondo, allegro molto, Anton Stadler (1753-1812)
  • Dry Bones - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Mark Hayes
  • Exsultate justi in Domino (text: Psalm 33:1-3) - Brant Adams
  • Kum Ba Yah - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Joel Raney
  • The Phantom of the Opera (title song) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Ed Lojeski
  • The Ride-by-nights - Benjamin Britten
  • Simple Gifts - Traditional Shaker Tune, arr. Mark Hayes
  • Things That Go Bump in the Night - Douglas E. Wagner
  • This Old Hammer - American Folk Song, arr. Neil Ginsberg
  • We Will Be a Shelter for Each Other - Allen Pote
  • When You Believe - from The Prince of Egypt, Stephen Schwartz, arr. John Leavitt
  • When the Saints Go Marching In - Traditional American Song, arr. John Rutter
  • With a Voice of Singing - Willis Bodine
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Spring ​Concert 2024
Repertoire
  • Altos’ Lament - William Bowlus
  • Aya Ngena - Traditional Zulu Folk Song, arr. Ruth Morris Gray
  • Build Me a World - Ginger Littleton
  • Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Greg Gilpin
  • Dona Nobis Pacem/Imagine - Mary L. Lightfoot/John Lennon, arr. Mac Huff
  • Give Us Hope - Jim Papoulis
  • Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen, arr. Roger Emerson
  • Jubilate Deo - Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
  • Lightning! - Greg Gilpinhree
  • Mother to Son - Dwight Bigler
  • No Complaints Whatsoever - JD Martin and Jan Garrett, arr. Larry Nickel
  • Prayer of the Children - Kurt Bestor. arr. Mark Hayes
  • The Seal Lullaby - Eric Whitacre
  • Shady Grove - Appalachian Folk Song. arr. Jerry Estes
  • Sicut cervus (Psalm 42) - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
  • Three Quotes by Mark Twain - Andrea Ramsey
  • Wade in the Water - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Larry Shackley
  • We Are One - Brian Tate
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Holiday ​Concert 2023
Repertoire
  • The Biggest Brightest Holiday Lights! - Andy Beck
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High/He Is Born! - Traditional French Carols, arr. Anna Laura Page
  • Do You Hear What I Hear? - Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, arr. Harry Simeone
  • Down, Down the Chimney - Irv Rothenberg
  • The First Noel/Pachelbel’s Canon - arr. Michael Clawson
  • Follow the Star - Traditional Puerto Rican Carol, arr. Helen Kemp
  • Happy Chanuka! (with “S’vivon”) - Mary Donnelly and traditional folk song, arr. George L.O. Strid
  • In Winter - Victor C. Johnson
  • ​Light the Legend; a Song for Chanukah - Michael Isaacson
  • Masters in This Hall - Traditional French Carol, arr. Pat Willet
  • Mary’s Lullaby - John Rutter
  • Sing Noel:  A Christmas Fanfare - Traditional French Carol, arr. Jay Althouse
  • Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson, arr. Mark Brymer
  • There shall a star come out of Jacob - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), from the oratorio Christus
  • The Twelve Days of a Regifted Christmas - arr. Greg Gilpin
  • The Work of Christmas - Dan Forrest
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Fall Concert 2023
Repertoire
  • Another Op’nin’, Another Show (from Kiss Me, Kate) - by Cole Porter, arr. Teena Chinn 
  • Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (from Hair) - by Galt MacDermot, arr. Roger Emerson 
  • Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (from Showboat) - by Jerome Kern, arr. John Leavitt
  • Consider Yourself (from Oliver!) - by Lionel Bart, arr. Norman Leyden
  • Double Trouble (from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) - by John Williams, arr. Teena Chinn
  • Happiness (from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown) - by Clark Gesner, arr. Greg Gilpin
  • The Impossible Dream (The Quest) (from Man of La Mancha) - by Mitch Leigh, arr. Mac Huff
  • Make them Hear You (from Ragtime) - by Stephen Flaherty, arr. Mark Hayes
  • The Music of the Night (from The Phantom of the Opera) - by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Ed Lojeski
  • The Phantom of the Opera (Title song) - by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Ed Lojeski
  • The Rainbow Connection (from The Muppet Movie) - by Paul Williams and Kenneth L. Ascher, arr. Audrey Snyder
  • Together Wherever We Go (from Gypsy) - by Jule Styne, arr. Jay Althouse
  • We Sail the Ocean Blue (from H. M. S. Pinafore) - by Sir Arthur Sullivan, arr. John Leavitt
  • Who Will Buy? (from Oliver!) - by Lionel Bart, arr. Norman Leyden
  • Choral Medley from The Wizard of Oz - by Harold Arlen, arr. Greg Gilpin
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Spring Concert 2023
Repertoire
  • A Place in the Choir - Bill Staines, arr. Janet Wheeler
  • Alexander’s Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin, arr. Douglas E. Wagner
  • Altos’ Lament - William Bowlus
  • Animal Imagination - Tom Shelton
  • Banquet Fugue - John Rutter
  • Breath of Winter - David Waggoner and Greg Gilpin
  • Cold and Fugue Season - arr. Ellen Foncannon, based on J.S. Bach’s Fugue in G minor
  • Five Limericks - Doug Andrews (Text by Edward Lear, 1812-1888)
  • Give Me a Choral Medley! (A Singer’s Spoof) - Andy Beck
  • Green Eggs and Ham - Stephen Flaherty, from Seussical The Musical, arr. Andy Beck
  • Hernando’s Hideaway - Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, from The Pajama Game, arr. Greg Gilpin
  • Hoe Down - Tom Porter
  • Johnny-O & Sally Anne! Southern Mountain Frolic Tune - arr. Ken Berg
  • The Spinning Song - Albert Elmenreich, arr. Greg Gilpin
  • The Song That Goes Like This - John Du Prez and Eric Idle, from Monty Python’s Spamalot, arr. Mac Huff
  • Spring Fever - David Lantz III
  • Three Quotes by Mark Twain - Andrea Ramsey
            I. The Silent Fool
           II. Telling the Truth
          III. My Dear Mother
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Holiday Concert 2022
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 Concert 2022
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 Concert 2022
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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Holiday Concert 2019
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 Concert 2019
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 Concert 2019
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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Holiday Concert 2018
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 Concert 2018
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 Concert 2018
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
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Holiday Concert 2017
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
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Fall Concert 2017
Repertoire
  • 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
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Spring Concert 2017
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
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Holiday Concert 2016
Repertoire
  • 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
  • ​Festive Processional - Audrey Snyder
  • 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​
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Fall Concert 2016
Repertoire
  • Al Shlosha D'varim - Allan Naplan
  • Ave Verum - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Come to My Garden - Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, arr. by John Leavitt
  • Double Trouble - John Williams, arr. by Teena Chinn
  • Feel Good - L. Craig Tyson and Leonard Scott
  • Hallelujah - Karisha Longaker and Sarah Nuttig
  • Harvest Song - Mary Lou Prince
  • How Can I Keep from Singing - Marjorie Herman
  • I Will Sing Hallelujah - Neil A. Johnson
  • Jubilate Deo - Michael Praetorius
  • Lightning! - Greg Gilpin
  • The Lion King (medley) - Tim Rice and Elton John, arr. by Mark BrymerMagnificat - Johann Aiblinger
  • The Moon - Andy Beck
  • Total Praise - Richard Smallwood
  • We Rise Again - Leon Dubinsky, arr. by Stephen Smith
  • What Do the Stars Do - Sherry Porterfield
  • Wick - Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon
  • Wind - Carolyn Jennings and Joan Wolf Prefontaine
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Spring Concert 2016
Repertoire
  • 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
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Fall Concert 2015 
Repertoire
  • 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
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Spring Concert 2015
Repertoire
  • 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
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Fall Concert 2014 
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
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Spring Concert 2014
Repertoire
  • 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
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Fall Concert 2013
Repertoire
  • 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

Group Photos
Spring 2015
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Fall 2013
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Gainesville, FL 32635-8073
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