Performances
Past Seasons
Season 15
Evening of Impact: Celebrating the First 15 Years
- Performances:
- Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in Hoboken, NJ
- Repertoire
- Die Primel, text by Nikolaus Lea, music by Felix Mendelssohn
- Song, text from Rivers by the Sea, by Sara Teasdale, music by Kirke Mechem
- To Be Sung on the Water, text by Louise Bogan, music by Samuel Barber
- Strings in the Earth, text by James Joyce, music by Samuel Adler
- If I Can Stop One Heart, text by Emily Dickinson, music from Breaking by Jean Berger
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Season 14
American Ambassadors Tour
- Performances:
- Sunday, August 10, 2008 in Vienna, Austria
- Monday, August 11, 2008 in Bad Schönau, Austria
- Tuesday, August 12, 2008 in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
- Thursday, August 14, 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic
- Sunday, August 17, 2008 in Salzburg, Austria (European Premiere of Svane Mass)
- Repertoire
- Mass by Randall Svane
- How Can I Keep From Singing?, American folk tune, arrangement by Ronald Staheli
- i thank You God, text by e.e. cummings, music by Elliot Levine
- Simple Gifts, American Shaker tune, arrangement by Stephen Leek
- Lux aurumque by Eric Whitacre
- O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen
- Alleluia by Randall Thompson
- Almighty Father by Leonard Bernstein
- I wanta die easy when I die, arrangement by Roger Wesby
- Ride on, King Jesus, arrangement by Roger Wesby
- I Know the Lord’s Laid His Hands On Me, arrangement by Moses Hogan
- Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit, arrangement by Moses Hogan
- Plenty Good Room, arrangement by Jesse Padgett
- Shenandoah, American folk song, arrangement by James Erb
- Island in Space by Kirke Mechem
- There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli
- Bitter for Sweet by John Chorbajian
- Sing Me to Heaven by Daniel E. Gawthrop
- Blue Skies by Irving Berlin, arrangement by Zegree/King
’Tis the Season
- Performances:
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
- Friday, December 12, 2008 at St. John’s in the Village, NY, NY
- Repertoire:
- The Virgin by Derek Healey
- Ave Maria by Franz Biebl
- The Great “O” Antiphons by John Muehleisen
- Child of Sweetness by John Karl Hirten
- The Frozen December by Thomas A. Miller
- Dixit Maria ad angelum by Hans Leo Hassler
- Nova, nova, ave fit ex Eva, arrangement by Richard DeLong
- This Day is Born Emmanuel by Michael Praetorius, arrangement by Linda Spevacek-Avery
- Gaudete, traditional English carol, arrangement by J. David Moore
- O magnum mysterium by César Alejandro Carillo
- I Wonder As I Wander by John Jacob Niles, arrangement by Steven Pilkington
- Ah, Dearest Jesu, Holy Child by Philip Lawson
- Be We Merry by James Ryman, arrangement by Steven Sametz
- Resonet in Laudibus, 14th-century German carol, arrangement by Chester L. Alwes
- Go, Tell It On the Mountain, American Spiritual, arrangement by Roland Carter
- Sing We Now of Christmas, traditional French carol, arrangement by Fred Prentice
Messiah
- Performances:
- Friday, December 19, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
- Saturday, December 20, 2008 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
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Music of Norway
- Performances:
- Sunday, March 15, 2009 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
- Saturday, March 21, 2009 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
- Repertoire
- Springdans Fra Vesthold, arrangement by Tone Krohn
- Villeman og Magnhild, medieval ballad, arrangement by Linn A. Fuglseth
- Bruremarsj frå vågå, arrangement by Tone Krohn
- How Fair is Thy Face by Edvard Hagerup Grieg
- Ave maris stella by Evard H. Grieg
- Ave maris stella by Trond Kverno
- Trinity by Ola Gjeilo on a text by John Donne
- Norge, mitt Norge by Alfred Paul Jennings, arrangement by Kenneth Jennings; text by Theodor Caspari, translation by Kenneth Jennings
- Ja, vi elsker by Rikard Nordraak, text by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- Immortal Bach by Knut Nystedt
- Procession: Laudate Dominum by Svein Møller
- Prayers of Kierkegaard by Knut Nystedt
- Springar Frå Bergen by Øidyrin Sommerfeldt
- Ned I vester soli glader, text by Anders Hoven, arrangement by Margaret King
- Ekorn gjekk pa volln og slo, traditional Norwegian folksong, arrangement by Margaret King
- Kvite vengjer, Thomas Beck on a text by Olav Nygard
- Trolldans, folksong, arrangement by Henrik Lyssand
- Eg veit I himmerik ei borg, arrangement by Magnar Ǻm
- Bruremarsj fra Sorfold, folk tune, arrangement Bjorn Andor Drage
- Unicornis Captivitur by Ola Gjeilo
Space, Light & Discovery
- Performances:
- Sunday, May 17, 2009 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
- Friday, May 29, 2009 at First Presbyterian Church, Ramsey, NJ
- Saturday, May 30, 2009 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
- Repertoire
- At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners by Willametta Spencer on a text by John Donne
- Island in Space by Kirke Mechem
- Stars by Kenneth Fuchs on a text by Robert Frost
- Stars from Three Nocturnes by Dan Forrest on a text by Sara Teasdale
- Lux aurumque by Eric Whitacre on a text Edward Esch
- Adagio by Samuel Barber
- The Silence by Andrew Bleckner
- There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli on a text by Sara Teasdale
- Earth Song by Frank Ticheli
- Fields of Gold by Gordon Sumner, arrangement by Roger Wesby
- How Can I Keep From Singing?, American folk hymn, arrangement by Ronald Staheli
- Ye shall have a song from A Peaceable Kingdom by Randall Thompson
- A Jubilant Song by Norman Dello Joio
- Dance from Invocation and Dance by David Conte on a text by Walt Whitman
Schola Sings Solo
- Performances:
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
- Saturday, January 31, 2009 at First Presbyterian Church, Ramsey, NJ
- Saturday, February 7, 2009 at St. John’s in the Village Church, NY, NY
- Saturday, February 21, 2009 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at St. Michael the Archangel Church, Bayonne, NJ
- Repertoire
- Love in the Dictionary by Celius Dougherty
- When I was seventeen by Swedish folksong
- “Willow” from The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore
- “O soave fanciulla” from La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
- “Summertime,” from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
- Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz, der dich erhitzt? by Hugo Wolf
- “Piangerò la sorte mia,” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Georg Frideric Handel
- “Monica’s Waltz,” from The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti
- “The Vagabond” from Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughn Williams, text by Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Chacun le sait,” from La Fille du Regiment by Gaetano Donizetti
- “Chi dal cielo,” from La Fida Ninfa by Antonio Vivaldi
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime by Jay Gorney
- Séparation by Frédéric Chopin, text by Pauline Viardot, arranger
- “Vesti la giubba,” from I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
- “Amor, vida de mi vida,” from La Maravilla by Federico Moreno Torroba
- What’ll I do? by Irving Berlin
- “Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro,” from Le Nozze de Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- “Habanera,” from Carmen by Georges Bizet
- “Toreador Song,” from Carmen by Georges Bizet