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Concert Programs

  
Concert/Season Director Concert/Season Director
Spring 2000:  The Slant Moon on the Slanting Hill
Fall 1999:  Of a Rose Sing We		 Jude Navari Spring 1999: Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars
Fall 1998: Voci et Organum
Spring 1998: A Rain of Diamonds
Fall 1997: Within the Wintry Grove		 Anthony Pasqua
Spring 1997: To be sung on the water
 		 Muriel Fore
1991 through 1996 M. Fore & M. Covington

Spring 2000: The Slant Moon on a Slanting Hill
forthcoming

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Fall 1999: Of a Rose Sing We
forthcoming

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Spring 1999: Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars
Musical Reflections on the Holocaust
forthcoming

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Fall 1998: Voci et Organum
I
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 (J.S. Bach) Organ solo
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (J.S. Bach) Duet from Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36
Sarabande from the Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 (J.S. Bach) Cello solo
Komm in mein Herzenshaus (J.S. Bach) Aria from Ein fest Burg ist unser Gott Soprano solo
Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten (J.S. Bach) Duet from Jesu der du meine Seele, BWV 78

II
Kyrie from Mass (1962) (Gloria Coates)
O bone Jesu, Op. 37, No.1 (Johannes Brahms)
Sanctus & Benedictus from Mass (1962) (Gloria Coates)
Salve Regina (1987) (Ramona Luengen)
Agnus Dei from Mass (1962) (Gloria Coates)

III
Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122, No. 10 (Johannes Brahms) Organ solo
Ave Maria, Op. 12 (Johannes Brahms)

IV
Ave Maria from Dialogues des Carmelites (Frances Poulenc)
Litanies a la Vierge Noire (Frances Poulence)
Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63 (Benjamin Britten)

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Spring 1998: A Rain of Diamonds

I
from Six Songs for Women's Voices (Gwyneth Walker) poems by May Swenson
    Women Should be Pedestals
    The Name is Changeless
    Mornings Innocent

II
O virtus sapientiae (Hildegard von Bingen)
To an Angel (Ruth Crawford Seeger)
Englyn Forms (Mark Winges) Viola & Cello duet
Rondeau: Rose liz (Guillaume de Machaut)

III
French Songs for Treble Voices (Theodore Morrison) Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
    La biche
    Puisque tout passe
    Un cygne
Dirait-on from Les Chansons de Roses (Morten Lauridsen) Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

IV
Ave Maria from  Dialogues of the Carmelites (Francis Poulenc)
The Blue Eye of God (Nancy Telfer)
The Rainbow (Benjamin Britten)
Nocturne from On This Island (Benjamin Britten) Soprano solo
Fancie (Benjamin Britten)

V
from Six Songs for Women's Voices (Gwyneth Walker) poems by May Swenson, 1913-1989
    Love is a Rain of Diamonds
    In Autumn
    I Will Be Earth

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Fall 1997:  Within a Wintry Grove

I
Kyrie from Mass in Two Parts (1934) (Virgil Thomson)

II
Ave maris stella (John Dunstable)
Ecce, quod natura (Anonymous English Carol)

III
Cantata (1952) (Igor Stravinsky)

IV
Sanctus and Benedictus from Mass in Two Parts (Virgil Thomson)

V
Winter Cantata  (Vincent Persichetti) with Flute & Marimba

VI
Procession from A Ceremony of Carols (Benjamin Britten)
Il est ne le divin enfant (Traditional French Carol; arr. John Rutter)
Mi y'malel g'vurot Yisrael (Traditional Hanukkah Song; arr. Anthony Pasqua)
Hanerot halalu (Traditional Hanukkah Song; arr. Blanche Chass)
Wassail Song (Traditional English Carol; arr. Tom Johnston)

Encore
Deck the Halls, in 7/8

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Spring 1997: To be sung on the water

I
To be Sung on the Water (Samuel Barber) Poem Louise Bogan
maggie and milly and molly and may (Jeanne Weaver Fuller) Poem by e.e.cummings
Minnie and Winnie (Jean Berger)
The Chambered Nautilus (Amy Marcy Cheney Beach)
Shells (Knut Nystedt)
Missa Brevis in tempore violentiae (Ron Jeffers)
This We Know (Ron Jeffers) Text from Chief Seattle's address after signing Pt Elliot Treaty
Salmo 150 (Ernani Aguiar) Psalm 150 from the Hebrew Bible

II
On suuri sun rantas autius (Suomalainen Kansansavelma) Finnish folk song
Away From the Roll of the Sea (Allister MacGillivray; arr. Diane Loomer)
La Flor de la Miel (Alberto Grau)
The Water is Wide (Traditional American; arr. Luigi Zaninelli)
J'entends le moulin (Traditional French; arr. Donald Patriquin)

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VOCI Women's Choral Ensemble
Oakland, CA
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