Vienna Choral Society Past Programs

2006-2007

The Road Home: Songs for the Season of Gathering. Beautiful River (Shall we gather at the river)–arr. Hawley; Peace (from Shaker Songs); McKay (from An American Thanksgiving; We gather together--Danish melody; Not one sparrow is forgotten– Shaker hymn; We shall walk through the valley in peace; By and By; Winter waketh all my care--Rutter; The Old Church (from Prairie Songs)--Paulus; Calling my children home; Lay me low; The Road Home
Homage to the Old Dominion at 400 Years. As I Went Down to the River, Bless to Me, O God (Gawthrop), Ode to the Virginian Voyage (Randall Thompson), Oh, Shenandoah (Houkom), On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Brown), Pocahontas Medley (Schwartz), Sing Me to Heaven (Gawthrop), and Virginia (Rinker).
The Light of Stars. Lux Aeterna, a choral transcription of Elgar’s Nimrod from the Enigma Variations; Thompson’s Alleluia; The Best of Rooms, Choose Something Like a Star (Frostiana); and The Light of Stars; Barber’s Sure on This Shining Night; plus Chanticleer’s arrangements.

In Praise of Wisdom -- Settings from Scripture and Poetry. Music of Randall Thompson, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, and even Lennon and McCartney! Three by Langston and more.
All the Things You Are: Songs of Love and Loss. Songs by George Shearing, a Beatles tune, some lesser-known Billy Joel songs, a Phil Collins tune from Tarzan, Scottish tunes, a Platters hit, When I Fall in Love, and All the Things You Are.
City Called Heaven: Spirituals and Other Songs of the South.
Songs of Christmas

An American Songfest: Variety of choral music by American composers. The Testament of Freedom by Thompson, Three American Lyrics by Rutter, Song of Democracy by Hanson, How Can I Keep from Singing by Lowry, and Walking on the Green Grass by Hennagin.
Starlights of Christmas. Including: Rheinberger, The Star of Bethlehem, Hodie Christus Natus Est, This Christmastide, Angels We Have Heard on High, Wassail Carol, and Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
Regards to Broadway. Music from Les Miserables, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, The King and I, The Music Man, The Phantom of the Opera, and the Sound of Music.
Starlights of Christmas. Including: Rheinberger, The Star of Bethlehem, Hodie Christus Natus Est, This Christmastide, Angels We Have Heard on High, Wassail Carol, and Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

African Influences. Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.; Requiem by Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia. Spirituals (arrangers include Wendell Whalum and Moses Hogan), favorites such as Amen by Jester Hairston, and It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) by Duke Ellington.
Christmas Concert. Hodie by Z. Randall Stroope. Other pieces include Fanfare for Christmas Day (Shaw), O Magnum Mysterium, Welcome All Wonders (Dirkson), What Sweeter Music (Rutter), and African Noel (Thomas).
Sing Praises. Two Te Deums emphasizing the contrasting styles of Dvorak and Bruckner. Large orchestra and guest solists.
Americana -- selections include The Choir Invisible, Three Portraits by Steven Foster, Three by Langston, and It Don't Mean a Thing

VCS by Request (favorites include Lord of the Dance, Medley from Grease, Ride the Chariot)
A Holiday Celebration -- John Rutter's When Icicles Hang, several other beautiful Rutter tunes, and many other lovely favorites
Dvorak's Stabat Mater
Great Choruses (How Lovely is thy Dwelling Place, The Heavens are Telling, Ave Verum, Hallelujah Choruses, and more)

This is My Country
Christmas Traditions (Handel's Messiah - parts I and II), as well as traditional carols and songs)
A Celtic Spring Fling
A Bouquet of Cheer (light-hearted concert with a floral motif).

Invitation to the Dance -- Songs about Dancing (Tom Leich, Terry Sisk on pianos)
The British are Coming (Gaudeamus Chorus from England, VCS, and Andrew Chapel U.M.C. Choir join together for this wonderful concert)

Rutter -- by Request. Requiem plus shorter Rutter works
Schutz, Psalm 150
Lambert, Rio Grande
Thompson, Testament of Freedom, Thompson, Frostiana
Faure, Requiem
Bach, Christ Lay in Death's Dark Priso; Bach, Chorales from Jesu, Priceless Treasure; Brahms, Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee (motet)

Rheinberger, The Star of Bethlehem (Cathy Price, soprano), Rutter, Brother Heinrich's Christmas (Don Henry, narrator), other Christmas music.
P.D.Q. Bach, The Seasonings, other music of fun and of romance.
Brahms, Requiem (Cathy Price, soprano; Jim Shaffran, bass).
Joint concert with Gaudeamus joining us from England.

Britten, Jubilate Deo, Choral Dances from Gloriana, Holst, Psalm 148, To the Unknown God (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda).
Vaughan Williams, Lord, Thou Hast Been our Refuge, Five Mystical Songs, (Brad Hayes, Baritone).
Opera Choruses (with Soprano Consortium)
Hanson, Song of Democracy, Thompson, Testament of Freedom.

Christmas Concert. Handel, Messiah (Christmas portion); Christmas carols
Famous Masses. Puccini, Gloria Mass; Schubert, Mass in G; Gounod, St. Cecilia Mass; Mendelssohn, Psalm 42 (Kit Prothero, soprano)
Broadway show tunes

Handel,Messiah (Christmas portion)
Music fo a Royal Occasion. Handel, Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem no. 1); Handel, Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened (Coronation Anthem no. 4); Parry,I Was Glad When Thy Said Unto Me; Mozart, Coronation Mass
War and Peace (Haydn, Mass in Time of War, Vaughan-Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem)
It's a Grand Night for Singing - Broadway Showtunes

American Songs. Works of Copeland and Rutter. This concert Directed by Nancy Post with Diane Pyles -- Accompanist