2009-2010 season repertoire

Tour program 

Gaudeamus igitur                          Traditional student song

I.

O quam gloriosum                                   Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Os justi                                                       Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Ye shall have a song                               Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

(from The Peaceable Kingdom)                                     

II.

Selections by the Chamber Singers

III.

Weep You No More                                  Michael Gilbertson (b. 1988)

            Winner, 2009 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition

into the strenuous briefness                   Ryan Harper (b. 1987)

Voices                                                         Eric Banks (b. 1969)

            Composed for the Yale Glee Club in loving memory of Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr. (1926-2008)

IV.

Lorena                                                         Traditional American folk song, arr. Jeffrey Douma

Guayacanal                                                arr. V. Nunez

                                                                      adapted Jeffrey Douma

The Road Home                                        Tune: “Prospect” from Southern Harmony

                                                                      adapted Stephen Paulus

Little Innocent Lamb                                 Spiritual, arr. Marshall Bartholomew/Fenno Heath

An American Thanksgiving, II. McKay    Carol Barnett (b.1949)    

V.

Songs of Yale

Major Works

Symphony of Meditations                       Aaron Jay Kernis (2009)

(Symphony #3)

Messiah                                                     George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Requiem                                                    Giuseppi Verdi (1813-1901)