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Repertoire
Saint Louis Women's Chorale Repertoire
Season | Title | Concert Title | Composer/Arranger | Description | Language | Genre/Topical | Composers / Poets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Season 12 (2006-2007) | We Are… (Lessons No. 5) | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Ysaye M. Barnwell | SATB w Solono. 5 from the song suite Lessons | Spiritual / Jazz | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Light Out of Darkness | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Barbara Harbach | SA, Piano, Traditional, | Nature / Celebration | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Crossing the Bar | A Salute to Gwyneth Walker | Gwyneth Walker | SSA, piano | Sacred / Love / Praise | Women Composer | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Largo from New World Symphony | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Antonin Dvorak, arr. Margaret Dryburgh | ||||
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Bones, Be Good! | A Salute to Gwyneth Walker | Gwyneth Walker | SSA, piano | Jazz / Dance | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | I Will Be Earth | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Gwyneth Walker | SSA, piano | Love / Romantic | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Amazing Grace | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Arr. Joan Szymko | SSAA, a cappella | Sacred | ||
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Songs for Women's Voices | A Salute to Gwyneth Walker | Gwyneth Walker | ||||
Season 12 (2006-2007) | The Tree of Peace | A Salute to Gwyneth Walker | Gwyneth Walker | SSAA, divisi,and piano | Sacred / Love / Hope / Encouragement | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Hands, All Hands Around (from Quilters) | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Barbara Damashek | SSAA, Solo, 30 min work | Opera / Early American / Contemporaty / Women's Lives | Women | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Now I Become Myself | A Salute to Gwyneth Walker | Gwyneth Walker | SSAA, and piano | Women's Lives / Encouragement / Celebration | Women | |
Season 12 (2006-2007) | Lux Aeterna from Missa | Women's Stories, Women's Songs | Z. Randall Stroope | SSA, organ, Light eternal : from Missa | Latin | Sacred / Missa | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Excerpts from Princess Ida | We Are His Sisters and His Cousins and His Aunts! | Gilbert and Sullivan | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | There, 'Twixt the Ox and Donkey | Sing We Now of Christmas | Derek Holman | SSA, with piano or brass quintet | French / English | Christmas / Sacred | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Black is the color of my true love's hair | Faces of St. Louis | Arr. Stephen Mager | unison or SA, piano, Appalachian folk song | Early American | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | A Child is Born | Sing We Now of Christmas | Mark Sirett | SSA, percussion : hand drum, tambourine, triangle or finger cymbal | Christmas / Sacred | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Swing low, sweet chariot | Faces of St. Louis | Arr. Stephen Mager | SSA, Soprano solo, a capella | African American / Spiritual / Encouragement | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Psalm (Lament) | Faces of St. Louis | Carolee Coombs-Stacy | SSAA, piano, Commissioned | Sacred / Comfort / Compassion | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | A Pentatonic Alleluia | Sing We Now of Christmas | Ross Whitney | SSSSAA, a cappella | Sacred / Celebration / Processional | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Ding Dong Merrily on High | Sing We Now of Christmas | Arr. Howard Cable | SSA, piano, opt. instrument accompanient | Christmas | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Come, Shepherds, Come | Sing We Now of Christmas | Derek Holman | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Excerpts from HMS Pinafore and Ruddigore | We Are His Sisters and His Cousins and His Aunts! | Gilbert and Sullivan | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Now in the Manger | Sing We Now of Christmas | Derek Holman | SSA, with piano or brass quintet | French / English | Christmas / Sacred / Celebration | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Excerpts from Ruddigore, The Mikado, Yeomen of the Guard, and Sorcerer | We Are His Sisters and His Cousins and His Aunts! | Gilbert and Sullivan | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | There Is No Rose | Sing We Now of Christmas | Eleanor Daley | SSAA, a cappella, Anonymous medieval text | Latin | Christmas / Old English / Sacred | Women Composer |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Past the Mirror | Faces of St. Louis | Gay Holmes Spears | SSA piano | Women's Lives / Contemporary | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Song of the Angels | Sing We Now of Christmas | Mark Sirett | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | The Season of Singing | Faces of St. Louis | Gay Holmes Spears | SSAA, piano, Commissioned, 3 movements | Sacred / Love | Women Composer / Women Poet | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Wings of Night | Faces of St. Louis | Bruce Vantine | SSAA, a cappella, commissioned for STLWC, Longfellow words | Lullaby / Nature / Peace | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Excerpts from The Mikado | We Are His Sisters and His Cousins and His Aunts! | Gilbert and Sullivan | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Mary Anne | Faces of St. Louis | Arr. Stephen Mager | SA, piano (double bass ad libitum) : Trinidad Calypso song | Folk | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | I Sing of a Maiden | Sing We Now of Christmas | Eleanor Daley | SSAA, a cappella | Sacred / Old English | Women Composer | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Excerpts from Iolanthe | We Are His Sisters and His Cousins and His Aunts! | Gilbert and Sullivan | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Excerpts from Pirates of Penzance | We Are His Sisters and His Cousins and His Aunts! | Gilbert and Sullivan | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Three Sacred Harp Arrangements | Faces of St. Louis | Arr. Martha Shaffer | ||||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Away in a Manger | Sing We Now of Christmas | Edwin T. Childs | SSAA, piano | Chri | ||
Season 13 (2007-2008) | O My Dear Heart | Sing We Now of Christmas | Eleanor Daley | SSAA : a cappella | Christmas / Sacred / Praise / Lullaby | Women Composer | |
Season 13 (2007-2008) | Sing We Now of Christmas | Sing We Now of Christmas | Arr. Thomas Miller | SSAA a cappella | SSAA a cappella | Christmas / Sacred / Praise | Christmas / Sacred / Praise |
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Gossip Scene, When a Woman Has a Baby (from Street Scene) | From Bingen to Broadway | Kurt Weill | ||||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Cripple Creek | American Folkwomen | Arr. Tom Porter | SSA with piano and violin / Commission by Susan McMane | Folk American | ||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Two pieces from Three Sacred Choruses (Op. 37) | From Bingen to Broadway | Johannes Brahms | SSAA, a cappella, op. 37 | Latin / English | Sacred | |
Season 14 (2008-2009) | The Saga of Jenny (from Lady in the Dark) | From Bingen to Broadway | Kurt Weill | ||||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Caritas abundat | From Bingen to Broadway | Hildegard of Bingen | ||||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Shenandoah | American Folkwomen | Arr. Carl J. Nygard Jr. | SSAA, with optional accompaniment | Early American / Nature / Love | ||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Epitaph | American Folkwomen | Arr. Malcolm Galglish | SSAA, hammer dulcimer | Folk / Love / Comfort / Compassion | ||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Ching-a-Ring Chaw | American Folkwomen | Adapted by Aaron Copeland, arr. Irving Fine | ||||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Four Songs (Op. 17) | From Bingen to Broadway | Johannes Brahms | SSA, 2 horns, and harp, op. 17 | German | Love / Romantic | |
Season 14 (2008-2009) | This Old Man Variations | American Folkwomen | Arr. Betty Bertaux | SSA, piano | Folk | ||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Vos flores rosarum | From Bingen to Broadway | Hildegard of Bingen | ||||
Season 14 (2008-2009) | Charlottown | American Folkwomen | Arr. Charles Bryan | SSA, a cappella | American / Folk |
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Title | Composer/Arranger | Genre/Topical |
|---|---|---|
We Are… (Lessons No. 5) | Ysaye M. Barnwell | Spiritual / Jazz |
Light Out of Darkness | Barbara Harbach | Nature / Celebration |
Crossing the Bar | Gwyneth Walker | Sacred / Love / Praise |
Largo from New World Symphony | Antonin Dvorak, arr. Margaret Dryburgh | |
Bones, Be Good! | Gwyneth Walker | Jazz / Dance |
I Will Be Earth | Gwyneth Walker | Love / Romantic |
Amazing Grace | Arr. Joan Szymko | Sacred |
Songs for Women's Voices | Gwyneth Walker | |
The Tree of Peace | Gwyneth Walker | Sacred / Love / Hope / Encouragement |
Hands, All Hands Around (from Quilters) | Barbara Damashek | Opera / Early American / Contemporaty / Women's Lives |
Now I Become Myself | Gwyneth Walker | Women's Lives / Encouragement / Celebration |
Lux Aeterna from Missa | Z. Randall Stroope | Sacred / Missa |
Excerpts from Princess Ida | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
There, 'Twixt the Ox and Donkey | Derek Holman | Christmas / Sacred |
Black is the color of my true love's hair | Arr. Stephen Mager | Early American |
A Child is Born | Mark Sirett | Christmas / Sacred |
Swing low, sweet chariot | Arr. Stephen Mager | African American / Spiritual / Encouragement |
Psalm (Lament) | Carolee Coombs-Stacy | Sacred / Comfort / Compassion |
A Pentatonic Alleluia | Ross Whitney | Sacred / Celebration / Processional |
Ding Dong Merrily on High | Arr. Howard Cable | Christmas |
Come, Shepherds, Come | Derek Holman | |
Excerpts from HMS Pinafore and Ruddigore | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
Now in the Manger | Derek Holman | Christmas / Sacred / Celebration |
Excerpts from Ruddigore, The Mikado, Yeomen of the Guard, and Sorcerer | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
There Is No Rose | Eleanor Daley | Christmas / Old English / Sacred |
Past the Mirror | Gay Holmes Spears | Women's Lives / Contemporary |
Song of the Angels | Mark Sirett | |
The Season of Singing | Gay Holmes Spears | Sacred / Love |
Wings of Night | Bruce Vantine | Lullaby / Nature / Peace |
Excerpts from The Mikado | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
Mary Anne | Arr. Stephen Mager | Folk |
I Sing of a Maiden | Eleanor Daley | Sacred / Old English |
Excerpts from Iolanthe | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
Excerpts from Pirates of Penzance | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
Three Sacred Harp Arrangements | Arr. Martha Shaffer | |
Away in a Manger | Edwin T. Childs | Chri |
O My Dear Heart | Eleanor Daley | Christmas / Sacred / Praise / Lullaby |
Sing We Now of Christmas | Arr. Thomas Miller | Christmas / Sacred / Praise |
Gossip Scene, When a Woman Has a Baby (from Street Scene) | Kurt Weill | |
Cripple Creek | Arr. Tom Porter | Folk American |
Two pieces from Three Sacred Choruses (Op. 37) | Johannes Brahms | Sacred |
The Saga of Jenny (from Lady in the Dark) | Kurt Weill | |
Caritas abundat | Hildegard of Bingen | |
Shenandoah | Arr. Carl J. Nygard Jr. | Early American / Nature / Love |
Epitaph | Arr. Malcolm Galglish | Folk / Love / Comfort / Compassion |
Ching-a-Ring Chaw | Adapted by Aaron Copeland, arr. Irving Fine | |
Four Songs (Op. 17) | Johannes Brahms | Love / Romantic |
This Old Man Variations | Arr. Betty Bertaux | Folk |
Vos flores rosarum | Hildegard of Bingen | |
Charlottown | Arr. Charles Bryan | American / Folk |
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