(Compiled by Irving Ravin)
Only major or new works are listed, but repetitions of these are not given. Some listings give only the choral portion, omitting orchestral or solo vocal selections presented. Some programs were given by smaller groups within Dessoff such as a women's chorus, motet singers, etc. Some programs were parts of festivals or otherwise under other auspices than ours. Conductors have included: Margarete Dessoff, Paul Boepple, Leon Barzin, Randall Thompson, and Robert G. Barrow (once). Private concerts, such as for associate members, are omitted.
May 20, 1925
Palestrina, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, Schumann, Brahms, Elgar
May 12, 1926
16th cent.: Thomas Victoria, Jacob Handl (Gallus)
17th cent.: Paolo Agostini
18th cent.: Adolph Hasse, Antonio Caldara
Erwin Lendval, 1883
Schubert, Brahms
April 13, 1927, Town Hall
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Reger, Schubert, Siegfried Ochs, Hans Gal
December 16, 18, 1927
Ludwig Weber: The Birth of Christ (first American performance)
April 18, 1928, Town Hall
16th and 17th century works by Palestrina, Hammerschmidt, Vittoria, Aitchinger, and Scarlatti
Schubert: Drei frohe geistliche Lieder (Petyrek) (first American performance)
Vaughan Williams: Sound Sleep
Czecho-Slovak Folk Songs, arr. by Deems Taylor
December 23, 1928
Brahms, Verdi, Sweelinck, Bach, Petyrek, Wolf
Old English and French carols
April 17, 1929
Schutz, Handel-Brahms, Deems Taylor, Brahms
Aurelio Giorni: Six Modal Quatrains a cappella (first performance)
Hans Gal: Herbstlieder (first performance)
December 22, 1929, Town Hall
Vincent Lubeck: Weinachts Kantate
Andre Caplet: Le Miroir de Jesus
Schuberg: Psalm 23
Felix Petyrek, Ludwig Weber
Old German, French and English Christmas songs
April 15, 1930, Town Hall
Orazio Benevoli: Regna Terrae (first American performance)
Zoltan Kodaly: Two Folk Songs (first American performance)
Hans Gal, Brahms, Louise Talma
Ludwig Thuille, Arnold Mendelssohn, Anton Urspruch (all 19th century)
December 21, 1930, Town Hall
Ronald Murat: Lord I Cry Unto Thee (first performance)
Hans Chemin-Petit: Elfenlied (first American performance)
Schoenberg: Friede Auf Erden
Holst: Ave Maria
Debussy: Trois Chansons
Werner Josten, Randall Thompson, Byrd, Sweelinck, Schubert, Schutz, Urspruch, Hans Huber
February 4, 1931, Barbizon Plaza
Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang
Mozart: Two Canzonettes
Heinrich Kaminski: Drei geistliche Lieder (first American performance)
Leos Janacek: Rikadla (first American performance)
Delius: Two Songs
Schubert-Mandyczewski: Valses Nobles (first American performance)
April 15, 1931, Town Hall
Joaquin Nin: Spanish Folksongs
Hans Gal: Three Songs a cappella (first performance)
Bartok: Four Slovak Folksongs
Bach, Brahms, Loeffler
December 16, 1931, Town Hall
16th century motets by Vittoria, Gallus, Lassus, Aichinger
Johann Michael Bach: Unser Lieben is ein Schatten (first American performance)
Franz Philipp: Unserer Lieben Frau (first American performance)
Randall Thompson: Rosemary
Peter Warlock: The Full Heart (first American performance)
Petyrek, Louis Victor Saar
March, 15-16, 1932
16th and 17th century English, French and Italian composers
Randall Thompson
April 3, 1932
Randall Thompson: Americana (first performance)
April 9, 1932, Town Hall
Antonio Lotti: Mass in B Flat (first American performance)
Joseph Haas: Rondo, Des Lebens Sonnenschein (first American performance)
January 21, 1933, Town Hall
Andre Caplet: Insciptions Champetres (first American performance)
Hugo Herrman: Act Choretuden (first American performance)
Charles Haubiel: L'Amore Spirituale (first performance)
Lassus, Haydn, Franz Philipp
March 13, 1933
Orazio Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso (first American performance)
April 26, 1933, Town Hall
Lehman Engle: Rain (first performance)
Sem Dresden: Wachterlied (first American performance)
Daniel Ruyneman: Sonatine Chorale
Hans Gal: Three Songs (first American performance)
Howard Brockway: Kentucky Mountain Songs
Brahms, Bach, Nin
December 19, 1933, Town Hall
Conrad Beck: Es Kummt ein Schiff geladen (first American performance)
Hugo Herrman: Chorvariationen uber die Sonnengesange des Franziskus von Assisi (first performance)
Monteverdi-Rieti, Lassus-Rostagno, Brahms, Schubert, Bax,Marion Bauer
April 18, 1934, Town Hall
J.M. Mul: Causa Nostrae Laetitiae (first American performance)
Josip Slavenski: Fticek veli da se zenil bude
Bach, le Jeune, Philipp, Gal, Delius, Kodaly, Brockway
December 29, 1934, Town Hall
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
January 19, 1935, Town Hall
Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden
April 10, 1935, Town Hall
Virgil Thomson: Mass for Women's Voices with Percussion (first performance)
Jacques Pillois: Three Choruses (first American performance)
Lassus, Schoenberg, Herrmann, Schubert
December 18, 1935, Town Hall
Hans Gal: Stille Lieder
Ernest Walker: Motet " One Generation Passeth Away" (first performance)
Bach, Schutz, Siegfried Ochs, Arnold Bax
April 28, 1936, Town Hall
Brahms: Fest- und Gedenkspruche (first New York performance)
Lazar Saminsky: Newfoundland Air (first performance)
J.C. Bach, Reger, Schubert, Ernst Krenek, Verdi
February 2, 1937, Town Hall
Victoria: Magnificat
Lassus, des Pres, Aichinger, de Monte, Schutz (most first New York perfomances)
April 10, 1937, Library of Congress
Hindemith: Part Songs to Old Texts
April 27, 1397, Town Hall
Ludwig Senfl: Three Old German Lieder
Morley: Four Canzonets
Lassus: Four Chansons
Hindemith: Four Lieder on Old Texts (first New York performance)
Copland: The House on the Hill
Israel Citkowitz: The Lamb (first performance)
Thompson: Americana
Canons by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
December 13, 1937, Carnegie Hall
Jacob Weinberg: The Gettysburg Address
February 1, 1938, Town Hall
17th century pre-Bach composers
Schein: Chorale
Schutz: Kleine Geistliche Konzerte
Scheidt: Chorale Motet
Rosenmuller: Geistliche Konzerte
Schutz: Psalm 84
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis
April 19, 1938, Carnegie Hall
Bach: Cantata No. 150
Couperin: Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres
Handel: Duet
Mozart: Mass in F
June 18, 1938
Bach, Schein, Mozart
October 28, 1938
Hassler: Two Madrigals
Seth Bingham: Poems of Passion
Schein, Buxtehude, Bach, Lassus, Morely, Hindemith, Debussy
November 14, 1938
Hassler, Morley, Lassus, Charles Tessier, Hindemith, Debussy
January 31, 1939, Town Hall
Berlioz: The Death of Ophelia; The Trap
Songs, ballads, and romances by Schubert, Schumann, Haydn,Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy, and Ravel
March 15, 19, 1939
Schubert, Schutz, Bach
April 23, 1939, Town Hall
Hindemith: Five Unaccompanied Choruses
April 28, 1939, Carnegie Hall
Victoria: Magnificat in 6th Mode
Gabrielli: Beata Es Virgo
Lassus: Timor et Tremor; Providebam Dominum
Ernest Levy: Hymnus Symphonicus (first American performance)
Buxtehude: O Lux Beata
Mozart: Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
January 30, 1940, Town Hall
Palestrina: Magnificat in 4th Mode; Stabat Mater; Assumpta Est Maria
Lassus: Providebam Dominum; Missa pro defunctis; Sixth Penitential Psalm
April 7, 1940, Carnegie Hall
Schutz: Psalm 98
16th and 17th works by Victoria, de Cabezon, Lassus, Palestrina, Buxtehude, Luther, Aichinger, Sweelinck
April 14, 1940, Carnegie Hall
Handel: Israel in Egypt
January 14, 1941
Lassus, Couperin, Palestrina, Schutz, Bach
March 29 and May 21, 1941, Carnegie Hall
Brahms: German Requiem
May 8, 1941, Carnegie Hall
Honegger: Nicolas de Flue (first American performance)
January 27 (Town Hall) and February 13, 1942
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah, Three German Psalms, settings of Petrarch and Ronsard poems
May 11, 1942
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann
Janaury 31, 1943, Town Hall
Schutz: Symphonia Sacra
Josquin des Pres: De Beata Virgina
Lassus works
May 4, 1943, and February 24, 1950, Carnegie Hall
Bach: St. John Passion
March 4, 1944, Carnegie Hall
Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor
March 13, 1944 and November 4, 1946, Carnegie Hall
Schubert: Mass in G
January 24, 1945
Dufay: Magnificat
des Pres: Pange Lingua
Bach, Brassard
March 3, 1945, Carnegie Hall
Ernst Levy: Ninth Symphony (Sh'ma Yisrael) (first performance)
April 24, 1945, Carnegie Hall
Rameau: In Convertendo
Purcell: Funeral Service; The Lord is My Light
Bach: Magnificat
January 29, 1946
Schutz: Dialogus; Wedding Music; Madrigal (first American performances); other works
May 6, 1946, Town Hall
Hassler: Two Motets
Gallus: Four Motets
Palestrina, Purcell, Schein, Handel, Couperin
February 8, 1947, Town Hall
French Renaissance concert
Dufay: Magnificat in 8th Mode
le Jeune: Madrigal; Psalm 136
de la Rue, de Binchois, Brasart, Compere, Brumel, Mouton,de Sermisy, Clement, Janequin
April 25, 1947, Carnegie Hall
Mozart: Requiem
Gallus: Motets and Hymns
December 20, 1947, and December 17, 1949, Carnegie Hall
Carols
February 6, 1948, Town Hall
des Pres program
Psalm 129, Motets, Antiphons, Chansons, Rondeaus
April 23, 1948, and April 1, 1949, Carnegie Hall
Haydn: The Creation
December 5, 1948, Carnegie Hall
Kodaly: Ave Maria; The Angel and the Shepherds
Ernest Levy: Hear Ye Children
Betsy Jolas: To Everything There is a Season
des Pres, Palestrina, Lassus
May 11, 1949, Town Hall
Palestrina, Lassus, Handl, Hassler, Schein, Purcell, Bach
April 27-28, 1950, Metropolitan Museum; March 5, 1951, Town Hall;
April 15, 1951
Perotinus: Salvatoris Hodie; Viderunt Omnes
Machaut: Mass Notre Dame
December 20, 1950, 92nd Street Y
Bach: Motets
January 18, 1952, Carnegie Hall
Frank Martin: Golgotha (first American performance)