All performances conducted by Amy Kaiser unless otherwise indicated.
December 1983, Alice Tully Hall
Byrd: Sing Joyfully; O Magnum Mysterium
Tye: Give almes of thy goods
Gibbons: O clap your hands
Handel: Foundling Hospital Anthem
Britten: Saint Nicolas
March 4, 1984; St. Bartholomew's Church
Walter Hilse, organ
Clerambault: Suite du deuxieme Ton
Charpentier: Laudate Dominum
Palestrina: Missa Tu es Petrus
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 4 in B Flat: Allegretto
Gounod: D'un Coeure que t'aime
Berlioz: Veni, creator spiritus
Fauré: Ave Maria; Cantique de Jean Racine
Satie: Priere des Orgues
Messiaen: O sacrum convivium; L'Ascension: Transportsde joie
May 31, 1984; Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House
Elizabeth Rodgers, Yves Abel, piano
Schubert: Hymne an den Unendlichen
Mozart: Dir, Seele des Weltalls, K.429
Schubert: Gott im Ungewitter
Schumann: Four songs after Robert Burns
Brahms: Nänie
Elgar: Go, song of mine
MacDowell: Slumber song; Barcarolle
Barber: Sure on this shining night
Barber: Reincarnations
Virgil Thomson: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
December 14, 1984, Town Hall
Elizabeth Pruett, soprano; Jeffrey Dooley, countertenor; Gregory Mercer, tenor; David Arnold, bass; St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Handel: Messiah
March 16, 1985; Town Hall
Jeffrey Gall, countertenor; Joseph Penrod, baritone; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
Ives: The 67th Psalm; General William Booth Enters Into Heaven; Serenity
Randall Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom
Bernstein: Choruses from The Lark
Copland: Lark; Long Time Ago; The Dodger; At the River
Alice Parker, arr.: Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
May 1985, Town Hall
J.S. Bach: Fürchte dich Nicht
Schütz: Seid barmherzig; Aus der Tiefe; Jauchzet dem Herren; Freuet euch des Herren; Das ist je gewisslichwahr
Schein: Die mit Tränen säen
J.S.Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
December 1985
Schütz: Deutsches Magnificat
Dering: Quem vidistis pastores
Gabrieli: O Magnum Mysterium
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Vaughan Williams: Magnificat
Respighi: Lauda per la Natività
March 22, 1986; Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham GoodmanHouse
Elizabeth Pruett, soprano; Lynn Beckstrom, mezzo-soprano; Daniel Pincus, tenor
Bartok: Four Slovak Folk Songs; Five Slovak folksongs
Kodaly: Evening Song
Dvorak: selections from Moravian Duets, op. 32
Brahms: Die Boten der Liebe, op. 61, no. 4
Brahms: Four songs for women's chorus, 2 horns and harp, op. 17
Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, op. 79 (selections)
Taneyev: Ten Choruses, Op. 27 (NEW YORK PREMIERE)
May 29, 1986; Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Andrea Matthews, soprano; Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano; Frank Hoffmeister, tenor; Albert de Ruiter, bass
Haydn: Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse)
Mozart: Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K.339
December 13, 1986; Madison Avenue PresbyterianChurch
Allen Sever, organ; Alyssa Hess Reit, harp; Eric Brewster, percussion
J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude: In dir ist Freude; Lobet den Herrn
Praetorius: Seid fröhlich und jubilieret; En natus est Emanuel; Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (with Distler setting)
Reger: Benedictus, op. 59
Distler: Singet frisch und wohlgemut
Brahms: Geistliches Lied, op. 30; Marienlieder
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
March 15, 1987; Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House
John Aler, tenor; Ida Kavafian, violin; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
Lassus: Trionfo del Tempo; Jam lucis orto sidere;Timor et tremor
Bruce Adolphe: Canticum Arcanum (PREMIERE)
Monteverdi: Ah dolente partita; Quel augellin; Sfogavacon le stelle
Verdi: Pater Noster; Va, Pensiero
Rossini: I gondolieri; La passegiata
May 1987, Alice Tully Hall
Handel: Saul
May 6, 1987; Carnegie Hall
Guest appearance with Opera Orchestra of New York,Eve Queler, Conductor
Dvorak: Rusalka
December 15, 1987; Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Kevin Walters, organ
Britten: Festival Te Deum
Weelkes: Hosanna to the Son of David
Hassler: Beatus vir qui non abiit; Exsultate Deo
Pretorius: Gaudete omnes
Ives: Psalm 90
Dvorák: Mass in D
March 24, 25, 26, 1988; Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Guest appearance with the New York Philharmonic, James Conlon, conductor
Mahler: Das klagende Lied
May 18, 1988; Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Andrea Matthews, soprano; Rebecca Russell, mezzo-soprano; Carl Halvorson, tenor; David Shapero, bass; Levin Baroque Ensemble
Mozart: Vesperae de Domenica K.321
Mozart: Requiem (Franz Beyer ed.)
December 4, 1988; Church of the Holy Trinity
Scheidt: Puer natus in Bethlehem
Schütz: Ein Kind ist uns geboren
Scheidt: In dulci jubilo
Dufay: Gloria ad modum tubae; Ave regina coelorum (with Gregorian chant)
Bruckner: Virga Jesse; Christus factus est; Ave Maria
Hindemith: Apparebit Repentina Dies
J.S. Bach: Wachet auf
arr. David Willcocks: Ding, Dong Merrily on High
John Rutter: Mary's Lullaby
Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
February 26, 1989; Town Hall
Robin McCabe, piano
Vaughan Williams: Five English Folksongs
Copland: An Immorality
Richard K. Winslow: Huswifery
Britten: The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Tippett: Five spirituals from a Child of Our Time
Schickele: Three choruses from e.e. cummings
Jacob Avshalomov: Whimsies
Schickele: Concerto for Piano and Chorus "The Twelve Months" (NEW YORK PREMIERE)
May 19, 1989; Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Beverly Myers, Rachel Rosales, sopranos; Johnson Flucker, countertenor; Jeffrey Thomas, tenor; Paul Rowe, baritone; Nathaniel Watson, baritone; Levin Baroque Ensemble
Handel: Israel in Egypt
December 16-17, 1989; Florence Gould Hall, Alliance Francaise
Darynn Zimmer, soprano; Julian Long, baritone; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano
Gounod: Matinée dans la Montagne
Berlioz: Prière des Enfants; Le chant des Bretons; Hymne à la France
Debussy: Trois chansons
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
Faure: Requiem
John Rutter, arr.: Quittez, Pasteurs
Martin Shaw, arr.: Patapan
Gounod: Bethlehem
Martin Shaw, arr.: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes