Works Performed
Catskill Choral Society prides itself on its selection of both traditional and contemporary choral music for male and female voices.
The following is a list of works performed by the Society over the past few decades. While this is not an exhaustive list of past works performed, it does give an indication of the breadth and scope of the Society's musical range over the past 20-plus years. These concerts have also included additional short works by PDQ Bach, Robert Baksa, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Antonio Estevez, Scott Joplin, Dan Locklair, Ben Oakland, Sergei Rachmaninoff, John Rutter, Robert Shaw, Gregg Smith and folk songs, spirituals and opera choruses.
PRE-1980
Johann Sebastian Bach, Saint Matthew
Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio
Ludvig von Beethoven, Mass in C Major
Johannes Brahms, Liebeslieder Walzer
Johannes Brahms, Nanie
Benjamin Britten, Festival Te Deum
Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
William Byrd, Ego sum panis verum
Carleton Clay, Cantata
Aaron Copland, In the Beginning
David Distler, Psalm 98
David Distler, Totentanz
Dressler, O Praise Jehovah
Antonin Dvorak, Te Deum
Samuel Felstad, Jonah
Giovanni Gabrielli, In ecclesias
Giovanni Gastoldi, Balletti
George F. Handel, Dettinger Te Deum
Franz Joseph Haydn, Missa Brevis
Arthur Honegger, King David
Egil Hovland, Saul
Zoltan Kodaly, Missa Brevis
David Luboff, African Mass
Wolfgang Mozart, Coronation Mass
Wolfgang Mozart, Regina Coeli
Wolfgang Mozart, Solemn Vespers, K339
Giovanni Palestrina, Missa Brevis
Peters, Jubilate Deo
John Rutter, The Lord is My Light ...
Heinrich Schutz, Sing Unto the Lord a New Song
Franz Schubert, Mass in C
Franz Schubert, Mass in G Major
Franz Schubert, Mass #5 in A Flat
Tom Scott, The Creation
Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
Giuseppi Verdi, Requiem Mass
Victoria, Mass, Alma Redemptions
Antonio Vivaldi, Beautus Vir
Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria
Woolf, Mass with Electronic Tape
SPRING 1980
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Franz Joseph Haydn, Harmonie Messe
SPRING 1981
Benjamin Britten, Choral Dances from Gloriana
SPRING 1981 (free concert)
Felix Mendelssohn, Heilig
William Walton, The Twelve
FALL 1981
Francis Poulenc, Gloria
SPRING 1982
Johannes Brahms, German Requiem
FALL 1982
Franz Joseph Haydn, Third Mass (Lord Nelson)
Randall Thompson, The Peaceable Kingdom
FALL 1983
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah
SPRING 1984
Johann Sebastian Bach, Nun ist das Heil, Cantata #50
Johann Sebastian Bach, Preludio Num 22
Giovanni Gabrielli, Jubilate Deo
FALL 1984
George F. Handel, Judas Maccabaeus
SPRING 1985
Gabriel Faure, Requiem
FALL 1985
Giacomo Puccini, Messa di Gloria
SPRING 1986
Henry Cowell, Edson Hymns and Fuging Tunes
FALL 1986
Benjamin Brittten, A Ceremony of Carols
Maurice Durufle, Requiem
SPRING 1987
P.E. Bach, Heilig
J. Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit
Johann Ludwig Bach, Das ist meine Freund
Johann Sebastian Bach, Magnificant in D
Wilhelm F. Bach, Lobet Gott, Unsern Herrn...
FALL 1987
Daniel Locklair, Missa Brevis (Brass Mass, commissioned work)
Daniel Pinkham, Christmas Cantata
Randall Thompson, Alleluia
FALL 1988
George F. Handel, Messiah
FALL 1989
Georges Bizet, Te Deum
Wolfgang Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, K626
SPRING 1990
George F. Handel, Israel in Egypt
FALL 1990
Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B Minor
SPRING 1991
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
George F. Handel, The King Shall Rejoice
John Rutter, Requiem
FALL 1991
Wolfgang Mozart, Mass in C Minor
FALL 1992
M. Searle Wright, The Green Blade Riseth
SPRING 1993
John Rutter, Magnificat
FALL 1993
William Billings, Songs (1780s)
Luigi Cherubini, Requiem
George F. Handel, Zadok the Priest
SPRING 1994
Michael Haydn, Timete Dominum
Giovanni B. Pergolesi, Magnificat
Francis Poulenc, Gloria
FALL 1994
William Billings, Lamentations Over Boston
Aaron Copland, Old American Songs
Charles Ives, They Are There
SPRING 1995
Franz Liszt, Christus
R. Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem
SPRING 1996
Gabriel Faure, Requiem
Franz Schubert, Stabat Mater
FALL 1996
Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei
SPRING 1997
George Bristow, Daniel
FALL 1997
“Poetry, Folksongs and Spiritual Settings,” small works by John Rutter, Moses Hogan and others
SPRING 1998
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
FALL 1998
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
John Rutter, Magnificat
SPRING 1999
World Famous Opera Choruses (selected works)
FALL 1999
Wolfgang Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, K626
SPRING 2000
Tom Johnson, Bonhoeffer Oratorium(American premiere)
FALL 2000
Antonin Reicha, Requiem (American premiere)
SPRING 2001
Franz Joseph Haydn, The Creation
FALL 2001
Antonin Dvorak, Stabat Mater
SPRING 2002
Antoine Charpentier, Te Deum
Francis Poulenc, Motets Pour le Temps de Noel
FALL 2002
Gabriel Faure, Requiem
Gabriel Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Gabriel Faure, Pavane
Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria
SPRING 2003
Philip Glass, Itaipu
Antonin Dvorak, Te Deum
Aaron Copland, Suite from The Tender Land
FALL 2003
Gioacchino Rossini, Petite Messe Solennelle
SPRING 2004
Martin Palmeri, Mass to Buenos Aires: Misatango
Johannes Brahms, Vier Quartette
Johannes Brahms, Vier Gesange
FALL 2004
Andrea Gabrieli, Magnificat
Arvo Part, Magnificat
Franz Schubert, Magnificat
Johann Sebastian Bach, Magnificat
SPRING 2005
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vespers (All-Night Vigil, Opus 37)
FALL 2005
Benjamin Britten, Saint Nicholas: A Cantata
John Rutter, Gloria
Charles Wood/G.R. Woodard, Ding Dong! Merrily On High
Reginald Jacques, The Holly and the Ivy
Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
Moses Hogan, Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King
SPRING 2006
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
FALL 2006
Carl Orff, Catulli Carmina
Thomas Licata, In two places, In two pieces (world premiere)
Selected Russian folk songs
SPRING 2007
A Tribute to Moses Hogan
FALL 2007
Ludwig von Beethoven, Mass in C
Ludwig von Beethoven, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Arthur Honegger, A Christmas Cantata
SPRING 2008
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky, Svete tihiy
Eric Whitacre, Lux Arumque
Thomas Tallis, O Nata Lux
Morten Lauridsen, 'O Nata Lux' from Lux Aeterna
Daniel Gawthrop, Bright Journeys
Imant Raminsh, Song of the Stars, The Sower, The Sun is a Luminous Shield, Daybreak Song
Ludwig von Beethoven, 'O Welche Lust'from Fidelio
Alexandre Gretchaninoff , Svete tihiy
Johannes Brahms, Der Abend
Randall Thompson, Choose Something Like a Star
John Lennon and Paul McCartney,Blackbird
Eric Whitacre, Animal Crackers
Charles Ives, The Circus Band
FALL 2009
Joseph Haydn, Grosse Mariazeller Messe in C
Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria
Georg Friedrich Handel, And the Glory of the Lord
Jerry Ulrich, arrg., A La Nanita Nana
Kenneth Jennings, Calm on the Listening Ear of Night
Al Stillman & Robert Allen, Home for the Holidays
Dov Frimer, Al Hanissim
Peter Wilhousky, arrg., Ukranian Bell Carol
Georg Friedrich Handel, For Unto Us a Child is Born
Georg Friedrich Handel, Hallelujah Chorus
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Blackbird
Howard Cable arrg., The Twelve Days of Christmas
Spring 2010
David Fanshawe, African Sanctus
Fall 2010 40th Anniversary Celebration
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gloria from Coronation Mass in C Major
Johannes Brahms, Selig sind die toten from Ein deutsches Requiem
Steven Sondheim, arr. Beck, The Ballad of Sweeney Todd from Sweeney Todd
Leonard Bernstein, arr. Edgerton, Somewhere from West Side Story
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rex tremendae majestatis from Requiem in d minor
Johann Sebastian Bach, Et incarnauts est from Mass in b minor
Georg Friedrich Handel, He Spake the Word and There Came All Manner of Flies and He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain from Israel in Egypt
Franz Joseph Haydn, The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God from The Creation
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Medley from South Pacific
Jerome Kern, arr. Charles Burnsworth, All the Things You Are
Carl Orff, O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Giuseppi Verdi, Va pensiero sull’alli dorate from Nabucco
Gabriel Fauré, Introit and Kyrie Eleison from Requiem in D minor
David Fanshawe, Kyrie from African SanctusRichard Wagner, Pilgrim’s Chorus from Tannhauser
Holiday 2010
John Rutter, Gloria
Craig Courtney, A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas
Spring 2011
Antonio Salieri, Te Deum in D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in d
minor