CONCERTS & REPERTOIRE
2008
May 4, 2008 Cinco de Mayo
March 2, 2008 Interfaith Concert (Topic Angels)
2007
Dec. 8, 2007 Holiday Concert Messiah
June 6, 2007 Brahms, Ein deutches Requiem
April 8, 2007
Feb. 12, 2007 Interfaith Concert (Topic )
2006
Dec. 16, 2006 Holiday Concert
Nov. 13, 2007 Disney Hall, Jewish Federation Concert, One People, Many Voices, with LA Philharmonic Orchestra
Nov. 12, 2006 ADA Program: Music and the Holocaust Survival, Resistance And Response
August 12, 2006 Mozart Festival Regina Coeli
May 7, 2006 Pachebel Magnificat
Mozart, God is our Refuge K20, Cibavit Eos K44, Quaerite Primum Regnum Dei K 86
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine
Kodaly Jesus and the Traders
Dvorak Mass in D Major
Feb. 12, 2006 Interfaith Concert (Topic Creation)
Copland In the Beginning
Pinkham In the Beginning of Creation
Tom Scott The Creation
Ami Aloni Let There Be Light
Haydn The Heavens are Telling
Strimple To Him that Overcometh
Gregorian Chant Veni Creator Spiritus Adon Olam
Mendelssohn Lord, Our Creator, from Elijah
2005
Dec. 15, 2005 Holiday Concert (Sally Struthers)
Strimple Magnificat
Haydn The Heavens are Telling
Vaughan Williams Benedicite, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Handel Halleluljah, Amen
Dec. 1, 2005 Memorial Service for Ralph Edwards
May 22, 2005 Bach, B Minor Mass
2004
Dec. 11, 2004 Holiday Concert (Larry King)
Handel, Messiah
Mozart, Regina Coeli , Magnificat
Nov. 7, 2004 Interfaith Concert (Topic Psalms)
June 6, 2004 Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem
2003
Dec. 6, 2003 Holiday Concert
Beethoven Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Brenda Jones, Piano
Sept. 21, 2003 Koheleth, Interfaith Concert (Topic Ecclesiastes)
May 25, 2003 Across the Baltic Concert
Ciurlionis, Kyrie
Luciana Garutas, Musu Tevs Devesis
John Helmich Roman, Praise the Lord, All Ye Nations
Tchaikovsky, The Cherubic Hymn
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, So Vjunon Ja Chozhu
Koslowsky, Dies Irae
Shostakovich, The Execution of Stepan Razin
Feb. 23, 2003 R. Vaughan Williams , Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Fantasia on the Old 104 th Psalm Tune with Robert Blocker, Piano
2002
Dec. 8, 2002 Holiday Concert
Strimple, Nativities
June 9, 2002 Thompson, Peacable Kingdom
Faure, Requiem, Op 48
March 24, 2002 Messiah Sing-along, Parts II and III
March 16, 2002 Memorial Concert for Frances Russell
Feb. 24, 2002 Ellington, Sacred Concert
2001
Dec. 8, 2001 Holiday Concert (Genie Francis & Jonathan Frakes)
Bach, Magnificat
June 10, 2001 Ellington, Sacred Concert , with Jack Lantz Big Band
April 1, 2001 Beethoven, Mass in C Major, Op 86
Strimple, Pacem Desiderans
2000
Dec. 20, 2000 Holiday Concert (Eric Braeden)
Music by Mozart, Buxtehude, Holst, Bach and Handel
Nov. 20, 2000 Concert in Prague
May 7, 2000 Concert with music by Strimple
April 2 & 14, 2000 Handel, Israel in Egypt
June 7, 2000 Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring 100 th Anniversary Celebration, Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts
1999
July 18, 1999 Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies Concert, Oxford, England
May 2, 1999 Music of Judith Lang Zaimon
March 26, 1999 Ernest Block's Abodath Hakodesh Sacred Service
1998
Dec. 10, 1998 Holiday Concert (Debby Reynolds)
Messiah, Additional music by Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff
June 7, 1998 Antonin Dvorak, Saint Ludmila, Opus 71
March 29, 1998 Lenten concert
1997
Dec. 11, 1997 Holiday Concert (David Birney & Christopher Norris)
Music by Holst, Sweelinck, Donizetti, Back and Strimple
Sept. 21, 1997 Austrian-American Day, music by Menken, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Kreisler, Jurmann
June 27, 1997 Baltic States and Denmark Concert, Lawson-Westen Home
June 9, 1997 In Commemoration of Lidice
May 18, 1997 Bach, Der Herr denket an uns (Cantata #196)
Schubert, Mass #2 in G Major
Additional music by Strimple, Gustav Holst
With Beverly Hills High School Madrigal Singers
1996
Dec. 12, 1996 Holiday Concert (Mel Gibson)
Mozart, Dixit Dominus K 193a, Magnificat K193b, Mass in C
Major K 317 (Coronation Mass)
Oct. 15, 1996 USC Contemporary Music Ensemble, Frederick Lesemann, the water in the boat
May 19, 1996 R. Vaughan Williams, Mass in G Minor
Additional music by Ami Aloni, Daniel Gawthrop, David Hamilton, Grahms, Morten Lauridsen
April 28, 1996 City of Santa Monica 50 th Anniversary Finale Program, All Beethoven Program
March 23, 1996 Holy Week Concert (Dan Akroyd)
Music by Orlando Gibbons, Zoltan Kodaly, Jan Hanus, and
Haydn's Mass in Time of Anxiety
March 17, 1996 Johanna Harris Memorial Service, St. Augustine's by the Sea, Santa Monica
March 16, 1996 ADA Western Division Convention Concert, New Church Music from Europe
1995
Dec. 14, 1995 Holiday Concert, Messiah (Delbert Mann & Christopher Norris)
Aug. 1, 1995 Aspach Music Festival
Aug. 3, 1995 Concert in Pisek, Czech Republic
Aug. 6, 1995 Conceret at St. Margaret's, Prague
Aug. 8, 1995 Concert at St. Simon and Juda w/Prague Symphony Orchestra
July 29, 1995 Music from Frontier America
New Czech Motets (Graham, Ropek, Even, Hanus)
Randall Thompson, Pueri hebraeorum
Gideon Klein, Three Pieces from Terezin
Ernst Krenek, Psalmverse zue Kommunion
Bernstein, The Lark
Strimple, Ubi Caritas
Aaron Copland, Two Old American Songs
May 13, 1995 Concert featuring music by Amy Beach and Nick Strimple
March 5, 1995 All Block Concert
1994
Dec. 8, 1994 Holiday Concert, (Delbert Mann & Christopher Norris
Music by Alfred Burt, Haydn, Anton Bruckner, Herbert Howells, Tchaikovsky, Strimple
May 15, 1994 Dvorak , Sabat Mater, Op 58
March 13, 1994 Strimple, Cuchulain's Fight With the Sea
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
1993
Nov, 21, 1993 Made In LA
Halsey Stevens , Venite, exultamus
Narciso Duran , OFM, Misa de Cataluna
Ramiro Cortes , Three Spanish Songs
Igor Stravinsky , Anthem
Paul Reale , Two Madrigals
Lawrence Morton , Psalm 150
Frederick Lesemann , Water in the Boat
Five Early Spanish-Californian Folksongs
Miklos Rozsa , To Everything There is a Season
June 27, 1993 R. Vaughan Williams , Five English Folk Songs
Lukas Foss , Behold! I Build a House
Roger Sessions , Turn O Libertad
Joseph Kantor , Let us Dance, Let Us Sing
Aaron Copland , Lark
Brahms , Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52
March 21 & 23, 1993 Salomone Rossi , Hal'luyah Hal'li Nafshi ete Adonai, Ami Alino, Ahavat Olam, Havu Ladonai, Kaddish, Hatov,
V'Ahavgta
Brahms , A German Requiem
1992
Nov. 15, 1992 Richard Willis , The Drenched Land, Song of Praise, Fantasy for Organ, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Give unto the Lord
Doug Borwick , Omagio a Richard
Steven Stucky , Spring and Fall
June 16, 1992 William Billings, David's Lamentation
Stephen Foster, Three Songs
William Schuman, To All, to Each
Randall Thompson, Pueri Hebraeorum
Ramiro Cortes, Three Spanish Songs
Richard Willis, Two Madrigals
Charles Ives, Two Pieces
Halsey Stevens, Psalm 98
Roy Harris, Asperges me, Domine
Ross Lee Finney, Two Canons from Spherical Madrigals '
Elliott Carter, Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
Aaron Copland, Two from Old American Songs'
Leonard Bernstein, Candide
March 29, 1992 Program of Czech music, composed by Krystof Harant, Dvorak, Gideon Klein, Leos Janacek, and Petr Eben.
1991
Dec. 12, 1991 Holiday Concert (Jimmy Stewart)
Nov. 10, 1991 Ivan Erod, Drei Gedichte aus Gothes West-Ostlicher Divan'
Ernst Krenek, Psalmverse zue Kommunion, O Holy Ghost
Gottfried von Einem, Unterwegs , Zyklus fur gemischten Chor
Hugo Wolf, Three Songs
Anton Webern, Entflieht auf leichten Kahnen
Arnold Schonberg, Three Folksongs
W.A. Mozart, Quaerite primum regnum Dei
Anton Bruckner, Two Motets
Rene Staar, Kyrie I
Franz Schubert, Mirjams Siegesgesang, D. 942
March 3 & 17, 1991 Bernstein, Mozart, Brahms, Austrian emigrees who settled in Los Angeles (Schonberg, Zeisl, Korngold).
March 12, 1991 Singing in the Lion's Mouth, music performed and composed At the Theresienstadr Concentratrion Camp, Simon Weisenthal Center
1990
Nov. 4, 1990 Antonin Dvorak , Amid Nature
Bohuslav Martinu , Songs on One Page, The Primrose
Gideon Klein , Two Madrigals
Bedrich Smetana , Finale from The Bartered Bride
Dvorak , Moravain Duets, Rusalk
Janacek , Jenufa
Peter Eben , Zauberspruch del Liebsten zu beschworen
July 8, 1990 W. A. Mozart , Choruses from Thamos, King of Egypt K. 345
Krystof Harant , Qui Confidunt in Domino
C. T. Pachebel , Magnificat
A. Dvoracek , Improvisation
Peter Eben, Moto Ostinato from Musica Dominicalis
Charles Ives , Variations on America
Elliott Carter , Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
Louis Vierne , Messe Solennelle in C minor, Op. 16
March 25, 1990 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Super Flumina Babylonis
Samuel Welsley, In Exitu Israel
David Nowakowsky, Adonoi Z'choronu
Nick Strimple, Two Songs from Psalm 116
Gideon Klein, Prvni Hrish
Pavel Haas, Al S'fod
Bohuslav Martinu, Polni Mse
1991
Dec. 12, 1991 Holiday Concert, with music by Mozart, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Hermann Schroeder, Strimple
June 23, 1991 Mozart , Mass in C Minor
Antonin, Dvorak, Saint Ludmilla
1989
Nov. 19, 1989 Peter Eben, Zaubersprunch del Liebsten zu beschworen
Three Madrigals fromo Il Lauro Secco
J. Brahms, Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65
Randall Thompson , The Peacable Kingdom
Grant Beglarian , And All the Hills Echoed
June 25, 1989 Jan Hanus, Mse Hlaholska, Op 106
Antonin Rejcha, Te Deum
Feb, 26, 1989 Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
Ludwig van Beethoven, Scottish Songs
Edward Elgar, The Snow
John Wilbye, Three Madrigals
W. A. Mozart, Missa brevis in F, K 192
1988
Nov. 27, 1988 Howard Hanson , Two Psalms
Sven - Erik Back , Utrannsaka mig
Johan Helmich Roman , Two Psalms
Handel , Dixit Dominus
Feb, 28, 1988 Brahms, Seisl, Schumann, Four Nocturnes
R. Vaughan Williams, Five English Folk Songs
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
1987
Nov. 14, 1987 Performance at the First Presbyterian Church of Downey
Gioachino Rossini , Petite messe solennelle
Feb. 22, 1987 Aaron Copland, In the Beginning
Charles Ives, Three Pieces
Randall Thompson, Three Pieces
Virgil Thompson, Hymns from the Old South
Samuel Barber, Three Songs
Grant Beglarian, And All the Hills Echoed
1986
Nov. 2, 1986 Samuel Barber, Reincarnations
Leonard Bernstein, The Lark
Stephen Foster, Six Songs
Ross Lee Finney, Spherical Madrigals
May 10, 1986 Concert with Downey Symphony Orchestra, with music by Beethoven and Haydn
Feb. 2, 1986 An Afternoon with Fester Hairston, conducted by Mr. Hairston
Jester Hairstson, Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Home in Dat Rock, Crucifixion,
Hold On!, Great God A'Mighty, Long John Done Gone, Christmas Gift, Amen
1985
Dec. 8, 1985 Scarlatti , St. Cecilia Mass 1720
Tomas Luis da Victoria , Ave Maria
Gaetano Donizetti , Ave Maria
Anton Bruckner , Ave Maria
Peter Mennin , The Christmas Story
May 18, 1985 Concert with Downey Symphony Orchestra
Antonin Dvorark, Saint Ludmilla
March 25, 1985 Antes, Three Anthems
Bohuslav Martinu, Opening the Wells
Dvorak, Mass in D Major, Opus 86, original version 1887
1984
Dec. 2, 1984 American Music
Randall Thompson, Peaceable Kingdom
William Schuman, A Free Song
Elliott Carter, Two Emily Dickenson Settings
Horatio Parker, Urbs Syon unica
Charles Ives, The Circus Band
Oct. 21, 1984 American Music
Billings, Chester
Halsey Stevens, Two Part Songs on Colonial American Texts
Stephen Foster, Two Part Songs
Leonard Bernstein, Candide
May 19, 1984 Concert with Downey Symphony Orchestra, Mozart
March 25, 1984 Handel, Anthem for the Founding Hospital
Mozart, Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339
R. Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Old 104 th Psalm Tune'
1983
May 21, 1983 Concert with Downey Symphony Orchestra, with music by Mozart, Copland, Haydn, Handel
March 27, 1983 Antonin Dvorak, Sabat Mater