Repertoire

Here is the list of our repertoire from the last few years.  CD selections are indicated with take one.
This page is a work in progress

Fall 2024

  • Gesu Bambino – Pietro A. Yon
  • Riu Riu Chiu – arr. Erica Phare-Bergh
  • O magnum mysterium – Morten Lauridsen
  • Noël nouvelet – arr. Erica Phare-Bergh
  • Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella – arr. Sarah Jaysmith
  • Carol from an Irish Cabin – Dale Wood
  • The Angel Gabriel – arr. Paul Ayres

Spring 2024

  • Vichten – Angele Arsenault, arr. Hart Rouge
  • Ave Maria – Allan Bevan
  • Magnificat – Lana Walter
  • Mary Speaks – Daniel E. Gawthrop
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree – Eleanor Daley
  • Pie Jesu from Requiem – Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Reel à bouche – Arr. Malcolm Dalglish
  • Feed the Birds – R. and R. Sherman, arr. Cristi Cary Miller
  • Over the Rainbow
  • Chicken on a Fencepost – Arr. Greg Gilpin
  • Ubi Caritas – Ola Gjeilo

Fall 2023

Spring 2023

  • The Valley – Jane Siberry, arr. Beth Hanson
  • Music In My Mother’s House – Stuart Stotts, arr. David Moore
  • I Have Had Singing – Steven Sametz
  • I Have Had Singing – Ron Jeffers
  • Requiem – Gabriel Fauré, arr. T. Frederick H. Candlyn
  • Cape Breton Lullaby – Kenneth Leslie, arr. Stuart Calvert
  • Magnificat – Isabella Leonarda
  • Concerto for Singing Chickens – Stephen L. Lawrence
  • Log Driver’s Waltz – Wade Hemsworth, arr. Ron Small
  • C’est l’aviron – French-Canadian trad., arr. Donald Patriquin
  • Four Strong Winds – Ian Tyson, arr. Larry Nickel
  • The Parting Glass – Scottish trad. arr. The Wailin’ Jennys

Fall 2022

Fall 2019

  • Procession, Wolcum Yule, (A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28) by Benjamin Britten
  • Noël Bourgignon and In dulci jubilo from A Carol Trilogy, arr. Laura Hawley
  • A Joyful Noel, by Emily Crocker
  • Christmas Round, by Hank Beebe
  • Ave Maria, by Vavilov or Caccini
  • Angel’s Carol, by John Rutter
  • Frobisher Bay, by James Gordon
  • Count Your Blessings, by Irving Berlin

Spring 2019

  • Herr, du siehst (duet from Cantata No. 9) – J.S. Bach
  • Ave generosa – text by Hildegard von Bingon, music by Ola Gjeilo
  • Pink Panther theme – Henry Mancini
  • I’se the B’y – Newfoundland trad., arr. John Govedas
  • This Little Light of Mine – arr. Ysaye Barnwell
  • The Tree Toad – Ruth Watson Henderson
  • Sigh no more, ladies – text by Shakespeare, music by Healey Willan
  • No, Thank you, John – text by Christina Rossetti, music by Ruth Morris Gray
  • Sumer is icumen in – English trad., 13th c.
  • Benedictus – Johannes Brahms
  • Märznacht – Johannes Brahms
  • The 59th Street Bridge Song – Simon & Garfunkel, arr. Groote
  • The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby – Irish trad., arr. Wayland Rogers
  • Auld Lang Syne – Scottish trad., arr. Mark Sirett

Fall 2018

  • Deck the Hall in 7/8 – arr. James McKelvy
  • Ave generosa – Text by Hildegard von Bingen, Music by Ola Gjeilo
  • The Holly and the Ivy – arr. Kirby Shaw
  • The First Mercy – poem by Bruce Blunt, music by Peter Warlock
  • Carol from an Irish Cabin – Dale Wood
  • Carol of the Children – John Rutter
  • Ave Maria – Franz Biebl
  • Ding-a-Ding-a-Ding – Greg Gilpin

Spring 2018

Fall 2017

  • Gesu Bambino – Pietro A. Yon
  • When Was Jesus Born? – arr. Brian Trant
  • The Marvellous Toy – Tom Paxton
  • Carol from an Irish Cabin – Dale Wood
  • Winds of Peace (Ruach, Ruach) – arr. Nancy Grundahl
  • The Twelve Days after Christmas – Frederick Silver

2016-2017

  • Fallt mit Danken (Weinachtsoratorien) – J.S. Bach
  • Tantum ergo – Stephanie Martin  take one
  • Chantez à Dieu – Eleanor Daley
  • Ave verum corpus – Gabriel Fauré
  • Missa brevis – Stephen Hatfield
  • To People Who Have Gardens – English trad., arr. Steven Smith  take one
  • Cuckoo (Friday Afternoons) – Benjamin Britten
  • Hotaru Koi – Japanese children’s song, arr. R. Agaru
  • Gamelan – R. Murray Schafer
  • La Danza (Les Soirées Musicales) – Gioachino Rossini
  • Bring Me Little Water, Silvy – Huddie Ledbetter, arr. Moira Smiley
  • Hébé – Ernest Chausson
  • Frobisher Bay – James Gordon, arr. Tamarack  take one
  • The Parting Glass – Irish trad., arr. Wailin’ Jennies  take one
  • A Child Is Born – Nick Page
  • Christmas Is Coming – English trad., arr. Lana Walter
  • Apple-Tree Wassail – English trad., arr. Stephen Hatfield
  • Willie, Bring Your Little Drum – Burgundian carol, arr. Lois Rhea
  • Christmas Lullaby – John Rutter

2015-2016

  • Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten (Cantata No. 78) – Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Laudate pueri (Drei Motetten, op. 39, No.2) – Felix Mendelssohn
  • Da pacem – Jeff Enns
  • The Dawn is not Distant – Christine Donkin
  • All through the Night – Welsh traditional, arr. Donald Patriquin
  • The Hockey Song – Stompin’ Tom Connors, arr. Larry Nickel
  • Changed Forever – Shari Ulrich, arr. Kate McColl
  • O magnum mysterium – Morten Lauridsen
  • Five Japanese Love Poems – Walter Watson  take one
  • Mon coeur se recommande à vous – Orlando di Lasso  take one
  • Ein Hennlein Weiss – Antonio Scandello  take one
  • “Suite” de Lorca – Einojuhani Rautavaara
  • The Song That Goes Like This (from Spamalot) – John Du Prez and Eric Idle
  • Selections from Stabat Mater – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

2014-2015

  • Ave Maria – Cesár Alejandro Carrillo
  • Ave Regina Coelorum – Gregor Aichinger
  • Magnificat – Lana Walter
  • Heaven Somewhere – African-American Spiritual, arr. Hatfield
  • Red River Dances – American Folk Songs, arr. Cristi Cary Miller
  • Già Il Sole Dal Gange – Alessandro Scarlatti, arr. Jill Gallina  take one
  • Concerto for Singing Chickens and Piano – Stephen L. Lawrence (with apologies to Beethoven and Tschaikowsky)
  • When Love Is Kind – English folk melody, arr. A. Lehmann
  • The Twelve Days After Christmas – Frederick Silver
  • Scherzo – Paul Goldstaub
  • The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – Don Raye/Hughie Prince, arr. Frank Metis
  • For Good, from Wicked – Stephen Schwartz, arr. Audrey Snyder
  • Oh, Dear! What Can The Matter Be? – English folk song / François Gossec, arr. Ruth Artman

2013-2014

  • Ave Maria – César Alejandro Carillo
  • Christe eleison, from Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 – J. S. Bach
  • Bist du bei mir from Anna Magdalena’s Notebook – Gottfried Stölzel, composed ca. 1718
  • Ave verum corpus, Op. 65 no. 1 – Gabriel Fauré
  • Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339 – W. A. Mozart, arr. Doreen Rao
  • Alleluia, from Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 – W. A. Mozart
  • Sound the Trumpet – Henry Purcell
  • Art is Calling for Me, from The Enchantress – Victor Herbert
  • My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose – Robert Burns, trad. Scottish, arr. B. Sadler Wells and Emily Lyall
  • Shule Agra – trad. Irish, arr. Judith Watson
  • How Do I Love Thee? – Nathan Christensen
  • To People who have Gardens – trad. Scottish melody, arr. Stephen Smith
  • Cuckoo, from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 – Benjamin Britten
  • Henry King – Norman Gilbert, text by Hillaire Belloc
  • Chad Gadya – trad. Jewish, arr. Mark Glick
  • One, from A Chorus Line – Marvin Hamlisch, arr. Anita Kerr

2012-2013

  • Missa Brevis in D – Benjamin Britten
  • Petites Voix: Five Settings for Women’s Chorus – Francis Poulenc
  • Two Spanish Traditional Songs – arr. Michael Neaum
  • Mille Cherubini in Coro – Franz Schubert
  • Come, Ye Makers Of Song – Ruth Watson Henderson
  • Ave Maria – Asíns Arbó  take one
  • Pastor, quien Madre Virgen ha mirado – Francisco Guerrero
  • Suscepit Israel from Magnificat – J.S. Bach
  • Three Little Maids, from The Mikado – Arthur Sullivan
  • Il est bel et bon – Pierre Passereau
  • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Jerome Kern, arr. William Stickles
  • Folk Songs op. 15 (#1, 2, 4, 6) – Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Pop Goes the Weasel: a choral paraphrase – Wilhelm Schäffer, arr. John A. O’Shea
  • The Quangle Wangle’s Hat – Felicity M. Williams
  • Rattlesnake Skipping Song – Derek Holman
  • Shiru! – Allan E. Naplan
  • Dona Nobis Pacem / Song Of Peace – Traditional / Mary Donnelly