Each semester the repertoire of the choirs changes. Over the course of four years, the intention is to expose singers to a breadth of music written in choral traditions of the U.S., Europe, and throughout the world, including music from the 15th-21st centuries, with 20th and 21st century music representing a variety of stylistic traditions, some of which are influenced by folk and popular music traditions. We sing texts written by poets and others that express a range of human experiences and a variety of texts—religious and non-religious texts, texts from Jewish and Christian faiths as well as from cultures that observe other religious traditions (taking into consideration that the concert performance of sacred musics from other traditions may be considered insensitive), secular texts that explore love and even sexuality in a variety of ways, and texts that may deal with issues of race, class, gender, or identity differences.
Premieres
- Alves, Bill, The Cracked Kettle (world premiere)
- Alves, Bill, Li Po Declines (world premiere)
- Alves, Bill, Stein Song #3 A Sonatina (premiere of choral version)
- Andreoni, Roberto, Miguel Mañara: Four excerpts from the stage music (U.S. premiere)
- Beatch, Stuart, Dream of Me as Water (U.S. premiere)
- Dart, Alison (Scripps ’21), November Night (world premiere)
- Goble, Jodi, A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever (world premiere)
- Goble, Jodi, True Witness: A Civil Rights Cantata (commissioned world premiere)
- Gregorio, Joseph, Thy Eternal Summer (world premiere)
- Nora, Anna, Lemmenkäinen’s Mother (world premiere)
- Siegel, Karen, We Will Stand Up (co-commissioned premiere)
- Walton, Anna (Scripps ’14), A Clear Midnight (world premiere)
- Williams, Jonathan (HMC ’14) Aeolian Fibonacci (world premiere)
- Yii Kah Hoe, Forest Threnody (world premiere)
Choral-orchestral works performed
- van Beethoven, Ludwig, Choral Fantasy (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- van Beethoven, Ludwig, Symphony No. 9 (with the Claremont Chorale and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Bernstein, Jeffrey, Fukushima Requiem (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Brahms, Johannes, Ein deutsches Requiem (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Dvořák, Antonin, Te Deum (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Fauré, Gabriel, Requiem (with the Claremont Chorale and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Handel, George Frideric, Messiah (Part One) (with the Orange County Symphony; with the Claremont Chorale)
- Haydn, Joseph, Harmoniemesse (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Haydn, Joseph, Te Deum (with the Chaffey College Chamber Choir and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Lin Yuan, Symphonic Epic: The Echoes of Hakka Earth Buildings (with the Xiamen Philharmonic)
- Mendelssohn, Felix, Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang” (with the Chaffey College Chamber Choir and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, “Coronation” Mass (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Requiem (with the Chaffey College Chamber Choir and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Poulenc, Francis, Gloria (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Poulenc, Francis, Litanies a la Vierge Noire (with the Chaffey College Chamber Choir and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Orff, Carl, Carmina Burana (with the Claremont Chorale and the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Dona Nobis Pacem (with the Claremont Concert Orchestra)
A sampling of other works performed in recent years
- Aleotti, Vittoria, Hor che la vaga Aurora
- Aleotti, Vittoria, Lasso quand’io credei d’esser felice
- Alexander, Elizabeth, How to Sing Like a Planet
- Allegri, Gregorio, Missa “Che fa oggi il mio sole”
- Antognini, Ivo, O magnum mysterium
- Arcadelt, Jacques, Il bianco e dolce cigno
- Baas, James, My November Guest
- Bach, J.S., Lobet den Herrn
- Banchieri, Adriano, Contrapunto bestiale alla mente
- Barber, Samuel, Agnus Dei
- Barber, Samuel, Reincarnations
- Barber, Samuel, Sure on this Shining Night
- Barnwell, Ysaye, Breaths
- Barnwell, Ysaye, Wanting Memories
- Bartholomew, Greg, The Tree
- Batten, Adrian, O Sing Joyfully
- van Beethoven, Ludwig, Elegischer Gesang
- Bernstein, Leonard, Chichester Psalms
- Bernstein, Leonard (Edgarton, arr.), Somewhere
- Betinis, Abbie, Be Like the Bird
- Betinis, Abbie, Dormi Jesu
- Betinis, Abbie, In the Bleak Midwinter
- Bonds, Margaret, St. Francis’ Prayer
- Brahms, Johannes, Four Songs for Horns, Harp, and Women’s Voices
- Brahms, Johannes, Liebeslieder Walzer, op. 52
- Brahms, Johannes, O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf
- Brahms, Johannes, O schöne Nacht
- Brahms, Johannes, Warum ist das Licht gegeben
- Britten, Benjamin, A Ceremony of Carols
- Britten, Benjamin, Five Flower Songs
- Britten, Benjamin, Rejoice in the Lamb
- Britten, Benjamin, The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
- Bruckner, Anton, Virga Jesse
- Byrd, William, Ave verum corpus
- Byrd, William, Haec dies
- Byrd, William, Mass for Four Voices
- Byrd, William, O magnum mysterium
- Caccini, Francesca, Aure volanti
- Carmichael, Hoagy (Huff, arr.), Skylark
- Carrillo, Juan, arr., El Gavilán
- Casulana, Maddalena, Stavasi il mio bel Sol
- Chatman, Stephen, O Day of Fire and Sun
- Chen Yi, Fengyang Song
- Chesnokov, Pavel, Hvalite Ghospoda s nebes
- Chilcott, Bob, A Tree of Song
- Chilcott, Bob, The Shepherd’s Carol
- Chilcott, Bob, The Rose in the Middle of Winter
- Cipriano de Rore, O sonno
- Clearfield, Andrea, Tse Go La
- Copland, Aaron, American Songs
- Costeley, Guillaume, Mignonne, allon voir si la Roze
- Daley, Eleanor, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- Debussy, Claude, Trois chansons
- Dello Joio, Norman, A Jubilant Song
- Dilworth, Rollo, Give Us Our Peace
- Dilworth, Rollo, Jordan’s Angels
- DiOrio, Dominic, if there is
- Dorsey, Thomas (Sevier, arr.), Precious Lord
- Dove, Jonathan, I am the Day
- Dufay, Guillaume, Pange lingua
- Duruflé, Maurice, Ubi caritas
- Duffy, Coreen, Oseh shalom
- Elgar, Edward, Weary Wind of the West
- Esmail, Reena, TaReKiTa
- Fauré, Gabriel, Cantique de Jean Racine
- Fine, Irving, Choruses from Alice in Wonderland
- Finzi, Gerald, Part Songs on Poems of Robert Bridges
- Gabrieli, Giovanni, In ecclesiis
- Gabrieli, Giovanni, O magnum mysterium
- Gibbs, Stacey V., arr., Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Gjeilo, Ola, Prelude
- Gorecki, Henryk, Totus tuus
- Grases, Cristian, Tottoyo
- Grau, Alberto, Kasar mie la gaji
- Gregorio, Joseph, A Dedication
- Gregorio, Joseph, When Music Sounds
- Guastavino, Carlos, Quién Fuera Como el Jazmín
- Hagen, Jocelyn, needle and thread
- Hagenberg, Elaine, Alleluia
- Harris, Christopher H., I am Loved
- Harris, Matthew, Shakespeare Songs
- Harrison, Lou, Nuptiae
- Hassler, Hans Leo, Dixit Maria
- Hassler, Hans Leo, Verbum caro factum est
- Hawley, William, Vita de la mia vita
- Herryman Rodriguez, Ivette, Sigue
- Hildegard von Bingen, O viridissima virga
- Hogan, Moses, arr., Wade in the Water
- Howells, Herbert, A Spotless Rose
- Hrusovsky, Ivan, Rytmus
- Janacek, Leos, Laska opravdiva
- Janequin, Clement, Le Chant des Oyseaux
- Janequin, Clement, Le Rossignol
- Jennefelt, Thomas, Salut de la vielle des O
- Johnson, Craig Hella, Will there really be a morning?
- Johnson, Victor C., Evening Star
- Josquin Desprez, Ave Maria
- Kamm, Charles, arr., A Merry Christmas
- Kamm, Charles, arr., The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Kern, Jerome (Rutherford, arr.), Long Ago (And Far Away)
- Khunau, Johann, Tristis est anima mea
- Kim, Earl, Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge
- Kirchner, Shawn, Bright Morning Stars
- Kodaly, Zoltan, Esti dal
- Kuula, Toivo, Auringon noustessa
- LaBarr, Susan, Hope is the Thing with Feathers
- Lauridsen, Morton, En Une Seule Fleur
- Lauridsen, Morton, Mid-Winter Songs
- Lauridsen, Morton, O magnum mysterium
- Lauridsen, Morton, O nata lux
- Lauridsen, Morton, Sure on this Shining Night
- Lim, Darius, Ashes to Dust
- Lindberg, Nils, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
- Lockwood, Annea, Malolo
- Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko, Four Shakespeare Songs
- Marenzio, Luca, Cantava la piu vaga pastorella
- McDermid, J. Aaron, Te lucis ante terminum
- McDowall, Cecilia, Now is the Time
- Mendelssohn, Felix, Hör mein Bitten
- Mendelssohn, Felix, Jubilate Deo
- Mendelssohn, Felix, Richte mich, Gott
- Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny, Abschied vom Walde
- Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny, Im Wald
- Merryman, Marjorie, Chinese Moon Poems
- Monteverdi, Claudio, Beatus vir
- Monteverdi, Claudio, De la bellezza le dovute lodi
- Monteverdi, Claudio, Ecco mormorar l’onde
- Monteverdi, Claudio, O primavera
- Monteverdi, Claudio, Quel augellin che canta
- Moore, J. David, arr., Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Muhn, Yoojin, arr., Doraji
- Narverud, Jacob, Ad Astra
- Norgård, Per, Flos ut rosa floruit
- Nystedt, Knut, Immortal Bach
- da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi, Canite tuba—Rorate caeli
- da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi, Missa “Repleatur os meum laude tua”
- da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi, Sicut cervus
- Parton, Dolly (Hella Johnson, arr.), Light of a Clear Blue Morning
- Paulus, Stephen, Sing Creations Music On
Pärt, Arvo, an den wassern zu babel
- Pärt, Arvo, Bogoroditse Djevo
- Pärt, Arvo, Magnificat
- P.D.Q. Bach, Good King Kong
- P.D.Q. Bach, My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth
- Perotin, Viderunt omnes – Dominum
- Philips, Peter, O beatum et sancrosanctum diem
- Pinkham, Daniel, Christmas Cantata
- Pinkham, Daniel, Wedding Cantata
- Poulenc, Francis, Chansons francaises
- Poulenc, Francis, Exultate Deo
- Poulenc, Francis, Four Motets for Christmas
- Powell, Rosephanye, I Wanna Be Ready
- Praetorius, Michael/Sandstrom, Jan, Es ist ein Ros
- Purcell, Henry, Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry?
- Purcell, Henry, O God Thou Art My God
- Quartel, Sarah, Songbird
- Rautavaara, Einojuhani, Lähtö
- Rautavaara, Einojuhani, Lorca Suite
- Robinovitch, Sid, Prayer Before Sleep
- Rossi, Salamon, Haleluyah Haleli Nafshi et Adonai
- Rossi, Salamon, Mizmor l’toda
- Rutter, John, Mass of the Children (excerpts)
- Rutter, John, arr., Noel Nouvelet
- Saindon, Marie-Claire, Turlutte Acadienne Montéalaise
- Schroyens, Raymond, Six Dickinson Miniatures
- Schumann, Robert, Dunkler Lichtglanz
- Schumann, Robert, Herbstlied
- Schumann, Robert, In meinem Garten
- Schumann, Robert, Ziguenerleben
- Schütz, Heinrich, Cantate Domino
- Schütz, Heinrich, Die mit Tränen säen
- Schütz, Heinrich, Jauchzet dem Herren
- Schütz, Heinrich, Lobe den Herren meine Seele
- Schütz, Heinrich, Wohl dem der nicht wandelt
- Scroggins, Debra, A Dream Within a Dream
- Shur, Bonia, The Sun Goes Down
- Sibelius, Jean, Rakastava
- Sibelius, Jean, Sydämeni laulu
- Sjolund, Paul, Love Lost
- Smiley, Moira, Stand in that River
- Somers, Harry, arr., The Banks of Newfoundland
- Sperry, Ethan, arr., Desh
- Stanford, Charles Villiers, Beati quorum via
- Still, William Grant, Where Shall I Be?
- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, Angelus ad Pastores ait
- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, Hodie Christus natus est
- Tann, Hilary, Wellspring
- Thompson, Randall, Frostiana
- Telfer, Nancy, Butterfly
- Tomkins, Thomas, Weep no more, thou sorry boy
- Torikian, Edward, arr., Yal asmar ellon
- Ugalde, Eva, Zure gabezia
- Valverde, Mari, Look Down, Fair Moon
- Valverde, Mari, Patterns on the Snow
- Vasquez-Lopez, Ayan, Alleluia
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, The Turtle Dove
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Three Shakespeare Songs
- de Victoria, Tomás Luis, Ave Maria
- de Victoria, Tomás Luis, Missa “O magnum mysterium”
- de Victoria, Tomás Luis, O magnum mysterium
- Vierne, Louis, Messe solennelle
- Vinci, Pietro, Stella del nostro mar
- Vujic, Aleksander, Hasydic Song
- Walker, Gwyneth, I Will be Earth
- Walker, Gwyneth, The Dreamers
- Walker, Gwyneth, The Tree of Peace
- Watson Henderson, Ruth, Awake My Heart
- Whitacre, Eric, A Boy and a Girl
- Whitacre, Eric, Goodnight Moon
- Whitacre, Eric, Lux aurumque
- Whitacre, Eric, Sleep
- Whitacre, Eric, Sainte Chapelle
- Wikander, David, Kung Liljekonvalje
Folk songs, spirituals, and carols from the Basque region of Spain, Bosnia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, and other regions