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Twice a year the Chancel Choir presents a concert with orchestra to provide an opportunity for choir members to perform and congregation and community to hear some of the great music that has been written for choir and orchestra. One of these concerts is always the Christmas concert while the other program is often presented in Holy Week. In the last 15 years, the following repertoire has been performed at these concerts.

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1991	Felix Mendelssohn	“Symphony #2” (Hymn of Praise)
1992	John Rutter	“Requiem”
	George Frederich Handel	“Messiah” (Part I)
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas, ”Suites I, II, III, IV
1993	Franz Schubert	“Mass in G”
	Francis Poulenc	“Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani”
	John Rutter	“Gloria”
	Antonio Vivaldi	“Concerto No. 4,” “Winter” from “The Four Seasons”
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas” Suite III
1994	Maurice Durufle	“Requiem”
	J. S. Bach	“To Us A Child is Born”
	Daniel Pinkham	“Christmas Cantata”
	Georges Bizet	“L’Arlesienne Suite #2”
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas” Suite I
1995	Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki	“Symphony #3” (Movements II and III)
	Ralph Vaughan Williams	“Dona Nobis Pacem”
	Aaron Copland	“Fanfare for the Common Man”
	Benjamin Britten	“A Ceremony of Carols”
	John Leavitt	“Hodie”
	Arcangelo Corelli	“Christmas Concerto’
1996	George Frederich Handel	“Messiah” Parts II and III
	Antonio Vivaldi	“Gloria”
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas” Suites I, II, III, IV
1997	Arvo Part	“Silouans Song”
	Tomaso Albinoni	“Adagio”
	John Rutter	“Requiem” “Gloria”
	Ralph Vaughan Williams	“Fantasia on Christmas Carols”
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas” Suites II and III
1998	Howard Hanson	“Song of Democracy”
	John Williams	“Liberty Fanfare”
	Morton Gould	“American Salute”
	Aaron Copland	“Fanfare for the Common Man” “Lincoln Portrait” Martin Luther King, III. Narrator
	Gerald Finzi	“In Terra Pax”
	John Leavitt	“Hodie” – (Movements IV and V)
1999	George Frederich Handel	“Organ Concerto #10 in D Minor"
	Gabriel Faure	“Requiem”
	Felix Mendelssohn	“Von Himmel Hoch”
	George Bizet	“L’Arlesienne Suite No.2”
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas” Suites II and IV
2000	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	“Requiem”
	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff	“Christmas Eve Suite”
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas”
2001	Johannes Brahms	“A German Requiem”
	George Frederick Handel	Selections from “Messiah” Part I
	Ottorino Respighi	“Trittico Botticelliano” – Movement II
	John Rutter	“Gloria” Movement I
	Ralph Vaughan Williams	“Dona Nobis Pacem” – Movement VII
	Georges Bizet	“L’Arlesienne Suite #2” – Movement IV
	Felix Mendelssohn	“Vom Himmel Hoch”
2002	Ottorino Respighi	“Vetrate Di Chiesa,” (Church Windows)
	Maurice Durufle	“Requiem”
	Ralph Vaughan Williams	“Fantasia on Christmas Carols”
	Giulio Caccini; arr.	Mercurio, “Ave Maria”
	George Frederick Handel	“Messiah,” Selections from Part I
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas,” Suite III
2003	Felix Mendelssohn	“Elijah”
	Randall Thompson	“The Peaceable Kingdom”
	George Frederick Handel	“Messiah,”Selections from Part I
	Robert Russell Bennett	“The Many Moods of Christmas,” Suite I
	Marc-Antoine Charpentier	“Song of the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ,”
2004	Ron Nelson	“Overture: Savannah River Holiday”
	Randall Thompson	“Frostiana”
	Aaron Copland	“Variations on a Shaker Melody”
	Samuel Barber	“Knoxville: Summer of 1915”
	Mack Wilberg	“Saints Bound For Glory" “Jesu, the Very Thought Is Sweet” “Redeemer of Israel” “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
	Ralph Vaughan Williams	“Hodie” (selections)
	Vaclav Nelhybel	“Estampie Natalis”
	John Rutter	“Gloria,” Movement III
2005	G. F. Handel	Coronation Anthem No. 2, “The King Shall Rejoice”
	W. A. Mozart	“Regina Coeli” K. 117
	Felix Mendelssohn	"Hear My Prayer"
	Rene Clausen	"Psalm 100"
	Bob Chilcott	"Jubilate"

page updated December 7, 2005

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