1999 November – “Circle of Song” (joint concert with Elektra Women’s Choir in Vancouver)

Concert Program

CompositionComposer / ArrangerNotes

1. A Pentatonic Alleluia Ross Whitney
2. Missa Brevis Ramona Luengen
3. O viridissima virga Hildegard von Bingen
4. O viridissima virga Emma Lou Diemer

   text by Hildegard von Bingen

5. Da pacem Domine Håkan Olsson
6. Hodie Christus natus est József Karai
7. The Carol of the Rose Randall Thompson

   From The Place of the Blest

8. Urok Lojze Lebic
9. Shenandoah
   Arr: James Erb Patricia Hennings

   American folk song arranged for the PWC 1981

10. Mouth Music
    Arr: Dolores Keane John Faulkner
11. When you are old Peter Tryggvi Bjerring (Peter Berring)

    World premiere with Elektra in 1999

12. Take Up the Song Ron Jeffers

    words by Edna St. Vincent Millay; world premiere 1999 with Elektra; US premiere by the PWC 2000

13. I Thank You God Gwyneth Walker

    text by e.e. cummings, written 1998