Commissions

Night Into Dawn by Theresa Wong

Dedicated to the community of Lahaina and to the singers of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus – that we may help each other to heal.

Mouth by Julie Herndon

Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus • Julie Herndon, composer-in-residence

Would You Like to Have it All? by Jennifer Wilsey

Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus

Despertar by Karen Siegel

Consortium commission by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, Consonare Choral Community, West Village Chorale, and the Yale Glee Club

Hands upon the Plow by Jocelyn Hagen

Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus as part of the Trailblazers Project

Rise Up by Jake Runestad

Commissioned by the PWC through the ACDA Women’s Consortium

When the Dust Settles by Mari Esabel Valverde

World Premiere. Jointly commissioned by the PWC and VOX Femina

Moon Goddess by Jocelyn Hagen

Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus through the ACDA Women’s Consortium

Child of Impossibles by Julia Adolphe

Commissioned by the PWC as part of the Trailblazers Project. PWC-commissioned poem by Safiya Sinclair

Come home little sister by Cecilia McDowall

commissioned by the PWC

displacement: I. From Psalm 137 by Eric Tuan

commissioned by the PWC

displacement: II. Overheard in Silicon Valley by Eric Tuan

commissioned by the PWC

displacement: III. Wayfaring Stranger by Eric Tuan

commissioned by the PWC

displacement: IV. Frosty night by Eric Tuan

commissioned by the PWC

displacement: V. San Francisco by Eric Tuan

Commissioned by the PWC

Harriet Tubman by Walter Robinson arranged by Kathleen McGuire

commissioned by the PWC

Patterns on the Snow by Mari Esabel Valverde

commissioned by the PWC through the ACDA Women’s Consortium

A Blessing of Cranes by Abbie Betinis

Commissioned by the 2014 Women’s Choir Commission Consortium of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)

Flare by Dale Trumbore

commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus through the ACDA Women’s Consortium

Yellow Twig of Willow by Stephen Smith

commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus through the ACDA Women’s Consortium

Oración del remanso by Jorge Fandermole arranged by Eduardo Ferraudi

commissioned by the PWC; composed in 2014

Songs of Night by Kirstina Rasmussen

Commissioned by PWC. Poetry by Francisco Alarcón. Night, Oportunidad, Ololiuhqui, Antigua Canción

Green Music by Kirke Mechem

composed in 2013; commissioned by the PWC

Heart Spells: 1. Spell to Be Said upon Waking by Mark Winges

Composed in 2013

Heart Spells: 2. Spell to Be Said Before Sleep by Mark Winges

Composed in 2013

Heart Spells: 3. Spell for Inviting-in the New Soul by Mark Winges

Composed in 2013

Antigua Canción (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen

Composed in 2013

Night (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen

Composed in 2013

Oportunidad (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen

Composed in 2013

Alma Submerged by Frank Ferko

Premiered at Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, October 2012

Ripple by Ted Hearne

Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus through the Patricia Hennings New Music Fund

Song-Gatherings by Eric Tuan

Co-Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus with Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir and Acalanes High School Bella Voce

Bright Mansions arranged by K. Lee Scott

Treble version commissioned by the PWC

Face and Heart by Pablo Ortiz

poem by Francisco X. Alarcón, co-commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, and Crystal Children’s Choir

little man in a hurry by Eric Whitacre

commissioned by the PWC through a consortium with Chorus America, joint piece with GGMC

The Jumblies by Judith Shatin

Commissioned by the PWC in memory of Mary Ager

Three Buttons by Frank Ferko

commissioned by the PWC (known as “What’s This?”)

Viento by Leonardo Lebas

Martes by Joseph Gregorio

Acrostic by Marta Lambertini

women’s choral version commissioned by the PWC

Looking at the Sea by Chen Yi

commissioned by the PWC

Otherwise by Brian Holmes

commissioned by the PWC

Thou Famished Grave by Stacy Garrop

commissioned by the PWC; composed in 2007

Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks by Brian Holmes

commissioned by PHNMF

The Snow Lay on the Ground by David Conte

Jabberwocky by Ron Jeffers

words by Lewis Carroll, commissioned by the PWC

Psalm 121 by Libby Larsen

Commissioned by the PWC

When you are old by Peter Tryggvi Bjerring (Peter Berring)

World premiere with Elektra in 1999

Christmas Intrada by David Conte

Commissioned by the PWC 1997

Jesu, dulcis memoria by Michael Cleveland

Commissioned for the PWC by Lorraine Hultquist in memory of Arnie Hultquist 1996

Two Songs of Love by Michael Cleveland

Commissioned for the PWC by the Rutherford family in honor of Carolyn Rutherford’s 30th anniversary with the PWC

Requiem for the Earth by Nancy Telfer

Commissioned by the PWC

Miss Rumphius by Victoria Ebel-Sabo

Commissioned by the PWC in 1993

In Praise of Music by David Conte

Commissioned by the PWC in 1991

Refuge by Libby Larsen

commissioned by the PWC in 1989

Nature by Tal Peleg

Music and Poetry Project 2008 – student composer

The Nickel Moon by Laura Wise

Music and Poetry Project 2008 – student composer

The Big, Shy Moon by Miriam Helmy

Music and Poetry Project 2008 – student composer

Wind Songs by Karen Linford

Music and Poetry Project 2008

Wish Song by Brian Holmes

Music and Poetry Project

This wonderful feeling by Joan Szymko

Saboo, In my quiet place, Purple night: Music and Poetry Project

I Am Dice by Ron Jeffers

Music and Poetry Project

Aphorisms by Ron Jeffers

Music and Poetry Project

Rabbit Skunk by Brian Holmes

Music and Poetry Project

Dos Cantos by Ron Jeffers

Music and Poetry Project. composed in 1999

Falling Rain by Brian Holmes

Music and Poetry Project

O Magnum Mysterium by Giovanni Gabrieli arranged by Anne K. Hege

Would You Like to Have it All? by Jennifer Wilsey

Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus

Night Into Dawn by Theresa Wong

Dedicated to the community of Lahaina and to the singers of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus – that we may help each other to heal.

Fanfare of Praise by Sandra Milliken

dedicated to Dr. Patty Hennings and the PWC

Benediction by Ron Jeffers

written for the PWC 2002

Mila begi by Javier Busto

words by Inazio Mujika, in memoriam: Patricia Hennings

I Shall Keep Singing! by Brian Holmes

for the Peninsula Women’s Chorus in memory of Patty Hennings, words by Emily Dickinson

Bright Love by David Meckler

to MaryLouise

Walk in Beauty by Michael Cleveland

written for the PWC

Take Up the Song by Ron Jeffers

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

O, Great Spirit by Michael Cleveland

written for the PWC

For Lou by Rick Kvistad

written for Lou Harrison’s 80th birthday

Carols and Lullabies, Christmas in the Southwest by Conrad Susa

Indian Singing by Ron Jeffers

written for the PWC 1995

There is No Rose by Brian Holmes

Written for the PWC 1990

Ballad of Befana by Kirke Mechem

written for PWC 1989

A Christmas Carol by Kirke Mechem

written for the PWC 1989

Shenandoah arranged by James Erb Patricia Hennings

American folk song arranged for the PWC 1981