International Tour Repertoire

International Tour 2014

Provisional and Partial List of Repertoire

(program to be chosen from the repertoire listed below)

Choir

Selections from Вечная память героям.Избранные песнопения панихиды (1916)(Eternal Memory to the Heroes: Selected Hymns from the Memorial Service (Panikhida)) Alexander Kastalsky  (1856-1926)
Cade La Sera (from Tre Composizione Corali) (1942-43) Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)
BRITISH MUSIC
Two Unaccompanied Part Songs (1920)To be sung of a summer night on the water Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
I Love My Love (1917) arr. Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
ESTONIAN MUSIC
Zwei Slawische Psalmen (1984/1997) Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Newly Commissioned Work for            this International Tour (2014)joint piece for Choir and Botetourts Piret Rips-Laul (b. 1965)
AMERICAN MUSIC
Chariot Jubilee (1919)(oratorio for eight-part mixed choir, tenor soloist and organ) R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)
Elijah Rock (1994) Moses Hogan (1957-2003)
Ezekiel Saw The Wheel (1942) William Dawson (1899-1990)

BOTETOURT CHAMBER SINGERS

GERMAN MUSIC
O dass ich dich, mein Bruder(from Hohelied Salmonis, 1608) Melchior Franck (c. 1579 – 1639)
AMERICAN MUSIC
Alleluia (1940) Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
Virgo Mater Regina (2013) Costas Dafnis (b. 1989)
Haru Sareba Hikoe Moitsutsu (2005)(When Spring is Born at Last) Jackson Hill (b. 1941)
Lux Aurumque (2001) Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
O Magnum Mysterium (2010) Kevin Memley (b. 1971)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (1996) Moses Hogan (1957-2003)


If you are an alum who would like to expand our record of past international tour repertoires, please email Annamarie Warnke at agwarnke@wm.edu.