- Next performance
The next performance of the Philharmonic Chorus of Madison will be at the Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts at the Wisconsin Union in early December 2009. More information will be posted on this page when it becomes available.
See also the Wisconsin Union website for information about Tudor Dinners: http://www.union.wisc.edu/tudordinners/.
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- Spring Concert 2009: "There's Singing Up In Heaven"
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m, Oakwood West, 6165 Mineral Point Road
- Friday, April 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m., Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe Road
- Sunday, April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m., Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham Street
The Program:
There’s Singing Up in Heaven - Dominick Argento (b. 1927)
Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake - Richard Farrant (c. 1530-1580)
When David Heard - Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
O Clap Your Hands - Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Beati quorum via - Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Ave Maria, from Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957) - Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Ubi caritas - Imant Raminsh (b. 1943)
Lay a garland - Robert Pearsall (1795-1856)
Warum ist das Licht gegeben, Opus 74, No. 1 - Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
Faire is the Heaven - William H. Harris (1883-1973)
Rise up, my love, my fair one - Healey Willan (1880-1968)
The Gift, Quaker Song - (arr. Bob Chilcott)
Small group: Julie Dahlen, Tamara Urich-Rintz, sopranos;
Kristine Beck, Kelly Wroblewski, altos; Paul Dvorak, tenor; Jim Adams, bass
John saw the number - African-American Spiritual, arr. Parker/Shaw
O waly waly - arr. Donald Cashmore
Solo: Katie Rusch, Nicole Relyea
So I’ll Sing with My Voice - Dominick Argento
Solos: Jessica Ferminick, Steve Harrison
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- Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts 2008, Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union
The Program:
Sing we now of Christmas - Traditional French Carol (arr. Fred Prentice)
There is no rose - John Joubert (b. 1927)
A spotless rose - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Ave Maris stella - Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
I saw three ships - Traditional English Carol (arr. Edwin Fissinger)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence - J. Guy Stalnaker
The three kings - Peter Cornelius (1824-74)
In dulci jubilo - arr. Robert Pearsall
Suo Gân - Traditional Welsh Carol (arr. Lance Wiliford)
Ain’t that good news - African-American Spiritual (arr. Moses Hogan)
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- Spring Concert 2008: "Sacred and Profane - Motets, Madrigals and More"
- Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 7:00 p.m, Oakwood West, 6165 Mineral Point Road
- Friday, April 25, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe Road
- Sunday, April 27, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham Street
The Program:
Sacred Music of the Italian Masters
Exultate Deo - Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Super flumina babylonis - G. P. da Palestrina (1525-94)
Crucifixus - Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
O sacrum convivium - Luca Marenzio (1553-99)
Sacred Music of Twentieth-Century England
Kyrie from Mass in G-minor - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Take him, earth, for cherishing - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Italian Madrigals
Chi la gagliarda - Baldassare Donato (c. 1527-1603)
Lamento della Ninfa - Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Gia torna a rallegrar l’aria e la terra - Luca Marenzio
Compositions by Chorus Members
Is not the sky - Laird Marshall
James Harris, or the Daemon Lover - J. Guy Stalnaker
Twentieth Century Songs and Madrigals
Just as the tide was flowing - arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
My sweetheart’s like Venus - arr. Gustav Holst
Blow away the morning dew - arr. R. O. Morris
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- Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts 2007, Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union
The Program:
Hodie Christus natus est - Giovanni Bassano (1560-1617)
O nata lux - Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen - Jan Sandstrom (b. 1954)
Spanish Carol - Traditional Spanish Carol (arr. Andrew Carter)
The friendly beasts - Old English Carol (arr. Robert Scholz)
Wexford Carol - Irish Carol (arr. John Rutter)
Nyne otpushchayeshi - Sergeï Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
The Christmas song - Mel Torme (arr. Ed Lojeski)
Mary had a baby - African-American Spiritual (arr.Roderick Williams)
Un-popular song - William Walton (arr. Roderick Williams)
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- Spring Concert 2007: "In the Beginning: Celebrating Sixty Years of the Philharmonic Chorus"
- Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 7:00 p.m, Oakwood West, 6165 Mineral Point Road
- Friday, April 27, 2007, 7:30 p.m., Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe Road
- Sunday, April 29, 2007, 3:00 p.m., Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham Street
With this spring concert, the Philharmonic Chorus celebrated its 60th Anniversary. Among the pieces performed were "Veni Sancte Spiritus " by Andrew Rindfleisch (World Premier Performance commissioned for this occasion by the Philharmonic Chorus of Madison), Randall Thompson's "Alleluia" (which was performed at the first Philharmonic Chorus Concert on Sunday, February 16, 1947), and "In the Beginning" by Aaron Copland (composed in 1947, the chorus's first year).
The Complete Program:
Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 (1671) Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Alleluia (1940) - Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
This piece was performed on the first Philharmonic Chorus Concert on
Sunday, February 16, 1947.
In the beginning (1947) - Aaron Copland (1900-90)
Shannon O’Brien-Kaszuba, soprano
Veni Sancte Spiritus (2007) - Andrew Rindfleisch
World Premier Performance
Commissioned for this occasion by the Philharmonic Chorus of Madison
Bogoroditse Djevo, from the All Night Vigil - Sergeï Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Spasenie sodelal - Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)
I have had singing - Steven Sametz (b. 1954)
In Flanders fields - Stephen Chatman (b. 1950)
My God is a rock in a weary land - African-American Spiritual (arr. Parker/Shaw)
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- Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts 2006, Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union
Hosanna to the Son of David - Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Hodie Christus natus est - Javier Busto (b. 1949)
Ave Maria - Franz Biebl (1906-2001)
Masters in this hall - Traditional French Carol (arr. Shaw/Parker)
The cherry tree carol - Kentucky Ballad (arr. Shaw/Parker)
O Tebé ráduyetsia - Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)
O Shepherds leave your flocks - Traditional French Carol (arr. Edwin Fissinger)
Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris - Traditional French Carol (arr. Paul Ayres)
Spanish Carol - Traditional Spanish Carol (arr. Andrew Carter)
Lulajze Jesuniu - Traditional Polish Carol (arr. Józef Swider)
Glory Manger - African-American Spiritual (arr. Robert DeCormier)
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- Spring Concert 2006: "The Seeds of Love: Sacred and Secular Songs through the Ages"
- Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 7:00 p.m, Oakwood West, 6165 Mineral Point Road
- Friday, April 28, 2006, 7:30 p.m., Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe Road
- Sunday, April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m., Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham Street
The Program:
Surgens Jesus - Peter Philips (1561-1628)
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia - Josquin des Pres (1445-1521)
Laudate Dominum - J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Agnus Dei, from Mass for Five Voices - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Agnus Dei - Samuel Barber (1910-81)
Psalm 43: Richte mich, Gott - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-57)
Psalm 51: Schaffe in mir, Gott - Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
My bonnie lass she smileth - Thomas Morley (1557-1603)
Il bianco e dolce cigno - Jacques Arcadelt (1505-68)
Mon couer se recommende vous - Orlando di Lasso (1532-94)
Revecy venir du Printemp - Claude Le Jeune (1530-1600)
So weich und warm - Peter Cornelius (1824-74)
Die drei Frühlingstage - Peter Cornelius (1824-74)
Two poems by Christina Rossetti
Remember - Stephen Chatman (b. 1940)
Rest - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The seeds of love - Ralph Vaughan Williams
My love is like a red, red rose Scottish folksong, arr. Donald Cashmore
Dashing away with a smoothing iron arr. John Rutter
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- Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts 2005, Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union
The Program:
The day before Christmas - Donald Sosin (b. 1951)
Angels we have heard on high - Arnold Freed (b. 1926)
Christmas Eve Carol - Jeffrey H. Rickard (b. 1942)
Blaženni jaže izbral - Peter I. Tschaikovsky (1840-93)
A hymn to the Virgin - Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
Ave Maria - David MacIntyre (b. 1952)
Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella - Traditional French (arr. Parker & Shaw)
O Jesulein süß - Verse 1 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750) ; Verses 2 and 3 by Max Reger (1873-1916)
Ding dong merrily on high - Traditional French (arr. Stephen Paulus)
Ziemassvetku nakts - Traditional Latvian (arr. Andrejs Jansons)
Yih'yu l'ratson - Stanley M. Hoffman (b. 1959)
Children go where I send thee - African-American Spiritual (arr. R. Williams)
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- Spring concert 2005: "Ex Oriente Lux: Choral Music of Eastern Europe"
- Wednesday, April 27, 7:00 pm, Oakwood West, 6165 Mineral Point Road
- Friday, April 29, 7:30 pm, Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe Road
- Sunday, May 1, 3:00 pm, Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham Street
The Program:
Cantate Domino (1997) - Vytautas Miskinis (b. 1954)
Christus est natus (1999) - Damijan Mocnik (b. 1967)
Cantus Gloriosus (1988) - Józef Swider (b. 1930)
Two Liturgical Choruses from Russia
Slava V Vyshnikh Bogu, Op. 37, no. 7 - Sergeï Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Spasenie sodelal, Op. 25, no. 5 - Pavel Tschesnokoff (1877-1944)
Songs of Nature, Op. 63 (1882) - Antonín Dvoràk (1841-1904)
Melodies steal into my heart
Vesper bells ring
Golden sunlight
Slender young birch
This day
Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen (1988, rev. 1991) - Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
O Weisheit
O Adonai
O Spross aus Isaias Wurzel
O Schlüssel Davids
O Morgenstern
O König aller Völker
O Immanuel
Funeral Ikos (1981) - John Tavener (b. 1944)
Matra Pictures (1930) - Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
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- Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts 2004, Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union
The Program:
Manly Men: Men’s Chorus Extravaganza - Kurt Knecht
Here we come a-wassailing - Traditional English (arr. Stephen Paulus)
Wassail Song - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
There is no rose - Raymond Weidner (b. 1947)
Christus est natus - Damijan Mocnik (b. 1967)
Il est ne - Traditional French Carol (arr. Alice Parker)
El Noi de la Mare - Catalonian Carol (arr. Ernest Cervera i Astor)
Ani ma'amin - Robert Applebaum (b. 1941)
Slava V Vyshnikh Bogu (Op. 37, no. 7) - Sergeï Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
In dulci jubilo - arr. Robert Pearsall
Here, mid the ass and oxen mild - Traditional French Carol (arr. Parker/Shaw)
Amen - African-American Spiritual (arr. Jester Hairston)
Three-Minute Messiah - arr. Peter Gritton
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- Spring concert 2004: "A Banquet of Voices"
- Sunday, May 2, 2004, 3:00 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church, 116 W. Washington Ave and
- Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Oakwood West, 6165 Mineral Point Road
The Program:
Sing joyfully - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Jesu dulcis memoria - Tómas Luis da Victoria (1549-1611)
O sacrum convivium - Olivier Messiean (1908-92)
I sat down under his shadow - Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Three Contemporary Psalm Settings
I was glad: Psalm 122 (1994) - Frank Ferko (b. 1950)
Psalm 133 (1999) - Nick Strimple (b. 1946)
Psalm 84 (2002) - Stanley M. Hoffman (b. 1959)
Vorspruch - Hugo Distler (1908-42)
Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens (1960) - Maurice Duruflé (1902-86)
Ubi caritas
Tota pulchra es
Tu es Petrus
Tantum ergo
Shenandoah - Traditional American Folk Song (arr. James Erb)
I'm goin' away - Traditional North Carolina Folk Song (arr. Mack Wilberg)
Ezekiel saw the wheel - African-American Spiritual (arr. William Dawson)
Insalata Italaliana - Franz F. R. Genee (1823-95)
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- Tudor Holiday Dinner Concerts 2003, Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union
The Program:
Kalinka - Traditional Russian
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Traditional (arr. Robert Shaw and Alice Parker)
Ding dong merrily on high - English carol (arr. Howard Helvey)
O magnum mysterium - Tomas Luis da Victoria (1549-1611)
Virga Jesse floruit - Anton Bruckner (1823-96)
Alles vas odem hat Lobe den Herrn - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Good King Wenceslas - Traditional (arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw)
O little town of Bethlehem - Kenneth Jennings (b. 1925)
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - English carol (arr. David Willcocks)
The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn - Edmund Rubbra (1901-86)
De las montañas venimos - Spanish Carol (arr. Gregory Rose)
Rug Muire Mac do Dhia - Traditional Irish (arr. David Mooney)
Winter Wonderland - arr. Tony Kamp
A Gaelic Blessing - Daniel E. Gawthrop (b. 1949)
Philharmonic Chorus of Madison