Yale Alumni Chorus Repertoire

This list shows the Yale Alumni Chorus repertoire divided into four categories: (1) Classical and Sacred Works and Anthems; (2) Traditional Glees, Spirituals and Folksongs; (3) Popular and Yale Songs; and (4) New Commissions

Classical and Sacred Works and Anthems

Aida: Gloria all'Egitto, Grand Finale II (Triumphal Scene)—Giuseppe Verdi
Alleluia—Randall Thompson
Almighty Father Strong to Save—John Bacchus Dykes/text by William Whiting and Robert Nelson Spencer
Ave Maria—Franz Biebl
Ave Maria—Franz Schubert
Chichester Psalms—Leonard Bernstein
Choral Fantasy, Opus 80—Ludwig van Beethoven

The Creation–Joseph Haydn
Deutsche Messe—Franz Schubert

Exsultate Jubilate—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the "Old 104th" Psalm Tune—Ralph Vaughan Williams
Gloria—Athos Palma
Hymn 588 "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling"—John Zundel/Text Charles Wesley
I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me—Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus—Giuseppe Verdi
Il Trovatore: Soldier's Chorus—Giuseppe Verdi
Let Thy Good Spirit—Pavel Chesnokov
Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus—George Frideric Handel
Mlada: Cortege des Nobles—Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves—Giuseppe Verdi
Nero: Vindex Epitalama "I Sing to Thee, Divine Hymen!"—Anton Rubinstein

Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika—National Anthem of South Africa—Anthem Committee
O Bone Jesu—Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina/arr. G. Ericcsson
Ode of Joy: Cantata (1956)—Aram Khatchaturian
Ode to Joy: Finale from the Ninth Symphony—Ludwig van Beethoven/text by Friedrich Schiller
Panis Angelicus—César Franck
Polovetsian Dances—Alexander Borodin
Requiem: "How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place"—Johannes Brahms
Salvation is Created—Pavel Chesnokov
Serenade to Music—Ralph Vaughan Williams
Stabat Mater—Gioachino Rossini
Star Spangled Banner—John Stafford Smith/text by Francis Scott Key
A Survivor from Warsaw—Arnold Schoenberg

Symphony No. 9—Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Lord is My Strength and Shield—Norman Scribner
The Turtle Dove—Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ubi Caritas—Maurice Duruflé
"When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd" (A Requiem 'For those we love'): Introduction and Fugue—Paul Hindemith, text by Walt Whitman
Yiyongjun Jinxingqu (March of the Volunteers) Chinese National Anthem—Nieh Erh/Tian Han
Zadok the Priest: Coronation Anthem Number 1—George Frideric Handel

Traditional Glees, Spirituals and Folksongs

Ain't Got Time to Die—arr. Hall Johnson
Away to Rio!—arr. Marshall Bartholomew '07S

Bawo, Thixo Somandla—arr. J. S. M. Khumalo
Candomblé—Oscar Escalada
Deep River—Arr. Norman Luboff
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?—arr. Fenno F. Heath '50
Diu Diu Deng—arr. Chen Yi
Dona nobis pacem—Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fengyang Song (Anhui Folk Song)—arr. Chen Yi

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States—Neely Bruce

Gaudeamus Igitur—arr. Fenno F. Heath '50

Go Down, Moses—Michael Tippett (arr)

Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?—German Folk Song
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands—arr. Fenno F. Heath, '50
High Barbary—arr. Arthur E. Hall, '24Mus

Io vivat—Jetze Bremer

Jasmine Flower (Mo Li Hua)—arr. Chen Yi
Little Innocent Lamb—arr. Marshall Bartholomew '07S

Little Innocent Lamb (SATB)—arr. Marshall Bartholomew ‘07s and Fenno F. Heath ‘50
My Lord, What a Mornin'—arr. Harry T. Burleigh

Noya Na? Xhosa Hymn. W. S. Davis / E. T. Marokana, Transcribed by B. Locke
O Tremzinho do Caipira—Heitor Villa-Lobos

Plea from Africa. A Glasgow Lady. Adapted by Mzilikazi Khumalo and J. K. Bokwe
Poem of the Motherland—Aram Khatchaturian
Ride the Chariot—Arr. William Henry Smith

The Road Not Taken—Robert Frost / Randall Thompson
Senzenina. Traditional Xhosa and Zulu: South Afrika
Shenandoah (TTBB)—arr. Marshall Bartholomew '07S
Shenandoah (SATB)—arr. Marshall Bartholomew, '07S and Fenno F. Heath, '50
Shilohini Makhanana. Traditional Tsonga folksong. Transcribed by B. Locke
Siyahamba / We Are Marching in The Light of God
Sinje nje nje. Traditional Namibian Song—arr. Bonnie Pereko

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child—arr. Fenno F. Heath '50

Steal Away—Michael Tippett (arr)

The Demon: "Don't Cry, Child"—Anton Rubinstein
The Lamb—arr. Fenno F. Heath, '50
Un Cygne, from Six Chansons—Paul Hindemith/poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

Popular and Yale Songs

'Neath the Elms—H. S. Baldwin. Arr. Gustave J. Stoeckel and Jonathan Clune‘74
Bright College Years—Carl Wilhelm
Eli Yale—arr. Fenno F. Heath '50

It's All Right with Me—Cole Porter '13/arr. Ed Wolff '50
Mother of Men—Seth Bingham '04
Soviet-era Popular Songs—Arr. Evgeny Stetsyuk
  "Cranes"—Frenkel/Gamzatov
  "Katyusha"
  "Moscow Nights"
  "My Moscow"
  "Sacred Stone"
  "The Roads" Novikov/Oshanin
  "The Soldiers are Coming" Molchanov/Lvovsky
The Bells of Yale—Charles Ives
Yale Football Medley—arr. David Connell, Thomas Duffy, Fenno F. Heath '50

New Commissions

Anything Cole (2001)—Buryl Red '61, co-arranged Rick Bassett '82, orchestration by Bryan Louiselle
Cascade (2004)—Fenno F. Heath '50/poem by Sandra Boynton '74
Lux et Veritas (2001)—Fenno F. Heath '50, poem by Sandra Boynton '74, orchestration by Lewis Spratlan '62
Selected Folk Songs (2003)—Aram Khatchaturian (World Premiere Choral Arrangements); arr. Walter Mnatsakanov