Yale Alumni Chorus Repertoire

This list shows the Yale Alumni Chorus repertoire, divided into four categories:

  • Classical and Sacred Works and Anthems;
  • Traditional Glees, Spirituals and Folksongs;
  • Popular and Yale Songs; and
  • New Commissions.

Classical and Sacred Works and Anthems

Piece Composer
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
Coronation Mass, K. 317 W.A. Mozart
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 by 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
Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K. 339) W.A. Mozart
Let Thy Good Spirit Pavel Chesnokov
Lux Aeterna Morten Lauridsen
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

Piece Composer
Ain't Got Time to Die arr. Hall Johnson
Away to Rio! arr. Marshall Bartholomew '07S
Bawo, Thixo Somandla (Traditional South African) arr. J. S. M. Khumalo
Candomblé Oscar Escalada
Convidando Está la Noche Juan Garcia de Zéspedes
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
Every Time I Feel the Spirit arr. Fenno Heath
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 arr. Michael Tippett
La Golondrina Narciso Serradel Sevilla
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
Humble arr. Marshall Bartholomew and David Connell
I am Loved As I Love arr. Jeffrey Douma
Io vivat Jetze Bremer
Jasmine Flower (Mo Li Hua) arr. Chen Yi
The Lamb Fenno Heath
Last Words of David Randall Thompson
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 Randall Thompson
text by Robert Frost
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
Song of Yerevan Aram Khachaturian
Steal Away arr. Michael Tippett
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

Piece Composer
'Neath the Elms H. S. Baldwin
arr. Gustave J. Stoeckel and Jonathan Clune ‘74
Bright College Years Henry Durand
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
'Neath the Elms Gustave J. Stoeckel
arr. Jonathan Clune
Soviet-era Popular Songs
  "Cranes" (Frenkel/Gamzatov)
  "Katyusha"
  "Moscow Nights"
  "My Moscow"
  "Sacred Stone"
  "The Roads" (Novikov/Oshanin)
  "The Soldiers are Coming" (Molchanov/Lvovsky)
arr. Evgeny Stetsyuk
The Bells of Yale Charles Ives
We Meet Again Tonight
Yale Football Medley arr. David Connell, Thomas Duffy, Fenno F. Heath '50

New Commissions

Piece Composer
Anything Cole (2001) Buryl Red '61
co-arranged Rick Bassett '82
orchestration by Bryan Louiselle
Breaking the Silence (2018) André de Quadros
Cascade (2004) Fenno F. Heath '50
poem by Sandra Boynton '74
A Dream and a Song (2011) Colin Britt
poem by William Stanley Braithwaite
Lux et Veritas (2001) Fenno F. Heath '50
poem by Sandra Boynton '74
orchestration by Lewis Spratlan '62
My Heart Sings (2013) Vytautas Miskinis
poem by Rabindranath Tagore
Prayer (2009) René Clausen
text a prayer written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Selected Folk Songs (2003) Aram Khatchaturian (World Premiere Choral Arrangements)
arr. Walter Mnatsakanov
Tú (2009) Jorge Córdoba Valencia
poem by Amado Nervo