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The word 'friends' in this concert title has several different meanings. Most of these pieces are ones we’ve performed before and loved, so we’re eager to be performing them again.
The new music we’re performing was written by friends whose work we know and love and we’re thrilled to present their songs. Among these newer pieces are "I Will Arise" by Ithaca College grad Dominick DiOrio, "A Birthday" by Allegra Martin and the Chorale’s signature song, "How Can I Keep From Singing?", arranged by another IC grad, Jessica Holl.
The program is rounded out by selections by Copland, Lauridsen, Hildegard and Gibbons. We are proud to feature Christopher Morgan Loy as our accompanist for this concert.
| Title | Words | Music |
First performed |
| How Can I Keep From Singing | Robert Wadsworth Lowry, Pete Seeger |
Robert Wadsworth Lowry, arr. Jessica Holl |
Fall 2001 |
| Dirait-on | Ranier Maria Rilke | Morten Lauridsen | Fall 2004 |
| Come In (from Frostiana) | Robert Frost | Randall Thompson | Spring 2002 |
| Where Dwells the Soul of My Love | James Thomson | James Quitman Mulholland | Spring 2000 |
| O frondens virga | Hildegard von Bingen | Fall 2006 | |
| What Do We Plant? | Henry Abbey | Aaron Copland | Fall 2000 |
| A Birthday | Christina Rossetti | Allegra Martin | Spring 2007 |
| Choo Choo Ch-Boogie | Vaughn Horton,
Denver Darling, Milton Gabler arr. Kirby Shaw |
Spring 1998 | |
| The Silver Swan | Unknown | Orlando Gibbons, arr. Don Malin |
Fall 2001 |
| Go Where I Send Thee | Spiritual | arr. Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory |
Spring 2004 |
| Two Eastern Pictures: I. Spring II. Summer |
Kalidasa | Gustav Holst | Spring 2007 |
| I Will Arise | W.B. Yeats | Dominick DiOrio | Spring 2007 |
| Mulligatawny Macbeth | William Shakespeare | John E. Govedas | Spring 2006 |