Mount Holyoke College (1980-83)

Repertoire conducted in my three years at Mount Holyoke (excluding smaller pieces in chapel services). MHC was my first college teaching position, at this historic women's college.

First semester 1980 (I conducted the Concert Choir - Freshman, ca. 90 voices)

Kodaly - Ps. 150

Britten - Ps. 150

Haydn - Lord Nelson Mass (with the Columbia Glee Club) - with orchestra

Holst

• A Babe was Born

• Jesu, Thou Virgin Born

Mahler - Bell Chorus from the Third Symphony

Bach - Cantata 49 Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (part of a Chapel series with members from the Five College system)

Second semester 1981

Galuppi - Dixit Dominus (string orchestra)

Gardner - Three Amorous Airs

Stravinsky - Peasant Songs with 4 french horns

Schumann - Op. 29 Lieder (Nr. 1 & 2)

Schubert - Ständchen

Three madrigals

First semester 1981 (with Cathy Melhorn on sabbatical, I conducted the Glee Club (made up of the upper class women)

Bach - Cantata 148 Bringet dem Herrn Ehren seines Namens (part of a Chapel Series)

Concert for the American Society of University Composers (Northeast Chapter)

Music was submitted by composers in the Northeast and chosen by a committee:

Myers - Chansons Innocentes

Brings - Shall I die for Mannis Sake (premiere)

Bird - Velvet Shoes

Tarlow - Fields of Sorrow (premiere) with flute and harp

Williams - Symphony (premiere)

Bonde - Somersault (premiere) women's choir with bell choir and large percussion ensemble

Orff - Carmina Burana (with orchestra and the Worchester Polytechnic Glee Club)

Faure - Messe Basse

Second semester 1982

Mozart - Kyrie in d minor (with the Columbia Glee Club and orchestra)

Regina Coeli

Gardner - A Shakespeare Sequence (with piano four hands)

Bonde - Characters

Brahms - Op. 17 for women's voices, 2 horns and harp

Pinkham - Clear Mirrors (unpublished—I got permission and music from the composer),

also with 2 horns and harp (meant to be paired with the Brahms)

Hasse - Miserere (with string orchestra)

Persichetti - Spring Cantata

Poulenc - Petites Voix

First semester 1982 (I conducted the Concert Choir again)

Bach Cantata 70 Wachet! betet! Betet! wachet! (part of a Chapel series)

Beethoven - Choral Fantasy (with the Glee Club, the University of Virginia Glee Club (and orchestra)

Michael Haydn - St. Leopold's Mass (string trio and 2 horns)

Britten - A Ceremony of Carols

Second semester 1983

Britten - Jubilate Deo (with the University of Rochester Glee Club, in Rochester)

Festival Te Deum

Pinkham - Going and Staying

Britten - Four Folk settings

Heinrich Schütz - Three Psalm settings

Kenneth Leighton - An Easter Sequence (with organ and trumpet)

Aaron Copland - Three American Songs

Donald Wheelock - Glory (premiere) double chorus of women's voices and large brass ensemble