Repertoire List – Motet Choir

November 10, 2023 – Choral Union
with the Women’s Ensemble and University Chorus
William Byrd: “Kyrie” and “Sanctus” from Mass for Four Voices
René Clausen: Set Me as a Seal
Samuel Barber: Sure on this Shining Night
Eric Whitacre: With a Lily in Your Hand
Antonio Estévez: Mata del Anima Sola
Oscar Galián: Salseo

February 16, 2024 – Early Music of Central America and Peru 
Anonymous Incan composer: Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Hernando don Franco: Dios itlaçonantzine
Gaspar Fernandes: Xicochi conetzinle
Gaspar Fernandes: Tleycantimo choquiliya
Compiled in Peru: Cachua a voz y bajo from Codex Martínez Compañón
Compiled in Peru: Cachua a duo y a cuatro from Codex Martínez Compañón
Antonio Estévez: Mata del Anima Sola
Oscar Galián: Salseo

April 16, 2024 – Singing As One: An Exploration of Chant and the Art of Cantoring
Gregorian Chant: Inviolata, integra
Nicolas Gombert: O benigna (Part II of Inviolata, integra)
Obadiah the Proselyte: Mi al har Chorev
Herman Berlinski: Prelude for Rosh Hashana
Max Janowski: Hashkiveinu
Louis Lewandowski: Ki Keshimcha
Pavel Roytman: L’chu N’ranenah
David Burger: Shalom Rav
Herman Berlinski: Prelude for Yom Kippur
Laurie Akers: Shiru L’Adonai
Max Janowski: Sim Shalom

November 12, 2022
with the University Chamber Orchestra
Franz Schubert: Selections from Mass No. 5 in A-flat Major, D 678
Johann Sebastian Bach: Selections from Mass in F Major, BWV 233

February 17, 2023
Heinrich Schütz: Das ist mir lieb, SWV 51 (excerpts)
Josquin des Prez: Ave maria, virgo serena a 4
Josef Rheinberger: Ich liebe, weil erhöret der Herr, Op. 40, No. 1
Eriks Ešenvalds: Only in Sleep
Sacred Harp, 1991 ed.: What shall I render?
Traditional Quaker hymn: How Can I Keep from Singing
Traditional Xhosa folk song adapted by Memeza Ensemble: Ndandihleli

May 6 & 7, 2023 – Springtime Celebration
with the University Symphony Orchestra and the University Chorus
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied ("Song of Destiny"), Op. 54
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs

May 15, 2023 – Choral Union
with the Women’s Ensemble and University Chorus
Josef Rheinberger: Ich liebe, weil erhöret der Herr, Op. 40, No. 1
Ēriks Ešenvalds: Only in Sleep
Sacred Harp: What shall I render?
Josef Rheinberger: Der Herr erhöre dich, Op. 40, No. 3
Traditional Quaker hymn: How Can I Keep from Singing

March 4, 2022
Gregorian Chant: Hymn: Aeterna Christi munera
Giovanni Palestrina: Kyrie from Missa aeterna Christi munera
Shulamit Ran: From Shirim L’Yom Tov: Four Festive Songs
Giovanni Palestrina: Agnus Dei from Missa aeterna Christi munera
Gustav Holst: I Love My Love from Six Cornish Folksongs, Op. 36
Giovanni Palestrina: Sicut cervus desiderat
Gustav Holst: Swansea Town from Six Cornish Folksongs

May 21, 2022 – Choral Showcase
with the University Chorus, Rockefeller Chapel Choir, and Motet Choir
Gustav Holst: I Love My Love and Swansea Town from Six Cornish Folksongs, Op. 36
Heinrich Schütz: Selig sind die Toten
      with the University Chorus, Rockefeller Chapel Choir, and Motet Choir

November 22, 2019 – Choral Union
with the Women’s Ensemble and University Chorus
Steven Sametz: Gaudete
Orlando di Lasso: Justorum Animae
Eric Whitacre: Leonardo dreams of his flying machine

February 21, 2020
Heinrich Schütz: Das ist mir Lieb, SWV 51
Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols

February 22, 2019
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
Michael Tippett: From Five Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium
Kevin Siegfried: From Shaker Songs
Morten Lauridsen: O nata lux
Moses Hogan: My God is So High

June 1 and 2, 2019 – A Child of Our Time
Traditional: I Open My Mouth to the Lord (for Eric Garner)
Traditional: Wade in the Water (for Philando Castile)
Sir Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
      Kimberly Jones, soprano; Leah Dexter, alto; Adrian Dunn, tenor;
      Bill McMurray, baritone

November 19, 2017 – Choral Union
with the Women’s Ensemble, University Chorus, and Chicago Men’s A Cappella
Eric Whitacre: Sleep
Eric Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs

February 16, 2018
Eric Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs
Aharon Harlap: Shiru Ladonai
Tziporah H. Jochsberger: Magen Avot
Giuseppe Verdi: Pater noster
Shulamit Ran: Vay'hi Erev
Eric Whitacre: Sleep
Hagar Kadima: L’chah Dodi
Tzvi Avni: Hal’luyah!

May 18, 2018
Traditional Catalan Polyphonies: Sant Gil
Traditional Catalan Polyphonies: Stabat Mater of Sudanell
Traditional Catalan Polyphonies: Son soneta, vine son
Traditional Catalan Polyphonies: Salve de l’Auia
Traditional Catalan Polyphonies: Goigs de la Mare de Déu del Roser
Esteban Salas: Salve Regina
Cratillo Guerra: Ave Maria
José María Vitier: Ave Maria
lyrics by Silvia Rodríguez: Plegaria a la Virgen del Cobre
Miguel Matamoros: Veneración

November 18, 2016 – Choral Union
with the Women’s Ensemble and University Chorus
arranged by Howard Helvey: When For Eternal Worlds We Steer
Hymn (Gregorian Chant): Christi Aeterna Munera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Kyrie from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
Sergei Rachmaninoff: No. 7 from Vespers (All Night Vigil), Op. 37
Hymn (Gregorian Chant): Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sanctus and Benedictus from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
Charles Villiers Stanford: At the Mid Hour of Night
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Agnus Dei from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
Georgian traditional: Veengara

February 24, 2017 
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Selections from All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), Op. 37

May 27 and 28, 2017 – Beethoven Ninth
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
      Christine Steyer, soprano; Katherine Calcamuggio, alto;
      Jesse Donner, tenor; David Govertsen, bass-baritone