2011-12 Season

Old and New – 5/25/12

  • Anonymous – Congaudeant Catholici
    (from the Codex Calixtinus, c. 1130s)
  • arr. Shawn Kirchner – Leshana Haba’a bi Yerushalayim
    (2011 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission)
  • Igor Stravinsky – Four Russian Peasant Songs
    (with four horns, 1954 version)

    1. On Saints’ Days in Chigisakh
    2. Ovsen
    3. The Pike
    4. Master Portly
  • Jocelyn Hagen – Moon Goddess
    (2011 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission)


Winter Term Choir Concert – 2/24/12

  • Libby Larsen – The Womanly Song of God
  • Franz Schubert – Psalm 23
  • Sydney Guillaume – Chapo Pou Fanm (Hats Off to Women)
    (2011 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, World Premier)
  • Vijay Singh – Tutto Il Di Piango
  • Carol Barnett – Song of Perfect Propriety


Heaven and Earth – 11/11/11

  • arr. Alberto Grau – Mata del Anima Sola
  • arr. Paul Carey – Sing Me To Heaven
  • Ola Gjeilo – Tundra (with piano and string quartet)
    (2009 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, World Premier)
  • Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Chorus of the Water-Sprites


Loss, Reflection, and Hope (Reflections on 9/11) – 10/15/11

  • arr. David Childs – Weep No More
  • Brad Burrill – Remember
  • Paula F. Tillen – A Prayer for Peace
  • arr. Scott Farthing – How Can I Keep From Singing
  • Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory – Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down

2010-11 Season

  • Joanne Metcalf – Seikilos
    (World Premier – written for Cantala)
  • Daniel J. Hall – Reflections from Yad Veshem
    (World Premier – commissioned by Cantala)
  • Laurie Altman – The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (World Premier)
  • Anonymous (14th Century Polyphony) – Flos Regalis
  • Johannes Brahms – Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang (from Op. 17)
  • Abbie Betinis – suffer no grief (From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hâfez, mvt. 2)
  • Yosif Ketchakhmazde – Archaica II (Lasharis Gzaze)
  • arr. Ron Smail – The Log Driver’s Waltz
  • Joan Szymko – saboo (from This Wonderful Feeling)
  • Gwyneth Walker – Now I Become Myself
  • Johannes Brahms – Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor, Op. 17
    1. Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang (The Harp Resounds with Wild Refrain)
    2. Lied von Shakespeare (Song from Shakespeare)
    3. Der Gärtner (The Gardener)
    4. Gesang aus Fingal (Song from Fingal)
  • Andrew Rindfleisch – Klangfarben (World Premier)
    1. Gong
    2. Die Vogelrufe (The Birdcalls)
    3. An Die Musik (To Music)
  • Eleanor Daley – Rose Trilogy
    1. A Red, Red Rose
    2. A White Rose
    3. The Lost Rose
  • Joan Szymko – The Roses

2009-10 Season

  • arr. Glen Adkins – Járba, Màré Járba (from Two Gypsy Songs)
  • Elizabeth Alexander – Reasons (for the perpetuation of slavery)
    (2009 ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium Commission, World Premier)
  • Abbie Betinis – Chant for Great Compassion
  • Charles B. Griffin – El Paso de la Siguiriya
  • arr. Hendrik Hofmeyr – Thula, Babana (Xhosa Lullaby)
  • arr. Glen Adkins – Erdö szélen sátoroznak (from Two Gypsy Songs)
  • Paul Halley – The Seeds of Love (from Love Songs for Springtime)
  • J. David Moore – Mad Girl’s Love Song
  • Daniel Kallman – There Will Be Rest
  • Joanne Metcalf – O Shining Light (U.S. Premier)
  • David MacIntyre – Ave Maria
  • Jeffery L. Ames – Holy Is The Lord
  • Felix Mendelssohn – Lift Thine Eyes (Trio of Angels, No. 28 from Elijah)
  • Ramona Luengen – Missa Brevis
    1. Kyrie
    2. Sanctus
    3. Agnus Dei
  • Gwyneth Walker – I Thank You God

2008-09 Season

  • György Orbán – Fülemüle (The Nightingale)
  • Arne Mellnäs – Aglepta
  • Abbie Betinis – From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hâfez
    1. we have come
    2. suffer no grief
    3. closer to the fire
    4. boatpeople
    5. we have come (reprise)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Chorus of the Peasant Girls (with full orchestra)
  • Richard Wagner –  Spinning Chorus (with full orchestra)
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Witches Chorus (with full orchestra)
  • Georges Bizet – Cigarette Chorus and Fight Chorus (with full orchestra)
  • Gustav Holst – Ave Maria
  • Henry Purcell – In these delightful, pleasant groves
  • Thomas Weelkes – Aye Me, Alas, Heigh Ho
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sigh No More, Ladies
    (adapted from his opera ‘Sir John In Love’)
  • Gustav Holst – Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Second Group
    1. To Varuna (God of the Waters)
    2. To Agni (God of Fire)
    3. Funeral Chant
  • Joanne Metcalf – Quivi è la rosa (from Il nome del bel fior)
  • Abbie Betinis –  closer to the fire (From Behind the Caravan:  Songs of Hâfez, mvt. 3)
  • Francisco J. Núñez – Crióme Mi Madre (from Four Spanish Lullabies)
  • Joan Szymko – Variations on a Theme by Rilke

 

2007-08 Season

  • Victor Paranjoti – Dravidian Dithyramb
  • Charles B. Griffin – The Moon of the Floating World
  • Joan Szymko – The Singing Place
    (2007-08 ACDA Women’s Composition Consortium, World Premier)
  • Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Pseudo-Yoik Lite
  • arr. Alice Parker (setting byJames Rodde) - Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
  • David Conte – In Praise of Music (complete work)
  • Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman, arr. David J. Elliot - A-tisket, A-tasket
  • Daniel J. Hall - Indian Summer
  • arr. Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory - Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
  • Tomas Luis de Victoria – O Regem Coeli/Natus est nobis
  • Mark Sirett – Song of the Angels
  • Harri Wessman – Water Under Snow Is Weary (Vesi väsyy lumen alle)
  • arr. Auvo Sarmanto – Hanget soi
  • arr. Neil Ginsberg – Hiné Ma Tov
  • arr. Corin T. Overland – The Sussex Carol
  • arr. Stephen Hatfield – The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy
  • Nancy Hill Cobb – Laudate Pueri
  • arr. Vaclav Nelhybel – All Through The Night
  • Jonathan R. Pieslak – Solar Flares
  • David A. Sasso – Night
  • Jorma Panula – Are You Sleeping, Brother John?

2006-07 Season

  • Benjamin Britten Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
    1. Procession
    2. Wolcum Yole!
    3. There is no Rose
    4. That yongé child
    5. Balulalow
    6. A dew in Aprille
    7. This little Babe
    8. Interlude
    9. In Freezing Winter Night
    10. Spring Carol
    11. Deo Gracias
    12. Recession
  • Susan Botti – Cosmosis (2004)
     (for Wind Ensemble, Soprano and Women’s Voices)

    1. Overboard (Prologue)
    2. The 1 st Night
    3. Interlude
    4. The 2 nd Night
  • Ramona Luengen – Salve Regina
  • arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel – Denko
  • Paul Basler – Sing A New Song To The Lord
  • Daniel Friderici – Cantate Domino
  • Corin Overland – Tantum Ergo
  • Marie-Claire Saindon – Le Train D’Hiver
  • Lee R. Kesselman – Kadosh/Benedictus
  • arr. Amy Dalton – Simple Gifts
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara – “Suite” de Lorca
    1. Canción de jinete (Song of the Horseman)
    2. El Grito (The Scream)
    3. La luna asoma (The Moon Rises)
    4. Malagueña
  • arr. Francisco J. Nuñez – Can You Hear

2005-06 Season

  • Nicola Porpora – Magnificat
  • Maurice Duruflé – Tota Pulchra Es
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria – Duo Seraphim
  • Andrew Rindfleisch – Me! Come! My Dazzled Face!
  • David Conte – In Praise of Music (First Section)
  • Alberto Grau – Caracolitos Chicos
  • Otmar Mácha – Ho-ja-ja, ho-ja-ja
  • arr. Arkadi Serper – Overture to Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
  • Johannes Brahms – Nun stehn die Rosen, op. 44, no. 7
  • arr. Dwight Okamura – Sakura Sakura
  • Vijay Singh – Upon Julia’s Voice
  • arr. Jeremy Fox – Land of Pure Imagination
  • Randall Thompson – A Girl’s Garden
  • Joan Szymko – maggie and milly and molly and may
  • Michael Cleveland – Jesu, dúlcis memoria
  • arr. Stephen Hatfield – Job, Job

2004-05 Season

  • Gustav Holst Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda
    1. Hymn to the Dawn
    2. Hymn to the Waters
    3. Hymn to Vena (The Sun Rising through the Mist)
    4. Hymn of the Travelers
  • Gwyneth Walker My Girls
    1. This Morning
    2. To My Girls
    3. Sisters
  • Allen Koepke Dance On My Heart
  • Michael Kregler The Baby’s Dance
  • Scott Tucker Dancing
  • Janika Vandervelde Dance Ablaze!
  • arr. Ro Ogura Hotaru Koi
  • Liu Zhuang Three Chinese Songs
    1. Lan Hua Hua
    2. Da Mai Hao Zi
    3. Yang Guan San Dei
  • arr. Jeremy Fox I Just Found Out About Love
  • William Dawson Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
  • William Dawson There Is a Balm in Gilead

2003-04 Season

  • Eric Whitacre Five Hebrew Love Songs
  • Robert A. Harris What Passion Cannot Music Raise Or Quell!
  • James Mulholland Heart We Will Forget
  • Richard Nance Set Me As A Seal
  • ed. Ricardo Soto Cuncti Simus
  • Edward Elgar The Snow
  • R. Murray Schafer Snowforms
  • Gary Garcia There Is No Rose
  • arr. Ron Jeffers Le Sommeil de l’Enfant Jésus
  • Taras Nahirniak Hodie Christus
  • Michael Haydn Litanie della Madonna ( Regina coeli)
  • Frode Fjellheim Psalm
  • Francisco Muro El Romanton (Pasadoble)
  • arr. Jeremy Fox Moondance
  • arr. Zigmas Venckus Nepusk, vejeli
  • Nick Page Niska Banja
  • Lloyd Pfautch Laughing Song
  • Daniel J. Hall Out of the Morning
  • Gwyneth Walker Sisters (from My Girls, no. 3)
  • Joan Szymko Nada te turbe
  • Clifton Noble, Jr. Elijah Rock

2002-03 Season

  • Veroslav Neumann Lamento di arianna abbandonata
  • Donald Patriquin Ah, si mon moine voulait danser!
  • Eric Whitacre She Weeps Over Rahoon
  • David N. Childs Weep No More
  • Michael Cleveland Come To Me
  • William L. Dawson Ain’-a That Good News!
  • Greg Knauf Praise the Lord
  • Jonathon M. T. Roberts Psalm 46
  • Johannes Brahms Der 13 Psalm, op. 27
  • Johannes Brahms Benedictus
  • René Clausen Psalm 100
  • Jackson Berkey Ave dulcissima Maria
  • Malcohm Daglish Reel á Bouche

Previous Seasons

  • Otmar Mácha Hoj, hura, hoj
  • Zoltán Kodály Hegyi éjszakák I
  • Lajos Bárdos Magos a rutafa
  • arr. Caldwell/Ivory Go Where I Send Thee
  • Pablo Casals Nigra Sum
  • Robert A. Harris The Lamb
  • arr. Marylou India JacksonDone Foun’ My Los’ Sheep
  • arr. Moses Hogan Ride On, King Jesus
  • arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel Ise Oluwa
  • arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel Take My Hand, Precious Lord
  • Charles H. Gabriel His Eye is on the Sparrow
  • Johannes Brahms Vier Gesänge, op. 17
  • Benjamin Britten Missa Brevis in D

Major Works

  • Sir William Walton – Coronation Te Deum
  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C
  • Arvo Pärt – Te Deum
  • Morten Lauridsen – Mid-Winter Songs
  • Franz Joseph Haydn – Lord Nelson Mass
  • Johannes Brahms Ein duetsches Requiem, Opus 45
  • George Frideric Handel Messiah
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem
  • Carl Orff Carmina Burana
  • Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat, BWV 243
  • Krysztof Penderecki Credo
  • Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem, KV 626
  • Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata
  • Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms
  • Benjamin Britten War Requiem

 

 

 

 

Conductor

  • Phillip A. Swan

    Associate Professor of Music

    Phillip A. Swan is the Co-Director of Choral Studies at Lawrence University and Musical Director for LU Musicals. Swan directs Cantala (LU Women’s Choir) and the LU Hybrid Ensemble (jazz, early, contemporary, and world music), teaches courses in conducting, musical theater, music education, supervises student teachers and coaches student organized a cappella groups. He is also active in the Appleton community, serving as choir director at Appleton Alliance Church and conductor for the community choir, the White Heron Chorale. Swan received his BA in music education from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, MM in Choral Conducting from UT El Paso, and has completed all coursework for the DMA in Choral Conducting at the University of Miami (Florida). His doctoral essay is focused on the choral works of Eric Whitacre.

    Swan served as a church music and youth director, performed in El Paso Pro Musica, and taught elementary general music in El Paso, Texas, before moving to Watertown, South Dakota in 1989, where he taught high school vocal music for ten years and was an active clinician and adjudicator. His duties at Watertown High School included: Fine Arts Department Chair, Bel Canto Singers (non-auditioned freshman chorus), Concert Choir (non-auditioned grade 10-12 chorus), Meistersingers (auditioned grade 11-12 chorus, who performed twice at the South Dakota Teacher Inservice), private voice lessons, two auditioned show choirs and director for the spring musicals (Hello Dolly, 1940's Radio Hour, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' In The Rain, and Into The Woods). Swan was also actively involved in the Watertown community as musical director of an auditioned community choir (Kampeska Chorale), Town Players (musical theater productions of Fiddler On The Roof and Camelot), and for nine years served as music director for Ninth Avenue United Methodist Church, directing both the sanctuary choir and praise team. Mr. Swan was also very involved in the South Dakota chapter of the American Choral Directors Association with involvements as the Vocal Jazz Repertory and Standards Chair, South Dakota ACDA Newsletter Editor, Co-chair for the 1999 SD Summer Conference, Registration Co-chair for the 1994 ACDA North Central Division Convention, tenor section leader for the 1993 and 1995 SD Honors Choir and Interim Senior High School Repertory and Standards Chairman. While pursuing his D.M.A. degree in Choral Conducting at the University of Miami, Swan served as senior Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Choral Studies Program, was director of the University Women's Chorale, sang in numerous ensembles (including the prestigious Jazz Vocal 1 and University Chorale) and served as Assistant Director of Music Ministries at Coral Gables Congregational Church.

    In May 2008, Swan was honored to be selected by the LU student body as the recipient of the Mrs. H. K. Babcock Award. (The award is given to an individual from the Lawrence community, who through involvement and interaction with students has made a positive impact on the campus community.) Other awards include the South Dakota ACDA Encore Award (outstanding young choral director), Outstanding Young Men of America, Who?s Who Among American Teachers, the 1997 Northwestern University Summer Fellows Program, Alpha Epsilon Lambda (graduate honor society) and Pi Kappa Lambda (collegiate national music honor society). In March 2001, Swan was selected as one of four national finalists for the graduate choral conducting competition at the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio. Swan is an active clinician and recently returned from conducting the seventh annual Festival of Choirs (a regional choir festival involving approximately 200 high school students and teachers) in Muscat, Oman. Swan is a member of the American Choral Directors Association (serving as the Wisconsin Women?s Choirs R & S Chair), the College Music Society, and the Music Educators National Conference.

    Contact by e-mail: phillip.a.swan@lawrence.edu

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