» A DuBose Heyward Triptych (Text: DuBose Heyward) (2000-2001) 15’30″
1. Silences
2. Landbound
3. Dusk
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» All My Heart This Night Rejoices (Text: Paul Gerhardt) (1972) 2’00″
Alleluia Dialogues (Text: Alleluia) (1990) 4’00″
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
» Arise in Beauty (Text: Angier Brock) (2010) 7’00”
Ave Maria (Text: Traditional Latin) (2004) 4’30″
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- appears on the CD – The World’s Desire
» Ave Verum Corpus (Hail, True Body) (Text: Traditional) (2010) 4’00″
» Ave Verum (1998) 5’00″
New » Bond and Free (Text: Robert Frost) (2012) 4’00″
Break Away! (Text: Alicia Carpenter) (1983) 5’00″
♦TP
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
» Brief Mass (Text: The Ordinary of the Mass) (1993) 15’00″
I .Kyrie
II.Gloria
III. Credo
IV. Sanctus
V. Agnus Dei
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- appears on the CD – American Music from St. Thomas
- appears on the CD – Dan Locklair: Choral Music
» A Celtic Invocation (Text: Traditional) (1978) 2’00″
» “changing perceptions” & EPITAPH (1987) 14’00″
I. what do we know about life (Carol Adler)
II. A.M.H. (Christine Teale Howes)
III. Grief Poem (Joy Kogawa)
IV. High Flight (John Gillespie Magee, Jr.)
V. like the river that passes away (Carol Adler)
EPITAPH
NOTE: EPITAPH (Grave inscription) may be performed after “changing perceptions” if desired, but this is optional.
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- appears on the CD – Dan Locklair: Choral Music
A Christmas Carol (Text: G.K. Chesterton) (1981) 2’00″
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
» A Christmas Pair (Text: Christine Teale Howes) (1989) 7’00″
I. Down to the Roots of the World
II. Lumen de Lumine
Each movement published separately
♦WL
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» The Columbus Madrigals (Text: Alicia Carpenter) (1991) 29’00″
I. They Say; II. The Voyage; III. Into Your Hands (Last Words)
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» Cradle Song (Text: Traditional German) (1979) 3’00″
Create in Me a Clean Heart (Text: Psalm 51) (1980) 4’00″
New » Creator of the Stars of Night (Text: Ninth century. Translation by John Mason Neale) (2011) 6’00″
Program Notes
» DESCANTS to Traditional Hymns (2007-2008)
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» Desires (Text: Traditional Celtic) (1978) 3’00″
Dona Nobis Pacem (Text: The Mass) (1985) 5’00″
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
En Natus Est Emanuel (1999) 3’30″
» Festival Setting of Wake Forest University Alma Mater (1983)
For Amber Waves (Text: Katherine Lee Bates) (1993) 4’30″
♦BH
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- appears on the CD – Dan Locklair: Choral Music
» The Force of Habit (1978) 8’00″
Program Notes
I. The Elephant or The Force of Habit (A.E. Housman); II. Animals (Walt Whitman); III. I Dunno (Anonymous); IV. How Doth the Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll); V. The Reason for the Pelican (John Ciardi)
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Freedom (Text: Maya Angelou) (2000) 4’00″
From East to West (Text: Coelius Sedulius, tr. Ellerton/Ulery) (2003) 5’00″
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- appears on the CD – From East to West
From East to West (Text: Coelius Sedulius, tr. Ellerton/Ulery) (2003/2005) 5’00″
The Gates of Morning (Text: C. Earl Leininger) (2006) 5′ 00″
The Gift of Music (Text: Fred Chappell) (2004) 5′ 00″
Gloria (Text: Traditional Latin) (1998) 12’00″
» Grace (Text: Traditional Celtic) (1978) 2’30″
» Holy Canticles (Text: Traditional) (1996) 20’00″
1. Magnificat
2. Nunc dimittis
3. Te Deum laudamus
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
» Hymn to Christ (Text: John of Damascus) (1987) 2’00″
» In Praise of Easter (Text: The Book of Common Prayer) (1973) 15’00″
In the Cross of Christ (Text: John Bowring), 2006 2′ 00″
In the Sight of God (Text: The First Letter of Peter: Ch. 2, vs. 2-5) 2009 3′ 30″
Instant Culture(Text: Alicia Carpenter) (1985) 13’30″
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
» The Isaiah Canticles (2005) 9’00″
Program Notes
1. Surely it is God
2. Seek the Lord
3. Arise, Shine
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» Jubilate Deo (Text: Psalm 100) (1979/1996 revised) 6’00″
Let the People Sing! (Text: Fred Pratt Green) (1989) 3’30″
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» The Lilacs Bloomed (Text: Walt Whitman) (2009) 8’00″
based on Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Program Notes
1. “…I mourned”
2. “…fallen star”
3. “…a miracle”
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» The Lone, Wild Bird (Text: Henry R. McFadyen) (1979) 3’00″
New » The Lord Ascendeth Up on High (Text: Arthur Russell) (2011) 2’00″
The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Text: Numbers 6:24-26) (2008) 1′ 16″
Lord Jesus, Think on Me (Text: Synesius of Cyrene) (2006) 3′ 00″
Love Came Down at Christmas (Text: Christina Rossetti) (2009) 3′ 00″
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Montréal) (1999) 8′ 30″
» Mass Setting (1981)
» Missa Brevis (“The Brass Mass”) (1985/87) 33’00″
Program Notes
I. Prelude-Kyrie-Fanfare/Processional; II. Gloria; III. Credo; IV. Sanctus; V. Agnus Dei and Dona Nobis Pacem
2tpt, hn, tmb, tba
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» O God of Earth and Altar (Text: G.K. Chesterton) (1975) 5’00″
O Sacrum Convivium [O Sacred Banquet] (Text: Traditional Latin) (1999) 2’30″
(Contains an English singing text)
O Sing to the Lord a New Song (Psalm 96) (2003) 5’00″
» O Vos Omnes (1998) 4’30″
» On Cats (1978) 10’00″
I. The Lion (Vachel Lindsay)
II. Cat (J.R.R. Tolkien) (S/B soli)
III.The Mysterious Cat (Vachel Lindsay)
IV. December Cats (Mark Van Doren) (a cappella)
V. How to Tell a Tiger (John Ciardi)
♦RHL
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
Pater Noster [Our Father] (Text: Traditional Latin) (2000) 3’00″
(Contains an English singing text)
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- appears on the CD – American Music from St. Thomas
- appears on the CD – Pater Noster, The Choir of The Abbey School, Tewkesbury, UK
- appears on the CD – My Spirit Sang All Day…, The Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham
- appears on the CD – Music for a Grand Space, Cathedral Choral Society
» Poems ‘N Pairs (1994)
Cycle I 6’00″
1A. Awaken
1B. (Untitled)
2A. An Enchanted Garden
2B. DancingCycle II 6’15″
1A. Breeze
1B. Witches
2A. Slave of the Moon
2B. Sleep and Dreams
♦BH
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» Prayer of Supplication and Thanksgiving (Text: A Short Book of Common Prayer) (1972) 5’00″
Proclaim the Lord (Text: Bible) (1985) 3’00″
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
Remembrance (Text: Matthew 5: 3-12), 2006 5′ 00″
» Shepherds Rejoice (Text: The Sacred Harp [1860]) (1999) 5’00″
SATB, a cappella
1. Shepherds, Rejoice!
2. Christ was Born in Bethlehem
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To order Christ was Born in Bethlehem…
New » Spirit of Mercy, Truth, and Love (Text: Anonymous Latin; English translation from Psalms, Hymns and Anthems, 1774) (2011) 3’30″
St. Peter’s Rock (1999) 7’00″
Stirring the Silence (Text: Fred Chappell) (2006) 7’00″
Tapestries (Text: Rabinranath Tagore) (1982) 4’00″
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- appears on the CD – Dan Locklair: Choral Music
Te Deum Laudamus: You are God (1997) 7’30″
» Thanksgiving (Text: Psalm 65 vs. 6-13) (2008) 4’00″
The Texture of Creation (Text: Martha W. Lentz) (1983) 5’00″
» Three Christmas Motets (Text: Liber usualis) (1993) 6’15″
Program Notes
I. Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite
II. O Magnum Mysterium
III. Hodie Christus Natus Est
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- appears on the CD – Holy Canticles, Sacred and Secular Choral Music
- appears on the CD – Chantez Noel, Atlanta Singers
» Three Short Anthems (1972/80) 6’00″
I. Introitus (Bible); II. God be in My Head (Sarum Primen, 1558); III. At the Name of Jesus (Caroline Noel)
» Treble Woes (Text: Edmond Kapp) (1978) 1’15″
» (the trees) (Text: A.R. Ammons) (1992) 6’30″
II. Recovery
IV. Still Frame
VI. Wiring
VIII. Shading Flight In
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Ubi Caritas [Where Affection and Love Abide] (Text: Traditional Latin) (2003) 4’00″
(Contains an English singing text)
Venite (O Come, Let Us Sing) (Text: The Book of Common Prayer)
(1997) 5’30″
» Verses of Peace (Text: Traditional Latin verses) (2002)
New » Welcome, Happy Morning! (Text: Venantius Fortunatus; English translation by John Ellerton) (2011) 4’30″
» Windswept (the trees) (Text: A.R. Ammons) (1992) 25’00″
I. Windy Morning with a Little Sleet
II. Recovery
III. March Song
IV. Still Frame
V. Interference
VI. Wiring
VII. Bay Bank
VIII. Shading Flight In
IX. In the Wind My Rescue Is
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/pno
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- appears on the CD – Dan Locklair: Choral Music
New » WINTER (from the forgottens) (Text: Clinton Scollard, Arlo Bates, Mary Mapes Dodge, John Shaw) (2011) 15’00″
1. A Bell (SATB)
2. A Winter Twilight (SSAA)
3. The Stars (TTBB)
4. Sleighing Song (SATB)
(N.B. Movements may also be purchased separately.)
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