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• Spring 1996
• Fall 1996
• Spring 1997
• Fall 1997
• Spring 1998
• Fall 1998
• Spring 1999
• Fall 1999
• Spring 2000
• Fall 2000
• Spring 2001
• Fall 2001
• Spring 2002
• Fall 2002
• Spring 2003
• Fall 2003
• Spring 2004
• Fall 2004
• Spring 2005
• Fall 2005
• Spring 2006
• Fall 2006
• Spring 2007
• Fall 2007
• Spring 2008
• Fall 2008
• Spring 2009

Spring 1996

May 1996
MIT Symphony Orchestra & MIT Concert Choir
William Cutter, director

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 118
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
• Margaret O'Keefe, soprano
• Susan Trout, alto
• Richard Simpson, tenor
• Paul Guttry, bass
Review by The Tech

Fall 1996

Friday, December 6, 1996
MIT Concert Choir & MIT Chamber Chorus & MIT Symphony Orchestra
Music of the People

The choir performed a program "Music of the People," a selection of
folk songs and folk song arrangements from around the world.

Spring 1997

Friday, May 2, 1997
MIT Concert Choir

• Henry Purcell: Come ye sons of art
• Benjamin Britten: Cantata academica
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Fall 1997

Friday, November 21, 1997
MIT Concert Choir

• Missa F-dur (Mass in F)
• Cantata BWV 191 "Gloria in excelsis Deo"
• Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied

Spring 1998

Saturday, March 14, 1998
MIT Symphony Orchestra with the MIT Concert Choir and members of the Brookline Chorus

The choir accompanied the MIT Symphony Orchestra in a farewell concert for David Epstein, the MIT Symphony Orchestra's director for nearly 35 years.

Review from the Boston Globe
Review from The Tech

Friday, May 1, 1998
MIT Concert Choir & MIT Symphony Orchestra

The MIT Symphony Orchestra also played a work by Mozart.

Fall 1998

Friday, November 20, 1998
MIT Concert Choir

Friday, April 30, 1999
MIT Concert Choir

• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
• Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Fall 1999

Saturday, October 16, 1999
Family Weekend Concert
MIT Concert Choir & MIT Symphony Orchestra

• Pietro Mascagni: Introduction and Chorus from "Cavalleria Rusticana"
• Giuseppe Verdi: Va, Pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves), from Nabucco
• Aaron Copland: Stomp Your Foot, Chorus from The Tender Land

Friday, November 19, 1999
MIT Concert Choir Concert

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae de Dominica, K 321
• Francis Poulenc: Gloria

Spring 2000

Saturday, March 4, 2000
MIT Wind Symphony & MIT Wind Ensemble Concert
with the MIT Concert Choir & MIT Handbell Ensemble

Friday, April 28, 2000
MIT Concert Choir & members of the MIT Wind Ensemble

• Anton Bruckner: Motets
  • Ecce Sacerdos
  • Offeretorium: Afferentur Regi
  • Os Justi Meditabitur
• Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E Minor
• Paul Hindemith: Apparebit Repentina Dies

Fall 2000

Friday, October 6, 2000
50th Anniversary Celebration of the MIT School of Humanities and Social Sciences
MIT Concert Choir & MIT Symphony Ochestra

<Ludwig van Beethoven: Choral Fantasy

Friday, October 20, 2000
Family Weekend Concert
MIT Concert Choir with pianist and assistant conductor Henry Weinberger

• Golden Willow Tree
• The Boatman's Dance
• Simple Gifts
• The Dodger
• At the River
• Zion's Walls

Friday, December 1, 2000
MIT Wind Ensemble & MIT Concert Choir

Saturday, December 2, 2000
MIT Concert Choir & MIT Wind Ensemble

• Four Motets
  • Help Us, O Lord
  • Thou, O Jehovah, Abideth Forever
  • Have Mercy On Us, O My Lord
  • Sing Ye Praises To Our King
• Old American Songs
  • Golden Willow Tree
  • The Boatman's Dance
  • Simple Gifts
  • The Dodger
  • At the River
  • Zion's Walls

• Aaron Copland:Canticle of Freedom
• Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Spring 2001

Saturday, April 21, 2001, Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College: Neal Hampton, conductor
Sunday, April 22, 2001, Cousens Gymnasium, Tufts University: Malka Sverdlov Yaacobi, conductor
MIT Concert Choir in collaboration with choirs and orchestras from Wellesley, Tufts, and Brandeis

The choir performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Auferstehung"/"Resurrection") with a combined choir from MIT, Tufts, and Brandeis and a combined orchestra from Wellesley, Tufts, and Brandeis. The orchestras involved were the Tufts Symphony Orchestra, Brandeis Symphony Orchestra, and Wellesley College Orchestra. The MIT Concert Choir sang along with the Tufts University Chorale and Brandeis University Chorus.

Friday, May 4, 2001
MIT Concert Choir Spring Concert

Fall 2001

Saturday, December 1, 2001
MIT Concert Choir Fall Concert

• Kendra Colton, soprano
• Lynn Torgove, mezzo-soprano
• Rockland Osgood, tenor
• Thomas Jones, bass
A benefit concert featuring some of Boston's finest vocalists singing the arias and recitatives. A portion of the admission price, plus additional donations collected at the door, went to the Unity Fund of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.

Saturday, December 8, 2001
(with open rehearsal Thursday, December 6, 2001)
MIT Symphony Orchestra Concert with the MIT Concert Choir

Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied
The Orchestra's program included other works of Johannes Brahms and Peter Child.

Spring 2002

Friday, April 5, 2002
Campus Preview Weekend Concert

The MIT Concert Choir performed Classic American Musical Theater:

• Stephen Sondheim: "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" from The Frogs
• Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics): "Oklahoma" from Oklahoma!
• George Gershwin: "Act III, Scene I" from Porgy and Bess
• Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics): "Ascot Gavotte" from My Fair Lady
• Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The concert also featured other performances by the MIT Wind Ensemble and MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble.

Saturday, April 27, 2002
MIT Concert Choir Spring Concert Classic American Musical Theater: An Evening at the Theater

• Stephen Sondheim: "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" from The Frogs
• Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics): "Oklahoma" from Oklahoma!
• George Gershwin: "Act III, Scene I" and "I'm on my way" from Porgy and Bess
• Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics): "Ascot Gavotte" from My Fair Lady
• Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Any Dream Will Do" and "Close Every Door" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Jerry Herman: "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello, Dolly!
• Sherman Edwards "Sit Down, John" and "Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve" from 1776
• Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics): "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" from Show Boat
• Stephen Sondheim: "A Weekend in the Country" from A Little Night Music
• Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics): "Brigadoon," "Vendors' Calls," and "Down on MacConnachy Square" from Brigadoon
• Meredith Willson: "Iowa Stubborn," "Lida Rose," and "Will I Ever Tell You?" from The Music Man
• Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics): "Tradition" from Fiddler on the Roof
• Stephen Sondheim: "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" and "Sorry-Grateful" from Company
• Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Don Black (original lyrics), and Richard Maltby, Jr. (revised lyrics): "Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance
• Bob Merrill: "Mira (Can you imagine that?)" from Carnival

Thursday, June 6, 2002
Boston Pops Concert: Tech Night at the Pops
Symphony Hall, Boston

Members of the MIT Concert Choir and MIT Chamber Chorus joined the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart, in a variety of American works.

Fall 2002

Fall Choir Concert

Pick up here Friday, November 22, 2002
The choir performed:
• Zwei Motetten (Two Motets), Op. 29 - Johannes Brahms
  1. Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
  2. Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz
• Messe in C-Dur (Mass in C), Op. 86 - Ludwig van Beethoven
We were joined by these soloists:
• Margaret O'Keefe, soprano
• Majie Zeller, alto
• Frederick Urrey, tenor
• David Kravitz, bass

Spring 2003

Spring Choir Concert

Friday, May 2, 2003
Saturday, May 3, 2003 (Brown University)
The choir performed with the Brown University Chorus, in one concert at MIT and another at Brown University in Providence, RI:
• Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37 - Sergei Rachmaninoff (MIT Concert Choir and Brown University Chorus)
• Psalms - Lukas Foss (MIT Concert Choir, featuring Henry Weinberger and Karen Harvey on pianos)
• SydC$meni Laulo, Op. 18 No. 6 - Jean Sibelius (Brown University Chorus)
• KevC$tunta, Op. 50 No. 3 - Leevi Madetoja (Brown University Chorus)
• Magnificat - John Tavener (Brown University Chorus)
• Keinutan Kaikua, Op. 11 No. 6 - Toivo Kuula (Brown University Chorus)
• LC$htC6 (Ratsun selkC$C$n) - Einojuhani Rautavaara (Brown University Chorus)

Fall 2003

Fall Choir Concert

Friday, November 21, 2003

• Magnificat in D - J. S. Bach
• Orchestral Suite #3 - J. S. Bach
• A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten
The concert featured Howard Chan, Victoria Davis, Elisabeth Hon, Kevin Hunt, Prathima Nandivada, Nathan Quitoriano, and Matthew Truss, soloists, as well as Carol Baum, harpist.


Spring 2004


Spring Choir Concert
Saturday, May 1, 2004

- O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf, Opus 74, No. 2 — Johannes Brahms

- Lass dich nur nichts night dauren, Op. 30 — Johannes Brahms

- Mass — Igor Stravinsky

   Elisabeth Hon, soprano
   Prathima Nandivada, alto
   Thomas Maxisch, tenor
   Daniel Cunningham, bass

- Lauda Sion — William Cutter (world premiere)

   Ana Albir, soprano
   Katie Olsen, mezzo soprano
   Eduardo Montemayor, bass
   Thomas Maxisch, tenor


Fall 2005

Fall Choir Concert

Sunday, December 4, 2005

Messiah, Parts One and Two - Georg Friedrich Handel
featuring soloists
soprano Christy Steele
countertenor Jonas Laughlin
tenor Jason McStoots
bass Aaron Engebreth


Spring 2006

Spring Choir Concert

A joint concert with
Le Choeur Universitaire de Lausanne, UNIL, et EPFL from Lausanne, Switzerland

Ein Deutches Requim - Johannes Brahms



Fall 2006

Fall Choir Concert

Saturday, December 2, 2006

Sacred and Profane, Op. 91 by Benjamin Britten
Elisabeth Hon, soprano
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
featuring soloists:
Joshua Li, Stephan Jung, Daniel Cunningham, Michael Johnson, baritones
Sudeep Agarwala, tenor
Elisabeth Hon, soprano

Spring 2007

Spring Choir Concert

Saturday, May 5, 2007

• St. John Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach
featuring soloists
• soprano Amanda Forsythe
• mezzo-sporano Rebecca Folsom
• tenor Kyle Masterson
• baritone Dana Whiteside
• tenor Rockland Osgood - Evangelist
• bass Aaron Engebreth - Jesus
• baritone Daniel Cunningham - Pilate
• soprano Jodie-Marie Fernandes - Ancilla
• tenor Jason Ku - Servus
• bass Michael Johnson - Peter

Fall 2007

Fall Choir Concert

Saturday, December 8, 2007

• Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden, Motet (BWV 230) - J. S. Bach
• Theresienmesse, Mass in B flat Major (H. 21/12) - Joseph Haydn
• Jodie-Marie Fernandez, soprano
• Elizabeth Maroon, alto
• Alvin Cheung, tenor
• Michael B. Johnson, bass
  
• Festival Te Deum - Benjamin Britten
• Elizabeth Hon, soprano
• James Busby, organ

Fall 2008

Fall Choir Concert

Sunday, December 7, 2008

• Alexander's Feast - George Frideric Handel
  
• Peaceable Kingdom - Randall Thompson