Volume VI. 

​​Chorus



                                Book I.  Unaccompanied Chorus

1.   Fire Chant:  Commissioned by "Non-Verbal Sacred Chants."  1 minute, for three part chorus sung on vowels. for mixed chorus. Unperformed and withheld.

2.   Blessings On Your Home:  2 and a half minutes minutes;  Text by Drew Hubbard;  
in 2010, won first place in the Boston Metro Opera International Composition Competition in the choral music category, and was premiered by BMO and
​performed several more times by BMO.  See "Ritual" VI;III;2.  
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3.   A Cradle Song:  3 minutes & and 20 seconds;  Poem by William Blake; written on 8/21/9.  

4.   Dunt:  4 minutes: to a poem by Alice Oswald (u.c.). Unperformed. Based on the final movement of I/IX/1; and III/IV/4e. 

5.   Unison Mass:   4 movements; 5 minutes; with organ accompaniment by Dr. Sam Walter.  Premiered at St. Anne's Pro-Cathedral of Brooklyn;  also performed at The Church of  The Resurrection and Cathedral of St. John The Divine all in NYC.

6.  The Stag Ritual:    5.5 minutes; 4 movements; poem by Andrew Swan; 
6a. The Stage Ritual:  for baritone and bass voices.  Unperformed. 
6b. The Stage Ritual:  for two bassoons.  Unperformed. 

7.   Missa Brevis:  3 movements, 7 minutes: "Kyrie" "Sanctus/Benedictus" and "Agnus Die" "Gloria" was added latter for Edith Ho, Church of The Advent, Boston. Unperformed. ​

8.  As Winter Comes: Halloween Cantata: A Ritual for Samhain; 7 movements in 8 minutes with text by Drew Hubbard.  
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9.  Sic Transit gloria mundi:  3 part chorus; 10 minutes in English with some  Latin; Emily Dickinson (uc).  Used with permission.  Unperformed.   

10. Psalms of Peace:  5 movements in 12 and a half minutes. I. premiered at King's Chapel, Boston, MA under Daniel Pinkham; V. performed at Old South, Boston under Harry Huff, but it was premiered at The United Parishin Brookline, MA under Geza Klembala. You can hear the first performance to your right:
​10a.  There is a River:  6 minutes; uses Psalm texts. The middle three psalms.  Unperformed.
Psalms of Peace: 
Peace be within thy walls

11.  The Silent Land!:  To poems translated by Henry  Wadsworth Longfellow;  5 movements in 18 minutes. Movement  III:  "Gd. Alone" won "The Director's Prize" of The Longfellow Chorus, premiered and recorded in Portland, ME, also performed in NJ. The rest unperformed.  

See also listings below: "Psalm 23" from "Psalms of David" VI;III;1; and "Psalm 24" and "Dreams" from "Lavender Requiem" VI;III;2.  Both of these are listed below, on this page.


                                                II. Chorus with Keyboard:

1. 900 Miles: 2 minutes; traditional folk song; male chorus with a bass-baritone solo and piano; written for Flossie Dunne and the Apollo club of Boston. Unperformed.

2. Mass: SATB with organ; 4 movements in 5 minutes. SATB chorus. Performed at
The Church of The Resurrection under Dr. Sam Walter. 2 versions of "Agnus Dei." 

3. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis:  SATB with organ; 9 minutes. Completed on 11/27/19. Unperformed. 

4. Passion according to St. Mark:  30 minutes: SATB chorus, 13 soloists, flute & organ;  texts from The King James Bible; and "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" by Paul Gerhart (trans. Robert Bridges) and the plain song chant: "Dies Irae."  Music used in the video "Allegory." Written when I was 17, studying at The Juilliard Prep School with Robert Hoffsteader, and performed a year latter at The Church of The Resurrection, NYC: 
The musicians were (partial list): Janet Wheeler; June LaBell, and Carrie Glover, sopranos; Virginia Harms, Emily Golden, altos; Jack Witcher (Judas), tenor;  Robert Keuhn, baritone (Jesus); the composer, bass-baritone (Pilot); Dr. James Scott, Flute; Clair Van Audsdall, organ; and the choir of The Church of The Resurrectionn; all under Dr. Sam Walter. You can hear MOST of the piece by pushing either of the buttons to the right:

                      III. Chorus with Chamber Ensemble:  

1. Song of Peace:  6 minutes; SATB chorus and soloists, poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (slightly updated).  Uses the tune "Intercessor" by C. Hubert H. Parry.
1a. Song of Peace:  with brass sextet (222) & timpani. Unperformed.
1b. Song of Peace:  with organ.

2.  1000 Breezes:  6 minutes & 10 seconds; TBB chorus: the composer's birthday card to the poet: 10/22/19, poem by Drew Hubbard:  the poet's birthday card to the composer: early 1990s? See V/III/2 with low voice.  
2a. 1000 Breezes:  with xylophone/gong; vibraphone & marimba. Unperformed.
2b. 1000 Breezes:  with guitar and 'cello. Unperformed.
2c.  1000 Breezes:  with piano. Unperformed.

3. Great Mushup!  12 minutes and 40 seconds; 7 movements; for SATB chorus and soloists with cymbals, gong, high drum, and bass drum. Native American inspired cantata to the poem by Drew Hubbard. Unperformed.

4. gay valentine's day: 13 minutes; 7 movements; TTBB chorus and 4 male soloists;  poems by e. e. cummings (u.c.). Unperformed.
4a  gay valentine's day:  with viola, 'cello and double bass.
4b. gay valentine's day:  with piano.

                                      IV. Chorus with String Orchestra:  

1.  Praise Lord and Lady:  3 part chorus and soloists, trumpet, percussion, timpani and strings; or keyboard; 16 minutes and 25 seconds;  English psalms use The King James Version, with gender changes.
     1.  Psalm 150: (English) 3 part chorus and soloists:  4 and a half minutes.
          1a.   Psalm 150:  with trumpet, percussion, timpani, harp, organ and strings.
          1b.  Psalm 150:   Original version as perf.ormed (& recorded) at The Church of The Resurrection, NYC, under Dr. Sam Walter with the soloists: Janet Wheeler, Virginia Harms and Robert Keuhn. 
     2. Psalm 130 (in Latin); 3 minutes and 10 seconds;
          3b.  Psalm 150:  chorus with soprano solo, trumpet, timpani and strings. 
          3b.  Psalm 150:  chorus with soprano solo and organ.
          3c.  Psalm 150:   for soprano and piano, performed by Shinobu Takagi, mezzo-soprano and Daryl Cooper, piano, at The United Parish in Brookline, MA.   See V/IIIa/2.
      3. Psalm 23:  (in English) 5 minutes; unaccompanied SSATB chorus; based on a withheld "Prayer of St. Chrysostom" commissioned by the church of the same name in Roslindale, MA.  Unperformed.  
     4.  Psalm 150: (English) elaborated 4 part chorus and soloists: 3 minutes and 45 seconds.  Unperformed.
          1a.   Psalm 150:  with trumpet, percussion, timpani, harp, organ and strings.
          1b.  Psalm 150:   with organ. 


2. That I Did Always Love:  SATB chorus with soprano and bass-baritone soloists, flute doubling alto flute (all versions), 5 movements; 19 minutes; Dickinson (uc).
​Movements I., III., & V. dedicated to my husband, Andrew Hubbard; II. is dedicated to my ex-wife, Linda Cecil and Melinda Callas, my piano teacher, Dr. James Scott, and my parents: Janet Wheeler and Dr. Sam Walter and the other performers.  IV. is dedicated to my mother and to Carol Millard. V. also to my father and Ray Ackerman.
2a. That I did Always Love: with percussion (triangle, gong and cymbals), timpani, harp, and strings.
2b. That I did Always Love:  with flute doubling alto flute, harp, violin, viola, 'cello, and double bass.
2b. That I did Always Love:  with piano or organ (in progress):  Movement II. "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" text by Henry van Dyke; premiered by soprano, Linda Cecil and Malinda Callas, flute. Commissioned by, and performed at Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ.  Also performed by Janet Wheeler, soprano; James Scott, flute and Dr. Sam Walter, organ; at St. John's Church, Moorestown, NJ (the wedding of Linda Cecil and the composer.)  Movement IV: "Our Father Mother" (Lord's Prayer); premiered by Janet Wheeler, soprano at Emmanuel Church in Manchester-by-The-Sea, MA; USA. Reconstructed from the third movement of The First Violin Concerto in 2019 for Carol Millard. See III/II/4/III.  Movement V  "Love is like Life"  for SATB; performed at Colby College, Waterville, ME under Ray Ackerman.

3.  Lavender Requiem:  7 movements in 22 minutes;  with soprano solo, solo SSATB quartet, chorus, percussion, timpani and string orchestra. The texts:  Psalms of David, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats (English); "Kyrie eleison" (Greek); Angilbertus, Prudentius and "Requiem aeternam" (Latin).  Written in memory of the victims of the Nazi "Pink Triangle." "Psalm 24" performed by at Bates College, ME under Marion Anderson and The First Unitarian Society of Cambridge under Gordon Dean.  The rest unperformed. 
2a. Lavender Requiem: with timpani, and strings;
2b. Lavender Requiem: with piano.

See also "Ample Make This Bed" (with male chorus) IV/IV/1 and VII/I/1 and "Three Character Studies" VII/II/2 and VII/III 1 "Other Wise Man" & 2 "Ritual" (all with mixed chorus).