Browse our past programmed repertoire from annual concerts going back to 2001.
- Concert length – thirty to forty minutes total
- Repertoire (General)
- Appropriate two-year college repertoire for a choral ensemble of approximately 130-150 singers.
- The quality of music for this ensemble must approximate the level of competency at a minimum of Grade IV on the Texas Prescribed Music List of the University Interscholastic League.
- The concert should include works from various historical, stylistic, and compositional perspectives.
- Repertoire (Specific)
- Works arranged, edited, or composed by the conductor are acceptable with a limit of two pieces.
- Due to budget and structural size considerations, all instrumental accompaniment for specific works other than keyboard should be discussed with the All-State Choir Coordinator for that year.
- It is suggested that the conductor might select one small major work.
- A separate piece for men and for women could be selected.
- Insanae et vanae curae – Franz Joseph Haydn
- Look Down, Fair Moon – Mari Esabel Valverde
- We Can Mend The Sky – Jake Runestad
- Richard Rodriguez, PERCUSSION: BASS DRUM AND DJEMBE, Solo – Delayna Gonzales
- Verleih’ uns Frieden – Felix Mendelssohn
- Earth Song – Frank Ticheli
- Measure Me, Sky – Elaine Hagenberg
- Rockin’ Jerusalem – André Thomas
- Let the River Run – Carly Simon, arr. Craig Johnson
- Richard Rodriguez, Nathan Fryml, and Mark Watt, PERCUSSION: DJEMBE DRUMS AND SHAKERS
- Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down – Traditional Spiritual, arranged by Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory
- Haec Dies – William Byrd
- Keep Your Lamps! – Traditional Spiritual, arranged by André Thomas
- O Clap Your Hands – John Rutter
- O Love – Elaine Hagenber”O Schöne Nacht” from Vier Quartette, Op. 92, No. 1 – Johannes Brahms
- Pilgrims’ Hymn – Stephen Paulus
- Sure On This Shining Night – Morten Lauridsen
- Te Deum – Mozart
- The Ground – Ola Gjeilo
- Veni Creator Spiritus – Anthony Bernaducci
- Can We Sing Darkness into Light – Kyle Pederson
- Zieguenerleben – Schumann
- To Sit and Dream – Rosephanye Powell
- Thixo Onothando – arr. Michael Barrett
- You Do not Walk Alone – Elaine Hagenberg
- Norwegian Alleluia – Kim Andre Arnesen
- With a Voice of Singing, Kenneth Jennings
- Crucifixus, Antonio Lotti
- Gospel Jihad, Philip Blackburn
- Ndikhokhele Bawo, Lhente-Mari Pitout
- When Thunder Comes, Mari Valverde
- Son de la Vida, Jose Galvan
- Arirang, Hyo-Won Woo
- I Need You to Survive, Hezekiah Walker
- Sweet Rivers, Shawn Kirchner, arr.
- Salutation, Eriks Esenvalds
- Jauchzet dem Herrn, Heinrich Schutz
- Beati Quorum Via,, Charles Stanford
- Prayer, Morten Lauridsen
- Turn the World Around, Harry Belafonte, Mark Hayes, arr.
- Songs of Love, Will Todd
II. A Kiss
III. I Sing Because - All of Us, Craig Hella Johnson
- Weihnachten, Felix Mendelssohn
- Wana Baraka Shawn L. Kirchner, arr.
- Gloria from Missa Criolla, Ariel Ramirez
- Sweet Rivers, R. Unterseher
- El Vito, Joni Jensen, arr.
- Stars, Eriks Esenvalds
- Let Everything That Hath Breath, Jeffery L. Ames
- The Trumpet Sounds Within-A-My Soul, Ian David Coleman, arr.
- Domine ad Adjuvandum me (opening from VESPERS), Claudio Monteverdi
- Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge, R. Vaughan Williams
- Stabat Mater in G Minor, D 175, Franz Schubert
- Misericordias Domini, K. 222, Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Idumea, TTBB, Richard Bjella
- By the Rivers of Babylon, Susan Brumfield
- My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord, Moses Hogan, arr.
- Let the Heavens Rejoice, Tim Sarsany
- Te Deum in C, Franz J. Haydn
- Behold! God the Lord Passed By, Felix Mendelssohn
- She Walks in Beauty, Eric William Barnum
- Come To Me, Matthew Emery
- This Bitterly Beautiful Land: I will Arise, Oh My Lovin’ Brother, David Ashley White, arr.
- How Can I Keep from Singing? Z Randall Stroope, arr.
- Let Music Fill the Air, Gwyneth Walker
- Prelude, Ola Gjeilo
- Frolocket ihr Voelker auf Erden, Felix Mendelssohn
- Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op. 31, No. 3, Johannes Brahms
- II. Slavikovsky from Three Moravian Duets, Dvorak/Janacek
- To the Mothers of Brazil: Salve Regina, Lars Jansson, arr.
- Fern Hill, John Corigliano
- Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, Lennonn and McCartney, Ives, arr.
- Laudate Pueri from Vespers, K339, Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Verleih uns Frieden, Felix Mendelssohn
- Incantations from Celtic Mass (Alleluia), Michael McGlynn
- Lead Kindly Light, Dan Forrest
- Sililiza, Jim Papoulis
- The Nightingale, Dan Forrest
- Total Praise, Richard Smallwood
- Kyrie from Caribbean Mass, Glenn McClure
- Regina Coeli, K 276, Wolfgang A. Mozart
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Jean Belmont
- Jubilant Song, Norman Dello Joio
- Horizons, Peter Louis van Dijk
- Chariots, Peter Louis van Dijk
- Alleluia, (commissioned work) Dominick DiOrio
- Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus, from Mass in D Minor, Johann A. Hasse
- Ubi Caritas, Maurice Durufle
- The Last Words of David, Randall Thompson
- In the Sweet By and By, Joseph Webster, Dan Hall, arr.
- Rytmus, Ivan Hrusovsky
- Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paulus
- Chichester Psalms, Leonard Bernstein
- Let Everything That Hath Breath, Jeffery Ames
- Christmas Cantata, Daniel Pinkham
- The Word Was God, Rosephanye Powell, William Powell, arr.
- Sing Unto God from Judas Maccabaeus, George F. Handel
- Warum? Johannes Brahms
- Sing Creations, Music On, Stephen Paulus
- Sunset, Stephen Chatman
- Bell Mass, Rupert Lang
- He’ll Make a Way, Byron Smith
- Deep River, Henry T. Burleigh, arr.
- Ave Maria, Giuseppe Verdi
- The Battle of Jericho, Moses Hogan, arr.
- Tribute to Caesar, Arvo Part
- City Called Heaven, Josephine Poelinitz, arr.
- Lift Boy, Benjamin Britten
- Amor de mi Alma, Z. Randall Stroope
- Make Our Garden Grow from Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Page, arr.
- O Sacrum Convivium, Thomas Tallis
- Christ lag in Todesbanden (movement 1), J.S. Bach
- Credo in unum, Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Liebeslieder Walzer,(8-11 only) Johannes Brahms
- Gloria, Randol Bass
- Danny Boy, Roger Wagner, arr.
- True Light, Keith Hampton
- Zadok the Priest, George F. Handel
- Die mit Tranen Saen, Johann H. Schein
- The Passing of the Year, Jonathan Dove
- Ave Verum Corpus, Wolfgang A. Mozart
- How Lovely is thy Dwelling Place, Johannes Brahms
- Il Bianco Dolce e Cigno, Jacques Arcadelt
- Three Madrigals, Emma Lou Diemer
- La Rose complete, Morton Lauridsen
- Dirait-on, Morton Lauridsen
- Gloria, John Rutter
- Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabirel Faure
- Crotalo, Matthew Harris
- Las Seis Cuerdas, Matthew Harris
- Domine, ad Adjuvandum Me Festina, G. B. Martini
- Tu Es Petrus, G. P. Palestrina
- J’entends le Moulin, Donald Patriquin
- Water Night, Eric Whitacre
- O Crux, Knut Nystedt
- Suite de Lorca, Einojuhani Rautavaara
- A Jubilant Song, Norman Dello Joio
- Elijah Rock, Moses Hogan, arr.
- Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, No. 5, 7, 9, 11, Johannes Brahms
- Weihnachten, Felix Mendelssohn
- Kyrie from Cantus Missae, Op. 109, Joseph Rheinberger
- Ecce Sacerdos Anton Bruckner
- O Music, David L. Brunner
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel, William Dawon, arr.
- A Gloria, Charles Know-John Haberlen, ed.
- Credo, Richard Nance
- Ziguenerleben, Robert Schumann
- Be Thou My Vision, Paul Basler, arr.
- To St. Cecilia, Norman Dello Joio
- Ave Maria, Rihards Dubra
- Ride On, King Jesus! Moses Hogan, arr.
- Estampie Natalis Vaclav Nelhybel
- Nun danket alle Gott, Johann Pachelbel
- If I Ever Needed the Lord, Susan Gardner
- Kasar mie la gaji, Alberto Grau
- Mass in C, “Coronation,” K317, Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Down By the Riverside, Roger Ames, arr.
- Shenandoah, Roger Ames, arr.
- w’Zwobie Lezy, Roger Ames, arr.
- Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren, Johannes Brahms
- O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen
- Song for Athene, John Tavener
- Jubilate Deo from Tres Cantus Laudendi, Mark Wilberg