Choral Arts Society of Cleveland

Concert Programs 2000-2010

1999-2000 Director, Marci Alegant
  May 20, 2000 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, Cleveland
May 21, 2000 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
    Mendelssohn: "Elijah"
a collaboration with Black River Singers of Oberlin
and Cleveland Women’s Orchestra
2000-01 Director, Marci Alegant
  February 25, 2001 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
   

Handel: "Israel in Egypt"
  June 2, 2001 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, Cleveland
June 3, 2001 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
   

Brahms: "Ein Deutsches Requiem"
2001-02  Director, Marci Alegant
  February 24, 2002 at Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights 
    Mozart: "Requiem" K.626
 Conducted by John Russo
a collaboration with Western Reserve Chorale (Director: John Roberts)
and Heights Chamber Orchestra (Music Director: John Russo) 
2002-03

Director, Martin Kessler
  November 24, 2002 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
    "500 Years of French Choral Music"
works by LeJeune, DiLasso, Fauré, Sweelinck, Poulenc, Ravel and Lauridsen
  March 8, 2003 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, Cleveland
March 9, 2003 at St. Anne's Church, Cleveland Heights 
    Dvorak: "Stabat Mater"
            in collaboration with Suburban Symphony Orchestra
   June 8, 2003 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
    "Choral Art of Bernstein & Copeland"
Bernstein: "Chichester Psalms" and "Missa Brevis"
                  Selections from "West Side Story"
Copeland: "The Lark" and "American Songs"
2003-04

Director, Martin Kessler
  November 23, 2003 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
    "Three Magnificats"
Schütz: "Magnificat" SWV 468
Mozart: "Magnificat" from "Vesperae solennes de confessore", K. 339
Rutter: "Magnificat"
  March 6, 2004 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, Cleveland
March 7, 2004 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
    Britten: "Festival Te Deum"
Duruflé: "Requiem"
Vaughan Williams: "Five Mystical Songs"
  May 23, 2004 at Grace Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights
    "Brahms, Brahms, and More Brahms"
"Nänie" - accompanied by string quartet, oboe & piano
Songs and Romances - "Wiegenlied"
"Liebeslieder Waltzer" (op.52)
2004-05

Director, Martin Kessler
  December 12, 2004 at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
    "Life Lessons and Carol"
Martin Kessler and Molly Hawley: Christmas Carols
Schütz: German Magnificat (1671)
in collaboration with Trinity Cathedral Choir
  February 22, 2005 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "The Irish Muse: Poems and Music in the Irish Tradition"
Tavener:: "Little Requiem for Father Malachy Lynch"
Robinson: "With a faery hand in hand"
Susa: "Six Joyce Songs"
      May 20, 2005 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, Cleveland
       May 22, 2005 at Beachwood High School, Beachwood
    Orff:  "Carmina Burana"
Beethoven: Fantasia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80
piano - Emanuela Friscioni
in collaboration with Western Reserve Chorale (Director: Dan Call)
New Laurel Singers of Laurel School (Director: Charles Carr)
 and Suburban Symphony (Director: Martin Kessler)
2005-06

Director, Martin Kessler
  November 20. 2005 at Grace Lutheran Church
    G.F. Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 11 "Let God Arise"
J.S. Bach: Cantata No. 104 "Du Hirte Israel, höre"
D. Scarlatti: "Stabat Mater"
  March 20, 2005 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "Selections from the Great American Choral Song Book"
William Billings: “Be Glad then America”
Robert DeCormier (arr.):“Yankee Doodle”
Randall Thompson: "Frostiana"
   "The Road Not Taken”, “The Pasture”, “Come In”, “A Girls’ Garden”
   "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Choose Something Like a Star”
Randall Thompson: “Alleluia”
Stephen Stills: Suite - "Judy Blue Eyes”
Keith Hampton: “True Light”
Lou Hayward (arr.): “Gershwin and Porter on Love”
   “Embraceable You”, “You Do Something to Me”, “The Man I Love”
   “Just One of Those Things”, “But Not for Me”, “Love Is Sweeping the Country"
  June 2, 2006 at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church
June 4, 2006 at Pilgrim Congregational Church
    Mozart: Regina Coeli, K. 276
Mozart: Mass in c minor, K. 427 (K. 417a)
2006-07

Director, Martin Kessler
  December 17, 2006 at Grace Lutheran Church
    Conrad Susa: "Carols and Lullabies"
 Benjamin Britten: "Ceremony of Carols"
 Morten Lauridsen: "O Magnum Mysterium"
 Tomas de Victoria: "O Magnum Mysterium"
  March 16, 2006 & March 18 at Fairmount Temple, Shaker Heights
   

Ernest Bloch: Sacred Service
in collaboration with Western Reserve Chorale (Director Danny Call)
and Suburban Symphony Orchestra (Director Martin Kessler)
2007-08

Director, Martin Kessler
  November 18, 2007 at Grace Lutheran Church
    Haydn: "Lord Nelson Mass"
 Vivaldi: "Dixit Dominus"
  March 2, 2008 at Grace Lutheran Church
    Fauré: Requiem
Duruflé: Motets on Gregorian Themes
  May 16, 2008 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "A Tudor Portrait"
 Works by Rutter, Diemer, P.D.Q. Bach, Vaughan Williams
 Gilbert and Sullivan: Scenes and Choruses from"The Yeoman of the Guard"
2008-09

Director, Martin Kessler
  November 23, 2008 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "The Sound of Venice"
 Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 -- four selections
Gabrieli: "In Ecclesiis"
Stravinsky: Mass of 1948
  March 20, 2009 at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
March 22 2009 at at Fairmount Temple 
    Mendelssohn: "Elijah"
in collaboration with the Suburban Symphony (Martin Kessler, Music Director)
  May 31, 2009 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "The Singing Drum"
 Chilcott: "The Making of the Drum"
 Conte: "Invocation and Dance
West African folk songs: "Kapalongo" and "Betelehemu"
2009-10

Director Martin Kessler
  December 6, 2009 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "An Advent Concert"
 Charpentier: "Messe de minuit pour noel"
Desprez, Bruckner, Biebl: settings of "Ave Maria"
  March 7, 2010 at Grace Lutheran Church
    Mozart: "Requiem" K. 626
  May 21, 2010 at Grace Lutheran Church
    "Love, Death and Transfiguration"
Opera Choruses: Rutter arrangements from works by
   Purcell, Britten, Berlioz, Bizet, Verdi, Wagner,
   Barber , Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bernstein, Borodin
   

 Compiled by John Blackwell, August 23, 2010