The Recovering Choir Director

Cornell University Chorale
James Miller, conductor

“When Jesus Wept”
- William Billings, 1770

“Wondrous Love”
- James Christopher 1840, S. M. Denson 1911

“Requiem”—excerpts from the Requiem Mass (Introit, Communion) text for large choir—for the victims of Sep. 11, 2001
- Derek Jacoby, 2001

“Shenandoah”
- arr. James Erb, 1971

“I Bought Me a Cat”
- adapt. Aaron Copland, 1950; transcribed by Irving Fine, 1952

“Zion’s Walls”
- adapt. Aaron Copland, 1952; arr. Glenn Koponen, 1982

“Pilgrim’s Hymn” from the opera The Three Hermits*
- Michael Dennis Browne, Stephen Paulus, 1997

Melissa will be singing (mostly) second alto, while I’ll be singing (mostly) first tenor. It’s wonderful to be singing for a conductor who believes in the music and his craft. Would that I better follow his example.

*Interesting note: Because we’re finishing the concert with this piece, we will effectively close this “liturgy” with a form of the minor doxology.