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Since its founding, the Minnesota Chorale has premiered many exciting new choral works by both emerging and established composers, for performance in a variety of musical settings. Commissioning new music is central to the Chorale's mission of "…performing an ever-widening repertory of choral music at the highest artistic level…"
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| Composer |
Work(s) |
Chorale's First
Performance |
| Adams, John | Nixon in China [concert version] | 2/24/89 ² |
| Argento, Dominick | A Nation of Cowslips | 3/18/74 |
| Fetler, Paul | "All Day I Hear"
"Madman's Song"
"November Night"
"Wild Swans" | 3/18/74 |
| Fetler, Paul | Songs of Night | 6/5/76 |
| Harbison, John |
Ave Verum Corpus |
4/17/92 ² |
| Henze, Hans Werner |
Moralities |
5/2/78 ² |
| Higdon, Jennifer |
The Singing Rooms |
5/21/09 ² |
| Kernis, Aaron Jay | Garden of Light [revised version] | 9/18/02 ¹ |
| Kyr, Robert |
Ah Nagasaki: Ashes into Light |
10/11/08 ² |
| La Cour, Niels | Two Motetti Latini 1982 | 11/16/91 ² |
| Larsen, Libby |
Pluck the Fruit |
11/5/88 |
| Larsen, Libby | Missa Gaia | 4/22/95 |
| Paulus, Stephen |
Beautiful Things |
11/5/88 |
| Paulus, Stephen | Madrigali de Michelangelo | 5/19/87 |
| Paulus, Stephen |
Wake Up in the Morning |
11/21/09 ¹ |
| Tavener, Sir John | Ikon of Eros | 11/13/02 ¹ ³ |
| Vandervelde, Janika | Adventures of the Black Dot | 5/18/01 ¹ |
| Vandervelde, Janika | Adventures of the Black Dot [revised version] | 3/13/03 ¹ ³ |
| Vandervelde, Janika | Beijing Cai Hong | 3/29/98 ¹ |
| Vandervelde, Janika |
Fire of the Spirit |
4/7/00 |
| Vandervelde, Janika (mentor) |
The Music Moves Like We Do |
11/21/09 ¹ |
| Wuorinen, Charles | Genesis | 11/18/92 ² ³ |
| Zimmerman, Heinz | Psalmkonzert | 5/10/73 ² |
¹ premiere
² regional premiere
³ commercially recorded
Information compiled from Jon Clifford Lahann, The Minnesota Chorale: The Growth of a Symphonic Chorus, 1972-1997 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1997), and other sources.
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