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Over the years, The Minnesota Chorale has premiered many exciting new choral works by both emerging and established composers. The Chorale has also commissioned new works in a wide variety of musical settings. Our work with new compositions 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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Commissions and Recent Works Performed*, 1972-2006
| 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
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| Kernis, Aaron Jay | Garden of Light [revised version] | 9/18/02 ¹ |
| Kubik, Gail | "Ballad ob de Boll Weevil"
"I Ride an Old Paint"
"Lolly Too Dum"
"O Rocka Mah Soul"
"Where Have You Been…?" | 11/14/82 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 |
| 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 |
| Wuorinen, Charles | Genesis | 11/18/92 ² ³ |
| Zimmerman, Heinz | Psalmkonzert | 5/10/73 ² |
¹ premiere
² regional premiere
³ commercially recorded
* selected - new arrangements not listed
Information compiled from Jon Clifford Lahann, The Minnesota Chorale: The Growth of a Symphonic Chorus, 1972-1997 (Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1997), and other sources.
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