Title:
A Hope Carol
Composer: David Conte
Text: Christina Rossetti
Composition Date: January 2006
Premiere Date: March 3, 2006
for SSSA and piano
Length: 4 minutes
Title: Vivos Voco
Composer: Joan Szymko
Text: Julian of Norwich and Latin inscriptions on medieval tower bells
Composition Date: February 2005
Premiere Date: May 20, 2005
for SSAA, piano and handbells
Length: 4 minutes
Funded by: Peter and Kathy Drake
Title: Echo
Composer: Frank La Rocca
Composition Date: Summer 2004
Premiere Date: February 11, 2005
Length: 6 minutes for SSAA a cappella
Co-commissioned by: Stanford University Lively Arts Series and the San Francisco Girls Chorus with the support of Peter and Kathy Drake
Title: Anne Frank: A Living Voice
Composer: Linda Tutas Haugen
Text: The Diary of Anne Frank
Composition Date: October 2002 for 1st movement; February- March 2004 for other six movements
Premiere Date: May 6, 2004
Length: 25 minutes
Funded by: Michael Gordon, Lauren Hoover-Gordon and Richard Rubin, Henry Kaufman for Vermeer Chocolate
Title: Runes
Composer: Alice Parker
Text: Elizabethan poets: Anonymous and George Peele
Composition Date: January 2004
Premiere Date: May 6, 2004
Length: 5 minutes
Title: The Womanly Song of God
Composer: Libby Larsen
Text: Catherine DeVinck
Composition Date: August 2003
Premiere Date: October 2003
Length: 6 minutes
Published by: Oxford
Title: Natura
Composer: James Meredith
Text: Emily Dickinson
Composition Date: March 2003
Premiere Date: May 30, 2003
Length: 8 minutes
Title: It is the Silence
Composer: Linda Tutas Haugen
Text: Anne Frank
Composition Date: October 2002
Premiere Date: November 1, 2002
Length: 8 minutes
Funded by: Michael Gordon, Lauren Hoover-Gordon and Richard Rubin
Title: Caracolitos Chicos
Composer: Alberto Grau
Text: Lorca
Composition Date: January 2002
Premiere Date: May 17, 2002
Length: 5 minutes
Funded by: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Title: O Magnum Mysterium
Composer: Kurt Erickson
Text: Traditional Advent Text in Latin
Composition Date: 2001
Premiere Date: October 26, 2001
Funded by: Hewlett Foundation
Title: Patterns
Composer: Jake Heggie
Text: Amy Lowell
Composition Date: 1998
Premiere Date: May 24, 1999
Guest Artist: Frederica von Stade
Funded by: California Arts Council & Hewlett Foundation
Composer Jake Heggie Talks About Patterns
Title: Chinese Poems
Composer: Chen Yi
Text: Li Po, Wang Zhi-huan, and traditional Chinese folk songs
Composition Date: 1998
Premiere Date: May 24, 1999
Funded by: California Arts Council
Chinese Poems was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in May 1999. Two of five movements appear on Crossroads.
Title: Letter to Anna
Composer: Lisa Bielawa
Text: Letters and dream work of Freud
Composition Date: 1998
Premiere Date: October 30, 1998
Funded by: Meet the Composer Participation Grant
Title: Songs of Then & Now
Composer: Andrew Imbrie
Composition Date: 1998
Premiere Date: 1998, Cal Performance series with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Funded by: Creative Work Fund grant
Title: Australian Bush Bird Songs
Composer: Stephen Leek
Composition Date: 1998
Premiere Date: June 12, 2000
Title: SING!
Composer: Larry Farrow
Composition Date: 1996
Premiere Date: October 25, 1996
Funded by: California Arts Council Challenge Grant
Title: Spinning Flax
Composer: Lisa Bielawa
Text: attributed to Melania the Younger, Mary Parsons, Charlotte Cadiere, St. Catherine of Siena, Anon. Patient
Composition Date: 1994
Premiere Date:June 4, 1994
Funded by: Meet the Composer Participation Grant
Length: 11 minutes
Published by: Boosey & Hawkes
Title: Too Young to Remember
Composer: Enric Zappa
Composition Date: 1994
Premiere Date: 1995
Title: Anithaca...The Island of the Daughters of Penelope
Composer: Elinor Armer
Text: Ursula K. Le Guin
Commission Date: 1990
Premiere Date: October 26, 1990
Length: 16 minutes
Funded by: The Gerbode Foundation
Title: Mera Musica Magica
Composer: Christopher Fulkerson
Text: scat syllables
Composition Date: 1990
Premiere Date: October 26, 1990
Length: 6 minutes
Title: American Madrigals (5 movements)
Composer: Kirke Mechem
Text: American folk songs
Arrangement Completion Date: 1989
Arrangment Premiere Date: November 4, 1989
Original Composition Date: 1976
Length: 15 minutes
Title: Songs of a Young Girl
Composer: John Geist
Text: Caryl Porter
Composition Date: 1988
Premiere Date: June 11, 1989
Length: 15 minutes
Title: Hodie
Composer: Lisa Bielawa
Text: Trad. Latin
Composition Date: 1984
Premiere Date: 1984
Title: Dreams
Composer: Herbert Bielawa
Text: San Francisco Girls Chorus members
Composition Date: 1984
Premiere Date: 1984
Funded by: Meet the Composer Participation Grant
Editions of Early Music:
Title: Venid presto flores
Composer: Anonymous, ed. Craig H. Russell
Text: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (sacred, Christmas)
Composition Date: Mexican Baroque, mid-18th century
Premiere Date: modern-day premiere, May 17, 2002
Length: 6 minutes
Funded by: Stratford-Wunderlich Family Foundation
Title: Jesus, mi dulce amor
Composer: Anonymous, ed. Craig H. Russell
Text: sacred, non-liturgical, Lenten
Composition Date: Mexican Baroque, 1767
Premiere Date: modern-day premiere, May 17, 2002
Length: 5 minutes
Funded by: Stratford-Wunderlich Family Foundation
Title: Montes y valles
Composer: Anonymous, ed. Craig H. Russell
Text: sacred, non-liturgical
Composition Date: Mexican Baroque, mid-18th c.
Premiere Date: modern-day premiere, May 17, 2002
Length: 8 minutes
Funded by: Stratford-Wunderlich Family Foundation
Compositions Written for & Premiered by (non-commissioned) SFGC:
Title: Rip Rap
Premiere Date: October 20, 2007 at the Herbst Theatre performed by Chorissima Ensemble
Title:
Four Songs for Girls Chorus and Electronic Tape
Composer: Judith Shatin
Composition Date: 1993
Premiere Date: October 28, 1994
Title: The Night Before Christmas
Composer: Ron McFarland
Text: Clement Clark Moore
Composition Date: 1991
Arrangement Premiere Date: December 14, 1991
Arrangements Written for SFGC:
Title: Ten Thousand Miles
Composer: Traditional American folksong
Arranger: Thomas Porter
Arrangement Composition date: June 2006
Arrangement Premiere date: October 20, 2006
for SSA div., fiddle and piano
Title: Cripple Creek
Composer: Traditional American folksong
Arranger: Thomas Porter
Arrangement Composition date: July 2006
Arrangement. Premiere date: October 20, 2006
Title: It's De-Lovely
Composer: Cole Porter
Arranger: Nolan Gasser
Arrangement Composition Date: 2005
Arrangement Premiere Date: March 18, 2005
for SSAA, piano, drums, and bass
Length: 4:52 minutes
Funded by: Peter and Kathy Drake
Title: Sachaki
Composer: Hebrew folksong
Arranger: Steve Barnett
Arrangement Composition Date: 1999
Arrangement Premiere Date: June 12, 2000
Title: In Noah's Ark, Suite No. 2
Composer: Ron McFarland
Text: Rumer Godden
Arrangement Composition Date: 1990
Arrangement Premiere Date: October 26, 2000
Original Composition Date: 1983 (by R. McFarland)
Premieres of Non-Commissioned American Works:
Title: Welsh Songs
Composer: Traditional Welsh songs
Arranger: Gordon Getty/treble version by Susan McMane
Composition Date: 2003
Premiere Date: October 2003
Title: Three Songs
Composer: Russell Burnham
Text: Emily Dickinson
Composition Date: 1993
Premiere Date: June 4, 1994
Title: Song Book - West Coast premiere
Composer: Joel Suben
Text: various poems in English
Composition Date: 1989
SFGC Performance Date: October 26, 1990
Title: Victorian Scenes
Composer: Gordon Getty
Composition Date: 1988
Premiere Date: May 11, 1992
Commissioned Original Works:
