Program Notes Archive
The New Yorker heralds Clara Longstreth as "one of the more imaginative programmers around" (2009). The programs gathered here represent a small sampling of the many Clara has designed during her tenure.
May 2012 (PDF)
Lark - Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
The Caged Bird - Kirke Mechem (b. 1925)
Die Erste Elegie - Einhjuhani Rautavaara (b. 1928)
O Süsser Main! (from Op. 93a)- Johannes Brahms (1883-1897)
Fahr Wohl! - Johannes Brahms
Der Falke - Johannes Brahms
The Lark in the Clear Air - Irish traditional, arr. Paul Crabtree (b. 1960)
Shakespeare Songs, Book VI (New York City premiére) - Matthew Harris (br. 1956)
When Daisies Pied
Fear no More
Where the bee Sucks, There Suck I
Skylarks (New York City premiére) - Steven Stucky (b. 1949)
From To a Skylark
Haiku
From Split the Lark
From An Alphabet
From In Flanders Fields
From Hark, hark the Lark
March 2012 (PDF)
Ave Verum Corpus - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Civitas Sancti tui - William Byrd
Sing Joyfully - William Byrd
Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes - Tomá Luis de Victoria (c. 1540-1611)
Christus factus est pro nobis - Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Amazing Grace - traditional American, arr. Eriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)
The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass - Carol Burnett (b. 1949)
December 2011 (PDF)
Cantate Domino - Vytautas Miškinis
Niño de Rosas - Steven Sametz
The Little Match Girl Passion - David Lang
Dormi, Jesu - Abbie Betinis
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
Jesu, meine Freude - Johann Sebastian Bach
Dover Beach Revisited - Dominick Argento
Song 1 from Fire Songs - Morten Lauridsen
To Music - Mark Kilstofte
Fern Hill - Fenno Heath
With a Lily in Your Hand - Eric Whitacre
March 2011
Many-Colored Broom - Johannes Somary
Dateless Calendar - Paul Alan Levi (World Premiere & Commissioned by NAS)
Mid-Winter Songs - Morten Lauridsen
Give me the Splendid Silent Sun - Thomas Beveridge
O Joy! - Kitty Brazelton
December 2010 (PDF)
Komm, Jesu, Kom - Johann Sebastian Bach
Amen - John Corigliano
Leise rieselt der Schnee - Clare Maclean
Christmas Rounds - Mark Kilstofte
Ave Maria - Giuseppe Verdi
The Lamb - Fenno Heath
The Babe of Bethlehem - Abbie Betinis
Cantus Missae - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Hodie Christus natus es - Francis Poulenc