Past Seasons

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2023-2024

A Passion: Considering Matthew Shephard
A Consolation: Ein Deutsches Requiem
A  Satire: Carmina Burana Africana

2022-2023

Kings: The Coronation Anthems of Handel & the Coronation Mass of Mozart
Jacks: Knaves and Fools – PDQ Bach and other Jacks
Queens: The Music of Queen

2021-2022

Uprooted: The Spirituals of William Dawson
Monster: Frankenstein Re-Imagined
Obessions: Great Opera Choruses

2016-2017

Handel: Messiah in Space
Thompson: Requiem (Pittsburgh premier)
Mendelssohn: Elijah

2015-2016

Thompson: Frostiana
FIVE with Point Park University
Galbraith: Smoke and Steel (Commission and world premier)

2014-2015: Handel, Holiday Happening, Honeggar

Handel: Occasional Oratorio
Pinkham: Sinfonia Sacra
Boys Choir of Afro-American Music Institute
Gabrieli: In Ecclesiis
Honeggar: King David

2013-2014: Mass

Bruchner: Mass in E minor
Byrd: Mass for 4 Voices
Faure: Requiem
Durufle: Requiem
Negri: Mass of Hope
Love Knots

2012-2013: Time Voyagers

Cohen: Alzheimer’s Stories (Pittsburgh premier)
Hanson: Song of Democracy
Handel: Messiah in Space
Bach meets Charlie Chaplin, Douglas compilation (World premier)

2011-2012: Convergence

Pittsburgh Big Land Legends
Men’s Glee Club, Oakland Girl’s Chorus
Choral standards meets World Music and Rock and Roll

2010-2011: Going To Extremes

Phantom of the Opera – silent film, (Douglas compilation of French opera)
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
Bach: St. John Passion

2009-2010: When Worlds Collide

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition – choral version by Douglas
Pittsburgh Composer
Orff: Carmina Burana Africana (original production)

2008-2009: Never Back Down

Einhorn: Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc – silent film (Pittsburgh premier)
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Love Knots Cabaret
Chesky: The Agnostic (Pittsburgh premier)

2007-2008: No Turning Back

Persichetti: Celebrations
Phibbs: Rainland (US premier)
Handel: Messiah In Space
The Promise of Freedom

2006-2007: Outside the Bachs

Mozart: Requiem
Bach: Magnificat
PDQ Bach: Missa Hilarious
Bernstein: Mass (Pittsburgh premier)

2005-2006: Beyond Borders

Opera Obsessions
Christmas Concerts with River City Brass
Beethoven: Symphony #9 (with Wheeling Symphony)
Brahms: Schicksalslied (with Wheeling Symphony)
Love Knots Cabaret
Negri and Roberts: The Poetry of Jazz (Commission and World premier)

2004-2005

Elan Vital: Life Force
One Life: Songs of the People
Handel: Messiah In Space
Convery: Songs of Children
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy