Performance Repertoire

American Traditions — New and Old
Saturday June 9, 2007
St. Paul’s Cathedral, Worcester
Premiering New England Journey by Gwyneth Walker and featuring Missa Kenya by Paul Basler. Jointly sponsored by Salisbury Singers and the Master Singers of Worcester, preluding a European concert tour.

Fauré & Friends
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Assumption College
Worcester, MA
Featuring Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and works by Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Duruflé and Calixa Lavalleé.
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RACHMANINOFF: THE ALL-NIGHT VIGIL ("Vespers"), op. 37
Friday, November 17, 2006 8:00 pm
St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral

Amadeus Tour of Worcester County
Featuring Mozart Requiem & Salieri Te Deum
April & May 2006
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, Gardner, MA
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Webster, MA

The Spiritual Tradition
Sunday March 12, 2006
St. Mary's Church, Jefferson, MA
By request, Salisbury Singers repeated their performance of The Spiritual Tradition with arrangements of African-American spirituals and gospel music by Moses Hogan, Andre Thomas, Gwyneth Walker and others.

Allmerica Family Holiday Concert

Performed with the Thayer Symphony Orchestra for the Allmerica Family Holiday Concert for employees and their families, December 4 & 5 at Mechanics Hall.

Community Performance

Worcester Tornadoes Game Semi Professional Baseball Game August 2005
Performing the National Anthem

Manifest Destiny:
Tracing America's Musical Roots
November 2005 United Congregational Church, Worcester, MA
Featuring traditional American folksongs with arrangements by Bob Chilcott, Aaron Copland, Stephen Foster and Alice Parker

“ VOICES OF THE EARTH”
November 2004 Chapel of the Holy Spirit Assumption College Worcester, MA with instrumental ensemble, the Assumption Chorale and the Worcester Children’s Chorus
Featuring Rene Clausen’s Crying for a Dream and Paul Winter’s Missa Gaia

Mendelssohn Elijah
April 2004 with the Thayer Symphony Orchestra
30th Anniversary Concert
Mechanics Hall Worcester, MA

“ CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM”
November 2003 Chapel of the Holy Spirit
Assumption College Worcester, MA
Featuring works by William Billings, Howard Hanson, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dirge for Two Veterans from Donna Nobis Pacem . The concert also included the music of Gwyneth Walker and featured Salisbury Singers’ 30th Anniversary Commissioned Composition “The Road to Freedom” by G. Walker (2003)

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
February 2003 with the Thayer Symphony Orchestra Fitchburg, MA
May 2003 with instrumental ensemble, the Worcester Youth Ballet and the Children’s Choir of the Performing Arts School of Worcester
First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA


“SAINTS AND SINNERS”
November 2002 Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Assumption
College Worcester, MA
Featuring the works of Benjamin Britten, Daniel Pinkham, Hildegard of Bingen, Palerina, Bruchner and Andre’ Thomas


“SACRED SPLENDOR”
May, 2002 with brass and percussion ensemble
Our Lady of the Angels Church, Worcester, MA
Featuring Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Gwyneth Walker’s Shaker Tunes and I Thank You God, and John Rutter’s Gloria



Verdi Requiem
November 2001 with the Thayer Symphony Orchestra
Henry Horner Memorial Concert
Mechanics Hall Worcester, MA

“ MASS EXTRAVAGANZA”
May 2001 Cathedral of St. Paul, Worcester, MA
Collaborative concert with the Master Singers of Worcester
Featuring Widor’s Messe a 2 Choeurs et 2 Orgues, Op. 36
Reinberger’s Cantus Missae, Op. 109
Durufle’s Requiem, Op. 9

“ GREATEST HITS OF OPERA”
November 2000 Tuckerman Hall Worcester, MA
Featuring works by Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart, Bizet, Wagner and Strauss

Bach Mass in B Minor
April 2000 with orchestra Chapel of the Holy Spirit,
Assumption College Worcester, MA

“ REQUIEM FOR A CENTURY”
November 1999 Chapel of the Holy Spirit,
Assumption College Worcester, MA
Music performed at Funerals and Memorials of famous Twentieth Century figures
Featuring the Rutter Requiem. and works by John Tavener, Randall Thompson and Samuel Barber