The Music Department has a long and proud tradition of fine choral ensembles, starting with the outstanding Men’s Choruses conducted by Professor Donald Plott from the early 1950’s to the early 1980’s. Today the Concert Choir and Chorale carry on that proud tradition of excellence.

Listen to some recent performances of the Davidson College Concert Choir and Chorale.

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Concert Choir: April 27, 2009, Haydn's  The Creation

• Now vanished by the holy beams
• What wonder doth His work reveal
• Fulfilled at last the glorious work 
• Sing to God, ye hosts unnumbered!

Chorale: April 22, 2009

• Crucifixus by J.S. Bach
• Rorate Caeli by Nestor
• O clap your hands by Vaughan Williams
• Like as the Culver by Stevens
• 3 Selections from Opus 65 by Brahms

Chorale: December 7, 2008 Vespers

• Hymn to the Virgin by Britten
• There is no Rose by Sametz
• There is no Rose by Larkin

Chorale: May 17, 2008, Farewell to Seniors

• Johann Pachelbel, Der Herr ist König
• Dominick Argento, The Masque of Angels
  • Sanctus
• William Hawley, from Six Madrigalson poems by Torquato Tasso
  • Vita de la mia vita
  • Ore, fermate il volo
  • Siepe, che gli orti vaghi
  • Io son la primavera

Concert Choir: December 3, 2007, Georg Frideric Handel's Messiah

Jacquelyn Culpepper, soprano • Diane Thornton, contralto • James Allbritten, tenor • Dan Boye, baritone • with members of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

• Chorus: And he shall purify
• Chorus: For unto us a child is born
• Recitative/Chorus: There were shepherds in the field/Glory to God
• Chorus: His yoke is easy
• Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb

Chorale: October 26, 2007, Family Weekend Concert

• Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No. 50, Nun is das Heil un die Kraft
• Felix Mendelssohn, Wie der Hirsch schreit
• Robert Pearsall, Tu es Petrus
• Gustav Holst, Nunc dimittis

Chorale: October 10, 2007

• Joseph Rheinberger, Abendlied, Op. 69, No. 3
• Felix Mendelssohn, Kyrie
• Felix Mendelssohn, Frohlocket ihr Völker aud Erden, Op. 79, No. 1
• Lodovico Viadana, Exultate justi
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria
• Benjamin Britten, Choral Dances from Gloriana
  • Time
  • Concord
  • Time and Concord
  • Country Girls
  • Rustics and Fishermen

April 30, 2007

• Morten Lauridsen, Mid-Winter Songs
  • She Tells Her Love While Fast Asleep
  • Mid-Winter Waking
  • Intercession in Late October
• Wondrous Love, arr. Christiansen

Christmas Vespers, 2006

• Herbert Murrill, Magnificat
• Seth Calvisius, Joseph lieber, Joseph mein

October 6, 2005, Fall Choral Concert, Davidson College Presbyterian Church

• George Frideric Handel, Sing Unto God
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus/Sitivi