| Stephen Chatman | Dryads’ bells | |
| sung bell sounds by this Canadian composer, written in 1999 | ||
| Dan Locklair | Bond and Free | |
| world premiere of NC composer Dan Locklair’s 2012 setting of a Robert Frost poem that explores two sides of life: the intellectual and the emotional | ||
| James MacMillan | A Child’s Prayer | |
| written by Scottish composer James MacMillan to honor the victims of the 1996 killing at the Dunblane Primary School, which took the lives of 16 children and one adult; performed in this concert to honor the victims of the killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December | ||
| Steven Sametz | On the death of a friend | |
| 2003 composition, with a text from a sermon prior to 1910 burial of King Edward VII | ||
| Francis Poulenc | Vinea mea electa | |
| one of French composer Poulenc’s 4 Lenten motets from 1939; based on Isaiah and Jeremiah texts about a beloved vine that has turned bitter | ||
| Herbert Howells | Take him, earth, for cherishing | |
| massive and powerful work written in memory of President John F. Kennedy; performed in this concert to mark the 50th anniversary of his 1963 assassination | ||
| Ned Rorem | Lift up your heads | |
| written for Ascension Day in 1963, in memory of composer Francis Poulenc | ||
| Dale Warland | There will be rest | |
| a Sara Teasdale poem, in a choral setting with harp and flute, composed for the Dale Warland Singers in 2003 | ||
| Dan Forrest | Amen | |
| 8-voice final movement from SC composer Dan Forrest’s Words of Paradise, 2007 | ||
| Eriks Esenvalds | Northern Lights | |
| 2012 composition by this Latvian composer; including a Latvian folk song and the words of two Arctic explorers who encountered the wondrous sight of the Northern lights; with tuned water glasses and chimes! | ||
| Arvo Pärt | Nunc dimittis | |
| highly expressive 2001 setting by this beloved Estonian minimalist composer; “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace” | ||
| Jaako Mantyjarvi | Psalm 150 in Grandsire Triples | |
| his Finnish composer’s1999 piece that includes sung bell patterns in the specific change-ringing style called Grandsire Triples | ||
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