Notre Dame Program (PDF)

UNIVERSITY OF
NOTRE DAME
CHORALE
Alexander Blachly, Director

Tour Arrangements made by:

International Tour to Ireland: May 21 - 29, 2018
Wednesday, May 23: Concert, Christ Church Cathedral, Derry
Thursday, May 24: Mass & Recital, Galway Cathedral, Galway
Friday, May 25: Concert, St. Nicholas Church, Galway
Sunday, May 27: Concert, Newman Church, Dublin
Monday, May 28: Recital, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

7:30 pm
6:00 pm
5:00 pm
7:30 pm
1:00 pm

University of Notre Dame Chorale
Ireland 2018 Tour Program
Concert Music

Alexander Blachy - Chorale Director
ALEXANDER BLACHLY has been active in early music as both performer and
scholar since 1972. He earned his post-graduate degrees in musicology from
Columbia University and is a recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award given by the
American Musicological Society. Prior to assuming the post of Director of Choral
Music at the University of Notre Dame in 1993, Mr. Blachly taught early music and
directed collegia musica at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, New
York University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where
for eight years he directed the a cappella ensemble Ancient Voices. In addition to
directing the University of Notre Dame Chorale and Festival Baroque Orchestra,
Mr. Blachly is the founding director of Pomerium, a professional ensemble of 14
singers specializing in the a cappella sacred music of the Renaissance.

FOLK SONGS FROM VARIOUS LANDS
An Triúcha (Irish)
Cailin deas crúite na mBó (Irish)
Oh! Arranmore, loved Arranmore (Irish)*
Doun in yon banke (Scottish)*
Ha’l Asmar Ellown (Arab)
Loch Lomond (Scottish)

N.B. The Chorale will have no organist or pianist for this tour of Ireland. All
of its music will be presented a cappella.

Anon.
Skene MS, ca. 1625
Anon., arr. Edy Torikian
Anon., arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1862-1958)

FROM THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Non vos relinquam orphanos
Sing We Merrily Unto God

William Byrd (1538-1632)
William Byrd

NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (1860)
The Blue Bird (1910)
Eli, Eli (1928)

The University of Notre Dame Chorale
The UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME CHORALE is the official concert choir of
the University. In addition to its fall and spring concerts on campus, the Chorale
presents Handel’s Messiah with the Festival Baroque Orchestra every year in early
December. The Chorale tours cities throughout the United States in January and
periodically travels overseas in May. Since 1997 the Chorale has toured Italy, France,
Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hawaii, and New Zealand.

Anon.
Anon.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
György Deák-Bárdos (1905-1991)

FROM THE THIRTY-YEARS WAR
Sicut Moses serpentem, SWV 68 (Cantiones sacrae, 1625)

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

COUNTERPOINT CLASS COMPOSTITION
Kyrie (2018)

Michael LeGrand (b. 1996)

TWO SETTINGS OF WORDS FROM THE REQUIEM MASS
Lux Aeterna, * 4vv (=”Nimrod” from Enigma Variations) (1899) Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Lux Aeterna (2015)
Stefan Girardet (b. 1969)

FINALE
Singt dem Herren (from The Creation, 1798)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

SCHOOL SONGS
Hike, Notre Dame*
Notre Dame, Our Mother
Victory March
* = choral arrangement by Alexander Blachly

Joseph J. Cassanta (1901-1968)
Joseph J. Cassanta
Michael J. Shea (1883-1938)