Repertoire and Awards

Awards and Recognitions:

Nominee: Best Choral Performance, 2007
Hendel, Messiah
Gambit Magazine's Tribute to the Classical Arts Award

Best Choral Arts Presentation, 2006
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Gambit Magazine's Tribute to the Classical Arts Award

2005: Hurricane Katrina
disrupted the Chorus' performances

Best Classical Music Performance, 2004
LPO Classics: Mahler, Symphony No. 3
Gambit Magazine's Tribute to the Classical Arts Award

Best New Classical Music Performance, 2004
Stephen Dankner, Symphony No. 5 Odyssey of Faith
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Best New Classical Music Composition, 2003
(Contemporary -- written in the past 25 years)
This New, Immense, Unbounded World
  Robert Kapilow, composer/conductor
  Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Best Choral Performance, 2002
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
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Best Classical Arts Performance, 2001
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 Resurerection
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Best New Classical Arts Performance, 2001
Quezergue, A Creole Mass
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Best Choral Performance, 2000
Poulenc, Gloria
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Best Choral Performance, 1999
Verdi, Requiem
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Nominee: Best Choral Performance, 1998
Bernstein, Symphony No. 3 Kaddish
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 Symphony Chorus of New Orleans dedicates itself to performing great works for chorus and orchestra. From its beginnings in the early 1980s to the the end of its 2006-2007 season, the chorus has sung, in some cases several times, the following works:

  • Bach:  
    • Cantata No. 4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden'
    • Cantata No. 214 'Tönet, Ihr Pauken' (Page Translation)
    • Magnificat
    • St. John Passion
    • St. Matthew Passion
  • Beethoven:
    • Missa Solemnis
    • Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
  • Berlinski: The Beadle of Prague
  • Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
  • Bernstein:
    • Chichester Psalms
    • Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish'
  • Bloch: Sacred Service
  • Brahms:
    • Ein deutsches Requiem
    • Liebeslieder Wälzer, Op. 52
    • Schicksalslied
  • Britten:
    • Choral Dances from Gloriana
    • Saint Nicolas
  • Bruckner: Te Deum
  • Charpentier: Te Deum
  • Copland:
    • Old American Songs
    • Suite from The Tender Land
  • Courtenay: A Musicological Journey through the Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Dankner: Symphony No. 5 'Odyssey of Faith' (premiere)
  • Debussy: "Sirčnes" from Trois Nocturnes
  • Drattell: The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Dvorák: Te Deum
  • Falla: El Amor Brujo
  • Fauré: Requiem
  • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (concert)
  • Handel:
    • Israel in Egypt
    • Judas Maccabaeus
    • Messiah
  • Haydn:
    • The Creation
    • Mass No. 11 'Lord Nelson'
  • Holst: The Planets
  • Kapilow: This New, Immense, Unbounded World (premiere)
  • Kodály:
    • Budavari Te Deum
    • Missa Brevis
  • Lambert: The Rio Grande
  • Landes: Images for chorus and jazz trio
  • Lerner & Loewe (concert)
  • Mahler:
    • Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
    • Symphony No. 3
  • McCullough: Holocaust Cantata
  • Mendelssohn:
    • Elijah
    • Die erste Walpurgisnacht
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang'
  • Mozart:
    • Ave verum
    • "Great" Mass in c minor
    • Mass in C
    • Requiem (K. 626)
    • Vesperae solennes de Confessore
  • Orff:
    • Carmina Burana
    • Catulli Carmina
  • Page:
    • Symphony Chorus Sings the Blues (concert)
  • Paray: Mass for Joan of Arc
  • Poulenc: Gloria
  • Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Purcell:
    • O Sing unto the Lord
    • Te Deum & Jubilate Deo
  • Quezergue:  A Creole Mass (premiere and CD/DVD recording)
  • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Suites 1 & 2 and complete)
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein (concert)
  • Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
  • Rutter: Requiem
  • Shearing: Songs and Sonnets
  • Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
  • Schuman: Casey at the Bat
  • Shaw/Bennett: The Many Moods of Christmas
  • Shostakovich:
    • The Execution of Stepan Razin
    • Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
  • Sondheim (concert)
  • Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
  • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Ballet
  • Thompson: The Testament of Freedom
  • Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage - Four Ritual Dances
  • Van: A Procession Winding Around Me
  • Vaughan Williams:
    • Dona Nobis Pacem
    • Fantasia on Christmas Carols
    • Hundredth Psalm
    • Serenade to Music
    • Song of Thanksgiving
    • Symphony No. 1 'Sea Symphony'
    • Towards the Unknown Region
  • Verdi:
    • La Forza del Destino (concert)
    • Requiem
    • Te Deum
  • Walton: Belshazzar's Feast