Past BCCO Performances
Programs under the direction of Arlene Sagan

Season
Work
Composer
Notes
May
1989
Requiem
Mozart

Dec 1989
Messiah
Handel

May
1990
Creation
Haydn

Dec 1990
Magnificat in D
Bach



Messiah (selected choruses)
Handel 



Messe de Minuit pour Noel
Charpentier

May
1991
Mass in C Minor
Mozart

Dec
1991
Concerto in F Major, Opus 9 No. 3
Albinoni



Five Songs for the Season
Misc. Composers



Messiah (selected choruses)   
Handel 

May
1992
Parables for Chorus & Orchestra
(World Premiere)
Julian White



Te Deum, Opus 103
Dvořák



Fanfare for the Common Man
Copeland

Aug
1992
Carmina Burana
Orff

Dec 1992
Judas Macchabaeus (selections)
Handel

May
1993
Magnificat
Vivaldi



Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky



Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major
Beethoven
Matthew Edwards, piano
Dec 1993
Messiah
Handel

May
1994
Mass in B Minor
Bach

Dec 1994
Te Deum
Mozart



Te Deum
Pärt



Christmas in the Western World
Still



Concerto in D Major
Haydn
Matthew Owens, cello
May 1995
Requiem
Brahms



Fantasia on a Theme
Tallis
Orchestra
Dec 1995
Israel in Egypt
Handel



Quiet City
Copeland   
Orchestra
May 1996
Requiem
Fauré



Schicksalslied
Brahms



Et Incarnatus Est
Mozart
Helen Dilworth, soloist


Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Bach
Orchestra
Dec 1996
Messiah (selections)
Handel



Anthem: O Sing Unto the Lord
Purcell



Sonata in D for 2 trumpets
Franceschini
Data Kemp and Arthur Adamson, trumpets
May
1997
Requiem
Verdi

Dec 1997
A Ceremony of Carols
Britten



Gloria
Vivaldi



Missa Luba

Latin Mass set to African Rythms
May 1998
Requiem
Mozart



Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat
Mozart



A Tribute to Paul Robeson
Robeson
Inetta Harris, soloist
Dec 1998
Nelson Mass in D Minor
Haydn



Divine Ship
Bacon



Trumpet Concerto
Haydn

May 1999
Messa Solemnis
Beethoven

Dec 1999
Mass in E Flat Major
Schubert



Symphony No. 23 in D Major
Mozart
Frank Chang, conducting


The Trumpet Shall Sound
Handel
Dana Kemp, trumpet
Richard Mix, soloist
May 2000
Mass in B Minor
Bach

Dec 2000
St. Cecilia Mass
Gounod



Chandos Anthem No. 7
Handel



Exsultate Jubilate
Mozart
Marcelle Dronkers, soloist
May 2001
Children's Hour (World Premiere)
Julian White



Choral Fantasia
Beethoven
Matthew Edwards, piano


Frostiana (selections)
Thompson

Dec 2001
Mass in A Flat Major
Schubert



Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Von Weber
Asher Davison, clarinet


Concord
Britten



Hymn
Tallis

May 2002
Carmina Burana
Orff



Irish Idyll
Dodd
Orchestra


Brook Green Suite
Holst
Orchestra
Dec 2002
Mass in C Minor
Mozart



O Ignis Spiritus
Hildegard Von Bingen



Columbia Aspexit
Hildegard Von Bingen



Quiet City
Copeland
Orchestra
May 2003
Requiem
Brahms



O viridissima Virga
Hildegard Von Bingen



O Ecclesia
Hildegard Von Bingen

Dec 2003
Messiah
Handel

May 2004
Requiem
Verdi
 
Dec 2004
Alleluia
Thompson
 
A Ceremony of Carols
Britten
 
Agnus Dei (from Adagio for Strings)
Barber
 
May 2005
Requiem
Duruflé
 
Motet VI - Lobet den Herrn, Alle Heiden
Bach
 
Rinaldo (selected arias)
Handel
Marcelle Dronkers, soloist
Dec 2005
Gloria
Poulenc
 
23.5° (World Premiere)
Mueller
Winner of BCCO Choral Composition Competition 2005
Hymn to the United Nations
Bacon
 
Concerto for Oboe and Trumpet
Hertel
Dana Kemp, trumpet and Terri Knight, Oboe
Serenade for Winds, Opus 7
Strauss
Orchestra, Frank Chang, Conductor
Song to the Moon
Dvořák
Jillian Khuner, soloist and Paula Goodman Wilder, soloist
May 2006
Mass in C Major
Beethoven
 
Pavane, Opus 50
Fauré
 
Fugue for Organ in G Minor
Bach
Arranged for strings by David Cheng  
Dec 2006
Chichester Psalms
Bernstein
 
Old American Songs
Copland
 
A Tribute to Julian White
Selected works, including
She Walks in Beauty
World Premiere Performance
J. White
 
May 2007
Requiem
Fauré
 
Les Chansons des Roses
Lauridsen
 
Tanzlied des Pierrot
Korngold
Joshua Henderson, soloist  
Violin Concerto in A Minor
Bach
Charles Montague, violin soloist  
Dec. 2007
Messa di Gloria
Puccini
 
Va, Pensiero from Nabucco
Verdi
 
Overture, L'italiana in Algeri
Rossini
Frank Chang, guest conductor  
La Notte, Concerto Op.45 No. 8 for Bassoon
Vivaldi
Cynthia Hanson, soloist  
BCCO was founded by Eugene Jones in 1966 under the auspices of the Berkeley Adult Education Program. BCCO is now an independent non-profit organization funded by tuition of chorus members and donations from the chorus and the general community. Arlene Sagan has been our Music Director since 1988.