Past Seasons

The '20s

Concerts and Programs of the 2020s

The '10s

Concerts and Programs of the 2010s

The '00s

Concerts and Programs of the 2000s

The '90s

Concerts and Programs of the 1990s

The '80s

The '80s

Concerts and Programs of the 1980s

Repertoire

Examples of work performed by Peninsula Cantare

  • Afonso – Samba-Le-Le
  • Aguiar – Salmo 150
  • Alfven – Aftonen
  • Allaway – Dansaron
  • Allaway – Riu, Riu, Chiu
  • Anglea – Jubilate Deo
  • Bach, C.P.E. – Heilig
  • Bach, J.S. – Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
  • Bach, J.S. – Cantata BWV 4
  • Bach, J.S. – Cantata BWV 140
  • Bach, J.S. – Cantata BWV 172 (Opening chorus and chorale)
  • Bach, J.S. – Cantata BWV 196
  • Bach, J.S. – Christmas Oratorio
  • Bach, J.S. – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  • Bach, J.S. – Magnificat
  • Bach, J.S. – Mass in B Minor
  • Bach, J.S. – Motet: Lobet den Herrn
  • Barber – Sure on This Shining Night
  • Beethoven – Choral Fantasy
  • Beethoven – Mass in C
  • Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
  • Benson, Jeffrey (arr.) – When You Go A-Courtin’
  • Berger – Alleluia from Brazilian Psalm
  • Berger – The Eyes of All
  • Berlin – You’re Just in Love
  • Berlioz – Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling
  • Bernstein – Candide
  • Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
  • Bernstein – West Side Story Medley
  • Biebl – Ave Maria
  • Billings – The Shepherd’s Carol
  • Bishop, Henry – Come, Thou Monarch of the Vine
  • Bizet – Habanera from Carmen
  • Bloomer Deussen, Nancy – Et in Terra Pax
  • Borodin – Polovetsian Dances
  • Boublil and Schonberg – Les Misérables Medley
  • Boulanger, Lili – Soir sur la Plaine
  • Brahms – Abendlied
  • Brahms – Gypsy Songs
  • Brahms – How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place
  • Brahms – Liebeslieder Walzer
  • Brahms – O Schöne Nacht
  • Brahms – Warum ist das Licht gegeben
  • Brahms – Warum, Opus 92, No. 4
  • Brahms – Wondrous Cool, Thou Woodland Quiet
  • Britten – Ceremony of Carols
  • Britten – Festival Te Deum
  • Britten – Hymn to St. Cecelia
  • Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
  • Bruckner – Locus Iste
  • Brumfield – No Time
  • Brunner – O Music
  • Busto – Ave Verum Corpus
  • Busto – Laudate Dominum
  • Buxtehude – Alles was ihr tut
  • Carissimi – Jephthah
  • Charpentier – Te Deum
  • Childs, David – Where Your Bare Foot Walks
  • Cimze, Janis – Riga Dimd
  • Clausen – A Jubilant Song
  • Clausen – My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose
  • Clausen – Peace Leave With You
  • Clausen – There Is No Rose
  • Conte – Invocation and Dance
  • Copland – Old American Songs
  • Copland – Stomp Your Foot
  • Copland – The Promise of Living
  • Corigliano – Fern Hill
  • Courtney – A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Culloton – How Can I Keep from Singing?
  • Curitiba – Ja Vem a Primavera!
  • Davis – How Can I Keep From Singing?
  • Dawson – Ain-a That Good News
  • Dawson – Behold the Star
  • Dawson – Evry Time I Feel the Spirit
  • Debussy – Trois Chansons: Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder; Quand j’ai oui le tambourin; Hiver
  • Dello Joio – A Jubilant Song
  • Dello Joio – A Christmas Carol
  • di Lasso – Jubilate Deo
  • di Lasso – Musica est Dei donum optimi
  • Distler – Lo! How a Rose
  • Duruflé – Four Motets
  • Duruflé – Notre Père
  • Duruflé – Requiem
  • Erb – Shenandoah
  • Farrow – Turn the World Around
  • Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
  • Fauré – Requiem
  • Fenner – Gwine Up
  • Fetler – December Stillness
  • Finzi – In Terra Pax
  • Finzi – Magnificat
  • Finzi – My Lovely One
  • Finzi – My Spirit Sang All Day
  • Floirendo, lan-Carl (arr.) – Of the Father’s Love Begotten
  • Forrest – Three Nocturnes
  • Foster – Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  • Gabrieli – Jubilate Deo
  • Gabrieli – Hodie Christus natus est
  • Gershwin – Gershwin Medley
  • Gershwin – Porgy and Bess
  • Gawthorpe – Sing Me to Heaven
  • Gibbs – Down by the Riverside
  • Hall – Jenny Rebecca
  • Halmos – Jubilate Deo
  • Handel – Chandos Anthem No.4
  • Handel – Coronation Anthem No. 4
  • Handel – Judas Maccabaeus
  • Handel – Messiah
  • Handel – Solomon
  • Handl, Jacob – Ascendo ad Patrem Meum
  • Handl, Jacob – Resonet in Laudibus
  • Harris, Matthew – Shakespeare Songs
  • Hassler, Hans Leo – Missa Secunda
  • Hatton, J.L. – Over Hill, Over Dale
  • Haydn – Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse)
  • Haydn – Mass in d Minor (Lord Nelson Mass)
  • Haydn – Mass in Time of War
  • Haydn – Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
  • Haydn – The Heavens are Telling
  • Hodges – The Angels’ Song
  • Hogan, Moses – This Little Light of Mine
  • Holmes, Brian – I Saw a Fair Maiden
  • Holmes, Brian – Love’s Horn
  • Holmes, Brian – Remember
  • Holmes, Robert – Beams of Gentle Light
  • Ives – Psalm 67
  • Ives – Symphony No.4
  • Jeffers – This We Know (text attributed to Chief Seattle)
  • Jennings – With a Voice of Singing
  • Johnson – Let the River Run
  • Johnson – I Love You/What a Wonderful World
  • Jones, Robert – Farewell, Dear Love
  • Kingsley – Shepherd Me, Lord
  • Knauf – Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Knauf – Psalm 117
  • Kodaly – Missa Brevis
  • Kreutz – Sing a New Song
  • Kubik – Oh dear! What can the matter be?
  • Kubik – Polly-Wolly-Doodle
  • Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna
  • Lauridsen – Sure on This Shining Night
  • Leisring – O Filii et Filiae
  • Lennon and McCartney – All You Need Is Love
  • Lennon and McCartney – When I’m Sixty-Four
  • Lightfoot – Song for a Winter’s Night
  • Lennon and McCartney – Yesterday
  • Lowry –  How Can I Keep from Singing?
  • Maddux – Christmas Goes Classical Mahler-Symphony No. 8
  • Malucelli, Ken – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
  • Marenzio – Scaldava Il Sol
  • Martini – Domine, Ad Adjuvandum
  • Mathias – Ave Rex
  • Meader – The First Noel
  • Mechem – Ballad of Befana
  • Mechem – Din, Don Merrily on High
  • Mechem – Love and Pizen
  • Mechem – The Lighthearted Lovers
  • Mendelssohn – Farewell to the Woods
  • Mendelssohn – Hunting Song
  • Mendelssohn – Song of the Lark
  • Mendelssohn – Spring Song
  • Mendelssohn – There Shall a Star from Jacob Come Forth
  • Mendoza – Gloria a Dios
  • Monteverdi – Beatus Vir
  • Monteverdi – Cantate Domino
  • Monteverdi – Christe, Adoramus Te
  • Monteverdi – Magnificat Primo
  • Monteverdi – Vespers
  • Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus
  • Mozart – Coronation Mass
  • Mozart – Dixit Dominus K193
  • Mozart – Don Giovanni (chorus parts)
  • Mozart – Missa Brevis
  • Mozart – Regina Coeli
  • Mozart – Requiem
  • Mozart – Sancta Maria, mater Dei K273
  • Mozart – Te Deum
  • Mozart – Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
  • Mussorgsky – Coronation Chorus from “Boris Godunov
  • Narverud – Sisi Ni Moja
  • Offenbach – Neighbor’s Chorus
  • Orff – Carmina Burana
  • Orlovich – Voice of the River
  • Pachelbel- Magnificat
  • Palestrina – Alma Redemptoris Mater
  • Palestrina – Missa Brevis
  • Palmer – Make We Merry
  • Parker – Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
  • Parker – O Come, Emmanuel
  • Part – The Beatitudes
  • Pascual – Oy es dia de placer
  • Pasek and Paul – Waving Through a Window
  • Paulus – Gabriel’s Message
  • Paulus – Pilgrims’ Hymn
  • Peeters – Jubilate Deo
  • Pinkham – Wedding Cantata
  • Pergolesi – Magnificat
  • Pergolesi – Stabat Mater
  • Piccolo- I Look from Afar
  • Poelinitz – City Called Heaven
  • Porter – Brush Up Your Shakespeare
  • Poulenc – Gloria
  • Poulenc – Videntes Stellam
  • Praetorius – En natus est Emmanuel
  • Purcell – Choruses from Queen Mary’s Birthday Ode
  • Purcell – Hail, bright Cecelia
  • Purcell – Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry
  • Purcell – Man That Is Born of a Woman
  • Purcell – O Give Thanks
  • Purcell – O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song
  • Rachmaninoff – Bogoroditse Devo
  • Respighi – Laud to the Nativity
  • Rickard – Gloria
  • Ringwald – Deep River
  • Robertson – Wonder As I Wander
  • Rossini – Petite Messe Solonelle
  • Rossini – Stabat Mater
  • Russian folk song – Kalinka
  • Rutter – Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
  • Rutter – For the Beauty of the Earth
  • Rutter – Gloria
  • Rutter – It Was a Lover and His Lass
  • Rutter – Musica Dei donum
  • Rutter – Nativity Carol
  • Rutter – The Sprig of Thyme
  • Rutter – Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
  • Rutter – Star Carol
  • Rutter – What Sweeter Music
  • Saint-Saens – Calme des Nuits
  • Schubert – An Die Musik
  • Schubert – Four Partsongs
  • Schubert – Kyrie from Mass in A Flat
  • Schubert – Mass in E Flat
  • Schubert – Mass in G
  • Schubert – Salve Regina
  • Schumann – A Gypsy’s Life
  • Schumann – In the Twilight
  • Schumann – Lovely Flower
  • Scott – Go Down Death
  • Shaw/Parker – Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  • Shearing, George – Music to Hear
  • Sirett – Brillante Estrella
  • Sitton – Clap Your Hands
  • Sitton – Cowboy Collage
  • Sitton – The Drummer and the Cook Smith, Byron – Worthy to be Praised
  • Sprenger – America, the Beautiful/Battle Hymn
  • Stevens, RJ.S. – Crabbed Age and Youth
  • Stravinsky. Igor – Ave Maria
  • Stroope – In Time of Silver Rain
  • Stroope – Resonet in Laudibus
  • Sullivan – The Mikado
  • Susa – Carols and Lullabies – Christmas in the Southwest
  • Tallis – O Nata Lux
  • Tavener, John – The Lamb
  • Ticheli, Frank – The Earth Song
  • Tschaikovsky – Praise the Lord
  • Thomas – Go Where I Send Thee
  • Thomas – Keep Your Lamps!
  • Thompson, Clyde – Exultation
  • Thompson, Clyde (arr.) – Oh! Susanna!
  • Thompson, Randall – Alleluia
  • Thompson, Randall – Frostiana
  • Thompson, Randall – God’s Bottles
  • Thompson, Randall – Testament of Freedom
  • Uusberg – Muusika
  • Vasilauskaite – Agnus Dei
  • Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
  • Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs
  • Vaughan Williams – In Windsor Forest
  • Vaughan Williams – O Mistress Mine
  • Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
  • Vaughan Williams – The Willow Song
  • Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown Region
  • Vecchi – Fa Una Canzona
  • Viadana – Exsultate Justi
  • Victoria – In Festo Natalis Domini
  • Victoria – O Magnum Mysterium
  • Vierne – Messe Solonelle
  • Vivaldi – Credo
  • Vivaldi – Gloria
  • Vivaldi – Magnificat
  • Walker, Gwyneth – The Dreamers of Dreams
  • Walker, Gwyneth – The Tree of Peace
  • Whitacre – Cloudburst
  • Whitacre – Five Hebrew Love Songs
  • Whitacre – Lux Aurumque
  • Whitacre – Seal Lullaby
  • Whitacre – This Marriage
  • Wilberg – Fum, Fum, Fum!
  • Wilby, Philip – If Ye Love Me
  • Willcocks – Jingle, Bells
  • Willcocks – We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Past Directors

Carl Sitton

Carl Sitton​

The founding director, Carl Sitton, began teaching at Canada College at its inception in 1968 and was head of the voice and choral departments.  He was known widely in the United States as a choral conductor and comooser.  A student of the French composer, Darius Milhaud, he published over twenty-five compositions and arrangements, as well as nine commissioned scores for theater and dance and two anthems commissioned by Woodside Village Church for their centennial celebration in 1993.  He was president of the Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and appeared as a conductor at the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association.

 
Janice Gunderson

Janice Gunderson

Janice Gunderson became the second artistic director of the Peninsula Master Chorale (renamed Peninsula Cantare) in January 1997 after serving as the accompanist since 1986.  In 2003 Canada College discontinued its music departments, so under Janice’s leadership, Peninsula Cantare became an independent nonprofit organization.  After 15 very successful years, she retired as artistic director in December 2011.

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