Winona Oratorio Chorus
Conducted by Dr. Harry Mechell, the WOC will be joined by professional vocal soloists and instrumentalists.
2016-17: Selections and excerpts from
Bach's Christmas Oratorio & Magnificat in D
Major,
Handel's Messiah & Zadok the Priest,
Vivaldi's Gloria,
Beethoven's Mass in C Major,
Hayden's The Seasons & The Creation,
Mozart's Requiem
Schubert's Mass in G
Gounod's Saint Cecelia Mass
Faure's Requiem
Dubois' Seven Last Words
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms
Rutter's Gloria & Mass of the Children
Orff's Carmina Burana
Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna
Jenkin's The Armed Man & Gloria
Ramirez's Misa Criolla
2015-16: Beethoven, Mass in C Major
Ramirez, Missa Criolla
Handel, The Dettingen Te Deum
Jenkins, Gloria
2014-15: Mozart, Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626
Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna
Mendelssohn, A Midsummers Night Dream
and Walpurgisnacht
Orff, selections from Carmina Burana
2013-14: Mendelssohn, Elijah
Mozart, Missa Solemnis in C Major KV337
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs
Rutter, Mass of the Children
2012-13: Haydn, The Seasons
Vivaldi, Gloria
Saint-Saëns, Christmas Oratorio
Rutter and Willcocks Carols
2011-12: Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus
Handel’s Messiah, Parts II and III
2010-11: Bach, Magnificat; Rutter, Magnificat;
Gorecki, Totus Tuus; Tchesnokov,
Salvation is Created
Karl Jenkins, The Armed Man, A Mass for
Peace
2009-10: Beethoven, Choral Fantasy;
Johnathan Twist,
Lament for Cello and Chorus;
Gounod, Saint Cecelia Mass
“An Evening of Opera Choruses and
Arias”
2008-09: Haydn, Lord Nelson Mass;
Schubert, Mass in G Major
Bach, Saint John Passion
2007-08: “America the Beautiful”
“Love Songs of Brahms, Schubert,
Whitacre, and Shearing”
2006-07: Orff, Carmina Burana with the Minnesota
Dance Theater
Mozart, Vesperae Solennes; Dubois, The
Last Seven Words of Christ
2005-06: “Americana: Music of Perischetti,
Hanson, Copland, and R. Thompson”
Handel, Four Coronation Anthems; Purcell, Come, Ye Sons of Art
2004-05: “20/20: A Choral View: Music of the
Twentieth Century”
Rutter, Mass of the Children; Durufle,
Requiem
2003-04: Fauré, Requiem; Bernstein, Chichester
Psalms
Mozart, Requiem; Haydn, The Creation
2002-03: Honneger, King David
Orff, Carmina Burana
2001-02: Gounod, Saint Cecelia Mass; Beethoven,
Choral Fantasy
“The Best of Broadway”
2000-01: Haydn, The Creation
Rutter, Gloria and Requiem
1999-00: Bach, Christmas Oratorio parts I-III
“An Evening at the Opera”
1998-99: “The Battle Cry of Freedom”
Handel, Messiah Parts I-III
1997-98: Schubert, Mass in A-Flat
Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music;
“Songs of Love”