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Premieres

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The Glee Club has given the world and American premieres of many works for male chorus, written by a variety of notable composers.

World premieres include works by:

  • Maximilian Albrecht: Exsultet Sanctus (1962)
  • Karel Husa: Festive Ode (1964), The Apotheosis of this Earth (1972, revised 1990)
  • Robert Palmer: Nabuchodonosor Rex (1964)
  • Ned Rorem: Laudemus Tempus Actum (1964)
  • Juan Orrego-Salas: Cantata (1966)
  • David Conte: Canticle (1982), Requiem Triptych (1983), Carmina Juventutis (1993), Crossing the Bar (2010)
  • Steven Stucky: To Musick (2000)
  • Joseph Gregorio: Dona Nobis Pacem (2003)
  • Ernani Aguiar: Missa Brevis III (2004)
  • Augusta Read Thomas: The Rewaking (2005)
  • Julian Wachner: Four Scenes from the Rubaiyat (2006)
  • Kay Rhie: Tears for Te Wano (2006)
  • Chen Yi and Steven Stucky: Two Chinese Folk Songs (2007) (Joint commission with the Cornell Chorus for the 2008 China Tour)
  • Bernard Rands: Trinity (2008)
  • Benjamin May: Absalon, Fili Mi (2009)
  • Daniel Kellogg: Innisfree (2009) and Winter Lullaby (2009)
  • David Lefkowitz: Four Rubaiyat (2010)

American premieres include works by:

  • Carl Orff: Comoedeia de Christi Resurrectione (1962)
  • Bohuslav Martinů: Prophecy of Isaiah (1968), Field Mass (1970)
  • Anton Reicha: Te Deum (1974), Die Harmonie der Sphären (1974)

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