Collegiate Repertoire

Lauridsen's Ave Verum Corpus for choir, string orchestra or organ, with finger cymbals joins a catalog of works that are performed throughout the world. The traditional Latin text is expressed witn

Combining long flowing phrases with free tonality, dissonant chords, and mysterious harmonies, this piece represents musically the mystery of the birth of the Christ child.

This bittersweet poem by Christina Rossetti gives a haunting sense of beauty and sorrow which is intertwined with lovely free tonalities, shifting meters and extended divisi in the music.

"Sure on this shining night of starmade shadows round, kindness must watch for me this side the ground..." In this third movement of his song cycle Nocturnes, Morten Lauridsen's flowing music

When this magnificent choral work made its debut in 1997, it was immediately recorded by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and received a Grammy nomination. Since then, it has earned a place in the choral