NCYC 2009 Music Selections:

"Canticum novum" (Sing a new Song to the Lord) (sung in Latin)

Text: Psalm 98

Music: Gregorian Chant

"Doxology"

Music: Kevin Vogt (1966- ), commissioned for the NCYC in 2000

"Blest are Those"

Music: Richard Proulx (1937- )

"Tenebrae Factae Sunt" (Darkness Covered All) (sung in Latin)

Text: Inspired by the accounts of Christ's death in the four Gospels

Music: Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

"New Songs of Celebration Render"

Text: Erik Routley (1917-1982), Psalm 98

Music: 16th Century French Calvinist psalm tune arr. by John Ferguson (1941- )

"Sicut Cervus" (Like the Deer) (Sung in Latin)

Text: Psalm 42

Music: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1523?-1594)

"The Lily of the Valley"

Music: Spiritual, arr. by Robert DeCormier

"Psalm 100: Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord"

Text: King James Bible

Music: Kirke L. Mechem (1925- )

"Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life"

Text: George Herbert (1593-1633)

Music: Fr. Bryan Beaumont Hayes, OSB (1920- )

"Psalm 100"

Text and Music: Knut Nystedt (1915- )

"Creation's Alleluia"

Text: Notker of St. Gall (840-912), tr. J.M. Neale (1818-1866)

Music: John Rutter (1945- )

"Jina La Bwana" (African Magnificat, sung in Swahili and English)

Music: arr. by Steven C. Warner

"Dona Nobis Pacem" (Grant Us Peace) (sung in Latin)

Music: aleatoric setting by Robert Chilcott (1955- )

Hymn: "All People that on Earth Do Dwell"/OLD HUNDREDTH

Text: Psalm (99) 100; William Kethe (d. c. 1593); Doxology, Thomas Ken (1637-1711)

Music: Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510-1561); alt. harm. by John Dowland (1562-1626)

Hymn: "O Jesus Christ, May Grateful Hymns Be Rising"/CHARTERHOUSE

Text: Bradford G. Webster (b. 1898), Hymn Society of America

Music: David Evans (1874-1948), Oxford University Press

"Holy God, We Praise Thy Name"/GROSSER GOTT

Text: Te Deum, German ascr. Ignaz Franz (1719-1790), tr. Clarence Walworth (1820-1900)

Music: 1775 Vienna, Katholisches Gesangbuch ("Catholic hymnal")

Stanza two set by Donald Busarow (1934- )

Pieces sung at Liturgy:

"Salve Regina," Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, sung daily in Latin at Compline

Gloria by George Palmer (1947- ), with the proposed ICEL revised text

Was sung at World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia (sung in Latin and English)

Corpus Christi Mass

Text: Liturgical

Music: Richard Proulx (1937- )

"Lamb of God"

Text: Liturgical

Music: David Clark Isele from Holy Cross Mass

The National Catholic Youth Choir is a liturgically-based choir open to Roman Catholic youth entering 10th-12th grade.  The conductor of the choir is internationally renowned choral clinician Dr. Axel Theimer.  Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, a monk of Saint John’s abbey, is the founding director of the choir.  The program takes place each summer on the beautiful wooded grounds of Saint John's Abbey and University in central Minnesota.  What is unique about the National Catholic Youth Choir is its liturgical focus.  The singers learn about the Catholic liturgy and how the treasury of sacred music (Gregorian chant, Palestrina, Mozart, Bruckner, Poulenc, Duruflé...) fits in Catholic worship today.  The choir also sings contemporary and newly-written music, some of it specially commissioned for the NCYC.

© 2009 National Catholic Youth Choir

Saint John's Abbey and University,

Collegeville, Minnesota 56321

For further information, contact the choir founder and chaplain,

Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB
 

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