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Master Chorale CD Track Lists

Light of the Midnight Sun CD Track List (Click Here)

Let There Be Peace: Holiday & Sacred Favorites with The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay
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This new disc represents three decades of glorious singing by the Master Chorale. It will certainly be a part of holiday listening for years to come!  To be released on November 26, 2013.  Now accepting pre-orders for shipping on December 2, 2013.

Track List:
1. O Come, All Ye Faithful 
2. O Yule, Full of Gladness
3. O Magnum Mysterium
4. In the Bleak Mid-Winter
5. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
6. Alleluia
7. Bogoroditse Devo (from Vespers, Op 37)
8. Let There Be Peace On Earth
9. Go Tell It on the Mountain
10. Jauchzet dem Herrn
11. Lux Aurumque
12. Personent Hodie

A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas

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Composer Courtney developed a Pops arrangement of what can sometimes be a boring and repetitious carol to deliver a wonderfully crafted chronological sampling of musical style periods from Gregorian Chant to early twentieth century Sousa. "A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas" is an unforgettable jaunt through Vienna, Rome, France, Germany, and Russia to the USA. Released 2005.

Track List
1. Day 1 - A Partridge
2. Day 2 - Two Turlte Doves
3. Day 3 - Three French Hens
4. Day 4 - Four Calling Birds
5. Day 5 - Five Gold Rings
6. Day 6 - Six Geese a-Laying
7. Day 7 - Seven Swans a-Swimming
8. Day 8 - Eight Maids a-Milking
9. Day 9 - Nine Ladies Dancing
10. Day 10 - Ten Lords a-Leaping
11. Day 11 - Eleven Pipers Piping
12. Day 12 - Twelve Drummers Drumming

Delius: Appalachia & Sea Drift

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Our joint recording of music by Frederick Delius with The Florida Orchestra is now available for purchase online and through The Florida Orchestra! 

Help us continue to top the classical music charts by ordering your copy today through Amazon or iTunes.

Click here to order the CD on Amazon
Click here to order the mp3 on Amazon
Click here to order the mp3 on iTunes

In addition, CDs can be purchased through The Florida Orchestra's Ticket Center for $20 by calling 727.892.3337 or 1.800.662.7286 and in the lobby of the concert halls at the orchestra's performances.

Men of The Master Chorale

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The performance, entitled Men of the Master Chorale, A Tribute to Waring, Wagner, and Shaw, was recorded live, and included a variety of music including church anthems, spirituals, and secular selections. The program featured music by three of America's greatest choral conductors; Fred Waring, Roger Wagner, and Robert Shaw, and include "Dry Bones" made famous by Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians, "What Should You Do with a Drunken Sailor," and Roger Wagner's arrangement of old Western songs such as "Home on the Range" and "Green Grow the Lilacs." We raised the roof of the church with the hymn arrangement "For All the Saints" and "It is Well with My Soul." Released 2002.

Track List
1. With a Voice of Singing - M. Shaw
2. It is Well With My Soul - arr B.B. McKinney
3. Sine Nomine (For All the Saints) - R.V. Williams
4. Swansea Town - arr. R. Shaw & A. Parker
5. Aura Lee - arr. R. Shaw, A. Parker, R. Hunter
6. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? - arr. R. Shaw & A. Parker
7. A Celtic Triptych - R. Jeffers
8. Western Songs - arr. R. Wagner
9. Have Your Lamps Gone Out? - M. Dalglish
10. Loch Lomond - R.V. Williams
11. Dry Bones - Fred Waring, arr. L. Gearhart
12. Dry Bones (reprise) - Fred Waring, arr. L. Gearhart

The Peace Project 

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Moments of exceptional a cappella singing woven through a concert featuring the unbridled passion of gospel, jazz, anthem, and motet. Included is a premiere of a new work by famed conductor/composer Andre Thomas plus classical music by Rachmaninoff, Paulus, and Bernstein. Guest performers: Sharon Scott, Valerie Gillespie, Robert Winslow, and Kevin Beckner. Released 2012.

Track List
1. The Awakening - by Joseph M. Martin
2. Requiem - by Eliza Gilkyson, arr. Craig Hella Johnson
3. Bogorodistse Devo (from Vespers, Op 37) - by Sergei Rachmaninov
4. I Then Shall Live (featuring Sharon Scott, vocalist) - Traditional/arr. Gloria Gaither
5. From A Distance (featuring Sharon Scott, vocalist) - by Julie Gold, arr. Jason Burke
6. Let There Be Peace on Earth (featuring Sharon Scott, vocalist) - by Sy Miller & Jill Jackson
7. Nearer My God to Thee (featuring William Renfore, tenor) - Traditional/arr. René Clausen
8. Hebrew Chant (featuring Jason Burke, baritone)
9. Silent Devotion & Response (from The Sacred Service) - by Ernest Bloch
10. Someday Is Today (premiere) - by André Thomas
11. Motet (featuring Valerie Gillespie, saxophone) - by Russell Ferrante
12. Tanga (featuring Valerie Gillespie) - by Dizzy Gillespie
13. Lift Every Voice & Sing (featuring Sharon Scott, vocalist) - Traditional/arr. Craig Courtney
14. "Peace Is Not Merely a Distant Goal..." (narration by Kevin Beckner)
15. Imagine (featuring Robert Winslow, piano) - by John Lennon/arr. Robert Winslow
16. The Road Home (featuring Andrea Peacock, mezzo soprano) - by Stephen Paulus
17. Almighty Father (from Mass) - by Leonard Bernstein 

Discover! Music by Alice Parker & Libby Larsen

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Tracks include "Duke Ellington: Songs from the Sacred Concerts," "Seven Ghosts," and two commissions "The Rock and the River" and "Whitman's America." Released 2008.

Track List
Alice Parker
Duke Ellington: Songs from the Sacred Concerts
1. I. Every Man Prays
2.     Our Father
3. II. Come Sunday
4. III. Don't Get Down
5. IV. Will You Be There?
6. V. Praise God and Dance

The Rock and the River (world premiere)
7. I. Can't Hide
8. II. Peace Like a River
9. III. I Got a Hidin' Place

Libby Larsen
Seven Ghosts
10. I. Grace & Glory
11. II. Jenny Lind to Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. III. Blinking Pluto
13. IV. Myself with Wings
14. V. United Hot Clubs of America

15. Whitman's America (world premiere)


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"Singing in the Master Chorale allows me to experience the profoundly human and spiritual longings that can be expressed in no other way."  - Dr. M. L. Moore