Past Performances
2023-2024
A medley of this year's favorite songs performed by DYC and DCC.
Mozart's Solemn Vespers paired with works by contemporary composers
Dance performance by Pamela Trokanski Dance Theater and Light Ballet Company
Vivaldi's Gloria
Fauré's Requiem
When the Violin Reena Esmail (b. 1983)
Rejoice in the Lamb Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
When the Violin Reena Esmail (b. 1983)
2022-2023
Excerpts from Gwyneth Walker’s Sing Evermore
Works by Brahms, Beethoven, Frank Ticheli
New works by Sarah Quartel and Marques Garrett
2020-2021
Concerts canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic
2019-2020
Holiday Family Friendly Concerts - Dec 7
Twas The Night Before Christmas
S’Vivon – Bertaux
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day – Gardner
Nos Galan – Ferko
Go Where I Send The – Caldwell/Ivory
Brahms Requiem with Camellia Symphony – Nov 9
Davis Chorale and Davis Shakespeare Festival team up to present A Night at the Movies – July 21
Music from:
Wizard of Oz
The Lion King
Sound of Music
West Side Story
and more…
Spring Concert - May 11
Telemann
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff
Gjeilo
Whitacre
2018-2019
40th Holiday Concert – Dec 15
St. Nicolas – Britten
Magnificat – Bach
Holiday Concert for Families – Dec 22
Messiah Sing-Along- Dec 23
40th Spring Concert (Reprise)- May 26
Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen
Song for Athene – Taverner
40th Spring Concert – May 19
Requiem – Rutter
Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen
Song for Athene – Taverner
2017-2018
Holiday Concert – Dec 16 and 17
Both Concerts are short holiday performances suitable for families with sing alongs and featuring handbell choirs from DCC and UU church.
Concert with the Camellia Symphony – Nov 11
Mozart Requiem
Spring Concert with the Davis Children’s Choir – May 13
Songs of the Earth
Featuring two pianos, oboe and percussion
Davis Chorale and UC Davis Choirs and Orchestra - March 12
Brahms’ Requiem
2016-2017
Messiah Sing-Along – December 18
Handel’s Messiah
Holiday Concert – December 3
Alma Redemptoris by Palestrina
Magnificat by Purcell
Rise up Shepherds
three Hebrew songs
Nigerian song Bethelehemu, accompanied by drums
Audience sing-along Christmas Carols, arranged by Davis Wilcocks
T’was the Night Before Christmas, set to music by Ken Darby in 1942
A Feast of Christmas, composed in 2007 by English composer Alan Bullard
We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Vespers Concert – June 12
Tchaikovsky – Gladsome Night
Bruckner – Locus Iste
Biebl – Ave Maria
Brahms – Motet Op.29, No.2
Cohen – Adonai Roi
Spirituals and Hymns
Night to Day – April 30
Lauridsen: selections from the Nocturnes
Music by Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Siskind, Burleigh, Vaughan Williams, and Raminsh
SacSings! – Sacramento Choral Festival – April 24
Lauridsen: selections from the Nocturnes
Music by Tchaikovsky, Siskind, and Burleigh
2015-2016
Holiday Concert with the Davis Children’s Choir – December 12
Lloyd Pfautsch ~ “A Day for Dancing” – with winds and percussion
Members of Lisa Applegate’s dance studio will dance original choreography during “A Day for Dancing”
Carol sing-alongs
Others
SacSings! – The Sacramento Choral Festival - June 14
Works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Bruckner, Schuetz and Gjeilo.
Spring Concert – June 7
Bach ~ Cantata 4 Christ Lag in Todesbanden
Gjeilo ~ The Ground
Rachmaninoff ~ Blessed is the man
Bruckner ~ Os Justi
Mozart ~ Missa Brevis K 194
Schutz ~ Psalms 8 and 110
UCD Alumni Chorus Performance with UCD Orchestra – March 8
Vaughan Williams ~ Song of Thanksgiving
Vaughan Williams~ Toward the Unknown Region
Mendelssohn ~ Verleih uns Frieden
Herbert Howells ~ Hymnus Paradisi
2014-2015
Messiah Sing-Along – December 21
Handel’s Messiah
Holiday Concert with the Davis Children’s Chorale - December 13
Pinkham ~ Wedding Cantata
Stroope ~ Hodie (with children)
Finzi ~ Magnificat
SacSings! – The Sacramento Choral Festival June15
An Interfaith Vespers Service - June 1
Mozart – Laudate Dominum
Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
Brahms – Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren
Dreams and Dances Concert – April 5
Featuring Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana
Gwyneth Walker’s Dreams
Dances and Fern Hill by John Corgliano.
2013-2014
Christmas in the Americas - December 14
Navidad Nuestra (“Our Nativity”) by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez
Medly by Conrad Susa under the title “Carols and Lullabies — Christmas in the Southwest.”
Huron Carol by Jean de Brébeuf
The Three Kings
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
Judea — A Virgin Unspotted by William Billings
I Wonder As I Wander
Go Where I Send Thee
Fall Concert with the Camillia Symphony and other choirs – November 16
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
An Interfaith Vespers Service - June 2
Spring Concert – April 13
J. S. Bach’s Cantata 196 (Der Herr denket an uns)
Mozart’s Missa Brevis
Ola Gjeilo's Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
Luminous Night of the Soul (2011)