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Since its founding, the Minnesota Chorale has premiered many works
by emerging and established composers, for performance in a variety of musical settings.

Information compiled from Jon Clifford Lahann, The Minnesota Chorale: The Growth of a Symphonic Chorus, 1972-1997 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1997), and other sources.

Composer
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Zimmerman, Heinz
Argento, Dominick
Fetler, Paul
Fetler, Paul
Fetler, Paul
Fetler, Paul
Fetler, Paul
Henze, Hans Werner
Paulus, Stephen
Larsen, Libby
Paulus, Stephen
Adams, John
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
La Cour, Niels
Harbison, John
Wuorinen, Charles
Larsen, Libby
Vandervelde, Janika
Vandervelde, Janika
Weir, Judith
Vandervelde, Janika
Kernis, Aaron Jay
Tavener, Sir John
Vandervelde, Janika
Grau, Alberto
Vandervelde, Janika
Yarison, I. J.
Spirit in Unity
Barnett, Carol
Kyr, Robert
Choirmaster's Burial, The
Higdon, Jennifer
Paulus, Stephen
Vandervelde, Janika (mentor)
Heitzeg, Steve
Whitacre, Eric
Whitacre, Eric
Currier, Sebastian
Hagen, Jocelyn
Orr, Sherri
Thompson, Joel
Hagen, Jocelyn & Takach, Timothy
Title
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Psalmkonzert
A Nation of Cowslips
"All Day I Hear"
"Madman's Song"
"November Night"
"Wild Swans"
Songs of Night
Moralities
Madrigali de Michelangelo
Pluck the Fruit
Beautiful Things
Nixon in China [concert version]
Mass in C minor, K. 417a
Two Motetti Latini 1982
Ave Verum Corpus
Genesis
Missa Gaia
Beijing Cai Hong
Fire of the Spirit
We Are Shadows
Adventures of the Black Dot
Garden of Light [revised version]
Ikon of Eros
Adventures of the Black Dot [revised version]
Guarare
Sing Me a Home
Daukaka Ga Allah
Zupanc, Victor
"Minnesota, That's Me"
Ah Nagasaki: Ashes into Light
Argento, Dominick
The Singing Rooms
Wake Up in the Morning
The Music Moves Like We Do
I Pray to the Birds
Godzilla Eats Las Vegas
Deep Field
RE-FORMATION
Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci, The
Whose Blood is This?
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Silver Thread, The
First Performance
5/10/1973
3/18/1974
3/18/1974
3/18/1974
3/18/1974
3/18/1974
6/5/1976
5/2/1978
5/19/1987
11/5/1988
11/5/1988
2/24/1989
9/19/1990
11/16/1991
4/17/1992
11/18/1992
4/22/1995
3/29/1998
4/7/2000
3/21/2001
5/18/2001
9/18/2002
11/13/2002
3/13/2003
5/19/2007
5/19/2007
5/10/2008
5/10/2008
8/23/2008
10/11/2008
5/3/2009
5/21/2009
11/21/2009
11/21/2009
11/21/2010
5/8/2015
5/8/2015
11/2/2017
3/30/2019
10/23/2021
5/19/2022
10/29/2022
Type
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Regional Premiere
American Premiere revised edition by Franz Beyer
Commercially Recorded Premiere
Regional Premiere
Commercially Recorded Regional Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
American Premiere
Regional Premiere
Commercially Recorded Premiere
Premiere
Regional Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Regional Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Regional Premiere
Regional Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Orchestral version Premiere
Premiere
Premiere
Premiere & Commission
Premiere
Regional Premiere
Premiere & Commission
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