Repertoire

The Capital Chamber Singers perform a variety of music ranging from sacred to secular and  Renaissance to modern.  They also specialize in a cappella motets, anthems and spirituals.  For information regarding bookings and performances e-mail beckykemp@hughes.net

or call Bernie Wiseman (217) 529-6870.

Christmas Selections

• "Angels We Have Heard On High" by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
  

• "Calypso Gloria" by Donald P. Moore
  

• "Caroling, Caroling" by Alfred Burt
  

• "Deck the Halls (in 7/8)" arr. by James McKelvy
  

• "Fum, Fum, Fum"  arr. by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
  

• "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent
  

• "Jesu Parvule" by Alfred Burt
  

• "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent" arr. by Paul B. Boehnke
  

• "Mary Had a Baby" arr. Craig Courtney
  

• "O Tannenbaum" arr. by John Rutter
  

• "Silent Night" arr. by Jay Richards
  

• "Songs of the Nativity" by Robert H. Young
  

• "Still and Hushed" by Frederick Gerhardt
  

• "Still, Still, Still"
  

• "White Christmas"
  

• Additional traditional settings of many Christmas hymns
  

Classical Selections

• "Songs of Nature" Antonin Dvorak
  

• "Adoratmus te" by G.P. da Palestrina
  

• "Alleluia" by RandallThompson
  

• "At the River" by Aaron Copland
  

• "Ave Maria (Angelus Domini)" by Franz Biebl
  

• "Begone Dull Care" by Gordon Jacob
  

• "Breathe On Me, Breath of God" by John A Walters
  

• "Gradual" by Anton Bruckner
  

• "Come Unto Me" by Bob Burroughs
  

• "Die Nachtigall" by Felix Mendelssohn
  

• "A Gaelic Blessing" by John Rutter
  

• "Go Not Far From Me" by Zingarelli
  

• "Heavenly Light" by A. Kopylow
  

• "Lord How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry?" by Henry Purcell
  

• "Lord How Lovely" by Anton Bruckner
  

• "Make A Joyful Noise - Psalm 100' by R. J. Muus'
  

• "May the Lord Go With You' by Anna Laura Page
  

• "My Lord What a Mornin'"  arr. by H. T. Burleigh
  

• "O Bone Jesu" by G. P. da Palestrina
  

• "O Magnum Mysterium" by Morten Lauridsen
  

• "O Taste and See" by R. Vaughan Williams
  

• "Tenebrae Factae Sunt" by Francis Poulenc
  

• "So Many Songs" by Antonin Dvorak
  

• "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" by Peter C. Lutkin
  

• "There Is A Season" by Alfred V. Fedak
  

• "Wondrous Cool" by Johannes Brahms
  

• "Wondrous Love" by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
  

Contemporary, Gospel, and Patriotic Selections

• "America the Beautiful" by Samuel Ward
  

• "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by William Steffe
  

• "Dixie" by Daniel D. Emmett
  

• "Fosterama" - 1. Ring the Bango,  2. Gentle Annie, 3. Camptown Races
              by Stephen Foster
  

• "Give Me Jesus" arr. by L.L. Fleming
  

• "The Glorious Name of Washington"  arr. by William Arms Fisher
  

• "Going Up To Glory" by Sally K Albrecht and Jay Althouse
  

• "Hail, Columbia" by Philip Phile
  

• " I Hear the Lord Sayin' Wake UP!" by Vijay Singh
  

• "I Hear A Voice A-Prayin'" by Houston Bright
  

• "I Like the Sound of America" by Flo Price
  

• "Illinois State Song" arr. by Chester L. Alwes
  

• "O Clap Your Hands" by Michael Jothen
  

• "On A Clear Day" by Burton Lane
  

• "Oh, That Bleeding Lamb" arr. by Dale Grotenhuis
  

• "Shenandoah" arr by Jay Althouse
  

• "The Star Spangled Banner"
  

• "Stockbridge" by William Billings
  

• "Welcome, Mighty Chief, Once More" George F. Handel
  

• "When I Fall In Love" arr. by Kirby Shaw
  

• "Witness" arr. by Jack Halloran