Commissions and Premieres


Mark Adamo

Cantate Domino: Etude on Psalm 97 (P)

Jacob Avshalamov

Tom O’Bedlam (P,C)

Ernst Bacon

Five Fables (P)

Samuel Barber

A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map (P)

Edward Barnes

The Hiding Tree (P)

Luciano Berio
Puccini’s Turandot Act III completion (New York Premiere)

Leonard Bernstein

A White House Cantata (New York Premiere)

Marc Blitzstein

Symphony (The Airborne) (P)

William E. Bolcom

Dancers (P), Simple Stories (P,C)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Messe (P)

Henry Brant

December (P,C), The Children’s Hour (P)

Benjamin Britten

A Boy Was Born (P)

Louis Calabro

Metaphors (P,C), Motet in 40 Parts (P)

Aaron Copland

The Lark (P), In the Beginning (P)

Paul Creston

Three Chorales from Tagore (P)

Norman Dello Joio

Western Star (P), The Mystic Trumpeter (P,C)

Frederick Delius

Requiem (P)

David Diamond

A Secular Cantata (P,C)

Lukas Foss

The Prairie (P)

Gordon Getty

Annabel Lee (P)

Philip Glass and Robert Moran

The Juniper Tree (New York Premiere)

Ricky Ian Gordon

Suite from “Only Heaven” (P,C), Two-act concert version of The Grapes of Wrath (P)

George Frideric Handel

Jupiter in Argos (U.S. Premiere)

William Hawley

Te Deum (P,C)

Paul Hindemith

When the Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (P,C)

Alan Hovhaness

Glory to God in the Highest (P,C)

Charles Ives

Sixty-Seventh Psalm (P), Three Harvest Home Chorales (P)

Leos Janácek

Festival Mass (P)

Ezra Laderman

Thrive Upon the Rock (P,C)

Marvin David Levy

For the Time Being (P)

Deborah Mason

A Strange Courage (P,C)

Paul McCartney and Carl Davis

Liverpool Oratorio (P)

Peter Menin

Symphony (The Cycle) (P,C)

Jan Meyerowitz

Music for Christmas (P)

Darius Milhaud

The Two Cities (P)

Undine Smith Moore

Scenes from the Life of a Martyr (P)

Vincent Persichetti

Missa,  Stabat Mater (P,C)

Francis Poulenc

Four Christmas Motets (P)

Ottorino Respighi

La Fiamma (P)

George Rochberg

Symphony No. 3 (P)

Ned Rorem

Now, Voyager (P)

Roger Sessions

Montezuma (New York Premiere with the Juilliard American Opera Center)

William Schuman

Prelude for Voices (P)

Arnold Schoenberg

Friede auf Erden (P)

Robert Starer

On the Nature of Things (P)

Paul Suits

A Prodigal Voice (P,C)

Nancy Wertsch

‘Tis Not Too Late (P,C)

 

P= Premiere, C=Commission