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Thematic Programming Ideas

Patriotic
An American Medley
Hymn for America
Heritage Songs
Prairie Songs
A Procession of Seasons

“Meditations” or “Asian/Eastern”
Meditations of Li Po
Songs from the Japanese
Songs of Meditation
Awakening
Echoes Between the Silent Peaks
Three Chinese Poems

Mystic Writers
Hildegard of Bingen --Visions from Hildegard Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
15th Century Mystics –Voices of Light
Hadewijch II, 13th Century –Embracing All

Great Poets
Wilfred Owen --Three Songs on Poems of Wilfred Owen

Walt Whitman --Whitman’s Dream

Geoffrey Chaucer-- Carols for Spring and Summer – 3rd mvmt.

George Herbert ------
King of Glory, King of Peace-
Psalm 23- adapt. George Herbert

Percy Bysshe Shelley --I Love

Gerard Manley Hopkins --Peace

George Eliot --When I am Filled with Music

Carl Sandburg --Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind

Pater, Diderot, Johnson, Shakespeare, Mann, Eliot----MusiQuotes

Shakespeare –
“Shall I Compare Thee?”
“We Sing Thy Birth”

Rilke –Voices for Chorus and Orchestra

Edna St. Vincent Millay –
Afternoon on a Hill
Kin to Sorrow
God’s World
The Spring and the Fall

Psalm Settings
Psalm 1
Psalm 121
Psalm 126 - “Song of Joy”
Psalm 150 -“Let All Creation Praise,” and “Hundred Fiftieth Psalm”
Psalm 100 - “Jubilate Deo”
Psalm 149 - “O Praise the Lord”
Psalm 5  “Hear My Words”
Psalm 100/150/98 - “In Praise”
Psalm 30  - “Joy Comes With the Morning”
Psalm 23 
Psalm 23- “The Shepherd Christ”
Psalm 66
Psalm 96
Psalm 67
Psalm 145
Psalm 92

Music About Music
And We Shall Sing   
Come, Let Us Sound With Melody  .
To Make Music 
You Shall Have a Song   
MusiQuotes

Thanksgiving
Pilgrims Hymn (SSAATTBB, SATB, TTBB)
Hymn for America
We Gather Together