• Co-winning 2009-2010 Cantata Entries:
  • And the winner is... Charles Kaufmann
  • A Day of Sunshine by Keane H. Southard
  • Suspiria by Marcus K. Maroney


• Winning 2009-2010 Tenor Song Entries (performed by Mark Sprinkle, tenor, Geoffrey Wieting, pianist, and Jara Goodrich, harpist):
  • The Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize: Snow-Flakes by Christopher M. Wicks
  • The Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction The Little Moon by Bryan Page


• Winning 2009-2010 Choruses:
  • The Longfellow Chorus Prize: The Haunted Chamber by Martin Westlake
  • The Longfellow Chorus Director's Prize: Alone Gd. Sufficeth (Longfellow's translations of Santa Teresa's Book-Mark and, by Goethe, Wanderer's Night-Song I) by David Walther
  • The Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction: A Day of Sunshine by Elaine Hagenberg

Winning Entries from the 2008-2009 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition

• 2008-2009 Competition Choruses (accompanied by Shirley L. Curry, pianist)
  • Christmas Bells by Kevin Jones
    Can you solve the musical cipher hidden within Christmas Bells? Email your solution to Dr. Jones
  • Nature by Stanley M. Hoffman
    Nature has subsequently been published by ECS Publishing
    Interested in Nature? Send an email inquiry to Dr. Hoffman
  • Snow-Flakes by Graeme Hopson
    Interested in Snow-Flakes? Send an email inquiry to Graeme Hopson
  • The Day Is Done by Valerie Crescenz
    Interested in The Day Is Done? Send an email inquiry to Valerie Crescenz
  • The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Maxim Vladirmoff, sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus
    Interested in The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls? Send an email inquiry to the Maxim Vladimiroff
  • It Is Not Always May by Elaine Hagenbeg
    Interested in It Is Not Always May? Send an email inquiry to the Elaine Hagenberg

• 2008-2009 Competition Solo Songs performed by John D. Adams, bass-baritone, Mark Sprinkle, tenor, and Shirley L. Curry, pianist
• Autumn Within for solo bass-baritone and piano, by Traci Mendel
  Interested in Autumn Within? Send an email inquiry to Dr. Mendel
• All' Illustrissimo Signor Professore Lowell: Prescrizione Per Il Mal Di Gola, (Aria buffa per voce di Basso Cantante con accompagnamento di pianoforte) for solo bass-baritone and piano, by Riccardo La Spina
  Interested in Prescrizione and the only known gargling cadenza in the literature? Send an email inquiry to Riccardo La Spina
• Endymion for solo tenor and piano, by Klaus Miehling
  Interested in Endymion? Send an email inquiry to Dr. Miehling
• The Challenge for solo bass-baritone and piano, by Marienne Kreitlow
  Interested in The Challenge? Send an email inquiry to Marienne Kreitlow



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Winning Entries from the 2007-2008 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition

• 2007-2008 Competition Choruses (accompanied by Shirley L. Curry, pianist)
  • The Singers by Bob Moore
    Interested in The Singers? Send an email inquiry to Bob Moore
  • The Singers by David Hamilton, Stuart Bailey, tenor solo
    Interested in The Singers? Send an email inquiry to David Hamilton
  • Daybreak by Christopher Wicks, sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus—the background bird-chirping is from The Longfellow Chamber Chorus's live recording, made on Longfellow's side porch, Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA, August 3, 2008
    Interested in Daybreak? Send an email inquiry to Christopher Wicks
  • The Slave Singing at Midnight by Peter J. Durow, Bill Wieting, baritone solo
    The Slave Singing at Midnight has subsequently been published by Colla Voce Music
    Interested in The Slave Singing at Midnight? Send an email inquiry to Peter J. Durow
  • Finale from Tales of a Wayside Inn, Pt. I by Micky Landau, sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus
    Interested in Finale? Send an email inquiry to Micky Landau
  • A Psalm of Life by Jason Heald
    Interested in A Psalm of Life? Send an email inquiry to Jason Heald
    
    
  • Longfellow's Kings by Daniel Morel, sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus
    • Haroun Al Raschid
    • King Trisanku
    • Jugurtha
    Interested in Longfellow's Kings? Send an email inquiry to Daniel Morel
    
    
  • Christmas Bells by Lauren Bernofsky
    Interested in Christmas Bells? Send an email inquiry to Lauren Bernofsky

• 2007-2008 Competition Solo Songs performed by Heidi Kim, soprano, Sarah Johnson, soprano, Shirley L. Curry, pianist
• Autumn Within by Melissa Tosh, sung by Heidi Kim, soprano
  Interested in Autumn Within? Send an email inquiry to Dr. Tosh
  
  
• Four Songs of the Coast by William Pardus, sung by Sarah Johnson, soprano
  • The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
  • Chrysaor
  • Twilight
  • The Sound of the Sea
  Interested in Four Songs of the Coast? Send an email inquiry to William Pardus
  
  
• The Old Bridge at Florence by Emanuela Ballio, Heidi Kim, soprano
  Interested The Old Bridge at Florence? Send an email inquiry to Emanuela Ballio
  
  

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Mission Statement of The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.:

The Corporation shall organize and maintain a chorus to perform and record vocal and choral settings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, written from 1840 to the present, shall inspire and commission new vocal and choral settings of Longfellow's poetry, and shall perform choral music of the Romantic and immediate post-Romantic eras, ca. 1825-1920.

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