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EXAMINING SHIFTS IN REPERTOIRE PROGRAMMING PRACTICES: PRE- AND POST-PANDEMIC

schools. Even so, several specific composers and works classical music canon, most of whom are known for
received many performances, and examining those a variety of compositional genres that extend beyond
composers may reveal emerging trends. Table 1 dis- choral music, along with two more recently deceased
plays the forty-five composers who received at least one composers known primarily for choral music (Hogan
performance at nine or more of the sixteen schools. and Thompson). Perhaps the composers listed in Table
Among all the composers on this list, half were liv- 1 could be considered a snapshot of the “choral can-
ing as of the end of the study period and are known on” for university-level ensembles during the years cov-
primarily for their choral music. The other half com- ered by this study, as they represent the composers that
prise primarily historical composers from the Western students were most likely to encounter through perfor-

Table 1. Most Broadly Performed Composers by Unique School Count

Unique Schools Composer Unique Schools Composer

15 Brahms, Johannes 12 Lauridsen, Morten

14 Bach, Johann Sebastian 12 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

13 Betinis, Abbie 12 Powell, Rosephanye

13 Britten, Benjamin 12 Runestad, Jake

13 Copland, Aaron 12 Whitacre, Eric

13 Hogan, Moses 11 Haydn, Franz Joseph

13 Vaughan Williams, Ralph 11 Johnson, Craig Hella

12 Elgar, Edward 11 Mendelssohn, Felix

12 Ešenvalds, Ēriks 11 Stanford, Charles Villiers

12 Hagen, Jocelyn 11 Walker, Gwyneth

12 Handel, George Frederic 10 Bernstein, Leonard

12 Kirchner, Shawn 10 Byrd, William

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