CAROLINE MALLONEE
Music for Christmas
Groups that have sung
Caroline Mallonée’s music include:
American Opera Projects
Amherst Central High School
Baltimore Chamber Chorale
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
College of Notre Dame Choir
Cantori New York
The Di Giallonardo Sisters
Duke University Chorale
Friends School Concert Chorale
Florilegium Chamber Choir
Forest Ridge School of Sacred Heart
Garrison Forest Faculty Singers
Gregg Smith Singers
Greenwood Music Camp
Harmonia Chamber Choir
Immaculata Academy
Longmeadow High School
Loyola College Da Camera Singers
Norway Pond Festival Singers
PALS Children’s Chorus
Roseville High School
Telluride Choral Society
Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective
Virginia Children’s Chorus
VocalEssence
Vocális Chamber Choir
Walden School Faculty Singers
Water Gap Singers
Women’s Voices of North Carolina
Yale Glee Club
Yale Camerata
Young People’s Chorus of NYC
SATB
4.5 minutes
Combines a traditional Latin antiphon with an original carol.
Commissioned by “A Prairie Home Companion.”
Composer Caroline Mallonée’s choral music has been performed across the country and abroad. One of her earliest choral pieces, “The Carolers At My Door,” was named the winner of a Christmas carol contest on “A Prairie Home Companion.” Garrison Keillor called it “simple, graceful and fresh.” In 2012, Keillor commissioned another Christmas piece, “Hodie/Today on Earth.” Her most recent carol, “O Gift of Glorious Sunrise,” was written for the Vocális Chamber Choir and was premiered in Buffalo, NY in 2015.
Mallonée has also composed sacred music in Latin inspired by early polyphony. “Da Pacem Domine” was featured on the Vocális Chamber Choir’s recent appearance at the Cambridge Music Festival (UK). “Dona Nobis Pacem” and “O Lux” have been performed by universities and community choirs across the United States.
Her choral music is available from Boosey & Hawkes and Swirly Music. Click below to listen and to buy copies.
Mallonée’s one-act Christmas opera based on O. Henry’s ironic short story “The Gift of the Magi” is scored for four voices, small choir and chamber orchestra. The piece lasts 35 minutes and would be a welcome addition to any holiday opera program.
To buy scores of choral music by Caroline Mallonée,
please visit www.swrlymusic.org or www.boosey.com.
SATB Christmas music:
SATB
4 minutes
An original carol that imagines sunrise on the first Christmas morning.
Da Pacem Domine
SATB
5 minutes
SATB
2 minutes
Written when Mallonée was 14,
this is a short carol about peace.
SATB Latin motets:
The Gift of the Magi: An Opera in One Act:
Looking for new and heartfelt Christmas music to sing this year? It’s not too late to order copies of these carols!
The Gift of the Magi is a chamber opera in one act that was performed in a concert version with piano in 2006 by Duke University Opera Workshop. The opera is 35 minutes long and is scored for four voices, small choir and 13 instruments. It is based on the Christmas story by O. Henry, with a libretto adapted by the composer.
And one last song for winter!
This is a short, one-minute canonic song.
Part of the 17-minute “Episodes for a Star-Dripped Night.” Words by the composer.
Fly, snow angels, fly
to the center of the dawn
the morning will blind the stars.
To get in touch with Caroline Mallonée and to learn more about her music, please visit the contact page.