Concert Repertoire

Featuring religious music and secular music of the Christmas season, all which points us to contemplate the mystery of Christ's incarnation.

This concert can be offered as a solo concert (piano and vocals), or an orchestrally arranged concert with various instruments and multiple voices (instrumentation depends on the availability of musicians on requested dates).

The concert is generally broken into two parts, 1) some form of a lessons and carols service with songs reflecting the 9 scripture passages given by the USCCB on their website and 2) a concert portion of the program highlighting more popular Christmas music (still religious themed Christmas music though).

The Concert can be adapted to individual needs and requests, but the repertoire from past performances of the concert includes:

• The Lord’s Prayer - By Albert Hay Malotte

• Of the Father’s Love Begotten - Arr. Randall DeBruyn

• The First Noel - Traditional, Arr. Nickolas Naticchione

• Lo How a Rose Ere Blooming - Traditional, Arr. Nickolas Naticchione

• O Come, O Come Emmanuel - Traditional, Arr. David Willcocks, Arr. ed. Nickolas Naticchione

•  Ave Maria - By Giulio Caccini, Arr. Nickolas Naticchione

• Night of Silence and Silent Night, Daniel Kantor/Franz Xavier Gruber, Arr. Nickolas Naticchione

• Do You Hear What I Hear? - Lyrics by Noël Regney, Music by Gloria Shayne, Arr. ed. Nickolas Naticchione

• Nativity Carol - John Milford Rutter

• Hark! the Herald Angels Sing - Felix Mendelssohn

• Angels We Have Heard On High - Arr. David Foster/Sara Michael Foster, Arr. ed. Nickolas Naticchione

• Thankful - By David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, and Richard Page

• Petit Papa Noël - Arr. A.L. Martinet and Henri Ovanessian

• O Holy Night – Cantique De Noël - Arr. J.S. Dwight and Adolphe Adam, Arr. ed. Nickolas Naticchione

• The Prayer - Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster; Italian lyric by Alberto Testa and Tony Renis

This concert takes its title from Nickolas Naticchione and Theodore Deluhery's original song Most Beautiful Things, which presents the four Marian dogmas defined by the Catholic Church. The rest of the concert includes various settings of the Ave Maria, the magnificat, and other popular Marian songs and hymns. This concert is perfect to help your parish family enter into Mary's month with a renewed devotion to her most powerful intercession. Some titles from past performances of this concert include: 

• Most Beautiful Things - Lyrics by Theodore Deluhery, Music by Nickolas Naticchione

• Ave Maria - Giulio Caccini

• Ave Maria - Franz Schubert

• Ave Maria - Charles Gounod and Johann Sebastian Bach

• Magnificat - James Chepponis

• Holy Mary Revealing Your Son - Ricky Manalo

• Lady of Knock - Daniel O'Donnell

• You Raise Me Up - Brendan Graham and Rold Løvland

• Mater Ecclesiae - Ricky Manalo

• Hail Mary, Gentle Woman - Carey Landry

• Mary's Song - Millie Rieth

• As I Kneel Before You - Maria Parkinson

• Be Joyful Mary - Johann Leisentritt

• Holy Is His Name - Michael Talbot

• Sing of Mary - Roland F. Palmer

• Immaculate Mary - trad. Pyrenean Melody, acc. Randall DeBruyn

To Love and Serve is a meditation on the Christian vocation: the universal call to holiness and beatitude in Heaven. This concert includes songs that speak to the nature of the Christian life, with all of its joys and challenges, as each Christian walks the journey of life in, with, and for God, so that they might enter into eternal life with Him. Songs from past performances of this concert have included:

• The Lord's Prayer - Albert Hay Malotte

• Pescador De Hombres (Lord, You Have Come to the Seashore) - Cesáreo Gabaráin, acc. Joseph Abell, adapt. Dolores Martinez

• The Summons - John L. Bell

• Here I Am, Lord - Dan Schutte

• Ubi Caritas - Bob Hurd

• Rejoice and Be Glad - James A. Worth, arr. Ryan Mascilak

• Bring Him Home - Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer

• Most Beautiful Things - Lyrics by Theodore Delhuery, Music by Nickolas Naticchione

• These Alone Are Enough - Dan Schutte

• The Impossible Dream (The Quest) - Lyrics by Joe Darion, Music by Mitch Leigh

• I Believe - Eric Levi

• The Prayer - Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster; Italian Lyric by Alberto Testa and Tony Renis

From stage to soul is more of a concert than meditation, as are most of our other programs. While the music is more performative and does not speak to any particular theme of the Christian life, the selections of secular music from broadway, opera, cinema, and songs from other modern artists do each speak to the spiritual life in some way. This concert can be treated as just an opportunity to listen to familiar music or can speak to the soul, gaining new insights from music that we ordinarily may passively listen to for entertainment. Repertoires for past performances of this concert have included the following:

• With You, from "Pippin" - Stephen Schwartz

• The Music of the Night, from "The Phantom of the Opera" - Andrew Lloyd Webber

• All I Ask of You, from "The Phantom of the Opera" - Andrew Lloyd Webber

• You'll Never Walk Alone from "Carousel" - Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II

• The Impossible Dream, from "Man of La Mancha" - Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion

• Mi Mancherai, from "Il Postino" - Luis E. Bacalov and Marco Marinangeli

• Bring Him Home, from "Les Misérables" - Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boblil, and Herbert Kretzmer

• I Dreamed a Dream, from "Les Misérables" - Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boblil, Jean-Marc Natel, and Herbert Kretzmer

• One Day More, from "Les Misérables" - Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boblil, Jean-Marc Natel, and Herbert Kretzmer

• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Paul Simon

• Vivo - Riccardo Del Turco

• Nessun Dorma (None Shall Sleep), from "Turandot" - Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, and Renato Simoni

• Let It Be - John Lennon and Paul McCartney

• For Good - Stephen Schwartz

Naticchione Music Ministries has offered several different Eucharistic themed concerts, each with different foci and titles. A Eucharistic concert will be uniquely arranged each time it is performed given the wealth of Eucharistic music. Some songs from past Eucharistic concerts have included:

• Adoro Te Devote - Chant, Mode V; Acc. Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ

• Amen. El Cuerpo De Cristo - John Schiavone

• Behold the Lamb - Martin Willett; Organ acc. Craig S. Kingsbury

• I Have Loved You - Michael Joncas

• In Remembrance - Ragan Courtney and Buryl Red

• Panis Angelicus - Cèsar Franck, arr. Bill Ross and Josh Groban

• Panis Angelicus - Louis Lambillotte, SJ

• Seed Scattered and Sown - Dan Feiten

• Taste and See - James E. Moore Jr.

• You'll Never Walk Alone - Music by Richard Rogers, Words by Oscar Hammerstein II

• Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All - Köln Gesangbuch; F W Faber

• As I Kneel Before You - Maria Parkinson

• As the Bread of Life is Broken - Text by James Chepponis; Music by Gustalv Holst 

• The Supper of the Lord - Laurence Rosania

Concerts can be arranged for many different themes related to any aspect of the faith. Please contact us to discuss theme ideas.