The 1975 Concert on the Lawn of the Virginia Glee Club was conducted by Donald Loach as part of the Glee Club 1974-1975 season. The concert, held in the McIntire Amphitheatre, featured the premiere of a composition by University professor Walter Ross, works by Elliott Carter, Paul Hindemith, Zoltán Kodály, Franz Schubert, and Johannes Brahms, and a performance of the chorus and finale from Die Meistersinger by Richard Wagner.
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- Glorious Apollo (Samuel Webbe) -- soloists: Laird Boles, Douglas Lasky, Chris Loye, Jeffrey Morrison, William Piper
- Amo, amas, I love a lass (Anonymous)
- Omittamus Studia (first performance) (Walter Ross)
- Three Contemporary Songs on Sixteenth-Century Poems (John Crawford)
- All that has life and beauty must perish too in time
- The fairest maid in earth's wide kingdom
- I have lost all that once I was
- Nachthelle (Franz Schubert) — Louis Burkot, tenor; Robert Miller, pianist
- Four Folk Songs (Johannes Brahms, arr. Lloyd Pfautsch)
- Young maiden, may I go with you?
- Lovely maid, my angel
- You, my only light
- How can I come into your house?
- The Defense of Corinth (Elliott Carter) — soloists: Louis Burkot, John Rouse, Wyatt Ewell, Robert Jones; pianists: Robert Miller, James RIchardson; speaker: Charles Burch
- Chorus and Finale to Die Meistersinger (Richard Wagner) - Louis Burkot, conducting
- Troopers' Drinking Song (Paul Hindemith) — John Rouse, baritone
- Tavern Song (Zoltán Kodály) — soloists: James Dunton, Wyatt Ewell, Ed Kloberdanz
- The Good Old Song
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