Music

With four weekly rehearsals, weekly sectional practices, and countless performances, music is the heart of R20. We do what we love and love what we do. To consumate this group love affair, we record new songs twice yearly. Subsequently, we compile and release albums about every 3 years.

Rehearsals are run by our student music director, who is elected by the group yearly. The music director not only runs rehearsals, but also oversees the production of our CDs and sings as full member of the group. For questions concerning music and performance, you can contact our current music director, Katherine Ortmeyer, at ortmeyer@princeton.edu.

CDs

Audio Clips

Video Clips

Active Repertoire

Song Title Original Artist Arranged By Soloist
1905 Reunion Song Princeton Traditional Dengel '10 Ensemble
Always on my Mind Phantom Planet Dengel '10 Torin Rudeen '14
And So it Goes Billy Joel Pearson '94 Ensemble
Bleeding Love / No One Leona Lewis / Alicia Keys Dengel '10 Sutton Brown '11
Sarah-Anne Sillers '13
Blue Skies Irving Berlin / Chanticleer Rumminger '97 Ensemble
Boston Augstana Thompson '11 Sungmin Cho '11
Chocolate Snow Patrol Dengel '10 TBA
Come Go With Me The Del-Vikings Jin '07 Spencer Bowley '11
Come on Get Higher Matt Nathanson Powell '13 Dan Kang '14
Katherine Ortmeyer '14
Crazy Seal Sheldon '02 Peter Westman '12
Cara Hampton '12
Don't You Want Me Baby The Human League Padula '89 Peter Westman '12
Sutton Brown '11
Dream a Little Dream of Me The Mamas and the Papas Hanser '91 Laura Hohnsbeen '11
Fly Me to the Moon Frank Sinatra Wilson '80 (Footnotes) p'11 Ensemble
Freedom Wham! Karachuk '86 Hannah Wilson '11
Here in Your Arms Hellogoodbye Buettner '09 Cara Hampton '12
Here With Me Dido Sheldon '02 Christina Bott '13
Hey Jude The Beatles Leiby '09 Christina Bott '13
Hide And Seek Imogen Heap Leiby '09 Ensemble
I'll Follow You into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie Dengel '10 Ensemble
I'm Beginning to See the Light Duke Ellington Karachuk '86 Ensemble
Kiss Him Goodbye The Nylons / Steam Padula '89
Lee '92		 Dan Kang '14
Last Request Paolo Nutini Dengel '10 Miyuki Miyagi '12
The Lullaby of Broadway Harry Warren and Al Dubin Karachuk '86 Ensemble
Make Me Lose Control Eric Carmen Avery Miller '95
Rubeiz '97		 Sutton Brown '11
The Morse Code of Love Nick Santamaria Hsu '95 Spencer Bowley '11
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da The Beatles Johnson '91
Lee '92		 Ensemble
Old Nassau Princeton Alma Mater Peck 1862 Ensemble
The Orange and the Black Princeton Traditional Karachuk '86 Ensemble
Our Love Is Here to Stay George Gershwin Jim Drew Ensemble
Possession Sarah McLachlan Kors '99 Desi Howry '14
The Scientist Coldplay Thompson '11 DJ Judd '12
Semi-Charmed Life Third Eye Blind Segal '03 DJ Judd '12
Somebody to Love Queen Khwarg '05 Sarah-Anne Sillers '13
Spaceman The Killers Powell '13 Ting-Fung Chan '12
Mary Lou Kolbenschlag '14
Stacy's Mom Fountains of Wayne Marcovitz '06 Michael Pearlman '13
Anna Powell '13
Step Song/Integer Vitae Princeton Traditional Carter 1888 Ensemble
Summer Moon R20 Original Sherry '00 DJ Judd '12
Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd Ginsberg '05
Sheldon '02		 Sungmin Cho '11
Sutton Brown '11
Their Hearts Were Full of Spring The Beach Boys Karachuk '86 Ensemble
Time After Time Yale Whiffenpoofs Unknown Ensemble
Time After Time Cyndi Lauper Francis '99 TBA
Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler / Nikki French Prescott '06 Desi Howry '14
Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers Leiby '09 Spencer Bowley '11
The Way I Am Ingrid Michaelson Buettner '09
Dengel '10		 Miyuki Miyagi '12
Whataya Want From Me Adam Lambert Dengel '10 Cara Hampton '12
You Sexy Thing Hot Chocolate Dengel '10 Peter Westman '12