Some many moons ago, the departmental musicologist and senior-most faculty member (a loveable chap and wanna-be curmudgeon) walked up to me after a concert and said, "Good job . . . but it wasn't really a choral concert because it didn't include Brahms."  We shared enormous fun in the ensuing years over that comment - though I made sure to program his favorite Brahms choral work just before he retired.  I don't know whether he was right or not, but you can decide for yourself with a little Brahms from a recent ACDA Divisional Conference.