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Rachmaninoff Vespers - NEW RELEASE! - 2003 Don't miss this stunning new LIVE RECORDING of the piece known as "the crowning achievement of the 'Golden Age' of Russian Orthodox sacred choral music."

Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers - 2002 With this recording, the Dale Warland Singers respond to hundreds of requests for a new Christmas album. It includes familiar Christmas tunes in new arrangements, brand new carols and old favorites.

Bernstein and Britten - 1999 This recording features Bernstein's provocative Chichester Psalms and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb plus Stephen Paulus' famous Pilgrim's Hymn and other contemporary works by Rautavaara, Wertsch, Harlap, NEW RELEASE! Albright, and Hovland.

Blue Wheat - 1996 This delightful collection contains a wonderful collection of American folk songs with an expressive range from joyous whimsy to placid profundity. Blue Wheat continues to be one of DWS' best sellers.

December Stillness - 1995 Lush, twentieth-century settings of Christmas/winter inspired texts.

Cathedral Classics - 1994 The ethereal sounds of Martin, Howells, and Allegri, including Barber's AgnusDei.

A Rose in Winter - 1989 (Re-released 1997) An intriguing blend of time-honored Christmas/winter works and engaging modern offerings.

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1 & 2 - 1992 (Re-released 2001) These CDs contain a magical and refreshing collection of well-known and less-familiar Christmas carols.

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You may also contact the Dale Warland Singers offices at 651.632.5870 or complete and mail/fax an online order form from our website: www.dalewarlandsingers.org.

2 table of contents

2003-2004 Concert Season 4

In Memoriam: Mark Sheldon 5

The Dale Warland Singers 6

Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director 8

Artistic Staff 9

Special Guests 10

Cathedral Classics Program 12

Program Notes 14

The Singers 22

Honor Roll 26

Acknowledgements 29

Sponsors 30

3 2003-2004 concert season

A River Journey

Saturday, April 24, 2004, 8:00 PM Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church, St. Paul

Sunday, April 25, 2004, 4:00 PM First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights

Sponsored by Deluxe Corporation Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts

Perfectly timed with St. Paul's Grand Excursion celebration, this concert glorifies our national waterway with A River Journey, a major commission by American composers Bill Banfield, Steve Heitzeg, Kirke Mechem, and John Muehleisen. Delight in favorite hymns and folksongs including Shall We Gather at the River and Cindy. You'll hear works of America's first great songwriter, Stephen Foster, and relive the pioneering spirit with Eric Whitacre's Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine. Don't forget to come early for Tom Crann's (MPR's on-air host) pre-concert discussions 45 minutes prior to each performance.

I Have Had Singing - A Choral Celebrationl

Sunday, May 30, 2004, 3:00 PM Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis

Thirty-one years of extraordinary music culminate in one last special performance at Orchestra Hall! The program will survey a broad spectrum of works including a reprise of Dominck Argento's Walden Pond, selections from Rachmaninoffs Vespers and one of Dale Warland's programming specialties, An Eclectic Mass. Join MPR's Tom Crann one last time for a pre-concert discussion 45 minutes prior to the performance. It will be an event for all musical tastes ...and the dramatic highlight of our Farewell Season.

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After the celebratory concert, accompany Dale, current and alumni Singers, composers, and friends to a delightful reception at the Hyatt Regency, just steps from Orchestra Hall. Share in laughter, memories and a delectable meal, as we bid "adieu" to one of America's most beloved choral ensembles. DON'T MISS IT!

RECEPTION: $50/person

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4 in memoriam: mark sheldon

Mark Sheldon

Mark Sheldon -- singer, choral conductor and nationally recognized radio announcer and producer -- died on Tuesday, December 9 at his home in Denver after a long and heroic battle with cancer. He was 43 years old.

Mark achieved national recognition for his personable and knowledgeable style, and for his love of choral music. He worked at Minnesota Public Radio from 1992-1998 -- as a classical music host, and as the host of national broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra and annual Mark Sheldon Dale Warland Singers' Echoes of Christmas concerts. Mark was also a member of the DWS.

"Mark has been such an important figure in my work and in the work of the DWS. He was an outstanding member of the bass section and sang until his radio schedule made it impossible to continue. In addition to his beautiful voice and dynamic musicianship, Mark brought a depth of spirit to all his tasks ... whether it be in his singing or in his work as a producer or announcer. We will always remember and be forever grateful for all that he did so enthousiastically ... and so effectively ... to further the art of choral music." -- Dale Warland

In 1999, Mark joined the Classical Public Radio Network as a syndicated host of classical music broadcasts heard in Colorado, Southern California, and several cities nationwide. He also sang and guest-conducted with St. Martin's Chamber Choir in Denver.

Of his work in radio, Mark said, "I've always felt as though being an announcer and producer for a classical music station allowed me to fulfill my lifelong desire to teach and share my passion for music with as many people as possible."

Mark spoke of his struggle with cancer during an interview on Colorado Public Radio, and later wrote, "We have so much knowledge and research about the effect of great music on our emotion, our physiology, our psychology, and even our ability to learn. But, in the end, we don't really understand it at all. In a way, its very mystery and its ability to get past our intellect and defenses makes music one of our most powerful allies as we embrace joy or battle adversity."

Music was, indeed, a powerful force in Mark's life, and he found strength and joy in sharing it.

Segments of this tribute were taken from: http://music.mpr.org/features/0312 _sheldon/ December 9, 2003

5 the dale warland singers

Now celebrating its 31st and final In the summer of 2002, the ensemble season of concerts, tours, radio made its debut at the Ravinia Festival broadcasts, and critically acclaimed (Chicago). The choir also performed at recordings, the Dale Warland Singers is the American Society of Harpists recognized as one of the world's National Conference and the Sixth foremost a cappella choral ensembles. World Symposium on Choral Music, The 40-voice professional choir is both held in the Twin Cities. based in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Dale Warland Singers regularly The Dale Warland Singers has earned a performs in collaboration with other reputation for its commitment to Twin Cities arts organizations commissioning and performing new including the Saint Paul Chamber choral music. The ensemble has kept Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the choral genre fresh and alive by the Greater Twin Cities Youth commissioning works from Dominick Symphonies and the James Sewell Argento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, Ballet. The Singers have worked under Carol Barnett, George Shearing, Peter the batons of the late Robert Shaw, Schickele, Bernard Rands, Emma Lou Hugh Wolff,Edo de Waart, Leonard Diemer, Alice Parker, Janika Slatkin, Bobby McFerrin, David Zinman, Vandervelde, Augusta Read Thomas, Roger Norrington and James Conlon, to Aaron J. Kernis, and Frank Ferko name a few. among others. The Dale Warland Singers' Choral Ventures '" Program In the fall of 2003, the Dale Warland solicits works from emerging Singers released its first "live" composers, and through this program, recording, Rachmaninoff's Vespers. Last over $162,000 in commissions has been year, the choir released two new awarded to sixty talented musicians. recordings: Grammy-nominated Walden Pond, containing three major In 1992,the Dale Warland Singers choral works written by Pulitzer-Prize became the first-ever recipient of the winning composer, Dominick Argento; Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for and Christmas with the Dale Warland Choral Excellence, one of the highest Singers, which the Seattle Times honors given to a North American described as "impeccable, full of Chorus. The group's extraordinary vibrant life and blended like a bottle of efforts on behalf of composers and new Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame." These music resulted in ASCAPAwards for recordings join some 24 other Dale Adventurous Programming in 1992, Warland Singers recordings including 1993, 1996, and 1999. Bernstein and Britten, which contains Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Britten's In addition to a subscription season in Rejoice in the Lamb, along with the Twin Cities, the Dale Warland Stephen Paulus' Pilgrims' Hymn and Singers tours throughout the United movements from Albright's Chichester States and abroad. In 1990,the Mass. Another favorite, Blue Wheat, is ensemble traveled to Stockholm and a collection of American folk music. Helsinki to represent North America at Also among the Singers' lauded the Second World Symposium on releases is December Stillness, which Choral Music. During the 1999-2000 BBC Music Magazine gave its highest concert season, the group toured the rating for performance and sound, southeastern United States. It has calling it, "... splendid, melting stuff." appeared on Garrison Keillor's original The South Jersey's Courier-Post called A Prairie Home Companion and has the 1994release of Cathedral Classics, been featured on Public Radio "an unmatched musical experience," International's Saint Paul Sunday. The and The Oregonian stated simply, annual Echoes of Christmas and "peerless." Earlier recordings by the Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach Singers include Fancie, A Rose in listeners nationwide. This past season Winter, Christmas Echoes, Volumes I the Dale Warland Singers performed and II, Carols for Christmas, Choral with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Currents, as well as 13 others.

6 Soprano Alto

Beth Althof Abbie Betinis WendiBuck Galina Erickson Marie Spar Dymit< Joanne Halvorsen" Carole Hofstad Melissa Holm-Johansen Melissa O'Neill Lynette Johnson Deborah Loon Osgood Natalia Kojanova Jennifer Rissman Anna George Meek Jodi Rowe Mary C. Maiden-Mueller Dawn Schuffenhauer Krista J. Palmquist Naomi Staruch Teresa Tierney

Tenor Bass

Joel C. Fischer" Duane E. Andersen Jon Hermanson Matthew Culloton < Eric N. Hopkins Eric Harstad Justin Karch Dave Jacobson Nicholas Eugene Lemme Patrick McDonough David Lower Michael Meyer Robert Pontious Jack Nelson Hal Snyder Thomas Shaffer Anthony Sofie Steve Sheppard Brian L. Steele

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7 dale warland, founder and music director

Dale Warland, celebrated American musician, has made an indelible impression on the landscape of contemporary choral music both nationally and internationally. During his time with the Dale Warland Singers, he has shaped a vocal ensemble known for its exquisite sound, technical finesse, and stylistic range. From this platform, Warland not only masters the traditional repertoire, but has commissioned over 260 new choral works.

Dale Warland The music world has responded by bestowing its highest honors on Warland, founder and music director including a 2003 Grammy nomination of Walden Pond for Best Choral Performance, the prestigious ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Victor Herbert Award (2003) in recognition of Warland's artistic contributions, the Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Vision (2003), and a special award from Chorus America and ASCAP for Warland's "pioneering vision, leadership and commitment to commissioning and performing new choral works at the highest level of artistry" (2002). Other awards and recognition include the 2001 Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal; the 2001 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conductor and his continued contribution to the arts in Minnesota; and the 1995 Michael Karn Founder's Award, the highest honor for a choral conductor in the United States, previously awarded to Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner, among others.

Warland's appearances as a guest conductor have taken him to the podiums of the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, the Utah Chamber Artists, the Grant Park Music Festival and Israel's Cameran Singers, to name a few. Warland has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors and composers including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Sir Neville Marriner, Kryzstof Penderecki, Roger Norrington, James Conlon, Hugh Wolff, and Bobby McFerrin.

Warland is committed to sharing his knowledge about the choral arts and has served on the jury for the Eric Ericson Award (an international choral conducting competition held in Sweden); was a faculty member for the All-Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan; has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; served on the artistic staff of the Tolosa Choral Festival in ; acted as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts; and completed a 19-year tenure as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

8 artistic staff

Ruth Palmer began her association with the Dale Warland Singers in January 2003 with the preparation of Messiaen's Trios Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine, a collaboration with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and as assistant conductor for the DWS 30th Anniversary concert. She is currently Director of Music Ministries at Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul MN, and music director and vocal coach/pianist of The Institute for Art Song Recital Performance Ruth Palmer assistant conductor Ruth has spent her concertizing career playing for singers on stages such as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, The National Gallery of Art, The Beaux Arts Society of Brussels, the Ordway McKnight Theatre and Orchestra Hall. She has been accompanist for master classes by Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin, and David Garvey. She has performed world premieres of works by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Libby Larsen, and Richard Hundley. Ruth played national competitions for NATS Artist Award, Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and she was official accompanist for the Rosa Ponselle Vocal Competition in Tully Hall. As a vocal coach/pianist she has worked extensively with art song and opera, preparing singers for roles in major houses as well as in universities.

Ruth has taught at Philadelphia College of the Arts, West Chester University, University of Delaware, University of Minnesota, and at the NATS Master Teachers Intern Program at Penn State University.

Northwest composer John Muehleisen specializes in composing works for voice and for choral ensembles. Since 1996, he served as composer-in-residence for Seattle-based Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble directed by Loren Ponten, during which time Opus 7 has commissioned eight works from him. Two of these works, The Great '0' Antiphons and De Profundis appear on Opus 7 CDs on the Gothic/Loft Recordings label. John Muehleisen composer-in-residence His works have been performed by Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, the Dale Warland Singers, Seattle Girls Choir, Seattle Pro Musica, The Esoterics, Dulces Voces, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, Washington Kantorei (D.C.), Quake, and the Louisville Orchestra and have been featured at venues including the Sixth World Choral Symposium; the International Choral Festival in Cantonigros, Spain; Greenwich House's Cutting Edge concert series; the Ernest Bloch Music Festival; Seattle Spring; June in Buffalo; the 22nd Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State University; and the Modern American Music Festival at California State University, Sacramento.

John was the 1988 recipient of the Louisville Orchestra's Orchestral Composition Competition Award and has received awards and grants from Meet the Composer, ASCAp, the American Music Center, the University of Washington, and Indiana University. John was a finalist in the 2000 Dale Warland Singers Choral Ventures" Program and in August of 2002 his epitaph for SATB choir and trumpet, entitled Snow (The King's Trumpeter), was featured by the Dale Warland Singers on the final concert of the Sixth World Choral Symposium in Minneapolis. He holds a Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Washington, where he studied with William Bergsma, William O. Smith, and Diane Thome. During doctoral studies at Indiana University, he studied with John Eaton, Donald Erb, Eugene O'Brien, and Harvey Sollberger.

9 special guests

tom crann pre-concert moderator and narrator Every weekday from 9 am to 1 pm, Tom Crann is the host on Minnesota Public Radio's classical music stations, including 99.5 FM in the Twin Cities. Listeners nationwide also hear Tom during those same hours as a part of Classical 24, the live round-the-clock classical music service produced by Minnesota Public Radio.

Tom Crann A 20-year radio veteran, Tom has worked at stations in St. Louis, Evansville, Buffalo, and Los Angeles. He was a founding voice of Classical 24, when it first went on the air in December 1995, and of Ireland's Lyric frn, when it first started in 1999.

In addition to his work for Classical 24, Tom is the host for a variety of special programs from Minnesota Public Radio, including the US broadcasts of concerts from England's BBC Proms Festival, as well as the 2003 broadcasts by the Dale Warland Singers, Cathedral Classics and the annual Echoes of Christmas concert.

mark kilstofte commissioned composer

Mark Kilstofte is admired as a composer of lyrical line, engaging harmony, strong, dramatic gesture and keen sensitivity to sound, shape and event. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "exciting and beautiful, consistently gripping," his music has garnered a growing number of honors including the Rome Prize, ASCAP Nissim Award, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, Aaron Copland Award and the Mark Kilstofte MacDowell Colony's William Schuman Fellowship.

Kilstofte's compositional style reflects his interest in everything from Gesualdo to Jethro Tull. Combined with his innovative approach to form (he is the son of a structural engineer), the result is a music of tremendous integrity and clarity which can be humorous one moment, achingly beautiful the next.

An experienced performer and conductor, Kilstofte is one of relatively few composers also trained as a singer. He studied at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan where he was a Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellow and assistant conductor of the new music ensemble, Contemporary Directions. His principal composition teachers were William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Arthur Campbell and Eugene Kurtz. Kilstofte is currently associate professor of composition at Furman University, a private liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina. His music is published by Newmatic Press.

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Cathedral Classics presented by Ecolab, Inc.

Thursday, March 18, 2004, 7:30 pm Saturday, March 20, 2004, 8:00 pm Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis

I. INVOCATION

+ Miserere mei, Deus Gregorio Allegri Marie Spar Dymit, Lynette Johnson, Jon Hermanson, Matthew Culloton, solo quartet

Joel C. Fischer, Eric N. Hopkins, tenors

II. IN MEMORIAM JFK

Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing Herbert Howells

III. IN MEMORIAM HOWELLS

Please hold your Hymn to the Creator of Light John Rutter applause until the end of each section.

IV. MEDITATION FROM ECCLESIASTES

o Tod, wie bitter bist du (0 Death, how bitter art thou) Max Reger (from Drei Motetten, Op. 110)

Please note: No cameras or recording devices of any kind may be used during performances. Please turn INTERMISSION off any electronic beeping devices (watches, pagers, etc.) or leave them with an usher prior to the performance. Please hold your applause until each Minnesota Public Radio is recording this performance of Cathedral Classics for future broadcast. Visit www.mpr.org for a listing of dates and times. section is completed.

12 V. WORLD PREMIERES

*Being (world premiere) Mark Kilstofte Joel C. Fischer, tenor Marie Spar Dytnit, Lynette Johnson, Beth Althof, sopranos

*Grandeur (world premiere) Mark Kilstofte

Commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers with major funding provided by the Jerome Foundation and with additional support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

VI. RUSSIAN SPLENDOR

Otche nash (Our Father) Nikolai Golovanov

Vecheri Tvoyeya tayniya Alexander Gretchaninoff (Of Thy Mystical Supper) Op. 58, NO.7

Spaseniye sodelal Pavel Chesnokov (Salvation Is Created) Op, 25, No.5

VII. MODERN LATIN MOTETS o sacrum convivium Vytautas Miskinis o Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen

+ Recorded by the Dale Warland Singers. * Commissioned and premiered by the Dale Warland Singers.

13 program notes by brian newhouse

Cathedral Classics presented by Ecolab, Inc.

I. INVOCATION

Miserere mei, Deus Gregorio Allegri

Miserere mei, Deus was written for the papal choir in which Allegri (1582- 1652) sang for three decades. Though he wrote other motets, only the Miserere made him famous--in part, because nothing fuels fame faster than mystery. The music was performed each year during Holy Week, and then hidden away. A century and a half after it was written, only three known copies existed outside the Sistine Chapel. Today, the allure of Miserere is not just its colorful history but its haunting chordal simplicity and a spun-silver soprano passage that rises to high C before floating down to us.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your great loving kindness. And according to the multitude of your mercies, blot out my iniquity. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgression: and my sin is ever before me. To you alone have I sinned, and done evil in your sight: that you may be justified in your words, and be vindicated when you are judged. For behold, I was conceived in iniquities: and in sin my mother conceived me. For behold, you have loved the truth: the obscure and hidden elements of your wisdom you have made known to me. You will sprinkle me, 0 Lord, with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed. You will wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. To my hearing you will give gladness and joy: and my humbled bones shall rejoice. Turn your face away from all my sins: and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, 0 God: and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your countenance, and take not your holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of your salvation: and uphold me with a steadfast spirit.

14 I will teach transgressors your ways: and the wicked shall be converted unto you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, 0 God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol your justice. o Lord, you will open my lips: and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. For if you had desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: you will not delight in burnt offerings. A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a humble and contrite heart, 0 God, you will not despise. Grant kindness to Zion, 0 Lord, according to your good pleasure: that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up. Then you will accept the sacrifice of righteousness, the oblations and the whole-burnt offerings: then they will lay bullocks upon your altar.

II. IN MEMORIAM JFK

Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing Herbert Howells

England's Herbert Howells (1892-1983) composed this motet in the spring of 1964, and dedicated it "to the honoured memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States of America." The work was premiered later that year in Washington, D.C. Having lost his own young son to a debilitating neurological disease a few years earlier, Howells was aware of the pained state of the audience who would first hear this music, so his setting begins with a sense of quiet reverence. Quickly the harmonies become thicker, the mood more agitated, leading to an expansive climax at the words, "Thke, 0 take him, mighty Leader, Take again thy servant's soul." From here the music broadens and dies back until the final repetition of the opening text: "Thkehim, Earth, for cherishing."

Take him, earth, for cherishing Guard him well, the dead I give To thy tender breast receive him. thee, Body of a man I bring thee, Not unmindful of His creature Noble even in its ruin. Shall He ask it: He who made it Symbol of His mystery. Once was this a spirit's dwelling, By the breath of God created. Comes the hour God hath High the heart that here was appointed beating, To fulfil the hope of men, Christ the prince of all its living. Then must thou, in very fashion, What I give, return again.

15 Take him, Earth for cherishing. Take, 0 take him, mighty Leader, Take again they servant's soul. Body of a man I bring thee. Grave his name, and pour the Not though ancient time decaying fragrant Balm upon the icy Wear away these bones to sand, stone. Ashes that a man might treasure Take him, earth, for cherishing, In the hollow of his hand: To thy tender breast receive him. Body of a man I bring thee, Not though wandering winds and Noble in its ruin. idle winds, Drifting through the empty sky, By the breath of God created. Scatter dust was nerve and sinew, Christ the prince of all its living. Is it given to man to die. Take, 0 take him,

Once again the shining road Take him, earth, for cherishing. Leads to ample Paradise; Open are the woods again, That the Serpent lost for men,

m. IN MEMORIAM HOWELLS

Hymn to the Creator of Light John Rutter

John Rutter's beautiful double-choir motet, Hymn to the Creator of Light, is dedicated to the memory of Howells and was written for the dedication of the Herbert Howells memorial window in Gloucester Cathedral in 1992. Few music teachers in twentieth-century Britain were more influential than Howells, who greeted his first class at London's Royal College of Music in 1920 and his last over 50 years later. Rutter (b. 1945) carries Howells' torch in his dual roles as a prolific choral composer and conductor of the superb Cambridge Singers. As always, Rutter is sensitive to the text, but he does especially lovely work here with the word "light" -- perfect for this concert held on the cusp of the equinox.

Glory be to thee, 0 Lord, glory be to thee, Creator of the visible light, the sun's ray, the flame of fire; Creator also of the light invisible and intellectual: that which is known of God, the light invisible. Glory be to thee, 0 Lord, glory be to thee, Creator of the light. for writings of the law, glory be to thee: for oracles of prophets, glory be to thee: for melody of psalms, glory be to thee: for wisdom of proverbs, glory be to thee: experience of histories, glory be to thee: a light which never sets. God is the Lord, who hath shewed us light.

Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626, tr. Alexander Whyte

16 Light, who dost my soul enlighten; Sun, who all my life dost brighten; Joy, the sweetest man e'er knoweth; Fount, whence all my being floweth. From thy banquet let me measure, Lord, how vast and deep its treasure; Through the gifts thou here dost give us, As thy guest in heaven receive us.

J. Franck, 1618-77, tr. Catherine Winkworth (adapted)

Iv. MEDITATION FROM ECCLESIASTES

o Tad, wie bitter bist du (0 Death, how bitter art thou) ..... Max Reger (from Drei Matetten, Op. 110)

The two preceding motets were musical memorials, as is this dramatic meditation by the German organist Max Reger (1873-1916). He wrote 0 Tad, wie bitter bist du in a scant five hours, moved by the death of Felix Mendelssohn's youngest daughter, Lili Wach. At first, the text (from Ecclesiastes) and music ruminate bitterly on the pain of death -- then the coin is flipped over and poet and composer recall that death can just as well mean sweet release.

o Tad, wie bitter bist du, o Death, how bitter art thou, wenn an dich gedenket ein when of thee doth think a man, Mensch, who hath happy days der gute Tage und genug hat and hath full plenty, und ohne Sorge lebet; and free from sorrow liveth; o Tad, wie bitter bist du, o Death, how bitter art thou, wenn an dich gedenket ein when of thee doth think a man, Mensch and who is thriving in all his und dem es wohlgeht in allen doings, Dingen and still enjoys his meals! und wahl noch essen mag! o Death, how bitter art thou, 0 o Tad, wie bitter bist du, 0 Tad! Death!

o Tad, wie wahl tust du dem o Death, how sweet art thou to Diirftigen, thy needy one, der da schwach und alt ist, who is old and ailing, der in allen Sorgen steckt, who is drowned in many cares, und nichts Bessers zu hoffen with naught better to hope for, noch, zu erwarten hat! nor to expect from life; o Tad, wie wahl tust duo o Death, how sweet art thou.

.- Ecclesiastes (from the Apocrypha)

17 V. WORLD PREMIERES

Mark Kilstofte is one of the relatively few composers trained as a singer. He studied at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan, and he is currently associate professor of theory and composition at Furman University, a private liberal arts college in South Carolina. He writes, "I confess that when 1first encountered the work of British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89), 1could note imagine setting it. The intensity of its alliteration, rhymes, and rhythms seemed already too close to music to believe 1could contribute much, least of all clarification. Still, time and again, 1have found myself drawn to its subject matter of identity and vocation and, years later, am hopeful that my efforts might lend a measure of meaning to these carefully crafted words."

Being (world premiere) Mark Kilstofte

Kilstofte writes, "I chose the title from the sixth line of this poem because it can be understood both as a noun and as a verb, suggesting that being is precisely what beings are all about. Perhaps it is when we are most engaged in doing what we were created to do (and least conscious of it) that we become images of Christ -- become Christ-like."

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves -- goes its self; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

1say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -- Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Grandeur (world premiere) Mark Kilstofte

Kilstofte writes, "Hopkins describes a world infused by God's glory, an irrepressible essence which mankind too often fails to recognize amidst the day-to-day grind. Yet, despite our callousness, this divine substance remains inextinguishable. The music of the last six lines portrays this through transition from the exhaustion of the opening towards calmness. As inevitable as dawn, the music swells towards the promised sunrise."

18 The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell; the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And, for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -- Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

VI. RUSSIAN SPLENDOR

Russian Orthodoxy had a trinity of great composers in the early years of the twentieth century. Golovanov, Gretchaninoff, and Chesnokov were all educated in, taught at, or wrote music for the Church's seminal musical institution, the Synodal School of Church Singing. Prolific composers, they were the stars of Orthodox choral music -- and shut down by the 1917 Revolution, after which each man had to make ends meet by teaching, conducting state choirs or orchestras, or playing piano. Three beautiful examples of their art:

Otche nash (Our Father) Nikolai Golovanov

By his 25th birthday, Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953) had created nearly two dozen choral works for the Church. His most glorious is this setting of the Lord's Prayer. It builds slowly With thick chords toward the passionate climax ("But deliver us from the Evil One"), which Golovanov asks the choir to sing "with desperation."

Otche nash, izhe yesi na nebeseh, Our Father, who art in heaven, Da sviatitsia imia Tvoye, hallowed be Thy name. Da priidet Tsarstviye Yvoye, Thy Kingdom come. Da budet volia Tvoya, yako na Thy will be done, on earth as it is nebesi i na zernli. in heaven.

Hleb nash nasushchniy dazhd nam Give us this day our daily bread, dnes, and forgive us our debts, i ostavi nam dolgi nasha, as we forgive our debtors; yakozhe I mi ostavliayem and lead us not into temptation, dolzhnikom nashim; but deliver us from the Evil One. I ne vvedi nas vo iskusheniye, no izbavi nas, ot lukavago. from the Divine Liturgy

19 Vecheri Tvoyeya tayniya Alexander Gretchaninoff (Of Thy Mystical Supper, Op. 58, No.7)

Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) fled post-revolution for Paris and spent the last decades of his life in the U.S. This motet dates from his church days when he was making a name for himself with dark, lavishly layered music that sounds to our ears immediately "Russian." Gretchaninoffs is almost symphonic choral music -- big, sixteen-part pieces that reach for the effect of an orchestra. Of Thy Mystical Supper is traditionally sung on Thursday of Holy Week as the Orthodox faithful celebrate Communion.

Vecheri Tvoyeya tayniya dnes, Of Thy Mystical Supper, Sine Bozhiy, a Son of God, prichastnika mia priimi: accept me today as a partaker: ne bo vragom Tvoim taynu povem, for I will not speak of Thy Mystery ni lobzaniya Ti dam yako luda, to Thine enemies, no yako razboynik ispovedayu Tia: neither like Judas will I give Thee, pomiani mia, Ghospodi, vo tsarstvii but like the thief will I confess Tvoyem. Thee: "Remember me, a Lord, in Thy Kingdom."

-- from the Liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday

Spaseniye sodelal Pavel Chesnokov (Salvation is Created, Op. 25, No.5)

Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) was the most prolific of these three men, a composer of nearly 500 choral works, 400 of them for the Church. He stands out from his colleagues for his reliance on traditional chant melodies. In this way he was part of the Synodal School's movement to restore the glories of ancient tunes to contemporary Orthodox music. Like the Gretchaninoff you just heard, Salvation is Created is a Communion hymn traditionally sung in Friday services.

Spaseniye sodelal yesi posrede Salvation is created in the midst of zernli, Bozhe. the earth, a God. Alliluiya, alliluiya, alliluiya. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

--Communion Hymn for Fridays (Psalm 74:12)

VII. MODERN LATIN MOTETS

o sacrum convivium Vytautus Miskinis

Vytautas Miskinis, born in 1954, is the Artistic Director of the famous Azuoliukas Male Choir, Professor of Choral Conducting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and President of the Lithuanian Choral Union. He also

20 holds the title of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the All- Lithuanian Choral Festival. For many years Miskinis conducted the Kaunas State Choir and Vocal Ensemble Museum Musicum. His choirs have won prestigious prizes at numerous national and international competitions. Miskinis is often invited to lecture on music education, serve as guest-conductor and present conducting seminars in Lithuania and abroad. He has participated in numerous national and international choral events as a jury member, conductor or composer. He has written some 100 religious motets, 10 masses and a large number of secular songs.

As a choral composer, he leads with his strong suit: 0 sacrum convivium begins with the beautiful clustered sounds of the tenors and basses. With this foundation, he layers on lovely chants in the women's voices, eventually sending them into the treble clefs higher altitudes where men could never hope to go. The men remain anchored, and in the penultimate bar of this lovely Communion motet, the basses finally arrive on a low D-flat, a critical note they've avoided the whole piece, and here the unmistakable effect is one of coming home.

o sacrum convivium, o sacred banquet at which Christ in quo Christus sumitur, is consumed, recolitur memoria passionis eius, the memory of his Passion is mens impletur gratia recalled, et futurae gloriae our souls are filled with grace, nobis pignus datur. and the pledge of future glory is given to us.

o Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen

Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943) is a longtime faculty member at the University of Southern California. 0 Magnum Mysterium was commissioned by Marshall Rutter in honor of his wife, Terry Knowles. Terry is a past DWS Board President and former Singer. The work was premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 1994. His inspiration, as for countless composers before him, was the irony contained in this Christmas picture: the newborn Lord of all, lying with barn animals. This music has become a kind of greatest hit for Lauridsen, performed by choirs all over the world in the decade since its birth -- a surprisingly big splash for a piece that Lauridsen calls "a quiet song of profound inner joy." o magnum mysterium, o great mystery, et admirabile sacramentum, and wondrous sacrament, ut animalia viderent Dominum that animals should see the natum, jacentum in praesepio! newborn Lord, lying in their Beata Virgo, cujus viscera manger! meruerunt port are Blessed is the Virgin whose womb Dominum Christum. Alleluia! was worthy to bear the Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia!

21 the singers

Soprano Beth Althof teaches music at Rice Lake Elementary and choir at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a music education degree. Before joining the DWS, Beth was a member of the Elysian Singers, a five-voice early music group based in La Crosse, WI, and the LaCrosse Chamber Chorale. She lives in White Bear Lake with her husband, Jay, and their two daughters. This is Beth's ninth season with the Singers.

Duane Andersen, bass-baritone, made his solo debut in England in 1994 singing Beethoven's Mass in C at the International Church Music Festival, conducted by Sir David Willcocks. Previously active in Abendmusik-Lincoln, Duane performed the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah in 1998 and was a soloist in Horatio Parker's Hora Novissima, a release by Albany Records, in 1992. Duane participates in area church and musical productions and in 1989 and 1994 received honorable mentions in the Metropolitan Opera auditions. He holds a bachelors degree in Business/ Computer Science from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska and works as a senior programmer/analyst in Bloomington.

Abbie Betinis, an alto in her third year with the Singers, is a freelance music engraver and composer. A recent graduate of St. Olaf College, she has also studied composition with faculty at Juilliard and the Paris Conservatory. Abbie is currently working for composer Libby Larsen while pursuing a master's degree in music composition at the University of Minnesota. She is from Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Soprano Wendi Buck sang with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 1996 and feels privileged to be able to return for the ensemble's last two seasons. Wendi holds a B.A. in music from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in occupational therapy from the College of St. Catherine. She currently works part time as an occupational therapist in the St. Francis school district and full time as mom to Elsa and Henry.

Matthew Culloton is currently in his fifth season with the Singers, where aside from singing duties he serves as Music Advisor, Bass Section Leader, and Choral Librarian. He is in his fourth year as Director of Choral Activities at Hopkins High School. Since 1999, Matthew has served as ACDA of Minnesota's Male Choir Repertoire and Standards Chair, and is this year's recipient of the VocalEssence/ACDA Creative Programming Award. His choral compositions and arrangements are published with Mark Foster Music and Hinshaw Music.

Marie Spar Dymit has sung with the Dale Warland Singers since 1985 and became soprano section leader in 1991. Marie teaches vocal music at White Bear Lake High School's South Campus, where she is in charge of four performing ensembles. She holds music degrees from St. Olaf College and Arizona State University and serves as the Women's Choir Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for ACDA of Minnesota. Marie is a frequently heard soloist with the Singers and has sung on eleven DWS recordings.

A native of Moscow, Russia, GaUna Erickson is in her third season with the Dale Warland Singers. She holds a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from North Central University, has sung with the Minnesota Opera chorus and now serves as a section leader at the Cathedral of St. Paul. Currently she works as a Russian medical interpreter.

22 Tenor Joel Fischer is a native of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Iowa State University in 1998. He has been a soloist at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis and at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth. Joel, in his sixth season with the DWS, has also sung with the Rose Ensemble and is Director of Liturgy and Music at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in St. Louis Park.

Joanne Halvorsen, alto section leader, is in her twenty-sixth season with the Dale Warland Singers. As a member of the ensemble, she has toured , Canada and around the United States, singing in some of the finest concert halls in the world. Jo recently retired from teaching after 31 years at Fridley Middle School as choral instructor and Fridley High School as musical and artistic director for the drama program. She is currently Music Director at Faith United Methodist Church, conducting the Sanctuary Choir and her youth group, "Able Cain Raisers."

Eric Harstad, bass, is from West Allis, Wisconsin. He has an A.A. from Bethany Lutheran College, a B.M. from St. Olaf College in music education, and a M.M. from Minnesota State University, Mankato in choral conducting. Eric teaches choirs, general music, and music theory at Buffalo Lake-Hector. He also enjoys directing the church choir at Grace Lutheran Church in Hutchinson, and composing and arranging music. This is his first year with the Singers.

Jon Hermanson, tenor, from New Ulm, MN, is beginning his first season with the Dale Warland Singers. Currently, he is working toward a degree in music education from Martin in New Ulm, MN. Jon also sings with the Martin Luther College Choir and studies voice privately.

Carole Hofstad, soprano, has been performing in the Twin Cities area for over 20 years. An advocate of contemporary music and a lover of early music, she premiered many new works under the auspices of the American Composers Forum and was a founding member of Minstrels, an early music ensemble that recorded under the Lyrichord label. As a soloist, she has appeared with numerous local organizations, including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Lyra Consort and the Plymouth Music Series. Carole has also performed with other orchestras around the country including the Kansas City Symphony, among others. She graduated from Concordia College Moorhead and earned her Master's degree at the University of MN. Carole is currently on staff at MacPhail Center for Music and sings at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis. She returns to the Singers after a twenty-year hiatus.

Melissa Holm-Johansen, mezzo-soprano, is currently a DMA candidate in voice at the University of Minnesota and an independent voice instructor. A native Norwegian, she frequently sings at the Norwegian American Lutheran Memorial Church and has appeared several times in the annual Leiv Eriksson Festival, performing music by Grieg, Sommerro and Mozart. Melissa spent the summer of 2002 traveling through Tuscany, performing Italian operatic music. She holds a MM in voice and vocal pedagogy from the University of Minnesota and a BM in voice and music education from St. Olaf College.

Eric N. Hopkins, tenor, from Oregon, IL, is in his fifth season with the Dale Warland Singers. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in vocal music from Luther College where he sang in the Nordic Choir under the direction of . He also sings with the Hosanna Choir of St. Steven's Lutheran Church in Bloomington.

David Jacobson, baritone, is in his eighth season with the Dale Warland Singers. He has sung with many diverse ensembles, such as the Rod Smith Big Band, Voce Magna, and the Minneapolis Vocal Consort. Currently, David serves as the bass soloist/section leader for Wesley United Methodist Church.

Lynette Johnson, mezzo soprano, joined the Dale Warland Singers in 1987. She is a past member of Voce Magna, a small, local voice ensemble and has appeared as a guest soloist with the Valley Chamber Chorale and at several area churches. Lynette also sings with the worship ensemble and choir at Excelsior Covenant Church. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from North Park College in Chicago.

Tenor Justin Karch, in his fourth year with Dale Warland Singers, holds a B.A. in music from North Dakota State University. At NDSU he was a soloist as well as president and secretary of the NDSU Concert Choir. For the last two years, Justin has been a member of a quartet of singers featured during Minnesota Public Radio's holiday broadcasts. He is also a past section leader at St. Patrick's Church in Edina. In addition to singing, Justin works in customer service for Ecolab Inc. in St. Paul.

Natalia Kojanova, alto, is in her second year with the Dale Warland Singers. A native of Russia, she is a graduate of Novosibirsk State Music College, Russia, with degrees in choral conducting and vocal performance. Natalia has sung with some of the finest ensembles and choirs, including The Chamber Choir of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society, the vocal ensemble "Markell's Voices," a vocal quartet at All-Saints Russian Orthodox Church, Russia, Shadyside Presbyterian Chancel Choir and Bach Cantata Choir, Pittsburgh, PA.

23 Tenor Nicholas Eugene Lemme of Rapid City, South Dakota is honored to be in the DWS for their final season. He received a BA in Music Education with a voice emphasis from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, where he had the opportunity to study under Larry Hensel. Since being in Minneapolis, he has taught music at Saint Francis Saint James United School in St. Paul and sang as a tenor for the Basilica of Saint Mary Cathedral Choir.

David Lower, tenor, is a native of Iowa City, IA and recently moved to the Twin Cities. He graduated from Luther College in 2003 where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance. At Luther College, David sang in the Nordic Choir under the direction of Weston Noble. This is the first year David will perform with the Singers.

Patrick McDonough, bass, completed his undergraduate work in music performance at the University of Wisconsin- Superior and subsequently undertook graduate studies in choral conducting at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Patrick has previously held the position of Director of Music for several Twin Cities churches and is a former member of the Rose Ensemble and the Minnesota Chorale. Currently, Patrick works for American Express Financial Advisors as a Business Systems Analyst.

Anna George Meek, alto, is a freelance violinist who plays professionally with the Minnesota Sinfonia and the Aurora String Quartet. She also serves as concertmaster for the Mississippi Valley Chamber Orchestra. She has studied voice and violin at Yale University and The Peabody Conservatory and currently has her own studio of violin students. Also a writer, Meek teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Her book of poems, Acts of Contortion, won the 2002 Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. She was recently awarded a 2002 Minnesota State Arts Board grant for her poems.

Bass Michael Meyer attended St. Olaf College and graduated with a degree in economics in May 2000. Wbile at St. Olaf, he sang for three years in the Choir under the direction of Anton Armstrong. Since graduating, he has been a member of the Singers and is currently in his fourth season. On the side, Michael sings in a quartet, plays the piano, and volunteers at the Animal Humane Society.

Mary C. Maiden-Mueller, alto, is a graduate of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both vocal and flute performance. Mary has sung with the Dale Warland Singers in previous years and more recently participated in a number of choral projects in the Twin Cities area as well as serving as soloist and section leader for various church choirs. Mary is currently employed by the Hazelden Foundation as Development Data Systems Manager.

Jack Nelson is in his second season with the Singers. He studied music at Bradley University and Northwestern University. After receiving his Masters in vocal performance from Northwestern, he studied voice with Margaret Harshaw at Indiana University. Throughout, Jack performed many of the great choral works with choral groups in Illinois as Baritone soloist. He participated as Baritone in the Bradley University Chorale when it took the Grand Prix at the 1976 Recontres des Internationales, in Tours, , and again in 1981 when the Chorale placed third. He is currently an attorney in Saint Paul.

Soprano Melissa O'Neill is a native of Minneapolis and has had the great joy of singing for Dale as a voice major in the Macalester Concert Choir and as a member of the DWS. Melissa has performed locally with the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, The Minnesota Opera Company, Actors Theatre of Minnesota, North Star Opera and Nautilus Music Theatre. Currently, she is the soprano soloist at Spirit of Hope Church and a private voice teacher at Edina High School.

Deborah Loon Osgood joined the Dale Warland Singers in 1984 and has been heard in DWS concerts and recordings regularly since then. A soprano, Deb is a graduate of St. Olaf College and holds a degree in Political Science. While at St. Olaf, Deb sang in the St. Olaf Choir, where she was a regular soloist and soprano section leader. Deb has sung with Magnum Chorum and has served many area churches as a soloist and section leader. She is also president of The Osgood Group, a consulting firm that helps clients meet their objectives through communications, leadership and management services. She specializes in providing interim executive director services for non-profit organizations.

Krista Palmquist holds a BA in voice performance from Bethel College, an MA in voice performance from Eastern Michigan University, and a DMA in voice performance from the University of Minnesota. She is a cantor, soprano section leader and soloist at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, and she maintains voice studios at North Central University and at St. Joseph's School of Music. Krista is also an active art song recitalist, performing music from a wide range of countries and musical periods. Krista lives in Saint Paul with her husband and three children. This is her third season with Dale Warland Singers.

24 Tenor Robert Pontious is the choir director at Mahtomedi High School and the adult choir director at the Church of the Nativity in St. Paul. He graduated from 'Truman State University (Kirksville, MO) with a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Arts in Conducting and Vocal Performance. Rob is a returning member of the DWS having sung from 1992-1998 and also served as their Director of Operations for five of those years. He lives in White Bear Lake with his wife Jody and two children, Megan and Andrew.

Soprano Jennifer Rissman graduated from Drake University in Des Moines with a degree in vocal performance where she studied with Leanne Freeman-Miller and sang with the Drake University Choir under the direction of Aimee Beckmann-Collier. Before moving to the Twin Cities, Jenny taught voice lessons at Drake University and worked as a grant writer in Des Moines. This is Jenny's first season with the Singers.

Soprano Jodi Rowe is excited to be in her second season with the Dale Warland Singers. Since graduating from Doctor Martin Luther College with majors in Elementary Education and Music Education, Jodi has taught in the elementary classroom, elementary level music and directed both children's choirs and adult choirs. Jodi has had the privilege of singing under Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Music Festival and LeRoy Kromm in the San Jose Symphonic Choir. She is currently serving as a Professor of Music in the areas of voice and choir at Doctor Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN.

Soprano Dawn Schuffenhauer recently attended St. Olaf College and received a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Music Education. While at St. Olaf, Dawn was a member of the St. Olaf Choir. She is currently employed at Donaldson Company, Inc. This is Dawn's fourth season with the Singers.

Bass Thomas Shaffer is a charter member of the Dale Warland Singers returning this season after an eighteen year absence. He is a retired music educator, school administrator, and university instructor. His performance credits include: The Minnesota Bach Society including performances in Canada; The Plymouth Music Series including performances in England; The Sateren Choir including performances in ; The Norman Luboff Choir touring the United States and Canada; Center Opera; The St. Paul Opera; and The Minnesota Opera. He has also performed for early DWS recordings and radio broadcasts as well as concert tours of Sweden, Norway and .

Steve Sheppard, bass, attended Macalester College in St. Paul, MN to study with Dale Warland. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, he moved to Nevada to teach music K-12. Steve has sung with the Las Vegas Opera Company and spent nine years as a singer, arranger, orchestrator and producer for Back to the Bible, an international radio ministry. During that time he traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Jamaica. Steve is currently a Database Administrator and continues to sing and teach music. This is his third season with the Dale Warland Singers. He lives in Elk River with his wife, Dawn Joy, and their six boys.

Originally from Houston, TX, tenor Hal Snyder is in his fifth season with the Singers. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Texas Tech University where he studied voice under the direction of Karl Dent.

Anthony Sofie, tenor, is beginning his second year with the Singers. A native of East St. Paul, Tony spent six years at the University of Minnesota-Duluth achieving a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. Tony also has an extensive background in accompanying and music theatre.

Music strikes a special chord that creates a melodious balance in life. Naomi Christensen Staruch is extremely honored to be a soprano in the Dale Warland Singers. The demands of being Vice President at UBB Securities often need to be equalized. This is her sixth season in the ensemble. Previously she has sung with the Augsburg College Choir, the (Leland B.) Sateren Singers, and Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir. Naomi lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Steven, where they enjoy gardening, traveling and making music together.

Bass Brian Steele teaches voice at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and is on staff with the Westminster Presbyterian Church as soloist and choir section leader. His MFA degree in Vocal Performance is from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Clifton Ware and Roy Schuessler and sang with the U of M Minnesingers, touring Germany and . He has sung with the Montana Chorale, the Grammy winning Oregon Bach Festival Choir and as a studio vocalist as singer and voice-over artist on numerous recordings. His wife, Jackie, can usually be found in the back of the concert hall selling DWS recordings.

Soprano Teresa Tierney is returning for her LOthyear with the singers. She received her bachelor's degree from the College of St. Catherine and her masters degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she studied music theory and composition in addition to voice. Currently, she teaches at Century College, Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, and Eagan High School and maintains a private studio at her St. Paul home.

25 honor roll

The Dale Warland Singers gratefully acknowledges the generous annual fund contributions of its friends and supporters who made gifts between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003.

exultate ($25,000+) Paul Jeske applause ($250-499) David and Mary Beth Koehler The Bush Foundation John and Karen Larsen Dr. and Mrs. Arden O. Anderson Mardag Foundation George and Dusty Mairs Paul J. and Mary A. Anderson Marshall Field's Project Imagine Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Sally and Peter Anson with support from the Target Griggs Burke Foundation Alex and Martha Barron Foundation Daniel McKeown Fred and Cynthia Betz McKnight Foundation Lawrence M. and Elizabeth Ann Ronald Blackmore O'Shaughnessy Charitable Kimberly J. Bowman Income Trust in honor of David Briggs laudate ($10,000 - 24,999) Lawrence M. O'Shaughnessy Conley and Marney Brooks Lynn and Thomas Pahl Barbara and Tim Brown Disciplined Growth Investors Peregrine Capital Management, Inc. Bob and Gerry Bullard Ecolab Foundation Fund of Minneapolis Foundation Jerome and Linda Carlson General Mills Foundation Sally and George Pillsbury Steve Cornils and Leslie Quigley- Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the Rahr Foundation Cornils Saint Paul Foundation Michael and Kathie Reeslund Sheldon and Carol Darnberg The Sewell Family Foundation Margaret Rivers Fund Carl and Charlotte Drake The Thomas Mairs and Marjorie Stanley E. and Shannon L. Marie Spar Dymit Mairs Fund of The Saint Paul Romanstein Keith and Genny Ellefson Foundation Ginger Sisco and Larry Griffith Mrs. Dewey S. Ewald Sit Investment Associates David and Katherine Galligan Foundation Doug and Mary Kay Geston ovation ($5,000 - 9,999) Charles Upcraft Dr. James and Dorothy Halverson Tom and Marty Whelan with Michael C. Jordan and Brenda J. Aaron Copland Fund for Music matching funds from Minnesota Powell Andersen Foundation Monthly Publications Don and Joann Leavenworth Pete and Margie Ankeny Paul and Arlene Williams David and Kari Mink Catherine Rose and Don Davies Xcel Energy Foundation Pamela Mink Susan S. Fauver Robert and Kay Moline Frederick K. Martin Mary Jo and David E. Monson Mike and Kay McCarthy fanfare ($500 - 999) Carolyn Norquist Gayle and Tim Ober John Pearson Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Dr. Michael J. and Linda Anderson David and Marty Raymond Fred and Gloria Sewell Anonymous Professor and Mrs. Calvin J. Roetzel Jack Weatherford and Walker Pearce Dr. Elisabeth R. Bennett, M.D. Sue A. Shepard Wenger Foundation Carrie Benson Kevin and Lynn Smith Tyrone and Delia Bujold Glenn and Mary Steinke Mary Lee Dayton Fred Stoutland and Lilli Alanen bravo ($2,500 - 4,999) Nancy Erickson Hoffman Joseph and Cynthia Tarnbornino Elizabeth A. Jensen Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Titcomb Baker Foundation S. Jerome and Leticia Johnson in Dwight and Carolyn Thwnes Arland and Sharon Brusven memory of Dr. LaVonne Stewart Widdess Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Andersen Bergstrom Foundation Doug and Mary Jones Kenneth' and Judy Dayton Glenn and Madelaine Karwoski donors ($100 - 249) Deluxe Corporation Foundation Louise King Dick Geyerman Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph Elary Allen Dr. Sam and Thelma Hunter James and Jane Marentette Duane E. Andersen Huss Foundation Tina Meckel and Jeff Benson Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Andersen Robin Keyworth Ford and Catherine Nicholson Henry and Mary Andersen Jim and Donna Peter John L. Nuechteriein Bonnie Anderson Thomas and Gwynn Rosen Terry and Mary Patton Joyce L. Anderson Dale and Ruth Warland Jackie and Peter Reis Marie Anderson Patricia M. Whitacre Michael and Kathie Reeslund with Stephen Anderson and Barbara Dan Schmechel and Mimi Wright matching funds from Dorsey & Randolph-Anderson Whitney Mr. and Mrs. Milo Arkema Don and Estelle Sell Anton E. Armstrong. D.M.A. encore ($1,000 - 2,499) Nancy Slaughter Kay and Ron Bach Barbara Spradley and Neil Kittlesen Jeffrey Barnett and Jamie Earl Susan Barnes Naomi and Steven Staruch William and Paula Bathke Dorsey and Whitney, LLP Vern Sutton Duane and Connie Bell Teresa and Jerry Elsbernd Charles Upcraft Vickie Benson Gerald B. and Catherine L. Fischer Robert L. & Karen Veninga Jack and Bobby Brose Ann Fleischauer with matching Jeffrey and Brenda Vredenburg Ray and Julie Brovold funds from Deluxe Corporation Wells Fargo Bank Foundation Maria Bucka in memory of Chuck Ruth and Paul Hauge Nancy P. Zwickey Risser The Hoeschler Fund of The Saint Wilbur C. Christensen Paul Foundation Steve and Kathy Coleman William Hueg and Hella Mears Hueg Tom E. Davis

26 Humphrey and Elisabeth W. Ann Fleischauer Patricia M. Whitacre Doermann Dr. James and Dorothy Halverson Jane Wilson Emily Ellsworth William and Helen Hartfiel E. Duane and Marlene Engstrom Anders and Julie Himmelstrup Geneva Eschweiler Steve and Anne Hunter *deceased Floyd and Caron Farmer, Jr. Dr. Sam and Thelma Hunter Margaret Flanagan Elizabeth A. Jensen John and Priscilla Folin Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph Sam and Kay Gerth Roberta Mann and Don Benson Robert and Katherine Goodale Patricia A. McAuliffe Warren and Kiki Gore Richard and Lois Merrill **The Dale Warland Singers Bill and Pat Gurnon Mary Jo and David E. Monson thanks the 108 people who made Karin and Erick Hakanson John L. Nuechterlein Wendy Halverson Jim and Donna Peter gifts up to $100, the combined Ron and Betty Hemstad David and Judy Ranheim total of which was over $4,325! Anders and Julie Himmelstrup Stanley E. and Shannon L. Warren and Marian Hoffman Romanstein Ken and Julie Hoyme Dan Schmechel and Mimi Wright Bonnie Jaeger Iverson in memory of Karen Schreiner and Ron Ellingson Jack Jaeger Don and Estelle Sell Margaret and Peter Johnson Fred and Gloria Sewell Thomas C. Johnson Ginger Sisco and Larry Griffith Romona Bole Kaszas Dick and Ella Slade Dr. Genell Knatterud Glenn and Mary Steinke Camille A. Kolles John J. and Mary M. Taylor Jean and Larry LeJeune Wayne and Lola May Thompson Diana J. Leland Paul and Arlene Williams Robert G. Mairs Richard and Lois Merrill Dan and Christina Meyer in-kind donations Judy and Peter Mitchelson David and Jennifer Moberg Steve Barnett / Barnett Music Jim and Carol Moller Productions Peter B. and Karla Myers Linda Chatterton In spite of the staff's extensive Brian and Angela Newhouse Cooper & Hamilton, LLC efforts to avoid errors and omissions David Paddock Gaviidae Common, Brookfield Gunta and Arijs Pakalns Properties in this year's honor roll of Margery Pearce in honor of Walker Graphic Design Inc. contributors, mistakes can occur. If Pearce Hal Leonard your name was omitted, listed Curtis and Shirley RamIet Hex Graphics, Inc. incorrectly or misspelled, please Dr. Paul and Joyce Riedesel Jan Johnson notify us of the error: Carolyn Roby Martin Marty Members of the Dale Warland Bemis S. Rubright 651.632.5870, phone Carol Mae Sandstrom Singers Karen Schreiner and Ron Ellingson Richard and Lois Merrill 651.632.5873, fax Dennis Schrock Margaret Meyer Direct Mariana and Craig Shulstad Minnesota Public Radio Randall E. Schumacher Julie Pauley / Pauley Design Nancy Slaughter Partners Arturo L. Steely Michael and Kathie Reeslund Jim and Judy Thomas Stems and Vines, Tamara Barlau Gene Vader Gretchen T. Westergard J. Kimball and Helen W. Whitney recording fund Timothy J. Wicker and Caroline M. Deters Beth and Jay Althof Paul and Carolynn Wiggin Duane Andersen Jerry and Billie Wollan Carrie Benson Mike and Donna Wolsted Sara Boos Teresa and Jerry Elsbernd Galina Erickson commissioning fund Floyd and Caron Farmer, Jr. Gerald B. and Catherine L. Fischer Karen and John Larsen Roger and Ricky Herrick M. Walker Pearce and Jack Eric Hopkins Weatherford Paul Jeske James and Donna Peter Albert J. McNeil Brian and Jackie Steele David and Carol Nordli Deborah Osgood David A. Robinson holiday benefit Thomas and Gwynn Rosen Nancy and Everett Rotenberry William and Paula Bathke Dawn Schuffenhauer Lynne and Bruce Beck Sewell Family Foundation Penny Bond and Chuck Grimsrud Steve and Naomi Staruch Catherine Rose and Don Davies Brian and Jackie Steele Mary Lee Dayton Eric and Juni Stevens Glenna Dibrell and David Cummings Rosita Tendall Teresa and Jerry Elsbernd Jeffrey and Rica Van Gerald B. and Catherine L. Fischer Dale and Ruth Warland

27 PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING THE FINAL CONCERT SEASON OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS!

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board of directors administrative staff

Officers Gayle Ober, executive director Daniel J. Schmechel, president Tina Meckel, development director Jacqueline Reis, vice president Gretchen Westergard, marketing and James W. Peter, treasurer communications director David L. Cooper, secretary Elary Allen, office manager Michael E. Reeslund, of council Beth Pickering, business manager Arlene Williams, emeritus board chair Helen Franczyk, marketing and pr consultant Ruth Anderson, office volunteer Directors Dick Geyerman, office volunteer Michael Brand Jackie Steele, concert volunteer coordinator Donald M. Davies Susan S. Fauver Ann Fleischauer artistic staff Glenn J. Karwoski Robin Keyworth Dale Warland, founder and music director Lynn Pahl Debra Harrer, general manager M. Walker Pearce Ruth Palmer, assistant conductor Stanley Romanstein Matthew Culloton, librarian and music advisor Thomas J. Rosen John Muehleisen, composer-in-residence Nancy Reitz Rotenberry Joanne Halvorsen, wardrobe coordinator Ginger Sisco Thomas Shaffer, education coordinator Gloria Sewell Brian Newhouse, program annotator Vern Sutton Cheryl Friedrichs, house manager Jared Anderson, stage manager Dale Warland, founder and music director* Dan Ober, assistant stage manager Gayle Ober, executive director* Deborah Loon Osgood, singer representative* Tom Crann, pre-concert moderator

Minnesota Public Radio is the official broadcast Emeritus Board partner of the Dale Warland Singers. Margie Ankeny* Arland D. Brusven* Jerry Fischer* Thelma Hunter* Terry Knowles* Mike McCarthy* Nancy Slaughter* Mary Steinke *

*denotes ex officio mission statement

The mission of the Dale Warland Singers is to enrich, inspire and entertain its audiences through the superb, world-class performance of important a cappella choral music, while fostering awareness, understanding and appreciation of recent choral music repertoire.

Thank you for helping us accomplish this! If you have any questions or comments about tonight's program, please let us know:

dale warland singers 2300 myrtle avenue, suite 120 st. paul, mn 55114 651.632.5870, phone 651.632.5873, fax www.dalewarlandsingers.org

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special thanks

Julie Brovold •.•·/..,-1 •.•-1 •.•••-- Ted Cadwell, Dorsey & Whitney LLP Children's Home Society MINNESOTA STATE ARTS BOARD & Family Services Concert Volunteers and Ushers Mary Ann Feldman Helen Franczyk Gala Friday Committee and Volunteers Cheryl Friedrichs Graphic Design, Inc. TARGET NATIONAL o Anne Hunter Igor Kojanov and Natalia ENDOWMENT Kojanova FOR TH E ARTS

Loft/Gothic Recordings Women's concert dress was provided by Minnesota Public Radio Target Stores and Mervyn's California by Morgan Stanley Dean the Thrget Corporation Witter, Inc., Susan Barnes Julie Pauley, Pauley Design Partners John Provo, Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand LLP Naomi Staruch MINNESOTA Dr. Lynn Trapp, St. Olaf PUBLIC RADIO Catholic Church AMERICA Bob and Bev Warland WWW.MPR.ORG

MPR is the official broadcast Dale Warland Singers partner of the Dale Warland Singers. is a member of Chorus America.

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Choral risers provided by Wenger Corporation.

To make a contribution via a gift of stock, please contact our Development department at: 651.632.5870.

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