Grand Prize 7 Day Cruise for 2 Aboard Carnival Cruise Line’S Magic, September 2, Sailing from Galveston to Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Cozumel

16th Annual Bay Area Chorus Cruise Raffle Grand Prize 7 day cruise for 2 aboard Carnival Cruise Line’s Magic, September 2, sailing from Galveston to Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Cozumel.

2nd Prize The San Luis Resort, Galveston – One Night Stay for Two If you are looking for a relaxing view of the beach and moonlight on the water, The San Luis Hotel is the place for you. The San Luis Hotel is well known for its exceptional service and picturesque landscape. Complete your stay with breakfast for two at the Café (located inside The San Luis).

3rd Prize $200 Holiday Shopping Spree Let’s go shopping! Galveston, Houston or somewhere in between, have fun on behalf of the Bay Area Chorus and shop till you drop!

4th Prize Two Tickets to a Houston Astros Baseball Game Baseball anyone? Support your Houston Astros at guys’ night out, ladies night or date night with your loved one and create lasting memories. 5th Prize $100 Spa Gift Card and Gift Basket Ahhh, a relaxing massage at the spa pampering “you”! Treat yourself to a little self-indulgence and relax at home with a gift basket of goodies!

Prizes were provided through the generosity of Mitchell Chuoke Plumbing, Inc., Slone Lumber Co., Inc. and Warren T. Longmire, Jr. M.D. Ticket Price - $25.00 each. Tickets may be purchased from Bay Area Chorus members or at the ticket table prior to BAC concerts. We will accept cash or checks. Please make checks payable to the Bay Area Chorus. Only 300 tickets will be sold!!! Prize Drawing The prize drawing will be held immediately following our Monday, April 30 concert. Winners need not be present to win.

Alternate Sailing Dates/Additional Charges Confirmed cruise date September 2, 2012. Alternate dates possible at additional cost. Inclusions: Cruise & port charges, inside cabin. Not included: Date changes, cabin upgrade, gratuities, fuel surcharges, trip insurance, alcohol/soft drinks and spa services. No refunds. Changes not allowed once booked. Valid US passport required. Min. 1 guest 25 years or older.

Winner’s Tax Implications The winner must complete an IRS W-9 tax form. All income taxes associated with this cruise will be the responsibility of the winner.

For additional information, E mail [email protected] or call the BAC hot line, 281.326.1286

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Saturday, February 25; 7:30 Sunday, April 22; 4:00 p.m. Cypress Creek Foundation for the Arts and University of Houston Concert Chorale at Community Enrichment Concert St. Peter’s Episcopal in Brenham, TX The Centrum at the Brahms, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Lauridsen Cypress Creek Christian Community Center Alan Raines, Baylor University, Conductor Sunday, April 22; 7:00 p.m. MUSIC OF THE MASTERS Saturday, March 10; 7:00 p.m. The Centrum at the Klein High School Spring Concert Cypress Creek Christian Community Center The Centrum Cypress Creek Community Chorale Keith Dixon, Director Clara Lewis, Conductor

Thursday, March 22; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26; 7:30 p.m. VOX FEMINA: A Celebration of Women’s Voices Red Carnation Concert featuring all University of Houston with composer-in-residence Gwyneth Walker large and small choruses University of Houston Concert Women’s Chorus Gilbert & Sullivan, Debussy, Lauridsen, Bach Justin Smith, Conductor Betsy Cook Weber, Director of Choral Activities Bay Area Women’s AChorus, KeithTapestry Dixon, Director of Voices High School Choruses and Directors Saturday, April 28; 7:30 p.m. Dorothy Wilson, Cinco Ranch; Micah Shirado, McArthur; A Tapestry of Voices Heather Orr, Montgomery Chapel of the Villa de Matel South Main Baptist Church, 4100 Main Street; Bay Area Mixed Chorus and Call 713-529-4167 for information Bay Area Women’s Chorus Keith Dixon, Director Tuesday, April 17; 3:00 p.m. University of Houston Concert Chorale at Monday, April 30; 7:30 p.m. The Centrum at the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Nassau Bay Cypress Creek Christian Community Center Bay Area Mixed Chorus and FACE Promenade Series: Bay Area Women’s Chorus hear Copland, Bach, Brahms, Debussy Keith Dixon, Director and much more! PROGRAM The Bay Area Chorus of Greater Houston and the Cypress Creek Community Chorale Present A Tapestry of Voices: Collaboration Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

In the Beginning Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Melanie Sonnenberg, mezzo-soprano

THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON MOORES SCHOOL CONCERT CHORALE Betsy Cook Weber, Conductor

Combined Choirs and Audience: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Henry Van Dyke/ Ludwig van Beethoven

1 Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, God of glory, Lord of love; Ever blessing, ever blest, Hearts unfold like flow’rs before Thee, Wellspring of the joy of living, Op’ning to the sun above. Ocean depth of happy rest! Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; Thou our Father, Christ our Brother, Drive the dark of doubt away; All who live in love are Thine; Giver of immortal gladness, Teach us how to love each other, Fill us with the light of day! Lift us to the joy divine.

2 All Thy works with joy surround Thee, 4 Mortals, join the happy chorus, Earth and heav’n reflect Thy rays, Which the morning stars began; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Father love is reigning o’er us, Center of unbroken praise. Brother love binds man to man. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Ever singing, march we onward, Flow’ry meadow, flashing sea, Victors in the midst of strife, Singing bird and flowing fountain Joyful music leads us Sunward Call us to rejoice in Thee. In the triumph song of life.

Ubi Caritas Maurice Durufle (1902-1986) Christ’s love has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Let us fear and let us love the living God. And may we love each other with a sincere heart. Where charity and love are, God is there. As we are gathered into one body, beware, lest we be divided in mind. Let evil impulses stop, let controversy cease, and may Christ, our God, be in our midst. Where charity and love are, God is there. And may we with the saints also, see Thy face in glory, O Christ, our God.: The joy that is immense and good, unto the ages through infinite ages. Amen. Ave Maria Franz Biebl (1906-2001) Jimmy Jacobson, tenor; Christopher Michel, baritone

The angel of the Lord appeared to Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord, be it done to me according to your word. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;” blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Prayer of Mother Theresa René Clausen (b. 1953)

Help me, help me. Help me spread your fragrance wherever I go. Flood my soul, with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that my life may be only a radiance of Yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I know will feel our presence in my soul. Let them look up, and see no longer me, but only You.

Holy Radiant Light Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956), ed. N. Cain (1896-1977)

Holy radiant Light, Thou holy radiance of the Father, glorious and mighty, Thou only begotten Son of God eternal, holy Jesu. Come we now to the hour of setting sun; the lights of evening round us shine; Holy, Holy. O holy Ones, holy Trinity eternal, we sing Thy praise, evermore we sing Thy praise, holy Trinity. O holy! With undefiled lips evermore Thy glory to be praised, art thou worthy to be praised evermore. Holy Son of God, source of ev’ry life, now all the world doth praise Thee, evermore praise Thee, Thou Son of God! Holy radiant Light, praise Thee now and evermore.

Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)/ Robert Shaw (1916-1999)

Hark! I hear the harps eternal ringing on the solemn shore. As I near those swollen waters, with their deep and solemn roar. Hallelujah, praise the Lamb, Hallelujah, Glory to the great I AM. And my soul though stained with sorrow, fading as the light of day passes swiftly o’er those waters to the city far away. Souls have crossed before, saintly, to that land of perfect rest; and I hear them singing faintly in the mansions of the blest. Hallelujah, praise the Lamb, glory to the great I AM.

Hold On! Jester Hairston (1901-2000) Jimmy Jacobson, tenor

CYPRESS CREEK COMMUNITY CHORALE Clara Lewis, Director Combined Choirs and Audience: When in Our Music God is Glorified Fred Pratt Green/ Charles Villiers Stanford

1 When in our music God is glorified, 3 So has the church, in liturgy and song, and adoration leaves no room for pride, in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, it is as though the whole creation cried, borne witness to the truth in every tongue: “Alleluia!” alleluia!

2 How often, making music, we have found 4 Let every instrument be tuned for praise! a new dimension in the world of sound, Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! as worship moved us to a more profound And may God give us faith to sing always, alleluia! “Alleluia!”

Three Songs of Pavel Chesnokov Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)

Sovet prevechnii

Gabriel appeared to you, O Maiden, revealing the counsel, which was before the ages, and greeting you, he said, “Rejoice, O earth that received no seed, o bush that burned but remains unconsumed; rejoice, o depth unfathomable; rejoice, o bridge that leads up to heaven, and you, o ladder, raised on high, seen by Jacob; rejoice, o sacred container of manna; rejoice, o deliverer from the curse; rejoice, o restoration of Adam, the Lord is with you.”

Dawn Malone, mezzo soprano

Svete tihi

O gladsome light of holy glory, of the immortal heavenly Father, holy, blessed Jesus Christ, having come to the setting of the sun and beheld the light of evening, we praise God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are worthy of praise in songs at all times. Son of God, Giver of life hence the world glorifies you.

Blagoslovi, dushe moia, Gospodi

Bless the Lord, o my soul, blessed art thou, O Lord. O Lord my God, Thou art very great, thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Blessed art thou, O Lord, the waters stand upon the mountains marvelous are thy works, O Lord, in wisdom hast thou made all things. Glory to thee, O Lord, who has created all.

BAY AREA WOMEN’S CHORUS Keith Dixon, Director Litanies, AWV 100 Jehan Alain (1911-1940)

Alain was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, into the family of the organist and composer Albert Alain. Fate granted very little time to this artist who died prematurely at the very beginning of the Second World War at the age of twenty-nine, but what richness there is, what maturity in a body of work that includes some 120 compositions written between 1929 and 1939.

ORGAN VOLUNTARY Ann Frohbieter, organ

Selig sind die Toten Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) Blessed are the dead, that die in the Lord from now on. Yea, the Spirit speaks: they rest from their labors and their works follow them.

Steal Away Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

My Soul, There is a Country Hubert Parry (1848-1918)

Saints Bound for Heaven arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)/Robert Shaw (1916-1999)

BAY AREA MIXED CHORUS Keith Dixon, Director

Kyrie eleison Paul Halley (b. 1952) (Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee) Lord, have mercy, Christ, have mercy, Lord, have mercy.

Agnus Dei Paul Halley (b. 1952) Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon me. Joe Freilich, soprano saxophone

Let the People Praise Thee, O God William Mathias (1934-1992)

CYPRESS CREEK COMMUNITY CHORALE Clara Lewis, Director Ann Frohbieter, Chorale accompanist, organ and piano Combined Choirs and Audience: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Mack Wilberg (b. 1955) From “Stralsund Gesangbuch,” 1665 Tony Yarbrough, trumpet

1 All: Praise to the Lord, 3 All: Praise to the Lord! the Almighty, the King of creation! Who doth prosper thy way and defend thee. O my soul, praise Him, Surely His goodness and mercy for He is thy health and salvation! shall ever attend thee. Join the great throng, Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, psaltery, organ, and song, Who with His love doth befriend thee. Sounding in glad adoration. 4 All: Praise to the Lord! 2 Women: Praise to the Lord! Oh, let all that is in me adore Him! Over all things He gloriously reigneth, All that hath breath, Born as on eagle wings, join with Abraham’s seed to adore Him! safely His saints He sustaineth. Let the “amen” sum all our praises again, Hast thou not seen Now as we worship before Him. how all thou needest hath been Granted in what He ordaineth?

Singet dem Herrn Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Double Chorus Psalm 149:1-3 Sing to the Lord a new song! The assembly of saints shall praise him. Let Israel rejoice in its creator. May the children of Zion be joyful in their king. They shall praise his name in the dance; With timbrel and harps they shall play to him. Chorale and Aria Chorale by Johann Gramann; author of Aria unknown As a father has mercy God, continue to care for us. For without you, nothing is achieved in any of our affairs. God, continue to care for us. Therefore be our shield and light, And do not disappoint our hope. Thus you will continue to do. Happy is the one who steadfastly relies on you and your grace! Double Chorus Psalm 150: 2, 6 Praise the Lord for his acts, Praise him for his great glory! Let all that has breath praise the Lord. Hallelujah!

THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON MOORES SCHOOL CONCERT CHORALE Betsy Cook Weber, Conductor

PROGRAM The Bay Area Chorus of Greater Houston and the Cypress Creek Community Chorale Present A Tapestry of Voices: Collaboration The Centrum at Cypress Creek Community Center

Missa Kenya Paul Basler, (b. 1963)

Missa Kenya was written for and dedicated to Ronald Burrichter and the University Choir at the University of Florida. The work came about following Basler’s year spent as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Music at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. It is a celebration and fusion between two musical cultures: East African choral traditions and late 20th century American “classical” music, which is colored with a bit of Catholic mysticism.

Kyrie Kyrie eleison, Lord have mercy, Christe eleison, Christ have mercy, Kyrie eleison. Lord have mercy.

Gloria Gloria in excelsis Deo. Glory to God in the highest. Et in terra pax And on earth peace hominibus voluntatis. to all those of good will. Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. We praise thee. We bless thee. Adoramus te. Glorifiamus te. We worship thee. We glorify thee. Gratias agimus tibi. We give thanks to thee. Propter magnam gloriam tuam. According to thy great glory. Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Lord God, Heavenly King, Deus Pater omnipotens. God the Father almighty. Dominie Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son. Qui tollis peccata mundi, Thou who takes away the sins of the world miserere nobis. have mercy upon us. Qui tollis peccata mundi, Thou who takes away the sins of the world suscipe deprecationem nostrum. receive our prayer. Quoniam tu solus sanctus. For Thou alone art holy. Tu solus Dominus. Thou alone art the Lord. Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe. Thou alone art the most high, Jesus Christ. Cum Sancto Spiritu With the Holy Spirit in Gloria Dei Patris. Amen. In the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Gray Leiper, soloist Credo I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Only begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father before all worlds. God of God, light of light, Very God of very God. Begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father: by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary: And was made man. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate: suffered, and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead: His kingdom shall have no end. And (I believe in) the Holy Ghost, Lord and giver of life: Who proceedeth from the Father and Son. Who with the Father and Son together is worshipped and glorified: Who spake by the Prophets. And in one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Sanctus Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy, Holy, Holy, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Lord God of Hosts. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest. Benedictus qui venit Blessed is he that comes in nomine Domini. in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.

Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, Lamb of God, qui tollis peccata mundi: Who takest away the sin of the world, miserere nobis. Have mercy on us. Agnus Dei, Lamb of God, qui tollis peccata mundi: Who takest away the sin of the world, Miserere nobis. Have mercy on us. Agnus Dei, Lamb of God, qui tollis peccata mundi: Who takest away the sin of the world, dona nobis pacem. Grant us peace.

KLEIN HIGH SCHOOL CHORALE Keith Dixon, Director Sharon Goldsberry, piano; Chris Shelburne, horn; Nathan Eggen, Heather Meyer, percussion Combined Choirs and Audience: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Henry Van Dyke/ Ludwig van Beethoven

1 Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, 2 All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Earth and heav’n reflect Thy rays, Hearts unfold like flow’rs before Thee, Stars and angels sing around Thee, Op’ning to the sun above. Center of unbroken praise. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; Field and forest, vale and mountain, Drive the dark of doubt away; Flow’ry meadow, flashing sea, Giver of immortal gladness, Singing bird and flowing fountain Fill us with the light of day! Call us to rejoice in Thee. 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, 4 Mortals, join the happy chorus, Ever blessing, ever blest, Which the morning stars began; Wellspring of the joy of living, Father love is reigning o’er us, Ocean depth of happy rest! Brother love binds man to man. Thou our Father, Christ our Brother, Ever singing, march we onward, All who live in love are Thine; Victors in the midst of strife, Teach us how to love each other, Joyful music leads us Sunward Lift us to the joy divine. In the triumph song of life. Ubi Caritas Maurice Durufle (1902-1986)

Christ’s love has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Let us fear and let us love the living God. And may we love each other with a sincere heart. Where charity and love are, God is there. As we are gathered into one body, beware, lest we be divided in mind. Let evil impulses stop, let controversy cease, and may Christ, our God, be in our midst. Where charity and love are, God is there. And may we with the saints also, see Thy face in glory, O Christ, our God.: The joy that is immense and good, unto the ages through infinite ages. Amen.

Ave Maria Franz Biebl (1906-2001) Jimmy Jacobson, tenor, Christopher Michel, baritone

Holy Radiant Light Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956), ed. N. Cain (1896-1977)

Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)/ Robert Shaw (1916-1999)

Hold On! Jester Hairston (1901-2000) Jimmy Jacobson, tenor

CYPRESS CREEK COMMUNITY CHORALE Clara Lewis, Director

Combined Choirs and Audience: When in Our Music God is Glorified Fred Pratt Green/ Charles Villiers Stanford 1 When in our music God is glorified, 3 So has the church, in liturgy and song, and adoration leaves no room for pride, in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, it is as though the whole creation cried, borne witness to the truth in every tongue: “Alleluia!” alleluia!

Sovet prevechnii

Dawn Malone, mezzo soprano

Svete tihi

Blagoslovi, dushe moia, Gospodi

BAY AREA WOMEN’S CHORUS Keith Dixon, Director

Litanies, AWV 100 Jehan Alain (1911-1940)

ORGAN VOLUNTARY Ann Frohbieter, organ Selig sind die Toten Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) Blessed are the dead, that die in the Lord from now on. Yea, the Spirit speaks: they rest from their labors and their works follow them.

Steal Away Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

My Soul, There is a Country Hubert Parry (1848-1918)

Saints Bound for Heaven arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)/ Robert Shaw (1916-1999)

BAY AREA MIXED CHORUS Keith Dixon, Director Combined Choirs and Audience: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Mack Wilberg (b. 1955) From “Stralsund Gesangbuch,” 1665 Tony Yarbrough, trumpet 1 All: Praise to the Lord, 3 All: Praise to the Lord! the Almighty, the King of creation! Who doth prosper thy way and defend thee. O my soul, praise Him, Surely His goodness and mercy for He is thy health and salvation! shall ever attend thee. Join the great throng, Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, psaltery, organ, and song, Who with His love doth befriend thee. Sounding in glad adoration. 4 All: Praise to the Lord! 2 Women: Praise to the Lord! Oh, let all that is in me adore Him! Over all things He gloriously reigneth, All that hath breath, Born as on eagle wings, join with Abraham’s seed to adore Him! safely His saints He sustaineth. Let the “amen” sum all our praises again, Hast thou not seen Now as we worship before Him. how all thou needest hath been Granted in what He ordaineth? Kyrie eleison Paul Halley (b. 1952) (Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee) Lord, have mercy, Christ, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Agnus Dei Paul Halley (b. 1952) Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon me. Joe Freilich, soprano saxophone Let the People Praise Thee, O God William Mathias (1934-1992)

CYPRESS CREEK COMMUNITY CHORALE Clara Lewis, Director Ann Frohbieter, Chorale accompanist, organ and piano Cypress Creek Community Chorale Clara Lewis, Conductor and Artistic Director

For twenty-six seasons, Cypress Creek Community Chorale under the direction of Clara Lewis has brought to northwest audiences outstanding major works concerts with professional orchestra. The Chorale is an outreach of the music ministry of Cypress Creek Christian Church and is comprised of members of the Chancel Choir and auditioned singers from the larger community. The Chorale presents two major works concerts each season in December and in the spring. Past performances have included Brahms German Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Durufle Requiem, Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore (K339), Grand Mass in C, and Coronation Mass, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Dvorak, Te Deum, Beethoven, Mass in C, and numerous other works by master composers.

The Chorale has toured nationally and internationally, performing in New York’s Carnegie Hall; Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas; Notre Dame Cathedral, and Le Madeleine, Paris, France; St. Paul’s Cathedral, London; Bath Abby, England; Salzburg Domed Cathedral, Austria, and other prestigious church and concert settings. Our 2011-2012 season includes a concert at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in downtown Houston, February 21, 2012. The Cypress Creek Community Chorale is an educational non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. For audition information – 281.726.5783.

Clara Lewis received her undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University. And took her graduate work at TCU and Sam Houston State University with Dr. B. R. Henson, and summer study at Westminster Choir College under Robert Shaw. She is Minister of Music at Cypress Creek Christian Church, Spring, Texas since 1985, Community Center Director. Ms. Lewis is a member of the ACDA, TCDA, TMEA, Chorus America, AGEHR, and is a past member of the Classical Music Panel of the Houston Arts Alliance, and past summer faculty lecturer for the Southwestern University at Georgetown Church Music Institute.

Dr. Ann Frohbieter, chorale accompanist, is organist at Cypress Creek Christian Church. She holds a DMA from Rice University, Master of Music from SMU, and Bachelor of Music from Indiana. She is also Organist- Choirmaster of Congregation Emanuel.

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Betty Ayers Michelle Faught Mary Munn Ruth Ann Stevens Bill Blair Susie Gerber Stephanie Northcutt Veronika Stevens Emily Butner-Burroughs Karen Gordley Jack Olson Lori Jo Svrcek Aletha Cardin Bud Habel Karen Olson Karen Tanner Alicia Chew Naomi Hembree Michelle Pargmann Jessica Tate JoAnn Cox John Huff Bobbye Patterson Cindy Thompson Cynthia Crossley Jerry James Margaret Penny Ed Wiggins Lance Davies Jimmy Jacobson Jeff Ragsdale Randle Wiggins Becky Drescher Shannon Jacobson Debbie Rawlins Olivia Wood Sherron Dressler Stephanie Hickman Phillip Rawlins Terrell Wood David Edlund Roger Keele Sylvia Shook Gay Zimmerman Joan Evans Christopher Michel Kay Smith “Where words leave off music begins.” — Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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More thanAbout 80 singers bring the unique Chorus interests, ethnicity An activeAbout clinician for the workshops, Director festivals and honor and cultural experiences to the group and represent a choirs, Keith Dixon has served on the choral faculty of the variety of professions as diverse as Houston itself. In Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute of Quartz Mountain addition to performing choral masterworks, this all- since 2003. Kingwood High School Choirs under his volunteer chorus also programs traditional holiday direction have appeared in honor choir concerts at four music, historic and contemporary classical choral Texas Music Educators Association state conventions music, spirituals, folk songs from around the world and and at four American Classic Madrigal Festivals and he Broadway favorites. Continuing growth in enrollment has prepared them for performances with such notable resulted in the formation of the Bay Area Women’s conductors as Moses Hogan, Robert Sund, Maria Chorus in the fall of 2009. The Women’s Chorus Guinand and Craig Jessop. His own choral singing performs at all season concerts and had the honor of participation has been with the Houston Symphony presenting a concert at the 56th Annual Convention of Chorus, Concert Chorale of Houston and the acclaimed the Texas Choral Directors Association Convention in Robert Shaw Festival Singers, with whom he recorded San Antonio in July, 2011. Recent guest artists for BAC the Telarc releases Amazing Grace, Evocation of the Spirit concerts have included Dr. John Lienhard, founder and Appear and Inspire. Mr. Dixon is presently the choral of KUHF’s The Engines of Our Ingenuity, legendary director at Klein High School. composer/arranger Alice Parker, composer/song leader Nick Page and Houston gospel recording artist Barbara Johnson Tucker with pianist Phillip Hall. The Bay Area Chorus appears on the DVD Weston Noble: Perpetual Inspiration, distributed internationally by the Hal Leonard Corporation.

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“Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence we are one.” — Charlotte Gray, b. 1937

Proudly Supporting the Arts The Staff at the Office of Christopher S. Moore, DDS 1020 Bay Area Blvd., Suite 238 281-488-6862 • www.clearlakedental.com “There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed. . .”

— Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

Guest Choir, February 21

The Moores School Concert Chorale Betsy Cook Weber, director

The Moores School Concert Chorale is the University of Houston’s premiere large choral ensemble. The group has been under the direction of Betsy Cook Weber since 2002. Under her direction, the ensemble has risen to international prominence, performing for two Texas Music Educators Association conventions (2005 & 2008) and the national American Choral Directors Association convention in Miami (2007). ChoralNet described the group’s ACDA performances as “simply outstanding.” In 2009, Concert Chorale performed and competed in the 47th Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, UK. Under Weber’s direction, Chorale was selected to represent the United States in the opening concert; they were also accepted into four competitive categories. Concert Chorale won or placed in every category in which they were entered receiving two thirds, a second, and a first prize in the coveted Chamber Choir category. Judges comments included statements such as “de luxe singing, eliciting admiration and gratitude,” “wonderfully elegant and humorous,” “sophisticated choir --- expertly prepared and with a finely-tuned corporate ear.” In 2011, Chorale competed in the prestigious French festival, the Florilège Vocal du Tours, winning 2nd prize in the Mixed Chorus category and a 1st prize for their performance of a world premiere, “I Cannot Live With You” by Moores School of Music director, David Ashley White. Concert Chorale is very pleased and honored to perform on this evening’s Bay Area Chorus concert.

Betsy Cook Weber is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. Dr. Weber teaches a full load of coursework and oversees the large and varied choral area at the Moores School. She was a winner of a Teaching Excellence prize from the University of Houston in May 2011. Recent engagements as a conductor, adjudicator, and presenter have taken her to Great Britain, France, Canada, and thirteen various states. She looks forward to conducting engagements in New Mexico, Alaska, and Missouri in the coming months. Before coming to the University of Houston, Dr. Weber was a successful music teacher in the public schools at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels, during which time choirs under her direction won numerous competitions and awards. She also served seven years as Assistant and, later, Associate Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus, helping prepare major works for renowned conductors including Robert Shaw, Christoph Eschenbach, Roger Wagner, Nicholas McKegan, and Christopher Seaman. Dr. Weber holds degrees from the University of North Texas, Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ), and the University of Houston.

Melanie Sonnenberg, is Associate Professor of Vocal Studies at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. She has impressed the music world with her distinctive mezzo soprano interpretations, ranging from the bel canto to the French and Russian repertoire. Whether recognized as “a rich and fluent mezzo” by the New York Times, or “a master and virtuosa of voice” by Opernwelt, her performances throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, as with the Hamburg Staatsoper, Teatro San Carlo, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Graz Oper, Tokyo Yoyogi Arena, New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Luis, San Diego Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Edmonton Opera, Opera Ontario, among others, have garnered critical and public acclaim. The University of Houston Moores School Concert Chorale Betsy Cook Weber, director Katherine T. Johnson, graduate assistant Sean Stultz, student director Andreea Mut, accompanist

Kristin Ammon Inna Smith Xavier Balleza Sean Stultz Bryan Bilocura Josh Tan Fredy Bonilla * Siobhàn Thompson Thank you Ellyn Borinaga Peter Tran Gregory Brigham Tommy Trinh for your Alexander Bruce Rachel Walrath Anna Calhoun Alyssa Weathersby Aaron Casey Megan Wilhelm * patronage Elizabeth Chrisman Kayla Wright Brittany Conkel —The Bay Area Hope Cowan * section leaders Austin Dean Chorus Jack DeLac Lazaro Estrada * Ryan Frenk Catherine Goode Clipper Hamrick Blythe Hopson Mary Katherine Hunter Quiterius Jackson Ashley John Mary Kim Jacob Kincaide Jordan Koenig Eric Laine Joshua Levine Sarah Malin Matt Mazzola Saleel Menon Princeton Miles Ashley Moore Charnele Pendarvis Phillip Phares Emily Premont Whitney Robinson Tyson Ruhmann Steven Shannon Elizabeth Sharonov * Guest Choir, March 6 Klein High School Chorale Keith Dixon, Director

A farming community developed in this area 35 miles northwest of Houston, after a group of German immigrants settled on the banks of Cypress Creek in 1845. The settlement was later named for Adam Klein, who left Germany in 1849 and joined the California gold rush before settling here with his wife Friederika Klenk in 1854. Farmers in the vicinity raised cotton, potatoes, and corn and marketed their produce in Houston, a two-day trip by wagon. The center of community life was Trinity Lutheran Church, organized in 1874 by the Bershausen, Benfer, Brill, Kaiser, Klein, Lemm, Theiss, and Wunderlich families. The Klenk and Strack families joined soon after the charter was signed. Many of Klein’s schools today bear the names of these area pioneer families. The settlement was called Big Cypress until the Klein Post Office was established in 1884. In 1928, five districts were consolidated to create Rural High School District Number One. In 1938, the district became the Klein Independent School District. The Klein choirs have established a strong tradition of excellence and respect for choral singing. The Chorale has performed for the Texas Music Educator’s Association convention in San Antonio and given concerts at the National Cathedral, Carnegie Hall, St. John the Divine Church in NYC as well as Lincoln Center. A district-wide concert of elementary, middle school, and high school boys is a highlight of the fall semester. Performing at two sold out Christmas concerts held at the Centrum and a tour to major Texas cities, New York City, or Washington D.C. are important events for the students. Klein High School Chorale Roster

Alejandra Alanis Nicole Faulkenberry Heather Meyer David Sanchez Emily Angel Kyle Fisher Connor Mickle Austin Sandoval Karuna Antani Sierra Gant Hamlin Miller Sadie Scharman Kayla Balke Sydney Glasscock Vivian Moreno Alex Schmitt Andrew Bangerter Michelle Gordon Madeline Morris Elyssia Skillicorn Andrew Batke Robyn Grant Zane Muddiman Amanda Smith Kristy Beckett Spencer Guerrero Travis Mulder McKenna Souders Emily Berensohn Cali Hart Jace Nelson Audrey Spell Malachi Biffle Rojean Heimstreet Vivian Nguyen Rochelle Stapp Philip Bowden Catherine Horton Sarah Nott Anika Sutter Joseph Brown Benjamin Howell Taraja Oliver Frank Telesca Kedra Bynum Shannon Hull Michelle Patton Meghan Temple Christian Caudle Rachel Huygen Leah Perez Christopher Tralmer Katherine Cerda Kayla Johnson Justin Petty Jessica Turner Chandler Chase Colton Johnston Connor Pilkenton Robert Varney Kofi Cheremateng Cammie Jones Lein Pouwer Vincente Vu Dannee Clay Briehna Kimbrough Kathryn Preston Shawn Wagner Emily Coleman Brian Kimich Stephen Rackleff Kirsten Walker Kristen DelBosque Collin Lafferty Valerie Ramsey Megan Weaver Cassandra Eggen Gray Leiper Joseph Reilly Katelyn Wheldon Nathaniel Eggen Jessica Lopez Rolando Rivera Jason Wilkins Adriana Esparza Kelsey Mack Isabel Rodriguez Tyus Evans Stefanie Merrell Ryan Sacco The mission of the Bay Area Chorus is to enrich the President ...... Liz Corley Houston and Galveston Bay area through the powerfully Vice President ...... Paul Boeder expressive eloquence of choral music. Vice President ...... Dan Dickson Vice President ...... Kelli Glenn Vice President ...... T.J. Hoffman Vice President ...... Mary W. Lins • To provide educational outreach for audiences, chorus Vice President ...... Irene Ross members and the local student community through Recording Secretary ...... Rob Phillips the presentationMission of varied Statementstyles of choral music, Corresponding2011-2012 Secretary Board . . . of . . Directors . Marsha Mains including both contemporary and classical. Treasurer ...... Kathy Cruse • To provide the opportunity for singers in the Advisory Board ...... Deborah Kidwell community to participate in the preparation and performance of high quality choral music. • To demonstrate the continuity between student and adult performance opportunitiesGoals by inviting area youth to participate in concerts. Carrie Cole • Melissa Medina • To provide scholarships for the study of choral music. Cynthia DePrang • Steve Semerak • To co-sponsor a summer music camp for children in the community. Historian ...... Jeanette Chase Social Chair ...... Seraphine Kolar Scholarship Chair ...... David Nickeson Acting Executive Director ...... Jeanette Chase Coordinator, Planning & Development Section ...... Leaders ...... Sally Schott Business Manager ...... Tom Parish

Educational Outreach / Artistic Development Carol Barwick • Linda Fletcher • Sam Harris Deborah Kidwell • James Kidwell Dean Muths • Gary Navy A. Jan Taylor • Tim Vaughn AdvisoryArts in the Community Board Eddie Carpenter Dr. Beth Dennard, Ed.D., LPC Priscilla Ennis • Dr. David R. Gordon, D.D.S. www.southbeltairandheat.com Bette Johnson • Jami Lupold • Ralph Parr 281.992.4900 • Fax: 281.992.4910 Dan Patterson • Patricia Swartley • Rick Tegeler Susan Venier • Mary Voigt • Brian Worrell 4403 FM 2351 • Friendswood, TX 77546 Education Outreach & Artistic Development

Carol Barwick Southwest Texas State University), in San Marcos, Texas. Sixteen years of singing with the Bay Area Chorus Under his leadership the North Shore High School made Carol Barwick a staunch supporter of this Choral program grew from thirty-five students to more outstanding community chorus. After retiring from than five hundred and twenty-five students winning 30 years as a public school choral music teacher, she multiple Sweepstakes each year at UIL Concert and began working to make the dream of establishing a Bay Sight-reading Contest as well as trophies at regional and Area children’s chorus a reality. With the support of the nation music competitions. In 1994 the North Shore Bay Area Chorus, the Bay Area Youth SingersAdvisory began Chorale Board was named “Grand Champion of Texas” in rehearsals and performances in the spring of 2008. the American Classic Music Festivals and performed as Carol serves as the volunteer executive director of this a state honor choir at the 1996 Texas Music Educator music education organization. Carol is also the founder Association State Convention. Mr. Harris brought this and director of the Summer Music Camp for elementary same commitment to excellence to his tenure as Director and middle school students, co-sponsored by the Bay of Fine Arts as he supervises a 120 member staff in Area Youth Singers, Bay Area Chorus, and University music, art, theater and dance and a budget just shy of one Baptist Church. She maintains an independent piano million dollars for the Arts education of 22,000 students. studio and is a frequent accompanist in the Clear Lake Even though every school in GPISD is a Title I campus area. Her second career as owner/president of B & B with a population that is 70 percent economically Steel Products (a small manufacturing company) began disadvantaged and 78 percent Hispanic, GPISD Fine in 2005. Carol hopes that her experiences as a musician Arts organizations consistently out perform their more and businesswoman help her serve effectively on the affluent suburban peers at UIL competitions. “The Arts advisory board of the Bay Area Chorus. are for everyone, not just those with the economic means to achieve according to conventional wisdom.” Linda Fletcher Linda Fletcher is the Director of Fine Arts for the Deborah Kidwell Pasadena Independent School District. She has devoted Deborah Kidwell served public music education for 35 years to music education, teaching elementary music 33 years. After teaching orchestra in Baytown for eight and intermediate and high school choral music. Linda years, she continued teaching and serving in Clear Creek received her Bachelor of Music Education with vocal ISD for 25 years. She taught all levels of orchestra there emphasis from Sam Houston State University. She earned until 2003, when she became the Director of Visual and the Master of Science in Education Administration Performing Arts for Clear Creek ISD. She retired from degree from the University of Houston/Clear Lake. public education in 2007. She was named the Texas Linda is an advocate for the arts in education and in all Art Education Association Educator of the Year for aspects of life. Administration/Supervision for 2007. Deborah serves as a synchronized swimming judge, a UIL Orchestra Sam Harris judge throughout the state and has served as a consultant Sam Harris is in his twenty-sixth year of public for school districts. She is an active church musician at education as Director of Academic Enrichment and Fine Webster Presbyterian Church as a violinist and directs Arts for the Galena Park Independent School District. hand bell and recorder groups there. She serves on the Prior to assuming this position in 2000 he spent fifteen executive boards for two community music organizations years as the choral director at North Shore High School. in the Houston area. She is past president of the Texas Sam received his Bachelor of Music degree and his Master Orchestra Directors Association. Deborah holds of Music degree from Texas State University (formerly Bachelor of Music and Master of Education degrees from the University of Houston. Deborah is married to James been Orchestra Vice-President of Texas Music Educator’s Kidwell, who taught orchestras in Texas for 35 years, Association, as well as Orchestra Chair for three TMEA has three married children and seven grandchildren. Regions. James is a former board member and President Deborah feels that the Bay Area Chorus is a vital and of the Texas Orchestra Director’s Association, and important part of the Bay Area community and wishes received that organization’s Orchestra Director of the to support and promote the chorus in any way she can. Year Award in 2008. He is an active adjudicator for UIL and festival competition and is a frequent clinician for James Kidwell orchestras throughout the Houston area. James Kidwell, retired in 2004 from an accomplished career as a public school orchestra director/ teacher, Mr. Kidwell is active in the music program at Webster grades 5-12. He taught a total of 35 years, 28 at Clear Presbyterian Church, playing in string ensembles, the Lake High School and other CCISD schools. Since recorder consort, and small hand bell ensemble. He has retiring, Mr. Kidwell has taught string education classes been the director of the adult hand bell choir for the at the University of Houston Moores School of Music last 19 years, and has served as a Church Elder. James and currently is a part-time employee of Lisle Violin and his wife Deborah have three children and seven Shop. James is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University grandchildren. (BA, Ed) and Texas Tech University (MME), and has also taught in Lubbock ISD, and Carrollton-Farmer’s Dean Muths Branch ISD, where he also served as String Supervisor. Dean Muths is the Director of Visual and Performing He was Fine Arts Department Head at CLHS, and Arts for the Clear Creek Independent School District. conducted the orchestra for many of the Senior He has lived in the Clear Lake area since 1964 and Musicals. In 2000, James was the Space Center Rotary graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1975. He nominee from CLHS for the CCISD Secondary Teacher has a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Sam of the year, and was named runner-up. Among the many Houston State University and has a Master of Music awards his CLHS orchestras received was being named Education and a Master of Education Administration the 1990-91 TMEA High School Full Honor Orchestra. degree from the University of Houston. Mr. Muths has Mr. Kidwell always encouraged his students to strive to served 30 years in education at Clear Creek ISD as a be the best they could be as individuals, musicians, and band director, assistant principal and principal. He and ensemble members. his wife Liz have been married for 27 years and they have two children, Sarah and Ben. James was on the founding Steering Committee Gary Vincent Navy (Advisory Board) of the Clear Lake Symphony, and also Gary Vincent Navy is a graduate of College of the Associate Conductor for several years. Mr. Kidwell has Mainland and earned a B.M. from ETSU. He debuted with Houston Grand Opera in Jonathan Wade, is a Tim Vaughn member of Houston Ebony Opera Guild, The New Tim Vaughn, currently the Fine Arts Director in Galveston Heritage Chorale and Barbara Tucker’s A Goose Creek CISD, was a choral director in Texas public Chosen Few. He is a guest cantor/soloist in churches/ schools for 30 years. He spent the last 20 years of his synagogues throughout the area. Also involved in teaching career at Ross S. Sterling High School where Community Theater Productions, Mr. Navy, a his choirs achieved 15 consecutive years of sweepstakes former music educator, has performed with Opera ratings at UIL contests. Mr. Vaughn’s choirs were chosen in the Heights, the Bay Area Chorus, the Houston to perform at the Texas Music Educators Association Masterworks Chorus and the Galveston Symphony. convention in 2005 and 2008 along with the Texas Gary is the Coordinator of Liturgy and Music at Shrine Association of School Administrators convention in 2006. of the True Cross Catholic Church in Dickinson. An active member of TMEA, Mr. Vaughn has served as region choir organizer, region vocal chairman, auditions A. Jan Taylor host, all-state section leader, area vocal chairman, and A. Jan Taylor, a Houston native, received the Bachelor UIL vocal contest chairman and stays busy as a UIL of Music degree from the University of Houston and the adjudicator and clinician for choirs preparing for concert Master of Arts degree from Prairie View A&M University. and sight reading contests. He has also served as an She is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts All-Region clinician for several regions across the state. degree in Choral Conducting at the University of Mr. Vaughn’s other honors include Goose Creek CISD Houston. Her 1996 appointment as Director of Choral Teacher of the Year in 2005, Deer Park Hall of Honor in Activities at Prairie View A & M University followed a 2006 and Class Nobel Educator of Distinction in 2007. successful teaching career as piano instructor and choral He earned his bachelor’s degree in Music Education from director in the Houston Independent School District. the University of North Texas in 1979 and completed his master’s degree in Music Education at the University As a conductor, Mrs. Taylor has been associated with of Houston in 1988. He resides in Deer Park with his the Singing Boys of Houston Preparatory Choir and the wife Sheri, who is the coordinator for the superintendent Houston Ebony Opera Guild and is founding director and board services for Deer Park ISD. The Vaughn’s of Intermezzo, a professional vocal ensemble. She has have one daughter, Jeni, who teaches elementary music served as adjudicator and choral clinician for numerous in Deer Park ISD, and have also been blessed with twin choral festivals, and as a church choir director and grandsons, Blaine and Grady. accompanist. Mrs. Taylor served as Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony Chorus from 2003 until 2006.

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.”

— William Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice Arts in the Community

Elizabeth Dennard Ed.D, LPC from Tulane University in New Orleans and, after Beth Dennard, is the director and principal counselor conducting research in cell biology at Baylor College of of Bright Futures Consulting. She founded Bright Medicine here in Houston, went on to earn his Doctor Futures Consulting (BFC) in 1999 and her company of Dental Surgery from The University of Texas Health offers personalized career counseling, expert college Science Center Dental Branch in San Antonio, where planning and coaching for life direction. Beth and her he conducted research on an assortment of biomaterials associates help people truly know themselves, make a used in dentistry today. He is a member of the American plan and succeed. BFC offers individualizedAdvisory guidance Dental Board Association, the Texas Dental Association during life transitions, specifically: high school to college, and the Greater Houston Dental Society. He is also a college to graduate school and school to the workplace. member and past president of Delta Sigma Delta Dental BFC emphasizes finding the right next step with a focus Fraternity. Dr. Gordon and his wife Lauri, a biomedical on funding strategies. At Bright Futures Consulting we engineer, have three children and stay active locally, believe that each person is uniquely gifted for a life of supporting and hosting various fundraisers for the purpose, which inspired the Bay Area Chorus Music community and teaching together at the Kindergarten Education Scholarship. Dr. Dennard sponsored this level at their church. Dr. Gordon’s interests include scholarship for a high school student who plans to major running, bowling, golf and creating jewelry. in Music Education. Music makes life enjoyable and the world a better place and we have music educators to thank Bette Johnson for teaching and inspiring students to pursue music. Bette has lived in Nassau Bay since 1976. She volunteered for the Nassau Bay EMS for 25 years. Bette Priscilla Ennis was in the first Reading Recovery training class for Clear Priscilla Ennis came to the Bay Area when her husband Creek ISD and taught Reading Recovery for 17 years. Bob came to work on the Space Shuttle. Ennis received She retired from McWhirter Elementary after teaching her BA degree from Rhodes College in Memphis, there for 23 rewarding years. She also just retired from Tennessee. Her career in real estate has spanned more than Nassau Bay City council after serving for 8 years. Bette 35 years. In recent years she has consistently been the top is married, has five children and six grandchildren. producing agent with Re/Max Space Center. A church choir member for 33 years, Ennis has been involved with Jami Lupold Clear Lake Pan Hellenic and the Clear Lake Symphony Jami Lupold graduated from Texas Tech University League. She loves music and is very happy supporting and has brought wonderful learning experiences to life the BAC, in fact, Ennis has donated $1000 each year for students and educators through music education toward a BAC scholarship for a deserving high school for over 24 years. As Co-Director of the “Building senior planning to study music. Cultural Bridges” program at Pearl Hall Elementary Jami has hosted musicians, astronauts, engineers and Dr. David R. Gordon scientists from around the globe, using the common Dr. Gordon has been practicing dentistry in the language of music to bring the culture and science Clear Lake area since 1990. Throughout the years, the of the world directly to thousands of students. Jami mission for Dr. Gordon and his experienced team has and her education team, which includes her mom, remained consistent: to provide the highest quality of Pat Surface, have guided teachers to push beyond treatment in a personal, caring environment. While Dr. the borders of their school/community, developing Gordon performs a wide array of dental procedures, methods that connect public school education on an his focus is primarily on cosmetic and reconstructive international level. Her communication skills have dentistry. Dr. Gordon received dual bachelor degrees helped build a strong network of adults from across the planet, linking the NASA Johnson Space Center, Pat Swartley the CSA and other international Space Agencies, as Pat Swartley is a long time supporter of the Clear Lake well as the Houston Symphony to bring the world to Symphony and the Bay Area Chorus. She has assisted her school. Together, their team of teachers at Pearl the Clear Lake Symphony with PR and fund raising for Hall have provided unique opportunities for teachers over 25 years and now brings that experience to BAC to support and enhance their students’ education. All as a member of the Advisory Board. A former band students, regardless of experience or ability level, are director, Pat has played and taught clarinet most of her immersed in exploring worlds of international music, adult life and is presently teaching clarinet for CCISD. science, technology, literature and cultures as we help prepare them to be leaders in an exciting future, meeting Rick Tegeler global challenges with confidence and compassion. Richard G. Tegeler is the director of traditional Jami was selected to attend the prestigious Yale Music worship at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church where he directs Symposium in June, 2011 and will be presenting at the the adult choir, youth choirs and celebration orchestra. 2012 Texas Music Educators Association Convention. He has a master’s degree in vocal performance from the Jami teaches K-4 music, has a private flute studio and University of Houston and a bachelor’s degree in music is the owner/photographer of JL Photography: “On education from Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa. Mr. Location Photography: when and where you need it!” Tegeler has taught choral music for 20 years in Iowa and Texas. He has taught music at all levels; preschool Ralph Parr through adults. He was the choir director for the award Ralph Parr is a lifelong resident of the Bay Area winning Des Moines Christian High School Choir and a product of the Clear Creek schools. A strong from 1998 – 2004. He also taught music at Garfield advocate for the arts, he was a founder and the first Elementary School in the Pasadena Independent School president of the Clear Creek Country Theatre. He District for 9 years. He and his wife Valerie owned and retired from CCISD in 1994 after 35 years of service operated The Music and Movement Center, an early as a teacher and administrator and has been a member childhood music studio in Des Moines, Iowa. Rick of the CCISD Board of Trustees for 12 years. Ralph is a has sung with The Des Moines Metro Opera as well as licensed real estate salesperson and works with his wife OPERA IOWA. Mr. Tegeler is a member of the Texas Claudia and son Richard in the Parr Team for Coldwell Choral Directors Association and Choristers Guild. Banker United, Realtors. He was honored by CCISD Rick and his wife Valerie have four children. when Ralph Parr Elementary School opened in August of 2009 on Highway 3 south, in League City. Ralph Susan Venier regularly attends concerts, plays and other fine arts Susan Venier brings Deztinktiv INTERIORS to activities, but his favotie is choral music, especially the custom decorate your home with the simple elegance Bay Area Chorus! you desire. Having been an eighteen-year franchise owner with Interiors by Decorating Den, Susan has Dan Patterson stepped forward with a business face lift to continue A retired computer professional, Dan Patterson now serving her clients with her decorating talent and years volunteers in the Literacy Lab at Falcon Pass Elementary of experience. Susan enjoys designing homes that reflect and likes working there very much. He moved to a client’s lifestyle. She comes to you in the comfort of Clear Lake from Philadelphia in 1999 and loves living your home or business with the latest in decorating in Houston. He has had a life-long interest in music, products. Susan’s appreciation for the arts extends particular in opera and vocal music, and is an ardent from her accomplishments as a flutist which won her supporter of the Arts. His life in recent years has a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma. However, centered around helping to raise his beloved great-great- her passion for combining color, design, and texture nieces Taylor and Vicky, who are both very musical. won out. Forgoing the music scholarship Susan pursued her Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design. Mary Voigt the Luther College Nordic Choir and many more. Mary Voigt, B. A., M.B.A., retired last year as the Mary is married with two grown daughters and five Director of Worship, Music and the Arts at Gloria Dei grandchildren and lives in the Clear Lake area. Lutheran Church in Nassau Bay after 15 years of service. Before this, she served as the Regional Director for Brian Worrell Rapha, a company providing Christian psychiatric and Music has always been a huge part of Brian Worrell’s substance abuse treatment programs, and worked in a life. He sings in addition to playing trumpet, guitar, variety of hospital administration positions at St Joseph, classical guitar, and piano — he says he doesn’t play any of Park Plaza and Sharpstown hospitals. them well. His love for music has been passed to his two children, ages six and three, who love to sing and dance Mary enjoyed singing with the Bay Area Chorus around the house while banging anything that remotely many years ago and has spent the past 19 years singing resembles an instrument. Brian’s other hobbies include with the Houston Symphony Chorus. She is currently playing pickelball, kayaking, and traveling. He and his serving as Vice President of Programs for the Houston wife recently began a mission to visit all of the National Symphony League Bay Area. She founded and served Parks as well as all seven continents. He is hoping to as the Executive Director of the Arts at Gloria Dei, a live past 100 in order to fit all of it in. Brian became a performing arts series that featured groups such as the fan and supporter of BAC after watching several of his Glenn Miller Orchestra, Ballet Magnificat, the Boston friends perform in the chorus. In addition, Brian works Brass, the Philadelphia Organ Quartet as well as top as a REALTOR with Prudential Gary Greene and also choirs from across the country such as the Westminster helped to redesign the BAC website. Choir, the American Boy Choir, the St Olaf Choir,

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• Uplifting presentations for theSupport community- the Bay Area Chorus at-large • Scholarships for the study of choral music performance • Opportunities for children’s middle school, high school, college, university and church choirs • Artistic growth and development for volunteer singers • Engagements for professional musicians • Professional growth for area music educators Bay Area mn Chorus “I always loved Directors music; whoso has 1965-2012 skill in this art is of a good temperament, Estred Schwantes 1965 fitted for all things. We must teach Paul Ofield music in schools; a 1965 - 1967 schoolmaster ought to Robert Herring have skill in music, 1965 or I would not regard him; Robert Bennett neither should we 1965

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The Bay Area Chorus Randalls When you use your Randall’s Remarkable Card, you can help the Bay Area Chorus. Visit bayareachorus.org or your Randall’s Courtesy Booth and ask for a Good Neighbor Program application. Complete the form and enter BAC charity #2318. Then, every time you shop at Randall’s, a portion of your purchase will benefit the chorus.Other Ways to Support Kroger You can support the Bay Area Chorus when shopping at Kroger by setting up a Neighbor to Neighbor Account with Bay Area Chorus as the recipient. To set up your BAC account, go to bayareachorus.org to download and print our Kroger donation letter. Take this letter to your Kroger cashier. They will scan your KrogerPlus Card and the BAC barcode included on the letter. You only have to present this letter to the cashier once. After that, each time you shop and present your KrogerPlus card at checkout, Kroger will donate a portion of their earnings to Bay Area Chorus.

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Sally Schott Estate Planning • Wills & Trusts • Business Law Coordinator of Planning & Development Probate & Estate Administration = 281.956.1065 = A Pasadena ISD Choral Director from 1965-2004, Sally Schott currently supervises UH and SHSU Board Certified - Estate Planning and Probate Law student teachers and is an educational consultant Texas Board of Legal Specialization for American Classic Music Festivals, the Houston Chamber Choir and several area school districts. www.kslawhouston.com Ms. Schott is past president and state vocal chair 1560 W. Bay Area Blvd., Suite 260 • Friendswood, TX 77546 of the Texas Music Educators Association and past president of the Southwestern Division of the American Choral Directors Association. She has served as a clinician or guest conductor for universities and professional conferences in 25 states. Recent professional activities including presenting at the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 state conventions of the Texas Music Educators Association and the Texas Choral Directors Association and serving as an adjudicator for choral competitions throughout Texas. Her awards include PISD High School Teacher of the Year (1979), Texas Excellence Award for Outstanding High School Teachers (1989), the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Alumni Hall of Fame (1996), the South Houston High School Honored Former Faculty Member (2007) and the Texas Choral Directors Association Choral Excellence Award (2008). Ms. Schott is a member of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in America. A founding partner of Alliance Music Publications, other publishing projects include two state-adopted secondary textbooks and a monograph for the American Choral Directors Association. Recent collaborations include four sight reading books for secondary choirs and, for Schott Bradshaw Publishers, John Yarrington’s book “Have We Had This Conversation” and a DVD featuring Sandra Snow, “Conductor/Teacher: Real-World Strategies for Success”. Educational

DVDs featuring Paul Salamunovich and Weston A Tapestry of Voices: Noble were produced by Quaid/Schott Media Celebration The Bay Area Chorus Productions in 2005-2006. The Bay Area Chorus 47th Season appears throughout the Noble DVD, which was A Tapestry of Voices Saturday, December 3, 4:00 p.m. filmed at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Ms. Schott Chapel of the Villa de Matel 6510 Lawndale, Houston, TX 77023-3913 Guests: St. Anne Catholic School Children’s Choir Jennifer Robbins, Director

Sunday, December 4, 3:00 p.m. Chapel of the Villa de Matel has been a consultant for the Bay Area Chorus Guests: Houston Boychoir Program Design/Layout, Sandy Newcomb Carole Nelson, Artistic Director Ken Sink, Director

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