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The Dale Warland Singers 2

Dale Warland 4

Larry Bach 5

Frank Ferko 5

Program 6

Program notes and texts 7

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Recordings 19 • 2001-02 Annual Fund Donors 20

Acknowledgements 22

Mission Statement and Board of Directors 24

executive director's letter

Welcome to our 2001-2002 season as we celebrate nearly thirty years of great concerts, critically acclaimed recordings and popular national broadcasts. This season promises to be one filled with something for everyone---choral favorites, DWSclassics and brand new works.

We are still basking in the glow of Dale Warland's appointment as the 2001 McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist. Dale shares this honor with only three other Minnesota artists: composer , poet Robert Bly and potter Warren McKenzie. For more information about this award and the others Dale and the Singers have received, please check our website: Gayle Ober, executive www.dalewarlandsingers.org. director The DWSstaff and Board have spent the summer working on our new Strategic and Business Plan. This comprehensive plan will guide the organiza- tion as we plan our activities and programs for the next 3-5 years. It is an ex- tensive and aggressive plan and we are all excited to get started on it. Watch for more information about our plans for the future on our website.

We've moved!! Our new offices in the Midway area of St. Paul are wonderful. We not only gained much needed office and meeting space, but also plenty of free parking. DWSis particularly grateful to the Katherine B. Andersen Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation for providing the funding for the move. We also thank the many corporations who gave us gifts of office furnishings and the volunteers who helped us pack and unpack. Officehours are Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. Visitors are welcome anytime.

The Dale Warland Singers ended its 2000-01 season with a balanced budget. This was possible because of the amazing generosity of our donors, benefit event attendees, singers, staff and Board members. We also thank you, our subscribers and ticket buyers. Our music is for you, and if you like what you hear tonight, we hope you will bring a friend or two along to our December concerts, Echoes of Christmas and Home for the Holidays!

1 the dale warland singers

Now in its twenty-ninth season of featured regularly on Public Radio concerts, tours, radio broadcasts, International's Saint Paul Sunday. and critically acclaimed recordings, The annual Echoes of Christmas and the Dale Warland Singers is recog- Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach nized as one of the world's foremost listeners nationwide. The First Art a cappella choral ensembles. The and Performance Today often feature choir, consisting of 40 professional the Dale Warland Singers. singers, is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Dale Warland Singers also performs in collaboration with other The Dale Warland Singers has Twin Cities arts organizations such earned a reputation for its commit- as the Saint Paul Chamber ment to commissioning and perform- Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, ing new choral music. The ensemble and the James Sewell Ballet. The has kept the choral genre fresh and Singers have worked under the alive by commissioning works from batons ofthe late , DominickArgento, , Hugh Wolff,Edo de Waart, Leonard , Carol Barnett, George Slatkin, Bobby McFerrin, David Shearing, Peter Schickele, Bernard Zinman, and Roger Norrington. Rands, Frank Ferko, Brent Michael Davids, Mary Ellen Childs, Janika The Dale Warland Singers records on Vandervelde, Aaron Jay Kernis and the American Choral Catalog label. Augusta Read Thomas, among oth- During the 1999-2000season, the ers. The Dale Warland Singers' cho- choir released a new recording fea- ral ventures '" program solicits turing Leonard Bernstein's Chiches- works from emerging composers, ter Psalms and Benjamin Britten's and through this program, over Rejoice in the Lamb. Past recordings $100,000in commissions have been include Blue Wheat, a collection of awarded to over fiftytalented musi- American folkmusic which The Seat- cians. tle Times describes as, "the loveliest choral disc to emerge in a long In 1992,the Dale Warland Singers time ... sung by what is probably became the first-ever recipient of the America's best chorus." Another of Margaret Hillis Achievement Award the Singers' lauded releases is De- for Choral Excellence. The organiza- cember Stillness, which BBC Music tion shares this honor only with Magazine gave its highest rating for Chanticleer and the Vancouver performance and sound, calling it, Chamber Choir among professional ..... splendid, melting stuff." The choirs. The group's extraordinary South Jersey's Courier-Post called efforts on behalf of composers and the 1994release of Cathedral Clas- new music resulted in ASCAP sics, "an unmatched musical experi- Awards for Adventurous Program- ence," while The Oregonian stated ming in 1992, 1993, 1996,and 1999. simply, "peerless." Earlier re- cordings by the Singers include, In addition to a subscription season Fancie, A Rose in Winter, Christmas in the Twin Cities, the Dale Warland Echoes, Carols for Christmas, Choral Singers tours throughout the United Currents, as well as 12others. States and abroad. In 1990,the en- semble traveled to Stockholm and Helsinki to represent North America at the Second World Symposium on Choral Music. During the 1999-2000 concert season, the group toured the Southeastern United States. It has appeared on Garrison Keillor's origi- nal A Prairie Home Companion and is

2 Soprano Tenor

Sara Dick Jared L. Anderson* Marie Spar Dymit* Joel Beyer Pamela Marentette Joel C. Fischer Melissa Morey Eric N. Hopkins Melissa O'Neill Justin Karch Deborah Loon Osgood David Nordli Sarah Schlomer Hal Snyder Dawn Schuffenhauer Gregory Tambomino Monica Stratton

Alto Bass

Kelly Becker Jeffrey Bipes Matthew Culloton* Sara Boos Dave Jacobson Joanne Halvorsen* Brian Kremer Lynette Johnson Michael Meyer Mary C. Maiden Muller Kevin Michael Norberg Krista Palmquist Tim O'Brien Karin Wolverton Brian E. Petty Brad Runyan Terry Sheetz Brian L. Steele * section leader

3 dale warland, founder and music director

The 2001-2002 season marks founder Dale Warland's twenty-ninth season as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his profes- sionallife to attaining the highest artistic level in choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to detail, he has built one of the finest choral en- sembles in the United States. Under Warland's leadership, the Dale Warland Singers has thrilled choral music enthusiasts not just in its Twin Cities home, but throughout North America and Europe.

This year Dale Warland received the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conductor and his contin- ued contribution to the arts in Minnesota.

Warland's outstanding accomplishments in the field of choral music were also recognized in June 1995, when he received the Michael Korn Founder's Award Dale Warland, founder and at the annual Chorus America Conference in Seattle. This award, the highest musical director honor for a choral conductor in the United States, has previously been give to outstanding choral conductors such as Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner.

In addition to his active schedule as Music Director of the Dale Warland Sing- ers, Warland is in demand as a guest conductor, lecturer, composer and clini- cian. He has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. At Kryzstof Penderecki's request, Warland has prepared The Passion According to St. Luke for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1990, he also prepared Penderecki's Polish Requiem. Warland has served on the faculty of the All- Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan, and has lec- tured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Most recently, he has been featured as guest conductor at Grant Park Music Festival, with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Chamber Artists and Estonian Philhar- monic Chamber Choir. This year Dr. Warland will be leading concerts and workshops at Eastman School of Music, Seattle's Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, and the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain.

Warland is an active composer and a member of the American Society of Com- posers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He has served as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts and has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Before devoting himself full-time to the Dale Warland Singers, Warland main- tained an academic career which included 19 years as Director of Choral Music at , St. Paul. He holds degrees from St. Olaf College, the , the University of Southern California, and has re- ceived distinguished alumni awards from two institutions. Warland also holds an honorary doctorate from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

4 artistic staff

Lawrence Bach, assistant conductor, serves as the chairman of the Fine Arts Department at North Central University in Minneapolis, where he is in his twenty-first year. His work at NCUincludes teaching classes in conducting and voice and directing the Concert Chorale.

The Concert Chorale has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia singing in churches, schools and concert halls. The Chorale Lawrence Bach, assistant has taken 13trips overseas and has performed with the Bruckner String Quar- conductor tet in Salzburg, Austria, and the Oberursel Chamber Orchestra in Frankfurt, Germany. The group has also performed at several ofthe Minnesota State American Choral Directors Conventions.

For six years, Mr. Bach sang with the Dale Warland Singers. He has also sung under the direction of Helmuth Rilling,Eric Erickson and Robert Shaw. Mr. Bach is a frequent guest conductor and clinician for school and church choir festivals. In May 2001, he had his debut performance at Carnegie Hall as a guest conductor for Mid-America Productions.

Frank Ferko is a well-established composer who has specialized in composi- tions for the voice, particularly for choral ensembles. His music has been per- formed by a variety of distinguished ensembles, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce, Magnum Chorum, and the American Repertory Singers. In 2000 his music was presented in live performances or on radio broadcasts in thirty countries around the world.

Winner of a variety of awards including three fellowships from the Illinois Arts Frank Ferko, composer-in- Council, the Padrone-Kantscheidt Award from Northwestern University and residence annual ASCAPAwards for the past 13years, Ferko's work has received high critical acclaim in The American Record Guide, Fanfare, Chicago Tribune, Chi- cago Sun Times, The Diapason, The American Organist and the British journal, Choir and Organ. In 1997,Ferko was the winner of the Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program.

Ferko holds degrees from Valparaiso University, Syracuse University and Northwestern University. In addition to composing, he has lectured and pub- lished articles on specific aspects of 20th century music.

5 Americana: Musical Mavericks Friday, October 26, 2001 St. Philip the Deacon Saturday, October 27,2001 Ted Mann Concert Hall Sponsored by MarshallField's I. AMERICAN MAVERICKS Project Imagine (please hold applause until the end of each set)

Circus Band Charles Ives Nature's Way Charles Ives Peppercorn Songs Eric Stokes

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She Is One of Us Brent Michael Davids

III. AMERICAN FOLK SONGS

Skip to My Lou Ed Fissinger Wayfarin' Stranger Gilbert M. Martin Shady Grove (world premiere) Chen Yi Written to celebrate the 75th birthday of Margery Walker Pearcethrough a gift given by M. Walker Pearceand Jack Weatherford with matching funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts The Road Home (world premiere) Stephen Paulus Commissionedby Timothy and Gayle Oberin celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary with matching funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain (world premiere) Emma Lou Diemer Made possible through a gift given by Vern Sutton with matching funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts .

••••INTERMISSION ••••

Instrumentalists: IV. Dwight Bigler, piano Jared Anderson, piano A Share in this Loveliness (world premiere) Zhang Ying Brent Michael Davids, Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds crystal flute provided by the JeromeFoundation

Zhang Ying, xun V. SHEARING MEETS SHAKESPEARE Maren Drews, harp Sigh No More, Ladies, from Music to Hear George Shearing Jay Johnson, percussion Spring, from Songs & Sonnets Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, from Music to Hear

VI. SPIRITUALS Composer appearances at these concerts made possible through generous funding My Soul Has Been Anchored in the Lord (world premiere) Carol Barnett from "Meet the Composer." Written in memory of Tim Peter through a gift from Jim, Donna and Wendy Peter Funding from Meet the Composer, Inc. is provided with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. with the support of National We Shall Walk Through the Valley W. Appling/Joseph Jennings Endowment for the Arts, My Lord, What a Mornin' Harry T. Burleigh Jerome Foundation, ASCAP and Virgil Thomson Wade in the Water Norman Luboff Foundation.

6 Program Notes By Brian Newhouse

Americana: Musical Mavericks

I. American Mavericks Charles Ives: Circus Band; Nature's Way

"Stand up and use your ears like a man!" was just one of Charles Ives' favorite rebukes when an audience member blanched at a new work of his. Ives was The American Original, his thorny expression nearly always rubbing against the grain of convention. He came by it naturally. His father was an inveterate musical experimenter and often gathered his family to sing Swanee River in the key of E-flat-while he accompanied them in C, "in order," Charles wrote, "to stretch our ears and strengthen our musical minds." Another abiding memory for Ives was listening to small-town Connecticut parade bands march toward and away from each other, their sounds mixed in "a grand and glorious noise." Circus Band stems from that childhood experience, while Nature's Way is evidence of Ives' seldom-seen softer side.

Nature's Way

When the distant evening bell calmly breathes its blessing, When the moonlight to the trees speaks in words caressing, When the stars with radiance gaze towards the sleeping flowers, Then does nature bare her soul, giving strength to ours.

Eric Stokes: Peppercorn Songs

Eric Stokes was Minnesota's main musical maverick for years. At the Univer- sity of Minnesota from the 1960suntil his recent death, he encouraged his composition students to create outside the box. His own 1984Peppercorn Songs shows that knack for the unconventional even before the music begins: in a note to the performers he instructs them where they should "take out large colorfulhandkerchiefs" for sneezing, and exactly how the "metal and glass peppermills (halffull)" should be shaken in unison with the rhythms of the text. What would a score devoted to the joys of pepper be without these?

Peppercorn Songs

Blacke, smacke, blacke, smacke, blacke, smacke. Oh, pepper is blacke and hath a good smacke, And ev'ry man doth bye it.

In any cook's pot, it's pungent and hot. Oh, pepper is blacke and hath a good smacke. In soups and with fish, it makes a good dish, And ev'ry man doth bye it.

The sauce for the game lacking pepper is tame. Pepper is blacke and hath a good smacke. It's pungent and hot, and pepper is black In soups and with fish it hath a good smacke And ev'ry man doth bye it.

Ground fine, fresh ground fine. A learned Doctor said: "It causeth one to sneeze, Thus it cleanseth the brayne of flewmatyke humours, Such as snyvell and rewme. And pepper is also a deobstruent and resolvent, alexipharmic, diuretic, emmenagoggic, and a stimulant in case of snakebite."

7 Oh Piper nigrum, universal spice, black gold of far away Orient places. Dogs bark and the caravan passes and is gone, But true black pepper goes sprinkling on, ev'ry day.

II. Brent Michael Davids: She Is One of Us

Any musician wanting to create connections between Native American tribal music and Western compositional technique more than qualifies for maverick- dom. Minneapolis-based Brent Michael Davids, a member of the Mohican na- tion, is making an international name for himself by successfully doing just that. He writes, "American Indian songs are about relationships, empowering , ourselves to be in relationships, reminding ourselves of that." His new work, She Is One of Us, continues that cross-cultural bridge-building, but it also re- minds the listener of another, primal relationship.

She Is One of Us is a setting of an extended poem by Muskogee (Creek) poet Joy Harjo and the entire work was commissioned by the Racine Symphonic Chorus for a recent Earth Day celebration. The title is taken from a line in Harjo's poem and refers to the earth. Davids writes: "The most important as- pect of the text is that the earth is our relative-not an object to be used up by humans."

The score is divided into three connected sections, beginning with a long run of spoken text and an occasional sung note. Then the reverse occurs: most of the choir sings with occasional speaking. Finally, it all swirls together as eve- ryone sings. Keep your ear open for beautiful little touches, such as the pointil- listie sung notes early on which highlight the spoken text then melt away. The flute is another, alternately punctuating the text then becoming a new voice in the choir. (Pay attention also to this particular flute of David's: it is quartz crystal, hand-blown at high temperature and one-of-a-kind.) Near the end, the voices emphatically repeat the title line then die back like flames of a campfire and finally recede into the wind.

Davids is currently working on the first all-American-Indian opera, The Trial of Standing Bear and a new score for Chanticleer's 25th anniversary season. His music will also be featured this fall in the PBS special Continental Hannony.

She Is One of Us

IN PRAISE OF EARTH We kept on dancing last summer though the dancing had been called subversive. We weren't alone at the end of this particular world and we knew it wouldn't be the last world, though wars had broken out on all sides. With us were families of insects who had gathered at the grounds in the grasses and the trees. With us were the stars and a few lone planets who had been friends with the earth for generations. With us were the spirits of those who wished to honor this belov'd earth in any beautiful manner. And with us at dawn was the sun who took the lead. Then we broke for camp, for stickball and breakfast. We all needed praise made of the heart's tattoo. It inspired our feet, our wings someone to admire us despite our tendency to war, to terrible stumbles.

8 So did the red cliff who is the heart broken to the sky So did the stones who were the first to speak when we arrived So did the mountain who harbors guardian spirits; they refused to abandon us though we had forgotten them And this earth keeps faithfully to her journey, carrying us with her around the sun, all of us in our rags and riches, our rage and promises, small talk and suffering As we build cities of paper diapers and forgetfulness As we go to the store to buy our food and forget to plant, to sing, so we will be nourish'd in turn As we walk out into the dawn with our lists of desires that her gifts will fulfill, As she turns our tears into rivers of sweet water We spiral between dusking and dawn, wake up and sleep in this lush palace of creation, rooted by blood, dreams and history. We are linked by leaf, fin, and root. When we climb through the sky to each new day our thoughts are clouds shifting weather within us When we step out of our minds into ceremonial language we are humbled and amazed at the sacrifice And those who forget, become the people of stone who guard the entrance to remembering And the earth keeps up her dancing and she is neither perfect nor exactly in time. She is one of us. And she loves the dance for what it is So does the frangipagni tree wet with the happiness of flowers. So do the thousand birds who are singing about it as they shiver dry their wings So do the winds who thread the coconut palms with the blue sky and even the electric wires. So does the sun who calls the earth belov'd and praises her with light. -Joy Harjo

III. American Folk Songs

Ed Fissinger: Skip to My Lou Gilbert M. Martin: Wayfarin' Stranger Chen Vi: Shady Grove Stephen Paulus: The Road Home Emma Lou Diemer: She'll Be Comin'Round the Mountain

A folk tune is just like a party secret passed around a table. As it gets forwarded- from singer to singer or generation to generation-a word gets thrown out, maybe a new sharp or flat tossed in, and the song evolves. Case in point: She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain was originally an African American spiritual called When the Chariot Comes, but in the 1890s as railroad work gangs swung their hammers, they gave the song new words, looking forward to that day when the train, not the chariot, would be "comin' round the mountain."

9 Composers lovefolktunes forthat very factor ofmalleability.Here's a quintet ofold tunes dressed up by contemporary composers, the last three arranged expressly forthis concert. The music shrugs offanalysis-for instance, Chen Yicalls her version of Shady Grove simply a "happy, light, and humorous song." But the path Stephen Paulus took in creating his arrangement of The Road Home is also instructive of how tunes change nowadays. Last March he came across a melody called The Lone Wild Bird, an adaptation of the early-nineteenth cen- tury American song Prospect. He found several texts all based on this tune, none of them quite right for the slightly melancholic air of the melody, so he commissioned a new lyric from his longtime collaborator, poet Michael Dennis Browne. With the new words and old music married together, Paulus ad- vanced the whole creation with his innovative harmonization. Who knows- two days or two hundred years from now, someone may adapt Paulus' adapta- tion. The song goes on...

Shady Grove

Went to see my Shady Grove, Shady Grove my little love, She was standing in the door, Shady Grove I know, Shoes and stockings in her hand, Shady Grove my little love, Little bare feet on the floor. Bound for the Shady Grove.

Shady Grove, my little love, Wish I had a big fine horse, Shady Grove I know, Com to feed him on, Shady Grove my little love, Pretty little girl, stay at home, Bound for the Shady Grove. Feed him when I'm gone.

Cheeks as red as the blooming rose, Shady Grove my little love, Eyes of the deepest brown; Shady Grove I say, You are the darling of my heart, Shady Grove my little love, Stay till the sun goes down. Don't wait till the Judgment Day.

The Road Home

Tell me where is the road I can call my own, That I left, that I lost, So long ago? All these years I have wandered, Oh when will I know Rise up, follow me, There's a way, there's a road Come away is the call, That will lead me home? With the love in your heart As the only song; After wind, after rain, There is no such beauty When the dark is done, As where you belong, As I wake from a dream Rise up, follow me, In the gold of day, I will lead you home. Through the air there's a calling From far away, -Michael Dennis Browne There's a voice I can hear That will lead me home.

INTERMISSION

10 IV. Zhang Ying: A Share in this Loveliness

The last piece of music I wrote for the Dale Warland Singers was a winter composition, River Snow, performed in December 1997. This piece, A Share in This Loveliness, is also a combination of music and traditional Chinese poetry celebration, called Mid-Autumn Festival, centering on the moon and its lore.

Falling this year on October 1,Chinese families gather to feast, eat mooncakes, and gaze at the moon. In Chinese mythology, the moon is the dwelling place of the immortals. Tradition encourages moon-gazing on Mid-Autumn in ZhangYing hopes of glimpsing the legendary dragonboat that carries the immortals from the Moon Palace to the earth for a visit on this one night. In 1076A.D., the poet Su Shi wrote this now-famous poem as he gazed at the Mid-Autumn moon. The music I have written with this poem features the xun, a traditional Chinese pottery ocarina dating back 7,000years. This composition, a moon- cake of sound and memories, is my autumn gift to you. -ZhangYing

A Share in this Loveliness

[sung in Chinese] Bright moon, when was your birth? Winecup in hand, I ask the deep blue sky; Not knowing what year it is tonight In those celestial palaces on high. I long to fly back on the wind, Yet dread those crystal towers, those courts of jade, Freezing to death among those icy heights! Instead I rise to dance with my pale shadow; Better off,after all, in the world of men.

Rounding the red pavilion, Stooping to look through gauze windows, She shines on the sleepless. The moon should know no sadness; Why, then, is she always full when dear ones are parted? [sung in English] For men the grief of parting, joy of reunion, Just as the moon wanes and waxes, is bright or dim: Always some flaw-and so it has been since of old. My one wish for you, then, is long life, And a share in this loveliness far, far away! -SuShi (translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang)

v. Shakespeare Meets Shearing

By George Shearing: Sigh No More, Ladies, fromMusic to Hear Spring, fromSongs & Sonnets Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, fromMusic to Hear

A composer who wants to set Shakespeare to music often finds the task a mixed blessing. Onone hand is the obvious:it's Shakespeare, which means you'll look George Shearing long and hard to find richer source material. Onthe other hand, what makes his

11 lines so memorable is the presence of an indelible music already in the words. For instance:

Haply I think on thee, and then my state (like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate, For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

The composer has to aclmowledge the music (as well as the meter and meaning) in lines like these, but then somehow try to shape it to his own means, in his own voice. There are far more examples of failure than success.

GBorge Shearing is best lmown for his piano jazz virtuosity, but has a disarming lmack at creating elegant scores around Shakespeare. These are three texts from comedies: "Much Ado About Nothing" (Sigh No More, Ladies); "Love's Labour's Lost" (Spring); and "As You Like It" (Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind). Just the idea of grafting Elizabethan English with American jazz qualifies Shearing for inclusion in this program of mavericks. He pulls it off searnlessly-his lush harmonies and trademark swing very much in place--making it seem awfully easy.

Music to Hear: Songs from Shakespeare was commissioned for the Dale Warland Singers in 1985 with the support of IDS Financial Services, Inc.

VI. Spirituals

Carol Barnett: My Soul Has Been Anchored in the Lord w. Appling/Joseph Jennings: We Shall Walk Through the Valley Harry T. Burleigh: My Lord, What a Mornin' Norman Luboff: Wade in the Water

It's often said that jazz is the only original American art form. But jazz has its own set of roots and they delve deep into Southern soil and the songs of the slaves. Spirituals had a double function in plantation life. Outwardly, they lifted the soul of the oppressed. But they also held coded messages that could be sung right under the nose of an unsuspecting master. ("Wade in the water, children ... " Escape by river crossing?) No other American music has the weight and drama of history so woven into its fabric as these old tunes- which has made them all the more attractive to imaginative arrangers.

12 choral ventures"

For more information and The Dale Warland Singers choral for the Reading Session or creating submission guidelines please ventures 'r program is designed to completely new material. The world visit our web site: serve talented emerging composers premiere will take place during the www.dalewarlandsingers.org. who are at an early stage of career 2003-2004 concert season.

development, have not received Serving the choral ventures r acknowledgment as established program as the National Advisory professionals by other musicians and Committee are many world- arts professionals, and have had a renowned composers including limited number of major Philip Blackburn, Charles Bruffy, performances. Brent Michael Davids, Emma Lou Diemer, Frank Ferko, Adolphus Over 170 entries are currently being Hailstork, Aaron Jay Kernis, Morten reviewed by Dale Warland, Artistic Lauridsen, Stephen Paulus, Frances Director, and Frank Ferko, Richard, Gilbert Seeley, Augusta Composer-In-Residence for the Dale Read Thomas, Jon Washburn, Chen Warland Singers. Yi,and Judith Zaimont.

Four composers will be selected to Since 1987, fourteen works have participate in the Reading Sessions been commissioned. Each piece has on May 13 and 14, 2002. Each will received its world premiere on a be awarded a commission fee of Singers subscription concert. Past $1,500 plus travel expenses and will choral ventures 'r commission be required to write a new 5-7 recipients include Mary Ellen Childs, minute work for the Reading William Hawley, AlfHoukum, Jalalu- Session. Kalvert Nelson, Jackie T. Gabel, Janice Hamer, Jing Jing Luo, Lisa The general public is invited to Bielwa, Edie Hill,Frank Ferko, N. attend the Reading Session on May Lincoln Hanks, Jacqueline Jeeyoung 14 at 7:00 pm at Sundin Hall of Kim,KuiDong and J. Aaron Hamlin University. Admission is McDermid. The Dale Warland free. Singers will premiere Shui Diao Ge To & Song by the 2000 choral Following the Reading Session, one ventures" winner, KuiDong, on the of the four composers will be February 9, 2002 subscription awarded a $7,500 commission to concert, Fire and Drums. write a 10-15 minute work, either incorporating the music composed

For twenty-nine years,the Dale Warland Singers have been the leading force behind encouraging new choral music in America. Since 1972 the Singers have given world premiere performances of over 200 new compositions or ar- rangements. Composers who have had their works premiered by the Singers include, DominickArgento, Carol Barnett, Dave Brubeck, Brent Michael Davids, Paul Fetler, Lukas Foss, Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Bernard Rands, Steven Sametz, Peter Schickele, William Schuman, George Shearing, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, Aaron Jay Kernis and .

13 the singers

Soprano Beth Althof graduated from the University of Illinois with a music education degree. She is a teacher at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes and co-directs the children's choirs at St. Mark Lutheran Church. She was a member of the Elysian Singers, a five-voice early music group based in La Crosse, WI, and the LaCrosse Chamber Chorale before joining the DWS. She lives in White Bear Lake with her husband Jay, and their two daughters. This is Beth's seventh season with the Singers.

Jared Anderson holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance/ pedagogy and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Brigham Young University where he conducted the BYUSingers and the BYUWomen's Chorus and taught undergraduate courses in conducting and ear training. He is currently pursuing a DMAdegree in Choral Conducting at the University of Minnesota where he conducts the Men's Chorus. Jared is in his third year with the Singers where he serves as apprentice conductor, tenor section leader and office manager.

Kelly Becker is in her first season with the Dale Warland Singers. A graduate of St. Olaf College, she is currently student teaching at both Shakopee Jr. High and Sweeny Elementary School.

Abbie Betinis, an alto in her first year with the Singers, is a recent graduate of St. Olaf College where she was involved in vocal jazz groups, musical theater, band and the St. Olaf Choir. A music theory and composition major, she has also studied composition with faculty at Juilliard and the Paris Conservatory. Currently working for composer Libby Larsen, Abbie is a freelance copyist and composer. She is from Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Joel Beyer, tenor, is a third year member of the Singers. A native of Bottineau, North Dakota, he is a graduate of North Dakota State University with a B.S.in music education. He is a 14-year teaching veteran, currently teaching at Ap- ple Valley High School. Joel is a past state president of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)for the state of North Dakota.

Jeffrey Bipes holds a Bachelor of Music in K-12 Vocal Education from Concor- dia College in Moorhead, MN. He has directed 7 choirs at Dover-Eyota High School and various Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota. He has since moved into the "business world" as the VP of a telecommunications company, and is working for Best Buy Inc. Jeff sang with the Concordia College Choir, the Rochester Choral Arts Ensemble and the RCAEVocal Jazz Sextet before moving to the Twin Cities and joining the bass section of the DWS.

Sara Boos, alto, has music education degrees from Michigan State University and Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She has taught six years of K-12 vocal music in Michigan and Minnesota and currently teaches choir and voice at Roseville High School and voice at Mahtomedi High School. Sara is also the choir director at the First Presbyterian Church in White Bear Lake.

Baritone Bruce Broquist has a B.A.in music from St. Olaf College. He has been a soloist at Wayzata Community Church, Cross View Lutheran Church in Edina and at the Ft. Snelling Chapel. Bruce has sung in a variety of choirs: the Paul Kaye Singers; Plymouth Music Series; the Edina Chorale where he was bass section leader, and the Warland Cabaret Singers. This is his ninth year with the Singers. Bruce also owns his own business, "Three Chocolatiers."

Soprano Margaret Burton holds degrees in music and vocal performance from the University of Minnesota and an elementary education degree from the Col- lege of St. Catherine. She has performed with the University Opera Theater and the Bach Society/Sebastian Singers. A cantorial soloist for B'nai Israel

14 • Synagogue in Rochester, MN, she has also served as cantor and choir director for several synagogues in the Twin City area. She teaches general music and band at the St. Paul Talmud Torah Day School. This is her first season with the Singers.

A 1998graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN,bass Matthew Cullo- ton is now in his third season with the Singers. He is also Director of Choral Activities at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka. Matthew is the Male Choir Repertoire and Standards Chair for Minnesota's ACDAChapter. Also a com- poser and arranger, Matthew has works published with Hinshaw Music and Mark Foster (Shawnee Press).

Sara Dick, soprano, is enjoying her first season with the Dale Warland Singers. She has soloed with various Twin Cities choral projects and has sung with the Plymouth Music Series Chorus, the St. Paul Chamber Singers and the Thomas Circle Singers in Washington, DC. She works as a free-lance writer and radio producer.

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 perform- ing ensembles. She holds music degrees from St. Olaf College and Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. A frequently-heard soloist with the Singers, Marie recently completed her ninth recording with the ensemble.

Tenor Joel Fischer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Iowa State University. He has been a soloist at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis and at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Ply- mouth. Joel, in his fourth season with the DWS,is also an ensemble director and cantor at Most HolyTrinity Catholic Church in St. Louis Park.

Joanne Halvorsen, alto section leader, is beginning her twenty-fourth season with the Dale Warland Singers. As a member of the ensemble, she has toured to Europe, 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 Hopkins, a tenor from Oregon, IL,is beginning his third season with the Dale Warland Singers. Eric holds a Bachelor's degree in vocal music from Lu- ther College where he sang in the Nordic Choir under the direction of Weston Noble. He also sings with the Hosanna Choir of St. Steven's Lutheran Church in Bloomington.

David Jacobson is a free-lance baritone, having just begun his sixth 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 Con- sort. Currently, David performs with the Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers dur- ing the holidays, and is 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 vocal 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.

15 Tenor Justin Karch, in his second year with the Dale Warland Singers, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from North Dakota State University. He has been a soloist as well as president and secretary of the NDSU Concert Choir. He was also active in the NDSU Madrigal Singers and the Little Country Theater. Justin is currently a full-time, stay-at-home dad. In addition, he is a tenor section leader at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Edina and is a fan relations staff member for the Minnesota Twins.

Alto Shelley Kline has been a member of the Dale Warland Singers since 1991. She has taught choir in the Chaska School District for 15 years. Shelley has a B.A. in music education from St. Olaf College and an M.M. in choral conducting from the University of Colorado.

Baritone Brian Kremer is enjoying his third season with the singers. He holds a BM in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Brian recently co-produced the latest CD by the St. Paul-based a cap- pella group Dare to Breathe and has performed with the Gregorian Singers, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the St. Olaf Choir. Brian currently serves as cantor and section leader at St. Louis King of France Catholic Church in St. Paul.

Pamela Marentette, soprano, is thrilled to return to the DWS for a second sea- son. She holds Bachelor of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Music Education from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Pam has taught vocal and classroom music in Minnesota and Illinois.

Michael Meyer, bass, begins his second year with the Singers. He recently graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in economics. While at St. Olaf he served as a lead in two on-campus operas, as well as singing with the St. Olaf Choir. Michael currently works in the marketing department with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Soprano Melissa Morey begins her first season with the Dale Warland Singers this year. Originally from North Dakota, she is a graduate of St. Olaf College with a B.M. in Vocal Education. While at St. Olaf, Melissa was an active singer and horn player, performing with the St. Olaf Choir, St. Olaf Orchestra, and St. Olaf Band. She continues to sing and play in the Twin Cities in several profes- sional, semi-professional and community ensembles.

Mary C. Maiden Muller, 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.

Kevin Michael Norberg, bass, is delighted to be in his first season with the Singers. Kevin received a congressional appointment to the United States Military Academy at Westpoint after which he attended Bethel College in St. Paul. He was a founding member of the Minnesota Chorale, has sung with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and served as soloist/section leader at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. A professional actor, singer, and published composer, he has appeared nationally on stage and network televi- sion. Kevin is known in the Twin Cities for his roles of Tevye in "Fiddler On the Roof" and the Apostle Peter in the widely acclaimed North Heights Lu- theran Church "Passion Play," a role he has played for fourteen seasons.

16 Tenor David Nordli, a charter member of the Dale Warland Singers, is in his second season with the DWSafter a 23-year hiatus. David recently retired from 26 years as Vocal Music Director at Hopkins High School. He holds a B.A. degree from Luther College and a M.Mu.Ed. from the University of Minnesota. David has sung with the Festival Singers of Minneapolis, Concentus Musicus, and the Paul Kaye Singers. He is Principal Tenor Soloist with the Minnetonka Association of Music, as well as Director of Music and Chancel Choir Director at Robbinsdale United Church of Christ.

Baritone Tim O'Brien is a musicology student at the University of Minnesota. A 1999graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Tim joined the Singers that same year.

Melissa O'Neill, soprano, has sung with the Dale Warland Singers offand on since 1987. She has also performed locally with the Minnesota Opera Co., North Star Opera, Nautilus Music Theatre, and the Guthrie Theatre. Ber favor- ite roles include: "Despina" in Cosi Fan Tutte, "Fiona" in Brigadoon, "Anna Held" in Tintypes, and "Peepbo" in The Mikado. Melissa has shared the stage with Tony Sandler touring nationally in such shows as "An Evening of Lerner & Loewe" and "An Evening of Porter & Berlin" as a featured soloist. Most recently she was seen performing at the Ordway in INTOTHEWOODS. Melissa's all time favorite production was giving birth to her son Ian who is now 5 months old.

Deborah Loon Osgood joined the Dale Warland Singers in 1984and has been heard in DWSconcerts 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. She was selected in a competition as one of five senior soloists to perform with the St. Olaf Orchestra. In addition to her performances with the DWS,Deb has sung with Magnum Chorum and has served many area churches as a soloist and section leader. Deb is president of The Osgood Group, a consulting firm that helps clients meet their objectives through com- munications, leadership and management services. She specializes in provid- ing interim executive director services for non-profit organizations.

Krista Palmquist holds a BAin music performance from Bethel College in St. Paul, an MA in music performance from Eastern Michigan University and has nearly completed her DMAin music performance from the University of Minne- sota in Minneapolis. She is House Manager of Northrop Auditorium and so- prano soloist at the Cathedral of St. Paul. Krista is also an active art song reci- talist, performing music from a wide range of countries and musical peri- ods. Krista lives in St. Paul with her husband and three children. This is her first season with the Dale Warland Singers.

Baritone Brian E. Petty holds a bachelor degree in voice from Oklahoma State University and two masters degrees in voice and in speech and hearing sci- ence from The Ohio State University. He is a speech pathologist specializing in laryngeal trauma and vocal rehabilitation. A native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Brian is also active with the Minnesota Chorale and the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus. This is his second season with the DWS.

Brad Runyan has been a long-time member of the Minneapolis musical com- munity. Receiving his bachelors in theatre from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, and his masters in voice from the University of Minnesota, Brad has enjoyed a diverse life in the musical world. From teaching high school voice to opera companies in Europe, from rock bands to studio production, and from composition to singing with Dale, he is thankful for all. Brad lives in St. An- thony Village with his wife Kimand his 2 year old son, Nathan.

17 This is soprano Sarah Schlomer's first year with the Dale Warland Singers, having recently moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she graduated in May with a communications degree from Wisconsin Lutheran College and is currently working at Lifetouch Photography. She has participated in many choirs, groups, and solo singing projects throughout her life and looks forward to singing with the Dale Warland Singers.

Soprano Dawn Schuffenhauer is beginning her second season with the Sing- ers. A 2000 graduate of St. OlafCollege, Dawn is the director of Children's Music at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Hopkins. She is also a substitute elementary music teacher in districts throughout the Twin Cities area.

Terry Sheetz, baritone, holds a B.A.in music education and church music from Bethel College and an M.F.A.in choral conducting from the University of Min- nesota. He has served on the music faculties of Macalester College, Bethel College, and several community colleges in the Twin Cities. Terry has also served as assistant conductor of the Minnesota Chorale and Oratorio Society of Minnesota. He is presently a piano technician and church music director. Terry was a member of the Singers in 1974-75and recently returned in 1999.

Originally from Houston, TX,tenor Hal Snyder is in his third 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 KarlDent.

Baritone Brian L. Steele has enjoyed wearing a number of hats including ma- chinist, radio personality, church musician, recording artist, college voice in- structor and woodworker. He has been with the Singers since 1994. He and his wife Jackie, enjoy their recently restored 1886Victorian home.

Soprano Monica Stratton attended St. Olaf College and the New England Con- servatory of Music from which she received music degrees. She also holds a degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois. Monica sings and plays the violin at Guardian Angels Church in Oakdale, and works as a librar- ian for the Ramsey County Library in Shoreview.

Gregory Tambomino, tenor, is in his fourth year with the Singers. He has been active in choral singing since he was a boy chorister. Greg sang for many years as a countertenor, most notably performing and recording with Concentus Musicus Renaissance Ensembles. He is currently a soloist and section leader at the Church of St. Patrick in Edina. He received a degree in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota School of Music, studying with Alexander Braginsky. Greg is an attorney in sole practice, where he has served a number of music, arts, and nonprofit organizations.

Karin Wolverton recently graduated with a Masters in Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota where she has performed several roles as part of its Opera Theatre including the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and Nero in The Coronation of Poppea. She has performed regularly around the Twin Cities metropolitan area with the Bach Society, the Plymouth Music Series, The Institute for Vocal Artistry and the Second Church of Christ Scientist. She spends this season as a Minnesota Opera Studio Artist, performing in mainstage productions and education programs. She currently teaches voice at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Ms. Wolverton looks forward to her first season with the Dale Warland Singers.

18 recordings

For telephone or website Enjoy the unparalleled sound of the Dale Warland Singers in your own orders, each CD is $16.95 plus MN sales tax and home with this magnificent collection of CDs! $3.50 for shipping and handling. Bernstein and Britten - 1999

The Singers' newest recording features Bernstein's provocative Chichester Psalms and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, plus contemportary works by Rautavaara, Wertsch, Harlap, Albright, Hovland and Paulus. Blue Wheat - 1996 A delightful collection of American folk songs with an expressive range from joyous whimsy to placid profundity

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

Cathedral Classics - 1994 The ethereal sounds of Martin, Barber, Howells, and Allegri

Fancie - 1994

Music by Brahms, Britten, Vaughan Williams, plus light selections from the Warland Cabaret Singers and more

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

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1 & 2 - 1992 (Re-released 2001)

These CDs-available for the first time in a couple of years- contain a magical and refreshing collection of well-known and less-familiar Christmas carols

Carols for Christmas - 1987

A unique collection of arrangements of traditional Christmas carols by Minnesota composer Stephen Paulus.

These recordings are available during intermission and after the con- cert in the lobby.

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

19 2001-2002 annual fund donors july 1, 2000 to june 30, 2001

exultate ($25,000+) Xcel Energy Dr. Elisabeth R. Bennett, M.D. Katherine B. Andersen Fund James Ford Bell Foundation David and Jane Cooper of The St. Paul Foundation Lawrence M. and Elizabeth A= Marie Spar Dymit The Bush Foundation O'Shaughnessy Charitable Income Genevieve A. Ellefson Jerome Foundation Trust in honor of Lawrence M. Gerald B. and Catherine L. Fischer Mardag Foundation O'Shaughnessy Connie Fladeland and Steve Fox with The McKnight Foundation Jim and Donna Peter matching funds from Minnesota Minnesota State Arts Board Michael and Kathie Reeslund with Monthly matching funds from Dorsey & Roy and Delores Henderson Whitney LLP Nancy Erickson Hoffman Dan Schmechel and Mimi Wright with Sam and Thelma Hunter laudate ($10,000-24,999) matching funds from Ecolab Elizabeth A. Jensen Foundation Liberty State Bank Anonymous Vern Sutton Miller, Johnson, Steichen and Kinnard F. R. Bigelow Foundation Wenger Foundation Charlotte and Joseph Palmiter with The Ecolab Foundation Patricia Whitacre matching funds from the Emerson Carl and Charlotte Drake Electric Charitable Trust Marshall Fields Project David and Judy Ranheim with support from Imagine Paul A. Schmitt / Schmitt Music the Target Foundation Company General Mills Foundation encore ($1,000-2,499) Boake and Marion Sells Mike and Kay McCarthy ADC Telecommunications Glenn and Mary Steinke Mrs. John M. Musser Baker Foundation Joseph and Cynthia Tarnbornino Nancy and Everett Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Robert L. and Karen Veninga Rotenberry Griggs Burke Foundation Wells Fargo, Inc. Sewell Family Foundation Central Container Corporation Tom and Marty Whelan with matching The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia funds from Minnesota Monthly Pub- University lications Jim and Sherry Davis Mary Lee and Wallace Dayton ovation ($5,000-9,999) Glenna Dibrell and David Cummings Andersen Foundation Richard Geyerman applause ($250-499) Pete and Margie Ankeny James and Kathleen Haglund Anonymous Aaron Copland Fund for Ruth and John Huss Arden and Bertie Anderson Music Glenn and Madelaine Karwoski Paula and Will Bathke Cultural Star (City of St. Paul) David and Mary Beth Koehler Judson Bemis Fund of The Minneapolis Dorsey and Whitney Karen and John Larsen Foundation Foundation Medtronic Foundation Bob and Gerry Bullard Frederick K. Martin Thomas W. and Jane M. Miller with Jerome and Linda Carlson The HRK Foundation matching funds from the American Rev. Stephen J. and Leslie Quigley National Endowment for the Express Foundation Cornils Arts Minnesota Monthly Robert and Katherine Goodale Gayle and Tim Ober Peregrine Capital Management, Inc. Barry Graceman Gloria and Fred Sewell Fund of The Minneapolis Debra Harrer The St. Paul Companies Foundation Steve and Anne Hunter Foundation Sally and George Pillsbury Terry Knowles and Marshall Rutter Jack Weatherford and Rahr Foundation Donald and .Joanne Leavenworth Walker Pearce Margaret Rivers Fund Ginger Sisco and Larry Griffith Roger Lundblad Sit Investment Assoc. Foundation George and Pat Martin Smart Associates Richard and Lois Merrill Judy and Peter Mitchelson bravo ($2,500-4,999) Barbara Spradley and Neil Kittlesen J anika Vandervelde in honor of Larry Peter B. and Karla Myers Elmer L. and Eleanor Fuchsberg John L. Nuechterlein Andersen Foundation Ruth and Dale Warland Ford and Catherine Nicholson Belford Foundation Dr. and Mrs. John A. Nilsen David Briggs Deb and Dick Osgood Arland and Sharon Brusven Terry and Mary Patton Donald M. Davies Patty and Stephen Paulus Kenneth and Judy Dayton fanfare ($500-999) Betty Reber Susan and David Anderson Hella Mears Hueg Calvin J. and Caroline K. Roetzel Susan Barnes Robin Keyworth Jerry Rubino Thomas G. Mairs Lynne and Bruce Beck Sue A. Shepard

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Nancy Slaughter Harriet and Edson Spencer Mary S. Jones **The Dale Warland Singers Fund of The Minneapolis Michael Jordan and Brenda Powell thank the more than 90 people Foundation Erwin and Miriam Kelen who gave gifts below $100, Greg and Mary Steeber Louise King Wayne and Lola May Korissa Erbele helping us to raise nearly $4,000. Thompson Sharon Kleckner Ed and Julie Titcomb Roger and Beth Knight Dwight and Carolyn Townes Robert Knudtson in-kind donations Charles Upcraft Karen Koepp Barnett Music Productions, Inc., Steve Paul and Carolynn Wiggin Steve and Jan Kormula Barnett Paul and Arlene Williams Rick and Jan Kvam Bassford, Lockhart, Truesdell & Sue and Ed Laine Briggs, P.A. Robert Lee Brookfield Properties, Inc. Jean and Larry Lejeune Cook Research & Consulting, Inc., Diana J. Leland donors ($100-249) Harold Cook • Don and Diana Lee Lucker Russell P. Allen Franczyk & Associates, Helen Sarah Lutman John and Kay Alsip Franczyk Corrine McCarthy Marie Anderson Larson Allen & Weishair & Co., L.L.P. Mr. and Mrs. W. Duncan MacMillan Peter Bay May Advertising, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Mason Duane and Connie Bell Minnesota Monthly, Inc. Patricia A. McAuliffe Carrie Benson MCC Property Management Dan and Christina Meyer Fred and .Joanne Bergsrud John W. Provo, Maslon, Edelman, Elwin and Rosa Miller Fred and Cynthia Betz Borman & Brand, L.L.P. Michael and Marilyn Miller Elisabeth Braden and T. R. Target Corporation Robert and Kay Moline Fitch Three Chocolatiers, Bruce Broquist Jim and Carol Moller Conley and Marney Brooks Yamamoto-Moss Jack and Bobby Brose Mary O'Brien Barb Brown Steven J. Olson Barbara and Tim Brown Carole A. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Burley Gunta and Arijs Pakalns memorial gifts Margery Pearce in honor of John and Katha Chamberlain In memory of Claire McCoy Walker Pearce Wilbur C. Christensen David Briggs Katie Piehl Steve and Kathy Coleman In memory of Chuck Risser Carol Pine Johannes and Arlene Dahle Maria Bucka Jacqueline Reis Julie Davis Debra Harrer Bernis S. Rubright TomE. Davis Robins, Miller, Ciresi, L.L.P. in Elaine Schuessler Charles Denny celebration of the life of Sandy Mark and Mary Sigmond Leslie Merner Duke Schulze Teresa and Jerry Elsbernd Randall Speer Lorraine M. Ewald Naomi and Steven Staruch Margaret C. Flanagan Arturo L. Steely Philip and Arvida Steen Suzanne and Robert Flotten In spite of the staff's extensive efforts to Fred Stoutland David and Cindy Folin avoid errors and omissions in this year's John E. Folin Julie Stroud honor roll of contributors, mistakes can Paul and Lisa Theisen Dr. Gary Good occur. If your name was omitted listed Mark and Donneen Torrey Loretta Graetz incorrectly or misspelled, please ~otify Gene Vader Bill and Pat Gurnon us of the error. Mrs. Philip B. Harris Robert Wahman Peter Hendrickson Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Weyerhaeuser David A. Hendrickson Ed and Carolyn White Anders and Julie J. Kimball and Helen W. Whitney Himmelstrup Ben Whitney and Mary Farnham Warren and Marian Hoffman Whitney Anne Howden Mike and Donna Wolsted Ken and Julie Hoyme Beverlee Wood Lavone Johnson Pete Zirbel and Cathy Reed Marian S. Johnson Thomas C. Johnson S. Jerome and Leticia Johnson

21 acknowledgements

The choral ventures ™ program is funded by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation, With additional support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

The Dale Warland Singers is a member of Chorus America. 0:"1,)1-:'" . :z: 1/.' , u,·{!t .,' '

AMERICA Women's concert dress was provided by Target Stores and Mervyn's California by the Target Corporation G)TARGET

Choral risers are provided by Wenger Corporation.

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MINNESOTA STATE ARTS BOARD

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS .ACC

special thanks American Choral Catalog, Inc. Augsburg College Julie Brovold DWS Education Committee: Linda Berger, Marie Dymit, Jerry Rubino, Rebecca Wyfels Exeter Realty Company, Linda L. Zelm Linda Jarvis, St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church Miller, Johnson, Steichen & Kinnard, Inc., Rob Rader Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Inc., Susan Barnes

22 2001-02 season proudly sponsored by yamamoto moss

Tickets available through season concerts special concerts Ticket Works at: 612.343.3390

Special discounts for group Fire and Drums Echoes of Christmas sales available through the Dale Warland Singers Saturday, February 9, 2002-8:00 pm Saturday, December 1, 2001-8:00 pm office: 651.632.5870 Benson Great Hall, Bethel College St. Olaf Catholic Church

Sunday, December 2, 2001-4:00 pm Cathedral Classics Wayzata Community Church

Saturday, March 9, 2002-8:00 pm Saturday, December 8,2001-8:00 pm Basilica of St. Mary St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Home for the Holidays Ballads and Strings Friday, December 7,2001-7:00 pm Saturday, April 20, 2001-8:00 pm Shepherd ofthe Valley Lutheran Ted Mann Concert Hall Church

Sunday, December 9,2001-4:00 pm Westminster Presbyterian Church

23 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.

board of directors administrative staff

Officers Gayle Ober, executive director Robin M. Keyworth, president Kathleen Robinson, development/executive Daniel V. Schmechel, vice president associate James W. Peter, treasurer Jared Anderson, office manager Michael E. Reeslund, secretary Ruth Anderson and David Nordli, office volunteers Jackie Steele, concert volunteer coordinator Honorary Directors* Margie Ankeny Arland D. Brusven Mary Steinke artistic staff

Directors Dale Warland, founder and music director David L. Cooper Debra Harrer, artistic administrator James L. Davis Larry Bach, assistant conductor Roy Henderson Frank Ferko, composer-in-residence Glen J. Karwoski Dwight Bigler, artistic administrative asst./ M. Walker Pearce apprentice conductor, pianist Jacqueline Reis Jared Anderson, apprentice conductor Nancy Reitz Rotenberry Matthew Culloton, librarian Gloria Sewell Cameron Rowe, stage manager Ginger Sisco Joanne Halvorsen, wardrobe coordinator James K.Smart Brian Newhouse, program annotator Vern Sutton Steven Staruch, pre-concert moderator Tom Whelan Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director' Gayle Ober, Executive Director' Gregory Tambornino, Singer Representative'

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