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ACFEA Newsletter 2003-04 .notes tour2012~2013 Performing Arts News from Around the World acfea.com Pacific Chorale Takes Empire State INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2 Uruguay and Argentina French Music to Paris Youth Orchestra Santa Clara Chorale “Thank you for bringing our music back 3 United Kingdom Shines in China to us!” This was one of many accolades Stanford University accorded Pacific Chorale (conductor, FRANCE Chamber Chorale and and South Korea Taiko Ensemble John Alexander), from Orange County, California, during its mini-season of concerts 4 South Africa in Paris. by Amanda Bauman, ACFEA Tour Manager Head Royce School’s Colla Voce The concept was simple, but it took a chorus the caliber In the spring of 2010, I got a call from of the 100-strong Pacific Chorale, and a director with the 5 IN CONCERT one of my favorite people, Beth Antonio, vision of Alexander, to carry it off: spend nine days in Paris, Tour Coordinator of the Empire State Roosevelt Jazz Band at giving four concerts of four different programs in four Umbria Jazz Festival Youth Orchestra in Albany, New York. major churches. Some of the music had not been heard Beth and I had worked on ESYO’s 2008 6 Tours Around the World in Paris for decades, and those scores were hard to find: tour of Germany, the Czech Republic New ACFEA Website one was even tracked down in Australia! Three of the and Austria, and I was excited to help 7 Homestays in concerts featured music by composers who had worked design its next tour. I expected her to USA and Canada in the churches where the performances were given, and say the orchestra had decided on Italy two of them were with orchestra. Furthermore, two of the or, maybe, France. She really threw me 7 IN CONCERT Chicago Consort in Peru Pacific Chorale . continued on page 2 Empire State . continued on page 4 8 Balkans Pacific Chorale rehearses for its Singing City concert in La Madeleine in Paris 8 Slovakia and Hungary Northwest Chamber Chorus 9 Spain University of California, Davis Symphony Orchestra 10 Mexico Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir 11 North America Staff 12 The Czech Republic Empire State Youth Orchestra at the Yeosu Expo Concert Hall and Austria Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Buenos Aires throbbed with an urban, Santa Clara Chorale Experiences high-energy beat. We felt it immediately at the tango show our first night. Some of the members had been preparing for the Splendor of South America our trip by taking a series of tango lessons with an Argentine native back in California When we asked then artistic director Ryan Brandau for a few quotations to in the months leading up to the tour. include with the article we were writing about Santa Clara Chorale’s tour They went out for a fabulous evening of dancing to try out their newly acquired ARGENTINA of Uruguay and Argentina, he took the ball and ran with it. We love it when directors give feedback, and it doesn’t get much better than this: skills. On a later night, everyone was feeling the energy of the city so much that URUGUAY The trip crescendoed beautifully, starting in the urban capital of we had an impromptu sing-a-long and Uruguay, Montevideo; continuing to an adorable, historic coastal tango dance in the hotel lobby. town, Colonia; and peaking in Food, naturally, the urban and cultural splendor of played a big part Buenos Aires, in Argentina. in everyone's Our performance venues were experience in beautiful, intimate, and nicely suited all three cities. to our needs. Each of our three Singers sampled a wide variety of performances was well attended, restaurants, from by enthusiastic, warm, appreciative tiny local cafes audiences. They were unabashed, showing their on side streets to enjoyment on their faces so much that my own major restaurants singers' faces lit up in a way I'd never seen before. I considered to be only wish I had had eyes in the back of my head to among the finest see it too! During our first concert, in Montevideo, in their cities. Steak two of our singers sang The Flower Duet from Santa Clara Chorale performs in the Basilica Cathedral in was a highlight for Lakmé, beautifully. The rapt audience burst out into Colonia, Uruguay many; I shudder to the most enthusiastic, untempered applause one think how many could imagine. We loved the sense of connection they gave us while we sang. pounds of beef we consumed. And yet the vegetarians among us ate like kings, It was a delight to perform with local ensembles on each concert, to meet the singers and too. We enjoyed the local delicacy, dulce listen to their music. We loved having a workshop with a local director in Buenos Aires. de leche, in all sorts of ways – ice cream, The reception put together for us by the local choir in Montevideo provided us a great alfajores, and more. opportunity to ’talk shop’, meeting halfway in the middle between Spanish speakers with a little English and English speakers with a little Spanish. Discussions about music were Having traveled on an ACFEA tour before, I had high expectations and hopes for easiest: it’s a language we all understood! our courier and guides. They didn't All of the trip logistics flowed along without a hitch. I was delighted, as the leader of the disappoint. Our courier, Claudia, and Chorale, to have seemingly nothing to take care of or worry about except the music. our guide during our time in Uruguay were both fantastic. They exuded the The highlight of the stay in Montevideo was, for me, getting dressed up and heading out South American warmth and hospitality for a modern dance performance at the beautiful, historic Teatro Solís. To see such a great we were hoping to find, and readily and performance in such a beautiful space was truly special. happily answered every question we had. They were natives of Buenos Aires Colonia offered an entirely different feel from the two capital cities we stayed in during and Montevideo, respectively, and their the tour. A quaint collection of centuries-old cobblestone streets and colonial-era love for their hometowns was infectious. buildings, perched on the banks of the massive Rio de la Plata, Colonia offered all of our Everyone was emotional when it came singers the chance to stroll around and take in the history of the colonial era in Uruguay. time to say goodbye. Pacific Chorale . continued from page 1 Motets by Roth, Widor, Dupré, This concert featured Pacific Chorale’s Messiaen and Poulenc professional core, the John Alexander concerts were accompanied by two of Singers. It was probably a Josquin Mass Paris’s most distinguished organists. Organ works by Widor (including the and Allegri’s Miserere that attracted famous Toccata, of course, on the organ the audience, but it was Bernstein’s Here is a summary of the programs: for which it was written) Choruses from The Lark and, most St. Etienne-du-Mont (Duruflé’s church, compellingly, David Lang’s The Little Widor: Mass for two choirs and two with orchestra and Thierry Escaich, Duruflé’s Match Girl Passion that made the most organs (a work written for this church, successor, organ) impact. but nonetheless almost unperformable Motets by Escaich, Paulus and Lauridsen due to the spatial complexities involved, La Madeleine (Fauré’s church, with orchestra and Thierry Escaich, organ) Duruflé: Requiem and which saw Alexander doing world- class work as traffic cop) Motets by Alexander, Poulenc and Lili St. Suplice (Widor’s church, with Daniel Boulanger (a student of Fauré’s) Roth, Widor’s successor, and Thierry Escaich, St. Louis-en-l’Île (a delightful church on an organ) island next to Notre-Dame) Fauré: Requiem 2 Unique Touring Partnership Combines Stanford University’s Chamber Chorale and Taiko Ensemble An interview with Stephen Sano, chair of the music department at The key is definitely planning, Stanford University. In June, he organization and having the right took the Stanford Chamber people in key positions for UNITED Chorale and Taiko Ensemble logistics support. With the right KINGDOM on a tour of the United people in place, you give them a Kingdom. job and get out of their way! What was unique about Stephen Sano, Music Department Chair touring with two very different ensembles? Why did you choose the United Logistics was the biggest challenge, since Kingdom for this tour? none of the performance events between Our Chamber Chorale tours to the the two groups overlapped. We planned UK every fourth year. I have a special carefully for this with dedicated logistics fondness for British choral repertoire support for each group – specifically, since I learned much of it as a boy treble singing in the choral tradition of the men and boys choir. And singing that repertoire in situ is always an incomparable experience for our students; there's nothing like singing Stanford Chamber Chorale in Exeter Cathedral Byrd in Lincoln Cathedral, or the Stanford Motets in What were the tour highlights for the Trinity College Chapel in group? Were they different for the Cambridge. Or singing Chamber Chorale and Stanford Taiko? Jonathan Harvey's work in St. John's College Chapel, Learning to live and perform on a Cambridge, which we were professional touring schedule is always honored to do this tour. Or a great experience for students. There singing Evensong in one of is a level of artistry and professionalism the great British cathedrals, that happens on tour that's unique and giving our students the pretty incomparable.
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