Sunday Afternoon, September 11, 2011, at 2:00

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director Presents A Concert of Commemoration Honoring the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International Distinguished Concerts Singers International RENÉ CLAUSEN, Guest Conductor SAMUEL BARBER Adagio for Strings (8:00) RENÉ CLAUSEN Memorial (25:00) BRADLEY ELLINGBOE, Bass-Baritone “September Morning” “The Attack” “Prayers” “Petitions” Intermission Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International The Really Big Chorus, Jonathan Griffith, Rehearsal Conductor , Guest Conductor KARL JENKINS For the Fallen: In Memoriam Alfryn Jenkins (U.S. Premiere) (4:00) KARL JENKINS The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (63:00) ERIKA GRACE POWELL, Soprano CHARLOTTE DAW PAULSEN, Mezzo-Soprano BRIAN CHENEY, Tenor BRADLEY ELLINGBOE, Bass-Baritone 1. The Armed Man 2. A Call to Prayer 3. 4. Save Me from Bloody Men 5. 6. Hymn Before Action 7. Charge! 8. Angry Flames 9. Torches 10. 11. Now the Guns Have Stopped 12. Benedictus 13. Better is Peace Please hold all applause until the end of the last movement.

Avery Fisher Hall Please make certain your cellular phone, pager, or watch alarm is switched off. Lincoln Center

T HE C ITY OF N EW Y ORK O FFICE OF THE M AYOR N EW Y ORK , NY 10007

September 11, 2011

Dear Friends:

It is an honor to welcome everyone to Avery Fisher Hall for today’s September 11 “Concert of Commemoration,” presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed our world forever. This year, as we mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks, New Yorkers can be proud that the National September 11 Memorial is opening, and that Lower Manhattan is more alive than ever.

The 9/11 Memorial will provide a powerful and lasting place of reflection and remembrance, and it will help ensure that future generations know the story of New York’s grief, our resilience, and our shared hope for a more peaceful world. In the days and weeks after the attacks, we vowed we would never forget, and that we would work together to build a brighter future. We will continue to keep that solemn commitment—to those who perished, to their families, and to the courageous men and women who helped us recover.

As you pay tribute to those we lost, I join you in honoring their lives, and in finding inspiration in their memories—and in our City’s enduring and indomitable spirit.

Sincerely,

Michael R. Bloomberg Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor Lincoln Center

Notes on the Program SAMUEL BARBER imum in favor of musical emphasis upon a Adagio for Strings possible spiritual response to these events. Born March 9, 1910 , West Chester, Healing, cleansing and hope are the main Pennsylvania; themes of the work. Died January 23, 1981 , New York, New York “September Morning” paints the picture of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings has a beautiful, sunlit morning in New York City. become associated with times of national In this opening section the chorus is used mourning. Upon such occasions as the as a section of the orchestra, intoning deaths of presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy wordless vocalizes in a Debussy-like tex - as well as other notable figures, the Adagio ture. Premonition of the attack is then for Strings was heard on radio stations as heard in the orchestra as the music moves well as concert halls across the country. into “The Attack” sequence. As might be expected, the attack on the World Trade Its emotion-laden expressivity, elegiac Center towers inspires music that is highly motion, and sheer tonal beauty create a dramatic, rhythmically intense, and col - musical expression which appears to orful, making use of extended percussion embody and give voice to our collective grief. and the entire range of both instrumental and choral forces. As we commemorate yet another national tragedy, the events of 9/11/01, it is fitting The third and fourth sections, subtitled that once again we experience this power - “Prayers” and “Petitions,” respectively, fully expressive composition. move away from programmatic description of physical world events to musical evoca - tion of spiritual responses to these events. RENÉ CLAUSEN The final section, “Petitions,” is an elegiac Memorial and introspective musical prayer for mercy, Born April 17, 1953, Faribault, Minnesota mutual understanding, and hope for the future. The primary text is presented, first Memorial is a composition for mixed sequentially and then simultaneously, in chorus, orchestra and baritone solo. English, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic. In jux - Though presented as one continuous taposing these languages, some of which movement, the composition follows a pro - are the languages of the cultures at war gram that comprises four sub-sections— with one another, it is the hope of the com - ”September Morning,” “The Attack,” poser that in so doing we may find a “Prayers,” and “Petitions.” The first two common ground of higher being, and be sections reflect the actual chain of events called away from darkness into light. The leading to and including the attacks upon piece ends with a quiet Kyrie—a plea for the World Trade Center towers. The music God’s mercy on this world. of destruction, however, is kept to a min - —Notes by René Clausen Lincoln Center

Text of Memorial Grant them peace. Adonai! My God, my God, why hast thou Gracious and loving God, pour forth your mercy forsaken me? upon us all. -Mark 15:34 For those whose dreams are haunted by images of horror; May I be peaceful. May you be peaceful. May we Enfold them in your loving embrace. be peaceful. Fill our hearts with your healing love. May we live with ease of heart. May we live in joy. Gracious and loving God, pour forth your mercy -Traditional Buddhist meditation upon us all. We pray for our enemies, all those Gracious and loving God, pour forth your mercy who hate us; we condemn them to your upon us all. mercy, O God. For those who have fallen, and are lost in the Gracious and loving God, pour forth your mercy oblivion of rubble, upon us all. Blanket them with your eternal light. If there be any grain of hatred in us, wash us Gracious and loving God, pour forth your mercy clean and cleanse us. upon us all. Move us to the common ground of Your Being, O For those whose souls have turned cold and empty, God. Grant them a large measure of your mercy, and a –Roy Hammerling, nutritious kernel of your kindness Concordia College Religion Department

Hebrew Adonai, vehaer panecha, venivashea. O God, shine your light on us, and we shall be saved. Arabic (transliteration) Ya Rab Naw’war Alaina. O God shine your light on us.

Latin Domine Deus, ostende lucem tuam, O God, shine your light on us, and we shall be Et salvi erimus. saved.

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

KARL JENKINS captain of a Lancaster bomber which was For the Fallen: lost in action, together with his all-Welsh In Memoriam Alfryn Jenkins crew, during a raid over Berlin in 1944. We Born February 17, 1944, Neath, Wales, U.K. met in 1944, although I don’t remember it of course. I’d just been born and he was on Laurence Binyon’s iconic poem is recited his last leave before his fateful mission. As across the world every Remembrance Day; an homage to him, it opens with a viola this setting, which incorporates the Last solo. The first performance took place at Post (played by ) in the orchestra - the Royal Albert Hall, London, on tion, is dedicated to the memory of my November 13, 2010. uncle, a violist, Pilot Officer Alfryn Jenkins, —Note by Karl Jenkins

Text of For the Fallen They went with songs to the battle, they were Laurence Binyon young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, They were staunch to the end against odds mourns for her dead across the sea. uncounted; Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, They fell with their faces to the foe. Fallen in the cause of the free. They shall grow not old, as we that are left Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal grow old, Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. There is music in the midst of desolation At the going down of the sun and in the morning And a glory that shines upon our tears. We will remember them. Lincoln Center

KARL JENKINS War is now inevitable. “Charge!” opens The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace with a seductive paean to martial glory which is followed by the inevitable conse - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peac e is the quence—war in all its uncontrolled result of a special millennial commission cacophony of destruction, then the eerie from the Royal Armouries and the latest in silence of the battlefield after the battle a six century-old tradition of “Armed Man” and, finally, the burial of the dead. Surely masses that take the15th-century French nothing can be worse than this? But think song “L’Homme Armé” as their starting point. again. At the very center of the work is “Angry Flames,” an excerpt from a poem The Mass begins with the beat of drums, about the horrors of the atom bomb attack the orchestra gradually building to the on Hiroshima. choir’s entrance, the 15th century theme tune “The Armed Man.” After the The Agnus Dei, with its lyrical chorale scene is set, the style and pace change, theme, reminds us of Christ’s ultimate sac - and we are prepared for reflection by first rifice. The Benedictus heals those wounds the Muslim Call to Prayers (Adhaan) and in its slow and stately affirmation of faith then the Kyrie. Next, to a plainsong setting, and leads us to the final, positive climax of we hear words from the Psalms asking for the work. This begins back where we God’s help against our enemies. The started in the 15th century with Lancelot Sanctus that follows is full of menace, and and Guinevere’s declaration, born of bitter has a primeval, tribal character that adds to experience, that peace is better than war. its power. The menace grows in the next —Note by Guy Wilson, movement as Kipling’s “Hymn Before Master of The Armouries, Action” builds to its final devastating line, Britain’s oldest national museum “Lord grant us strength to die.”

Text of The Armed Man

1. The Armed Man L’Homme Armé,” written 1450–64 L’homme armé doit on douter? The armed man must be feared. On a fait partout crier, Everywhere it has been decreed Que chacun se viegne armer That every man should arm himself d’un haubregon de fer. With an iron coat of mail.

2. The Call to Prayers (Adhaan) Traditional. Sung in Arabic. Allah is the greatest. I bear Witness that there is no god but Allah I bear Witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah Come fast to prayer. Come fast to the success. Allah is the greatest. There is no god but Allah.

3. Kyrie Sung in Greek. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy. Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy. Lincoln Center

4. Save Me from Bloody Men Be merciful unto me, O God: For man would swallow me up He fighting daily oppresseth me Mine enemies would daily swallow me up, For they be many that fight against me. O thou most high. Defend me from them that rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity And save me from bloody men. The , Psalm 56

5. Sanctus Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy, Holy Holy Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Holy Lord God of Hosts Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory Hosana in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest

6. Hymn Before Action 8. Angry Flames Rudyard Kipling Togi Sankichi. Trans. by Richard H. Minnear. The earth is full of anger, Pushing up through smoke The seas are dark with wrath, From a world half darkened The Nations in their harness By overhanging cloud The shroud that Go up against our path; mushroomed out Ere yet we loose the legions— And struck the dome of the sky Ere yet we draw the blade, Black, Red, Blue Jehovah of the Thunders, Dance in the air, Lord God of Battles, aid! Merge, High lust and froward bear Scatter glittering sparks, Proud heart, rebellious brow Already tower Dead ear and soul uncaring, Over the whole city We seek thy mercy now! The sinner that forswore Thee, Quivering like seaweed, the mass of flames The fool that passed Thee by, spurts forward. Our times are known before Thee Popping up in the dense smoke, Lord grant us strength to die! Crawling out Wreathed in fire: 7. Charge Countless human beings The ’s loud clangor On all fours. Excites us to Arms In a heap of embers that erupt and subside, With shrill notes of Anger Hair rent, And mortal Alarms Rigid in death, Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden There smoulders a curse 9. Torches How blest is he who for his country dies The Mahàbharàta. To the Earl of Oxford after Horace by The animals scattered in all directions, Jonathan Swift screaming terrible screams. Many were burning, others were burnt. The double beat All were shattered and scattered mindlessly, Of the thundering drum their eyes bulging. Cries, Hark the Foes come; Some hugged their sons, others their fathers Charge, Charge, tis too late to retreat and mothers, Dryden Unable to let them go, and so they died. How blest is he who for his country dies Others leapt up in their thousands, faces disfigured Swift And were consumed by the Fire. Everywhere were bodies Charge, charge Squirming on the ground, wings eyes and Dryden paws all burning. They breathed their last as living torches. Lincoln Center

10. Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin miserere nobis. of the world, have mercy on us. Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins dona nobis pacem. of the world, grant us Thy peace.

11. Now The Guns Have Stopped Guy Wilson Silent, So silent, now, Now the guns have stopped. I have survived all, I, who knew I would not. But now you are not here. I shall go home, alone; And must try to live life as before, And hide my grief For you, my dearest friend, Who should be with me now, Not cold, too soon, And in your grave, Alone.

12. Benedictus Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the Highest

13. Better is Peace Lancelot – Better is peace than always war Guinevere – And better is peace than evermore war Words: Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

L’homme armé doit on douter. The Armed Man must be feared. On a fait partout crier, Everywhere it has been decreed Que chacun se viegne armer That every man should arm himself d’un haubregon de fer. With an Iron Coat of mail.

Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring out the old, ring in the new. Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out old shapes and foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring in the thousands years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be. In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson

…God shall wipe away all tears… And there shall be no more death Neither sorrow nor crying Neither shall there be any more pain. Praise the Lord. The Bible, Revelations 21.4 Lincoln Center

Meet the Artists

René Clausen Bradley Ellingboe

René Clausen is associate professor of Bradley Ellingboe has been on the faculty music at Concordia College, Moorhead, of the University of New Mexico since MN, and has served as conductor of The 1985, where he is Professor of Music and Concordia Choir since 1986. Additionally, Regents Lecturer. From 1991–2005 he is the artistic director of the award-win - Ellingboe was head of Vocal Studies. In the ning Concordia Christmas Concerts, which fall of 2005 he assumed the title of are frequently featured by PBS stations Director of Choral Activities. Ellingboe is a throughout the nation. graduate of Saint Olaf College and the Eastman School of Music and has done Clausen is a renowned and further study at the Aspen Music Festival, arranger, having written dozens of com - the Bach Aria Festival, the University of missioned compositions including Memorial Oslo and the Vatican. and Crying for a Dream for the American Choral Directors Association. He is also a As a bass-baritone soloist, Ellingboe has frequent guest conductor, composer-in- sung across the United States and in residence, clinician and lecturer. Clausen Japan, Korea, Norway, England and has conducted such works as Mozart’s Mexico. He has appeared under such dis - Requiem , Beethoven’s 9th Symphony , tinguished conductors as Robert Shaw, Brahms’ Requiem , Britten’s Helmuth Rilling and Sir David Willcocks. and several of his own works including Gloria – in three movements – performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, where he also recently conducted Handel’s Messiah .

Clausen graduated from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, and received a Master of Music Performance and Doctor of Musical Karl Jenkins Arts degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Karl Jenkins, educated at Gowerton Grammar School, Cardiff University and the In 1996, Clausen was named the Paul J. Royal Academy of Music, London, is one of and Eleanor Christiansen Chair in Choral the most prolific, popular and performed Music at Concordia. In 1998, he created in the world today. The Armed the René Clausen Choral School, an inten - Man: A Mass for Peace alone has been per - sive five-day program for choral conduc - formed more than 700 times in 20 different tors, and is the founder of the René countries since the CD was released, while Clausen Music Company. his recorded output has resulted in seven - teen gold and platinum disc awards. Lincoln Center

His style and integrity has transcended musical boundaries encompassing jazz- rock with Soft Machine, the global “crossover” phenomenon , soundtracks for Levis and British Airways, while stopping off along the way to score a Kiefer Sutherland movie, be a castaway on Erika Grace Powell BBC “Desert Island Discs,” be featured by Melvyn Bragg on the ITV seminal “South Erika Grace Powell is a Vocal Performance Bank Show” and have been awarded the graduate of Furman University with musical Freedom of the City of London. Recent interests including opera, oratorio, classical recordings include Requiem , Stabat Mater crossover, musical theatre, and pop. Erika and Quirk . was awarded the Overall Talent Award and placed as a Top-10 finalist in the 2006 Miss A Doctor of Music, he holds Fellowships, America Pageant as Miss South Carolina. In Honorary Doctorates and Professorships at 2007, she was engaged for “Lyrique en five universities or conservatoires, Mer/Festival de Belle Ile ,” the largest Opera including the Royal Academy of Music, Festival in Western , where she per - where a room has been named in his formed Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann honor. In recent years, he has consistently and Verdi’s La Traviata . Erika won The been the highest placed living composer in Metropolitan Opera National Council audi - Classic FM’s “Hall of Fame.” tions for South Carolina and competed at the regional competition at Spivey Hall in He holds the Classic FM “Red f” award for 2009. Erika was most recently seen in The “outstanding service to ” New York Philharmonic’s production of and was awarded an OBE, by Her Majesty Janá cˇek’s The Cunning Little Vixen . erika - the Queen, in the 2005 New Years gracepowell.com Honours List “for services to music.” In 2010, Jenkins was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen of England for his con - tinued outstanding compositions.

Jenkins’ Peacemakers will make its world Charlotte Daw premiere with DCINY on January 16, 2012, Paulsen at Carnegie Hall, coinciding with the U.S. release of the CD. Charlotte Daw Paulsen, mezzo-soprano, pos - sesses a voice described as unusually rich and complex. She received critical acclaim in the New York Times for Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle : “The real star, along with the chorus, was Charlotte Daw Paulsen a mezzo-soprano with real contralto gravity and power in her lower register. In the Agnus Dei, her performance grew dramatic in the best sense and utterly gripping.” Lincoln Center

Known as a fine interpreter of Oratorio, she The Really Big Chorus is frequently invited to perform works of The Really Big Chorus is the U.K.’s largest depth and emotional expression, such as choral society with more than 11,000 the United States premieres of Stabat singing members. It began life in 1974 when Mater, The Armed Man a Mass for Peace, Canadian Don Monro, a student at Imperial and Gloria by Karl Jenkins and New York College, University of London, got together City’s premier of Et la vie l’emporte by with fellow scientists to hire the Royal Frank Martin with I Cantori. Albert Hall and fill it with amateur singers for the very first Messiah from Scratch ®. Thirty- five years later, “Concerts from Scratch” now puts on three concerts a year at the Hall: Messiah from Scratch ® in November, a Summer Singday ® in July (always the last concert in the Hall before the BBC Promenade Concerts) and a May event too. Brian Cheney The premise is straightforward: you learn the music, turn up, and sing! Messiah from Brian Cheney is emerging as one of opera’s Scratch ® is just that—no rehearsal at all for most versatile, and exciting tenors. The pro - the chorus, just an electrifying, adrenaline- tégé of legendary tenor Jerry Hadley, Mr. filled performance. The other concerts have Cheney is quickly gaining national acclaim rehearsals the day of the performance with for his portrayal of characters such as the English Festival Orchestra and profes - Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore , Edgardo in sional soloists under the baton of distin - Lucia di Lammermoor , Don Jose in guished conductors such as Sir David Carmen , Rodolfo in La Boheme , the Duke Willcocks, Brian Kay (who is our current prin - in Rigoletto , Candide in Candide and Tom cipal conductor) and John Rutter. The Really Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress. “Tenor Big Chorus also hosts choral vacations and Brian Cheney’s portrayal of Don José was relaxing musical cruises. the most effective dramatic and vocal real - ization of character in the production.....this excellent singer revealed a voice of amazing power and great beauty. Cheney’s booming tenor voice and effective dramatic realiza - tion of the passionate Don José soon made him the audience’s favorite character.” Classical Voice of North Carolina – 2010. Lincoln Center

Distinguished Concerts than 25 combined years of experience, International New York DCINY is a creative producing entity with Founded by Iris Derke (General Director) and unmatched integrity that is a talent incu - Jonathan Griffith (Artistic Director and bator, a star-maker, and a presenter of Principal Conductor) Distinguished Concerts broadly accessible, world-class musical International is driven by passion, innovative entertainment. For more information about vision, a total belief in its artists, and unwa - Distinguished Concerts International in New vering commitment to bringing forth unfor - York and upcoming DCINY musical events gettable audience experiences. With more around the world, please visit: dciny.org, or call toll free: 1-877-MYDCINY. Lincoln Center

Distinguished Concerts Singers International Bedford Presbyterian Senior Choir (NH), Barbara A. Flocco, Director The Concert Singers (CA), Jenni Brandon, Director Concordia College Alumni Choir (MN), René Clausen, Director George Fox University's Concert Choir (OR), Loren Wenz, Director Gwinnett Symphony Chorus (GA), Rick Smith, Director Manassas Chorale (VA), Rebecca D. Verner, Director The Master Chorale of Fargo-Moorhead (ND), René Clausen, Director Prescott Master Singers (AZ), James L. Klein, Director Windsong Southland Chorale (CA), Janet Harms, Director

Global Sing for Peace (www.globalsingforpeace.org) was created as a way for musicians from around the world to show their support for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Ensembles programmed The Armed Man and/or Memorial (complete or excerpts) for a performance in their hometown venue during the month of September 2011.

Participants in Global Sing for Peace

Performing The Armed Man, selections or in full: Ad hoc “Come and Sing,” Highland Chancel Choir, Kate Phillipson-Masters, Director - Thornbury, U.K. Simon Andrews, Director - Lancaster, PA

Brandywine Valley Chorale and Unionville High Hilo Community Chorus, School Chorale, Jason Throne, Director - Tom McAlexander, Director - Hilo, HI Kennett Square, PA Lymington Choral Society & Choir of St Thomas’ Camerata Chamber Choir IOW, Church, Jurgita Hayward, Director - Michael Goldthorpe, Director - Ventnor, Isle of Wight, U.K. Lymington, Hampshire, U.K.

Choeur de l’Université du Maine, Macarthur Singers Choir, Shoalhaven Lydian Evelyne Beche, Director - Le Mans, Sarthe, France Singers, Manly Warringah Choir, Macquarie Singers, East Sydney Chamber Choir, Chevalier Corale Domenico Stella, Coro Città di Piero, College, Jillian Bridge, Director - Sydney, New Società Filarmonica dei Perseveranti, Corale Don South Wales, Australia Vittorio Bartolomei; Directors: Paolo Fiorucci, Andrea Marzà, Bruno Sannai, Eugenio dalla Noce, Martin Meadowlarks, Giulio Camaiti - Sansepolcro, Italy Marj Oleske, Director - Martin, SD

Enchiriadis Treis, Cathal Clinch, Director - Quintessence: Choral Artists of the Southwest, Dublin, Ireland Matthew Greer, Director - Albuquerque, NM

Fanshawe Chorus London, Gerald Fagan Singers, Plymouth State University and State Wide Choirs, Concert Players Orchestra with soloists and guest Daniel Perkins, Director - Plymouth, NH choir South Huron Community Choir, Gerald Fagan, Director - London, , St. Andrew’s Church Choir, David Fuge, Director- Cobham, Surrey Grupo Vocal Experimental UCAB, Carlos Malavé, Director - Caracas, D.C., Venezuela St. Matthew’s United Church Celebration Singers, Wayne Rogers, Director - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Surfside United Methodist Church Spirit Singers, Glynis Hopkins, Director - Surfside Beach, SC

Winona Oratorio Chorus and Winona State University Concert Choir, Harry Mechell, Director - Winona, MN Lincoln Center

Performing Memorial, selections or in full: Blazing Star Choral Society, Lafayette ~ Orinda Presbyterian Church, Donald Rasely, Director - Butler, PA Julie Ford, Director - Lafayette, CA

Choir of Christ and Saint Luke’s Church, Northampton Bach Choir, Allen Shaffer, Director - Norfolk, VA Lee Dunleavy, Director - Northampton, U.K.

Chorus of the Wilmington Community and the Oahu Choral Society/Honolulu Symphony Chorus, Wilmington Community Orchestra, Dr. Esther S. Yoo, Director - Honolulu, HI Rob Kennan, Director - Wilmington, DE St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and St. Peter’s The Community Festival Chorale, Episcopal Church, Shirley Faulkner, Director - Russellville, AK Patrick Fleitz, Director - Lakeland, FL

First Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir, Sonoma Valley Chorale, Patricia Trail, Director - Roanoke, VA David Irvine, Director - Sonoma, California

Grantsburg Chorale and Grantsburg High School Torrington High School Chamber Choir, Choirs, Linda Benge - Grantsburg, WI Lynn Morin, Director - Torrington, CT

Illinois State Choirs and Wind Symphony, Valley of the Moon Chamber Ensemble, John Koch, Director - Normal, IL Brian Sebastian, Director - Sonoma, California

DCINY Administrative Staff Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Naghma Husain, Director of Design and Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder, Artistic Director and Promotions Principal Conductor Jeffery R. Thyer, Program Development Coordinator Johanna B. Kodlick, Director of Artistic Operations Nicole Cotton, Production Manager Danuta Gross, Director of Finance and Lynn Tsai, Concert Operations Associate Administration Scott Walker, Intern

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Program Summary

Please join us for one of our other events:

Saturday, October 8, 2011, 8:00 PM, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Distinguished Concerts Artist Series David Templeton Solo Piano - The Radiance Tour David Templeton, Piano and Guitar

Sunday, October 30, 2011, 2:00 PM, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Distinguished Concerts Artist Series Thomas Florio, Baritone NATSAA 2010 41st Artist Awards winner Jasmin Arakawa, Pianist

Sunday, November 27, 2011, 2:00 PM, Thanksgiving Weekend Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center MESSIAH... REFRESHED! Handel: Messiah, Lincoln Center Premiere of Eugene Goossens' expanded orchestration Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Saturday, December 10, 2011, 7:30 PM, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Distinguished Concerts Artist Series Diandian Wu, Piano and Authentic Chinese Instruments

Sunday, January 15, 2012, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Weekend Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center John Rutter: Mass of the Children; Randol Bass: Gloria; Dan Forrest: Te Deum James M. Meaders, Guest Conductor Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Monday, January 16, 2012, 7:00 PM, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall The Music of Karl Jenkins Karl Jenkins: The Peacemakers (World Premiere) Karl Jenkins: A Parliament of Owls (U.S. Premiere) Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Karl Jenkins, Composer-in-Residence The Peacemakers, using text by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Albert Schweizter as well as Shelley, the Bible, Quran, Hinduism etc, is a work extolling peace. One line from Rumi (the 13th-century Persian mystic poet) sums up the ethos of the work: "All religions, all singing one song; Peace be with you." Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Dates, repertoire and artists subject to change.