SEASON 12: STRONGER TOGETHER | WINTER 2013 CONCERT
Peace, Hope, Joy
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Saturday, December 14, 7:30pm Sunday, December 15, 3:00 pm First United Church, Bloomington, IN About the Quarryland Men’s Chorus
Quarryland Men’s Chorus provides a positive performance-based community for gay and bisexual men and their allies in South Central Indiana. We foster talent, fellowship, pride, and understanding through excellence in vocal music.
The Chorus presents two full concerts annually, and has performed and volunteered throughout the community for events such as church services, PRIDE Film Festival, Spencer Pride, Indy Pride, 4th Street Festival, Mini University, the AIDS Quilt Opening Ceremony, and The Laramie Project, thus fulfilling its purposes of reaching the general public and serving as cultural ambassadors to and for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. As a result, the Chorus received the 2009-2010 community-member award from the Indiana University Commission on Multicultural Understanding.
Founded in Summer 2002, the Chorus offers men the opportunity to make music together. Singing membership is open to men who desire to sing, regardless of their musical background, and our membership typically ranges from trained musicians to beginners. The group strives for a fun and supportive environment while performing music that provides an appropriate challenge to all involved.
The Chorus continually seeks new performers, as well as non-singing members and volunteers, to assist the organization. Membership is open to all individuals who support and affirm the mission and purpose of the chorus. We welcome singers of various ability levels who desire to expand their musical knowledge and abilities. Rehearsals are held 7:30 pm on Tuesday evenings at First United Church, generally from August through May. We encourage newcomers to attend any time.
Non-singing membership is open to anyone who wants to assist the Chorus in the pursuit of its mission and purpose. We can always use assistance with activities such as choreography, composition, costuming, stage craft, program planning, recruiting, publicity, ticket sales, fundraising, audience development, and board leadership. We appreciate the support and involvement of individuals who may have other talents to contribute, or who may simply enjoy our company.
If you have talents to share with the chorus, or seek to develop new talents in a fun and supportive environment, speak to one of us today. Contact president@ quarryland.org or visit www.quarryland.org for additional chorus information.
Quarryland Men’s Chorus is a member of GALA Choruses, Inc., a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization serving the field of choral music. The mission of GALA Choruses is to provide leadership and inspiration to the Lesbian and Gay movement through excellence in the choral arts. Visit www.galachoruses.org for more information. Welcome Quarryland Men’s Chorus FROM QUARRYLAND’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BARRY MAGEE Artistic Director Family and friends are the most important part of any holiday. Singers, volunteers, and donors are all important in our family. We do this all for you, the MITCH SERSLEV Quarryland community, which attends our concerts Assistant Artistic Director season after season and joins us in our larger mission of creating a supportive environment for the GLBT WENDY ELLIOT PAM FREEMAN community. Our voices are Stronger Together. Accompanist Pianist
Across our community we celebrate many different EMILY COUPER holidays throughout the year. As I survey that landscape Concert Manager several themes standout for me--none more authentic than Peace, Hope, Joy. So don’t be too surprised to — hear more than your “traditional holiday” program (by Singing Members which most people generally mean Christmas). Rather we invite you to reflect on how your experiences have First Tenors shaped your definition of these words and, equally as important, what you do and can do in your daily life to bring as your gift to the world ANDY ERNE — J.R. JOHNSON — ROBERT PING — CHRIS PRESTIA Peace, Hope, Joy. Second Tenors We hope you enjoy and are enriched by the music on today’s concert. Rather than JONATHAN CROCKETT — THOMAS DECARLO — REX HINKLE — MATT PURCELL placing the pieces in some themed order, they are woven together to create a larger experience and understanding that these concepts are not isolated ideals but rather Baritones intersecting. The concert includes several selections that come from both sacred and CHRIS ALFORD — ETHAN CRIPPS — JIM JOHNSON — TRAVIS LAMPKE secular Christmas traditions such as “Hodie Christus Natus Est” and “We Need a Little ERIC METZLER — BRIAN MORIN — EDWIN RIVERA Christmas.” While many of us grew up singing “Let there be Peace on Earth,” we’ve also included beautiful arrangements of “Dona nobis pacem” and “Oseh Shalom.” Basses “Thankful,” a song made popular by Josh Groban, reminds us that sometimes we forget DOUG BAUDER — BARRY CHUNG — TIM KING — WILL MRUZEK to take a step back and see the joys that surround us everyday. There is also some KENN O’DROBINAK — JEROME SIBULO — RICARDO SIERRA pure joy in “Boogie Woogie Hanukkah” and a mash-up of Joy to the World. Finally, we are reminded that peace, hope, and joy have fuller meaning because we’ve also — experience pain, sorry, and failure. “All this Joy” and “Umi Sono Ai” help us to explore this relationship. Guest Brass Quintet
I wish you peace: moments of peace from everyday hassles; peace of mind knowing SHANNON WALSH, Trumpet — GRANT SMILEY, Trumpet — CAMERON WRAY, Horn that your presence and action has and can make a difference in the world; and peace AARON ZALKIND, Trombone — BEN HOOD, Tuba from those who see you as the object for their hate and pain. — I wish you hope: the eternal hope that tomorrow will be better and hold new promises for you and the world; hope that someday each of us will be equally valued and Choreographers supported in our needs. MATT PURCELL — MITCH SERSLEV — TOM SLATER
I wish you joy: that is unmovable; joy that springs from the love we share with another; — joy in seeing visions of peace and hope fulfilled. Guest Soloist RABBI BRIAN BESSER JANE ROGAN Program Order President of the Board of Directors Hodie Christus Natus Est ...... Gordon H. Lamb MARLIN HOWARD Treasurer of the Board of Directors Thankful ...... Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster and Richard Page; arr. Rollo Dilworth Will Mruzek, soloist ERIC METZLER Secretary of the Board of Directors Dona nobis pacem ...... Joseph Gregorio
WILL MRUZEK This Holiday ...... Steve Milloy Website Coordinator It Takes a Village ...... Joan Szymko BRIAN GALM Chris Prestia, soloist Chorus Librarian Let There Be Peace on Earth ...... Sy Miller and Jill Jackson; arr. Jay Alhouse JIM JOHNSON Boogie Woogie Hanukkah ...... Eric Lane Barnes Chorus Historian & Musetta CMS Coordinator Dancers: Ethan Cripps, Jonathan Crockett, Jim Johnson, Travis Lampke, Rob Ping-Slater, Matt Purcell, Chris Prestia — Choreography by Tom Ping-Slater JEROME SIBULO Chorus Manager - INTERMISSION -
— Oseh Shalom ...... Paul Leavitt Rabbi Brian Besser, soloist Committee Chairs Finance — REX HINKLE BRASS QUINTET* Fundraising — ERIC METZLER Shannon Walsh, Trumpet — Grant Smily, Trumpet — Cameron Wray, Horn Membership & Recruitment — ROBERT PING Aaron Zalkind, Trombone — Ben Hood, Tuba Marketing & Audience Development — SHAWN CONNER All This Joy ...... John Denver; arr. Joe Nadeau and Lamar Sims Board Development — JANE ROGAN Social — JEROME SIBULO The Great Peace March ...... Holly Near; arr. Dennis Coleman Jerome Sibulo, Thomas DeCarlo, Matt Purcell, soloists — Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day ...... arr. Howard Helvey Other Non-Performing Members ORNEAL BROWN — SHAWN CONNER — MICHAEL DENUNZIO — ELLEN EPSTEIN Umi Sono Ai ...... Kousaku Dan; arr. Rachel Stenson MARLIN HOWARD — SCOTT JACKMAN — TIM JESSEN — DERICK LOGAN — JANE ROGAN Brian Morin, Kenn O’Drobinak, soloists KATHY SIDELI — BRANDON TAYLOR — DONOVAN WALLING — JEFF WISNER We Need a Little Christmas ...... Jerry Herman; arr. Mark Hayes — Joy to the World ...... Hoyt Axton; arrangement Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff; Volunteers arr. Kathleen McGuire Mitch Serslev, soloist CAROLE ALFORD — RICK BARBER — DANIEL CASE — DORINDA DOHNER DAVID FLETCHER — BRIAN GALM — LEBRAUN HAMPTON — JAMES KELLAR * Special thanks to our financial sponsors Rex Hinkle; Peter Burkholder and Doug McKinney; JERRI KOBY — JEANNE LEIMKUHLER — GYWEN MAGEE — MEREDITH MCGRIFF Barry and Gywen Magee; and Mitch Serslev BRYAN RIVES — JERRY ROBERTS — LAURA SERRANO-SILVA — DAVID SHAW — TOM SLATER — SAM TROXAL — JACOB WOODEN We also extend a special “thank you” to BLU Boy Chocolate Café and Cakery for catering this concert and to First United Church for providing rehearsal and performance space teens returned home, the music spread around the country. Since then, it has been Program Notes performed at concerts, celebrations and ceremonies around the country and the world. Please join us in asking for peace this holiday season by singing along! By Thomas DeCarlo Boogie Woogie Hanukkah Not only does this piece capture the joy of the holiday Winter, by its very nature, is a cold and dark time of year. To make it through these spirit, but it embodies the playful spirit of Quarryland. Composer Eric Lane Barnes dreary months, we must fill our lives with peace, hope and joy – be it a cup of hot is the author of the critically acclaimed Fairy Tales and has written many scores and chocolate, a gift for a loved one, or a gathering of friends and family. This is the time scripts for Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre. Boogie Woogie Hanukkah is one of many of his of year that we reflect upon what is most meaningful to us, cherish what we have, and songs that Quarryland has performed over the years. dream of what can be. Oseh Shalom was commissioned by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC for their Many in the Quarryland community know just how important it can be to find peace, 2003 winter concert. Requested to be written in Hebrew and on the cusp of the Iraq hope, and joy at times when we feel we have none. Tonight, let our music lift your war, composer Paul Leavitt took text from Job 25:2 to create this powerful prayer for spirits and carry you through these wintery days. peace.
All This Joy This popular song by Jon Denver is a reminder that life will always contain Hodie Christus Natus Est is a Gregorian antiphon to the Magnificat, sung at the both joy and promise as well as sorrow and pain. The piece was arranged by Heartland second vespers of Christmas. It tells of the birth of Christ and the celebration of both Men’s Chorus’s Artistic Director Joe Nadeau (currently with the Los Angeles Gay Men’s angels and mankind. The music was written by composer, conductor, and music Chorus) and accompanist Lamar Sims. professor Gordon H. Lamb. The Great Peace March illustrates an unwavering belief that our steady march toward Thankful It is easy to become overwhelmed by the political and social struggles that our hopes and dreams cannot be stopped. It is a great reflection of songwriter Holly we face in this modern day. Thankful begs us to remember the things that we already Near’s decades-long activism for women’s rights and the LGBTQ community. The song have, and from that strength, to hope for a brighter future. The song was popularized was arranged by Dennis Coleman, who has been the artistic director of the Seattle by Josh Groban and arranged for chorus by professor and conductor Rollo Dilworth. Men’s Chorus for 32 years. It was last performed by Quarryland in its 2005 concert “Parade of American Music.” Dona Nobis Pacem To tremendous effect, the sole lyric, dona nobis pacem, “grant us peace,” is repeated over and over throughout the piece. As the song evolves, listen Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day is a traditional English carol that celebrates the to how those same words can ask, beg, demand and plead for peace. Composer and coming of Jesus Christ. The lyrics are from the perspective of Jesus himself, depicting conductor Joseph Gregorio submitted Dona Nobis Pacem to the 2001 international his life as a dance. This version was arranged by composer and pianist Howard Helvey. competition “Waging Peace through Singing.” The song was one of more than seven- hundred entries in the competition and it won Top Honors in the category of Men’s Umi Sono Ai Written by the famous Japanese musician and film star Kousaku Dan, Chorus. Umi Sono Ai, “The Ocean’s Love” is symbolic of the adventure of life – both the hardships and the opportunities that one faces. In Japan, this song is recognized as a symbol of This Holiday is a direct call to forget our differences and to embrace the holiday spirit the country’s spirit and the hope of a life fulfilled. through peace and joy. Composer Steve Milloy is a versatile performer, conductor, teacher, composer and arranger. Before moving to Cincinnati, Milloy was the We Need a Little Christmas comes from the Broadway musical Mame by Jerry accompanist and composer-in-residence for the Indianapolis Men’s Chorus. Herman, who also wrote the music for Holly, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. In his 1996 memoir Showtune, Herman sought to “tell the story of a gay man in America who was It Takes a Village Drawing from the West African saying, “it takes a whole village to comfortable with that persuasion.” The song’s quick pace and bright tune reflect a raise a child,” composer Joan Szymko designed this song to illustrate the coming desire to get wrapped up in the holiday spirit. together of a community. Listen to the song’s evolution between unison, harmony, and moments of clashing rhythms. Arranged for TTBB at Quarryland’s request, we will Joy to the World is a mash-up of the traditional carol and the piece of the same name be among the first men’s choruses to perform this piece. by Hoyt Axton and made famous by Three Dog Night in 1970. The arrangement of the traditional carol was done by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff for Carey’s 2006 Let There Be Peace on Earth Written in 1955 by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson, this call album “Merry Christmas.” for peace was first sung at a summer workshop for teenagers in California. As those Quarryland Community Supporters The Chorus thanks these donors for their support over the past 12 months: Sing. Volunteer. Support. RAINBOW CIRCLE Gywen Magee Mary Goetze (Individual Donors) Sharon Metzler Judy Hohl BLUE $1000 to $2499 Katherine Moldstad Marlin Howard Find your voice in the Anonymous Donor Bryan Rives Linda Hunt Rex G. Hinkle Eileen Savage Lora D. Johnson Marilyn Serslev Nancy Kalina Quarryland Community! GREEN $500 to $999 Mitch Serslev Catherine Larson Stephen & Jo Ellen Ham Bill Shipton Jeanne Leimkuhler Kathy Sideli Pat Martin YELLOW $250 to $499 Ann St. John Joe Morris BECOME A SINGER Peter Burkholder & Doug Jerry Stasny Tim Morrison McKinney Craig A. 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