Fountain in a Wood From Walden to Loch Lomond

Saturday, May13, 2017, 4:00 pm

Trinity Episcopal Church 81 Elm Street, Concord, MA

concordwomenschorus.org Concord Women’s Chorus

presents

Fountain in a Wood From Walden to Loch Lomond

Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director Scott Nicholas, Pianist

With special guest artists Jennifer Slowik, Oboe Johann Soults, Cello

This program is generously supported in part by an Alfred Nash Patterson Grant from Choral Arts New England, and by grants from the Acton- Boxborough, Carlisle, Concord, and Lincoln local cultural councils, local agencies which are supported by the Cultural Council, a state agency. President’s Letter Become a Sponsor We wish to thank the following individuals for their support of today’s Welcome, spring! It never gets old, the sense of freshness and promise concert and our long-term and season initiatives: imbued in warming, flowering surroundings and the glorious songs of Fund to Commission New Music birds – Emerson’s “sky-born music.” Each May we relish our chance Ted Danson to join the music by performing for you. As always, we thank you for Anne Hayden and Ivan Burns being an essential part of this lively dynamic. Music Library Fund Kimberly Fox and Robert Fink As the title of our program suggests, we are celebrating a poetic con- Guest Artist Sponsors Tom and Barbara Beal nection between New England and Scotland. Between these places we Walter and Susan Birge feel the consonance of rigor and natural beauty, of history and au- Susie Buttrick thenticity, of a pond and a loch. At the end of June, we will trace the Philip and Barbara Carvey Judy Marriner connection even further as we embark on a performance tour to the Corporate Sponsors Lake District of England and to Scotland. The Village Bank Kimberly Napier LLC – Elevate Your Extraordinary™ This spring, something truly new has come to life for Concord Wom- Please consider supporting a specific program or project of the en’s Chorus, and we are thrilled to share it with you today. A special Concord Women’s Chorus. Your help will enable us to: commission – The Tree House, by Beth Denisch – is ours to experience • Commission new music composed for women’s voices together for the first time. Inspired by the poetry of Kathleen Jamie, • Expand CWC staff by establishing an intern/mentoring program this work brings an original, rich, robust spirit to the repertoire of mu- • Record a professional CD sic written for women’s voices, a mission prized by our chorus. In this For further information about becoming a sponsor, please contact spirit, with great warmth and affection, we dedicate The Tree House to Patsy Eickelberg (978-369-6341). Thank you for helping us enrich our programming, expand our repertoire, and reach out to the broader Jane Ring Frank, who this fall begins her 25th season as artistic direc- community. tor.

It never gets old, singing for you! We are grateful for your presence Our Special Thanks To: and wish you the liveliest of springs. Paul Anagnostopoulos, printing Rick Krug, printing Stoney Ballard, graphics and audio recording Sincerely, The Reverend Sarah A. Conner, Interim Priest, and Robert Barney, Director of Music, Trinity Episcopal Church Patrons who generously supported us in Walk for the Arts Concert Program

LOCH LOMOND WALDEN POND

Skye Boat Song Scottish Folk Song/arr. Greg Gilpin, 2003 Address to the Moon [2011] Music by John Purifoy Words by Sir Harold Boulton (1859-1935) Words by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64)

Stone Circles [2008] Words & Music by Anne Lister Birds of Passage [2016] Music by Tara Traxler (b. 1993) Edited by Joseph Ohrt, 2016 Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)

Chant for a Long Day [1999] Alway Something Sings [2015] Music by Dan Forrest (b. 1978) Words & Music by Stephen Hatfield (b. 1956) From “Music” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

Waly, Waly traditional Scots ballad Arranged by Joan Szymko, 2001 On Children [1981] Music by Ysaye M. Barnwell (b. 1946) Words by Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Wanting Memories [1992] Words & Music by Barnwell The Tree House [world premiere] Music by Beth Denisch (b. 1958) Breaths [1980] Music by Barnwell Words by Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962) Words by Birago Diop (1906-89)

“Landfall” “The Orchard” “Alder” Please join us in the Parish Hall following the concert INTERMISSION for refreshments and conversation. Choose the lambs too weak for the winter, Program Texts Choose your lambs true believer. Spin the thread for ever and ever. Words by Sir Harold Boulton (1859 – 1935) Skye Boat Song Out of death and out of birth, Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, Out of fire and out of water Onward, the sailors cry. daughter of an ancient earth. Carry the lad that’s born to be king Over the sea to Skye. Once we washed our souls in the river, I am the mermaid, I am the siren, Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar, sowed the corn and prayed for the harvest, Thunderclouds rend the air; I am the queen who sings in the tower, Baffled, our foes stand on the shore, Follow they will not dare. killed the lambs too weak for the winter, I am the moon shining in winter, Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, I am the rose that lasts an hour. Ocean’s a royal bed. Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep Tell me what my work is worth, Watch by your weary head. and tell us what we should have taught her, daughter of an ancient earth. Stone Circles Words by Anne Lister Stars hang in a barren tree, Nobody is an island; sickle moon to reap the harvest. there’s no way you can cut free. Daughter of a world to be. Nobody is an island; there’s no way you can be cut off by sea. Still we give our lives to the river, Still we give our lives to the harvest, And ev’rything I do touches you, Still we give our lives to the winter. and ev’rything I am you hold in your hand. And it seems to me that we are standing stones; I’m the mermaid, I am the siren, there’s no way that we can ever be on our own. I’m the queen who sings in the tower, And even if at times it seems that we are all alone, I’m the moon that shines in the winter, we’re in stone circles marking time of standing stones. I’m the rose that lasts an hour. Nobody’s an outsider, Tell me when my work is done. there’s no way you can cut loose Tell us when a life is over. Nobody’s an outsider, Daughter of a world to come. there’s always some way to pay your dues. The circle stands for ever, Waly, Waly Traditional Scots ballad there’s no angle there to chip or break. The circle stands for ever, The water is wide, I cannot get o’er, there’s no straight line to show a slight mistake. and neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat that will carry two, The wind blows from the hillside, but we stand firm and we do not bend. and both shall row, my true love and I. The wind blows from the hillside, There is a ship and she sails the sea, a circle is a pattern with no end. She’s loaded deep as deep can be, You mustn’t break the circle; But not as deep as the love I’m in. there’s no easy way to be released. I care not if I sink or swim. We mustn’t break the circle; I put my hand into some soft bush, and if we stand together we’ll find peace. thinking the sweetest flow’r to find. Chant for a Long Day Words by Stephen Hatfield (b. 1956) I pricked my finger to the bone, And left the sweetest flow’r behind. Hóró hùg o hùg Here we wash our souls in the river, Oh love is handsome and love is kind, wash your soul true believer. and love is sweet when it is new. Sow the corn and pray for the harvest, But love grows old and waxes cold, sow your corn true believer. And fades away like morning dew. The Tree House Words by Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962) Address to the Moon Words by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 64)

“Landfall” How sweet the silver Moon’s pale ray, Falls trembling on the distant bay, When we walk at the coast O’er which the breezes sigh no more, and notice, above the sea, Nor billows lash the sounding shore. a single ragged swallow Say, do the eyes of those I love, veering towards the earth – Behold thee as thou soar’st above, and blossom-scented breeze, Lonely, majestic and serene, can we allow ourselves to fail The calm and placid evening’s Queen? “The Orchard” Say, if upon thy peaceful breast, Departed spirits find their rest, Here is the late half-land For who would wish a fairer home, where the underworld, Than in that bright, refulgent dome? the moon-shadow of an apple tree is a darkness, like the earth Birds of Passage Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 82) we’re called from – Black shadows fall silent but for a hush From the lindens tall, That lift aloft their massive wall like heavy skirts; Against the southern sky; women, perhaps, passing And from the realms on the far side of a wall Of the shadowy elms whom we may call A tide-like darkness overwhelms our history; or a vole, The fields that ‘round us lie. some creature of the dusk But the night is fair, when the arms of the slender And everywhere A warm, soft vapor fills the air, garden plum trees suddenly And distant sounds seem near,* turn muscular, and deepest blue. And above, in the light “Alder” Of the star-lit night, Swift birds of passage wing their flight Are you weary, alder tree, Through the dewy atmosphere.* in this, the age of rain? I hear the beat From your branches Of their pinions fleet, droop clots of lichen As from the land of snow and sleet They seek a southern lea. like fairy lungs. All week, squalls, tattered mists: I hear the cry Of their voices high alder, who unfolded Falling dreamily through the sky, before the receding glaciers But their forms I cannot see. first one leaf then another, O, say not so! won’t you teach me Those sounds that flow In murmurs of delight and woe a way to live Come not from wings of birds. on this damp ambiguous earth? They are the throngs The rain showers Of the poet’s songs, release from you a broken tune Murmurs of pleasures, and pains, and wrongs, The sound of winged words. but when the sun blinks, as it must, how you’ll sparkle– This is the cry Of souls, that high like a fountain in a wood On toiling, beating pinions, fly, of untold fountains. Seeking a warmer clime, From their distant flight Since you’ve gone and left me, there’s been so little beauty, Through realms of light but I know I saw it clearly through your eyes. It falls into our world of night, Now the world outside is such a cold and bitter place, With the murmuring sound of rhyme. here inside I have few things that will console, *Italicized sections are not part of the music score. and when I try to hear your voice above the storms of life, then I remember that I was told. Alway Something Sings From “Music” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) I think on the things that made me feel so wonderful when I was young, Let me go where’er I will, I think on the things that made me laugh, made me dance, made me sing, I hear a sky-born music still: I think on the things that made me grow into a being full of pride; It sounds from all things old, think on these things, for they are truth. It sounds from all things young, I thought that you were gone, but now I know you’re with me; From all that’s fair, from all that’s foul, you are the voice that whispers all I need to hear. alway something sings. I know a “please,” a “thank you,” and a smile will take me far, It is not only in the rose, I know that I am you and you are me and we are one, It is not only in the bird, I know that who I am is numbered in each grain of sand, Not only where the rainbow glows, I know that I’ve been blessed again and over again. Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things Breaths Words by Birago Diop (1906 – 89) There alway, alway something sings. Listen more often to things than to beings ‘Tis not in the high stars alone, ‘Tis the ancestors’ breath Nor in the cup of budding flowers, When the fire’s voice is heard Nor in the robin’s mellow tone, In the voice of the water Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, Those who have died have never left. But in the darkest, meanest things The dead are not under the earth There alway, alway something sings. They are in the rustling trees. On Children Words by Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) They are in the groaning woods. They are in the crying grass. Your children are not your children. They are in the moaning rocks. They are the sons and the daughters of life’s longing for itself. The dead are not under the earth They come through you but they are not from you They are in the woman’s breast. and though they are with you they belong not to you. They are in the wailing child. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts; They are with us in the home. they have their own thoughts. They have their own thoughts. They are with us in the crowd. You can house their bodies, but not their souls, The dead are not under the earth. For their souls dwell in a place of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit not even in your dreams. You can strive to be like them but you can not make them just like you. The Emerson Gift Shop & Boutique Woman’s Clothing, Handbags, Jewelry, Baby Gifts, Wanting Memories Words by Ysaye M. Barnwell (b. 1946) Sports Items, Cards, Flowers, Gift Baskets I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me to see the beauty in the world through my own eyes. Shop at the Gift Shop – it’s another way to help the community!! You used to rock me in the cradle of your arms, Emerson Hospital 978-369-1400 you said you’d hold me ‘til the pains of life were gone. www.emersonhospital.org/support You said you’d comfort me in times like these and now I need you, and you are gone. Program Notes

Over many rich years with Concord Women’s Chorus, I have aspired to the earth as home to many different states of awareness and means of commission finely crafted, creative works written for women’s voices. In 2010, engagement. The poet asks, ‘won’t you teach me/ a way to live / on this we commissioned Concord Fragments by renowned composer Libby Larsen, damp ambiguous earth?’ who expertly set three texts by historical and contemporary Concord-based women. This past year, energized by our upcoming tour to Scotland and Beth Denisch magically renders these alchemical texts; they are perfectly England’s Lake District, and through the good graces of generous donors, we paced, lovely, radiant, challenging, and measured. once again undertook a new commission. To further punctuate the connection between the United Kingdom and New A commission happens in stages: bubbling up with general thoughts, fine England, I have rounded out the program with a series of ballads and folk tuning ideas, discovering inspired text and finding a talented and willing songs. Skye Boat Song is a traditional Scots song that recalls the escape of composer/partner, all resulting in a specific artistic creation that is rehearsed Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as a serving maid, from Uist to the Isle of and loved and birthed. For the text for this commission, Melissa Apperson, Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Waly, Waly is one our board chair (and writer of one of the poems for Concord Fragments), of the UK’s most beloved folk songs. Known also as “The Water Is Wide,” turned almost immediately to the poetry of Kathleen Jamie, one of Scotland’s the lyrics describe the challenges of enduring love. In Stone Circles, Anne most lauded, beloved contemporary poets. Ms. Jamie has been described as Lister has written a soulful song suggesting the connection between history writing musical poems that attend to the intersection of landscape, history, and humanity. Chant for a Long Day is a traditional Scots “waulking” song, gender, and language. As you will hear today, her work reflects the mystical representing a method of processing cloth, where it was trampled with the feet connection between the natural world and the landscape of the human soul. or beaten against boards. It tells of women’s lives, their work and aspirations. By an auspicious stroke of serendipity, we present The Tree House to you on the occasion of Ms. Jamie’s 55th birthday. Our program also offers, through fine compositions by Dan Forrest, John Purifoy and Tara Traxler, a full force of luminous New England writers. Alway I knew exactly the right composer for these texts. I have known Beth Denisch Something Sings (based on a poem by Emerson) reminds us of the key tenet for a number of years and have had the privilege to conduct her music in the of transcendentalism – that through free will and intuition, we may move past. As a composer, Beth is thoughtful, brilliant and sure in her approach. beyond the physical world to a deeper spiritual experience. Address to the She is also a dedicated and inspiring teacher at . Moon, an ode to that orb of night (based on a poem by Hawthorne), is rich Here, for us, she has created a work of nuance, delicacy, ferocity and utter with expressive melodic phrases. Longfellow’s poetry is best known for lush beauty. descriptions of the natural world; Birds of Passage finds an analogue of The Tree House is structurally a three-movement work, based on three of human experiences. Jamie’s poems from her 2004 volume, The Tree House. In “Landfall,” the We thank you for taking the journey with us today between these two worlds: poet is walking, being attentive, and becomes off balance, a ‘single ragged the exteriority of nature and all its lessons and the interiority of the human soul swallow / veering towards the earth.’ Poetry of the ear becomes poetry with its depth, complexity and questioning. We look forward to greeting you of inner-ear imbalance, tilting towards the larger question, ‘can we allow at the conclusion of the concert and, as always, are grateful for your ongoing ourselves to fail’? “The Orchard” is one complete sentence, broken down into support of Concord Women’s Chorus. five unrhymed tercets. Jamie delineates a netherworld where nothing is quite what it seems. In “Alder,” she proposes a way of living that recognizes Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director Jane Ring Frank, Frank has conducted and produced two CDs with Secession. “Afterlife: Artistic Director German Choral Meditations on Mortality” and “Surprised by Beauty: Minimal- ism in Choral Music.” Both CDs were outstandingly reviewed by the New York Artistic Director Jane Ring Frank is pleased to be Times, Gramophone, and American Record Guide, along with many other in her 24th year as Conductor of the Concord journals, magazines, and blogs. Women’s Chorus, a 50-voice ensemble based in Concord, Massachusetts. Concord Women’s Scott Nicholas, Chorus prides itself on rehearsing and perform- ing challenging, new music written especially for Pianist women. Based in Boston, Scott Nicholas is an accom- From professional CD recording projects to work- plished pianist known as much for exceptional shops for professional conductors and singers, sensitivity to the performers he accompanies as Ms. Frank continues to direct some of Boston’s for his technique. With a repertoire spanning best musical ensembles. For twelve years, she classical and musical theater, Nicholas has ap- was the critically acclaimed Artistic Director and peared throughout the U.S. and internationally Founder of Boston Secession – one of Boston’s in solo and chamber performances. In addition, premiere professional choral ensembles. he has served as the rehearsal and performance pianist for Festival Chorus, the Bor- Ms. Frank began her conducting career at California State University, Long romeo String Quartet, the US Airforce Clarinet Beach, where she became associate conductor of the premiere 70-voice Ensemble, Longwood Opera, the Minnesota University Choir, staff pianist, lecturer, and musical director/conductor for the Opera, Boston Secession, the Concord Women’s Chorus, Boston Lyric Op- Department of Theatre Arts. She also worked as a répétiteur with professional opera companies in , including the Los Angeles Music Center era’s outreach programs, and the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition. Opera and the Long Beach Opera Company. Other artistic mentors include Nicholas has recorded several works by Graham Gordon Ramsay, most the late Randall Behr (former conductor and music director, Juilliard Opera recently Six Piano Preludes, part of a collection of solo instrumental works Center, and former resident conductor, Los Angeles Music Center Opera), the from Albany Records. He has also recorded frequently with E.C. Schirmer’s late Michael Carson (conductor, Lake George Opera), and Menahem Pressler Philovox Ensemble and performed on WGBH-FM and WBUR-FM in Bos- (Beaux Arts Trio). ton. Ms. Frank moved to Boston in 1991 to conduct at and five years later founded Boston Secession. She is currently a Resident Scholar at Nicholas has served as music director for the New England Conservatory the Women’s Studies Research Center at , Artistic Director Opera Workshop, Central Square Theater, Franklin Performing Arts Com- of the North Shore’s Cantemus Chamber Chorus, and Minister of Music and pany, Suffolk University, and . He is also on the faculty at Worship Arts at the First Congregational Church in Winchester. She recently Emerson; teaches piano and coaches opera and music theater at Suffolk; produced composer and fellow Brandeis Scholar Ruth Lomon’s newest CD, and offers instruction in piano, theory, and vocal coaching at Encore Mu- Shadowing, a critically acclaimed recording of her piano works. She co-pro- sic Academy. Nicholas holds a B.A. in music education from The College duced and co-edited two CDs with Laury Gutiérrez and her exhilarating early of New Jersey and an M.M. in accompanying/coaching from the New music fusion ensemble, Rumbarroco. Currently, she is a part-time resident England Conservatory. guest conductor at the Gitameit Music Centre in Yangon, Myanmar.

For a number of years, she served as Conductor of E.C.S. Publishing Com- pany’s professional recording choral ensemble, Philovox, as well as a 10-year faculty member at Emerson College. She has guest conducted and taught at Concord Women’s Chorus is a member of the Greater Boston Choral the Longy School of Music of Bard College, as well as Andover’s Essex Cham- Consortium, a cooperative association of diverse choral groups in ber Music Players, a professional instrumental chamber ensemble. Boston and the surrounding areas. Beth Denisch, THE TREE HOUSE was commissioned by the Concord Women’s Chorus, Composer Jane Rink Frank, Artistic Director, for women’s chorus, oboe, cello, and Beth Denisch’s music has been performed at piano and arranged for women’s chorus and piano. Moscow’s Concert Studio of Radio “Kultura,” in Russia, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and Weill Re- Artist Statement cital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, across the U.S., and in Canada, China, Ecuador, Fin- As a composer I am frequently inspired by nature directly as in the “Fish- land, Greece, Japan, and Scotland. Her music erman’s Bay” that I wrote this past summer for a youth string orchestra, has received radio play and tracks are available inspired by a beach close to where I live; and a few years back, I wrote online; CDs from Albany, Juxtab, Odyssey, and Interval record labels. Scores are published/ “A Suite for Israel” after my first visit there. When Jane Ring Frank and distributed by Juxtab Music, ClearNote Publica- the Concord Women’s Chorus asked me to consider setting these poems, tions, and TrevCo Music. when I first read them, I was immediately drawn into a poetic landscape of Denisch frequently draws inspiration from art- nature and change, doubt and joy. ists as well as authors such as Henry James in Sorrow and Tenderness, commissioned by the All three poems in this setting are from The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie. ; Jeanette Winterson, for Jordan and the Dog “In The Tree House Jamie argues .. for an engagement of the whole being Woman, commissioned by the Equinox Chamber Players; and Kathleen through a kind of practical earthly spirituality.”* It was a natural fit for me Jamie’s The Tree House, commissioned by the Concord Women’s Chorus. Many ensembles and organizations have awarded Denisch including the to bring sonic imagery to Jamie’s portraits and scenarios regarding “how Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow for Fire Mountain Intermezzo; the human negotiates with the natural world”.* Alternating tableaus of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with the Philadelphia Classical Sym- struggle and peace, darkness and light, ambiguity and clarity reflect the phony for The Singing Tree, inspired by the Maxfield Parrish painting; ebb and flow of the natural world and our lives. and the Composers Guild for Motherwell Lorca’s Bagpipe Lament (piano solo version). Other institutions that have commissioned and/or supported Modality, tonality, and chromatic passages sometimes weave together in Denisch’s music include The PatsyLu Fund of the Open Meadows Founda- tion, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, Our Bodies modulating foreground to background positions while at other times one Ourselves, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publish- above the others will be particularly characteristic of a musical phrase ers. or section. Landfall opens this three-movement work with pastoral and Denisch is Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music where impressionistic gestures. The middle piece, The Orchard, paints a darker she teaches Music Composition and Theory as well as courses on Music, picture with imitative sections reflecting the shadows and echoes of hid- Gender, and Society and Women Composers. den history with whispered non-pitched passages leading deeper into the About her music: almost forgotten past. Alder, the final poem in this setting, moves from a damp, dark, magical forest into the clarity of refreshing showers and • “…fierce rhythmic patterns,” Bernard Holland, New York Times sparkling fountains. After a soft opening section there are stark contrasting • “... brimmed with personality and drive ...” Anthony Tommasini, The passages where emphatic chromaticism leads to gentle pentatonicism and Boston Globe concludes with bright polytonality. • “... wonderfully evocative ... simply splendid,” David Cleary, New Music Connoisseur (* all quotes from the Picador/Macmillan edition of The Tree House) Johann Soults, Cello

Mr. Johann Soults is an active freelance ‘cellist in New The CONCORD ORCHESTRA Richard Pittman, Music Director England. He is principal cellist for The Clafl in Hill Sym- Music for the community by the community phony Orchestra, and was the principal cellist of the Utica 2016 -2017 SEASON Symphony Orchestra. He has played with Pro Arte Cham- May 19 & 20, 2017 at 8 pm ber Orchestra of Boston, Huntington Theatre, North Shore May 21 at 2 pm Music Theater, Gloucester Stage, Boston Center for the Arts, The Worcester Chorus, Symphony New Hampshire, Strauss: Nocturno for Horn & Strings New Bedford Orchestra, and other Boston, Worcester and Williams: Jaws selections Cape Cod area orchestras and choirs. He is an active Smetana: The Moldau Grofé: chamber musician, having performed live on WGBH public Mississippi Suite Jeff Stewart, horn soloist Ellington: The River Suite Radio, and is a cello teacher in and around the Boston Hoffer: Jerome Kern medley area.

POPS 2017 Jeffrey Korn Jennifer Slowik, Oboe vocalist OL' MAN RIVER Jennifer Slowik is principal oboe with the Boston Modern

Orchestra Project (BMOP), the Monadnock Festival Orchestra, All concerts at 51 Walden St., Concord, MA and Odyssey Opera, assistant principal oboe at the Orches- 978-369-4967 or Facebook or www.concordorchestra.com tra of Indian Hill, and a member of Emmanuel Music, where she was a recipient of the 2009-10 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson fellowship. She has been praised for her “silky phrases” in the Boston Classical Review, “lovely solo moments” in The Boston Globe, and sound that “took on a larger-than-life quality” in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. J O H A N N S E B A S T I A N B A C H

Ms. Slowik is a frequent performer with organizations all over New England and be- M A S S I N B M I N O R yond, including the Boston Philharmonic, Cantata Singers, North Shore Music Theater, Boston Baroque, Capella Clasura, Windsor Music, the west coast and Canadian tour of “The Music of Star Wars,” and many others. As a soloist and chamber musician, she is a founding member of the award-winning woodwind quintet Southspoon Winds, has CONCORD CHORUS Sarah Yanovitch, soprano Thea Lobo, appeared with Collage New Music, ALEA III, and was a featured recitalist on Trinity and Baroque orchestra mezzo-soprano Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano College’s Summer Music Series in Connecticut. Performance highlights in recent years Matthew Anderson, tenor include the world and US premieres of Tod Machover’s multi-media opera Death and Kevin Leong, conductor Paul Max Tipton, baritone the Powers at the Sally Garnier Theater in Monte Carlo and Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Boston’s production of Zhou Long’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera Madame White Snake, and composer Livia Lin’s Honorable Mention in the 2011 International Music Saturday, May 20, 2017 • 8:00 pm Prize competition for “Ju” for solo oboe, written especially for her.

R CO D C Ms. Slowik is featured on many recordings by BMOP, most notably Lisa Bielawa’s Syn- Church of St. Brigid •1981 Massachusetts Ave.• Lexington, MA 02421 N H O O C R

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Leader The Concord Women’s Chorus (CWC) is delighted to welcome you to Anonymous our 2017 spring concert, Fountain in a Wood: From Walden to Loch Benefactor Lomond. We are extremely proud to present today’s repertoire, includ- Paul Anagnostopoulos and Cynthia Sorn Sara and Stonewall Ballard ing the premier performance of Beth Denisch’s The Tree House. It is our Melissa Apperson and Steven Bloomfi eld Vanu and Judy Bose Susan Avery Anne Hayden and Ivan Burns great privilege to share with you this celebration of spring in the words and music of cherished poets and a set of outstanding composers. Investor Jane Andrews Luckner Jeannette Taylor Choral singing is a uniquely communal experience. The connection Partner between listeners and singers creates a bond that nourishes commu- Amy Davis and William Ambrose Susan Mills Lee and Elaine Chertavian Rowena Nelson nity. Your participation as an active audience member, sharing the live Jane Farber and Jeffrey Tarter Judith S. Perkins music experience with us and with your fellow audience members, is Gerald and Lydia Lauderdale Ena Sandler Ned and Susan Leeming Stephanie Smith and Bruce Hendrickson essential to artistic expression. Supporter Vytas Baksys Sarah Hindle We are grateful for your presence here today. It is evidence of your Sue Beck Elizabeth Hoermann belief in the importance of supporting the arts in our community. To Reinier and Nancy Beeuwkes Raymond C. Holland Cynthia Berg Lois Hutchings further this support we hope you will consider making a donation Dennis and Elizabeth Berk Judi Kotanchik Rebecca Besthoff Kathleen Molony to CWC, if you have not already done so during our annual appeal Barry Breslau Emily and Henry Moss campaign. Tax-deductible gifts from generous donors help to defray Carole Bundy Judy Munn Kathleen and David Chapman Cynthia Nunan rising costs for venue and music rentals, professional instrumentalists Debbie Clark Mary Ren Parker Richard and Mary Close Mary Rubel and soloists, salaries for our superb conductor and accompanist, and a Mildred Davis Bozena and Irl Smith developing roster of community engagement projects. Frank and Mitzi Ferguson Elizabeth Swing James Ferguson Pam Swing and Marty Plotkin Samuel M. Hamill, Jr Emily and Tom Teller Envelopes for donations can be found inside your program, or you Jo Ann Hackett and John Huehnergard Elizabeth H. Wilson may give through our website, concordwomenschorus.org. Any amount Friend will make a difference. Anonymous (x3) Carol O. Marshall Gay Anderson Richard and Deborah Minns Carrie Bolster Marilyn Morgan Once again, please accept our deepest thanks for your support. Your Nancy Bond Josephine R. Paladini Beth Denisch Flavia Perugini contribution helps strengthen our mission to keep music written for Patsy Eickelberg Dick and Judy Quanrud Donna Fitzsimmons Lisa Sandeen women’s voices alive on the concert stage. Suzanne S. Frank Jack and Judy Scotnicki Bob and Kathy Garner Katherine Wangh D. Hardman Laura S. Weiss Sincerely, Kathy and John Heckscher Sally and Jack Weiss Monika M. Kennedy We greatly appreciate the support of our donors, and apologize for any omissions or misspellings. This list includes donations received as of the time the program went to print. Coordinator, CWC Annual Appeal The Chorus Soprano I

Melissa Apperson, Judy Bose, Jane Fisher, Elizabeth Hoermann, Jane Luckner, Ellen Materne, Kathleen Molony, Ena Sandler, Bozena Smith, Pam Swing

Soprano II

Susan Avery, Sara Ballard, Elaine Chertavian, Patsy Eickelberg, Jennifer Kobayashi, Judi Kotanchik, Susan Mills, Judy Munn, Lisa Pohl, Mary Rubel, Jeannette Taylor

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Mike Oakes [email protected] 978-392-5800 www.FitnessTogether.com/Concord www.FitnessTogether.com/Westford Greater Boston Choral Consortium Greater Boston Choral Consortium 2016-17 Fall Season; www.bostonsings.org 2016-17 Fall Season; www.bostonsings.org Call numbers listed for chorus information or 978-595-2293 / [email protected] Call numbers listed for chorus information or 978-595-2293 / [email protected] A Cappella Singers, www.theacappellasingers.org Andover Choral Society, andoverchoralsociety.org Cambridge Chamber Singers, Raymond E. Fahrner, Dir., 617-354-5415. Dec. 3, 8 PM, Lindsey Apollo Club of Boston, www.apolloclub.org Chapel, 15 Newbury St., Boston, and Dec. 4, 7 PM, (TBD): New Beginnings: Rore, Rorem and Arlington-Belmont Chorale, psarlington.org/drupal/ Rautavaara. May 6, 8 PM, Lindsey Chapel, and May 7, 7 PM, (TBD): Eros in Music: Renais- Boston Choral Ensemble, www.BostonChoral.org sance to the Present. Cambridgechambersingers.org Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, www.bgmc.org Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus, saengerfest.org Cantilena: A Women’s Chorale, 617-484-5748, Jennifer Kane, Dir. Dec. 4, “Winter’s Joy”, Braintree Choral Society, www.braintreesings.org Rheinberger, Ola Gjeilo, Nicola Porpora; May 7, 2017, ”Radiant Sister”, contemporary Broadmoor Chamber Singers, www.broadmoorsingers.org American composers, Susan LaBarr, Gwyneth Walker, Ellen Voth commission, Kenneth Seitz, Brookline A Cappella, www.brooklineacappella.com Scott Wheeler. Both concerts at First Parish UU, Mass Ave, Arlington. www.cantilena.org Cambridge Chamber Singers, www.cambridgechambersingers.org Cambridge Community Chorus, www.cambridgechorus.org Choral Art Society of the South Shore, Danica A. Buckley, Artistic Dir./Cond. 508-577-1466. Cantata Singers, www.cantatasingers.org Dec. 4, 4 PM: Let There Be Peace on Earth, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Scituate. Join us in Cantemus, www.cantemus.org Scituate for Open rehearsals Jan.10 and 17, 7:30-9:30pm. May 7, 4 PM: Mozart Requiem, Cantilena - a woman’s chorale, www.cantilena.org Ave Verum, and Regina Coeli, K.276. Location TBD. www.choralartsociety.org Cappella Clasura, www.clausura.org Charles River Chorale, www.charlesriverchorale.net Chorus pro Musica, Jamie Kirsch, Dir., 617-267-7442. Nov. 4, 8 PM: Beethoven, Missa Solem- Choral Art Society of the South Shore, www.choralartsociety.org nis, Jordan Hall. Dec. 16, 8 PM: Candlelight Christmas, Old South Church. Mar. 4, 8PM w/ Chorus North Shore, www.chorusnorthshore.org NEP: Tippett, Child of Our Time, BU Tsai Ctr.; Apr. 14, 8 PM w/ BPO: Mahler, Symphony No. Chorus pro Musica, www.choruspromusica.org 2, Symphony Hall. May 13, 8 PM: Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing. www.choruspromusica.org CircleSinging Boston, www.meetup.com/Circlesinging-Boston/ Commonwealth Chorale, www.newtonchoral.org Commonwealth Chorale, David Carrier, dir. Nov. 19, 8pm, Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Concord Chorus, www.ConcordChorus.org Concord Women’s Chorus, www.concordwomenschorus.org St., W. Roxbury: Van Ness, Nocturnes; Jongen, Messe en l’honneur du Saint-Sacrement; Convivium Musicum, www.convivium.org Pinkham, Christmas Cantata. Brass ensemble & organ. March 12, 3pm, Holy Name: Mozart’s Coolidge Corner Community Chorus, www.cccchorus.org Requiem & Exsultate jubilate, J. Mongardio, sop. May 13, 8pm, Second Church, 60 Highland Coro Allegro, www.coroallegro.org St, W. Newton: Schubert, Mirjams Siegegesang, Brahms, An die Heimat; Copland songs. Coro Dante, www.dantemass.org/html/coro-dante commonwealthchorale.com Dedham Choral Society, www.dedhamchoral.org Emmanuel Music, emmanuelmusic.org Concord Chorus, Kevin Leong, Music Director, 978-254-1551. Dec. 10, 2 & 5 PM: Winter Fine Arts Chorale, www.fineartschorale.org Holiday Concerts—Elgar, Thompson, Dove & carols, Middlesex School Chapel (1400 Lowell First Unitarian Society in Newton, fusn.org Road, Concord). May 20, 8 PM: Bach’s “Mass in B Minor” with prof. soloists & period orches- Genesis Chamber Singers, www.genesischambersingers.com tra, Church of St. Brigid (1981 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington). www.concordchorus.org Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus, www.bostonchorus.net Halalisa Singers, www.halalisa.org Concord Women’s Chorus, Jane Ring Frank, Dir. Dec.17, 3 PM: Wrapped in Song, works by Handel and Haydn Society, www.handelandhaydn.org Vivaldi, MacMillan, Orban, Betinis, Trinity Episcopal, Concord, MA. May 13, 4 PM: Fountain Harvard Choruses, harvardchoruses.fas.harvard.edu in a Wood: From Walden to Loch Lomond. Newly commissioned work by Beth Denisch, Scot- Harvard pro Musica, www.harvardpromusica.org tish ballads, more. Rehearsals Tuesdays 9:30-noon. www.concordwomenschorus.org Highland Glee Club, www.highlandgleeclub.com In Choro Novo, www.inchoronovo.com Coro Allegro, David Hodgkins, Artistic Dir. 617-266-4011 Nov 13, 3pm: Bach, Magnificat, Jameson Singers, www.jamesonsingers.org Barber & Kodaly. Mar 12, 3pm: Haydn Lord Nelson Mass & Pinkham, The White Raven, both Kings Chapel Concert Series, www.kings-chapel.org Koleinu, www.koleinu.org @ Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. May 21, 3pm: 25th Anniversary Celebration Rachmaninoff, Labyrinth Choir, www.labyrinthchoir.org Poulenc, Thompson, premieres by Van Ness, Eldridge, & Higdon. Church of the Covenant, Lexington Pops Chorus, www.LexingtonPopsChorus.org Boston. www.coroallegro.org Mastersingers of Lexington, www.themastersingers.org Meridian Singers, web.mit.edu/meridians First Unitarian Society in Newton, Anne Watson Born, Music Dir. Nov. 13, 10.15am, Music Metropolitan Chorale, www.metropolitanchorale.org Sunday – music by Elder, Warland, Walker, Barnwell; February 12, 3pm Musicians Concert; MIT Women’s Chorale, web.mit.edu/womensleague/womenschorale/ March 19, 10.15am Beethoven Choral Fantasy; May 24, 7pm Germany Tour Kickoff Concert Mystic Chorale, www.mysticchorale.org www.fusn.org Greater Boston Choral Consortium Greater Boston Choral Consortium 2016-17 Fall Season; www.bostonsings.org 2016-17 Fall Season; www.bostonsings.org Call numbers listed for chorus information or 978-595-2293 / [email protected] Call numbers listed for chorus information or 978-595-2293 / [email protected]

Harvard Pro Musica, Carey Shunskis, Dir., 978-456-5039. Multi-generational regional chorus. Quincy Choral Society classical, Broadway and popular December 11, 2016, 4:00pm, Central December 3, 7:30 PM, Holiday Concert: Liszt’s Missa Choralis, Kodaly’s Veni Veni Emmanuel, Middle School, 875 Hancock St., Quincy March 5, 2017, 2:00pm, Quincy Catholic Academy, and seasonal carols. April 2017: Intensive Workshop and Concert with guest conductors. (UU 370 Hancock St., Quincy May 7, 2017, 4:00pm, Central Middle School, 875 Hancock St., Church, 9 Ayer Road, Harvard, 01451) www.harvardpromusica.org Quincy www.quincychoral.org Highland Glee Club, David Tiedman, Mus.Dir. 508-655-8232. Dec. 4, 3PM, First Bap&st Reading Community Singers, Beth Mosier, Dir. 781-944-8354. Dec. 3, 7:30PM, Dec. 4, Church, 858 Great Plain Avenue, Needham. Works by Mozart, St. Saens, Bach,Buxtehude, 3:00PM: “In the Spirit of Peace-A Holiday Celebration,” Old South United Methodist Church, seasonal carols. Tickets $20, under 18 free. April 23, 3PM, Newton City Hall, War Memorial 6 Salem St. Reading. Spring Concert May 6, 2017, 7:30PM Parker Middle school 45 Temple Auditorium, 1000 Comm. Ave. African –American composers,songs from WWI, music schol- St. Reading. www.readingcommunitysprings.org. arship winner. www.highlandgleeclub.com Seraphim Singers, Jennifer Lester, Dir. Nov 6, 13: Howells ‘Requiem’ and MacMillan ‘Cantos The Master Singers of Lexington, Adam Grossman, Dir., 781-729-7975. First Parish Church, Sagrados,’ Newton/Cambridge. Feb 5, 10, 12: ‘Visions of War, Peace, & Paradise’ Revela- 7 Harrington Road: Oct. 29, 8 pm: Britten, Fauré. Dec. 11, 4 pm: Vivaldi (Gloria), R. Thomp- tions-themed program, Cambridge/ Boston/ Concord. Apr 30, May 6: Byrd Mass and singers’ son, Argento, Caldara. Mar. 4, 8 pm: Pops! Ellington, Foster, Gershwin, Lennon & McCartney, favorite works mark Seraphim’s 20th year, Boston/Cohasset. $15-20, SeraphimSingers.org. Raposo, Weill. Follen Church, 755 Mass. Ave.: May 7, 4 pm: Mendelssohn Piano Concerto The Spectrum Singers, John W. Ehrlich, Dir, 617-492-8902. Nov. 19: Christmas Prelude with (A minor), Haydn Little Organ Mass, Whitman Brown (commission), Eric Mazonson, piano. brass and organ: Schuetz, Praetorius, Pinkham, Dello Joio, Gabrieli; Mar. 18: Britannia Rules: www.themastersingers.org Purcell, Vaughan Wms; May 20: Celebrate America: Fine, Schuman, Copland, Kern, Rodgers Meridian Singers, Michael Barrett, Dir., Jan. 17, 1 PM: A cappella settings, Renaissance & Hammerstein, Gershwin. All concerts 8 PM at 1st Cong Camb. $45/$30/$15. through 20th century, of Classical texts (Virgil, Horace, Catullus), spectrumsingers.org MIT Chapel, 48 Mass. Ave. Cambridge. web.mit.edu/meridians/ Westford Chorus Parish Center for the Arts in Westford, MA. Winter Concert “A Baroque Metropolitan Chorale, Lisa Graham, Music Dir. Nov. 5, 8pm, First Church, Cambridge, Choral Festival” Handel, Bach, Vivaldi and Zelenka, 1/28 7:30p.m. at United Methodist, Westford, Britannia: Masterpieces from the Cathedral Tradition and Beyond with Ian Watson, organ- 1/29 3:00p.m., Trinity Lutheran, Chelmsford westfordchorus.org ist; Mar. 4, 8pm, All Saints Parish, Brookline, Handel: Dixit Dominus; May 12, 8pm, Sanders Zamir Chorale of Boston, Josh Jacobson, Art. Dir., 617-244-6333. Nov. 14, 7:30 PM: The Maj- Theatre, Cambridge, Songs of Innocence with David Vanderwal, tenor, and Handel & Haydn esty of Hallel, Temple Shalom of Newton. Dec. 18, 4 PM: A Light Through the Ages, Central Society’s Young Women’s Chorus, directed by Alyson Greer. www.metropolitanchorale.org. Reform Temple, Boston. June 14, 7:30 PM: Awe-Psalm, Temple Emanuel, Newton. MIT Women’s Chorale, Kevin Galiè, Dir., Dec. 10, 5 PM: Galuppi Dixit Dominus & Nunc dimit- www.zamir.org tis, Harvard-Epworth United Meth. Church, Harvard Sq., Cambridge. Open dress rehearsal, Nashoba Valley Chorale, www.nashobachorale.org Dec. 3, 1 pm, MIT Chapel, 48 Mass. Ave. Cambridge. Spring concert, May 6, 5 pm Harvard- Neponset Choral Society, Inc., www.ncschorus.org Epworth Church. web.mit.edu/womensleague/womenschorale/ New England Classical Singers, www.newenglandclassical.org New World Chorale, www.newworldchorale.org Nashoba Valley Chorale, Anne Watson Born, Dir. Nov. 19, 8 PM: Bach Motet #3, Gjeilo Sun- Newton Community Chorus, www.NewtonCommunityChorus.org rise Mass, Littleton (MA) HS. Dec. TBD, 3 PM: Messiah Sing, First Church UU, Littleton. April Oriana Consort, www.theorianaconsort.org 29, 8 PM: Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, Littleton HS. May 21, 4 PM: Dvorak Te Deum, Persephone’s Daughters, www.persephonesdaughters.org with Worcester Youth Symphony, Mechanics Hall, Worcester. www.nashobachorale.org Pilgrim Festival Chorus, www.pilgrimfestivalchorus.org Polymnia Choral Society, www.polymnia.org New England Classical Singers, David Hodgkins, Artistic Dir. Dec 10, 7:30 PM, Pike School, Quincy Choral Society, www.quincychoral.org Andover, MA and Dec 11, 3 PM, Christ Church, Andover, MA, Handel’s Messiah, Pt. 1 and Reading Community Singers, www.readingcommunitysingers.org Victoria’s Magnificat Secundi Toni. Mar 4, 7:30 PM, Pike School, Andover, MA, Whitbourn’s Seraphim Singers, www.seraphimsingers.org Sharing A New Song, www.sharinganewsong.org Annelies. May 7, 4 PM, Corpus Christi Parish, Lawrence, MA, TBD, free concert sponsored SingPositive, www.singpositive.org by Catherine McCarthy Memorial Trust Fund. www.newenglandclassical.org Somerville Community Chorus, www.somervillechorus.com Night Song, Daryl Bichel, director. Weekly compline liturgy featuring chant and Renaissance Sound and Spirit, www.soundandspirit.net Sounds of Stow Festival Chorus & Orchestra, www.soundsofstow.org polyphony, First Church in Cambridge. Sundays, 7pm Nov.-Apr, 8:30pm May-Oct. Free. Spectrum Singers, www.spectrumsingers.org www.nightsong.org Treble Chorus of New England, treblechorusne.org/ Oriana Consort, Walter Chapin, Caroline Harvey, Dirs., 339-203-5876. Nov. 6, 5 PM; Nov. 11, Triad Choral Collective, triadchoir.org Voices of Metrowest, voicesofmetrowest.com 8 PM: Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, Brahms, Stravinsky et al. Dec. 11, 5 PM; Dec. 16, 8 PM; Wellesley Choral Society, www.WellesleyChoralSociety.org Dec. 18, 5 PM: Bach, Schütz, Cooman et al. 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