20lh ANNIVERSAR'r' CELE&AT~ LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ~- ~ AND SINFONIA ORCHESTRA . J ~ ~ ROGER WAGNER, FOUNDER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR ~
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1984, AT 8:30 PM PREVIEW AT 7:30 PM BY PAUL SALAMUNOVICH
DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION
ROGER WAGNER, Conductor JEANNINE WAGNER, Assistant Conductor MARVEL JENSEN, Organ
ROGER WAGNER AT 70
SACRED MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
JUBILATE DEO Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) Let the whole world sing praises to God.
VERE LANGUORES Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Surely He has borne our griefs, and hath carried our sorrows.
EXSULTATE JUSTI PSALM 33 Ludovici Viadana (1564-1645) Rejoice in the Lord, 0 ye righteous.
SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS Giovanni da Palestrina (1525-1594) By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Thee, 0 Zion!
SECULAR MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
AU JOLY JEU Clement Janequin (1475-1560) Oh, follow on where my love may lead.
LA PLUS BELLE DANS LA VILLE Clement Janequin The prettiest in the village. That's me!
IL EST BEL ET BON Passereau (1509-154 7) He is handsome and good. He does not beat me and' he feeds the chickens. \
L-1 • MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
MAGNIFICAT Flor Peeters (b. 1903) Dedicated to Roger vyagner My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
MASS IN G MINOR Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Kyrie Sanctus Gloria Benedictus Credo Agnus Dei Soloists: KARl WINDINGSTAD, Soprano JEANNINE WAGNER, Mezzo-Soprano BYRON WRIGHT, Tenor JAMES WHITE, Baritone Intermission
SINFONIA SACRA, "GLORIA" Daniel Pinkham (b. 1923) Gloria in excelsis Deo
SOLEMN PSALM #1 Jean Langlais (b. 1907) Dedicated to Roger Wagner Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus
VOCALISE Wilbur Chenoweth (1899-1979) ANNIE KIM, Soprano
A CHORAL TRIBUTE Kirke Mechem (b. 1925) Commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale to celebrate the 70th birthday of its founder and director.
FOLK SONGS OF THE NEW WORLD
SHENANDOAH Sea Shanty PAUL HINSHAW, Baritone arr. Roger Wagner
GLENDY BURK Stephen Foster arr. Roger Wagner
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD Spiritual SALLI TERRI, Mezzo-Soprano arr. Roger Wagner
BATILE O'JERICHO Spiritual arr. Roger Wagner
The Los Angeles Master Chorale Association sponsors the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Sinfonia Orchestra. It does this through the generosity of its volunteer Board of Directors and all those who contribute to The Music Center Unified Fund of the Performing Arts Council. The Association's volunteer affiliate committees provide substantial support for its activities. These concerts are made possible, in part, through the sponsorship of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles County Music and Performing Arts Commission, and through grants from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Arts Council.
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L-2 PROGRAM NOTES Between 1563 and 1584 Giovanni da groups. by Palestrina published 177 motets, and an Richard H. Trame, S.j., Ph.D. other 72 were published posthumously. Flor Peeters (1903) enjoys the distinc Loyola Marymount University The great motet, Super flumina Baby tion of being only one of three Belgian Janis (Psalm 136 Vulgate Bible) for five musicians since 1830 to have been Giovanni Gabrieli developed his uncle voices was constructed from the opening raised to the peerage when King Bou Andrea's invention of the use of the words of a Psalm for Thursday Vespers, doin proclaimed him a baron in 1971. antiphonal or double chorus (cori spez or from the Offertory of the Mass for the Baron Peeters' achievements as com zati) at St. Mark's in Venice, in a more Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. It poser, teacher, and organist have won sophisticated manner. Rather than sim depicts the lamentation of the exiled him honorary doctorates from The Cath ply having one choir repeat what had Jews by the banks of the Euphrates River olic University of America and Louvain been presented initially, Giovanni used near Babylon. University. In 1958 Pope Pius XII con the device to further develop the motet's ferred on him the rank of Knight Com thematic material. mander of the Order of St. Gregory. His Between 1597 and 1615, he produced Magnificat (Opus 110) for mixed choir four motets entitled }ubi/ate Deo, two of and organ was composed in 1962 and which were for eight voices, one for ten has proved to be one of his · most pop and one for fifteen. This evening's jubi ular and enduring sacred compositions. late Deo (Psalm 99 Vulgate Bible) has often been described as "perhaps the In 1920 Ralph Vaughan Williams be greatest motet ever composed" and "the came profoundly influenced by the work crowning achievement of the polychoral of Sir Richard Runciman Terry, Choir Venetian school." Gabrieli published it master of Roman Catholic Westminster in 1597 in a collection of motets scored Cathedral in London. Terry's work ac for voices, organ and brass instruments. tively resurrected the great music of the The piece illustrates the aforementioned Giovanni da Palestrina English Tudor composers, especially that Venetian style, but while also develop of William Byrd. ing contrasts between groupings of high Clement janequin's 250 polyphonic Responding to this discovery, he com and low voices within the melodramatic chansons fill six volumes in a modern posed the a cappella Mass in G for solo structure. This joyful motet culminates in edition published between 1965 and quartet and eight-part mixed chorus. It ' dazzling and sonorous union of voices 1971. l:le spent his generally impov not only broke new ground, but also set ( nd instruments. erished life in different French cities as a a standard for the re-creation of Eng priest-clerk to bishops from Bordeaux to land's a cappella choral tradition. This Vere languores (nostros ipse tulit) (Truly Paris. In addition to his chansons he setting of the Mass Common was dedi he has borne our sorrows) is Tomas Luis produced 150 psalm settings, a number cated to Gustav Holst and his Whitsun de Victoria's profoundly poignant and of motets, and two Masses. The con tide Singers, but its first liturgical per fervent lament composed for the rev temporary royal publisher Attaingnant formance occurred in Westminster erence of the Holy Cross at the Mass of included his chansons in published col Cathedral on March 12, 1923. the Presanctified on good Friday. It was lections, as did the publisher Gardanes. probably published in his first book of Janequin's chansons are strongly pro New England-born Daniel Pinkham motets in 1572. This piece, along with grammatic as illustrated in the vivid La has been strongly influenced by the 0 Vos Omnes and Ave Maria, is the Batai/le (de Marignano) and Les Oiseaux. work of contemporary composers in work upon which Victoria's posthumous Au }oly }eu de pousse avant and La plus cluding Samuel Barber, Walter Piston, reputation rested before his numerous belle dans Ia ville aptly illustrate jane Aaron Copland and Arthur Honegger. sacred compositions were discovered, quin's jovial and mirthful artistry. His music, particularly the Christmas, resulting in a re-evaluation of his full Easter, and wedding cantatas has made style and achievement. Also a French priest, Passereau (1509- him one of the most successful Ameri 47) attained the distinction of being in can composers. The Gloria in exce/sis Ludovico Viadana, upon Jornrng the cluded in Rabelais' list of "merry musi from his Sinfonia Sacra, clearly influ Observant Franciscans sometime after cians." This accomplished singer pro enced by Giovanni Gabrieli, exhibits his 1588, changed his family name of Grossi duced chansons almost exclusively; in compact, contrapuntally cohesive and to that of his birthplace, Viadana, near deed, only one motet is attributed to rhythmically propulsive style. Parma. He served chiefly as Choirmaster him. His cheerful narrative and descrip in Mantua, Padua and Rome. Exsultate tive songs, like Janequin's chansons, Blind from birth, jean Langlais has justi appears . to be an early festive were included in publications by At spent much time teaching in France's polyphonic motet probably published in taingnant. His popular II est bel et bon School for the Blind. His own teachers 1588. Most of Viadana's later music pro imitates onomatapoetically the sound of were Paul Dukas and Tournemire, the duced for one or few voices required in- hens clucking. The song attained such · latter of whom he succeeded as organist ·-umental accompaniment, distinguish popularity that it was sung in the streets at prestigious St. Clotilde. His composi ., him as one of the earliest pioneers of distant Venice and was subsequently tions have been strongly influenced by in the use of basso continuo. transcribed for various in;trumental Gregorian chant. The Solemn Psalm #1
L-3 is one of three festive psalms produced A CHORAL TRIBUTE in 1965 for solo quartet, choir, organ, and brass. 0 Master, how shall we praise thee? Shout with a loud voice, Wilbur Chenoweth's popular Vocalise Sing out with the sound utilizes an old nineteenth We shall praise thee Now Master, so do we praise thee With the fruit of thy labor. With all our skill, With all our art, You have said unto us: With all our love, Make a mighty noise! And all our heart. Stephen Foster composed Glendy Burk Shout with a loud voice! in 1860 as one of his later "Ethiopian" Sing out with the sound We praise thee songs, using less pronounced Southern Of a thousand tabors! With the fruit of thy labor. or Negro dialect than that which had How shall we praise thee? characterized his earlier works. Glendy We make a mighty noise, - Kirke Mechem Burk illustrates Foster's renewed ac quaintance with the practice of Negro stevedores and steamboat deck hands of his day. The two spirituals on the program il lustrate the sensitive and discriminating FEBRUARY CONCERT art of arranging popular songs. These LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE & arrangements require considerable sim SINFONIA ORCHESTRA plicity in order to preserve the almost Gilbert and Sullivan: IOLANTHE naive directness of the spiritual without FEBRUARY 18, 1984 AT 2:00 PM submerging its message or harmonic FEBRUARY 19, 1984 AT 7:30 PM structure under etaborate choral appa Join John Reed, former principal com ratus. Roger Wagner's arrangements suc edian of England's famed D'Oyly Carte ceed in conveying the genuine spirit of Opera, in one of Sullivan's finest scores. the pieces in a straightforward manner. Robert Willoughby )ones conducting. L-4 COMMISSION FUND Wilfred Mommaerts WHO'S WHO We gratefully acknowledge the support Carlyn Morenus of Master Chorale members and friends Doug Morrison who have contributed toward the com Kathy Morrison mission of the Kirke Mechem work in Frankie Nobert honor of Roger Wagner's 70th birthday: Nancy OBrien Sally Anderson Greta Olson G. Brooks Arnold Chris Parker Sheridan Ball Marilou Petrone Carol Ann Bakeman Kirk Prather Elke Bank Debbie Preble William Beck Diane Radke Moni Berger Constance Redifer Kimberly Bernhardt Carol Reich John Biggs Michael Robillard Helen Birch Sherri II Sajak Andrew Black linda Sauer Leslie Bockian George Scott Laura Boyd Robert Seibold Kathryn Breidenthal Cameron Sheffield Anne Turner Bunnell libby Slate Music Director of both the Roger Wagner Pamela Chapin Bonnie Smith Chorale and the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Sinfonia Orchestra, ROGER WAGNER is Tom Clark Maurice Staples known the world over as a symbol of the Sheila Coyazo Karole Struebing highest in choral achievements in choral art. Fred Crum William Struebing The Maestro observes his 70th birthday in Christine D'Arc Salli Terri January of 1984 and shows no signs of slow jeanne Davenport Michael Thompson ing down. Dedicated to choral music since early childhood, his international reputation Carolyn Davis Kirt 'Thiesmeyer in that area has been enhanced by his work Loretta Delange Burman Timberlake as a composer, arranger, and symphonic con Charlotte DeWindt Mary Vance ductor, and he is a highly regarded authority James Dougherty Nancy Von Oeyen on the religious music of the medieval and Marilyn Eginton jeannine Wagner renaissance periods. He has been knighted twice for his contributions to sacred music. Larry Fish Donald Whitsitt Radio, television, motion pictures, and re Margie Glassman Earle Wilkie cordings have all played an important part in Kathy Goodwin Suzanne Wilkie his long and illustrious career. He has re Claire Gordon linda Williams corded over 60 albums and received the Hugh Grinstead Barbara Wi Ison Grammy Award for his album, Virtuoso. In addition to directing the Los Angeles Master Robert Gurnee Neil Wilson Chorale and Sinfonia Orchestra, Roger Wag Elizabeth Hazen Hanan Yaqub ner has been guest conductor of the Los David Hill Burton York Angeles Philharmonic and has appeared with Mary Hinshaw leading orchestras all over the world. Paul Hinshaw Frank Hobart laura Horwitz Nora Hostetler Maryanne Ivanoff Jolyne Jeffers Dorothy Chandler Pavilion House Staff Lyn Jones PHILLIPE DE CONVILLE Kerry Katz House Manager Carole Keiser GERALD SCHAUB Claudia Ann Kellogg Master Carpenter Stanley Kertz PETER PERRICONE Cathy larsen Master Electrician Rae Macdonald CARMINE D. MARINELLI LaVada Marlowe Master of Properties • Becky Martin CHUCK LEWIS ·, Master Audio The LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE and Don Martin SINFONIA ORCHESTRA, founded by Roger L-5 Wagner and the los Angeles Junior Chamber notables as Stravinsky as well as Norman of Commerce, became a resident company of Luboff. She has a Masters Degree from USC, the Music Center in 1964. Dr. Wagner has a teaching credential from UCLA and a Bach been Music Director since its formation. Cur elor's Degree from Wayne State University. rently celebrating its 20th anniversary season Along with the Chorale she has toured exten at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the 125- sively ·with her husband in the John Biggs voice ensemble is one of the finest in the Consort and performed in South America, the United States and includes in its select Far East and in this country with the John membership the outstanding vocal talent in Biggs Family Consort, which includes their the Southland. daughters, Jennifer and Adrienne, both ac The Master Chorale presented its first con complished violinists and recorder players. cert season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion She is a member of NATS Singing Teachers' in 1965, receiving significant critical acclaim. Association, American Choral Directors' As Under the leadership of Dr. Wagner, the sociation and Screen Actors' Guild. She is Chorale has continued to present concert pleased to be singing the solo in this birthday seasons of the world's choral masterworks salute to Roger Wagner on this very special at the Music Center, giving los Angeles a evening. unique reputation as the only city in the country supporting its own professional resi dent chorus in an annual series of choral pro the United States grams. Wagner Chorale. In 1978 the Master Chorale joined the los Angeles Philharmonic for the inaugural con cert of Music Director Carlo Maria Giulini, in MARVEL JENSEN has won international Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The perfor recognition for her numerous concerts in· mance was carried live on public television eluding appearances at St. Peter's in Rome, and transmitted via satellite throughout the the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and Notre Dame, United States, Canada, Europe and Mexico. Paris. She was also the first to hold the prestigious position as organist with the Milwaukee Symphony which included record ings and television appearances. Miss Jensen's began her musical training at the age of four, giving her first public perfor mance only two years later. Her professional studies have been with David Craighead at the Eastman School of Music, Malcolm Ham received m as ilton, and Catharine CrG..zi.er. In France she soloist with many symphony orchestras, in studied with Nadia Boulanger, Marcel Dupre cluding the los Angeles Philharmonic, Phila and jean Langlais, later serving as Langlais' delphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Sym assistant. Miss Jensen holds both a Masters phony. Mr. Hinshaw has appeared in con and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in certs with most of the leading musical organi Performance from the University of Southern zations on the west coast. Recently he has California and was a research scholar at Cam been performing with the American Ballet bridge University in England, specializing in Theatre in New York, San Francisco and manuscripts of the 16th-18th centuries. los Angeles where he received high critical praise for his performances of several song cycles by Gustav Mahler that have been Tonight SALLI TERRI is singing Roger Wag choreographed for that company. A member ner's arrangement of "Sometimes I Feel like of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the a Motherless Child" which he wrote especial Roger Wagner Chorale, Mr. Hinshaw has ly for her. It is featured on his recording been the featured soloist on several national Voices of the South (R.W. 003 R & C) tours and State Department sponsored tours formerly on the Capitol label. Salli has sung to latin America, the Middle East and Russia. with the Roger Wagner Chorale and the L.A. Master Chorale for a number of years. Her arrangements, featured on many Roger Wag ANNIE D. KIM has won numerous vocal ner albums, are published by lawson-Gould awards including the Los Angeles Bureau of in the Salli Terri series. Her association with Music's "Future Young Artist" Competition, the group began with her singing in small San Fernando Valley Theatre of Performing ensembles in England and at St. Joseph's Arts "Young Artists of the Future," Los An church in Los Angeles. geles Woman's Lyric Club, and Whittier Salli Terri's background includes singing in Women's Chorus Competition. the CBS choir in Detroit, teaching in Japan A featured soloist with the touring Roger Marvel Jensen's professional association and at UCLA, UC-Santa Barbara, UC-Irvine, Wagner Chorale, Miss Kim has returned most with Roger Wagner began while she was a child performer, and it was some years later Fullerton College and at Graz, Austria. She recently from study in Graz, Austria which that Dr. Wagner heard her perform in France presently has her own studio teaching voice included performances as Marguerite in and acclaimed her as "a major contribution and sight-reading for singers. Her voice is "Faust" under the direction of Thomas Fulton well-known on the Grammy-award winning of the Metropolitan Opera. to performing artistry." Miss jensen maintains album with laurindo Almeida, "Duets with Upcoming engagements include the role an active schedule of solo recitals and sym the Spanish Guitar," and in numerous albums of Pamina in "The Magic Flute" with the phony performances both in the United States with Roger Wagner. She has sung with such Euterpe Opera, soprano solos in the Brahms and Europe. L-6 MEMBERS OF THE LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE 1983-84 SOPRANOS Christine D'Arc George Scott Charlotte DeWindt Robert Selland Sally Anderson Marilyn Eginton joe Smayda Elke Bank Nancy Fontana Maurice Staples Leslie Bockian Margie Glassman George Sterne Kathryn Breidenthal Laurie Gurman Kirt Thiesmeyer Pamela Chapin Elizabeth Hazen Michael Thompson Sheila Coyazo Mary Hinshaw Jeanne Davenport Nora Hostetler Carolyn Davis Carole Keiser BASSES Loretta Delange Claudia Ann Kellogg Kathy Goodwin Bridgid Kinney Claire Gordon Marianne Lipson Mark Beasom Rose Harris LaVada Marlowe William Beck Andrew Black Laura Horwitz Nancy OBrien David Chang Jolyne Jeffers Connie Redifer Fred Crum Annie Kim Carol Reich Cathy Larsen Karole Struebing Kevin Dalbey Larry Fish Rae Macdonald Salli Terri Connie Majeau Lori Turner john Gingrich Bruce Goldes Becky Martin Mary Vance Richard Greeley Presocia Mirkil jeannine Wagner Carlyn Morenus Suzanne Wilkie Hugh Grinstead Kathy Morrison Barbara Wilson David Hill Frankie Nobert Hanan Yaqub Paul Hinshaw Greta Olson Frank Hobart Christine Parker Wardell Howard Marilou Petrone TENORS Lyn Jones Diane Radke Tony Katics Kerry Katz Phyllis Reed G. Brooks Arnold Kenneth Knight Sherrill Sajak Eugene Burke David Kress Alice Sanner Tom Clark Stanley Kurtz Linda Sauer Dwayne Condon Samuel Lorenzo Bonnie Smith james Daugherty Wilfred Mommaerts Dolores Van Natta Robert Faris Douglas Morrison Nancy Von Oeyen joseph Golightly Brad Newsom Linda Williams Robert Gurnee Robert Seibold Kari Windingstad Dale Jergenson Cameron Sheffield Timothy Johnson William Struebing Gerald jones ALTOS Burman Timberlake Kirk Lamb Arthur Wand Donald Martin james White Carol Ann Bakeman Larry Minton Donald Whitsitt Keith Paulson Natalie Beck Earle Wilkie Kirk Prather Moni Berger Neil Wilson Marshall Ramirez Kimberly Bernhardt Burton York Helen Birch Mark Richards Laura Boyd Michael Robillard Frances Cash Peter Schwartz L-7 LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION '. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1983-84 OFFICERS EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Clifford A. Miller Dr. Roger Wagner Chairman Music Director Marshall A. Rutter, Esq. Robert Willoughby Jones President Executive Director William A. Ewing Mrs. Nancy Hammond Cockley Executive Vice President President, Master Chorale Associates Donald l. Parker Edward J. McAniff Executive Vice President Business and Professional Committee Representive Charmay B. Allred Vice President Mrs. Neil Wilson L.A. Master Chorale Representative Stephen F. Harbison Secretary Gerald Jones L.A. Master Chorale Representative Jay St. Clair Treasurer ADMINISTRATION Robert Willoughby Jones Executive Director Rae Macdonald HONORARY DIRECTORS Production Assistant to Roger Wagner Mrs. Frank Roger Seaver Ellen Pettit Honorary Chairwoman Group Sales/Music Librarian Master Chorale Associates Claire Heinritz Mrs. George B. Allison Assistant to Mr. jones Thomas P. Cassidy Linda Zinn Mrs. Dorothy Kirsten French Accountant Mrs. Herbert Hilmer Florence Parise Mrs. Bob Hope Publicist Charles Luckman Meredith Willson Maryanne Ivanoff Rehearsal Pianist DIRECTORS Mrs. Dale Dutton Nicholas England Mrs. Geraldine Smith Healy Warner W. Henry Morton B. Jackson, Esq. Louis W. Kang, M.D. Thomas V. Keene Mrs. Albin C. Koch Thomas F. Kranz, Esq. Meyer Luskin Everett F. Meiners Donald J, Nores Mrs. Harrison A. Price Mrs. Charles I. Schneider Mrs. David Schultz Mrs. S.J. Stathatos Mrs. Larry B. Thrall 1- Dr. William Triplett Joseph D. Vaccaro Nicholas S. Winslow Morton M. Winston L-8