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The Dale Warland Singers 3

Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director 5

Artistic Staff 6

Chorus America Program 7

Program Notes 8

Sponsors 14

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Now celebrating its 30th Anniversary Last summer the choir made its debut at season of concerts, tours, radio the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). The choir broadcasts, and critically acclaimed also performed at the American Society of recordings, the Dale Warland Singers is Harpists National Conference and the recognized as one of the world's foremost Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music, a cappella choral ensembles. The 40-voice both held in the Twin Cities. professional choir is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Dale Warland Singers also performs in collaboration with other Twin Cities arts The Dale Warland Singers has earned a organizations including the Saint Paul reputation for its commitment to Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota commissioning and performing new Orchestra, and the James Sewell Ballet. choral music. The ensemble has kept the The Singers have worked under the choral genre fresh and alive by batons of the late Robert Shaw, Hugh commissioning works from Dominick Wolff, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Argento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, Bobby McFerrin, David Zinman, and Roger Carol Barnett, George Shearing, Peter Norrington to name a few. Schickele, Bernard Rands, Emma Lou Diemer, Alice Parker, Janika Vandervelde, During the 2002-2003 season, the choir Augusta Read Thomas, , released two new recordings: Walden and Frank Ferko among others. The Dale Pond, containing three major choral works Warland Singers' Choral Ventures '" written by Pulitzer-Prize winning program solicits works from emerging composer, Dominick Argento; and composers, and through this program, Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers, over $150,000 in commissions have been which The Seattle Times described as awarded to over fifty talented musicians. "impeccable, full of vibrant life and blended like a bottle of Veuve Clicquot In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers became Grande Dame." These recordings join the first-ever recipient of the Margaret some 24 other Dale Warland Singers Hillis Achievement Award for Choral recordings including Bernstein and Britten Excellence. The organization shares this which contains Bernstein's Chichester honor only with Chanticleer and the Psalms and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, Vancouver Chamber Choir among along with Stephen Paulus' Pilgrims professional choirs. The group's Hymn and movements from Albright's'· ~ extraordinary efforts on behalf of Chichester Mass. Another favorite, Blue composers and new music resulted in Wheat, is a collection of American folk ASCAP Awards for Adventurous music. Also among the Singers' lauded Programming in 1992, 1993, 1996, and releases is December Stillness, which BBC 1999. Music Magazine gave its highest rating for performance and sound, calling it, In addition to a subscription season in the "...splendid, melting stuff." The South Twin Cities, the Dale Warland Singers Jersey's Courier-Post called the 1994 tours throughout the United States and release of Cathedral Classics, "an abroad. In 1990, the ensemble traveled to unmatched musical experience," and The Stockholm and Helsinki to represent North Oregonian stated simply, "peerless." America at the Second World Symposium Earlier recordings by the Singers include: on Choral Music. During the 1999-2000 A Rose in Winter; Christmas Echoes, Vols. concert season, the group concertized in 1 and 2; Carols for Christmas; Choral the Southeastern United States. It has Currents; as well as 13 others. also appeared on 's original A Prairie Home Companion and has been featured on Public Radio International's Saint Paul Sunday. The annual Echoes of Christmas and Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach listeners nationwide.

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Beth Althof Abbie Betinis Marie Spar Dymit* Galina Erickson Jodi Hermanson Joanne Halvorsen* Lynette Johnson Melissa Holm-Johansen Lori Lewis Natalia Kojanova Melissa O'Neill Mary C. Maiden Muller Deborah Loon Osgood Anna George Meek Dawn Schuffenhauer Krista Palmquist Monica Stratton Teresa Tierney

Tenor Bass

Joel Beyer Duane Andersen Joel C. Fischer* Jeffrey Bipes Eric Hopkins Matthew Culloton * Adam Judd Dave Jacobson Justin Karch Brian Kremer David Nordli Patrick McDonough Hal Snyder Michael Meyer Anthony Sofie Jack Nelson Gregory Thmbornino Tim O'Brien Terry Sheetz Brian L. Steele

* section leader

4 dale warland, founder and music director

Dale Warland, celebrated American musician, has made an indelible impression on the landscape of contemporary choral music both nationally and internationally. During his time with the Dale Warland Singers, he has shaped a vocal ensemble known for its exquisite sound, technical finesse, and stylistic range. From this platform, Warland not only masters the traditional repertoire, but has commissioned over 230 new choral works.

The choral world has responded by bestowing its highest honors on Warland, including a special award in 2002 from Chorus America and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for Warland's "pioneering vision, leadership and commitment to commissioning and performing new choral works at the highest level of artistry." Other awards and recognition include the 2001 Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal; the 2001 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conductor and his continued contribution to the arts in Minnesota; and the 1995 Michael Karn Founder's Award, the highest honor for a choral conductor in the United States, previously awarded to Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner, among others.

Warland's appearances as a guest conductor have taken him to the podiums of the Dale Warland Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Estonian founder and music director Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, the Utah Chamber Artists, the Grant Park Music Festival and Israel's Cameran Singers. Warland has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors and composers including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Kryzstof Penderecki.

Warland is committed to sharing his knowledge about the choral arts and has served on the faculty of the All-Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan; has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; served on the artistic staff of the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain; acted as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts; and completed a 19 year tenure as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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5 artistic staff

Since the fall of 2000, Matthew Culloton has been Director of Choral Activities at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, MN. He conducts three curricular choirs and two extra-curricular ensembles. Prior to his current appointment, Culloton spent two years as Associate Director of Choirs at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle High School. Since 1999, he has served the Minnesota ACDA as Male Choirs Repertoire and Standards Chair.

Culloton's affiliation with The Dale Warland Singers began in the fall of 1999, when he commuted two hours each way from Long Prairie. This spring he will become Assistant Conductor, assisting with programming and recording plans. He has toured throughout the United States and recorded numerous projects with the choir.

As a composer, Culloton has works published by Hinshaw Music and Mark Foster Music Company, a division of Shawnee Press. His choral works have been performed by the University of Arizona (Tucson) Symphonic Choir, Chanson, Winona High School Concert Matthew Culloton Choir, and the West Fargo High School Concert Choir. assistant conductor Culloton is a 1998 graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where he sang in The Concordia Choir under Rene Clausen. Along with Dr. Clausen, Culloton has studied choral conducting with Paul Nesheim and orchestral conducting with Bruce Houglum. He is an active member of ACDA, MMEA, and MENC.

Frank Ferko is a well-established composer who has specialized in compositions for the voice, particularly for choral ensembles. His music has been performed by a variety of distinguished ensembles, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce, Magnum Chorum, and the American Repertory Singers. In 2000 his music was presented in live performances or on radio broadcasts in thirty countries around the world.

Winner of a variety of awards, including three fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the Padrone-Kantscheidt Award from Northwestern University and annual ASCAP Awards for the past 13 years, Ferko's work has received high critical acclaim in The American Record Guide, Fanfare, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, The Diapason, The American Organist and the British journal, Choir and Organ. In 1997, Ferko was the winner of the Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program.

Ferko holds degrees from Valparaiso University, Syracuse University and Northwestern Frank Ferko University. In addition to composing, he has lectured and published articles on many composer-in-residence aspects of 20th century music.

6 Chorus America Concert Friday, June 6, 2003, 3:45 - 5:15 pm Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Kansas City, MO

I. MUSIC OF TWO AMERICAN MASTERS

A Prayer of the Middle Ages Howard Hanson

Sonnet No. LXIV (in memoriam 9/11/01) Dominick Argento

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Chichester Mass William Albright Kyrie* Gloria Sanctus Benedictus Agnus Dei*

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Miserere Rudi Tas Please note: No cameras or Laura Sewell, cello recording devices of any kind may be used during performances. Please turn Iv. AMERICAN MADRIGALS off any electronic beeping devices (watches, pagers, cell phones, etc.) or leave The Uncertainty of the Poet Cary John Franklin them with an usher prior to (from With a Poet's Eye) the performance. Go, Lovely Rose Halsey Stevens

Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure Libby Larsen (from Songs of Youth and Pleasure)

V. A COMPOSER TRIBUTE

The Last Invocation* Carol Barnett

Evensong* Stephen Paulus

At Last, Lord, Let Thine Angels Frank Ferko Laura Sewell, cello 'These works have been Lynette Johnson, soprano recorded by the Dale Warland Singers and are available for purchase after VI. AMERICAN FOLK today's concert or at the Loft/Gothic booth in the Shady Grove Chen Yi exhibit area. The Road Home : Stephen Paulus Marie Spar Dymit, soprano

She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain Emma Lou Diemer

7 program notes by brian newhouse

Chorus America Concert

I. MUSIC OF TWO AMERICAN MASTERS

Howard Hanson (1896-1981): A Prayer 01the Middle Ages

Howard Hanson headed the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music for several decades, where he composed prolifically, won a Pulitzer Prize (1944), and finished his career showered in honorary degrees. Despite all the acclaim (or because of it), Hanson attracted scholarly scorn for being devoted to tonal music making him astoundingly out-of-fashion. His motet A Prayer of the Middle Ages dates from the US bicentennial and starts in the most American way: with a fanfare, this one for voices. Instead of driving to a big "tah-dah" ending, though, the brilliance softens as the singers repeat the phrase "the greatest marvel." A section of denser, searching music follows until the words, "Thou who madest Heaven and Earth" where Hanson revels in the glory of the tried-and-true G major scale. His critics ground their teeth at such music, but Hanson could do nothing but stay loyal to his muse.

A Prayer of the Middle Ages

We declare unto all the ages as the greatest marvel, Ere there were hills and trees or the mighty ocean, Ere the sunlight shone forth or the moon cast its beams, When naught was, from end to end, There wert Thou, 0 God, Thou almighty God, From time unknown to time unknown, Eternal God, Thou who madest heaven and earth, Give to us wisdom, prudence and strength, Give through Thy holy blessing faith unending That Thy will we may do. Amen.

-- Poem from the 8th Century -- English Version by James Francis Cooke

Dominick Argento: Sonnet No. LXIV (in memoriam 9/11/01)

Dominick Argento, who studied with Howard Hanson at Eastman, was in Italy when terrorists attacked America in September, 2001. A Minnesota friend e-mailed a Shakespeare sonnet to him. "It seems as if it'd been written for the occasion," Argento says of the poem which struck him with its lines, "When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd ... /Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate/That time will come and take my love away." Argento says, "Shakespeare gets at the universal emotion of fearing to lose what you most love. With words this beautiful and crucial, my task as a composer was simply to make them as understandable as possible." The Moscow Conservatory Chamber Choir premiered Sonnet No. LXIV (In Memoriam 9/11/01) last August at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis during the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music.

Sonnet No. LXIV

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage: When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

-William Shakespeare

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William Albright (1944-1998): Chichester Mass

William Albright was a gifted University of Michigan composition professor who was also an accomplished keyboardist, admired for championing new organ music and fueling the revival of Scott Joplin's piano rags. He believed in music as an intuitive art stressing the importance of imagination and the beauty of sound. "Mymusic is generous and eclectic," Albright said. "I prefer messy diversity to boring unity." There's neither mess nor boredom in his elegantly crafted five-movement Chichester Mass. Albright used the traditional Anglican text and composed the music in 1974 for the 900th anniversary of Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England.

Chichester Mass Kyrie Kyrie eleison. Lord have mercy. Christe eleison. Christ have mercy.

Gloria Glory be to God on high, And in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, We glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, o Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. o Lord, the only begotten Son, Jesu Christ: o Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, That takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. Chichester Cathedral For thou only art Holy; thou only art the Lord; Thou only, 0 Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art the most High, In the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Sanctus Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, Heav'n and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, 0 Lord most high.

Benedictus Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. '- Hosanna in the highest.

AgnusDei o Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy upon us, grant us thy peace.

m. MUSIC FROM BELGIUM

Rudi Tas (b. 1957): Miserere

Rudi Tas is a Belgian who gave up an active career as an organist and conductor to become a composer. He started winning international composition prizes early and has maintained this streak with scores like his 1999 Miserere. Here, the singers begin humming so quietly you'll barely know the music's started. Listen carefully, though, as that first beautiful clustered chord introduces a new voice, the solo cello. The pace quickens and the mood gets more emphatic as the singers plead over and over for mercy ("miserere nobis"). Near the end, though, the cello cuts them off in mid-phrase and plays an anguished solo-but suddenly silence. When everyone re-enters, a state of grace has descended and their final chord will shimmer like a halo: the women sing ppppppp (!) crowned by the cello's radiant high E.

Miserere

Miserere nobis Have mercy on us Deus noster, Miserere nobis Our God, Have mercy on us Exaudi nos, Hear us, Misereatur nostri Have mercy on us. Deus noster exaudi! Our God, hear us!

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Cary John Franklin: The Uncertainty of the Poet from With a Poet's Eye

Rule NO.1 for A Program Note: The length of time needed to read the program note should never exceed the length ofthe music it's about-which is a trick given Cary John Franklin's 1987 The Uncertainty of the Poet. Come and gone in barely a minute, it shows the impish side of the composer who gained such notice recently with the successful premiere of his tragic opera on Charles Lindbergh, Loss of Eden. Franklin wears a variety of musical hats: in addition to composing, he's chorus master for the Opera Theatre in St. Louis, as well as director of the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis.

Halsey Stevens: Go, Lovely Rose

"... and studied with Halsey Stevens" is a line shared by hundreds of composer bios. Halsey Stevens (1908-89) taught at the University of Southern California and influenced generations of musicians, including Dale Warland who received his doctorate at USC. Dale remembers Stevens as warm-hearted, brilliant, but never intimidating-qualities that can also be found in Stevens' 1943 setting of Elizabethan Edmund Waller's poem. It was composed for Stevens' wife, Harriet, while Halsey was Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa.

Go, Lovely Rose

Go, lovely Rose- Small is the worth Tell her that wastes her time and me, Of beauty from the light retired: That now she knows, Bid her come forth, When I resemble her to thee, Suffer herself to be desired, How sweet and fair she seems to be. And not blush so to be admired.

Tell her that's young, Then die-that she And shuns to have her graces spied, The common fate of all things rare That hadst thou sprung May read in thee; In deserts where no men abide, How small a part of time they share Thou must have uncommended died. That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

-Edmund Waller (1606-87)

Libby Larsen: Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure from Songs of Youth and Pleasure

Libby Larsen's appetite for setting the four Renaissance poems, Songs of Youth and Pleasure, was whetted by challenges inherent in the madrigal tradition-leaps from key to key and delicate word painting. The texts express youth's joy in living for the present, "the kind of exuberance that only youth combined with beauty and opportunity can exude," Larsen says. For those lucky enough to know the ebullient composer, her choice of text strikes one as perfect. This is the second of the four songs. , Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure

Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure Youthfullordlings of delight While occasion gives you seizure, Feed your fancies and your sight After death when youth is gone Joy and pleasure there is none. Here on earth nothing is stable Fortune's changes are well-known While as youth doth then enable Let your seed of joy be sown.

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From the beginning, the Dale Warland Singers have had a strong commitment to new music; that means commissioning scores, reviving neglected music of the recent past, and, since 1991, staffing a composer-in-residence. Stephen Paulus and Carol Barnet were the first two to hold the position, Paulus from 1991-1992; Barnett 1992-2001. (Frar Ferko is the current composer-in-residence). Each has created dozens of arrangement" and new pieces for DWS, and in doing so enriched the libraries of choirs around the world.

Carol Barnett: The Last Invocation

Carol Barnett: Much of Walt Whitman's writing I find too melodramatic, but The Last Invocation strikes me as succinct and filled with passion. The choir begins humming and then the tenors, as if they were trumpets heard at a great distance, start the text: "At the last ... "The poem depicts a character going forward into death, yet at the same time dragged back into life by the things he loves. The music embodies that same sense of torn desire: in the final bars, the note G grinds softly against an otherwise consonant F#-major chord. The Last Invocation was written for the Choir of Westminster Abbey to sing in its 1988 concert at the Basilica in Minneapolis.

The Last Invocation

At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house, From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let me be wafted. Let me glide noiselessly forth; With the key of softness unlock the locks--with a whisper, Set open the doors 0 soul. Tenderly-be not impatient, (Strong is your hold 0 mortal flesh, Strong is your hold 0 love.)

--Walt Whitmm.

Stephen Paulus: Evensong

Stephen Paulus: In 1988, I collaborated with translator Albert Flemming on a large choral and orchestral work, Voices, premiered by the Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus and Minnesota Orchestra. Shortly after, Albert sent me a gift of a translation he'd made. It was of Evensong, a beautiful but little-known early 19th-century German poem by Matthias Claudius. I was delighted and decided to take advantage of the gift by setting it to music-hoping that its wider recognition in a choral work would be, in a sense, a gift back to Albert.

Evensong

See how the moon has risen, among the stars that glisten high in the firmament. Dark stand the woods and silent while from the meadows island white veils of ghostly mist ascend. Now has the world grown silent, while in the evening's twilight we find protective peace, as in our quiet chamber after much toil and labor in healing sleep we find release. Look, how the half moon shineth while from our view it hideth its fullness, round and whole. Thus many truths are hiding from utter lack of striving on our part to see them whole. The hour draws near for sleeping, and rest and in God's keeping entrust we body and soul. Protect us, Lord from danger, keep watch o'er barn and manger and make our ailing neighbor whole. Entrust we body and soul. And make our ailing neighbor whole. See how the moon has risen.

-- Matthias Claudius

11 Frank Ferko: Lord, Let At Lest Thine Angels Came

The text of this work is the final stanza of the hymn "Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart," written by the Reformation-era pastor Martin Schalling and based on Psalms 18 and 73. With these old words, DWS Composer-in-Residence Frank Ferko created a tranquil new setting. The voices begin with spare, open chords-a texture that will eventually thicken dramatically-while the cello waits, then begins singing its own high, lyric response back to the choir. A haunting, ethereal new score.

Lord, Let At Last Thine Angels Corne

Lord, let at last Thine angels come, To Abram's bosom bear me horne, That I may die unfearing; And in its narrow chamber keep My body safe in peaceful sleep Until Thy reappearing.

And then from death awaken me That these mine eyes with joy may see, D Son of God, Thy glorious face, My Savior and my Fount of grace. Lord Jesus Christ, My prayer attend, my prayer attend, And I will praise Thee without end. Amen.

-- Martin Schalling, ca. 1567 -- Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863

VI. AMERICAN FOLK

Chen Vi: Shady Grove

Composers love folk tunes for the factor of malleability. Here's a work dressed up by a contemporary composer, Chen Vi. The music shrugs off analysis -- for instance, Chen Yi calls her version of Shady Grove simply a "happy, light, and humorous song."

Shady Grove

Went to see my Shady Grove, Shady Grove, my little love, She was standing in the door, Shady Grove I know, Shoes and stockings in her hand, Shady Grove my little love, Little bare feet on the floor. Bound for the Shady Grove.

Shady Grove my little love, Wish I had a big fine horse, Shady Grove I know, Corn to feed him on, Shady Grove my little love, Pretty little girl, stay at horne, Bound for the Shady Grove. Feed him when I'm done.

Cheeks as red as the blooming rose, Shady Grove my little love, Eyes of the deepest brown; Shady Grove I say, You are the darling of my heart, Shady Grove my little love, Stay till the sun goes down. Don't wait till the Judgment day.

12 Stephen Paulus: The Road Home

Stephen Paulus came across a melody a couple of years ago called The Lone Wild Bird, an adaptation of the early-nineteenth century American song Prospect. He also found several texts based on this tune, none of them quite right for the slightly melancholy air of the melody, so he commissioned a new lyric from his longtime collaborator, poet Michael Dennis Browne. With the old tune married to new words, Paulus then advanced the whole with his innovative harmonies.

The Road Home

Tell me where is the road Rise up, follow me, I can call my own, Come away is the call, That I left, that I lost, With the love in your heart So long ago? As the only song; All these years I have wandered, There is no beauty Oh, when will I know As where you belong, There's a way, there's a road Rise up, follow me, That will lead me home? I will lead you home.

After wind, after rain, -- Michael Dennis Browne When the dark is done, As I wake from a dream In the gold of day, Through the air there's a calling From far away, There's a voice I can hear That will lead me home.

Emma Lou Diemer: She'll Be Camin' Round the Mountain

The tune Emma Lou Diemer chose to set, She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain, is one most American school kids learn, but few know this was originally an African American spiritual. The original was titled When the Chariot Comes, but was adapted by railroad work gangs out West in the roaring 1890s.

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Paul Brandvick Charles Bruffy, Kansas City Chorale Matthew Culloton Chorus America and Staff Concert Volunteers and Ushers Karle Erickson Kenneth Jennings Igor Kojanov and Natalia Kojanova Don Lancasty, Kansas City Chorale Loft/Gothic Recordings Diane Malfeld, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Nancy Rotenberry Gloria Sewell

14 board of directors administrative staff

Officers Gayle Ober, executive director Robin M. Keyworth, president Tina Meckel, development director Daniel J. Schmechel, vice president Gretchen Westergard, marketing and James W. Peter, treasurer communications director David L. Cooper, secretary Elary Allen, administrative assistant Michael E. Reeslund, of council* Beth Pickering, business manager Helen Franczyk, marketing and pr consultant Honorary Directors Ruth Anderson, office volunteer Margie Ankeny* Dick Geyerman, office volunteer Arland D. Brusven* Jackie Steele, concert volunteer coordinator Mary Steinke *

Directors artistic staff Susan S. Fauver Ann Fleischauer Dale Warland, founder and music director Glen J. Karwoski Debra Harrer, general manager Lynn Pahl Matthew Culloton, assistant conductor M. Walker Pearce Frank Ferko, composer-in-residence Jacqueline Reis Joanne Halvorsen, wardrobe coordinator Stanley Romanstein Brian Newhouse, program annotator Thomas Rosen Dan Ober, stage crew Nancy Reitz Rotenberry Gloria Sewell Ginger Sisco* James K. Smart* Vern Sutton Tom Whelan Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director* Gayle Ober, Executive Director* Michael Meyer, Singer Representative *

*denotes ex officio

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