THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Dale Warland, Conductor

First Covenant Church 1280 Arcade Street St. Paul, Minnesota

Sunday, February 13, 1983 4:00 P.M. I AMERICANRELIGIOUS MlEIC Gloria (from The Masque of Angels) ...... •... Dominick Argento Dominick Argento is a Regent's Professor of Music at the Univ~rsity of Minnesota, where he teaches Composition and the History of . ~ He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1975 song cyc l.e.,From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Ye Shall Have A Song (from The Peaceable Kingdom) ..... Randall Thompson Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept, and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pi~ to come into the mountain of the Lord. (Isaiah 30:29)

II Suite de Lorca, Opus 72 (1976) •••• • Einojuhani Rautavaara (sung in Spanish) I. Cancion de jinete (Song of the Horseman) II. El grito (The Scream) III. La luna asomo (The Moon Rises) Carol Hofstad, IV. Malaguena (Song of Malaga) An internationally-recognized Finnish composer, Rautavaara is cur- rently Professor of Composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In the Lorca Suite he captures the melancholy of the four Lorca poems in a setting that reflects both the harsh sunlight and deep shadows of Spain.

III Mass in G Minor (1923). • • • • • • • • ••••• Ralph Vaughan Williams (sung in Latin) Elizabeth Miller, soprano Roxanne L. Bentley, alto William Rollie, Frank Steen, I. Kyrie II. Gloria III. Credo IV. Sanctus - Osanna I - Benedictus - Osanna II V. Agnus Dei Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor is considered by many to be one of the masterpieces of English church music in our time. Inspired by the great polyphonic liturgy of the English Renaissance, the -SELECTED TEXTS--

Suite de Lorca, Opus 72(19761 ••••••••••••••••••••• Einojuhani Rautavaara (sungin Spanish1 (b. 19281

I. Canci~n de jinete (Song of the Horseman) III. La luna asoma (The Moon Rises) Cordoba. Distant and alone. When the moon comes out the bells are lost Small black horse, large moon, and the impassable paths and olives in my saddlebag. appear. Although I know the roads, I will never arrive in Cordoba. When the moon comes out, the sea covers the land Over the c: through the wind, and the heart feels like an small black orse, red moon. island in the infinite. Death is watching me from the towers of Cordoba. No one eats oranges under the full moon. Oh, what a long road! One should eat fruit, Ah, my valiant little horse! green and icy. Oh, how death awaits me before arriving in Cordoba. When the moon of a hundred equal faces comes out, Cordoba. the silver coin Distant and alone. sobs in the pocket.

II. EI grito (The Scream) IV. Malaguena (Song of Malaga)

The ellipse of a scream Death goes from mount enters and leaves to mount. the tavern.

From the olive trees Black horses it will be a black rainbow and sinister people pass over the blue night. on the deep roads Ahh! of the guitar.

As the bow of a viola, And there is a smell of salt the scream has caused the and of female blood long cords of the wind to vibrate. on the feverish flowers Ahh! of the seashore.

(The peoples of the caverns Death show their oil lamps. ) enters and leaves, and leaves and enters the tavern. -Federico Garda Lorca tr. Peter Hoff Latson A HYMN TO THE VIRGIN. • • • . • Benjamin Britten Of one that is so fair and bright Velut maris stella, Brighter than the day is light, Parens et puella: I cry to thee, thou see to me, Lady, pray thy Son for me, Tam pia, That I may come to thee. Maria! All this world was forlorn Eva peccatrice, Till our Lord was y-born De te genetrice. With ave it went away Darkest night, and comes the day Salutis; The well springeth out of thee. Virtutis. Lady, flow'r of ev'rything, Rosa sine spina, Thou bare Jesu, Heaven's King, Gratia divina: Of all thou bear'st the prize, Lady, queen of paradise Electa: Maid mild, mother es Effecta. Effecta.

CHORALE. . • . . . . . • . . . • . . .Benjamin Britten Our fathers, whose creative will asked being for us all, Confirm it that thy primal love may weave in us the freedom of The actually deficient on the justly actual. Though written by thy children with a smudged and crooked line, Thy word is ever legible, thy meaning unequivocal; And for thy goodness, even sin is valid as a sign. Inflict thy promises with each occasion of distress That from our incoherence we may learn to put our trust in thee And brutal fact persuade us to adventure, art and peace.

--W. H. Auden work is scored for double chorus and solo quartet and abounds with massive sonorities and antiphonal effects. INrERMISSlOO

IV anuS'IMAS MIEle OF BENJ.AMIN BRITI'EN A Boy Was Born. . .. (Text: 16th-century German) A Hymn to the virgin. . . . • • . . . . .(Text: anonymous - ca. 1300) A New Year Carol .•....••.....•..•. (Text: anonymous) Chorale •••...•.•..•..•...... • (Text: W. H. Auden) "One of my chief aims," wrote Britten, "is to try to restore to the musical setting of the English language a brilliance, free- dom and vitality that have been curiously rare since the death of Purcell." Britten was probably the most significant English composer of his generation. v Three Portraits By Stephen Foster ..• • .Stephen Foster (Edwin Fissinger) 1. Laura Lee Peter Bartholome, tenor 2. Oh! Susanna 3. Gentle Annie

VI 'llIE ))ME WARlAND FAMILY S~ Listen To The Mockingbird. . • • • . • . • . . . . . • Alice Hawthorne The Horticultural Wife. • . • • • •••••••• The Hutchinson Family Tim Johnson, tenor Tenting On The Old Camp Ground. .• ...• • . • Walter Kittredge

VII SCANDINAVIAN FOll< srnGS The Dance. . . . • . . . • . • • •SWEDEN (Lars Edlund) Sleep, My Young One, Gently Rest ..•...... • . • . • • .ICELAND Lea Anna Sams, soprano (Leland B. Sateren) Domaredansen .. • . • • . SWEDEN (Bengt Hallberg) THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

SOPRANOS ALTOS Sally Allen Roxanne L. Bentley Sandra Henderson *Joanne Halvorsen Karen Louise Hendricks Lynn Carol Jones *Carol Adelaide Hofstad Donelle Kleman +*Sigrid Johnson Lois Laitinen Susan Kahn +Chris Ludwig Elizabeth Miller *Diane Ridder Lea Anna Sarns Kay E. Sandeen Marie Sathrum Rica Jane Van Sue Shepard Mary Helen Waldo Linda Steen Ruth War land Roxanne Stouffer

TENORS BASSES Paul J. Anderson *Paul Boyce Peter G. Bartholome Robert Cowles George Berglund *Robert Elmore Paul William Gerike Peter Hanslep James Goodrich Waynne B. Hornicke +*John Henley +Jerry Rubino *Tim Johnson Steven Sheppard Jerry D. Nelson Frank Steen A. Douglas Nodland Paul Theisen *Steve Pear three Paul R. van Houten William Rollie Pianist: Jerry Rubino + Section Leader * Dale Warland Family Singers . 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

The performance by The Dale Warland Singers is supported by Affiliated State Arts Agencies of the Upper Midwest: Iowa Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, North Dakota Council on the Arts, South Dakota Arts Council, Wisconsin Arts Board, with funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts, a Federal agency. 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 For more information about The Dale War land Singers, write: THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS, 1643 WELLESLEY AVENUE, ST. PAUL MN 55105, or call (612) 292-9780.

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