• •• • • • • +. the •• + •• • Dale Warland Singers ••• • February 22, 1986 April 20, 1986 OCLQVO 1 _

THE PROGRAM MAGAZINE OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

February 22,1986 April 20, 1986

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARTISTIC STAFF

Margaret D. Ankeny Dale Warland tDuane Bell Music Director Dixon Bond Sigrid Johnson t Arland D. Brusven Assistant Conductor James L. Davis Jerry Rubino Thelma Hunter Rehearsal Accompanist Jon N. Kietzer tTerry S. Knowles ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Michael W. McCarthy Estelle Sell Patrick Romey Boake A. Sells General Manager Mary K. Steinke Amy Thirsten John R. Thomas Assistant Manager James R. Treanor Paul William Gerike tDale Warland Librarian t Executive Committee

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Rolaine Green Roxanne L. Bentley Paul J. Anderson David Benson "Sigrid Johnson "Joanne Halvorsen Larry Bach Ronald J. Brace Joanna Johnston Vicki R. Hultine James Fiskum Steve Burger Denise Konicek Karen M. Johnson Paul William Gerike Waynne Deborah J. Loon Lois Laitinen "John William Hornicke Barbara Nelson Christine Ludwig Henley Arthur LaRue Sandra Oltman Mary Maiden Muller Tim Johnson Fredrick Lokken Lea Anna Sams- Joan Quam- John T. Opsata "Jerry Rubino McGowan MacKenzie Steve Pearthree Julian Sellers Marie Spar Kay E. Sandeen David Reece Frank Steen "Linda Steen Rica Van Paul A. Theisen Denise Wahlin "Section leader

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Published 1986 by The Dale Warland Singers, Inc., P.O. Box 16207/Elway Station, St. Paul, Minnesota 55116 612/292-9780

2 DALE WARLAND

Dale Warland, founder and music Philharmonic Orchestra. director of The Dale Warland Singers. is During the summer of 1985 he was Professor of Music at Macalester College choral clinician for the Great River in St. Paul and music director for the Festival of Arts (University of Rapid City Festival Chamber Singers. A Wisconsin-LaCrosse). Haystack '85 graduate of St. Olaf College. Warland (Portland State University). and the received his master of arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University Workshop the University of Minnesota and his for Choral Conductors. doctor of musical arts degree from the Under his leadership. Dale Warland's University of Southern California. His choirs have received national and inter- academic honors include a Tanglewood national acclaim and have concertized Scholarship. a Ford Foundation grant in Romania. Sweden. Norway. Poland. which enabled him to study choral and Germany. He appears frequently music in England. Sweden. and Norway with The Dale Warland Singers on during 1971, and a 1984 Bush National and American Public Radio. Foundation grant to research English including the popular "A Prairie Home choral literature. Companion Show" with Garrison Dr. Warland is in demand as a clini- Keillor. To date. he has produced ten cian. lecturer. and guest conductor. He recordings with his Singers and has has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir distinguished himself as a composer (Stockholm), the Danish Radio Choir and arranger. He is a member of the (Copenhagen). and many All-State American Society of Composers. Choral Festivals throughout the United Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). and States and Canada. This season he will former co-chair of the National Endow- ~rve as guest conductor with the ment for the Arts Choral and Recording ouston Concert Chorale. the Danish Panels. Dr. Warland is currently a Radio Choir. the choirs of the University member of the board of directors for the of Ohio. and will prepare the Los Association of Professional Vocal Angeles Master Chorale for its perfor- Ensembles (APVE), and is a life mance of Krzysztof Penderecki's The member of the American Choral Passion According to St. Luke with the Directors Association (ACDA).

3 THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Paul J. Anderson is a charter Steve Burger has been featured as a member of the Singers. A graduate of soloist with the S'ngers as well as with Mankato State University. he holds a the Minnesota Chorale. A graduate of bachelor of science degree in music Luther College. he continued his education and history. and a master's studies with Donald Hoiness at St. Olaf in guidance and counseling. College. During 1973-74. Steve traveled through Europe as a member of the Larry Bach teaches at North Central Seventh Army Chorus while he was Bible College and conducts the college's stationed in Germany. chorale. which toured Europe last summer. He holds a vocal performance James Fiskum is the vocal music degree from West Virginia Wesleyan director at Big Lake High School in Big College. has studied at the American Lake. He holds a bachelor of science Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, degree in vocal music education from Austria. and is working to complete a Bemidji State University. and is the master of music degree in choir director at Trinity Lutheran at the University of Minnesota. In addi- Church. He has sung with the Bemidji tion to his musical pursuits. Larry is an Chorale under the direction of Lyle avid golfer. Jewell, and has served as the assistant conductor of the Bemidji State Univer- David Benson is a graduate of Trinity sity Choir. Jim has attended the Europa College in Deerfield. Illinois. where he Cantat in Namur, Belgium. received a bachelor of arts degree in music education. He is presently pursuing a graduate degree in choral conducting at the University of Minnesota. He teaches vocal music at AUDITIONS Watertown High School. and directs the for the 1986-87 Season choir at Cross of Glory Baptist Church in Hopkins. In his spare time, David of enjoys reading. sketching. and The Dale Warland Singers composing. will be held April 2-5 Roxanne Bentley has been a member For more information of The Dale Warland Singers for six call 612/292-9780 years. She has been an alto soloist for several Twin Cities churches as well as for the Macalester College Festival Chorale. the Bemidji Oratorio Society, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. and the Europa Cantat in Lucerne. Switzerland. This space Ronald J. Brace is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and donated by holds a bachelor of music education degree. Currently a teacher at Alliance Target Stores Christian Academy in Elk River. Ron is interested in computer programming. farming. and photography.

4 Paul William Gerike works as a free- the MacPhail Center for the Arts with lance musician, performing, arranging, LeRoy Lehr. Waynne has sung with the and composing. He also is the director Bach Society and the Minnesota of music at Lake Nokomis Lutheran Chorale, and is frequently called upon Church in Minneapolis and sings with as a guest artist throughout the Twin Cantante di Camera and Adelphoi. Paul Cities. Presently with the Edina School received a bachelor of music degree District, Waynne is a soloist at Grace- from Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Trinity Community Church in Connecticut, and an associate of arts Minneapolis. He has been a member of. degree from St. Paul's College in The Dale Warland Singers since 1976. Concordia, . He is also the librarian and stage manager for The Vicki R. Hultine received a bachelor Dale Warland Singers. of arts degree in music education from St. Olaf College and has served as a. Rolaine Green received a bachelor of music specialist with the Minneapolis arts degree in piano from Hendrix Public Schools. Vicki conducts the adult College in Arkansas, and a master of choir at Our Redeemer Lutheran nustc education and vocal performance Church. She has received a master of om Louisiana State University. The divinity degree from Luther Theological recipient of a Rotary Fellowship for a Seminary, and is currently finishing a year's study in Graz, Austria, Rolaine master of theology degree, and enjoys teaches voice in the Twin Cities area. A photography as a hobby. member of Playworks Theatre Co., she has appeared in community and dinner Karen M. Johnson is a charter theatre productions, and was chosen as member of The Dale Warland Singers. a member of the cast for a comedy She has been featured as a soloist, and which is being filmed locally. A bike has also sung with The Dale Warland enthusiast, Rolaine also enjoys knitting, Chamber Singers and Family Singers. baking, and reading. Karen studied voice with her father, Edwin G. Amundson, Paul J. Alto section leader Joanne Halvorsen Christiansen of Concordia College, holds a bachelor of arts degree in music Moorhead, and at Bemidji State College. education from Hamline University. She She has been a soloist with church has been a soloist at St. Paul's United choirs, has appeared in oratorio produc- Church of Christ, the Oratorio Society tions, and currently serves as alto of Hamline University, and the Saint soloist with the Twin Cities Catholic Paul Chamber Orchestra. Joanne has Chorale at The Church of St. Agnes in also performed with the Lakeshore St. Paul. Players, Patchwork Theatre, Masquers Theatre, and is currently singing with Sigrid Johnson is the assistant Paragon, a variety dance band, and the conductor of The Dale Warland Singers quartet Fourte .. and also serves as a soprano section leader. A resident of Northfield, Sigrid John William Henley is the tenor teaches at St. Olaf College where she section leader. He has studied music at conducts the Manitou Singers. A gradu- St. Olaf College, UCLA, the Aspen ate of St. Cloud State University where School of Music, and the University of she received a bachelor of music Minnesota. He is currently performing degree.Bigrtd completed her master of Gustine's in the Amfac Hotel. music degree in the area of vocal perfor- mance at the University of Michigan. Waynne B. Hornicke holds a bach- elor of arts degree in music education' Tim Johnson is a graduate of from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Macalester College and has sung in and has furthered his vocal training at various Wariand ensembles for the

5 past fifteen years. An accomplished theology from Fuller Theological Semi- woodworker. Tim is also an antique nary, and a master of divinity degree dealer. from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary. Fred has directed choirs in Joanna Johnston is currently California and St. Paul, and has sung completing a bachelor of music degree with the Minnesota Chorale. He is at the University of Minnesota, and currently a soloist at Holy Trinity sings at Gustine's in the Amfac Hotel in Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Minneapolis. Joanna was a finalist in the 1985 Metropolitan Opera District Deborah J. Loon is a graduate of St. Auditions, and was a soloist in the Olaf College-where she received a bach- recent Sommerfest performance of elor of arts degree in political science. "Turandot" under the direction of As a member of the St. Olaf Choir, she Leonard Slatkin. . was a soloist and section leader, as well as a soloist with the St. Olaf Orchestra. Denise Konicek holds a bachelor of In addition to her musical activities, music degree from the University of Deborah is very active in the area of Minnesota and a master's degree in public affairs. public affairs from the Humphrey Insti- tute. Denise is a member of the vocal Christine Ludwig teaches at Christ quartet Fourte and has been active in the King School in Minneapolis. An community theatre and opera. She active member of the American Orff- enjoys roller-skating, arranging vocal Schulwerk Association, she received music, and playing piano and violin her bachelor of arts degree in elemen- duets with her husband. Denise has tary education and music from the also presented recitals at the College of St. Catherine. Chris also Minneapolis Institute of Arts and at sings in the music program at the Plymouth Church. Church of the Annunciation in south Minneapolis and plays recorder with Lois Laitinen received a bachelor of Cantante di Camera. science degree in music at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and Mary Maiden Muller is a graduate of directed choral music for seven years in Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lois has where she received a bachelor of arts been active in musical theatre and degree in both vocal and flute perfor- dance, and currently studies voice with mance. Mary has participated in a Barbara Kierig. Lois traveled more than number of church choirs and commu- 1000 miles by bicycle through six Euro- nity bands, and most recently has sung pean countries during the summer of with the Normandale Choral Society. 1984, and also enjoys camping and Her non-musical interests include canoeing. square dancing and camping.

Arthur LaRue recently moved to the Barbara Nelson is a graduate of Twin Cities from Oregon where he sang Luther College and holds a bachelor of in the Portland Opera chorus. A arts degree in music education. member of Cantante di Camera, he also Formerly a professional singer with the sings at Unity Church in St. Paul. Minnesota Chorale, she has been a Arthur is also a violist and is studying guest soloist for many local organiza- choral conducting. tions and churches, and served as a soloist in the Sommerfest 1985 perfor- Fredrick Lokken holds a bachelor of mance of "Turandot" under the direc- music degree in vocal performance tion of Leonard Slatkin. Barbara works from the University of Wisconsin- as a private piano and voice instructor. Madison, a master of arts degree in

6 Sandra Oltman holds a bachelor of Bass section leader Jerry Rubino is a science degree in music education from graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music Bemidji State University, and a master and Temple University, and is currently of music degree in vocal performance working to complete a graduate degree from Indiana University. Sandy has at the University of Minnesota. In addi- taught voice privately, and currently tion to his activities as a free-lance sings with the choir of Hope Presby- musician in the Twin Cities, he main- terian Church in Richfield. She has also tains a private voice and piano studio coached several amateur musical and has served as pianist for the productions. Hawaiians, a contemporary gospel recording and performing group that John T. Opsata is the director of vocal performs nationally and internationally. music at St. Anthony Village High School and the choral director at Faith Lea Anna Sams·McGowan is United Methodist Church. He holds a working toward a degree in music bachelor of arts degree in music educa- education and performance at tion from Bethel College. . Macalester College. Lea Anna sings with the Zion Lutheran Church choir in teve Pearthree received a bachelor Cottage Grove and has given private of music degree after studying at the vocal instruction to elementary school students. University of Wisconsin-Superior and the University of Minnesota. Following Kay E. Sandeen received a bache- his graduation he traveled to Norway as lor of arts degree in music education a Fulbright Scholar. In addition to his from Hamline University in St. Paul. work with the Singers, Steve also sings She has taught music for nine years, at the Church of St. Patrick in Edina. has sung with the Handel Oratorio Society, and has worked extensively Joan Quam-MacKenzie is completing with Masquers Theatre Company as a a degree in music at Macalester College performer, costumer, and instrumen- where she studies voice with Charlotte talist. Kay is a free-lance soloist and Straka and piano with Celeste O'Brien. organist, and has performed in many She has been a member of the area churches. Macalester Concert Choir and has appeared as a soloist with that Julian Sellers holds a bachelor of arts ensemble. Joan also sings at Mount degree in German from Florida Presby- Zion Temple in St. Paul. She has terian College. An active soloist, Julian worked as a rehearsal and performance has sung with the Munich Bach Choir, pianist for several musicals and is pres- Pro Musica of Salt Lake City, and other ently employed as a liturgical pianist in choral groups in Florida and Minnesota. Waconia. Julian's other interests include orni- thology and tallgrass prairie, and he David Reece graduated from Illinois recently established his own prairie State University with a degree in vocal garden. performance. He was a soloist with the Rockford, Illinois Chorale, and has Marie Spar holds a bachelor of arts performed in theatre and musical degree in vocal music education from productions. He currently works as a St. Olaf College where she was a soloist free-lance musician, and has sung with with the St. Olaf Choir and Orchestra. re Paul Kaye Singers and at St. Olaf She has sung with the Minnesota hurch in Minneapolis. During the past Chorale, and traveled with that summer, David was a soloist in the ensemble to the Casals Festival in San Sommerfest performance of "Turandot" Juan, Puerto Rico in June 1985. Marie under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. currently teaches junior high choir in the West St. Paul Public Schools.

7 Frank Steen is a graduate of Denise Wahlin holds a bachelor of Concordia College, Moorhead, and the arts degree in English and art from University of Minnesota, He has Concordia College, Moorhead, where appeared as a soloist with the Singers, she was a soloist with the Concordia and has also been a soloist with church Choir. She currently teaches at the choirs and in oratorio productions. secondary level in Buffalo, and is working toward a master's degree in art Soprano section leader Linda Steen is history at the University of Minnesota. also a member of the Hutchinson Family Singers, a vocal quintet which recreates concerts of the 1850s. She is a soloist at the Cathedral of St. Mark where she recently appeared under the direction of Sir David Willcocks. A grad- uate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Linda has also studied at the Chautauqua Institute in New York and at Indiana University. Thursday, March 13, 1986 8pm Paul A. Theisen is the liturgical music Walker Art Center, Minneapolis director at the Church of St. Therese where he is also a cantor. He has The Minnesota Composers Forum studied voice privately, and sang with presents another program in the Minnesota Chorale before joining The Year of the Ear concert the Singers in 1982. In addition to his series, featuring clarinettist musical interests, Paul is a high-perfor- Timothy Paradise and members of mance auto and audio enthusiast. the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Rica Van is a charter member of The performing works by: Dale Warland Singers and is a graduate Dale W1arland, Libby Larsen, of Macalester College where she earned Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, a degree in music education. A member Janika Vandervelde and of the choir and a soloist' at the Macalester Plymouth Presbyterian Robert Maderich. Call 375-7622 Church, Rica works in the area of early for reservations. childhood education. , InF1I5t: First Banks Members First Bank System

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8 AMERICANA: The Spiritual, Gospel, Jazz (African Roots) Saturday, February 22, 1986 - 8 p.m. Orchestra Hall

The appearance of the Albert McNeil )aD~ Jubilee Singers is sponsored by IDS An American Express company Financial Services Inc., the nationwide personal financial planning company . EXP-F.IE55"''''"' I. •® Folk Music , dear! What can the matter be? Gail Kubik He's goin' away Gail Kubik Joanne Halvorsen, alto Frank Steen, bass The Drunken Sailor Sea Chanty (Robert Sund) Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair Appalachian (Stuart Churchill) Shenandoah Sea Chanty (James Erb) Zion's Walls Revivalist Song () THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

II. Spirituals Ainta That Good News William Dawson God A 'Mighty Howard Roberts Victor W. Graham, Baritone I Wanna Be Ready James Miller Victoria Burnett, Soprano Paul A. Smith, Tenor Let Me Fly Robert De Cormier Denis Hawkins, Baritone o Mary, Don't You Weep Albert McNeil ~ -ctous Lord, Take My Hand Roland Carter Dolores Davis, Soprano It's All Over Me Jester Hairston o Happy Day Larry Farrow Virginia L. White, Contralto THE ALBERT McNEIL JUBILEE SINGERS

9 III. from Gospel Mass Robert Ray Kyrie (Lord Have Mercy) Gloria (Glory To God In The Highest) Colleen Browning, Contralto Paul A, Smith, Tenor Virginia L. White, Contralto Credo (I Believe In God) Colleen Browning, Contralto THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS and THE ALBERT McNEIL JUBILEE SINGERS

Intermission

IV. Umngomo Zulu Folk Song Virginia L. White, Contralto (Semanya-Farrow) Hareje Zulu Folk Song Colleen Browning, Contralto (Semanya-Farrow) Marry A Woman Uglier Than You Calypso Denis Hawkins, Baritone (Leonard de Paur) Swing A Lady Gum Pum Children's Plantation Song (Jester Hairston) THE ALBERT McNEIL JUBILEE SINGERS v.

Ellingtonia (a medley)' Duke Ellington (Ellington-Farrow) THE ALBERT McNEIL JUBILEE SINGERS VI.

Spiritual Roots (a collage) Larry Farrow Go Down, Moses Carver Cossey, Baritone Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit

Deep River Dolores Davis, Soprano When The Saints Go Marchin' In Paul A. Smith, Tenor Virginia L. White, Contralto Victor W. Graham, Baritone THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS and THE ALBERT McNEIL JUBILEE SINGERS

10 Flute/Piccolo Tuba Susan Hedling Ralph Hepola Clarinet Percussion Shelley Hanson David John Olsen Trumpet Fred Opie David Baldwin Scott Simpson Thomas Rolfs Piano/Organ Lynn Erickson Larry Farrow Trombone Jerry Rubino James ten Benzel Byron Smith Douglas Reader Orchestra Contractor David Stevens Steve Lund

This program is presentedin conjunction with the Black Music Educators + the Twin Cities (BMETC), ecial thanks to the Holiday Corporation and Holiday Inn, Minneapolis, for their assistance in providing accommodations for the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers.

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11 THE ALBERT McNEIL JUBILEE SINGERS

The historical roots of today's Jubilee Ten years ago the Singers undertook Singers go back more than 100 years to their first European concert tour, and the Emancipation Proclamation in since that time have evoked standing January 1863, which ended slavery in ovations in the great concert halls of the . The year 1863 was nineteen nations. On their latest over- called the "Jubilee Year" and a choral seas tour, they ventured beyond the group called the Jubilee traditional European circuit to travel to Singers began introducing audiences in North and West Africa, Egypt, Iran, the United States and Europe to Negro Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Singers spirituals long before the advent of the have represented the U.S.A. at the phonograph or radio. In 1870 they sang Sagra Musicale Festival of Italy, at for Queen Victoria at the Court of St. Dubrovnik, Ohrid and Ljubljana James in London. Festivals of Yugoslavia, the Festival The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers Musical International of Hainaut, have garnered international acclaim Belgium, the Ein-Gev Festival of Israel, and focused world-wide attention on the and the Mundial del Folklore Festival of vast body of music termed Afro- Guadalajara where they won the first American. Featuring a repertoire drawn Gold Medal ever awarded. Their perfor- from the tribal music of the earliest mances for U.S. servicemen abroad slaves through their spirituals, to the have earned them the Department of patois and calypso of the Caribbean and Defense's Certificate of Esteem and the spirituals pertaining to their years of Gold Lion, the insignia of the Southerr- enslavement, as well as the work songs, Command stationed in Italy. The jazz and gospel of more recent times, Jubilee Singers have collaborated with the Jubilee Singers have become one of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, the America's finest exponents of the rich under Zubin and vital body of music that is such an Mehta, and they were chosen by integral part of the Black experience. Samuel Goldwyn to record the sound 12 track for his original film version of "Porgy." A graduate of Fisk University. Professor McNeiljoined the teaching staff of the University of California at Davis in 1969. and presently heads the ~ ~ Department of Music Education which .• trains music teachers for public schools fjranch. National~""",at"", of Ntgro !4Jsir,ians, inc. and colleges. He also teaches courses on POBox 191_ Minneapolis MN 55419 Afro-American music and directs the University concert choir.

SOPRANO BASS Dolores Davis Victor W. Graham Victoria Burnett Eric Browning applaud The Dale Warland Andrea McCreary ACCOMPANISTS and Albert McNeil Singers ALTO Byron Smith in their performance of tra- Colleen Browning Larry Farrow Virginia White ditional and contemporary 'harlotte Neveu CHOREOGRAPHY music by Black composers, Aleta Braxton Charlotte Neveu one of BMETC's goals. TENOR INSTRUMENTAL Darryl Taylor ARRANGEMENTS Dr. Reginald Buckner, Chris Gambol Larry Farrow President Paul Smith ASSISTANT Richard Wyatt DIRECTOR BARITONE Paul Smith Denis Hawkins DIRECTOR Carver Cossey Albert J. McNeil

PROGRAM TEXTS

Gospel Mass by Robert Ray

Kyrie Lord Have Mercy

Oh Lord have mercy on me. Send us a Savior. set my soul free. Give us Your word and teach us to pray. I want to praise and serve you always. Lord God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob look down. have mercy upon us. Oh Christ have mercy on me. Send us Your comfort, grant us Your peace. You are the way. the truth and the light. I love You more each day and each night. Jesus the Rock of salvation. the Light of the world. have mercy upon us.

h Lord have mercy. Oh Christ have mercy. Oh Lord have mercy.

13 Gloria Glory to God in the Highest Glory to God in the highest, peace to all men of good will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee, we glorify Thee. We give thanks to Thee.. for Thy great glory. Lord God, King of heav'n, Father, Almighty One. Glory be to Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, the Father's only Son.

Thou who takes away all the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Thou who takes away all the sins of the world, receive our prayers. Thou who sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty in heav'n have mercy on us.

Only Thou art holy, only Thou art the Lord. Only Thou art holy, only Thou art most high.

We come to praise Your name today, we want to serve You in every way. Let the loud hosannas ring, shouting the praises to God our King. In the name of the Father. In the name of the Son. In the name of the Holy Ghost. The Blessed Three in One. Amen!

Credo I Believe in God

I believe in God the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost. Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, crucified, died and was buried: He descended into hell. On the third day He arose. He ascended into heaven, from death He was set free. Now He sits at the right hand and He's waiting for you and me. He will judge all the world. He will judge you and me.

I believe in the Holy Spirit and the Church Universal on earth. I believe Lord in one baptism for the remission of sin and rebirth. I believe in the resurrection and the communion of saints in this world. I believe when my life is over I'm going home just to live with my God. I believe in God and in the Holy Ghost. I believe in God.

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14 Spiritual Roots Oh when they crown Him Lord of Lords, oh when they crown Him Lord of Lords, Go Down, Moses Oh Lord I want to be in that number, Go down, Moses, 'way down in Egypt's oh when they crown Him Lord of Lords. land, Oh when they march around the throne Tell ole pharaoh to let my people go. oh when they march around the throne, When Israel was in Egypt's land, Oh Lord I want to be in that number, Oppressed so hard they could not stand oh when they march around the throne. Oh! Go down, Moses, 'way down in Egypt's land. The Spiritual vs. Gospel Let my people go, free my people. Dr. Geneva H. Southall Thus satth the Lord, bold Moses said, Spirituals are the orally-transmitted "If not I'll smite your first-born dead." unaccompanied musical utterances of We need not always and moan, go, American slaves - their collective And wear these slavery chains forlorn. soulful outpouring which in words, nuances, and melody serve to docu- ;v'ry Time I Feel the Spirit ment the weariness, loneliness, Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit movin' in my sorrows, pain and hope of a people heart I will pray. trapped for more than 250 years in On the mountain my Lord spoke, out bondage. Spirituals were introduced to His mouth came fire and smoke. the world by the Fisk Jubilee student In the valley on my knees, ask my Lord singers in 1871 when they embarked have mercy please. on a concert tour to raise money to save their debt-ridden school from closing. Jordan river chilly and cold, chills the While raising an initial sum of body, not the soul. $150,000 from their 1873 European Great day, the righteous marchin' tour under noble patronage, they also round me looks so shine, saved a priceless legacy of historical ask my Lord if all was mine. Americana. Despite more European influences used by later college-trained Deep River Black composers in their concertized Deep river, my home is over Jordan. choral and solo arrangements, each Deep river, Lord. I want to cross over sought to capture the emotional spirit of into campground. their slave forebears. While rooted in the African-style reli- o don't you want to go to that gospel gious slave shouts, camp meeting and feast, that promised land, where all is Wesleyan hymns, gospel is an expres- peace? sion of the 20th century urban experi- ence. Utilizing a free-improvisatory, When the Saints Go Marchin' In blues and jazz-like vocal and instru- mental sound and repetitive phrasing, Oh when the saints go marchin' on in, these songs celebrate "Good news in oh when the saints gomarchin' in, hard times." Driving emotionalism Oh Lord I want to be in that number, comes from an emphasis on sponta- oh when the saints go marchin' in. neous audience off-beat hand-clapping, Oh when the sun refused to shine, footpatting, verbal interjections and 'h when the sun refused to shine, other bodily movements as the soloist h Lord I want to be in that number, renders a sermon in song, one of the oh when the sun refused to shine. gifts of Black people to the world community.

15 VIVA ITALIA! Italian Choral Classics Sunday, April 20, 1986 - 8 p.m. Orchestra Hall

I. Madrigals Gid torna a rallegrar (Now Once More To All The Earth) Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) Now once more to all the earth her brightness bringing, April the young and fair is crowned with flowers, The sea is quiet, the frost no longer stinging, The nymphs and shepherds rejoice in their bowers. The birds return now in am'rous combat singing, Their songs ofjoy in praise of Spring's sweet powers. And though I weep at eve, beset by sorrow, Soon will the sun unveil the welcome morrow.

Dolcissima mia vita (My Sweetest Life) Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1560-1613) My sweetest life, my dearest, Do not disdain me, but relieve my suffering, Do not conjecture that the lovely flame which destroys me will die away because you avert your gaze, your countenance: Ah, me! my desire, my yearning, my ambition, Oh, to love you, or to perish.

Fenice Fu (I Was a Phoenix) Jacopo da Bologna (14th c.) I was a phoenix and I lived a pure and gentle life; Now I have been transformed into a turtle dove. I fly with love through beautiful meadows. Neither trees without fruit nor turbid water Ever pleases me; therefore I am in doubt Summer departs and winter comes suddenly. Thus I lived, and thus I live, and I am able to write: Not a woman exists any more who honorably lives.

16 Spiritual Roots Oh when they crown Him Lord of Lords, oh when they crown Him Lord of Lords, Go Down, Moses Oh Lord I want to be in that number, Go down, Moses, 'way down in Egypt's oh when they crown Him Lord of Lords. land, Oh when they march around the throne Tell ole pharaoh to let my people go. oh when they march around the throne, When Israel was in Egypt's land, Oh Lord I want to be in that number, Oppressed so hard they could not stand oh when they march around the throne. Oh! Go down, Moses, 'way down in Egypt's land. The Spiritual vs. Gospel Let my people go, free my people. Dr. Geneva H. Southall Thus satth the Lord, bold Moses said, Spirituals are the orally-transmitted "If not I'll smite your first-born dead." unaccompanied musical utterances of We need not always and moan, go, American slaves - their collective And wear these slavery chains forlorn. soulful outpouring which in words, nuances, and melody serve to docu- ;v'ry Time I Feel the Spirit ment the weariness, loneliness, Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit movin' in my sorrows, pain and hope of a people heart I will pray. trapped for more than 250 years in On the mountain my Lord spoke, out bondage. Spirituals were introduced to His mouth came fire and smoke. the world by the Fisk Jubilee student In the valley on my knees, ask my Lord singers in 1871 when they embarked have mercy please. on a concert tour to raise money to save their debt-ridden school from closing. Jordan river chilly and cold, chills the While raising an initial sum of body, not the soul. $150,000 from their 1873 European Great day, the righteous marchin' tour under noble patronage, they also round me looks so shine, saved a priceless legacy of historical ask my Lord if all was mine. Americana. Despite more European influences used by later college-trained Deep River Black composers in their concertized Deep river, my home is over Jordan. choral and solo arrangements, each Deep river, Lord. I want to cross over sought to capture the emotional spirit of into campground. their slave forebears. While rooted in the African-style reli- o don't you want to go to that gospel gious slave shouts, camp meeting and feast, that promised land, where all is Wesleyan hymns, gospel is an expres- peace? sion of the 20th century urban experi- ence. Utilizing a free-improvisatory, When the Saints Go Marchin' In blues and jazz-like vocal and instru- mental sound and repetitive phrasing, Oh when the saints go marchin' on in, these songs celebrate "Good news in oh when the saints gomarchin' in, hard times." Driving emotionalism Oh Lord I want to be in that number, comes from an emphasis on sponta- oh when the saints go marchin' in. neous audience off-beat hand-clapping, Oh when the sun refused to shine, footpatting, verbal interjections and 'h when the sun refused to shine, other bodily movements as the soloist h Lord I want to be in that number, renders a sermon in song, one of the oh when the sun refused to shine. gifts of Black people to the world community.

15 II.

Canti di prigionia (Songs of Captivity) Luigi Dallapiccola (sung in Latin) (1904-1975) I. Preghiera di Maria Sturada (Prayer of Mary Stuart) "0 Lord God! I have trusted in thee. 0 my beloved Jesus! Release me now! In the heavy chain, in this wretched punishment, I long for Thee. Fainting, groaning, and kneeling, I beg, I implore you to release me! 0 Lord God" II. Invocazione di Boezio (Invocation of Boethius) "Happy he who would gaze upon the sparkling font of good. Happy he who could break the bonds of the heavy earth." III. Congedo di Girolamo Savonarola (Farewell of Girolamo Savonarola) "The world presses upon me, my enemies rise up against me, yet I fear nothing. For I have put my trust in Thee, Lord, since Thou art my hope, since Thou hast established Thine everlasting refuge for me. In Thee, Lord, have I put my trust.

Dallapiccola readily acknowledged that Canti di prigionia was the first of several works which were inspired and shaped by events in his life and his reactions to them. He traced the source of his lifelong concern with personal, intellectual, and political freedom to his earliest childhood memo- ries growing up during World War I..In explaining his choice of text for the first movement, Prayer of Mary Stuart, Dallapiccola commented "Only through music could I express my indignation. I had just finished reading Mary Stuart by Stefan Zweig. My intention was to transform the prayer of the queen as an individual into a song for all mankind; I wanted to dwell at length upon the word "libera" in the music, to have this divine word shouted by everyone." Dallapiccola took the text for the second movement from the Writings of Boethius, the Sixth-century philosopher/musician who had been imprisoned and executed by Theodoric. Invocation of Boethius was to serve as "a bridge leading to an affirming finale." The text for the finale, the Farewell of Girolamo Savonarola, was chosen in reaction to the reply of Great Britain's Sir Samuel Hoare to Hitler's announcement in 1940 of the imminent aerial attacks on Great Britain, in which Sir Hoare exhorted the nation to pray. The score was finished in October 1941, and according to the composer, the premiere of the trilogy "took place on a particularly ill-omened day: December 11, 1941 ... It was the day on which Mussolini declared war on the United States." Canti di priqionia, hailed as a masterpiece in London in 1946, was only the first of Dallapiccola's large-scale works dealing with freedom. (excerpted from notes by Kim H. Kowalke)

Intermission

18 III.

Nonsense Songs (1952) Goffredo Petrassi (b. 1904) I. There was a Young Lady, whose Nose Continually prospers and grows; When it grew out of sight, She exclaimed in a fright, "Oh, Farewell to the end of my Nose!" II. There was an Old Man with a flute. A "sarpint" ran into his boot; But he played day and night, Till the "sarpint" took flight, And avoided that man with a flute. III. 'iere was an Old Man of Cape Hom, o wished that he had ne'er been born; So he sat upon a chair, Till he died there despair, That dolorous Old Man of Cape Hom. IV. There was a Young Lady whose chin Resembled the point of a pin; So she had it made sharp, And then she purchased a harp, And played several tunes with her chin. V. There was an Old Maid of Stroud, Who was horribly jammed in a crowd; Some she slew with a kick, Others she scrunched with a stick, That impulsive Old Maid of Stroud. -Edward Lear

Edward Lear (1812-1888), a celebrated English artist and author, is regarded as the first and one of the most brilliant representatives of English nonsense poetry. He wrote facetious verses accompanied by his absurd drawings to amuse the children. His famous "Book of Nonsense," published in 1846, is a collection of nonsensical verses called "limericks" which are poems of five lines rhyming aa bb a, containing humorous words and often beginning with the name of a place. In 1952 Goffredo Petrassi set to music five verses from the "Book of Nonsense" for the Choir of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, which he had directed during the years 1947 to 1950. Petrassi's settings of these -iertcks are humorous and pleasant, with long glissandi imitating the ke wriggling in the shoes, a few slow notes representing those weary of lfe, harp imitations, and tumultuous glissandi and dissonances describing the "Old Maid of Stroud, who was horribly jammed in a crowd."

19 IV. Due Composizioni Corali (TI.voChoral Compositions) Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) n giardino di Afrodite (The Garden of Aphrodite) Piena sorgeva la luna (The Full Moon Rose)

Ildebrando Pizzetti was a musical dramatist, who unlike the late romanticists. returned to the old Italian vocal tradition and composed a specific type of steadily developing musical "prose" in which the choir frequently played an important part. He also wrote a cappella music. including these two settings. written in April and May of 1961. of texts written by the Greek poet, Sappho. They represent a modem style of contrapuntal madrigals for six voices.

v. from Sins of Old Age Giaochino Rossini (1792-1868)

I Gondolieri (The Gondoliers) Sailing on sparkling waters. lovely the sky above us. the moon is clearly shining, gently we glide. no winds disturbing the sea. We sail on sparkling waters, resplendent are the heavens. To sail upon the waters; to gondoliers it is given to live the best of lives. To row, to rest contented; the gondolier is happy, he- lives the best of lives. Whether the sun shines brightly, or sad appears the moon above, rowing upon the laguna the gondolier is king. Toast pour le nouvel an (Toast.for the New Year) On this charming day come meet with us. New Year. be a festival for us: pleasures, songs. presents. candies - gather together. girls and boys. Friendship, the tender love in tum - let us celebrate on this good day the return of happy meals, young hearts. old wines. Is this not the happiness of heaven? Friends, let us drink long draughts! Friends, let us consume the bottles! Friends, let us clink our glasses! 0 Virgin Mother, let us prosper; guard us on earth; bless our sons. Yes. for all of us it is the image of heaven. Tralalala, how the foaming champagne sparkles, froths. Tralalala, true happiness, this is it, 0 Virgin! Tralalala, how time flies; let us pass it sweetly. Tralalala, yes, happiness. this is it, this is it! For us it is the happiness of heaven. Friends. without fuss let us tear away the corks, consume the bottles. feast and clink glasses!

20 La Passeggiata (The Excursion) Calm and serene the heavens. limpid the waves below us. sailing from shore to shore guided alone by love. To gentle winds and flowers we speak our words of love. all beating hearts together to them respond in love. Winds now are blowing stronger. rippling the sea around us. winds now are whistling. winds' are now blowing. quickly let us depart. move on. Ah! no. the moon appearing turns all our fear to gladness. in this delightful country we sing our songs of love.

In 1855. Gioachino Rossini retired to Paris. He. who a few decades ago had fascinated Europe with his operas. was in a miserable condition now. unable to work and deeply' depressed. He began to compose music again in 1857. and in the last 11 years of his "fe wrote nearly 200 minor compositions. including works for piano. solo 19S. duets. quartets, and a variety of other types of compositions. Most of ese are light musical entertainment, and many of them contain parodistic allusions. particularly in the titles. Some of these pieces were performed in the salons. but Rossini would not allow their publication before his death. He called his "Bagatelles" the "sins of my old age" (and called the Mass of 1864 "my last deadly sin"), and he dedicated them "to all fourth-rate pianists. to which category of musicians I have the honour to belong myself." The two Italian quartets. I Gondolieri and La Passeggiata. form part of the first volume of Sins of Old Age. and the brilliant octet Toast pour le nouvel an is included in the second volume. the Albumfrancais.

Harp Percussion Kathy Kienzle Jay Johnson Jeanne Ekholm David John Olsen Vince Hymen-Pena Piano Robert Adney Jerry Rubino Joseph Holmquist Mary Duncan Larry Barnhart

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