About Pro Arte Chorale Pro Arte Chorale, a 60-Member All-Volunteer Chorus Now Celebrating Its 51St Season, Is One of New Jersey’S Most Prominent Choral Organizations
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Steven Fox, Music Director Janet Montgomery, Principal Accompanist and Assistant Conductor Margie Downs, Manager Steven Palmieri, Concert Manager Board of Trustees Dr. Joseph DeFazio, President Jane W. Stein, Vice President Robert Dodds, Treasurer Andrea Covais, Hugh Dougan, Enid Hayflick, Dr. Edward Hedlund, Patricia Klecanda, Virginia Miner, Royal Ronning, Susan Seay, Mary Jane Shevlin Save the Dates!!! Messiah Sing Sunday, December 14, 2014 at 3:00pm Central Unitarian Church, Paramus Celebration Featuring The Bavarian Highlands (Elgar) and Epithalamion (R.V. Wiliams) Friday, March 13, 2015 at 8:00pm West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood Carmina Burana with Maestro David Wroe and The NJ Festival Orchestra Friday, May 29, 2015 West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood For more information, or to join our mailing list, Contact the Pro Arte Chorale office at (201) 497-8400 Email: [email protected] web: www.proartechorale.org November 16, 2014 at 3:00pm West Side Presbyterian Church Ridgewood, NJ A Concert of Remembrance The Pro Arte Chorale Steven Fox, Conductor Janet Montgomery, Organ Linda Jones, Soprano Philip Cutlip, Baritone Cantique de Jean Racine Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) I am the Resurrection and the Life Thomas Morley (1557-1602) Tibi Laus Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) Faure Cantique Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Morley I am the Resurrection O Quam Gloriosum Lassus Laus Tibi Victoria Sancta Maria Agnus Dei Victoria O Quam Gloriosum Geistliches Lied Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Brahms Geistliches Lied ~ INTERMISSION ~ ~ INTERMISSION ~ Faure Requiem Requiem Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) These programs are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. 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About Pro Arte Chorale Pro Arte Chorale, a 60-member all-volunteer chorus now celebrating its 51st season, is one of New Jersey’s most prominent choral organizations. The Chorale has appeared in major concert venues across the region including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the South Orange Performing Arts Center. In addition to its own subscription series in Bergen County, the Chorale has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Westfield Symphony Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Company, and the New York Chamber Symphony. Currently under the musical direction of Steven Fox, the Pro Arte Chorale has also been conducted by Joshua Greene, David Crone, Roger Nierenberg, Bart Folse and John Nelson. In addition, the Chorale has sung under the batons of Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Julius Rudel, Hugh Wolff, Zdenek Macal, Yuri Temirkanov, Leon Botstein, Gerard Schwartz, and David Wroe. Photo credit: Paul Donohoe The Pro Arte Chorale, a proud recipient of funding from the NJ State Council of the Arts, is committed to enriching the lives of its members, its audience and the broader community by exploring many musical traditions and presenting performances of the highest artistic quality. Hometown Banking … Ask us how you can help Pro Arte Chorale earn more donation dollars through our Community Alliance Program! Corporate Office: 25 Orient Way * Rutherford, NJ 07070 (201)939-5000 * www.bssbank.com Ridgewood Office Locations: 55 North Broad St. 531 North Maple Ave. (201)445-4002 (201)445-7887 1124 East Ridgewood Ave. (201)445-4000 Member FDIC Philip Cutlip has garnered consistent critical acclaim for his performances across North America and Europe. Established on both concert and opera stages, he has performed with AboutConductor Steven the Fox Artistsjoined Pro Arte Chorale as Music a distinguished list of conductors that includes Nicholas Director in 2012, and is also Artistic Director of New York’s McGegan, Yves Abel, Maiguel Harth-Bedoya, Gerard renowned Clarion Orchestra and Clarion Choir. Maestro Fox Schwarz, and Donald Runnicles. His appearance as Joseph De is the Founder of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg, which he Rocher in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking,with Joyce DiDonato established as Russia’s first period-instrument orchestra at and Frederica von Stade for Houston Grand Opera, has been the age of 21. In the last two years he has been engaged as released on Virgin Records. a guest conductor with the leading Baroque orchestras in the United States, including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, Handel and Haydn Society in Boston and Philip Cutlip’s 2013-14 engagements include Stanley in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Juilliard415 at Lincoln Center. From 2008 to 2013 he was Desire with Opera Grand Rapids, and baritone soloist in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne with an Associate Conductor at New York City Opera, and he has served as Assistant Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra. He returns to Philharmonia Baroque Conductor for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and Juilliard Orchestra, under Nicholas McGegan, in Messiah; to North Carolina Symphony in Opera. Symphonic engagements include the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio; and to Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra as Figaro the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. in Le nozze di Figaro. He also debuts with the Eugene Symphony in Haydn’s The Creation. In 2012-13 he sang Eisenstein in Die Fledermauswith Virginia Opera; as Steven is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Royal Academy of Music, London, soloist in Messiah with Vassar College and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; returned where he was named an Associate in 2010. He has given master classes and clinics to Toledo Opera in the title role of Don Giovanni, and to Fort Worth Symphony at Dartmouth College, The Juilliard School and Yale University. He is a preparatory Orchestra in Carmina Burana; sang Carmina Burana with Toledo Symphony Orchestra; conductor for the Yale University Schola Cantorum, and Lecturer in Music at the Britten’s War Requiem for the American Choral Directors Association; and performed State University of New York, Purchase College. Faure’s Requiem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC). Soprano Linda Lee Jones is a member of the vocal sextet The Mr. Cutlip’s engagements for 2014-2015 include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with Western Wind, and performs regularly with the professional Minnesota Orchestra, Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire with Kentucky Opera, and choirs of Trinity Wall Street Church, Musica Sacra, Voices Messiah with Winston-Salem Symphony. of Ascension, and Clarion Choir in New York, as well as the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale in Carmel, CA. Her work Janet Montgomery has won acclaim as a pianist, organist, with The Western Wind includes performing a broad range coach, and conductor. She has appeared in concert at venues of cappella music, teaching at ensemble-singing workshops, ranging from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to performing in NY city schools, and coaching high school Washington National Cathedral, and the Juilliard School.