Lehigh University Lehigh Preserve Performance Programs Music Spring 5-3-2002 Lehigh University Choral Arts Lehigh University Music Department Follow this and additional works at: http://preserve.lehigh.edu/cas-music-programs Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Lehigh University Music Department, "Lehigh University Choral Arts" (2002). Performance Programs. 155. http://preserve.lehigh.edu/cas-music-programs/155 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at Lehigh Preserve. It has been accepted for inclusion in Performance Programs by an authorized administrator of Lehigh Preserve. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BAKER HALL• ZOELLNERARTS CENTER . I I Lehigh Univer. ity Music Department 2001 - 2002 SEASON Welcome to Zoellner Arts Center! We hope you will take advantage of all the facilities, including Baker Hall, the Diamond and Black Box Theaters, as well as the Art Galleries and the Museum Shop. There are restrooms on every floor and concession stands in the two lobbies. For all ticket information, call (610) 7LU-ARTS (610-758-2787). To ensure the best experience for everyone, please: Bring no food or drink into any of the theaters Refrain from talking while music is being performed Refrain from applause between movements Do not use flash photography or recording devices Turn off all pagers and cellular phones Turn off alarms on wrist watches Do not smoke anywhere in the facilities MUSIC DEPARTMENT STAFF Professors - Paul Salemi, Steven Sametz, Nadine Sine (chair) Associate Professor - Paul Chou Assistant Professor - William Warfield Lecturers - Eugene Albulescu, David Diggs Adjuncts/ Private Instructors - Eduardo Azzati, David Bakamjian, Helen Beedle, Lise Carlson, Christopher DiSanto, Debra Field, Linda Ganus, Brett Grigsby, Tom Guama, Timothy Harrell, Tim Harrison, Carter Henry, Mark Hulsebos, Laura Johnson, Vic Juris, Robin Kani, Paul LaFollette, Marko Marcinko, Richard Metzger, Albert Neumeyer, Patricia O'Connell, Gene Perla, Irmgard Pursell, David Riekenberg, Timothy Schwarz, Susan Shaw, Carolyn Smith, Debra Torok, Eileen Wescoe, Andrea Wittchen, Larry Wright Department Coordinator - Olga Jacoby Libraries Coordinator - Linda Lipkis Program Coordinator - Linda Ganus ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER STAFF Managing Director - Elizabeth Scofield Audience Services Director - Sandra Anderson Ticket Services Manager - Leanne Bewley House Manager - Jacob Campbell Director of Development for the Arts - Susan Vengrove Production Manager - Joshua Kovar Director of Programs and Outreach - Deborah Sacarakis Etients Manager - Erin Bayliss Scheduling Manager - Annette Stolte Lighting Coordinator - Melissa McLearen Audio Coordinator - James Wildman Assistant Audio Coordinator - Erik Lawson Technical Director - John P. Stahrr Interim Costume Director - Kaitlin Witte Head Stage Carpenter - James Jordan Assistant Development Director - Kate Besterrnan Senior Marketing Associate - Jennifer Hunt Marketing Associate - Z. Candi Staurinos Administrative Assistant to the Director- Cyndy Brinker Administrative Coordinator of Deoelopment for the Arts - Jovan Swann I I Lehigh University Music Department presents Lehigh University Choral Arts Steven Sametz, director Debra Field, associate director Claude Debussy > Nocturnes Carl Orff • Carmina Burana Margaret Anne Butterfield, soprano Finkel Artist-in-Residence Nathaniel Watson, baritone Sebastian Artist-in-Residence John Piccolini, tenor Sametz Artist-in-Residence and the The American Boychoir Vincent Metallo, director Friday, May 3, 2002 Saturday, May 4, 2002 8:00 p.m. Baker Hall Zoellner Arts Center ZeeK! event on May 3 sponsored by Creative Kids Club 1 PROGRAM Nocturnes Claude Debussy (1862-1918) I. Nuages (Clouds) II. Fetes (Celebration) III. Sirenes (Sirens) *** Intermission *** Carmina Burana Carl Orff Margaret Anne Butterfield, soprano (1895-1982) Nathaniel Watson, baritone John Piccolini, tenor Fortuna imperatrix mundi O Fortuna Fortune plango vulnera I. Primo Vere V eris leta facies Omnia Sol temperat - baritone solo Ecce gratum Uf dem Anger Floret silva Chramer, gip die vanve mir Reie Were diu werlt alle min II. In Taberna Estuans interius - baritone solo Glim lacus colueram - tenor solo and chorus Ego sum abbas - baritone and chorus In taberna quando sumus III. Cour d'amour Amor volat undique - soprano solo and boy choir Dies, nox et omnia - baritone solo Stetii puella - soprano solo Circa tnea pectora - baritone solo and chorus Si puer sum puellula Zachary Farrell, baritone Veni, veni, venias In trutina - soprano solo Tempus est jocundum Dulcissime - soprano solo Blanziflor et Helena Ave formosissima Fortuna imperatrix mundi O Fortuna 2 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Steven Sametz, Ronald J. Ulrich Professor of Music, has earned increasing renown in recent years as both composer and conductor. He is the Director of Choral Activities at Lehigh University and also serves as artistic director of the elite a cappella ensemble, The Princeton Singers. Recent guest conducting appearances include the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the New York Chamber Symphony, and the Netherlands Radio Choir. Dr. Sametz' compositions have been heard throughout the world at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein, Santa Fe, and Salzburg music festivals. His in time of appears on the recent Grammy-award-winning CD by Chanticleer, "Colors of Love," and his works may be heard on six other Chanticleer CDs, as well as Lehigh University Choir's "Live from Taipei," Lehigh University Choral Arts "Christmas at Lehigh," The Princeton Singers' "Reincarnations," and "Christmas with The Princeton Singers." Dr. Sametz has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Council for the Arts, and Santa Fe Music Festival, creating new works for Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, The Princeton Singers, the Philadelphia Singers, the Pro Arte Chamber Choir, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Connecticut Choral Artists, and the King of Thailand. His compositions are published by Oxford University Press, Hinshaw Publications, and Alliance Music. Dr. Sametz has served as panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and Chorus America. He has been Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University and is the founder and director of the Lehigh University Choral Union. At the Santa Fe Music Festival, he conducted his own works in a program entitled "Sametz conducts Sametz." He has conducted Chanticleer with the Lehigh University Choir in the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 in New York and San Francisco to critical acclaim. Dr. Sametz holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Wisconsin• Madison, and the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. 3 Margaret Anne Butterfield, soprano, is the Finkel Artist-in-Residence this semester at Lehigh University. She is a native of Washington, DC, earned a Bachelor of Music Education from the Catholic University of America, a Master of Voice from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, and studied at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. A recipient of many honors, she was a finalist in the second Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, a semi• finalist in the New York Oratorio Society Competition and a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is currently Director of the Vocal Program at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Baritone Nathaniel Watson is the first Sebastian Artist-in-Residence at Lehigh University. Mr. Watson has appeared in a wide variety of musical performances, including Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the baritone soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Roger Norrington, and with the New York Philharmonic in Der Freischiitz under Sir Colin Davis. Watson has appeared with the Symphony Orchestras of Houston, Minnesota, Montreal, Baltimore, San Francisco and Boston, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada in Ottawa in music of Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Schumann and Bach. He also performed in Japan with the New Japan Philharmonic and with the Tokyo Oratorio Society under Hiroshi Gunji. Mr. Watson has been heard previously at Lehigh University in Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw and the Brahms Requiem. Sametz Artist-in-Residence John Piccolini, tenor, studied at Ithaca College, Cornell University and the Westminster Choir College. He has sung in concert and recordings under Kurt Masur and Riccardo Muti and is a featured tenor soloist with The Princeton Singers. Principal voice teachers include Susan Davenny-Syner and Angus Godwin. We welcome Mr. Piccolini at his debut with the Lehigh University Choral Arts. 4 THE AMERICAN BoYCHOIR Vincent Metallo, director The American Boychoir' s rich sonorities, musical sophistication, expres• sive power and innovative programming have established its reputation as the United States' premier concert boys' choir. The American Boychoir was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1937, and has been located in Princeton, New Jersey since 1950. The Boychoir regularly performs and records with world-class artists and ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, Chanticleer, Wynton Marsalis, Jessye Norman, and many others. ORCHESTRA Violin I Bass Trumpets Simon Maurer Benjamin Tedoff Darin Kelly (Concertmaster) Carter Henry Todd Westervelt Kirsten Davis Maureen Llort Laura Thelander Roland Freitag Michael A vagliano Flute Trombones Peter Krisha Christine Moulton