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THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION Redeemer Presbyterian Church
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 8PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 8PM
Craig Hella Johnson, Artistic Director & Conductor Stefanie Moore, soprano Kathlene Ritch, alto Dann Coakwell, tenor Cameron Beauchamp, bass Thomas Burritt, percussion guest vocalist, Wravan Godsoe
pre-concert talk each night at 7pm post-concert reception following Friday’s performance
Season Sustaining Underwriter
1 1 Dear Friends, PART ONE
7iViÌÕÀwÀÃÌVViÀÌvviÀ} The Little Match Girl Passion Words and Music by David Lang (b.1957) in the 2016-2017 Conspirare season. after Hans Christian Andersen, H.P. Paulli, Picander and Saint Matthew It is our great privilege and joy to sing for you. We regularly boast that 1. Come, daughter 9. Have mercy, my God we are fortunate to sing for the most 2. It was terribly cold 10. She lighted another match extraordinary audience members 3. Dearest heart 11. From the sixth hour anywhere. We experience a deep level 4. In an old apron 12. She again rubbed a match of engagement and participation with 5. Penance and remorse 13. When it is time for me to go Conspirare audiences to the extent that 6. Lights were shining 14. In the dawn of morning we tangibly feel that our listeners are 7. Patience, patience! 15. We sit and cry an essential part of the musical circle. In our concerts, together with 8. Ah! perhaps you, we love to create spaces with sounds and silence that have the potential to hold us in exquisite rapture and wonderment. Whether INTERMSSION ÞÕ>Ài>wÀÃÌÌi}ÕiÃÌÀ>}Ìi ëÀ>ÀiÃÌiiÀ]Ü>ÌÌ PART TWO thank you for your presence and welcome to you to this new sound realm, created by Conspirare artists and you. SONGS OF HOPE AND REMEMBRANCE to be selected from Circle Game Joni Mitchell (b. 1943) Tonight’s program showcases four of our Conspirare singers in an (Will there really be a morning?) Ì>Ìi]V >LiÀÕÃVÃiÌÌ}°/ iwÀÃÌ >vvÌ i«À}À>vi>ÌÕÀià Children of the Heavenly Father Tryggare Kan Ingen Vara a Pulitzer Prize-winning modern masterwork which, in its original CTTCPIGFD[1UMCT#JPHGNV| | form, was composed for vocal quartet and percussion. The music calls Hebrew Chants Shefa Gold vÀ> } `i}ÀiivÌiV V>«ÀwViVÞ>`ÕÃV>>`iÌional Ubuntu sensitivity. Listen as the artists bring their full focus to these demands, Come Now, Spirit JCTOQPK\GFD[,5$CEJ to each other, and to telling the story with a broad range of colors and Get Together %JGV2QYGTU musical tools. Children Will Listen 5VGRJGP5QPFJGKO D I Remember Sky Stephen Sondheim The second half of the program was created as a gentle musical Home on the Range &CPKGN'-GNN[ journey, a tapestry of songs interweaving expressions of hope, curiosity, radiance and remembrance. It is a quiet celebration of the Ó Gente da Minha Terra Tiago Machado human voice. We are reminded of the breadth of expression the voice America the Beautiful 5COWGN9CTF s can carry. We experience vocalism which mirrors and embodies our Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor +TXKPI$GTNKP own human experience—strong, vulnerable, humorous, joyful, still— He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands Spiritual >`>ÞÜiw`ÕÀÃiÛiÃÀi`i`vÃi>ëiVÌvÕÀiÃÃiVi° Meine Seele hört im Sehen, HWV 207 George Frederic Handel Thank you again for being here. I’vidi in terra angelici costumi (TCP\.KU\V Soul Adorn Thyself with Gladness George Frederic Handel 9ÕVÀi>ÌiÌ ië>ViÜ V Ì iÕÃVw`ÃÌÃvi° Holy, Holy J. S. Bach (From Cantata No. 147, BWV 147) Beautiful City 5VGRJGP5EJYCTV\ D What If 'TKE9JKVCETG D Marching to Zion 4QDGTV.QYT[ )
2 3 PART ONE 4. In an old apron
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION In an old apron she carried a number of matches, and had a bundle of them in her hands. No one had bought anything of her the whole Text by David Lang, after Hans Christian Andersen, H.P. Paulli, day, nor had any one given her even a penny. Shivering with cold and Picander and the Gospel according to St. Matthew hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of ÃiÀÞ°/ iÃÜy>iÃvi iÀ}]v>À >À]Ü V Õ}VÕÀÃ 1. Come, daughter on her shoulders, but she regarded them not.
Come, daughter 5. Penance and remorse Help me, daughter Help me cry Penance and remorse Look, daughter Tear my sinful heart in two Where, daughter My teardrops What, daughter May they fall like rain down upon your poor face Who, daughter May they fall down like rain Why, daughter My teardrops Guiltless daughter Patient daughter Here, daughter, here I am Gone I should be bound as you were bound All that I deserve is +VYCUVGTTKDN[EQNF What you have endured
It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, Penance and remorse and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and darkness, a poor little Tear my sinful heart in two girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets. It is My penance true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were My remorse not of much use. They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had My penance belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along 6. Lights were shining >Ì>ÌiÀÀLiÀ>Ìi°"ivÌ ië«iÀÃà iVÕ`Ìw`]>`>LÞ seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying that he could use it Lights were shining from every window, and there was a savory smell as a cradle, when he had children of his own. So the little girl went on of roast goose, for it was New- year’s eve – yes, she remembered that. with her little naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. In a corner, between two houses, one of which projected beyond the other, she sank down and huddled herself together. She had drawn 3. Dearest heart her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take Dearest heart home even a penny of money. Her father would certainly beat her; Dearest heart besides, it was almost as cold at home as here, for they had only the What did you do that was so wrong? roof to cover them, through which the wind howled, although the What was so wrong? largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags. Dearest heart Dearest heart Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. Why is your sentence so hard? Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. 4 5 7. Patience, patience! 5JGNKIJVGFCPQVJGTOCVEJ
Patience. She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a Patience! beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the #JRGTJCRU rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show- Ah! perhaps a burning match might be some good, if she could draw windows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her it from the bundle and strike it against the wall, just to warm her hand towards them, and the match went out.The Christmas lights rose w}iÀð- i`ÀiÜiÕÌpºÃVÀ>ÌV t» ÜÌëÕÌÌiÀi`>ÃÌLÕÀÌt higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then It gave a warm, bright light, like a little candle, as she held her hand à iÃ>Ü>ÃÌ>Àv>]i>Û}Li `Ì>LÀ} ÌÃÌÀi>vwÀi°º-ii over it. It was really a wonderful light. It seemed to the little girl that Ã`Þ}]»Ì Õ} ÌÌ iÌÌi}À]vÀ iÀ`}À>`Ì iÀ]Ì iÞi she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that LÀ>ÃÃÀ>iÌ°ÜÌ iwÀiLÕÀi`t>`Ãiii`ÃLi>ÕÌvÕÞ when a star falls, a soul was going up to God. warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! Ì iy>ivÌ i>ÌV ÜiÌÕÌ]Ì iÃÌÛiÛ>à i`]>`à i >` 11. From the sixth hour only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand. From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the - iÀÕLLi`>Ì iÀ>ÌV Ì iÜ>°ÌLÕÀÃÌÌy>i]>`Ü iÀi ninth hour. And at the ninth hour she cried out: its light fell upon the wall it became as transparent as a veil, and she could see into the room. The table was covered with a snowy white Eli, Eli. table-cloth, on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a steaming roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried plums. And what was still 5JGCICKPTWDDGFCOCVEJ more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled >VÀÃÃÌ iyÀ]ÜÌ >vi>`vÀÌÃLÀi>ÃÌ]ÌÌ iÌÌi}À°/ i She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light shone round her; the match went out, and there remained nothing but the thick, damp, in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining, yet cold wall before her. `>`Û} iÀ>««i>À>Vi°ºÀ>`Ì iÀ]»VÀi`Ì iÌÌi i]º"Ì>iiÜÌ ÞÕÆÜÞÕÜ}>Ü>ÞÜ iÌ i>ÌV 9. Have mercy, my God burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and Ì i>À}i]}ÀÕà ÀÃÌ>ÃÌÀii°»Ƃ`à i>`i >ÃÌiÌ} ÌÌ i Have mercy, my God. whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother Look here, my God. there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than See my tears fall. See my tears fall. the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or Have mercy, my God. Have mercy. ÃLi>ÕÌvÕ°- iÌÌ iÌÌi}À iÀ>ÀÃ]>`Ì iÞLÌ yiÜ upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was My eyes are crying. neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God. My heart is crying, my God. See my tears fall. See my tears fall, my God.
6 7 13. When it is time for me to go INTERMISSION
When it is time for me to go PART TWO Don’t go from me SONGS OF HOPE AND REMEMBRANCE When it is time for me to leave Don’t leave me We’re marching to Zion, When it is time for me to die Beautiful, beautiful Zion; Stay with me We’re marching upward to Zion, When I am most scared The beautiful city of God. Stay with me Yesterday a child came out to wonder… 14. In the dawn of morning (Will there really be a morning?)
In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks Children of the heavnly Father and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to Safely in His bosom gather death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose Nestling bird nor star in Heaven and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of Such a refuge e’er was given death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was LÕÀÌ°º- iÌÀi`ÌÜ>À iÀÃiv]»Ã>`Ãi° i>}i`Ü >Ì God, His own doth tend and nourish beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered à ÞVÕÀÌÃÌ iÞyÕÀà with her grandmother, on New-year’s day. From all evil things He spares them In His mighty arms He bears them 15. We sit and cry — Kar oli na W. San dell-Berg, translated by Ernst W. Olson
We sit and cry Hebrew chants/Ubuntu And call to you Harchivi m’kom ohaleich Rest soft, daughter, rest soft Enlarge the place of your tent (Isaiah 54:2) Where is your grave, daughter? Where is your tomb? Ubuntu… (I am who I am because we all are) Where is your resting place? Rest soft, daughter, rest soft Ki ta’avor bamayim it’cha ani, uvan’harot uva n’harot When you pass through the waters, I am with you, I am with you. Rest soft Rest soft Ubuntu… Rest soft Rest soft lo yish-t’fucha uva-n’harot, lo yisht’fucha. I won’t let the rivers overwhelm you, I will be with you. (Isaiah 43:2) You closed your eyes. Ubuntu… I closed my eyes. Hein al kapayim chakotich Rest soft You are engraved on the palm of My hand. (Isaiah 49:16)
Ubuntu…
8 9 Come Now, Spirit Children Will Listen Come now, Spirit, in your wisdom, How do you say to your child in the night? That we may we be one in you, How do you say to your child in the night? One in heart and soul and body; Nothing’s all black, but then nothing’s all white Help us dream all we can do. How do you say it will all be all right When you know that it might not be true? Instruments of your desiring, What do you do? Breathing peace with every breath, Called to be at home within you, Careful the things you say Sheltered from the winds of death. Children will listen — Michael Dennis Browne Careful the things you do Children will see and learn Get Together Children may not obey, but children will listen Love is but a song we sing Children will look to you for which way to turn Fear’s the way we die To learn what to be You can make the mountains ring >ÀivÕLivÀiÞÕÃ>Þº ÃÌiÌi» Or make the angels cry Children will listen Though the bird is on the wing And you may not know why Careful the wish you make Come on people now Wishes are children Smile on your brother Careful the path they take Everybody get together Wishes come true, not free Try to love one another Careful the spell you cast Right now Not just on children Sometimes the spell may last Empathy Past what you can see See this… And turn against you Careful the tale you tell Hear now… That is the spell Children will listen Feel… ÜV>ÞÕÃ>ÞÌ>V `Ü ½Ãy} Ì Feel this… º ½Ìë>Ü>Þ>`Ü½Ì `ÃÌ} Ì» What can you say that no matter how slight Now…Feel… Won’t be misunderstood What do you leave to your child when you’re dead? You… Only whatever you put in its head Things that your mother and father had said (do you hear what I hear?) Which were left to them too Careful what you say Children will listen Careful you do it too Children will see And learn, oh guide them that step away 10 11 Children will glisten And days Tamper with what is true I remember days And children will turn Or at least I try If just to be free But as years go by Careful before you say They’re a sort of haze º ÃÌiÌi» And the bluest ink Isn’t really sky Children will listen. . . And at times I think — Stephen Sondheim I would gladly die For a day of sky I Remember Sky — Stephen Sondheim I remember sky It was blue as ink Home on the Range Or at least I think Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam I remember sky Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word I remember snow And the skies are not cloudy all day Soft as feathers Sharp as thumb tacks Home, home on the range Coming down like lint Where the deer and the antelope play And it made you squint Where seldom is heard a discouraging word When the wind would blow And the skies are not cloudy all day
And ice like vinyl How often at night when the heavens are bright On the streets ÃiiÌ i} ÌvÌ ÃiyViÀ}ÃÌ>ÀÃ Cold as silver Have I laid there amazed and asked as I gazed White as sheets If their glory exceeds that of love Rain like strings And changing things Home, home on the range Like leaves Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word I remember leaves And the skies are not cloudy all day Green as spearmint — Dr. Brewster M. Hidley Crisp as paper I remember trees Ó Gente da Minha Terra Bare as coat racks É meu e vosso este fado Spread like broken umbrellas Destino que nos amarra Por mais que seja negado And parks and bridges Às cordas de uma guitarra Ponds and zoos Ruddy faces Sempre que se ouve um gemido Muddy shoes Duma guitarra a cantar And light and noise and Fica-se logo perdido Bees and boys
12 13 Com vontade de chorar America the Beautiful Ó gente da minha terra O beautiful for spacious skies, Agora é que eu descobri For amber waves of grain, Esta tristeza que trago For purple mountain majesties Foi de vós que recebi Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee E parecia ternura And crown thy good with brotherhood Se eu me deixasse embalar From sea to shining sea! Era maior a amargura Menos triste o meu cantar O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress Ó gente da minha terra . . . A thoroughfare for freedom beat — Amália Rodrigues Across the wilderness! America! America! Oh People of My Land `i`Ì iiÛiÀÞy>Ü This fado is mine and yours wÀÌ ÞÃÕÃivVÌÀ] a destiny that binds us Thy liberty in law! however it might be denied to the strings of a guitar O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Every time one hears the cries Who more than self their country loved, of a singing guitar one becomes immediately lost And mercy more than life! with a desire to cry ƂiÀV>tƂiÀV>t >Þ`Ì Þ}`Àiwi Till all success be nobleness, Oh people from my land And ev’ry gain divine! it is now that I understand this sorrow I carry O beautiful for patriot dream I received it from you That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam And it would seem like fondness Undimmed by human tears! if I allowed myself to be lulled America! America! the bitterness would be greater God shed His grace on thee my singing would be less sad And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! Oh people from my land . . . — Katharine Lee Bates We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . . .
oƂ`vÀÌ iÃÕ««ÀÌvÌ Ã iV>À>Ì]ÜÌ >wÀÀi>Vi the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. — Declaration of Independence 14 15 I, Too Meine Selle Hört im Sehen I, too, sing America. Meine seele hört im Sehen, wie, den Schöpfer zu erhöhen, I am the darker brother. alles jauchzet, alles lacht. They send me to eat in the kitchen Höret nur, des erblühnden Frühlings Pracht When company comes, ist die Sprache der Natur, But I laugh, die sie deutlich durchs Gesicht And eat well, allenthalben mit uns spricht. And grow strong. Tomorrow, — Barthold Heinrich Brockes I’ll be at the table When company comes. My Soul Hears By Sight Nobody’ll dare My soul hears by sight, Say to me, how, in order to exalt the Creator, “Eat in the kitchen,” everything cheers, everything laughs. Then. Hear now, the blooming Spring’s splendour is the language of nature, Besides, that distinctly through the face, They’ll see how beautiful I am speaks to us everywhere. And be ashamed— +o|XKFK|KP|VGTTC|CPIGNKEK|EQUVWOK I, too, am America. I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi, — Langston Hughes E celesti bellezze al mondo sole; Tal che di rimembrar mi giova, e dole: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor Give me your tired, your poor, Che quant’io miro, par sogni, ombre, e fumi. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, E vidi lagrimar que’ duo bei lumi, Send these, the homeless, Ch’han fatto mille volte invidia al sole; Tempest-tossed to me Ed udì’ sospirando dir parole I lift my lamp beside the golden door! iv>À>}ÀÌ]iÃÌ>ÀiwÕ° — Emma Lazarus Amor! senno! valor, pietate, e doglia He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands Facean piangendo un più dolce concento He’s got the whole world in his hands… D’ogni altro, che nel mondo udir si soglia. He’s got the whole wide world in his hands… He’s got the whole world in his hands… Ed era ‘l cielo all’armonia s’intento Che non si vedea in ramo mover foglia. He’s got the little bitty baby in his hands… He’s got the whole world in his hands… Tanta dolcezza avea pien l’aer e ‘l vento. — Francesco Petrarca He’s got you and me brother in his hands… He’s got you and me sister in his hands… He’s got the whole world in his hands…
He’s got everybody here in his hands… He’s got the whole world in his hands… — Spiritual 16 17 I Saw Angelic Virtue on Earth Beautiful City I saw angelic virtue on earth Out of the ruins and rubble and heavenly beauty on terrestrial soil, Out of the smoke so I am sad and joyful at the memory, Out of our night of struggle and what I see seems dream, shadows, smoke: Can we see a ray of hope? One pale thin ray reaching for the day and I saw two lovely eyes that wept, that made the sun a thousand times jealous: We can build a beautiful city and I heard words emerge among sighs Yes, we can; Yes, we can that made the mountains move, and halted rivers. We can build a beautiful city Love, Judgement, Pity, Worth and Grief, Not a city of angels made a sweeter chorus of weeping But we can build a city of man than any other heard beneath the moon: We may not reach the ending and heaven so intent upon the harmony But we can start no leaf was seen to move on the boughs, Slowly but truly mending Ãwi`ÜÌ ÃÜiiÌiÃÃÜiÀiÌ iÜ`>`>À° Brick by brick, heart by heart Now, maybe now Soul Adorn Thyself With Gladness We start learning how Soul, adorn thyself with gladness, Leave behind all gloom and sadness; We can build a beautiful city Come into the daylight’s splendor, Yes, we can; Yes, we can There with joy thy praises render We can build a beautiful city Unto Him whose grace unbounded Not a city of angels Hath this woundrous supper founded. But we can build a city of man High o’er all the heavens He reigneth, Yet to dwell with thee He deigneth. When your trust is all but shattered — Johann Franck, translated by Catherine Winkworth When your faith is all but killed You can give up, bitter and battered Holy, Holy Or you can slowly start to build Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, One another, every one; A beautiful city One another, Holy, Holy, Yes, we can; Yes, we can Holy, Holy, every one. We can build a beautiful city Not a city of angels May we be one human Family, ÕÌw>Þ>VÌÞv>° May we be one only voice, — Stephen Schwartz Hearing, healing one another, Bless and listen, sing, rejoice. — Michael Dennis Browne
18 19 What If A choir of sapphire winds You’re hiding, surviving We’d sing You’re stubborn, too. (What song?) (True.) Just harmony And we’d sing free And you‘re frightened In perfect harmony not knowing your heart. (And you?) There must be another way.
I’m trying to question, What if the answer’s near This time (Where?) Your dreams Here. They’d rhyme? (Sublime!) I yearn to soar, so there has to be much more What if (No.) Your voice Yes, there has to be another way. Sailed free? It’s time to (Rejoice!) (Fly?) That’s right. There must be another way. We have to go high above — Eric Whitacre, David Norona (The wall?) of course. /CTEJKPIVQ
Kathlene Ritch, alto Cameron Beauchamp, bass ÜvÀ iÀº«ÜiÀvÕ]VÀÞÃÌ>Vi>À Cameron Beauchamp is active throughout ÛVi]» >Ì ii,ÌV >ÃÃÕ}ÜÌ the country as a soloist, chamber such noted ensembles as the New York musician, clinician, and experimental Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, and the artist. Cameron is a founding member Vienna Philharmonic. She made her solo of Roomful of Teeth, the artistic director debut at Lincoln Center with the American of Austin-based Convergence, and was Symphony Orchestra in Listz’s Dante’s named best singer in the 2013-2014 Inferno. With that same ensemble, Austin Critics’ Table Awards. Cameron she recorded a live concert version of has been a resident performer/clinician Die ägyptische Helena as Hermione at numerous esteemed institutions opposite Deborah Voigt’s Helen. around the US. He’s been featured as a Kathlene’s true passion, musical theater, soloist with the Austin, Dallas, Seattle, has been a lifelong pursuit. Two of her and Colorado Symphonies and has career highlights were performing Sweeney Todd at Lincoln Center with recorded on Sony Classical, Harmonia Mundi, New Amsterdam Records, George Hearn, Patti Lupone and Neil Patrick Harris, and Carousel at 4AD, and for PBS. Pledging no allegiance to genre, Cameron has Carnegie Hall with Audra McDonald and Hugh Jackman. Kathlene lives in collaborated with TuNeYaRdS, Kanye West, Holly Herndon, Sam Amidon, Santa Fe and is a professor of voice at the Santa Fe University of Art and The Silk Road Ensemble, Justin Sherburn, Olga Bell, Maynard Ferguson, Design, as well as an on-air announcer for Classical 95.5 KHFM Santa Fe/ Glenn Kotche, and most recently Peter Sellars. He’s performed on two Albuquerque. Grammy Award-winning albums, ten Grammy- nominated albums, and one Downbeat Award-winning album. 22 23 Thomas Burritt, percussion program note Thomas Burritt has built a reputation in chamber music as a percussion soloist and a concert marimbist active in the creation and performance of new music. He has performed concertos by Maki Ishii, Steve Mackey, Joseph Schwantner, Michael Dougherty, David Maslanka, John Mackey I wanted to tell a story. and James MacMillan and has recorded A particular story – in fact, the for guitarist Eric Johnson and David Byrne. ÕÀÀÌ̽ÃwÀÃÌà All Times Identical – story of The Little Match Girl, New American Music for Marimba was by the Danish author released in November 2006. His second solo marimba recording Groundlines is available Hans Christian Andersen. on iTunes and at Amazon, Google Play, Rdio and Spotify. In August The original is ostensibly for children, and it has that shocking 2015 Burritt released his latest recording via YouTube featuring a video combination of danger and morality that many famous children’s stories album of J. S. Bach’s 5th Cello Suite performed on the marimba. With do. A poor young girl, whose father beats her, tries unsuccessfully to degrees from Ithaca College School of Music (BM – Education and sell matches on the street, is ignored, and freezes to death. Through it Performance), Kent State University (MM) and Northwestern University all she somehow retains her Christian purity of spirit, but it is not a (DMA), Burrett is currently Professor of Percussion and Director of pretty story. Percussion Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. What drew me to The Little Match Girl is that the strength of the story lies not in its plot but in the fact that all its parts—the horror and the Dianne Donovan, pre-concert speaker beauty—are constantly suffused with their opposites. The girl’s bitter Montreal-born Dianne Donovan lives and present is locked together with the sweetness of her past memories; loves music. As midday announcer on her poverty is always suffused with her hopefulness. There is a kind of KMFA-Classical 89.5, she shares her joy naive equilibrium between suffering and hope. and passion of classical music, along with interesting tidbits of information about the composers and their music. Her natural There is a kind of naive equilibrium curiosity in the artistic process serves her well, when she conducts both live interviews and between suffering and hope. those for the show she hosts, produces, and edits, %NCUUKECN#WUVKP A veteran broadcaster, Dianne still produces a jazz show for CKUA, in Canada. When she’s not talking music, There are many ways to tell this story. One could convincingly tell it as she’s singing it with: The Beat Divas, The Donovan/Watkins Duo, and a story about faith or as an allegory about poverty. What has always Ì iÀiÃiLiÃƂÕÃÌ°- iÜ>ÃÌ ivi>ÌÕÀi`Ã}iÀÜÌ º>ÀÞ interested me, however, is that Andersen tells this story as a kind ÕÌ >½Ã/ÀLÕÌiÌ>ÀÀÞ>iÃ-Þ« Þ*«Ã ViÀÌ]»Ü V of parable, drawing a religious and moral equivalency between the toured Canada and the U.S. and has sung on numerous Canadian suffering of the poor girl and the suffering of Jesus. The girl suffers, is television and radio programs. She has collaborated writing a theme ÃVÀi`LÞÌ iVÀÜ`]`iÃ]>`ÃÌÀ>Ãw}ÕÀi`°ÃÌ>ÀÌi`Ü`iÀ} for a television show and an animated short. Dianne has two jazz CDs what secrets could be unlocked from this story if one took its Christian to her credit and another in-the-making. She is a long-time fan of nature to its conclusion and unfolded it, as Christian composers have Conspirare and of Craig Hella Johnson. traditionally done in musical settings of the Passion of Jesus.
24 25 These responses can have a huge range—in Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, these extra texts range from famous chorales that his David Lang is one of the most highly-esteemed congregation was expected to sing along with to completely invented and performed American composers writing V >À>VÌiÀÃ]ÃÕV >ÃÌ iº >Õ} ÌiÀv<»>`Ì iº ÀÕÃv iiÛiÀð» The Passion format—the telling of a story while simultaneously today. His works have been performed around commenting upon it—has the effect of placing us in the middle of the the world in most of the great concert halls. action, and it gives the narrative a powerful inevitability.
Lang’s simple song #3, written as part of his score for Paolo Sorrentino’s >VV>i`wYOUTH, received many awards nominations in 2016, What drew me to The Little Match Girl is including the Academy Award and Golden Globe. that the strength of the story lies not in its plot but in the fact that all its parts—the His the little match girl passion won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music. Based on a fable by Hans Christian Andersen and Lang’s own rewriting horror and the beauty—are constantly of the libretto to Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, the recording of the suffused with their opposites. piece was awarded a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance. Lang has also been the recipient of the Rome Prize, Le Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and Musical America’s 2013 Composer of the Year. My piece is called The Little Match Girl Passion and it sets Hans Christian Andersen’s story The Little Match Girl in the format of Bach’s Saint Lang’s tenure as 2013-14 Debs Chair Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Matthew Passion, interspersing Andersen’s narrative with my versions of Hall saw his critically-acclaimed festival, collected stories, showcase the crowd and character responses from Bach’s Passion. The text is by me, different modes of storytelling in music. This season Lang sees the >vÌiÀÌiÝÌÃLÞ> ÀÃÌ>Ƃ`iÀÃi]°*°*>ÕÌ iwÀÃÌÌÀ>Ã>ÌÀv premiere of his chamber opera Anatomy Theatre at LA Opera, the 4th the story into English, in 1872), Picander (the nom de plume of Christian annual performance of the little match girl passion to the Metropolitan Friedrich Henrici, the librettist of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion), and the Museum of Art, the UK premieres of the national anthems with the ëi>VVÀ`}Ì->Ì >ÌÌ iÜ°/ iÜÀ`º«>ÃûViÃvÀ London Symphony and mystery sonatas at Wigmore Hall, as well as the Latin word for suffering. There is no Bach in my piece and there is no residencies at the Strings of Autumn Festival in Prague, the Winnipeg Jesus—rather the suffering of the Little Match Girl has been substituted New Music Festival, and Baldwin-Wallace College. for Jesus’s, elevating (I hope) her sorrow to a higher plane. Notes by David Lang, composer Lang’s music is used regularly for ballet and modern dance around the world by such choreographers as Twyla Tharp, Susan Marshall, Edouard Lock, and Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed a new piece by Lang vÀÌ i Ƃ >Vi*ÀiVÌ>Ì Ƃ Óä£{° >}½ÃwÜÀVÕ`iÃÌ i score for Jonathan Parker’s (Untitled), the music for the award-winning documentary The Woodmans, and the string arrangements for Requiem for a Dream, performed by the Kronos Quartet. His music is also on the soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning La Grande Bellezza >`Ì i`ÀiVÌÀ½ÃÕ«V}w]Youth. In addition to his work as a composer he is Professor of Composition at the Yale School of Music.
26 27 A composer and arranger, Johnson is an editor for the Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series, featuring specially selected composers as well as some of his own original compositions and arrangements. His music is also published by Alliance Music Publications. Johnson’s pieces are in high demand by choirs across the United States who also commis- sion his work. As Conspirare’s founder ýÃwÀÃÌVViÀÌi}Ì V«ÃÌConsidering Matthew and Artistic Director, Shepard was premiered and recorded by Conspirare for a 2016 CD Johnson assembles some release. The Bay Area Reporter ÜÀÌi\ºoÌ >ÃÌ iÀV iÃÃ]`i«Ì and complexity to compel repeated hearing…for all the musical styles vÌ`>Þ½ÃwiÃÌÃ}iÀà Johnson employs…it has a unity of conception and voice that is all to form a world-class Johnson’s. Considering Matthew Shepard is a deeply American piece, performed with utter dedication by performers for whom it ensemble. was composed. But its universality lies in the fact that it could be Johnson is also music director of the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble «iÀvÀi`LÞ>ÞÌ iÀÃq>`ÕÃÌLi]vÀ>ÕÀÃ>ið» and conductor emeritus of the Victoria Bach Festival. He has served as guest conductor with Austin Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Beloved by audiences, lauded by critics Oregon Bach Festival, Harvard University and many others in Texas, and composers, and revered by musicians, the U.S. and abroad. Through these activities, as well as Conspirare’s many recordings on the internationally distributed [PIAS]harmonia Johnson is known for crafting musical mundi label, Johnson brings national and international recognition to journeys that create deep connections the Texas musical community. between performer and listener.
Beloved by audiences, lauded by critics and composers, and revered by musicians, Johnson is known for crafting musical journeys that Johnson’s accomplishments have been recognized with numerous create deep connections between performer and listener. Johnson awards and honors. Notably among them, he and Conspirare won is recognized for his distinctive programming, drawing on a broad a 2014 Grammy® for Best Choral Performance, Chorus America spectrum of musical styles to create vibrant concert experiences. granted him the Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of The Wall Street Journal >ëÀ>Ãi` ýÃ>LÌÞ̺w`Ì i the Professional Choral Art in 2015, and the Texas State Legislature iÌ>iÃÃiViÌ iÀ«iÀvÀiÀÃvÌiÃð» «ÃiÀ>` named him Texas State Musician for 2013. Other honors have included V>LÀ>ÌÀ,LiÀÌ ÞÀ >ÃLÃiÀÛi`Ì >̺ À>}½Ã>ÌÌÌÕ`iÌÜ>À` 2008 induction into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, Chorus America’s creating a community of artists…goes beyond technical mastery into 2009 Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Ì >ÌiÌ>`i«Ì >`ëÀÌÕ>vivÌ iÕÃV°» ÃÜ>à Zeal, and the 2011 Citation of Merit from international professional Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas at Austin from music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon. Johnson studied at St. Olaf College, 1990-2001 and remains an active educator, teaching workshops and the Juilliard School, and the University of Illinois, and earned his clinics statewide, nationally, and internationally. In fall 2012 he became doctorate at Yale University. Ì iwÀÃÌƂÀÌÃÌ,iÃ`iVi>Ì/iÝ>Ã-Ì>Ìi1ÛiÀÃÌÞ-V v ÕÃV°
28 29 for Best Choral Performance in 2016. The group’s recent release of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard went straight to number vÕÀÌ i L>À`/À>`Ì> >ÃÃV>V >ÀÌÌÃwÀÃÌÜii° ÕÀ«i] [PIAS] harmonia mundi’s international re-release of Requiem in 2009 won the Netherlands’ prestigious 2010 Edison Award, the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy. Path of Miracles, 2015, was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, a highly respected German CD award.
Conspirare received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from the national service organization Chorus America in 2005, and in 2007 a grant was received from the National Endowment for the Arts under its American Masterpieces initiative. In 2010 the organization received the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America to fund and premiere a new work by Eric Banks.
Conspirare represented the U.S. at the Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen in 2008, joining invited choirs from nearly Conspirare is an internationally 40 countries. In fall 2012, the group traveled to France for six invited performances at the Polyfollia Festival and a public concert in Paris. ÀiV}âi`]«ÀviÃÃ>V À> And in July 2016, Olavfestdagene presented the group to premiere À}>â>ÌÜÌÃÓ{Ì Ãi>ð a new work at the annual festival in Trondheim, Norway. i`LÞvÕ`iÀ>`ƂÀÌÃÌV ÀiVÌÀ À>}i> Ã]Ì iy>}à « ensemble Conspirare is a Grammy® award-winning chamber choir of The group’s recent release of Craig Hella Johnson’s extraordinarily talented soloists from around the country who come Considering Matthew Shepard went straight to together to perform an annual concert series in Texas and to tour in the U.S. and abroad. Also comprising the organization are the Conspirare number four on the Billboard Traditional Classical Symphonic Choir, a large ensemble that performs works for chorus, often chart in its first week. with instrumental ensemble, and Conspirare Youth Choirs, an educational program including Prelude, Kantorei, and Allegro under the direction of Nina Revering. Conspirare has performed in New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis/ Conspirare has an international recording presence. The group’s 2014 St. Paul, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, and many other U.S. cities, album The Sacred Spirit of Russia, released on the [PIAS] harmonia including appearances as a featured choir at the American Choral mundi label, won the 2014 Grammy for Best Choral Performance. The Directors Association annual conference and regional ACDA conventions. ensemble’s complete discography to date includes 12 commercial albums and 15 self-produced live recordings of its popular holiday concerts. Established in Austin, TX in 1991 as New Texas Music Festival, Conspirare now performs a full annual season in Austin and Central / i}ÀÕ«½ÃwÀÃÌViÀV>ÀiVÀ`}]through the green fuse, was Texas where it has received ongoing recognition from local organizations released in 2004 and was followed in 2006 by Requiem which received and critics, including Austin Critic’s Table. Artistic Director Craig Hella two Grammy nominations. In 2008 Threshold of Night (music by Johnson was named Texas State Musician for 2013. In addition to offering Tarik O’Regan) also received two nominations, including Best Classical concerts, the group is also committed to an ongoing outreach program Album. The 2009 PBS television special “A Company of Voices: which includes free community Big Sings and performances at Travis Conspirare in Concert” received the Grammy nomination for Best County Correctional Facility. Conspirare became a Resident Company Classical Crossover, and Pablo Neruda: The Poet Sings was nominated of the Long Center for the Performing Arts in 2013.
30 31 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARTISTIC & ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Season Sustaining Underwriter & Performance Sponsor Fran Collmann, Chair Craig Hella Johnson Robert Harlan, Vice Chair Artistic Director
Larry Collmann, Treasurer Roland Barrera William C. Bednar, Secretary Conspirare Concierge Ken Beck Performance Sponsors Mary Anne Connolly Tamara Blanken Susanna Finnell Online Services Manager Nancy Lesch Jerele Neeld Kelly Brownlee Ozden Ochoa Director of Foundation Relations & Marion Lear Swaybill Annual Giving
Joni Wallace Wendi & Brian Kushner Jeanne & Van Hoisington Patrick Willis Rick Gabrillo Associate Conductor Foundation Supporters
ADVISORY BOARD Wravan Godsoe -QFQUM[(QWPFCVKQP5JKGNF#[TGU(QWPFCVKQP Stephen Aechternacht "vwVi >>}iÀ Rachael & Ben Vaughan Foundation Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation John Aielli Keating Family Foundation Still Water Foundation Sue Barnes Robert Harlan Eva & Marvin Womack Foundation Mark Bierner Production Consultant Ray Brimble Restaurant Partners David Burger Deborah Henderson >Û` >y Conspirare Youth Choir Manager Tom Driskoll Ben R. King Virginia Dupuy Public Agency Sponsors Production Assistant Maydelle Fason Supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department JoLynn Free Meri Krueger Billy Gammon Artist Relations Vance George Helen Hays Kathy Leighton Dan Herd House Manager William B. Hilgers Media Sponsors Wayne Holtzman Ann McNair Judith Jellison Acting Operations Director & Bob Murphy Executive Assistant to the Artistic Lynn Murphy Director In-Kind Sponsors Cliff Redd Gayle Glass Roche Jane Ramirez Sessi, Business Manager Chamberlain Nancy Scanlan Angela Smith Nina Revering Outreach Partner Bernadette Tasher Conspirare Youth Choirs Director Louann Temple Eva Womack Meredith Thomas Midge Woolsey Director of Development 32 33 We thank each individual, foundation, business, government & city agency K’andrea Bickerstaff Megan & Stephen Mulva for your investment in Conspirare and in our mission to change lives through Mark Bierner Eric Neuville the power of music. This list represents gifts made between July 1, 2015 – Ann & Jeff Bomer Sylvia Noteware Vera Ayres Bowen Delisa & Ron Pettit September 15, 2016. When we make music, we make it together. 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