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Special Event: Ithaca College Nineteenth Annual Choral Composition Contest

Ithaca College Choir

Lawrence Doebler

Ithaca College Choral Union

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ITHACA COLLEGE NINETEENTH ANNUAL CHORAL COMPOSITION CONTEST

SPONSORED JOINTLY BY ITHACA COLLEGE AND THEODORE PRESSER COMPANY

The goals for this project are to encourage the creation and performance of new choral music and to establish the Ithaca College Choral Series.

To achieve these objectives, scores from the United States, Canada and Europe were received. Five were chosen for performance this evening.

This year Ithaca College commissioned Robert Maggio to write a choral piece for the festival. This composition Aristotle will be premiered by the Ithaca College Choir.

Previously commissioned works:

1979 Vincent Persichetti Magnificat and NuncDimittis 1980 Samuel Adler Two Shelley Songs 1981 KarelHusa Every Day 1982 William Schuman Esses 1983 Dan Locklair Break Away 1984 Eugene Butler Eternity and Time 1985 Iain Hamilton The Convergence 1986 Ellen Taafe Zwilich Thanksgiving Song 1987 Richard Wernick The Eleventh Commandment 1988 Peter Schickele Songs I Taught My Mother 1989 Thomas Pasatieri Three Mysteries for Chorus 1990 Norman Dello Joio The Quest 1991 Augusta R. Thomas Sanctus 1992 Norman Dello Joio Songs of Memory* 1993 Ronald Caltabiano Metaphor 1994 Thea Musgrave On The Underground 1995 Daniel Pinkham Passion Music 1996 Daniel Asia purer than purest pure 1997 Chen Yi Spring Dreams ( *Centennial Commission ) ITHACA COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION

President-Peggy Williams Provost-James Malek Dean, School of Music-Arthur E. Ostrander Associate Dean, School of Music-Jamal Rossi Coordinator of Music Admissions-Graham Stewart

PRELIMINARY JUDGES LAWRENCE DOEBLER-Professor of Choral Music JANET GALVAN-Professor of Music Education and Choral Conductor

FINAL JUDGES JANET GALVAN ARTHUR E. OSTRANDER-Dean, School of Music WILLIAM PELTO-Associate Professor of Theory DANA WILSON-Dana Professor of Music Theory and Composition GREGORY WOODWARD-Professor of Music Theory and Compostition

VOICE FACULTY Randie Blooding Deborah Montgomery Angus Godwin David Parks Jean Loftus Patrice Pastore Carol McAmis Beth Ray Richard McCullough

CHORAL FACULTY Lawrence Doebler Choir, Madrigals Janet Galvan Women's Chorale Jeffrey Gemmel Chorus Lauri Robinson-Keegan Vocal Jazz Ensemble

CHORAL STAFF Bill DeMetsenaere Choral Secretary Jennifer Haywood Graduate Coordinator BIOGRAPHIES

Robert Maggio was born in New Jersey on January 8, 1964. Robert Maggio began piano studies at age 7, started composing at 15, and completed a one-act musical comedy the following year. He began private study of music theory and composition at 17, graduated magm• cum laude with honors in music from Yale University in 1986, and subsequently received Master's and Doctorate degrees in Music Composition from the University of Pennsylvania. His teachers included Jonathan Berger, George Crumb, Michael Friedman, Jay Reise, Chinary Ung and Richard Wernick.

Published by Theodore Presser Company, Maggio's music has been commissioned and performed by musicians and organizations including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Oakland East Bay Symphony, New York Festival of Song, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Aspen Music Festival, American Dance Festival, New York Youth Symphony, Lincoln Center Out-of- Doors Festival, Detroit Chamber Winds, Meridian Arts Ensemble, National Orchestral Association, Yale Repertory Theater, Philadelphia Drama Guild, New York Theater Workshop, Villanova Theater, NYU Theater Program, Stephen Pelton Dance Company, 'I violinist Scott St. John, cellist John Koen and flutist Bart Feller. ~

Maggio has received awards, grants, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, BMI, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Barlow Endowment, American Music Center, the Beams Prize, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerasst Resident Artists Program, West Chester University, and the Pennsylvania State System of higher Education.

In March 1998, Maggio received a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation for 1998-99. During this time, he will be collaborating on a new dance work with choreographer Leah Stein and Network for New Music in Philadelphia, to be premiered in Spring 1999. Robert Maggio lives in Media, Pennsylvania and is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition in the School of Music at Chester University. His music can be heard on the CRI label.

THOMAS BROIDO is currently president of Theodore Presse. Company. );

ARNOLD BROIDO Currently chairman of the board at the Theodore Presser Company, Mr. Broido is a graduate of Ithaca College and Teacher's College, Columbia University and was recently granted an honorary doctorate degree from Ithaca College. LAWRENCE DOEBLER Mr. Doebler is the Director of Choral Activities and a Professor of Music at Ithaca College. He formerly taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Smith College. He has received awards for research and teaching excellence from the University of Wisconsin and Ithaca College. As an active clinician and guest conductor, Mr. Doebler has appeared throughout eastern and mid-western states.

RAY BONO was born in Brooklyn in 1953 and received his B.A. in French from the University at Albany. In upstate New York he has worked in a variety of capacities for performing arts companies, from stage manager, operations director and librarian for the Albany Symphony Orchestra to Public Relations Director for the Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts, and he has acted in several plays, most recently in the Manhattan premiere of John Linley's Bruised. In music he has been a copyist, lyricist and arranger, has composed a few choral pieces (one of which placed second at Ithaca in 1990) and chamber works and has provided incidental music to a few stage productions.

BRIAN HOMLES received a PhD in experimental low temperature physics from Boston University. He has been a member of the Physics Department of San Jose State University since 1983. His research interests included the physics of music, physics and sports, and science education. He has served as president of the Northern California section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

He studied horn with Harry Shapiro in Boston, and has performed with the San Jose Symphony and Opera San Jose. He is active as a composer and arranger. Many of his arrangements for chorus and brass have been performed and recorded by Revel, Inc. His voice and piano arrangements are featured in I Have a Song to Sing, 0, by John Langstaff, published by MacMillan. His carol I Saw a Fair Maiden was recently published by Thorpe Music of Boston. He has composed a variety of additional works, including the opera One Shepherd Stayed Behind and The Trumpet and other songs, a song cycle for tenor and orchestra.

KEVIN OLSEN teaches theory, electronic music, and classical and jazz piano at Elmhurts College near Chicago, Illinois. In addition to being an active composer, pianist, and teacher, Kevin maintains a large piano studio with students of all ages and abilities. A native of Utah, Kevin began composing at age five. When he was twelve, his composition, An American Trainride, received Overall First Prize at the 1983 national PTA Convention at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then he has written, among other things, a piano concerto, music for three short films, and a big band jazz piece which was featured at the Rich Matteson Jazz Camp in Telluride, Colorado. He was named one of the Composers in Residence at the 1992 National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, an award he received for two piano compositions.

Kevin has published pieces with Frederick Harris Company and Kjos Music. He is currently an exclusive writer for the FJH Music Company in Miami, Florida. He has taught at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California and was a graduate instructor at Brigham Young University, where he received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Composition.

JONATHAN SANTORE is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. Before moving to New England, he held teaching positions at Occidental College, California State University, Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota. He holds degrees from Duke University, The University of Texas at Austin, and UCLA, and has studied composition with Stephen Jaffe, Eugene Kurtz, Donald Grantham, and William Kraft.

Santore has won several scholarships, fellowships, and awards for his compositions (including a finalist performance in the 1995 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest), and has conducted performances of his own works in the United States and Europe; his work has been recorded by California's Octagon New Music Ensemble. His commissions list includes works for multiple piano ensemble (published by Manduca Music), and numerous choral compositions, including tonight's pieces, part of a larger group of settings of Native American poetry, The Whole World Is Coming. Santore is also active as a music theorist and singer.

BRUCE TRINKLEY is Professor of Music at Penn State University where he teaches composition and orchestration and conducts the Penn State Glee Club. He received degrees in composition from Columbia University, studying with Otto Luening, Jack Beeson and Charles Wuorinen. The composer of incidental music, songs and choruses for ' theatre and dance productions at Penn State, he has written extensively for choral ensembles, including more than 200 arrangements of folk songs, spirituals and popular songs for various ensembles. His theatre works include four operas, a ballad opera, two operettas, two musical comedies, and a rock cantata. Professor Trinkley's music has been performed in the United States, Europe, Australia and, most recently, in China. Santa Rosalia, a cantata inspire by paintings of the Colombian artist Fernando Botero, was filmed for broadcast on PBS. Eve's Odds, a comic biblical opera, premiered at Penn State and will be reprised in Virginia. The Castalia Trio commissioned Cold Mountain, a piano trio, for their concert tour of China in May 1998. In Almost July is one of over sixty choral settings from Mountain Laurels, a choral symphony on texts by Pennsylvania poets.

Trinkley's choral works are published by Oxford University Press, Augsburg Fortress, Lawson-Gould, Music 70, GIA, Hinshaw, and G. Schirmer. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FORD HALL AUDITORIUM

10:00 - Welcome Arthur E. Ostander, Dean

10:10 - Concert

Ithaca High School Choir Arthur Loomis, conductor

Waterloo High School Varsity Ensemble Susan A very, conductor

West Genesee High School Chorale David Norman, conductor

Coming West High School Occidentals Lorrene Adams, conductor

Palmyra Macedon Select Choir Ann G. Beaucage, conductor OPEN REHEARSALS OF THE EVENING PROGRAM

11:15 (Janet Galvan Vocal Technique - IRR; Madrigal Workshop at Hill Center #58- for Ithaca and Coming)

11:15 Palmyra-Macedon Select Choir Ann G. Beaucage Trailing Clouds of Glory Kevin Olson

11:35 West Genesee High School Chorale David Norman Round and Round Ray Bono

11:55 Waterloo High School Varsity Ensemble Susan Avery Let Evening Come Brian Holmes

1:45 (Janet Galvan Vocal Technique - IRR; Madrigal Workshop at Hill Center #58- for Palmyra-Macedon, Waterloo and West Genesee)

1:45 Coming West High Occidentals Lorrene Adams From The Whole World is Coming Jonathan Santore Creek Cradle Song House Song to the East (Navajo)

2:05 Ithaca High School Choir Arthur Loomis In Almost July Bruce Trinkley

2:25 End of Rehearsals and Workshop

2:40 Ithaca College Women's Chorale Janet Galvan Rehearsal Demonstration

3:25 Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler Movement Demonstration

3:50 Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler Introduction of Aristotle Robert Maggio

4:15 All Festival Choirs Rehearsal Ezekiel Saw De Wheel arr. by Wm. Dawson ITHACA COLLEGE AND THEODORE PRESSER COMPANY

PRESENT

THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL CHORAL COMPOSITION CONTEST AND FESTIVAL CONCERT

PROGRAM

IN ALMOST JULY Bruce Trinkley text by Deborah Austin from The Paradise of the World (1964)

Ithaca High School Choir Martin Borbat, pianist Arthur Loomis, conductor

This is the edge - have fallen off the edge into a green of summer; all the trees bushing, like ill-tossed salads, and a frowse of poppies tangled in the next door grass; roses; and children run on knobbly legs toward evening - hit each other with croquet mallets; the backyards full of tears, and screendoors slam on victims running to Tell. Oh yes, from now till into August, after supper someone takes a bad-tempered power mower to walk, growling and spitting down between the hedges in aqueous light under the spinach trees. Peonies loll, blowsy in cool pink silk - after a shower sometimes they cry real tears, round and pathetic, but not very sad. A cockney robin in a business suit bustles alertly: he is Getting the Worm, and knows it. Nobody else wants to, this weather. This, he does not know. Watching him work is mint and lemon for the iced-tea mood of this particular raga. LET EVENING COME Brian Holmes text by Jane Kenyon (1990)

Waterloo High School Varsity Ensemble Susan Avery, conductor

ROUND AND ROUND Ray Bono text by Christina Rossetti West Genesee High School Chorale David Norman, conductor

TRAILING CLOUDS OF GLORY Kevin Olson text by William Wordsworth Palmyra-Macedon Select Choir Ann G. Beaucage, conductor

CREEK CRADLE SONG Jonathan Santore HOUSE SONG TO THE EAST (Navajo) Four Native American Poems from The Whole World is Coming

Coming West High School Occidentals Lorrene Adams, conductor

INTERMISSION

ARISTOTLE* Robert Maggio poem by Billy Collins

Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler, Conductor

This is the beginning. Almost anything can happen here. This is where you find the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land, the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page. Think of an egg, the letter A, a woman ironing on a bare stage as the heavy curtain rises. This is the very beginning. The first-person narrator introduces himself, tells us about his lineage. The mezzo-soprano stands in the wings. . . Here the climbers are studying a map or pulling on their long woolen socks. This is early on, years before the Ark, dawn. The profile of an animal is being smeared on the wall of a cave, and you have not yet learned to crawl. This is the opening, the gambit, a pawn moving forward an inch. This is your first night with her, your first night without her. This is the first part where the wheels begin to tum, where the elevator begins its ascent, before the doors lurch apart.

This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore. Cities have sprouted up along the rivers teeming with people at cross-purposes - a million schemes, a million wild looks. Disappointment shoulders his knapsack here and pitches his ragged tent. This is the sticky part where the plot congeals, where the action suddenly reverses or swerves off in an outrageous direction. Here the narrator devotes a long paragraph to why Miriam does not want Edward's child. Someone hides a letter under a pillow. Here the aria rises to a pitch, a song of betrayal, salted with revenge. And the climbing party is stuck on a ledge halfway up the mountain. So much is crowded into the middle - the guitars of Spain, piles of ripe avocados, Russian uniforms, noisy parties, lakeside kisses, arguments h_eard through a wall - too much to name, too much to think about. And this is the end, the car running out of road, the river losing its name in an ocean, the long nose of the photographed horse touching the white electronic line. This is the last colophon, the last elephant in the parade, the empty wheelchair, and pigeons floating down in the evening. Here the stage is littered with bodies, the narrator leads the characters back to their cells, and the climbers are in their graves. It is me hitting the period and you closing the book. It is Sylvia Plath in the kitchen and St. Clement with an anchor around his neck. This is the final bit thinning away to nothing. This is the end, according to Aristotle, what we have all been waiting for, what everything comes down to, the destination we cannot help imagining, a streak a light in the sky, a hat on a peg, and outside the cabin, falling leaves.

Note from the poet Aristotle arose out of reading Aristotle's Poetics, where he annunciates for the first time a notion very common to us, which is that a literary work has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Program Note by the Composer Billy Collins' poem "Aristotle" delighted me the first time I heard it because I've always been fascinated by form and its relationship to content. As Collins' poem is about, among other things, structure, I felt compelled to write music that approaches form in a "unconventionally" conventional way: the forms of my pieces often grow out of the content; in Collins "Aristotle" the content of the poem is form, so the musical form grows out of a poetic discussion of form. The music of the first section is all about ideas beginning, taking shape, never quite reaching fruition - because "almost anything can happen." The music of the second section revels in creating tension in various ways, mainly through increasing dissonance in the harmony and chord relationships. The final section offers various resolutions, winding downs, ways of coming to rest. EZEKIEL SAW DE WHEEL arr. by William Dawson

Combined Festival Choirs and Ithaca College Choral Union Lawrence Doebler, conductor

Announcement of the Contest Winners Arthur E. Ostrander, Dean

*World Premiere

Ford Hall Auditorium November 14, 1998 7:00 p.m. CORNING WEST HIGH SCHOOL OCCIDENTALS Acting Superintendent: Michael Bracy Principal: Andrea Schmook.ler President, Board of Education: Dr. Robert Cole

LORRENE ADAMS is currently the Vocal Music Director at Corning ~ West High School where she teaches three choirs, voice class, music theory and is Musical Director for the annual school musical. Lorrene received her Bachelor of Music degree from Clarion State University and a Master of Music degree from Ithaca College. Lorrene is the Director of Music at St.Paul's United Methodist Church in Ithaca and is the founder and director of the Ithaca Opera Chorus Ensemble. She maintains membership in ACDA, MENC, NYSSMA, and NYSCDG and guest conducts in New York and Pennsylvania.

Soprano I Soprano II Alto I Jillian Owdienko Amy Lange Kati Miller Amber Rhyne Amanda Pickles Jill Test

Alto II Bass I Bass II Karen Earley Joe Demeritt Ethen Fenn Kelly McCarthy Kurt Moon Marcus Hill Lizzie McCaslin Michael Ruger Nathan Wilson

Tenor I Tenor II Accompanist Chris Gieselman Chris Earley Amy Lange John Ryall Andy Morehouse ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL Fine Arts Facilitator: Holly Kazarinoff Principal: Susan B. Strauss Superintendent: Judith Pastel President of the Board of Education: Steve Shiffrin

ARTHUR LOOMIS is originally from Auburn, New York. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Susquehanna University and his Master's Degree at Ithaca College where he was the Graduate Assistant for the Chorus and the Voice Class program. Art taught for two years at the Maine-Endwell Schools before coming to Ithaca High School where he has been teaching for 15 years.

Mr. Loomis directs the Choir, Madrigal Singers and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. His teaching duties include Music Theory and Music In Our Lives. He is the Vocal Director for the annual Spring Musical Production. Mr. Loomis is a member of NYSSMA and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia professional music fraternity.

Personnel Katie Ambis Sydney Friedlander Helena Mica Sara Anderson Kat Graves Caitlin Moss Mark Axtell Ashley Gregg Leanne Peck Mara Baldwin Rebekka Grohn Alice Peters } Jade Ann Benetatos Yu Gu Emily Preston Jay Benjamin Sonya Harper Jessica Robertson Melissa Bergman Kristin Hoffman Paul Ruane Renee Boisvert Hanne Johnson Mike Schmidt Emile Bokaer Nick Kampman Jackie Seely Doug Booth Sarah Kavanagh Brian Sforzo Sarah Booth Hayley Kleitz Debbie Smith Lyndsay Caldwell Hannah Kohut Esi Sogah Melissa Castillo-Garsow Dan Lane Becca Spiro Dan Collins Sara Laurentz Justin Stewart Taylor Cookingham Jennie Lavine Rachel Stipanuk Chenda Cope Megan Lemley Matt Stucky Abby Corson-Rikert Amanda Lisenby Yoko Takebayashi Dhanya Dass Brian Lowe Kim Terry Saba Deyhim Abby MacBain Jessie Thaler Elizabeth Dimant Larissa Maestro-Scherer Lesley Vidler Kathey Doolittle Sara Mateer Caitlin Warner Sheila Dvorak Andrew McCullough Ivy Whipple Christina Ellerbrock Tristan Meador Hannah Wilhelm Jeff Faraday Julia Meinwald Carrie Williams Kyle Franklin Melissa Melton Danika Wood PALMYRA-MACEDON SELECT CHOIR District Superintendent: Dr. James Tobin President of the School Board: Mr. David Husk High School Executive Principal: Mr. Earl Mehlenbacher

ANN BEAUCAGE is Choral Director at Palmyra-Macedon High """' School. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Crane School of Music, Potsdam. Mrs. Beaucage was the 1990 recipient of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Outstanding Choral Conductor Award. Her Select Choir has earned top New York State Competition Festival ratings in level VI for many years. The Select Choir has sung with the Rochester Philharmonic and has given choral demonstrations at the NYSSMA Winter Conference in 1993 and 1997. For twelve summers Mrs. Beaucage was on the faculty of the Saratoga- Potsdam Choral Institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she taught conducting and choral methods. Mrs. Beaucage has guest- conducted Area-All State Choruses, All-County Choruses, and music festivals in New York State. Mrs. Beaucage is a member of the Executive Board of the New York State Choral Directors Guild and has served on the board of the New York State Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. She is Chairperson of Vocal Solos for the NYSSMA Manual.

Personnel Bobbie Anne Abson Joelle Deisenroth Jennifer Plumley Jeryl Aman ToddDeRue Sarah Prizzi Cory Ainsworth Shannon Farrell Christian Pulcini Alison Baretsky James Fischette Chad Rhinewald Carol Bell Sarah Herendeen Beth Shaw Michelle Breitkopf Brooke Hood David Smith Emily Burr Shad Johnson Kenneth Springer Peter Bush Laura Kassel Molly Stockman Jordan Case Jeremy Lane Allison Tome Catherine Contino Thomas Miller Adam Vrubel Kelli Cunningham Michelle Nickell Corrine Wiederhold Ann DeAngelo Daniel O'Meal DawnZegers WATERLOO HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY ENSEMBLE Principal: Mr. Edward Maguire Superintendent: Dr. Randy Bos President, Board of Education: Mrs. Victoria Bauder-Rivet

SUSAN AVERY is the director of vocal ensembles and department chair of the Waterloo High School. She received her BM from the Eastman School of Music, MM from Ithaca College and is currently a PhD candidate in Music Education at Eastman, where she was awarded the Curtis Peck Award for excellence in college teaching. She conducts honors and All-County Choruses throughout New York State, judges solo vocal and All-State Vocal Jazz as well as choral major organizations for the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) and gives clinics and workshops on the local, state and national levels in field of music education. Her men's ensemble Just Us was chosen to be the opening performing ensemble at the New York State School Boards Association's state convention in October. Mrs. Avery's choral ensembles consistently receive high awards at festivals and her students participate in all levels of local, state, and national ensembles. Susan is currently serving as High School Classroom chair for NYSSMA.

Personnel Soprano Alto Tenor Ashley Breese Ashleigh Boise Matthew Craig Katie Brennan Morgan Craig Francis Jennex Lisa Duprey Lindsay Dinan David Krenzer Sarah Gardner Paula Dom Kyle Lathrop Tanya Goff Crystal Nash Daniel Mack Heather Hoehn Vicki Nienast Shawn Mooneyhan Rene LaBelle Devin Pacitto Bryan Norcott Jessica Loncosky Kim Parsons Kerry Radka Stacey Patrick Bass Erin Sigrist Pam Peterson Chad Bourne Jamie Stobie Jaime Smith Michael Grillone Sonia Swanson Craig Landschoot Megan Turner Cliff Mason Sandy Wilcox Mike VanDeventer Justin Woodhouse WEST GENESEE HIGH SCHOOL Superintendent of Schools: Dr. Rudolph C. Rubeis President, Board of Education: David A. Paczkowski Principal, West Genesee High School: Helen Q. White Director of Fine Arts: Stephen W. Miles

..¥: DAVID NORMAN has taught chorus, voice and theory at West Genesee High School since 1987. From 1995-1997 he was district Interim Director of Fine Arts. He has also taught in Schenectady and Carthage, New York.

Mr. Norman's West Genesee singers have performed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Youth Orchestra. The Chorale has earned NYSSMA's ratings of Gold, With Distinction, and has performed at the NYSSMA Winter Conference.

Mr. Norman has been a recipient of the Syracuse Symphony Outstanding Musician Award in choral music. He has guest conducted festival choruses throughout central New York. He is a graduate of the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam and holds graduate degrees from SUNY Albany and SUNY Oswego. He lives with his wife and three children in Baldwinsville, New York, where he is organist at the First Presbyterian Church.

Personnel Women Holly Burbank Tina Intze Shannon Strode! Karen Calabrese Heather Kenny Meghann Tracy Lindsay Corbett Allison Kenny Val Trouesdale Laura Corso Katie Lemos Renee Vogelsang Lauren Derrigo Rachel Maksut Laurie V olles Sandy Gasparini Misty Marris Fanny Yuen Kelly Gresham Jennifer Stepien

Men Shane Donahoe Eric Lind Greg Osier Mike Gibson Kevin McCoy Kevin Shay Sean Hamilton Bobb McNamara Bill Storie Pat Keams Tim Morse Mark Sunheimer ·)1att Lake Brian Olejarczyk ITHACA COLLEGE CHOIR Lawrence Doebler, conductor Jennifer Haywood, graduate assistant

Soprano I Tenor I Tina Batchelder-Schwab Brian Bohrer Carla Cosentine Dominick Rodriguez Meredith Ellis Blake Siskavich Erica Grieshaber Jeffrey Smith Lisa Kisselstein Cory Walker Jaime Reynolds Tenor II Soprano II William DeMetsenae:re Meaghan Boeing Paul Fowler Beth Faust Shawn Puller Jennifer Haywood Tim Reno Julie Jacobs Ronald Smith Jennifer Piazza Lucia Sanchez Baritone Benjamin Berry Alto I Kevin Doherty Stacey Atwell-Keister Gerard Gombatto Adriana Lomysh Matthew Hoch Adrienne Lovell Eric Lawrence Kathleen O'Connor Antonio Serrano Joan Stafford Emily Weiland Bass II Lucas Hibbard Alto II Jermaine Hill Schuyler Aldrich Ross Mizrahi Keri Behan Eric Toyama Jennifer Caruana Marc Webster Nicole Hambleton James Wheal Amanda Tafel Kerry Watkins ITHACA COLLEGE MADRIGAL SINGERS Lawrence Doebler, conductor

Soprano I Tenor I Carla Cosentine Jeffrey Smith Jaime Reynolds Tim Reno

Soprano II Tenor II Meaghan Boeing Bill DeMetsenaere Julie Jacobs Shawn Puller

Alto I Baritone Stacey Atwell-Keister Ben Berry Kathleen O'Connor Matthew Hoch

Alto II Bass Jennifer Caruana Kevin Doherty Kerry Watkins Marc Webster ITHACA COLLEGE CHORUS Jeffrey S. Gemmell, conductor

Soprano I Soprano II (cont'd) Kristin Arnold Meghan Raboin Julie Bickford Stacy Reckert Heidi Carrier Laura Roy Sarah Dewey Jennifer Ryan Kris Czerwiak Alison Shorter Amanda Goodman Jill Trask Liz Greenblatt Mary Walker Erinn Hibbard Heather Wallace Stacia J amoski Kristina Westin Rose Jensen Danielle White MeganJonynas Natasha Zajac Rebecca Luks Lauren Zito Kathleen McNulty Elizabeth O'Brien Alto I Emily Phillips Bonnie Brumbaugh Caroline Rodriguez Cassandra Conover Danielle Santiago Kate Donnelly Nikki Schwarz Amanda Ecker Callie Shrader Annemarie Edmonds Keira Sullivan Jennifer Frederick Andrea Vaioli Kim Klockars Vanessa Velez Kristin Latini Laryssa Zuber Juliana Mancantelli Katherine Mason Soprano II Hannah McKeown Pam Alexander-DeRoche Jane Moores Elizabeth Battaglia Alissa Nanna Leah Carroll Lisa O'Neil Michelle Free Christine Riley Jennifer Gallien Kristin Sharkey Jennifer Graham Tracey Snyder Sandy Hales Victoria Spaulding Jennifer Lafountain Christine Sweitzer Catherine Lake Andrea Vojtisek JenniferMacLeman Amanda Whitten Suzanne O'Gara Amy Yaremczak Angela Ortiz Laura Pratt Alto II Tenor II Victoria Alaimo Brian Armstrong Marjorie Amatulli Thomas Austin Sonja Bode Erling Bemer Barbara Brenner Kerry Cleary Amanda Curry Christopher Desjardins Kelly Davie Christopher Franklin Laurel Feldman Sam Guberman Kim Grizzaffi Peter Kincaid Dara Kahkonen Dominic Rozzi Andrea Kraynak Tom Sicilia Cori Laurino Joseph Stillitano Laura Leuter Michael Sulzman Tori Lillie Daniel Tillapaugh Lindsey MacNab Edwin Vega Chama Mamlok Adriana Marallo Baritone ,, Toni Musnicki Andrew Adamski :.ti) Kimberly Schaeffer Jeremy Barbaro Corinne Sigel Adam Baritot Jennifer Siracusa Adam Berkowitz Nina Sutcliffe Andrew Brandon Therese Yagy Jeff Brownscheidle Yuko Yamamoto Brian Cassagnol Daniel Coe Tenor I Miles Johnson Ryan Ainsworth Nathan Kaiser David Blazier Seth Kellam Andrew Chugg Kevin Lash Greg Crystal Mike Lippert Conner Earl Edward Montoya Anthony Femino Michael Popplewell Justin Gamble Keith Reeves Brian Hertz James Roumeles Tallon Larham .) Anthony Maiese Samuel Tisdale Mathew Pelliccia Blair Walsh Daniel Tracy Robert Winans Mark Wurtzel ITHACA COLLEGE WOMEN'S CHORALE Janet Galvan, conductor Jennifer Haywood, graduate assistant Rachael Allen, assistant conductor Amanda Capone, Stephanie Kane, Emily Rider, Mihyun Yum, accompanists

Soprano I Soprano II - Alto I Sarah Bartolome Amanda Capone Sharon Costianes Elizabeth Pallesen Lauren Dragan Jessica Julin Sarah Knauf Carrie MacDonald Kristen Robinson Elizabeth Sullivan Allison Yeager Soprano I-II Theresa Andersen Alto I Heather Barmore Nicole Asel Maria Biffer Erin Finn Ann Chrastina Michele George Allyson Clark Lauren Pokroy AlysonCury Emily Rider Amy Hayner MihyunYum Meagan Johnson L Elizabeth Karam Alto I-II Johanna Kiley Meredith Allen Michelle Lorenz Amanda Blamble Sabrina Martin Rosemarie Flores Elizabeth Getlik Christine Pratt Stephanie Kane Angela Ramacci Jeanette Kolb Sonia Rodriguez Toni Ann Mancuso Margaret Schniepp Tiffany Rahrig Mary-Lynn Sindoni Deana Saada Elizabeth Ulmer Rebecca Sach Bora Yoon Heather Tryon

Soprano II Alto II Teresa D'Amico Rachael Allen Aimee Davis Emily Berg Elizabeth Gerbi Aimee Dollard Sarah Pechulis Rebecca Masters Jennifer Pertgen Lauren Quigley Amy Sanchez Beth Scalonge Elisa Sciscioli Jaime Schlosser Brittany Sawdon THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Ithaca College's School of Music enjoys a reputation as a pre-eminent institution for professional music study in the United States. A celebrated faculty teaches some 450 undergraduate music majors each year, maintaining the ,,_ conservatory tradition within a comprehensive college setting. Inside the School of Music reside specialists in virtually every orchestra and band instrument; in voice, piano, organ, and guitar; and in music education, jazz, composition, theory, history and conducting. Ithaca's music professors perform regularly on campus and throughout the country in recitals and concerts, contribute to professional publications and organizations, and make presentations at numerous conferences and workshops every year.

But what really distinguishes the Ithaca College School of Music faculty is the combination of impressive credentials and dedication to teaching students- fostering their learning, developing their talent, transforming them into trained professionals ready to participate in the strongest school systems, the best graduate schools, and the finest orchestras, opera companies and other arts organizations. Students who enroll in the School of Music already are dedicated musicians who want to study with the best. From Ithaca's unique environment, where caring faculty require excellent musicianship and performance, students ~ emerge ready to make the most of their abilities.

The stature of the Ithaca College School of Music today also reflects the strength of its nearly 4,000 alumni, who have achieved noteworthy success throughout the United States and abroad. Given their superb training, it is not surprising that School of Music graduates tum up in diverse areas of the music profession, from the Metropolitan Opera to Broadway's Phantom of the Opera and in renowned orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony.

One out of every four of Ithaca's music alumni currently hold teaching and administrative posts at elementary and secondary public schools throughout the United States, and many serve as leaders of state and national music education associations.

THE CENTER FOR MUSIC AT ITHACA

On March 17, 1997, the College held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Center for Music at Ithaca. The 55,000 square foot addition to Ford Hall, home of the School of Music for many years, will nearly double the existing space and provide a 250-seat recital hall, new faculty teaching studios, spacious rehearsal areas, electroacoustic music studios, state-of-the-art recording facilities and much more. By Fall 1999, Ford Hall will become the James J. Whalen Center for Music at Ithaca College.