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HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR UPCOMING SEASON 2001-2002 Saturday, October 27, 200 1 Ted Mann Concert Hall

A melting pot of American Music including folksongs, Native American Songs, Chinese-American music, spirituals, hymns and a little bit of jazz.

Saturday, February 9, 2002 Benson Great Hall, Bethel College

Three high school chamber choirs join the Dale Warland Singers in a program of international music.

Saturday, March 9, 2002 Basilica of Saint Mary

Hear the luscious sounds of the Dale Warland Singers in this magnificent cathedral setting- reflective, inspirational and contemplative.

Saturday, April 20, 2002 Ted Mann Concert Hall

Ballads and songs-by Argento, Brittten and others.

JOIN US FOR OUR HOLIDAY CONCERTS: Echoes of Christmas

Christmas carols-some old and some new.

Home for the Holidays

Friday, December 7, 200 1 Saturday, December 8, 2001 Sunday, December 9, 2001

A one-hour holiday favorite-especially for families and children.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Program Book II January-May 200 1

The Dale Warland Singers .3

About Dale Warland ." .4

Artistic Staff .s

Members of the Dale Warland Singers 6

Board of Directors and Staff 7

Executive Director's Message 8

The Italian Connection program 9

Cathedral Classics program .16

Songs of the Earth program 20

New Choral Music Program 25

Singer Biographies 26

Dale Warland Singers Recordings .30

Contributors .31

Acknowledgements .34

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THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Now in its twenty-ninth season of concerts, tours, Radio International's Saint Paul Sunday. The annual Echoes radio broadcasts, and critically acclaimed recordings, the Dale of Christmas and Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach listeners Warland Singers is recognized as one of the world's foremost nationwide. The First Art and Performance Today often feature a capella choral ensembles. The 40 voice professional choir is the Dale Warland Singers. based in Minneapolis/St.Paul. The Dale Warland Singers also performs in The Dale Warland Singers has earned a reputation collaboration with other Twin Cities arts organizations such for its commitment to commissioning and performing new as the James Sewell Ballet, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, choral music. The ensemble has kept the choral genre fresh and the Minnesota Orchestra. For many of these and alive by commissioning works from Dominick Argento, collaborations, the ensemble has joined with volunteer singers Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, Carol Barnett, Brent Michael from around the area to form the Warland Symphonic Davids, Mary Ellen Childs, Augusta Read Thomas, [anika Chorus. The Symphonic Chorus has worked under the batons Vandervelde, George Shearing, Peter Schickele, and Bernard of Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Hugh Wolff, the late Rands, among others. The Dale Warland Singers' New Robert Shaw, Bobby McFerrin, Roger Norrington, David Choral Music Program solicits works from emerging Zinman, and Paul Hillier. composers, and through this program, over $100,000 in commissions has been awarded to fifty-two talented The Dale Warland Singers record primarily on the musrcians. American Choral Catalog label, and the choir will release a new recording on this label during the 1999-2000 season. In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers became the first- Featuring Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and ever recipient of the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, it joins some 20 other Choral Excellence. The group's extraordinary efforts on Dale Warland Singers recordings including Blue Wheat, a behalf of composers and new music resulted in ASCAP collection of American folk music. The Seattle Times calls Awards for Adventurous Programming in 1992, 1993, 1996, Blue Wheat, "the loveliest choral disc to emerge in a long time and 1999. ... sung by what is probably America's best chorus." Also among the Singers' lauded releases is December Stillness, In addition to a subscription season in the Twin which BBC Music Magazine gave its highest rating for Cities, the Dale Warland Singers tours throughout the United performance and sound, calling it, "... splendid, melting States and abroad. In 1990, the ensemble traveled to stuff." The South Jersey's Courier Post called the 1994 release, Stockholm and Helsinki to represent North America at the Cathedral Classics, "an unmatched musical experience," and Second World Symposium on Choral Music. During the The Oregonian stated simply, "peerless." Earlier recordings 1999-2000 concert season, the group toured the Southeastern by the Singers include Fancie, A Rose in Winter, Christmas United States. It has appeared on Garrison Keillor's original A Echoes, Carolsfor Christmas, Choral Currents and 12 others. Prairie Home Companion and is featured regularly on Public 3 /3::.~~~~ ------

DALE WARLAND, FOUNDER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR

a guest conductor at Carnegie Hall, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the Zimriya Festival in Jerusalem, and with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. He has also served on the faculty of the All Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan, and has lectured on American ~usic at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Most recently, he has been featured as guest conductor with Grant Park Music Festival, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Chamber Artists and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Later this year Dr. Warland will be leading concerts and workshops at Eastman School of Music, Seattle's Opus 7, and the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain.

Warland is an active composer and a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He has served as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels ofthe National Endowment for the Arts and has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. The 2000-2001 season marks founder Dale Warland's twenty-ninth season as Music Director of the Dale Before devoting himself full-time to the Singers, Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his professional life to Warland maintained an academic career which included 19 years as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College, St. I attaining the highest artistic level in choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to detail, he has built one of the Paul. He holds degrees from St. Olaf College, the University finest choral ensembles in the United States. Under Warland's of Minnesota and the University of Southern California, and leadership, the Dale Warland Singers has thrilled choral has received distinguished alumni awards from two of the music enthusiasts, not just in its Twin Cities home, but institutions. Warland also holds an honorary doctorate from throughout North America and Europe. Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Warland's outstanding achievements in the field of choral music were recognized in June 1995, when he received the Michael Korn Founder's award at the annual Chorus America Conference in Seattle. This award, the highest honor for a choral conductor in the United States, has previously been given to outstanding choral conductors such as Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner.

In addition to his active schedule as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers, Warland is in demand as a guest conductor, lecturer, composer, and clinician. He has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, the Danish Radio Choir, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He had also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. At Kryzstzof Pederecki's request, he has prepared the St. Luke Passion for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart, and the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1990, he also prepared Penderecki's Polish Requiem, the culminating event of the Second World Symposium on Choral Music held in Helsinki. Warland has been featured as

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Jerry Rubino Associate Conductor

Associate conductor, Jerry Rubino, has served for twenty-two seasons with the Dale Warland Singers as pianist, arranger, and director of special projects and music education.

In 1983, at the request of the Minnesota Orchestra, Rubino formed the Warland Cabaret Singers. Under his direction, they have developed their own sound and style and became known for their flexibility, broad-based appeal and consistently high levels of music making.

Mr. Rubino holds degrees in piano, music education, and conducting from Temple University and the University of Minnesota, and began his teaching career at Northwestern College in 1974. A native of Philadelphia, he was a charter member of the Philadelphia Singers and attended Curtis Institute as a cellist. Rubino's conducting and teaching credits include Honors Choirs in Australia, Taiwan, Hawaii, Europe, American Choral Directors Association. He is in demand the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the California State Summer nationally as a choral clinician and adjudicator. Rubino was Arts Workshops, the Wesley Balk Institute, and the appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music at University of Minnesota Jazz Festival. His arrangements are Carleton College, Northfield, MN, for the academic year of in print with four publishers. 1998-1999. He currently serves as Minister of Music at Spirit of Hope United Methodist Church in Golden Valley, MN. Jerry Rubino serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Vocal Jazz for the North Central Division of the

Carol Barne" Composer-in-residence

Composer and flutist Carol Barnett is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where she studied with Dominick Argento, Paul Fetler and Bernhard Weiser. She is a charter member of American (formerly Minnesota) Composers Forum and has served on its board. The Women's Philharmonic, the Dale Warland Singers, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Westminster Abbey Choir, the Ankor Children's Choir of Jerusalem, Israel, the Nebraska Children's Chorus and the Gregg Smith Singers are among the ensembles which have performed her works. In 1991 she was a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and in 1999 she was awarded a travel grant from the Inter-University Research Committee on Cyprus. She has been composer-in-residence with the Dale Warland Singers since 1992.

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THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Soprano Tenor

Beth Althof §£ Jared L. Anderson" Marie Spar Dyrnit" Joel Beyer Korissa Erbele Joel C. Fischer Kristin L. Hoffman} Eric N. Hopkins Amanda Johnson Chris Jackson Deborah Loon Osgood Justin Karch Dawn Schuffenhauer David Nordli Naomi Staruch Hal Snyder Monica Stratton Gregory Tambornino

Teresa Tierney + Lori Vosejpka-s S

Alto Bass

Sara Boos Bruce Broquist Erin Colwitz Matthew Culloton Rosita Elhardt Dave Jacobson Joanne Halvorsen" Brian Kremer Lynette Johnson Michael Meyer Shelley Kline Tim O'Brien Mary Maiden-Muller Robert Peskin" Pamela Marentette §£ Brian E. Petty Leslie Quigley-Cornils Jim Ramlet Kathleen Robinson-s S Terry Sheetz Brian L. Steele

* denotes section leader + Italian Connection § Cathedral Classics £ Songs of the Earth

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers Robin M. Keyworth, President Daniel V. Schmechel, Vice President James K. Smart, Immediate Past President James W. Peter, Treasurer Michael E. Reeslund, Secretary

Honorary Directors· Margie Ankeny Arland D. Brusven Mary Steinke

Directors David L. Cooper James L. Davis Glenna Dibrell Glen J. Karwoski M. Walker Pearce Judy Ranheim Jacqueline Reis Nancy Reitz Rotenberry Gloria Sewell Ginger Sisco Vern Sutton Thomas J. Whelan Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director" Gayle Ober, Executive Director" Gregory Tambornino, Singer Representative"

·denotes Ex officio

ARTISTIC STAFF

Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director Jerry Rubino, Associate Conductor Carol Barnett, Composer-In-Residence

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Gayle Ober, Executive Director Debra Harrer, Artistic Administrator Jared Anderson, Office Manager Charlotte Palmiter, Office Assistant Ruth Anderson, Office Volunteer

7 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

We are very pleased that you could join us for our winter and spring concerts of2001. We have so many exciting programs to offer our audience that it will be hard to tell you about them in this short message.

We begin in frosty February with music of great Italian masters through the ages. In March, we will gather in the magnificent Basilica of Saint Mary to experience the mystic spirituality of works by Allegri, Biebl and Elgar. And finally in May, we anticipate the coming of summer with music to celebrate the beauty of our earth. There is something new or unique on each concert: a rare performance of Persichetti's delightful Flower Songs, a reprise of Tria Carmina Paschalia by Minnesota's-own Dominick Argento; a world premiere of a new work by a promising young composer, Jacqueline Kim; and an introduction to Alfred Schnittke's majestic Choral Concerto.

In addition to our own concerts, we'll be joining There are many positive and progressive things Nicholas McGegan and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra happening at the Dale Warland Singers. So many of you have on April 13 and 14 for two performances of J.S. Bach's Passion told us how important we are to this community through your According to Saint Matthew. We are pleased and honored to ticket and recording purchases, through your annual fund appear with the SPCO in these Holy Week concerts. You and special projects contributions and from the many letters won't want to miss this opportunity to hear this choral and calls we receive from across the United States. There is masterwork performed by America's premiere chamber room for many more hands to help us, both now and in the orchestra and the Dale Warland Singers! future. You're welcome to become more involved- opportunities to make a difference abound! Join us as we Other spring activities will include a special concert make our mark on the 21 st century. in Fort Wayne, Indiana in mid-March, a return to the recording studio to continue to record the choral works of Gayle M. Ober Dominick Argento, and in June we will celebrate the creation Executive Director of new art with our New Choral Music Program (please see page 25 for additional details). If you've never attended this reading program, we urge you to experience the process of creating new choral music.

Administratively, we continue the progress on our new strategic plan. Under the leadership of Board President Robin Keyworth, our Long Range Planning Committee has worked tirelessly to prepare the Dale Warland Singers for a brilliant future. You will begin to see the results of this plan with our 2001-02 Season announcement. Watch your mail in April for our stunning new graphic look. We are very grateful to the award-winning design firm, Yamamoto-Moss, for giving us the opportunity to tell our story in a bold and fresh way. II I I' II ---.J Send a gift without shopping!

A gift of stock is an easy way to support the Dale Warland Singers. To inquire about becoming a donor, please contact Gayle Ober at the Dale Warland Singers office at (612) 339-9707. '---

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THE ITALIAN CONNECTION Saturday, February 17, 2001 - 8:00 p.m, Ted Mann Concert Hall

I. Whimsy and Nonsense

There was an Old Maid of Stroud (from Nonsense) Goffredo Petrassi There was an Old Man of Cape Horn (from Nonsense) Goffredo Petrassi The Monk and His Cat (from Hermit Songs, Op.29) Samuel Barber

II. Guest Choirs

10 son la Primavera (I am Spring) William Hawley Amor vifforioso (Love Victorious) Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi Mahtomedi High School Chamber Singe,'s Robert Pontious, director

Amarilli Giulio Caccini EI Grillo (The Cricket) [osquin des Prez Eagan High School Chamber Singers Randy Schafer, director

Sure On This Shining Night Samuel Barber Matona mia cara (Lovely Maiden) Orlando di Lassus Hopkins High School Chamber Singers Matthew Culloton, director

III. In The Italian Garden

1/giardino di Afrodite (from Due composizioni corali) 0 •••• 0 •• .Ildebrando Pizzetti

Cade la sera (from Tre composizioni coralit .... 0 •• 0 • 0 0 •• 0 • 0 0 • 0 ••••• 0 ••• 0 ••• 0 ••• 0 •••••• 0 •• 0 •••••• 0 .Ildebrando Pizzetti

Piena sorgeva la luna (from Due composizioni corali) 0 0 ••• 0 • 0 • 0 0 •• 0 • 0 • 0 0 ••••• 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 •• 0 •••••• 0 •••• Ildebrando Pizzetti

INTERMISSION

IV. Water Music

To Be Sung Upon the Water, Opo 42, no. 2 0 •••• 0 •••• 0 • 0 ••• 0 0 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 •••• 0 • 0 • 0 ••• 0 ••••••••• 0 •••• 0 ••• Samuel Barber

L'lnvitation au Voyage (The Invitation to the Voyage) ... 0 •• 0 • 0 ••••• 0 • 0 • 0 •• 0 0 0 ••• 0 • 0 • 0 ••••••••••••••• John Corigliano

V. Opera

Humming Chorus (Madame Butte/fly) 0 •• 0 • 0 • 0 •••••••••• 0 0 0 • 0 ••• 0 • 0 •••••• 0 ••••••••••••••••• Giacomo Puccini

Va, Pensiero (Nabucco) 0 •• 0 •••• 0 •• 0 •••• 0 •• 0 •••••••• 0 • 0 •••••••• 0 0 0 0 0 ••••• 0 ••••• 0 •••••••• 0 ••• Guiseppe Verdi

Toast pour Ie nouvel an (Toast to the New Year) ... 0 • 0 ••••••• 0 • 0 • 0 0 •••• 0 0 0 •••• 0 •••••••••••••••• 0 .Gioacchino Rossini

VI. Madrigals

Caccia d'amore (Love Goes Hunting) 0 •• 0 •••••••••• 0.0 •••••• 0 •• 0 ••• 00 ••• 0 ••••••••••••••••••••••• Giovanni Gastoldi

Dolcissima mia vita (My Sweetest Life) 0 • 0 • 0 •••••••••• 0 • 0 ••• 0 ••• 0 •••••••• 0 •••••••••••• Carlo Gesualdo The Dale Warland Singers

1/bianco e dolce cigno (The White Breasted Lovely Swan) .. 0 •••••• 0 •••• 0 •••••••••••••• 0 ••••••••••• Jacques Arcadelt

Lirim, Bililirum . 0 • 0 • 0 •••••• 0 •••••••• 0 • 0 •••••• 0 ••• 0 •••• 0 • 0 • 0 ••• 0 •••• 0 ••••••• 0 ••••••••••••••• 0 •• Rossinus Mantuanus The Dale Worland Singers and Guest Choirs

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PROGRAM NOTES by Brian Newhouse

Italian Connection

I. Whimsy and Nonsense Hermit Songs is a soft, slow rumba, its religious overtones notwithstanding. Shortly after premiering Hermit Songs in There Was an Old Maid of Stroud ..... Goffredo Petrassi Washington in 1953, Barber (at the piano) and soprano There Was an Old Man of Cape Horn (b. 1904) Leontyne Price sailed to Rome to present them. This is the composer's own choral version of the solo-voice original. No one expected great things from this particular teenager clerking in a Rome music store. That's exactly where and Pangur, white Pangur, how Goffredo Petrassi began his musical career, though, How happy we are and Italians would ultimately claim him as one of their Along together, outstanding twentieth-century composers. The career was Scholar and cat. doubly surprising for how late it got started: piano lessons, Each has his own work to do daily; composition studies, first attempts at writing music - all For you it is hunting, for me study. years later than just about any other composer. His very Your shining eye watches the wall; first successes came in the early 1930s with choral music and My feeble eye is fixed on a book. he remained devoted to writing for voices the rest of his You rejoice when your claws long career. His setting of Edward Lear's crazy little Book Entrap a mouse; of Nonsense poems came out in 1952. I rejoice when my mind Fathoms a problem. There was an Old Maid of Stroud, Pleased with his own art, Who was horribly jammed in a crowd; Neither hinders the other; Some she slew with a kick, Thus we live ever Others she scrunched with a stick, Without tedium and envy. That impulsive Old Maid of Stroud. Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are There was an Old Man of Cape Horn, Alone together Who wished that he had ne'er been born; Scholar and cat. So he sat upon a chair, -Louise Bogan Till he died there despair, That dolorous Old Man of Cape Horn. II. Guest Choirs -Edward Lear 10 son la Primavera William Hawley The Monk and His Cat Samuel Barber (1910-81) I am Spring who gladly, lovely women, returns to you Though the Pennsylvania-born Samuel Barber had Yankee with my beautiful, embellished mantle roots dating back to America's Revolutionary War days to dress the countryside in greenery and flowers (and a mother who hailed from Minneapolis), he found his and to arouse in your hearts new loves. spiritual home in Italy. In 1935 he won a prestigious award that allowed him two years of study in Rome. One day he For me Zephyr sighs, was given special permission by the Vatican to climb a for me the earth laughs, as do the serene heavens: temporary scaffolding for a close-up view of Michelangelo's from breast to breast fly Sistine Chapel frescoes. "To lie on your back for three hours the charming Amoretti by the thousands, in the plaster and dust and stare up at the magnificent armed with arrows and with torches. conception .. .I cannot tell the impression it made on me, for And you, again delighted, these sensations are like secrets to be guarded jealously all take pleasure in my coming amidst laughing and song; one's life-time, great and magnificent secrets." The hook love you lovers was set, and though he kept a home in ew York he now, while April adorns lovely faces with flowers: returned to Italy time and time again for sanctuary and Spring for you will not return forever. inspiration. "The Monk and His Cat" from Barber's -translation by William Hawley

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Amor vittorioso Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi Pizzetti is remembered in his native Italy as something of an also-ran. His contemporary, Ottorino Respighi, wrote Let all strong soldiers come well armed. incandescent scores for orchestra that eclipsed Pizzetti and most every other Italian composer. Nevertheless, Pizzetti I am invincible Love, the just archer. worked diligently and won audiences through quietly Banish all fear, and follow me boldly, crafted music for his favorite "instrument" - the all together in perfect formation. unaccompanied chorus. "II giardino di Afrodite" and "Piena sorgeva la luna" come from Due Composizioni Corali Amarilli Giulio Caccini (Two Choral Compositions) and are dated 1961 when (Colin Brurnby) Pizzetti was 81. They are his last choral works and are based on the sensuous writing of Sappho (610-580 B.c.). EI Grillo [osquin des Prez "Cade la sera" from Pizzetti's Tre Composizioni Cora li (Three Choral Compositions) was written in 1942 and is Sure On This Shining Night Samuel Barber strikingly beautiful, particularly set against the WWII horrors Pizzetti witnessed outside his Rome window. Sure on this shining night Of star-made shadows round, Il giardino di Afrodite Kindness must watch for me This side the ground. A grove of apple trees; Incense is burning on the altars, The late year lies down the north. Fresh water murmurs through the branches quietly, All is healed, all is health. The whole place is shaded by roses, High summer holds the earth. The leafy fronds rustle, Hearts all whole. And soft sleep descends from them. And the meadow is covered with lotus flowers as at a Sure on this shining night festivity; I weep for wonder The dill plants exude the taste of honey. wandering far alone This is your dwelling place, 0 Cyprian Venus: Of shadows on the stars. Here you keep the sacred infulae -James Agee And into golden cups you pour, Copiously, nectar and joy, 0 Venus. Matona mia cara Orlando di Lassus -Sappho translated from the Italian by John Waterhouse o my dearest lady, I want to sing a song beneath your window. Cade la sera I'm a fine gentleman and a German soldier. Din, din, don ... Evening falls. The moon is born from rough Mount I pray you listen to me, for I sing well Alvernia, rosy glow of him who pours forth peace without and I yearn for you like Greek wine and capon. saying a word. The mountain tops are all at peace. The long When I hunt with the falcon, I will return great gifts ridge of the Pratomagno range becomes gentler, as if the for you. blandishment of a friendly hand were sending it slowly to If I can't speak with beautiful phrases, it's because I've sleep. not read Petrarch nor drunk from Helicon's springs. On the wooded plateaus the charcoal kilns are burning, But if you will show me affection, I will love and their solemn fires visible. The river Arno glistens between cherish you in return. the poplars. A loud rippling sound, at every breath of air, overwhelms the choral lament of the winged flutes [i.e. crickets] that the couch grass hides. And no other voice is III. In The Italian Garden heard; from the mountains the water flows towards its outlet into the sea. II giardino di Afrodite ...... Ildebrando Pizzetti -Gabriele d'Annunzio i Cade la sera (1880-1968) translated by John Waterhouse \. Piena sorgeva la luna

11 Piena sorgeva la luna Orchestra and inspired by the worldwide struggle against AIDS. That piece is dissonant but firmly grounded in The full moon was rising; tonality - qualities also found in this setting of Charles And the girls stood around the altar; Baudelaire's nineteenth-century love poem "L'lnvitation au Around the lovable altar the Cretan girls Voyage." Were dancing rhythmically with soft feet, Moving lightly on the tender flowering grass. My child, my sister, dream The stars around the beautiful moon How sweet all things would seem Veil its shining face when, Were we in that kind land to live together. Full, at its highest point, silvery, And there love slow and long, It shines on all the earth. There love and die among -Sappho Those scenes that image you, the sumptuous weather. translated from the Italian by John Waterhouse Drowned suns that glimmer through cloud-disheveled air Move me with such a mystery as appears Within those other skies INTERMISSION Of your treacherous eyes When I behold them shining through their tears. There, there is nothing else but grace and measure IV. Water Music Richness, quietness and pleasure. Furniture that wears the luster of the years To Be Sung on the Water, Op. 42, no. 2 ... Samuel Barber Softly would glow within our glowing chamber. Flowers of rarest bloom Barber was a great admirer of Louise Bogan (for many Proffering their perfume, years poetry editor at The New Yorker), and his penultimate Mixed with vague fragrances of amber; choral score was a setting of her "To Be Sung on the Water." Gold ceilings would there be His 1968 score is built on a tiny, three-note theme you'll Mirrors deep as the sea, hear sung in the first bar by the tenors, buoyed by a rhythm The walls all in Eastern splendor hung, suggesting gently lapping waves. The music remained Nothing but should address especially close to Barber for the rest of his days and it was The soul's loneliness performed at his memorial service in February, 1981. Speaking her sweet and native tongue.

Beautiful, my delight, There, there is nothing else but grace and measure Pass, as we pass the wave Richness, quietness and pleasure. Pass, as the mottled night Leaves what it cannot save, See, sheltered from the swells Scattering dark and bright. There in the still canals Beautiful, pass and be Those drowsy ships that dream of sailing forth; Less than the guiltless shade It is to satisfy To which our vows were said; Your least desire, they ply Less than the sound of the oar Hither through all the waters of the heart. To which our vows were made, The sun at close of day Less than the sound of its blade Clothes the fields of hay, Dipping the stream once more. Then the canals, at last the town entire -Louise Bogan In hyacinth and gold: Slowly the land is rolled Sleepward under a sea of gentle fire. L'lnvitation au Voyage John Corigliano (b. 1938) There, there is nothing but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure. New Yorker John Corigliano won the 1999 Grammy for Best Film Score (The Red Violin) and joined the company of -Charles Baudelaire Aaron Copland, Erich Korngold, and other classical translated by Richard Wilbur composers who found gold in Hollywood. Grammy aside, Corigliano's most famous piece to date is his First Symphony (1989), written for the Chicago Symphony

12 V. Opera there'd been 19 leap years. By then he was a lavishly celebrated opera composer retired in Paris. No one recorded the exact music served up at his house that Humming Chorus Giacomo Puccini evening but it probably included this drinking song - a (1858-1924) glass of pure musical champagne - published as part of a

Opera for Italians is musical bread, the staff of life. After collection he called Sins of My Old Age. all, the art of singing a story began there. Puccini's love On this sweet day, all together, we celebrate the New Year, affair with opera started at 18 when he attended a To the pleasures, the songs, the gifts, the treats, come performance of Verdi's Aida. Puccini's Madama Butterfly running girls and boys. (1904) is the story of the faithful young Japanese woman, Friendship and tender love taking turns will celebrate the Butterfly, in love with the heartless American sailor, Pinkerton. He sails away and through most of the opera return of the joyous meals, Young hearts, old wine-is this not the happiness of the she awaits his return. When she sees his ship finally pull into harbor she watches and waits for him to climb the hill heavens? to her house while an offstage chorus hums this lovely pins- Companions, with big gulps let's drink; Companions, let's drain the flasks; and-needles music. Companions, let's toast! Va, Pensiero Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) o Virgin Mother, prosper us, Watch over our sons on earth. In the 1850's, Italy was trying to unite itself and gain Virgin Mother, prosper us, freedom from foreign rule. Verdi's chorus "Va, pensiero,' Virgin. from his early opera Nabucco, became a rallying cry for Italians who saw themselves as oppressed as the opera's (Repeat Refrain) Hebrew slaves. Verdi would keep his political fortunes hot ... Young hearts, old wine-is this not the happiness of the with subsequent operas like Don Carlo and Aida, but the heavens? popularity of "Va, pensiero" outlasted every other melody Yes, let's all drink it is the image of the heavens. he wrote; throngs of mourners at his funeral sang it as his Tra la la la la la, how the champagne foams and bubbles. casket was carried past. Tra la la la la la, true happiness is there. Virgin! Fly, thoughts, on golden wings o Tra la la la la la, the coming hour flees, let's enjoy it, and light upon hills and dales, Tra la la la la la, yes, happiness is there. Where the sweet breezes of our native land Waft warmly and with soft fragrance! It is there, it is there, The banks of the Jordan greet you, Ah! And Zion's destroyed towers. (Repeat Refrain) Oh, my beautiful lost homeland! ... Young hearts, old wine-is this not the happiness of the Oh, memory so dear and so ill-fated! golden harp of the prophetic bards, heavens? For us it is the happiness of the heavens. Why hang you silent on the willow-tree? Kindle memories in our hearts, Companions without manners let's pull out the corks, Speak of the time that was! Let's drain the flasks, let's feast and toast, Either intone, as you did for Jerusalem, To our friends let's drink a toast. A sound of bitter lamentation, Or may the Lord inspire in you a harmony Let's drain the flasks, To the New Year let's drink, let's toast! Which will give us strength in our suffering!

Toast pour Ie nouvel an Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) VI. Madrigals

Outside of the cathedral, the Italian Renaissance composer's Leave it to a composer born on a leap-year day to know how main vessel of expression was the madrigal. Madrigals to raise a glass to the New Year. Gioacchino Rossini came began humbly in the fourteenth century as little two-voice into this world on February 29, 1792, in Pesaro, Italy. settings of poems about rustic love. The frottola (i.e. the Seventy-six years later on that same day (1868) he decided to celebrate his nineteenth birthday because over that time final work tonight, by Mantuanus) is a cousin to the

13 madrigal; in the fifteenth century it added a voice or two in II bianco e dolce cigno Jacques Arcadelt accompaniment of a soprano melody. Then the madrigal (c. 1508-c.1568) re-emerged in the sixteenth century with as many as five or six parts and it became a source for beautiful, sometimes The white-breasted lovely swan only sings at his death. wildly imaginative writing in the hands of men like Here I stand weeping because I am nearing the end. Gesualdo and Monteverdi. Oh, fate so strange and cruel, that I should die in sorrow. Hoping only for life tomorrow, Caccia d' Amore Giovanni Gastoldi I see the time now when death may come and save me from (c. 1550-c.1622) my torment, Just like the swan may I pass on with singing, Too little is known about Gastoldi, other than the fact that And may my song be one of sweet contentment. he wrote nearly all of his music for the church in Mantua where he served as a deacon for many years. The exception, Lirum, Bililirum Rossinus Mantuanus though, is his collection of Bailetti. These "ballades", closely (16th century) related to the madrigal, were for Saturday night use and meant to give the feel of an Italian country dance. They Lirum, bililirum ... were a huge hit and shortly after they were published in Hear the bagpipe's mournful droning. 1591 copies were to be found in the far-off libraries of Listen to my sad lamenting, German and Dutch composers. Lady, cease your cruel tormenting. Lirum, bililirum ... You speeding Nymphs, These six years you've led me on, Flee 0 Nymphs, Fa la lao I've been your constant suitor. If you flee not, Now, I beg you, heed my song, Swift and ardent And have me as your love. Love who is now going hunting, Fa la la, How can I wait much longer, Will strike your heart, Fa la lao While desire grows stronger by the day? Lirum, bililirum ... He carries darts Once you gladly promised me I'd have your trust forever. Arming his left side, Fa la lao And you vowed most fervently And with his fire We'd always be together. He conquers every soul. I replied in a letter See the cruel archer, Fa la la, For love's sake I'd be your debtor. How haughtily he advances, Fa la lao Lirum, bililirum ...

Dolcissima mia vita Carlo Gesualdo Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of (c. 1560-1613) dust seems instinct with spirit from the past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore. (Margaret Fuller, 1847) Gesualdo came from a royal family and was known in Italy

as the Prince of Venosa. He achieved dubious wider fame Nobody with a dream should come to Italy. No matter how dead and buried the at 30 when it was revealed that he'd arranged for the dream is thought to be, in Italy it will rise and walk again. (Elizabeth Spencer, 1960) murder of his wife and her lover. The resulting scandal also

brought to light the fact that he was a composer. Though he Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands. (Ingrid also wrote sacred works, he's best known today for his Bergman, 1980) settings of short pastoral love poems, music that delights in

the unexpected turn. The debate goes on whether this Not all Italian men are handsome, but the percentage is alarmingly high, and their shows lack of training or evidence of a mercurial genius tailors cooperate with nature. (Mary Chamberlin, 1959) writing decades ahead of his time.

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, my desire, my yearning, my ambition, Oh, to love you or to perish.

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THE ITALIAN CONNECTION

GUEST CHOIRS

Mahtomedi High School Chamber Singers Robert Pontious, director

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

Stephanie Anderson Jennifer Brandel Thomas Franer Cristopher Bailey Andrea Beecher Erin Green Trevor Gray Christian Dahl Lynda Beyer Jessica Johannsen Jeffrey Hanson Aaron Fitzsimmons Rachael Cahill Megan Luecke Andrew Johnson Christopher Hill Noelle Charpentier Kimberly Olson Michael Kaup Charles Manship Caroline Kaup [enna Solie Jeffrey Sansgaard Paul Nelson Lisa Mostek Kim Storeygard Travis Stegmeir Ian Roosma Angela Rudolph Mandy Weber Christopher Truso Jonathan Watry Adam Ydstie

Eagan High School Chamber Singers Randy Schafer, director

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

Kelsey Bentley Lynn Capes Ben Edwards David Edwards Mindy Earp Rachel Fasen Chad Giles Dan Kaschner Angie Hugo Maggie Hoadley Jeff Ox borough Cade Krueger Joann Kunjummen Melissa Hugo Ryan Paul Jon Rehwaldt Kathy Maza Emily Klatt Steve Sa1chert James Wages Erin Prall Elaine Stoerzinger Tim Sheppard Matt Wormley

Hopkins High School Chamber Singers Matthew Culloton, director Joan Dunbar, piano

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

Justine Ducloux Lauren Bachnick Seth Carroll Sam Barnes Karen Gibbins Meredith Cain-Nielsen Jeff De Sutter Dan Connor Kelley Hjellming Claire Lohman Kent Good road Sean Dolan Laura Krider Leigh Paulson Michael Hamilton Chris LaTondresse Caitlin Morris Robin Scearcy Jason Ober Amir Peleg Brita Sands Natasha Upensky Nate Rowan Andrew Wright Meryl Smith Claire Levine

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CATHEDRAL CLASSICS Saturday, March 31, 2001 - 8:00 p.m, Basilica of Saint Mary

This evening's concert is sponsored by Minnesota Monthly.

I. Miserere mei, Deus

Miserere mei, Deus Gregorio Allegri

II. An American Tapestry

Fix Me Jesus Spiritual (Robert Morris) Not One Sparrow is Forgotten Shaker Hymn (William Hawley) Children of the Heavenly Father Swedish Folk Melody (Carol Barnett) This performance is dedicated to the memory of Donald Wesley Anderson, dear friend, father and fellow musician.

III. Gems in Miniature

Ave Verum Corpus W.A. Mozart

LuxAeterna (from Enigma Variations) Edward Elgar

INTERMISSION

~~.8IV.Praise and Prayers

Sanctus and Benedictus (from Mass) Frank Martin

This performance is dedicated to the memory of Claire McCoy Briggs, dear friend and fellow musician.

Ave Maria Franz Biebl

Complete This Work (from Choral Concerto) Alfred Schnittke

Instrumentalists: Jeffrey Van, guitar Kathy Kienzle, harp

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PROGRAM NOTES by Brian Newhouse

Cathedral Classics

I. Miserere mei, Deus salvation: and my tongue shall extol your justice. o Lord, you will open my lips: and my mouth shall Miserere mei, Deus Gregorio Allegri proclaim your praise. (1582-1652) For if you had desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: you will not delight in burnt offerings. Allegri's "Miserere mei, Deus" was written for the papal A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a humble and contrite choir in which Allegri sang for three decades. It was heart, 0 God, you will not despise. performed each year during Holy Week at the papal chapel Grant kindness to Zion, 0 Lord, according to your good then hidden away, a jealously guarded church secret. A ban pleasure: that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up. was ordered on copying or publishing it and harsh Then you will accept the sacrifice of righteousness, the punishment threatened for any who broke the ban. By 1770 oblations and the whole-burnt offerings: then they will lay there were only three known copies outside the Sistine bullocks upon your altar. Chapel. The allure of this music is not just its colorful history. What's compelled listeners for nearly 400 years is its haunting chordal simplicity and the soul-shivering soprano II. An American Tapestry passage that rises to high C before floating downward. Fix Me, Jesus Spiritual Have mercy on me, God, according to your great loving (Robert Morris) kindness. And according to the multitude of your mercies, blot out Not One Sparrow is Forgotten Shaker Hymn my iniquity. (William Hawley) Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from Children of the Heavenly Father ... Swedish Folk Melody my Sin. For I acknowledge my transgression: and my sin is ever (Carol Barnett) before me. To you alone have I sinned, and done evil in your sight: These three pieces are from the patchwork quilt of that you may be justified in your words, and be vindicated American faith. Little introduction is needed other than to when you are judged. identify their sources: "Fix Me, Jesus" is a spiritual adapted For behold, I was conceived in iniquities: and in sin my by Robert L. Morris, a former choral arranger for Duke mother conceived me. Ellington and now Director of Choral Activities at For behold, you have loved the truth: the obscure and Macalester College. "Not One Sparrow Is Forgotten" is a hidden elements of your wisdom you have made known to Shaker hymn arranged by a longtime friend of the DWS, me. New Yorker William Hawley and features his trademark You will sprinkle me, 0 Lord, with hyssop, and I shall be rich, clustered chords. "Children of the Heavenly Father" cleansed. is a staple of the Protestant (particularly Lutheran) funeral You will wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. service, and DWS composer-in-residence Carol Barnett has To my hearing you will give gladness and joy: and my given it a loving new arrangement for tonight's concert. humbled bones shall rejoice. Turn your face away from all my sins: and blot out all my iniquities. III. Gems in Miniature Create in me a clean heart, 0 God: and renew a right spirit within me. Ave Verum Corpus W.A. Mozart Cast me not away from your countenance, and take not (1756-91 ) your holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of your salvation: and uphold me Perfect things come in small packages. Only 46 bars long ( with a steadfast spirit. and composed in a single day (June 17, 1791), "Ave Verurn . I will teach transgressors your ways: and the wicked shall be Corpus" is a rare creation even for Mozart. Its eloquence, converted unto you. harmonic richness, and profound spirituality make it one of Deliver me from blood guiltiness, 0 God, God of my his greatest religious vocal works.

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Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord Hail, true Body, born of Virgin Mary, Hosanna in the highest. Body which truly suffered when sacrificed on the cross for mankind, Tria Carmina Paschalia Dominick Argento Body, whose side, when pierced, ran with blood; (b. 1927) Be especially delicious to us in the throes of death. Tria Carmina Paschalia (Three Latin Easter Lyrics) was Lux Aeterna Edward Elgar written in 1970 for the Twin Cities alumnae chapter of the (1857-1936) women's music sorority Sigma Alpha Iota and premiered at Macalester College in 1971. The score is unique for Elgar toiled for decades as a small-town jack-of-all- Argento: it is his only work based on an exclusively Latin musical-trades, playing the church organ, conducting band text, his only work just for women's voices, and it shows in the local mental home, and writing small pieces for him making a sharp musical departure from his earlier style whatever performers he had at hand. His anonymity, of composing. He wanted to try his hand at creating in though, came to an abrupt end in 1899. His Enigma music a concept that was making its way around visual arts Variations for Orchestra made him a household name back then, "white on white." Just as a painter would cover overnight. The deeply moving ninth variation (subtitled a canvas in a certain shade of white, let it dry, then apply "Nimrod") is often performed today at state functions in more white in a slightly different shade, Argento melded England and has been adapted for chorus by John the coolness of women's voices with that of guitar and harp Cameron. ("the most self-effacing instruments" he calls them) for music cast in the palest of color, even the absence of it. May eternal light shine on them, Lord, with thy saints everlasting, The texts suggested this approach. Tria Carmina Paschalia because you are merciful. centers on the drama of the first Easter Weekend but with Rest eternal grant them, Lord, a twist: Argento was inspired more by the grief of the and may perpetual light shine on them. women surrounding Christ rather than Christ himself. This is music the color of tears.

INTERMISSION The cantata begins with a lullaby, hummed, immediately conjuring up images of a mother singing to her child. The mood is broken by biting dissonances in the first setting IV. Praise and Prayers called "Good Friday: The Third Nocturn." An instrumental interlude suggests the despair the women felt that night, plus the passage of time. The women return Sanctus and Benedictus (from Mass) Frank Martin with "Saturday," sung in half-step clusters as if a crowd (1890-1974) were clamoring to God. The harp and guitar lead us again through the darkness of another night into "Easter Martin began his Mass when he was 32, and after four years Sunday." The women now have a serene, ecstatic sound but of hard work put it away, never intending to hear it hushed - were Easter trumpets a man's idea? - which flows publicly. Later, he wrote: "I did not want it to be performed without a seam into a poignant repetition of the opening since I was afraid that it would be judged from a purely lullaby. zsthetic viewpoint. I considered it at the time as being a matter between God and myself. I felt then that an Good Friday: The Third Nocturn expression of religious feelings should remain secret and removed from public opinion." It lay in a drawer for nearly Now is that tearful night 40 years. A German choral conductor, Franz Brunnert, the three days of sorrow, learned of it and asked Martin to allow him to see it. until the morning of the risen Christ Realizing this was a masterwork of twentieth-century shall bring the longed-for dawn of joy. choral writing, Brunnert premiered it in 1963. The lush "Sanctus" and "Benedictus'' are the emotional heart of the -Peter Abelard work.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of power and might. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.

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Saturday Complete This Work Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) Truth of truths, Way, Life, Truth! Alfred Schnittke was born in Soviet Russia though his By thy straight and narrow path parents and first language were German. He became one of our sins are taken away; Russia's prize musical sons, graduating from the Moscow To thee, 0 Word Incarnate, Conservatory where he then taught for many years. Early Faith, Hope, and Charity cry out; on he made a name for himself as the creator of dense and troubling avant garde works. As he's aged his music has o what miracle of power turned simpler and simpler. His Choral Concerto (1984-85), how regal a big 45-minute score divided into four movements, is in the the princely voice, latter style and it's based on the devotional Book of when you bade the stricken man Lamentations by the tenth-century Armenian poet Gregoy 'arise, take up thy bed and walk!' of Narek. Schnittke composed it around the time of a major heart attack, and perhaps for that reason the last -Benedictbeuren Manuscript movement, "Complete This Work," has a reflective, almost nostalgic feel to it, calling up the spirit of ancient Russian Easter Sunday chant. Gregory's words ("that my singing may become healing") and the beautiful setting Schnittke gave them Christ, the True Sun, has risen make a fitting benediction to our concert tonight. from the dark of night, and henceforth the mystic harvest of the Lord's fields will arise. Complete this work Which I began in hope Now the chorus of the church And with Your name, sings the song of Zion, So that my singing may become healing, its alleluias multiplied a hundred fold. Curing the wounds of body and soul.

-Sedulius Scottus If my humble work is finished With Your holy blessing, May the divine spirit in it Join with my meager inspiration, v. Benediction Do not extinguish The revelation You have granted, Ave Maria Franz Biebl Do not abandon my reason, (b. 1906) But, again and again, receive praise From Your servant. Biebl was born in Austria in 1906, fought briefly in W.W.II Amen. and was captured and held prisoner of war for several years here in the Midwest. At war's end he returned to Austria and devoted himself to writing church music - much of it according to many critics forgettable. His "Ave Maria," though, is stunning. It is for seven-voice men's choir, luxuriant to the point of sensuous, yet also deeply reverent.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, Interested in volunteering? The Dale And blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Warland Singers Staff needs volunteers Holy Mary, mother of God, to work as office assistants, stage hands Pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death. and concert ushers. DWS volunteers Amen. receive complimentary tickets to all performances. Please call Jared Anderson (612) 339-9707 for more information.

19 SONGS OF THE EARTH Saturday, May S, 2001 - 8:00 p.m, Ted Mann Concert Hall

I. Water Music

Water Night Eric Whitacre

River Snow Ying Zhang

II. Flower Songs

Flower Songs Vincent Persichetti Flowers of stone Sprouting violets Early flowers Is there a flower A yellow flower The rose is dying Lily has a rose

INTERMISSION

III. World Premiere

Songs of Five Friends Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim

IV. Frogs and Birds

An Old Silent Pond (from Frogs) Norman Dinerstein

The Water is Wide : American Folk (Stephen Paulus)

Woodpecker (from Due North) Stephen Chatman

Shenandoah American Folk (Alf Houkom)

LittleBird American Folk (Gail Kubik)

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PROGRAM NOTES by Brian Newhouse

Songs of the Earth

I. Water Music River Snow Ying Zhang (b. 1939) Water Night Eric Whitacre Before Ying Zhang arrived in the States in 1993, he was (b. 1970) regarded as one of China's most prominent composers. Here in Minnesota, he's performed and lectured on Chinese Eric Whitacre, at the ripe old age of 30, has cut a wide swath classical and folk music at the University of Minnesota, and through the national musical landscape. He's conducted at several Twin Cities colleges. operas and orchestras on both coasts; served as clinician to over fifty bands and choruses around the country, and has Zhang writes: "One of my greatest joys as a composer is to won the American Choral Directors Association test the boundaries of Chinese folk and classical music, to "Composers of the Future" Award. In "Water Night", risk the new idea and the new direction, but always from written in 1995 for the Dale Warland Singers, Whitacre set the center of the form, and from an understanding of its the words of his favorite poet, the Nobel-winning Mexican strengths. " writer Octavio Paz (1914-98). The sensuous images of water and darkness inspired Whitacre to create exceedingly True to that ethic, his "River Snow" incorporates gentle music. He says, "Paz's poetry is a composer's dream. instruments from his former home and his new one. The The music seems to set itself without the usual struggle; the poem is simply a winter scene, written by Liu Tsun- Yuan process feels more like cleaning the oil from an ancient in the ninth century. You'll hear a traditional Chinese canvas to reveal the music, rather than composing. 'Water bamboo ba wu (whose beautiful, soft tone is produced by a Night' was no exception; the harmonies seemed to pour vibrating reed) and the modern concert harp. Zhang pushes from the poetry at first reading." his musical boundaries by mixing scales from both Chinese and European-American traditions. Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the night, night with eyes of water in the field asleep A thousand mountains and no birds, is in your eyes, a horse that trembles, Ten thousand paths without a footprint; is in your eyes of secret water. A little boat, a bamboo cloak, An old man fishing, on the cold river-snow. Eyes of shadow-water, eyes of well-water, eyes of dream-water. II. Flower Songs

Silence and solitude, Flower Songs Vincent Persichetti two little animals moon-led, (1915-87) drink in your eyes, drink in those waters. Persichetti's Flower Songs were written near the end of a remarkable life in American music. Proficient on piano, If you open your eyes, organ, double bass, and tuba, he began his career at II. By night opens doors of musk, his early 30s he was teaching at the [uilliard School and the secret kingdom of the water opens eventually headed its composition department. Famous in flowing from the center of night. musical circles for his nine symphonies and 12 piano sonatas, Persichetti was forced into a harsher national And if you close your eyes, spotlight when he was commissioned in 1973 to write a a river fills you from within, work for Richard Nixon's inauguration. Persichetti flows forward, darkens you: conceived of a piece for narrator and orchestra and selected night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul. Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address as his text, but • -Octavio Paz certain groups found the passionate denunciation of war in Lincoln's original objectionable at a time when the Vietnam War dominated the news. All this came out just before the inauguration and the Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of A

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Lincoln Address was quickly scuttled and deferred to the St. greens coo I choc Louis Symphony after the inauguration. olate s. That brouhaha steered Persichetti away from political un der, events for the rest of his composing days. But he kept a a 10 sharp eye out for good texts and for one of his very last co works, Flower Songs, he chose the playful, poignant poems mo of E. E. Cummings. The seven Flower Songs were tive s pout commissioned by Michael Korn and The Philadelphia mg Singers who gave the premiere in April, 1984. VI 0 lets I. Flowers of Stone

these children singing in stone a III. Early Flowers silence of stone these little children wound with stone Thy fingers make early flowers flowers opening for of all things. thy hair mostly the hours love: ever these silently lit a smoothness which tie children are petals sings, saying their song is a flower of (though love be a day) always their flowers do not fear, we will go amaying.

of stone are thy whitest feet crisply are straying. silently singing Always a song more silent thy moist eyes are at kisses playing, than silence these always whose strangeness much says; smgmg children forever (though love be a day) singing wreathed with singing for which girl art thou flowers bringing? blossoms children of stone with blossoming To be thy lips is a sweet thing and small. eyes Death, Thee i call rich beyond wishing know if a if this thou catch, little else missing. tree listens (though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing). forever to always children singing forever a song made of silent as stone silence of IV. Is There a Flower song is there a flower (whom II. Spouting Violets i meet anywhere) able to be and seem the so quite softly as your hair sky was what bird has perfect fear can dy lu (of suddenly me) like these minous first deepest rare edible quite who are your eyes spry pinks shy lemons

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(shall any dream VII. Lily has a Rose come a more millionth mile shyly to its doom lily has a rose than you will smile) (i have none) "don't cry dear violet you may take mine" V. A Yellow Flower "0 how how how could i ever wear it now Nobody wears a yellow when the boy who gave it to flower in his buttonhole you is the tallest of the boys" he is altogether a queer fellow as young as he is old "he'll give me another if i let him kiss me twice when autumn comes, but my lover has a brother who twiddles his white thumbs who is good and kind to all" and frisks down the boulevards

"0 no no no without his coat and hat let the roses come and go for kindess and goodness do - (and i wonder just why that not make a fellow tall" should please him or i wonder what he does) lily has a rose and why (at the bottom of this trunk, no rose i've under some dirty collars) only a moment and losing's less than winning (but (or love is more than love) was it perhaps a year) ago i found staring "these children singing in stone a," "the/sky/was," "Thy fingers make me in the face a dead yellow small rose early flowers of," "is there a flower (whom," "Nobody wears a yellow," "the rose," and "lily has a rose" from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings, Edited by George J. Firmage, are used with the VI. The Rose is Dying permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright (c) 1923, 1925,1926,1931,1939,1951,1953,1954,1958,1959, 1967, 1986, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright (c) 1976, 1979, the rose 1985 by George James Firmage. is dying the lips of an old man murder INTERMISSION the petals hush III. World Premiere mysteriously invisible mourners move Songs of Five Friends Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim with prose faces and sobbing, garments The symbol of the rose The text, "Songs of Five Friends," was written in c.a. 1642 by Yun Sondo (1587-1671). He was a scholar living in exile motionless on a mountain when he wrote this poem. He chose water, with grieving feet and stone, the pine tree, bamboo, and the moon as his friends, wings and described them beautifully for meditation. For the mounts scholar, the five friends symbolize characteristics such as strength, perseverance, patience, and permanence. against the margins of steep song a stallion sweetness ,the Musically it consists of 6 sections, and except for the first section, each has its own characteristic color and lips of an old man murder atmosphere to go with those natural materials. Percussion instruments are used to create the ambience. the petals.

How many friends have I? Count them: Water and stone, pine and bamboo- The rising moon on the east mountain,

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Welcome, it too is my friend. Chamber Music Festival, and June In Buffalo. In addition, What need is there, I say, she has received numerous commissions and her music has To have more friends than five? been performed by many chamber orchestras and ensembles in the United States, Europe, and Asia, They say the color of clouds is fine, including: Seattle Symphony, the Abilene Philharmonic But they often darken. Orchestra, Su-Won Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea, They say the sound of winds is clear, Seattle Creative Orchestra, Yale New Music Chamber But they often cease to blow. Orchestra, June In Buffalo Chamber Orchestra, Oberlin It is only the water, then, Winter Orchestra, Dale Warland Singers, Su-Won Civic That is perpetual and good. Choir: De ereprijs in the Netherlands, Azure Ensemble, Ethos Percussion Group, Jang & Pancaroglu Duo in Why do flowers fade so soon Turkey, the ISCM International Summer Course for Young Once they are in their glory? Composers in Poland, Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Why do grasses yellow so soon Ensemble, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, AUROS Once they have grown tall? Group for New Music, 4 Plus Percussion Group in Korea, Perhaps it is the stone, then, International Society for Contemporary Musie (ISCM) That is constant and good. Korean section, Korean Traditional Music Ensemble, and the American Composers Forum. Flowers bloom when it is warm; Leaves fall when the days are cool. Her music has been recorded and distributed by Koch But, 0 pine, how is it International, Doublemoon Records in Turkey, and Ismm That you scorn frost, ignore snow? Records in Korea. I know now even your roots are Straight among the Nine Springs. Ms. Kim studied composition in Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, receiving a Bachelor of Music. After coming You are not a tree, to the United States, she studied at Indiana University, Nor are you a plant. receiving a Master of Music. In December of 2000, Ms. Who let you shoot up so straight? Kim received the Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale What makes you empty within? University. You are green in all seasons, Welcome, bamboo, my friend. IV. Frogs and Birds Small but floating high, You shed light on all creation. An Old Silent Pond Norman Dinerstein And what can match your brightness (1937-82) In the dark of night? The Water is Wide American Folk You look at me but with no words; (Stephen Paulus) That is why, 0 moon, you are my friend. Woodpecker Stephen Chatman -Yun Sondo . ~I~~ Shenandoah American Folk As a Korean-born composer (Alf Houkom) who was educated in Korea Little Bird American Folk and North America, Jeeyoung (Gail Kubik) Kim's music harmonizes the unique cultural aspects from Our concert concludes with a suite of scores from the East and West. countryside. Water and birds are the inspiration, though to be completely fair we have to point out a certain importance Ms. Kim has won awards and of frogs to Norman Dinerstein, You'll hear why in a recognition from the ASCAP, moment. Faribault-born Stephen Chatman has fun with International Alliance for the state bird of his adopted home in British Columbia, and Women in Music (IA WM), the rest of this collection are arrangements of folk songs. National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA), Like secrets passed around a party table, "The Water is Meet the Composer, SCI! ASCAP, Br itten-on the Bay Wide", "Shenandoah", and "Little Bird" have all changed competition, Dale Warland Singers New Music innumerable times over the years. Whenever someone Competition, American Music Center, Seattle Creative sings them they come out slightly different, bearing the Orchestra Commissioning Competition, Jerome marks of the singer's affection or, in our case, that of the Foundation, Ellen Bartell Stoeckel Fellowship, Atlantic talented arranger. Center for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, Norfolk

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NEW CHORAL MUSIC PROGRAM 2001

The Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program is minute work, either incorporating the music composed for designed to serve talented emerging composers who are at the Reading Session, or completely new. The world an early stage of career development, have not received premiere will take place during the 2002-2003 concert acknowledgment as established professionals by other season. musicians and arts professionals, and have had a limited number of major performances. Serving the New Choral Music Program as the National Advisory Committee are many world renowned Submitted scores were reviewed by Dale Warland, Artistic composers. Last year's committee consisted of Bill Banfield, Director, and Carol Barnett, Program Coordinator and Philip Blackburn, Simon Carrington, John Corigliano, Composer-in-Residence for the Dale Warland Singers. Brent Michael Davids, Emma Lou Diemer, Frank Ferko, They sought primarily works that have some connection Adolphus Hailstork, Aaron Jay Kernis, Tania Leon, Alice with the serious choral music tradition. Parker, Stephen Paulus, Frances Richard, Earl Rivers, Gilbert Seeley, Jon Washburn and Chen Yi. The following four composers have been selected to participate in the Reading Session on June 4 and 5,2001: Since 1987, thirteen works have been commissioned. Each piece has received its world prmiere on a Singers Elisenda Fabregas-s-San Antonio, TX subscription concert. Past New Choral Music Program Stacy Garrop-Chicago, IL commission recipients include Mary Ellen Childs, William Charles Griffin-Kew Gardens, NY Hawley, Alf Houkum, [alalu-Kalvert Nelson, Jackie T. J. Aaron McDermid-Northfield, MN Gabel, Janice Hamer, [ing Jing Luo, Lisa Bielwa, Edie Hill, Frank Ferko, N. Lincoln Hanks, Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim, Each will be awarded a commission fee of$1 ,200 plus travel and the 2000 New Choral Music Winner, Kui Dong. expenses and will be required to write a new 5-7 minute work for the Reading Session. The Dale Warland Singers will premiere Songs of Five Friends by the 1999 New Choral Music Program Winner, The general public is invited to attend the Reading Session Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim, on the May 5, 2001 subscription on June 5th at 7:00 p.m. at Sundin Hall of Hamlin concert, Songs of the Earth. University. Admission is free. For more information and submission guidelines please Following the Reading Session, one of the four composers visit our web site, www.dalewarlandsingers.org. will be awarded a $6,000 commission to write a 10-15

THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS' COMMITMENT TO CONTEMPORARY CHORAL MUSIC

For twenty-nine years, the Dale Warland Singers have been the leading force behind encouraging new choral music in America. Since 1972the Singers have given world premiere performances of over 190new compositions or arrangements. Composers who have had their works premiered by the Singers include, Dominick Argento, Carol Barnett, Dave Brubeck, Brent Michael Davids, Paul Feder, Lukas Foss, Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Bernard Rands, Steven Sametz, Peter Schickele, William Schuman, George Shearing, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, and [anika Vandervelde.

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MEMBERS OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Soprano Beth Altho' graduated from the Cenntennial Middle School in Lino Lakes. She has also University of Illinois with a music education degree. She is worked as a soloist and guest member of the choir at a teacher at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes and Mizpah United Church of Christ in Hopkins. This will be co-directs the children's choirs at St. Mark Lutheran Erin's second year in the Singers. Church. She was a member of the Elysian Singers, a five- voice early music group based in La Crosse, WI, and the Leslie Quigley Cornils, alto, holds a LaCrosse Chamber Chorale before joining the DWS. She Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Augsburg College lives in White Bear Lake with her husband Jay, and their and an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of two daughters. This is Beth's sixth season with the Singers. Minnesota. She is a registered securities representative with the NASD. Leslie is also a commercial voice-over and an Jared Anderson holds a Bachelor of Music on-camera talent and has appeared on radio and television degree in piano performance/pedagogy and a Master of nationwide. This is her first year with the Singers. Music degree in choral conducting from Brigham Young University. While at BYU he conducted the BYU Women's Bass Matthew Culloton is currently Director Chorus and Brigham Young University Singers and taught of Choral Activities at Hopkins High School leading six undergraduate courses in conducting and ear training. His choirs consisting of students in grades 10-12. He holds a choral experience includes performances in Carnegie Hall degree in music education from Concordia College in and the Sydney Opera House, as well as collaboration with Moorhead, MN. As a composer, Matt has choral works the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. published by Hinshaw Music and Mark Foster Music Jared is in his second year with the Singers where he serves Company. This is his second season with the Singers. as tenor section leader and office manager. Marie Spar Dymit has sung with the Dale Joel Beyer, tenor, is a second year member of Warland Singers since 1985, and became soprano section the Singers. A native of Bottineau, North Dakota, he is a leader in 1991. Marie teaches vocal music at White Bear graduate of North Dakota State University with a B.S. in Lake High School's South Campus, where she is in charge music education. He is a 14-year teaching veteran, of four performing ensembles. She holds music degrees currently teaching at Apple Valley High School. Joel is a from St. Olaf College, and Arizona State University in past state president of the American Choral Directors Tempe, AZ. A frequently-heard soloist with the Singers, Association (ACDA) for the state of North Dakota. Marie recently completed her ninth recording with the ensemble. Sara Boos, alto, has music education degrees from Michigan State University and Bowling Green State Rosita Elhardt, al to, holds a Bachelor of Music University in Ohio. She has taught K-12 vocal music in Education degree from Wartburg College and recently public schools in Fairview, MI and Maplewood, M , and completed a Master of Arts in Music Education from the currently teaches choir at Roseville High School. For two University of Iowa. She has been a member of the years, Sara also directed a choir at the Women's Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series, Hamline Correctional Facility at Shakopee. She is a cantor and choir Oratorio Society, and has sung with Just Brewed Jazz and member at Guardian Angel's Church in Oakdale. the Lake Pepin Players. Rosita currently teaches elementary music at Rice Lake Elementary in Circle Pines. Baritone Bruce Broquist has a B.A. in music from St. Olaf College. He has been a soloist at Wayzata A native of Missoula, MT, soprano Korissa Community Church, Cross View Lutheran Church in Erbe/e, was raised in a singing, musical family that Edina and at the Ft. Snelling Chapel. Bruce has sung in a traveled across the United States and Asia. Her family variety of choirs: the Paul Kaye Singers; Plymouth Music recorded three gospel albums. With a B.A. in vocal Series; the Edina Chorale where he was bass section leader, performance from Northwestern College, she has wide and the Warland Cabaret Singers. This is his eighth year solo, opera, choral, oratorio and orchestral experience. with the Singers. Bruce also owns his own business "Three Korissa has performed with the Minnesota Opera, Erie Chocolatiers." Opera, and D'Angelo Opera. She won first place in the Schubert Club Advanced Voice Competition, first place Alto Erin Co/w;tz graduated from the 1996 NATS, and won a full voice scholarship to the 1996 University of Minnesota with a degree in music education Chatauqua Institution in ew York. in 1998. She teaches vocal and general music at

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Tenor Joel Fischer holds a Bachelor of Arts College with a B.M. in music education. While at St. Olaf, degree in music from Iowa State University. He has been a she sang with the St. Olaf Choir and served as soprano soloist at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in section leader for 2 years. In New Jersey Amanda Minneapolis. Joel, in his third season with the DWS, is also participated in several theater and opera productions and currently a soloist at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran appeared as a soloist with the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the Church in Plymouth. world premiere of Brubeck's cantata, "Hold Fast to Dreams." Joanne Halvorsen, alto section leader, is beginning her twenty-third season with the Dale Warland Lynette Johnson, mezzo soprano, joined the Singers. As a member of the ensemble, she has toured to Dale Warland Singers in 1987. She is a past member of Europe, Canada and around the United States, singing in Voce Magna, a small, local voice ensemble and has appeared some of the finest concert halls in the world. [o recently as a guest soloist with the Valley Chamber Chorale and at retired from teaching after 31 years at Fridley Middle several area churches. Lynette also sings with the worship School as choral instructor and Fridley High School as ensemble and choir at Excelsior Covenant Church. She musical and artistic director for the drama prog~am. She is holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from North currently music director at Faith United Methodist Church, Park College in Chicago. conducting the sanctuary choir and her youth group, "Able Cain Raisers." Tenor Justin Karch holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from North Dakota State University. He Soprano Kristin Hollman is thrilled to be has been a soloist as well as president and secretary of the performing in her first season with the Dale Warland NDSU Concert Choir. Justin was also active in the Singers. She is also honored to be the group's first "second Madrigal Singers and the Little Country Theater's generation" singer; her mother sang with the DWS 25 years production of the Secret Garden at NDSU. This is Justin's ago! A recent graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, first year with the Dale Warland Singers. Kristin sang with the Gustavus Choir and Chamber Singers, as well as performing with the Gustavus Orchestra. Alto Shelley Kline has been a member of the Dale Warland Singers since 1991. She has taught choir in Eric Hopkins, a tenor from Oregon, IL, is the Chaska School District for 15 years. Shelley has a RA. beginning his second season with the Dale Warland in music education from St. Olaf College and an M.M. in Singers. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in vocal music from choral conducting from the University of Colorado. Luther College where he sang in the Nordic Choir under the direction of Weston Noble. He also sings with the Brian Kremer, baritone, holds a Bachelor of Hosanna Choir of St. Steven's Lutheran Church in Music degree in music production and engineering from Bloomington. Berklee College of Music. He also attended St. Olaf College and sang as soloist and member of the Sr. Olaf Choir. Brian Tenor Chris Jackson is from Bloomington, has also performed with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Indiana, where he was involved with music in many Chorus, Oriana Singers, Melisma Grande, and currently different capacities. He holds a master's degree in choral serves as cantor and baritone section leader at the Church of conducting from the University of Minnesota. Chris is St. Louis, King of France in St. Paul. currently director of the adult choir at Grace United Methodist Church in Minneapolis and teaches voice at Alto, Pamela Marenteffe, graduated from Rosemount, Lakeville and Hastings High Schools. This is Northwestern University with degrees in music education his third year with the Dale Warland Singers. and voice performance. While at Northwestern she studied voice with renowned mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn. David Jacobson is a free-lance baritone, Pamela currently teaches vocal music at Eagan High having just begun his fifth season with the Dale Warland School. This is her first season with the DWS. Singers. He has sung with many diverse ensembles, such as the Rod Smith Big Band, Voce Magna, and the Minneapolis Mary Maiden-Miiller, alto, is a graduate of Vocal Consort. Currently, David performs with the Merrie Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where she received Olde Christmas Carolers during the holidays, and is the a Bachelor of Arts degree in both vocal and flute bass soloist/section leader for Wesley United Methodist performance. Mary has sung with the Dale Warland Church. Singers in previous years and more recently participated in a number of choral projects in the Twin Cities area as well Soprano, Amanda Johnson, a native of as serving as soloist and section leader for various church Princeton, New Jersey, recently graduated from St. Olaf choirs. Mary is currently employed by the Hazelden

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Foundation as Development Data Systems Manager. Now in his seventh year as a member of the DWS bass section, Jim Ramlet, has performed more than forty Michael Meyer, bass, begins his first year with roles for opera companies across the U.S., including the the Singers. He recently graduated from St. Olaf College Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington with a degree in economics. While at St. Olaf he served as Opera, Pittsburgh Opera and the Kennedy Center. His a lead in two on-campus operas, as well as singing with the Lyric Opera of Chicago performance in Samuel Barber's St. Olaf Choir. Michael currently works in the marketing Anthony and Cleopatra was telecast nationally on PBS' department with the Minnesota Orchestra. "Great Performances," and he sang world premiere performances of Phillip Glass' Orphei at the American Tenor David Norelli, a charter member of the Repertory Theater, with subsequent performances at the Dale Warland Singers, is returning to the ensemble after 23 Brooklyn Academy of Music. A graduate of Indiana years. David recently retired from 26 years as Vocal Music University School of Music, Jim has served as Adjunct Director at Hopkins High School. He holds a B.A. degree Professor of Music at Concordia University in St. Paul and from Luther College and a M.Mu.Ed. from the University chair of the voice faculty for Lutheran Summer Music. of Minnesota. David has sung with the Festival Singers of Minneapolis, Concentus Musicus, and the Paul Kaye Kathleen Robinson, alto, is a piano major Singers. He is Principal Tenor Soloist with the from Wheaton College Conservatory in Illinois, and has a Minnetonka Association of Music, as well as Director of Masters and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Music and Chancel Choir Director at Robbinsdale United Evanston. She sang for thirteen years with the Chicago Church of Christ. Symphony Chorus and worked as a soloist in several churches in the Chicago area. Kathleen is currently an Baritone Tim O'Brien is a musicology student Associate Professor of Music at Northwestern College in at the University of Minnesota. A 1999 graduate of Roseville, MN. This is her second year with the Singers. Gustavus Adolphus College, Tim joined the Singers that same year. This is soprano Dawn SchuHenhauers first season with the Dale Warland Singers. A 2000 graduate of Deborah Loon Osgood, soprano, joined the St. Olaf College, Dawn is putting her Bachelor of music Dale Warland Singers in 1984. She is a graduate of St. Olaf degree in vocal music education to use teaching choir at College, where she was a soloist and section leader in the St. Lake Junior High School in Woodbury. Dawn can be seen Olaf Choir. Deb has been a soloist for many area churches. performing at various churches around the Twin Cities. She is self-employed as a consultant. Terry Sheetz, baritone, holds a B.A. in music Robert Peskin has served the Singers as bass education and church music from Bethel College and an section leader since 1994. He works for the American M.F.A. in choral conducting from the University of Composers Forum, where he helps to lead national Minnesota. He has served on the music faculties of commissioning and residency programs. A composer and Macalester College, Bethel College, and several community conductor, Bob earned his B.A. cum laude from Princeton. colleges in the Twin Cities. Terry has also served as He served as Director of Music Ministries for Unity assistant conductor of the Minnesota Chorale and Oratorio Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. The founding director of the Society of Minnesota. He is presently a piano technician Middlebury Community Chorus, he has led chorus and church music director. Terry was a member of the ensembles for more than 20 years. His production and Singers from 1974-1975 and recently returned in 1999. editing credits include recordings with the Dale Warland Singers, folksinger Jean Redpath and pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally from Houston, TX, tenor Hal Active as a choral music arranger, he also serves on the Snyder is in his second season with the Singers. He holds board of the new music ensemble Zeitgeist. a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Texas Tech University where he studied voice under the Baritone Brian E. Petty holds a bachelor direction of Karl Dent. degree in voice from Oklahoma State University and two masters degrees in voice and in speech and hearing science Naomi Christensen Staruch, soprano, is from The Ohio State University. He is a speech pathologist currently in her third season with the DWS. She has been specializing in laryngeal trauma and vocal rehabilitation. A a member and soloist with The Living Vine, the Augsburg native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Brian is also active with the Choir, the Sateren Singers, and the Bethlehem Lutheran Minnesota Chorale and the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus. Church Choir. In addition to acting as liturgist/cantor at This is his first season with the DWS. various Twin City churches with her husband Steven, Naomi also offers special music for many weddings and

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funerals. She received a B.A. degree from Augsburg Tambornino received a degree in Piano Performance from College and spends her weekdays as an Assistant Vice the University of Minnesota School of Music, studying with President in the Investment Division of the United Alexander Braginsky. Greg is an attorney in sole practice, Bankers' Bank. where he has served a number of music, arts, and nonprofit organizations. Baritone Brian L. Steele has enjoyed wearing a number of hats including machinist, radio personality, Soprano Teresa Tierney graduated from the church musician, recording artist, college voice instructor University of Colorado at Boulder with graduate degrees in and woodworker. He has been with the Singers since 1994. music theory/composition and vocal performance. Recently, He and his wife Jackie, enjoy their recently restored 1886 she has studied Italian operatic repertoire Rita Patane in home. Milano, Italy. Teresa currently teaches at Century College in White Bear Lake and teaches private voice lessons at Soprano Monica Stratton attended St. Olaf Eagan and Armstrong High Schools. A member of the College and the New England Conservatory of Music from DWS for 5 seasons, Teresa is glad to be rejoining the singers which she received music degrees. She also holds a degree after a year's absence. in Library Science from the University of Illinois. Monica sings and plays the violin at Guardian Angels Church in This is soprano Lori Vose;pka's first season Oakdale, and works as a librarian for the Ramsey County with the Singers, although she sang with the Dale Warland Library in Shoreview. Symphonic Chorus in 1990 and again last year. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Gregory Tambornino, tenor, is in his third Minnesota and a law degree from Northwestern School of year with the Singers. He has been active in choral singing Law of Lewis & Clark College. She has sung with the since he was a boy chorister. Greg performed as soloist and Portland Symphonic Choir and the Minnesota Chorale. in ensembles for many years as a countertenor, most notably She works as court administrator for the Bankruptcy Court in a concert and on recordings with Concentus Musicus in Minneapolis and cantors at Nativity Catholic Church in Renaissance Ensembles. He is currently a soloist and St. Paul. section leader at the Church of St. Patrick in Edina. Mr.

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29 DALE WARLAND SINGERS RECORDINGS

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2000-01 ANNUAL FUND DONORS

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33 Acknowledgements

The New Choral Music Program is funded by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation, with additional support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

The Dale Warland Singers is a member of Chorus America.

Women's concert dress was provided by Target Stores, Dayton's and Mervyn's California by the Target Corporation. (!)TARGET

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