Grayson Hirst, Founder/Artistic Director Welcome to our 23rd Annual Gala Spring Concert!

______Sons of Orpheus – The Male Choir of Tucson invites you to hear our 2014 performance! We hope these timeless compositions will evoke a strong, positive musical reaction from you. We invite you to visit our web site at www.sonsoforpheus.org. We hope you will find it colorful, interactive, fun and full of information about Tucson’s premier male choir. You can discover when and where we perform, as well as how to contract us to sing for your organization or special function. People are usually surprised to learn that the outreach mission of Sons of Orpheus is to provide a cultural platform for financial support to non- profit organizations and charities, both domestic and international. We especially encourage your support of our advertisers. Doing so thanks them that this program was made possible. We hope you enjoy! ______

BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dr. Lawrence Ross – President Richard Miller - Chair Dr. Sonja Rath – Vice President Gary Smyth – Recording Secretary Barbara Katz – Secretary/Treasurer Jim Kitchak – Corresponding Secretary Prof. Grayson Hirst – Founder/Director John Kamper - Treasurer Dorotha Bradley Cameron Fordyce – Financial Secretary Michael Bradley Bruce Mortensen – Member at Large Alberto Ranjel III Michael Bradley – Member at Large Harold Wieck Jim Filipek – Member at Large Jill Wieck Grayson Hirst – Founder/Artistic Director

HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD Jo Anne Anderson, Mia Hansen, Cantor Ivor Lichterman

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Acknowledgments Mission San Xavier, December 2013 We wish to express our thanks for the continued support of Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment of the Arts. We also wish to extend our thanks to Northminster Presbyterian Church for the Saturday morning rehearsal space they provide. Further, we greatly appreciate our collaboration this spring with the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Arizona Council of the Blind on the benefit concert of April 26. The benefit was the brainchild of Lindsey McHugh, who followed up in numerous ways, from publicity initiatives to securing transportation for blind attendees. Thank you, Lindsey! Our Founder and Director Grayson Hirst works tirelessly each year to select music that will inspire us and enhance Sons of Orpheus as a noteworthy choir. We thank Grayson for sharing his musical gifts and enthusiasm, as well as for the respect he shows his choristers, and we thank him for his dedication to making good music fun to learn, rehearse and perform. Sons of Orpheus is a dynamic and energetic organization that needs the ongoing support of time and effort by many individuals and groups to be successful. There are so many contributors who give unselfishly to make Sons of Orpheus work. We acknowledge some of them here:

Accompanist: Brent Burmeister Accountant: Mary Huerstel Banner Artwork and Design: Willie Valenzuela Banner Coordinator & Needlework: Judy Hall of Miss Molly’s Patchworks Banner Embroidery: Geri May of Geri’s Custom Embroidery CD Sales: Tom Kane, Claire O’Donnell, Brigette Wong Choral Arrangements (New): Jim Filipek, Tom Wentzel Concert Promoters: Darrell Bishop, Dave Burns, Darwin Hall, Tom Kane, Jim Kitchak, Rick Sack Email Listserve Manager: Tom McGorray First Tenors: Second Tenors: Baritones: Basses: Flyers and Posters: Dave Burns Brandon Dale Darrell Bishop Mike Bradley Jeff Handt Program Graphic Design: Kianna Davis, International Minute Press Eugene Friesen Dave Burns Chuck Dickson Tom Kane Grant Writing: Richard Miller John Kamper Darwin Hall John Evans George Ledbetter Haberdashery: Bruce Mortensen Tom McGorray Bob Kurtz Jim Filipek Rick Sack Librarians: Darrell Bishop, Jim Filipek, Cameron Fordyce, Jeff Handt Bruce Mortensen Richard Miller Cameron Fordyce Gary Smyth Logo Design: Bob Swaim Jim Naughton Mike Negrete Mike Fraser Eugene Stevick Photography: Gary Smyth, Walt Thomas Bryce Rodriguez Jim Owens Jim Kitchak Tom Wentzel Preparation of Program Notes for Publications: Brenna Ward Jim Tomlinson Ken Rosenblatt Ned Mackey Woon-Yin Wong Printing: International Minute Press Jerry Villano Larry Ross Walt Thomas Program Advertising Sales Coordinator: Rick Sack Larry Sayre Jerry Wozniak Program Notes Authors: Chuck Dickson, Grayson Hirst, Ned Mackey, Lindsey McHugh, Jim Owens, Tom Wentzel Dick Wroldsen Publicity: Dave Burns Risers: Gary Smyth and a motley crew of Orphean volunteers Grayson Hirst, Founder/Artistic Director – Brent Burmeister, Pianist Section Leader, First Tenors: Bruce Mortensen Section Leader, Second Tenors: Mike Negrete Section Leader, Baritones: Ned Mackey Section Leader, Basses: George Ledbetter The Voice of Orpheus Newsletter: Ned Mackey, Editor; Bob Couch, Layout/Design; Chuck Dickson, Proofing Ticket Sales Coordinators: Larry Sayre, Woon-Yin Wong Vans for Benefit Concert Transportation: Jim Click, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Webmaster: Thomas Wentzel

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Grayson Hirst, Our Founder and Artistic Director Our History Grayson Hirst, the distinguished American Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theater and the San tenor, has performed with leading American orchestras Francisco Spring Opera Theater, to name but a few. Founded by Professor Grayson Hirst in 1991, Sons of organizations including PICOR Foundation’s work with from Alaska to Puerto Rico, among them the Atlanta, Concert, opera and recital appearances in China, Orpheus–The Male Choir of Tucson is a not-for-profit, children’s groups, the Glassman Foundation’s program to Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, National, San Francisco and Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland, France, Portugal, community-based men’s choral organization. We explore the bring performing arts to area schools, La Frontera Mental St. Louis Symphonies, the Los Angeles Chamber Italy, Mexico and Brazil have brought international vast body of classical and popular choral literature written for Health, New Beginnings (formally Shalom House for homeless men’s voices: operatic choruses, folk and sacred music, show Orchestra, the New York Chamber Orchestra, the recognition to the California-born tenor. Grayson Hirst's mothers), Multiple Sclerosis Society, Welcome Wagon, Junior tunes, sea shanties, cowboy classics, rock’n’roll oldies, and League, the Community Food Bank, and Save the Children. Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. national opera telecasts and music festival appearances satirical selections, usually in the composer’s original We relish singing the National Anthem from time to time at Grayson Hirst launched his operatic career with have included PBS, NBC, CBS, NPR, Artpark, Newport, language. UofA basketball and local baseball games. a prestigious New York debut at Carnegie Hall singing Aspen, Caramoor, Lindsborg, Kalamazoo, Flagstaff, We have collaborated with numerous local arts We have toured at home and abroad. A performance the stratospheric role of Tonio in the American Opera Alaska, Colorado, Wolf Trap, Saratoga, Marlboro, organizations, among them the Tucson Symphony and Pops at the White House in 1998 was followed by international tours Society's revival of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment Brattleboro, Madeira, Sedona and Bard. Orchestras, Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus (TABC), Tucson in 2000 (Germany, Austria, Hungary), 2001 (Mexico), 2002 with Beverly Sills. Grammy Award nominee Grayson Girls Chorus, Southern Arizona Women’s Chorus, Arizona (Ireland, the UK), 2004 (Italy), 2008 (Germany, Czech His highly acclaimed New York Hirst has recorded opera and oratorio for Friends of Chamber Music, Catalina Chamber Orchestra, Republic, Austria), and 2012 (Italy). Each year we present a City Opera debut as Peter Quint in Britten's Disque VDE Gallo and for CRI, Schubert’s Arizona Balalaika Orchestra, and several mariachi bands. With spring concert at several locations, featuring an eclectic mix of opera The Turn of the Screw took place soon Die schöne Müllerin for Leonarda Records TABC, we’ve performed Fauré’s Requiem, hosted a Boys to music with guest soloists from the University of Arizona after. In 1972, Grayson Hirst created the and Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Men Choral Festival, and—since 1997—presented an annual School of Music and elsewhere. We’ve also produced several main tenor role, Msgr. Orsino, in the world Vanished for Arabesque Records, a disc of Christmas concert to support the restoration of Mission San CDs that are described elsewhere in this program. premiere of Alberto Ginastera’s Beatrix unknown songs by Dvořák for Spectrum Xavier del Bac. Our 2000 performance was broadcast across We welcome new members at all times. For Cenci, the first opera presented during the Records, Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea the nation by more than 115 PBS stations. additional information, please visit our web site at inaugural week ceremonies celebrating the and the Heinrich Schütz Matthäus-Passion Dubbed “The Choir that Cares,” we frequently www.sonsoforpheus.org. opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for for Newport Classic Recordings, and perform free of charge to benefit charitable community support the Performing Arts. A list of others who Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, have entrusted premiere performances of Horn and Strings, op. 31, for Vox Cum their works to Grayson Hirst reads like a Laude. A recording of Mr. Hirst’s New Our Banner who’s who of prominent composers in the York operatic debut as Tonio in La Fille du Orpheus animos ferarum permulsit et robora carmine commovit. latter half of the twentieth century: Hugh Régiment was recently released on the Aitken, Jack Beeson, Leonard Bernstein, Adagio Classics label The inspiration for naming Sons of Orpheus came from As time goes by, our banner will become much more than Ezra Laderman, Frank Martin, Tom Pasatieri, Ned He has served as an adjudicator of competitions, the nineteenth century male-voice choral movement. When an elaborate expression of our choir’s identity. Given time, Rorem, Roger Sessions, Robert Starer, Hugh Weisgal, among them the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and the it came to naming a men’s choral society (or Orpheon), the our banner will become an even prouder visible symbol of Virgil Thomson and Eugene Zador. Grayson Hirst has Concert Artist’s Guild Auditions. Mr. Hirst has served name of Orpheus, legendary figure of Greek pre-history our potent connection with the past. It was designed to who possessed magical powers to move all living things reflect the idea of continuity. While the banner does add appeared in more than 70 leading roles with numerous as an advisory panelist for the National Endowment for with his singing, was very much in fashion a century ago. eye-catching color and celebration to our concerts, it also opera companies throughout the United States, among the Arts Music Program. St. Cecilia ran a close second. serves as a reminder of our great musical and fraternal them the Boston, Connecticut, Cincinnati, Mississippi, Mr. Hirst is a scholarship alumnus of UCLA, Our Orpheus banner contains elements that were legacy. Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, San the Music Academy of the West, the Metropolitan Opera standard in thousands of banners from the last century. In Diego, Toledo and Virginia Opera Companies, the San Studio, the Aspen Music Festival School and The fact, inspiration for the design of our banner came from one Antonio Symphony Opera Festival, Birmingham Civic Juilliard School where he was a protégé of the renowned banner in particular that has survived from the mid- Opera, the Opera Company of Jacksonville, Houston Jennie Tourel. nineteenth century! In a sense, we sought to revive a fading tradition. For hundreds of years men’s choral organizations constructed their own banners to identify themselves and instill a sense of pride. Like tattered military colors hanging

in cathedrals, choral banners slowly became treasured iconic embodiments of an organization. They played a The banner was commissioned by Ramona Brittain in central role in the life of nineteenth century provincial memory of her husband, Paul. It bears Paul’s name along men’s choral societies. Once a year, members would carry with that of other departed members. Their memory lives their banners through the village streets, walking in solemn on. GH procession to the gravesites of departed members.

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12 13 First Half At last I’ve got here! A German Requiem, Is here completed; I shudder! Johannes Brahms, The indescribable, The whole inn Is here explained; Heard my horrible story, (Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit) The Eternal Feminine identity – the turning point of the action – falls Il Barbiere di Siviglia La Forza del Destino And my own brother was telling it! Draws us aloft. flat. If he had found me out! Oh, heavens! The Brahms requiem is strikingly different

Gioachino Rossini based his opera buffa, Il During a three-year gap between finishing his He said that Don Alvaro from those in the Roman Catholic tradition. It Because a men’s choir is made up of beings The aria tells us about love and freedom and barbiere di Siviglia on the first play in the Un Ballo in Maschera in early 1858, and Had sailed for the West! begins not with a prayer for the dead but with who stereotypically have trouble says the way we look at the world can be immortal Figaro trilogy of Pierre-Augustin de starting La Forza del Destino in mid – 1861, He was not killed that ghastly night solace for the living: “Blessed are they that understanding even mortal women, one changed. It delivers the forward-thinking Beaumarchais (1732-1799), Le barbier de Giuseppe Verdi seemed to have decided to When, spattered with my father’s blood, mourn, for they shall be comforted.” It is in wonders how we are to sing about the Eternal Beaumarchais’ revolutionary message: one Séville. Beaumarchais’ three incendiary stop composing altogether! During this I followed on his heels, but lost him. German rather than Latin. Brahms himself Feminine. We will do our best. does not have to follow the old order, it’s okay masterpieces were banned by Louis XVI for compositional hiatus, he told friends he had He left me behind and fled. selected the passages from the Lutheran Bible NM to love whomever you wish. Count Almaviva investing the common man with too great a ceased to be a composer. He was famous, he Oh, God, I cannot control my grief! for a libretto that would be sacred but not cannot get what he wants based on his dignity and portraying the aristocracy was rich, he was applauded, but in truth, he O Mother of God, Holy Virgin, liturgical, humanistic rather than dogmatic. privileges as an aristocrat; he must turn for unflatteringly. was not content. During his silence he had a Forgive my wicked sin. (Carl Martin Reinthaler, director of Music at help to Figaro, a member of the proletariat. recurrent urge to write a really successful Purge from my hear all thoughts the Bremen Cathedral, expressed his concern Amor de Mi Alma True to form, the 24-year-old Rossini Dust off your Beaumarchais; his philosophy is grand opera. Fortunately, the world would not to Brahms that the redeeming death of Jesus Of my once and faithless lover. composed his comic masterpiece in just under all there, but in what seems to us today dry let him rest. Fresh creativity came in late 1860 was not part of the text. When the piece was In this seclusion The poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1503- three weeks! Il barbiere di Siviglia is utilitarian dialogue. Ah, but Rossini clothed when the famous tenor Enrico Tamberlik performed in Bremen, Reinthaler took it upon I’ll expiate my guilt. 1536) in a contemporary setting by Z. Randall arguably the greatest comic opera ever Beaumarchais’ argument (otherwise likely to wrote to Verdi with an offer of a commission. himself to insert the aria "I know that my O Lord, have mercy on me, Stroope (b. 1953) written! The premiere took place on February be forgotten?) in eloquence impossible to After much hesitation the 47-year-old Redeemer liveth" from Handel's Messiah to Do not forsake me. 20, 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. forget – provided the tenor can sing it. composer signed a contract with the Imperial satisfy the clergy.) Mercy, have mercy on me, Lord. Z. Randall Stroope has composed more than The opera gained an enormous success that GH Opera of St. Petersburg for a new opera to be Consolation is the theme of the fifth 125 choral settings, among which his setting has never diminished. Il barbiere was first given during the winter season of 1861-2. La movement. It was composed almost as an Monks: of the Amor de Mi Alma is considered one of performed in London in 1818. It received a Translation Forza del Destino (The force of destiny) was afterthought a month following the original Come, let us adore the best: Paris premiere in 1823, and was the first Count: first performed on November 10, 1862, or if premier of the work and slipped in after the And go before God; a painfully beautiful setting of Garcilaso de la Italian opera performed in America when Cease to resist further, you prefer, October 29 according to the fourth of what had been six movements. The Let us implore the heart of God who made us. Vega’s Soneta V. Manuel Gracia (for whom the opera was Do not provoke my anger: Russian calendar. final version was presented in Zurich on especially written) and his Italian troupe first The vile yoke September 12, 1868, a turning point in Leonora: De la Vega is regarded by many as the most performed it at the Park Theater in New York Of such cruelty is broken. Giuseppe Verdi’s twenty-second opera, La Brahms’s career. Ah, what celestial harmony of notes influential poet to introduce Renaissance verse on November 29, 1825. Your greedy fury Forza del Destino, has a lot going for it: a Pours from the organ and the choir, forms to Spain, and he did this mainly through Will no long triumph fiercely romantic plot full of far-fetched Brahms composed his requiem for a large And, like a veil of incense, floats the tragic love poetry of his 40 sonnets. The The legendary Spanish tenor, Manuel Garcia Over oppressed beauty. coincidences involving star-crossed lovers, orchestra, but we’re happy to sing Toward Heaven and the seat of God. Amor de mi Alma is nothing less than the (1775-1832), whose stardom may be gauged Over innocent love. grand heroics, blinding rage, murder, revenge, accompanied by a piano four-hand It fills my tormented soul portrait of a lover helpless to express his love. by his fee for appearing in Il barbiere – higher And you, unhappy victim oh, and let us not overlook the singing monks! arrangement written by Brahms himself. Brent With ease and peace. than Rossini’s fee for composing it! – called Of a wickedly tyrannical power, Delivered against a backdrop of martial and Burmeister and Chien-I Yang will provide the I will go toward my sanctuary; Stroope has condensed and rearranged the Almaviva the greatest acting role ever written. Subjected to the cruel yoke, monastic life, we hear some of Verdi’s most hands. Sopranos Lindsey McHugh and Erika But do I dare, at the hour? poetry but not lost its power. The opening of He sang in the Paris and London premieres. Can exchange anguish for pleasure dramatic music, great arias, duets and Burkhart will provide the solo voice. What if someone should find me out? his setting has the voices moving, sometimes And rejoice in liberty remarkable ensemble pieces. All in all, La CD Poor Leonora, you tremble? together and sometimes not, in the main Cessa di più resistere, Count Almaviva’s act II In the bosom of a faithful husband. Forza del Destino is a sprawling, brilliant and No, the kindly brothers theme: Yo no nací sino para quereros – I was aria, demands a triumphant display of tenor Dear friends… complex masterpiece. Translation Will not refuse to take me in. not born but to love you. The images build as coloratura technique. It begins with a And ye now therefore have sorrow; Help me, O Lord, I beg. the lover compares his soul to a piece of cloth commanding recitativo accompagnato, Soldiers: Act II, scene 2 but I will see you again, O God, do not forsake me; cut to fit the countenance of his beloved and proceeds to an expansively romantic middle Have no fear. Much of the most beautiful music in Verdi’s and your heart shall rejoice, Have mercy, O Lord. then cloak it: Mi alma os ha cortado a su section culminating in the beautiful “Ah il più La Forza del Destino is sung by Leonora, and your joy no man taketh from you. medida – You my soul has cut to its measure. lieto, il più felice,” which closes with a Count: beloved of Don Alvaro, whose accidental King James Bible Monks: climactic burst of coloratura fireworks. You This knot… killing of her father sets the complicated plot Let us implore the heart Suddenly the highest and lowest voices hold may recognize the same melody in Angelina’s in motion. Distraught, she seeks sanctuary in Of God who made us. their notes while the inner voices move nearly famous act II rondo finale Nacqui all’ Soldiers: a distant convent. On arrival she first sings the in a Moorish style as the poet laments that he affano… Non più mesta, which Rossini …Is indissoluble, heartfelt prayer for forgiveness, Madre, Leonora: A Faust Symphony, Franz cannot have more than the image written on shamelessly recycled in Cenerentola that And will bind you to her forever. pietosa Vergine. O Lord, have mercy on me. Liszt, Schlusschor his soul lest he reveal his love. But as the poet premiered in Rome just eleven months after May blessed Mary-of-the-angels realizes what he must do, Stroope brings the his Barbiere. Count: At the close of Act II Wrap me in her cloak of peace. As it happens, we’ll sing another piece that music back to its original key and glorious Ah, of all you loving hearts my heart Leonora kneels gratefully at the shrine of the May the host of Heaven guard me, was an add-on. Three years after Franz Liszt end: Y por vos e de morir, y por vos muero. Almaviva, in the form in which he was Is the most joyful, the happiest: Madonna and joining the monks sings with And give me rest. thought he had finished A Faust Symphony, he conceived, is the finest tenor role in the bel O glad moments of my happiness, serene and elevated purity La Vergine degli May blessed Mary-of-the-angels added a Schlusschor (concluding chorus) for a The phrase [h]e de morir is a 16th century canto repertoire. Cessa di più resistere was Do not fly away. angeli, what some have called the ‘crown Guard me and give me rest. performance at the dedication of a monument Castillian idiom meaning something like “I cut from performances beginning in Rossini’s jewel’ of the entire opera. to Goethe and Schiller in the city of Weimar in would be obliged to die if it were necessary”. day. The entire aria runs eight minutes and is Soldiers: GH Guardiano, Melitone and the Friars: 1857. The Schlusschor is just eight lines taken This depth of meaning reveals the emotions the final solo in the opera. Because of its To unite two loving hearts May blessed Mary-of-the-angels Is a pleasure without equal. by Liszt from Goethe’s Faust: intended in the final muero: not simply “I die” intensely challenging coloratura passages, few Translation Wrap you in her cloak of peace. but “I am called to die by this obligation and, tenors can do it full justice. But without the Leonora: May the host of Heaven guard you, Everything transitory by dying, I fulfill it.” aria, the revelation of Count Almaviva’s true I’ve got here! Oh, thank God! And give me rest. Is only an allegory. My final resting place. The insufficient The second stanza refers to the gesto written

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on the poet’s soul. This is a hard concept to far from his wife’s family’s estate. His tiny composition with Halsey Stevens and Ingolf It is absolutely essential that gifted young musicians who aspire to a career in music have a platform on express in English. It is more than an image, a study and the quiet location suited him Dahl at the University of Southern California. which to test their powers and sharpen their skills. face or an aspect. As de la Vega uses it, it is perfectly. He claimed that he blocked out the Lauridsen began teaching at USC in 1967 and more like “your stories in his head, after which his pen took has been a member of the faculty ever since. Opportunities to meet and surpass their artistic and performance goals are not always easily available to countenance that reveals your essence in your charge and he watched it begin to write. the young emerging artist. Sons of Orpheus is dedicated to providing an ongoing showcase for outstanding face.” The 70-year-old composer now divides his student musicians and talented local performers. Young, aspiring musicians whose remarkable vitality and Hundreds of Kipling’s poems, ballads, and time between Los Angeles and his home on Stroope’s music is powerful, lyrical, tragic and ditties have been set to music, so it is Waldron, a remote island in the San Juan virtuosity are being cultivated here in our music programs perform in a professional environment before deeply emotional all at once. It gives somewhat paradoxical that he himself was Archipelago off the northern coast of you, our music loving audiences. Today Sons of Orpheus is honored to welcome back to our stage the tremendous force to the deep devastation in utterly tone deaf. One of Kipling’s daughters Washington state. outstanding talents of soprano Christi Amonson, tenor Brandon Dale, and bass Jess Koehn. In addition we our poet’s feelings. Even though de la Vega’s wrote that her father admitted that God “had poetry is little known now outside of small excluded all music from his make-up except It is indeed a brave American composer who welcome the return of instrumentalists Nicole Skaggs, violin, and Steven Abramson, piano. It is also our enclaves, Stroope has brought at least this one the brute instinct for beat, as necessary for the would dare to follow Samuel Barber in setting great pleasure to introduce Luciano Marazzo, tenor, and Samson McCrady, baritone. example before us manufacture of verse.” that remarkable poem of timeless beauty, Sure in all of its glory. on this Shining Night. The poem, by James JO Eric Whitacre follows a long line of noted Agee (1909-1955), inspired Barber to composers who have set Kipling’s poetry. compose one of the greatest and most popular I was not born but to love you; Whitacre is widely known for his "Virtual art songs of the 20th century. Having sung and Brandon Dale many of the western European playing the role of Monostatos You my soul has cut to its measure Choir" projects on YouTube, stitching taught Barber’s setting for many years, I was countries, and was invited to in the University of Arizona’s It’s you I want as a cloak for my soul. together individual voices from around the not prepared to believe any other version world in a cyber-internet choir. YouTube has could be as moving. Well, I was mistaken. participate in Sunday Mass at 2014 Spring production of W.A. Your every aspect is written on my soul; exposed Whitacre’s music to a new audience Morton Lauridsen has captured the beauty and the Vatican. In the Summer of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and is I no more than read, that within it, and helped it gain an unprecedented wonder of Agee’s poem, evoking the great 2012, Sons of Orpheus Male a professional tenor soloist in I hide even from you. popularity. Orpheus sang his “Lux Aurumque” expanse of the universe beheld in a summer Choir of Tucson, under the Tucson with the The Sons of during the Christmas season. night sky by a lone wanderer. His setting is How much I must confess I owe you: NM spare, flowing and stunningly beautiful. direction of its founder, Grayson Orpheus and at St. Paul’s United For you I was born, for you I have life. The poem comes from James Agee’s Permit Hirst, travelled to Italy, where Methodist Church. Were it necessary, for you I would die; Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind Me Voyage, published in 1934 by Yale they were invited to and for you I do die. us, University Press. While working for Fortune Tr. Keith Beckman And black are the waters that sparkled so Magazine, the 25-year-old poet, novelist, participate in Sunday Mass in green. journalist, film critic, screenwriter, and social St. Peter's Basilica, where Nicole Skaggs The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward activist published what was to be his only Brandon performed as a tenor to find us, volume of verse. At rest in the hollows that rustle between. On previous programs Sons of Orpheus has soloist with the choir. After The Seal Lullaby Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy thoroughly enjoyed performing Morton graduating from Valley Catholic pillow, Lauridsen’s Dirait-on and O Magnum High School, Brandon received a It is amazing to realize that during Rudyard Oh weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! Mysterium. We now take great pleasure in full tuition scholarship from the Kipling’s lifetime, that great English short- The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark presenting his serene and radiant choral setting story writer, novelist, and poet went from overtake thee, of Sure on this Shining Night. University of Arizona to study being the unofficial Poet Laureate of Great Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seas! GH vocal performance and operatic Britain to being one of the most denounced poets in English literary history! In 1907, theater. Throughout his operatic Kipling became the first Englishman to studies at the U of A he has receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the Brandon Dale was born and performed many operatic roles time of his death in 1936, Kipling had Sure on This Shining Night, raised in Portland, Oregon, such as The Magician in The compiled one of the most diverse collections Morten Lauridsen of poetry in all of English literature. Today we where he began his musical Consul, Annio in W.A. Mozart’s recognize Rudyard Kipling as one of the best education and performance La Clemenza di Tito, Don Ottavio ballad writers of all time. The following In December 1994 the Los Angeles Master career at a young age. He began Kipling ballad, in musical setting, justifies that in Don Giovanni, Gherardo in Chorale presented the world premiere of a claim and leaves no room for doubt. cantoring at weekly Sunday Gianni Schicchi, and Gastone in setting of the Latin chorus O Magnum

Mysterium by a little-known 51-year-old USC- Mass for St. Cecilia Catholic La Traviata. Brandon has Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Seal Lullaby” based composer named Morton Lauridsen. Church in Beaverton, Oregon worked with the Arizona Opera prefaces the story “The White Seal” from The Twenty years later choirs the world over Jungle Book, first published in magazines in and at the age of nine became a Company Chorus in their 2013 regularly perform the renowned Morton 1893 and ‘94. “The White Seal” is the story of member of The Oregon Lauridsen’s works, earning him the title of production of Der Fliegender Kotic, a seal who saved his species by finding Nicole Skaggs is 15 years old today’s most frequently performed American Children’s Choir and Youth Hollander and participated in a beach hunters couldn’t get to by land or sea. th choral composer. and is currently in the 10 grade We sing “The Seal Lullaby” set to music by Choral (OCCYC) with which he the Arizona Opera Tucson the popular contemporary composer Eric sang for ten years under the Outreach Program. Brandon at Canyon Del Oro High School. Morton Lauridsen was born February 27, Whitacre. She has studied violin since the 1943, in Colfax, Washington. He worked for direction of its founder, Sandra currently lives in Tucson where

a time as a Forest Service firefighter and Miller. During Brandon’s ten age of 3. She is currently Kipling (1865-1936) wrote The Jungle Book in he is still active at the University lookout on an isolated tower near Mt. St. a farm cottage near Brattleboro, Vermont, not years with the OCCYC, he sang in of Arizona. He is currently Helens before traveling south to study

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studying with David Rife of the participation in mariachi until Professor Grayson Hirst, Bryce Yang has been a scholarship at age 10. He received his Violin and serves as the Treasurer of Tucson Symphony Orchestra. her senior year in high school has performed multiple roles student at the Chautauqua Performance degrees from the the American String Teachers when she began an approach to with the University of Arizona Music Festival in Chautauqua, University of Tulsa (BM) and the Association of Arizona. She has won the Civic Orchestra classical music. After falling in Opera Theater, as a soloist with NY in 2010 and 2011. She is one Florida State University (MM), of Tucson concerto competitions love with the genre, she the Sons of Orpheus, as a of the pianists for the touring and a Music Education degree in 2013 and 2014, and she was a continued her music education member of the tenor quartet Tra chamber group “The Core (MME) from the University of Carlos Zapién silver medalist in the Tucson in college as a student of David Fratelli, and in several other Ensemble” and aside from Ms. Arizona. His main Violin Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s Rife and Matthew Spieker, and local engagements. Yang’s classical performance teachers include Steven concerto competition. She was has performed in chamber engagements; she is an in- Moeckel, Gary Kosloski, Elliot one of the 13 violinists across groups, from duets to chamber demand musical theatre pianist Chapo, Derry Deane, and Mikio Arizona chosen to perform at orchestra. Chien-I Yang and bandleader, working with Ejima. the 75th Anniversary of the Entr’Acte Theatrix. Described AMEA Solo and Ensemble Gaby is majoring in Music by Hap Erstein of the Palm As a violinist, he performed with Festival in 2014. Education at the University of Beach Post, “Chien-I Yang heads the National Repertory (CO), Arizona, and plans on teaching an accomplished three-piece Tallahassee (FL), Shreveport Nicole is currently abroad, with the ultimate goal of combo, and plays a mean (LA), Arkansas (AR), Vancouver Concertmaster of the Tucson becoming a Professor of Music keyboard.” Her most recent (Canada), Hiroshima (Japan), Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Education specializing in the musical theatre collaborations AIMS (Austria), Tucson, Tucson and she has won the elementary classroom. were You’re A Good Man Charlie Pops, and Arizona Opera Concertmaster chairs at the Brown and How To Succeed In Orchestras among others. He AMEA All-Regional Orchestra Business Without Really Trying. was a member of the Sturgis Bryce Rodriguez for the past two years. She was Ms. Yang received her Masters String Quartet as an Arts the only violin player from of Music Degree at Lynn Partner with the Arkansas Carlos Zapién has participated in Tucson to be selected for the 1st Conservatory of Music in Florida Symphony Orchestra for three Master Classes and has sung as a violin section of the All-State under Dr. Roberta Rust. years where he performed recitalist in his native Mexico, and Orchestra in Phoenix. Currently, Ms. Yang is pursuing chamber music recitals and Born in Taiwan, Chien-I Yang also in Austria, Germany, Italy, her Doctor degree with Dr. John educational outreach has had a remarkable career as Taiwan and the United States. As She has enjoyed being the violin Milbauer at University of performances. a member of the Oregon Opera a classical and contemporary accompanist for the past four Arizona. Ensemble he has participated in pianist. A prize-winning concert seasons for the Sons of He is also active as a conductor. diverse operatic productions, performer of numerous awards, Orpheus and was thrilled to Toru was one of the conductors including La Cambiale di she won the 40th annual Toru Tagawa accompany them on their Italy for the Interlochen Repertory Matrimonio (Rossini), The Magic President’s Concerto tour in 2012. Orchestra in 2007, and in 2011 Flute and The Marriage of Figaro Competition at UA, the winner Toru founded the Tucson (Mozart). In 2007 he made his of the MTNA Young Artist Repertory Orchestra and he is European operatic debut as Count Gaby Rincón Competition for Arizona 2012, the conductor of the orchestra. Belfiore in Mozart's La Finta th the 3rd price of the 4 annual He has participated in Giardiniera with the Thuringian Trester Piano Competition and conducting workshops at Philharmonic at the Ekhof rd the 3 price of the MTNA Young Juilliard, and Queens College, Festival. Later he sang Schubert's Born and raised in Tucson, Artist Competition and is a member of the Mass in B flat Major at the Bryce Rodriguez is Salpointe Southwestern Region. She has Conductors Guild. His Gasteig in Munich with the Bach Catholic High School graduate performed in master classes conducting teachers include Collegium of Munich. and former football player who given by Monique Duphil, Thomas Cockrell, Charles never planned on pursuing any Phillippe Entremote, Edna Bontrager, Jung-Ho Pak, Maurice In Pisa, he took on the role of

musical ventures until some Golansky, Gary Graffman, Peress, Donald Portnoy, Sandra Alfred in Die Fledermaus with the Toru, from Hiroshima, Japan, voice lessons with family friend Rebecca Penneys, Thomas Dackow, Adrian Gnam, and Jenaer Philharmonic. In 2009, Gaby Rincon began her violin started playing the violin at age Jeanne Voutsas uncovered a Schumacher, and Arie Vardi and Robert Gutter. Since 2008, he Zapién performed with the studies at age six in elementary 6, and joined the Kurashiki nagging desire within him to has been broadcast live on has been the orchestra director Reutlingen Philharmonic in a school through its mariachi Junior Philharmonic Orchestra sing opera. As a student of WXEL radio several times. Ms. at Canyon del Oro High School, concert dedicated to the works of program. She continued her

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Rossini, and appeared at the His biography is in the words of at the University of Arizona. Her education. She studies voice with Miss McHugh is a very active Figaro at Opera in the Ozarks Schloss Solitude in Jommelli's Andre Gide: opera roles have included Professor Grayson Hirst at the member of the Southern Arizona with renowned conductor Dr. opera Didone Abbandonata with Carolina in Cimarosa’s Il University and is a member of the Chapter of the Arizona Council Of Thomas Cockrell. Back at school the Stuttgart Philharmonic. Nothing happens. Always the quiet Matrimonio Segreto, Sarah Good Arizona Choir, the school's top the Blind. She plans meetings, the following semester, she was life – and yet such a turbulent life. in Ward’s The Crucible, Rose choral ensemble, which will travel organizes recreational outings, and cast as Magda Sorel in The After receiving awards from the Maurrant in Street Scene and to Vienna and Prague in May of is always eager to volunteer. Consul. Her final performance at Government of Sonora in 2008, Everything happens deep in the Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She this year. Miss McHugh has sung the University of Arizona was Carlos was named Artist in soul. Nothing appears on the most enjoys singing new works with Sons Of Orpheus since Christy McClarty Violetta in the ambitious Residence at the Opera Studio of surface. and has sung several world Spring 2011 and will travel with production of La Traviata. While Stuttgart, 2009-2010, where he premiere chamber works. She them to Paris in 2015. She has earning her Master’s degree performed various roles from Il How can I write about nothing? has won the Southern Arizona appeared as soloist with the from California State University- Trovatore to The Marriage of Opera Guild’s “Quest for the Tucson Pops Orchestra under Northridge she performed the Figaro, and he created the role of Maestro Lászlo Veres's baton, and Erika Burkhart Best” competition, the Amelia roles of Suor Angelica (title role) the son of Medea in Fremd by Rieman Opera Competition, and will do so again this summer with and Susanna in Le nozze di Hans Thomalla, collaborating with the Arizona District Maestro Veres and the Arizona Figaro. Maestro Joahannes Kalitzke. Metropolitan Opera National Symphonic Winds. Council Audition. Since Her excellence in academics and Recent performances include the completing her degree at the As a collaborative pianist, Miss performance led to her Oratorio Jonas by Carissimi, arias University of Arizona, Erika McHugh has worked with voice induction into the Pi-Kappa from Brescianello's La Tisbe, has continued to perform and instrumental students at Pima Lambda musical honor society. Bach's Magnificat and the tenor throughout Southern Arizona. Community College and the In 2009, she was selected as a University, as well as with choirs role in Orff's Carmina Burana. In She teaches voice lessons in regional semi-finalist in the at the Arizona Schools For the addition to his performances, Tucson and has been a Teaching Metropolitan Opera National Deaf and Blind, St. Francis In The Carlos Zapién is the founding Artist with Arizona Opera’s Council Auditions. Miss Foothills United Methodist director of Ars Vocalis Mexico, a outreach program. McClarty currently resides in Church, and Desert Sky Middle program begun in 2010, and Phoenix where she studies with School in Vail. She has also designed to open opportunities for Kathleen Berger and continues played featured roles and served young Mexican singers. And in Lindsey McHugh Christy McClarty began her to audition for the next great as musical director, accompanist, 2013 Carlos was appointed studies at the University of opportunity. She is happy to be Director of Music for the and sound plot designer for Arizona in 2010 where she a guest soloist with the Sons of Cathedral of Saint Augustine in various showcases and full began studying with Faye Orpheus and thanks them for Tucson. productions with the Red Barn Robinson. Her first opera role at the great musical moments and Theatre Company, Christian the University of Arizona was in memories. Youth Theatre, Mystery Mansion the production of Mozart’s Erika Burkhart is a soprano with Don Dinner Theatre of where she performed Brent Burmeister great musical range. She has Giovanni Tucson, Pima Community the role of Donna Elvira. The performed as a soloist in the College, the University of next summer Miss McClarty Tucson Chamber Artists Arizona, Escape Reality performed the role of La performance of Bach’s Mass in B Productions, and the Performing Contessa in Mozart’s Le nozze di Minor, as well as a new Stephen Arts Center in Coolidge, AZ.

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IV Lowlands baritone (American Sea Shanty)…………………………………..………………..…………arr. Robert Shaw/Alice Parker rd Shenandoah 23 Anniversary Gala Spring Concert David Harrington, (American Sea Shanty)…………………………………………………….……..……………….arr. Kent Newbury Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:00, P.M. Swansea Town

(English Sea Shanty)……………………………………………..……..…….arr. Robert Shaw/Alice Parker Casas Adobes Congregational Church V

Sunday, 6801 April N. Oracle 13, Rd, 2014, Tucson 3:00 P.M. The Policeman’s Holiday…………………..………………….…………….….Montague Ewing (1890-­‐1957),

baritone arr. T. Wentzel The Lodge at Del Rancho Webb/ Del Lago David Harrington, Saturday, 10264 S. April Blendu 26, 2014, Vail, Way, 2:00 AZ P.M. Jalousie “Tango Tzigane”……………………..………..……………………………….Jacob Gade -­‐ (1879 1963), violin, tenor arr. T. Wentzel Grace St. ’s Paul Episcopal Church Gigolette………………………………………..Nicole ……………………………… Skaggs, Bryce …..….……..Franz Rodriguez, Lehár (1870-­‐1948), 2331 E. I Adams Street soprano arr. T. Wentzel Cessa di più resistere, Ah il più lieto, il più felice, soprano Lindsey McHugh, (April 6 and April 26), Il Barbiere di Siviglia, ………………………………….…………...…. Erika Burkhart, (April 13) tenor tenor from Act II piano primo— Gioachinopiano secundoRossini (1792-­‐1868) VI Brandon Dale, (April 6 and April 26), Carlos Zapien, (April 13) The Story of Ferdinand the Bull, Alan Ridout (1934-­‐1996) Son giunta, la Vergine Chien degli Angeli, -­‐I Yang, Brent Burmeister, , violin, , narrator ( ), La Forza del Destino, Munro Leaf (1905-­‐1976)………………..…………….....… violin, narrator soprano Gabriela Rincón Lindsey McHugh April 6 and April 26 from Act II……………………………………………..………...Giuseppe Verdi (1813-­‐1901) Toru Tagawa, David Yetman, (April 13) Christy II McClarty, Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit Ein Deutsches Requiem VII soprano Arizona, Arizona……………………………………………………………..………………………….….. , from , soprano Op. 45, No. 5……...…..Johannes Brahms (1833-­‐1897) Lindsey McHugh, (April 6 and April 26), tenor tenor Truck Stop, arr. V Williamsen Erika Burkhart, (April 13) Schlusschor Faust-­‐Sinfonie Brandon Dale, (April 6 and 26) and Bryce Rodriguez, (April 13) Don’t Fence Me In…………………………………………Bob Fletcher (1885-­‐1972), Cole Porter (1891-­‐1964), tenor tenor , from , LW G12…………………………………………………………..Franz Liszt (1811-­‐1886) baritone arr. M Hill Brandon Dale, (April 6 and April III 26) , Carlos Zapien, (April 13) David Harrington, Amor de mi Alma, ….…………………...Z. Randall Stroope (b. 1953) Mexicali Rose…………………………………………………………………………..……Jack B. Tenney (1898-­‐1970),

tenor The Seal Lullaby, Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-­‐1536)………………. Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) arr. J. Filipek

Bryce Rodriguez, Sure on this Rudyard Shining Night, Kipling (1865-­‐1936)…………………………..…………..….……Morten .…. Lauridsen (b. 1943) Theme Rawhide…………………………………………………………………….Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-­‐1979),

James Agee (1909-­‐1955)……………….……………………… from arr. M. Hill

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‘Twas all over my jealousy, Cowboy Classics Second Half My crime was my blind jealousy. For this arrangement, Thomas Wentzel My heart was afire with desire for you started with a simple sheet music score of The music of America is varied, plentiful But I never thought our love was true. Gigolette with lyrics by Ben Travers that he and expressive. The land of the West is by the band, and sometimes the band he had joined them as a trumpeter. At age 12 Sea Shanties You gave all your kisses to me found online in the National Library of loved the world over for its blazing drama, members themselves stepped in to sing the he began to study violin, his instrument of But now all too late I can see Australia. He studied period audio its legends and its music. Cowboy songs are verse or chorus. choice in later years. He dreamed of A great legacy of song has come down to The heartaches I cost you. recordings of several dance band one of the most important parts of the folk becoming a composer and orchestra us from the Age of Sail. Shanties are the No wonder I lost you! performances, pulling out orchestral riffs music of our country. Today we present to you three dances that conductor, and moved to Copenhagen to ‘Twas all over my jealousy. and countermelodies by ear, and from those work songs once used on the square- also doubled as vocal numbers. The first, begin composing prolifically before he was TW created parts for the men of Orpheus to sing Arizona has strong cowboy ties. Tucson is a rigged whalers, the clipper ships, the 20. His first big hit came in 1900 with in counterbalance to the soprano soloist who Mecca of Western music. And, just down merchant navy, the fishing fleets, and the The Policeman’s Holiday, dates from 1911. publication and popularization of a “toast” carries the melody. He even had some notes the road a-piece, is the birthplace of many gulf traders. In a way, sea shanties bring Penned by British composer Montague song called Sunshine on the Ripe Grapes. left over to add extra zest to the piano legendary western movies: Old Tucson us closer to the tasks, thoughts, and Ewing when he was only 21 years old, it His fame grew as he continued composing Gigolette accompaniment, as long as the Orpheus Studios. values of our forefathers who spent their quickly became a hit, and he went on to waltzes and other dance music, played violin Philharmonic has twelve fingers. Thomas lives on the sea in the era of the sailing write numerous other pieces with descriptive in several orchestras, then began leading his Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár is was drawn to Gigolette not only by its The songs and stories of the West, its vessel. We relive our history in these titles such as The Queen Was in the Parlor, own orchestras that performed in cinema known mainly for his operettas, of which the catchy tune but also by the power of Ben histories, its memorable movies excite the songs that were sung throughout the Whistling under the Moon and Butterflies in theatres as accompaniment to silent films. best known and most successful is Die Travers’ lyrics that tell the story of an imagination enormously. The allegorical seven seas, songs that will live as long as the Rain. Ewing is perhaps best known, In 1919 Gade traveled to New York City to lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), which he impoverished young woman who must nature of the movie plots, the rugged men have voices to sing. though, for his 1926 Moonlight on the pursue his performing in large cinema wrote in 1905 at the age of 35. At that time, dance and entertain nightly while hiding the individualist pitted against villainous, Ganges, which was recorded numerous theatre orchestras, and was invited to join he had been the conductor of Vienna’s harsh realities of her life behind a false ruthless, brutal men, the altruistic hero’s Swansea and Lowlands are examples of times over the next 50 years by band leaders the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, historic Theatre an der Wein for three years, smile. You may leave tapping your feet and valiant deeds, his fight for law and order Captain Shanties sung when raising the the likes of Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller with which he performed for two years. He and while The Merry Widow was only his humming the song, but remember little glorified all the virtues we associate with anchor on a ship while winding the chain and Benny Goodman. The younger then returned to Denmark to conduct fifth operetta, he composed around thirty Gigolette’s timeless story as well. frontier life. Only yesterday, the reality of around a giant winch. These are classic generation will likely recognize his fast- Copenhagen’s Palads Cinema Theatre more during his career. The exact number is TW hardships and lawlessness on the frontier arrangements by Robert Shaw and Alice paced Fly by Night, used in soundtracks for Orchestra, for which he composed and difficult to determine because at least ten were matters of life and death. Our Parker. Shenandoah began as a song of the the animated TV series The Ren & Stimpy arranged music to accompany silent films. It were revised versions of earlier operettas, forefathers and mothers had to fight to do flatboatmen on the Missouri River in the Show and SpongeBob SquarePants. was there, on September 14, 1925, that he with changes being made to the libretto, the whatever was necessary to survive. And in early 19th century, which worked its way performed Jalousie (Jealousy), a gypsy-style music, or both. Such is the case with The Story of so doing, they helped to shape the American down the Mississippi to American clipper The Policeman’s Holiday’s rhythm and tango, at the premiere of the American Gigolette. character. Their struggle for existence has ships and then around the world. Our tempo allowed it to double either as a one- movie "Don Q., Son of Zorro", starring Ferdinand the Bull captured the imagination of the world. arrangement of is by Kent step or two-step dance. The two-step, found Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Astor. The Shenandoah In the middle of World War I, Lehár wrote Newbury of Scottsdale, Arizona, a in many folk dances, has its origins with the piece was soon recorded by Arthur Fiedler Instead of fighting fiercely in the bull ring, one of his most decidedly unsuccessful But the Old West has all but vanished, lost proficient composer of choral music with polka. The one-step was a statelier version with the Boston Pops and became a you, Ferdinand, prefer to sit under your operettas, Der Sterngucker (The Stargazer), to us a little more each day, drowned in almost three hundred works published of the turkey trot that was danced to fast worldwide hit, eventually appearing in over favorite cork tree and smell the flowers. to a libretto by Fritz Löhner-Beda. Because country music and the asphalt ocean of the ragtime music popular between 1900 and 100 (non-silent) m ovies. A few years after Your timeless story was written by over the course of fifty-eight years. some of its music appealed to an Italian New West. Lost, but not forgotten. 1910. The one-step incorporated several Jalousie’s great success, Gade was able to American author Munro Leaf (1905-1976) Newbury has received over a dozen producer, Carlo Lombardo, Lehár was basic figures including the Castle walk retire from conducting and devote himself and illustrated by Robert Lawson (1892- awards from the American Society of persuaded to reuse much of the music, Over the years, Orpheus has collected and (named after and introduced by ballroom solely to composition, supported by 1957). Your story was first published in Composers, Authors, and Publishers setting it in 1922 to a new book partly performed a large repertoire of classic and dancers Vernon and Irene Castle), the turn, Jalousie’s royalties. But in spite of his 1936, just nine months before the Spanish (ASCAP) since 1982. written by Lombardo, and calling it La modern Western songs and ballads. All of the dip, the grapevine, the square and the ensuing prodigious output of dance and Civil War, and it became an immediate Danza delle libellule. Due to the operetta’s them are colorful mirrors of life in the Old one-step eight. The dance figures of the symphonic music, he never had another children's book classic. Many considered Orpheus takes pleasure in presenting a great success in Italy, it was translated into West, fleeting reminders of an altogether Castle walk and the square are also shared triumph to match that of Jalousie. your story a pacifist manifesto. You, group of Sea Shanties from the days of English by the revered British novelist and unique chapter in American history. with the tango. The Castles refined and Ferdinand, were actually banned in many wooden ships and iron men. playwright, Ben Travers. This new popularized the foxtrot in 1914 in Irving Gade set up a foundation with the funds countries, not surprisingly in Spain. In Nazi incarnation, titled The Three Graces, ran for Berlin’s first Broadway show, Watch Your from his estate and future royalties to Germany, Adolf Hitler burned your book, three months at London’s Empire Theatre. Step, pushing the turkey trot out of favor. sponsor talented young musicians, which to but in India, Mohatma Gandhi considered One of the musical numbers in La Danza this day holds an annual contest for your story his favorite. In 1938, your story Arizona, Arizona delle libellule/The Three Graces was a The Policeman’s Holiday Due to its two instrumental sections, The violinists in his hometown. Gade explained, became an Oscar-winning animated film by foxtrot called Gigolette which became so Policeman’s Holiday presents itself more as “I still remember the financial and the Walt Disney Studios. Recently, you were Sons of Orpheus completed a successful popular that Lehár revised the operetta yet During the 1910s, ‘20s and ‘30s, British a dance number than a song, but arranger educational difficulties I had when I was the subject of a piece for solo violin and two-week concert tour of Germany, Austria again in 1926, joining forces with librettist dance bands flourished in dance halls and Thomas Wentzel has found a way to keep young, when I arrived in Copenhagen with narrator by the British composer, Alan and Hungary during the summer of 2000. Alfred Maria Willner and the famous Italian hotel ballrooms. These small bands, usually the men of Orpheus involved. the purpose of making a living with music.” Ridout (1934-96). We are extremely happy Our debut concert in Germany took place in playwright Giovacchino Forzano, this time comprised of no more than a dozen TW to present "The Story of Ferdinand the Bull" Hürth-Bärenrath suburb of Cologne. We calling the operetta simply Gigolette. musicians each, became known for their Jalousie was born as an instrumental with a on the 78th anniversary of its first were invited to perform a joint three-choir melodic, good-time music with jazz and big beautiful violin solo, but lyrics for the piece publication. Happy birthday, Ferdinand. concert with Männergesangverrein Cäcilia The foxtrot Gigolette was translated into band influences, but they also maintained a have been written in many languages, May all your flowers smell delightful and another touring men’s choir from many languages (Lucienne Boyer recorded a sense of style born in the British music hall reflecting a country’s taste and commercial forever. You will always be the world's most Austria, Männergesangverrein Gries Jalousie “Tango sultry French version in 1930, the audio of tradition of the late 1800s. Some of the preference. Arranger Thomas Wentzel has peaceful and lovable torito. Kirchen Tollertau. At the post-concert Tzigane” which can be found on YouTube), was dance numbers they presented were purely blended the violin’s melody line with a tenor LM party/gemütlichkeit there was dancing with incorporated into other musicals such as the instrumental, while others had lyrics to be soloist singing English lyrics by Winifred light music provided by a fellow playing a Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was born in 1879 J. C. Williamson production Betty, sung during part or all of the piece. Often May, bringing in the men of Orpheus with keyboard synthesizer. He was also a singer in Vlejel, Denmark into a family of circulated as piano sheet music around the comedians or music hall personalities of the four-part harmony on the chorus: and as you would expect, his vocal musicians. His father and grandfather played world, and became a staple of the British day would perform the vocals while backed selections consisted of current popular at parties in nearby villages, and by age nine dance bands in the late 1920s into the 1930s.

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German favorites. Naturally, my ears representative of Cole Porter who, by that terms, but Tiomkin was a composer without pricked up when I heard him singing time, was seriously ill. peer when it came to providing Arizona, Arizona. My curiosity was piqued. accompaniments to big, outdoorsy A German song about Arizona? He told me Mexicali Rose entertainments. He has carved himself a it was a song by a group called “Truck permanent niche in the pantheon of Stop,” a western band out of Hamburg! To Jack Tenney was born on April 1, 1898, in legendary film composers with contributions make a very long story short, our choir St. Louis, Missouri. He served in World such as Gunfight at the OK Corral, High secretary at the time, Vern Williamsen, War I and in the 1920s played the organ in Noon, Red River, Duel in the Sun, Giant, contacted Truck Stop in Hamburg, and they theaters in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Alamo, and Rawhide. sent us a copy of their version. You have About that time he organized his own dance heard many other fine choral arrangements band. by founding member, Vern Williamsen. Now we present his choral arrangement of Mexicali Rose is one of the many songs Jack Truck Stop’s Arizona, Arizona. Tenney composed while filling an Destination: engagement at the Owl, a landmark cabaret in Mexicali, Mexico. Prohibition helped Mexicali become a boomtown. Thirsty men, Don't Fence Me In gamblers, and “soiled doves” from red-light districts poured across the border. Horse It seems inconceivable that Cole Porter, the racing and boxing matches, all outlawed in composer of Begin the Beguine, Night and California, came to Mexicali. The Owl Day, So in Love Am I, and What Is This Theater was a gambling hall par excellence, Thing Called Love? would actually stoop to reputed to have the longest bar in the world. write a cowboy tune! Well, he wrote Don’t Men crowded around black jack tables, the Fence Me in, didn’t he? OR DID HE? The air was thick with smoke, girls danced with truth is, Cole Porter purchased the original whoever asked them – a dollar a dance and lyrics and the melody to Don’t Fence Me In the music was good. The club was complete for $250.00 from Robert Henry Fletcher of with dance floor and orchestra platform and Montana! Porter re-wrote the music, altered a seven-piece band. Tenney was piano P RIS the words to the chorus and put his name on player and orchestra leader. it! FRANCEand Jack Tenney sold the copyright to his yet

In 1944, “The King of Cowboys,” Roy unsuccessful Mexicali Rose for a pittance in /or Rogers introduced Don’t Fence Me In in the 1935. About that time, Mexicali Rose and travel sing with the Warner Brothers’ star-studded wartime Jack Tenney took different paths. Tenney musical movie Hollywood Canteen. Roy went to law school and in 1936 was elected OF sang it again in the following year in his to the California State Legislature. Mexicali Sons Orpheus own Republic motion picture Don’t Fence Rose went on to become a worldwide hit and THE MALE CHOIR OF TUCSON GRAYSON HIRST - FOUNDER/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Me In. was translated into sixteen languages. Movie stars made Mexicali Rose famous. Itinerary to include a number of choral performances Don’t Fence Me In made its own Bing Crosby recorded Tenney’s song and including participation in the Sunday Mass at contribution to the national morale during put it on the “Hit Parade.” Barbara World War II. The song made what Stanwyck starred in a movie of the same Notre Dame Cathedral Americans considered an appropriate name. Mexicali Rose was also the title of a Departure on or about May 21, 2015. Return on or about June 1, 2015. statement to Adolph Hitler from a free Gene Autry movie released in 1939. country. The song was a monster hit for Estimated cost is $3,500 per person, including airfare. To take advantage of Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters during Shortly before Jack Tenney died in 1970, the this unique, low-cost concert tour and holiday, contact us by June 1, 2014. the war. Bing walked into the recording governor of Baja, California, and the mayor For additional information regarding payment, rehearsal schedules, repertoire, etc., studio on July 25, 1944, without having seen of Mexicali welcomed him with a long or heard the song. Thirty minutes later the parade of Mexican dignitaries and please contact: song was recorded! It went on to sell more musicians, honoring him as the person who Dr. Larry Ross: [email protected] than a million copies and topped the “put Mexicali on the map.” Billboard charts for eight weeks in 1944-45. GH Tom McGorray: [email protected] It was Walter Winchell who broke the story that Porter had bought the song from a Rawhide www.sonsoforpheus.org

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Society of Composers, Authors and music by Dimitri Tiomkin. It is ironic that a

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