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Brockes Passion for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers present the Brockes Passion for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra by George Frideric Handel featuring Terri Richter Kia Sams Hanne Ladefoged Jerry Sams Stephen Wall Simon Cram and Brian Box as Jesus Orchestra Seattle Seattle Chamber Singers George Shangrow, conductor Good Friday, April 10, 1998 7:30 PM University Christian Church Soloists Jesus Daughter of Zion Evangelist Peter Brian Box Terri Richter Jerry Sams Stephen Wall Judas Caiaphas, Pilate Faithful Soul, Mary Hanne Ladefoged Simon Cram Kia Sams Orchestra Seattle Violin Viola Bass Oboe Dajana Akrapovic - Beatrice Dolf Allan Goldman Shannon Hill Hobson Saundrah Humphrey Principal Sue Herring Principal Tim Garrett Maria Hunt Jim Lurie Deborah Kirkland Harpsichord Bassoon Principal second Cello Robert Kechley Jeff Eldridge Fritz Klein Julie Reed Principal Concertmaster Principal Judith Lawrence Leif - Ivar Pedersen Matthew Wyant Seattle Chamber Singers Soprano Paula Rimmer Christine Hackenberger Thomas Nesbitt Jennifer Adams Kelly Sanderbeck Susan Maloff Dave Spurling Barbara Anderson Liesel Van Cleeff Adrienne McCoy David Zapolsky Debra Browning Verlayn McManus Sue Cobb Alto Suzi Means Bass Crissa Cugini Laila Adams Laurie Medill Andrew Danilchik Kyla DeRemer Sharon Agnew Nedra Slauson Douglas Durasoff Susan Dier Cheryl Blackburn Liza Wells Dick Etherington Dana Durasoff Nicole Blackmer Peter Henry Cinda Freece Jane Blackwell Tenor Charles Hobson Kiki Hood Wendy Borton Alex Chun Rob Kline Lorelette Knowles Shireen Deboo Ralph Cobb Tim Ramos Nancy Lewis Penny Deputy Jon Lange John Stenseth Alexandra Miletta Laura Dooley Timothy Lunde Richard Wyckoff Administration Board of Directors Administrative Personnel Alan S. Middleton, President Kerry Fowler George Shangrow, Music Director Rena Ilumin, Treasurer Dr. Richard Lyman Jane Blackwell, Office Manager Sharon Agnew Richard Wyckoff Andrew Danilchik, Librarian Douglas Durasoff Michael Yantis Jack Holtman, Bookkeeper OS S C S gratefully acknowledges the support of the Washington State Arts Commission, the King County Arts Commission, the Seattle Arts Commission, Corporate Council for the Arts, Seafirst Bank, The Boeing Company, Microsoft Corporation, Davis Wright Tremai ne LLP, and Classic KING - FM. Special thanks to: University Christian Church; Dr. Richard Lyman for recording the concert; David Calhoun for the loan of his harpsichord; Jeff Cohan for tuning it; and all of our wonderful volunteers. Brian Box Terri Richter Baritone Brian Box is a native of Washington and Since arriving in the Pacific Northwest in 1995 , soprano received his Master of Music degree in vocal Terri Richter has quickly established herself as a leading performance from Western Washington University. Mr. opera and concert artist. A finalist in the 1995 - 96 Box has appeared frequently with OS/SCS as a soloist Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions, she was in cantatas and oratorios. Among his credits are awarded the very first Mary Levine Memorial performances of Brahms' Four Last Songs with the Scholarship in 1997. Recently Ms. Richter has appeared Western Washington University Orchestra and the with the Spokane Symphony, Bellevue Philharmonic, leading role in Dominic Argento's opera Postcard from and Seattle Symphony, and was chosen as the first Morocco at the University of Briti sh Columbia. He is a member of Seattle Opera’s new Young Artist Program, regular performer with Northwest Opera in Schools, where she will sing Despina in Cosi fan tutte . She made Etc. (NOISE), and Seattle Opera's education program her Seattle Opera debut in Novemb er, as Barbarina in and made his Seattle Opera solo debut as the Corporal The Marriage of Figaro . in The Daughter of the Regiment ; this past summer he appeared in their produc tion of Der Rosenkavalier . Mr. Box’s recent appearances with Orchestra Seattle and the Jerry Sams Seattle Chamber Singers include Haydn’s The Seasons Tenor Jerry Sams has sung in the Seattle Chamber and Handel’s Israel in Egypt , Messiah and Hercules . Singers since the early days of the ensemble, both as a chorus member and soloist. With the group, he has performed tenor solos in almost all of the Handel Simon Cram oratorios as well as the major choral works of Bach, Bass - Baritone Simon Cram received his vocal training Mozart, and others. Mr. Sams has also appeared with from Marianne Weltmann. He has appeared in many several Seattle area ensembles, including the Northwest Northwest productions, most recently as Blue Chips in Chamber Orchestra and City Cantabile Choir. When Mozart's Impresario at the Seattle Fringe Festival. Last not summer he performed the title role in a concert version singing, he is a manager in Infor mation Technology for of The Marriage of Figaro under the dir ection of Beth a large tree growing company in Federal Way. Kirchhoff. Mr. Cram has also been seen in the role of Don Giovanni and as Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah . As the bass soloist for University Unitarian Kia Sams Church, Mr. Cram has performed extensive oratorio Kia Sams is a well - known Seattle composer and soprano and cantata work; under the baton of Karen Thomas, he who has been featured by many orchestras and groups, has sung works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, including Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Faurè and Britten. In addition to his solo work, Mr. Singers, University of Washington Contemporary Cram is a regular member of the Seattle Opera Chorus; Group, Cornish Performing Group, Washington he is also a two time award winner in the Civic Opera Composers Forum, City Cantabile Choir, and others. Guild Vocal Compe tition. Her compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Her latest opera, about the Pied Piper of Hamelin, was c ommissioned by Tacoma Hanne Ladefoged Opera and has been performed by them on two Born in Denmark, mezzo - soprano Hanne Ladefoged is different occasions since its premiere in November of now a resident of Seattle, where she is an active soloist, 1993. lecturer and teacher. In 1993, she was invited to join the Seattle Opera Young Artist Outreach Program, in which she sang and lectured extensively. Her professional Stephen Wall opera debut (as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus ) was A resident singer of the Pacific Northwest, tenor with the Whatcom Symphony. She has also performed Stephen Wall has appeared often with OS/SCS since leading roles with Seattle Experimental Opera and with 1985, including performances of Bach's St. Matthew OperaWorks in Los Angeles. Orchestral and oratori o Passion , St. John Passion , and the b Minor Mass . Mr. Wall works include Messiah with Seattle Choral Company, has sung with Seattle Opera in Wagner's Tannhäu ser and Bach’s Magnificat with Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Die Meistersinger and soloed with the Seattle Symphony and Beethoven’s 9th, Elgar’s Sea Pictures , Bach’s b minor led by Gerard Schwarz in Mendelssohn's Lobegesang . mass and Messiah with OS/SCS. Ms. Ladefoged also His association with Mr. Schwarz includes appearances appears as a recitalist, and as a frequent soloist with the with the Vancouver Symphony in performances of Pacific Northwest Ballet. This season she can be heard music by Bach and Wagner. Mr. Wall has also sung with the Estoria Company and in Charpentier’s Les Arts with the Bellevue Philharmonic, Seattle Bach Festival, Florissants ; this season she has appeared in Hercules with Seattle Choral Company, Northwest Chamber OS/SCS . Orchestra and the Everett Symphony, and with the orchestras of Spokane and Yakima. This season he has sung Israel in Egypt and Messiah with OS/SCS. Program Notes by Lorelette Knowles Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Licentiate of Rights and Freislich followed. Johann Sebastian Bach himself set Town Councilor of Hamburg, was somet hing of an parts of the text and wrote out half of a copy of Handel’s enigma and a contradiction. He was a fat little fellow, a setting (Paul Henry Lang says that this copy was vain and vulgar person who was nevertheless regarded completed by Bach’s second wife, Anna Magdalena). throughout the Germany of his age as a gifted poet and translator. He attended Halle University, exiting in the Brockes’ Passion text belongs to the ‘compromise species’ year that George Fride ric Handel entered. With typical of the “Passion - Oratorio,” which was cultivated self - praise and snobbery, he wrote the following extensively in the city of Hamburg, beginning in 1640. The account of what caused him to write an elaborate poetic text of this musical genre was based rather freely on the account in German of Christ’s Passion: Gospel narrati ves of the final sufferings and death of Jesus, while the music was composed in the style of the When, however, I became aware that poetry, in so sacred oratorio. Its text was characterized by the inclusion far as it is not directed to a particular and that is a in the narrative of non - Biblical, contemplative passages, useful end, be but an empty play of words, not and by extensive use of hymns, but the G ospel words still deserving of any great esteem, I endeavoured to predominated. Soon, however, the actual Biblical texts choose such objects for my poetical art by which were largely replaced by free paraphrases, and poetic the people, apart from a permissible amusement, embellishment of the texts through the use of metaphor might derive edif ication. Thus I wrote firstly the became common. Allegorical figures were also introduced Passion - Oratorium, afterwards translated into to reflect the dra matic effect of the recitatives in suitable several languages. I had it performed very arias. These works became nearly indistinguishable from solemnly at my house, which, as something the operas of the same period: both classes of uncommon, brought to me not only the whole compositions contained extensive introductory overtures, foreign nobility, all the Ministers and Resident s recitatives, ariosi, arias with preludes, ensembles, and with their ladies, but also the greater part of the choruses.
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