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Support for this project is provided by the Jerome Foundation and IDS Financial Services Inc. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "HESIXTHA'~UAL PETER QUINCE ATTHE CLAVIER for SATB Voices, Piano, Four Cellos BYWI LLIAM AVERllT "z V\- I. 0 just as my fingers on these keys z Make music, so the selfsame sounds :S On my spirit make a music, too. ~ ...... ::~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:: ...... Music is feeling, then, not sound; ~ And thus it is that what I feel, •••• •••• . .... Here in this room, desiring you,

~ Thinking of your blue shadowed silk YI Is music. It is like the strain :t: Waked in the elders by Susanna. ••• . . Of a green evening, clear and warm,

FOR EMERGIN6•.•.••... COMPOSERS ", . She bathed in her still garden, while

. .., ... The red-eyed elders watching, felt The basses of their beings throb In witching chords, and their thin blood Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.

II. In the green water, clear and warm, Susanna lay. SOPRANOS TENORS She searched Jane E. Andersen Paulj. Anderson The touch of springs, Wendi Gerth Philip Blackburn And found Dina Humble David Fischer Concealed imaginings. Janice A. Hunton Philip Fryer She sighed, Norah Long Thomas Larson For so much melody. Angela Malek Dean Palermo Julie Ann Olson Robert W. Pontious Upon the bank, she stood Melissa O'Neill Randall C. Speer In the cool Deborah Loon Osgood Steven Staruch Of spent emotions. Marie Spar She felt among the leaves, BASSES The dew ALTOS Michael Dailey Of old devotions. Joanne Halvorsen Thomas james She walked upon the grass, Lynette R.johnson jerry johnson Still quavering. Nancy McMurrin Paul A. johnson The winds were like her maids, Mary Jo Oldakowski jin Kim On timid feet, Lisa Theisen David Ryan Moberg Fetching her woven scarves, Patricia Thompson jerry Rubino Yet wavering. Sandra Walden Mark Sheldon Teresa K. Whaley Mark Sotebeer A breath upon her hand Paul A. Theisen Muted the night. Scott Thomas Toperzer She turned- A cymbal crashed, And roaring horns .

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• WilliAM AVERITT is the composer of over 50 works, •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• which have received performances throughout the United States and in Western Europe, Russia, and Korea. Among his honors are awards from the National Endowment for AFTER the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the Atlanta Chamber for Unaccompanied Mixed Choir yers. In 1989, he completed a major commission from .~ Hans Kindler Foundation of the Library of Congress for BY JANICE HAMER a new work that was premiered there by the Verdehr Trio , and recently recorded for release on compact disc. POEM BY MARTHA COLLINS William's choral score Afro-American Fragments was the (used with permission) winning work of the 1992 Roger Wagner Center for Choral After the scattering, after the nights of shattered Studies Choral Composition Competition, recently pub- glass, broken stones, scrawls, marked lished by Thomas House Publications, and performed by houses, chalked walls, after the counter professional choruses nationally. threats, shouts, shot against the scattered William earned a D.M. in Composition from The Florida unhoused stones, after the bombs from over State University, where he studied with john Boda. Other the ocean, the desert, after oil has mixed composition teachers include Betsy Iotas and james with blood, after the blossoming desert is bombed Woodard. He currently is Professor of Music in Composition to sand and risen again to blossom, though this and Theory at the Shenandoah Conservatory of is more than the story tells, the story, simply Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. begun with the scattering, ends with the gathering in again from distant cities, countries, corners, basements, caves where children were hidden, graves •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• whose bones were moved to be burned, ashes that would not burn, from earth, from air, the people will come together, they will ride in carts and trains and cars, they will walk and run, and this is the story, the people will cross the oceans, they will cross the rivers on bridges made for SATB Voices, Crystal Soprano Flute, of paper, blank and inked and printed and painted rcussion (Shaker, Skin Drum, Rain Stick, paper bridges will bring them together, over .chestra Bells, Crotales), Timpani, Cello the waters the borders the wars will be over, under BY BRENT MICHAEL DAVIDS the paper bridges that bridge the most the best we can. PROGRAM NOTE , BRENT MICHAEL DAVIDS, a Mohican, is formerly a The image of a magically reinforced paper bridge, over Composer-in-Residence from Graceland College and studied which the people will cross into paradise at the end of with acclaimed composer Chinary Ung. Brent was one of 45 time, is from jewish folkloric sources. Poet Martha Collins composers chosen from countries bordering the Pacific rim heard of it from a New York painter who, in turn, had heard to be a Composition Fellow at the 1990 International Music it from his grandfather. I have also discovered it in several Festival held in japan. His recent work includes a composi- poems of Yiddish poets. Collins' poem opens with a deso- tion for choreographer Peter Pucci and the joffrey Ballet, late, fragmented, post-war, post-nuclear, or post-holocaust music for Quintessence Wind Quintet, and the new TV landscape. But in the course of a single, breathless, increas- theme for 21st Century Native American. ingly driven sentence, her imagery crosses a metaphorical Brent has garnered awards from Meet The Composer, bridge toward a "gathering in again" of the people, a ASCAP, Casio Company, H & R of West Germany, Arizona landscape of hope. It is my intention, in this musical setting State University and Northern Illinois University. Brent is of the poem, to mirror this remarkable transition. also the 1992 co-recipient of the Music Composition For the purposes of the Dale Warland New Choral Music Fellowship Award from .the Arizona Commission on the Program, this piece may be considered an excerpt of two Arts. Selected on the merit of the composition alone, this possible longer works: either a cycle of pieces with poems award is given only once every three years. using the image of paper bridges, or a cycle with poems by In addition to his work as a composer, Brent has nearly women poets about the end of time, the apocalypse, the finished a second master's degree in Native American continuity of the planet, and new beginnings. Religious Studies, is a crystal flute performer and co- -janice Hamer under of Native American Media, INK.

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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• JANICE HAMER is a Ph.D. candidate in composition at There's no time to talk, there's no time to stand; the City University of New York. Currently Janice studies He drew his knife in his right hand. with Thea Musgrave, and her previous composition teach- He stabbed her to the heart, her heart's blood it did flow, ers have included Peter Maxwell Davies and David Del Into the grave pretty Polly did go. Tredici. Her compositions have been performed both in the United States and in England, where she lived for a number If I had known before I courted, I'd never have courted of years as a choral conductor and composer. In recent anyone, years Janice has turned her focus primarily to composing, I'd've locked my heart in a box of golden, and pinned it up including works for chamber choir, women's choir, solo with a sllver'pinl voice and piano, and solo clarinet. He threw dirt over her and started out for home, Janice, one of five finalists in the Lili Boulanger Memorial Leaving poor pretty Polly there with no-one left to mourn. Fund, was a finalist in the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation A debt to the devil now this young man must pay, Award in 1992, and recipient of the CUNY Graduate Center For killing his lover, then running away. I Super Fellowship, awarded to only one student per year. It happened in olden times, it happens today, As a choral conductor, Janice was Assistant Conductor for A man will destroy whatever gets into his way. Avner Ital, Israel's foremost choral conductor, and con- ducted Israel's professional chamber choir, the Cameran ANTHONY S. LIS is Assistant Professor of Theory and Singers. She also held choral conducting positions at Composer-in-Residence at South Dakota State University. Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. He earned his D.M.A. degree from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, where he studied compo- •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• sition with T. Scott Huston and Jonathan Kramer. Anthony has been awarded commissions from the South Dakota Music Teachers Association, the University of MOUNTAIN Northern Iowa, the Cincinnati Composers' Guild and Northern Kentucky University. He has earned the "Emerging SONGS Artist Grant" from the South Dakota Arts Council, as well as grants from the F.O. Butler Foundation, Meet the Composer for SATB Voices and Piano and ASCAP. He is listed in The International Who's Who BY ANTHONY S. LIS in Music. Anthony was among five guest composers whose works were featured at Dana New Music Festival VII at Youngs- TRADITIONAL APPALACH IAN BALLAD TEXTS town (OH) State University in 1992. He regularly appears at seminars and workshops, presenting lectures on pedagogi- I. PRETTY POLLY/FAIR AND TENDER LADIES cal and compositional trends in music today. In addition, Anthony has served as a grants panelist for several arts Come all you fair and tender ladies, organizations. Take warning how you court young men! I courted pretty Polly the live-long night, •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Then left her next morning before it was light. Dr. Warland and the DWS Board of Directors gratefully acknowledge Oh Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me, the generous support of the Jerome Foundation and IDS Financial Before we get married, some pleasures to see. Services Inc. for this activity. The Dale Warland Singers also extends its gratitude to the National She got up behind him and away they did go, Composers Advisory Committee for their work on behalf of this Over the hills to the valley below. Commissioning Project. The committee consists of Louis Ballard, Larry Bandfield, Carol Barnett, Emma Lou Deimer, Tania Leon, jalalu- Come all you fair and tender ladies, Kalvert Nelson, Stephen Paulus, Gil Seeley, Alvin Singleton, Bill Terry, Take. warn\ng how you court young men! Joan lower and Da\e War\and.

They went a little further, and what did they spy, This activity is made possible by a grant provided by the Minnesota a new-dug grave with a spade lying by. State Arts Board, through an a.ppropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature. The Minnesota State Arts Board received additional funds Oh Willie, I'm scared of your ways, to support this activity from the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh Willie, I fear you will lead my poor body astray. The Singers wish to thank the staff of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Oh Polly, pretty Polly, you're guessin' just about right, Center for their assistance and cooperation in making this evening's I dug on your grave the best part of last night! reading possible. Come all you fair and tender ladies, For additional information about concert tickets, available recordings, Take warning how you court young men, for they will lead and auditioning for The Dale Warland Singers, please call or write: The Dale Warland Singers, 120 North Fourth Street, Minneapolis, MN you all astray! 55401; Phone (612) 339-9707, Fax (612) 339-9826 . ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •