D. Kern Holoman conducting

Mendelssohn Elijah

8 pm, Sunday, 8 March 2009 Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center Program

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)

PART THE FIRST

Elijah ELIJAH PREDICTS DROUGHT THE CONTEST ON MOUNT CARMEL opus 70 Introduction (Elijah): As God the LORD of Israel liveth No. 10: Recitative and Chorus: As God the LORD of Sabaoth liveth Overture No. 11: Chorus: Baal, we cry to thee No. 1: Chorus: Help, LORD! Wilt Thou quite destroy us? No. 12: Recitative and Chorus: Call him louder! For he is a god! Oratorio in two parts after words from the Old Testament Recitative (Chorus): The deeps afford no water No. 13: Recitative and Chorus: Call him louder! He heareth not No. 2: Duet with Chorus: LORD, bow thine ear to our prayer! No. 14: Air (Elijah): LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel No. 3: Recitative (Obadiah): Ye people, rend your hearts No. 15: Quartet (Angels): Cast thy burden upon the LORD Eugene Brancoveanu, baritone No. 4: Air (Obadiah): If with all your hearts ye truly seek Me No. 16: Recitative and Chorus: O Thou, who makest Thine angels No. 5: Chorus: Yet doth the LORD see it not No. 17: Air (Elijah): Is not His word like a fire? No. 6: Recitative (An Angel): Robin Fisher, soprano Elijah, get thee hence No. 18: Arioso (Alto solo): Woe unto them who forsake Him No. 7: Double Quartet: For He shall give His angels Catherine Cook, mezzo-soprano No. 8: Recitative (An Angel): Now Cherith’s brook is dried up ELIJAH BRINGS RAIN Joseph Palarca, tenor No. 9: Recitative, Air, and Duet (The Widow, Elijah): No. 19: Recitative and Chorus: O man of God, help thy people! What have I to do with thee? No. 20: Chorus: Thanks be to God! Chorus: Blessed are the men who fear Him Peter Ludden, tenor (Ahab) | Jack Lundquist* (Youth) David Kerns, Henry Nelson, Christian Ricco* (Angels) Intermission University Chorus and Alumni Chorus PART THE SECOND UC Davis Symphony Orchestra JEZEBEL ORDERS ELIJAH’S DEATH ELIJAH IS SWEPT BY A WHIRLWIND TO HEAVEN No. 21: Air (Soprano): Hear ye, Israel No. 33: Recitative: Night falleth round me D. Kern Holoman conducting No. 22: Chorus: Be not afraid, saith God the LORD No. 34: Chorus: Behold! God the LORD passed by! No. 23: Recitative and Chorus: The LORD hath exalted thee No. 35: Recitative (Quartet and Chorus): Above Him stood No. 24: Chorus: Woe to him! the Seraphim This performance is presented in memory of Beta Popper (1912–2008). No. 36: Chorus: Go, return upon thy way! ELIJAH FLEES TO MOUNT HOREB No. 37: Arioso (Elijah): For the mountains shall depart There will be one intermission. The performance will conclude at approximately 10:45 pm. No. 25: Recitative: Man of God, now let my words No. 38: Chorus: Then did Elijah the prophet break forth No. 26: Air (Elijah): It is enough No. 39: Air (Tenor solo): Then shall the righteous shine No. 27: Recitative (Tenor solo): See, now he sleepeth No. 40: Chorus: And then shall your light break forth No. 28: Trio (The Angels): Lift thine eyes to the mountains No. 29: Chorus (The Angels): He, watching over Israel No. 30: Recitative: Arise, Elijah No. 31: Air (The Angel): O rest in the LORD * Members of the Pacific Boychoir Academy: Kevin Fox, artistic director No. 32: Chorus: He that shall endure to the end

This concert is being professionally recorded for the University archive. Please remain seated during the music, remembering that distractions will be audible on the recording. Please deactivate cell phones, pagers, and wristwatches. Flash photography and audio and video recording are prohibited during the performance. 2 3 About the Artists About the Artists

Eugene Brancoveanu’s robust baritone and superior stagecraft have Lyric coloratura soprano Robin Fisher has performed to critical acclaim in such cities as earned him critical acclaim in both North America and Europe. The San Paris, Vienna, Prague, Hamburg, Chicago, and Dallas. Reviews remark on her “amazingly Francisco Chronicle has described Brancoveanu as “extravagantly gifted,” precise coloratura, melting diminuendi, splendid high notes and delightful musicality” citing his “unforced charisma” and “vocal clarity.” Add to this a 2008 San (Opernwelt) and her “mature timbre and total self-assurance ... an extremely exciting singer- Francisco Classical Voice performance review by Jason Victor Serinus, who actress” (Westdeutsche Zeitung). The Sacramento Bee described her performance at the Mondavi describes Brancoveanu as “endowed with a uniquely rich, at this point lyric voice Center in Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang” Symphony “thrilling.” In 2007 Fisher performed with that can encompass bass-baritone roles yet sing a high B-flat ... an extremely the West Bay and Sacramento opera companies. She has also performed locally as guest artist intelligent, energized artist who is unafraid to take risks.” Over this past at the Sonora Bach Festival and at Music in the Mountains in Nevada County. Fisher won a year, he debuted at the Spoleto Festival USA and the New York City Opera. Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship and a Rotary Foundation Award to pursue studies in Europe, and In 2002 he won an honorary Tony Award and a Los Angeles Stage Alliance she received the Artist’s Diploma cum laude from the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. Fisher most Ovation Award for his performance on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann’s recently played Susannah in Sacramento Opera’s Marriage of Figaro and will be soprano soloist La Bohème. As an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, Brancoveanu on the Sacramento Choral Society’s all-J.S. Bach program in March. A native of California, she appeared in multiple productions over two seasons, 2005–07, including the began her vocal studies at San José State University. Currently, Fisher is associate professor of world premiere of The Little Prince and, most recently, for the role of Belcore voice at California State University, Sacramento. in The Elixir of Love.

Mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook has excelled in a wide range of roles with leading companies throughout the United States, including the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Los Angeles Opera, and the Houston Grand Opera. Cook is a former Merola participant and Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, where she continues to be a frequent presence. She has performed more than 40 roles to date with the company and in September 2008 created the role of Arlene Kamen in the world premiere of The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Cook is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she Beta Popper (1912–2008) Elizabeth “Beta” Popper died September 4, 2008, as the result of an won the Norman Triegle Award in opera. She has also been a Metropolitan Opera National automobile accident in Palo Alto, where she lived. She was 95. Popper was Council Winner. In addition to maintaining a voice studio and conducting frequent audition born December 2, 1912. She and her late husband, Jan Popper (1907–87), workshops in the Bay Area, Cook holds the position of professor of voice at the San Francisco lived happily in Davis in 1979, when they produced Jerome Rosen’s opera Conservatory of Music. Calisto and Melibea on the UC Davis campus. Beta Popper became active in the Davis Costume Guild during that period and maintained close contact with her Davis friends for the rest of her life.

Mrs. Popper was born Elizabeth Rankin and grew up in the Bay Area, where she studied opera, became a mezzo-soprano, and sang with the San Francisco Opera Company. After she married Jan Popper, who taught at Stanford Joseph Palarca, tenor, is a graduate of the UC Davis Department of Music. While University in the 1940s, she became actively involved in its opera workshop. here, his interests in music spanned both classical and popular music performance, and The Poppers are credited with offering the first West Coast production of he participated in local musical theater productions. His portrayal of Mr. Snow in Carousel Mozart’s Così fan tutte, in which Beta played the role of Dorabella. earned him an Elly Award for best supporting actor in a musical. After UC Davis, Palarca went on to earn a master’s degree in vocal performance from New York University. He has From 1949 to 1975, the Poppers lived in Los Angeles, where Jan taught sung as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra and various ensembles in the New at UCLA and established the Opera Workshop there. The venue where York area, including the Vocal Ensemble of Queens College, the Mineola Choral Society, those performances took place is now the Jan Popper Theatre at the Arnold Central City Chorus, and the Choral Symphony Society. He most recently participated in the Schoenberg Hall at UCLA. After leaving UCLA, the Poppers traveled widely Beta and Jan Popper 2008 Aspen Music Festival and Aspen School’s Opera Theater Center. This past fall, he joined in their work, notably to China and Japan, where they presented operas Opera Omaha’s Voices in Residence program. in the language of the home country, often first productions. They also appeared together in Taiwan, Iran, Belgium, and Austria.

Mrs. Popper left an important bequest to the Davis campus, which will be known as the Jan and Beta Popper Fund in the Department of Music. Contributions in memory of the beloved couple may be made to the Popper Fund/UC Davis Foundation, in care of the Department of Music, UC Davis, at One Shields Avenue, Davis, Calif., 95616.

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Mendelssohn: Elijah, op. 70 lijah was composed in 1846 at the invitation of the Birmingham Musical Festival and Our performance omits one recitative and chorus near the end of the work and shortens Efirst performed (in English) on August 26, 1846, at Birmingham Town Hall under the slightly the chorus “Be not afraid.” One movement scored by Mendelssohn for soloists— For soloists (B [Elijah], T [Obadiah, composer’s direction. The text, originally in German, was prepared by Pastor Schubring “Cast thy burden”—has become choral favorites, and so it is performed here by the full Ahab], S I [the widow, an angel], S II, after passages from the Old Testament in Luther’s translation. (As early as 1836, there chorus and boy choir. A [an angel, Jezebel], boy soprano); had been efforts to secure an Elijah text, but they were laid aside until the Birmingham chorus (SATB, with some divided invitation was tendered.) The skillful English translation was by William Bartholomew, choruses, an angel trio, and a following the King James Version. double quartet); flutes I-II, oboes I-II, clarinets I-II, bassoons I-II; horns After the grueling rehearsals and first performance, Mendelssohn revised his score I-IV, trumpets I-II, trombones I-III, extensively and began work on a third oratorio, Christus. In April 1847, he made his tenth ophicléide; timpani; organ; strings and last trip to England, where he conducted six further performances of Elijah. On May 14, he learned of the death of his beloved sister, Fanny, and collapsed with a frightful cry. He Mendelssohn at 200 know Mendelssohn best as Berlioz’s companion: when, as young men visiting Italy, they Composed spring–summer 1846 at spent the summer preparing for performances of Elijah in Berlin, Leipzig, and Vienna, but I first encountered one another. Berlioz’s memoirs and Mendelssohn’s recently uncovered the invitation of the Birmingham by October, the combined trials of his personal and professional lives led to several nervous diaries show that they rode together in the Roman countryside, talked to one another about Music Festival attacks that prevented further work. On the first day of November, he suffered a serious Shakespeare and symphonies, then went off and worried about what the other one might stroke, followed by a second on November 3. The next day, Mendelssohn died in his sleep. compose as a result. (The answer was: scherzos. Berlioz wrote a Queen Mab scherzo into his First performed 26 August 1846 at the Elijah is thus Mendelssohn’s last major work, and, to paraphrase Eric Werner, posterity has Romeo and Juliet; Mendelssohn added one to his Midsummer Night’s Dream music.) They were Birmingham Town Hall, Mendelssohn viewed the oratorio as his chef d’œuvre. together again at middle age, in Leipzig in 1843, when Mendelssohn welcomed Berlioz, by conducting then an orchestra conductor of growing international celebrity, to conduct his Gewandhaus Part I concerns Elijah’s prediction of drought, the story of the widow’s son, the contest on Orchestra. One result of this was Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ, composed after Mendelssohn’s Published by N. Simrock (Bonn, 1847) Mount Carmel, and the end of the drought. Wind chords at the beginning are associated with untimely demise in a kind of homage to his German counterpart—and to the Gewandhaus, Duration: about two hours, 45 minutes the character of Elijah throughout the first part, and the sequence of two diminished fifths the local singers and choruses, and their common Leipzig ancestor, J. S. Bach, whose legacy immediately following constitute a leitmotif associated with Elijah’s curse. (This motive appears Mendelssohn had done some much to foster. again in the chorus, no. 5, at the words “His curse hath fallen down upon us,” and again in the recitative at the beginning of no. 9.) The scene with the widow (no. 8) is the most operatic in the I met him again through the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire—the Paris Conservatory oratorio and one of the most convincing in terms of its musical structure. There is no narration, Orchestra—where Mendelssohn’s work became the most popular in the repertoire, after only and several characters are portrayed by each of the soloists (except for Elijah himself)—making Beethoven and Haydn, and where in 1847 the news of his death went at first unbelieved and it necessary for listeners to follow a copy of the text during the performance. then for a week stopped the season’s forward motion altogether as the shocked musicians stopped to ponder their response. And again through the great French conductor, Charles Part II, more reflective and tranquil than the first, tells the story of Elijah’s flight from Munch (1891–1968), a Protestant partisan who had begun his career as concertmaster the wrath of Jezebel, his sojourn in the wilderness, and—for Mendelssohn, the climax Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) in Leipzig, and who quit Nazi Germany just before his conductor, Bruno Walter, a Jew, of the story—the appearance of the Lord before the prophet. At the conclusion, Elijah is returned to the Gewandhaus to find his position lost and Mendelssohn’s statue pulled down swept, living, to Heaven by a whirlwind. The soprano aria that opens the second part was and destroyed. Munch went on to repopularize the Mendelssohn repertoire in Boston and written, incidentally, for Jenny Lind, and it centers on the high F-sharp that Mendelssohn then, through the justly famous RCA Living Stereo recordings, the country at large. so admired in her voice. (She did not, in fact, sing the role until after Mendelssohn’s death, and Madame Caradori-Allan, who did sing it, found it “unladylike.”) Each of these encounters has drawn the orchestral music of this great thinker, multi- tasker, and sound-scape poet more permanently into my list of Music That Matters. Even if To be sure, Elijah has its inconsistencies and limitations in terms of dramatic unity and Mendelssohn’s share of the standard repertoire is considerably smaller now than it was in rhetorical solidarity, but, after all, it was written hurriedly to a libretto finished just in the 1850, we hear his voice all around us: with the Wedding March and Hark! the Herald Angels nick of time. Nevertheless, the composer, always a great melodist, was at the peak of his Sing; in the fairy-music of the scherzos; in the panoramas of the “Scottish,” “Reformation,” technical control of harmony, counterpoint, and—particularly—the performing force. and “Italian” Symphonies; perhaps most memorably in the four once-upon-a-time chords Surely one reason for Elijah’s popularity is the skill with which Mendelssohn deploys the that begin the Midsummer Night’s Dream overture. The Violin Concerto, which you will hear chorus: here as the frenzied horde of Baal-worshippers, there as the drought-stricken people here in June, comfortably leads all the rest in popularity. of Israel, later as the Heavenly Host, and throughout as the community of the faithful, reflecting on the Lord’s majesty. (In this multiplicity of roles for the chorus, Mendelssohn Mendelssohn nevertheless feels a little less familiar, today, than his co-founders of consciously is following the precedent of Bach’s Passions.) To the orchestra is delegated the Romanticism: Berlioz, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt. The Mendelssohn industry is alive and task of descriptive representation of the events portrayed: it offers fire, flood, and whirlwind well and meaning to address that matter: an ambitious Mendelssohn Project led by the New music, but also (and more impressive still) the quietly undulating arabesques of “Blessed are Yorker Stephen Somary, for instance, expects to record the entire œuvre, including several the men who fear Him” (no. 9) and “He, watching over Israel” (no. 29). And the composer’s dozen minutes of recently found music, as part of the bicentenary salute. command of tone color—the brass choir to suggest religious devotion, for example, or the What you hear tonight, meanwhile, is to the oratorio roughly what the Art of Fugue is to sounds of violas, divisi celli, bassoons, and contrabasses associated with the reflection of initiative counterpoint: its summa, a veritable encyclopedia of early Romanticism’s goals and the prophet himself—is unsurpassed. sounds—and some favorite tunes as well. —DKH 6 7 TEXT TEXT

Mendelssohn: Elijah, op. 70 Elijah: Now behold, thy son liveth! No. 11: Chorus Priests of Baal: Baal, we cry to thee; hear and answer us! Heed The Widow: Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, the sacrifice we offer! Baal, O hear us, and answer us! Hear us, PART THE FIRST No. 6: Recitative: An Angel and that His word in thy mouth is the truth. What shall I Baal! Hear, mighty god! Baal, O answer us! Baal, let thy flames Elijah! get thee hence; Elijah! depart and turn thee eastward: render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? fall and extirpate the foe! Baal, O hear us! ELIJAH PREDICTS DROUGHT thither hide thee by Cherith’s brook. There shalt thou drink its I Kings 18:26 Introduction: Elijah waters; and the LORD thy God hath commanded the ravens to Elijah: Thou shalt love the LORD thy God, love Him with all As God the LORD of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there No. 12: Recitative and Chorus feed thee there: so do according unto His word. thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. Elijah: Call him louder, for he is a god! He talketh; or he is I Kings 17:3–4 I Kings 17:1 Both: O blessed are they who fear Him! pursuing; or he is on a journey; or, peradventure, he sleepeth; No. 7: Double Quatet I Kings 17:17–19, 21-24; Job 10:15; so awaken him: call him louder. Overture For he shall give his angels charge over thee, that they shall Psalms 38:6; 6:7; 10:14; 86:15–16; 88:10; 116:12; protect thee in all the ways thou goest, that their hands shall Deuteronomy 6:5; Psalm 128:1 Priests of Baal: Hear our cry, O Baal! Now arise! wherefore slumber? No. 1: Chorus uphold and guide thee, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. I Kings 18:27 Help, LORD! wilt Thou quite destroy us? The harvest now is Psalm 91:11–12 No. 9: Chorus over, the summer days are gone, and yet no power cometh to Blessed are the men who fear Him: they ever walk in the ways No. 13: Recitative and Chorus help us! Will then the LORD be no more God in Zion? ELIJAH RAISES THE WIDOW’S SON of peace. Through darkness riseth light to the upright. He is Elijah: Call him louder! he heareth not. With knives and Jeremiah 8:19–20 No. 8: Recitative: An Angel gracious, compassionate: He is righteous. lancets cut yourselves after your manner: leap upon the altar Now Cherith’s brook is dried up, Elijah, arise and depart, Psalms 128:1; 112:1, 4 ye have made: call him, and prophesy. Not a voice will answer Recitative: Chorus and get thee to Zarepath; thither abide; for the LORD hath you; none will listen, none heed you. The deeps afford no water; and the rivers are exhausted! The commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. And the THE CONTEST ON MOUNT CARMEL suckling’s tongue now cleaveth for thirst to his mouth: the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil No. 10: Recitative and Chorus Priests of Baal: Hear and answer, Baal! Mark how the scorner infant children ask for bread, and there is no one breaketh it fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. Elijah: As God the LORD of Sabaoth liveth, before whom I derideth us! Hear and answer. to feed them! I Kings 17:7, 9, 14 stand, three years this day fulfilled, I will show myself unto I Kings 17:7; Lamentations 4:4 Ahab; and the LORD will then send rain again upon the earth. Elijah: Draw near, all ye people: come to me! No. 9: Recitative, Air, and Duet: The Widow, Elijah I Kings 18:28–30 No. 2: Duet with Chorus The Widow: What have I to do with thee, O man of God? art Ahab: Art thou Elijah? art thou he that troubleth Israel? LORD! bow Thine ear to our prayer! Zion spreadeth her hands thou come to me, to call my sin unto remembrance—to slay my No. 14: Air: Elijah for aid; and there is neither help nor comfort. son art thou come hither? Help me, man of God! my son is sick! Chorus: Thou art Elijah, thou, he that troubleth Israel! LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, this day let it be Psalm 86:1; Lamentations 1:17 and his sickness is so sore, that there is no breath left in him! I known that Thou art God; and that I am Thy servant! O show to all this people that I have done these things according to Thy No. 3: Recitative: Obadiah go mourning all the day long; I lie down and weep at night. See Elijah: I never troubled Israel’s peace: it is thou, Ahab, and word! O hear me, LORD, and answer me; and show this people Ye people, rend your hearts, and not your garments, for your mine affliction. Be thou the orphan’s helper! Help my son! there all thy father’s house. Ye have forsaken God’s commands: that Thou art LORD God; and let their hearts again be turned! transgressions the Prophet Elijah hath sealed the heavens is no breath left in him! and thou hast followed Baalim! Now send and gather to me I Kings 18:36–37 through the word of God. I therefore say to ye, forsake your the whole of Israel unto Mount Carmel: there summon the Elijah: Give me thy son. Turn unto her, O LORD my God; in prophets of Baal, and also the prophets of the groves, who idols, return to God; for He is slow to anger, and merciful, and No. 15: Quartet: Angels mercy help this widow’s son! For Thou art gracious, and full are feasted at Jezebel’s table. Then we shall see whose god is kind and gracious, and repenteth Him of the evil. Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee. of compassion, and plenteous in mercy and truth. LORD, my the LORD. Joel 2:12–13 He never will suffer the righteous to fall: He is at thy right God, let the spirit of this child return, that he again may live! hand. Thy mercy, LORD, is great; and far above the heav’ns. No. 4: Air: Obadiah Chorus: And then we shall see whose god is God the LORD. Let none be made ashamed that wait upon Thee. If with all your hearts ye truly seek Me, ye shall ever surely The Widow: Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? There is no Psalms 55:22; 16:8; 108:5; 25:3 find Me. Thus saith our God. Oh! that I knew where I might breath in him! Elijah: Rise then, ye priests of Baal: select and slay a bullock, find Him, that I might even come before His presence. and put no fire under it: uplift your voices, and call the god ye No. 16: Recitative and Chorus Deuteronomy 4:29; Job 23:3 Elijah: LORD, my God, let the spirit of this child return, that worship; and I then will calI on the LORD JEHOVAH: and the Elijah: O Thou, who makest thine angels spirits; Thou, whose he again may live! God who by fire shall answer, let him be God. ministers are flaming fires, let them now descend! No. 5: Chorus Yet doth the LORD see it not: He mocketh at us; His curse The Widow: Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Chorus: Yea; and the God who by fire shall answer, let him Chorus: The fire descends from heaven; the flames consume hath fallen down upon us; His wrath will pursue us, till he be God. his offering. Before Him upon your faces fall! The LORD is destroy us! For He, the LORD our God, He is a jealous God; Elijah: LORD, my God, O let the spirit of this child return, God: O Israel, hear! Our God is one LORD: and we will have and He visiteth all the fathers’ sins on the children to the third that he again may live! Elijah: Call first upon your god: your numbers are many: I, no other gods before the LORD! and the fourth generation of them that hate Him. His mercies even I, only remain, one prophet of the LORD! Invoke your on thousands fall—fall on all them that love Him, and keep The Widow: The LORD hath heard thy prayer, the soul of my forest-gods and mountain-deities. His commandments. son reviveth! I Kings 18:1, 15, 17–19, 23–25 Deuteronomy 28:22; Exodus 20:5–6 8 9 TEXT TEXT

Elijah: Take all the prophets of Baal; and let not one of them Elijah: Go up again, and still look toward the sea. tens of thousands around thee perish, yet still it shall not The Queen: So go ye forth and seize Elijah, for he is worthy to escape you; bring them down to Kishon’s brook, and there let come nigh thee. die; slaughter him! do unto him as he hath done! them be slain. The Youth: There is nothing. The earth is as iron under me! Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 91:7 I Kings 14:7, 9, 15–16; 16:30–33; Jeremiah 26:9, 11; I Kings 18:10; 21:7 Chorus: Take all the prophets of Baal; and let not one of them Elijah: Hearest thou no sound of rain? Seest thou nothing arise No. 23: Recitative and Chorus escape us: bring all, and slay them! from the deep? No. 24: Chorus Psalm 104:4; I Kings 18:38–40 Elijah: The LORD hath exalted thee from among the people: Woe to him, he shall perish; for he closed the heavens! And The Youth: No; there is nothing. and o’er His people Israel hath made thee king. But thou, why hath he spoken in the Name of the LORD? Let the guilty No. 17: Air: Elijah Ahab, hast done evil to provoke Him to anger above all that prophet perish! He hath spoken falsely against our land and Is not His word like a fire: and like a hammer that breaketh Elijah: Have respect to the prayer of Thy servant, O LORD, my were before thee: as if it had been a light thing for thee to walk us, as we have heard with our ears. So go ye forth; seize on the rock into pieces? For God is angry with the wicked ev’ry God! Unto Thee I will cry, LORD, my rock; be not silent to in the sins of Jeroboam. Thou hast made a grove and an altar him! He shall die! day; and if the wicked turn not, the LORD will whet His me; and Thy great mercies remember, Lord! to Baal, and served him and worshipped him. Thou has killed Ecclesiasticus 48:2–3 sword; and He hath bent His bow, and made it ready. the righteous, and also taken possession. And the LORD shall ELIJAH FLEES TO MOUNT HOREB Jeremiah 23:29; Psalm 7:11–12 The Youth: Behold, a little cloud ariseth now from the waters; smite all Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He shall No. 25: Recitative it is like a man’s hand! The heavens are black with clouds and give Israel up, and thou shalt know He is the LORD. No. 18: ARIOSO: Alto solo Obadiah: Man of God, now let my words be precious in thy wind: the storm rusheth louder and louder! Woe unto them who forsake Him! Destruction shall fall upon The Queen: Have ye not heard that he hath prophesied against sight. Thus saith Jezebel: “Elijah is worthy to die.” So the them, for they have transgressed against Him. Though they are mighty gather against thee, and they have prepared a net for The People: Thanks be to God, for all His mercies! all Israel? by Him redeemed, yet they have spoken falsely against Him: thy steps; that they may slay thee. Arise, then, and hasten for even from Him have they fled. thy life; to the wilderness journey. The LORD thy God doth go Elijah: Thanks be to God, for He is gracious, and His mercy The People: We heard it with our ears. Hosea 7:13 with thee; He will not fail thee, He will not forsake thee. Now endureth for evermore! begone, and bless me also. Jeremiah 14:22; II Chronicles 6:19, 26, 27; The Queen: Have ye not heard that he hath prophesied also Deuteronomy 28:23; Psalms 28:1; 106:1; I Kings 18:43–45 against the king of Israel? ELIJAH BRINGS RAIN Elijah: Though stricken, they have not grieved! Tarry here, No. 19: Recitative and Chorus No. 20: Chorus The People: We heard it with our ears. my servant: the LORD be with thee. I journey hence to the Obadiah: O man of God, help thy people! Among the idols Thanks be to God! He laveth the thirsty land! The waters wilderness. of the Gentiles, are there any that can command the rain, or gather; they rush along; they are lifting their voices! The The Queen: And why hath he spoken in the name of the II Kings 19:1, 3; Jeremiah 5:3; 26:11; Psalm 59:3; cause the heavens to give their showers? The LORD our God stormy billows are high, their fury is mighty. But the LORD is LORD? Doth Ahab govern the kingdom of Israel while I Kings 19:3–4; Deuteronomy 31:6; alone can do these things. above them, and Almighty! Elijah’s power is greater than the king’s? The gods do so to Exodus 12:32; I Samuel 17:37 Psalm 93:3–4 me, and more, if by tomorrow about this time, I make not his Elijah: O LORD, Thou hast overthrown Thine enemies and No. 26: Air: Elijah life as the life of one of them whom he hath sacrificed at the destroyed them. Look down on us from heaven, O LORD; It is enough; O LORD, now take away my life, for I am not brook of Kishon! regard the distress of Thy people: open the heavens and send PART THE SECOND better than my fathers! I desire to live no longer: now let me us relief: help, help Thy servant now, O God! die, for my days are but vanity! I have been very jealous for the Chorus: He shall perish! JEZEBEL ORDERS ELIJAH’S DEATH LORD God of Hosts! for the children of Israel have broken Thy The People: Open the heavens and send us relief: help, help No. 21: Air: Soprano covenant, and thrown down Thine altars, and slain all Thy The Queen: Hath he not destroyed Baal’s prophets? Thy servant now, O God! Hear ye, Israel; hear what the LORD speaketh: “Oh, hadst prophets—slain them with the sword: and I, even I, only am

thou heeded my commandments!” Who hath believed our left; and they seek my life to take it away. Chorus: He shall perish! Elijah: Go up now, child, and look toward the sea. Hath my report; to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Thus saith Job 7:16; I Kings 19:4, 10 prayer been heard by the LORD? the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and His Holy One, to him oppressed by tyrants: thus saith the LORD: “I am He that The Queen: Yea, by sword he destroyed them all! No. 27: Recitative: Tenor solo The Youth: There is nothing. The heavens are as brass, they comforteth; be not afraid, for I am thy God, I will strengthen See, now he sleepeth beneath a juniper tree in the wilderness: Chorus: He destroyed them all! are as brass above me. thee. Say, who art thou, that thou art afraid of a man that shall but the angels of the LORD encamp round about all them that die; and forgettest the LORD thy Maker, who hath stretched fear Him. The Queen: He also closed the heavens! Elijah: When the heavens are closed up because they have forth the heavens, and laid the earth’s foundations? Be not I Kings 19:5; Psalm 34:7 sinned against Thee; yet if they pray and confess Thy name, afraid, for I, thy God, will strengthen thee.” Chorus: He also closed the heavens! No. 28: Trio: The Angels and turn from their sin when Thou dost afflict them: then hear Isaiah 48:1, 18; 53:1; 49:7; 41:10; 51:12–13 Lift thine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh help. Thy from heaven, and forgive the sin! Send Thou Thy servant help, No. 22: Chorus The Queen: And called down a famine upon the land. help cometh from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. O God! Be not afraid, saith God the LORD. Be not afraid! thy help He hath said, thy foot shall not be moved: thy Keeper will is near. God, the LORD thy God, saith unto thee, “Be not Chorus: And called down a famine upon the land. never slumber. The People: Then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin! Send afraid!” Though thousands languish and fall beside thee, and Psalm 121:1–3 Thou Thy servant help, O LORD!

10 11 TEXT UC DAVIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman, conductor

David Moschler, assistant conductor No. 29: Chorus: The Angels No. 35: Recitative: Quartet and Chorus ALEXANDRA ENGEN, manager and librarian He, watching over Israel, slumbers not, nor sleeps. Shouldst Above Him stood the Seraphim, and one cried to another: thou, walking in grief, languish, He will quicken thee. Holy, holy, holy is God the LORD—the LORD Sabaoth! Now Psalms 121:4; 138:7 His glory hath filled all the earth. Violin I Viola Flute Horn Isaiah 6:2, 3 Cynthia Bates, Jason Haberman, Susan Monticello, Rachel Howerton, No. 30: Recitative concertmaster* principal* principal* principal* An Angel: Arise, Elijah, for thou hast a long journey before John Abdallah, James Chitwood* Michelle Hwang* Stephen Hudson thee. Forty days and forty nights shalt thou go to Horeb, the No. 36: Chorus, Recitative associate concertmaster* Pablo Frias Victoria Lau mountain of God. Chorus: Go, return upon thy way! For the LORD yet hath left Angelo Arias* Holly Harrison Oboe Adam Morales Him seven thousand in Israel, knees which have not bowed to Eric van Boer Margaret Hermle Jaclyn Howerton, Clairelee Leiser Bulkley* Melissa Lyans Elijah: O LORD, I have laboured in vain; yea, I have spent my Baal. Go thy way, thus the LORD commandeth. principal* Trumpet Joan Crow Katie Miller Benjamin Harris Randall Veirs, strength for naught! O that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, Yosef Farnsworth* Jesse Simons principal* that Thou wouldst come down; that the mountains would flow Elijah: I go on my way in the strength of the LORD. For Jordan Kirkner Alice Tackett Clarinet John Freeman Thou art my LORD; and I will suffer for Thy sake. My heart down at Thy presence, to make Thy Name known to Thine Raphael Moore* An Tan Robert Brosnan adversaries, through the wonders of Thy works! is therefore glad, my glory rejoiceth, and my flesh shall also Marie Park principal* Trombone rest in hope. Amanda Perry Cello Al Bona Jenny Mun, O LORD, why hast Thou made them to err from Thy ways, I Kings 19:15, 18; Psalms 71:16; 16:9 Vanessa Rashbrook Anne-Marie Noble, principal* and hardened their hearts that they do not fear Thee? O that I John Wu principal* Bassoon John Matter* now might die! No. 37: Arioso: Elijah Christopher Allen* Matt Wong, Robert Thomas* I Kings 19:7–8; Isaiah 49:4; 64:1–2; 63:17; I Kings 19:4 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; Violin II Lara Brown* principal* but Thy kindness shall not depart from me, neither shall the Aaron Gong, Susan Lamb Cook Allison Peery Tuba No. 31: Air: The Angel covenant of Thy peace be removed. principal* Olivia Glass David Moschler* Shari Gueffroy, Julie Hochman O rest in the LORD; wait patiently for Him, and He shall give Isaiah 54:10 associate principal* Carrie Miller thee thy heart’s desires. Commit thy way unto Him, and trust Percussion No. 38: Chorus Lucile Cain Eldridge Moores* Kevin Koo, in Him, and fret not thyself because of evil doers. Jonathan Chan Isabel Ortiz Then did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire; his words principal* Psalm 37:1, 4, 7 Tulin Gurer Milena Schaller appeared like burning torches. Mighty kings by him were Grace Hermle Organ No. 32: Chorus overthrown. He stood on the Mount of Sinai, and heard the Peilin Hsieh Bass Jeffrey Thomas* He that shall endure to the end, shall be saved. judgements of the future; and in Horeb its vengeance. And Sharon Inkelas Amanda Wu, Matthew 24:13 when the LORD would take him away to heaven, lo! there Margaux Kreitman principal* came a fiery chariot, with fiery horses; and he went by a Jason Lee Robin Croen ELIJAH IS SWEPT BY A WHIRLWIND TO HEAVEN whirlwind to heaven. Morgan McMahon Thomas Derthick No. 33: Recitative Ecclesiasticus 48:1, 6, 7; II Kings 2:1, 11 Keun-yung Park Thomas Mykytyn Elijah: Night falleth round me, O LORD! Be Thou not far from Wesley Wang Melissa Zerofsky me! hide not Thy face, O LORD, from me; my soul is thirsting No. 39: Air: Tenor solo * Holder of endowed seat for Thee, as a thirsty land. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in their heavenly Father’s realm. Joy on their heads shall be for everlasting, and The Angel: Arise, now! get thee without, stand on the mount all sorrow and mourning shall flee away for ever. before the LORD; and there His glory will appear and shine on Matthew 13:43; Isaiah 51:11 thee! Thy face must be veiled, for He draweth near. Psalm 143:6–7; I Kings 19:11, 13 No. 40: Chorus And then shall your light break forth as the light of morning No. 34: Chorus breaketh; and your health shall speedily spring forth then; Behold! God the LORD passed by! And a mighty wind rent the and the glory of the LORD ever shall be thy reward. Lord, our mountains around, brake in pieces the rocks, brake them before Creator, how excellent Thy Name is in all the nations! Thou the LORD: but yet the LORD was not in the tempest. Behold! fillest heaven with Thy glory. Amen! God the LORD passed by! And the sea was upheaved, and the Isaiah 53:8; Psalm 8:1 UC Davis Department of Music PRODUCTION STAFF earth was shaken: but yet the LORD was not in the earthquake. Phil Daley, events and publicity manager And after the earthquake there came a fire: but yet the LORD Josh Paterson, events and production manager was not in the fire. And after the fire there came a still small Rudy Garibay, graphic designer voice; and in that still voice, onward came the LORD. Jessica Kelly, writer I Kings 19:11–12 Christina Acosta, editor

12 13 University Chorus ALUMNI CHORUS Jeffrey Thomas, conductor Jeffrey Thomas, conductor David Moschler, assistant conductor David and Ellen Deffner, accompanists

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Jennifer Adler Sherry Chen Matthew Halverson * John Berg Beth Baker Grose 1981 Lindsay Allen 1973 Seth Arnopole 1998 Jeff Aran 1980 Alyssa Black Christine Chou Milton Jackson Clyde Bowman Noreen Barnett 1983 DeeDee Banegas 1996 Stephen Fasel 2008 John Baker 2000 Joanna Brown Meghan Eberhardt * Harry Jin Robert Crummey Amanda Boardman 2008 Barbara Celli Tatz Ishimaru David Benjamin 1999 Ka Ian Chan Lisa Eleazarian Richard Kulmann Kenneth Firestein Susan Conwell 1995 Leslie Cooper 1976 Gary Matteson 1960 Jim Draper 1944 Chun-Yi Chen April Ferre Michael Lahr Kevin Foster * Barbara Cowie 1977 Aimee Dour-Smith 1992 Matthew McGibney 1993 Joshua Eichorn 1998 Rosemary Costello Sara Franssen Spencer Little * Christopher Gee * Melissa Hallas 2002 Robin Drechsler 1981 Jeff Ouye 1993 Thomas Estes 1980 Sarah Flores Elizabeth Frey * Peter Ludden * David Green * Marjorie Halloran 2007 Evelynne Drinker 1978 Darren Pollock 2001 John Grose 1981 Emma Goldin Daniela Galasso David Moschler James Hutchinson Jeanne Howe 1974 Ann Halsted Asa Stern 1997 Kirk Kolodji 2004 Wendy Ho Susan Garbini Jeffrey Paterson David Kashevaroff * Lauren Kaplan 1977 Elizabeth Holoman Michael Lazzara Sarah Jimison Emma Gavenda * Matthew Rotwitt Tetsushi Kawaguchi Airy Krich-Brinton 2005 Katherine Ivanjack 1998 Noca 1994 Kimberly Kurotori Sally Gray Peter Shack * Bryan Klingman Barbara Lachendro 1985 Charlene Kunitz Erick Lorenz 1962 Linda Nguyen Anne Ish Green Janghee (John) Woo Stephen Lightfoote Joan Lunderville 1965 Julia Lazzara Ed Martin Elizabeth Parks* Kirstin Haag * Ian MacGregor Jennifer McEwen 2008 Leslie Leong 1981 Clarence McProud 1976 Laura Putnam Amy Harris * Leonard Margue Megan McKee-Schulman 2001 Sara Margulis 1997 Charles Monson 1997 Emily Randall Mary Herbert Reid Nonnenberg Aileen Nichols 2006 Sara Martin 1976 Chester Moore 1960 Anne Richardson Laura Hockett Johnny Sanchez Elenka Proulx 2004 Mari Masuko 2008 Jeff Pettit 1976 Miriam Rocke Rebecca Jia Eric Spears Lisa Sueyres 2008 Christine Meairs 1979 Keith Rode 2002 Diane Soto Julia Kulmann * Doug Underwood Paula Thompson 1976 Barbara Meixner 1964 Barry Smith 1984 Lindsay Van Amringe * Linda McCann Kevin Young Kelley Way 2007 Martha Morgan 1985 Paul David Terry 2001 Acacia Wang Krysten Melgar Rebecca Wendlandt 2007 Linnea Nasman 2008 Christina Whidden Visnja Milojicic Kendra Williams 1986 Nancy Nelle 1974 Sara Wilson * Shanna Mok Lyn Parker 1971 Chloris Wong Oaggin Park Mardi Paulson 1977 Carrie Rocke Regina Sikora 2005 Sarah Shuken * Cynthia Sperry 2006 Kelsey Stroshane * Members of semi-chorus in Mary Sprifke 1965 Haeri Kate Suh “For He shall give His angels” Lynne Swant 2002 Joyce Takahashi Kristina Trombly 2007 Katherine Unger 1990 Karen Walton 1977 Cynthia Wight 1976

14 15 UC DAVIS CHORUS ENDOWMENT UC DAVIS SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT

FOUNDER’S CLUB MEMBERS Mitzi S. Aguirre Dr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Hrdy* James and Felicity Pine In honor of Priscilla Alexander Sharon Inkelas Jim and Nancy Pollock Benjamin Hart W. Jeffery Alfriend, DVM** Barbara K. Jackson** Ann Preston Randolph Hunt by Benjamin John R. Berg, Ph.D., and Anne M. Berg Barbara K. Jackson Patricia K. Moore and Thomas and Patricia Allen Prof. Joseph E. Kiskis Jr.* Eugene and Elizabeth Renkin* and Lynette Hart* Kathleen Cady Joan and Russell Jones Chester G. Moore Jr., Ph.D. David M. Ashkenaze, M.D.* Winston and Katy Ko Ralph and Judy Riggs** Ulla McDaniel Barbara P. and Kenneth D. Celli Mr. and Mrs. Norman Jones Mary Ann Morris, Ph.D. Robert and Joan Ball* Family of Norman Lamb* Susanne Rockwell and Jerome and Sylvia Rosen* Donna M. Di Grazia Prof. Joseph E. Kiskis Jr. Jeffrey and Janice Pettit Cynthia Bates* Dr. Richard Levine* Brian Sway Leland and Susan Faust Julia and Richard Kulmann Steven Rosenau Matthew and Shari Benard- Paul and Lois Lim Jerome and Sylvia Rosen* In memory of Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Elizabeth Langland and Jerry Jahn Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shaked Gueffroy** Susan Linz Don Roth Susan Pylman Akin John Tracy Grose and Beth Baker-Grose Leslie and Dana Leong Patricia L. Shepherd Robert Biggs and Diane Carlson Melissa Lyans and Andreas J. Robert and Margaret Rucker** William R. Albrecht Prof. and Mrs. D. Kern Holoman Gary and Jane Matteson Steven Tallman Oscar and Shula Blumenthal Albrecht, Ph.D.* Tracey Rudnick Ronald J. Alexander James and Patricia Hutchinson Hugh and Deborah McDevitt Jeffrey Thomas Rebecca A. Brover** Natalie and Malcolm Beverly “Babs” Sandeen and Hilary Brover IBM International Foundation, LLP Albert and Helen McNeil Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef Robert and Hilary Brover** MacKenzie* Marty Swingle** Robert M. Cello Cindy and Dennis McNeil Ed and Eleanor Witter Gregory A. Brucker Douglas W. Macpherson and E. N. Sassenrath* Karen Aileen Dettling Ralph E. Bulkley and Glayol Sabha, M.D.* Neil and Caroline Schore* John “Al” Driver Clairelee Leiser Bulkley** Marjorie March* Prof. and Mrs. Calvin Schwabe* Elizabeth Elkus Walter and Marija Bunter* J. A. Martin Barbara L. Sheldon ANNUAL DONORS Carl Flowers Ray and Mary Cabral* Gary and Jane Matteson** Ellen Sherman* Dr. Irena Anna Henner Lynn and Robert Campbell Katherine Mawdsley and Richard and Gayle Simpson** Katherine H. Holoman Mitzi S. Aguirre Kirk Kolodji Patricia Peacock Don and Dolores Chakerian* William F. McCoy* Wilson and Kathryn Smith** Norman E. Lamb Priscilla Alexander Airy Krich-Brinton Ann Preston Terry and Marybeth Cook Scott and Caroline Mayfield Lois Spafford* Loren LeMaitre Martha Amorocho Dr. Katherine T. Landschulz Gerry Prody Elizabeth Corbett Greg and Judy McCall* Sherman and Hannah Stein Verna Fournes LeMaitre Renee Armstrong Leslie and Dana Leong Warren G. Roberts Allan and Joan Crow* Tracy H. and Brendan J. Dr. and Mrs. Roydon Steinke Michelle Mantay Renee Bodie Natalie and Malcolm MacKenzie Carrie Rocke Martha Dickman* McCarthy Thomas Sturges* Dorothy Dodge Miller Clyde and Ruth Bowman Maria Mange Jerry and Sylvia Rosen Clare M. Driver Ulla and Gerald McDaniel Joel and Susan Swift* John Mouber Lynn and Robert Campbell Susan Mann William and Linda Schmidt Nancy DuBois* Don and Lou McNary* Richard Swift* Mel Olson Hugh C. and Susan B. Conwell Marjorie March Carl Seymour Jonathan and Mickey Elkus Albert J. and Helen McNeil* Alice Tackett* Herman Phaff Martha Dickman Matthew McGibney Kevin Shellooe Thomas and Phyllis Farver** Sharon Menke, esq. Steven D. Tallman* Keith Riddick Dotty Dixon Clarence H. McProud Ellen Sherman Ron Fisher Maureen Miller Damian Siu Ming Ting** Walter H. Rock Jr. Jeremy Faust Amelie Mel de Fontenay G. William Skinner and Susan Mann Tyler T. Fong* Andrew Mollner** Roseanna F. Torretto Walter H. Rock Sr. Darlene Franz and James Van Horn Jeffrey Mihaly Barry Smith Marvin and Susan Friedman** Joseph Dean Mollner** Rosalie and Larry Vanderhoef* Dorothy J. Shiely Sally S. Gray Martha Morgan Steven and Patricia Waldo Edwin and Sevgi Friedrich Eileen and Ole Mols* Shipley and Dick Walters* Richard and Dorothy Swift Benjamin and Lynette Hart Jonathan and Jessie Newhall Shipley and Dick Walters Anne Gray* George Moore Barbara D. and William E. Valente David and Annmarie Heller Rebecca Newland Douglas and Carey Wendell Vicki Gumm and Kling Jolanta Moore** Grady L. Webster Bodil Wennberg James H. Hillman Naomi Newman Rebecca and Jansen Wendlandt Family Foundation** Raphael S. and Netania Moore* Marya Welch* Betty and Robin Houston Grant and Grace Noda Bank of America Matching Gift Program Prof. and Mrs. Said Haimor* Eldridge and Judith Moores** * = $1,000 or more Donald Johnson and Elizabeth Miller John and Elizabeth Owens IBM Matching Gift Program Benjamin and Lynette Hart** James and Jocelyn Morris** Arthur Andersen LLP ** = $10,000 or more Winston and Katy Ko Mike and Carlene Ozonoff Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lorena Herrig* Mary Ann Morris* Foundation* Barbara D. Hoermann Ken T. Murai* Bank of America Foundation Prof. and Mrs. D. Kern Russell and Alice Olson Office of the Provost** Holoman** Jessie Ann Owens The Swift Fund for the Arts* Debra A. Horney, M.D.** Paul and Linda Parsons* UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Brian and Louanne Horsfield** Herman and Dianne Phaff** 1992–93, 1993–94** Ilia Howard* Marjorie Phillips and Weyerhaeuser Margaret E. Hoyt* Robert Rice

16 17 UC DAVIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ENDOWED SEATS Recital Hall and the endowments

he Department of Music extends a warm thank-you to the people who make possible everything we do. Gifts to the Symphony Endowed seats are made possible by gifts of $10,000 or more. Tand Chorus Endowments allow students of those performing ensembles continued access to quality performance resources, which include visiting artists, coaches, music, instruments, and performance venues. In October 2008 a new endowment was founded by Deborah Pinkerton and Bret Hewitt in honor of Joy M. Shinkoskey to support the free Thursday Noon Concert series.

Cynthia Bates Anne-Marie Noble Rachel Howerton The most important endeavor of the department today is to build the new Music Performance Building and Recital Hall—a much Cynthia Bates concertmaster Herman Phaff principal cello Kristin N. Simpson and David R. Simpson needed mid-size concert venue that will serve the campus and the region. Scheduled to open in fall 2011, the Recital Hall will provide presented by Debra Horney, M.D. presented by Herman and Diane Phaff principal French horn an acoustically rich environment for small ensembles, soloists, and a superb teaching facility for a department with rapidly growing presented by Richard and Gayle enrollment and increasing academic strength and breadth. The hall will also house Mondavi Center Presenting Program concerts. An John Abdallah Christopher Allen Simpson effort to raise $5.5 million in private funding to augment state and campus funds for the project is underway. For information about the Recital Hall and how to support it, please visit the Department of Music web site (music.ucdavis.edu) or call Debbie Wilson, Damian Ting associate concertmaster Tracy McCarthy cello Director of Development for the Division of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies in the College of Letters & Science, at 530.754.2221. presented by Damian Siu Ming Ting presented by Brian and Louanne Randall Veirs Horsfield Andrew Mollner principal trumpet Clairelee Leiser Bulkley presented by Joseph Dean Mollner and recital hall society Andrew Mollner Clairelee Leiser Bulkley violin I Eldridge Moores Recognized by gifts of $25,000 or more presented by Clairelee Leiser Bulkley Eldridge Moores cello and Ralph E. Bulkley Jenny Mun Wayne and Jacque Bartholomew* Mary Ann Morris* In Memory of Kenneth N. MacKenzie presented by Eldridge and Judith Ralph and Clairelee Leiser Bulkley* Grant and Grant Noda**** Natalie and Malcolm Mackenzie* Moores Rebecca A. Brover principal trombone presented by Rebecca A. Brover John and Lois Crowe** Jessie Ann Owens and Yosef Farnsworth Lorena J. Herrig* Anne L. Hoffmann* * = Patron ($25K and higher) Francis Dubois violin I Lara Brown D. Kern and Elizabeth Holoman* Wilson and Kathryn Smith* ** = Director ($50K and higher) *** = Benefactor ($100K and higher) presented by Nancy Dubois Louise McNary cello John Matter Barbara K. Jackson**** Richard and Shipley Walters* **** = Founder ($350K and higher) presented by Don McNary Michael J. Malone trombone Albert McNeil* Edwin and Elen Witter* presented by Brian McCurdy and Raphael S. Moore Carol Anne Muncaster Raphael S. Moore violin I Amanda Wu Seats and stones presented by Jolanta Moore Barbara K. Jackson principal bass Recognized by gifts of $1,000 or more in memory of Raphael’s grandmother, presented by Barbara K. Jackson Robert Thomas Dr. Irena Anna Henner Brian McCurdy bass trombone Aguirre Family Stephen Fasel Barbara K. Jackson presented by Barbara K. Jackson Susan Monticello Angelo D. Arias and Family Katherine Ivanjack Jerry and Teresa Kaneko Eric and Jacque Leaver Kit and Bonita Lam Angelo Arias Principal flute Robert and Joan Ball David Moschler Cynthia Bates Joshua and Sara Margulis Ruth Lawrence Ralph and Judy Riggs violin I presented by Beverly “Babs” Sandeen Elizabeth Parks Jerry and Marguerite Lewis presented by Ralph and Judy Riggs and Marty Swingle Robert B. Rucker tuba Ross Bauer, Ph.D. Ellen Proulx Frederick and Lucinda March presented by Robert and Margaret Martha Dickman Keith and Jennifer Rode Theresa Mauer Rucker Nancy DuBois Steven Rosenau Robert and Margaret McDonald Aaron Gong Michelle Hwang Richard and Vera Harris Asa Stern John and Norma Meyer Fawzi S. Haimor principal violin II Phyllis and Thomas Farver flute/piccolo Calvin B. Arnason principal harp Julia and Richard Kulmann Stephanie Sugano Maureen Miller presented by Barbara K. Jackson presented by Phyllis and Thomas presented by Benjamin and Lynette Charlene R. Kunitz Thomas Wilberg Teresa Paglieroni Farver Hart Maureen Miller Sarah and Thomas Pattison Shari Benard-Gueffroy Deborah and Hugh McDevitt In Memory of Kenneth N. MacKenzie Philip and Shirley Penland Shari Benard-Gueffroy assistant Clyde and Ruth Bowman David and Dair Rausch Jaclyn Howerton Kevin Koo Gail M. Otteson Elizabeth and Eugene Renkin principal violin II Elizabeth Bradford Wilson and Kathryn Smith principal oboe Friedman family principal percussion Kurt Rohde and Timothy Allen Karen and Irving Broido G. Thomas and Joan Sallee presented by Shari Benard-Gueffroy presented by Wilson and Kathryn presented by Marvin and Susan Jerome and Sylvia Rosen Paul and Nancy Caffo Katherine Schimke Smith Friedman Schore Family Laura Cameron Maxine Schmalenberger Jason Haberman Thomas and Karen Slabaugh Bruce and Mary Carswell J. Tracy and Sally Schreiber Henry Spiller and Michael Orland Linton and Carol Corruccini Roy and Polly Sheffield Jocelyn Morris principal viola Robert Brosnan Jeffrey Thomas Hannah and Sherman Stein Mary and George Dahlgren Suzette Smith presented by James and Jocelyn Morris W. Jeffery Alfriend DVM principal clarinet Gary C. Matteson orchestral piano Henry Ann Struder Allen and Mary Lou Dobbins Ronald and Rosie Soohoo presented by Vicki Gumm and Joe and Betty Tupin presented by Jane, Dwayne, and Lynne Swant and Family John and Catherine Duniway James Chitwood Kling Family Foundation Laura and Richard Van Nostrand Donald Matteson Uwate Family Robert and Ann Edmondson Andrew and Judith Gabor Elisabetta Vivoda Bakos family associate principal viola Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef presented by John T. Bakos, M.D./ Government Affairs Consulting Richard and Shipley Walters Matthew Wong David Moschler Carla Wilson Paul and June Gulyassy Noel and Pamela Warner Ph.D., in memory of Dr. John and Kling Family Foundation principal bassoon Barbara K. Jackson assistant conductor Robert and Christine Wendin Grace Bakos Russell and Suzanne Hansen presented by Vicki Gumm and presented by Barbara K. Jackson Seth Singers, Alumni 1994–2008 John and Marylee Hardie Debbie B. Wilson Kling Family Foundation Seth Arnopole Benjamin and Lynette Hart Robert and Joyce Wisner John Baker John and Patricia Hershberger Donald and Diane Woods David Benjamin Bette Gabbard Hinton Penn Brimberry Dirk and Sharon Hudson St. Helena Hospital Foundation Joshua Eichorn James and Patricia Hutchinson The conductor’s podium was presented by Wilson and Kathryn Smith in honor of D. Kern Holoman. 18 19 A joint production of the Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance, with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra

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