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PROGRAM

THE Friday, April 24, 1992 The Lafayette Club FANFARE! a Gala Benefit and Performance for The Dale Warland Singers to celebrate their 20th anniversary season Sponsored by THE FRIENDS OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

6:30 p.m. Cocktails and Silent Auction The Medicine Show Music Company 8:00 p.m. Dinner 8:30 p.m. Dinner Entertainment an_dMusic for Dancing The Jerry Rubino Trio featuring Jerry Rubino, piano Tom Larson, flute & vocals Phil Hey, drums Greg Hippen, bass Dan Chouinard, piano 9:15 p.m. Silent Auction closes, dessert is served 9:30 p.m. Entertainment Part I It's a Grand Night For Singing' Audience Sing-Along The "Rose Quartet" The "Pauls" The Warland Cabaret Singers ..Operator, Tom Larson a.k.a. "Julia" All the Things You Are New York Afternoon 9:50 p.m. Live Auction Darrah Williams, auctioneer 10: 15 p.m. Entertainment Part II The Dale Warland Singers Cindy My Lord, What a Morning Auction Winner Conducts the DWS Winner's choice of Hallelujah Chorus or America the Beautiful DWS and Wannabees sing Shenandoah The Dale Warland Singers A medley of your favorite songs by George and Ira Gershwin, arranged by Jerry Rubino

Dancing follows tonight's entertainment and concludes at midnight CALL TO DINNER The Medicine Show Music Company

MENU Prepared by the Lafayette Club

HORS D'OEUVRES

Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes, Phyllo Pastries with Crab Meat & Cream Cheese Roquefort Grapes Pea Pods stuffed with Herbed Cheese Stuffed Quail Eggs Profiterole with Chicken Salad

DINNER t'

Salad of Bibb Lettuce, Tomato, Hearts of Palm, . Dij'onViriai'grette

'. .• • ".J. • Sliced Tenderloin of Beef with Bearnaise Sauce Mushroom New Potato Fresh Asparagus Strawberry Fan, Star Fruit &. Watercress ," ,'"

Mini Bread Sticks &" Herbed 'Cra'am Cheese 'Croissants & Butter Balls

Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberry Puree, ,. { . Whipped Cream, Chocolate Fan & Fresh Raspberries

WINE

Alexis Bailly Country White Les Violettes Cotes du Rhone

Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Tea, Iced Tea, Milk FANFARE!

Benefit Committee

Honorary Chairs Co-Chairs Arland Brusven Margie Ankeny Mary Steinke Mary Taylor •

Patron Chairs Auction Chairs Thelma Hunter Teresa Whaley Estelle Sell Debra Harrer Pat Jaffray

Master of Ceremonies Jerry Rubino

Committee Nancy Bergerson Carole Olson Donna Bonello Chuck Peterson Russ Bursch Nancy Rotenberry Kathy Cunningham Gloria Smith Sherry Davis Ellie Spiccola MaryAnn DeRosier Barbara Spradley Bette Hammel Mary Steeber Sally Hanser Elaine Swanson Helen Johnson Lola May Thompson Jeffrey Masco Patti Wales Lee Mauk Pat Whitacre Kay McCarthy Anne Worrell Judy McMahon Susan Wylie

Our Special Thanks to:

Dale Warland, Jerry Rubino and The Dale Warland Singers The donors of all items for the silent and live auctions Red dinner wine courtesy of France/44 Wines & Spirits, Minneapolis & Minnetonka White dinner wine courtesy of Alexis Bailly Vineyards, Hastings Alchemy Publishing Robert Lenox Interiors Rod and Barbara Burwell Kay McCarthy General Litho Services Connie Schroeder Linda Hohag Schmitt Music Centers BENEFIT PATRONS, SPONSORS, BENEFACTORS CORPORATE TABLE SPONSORS (as of Wednesday, April 22, 1992)

John & Marion Andrus A grant from the John M. & Pete and Margie Ankeny Susan M. Morrison Fund of ~ Mrs. DeWalt Ankeny, Sr. The Minneapolis Foundation Earle & Elisabeth Bennett Elizabeth Musser Jerome & Linda Carlson Francie Nelson Mari Carlson John & Shirley Nilsen Pat & Betsey Corrigan Northern States Power Charles & Kathy Cunningham Norwest Bank Don & Ann Davies Roger & Betty O'Shaughnessy Jim & Sherry Davis Lon and Joan Parsons Lucy Dayton Peregrine Capital Management Dorsey & Whitney George & Sally Pillsbury Carl & Charlotte Drake, Jr. Piper Capital Management First Asset Management Don & Estelle Sell Jerry & Cathie Fischer Sit Investment Associates Inc. John & Jean Folin Dick & Ella Slade Reyn & Mary Guyer Nancy Slaughter Alfred & Ingrid Lenz Harrison Jim & Jeanne Smith Bill & Helen Hartfiel, Jr Phil & Gloria Smith John & Lucy Hartwell Bob & Jean Spong Sam & Thelma Hunter Greg & Mary Steeber Investment Advisors Inc. George & Irene Steiner Pat Jaffray Glenn & Mary Steinke Helen Johnson Dick & Elaine Swanson Leticia Johnson Jack & Mary Taylor Richard & Heather King Jack & Pat Thomas John G. Kinnard & Co. Wayne & Lola May Thompson Neil Kittlesen Jim & Charlotte Treanor & Barbara Spradley Jack Weatherford

Francis & Catherine Knoblauch I & M. Walker Pearce David &. Mary Beth Koehler Eugene & Pat Whitacre Larry & Jean LeJeune John & Liz Lundquist Mike & Kay McCarthy Susan McDowell Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Eldon & Anne Miller Dave & Shirley Moore THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director

Jerry Rubino, Assistant Conductor and Pianist Music Director of the Warland Cabaret Singers

DALE WARLAND "

Dale Warland has devoted his professional life to attaining the highest musical level in choral singing. Consummate musicianship a-ndattention to detail have been his tools in building one of the finest choral groups in the country. Under Dr.' Warland's leadership, the ensemble has thrilled choral music lovers, not just in their Twin Cities' home, but throughout North America and Europe.

Beyond his active schedule as Music Director of The Dale Warland Singers, Warland is in demand as guest conductor, lecturer and . He has conducted such prestigious ensembles as the Swedish Radio , the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Israel's finest professional choir, the Cameron Singers. In August of 1990, Warland prepared the chorus for Penderecki's Polish Requiem, the culminating event of the Second World Symposium on Choral Music in Helsinki.

Warland is an active composer and is a member of the American Society of , Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He has also served as co- chair of the choral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts. A recipient of major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board, Dr. Warland holds Distinguished Alumnus Awards from St. Olaf College and the University of Southern California. He served as professor of music at Macatester College. after earning his academic degrees at St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota and the University of Southern California. In May, 1992, Warland will be honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

THE SINGERS

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Janice Hunton Lisa Barry Paul J. Anderson Steve Burger Kathy Josselyn Patricia Bather Brent Benrud Tom James Polly Buchanan Jutsum Linda Danilewski Philip Blackburn Jerry Johnson Norah Long Joanne Halvorsen Paul Gerike Dan Kallman Barbara Nelson Karen Johnson . Gary Kortemeier Jin Kim Julie Ann Olson Lynette Johnson Thomas Larson Arthur LaRue Deborah J. Osgood Shelly Kline Timothy McGlynn Jerry Rubino Lea Anna Sams-McGowan Mary Oldakowski Dean Palermo Julian Sellers Lisa Sawatsky Patricia Thornpson Steven Sandberg Kevin Shannon Marie Spar Sandra Walden Randall Speer Paul Theisen

Scott Toperzer ( TWENTY YEARS At BUILDING 1972 - 1992 by Bette Hammel

"For as long as I can remember, I always hoped to build a choir of mature voices and strong musicianship-- a choir combining amateur spirit and professional discipline that could perform any piece of music. " Dale Warland, 1967 Prelude: In 1970, Dale Warland, professor of music at Macalester College, was asked to organize a professional-quality chorus to . . - perform with Center Company (now Minnesota Opera) and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The ensemble's debut was so successful that other requests quickly followed, from Bruce Carlson of The Schubert Club, Phillip Brunelle, Dennis Russell Davies and others, resulting in the new ensemble's first formal concert in 1972. At this time, with no professional choir in Minnesota, amateur singers had no way to advance their careers. The initial group was a "telephone choir" assembled from a collection of recommendations and rolodexes of singers' names from the Twin Cities' area. It would be a few years before anyone was auditioned or paid more than a token sum for rehearsals or concerts.

1972: June 11, First independent concert as The Dale Warland Singers, a new non-profit company; at the Walker Art Center in a diversified program in five languages.

1973: First complete season featuring appearances sponsored by the Schubert Club and Walker Art Center; also the first collaboration with the , the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the American Brass Quintet. Reviewers .were already praising The Singers clarity of tone and musicianship. By this time, Warland's high standards and inventive programming were now attracting many skilled singers to audition in person ~

1974: DWS joins Macalester Festival Chorale for several appearances. June -- Performs Beethoven's Symphony No.9 at Northrup Auditorium.

1976: April -- The ensemble performs a special concert for His Majesty Karl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, at the American Swedish Bicentennial Festival in Minneapolis. With Norman Luboff as guest conductor, the DWS records Swedish Choral Ballads, an album of 20th century romantic music for Walton Publishing. 1977: The Midwest premiere, (as a fully-staged opera production) of J. S. Bach's Passion According to St. Matthew is performed with the Minnesota Opera. First engagement abroad, a three-week tour of candinavia, with broadcasts for Swedish and Norwegian Radio.

1978: Dec. conducts the DWS in eight performances. of Handel's Messiah with the Minnesota Orchestra. ,

1979: March: Due to popular demand, Bach's St. Matthew Passion is remounted. First digital recording, Dave Brubeck's La Fiesta de la Posada is recorded with Dennis Russell Davies and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for CBS Masterworks. The first solo album, Echoes of Christmas, is released by Augsburg Publishing. Diana Leland becomes the Singers' first full-time manager.

1980: April -- Recording of Choral Mosaic is finished. Orchestra Hall hosts two firsts for the Singers. June -- The Warland Cabaret Singers mark their debut as a part of Night at the Pops Concert with Norman Leyden and the Minnesota Orchestra. Dec. -- The very first Echoes of Christmas concert. The audience braved a severe winter ice storm to hear history made! Fall -- First subscription series offered.

1981: A landmark year, The Singers become fully-professional. Dale Warland awarded an Individual Artist Grant by the Minnesota -. State Arts Board to work with Robert Shaw, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and guest conducts the Swedish Radio Choir in Stockholm. Mar -- A new national broadcast, St. Paul Sunday Morning features The Singers on its first broadcast.

1982: March -- Tenth anniversary concert at Orchestra Hall. World premiere of Dominick Argento's I Hate and I Love (Odi et amo) based on the poems of Catallus, a Roman poet of Caesar's time. Sept.-- Dale Warland conducts the World's Largest Choir at the new Metrodome to launch Scandinavia Today. Nov. -- The Singers begin their 11th season with 20th century Scandinavian choral music, a world premiere by Danish composer, Bo Holten, and folk music from all five Nordic countries.

1983: 12th season. Americana folk album released, more new music premiered by The Singers, by St. Paul composer Stephen Paulus, who would later become the DWS Composer in Residence. Winter storm forces cancellation of DWS benefit featuring Garrison Keillor and . 1984: Garrison Keillor invites DWS to join him on his radio broadcast A Prairie Home Companion, singing appropriate tunes for the Lake Wobegon crowd. June -- The British Festival of Minnesota, and the Singers perform two special concerts featuring the best of English choral music. Fall -- DWS commission's George Shearing, renowned jazz pianist and composer, for his first work for chorus.

. . p 1985: A spring tour to West Germany. The Singers and Macalester College Concert Choir fly to Frankfurt to take part in the 300th birthday gala for Johann Sebastian Bach. In fall, a new music theatre in the grand European opera-house tradition opens in St. Paul, the Ordway. In their first Ordway appearance, The Singers present a program of contemporary choral music in a concert sponsored by the Schubert Club and the Ordway. August -- The Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus is organized and its first performance is Puccini's Turandot. With choral preparation by DWS Assistant Conductor, Sigrid Johnson, this marked the first of many collaborations with Leonard Slatkin, and Sommerfest.

1986: With mushrooming concert and conducting schedules, Dale Warland resigns from Macalester to devote full time to the DWS.

1987: March -- Special performance before the American Choral Directors Association national convention in San Antonio, Texas marked a milestone for DWS. As a result, requests for performances, national and international, poured in. Summer -- first time in residence at a summer music festival, this one in Boulder, Colorado. Oct. -- Singers perform Argento's "Masque of Angels". Jerome Foundation awards DWS major grant to commission new music from emerging composers.

1988: Feb. -- Swedish master conductor, Eric Ericson, featured on subscription concert. March -- Salt Lake City, Utah. A joint performance and broadcast with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. May. -- unique all-Gershwin choral concert created by Jerry Rubino, pianist, singer and director of the Warland Cabaret Singers. Summer -- Minnesota Midsummer Music Festival, Bloomington, performances with the Minnesota Orchestra and Gothenburg Symphony of Mahler's Symphony No.8. Oct. -- Indiana State University, DWS featured ensemble for ISU'S Contemporary Music Festival. Nov. -- Premiere of Stephen Paulus' Voice" with the Minnesota Orchestra. Under Edo de Waart's direction, DWS appears in a concert version of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. 1989: Sept. -- First Jerome Foundation sponsored reading sessions of works by emerging composers is held and William Halley is commissioned to write new work for the DWS. April-- The first annual fund-raising benefit for The Singers created by The rriends of The Dale Warland Singers raises $25,000. Highlights of the concert year included performances with San Francisco's Chanticleer, the Dave Brubeck Quartet and a full regional touring schedule to a variety of colleges, universities and appearances on community concert series. Adopt-a-Singer gift program launched to help Singers attend World Symposium next year.

1990: Feb. -- Inaugural concert of the annual Neo-Choral subscription concerts featuring contemporary choral scores is held at the Walker Art Center. June -- The Singers host the national convention of Chorus America. August -- A new honor for The Singers -- an invitation from the International Choral Federation to represent North America, The Singers perform for workshops and concerts at the Second World Symposium on Choral Music in Sweden and Finland. Nov. -- The DWS and Symphonic Chorus appear with the Minnesota Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York, in a concert performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

1991: Feb. -- With the Minnesota Composers Forum, DWS presents works by Minnesota Composers. The repertoire is issued on compact disc on the Forum's INNOVA label. March --Ordway-- Music Theatre presents Singers in .special young people's' concert. July -- Stephen Paulus named Composer in Residence, and DWS is only chorus accepted into current NEA Advancement program. July, Aug. and Nov. -- The Mozart bicentennial year brings rertormances of The Magic Flute and Requiem at Sommerfest, and

'f subsequent performances of Requiem at a summer residency workshop at California State University Summer Arts program, and collaborative appearances with Ballet of the Dolls for a Young People's Concert and a Subscription performance at the Basilica of St. Mary, Mpls. Dec. -- Echoes of Christmas broadcast carried by 175 public radio stations nationwide thus giving Echoes the greatest broadcast listenership of any single choral program broadcast in the U.S. June -- The fiscal year ends with a positive fund balance for the first time since 1984.

1992: April, May -- Twentieth Anniversary Season concludes with FANFARE! The benefit takes place in April, and the concluding concert with the same title takes place in May and features the Eastman Brass and Friends in a world premiere performance of Stephen Paulus' Visions of Hildegard, Part Two. THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Board of Directors

Michael W. McCarthy, President Gerald B. Fischer, Vice-President Donald Davies, Treasurer Dale Warland, Music Director Russ Bursch, Secretary

Margie Ankeny John Lundquist Dixon Bond Francie Nelson Arland Brusven Estelle Sell James L. Davis Nancy Slaughter H. David Francis Robert S. Spong Thelma Hunter Mary Steinke Jerry Johnson Jack Thomas Terry S. Knowles Teresa Whaley Mary Beth Koehler

Administrative Staff

Russ Bursch, General Manager Jeffrey Masco, Director of Development and Communications Rosalie Miller, Administrative Assistant Janice Hunton, Librarian Aaron Cieslicki, Operations Intern

JOIN THE CHORUS OF SUPPORT!

Become a member of The Friends of The Dale Warland Singers

Behind every successful performing arts organization are its friends. In addition to producing tonight's benefit, The Friends support the ensemble in a variety of important ways. Committees of The Friends include Audience Development/Marketing, Fundraising/ Membership and the annual benefit.

For more information on how you can help The Singers achieve their goals and better serve their audience, please call Jeffrey Masco at the DWS Office, 339-9707. Cabaret What good is sitting alone in your room, Come hear the music play; Life is a Cabaret old chum, come to the Cabaret. ~. Put down the knitting, the book and the broom, Time for a holiday; ; .ife is a Cabaret old chum, come to the Cabaret. Come taste the wine, come hear the band. Come blow the horn, Start celebrating, life is where your table's waiting. , No use permitting some prophet of doom To wipe every smile away; Life is a Cabaret old chum, come to the Cabaret.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Somewhere Over the Rainbow way up high, There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere Over the Rainbow skies are blue, And the dreams that you dared to dream really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up Where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away beyond the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, bluebirds fly Birds fly over the Rainbow, why then, oh why can't I? If tiny little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, Why, oh why can't I?

Shine on Harvest Moon Shine on, Shine on Harvest Moon, Up in the sky. I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June or July. :Snow time, ain't no time to stay out doors and spoon / So shine on, shine on harvest moon. For me and my gal.

Marne You coax the blues right out of the horn, Mame, You charm the husk right off of the corn, Mame, You've got the banjoes strummin' and plunkin' out a tune to beat the band. The whole plantation's hummin' Since you brought Dixie back to Dixieland. You make the cotton easy to pick, Marne, You give myoid mint julep a kick, Marne, You came, you saw, you conquered and absolutely nothing is the same, Your special fascination' II , Prove to be, inspirational, We think you're just sensational, Marne. THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS PRESENTS FANFARES! A CELEBRATION OF TwO DECADES with special guests 'The Eastman Brass and Friends and featuring the World Premiere of Visions from Hildegard, Part Two by Stephen Paulus . Sunday, May 3,3 pm. Wooddale Outrch 6630 Shady Oak Rood, Eden Prairie

on behalf of

the benefit committee thanks you for your support