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UPCOMING CONCERTS HOLIDAY CONCERTS

ECHOES OF CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 1,2000 - 8:00 p.m. Saturday, December 2, 2000 - 8:00 p.m. St. Olaf Catholic Church Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas 215 S. 8th St. The University of St. Thomas , MN 55402 Cleveland and Laurel Avenues St. Paul, MN 55104

Featuring A Ceremony a/Carols by and favoritJLrol arrangements by , Norman Luboff and . New carol arrangements will include works by Sta islaw Skowaczewski and with additional verses by , Aaron Jay Kernis and Carol Barnett.

Friday, December 8,2000 - 7:00 p.m. Sunday, December 10,2000 - 4:00 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church Church of St. Timothy (Following the Holidazzle Parade) 707-89th Ave. NE Nicollet Mall @ 12th St. Blaine, MN 55434 Minneapolis, MN 55403

Special Guest: Bel Canto Singers, Jan Kimes, Music

SPRING_CONeERTS~' r"'II'" fSon9!~ot;th~.forth The Italian Connection ! '. ...• Saturday, February 17 - 8:00 p.m. Satutday, May 5 - 8:00 p.m. Ted Mann Concert Hall Ted'Mann Concert Hall The University of Thei U sity,of Minnesota '" ~ ! f (.. . Join us for 17th and 20th century madrigals, selections froni rt, devoted lothe wonders of the earth, will Samuel Barber's "The Hermit Songs," opera chorusH of feature ,,'usic of Stephen Paulus, Alf Houkon, Eric Verdi, Puccini and Rossini and John Corigliano's stunding Whitacre aadStephen;Chatman. Featured will be "Flower "L'Invitation au Voyage." Songs" and~pr~1niire of a newly commissioned work by [acqueline J~eyA~rigKim, ~inner of the 1999 New Choral Cathedral Classics ;==l1r;r:l1:':;;;:;I" ; ~l.I:sic,PtQg~am; Saturday, March 31 - 8:00 p.m. Basilica of Saint Mary

; You'll not want to miss this annual well-loved! and perennially sold-out concert tradition. In the majesty qfth~ Basilica of Saint Mary you'll experience Allegrijs, riviting., "Miserere mei, Deus" as well las selected spirit~~ls, 'folk11' i;:':;;;;;;;;;:;;;:;:;~,' hymn arrangements, Alfred Schnittke's "Complete this Call'6l2=339';9707for tickets. Work" and 's "Tria Carmina P~schalia." ~ ; This concert is generously 1ponsore~.by Minnes~co:,t:;;:a_~~~".,••~.om,_"""'~_ ••.•.•.•.••_&_.._. ~.~~.~ __ . __~ _ Monthly Publications, Inc. r=B~~~ ..f0.. ------

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Artistic Staff ...... 5

Members of the Dale Warland Singers 6

Board of Directors and Staff ...... 7

Executive Director's Message 8

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THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

In addition to a subscription season in the Twin Cities, the Dale Warland Singers tours throughout the United States and abroad. In 1990, the ensemble traveled to Stockholm and Helsinki to represent North America at the Second World Symposium on Choral Music. During the 1999-2000 concert season, the group toured the Southeastern United States. It has appeared on 's original A Prairie Home Companion and is featured regularly on Public Radio International's Saint Paul Sunday. The annual Echoes of Christmas and Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach listeners nationwide. The First Art and Performance Today often feature the Dale Warland Singers.

The Dale Warland Singers also performs in collaboration with other Twin Cities arts organizations such as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the James Sewell Ballet. For many of these collaborations, the ensemble joins with volunteer singers from around the area to form the Warland Symphonic Chorus. The Symphonic Chorus has worked under the batons of the late , Hugh Wolff, Edo de Waart, Now in its twenty-ninth season of concerts, tours, Leonard Slatkin, Bobby McFerrin, David Zinman, and radio broadcasts, and critically acclaimed recordings, the Roger Norrington. Dale Warland Singers is recognized as one of the world's foremost a cappella choral ensembles. The 40-voice The Dale Warland Singers record on the professional choir is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul. American Choral Catalog label, and the choir released a new recording on this label during the 1999-2000 season. The Dale Warland Singers has earned a Featuring Leopard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and reputation for its commitment to commissioning and Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, it joins some 20 performing new choral music. The ensemble has kept the other Dale Warland Singers recordings including Blue choral genre fresh and alive by commissioning works from Wheat, a collection of American folk music. The Seattle Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, , Carol Times calls Blue Wheat, "the loveliest choral disc to emerge Barnett, George Shearing, Peter Schickele, Bernard Rands, in a long time ... sung by what is probably America's best Brent Michael Davids, Mary Ellen Childs, Janika chorus." Also among the Singers' lauded releases is Vandervelde, and Augusta Read Thomas, among others. December Stillness, which BBC Music Magazine gave its The Dale Warland Singers' New Choral Music Program highest rating for performance and sound, calling it, "... solicits works from emerging composers, and through this splendid, melting stuff." The South Jersey's Courier-Post program, over $100,000 in commissions has been awarded called the 1994 release of Cathedral Classics, "an unmatched to forty-eight talented musicians. musical experience," and The Oregonian stated simply, "peerless." Earlier recordings by the Singers include, In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers became the Fancie, A Rose in Winter, Christmas Echoes, Carols for first-ever recipient of the Margaret Hillis Achievement Christmas, Choral Currents, as well as 12 others. Award for Choral Excellence. The organization shares this honor only with Chanticleer and the Vancouver Chamber Choir among professional choirs. The group's extra- ordinary efforts on behalf of composers and new music resulted in ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Program- ming in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1999.

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DALE WARLAND

Requiem. Warland has served on the faculty of the All- Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan, and has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Most recently, he has been featured as guest conductor at Grant Park Music Festival, with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Chamber Artists and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.

Warland is an active composer and a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He has served as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts and has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Before devoting himself full-time to the Dale Warland Singers, Warland maintained an academic career which included 19 years as Director of Choral Music at The 2000-2001 season marks founder Dale , St. Paul. He holds degrees from St. Warland's twenty-ninth season as Music Director of the Olaf College, the and the Dale Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his University of Southern California, and has received professional life to attaining the highest artistic level in distinguished alumni awards from two institutions. choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to Warland also holds an honorary doctorate from Augustana detail, he has built one of the finest choral ensembles in the College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. United States. Under Warland's leadership, the Dale Warland Singers has thrilled choral music enthusiasts not just in its Twin Cities home, but throughout North America and Europe.

Warland's outstanding achievements in the field of choral music were recognized in June 1995, when he received the Michael Korn Founder's Award at the annual Chorus America Conference in Seattle. This award, the highest honor for a choral conductor in the United States, has previously been give to outstanding choral conductors such as Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner.

In addition to his active schedule as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers, Warland is in demand as a guest conductor, lecturer, composer and clinician. He has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. At Kryzstof Penderecki's request, Warland has prepared the St. Luke Passion for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart and the Qregon Bach Festival. In 1990,he also prepared Penderecki's Polish

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ARTISTIC STAFF

Jerry Rubino

Associate Conductor Jerry Rubino has served for twenty-two seasons with the Dale Warland Singers as pianist, arranger and director of special projects and music education.

In 1983, at the request of the Minnesota Orchestra, Rubino formed the Warland Cabaret Singers. Under his direction, they have developed their own sound and style and became known for their flexibility, broad-based appeal and consistently high levels of music making. In 1995 they re- organized as "Jerry Rubino Plus" and have toured extensively and recorded a CD of gospel music.

Mr. Rubino holds degrees in piano, music education, and conducting from Temple University and the University of Minnesota, and began his teaching career at Northwestern College in 1974. A native of Philadelphia, he was a charter member of the Philadelphia Singers and attended Curtis Institute as a cellist. Rubino's conducting and teaching credits include Honors Choirs in Australia, Taiwan, Hawaii, Europe, American Choral Directors Association. He is in demand the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the California State Summer nationally as a choral clinician and adjudicator. Rubino was Arts Workshops, the Wesley Balk Institute, and the appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music at University of Minnesota Jazz Festival. His arrangements are Carleton College, Northfield, MN, for the academic year of in print with four publishers. 1998-1999. He currently serves as Minister of Music at Spirit of Hope United Methodist Church in Golden Valley, MN. Jerry Rubino serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Vocal Jazz for the North Central Division of the

Carol Barnett

Composer-in-residence Carol Barnett works in the Twin Cities as a free-lance composer, copyist, and flutist. She is a charter member of the American (formerly Minnesota) Composers Forum, and currently serves on its board of directors. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where she studied with Dominick Argento, Paul Feder, and Bernhard Weiser. The Women's Philharmonic, the Dale Warland Singers, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Westminster Abbey Choir, and the Ankor Children's choir of Jerusalem, Israel, are among the ensembles which have performed her works. In 1991, she was a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and since 1992, she has been Composer-in-Residence with the Dale Warland Singers.

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THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Soprano Alto

Beth Althof Carrie Benson +

Marie Spar Dyrnit" Sara Boos

Korissa Erbele Erin Colwitz

Kristin L. Hoffman Leslie Quigley Corriils

Lynette Johnson Rosita Elhardt

Deborah Loon Osgood Joanne Halvorsen"

Eeva Savolainen Anne Holmes

Naomi Staruch Shelley Kline

Monica Stratton Pamela Marentette

Lori Vosejpka + Kathleen Robinson +

Tenor Bass

Jared L. Anderson" Bruce Broquist +

Matthew Culloton"

Dave Jacobson

Brian Kremer

Peter A. Lovett t Michael Meyer

Tim O'Brien

Robert Peskin" +

Brian E. Petty

Jim Ramlet

Terry Sheetz

Brian L. Steele

Tom Witry t

• denotes section leader t Americana program only + Echoes program only

6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robin Keyworth, president

James K. Smart, immediate past president

Michael E. Reeslund, secretary

James W. Peter, treasurer

Margaret D. Ankeny Gloria Sewell

Arland D. Brusven Daniel J. Schmechel

James L. Davis Ginger Sisco

Glenna Dibrell Mary Steinke

Glenn Karwoski Vern Sutton

M. Walker Pearce Thomas J. Whelan

Gregory Tambornino, singer representative Dale Warland, founder/music director

Judy Ranheim Gayle M. Ober, executive director

Nancy Reitz Rotenberry

ARTISTIC STAFF Dale Warland, founder/music director

Jerry Rubino, associate conductor/ Carol Barnett, composer-in-residence

director of education and outreach

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Gayle M. Ober, executive director

Debra K. Harrer, artistic administrator

Jared L. Anderson, office manager

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

Welcome to the 2000-01 season of the Dale Warland Singers. It promises to be a time of excitement, wonderful music making and planning for the future. During this year, we celebrate the choral works oflong-time friend of the Dale Warland Singers, Pulitzer-prize winning Minnesota composer, Dominick Argento. As part of that celebration, we will begin a two-year process of performing and recording four of his major choral works. Our opening Americana concert will feature "I Hate and I Love," for mixed chorus and percussion. Then on March 31, 2001 on our Cathedral Classics concert at the magnificent Basilica of Saint Mary, we'll present "Tria Carmina Paschalia," for women's voices, harp and guitar. Watch for our season brochure in spring 2001 for more information about the other Argento works we'll be offering.

We have much to celebrate: the Dale Warland Singers is blessed with an enormously committed Board of Directors led by our new president, Robin Keyworth. The excitement about and commitment to our rrussion. Many, board works enthusiastically and tirelessly, raising funds, many thanks to the board, to Dale and his artistic staff, to the guiding policy and setting an expectation for excellence that singers, and to our administrative staff for their incredible resounds throughout the entire organization. We are again energy and positive momentum. fortunate to have some of the finest singers in our region among our membership. Led by our founder and music In the next few months, we will call on you to help director, Dale Warland, they continually present the great us, not only by attending our concerts and by contributing to choral music of our time a the highest level of artistic our fund raising campaigns, but also by responding to our call excellence. We cannot thank them enough for their energy to get involved with the Dale Warland Singers at a grassroots and devotion to bringing our audiences only the very best. level. This is an exciting time for us - artistic and organizational opportunities are too many to count. We are We are looking forward to an exciting future. The relying on you to help us achieve them. board of directors has begun the work on a broad new strategic plan which not only will give us organizational Welcome to this wonderful journey. We are thrilled direction for the next five years, but will also prepare us for to have you with us. the long-term future. It will be a dramatic future which will continue the legacy that Dale Warland has so lovingly begun. Gayle M. Ober Executive Director I am honored to serve the Dale Warland Singers as executive director. After only four months, we have significantly reduced our long-term debt, made major changes in our internal structure, and brought back a sense of

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Celebrate birthdays, anniversaries or special occasions of music lovers by contributing a gift to the Dale Warland Singers in their name. Call Gayle Ober at (612) 339-9707 to arrange for a Dale Warland Singers greeting to be sent on your behalf. Credit card and appreciated stock gifts are welcome.

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AMERICANA Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:00 p.m, Ted Mann Concert Hall

This evening's concert is proudly sponsored by l) () ~ <.;, I 1 \ \\ II I I '\ I \ 1 I I'

I. American Folk

Cindy Traditional (Carol Barnett)

He's goin' away Traditional (Gail Kubik)

Plenty Good Room (On the Glory Train) .Kirby Shaw

II. Odi et amo

I Hate and I Love (Odi et amo) Dominick Argento I. I hate and I love II. Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love III. Greetings, miss, with nose not small IV. My woman says she will be no one's V. Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya VI. You promise me, my dearest life VII. Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness VIII. I hate and I love

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III. Odes of Horace

Odes of Horace (selected movements) Randall Thompson

I. Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe II. Montium custos nemorumque, Virgo III. Felices ter

Another Op'nin,' Another Show (from Kiss Me, Kate) '.',' , Cole Porter (Howard Cable)

Girl of the Moment (from Lady in the Dark) , , Kurt Weill

The Best of All Possible Worlds (from Candide) w•••••••• ~ •• , ••••••• Leonard Bernstein (Robert Page)

All The Things You Are (from Very Warmfor May) ...... • . . . .• ... . . Oscar HammersteinlJerome Kern (Lou Busch)

Everybody Says Don't (from Anyone Can Whistle) Stephen Sondheim (David Maddux)

Instrumentalists: Jay Johnson, percussion; Robert Adney, percussion; Barbara Brooks, piano

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I• PROGRAM NOTES By Brian Newhouse

I. American Folk Right away Argento evokes the conflict inherent in the title with close, clashing chords followed immediately by Cindy Traditional soothing ones. Then the lover's desire, pride, and pain are (Carol Barnett) laid out in a series of short pieces. N umber six ("You promise me") forms the quiet core of the score; both The most memorable American folk tunes all seem to come Catullus' poetry and Argento's music describe the beautiful from Dixie, and our concert of Americana begins tonight yet painful vulnerability that anyone who has ever loved with two of the best. For her arrangement of the Southern feels - vulnerability that is crushed in the very next melody "Cindy," Carol Barnett tells the choir to sing movement, returning us ultimately to the torment of the "saucy"; when the tune begins to cook along in a straight beginning. two-four time, Carol tosses in a couple of spicy arrhythmic bars - to keep you guessing, just as Cindy delights in doing "In selecting texts for musical settings I have been to her heartsick man. drawn more to prose than to poetry, especially biographical prose such as journals, diaries, and He's goin' away Traditional letters, because I find that private statements on (Gail Kubik) the human condition and human passions in the straightforward, simpler language of personal This melody comes from Appalachia, though it was documents are more amenable to musical probably imported with the British who settled those treatment. The texts I have chosen from Catullus mountains in America's early years. It needs little are, of course, poetic and public, but I was introduction, other than to point out the beautiful drama attracted to them precisely because they are so Kubik gave it in this arrangement. The soloists and larger autobiographical and particular. " group hand the melody back and forth to one another, and each time the sentiment of heartbreak-at-parting grows "The love for Clodia-a married woman 10 years more poignant. his senior, beautiful, cultured, elegant, and incurably dissolute - is one of the central themes in Plenty Good Room (On the Glory Train) ... .Kirby Shaw the poetry of Catullus. Many of his poems record the tempestuous affair: from infatuation to This one feels Southern, too, but both the words and music jealously; blissful contentment to betrayal; come from the imagination of Oregon's Kirby Shaw. Dr. reconciliation to resignation - and all of these Shaw conducts choirs, sings in a male a cappella quartet experienced not just once, but repeatedly. The ("Just 4 Kicks"), and even blows a trumpet from time-to- circular nature of this chain of emotions prompted time with a Dixieland band in Oregon's Rogue Valley me to cast the music as a cycle which stops (rather where he lives. But his buoyant "Plenty Good Room" than concludes) at the point where it started and sfiows him most at home as a choral composer. might very well begin all over again."

"The decision to use only percussion for the accompaniment was made primarily to avoid any specific historical connotations; like the human voice, percussion instruments can be both ancient and modern, a quality of timelessness they share with Catullus' poetry which, two thousand years before Freud, was examining the thin line that separates love from hate and the perplexing ambiguities of those passions." - Dominick Argento

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I Hate and I Love was commissioned by and dedicated to the VII. Dale Warland Singers on the occasion of their tenth Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! anniversary. It was written in 1981. That which is over and lost, you must count lost forever: Those radiant days that once shone upon you I. When you hastened to follow the girl wherever she led you I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask how that can be possible That same girl whom you loved as no other woman will I do not know; but that is what I feel and it torments me. ever be loved - (W retched Catullus, put an end to this madness!) II. The countless delights in the sports of love, Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love, When what you desired, she desired and desired just as And let the censorious whispers of the old much. Be to us as worthless as the gold of fools. (W retched Catull us!) 0, radiant indeed were the days that once shone upon you! Suns can set, then rise anew: But once our own brief light has dimmed Now suddenly she no longer wants your love, and you, We shall sleep an eternal night. being helpless, must Give up this longing, cease to pursue her, III. Put an end to this torment and madness! Greetings, miss, with nose not small, (W retched Catullus!) Foot not pretty, eyes not black, Fingers not slender, mouth never resting, o immortal gods, if you truly have pity, Speech neither musical nor elegant - Tear out from my heart this pestilence, this plague Best greetings to you, miss! Whose insidious gnawing has driven all joy from my breast.

And in Florence they call you a beauty? I no longer ask that this woman should love me, And compare you with my own Clodia? Nor do I ask the impossible, that she be chaste My only wish now is that I be healed, and this o what a gross and ignorant age! Terrible pain be assuaged.

IV. VIII. My woman says she will be no one's but mine, I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask how that can be Not even should Jupiter himself wish to seduce her. possible. I do not know; but that is what I feel and it torments me. She says: but what woman says to lover - W rite it on the wind or swift-running water. Liber Catulli Veronensis (freely translated by the composer) V. Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya Or was it Scylla who barks from the depth of her groin III. Odes of Horace Who gave birth to you with a heart so cold, so black, A heart that feels only contempt for the voice of Odes of Horace (selected movements) .... Randall Thompson Him who pleads to you in vain? Randall Thompson's 1940 "Alleluia" is only a scant five You: with a heart so fierce? minutes long, but without it the American choral music landscape would be missing one of its loveliest peaks. It was VI. his first popular success writing for choir, and by his death You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love in 1984 he was regarded as the nation's pre-eminent choral Will endure, will be joyous and never-ending. composer. His passion for the sound of mixed voices started early, beginning with "Five Odes of Horace" (1924) - his o great gods, make what she promises be true first published choral music - a score that marked him in his And make it come from the bottom of her heart mid-20's as a composer to watch. So that all our lives we will be able to keep This sacred vow of eternal love. Horace (65 BC - 8 Be) was a Greek poet born a generation after the Roman Catullus. There is no ancient biography of

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him, but from his own wntmgs we do know that he and live in the Eternal City for a year. He found it so specialized in lyrical odes - perfect for Thompson's own conducive to composing that he stayed on two more. lyrical bent. Horace's sensitivity, directness, and economical Surrounded by ancient temples, Thompson found his use of words influenced a long span of writers afterward, musical imagination fired by Horace's equally ancient lines from early Christian thinkers to nineteenth century poets. on friendship, love, and philosophy. He set five of these odes to music ("Vitas hinnuleo" and "Montium custos" are Thompson fell in love with Horace's Odes while living in the second and third of the group) - then thirty years later Rome. He'd won the coveted Prix de Rome with an revised them and added one more, "Felices ter." . orchestra piece at 23 and left his native New York to study

Vita hinnuleo me similes, Chloe Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe Chloe, it is as if quaerenti pavidam montibus aviis You were but a little fawn matrem non sine vano Needlessly fearful of every aurarum et silvae metu. Littlest breeze that stirs,

nam seu mobilibus veris inhorruit Ready to run as far adventos foliis, seu virides rubum Away as it possibly can, dimovere lacertae, Seeking its timid mother et corde et genibus tremit. Anywhere but here

atqui no ego te tigris ut aspera Where its heart beats fast and it trembles Gaetulusve leo frangere persequor: In every limb for any tandem desine mat rem Slightest shimmer or shiver tempestiva sequi viro. Of newly opening leaf,

Signs of the spring beginning, Or if a lizard's foot Disturbs a single twig,

Chloe, I am neither.

A lion nor a tiger; I have no wish to hurt you; Do not run to your mother; Now is the time for love. M ontium custos nemorumque, Virgo

Montium custos nemorumque, Virgo Virgin goddess, goddess of the groves quae laborantis utero puellas And of the hills, goddess to whom the young ter vocata audis adimisque Ieto, diva triformis, Mother in her labor cries out three times imminens villae tua pinus esto, And then again cries out three times 0 goddess, quam per exactos ego laetus annos Goddess, to hear and rescue her from death, verris obliquom meditantis ictum o goddess triple-formed, I dedicate sanguine donem. This pine tree by my dwelling-house to you, And promise to offer every year the blood Of a young boar just learning to use his tusks. Felices ter Felices ter et amplius Those lovers are happy and more than happy who quos inrupta tenet copula nec malis Are peacefully bound together in amity. Divulsus querimoniis Love will not part such lovers until death auprema citius solvet amor die. Parts them.

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IV. American Musical Theater

Another Op'nin,' Another Show Cole Porter All The Things You Are .... Oscar Hammerstein/Ierome Kern (from Kiss Me, Kate) (Howard Cable) (from Very Warm for May) (Lou Busch)

If you enjoyed the Oscar-winning film "Shakespeare in Most of us remember lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II as the Love", you know what the possibilities there are in partner of composer Richard Rodgers. They teamed up in wrapping a new story around a centuries-old play by the 1943 and had an immediate hit with "Oklahoma." Bard. Cole Porter, one of the savviest of all Broadway "Carousel" followed, then "South Pacific," "The Sound of writers, knew it instinctually. In 1947 he created a musical Music" and so many other great American musicals. This about a pair of divorced actors who are staging collaboration made Hammerstein a household name -but Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Fred and Lilli's before then, in the 1920's and '30's, he was one-half of tumultuous relationship parallels perfectly that of their another path-breaking team, with Jerome Kern. Their characters, Petruchio and Katherine. Love letters sent to biggest success was "Show Boat" (1927), with its show- the wrong address, constantly slamming doors, and two stopper, "01' Man River." They followed that a dozen years money-grubbing mobsters who wind up doing a later (1939) with "Very Warm for May," not quite the hit of spontaneous soft-shoe number right in the middle of its predecessor but blessed with the unforgettable "All the Shakespeare - all great fun. "Another Op'nin,' Another Things You Are." Show" gets the whole thing underway. Everybody Says Don't Stephen Sondheim Girl of the Moment Kurt Weill (from Anyone Can Whistle) (David Maddux) (from Lady in the Dark) In 1962, Stephen Sondheim turned heads on Broadway by Weill's musical "Lady in the Dark" broke new ground writing a hilarious musical with great lyrics - all by himself, when it was introduced in 1951, delving into the world of just as the great Cole Porter had done decades earlier. "A dreams and the subconscious. A successful businesswoman, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" won Liza, is "in the dark" as to why her career, her relationships, him a Tony and established his career. Everyone expected even her sanity are starting to come unglued. In Act I she big things from the young man, and those were to come lies on her therapist's couch recounting last night's dream: a ("Company," "Follies," "A Little Night Music," etc.), but throng of admirers proclaim her "the Girl of the Moment" his very next musical, "Anyone Can Whistle" (1964) - a happy scene in direct contrast to her current bombed. Fortunately, the baby wasn't thrown out with that predicament. Darker dreams and painful childhood bath water and we can still enjoy the sparkling "Everybody memories crop up throughout the rest of the show, yet by Says Don't" lifted from Act I. the end she puts these pieces together to get back on her feet.

The Best of All Possible Worlds Leonard Bernstein (from Candide) (Robert Page)

This comes from Bernstein's 1956 musical "Candide," in which the hapless title character and his beloved Cunegonde get swept around eighteenth-century Europe and the New World by forces they can never understand, much less control. Armies toss them aside and pirates sell them for treasure, and they wind up dumped and bedraggled in Turkestan - but throughout they're sustained by a head-in-the-sand philosophy they learned from their teacher, Dr. Pangloss, in this Act I number, "The Best of All Possible Worlds."

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Friday, December 8, 2000 Westminster Presbyterian Church 7 pm

Saturday, December 9, 2000 Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran, Apple Valley 7 pm

Sunday, December 10, 2000 Church of St. Timothy, Blaine 4 pm

Join the Singers 'nil their gue,i,.,h, Belc<:,n!oVoicesand a gues] ""''''

AIJ oyous Souftd We Neetl a Little Christmas Carol of the Bells Beck the HaU The Twelve Days of Christmas i

Come sing your heart-out during the audience sing-along and be entertained by our storyteller.

Tickets are priced especially for families: $15.00 adults and $5.00 children

Call 612-339-9707 to order your tickets now - they're going fast!

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ECHOES OF CHRISTMAS The Magic of the Carol

Friday, December 1, 2000, St. Olaf Catholic Church 8:00 p.m. Saturday, December 2, 2000, St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel 8:00p.m.

I. Shepherd Carols and Lullabies Dadme albricia, hijos d'Eva Spanish (Noah Greenberg)

Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Lewis H. Redner (Stephen Paulus)

A 10 Nan ita Nona Spanish (Norman Luboff)

Shepherds' Carol William Billings

II. A Ceremony of Carols A Ceremony of Carols Benjamin Britten

1. Procession 4b. Balulalow 8. In Freezing Winter Night 2. Wolcum Yole! 5. As Dew in Aprille 9. Spring Carol 3. There Is No Rose 6. This Little Babe 10. Deo Gracias 4a. That Younge Child 7. Interlude (Harp solo) 11. Recession

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III. Minnesota Carols

Cancoes de Embalar (Lullabies) (world premiere)

Boyoyo Janika Vandervelde Boyo Balu* Dale Warland Variacao* Carol Barnett Dorma, Ador (Sleep, my beautiful Boy)* Aaron Jay Kernis

"Commissioned by]anika Vandervelde in honor of Larry Fuchsberg

Christmas Chant (world premiere) Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

IV. Noel, Noel!

The First Noel English (Stephen Paulus)

A Christmas' Carol Charles Ives

Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night) English (David Willcocks)

Instrumentalists: Kathy Kienzle, harp, Kathleen Robinson, oboe

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PROGRAM NOTES By Brian Newhouse

Welcome to Echoes of Christmas 2000 - a musical feast for inspired three other composers to create gorgeous new your ears and spirit. Traditional melodies from around the carols of their own. This time of year you simply can't have world will frame our concert and showcase the magic of enough carols and the Dale Warland Singers are proud to carols that we've arranged as the centerpiece. We are present a quartet of sparkling additions to the repertoire. particularly glad you are here to experience a rare creation: two new carols written for this special occasion, which also

I. Shepherd Carols and Lullabies A la Nanita Nana Spanish (Norman Luboff)

Sleep, sleep my little Jesus. May peace attend Thee. Lord God who watches over us, Sweet dreams will send Thee. To the world, little Savior New hope thou art bringing All the world little Saviour Thy praises singing. God's angels hovering over Thee chant alleluia.

Shepherds' Carol William Billings

" ... Lewis H. Redner (Stephen Paulus)

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II. A Ceremony of Carols 2. Wolcum Yole!

A Ceremony of Carols Benjamin Britten Wolcum, wolcum, Wolcum be thou hevene king, Picture this: a composer holed up in a small, Wolcum Yole! airless compartment on a cargo ship bound from New York Wolcum, born in one morning, to London in 1942 when German V-boats were having a Wolcum for whom we sail sing! field day with transatlantic vessels. The shipmates were "callow, foul-mouthed, witless recruits" all of whom Wolcum be ye, Stevene and Jon, seemed to "whistle up and down the corridor all day." Wolcum, Innocentes everyone, Hardly ideal conditions for Benjamin Britten, but in the Wolcum Thomas marter one, two weeks it took for the boat to make the crossing, Britten Wolcum be ye, good Newe Yere, created this glittering masterwork, A Ceremony of Carols. Wolcum Twelfthe Day both in fere, Wolcum, seintes lefe and dere, Before heading out to the Atlantic, the boat was Wolcum Yole, Wolcum Yole, Wolcum! moored for several days in Nova Scotia where, on a whim, Britten bought a little collection of medieval poetry in a Candelmesse, Halifax bookstore. It opened a world of musical Quene of bliss, possibilities to him. Fascinated all his life by themes of Wolcum bothe to more and lesse. childhood and innocence, Britten responded to those same themes in these old poems. Britten's companion, Peter Wolcum, wolcum, Pears, was the first to see the carols Britten created and he Wolcum be ye that are here, pronounced them "very sweet and chock full of charm!" Wolcum Yole! Decades of music lovers since then have soundly agreed. Wolcum aile and make good cheer; Wolcum aile another yere. Britten conceived "A Ceremony ..." to be Wolcum Yole! Wolcum! performed by boys and accompanying harp, and after its Anonymous premiere it was arranged for mixed voices. A processional and identical recessional act as musical bookends. In between are a series of carols, some very fast, others quiet 3. There Is No Rose and still as a field of new snow. The centerpiece of this work, though, belongs to the harp; while the voices are There is no rose of such vertu silent, the instrument offers a shivering, bell-like solo As is the rose that bare Jesu. interlude. Alleluia, alleluia.

For in this rose conteined was I. Procession Heaven and earth in litel space, Res Miranda, res miranda. Bodie Christus natus est: Hodie Salvator appraruit: By that rose we may well see Hodie in terra canunt angeli: There be one God in persons three, Laetantur archangeli: Pares forma, pares forma. Hodie exsultant justi dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo. The aungels sungen the shepherds to: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Gloria in excelsis Deo. Gaudeamus, gaudeamus.

Leave we all this weldly mirth, And follow we this joyful birth. Transeamus, transeamus, transeamus.

Alleluia, res Miranda, Pares forma, gaudeamus, Transeamus, transeamus, transeamus. Anonymous

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40. That Younge Child 6. This Little Babe

That younge child when it gan weep This little Babe so few days old, With song she lulled him asleep; Is come to rifle Satan's fold; That was so sweet a melody, All hell doth at his presence quake, It passed aile minstrelsy. Though he himself for cold do shake; The nightingale sang also: For in this weak unarmed wise Her song is hoarse and nought thereto: The gates of hell he will surprise. Whoso attendeth to her song And leaveth the first then doth he wrong. With tears he fights and wins the field, Anonymous His naked breast stands for a shield; His battering shot are babish cries, His arrows looks of weeping eyes, 4b. Balulalow His marital ensign Cold and Need, And feeble Flesh his warrior's steed. o my deare heft, young [esu sweit, Prepare thy creddil in my spreit, His camp is pitched in a stall, And I sail rock thee to my heft, His bulwark but a broken wall: And never mair from thee depart. The crib his trench, haystalks his stakes; Of shepherds he his muster makes; But I sail praise thee evermoir And thus, as sure his foe to wound, With sanges sweit unto thy gloir; The angels' trumps alarum sound. The knees of my heft sail I bow, And sing that richt Balulalow, My soul, with Christ join thou in fight, And sing that richt Balulalow. Stick to the tents that he hath pight. James, John and Robert Wedderburn Within his crib is surest ward; This little Babe will be thy guard. If thou wilt foil they foes with joy, 5. As Dew is Aprille The flit not from this heavenly Boy. Robert Southwell I sing of a maiden That is makeles: King of all kings 7. Interlude (Harp Salol To her son she ches.

He came al so stille 8. In Freezing Winter Night There his moder was, As dew in Aprille Behold, a silly tender babe, That falleth on the grass. In freezing winter night. In homely manger trembling lies; He came al so stille Alas, a piteous sight! To his moder's bour, As dew in Aprille The inns are full; no man will yield That falleth on the flour. This lit~le pilgrm bed. But forced he is with silly beasts He came al so stille In crib to shroud his head. There his moder lay, As dew in Aprille This stable is a Prince's court, That falleth on the spray. His crib his chair of State; The beasts are parcel of his pomp, Moder and mayden This wooded dish his plate. Was never none but she: Well may such a lady The persons in that poor attire Goddes moder be. His royal liveries wear; Anonymous

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The Prince himself is come from Heav'n; 11. Recession This pomp is prized there. Hodie Christus natus est: With joy approach, 0 Christian wight, Hodie Salvator appraruit: Do homage to thy King; Hodie in terra canunt angeli: And highly praise his humble pomp, Laetantur archangeli: Wich he from Heav'n doth bring. Hodie exsultant justi dicentes: Robert Southwell Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

9. Spring Carol III. Minnesota Carols Pleasure it is To her iwis. Cancoes de Emba/ar (Lullabies) The Birdes sing. Boyoyo Janika Vandervelde The deer is in the dale, Boyo Balu Dale Warland The sheep in the vale, Variacao Carol Barnett The corn springing. Dorma, Ador Aaron Jay Kernis (Sleep my beautiful Boy) God's purvayance For sustenance, It is for man, it is for man. This set of newly commissioned carols is unique in the history of Echoes of Christmas, and rare even in the larger Then we always world of concert music. Minnesota composer Janika To give him praise Vandervelde wanted to honor the 50th birthday this fall of And thank him than. her fiance, Larry Fuchsberg, so she commissioned Dale William Cornish Warland, Carol Barnett (DWS composer-in-residence), and Aaron Jay Kernis (the Minnesota Orchestra's New Music Advisor), to write musical responses to a melody that she'd 10. Deo Gracias created. Her tune, a beguiling little lullaby, had a surprising birth process. Deo gracias! Deo gracias! Adam lay ibounden, Janika and Larry spent a recent vacation III Portugal, Bounden in a bond; touring the countryside in a rented car. Keep in mind that For thousand winter Portugal has Europe's highest traffic fatality rate (poor Thought he not too long. roads and less-than-generous driving practices by some natives). Larry drove and Janika navigated. One day she Deo gracias! Deo gracias! also began improvising lullabies to soothe Larry's jangled And all was for an appil, nerves. "It was mostly nonsense syllables," she says, "and a An appil that he tok, made-up melody, but it worked." They drove for three As clerkes finden weeks and her singing became a daily routine. They made Written in their book it out of the country alive, and some of the intervals she came up with in those white-knuckled rides gave rise to the Deo gracias! Deo gracias! tune you are about to hear. Ne had the appil take ben, The appil take ben, "There's something sacred about lullabies," Janika says. Ne hadde never our lady "They're usually sung by mothers, and for them the baby is A bene hevene quene. a gift. Plus, there is a connection to the gift of the Christ child to humanity. Larry speaks and loves the Portuguese Blessed be the time language, and because he is a gift to me, a Portuguese That appil take was. lullaby seemed exactly the right thing." Therefore we moun singen. Deo gracias! Deo gracias! You'll hear [anika's melody first, in a simple four-part Anonymous harmonization. Dale Warland's response follows.

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"I thought of mine as really coming directly out of hers," he Christmas Chant Stanislaw Skrowaczewski says. "I took one part of her melody and tried to keep its basic qualities intact. The listener will have no problem The mood of lullaby is also carried into this new score of recognizing it. I added a texture oflittle tone clusters that I Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. The cradle song at the heart of enjoy so much, all of which are based on the melody. Then, his "Christmas Chant" is based on a tune he learned in there's a lullaby-like refrain that capitalizes on the richness Poland as a boy, and that he says "anyone from Poland will of the male voices." Dale's "Boyo, Balu" was written this recognize immediately." Maestro Skrowaczewski's August in Paris where he and his wife, Ruth, celebrated involvement with choirs began when he was 10 years old, their forty first wedding anniversary, a holiday partly (and accompanying them at the church organ and composing his coincidentally) spent two blocks from the house of Francis first piece for mixed voices. After completing several choral Poulenc, one of Dale's favorite composers. scores in the 1950's he concentrated on instrumental works and his new conducting job as the Minneapolis Symphony Carol Barnett says of her "Variacao": "I knew that everyone Orchestra's music director. This commission from the Dale else would write a slow piece, so I wanted a fast one. It was Warland Singers is his first choral composition in over 40 a fun challenge because [anika's melody was so well crafted years. "Christmas Chant" is laid out in a simple three-part - one part of it going up while the other goes down, as if it form: it starts in a quick tempo, softens when we hear the were a mirror." Carol's piece makes great use out of the lullaby, then closes with a reprise of the open. The oboe solo nonsense syllables that helped the Fuchsberg/Vandervelde sounds improvised, and the composer says he wanted it to car wind safely through Portugal; you'll hear them sung stand outside the choir, almost as if to mock them. The softly by the women at the beginning of her score. "I harp has a similarly individualistic role. thought of the women as very light angels, almost airy, singing a child to sleep. But since everybody has their own Make we joy now in the fest way of putting a child to sleep, the men come in as a chorus In quo Christus natus est. of brothers, uncles, and fathers telling the child to sleep. Eya! Near the end they all get together." o lux beata trinitas He lay between an ox and ass. Aaron Jay Kernis' "Dorrna, Ador" returns to the gentle Gloria Tibi Domine. intent of the original, this time with a new sound. "I chose to add a few handbells as a nice way to close off this group. (Lullaby) They're a fresh sonority, but one that's soothing too." Dormi [esu, Kernis' calm setting of these words belies some of the Mater ridet struggle it caused him. "This piece had two incarnations," Quae tam dulcem somnum videt, he says. "First, there was a straight harmonization of Si no dormis Mater plorat. [anik a's melody, but that wasn't going anywhere. I agonized over it, then just threw it away. Afterward I started making a variation on the tune that starts quite IV. Noel, Noel differently from hers, then added a mezzo-soprano solo. From there it went quickly, was fun, and reminded me how The First Noel English much I like writing choral music." Aaron's work was (Stephen Paulus) completed at Muir Beach, California, this summer, with the sounds of the rolling Pacific rising to his desk window as he A Christmas Carol Charles Ives wrote. Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night) English Boyo-yo balu Boyo-yo balu . (David Willcocks) Dorma. Ador, adomeca. . Sleep. Go to sleep.

lalow Boyou lalow Boyo balu 0 meu memino doce. . My sweet little boy. (Portuguese) •

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NEW CHORAL MUSIC PROGRAM 2001

The Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program is awarded a commission fee of $1200 plus travel expenses, designed to serve talented emerging composers who are at and will be required to write a new 5-7 minute work for the an early stage of career development, have not received Reading Session. acknowledgment as established professionals by other musicians and arts professionals, and have had a limited Following the Reading Session, one of the four composers number of major performances. will be awarded a $6000 commission to write a 10-15 minute work. The world premiere will take place during Submitted scores are reviewed by Dale Warland, Artistic the 2002-2003 concert season of the Dale Warland Singers. Director, and Carol Barnett, Program Coordinator and Composer-in-residence for the Dale Warland Singers. Since 1987, thirteen works have been commissioned. Each They seek primarily works that have some connection with piece has received its world premiere on a Singers the serious choral music tradition. subscription concert. Past New Choral Music Program commission recipients include Mary Ellen Childs, William Serving the New Choral Music Program as the National Hawley, Alf Houkum, [alalu-Kalvert Nelson, Jackie T. Advisory Committee are many world renowned Gabel, Janice Hamer, Jing Jing Luo, Lisa Bielwa, Edie Hill, composers. Last year's committee consisted of Bill Banfield, Frank Ferko, N. Lincoln Hanks, Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim, Philip Blackburn, Simon Carrington, John Corigliano, and the 2000 New Choral Music Winner, Kui Dong. Brent Michael Davids, Emma Lou Diemer, Frank Ferko, Adolphus Hailstork, Aaron Jay Kernis, Tania Leon, Alice The Dale Warland Singers will premiere a new work by Parker, Stephen Paulus, Frances Richard, Earl Rivers, the 1999 New Choral Music Winner, Jacqueline Jeeyoung Gilbert Seeley, Jon Washburn and Chen Yi. Kim, on the May 5, 2001 subscription concert, Songs of the Earth. Four composers will be commissioned to participate in the Reading Session on June 4 and 5, 2001. Each will be

THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS' COMMITMENT TO CONTEMPORARY CHO~~L MUSIC

For the past nearly thirty years, the Dale Warland Singers have been the leading force behind encouraging new choral music in America. Since 1972 the Singers have given world premiere performances of over 190 new compositions or arrangements. Composers who have had works premiered by the Singers include, Dominick Argento, Carol Barnett,

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MEMBERS OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

Soprano Beth Althof graduated from the Baritone Bruce Broquist has a B.A. in music University of Illinois with a music education degree. She is from St. Olaf College. He has been a soloist at Wayzata a teacher at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes and Community Church, Cross View Lutheran Church in co-directs the children's choirs at St. Mark Lutheran Edina and at the Ft. Snelling Chapel. Bruce has sung in a Church. She was a member of the Elysian Singers, a five- variety of choirs: the Paul Kaye Singers; Plymouth Music voice early music group based in La Crosse, WI, and the Series; the Edina Chorale where he was bass section leader, LaCrosse Chamber Chorale before joining the DWS. She and the Warland Cabaret Singers. This is his eighth year lives in White Bear Lake with her husband Jay"and their with the Singers. Bruce als~ owns his own business "Three two daughters. This is Beth's sixth season with thdSingers. Chocolatiers."

Alto Erin Colwitz graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in music education in 1998. She teaches vocal and general music at Cenntennial Middle School in Lino Lakes. She has also worked as a soloist and guest member of the choir at Mizpah United Church of Christ in Hopkins. This will be Erin's second year in toe Singers.

~ Joel Beyer, tenor, is a second year member 'of the Singers. A native of Bottineau, N6,rth Dakota, lie ~sa graduate of North Dakota State University with a B.S -,in music education. He is a 14-year ~eaching veteran, currently teaching at ,f\pple Valley High School. Joe:l is a past state president of the American,' Choral Directprs Association (ACDA) for the state of North Dakota. I _~McirieSpar Dymit has sung with the Dale ___ ~ __ .".-~~=~_=:~~~;:;;.~ ni:\-;;;==;-Wilrla\idSingets sin<;e 1985, and became soprano section leader in 1991. Marie teaches vocal music at White Bear Sara Boos, alto, has music-education degrees LaKe Higp School's South Campus, where she is in charge ~...' . from Michigan State University and Bdwlipg Green S!tate of four performing ensembles. She holds music degrees University in Ohio. She has taught K-12 vocal music in , [110m §t. Olaf ColI~gei and Arizona State University in public schools in Fairview, MI and Maplewood, MN,imd Tempe"A;l. A frequently heard soloist with the Singers, !$...... , currently teaches choir at Roseville.High School, Eor ~ ~aiie,. ecently com,pleted ner ninth recording with this years, Sara also directed a choir "at the W~men's ~!lst:IlJJ)k. Correctional Facility at Shakopee. She is a cantor and choir • member at Guardian Angel's Church in Oakdale.

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Rosita Elhardt, alto, holds a Bachelor of Eric Hopkins, a tenor from Oregon, IL, is Music Education degree from Wartburg College and beginning his second season with the Dale Warland recently completed a Master of Arts in Music Education Singers. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in vocal music from from the University of Iowa. She has been a member of the Luther College where he sang in the Nordic Choir under Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series, Hamline the direction of Weston Noble. He also sings with the Oratorio Society, and has sung with Just Brewed Jazz and Hosanna Choir of St. Steven's Lutheran Church in the Lake Pepin Players. Rosita currently teaches Bloomington. elementary music at Rice Lake Elementary in Circle Pines.

Tenor Chris Jackson is from Bloomington, A native of Missoula, MT, soprano Korissa Indiana, where he was involved with music in many Erbele, was raised in a singing, musical family that different capacities. He holds a master's degree in choral traveled across the United States and Asia. Her family conducting from the University of Minnesota. Chris is recorded three gospel albums. With a B.A. in vocal currently director of the adult choir at Grace United performance from Northwestern College, she has a wide Methodist Church in Minneapolis and teaches voice at variety of solo, opera, choral, oratorio and orchestral Rosemount, Lakeville and Hastings High Schools. This is experience. Korissa has performed with the Minnesota his third year with the Dale Warland Singers. Opera, Erie Opera, and D'Angelo Opera. She won first place in the Schubert Club Advanced Voice Competition, first place 1996 NATS, and won a full voice scholarship to David Jacobson is a free-lance baritone, the 1996 Chatauqua Institution in New York. having just begun his fifth season with the Dale Warland Singers. He has sung with many diverse ensembles, such as the Rod Smith Big Band, Voce Magna, and the Minneapolis Tenor Joel Fischer holds a bachelor of arts Vocal Consort. Currently, David performs with the Merrie degree in music from Iowa State University. He has been a Olde Christmas Carolers during the holidays, as well as is soloist at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in the bass soloist/section leader for Wesley United Methodist -, Minneapolis. Joel, in his third season with the DWS, is also Church. currently a soloist at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth. Lynette Johnson, mezzo soprano, joined the Dale Warland Singers in 1987. She is a past member of Joanne Halvorsen, alto section leader, is Voce Magna, a small, local voice ensemble and has appeared beginning her twenty-third season with the Dale Warland as a guest soloist with the Valley Chamber Chorale and at Singers. As a member of the ensemble, she has toured to several area churches. Lynette also sings with the worship Europe, Canada and around the United States, singing in ensemble and choir at Excelsior Covenant Church. She some of the finest concert halls in the world. [o recently holds a bachelor of music education degree from North retired from teaching after 31 years at Fridley Middle Park College in Chicago. School as choral instructor and Fridley High School as musical and artistic director for the drama program. She is currently music director at Faith United Methodist Church, Tenor Justin Karch holds a Bachelor of Arts conducting the sanctuary choir and her youth group "Able degree in music from North Dakota State University. He Cain Raisers." has been a soloist as well as president and secretary of the NDSU Concert Choir. Justin was also active in the Madrigal Singers and the Little Country Theater's Soprano Kristin HoHman is thrilled to be production of the Secret Garden at NDSU. This is Justin's performing in her first season with the Dale Warland first year with the Dale Warland Singers. Singers. She is also honored to be the group's first "second generation" singer; her mother sang with the DWS 25 years ago! A recent graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Alto Shelley Kline has been a member of the Kristin sang with the Gustavus Choir and Chamber Dale Warland Singers since 1991. She has taught choir in Singers, as well as performing with the Gustavus Orchestra. the Chaska School District for 15 years. Shelley has a RA. in music education from St. Olaf College and an M.M. in choral conducting from the University of Colorado.

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Brian Kremer, baritone, holds a Bachelor of Deborah Loon Osgood, soprano, joined Music degree in music production and engineering from the Dale Warland Singers in 1984. She is a graduate ofSt. Berklee College of Music. He also attended St. Olaf College Olaf College, where she was a soloist and section leader in and sang as soloist and member of the St. Olaf Choir. Brian the St. Olaf Choir. Deb has been a soloist for many area has also performed with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra churches. She is self-employed as a consultant. Chorus, Oriana Singers, Melisma Grande, and currently serves as cantor and baritone section leader at the Church of St. Louis, King of France in St. Paul. Robert Peskin has served the Singers as bass section leader since 1994. He works for the American Composers Forum, where he helps to lead national Baritone Peter A. Lovett holds a Bachelor of commissioning and residency programs. A composer and Music in Music Education from Concordia College, conductor, Bob earned his B.A. cum laude from Princeton. Moorhead, MN. While at Concordia, Peter was a member He served as Director of Music Ministries for Unity of the Concordia Choir and the Choir Board. Peter has Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. The founding director of the been a soloist with the Concordia Choir, Gethsemane Middlebury Community Chorus, he has led chorus Episcopal Cathedral Choir and the Christ Church United ensembles for more than 20 years. His production and Methodist Chancel Choir. He is currently singing with the editing credits include recordings with the Dale Warland a cappella male octet Chanson, which is based in the Twin Singers, folksinger Jean Redpath and pianist Keith Jarrett. Cities. Active as a choral music arranger, he also serves on the board of the new music ensemble Zeitgeist.

Alto, Pamela Marentette, graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in music education Baritone Brian E. Petty holds a bachelor and voice performance. While at Northwestern she studied degree in voice from Oklahoma State University and two voice with renowned mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn. masters degrees in voice and in speech and hearing science Pamela currently teaches vocal music at Eagan High from The Ohio State University. He is a speech pathologist School. This is her first season with the DWS. specializing in laryngeal trauma and vocal rehabilitation. A native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Brian is also active with the Minnesota Chorale and the Twin Cities Men's Chorus. Michael Meyer, bass, begins his first year This is his first season with the DWS. with the Singers. He recently graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in economics. While at St. Olaf he , served as a lead in two on-campus operas, as well as singing Now in his seventh year as a member of the DWS with the St. Olaf Choir. Michael currently works in the bass section, Jim Ramlet, has performed more than marketing department with the Minnesota Orchestra. forty roles for opera companies across the U.S., including the Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington Opera, Pittsburgh Opera and the Kennedy Center. His Tenor David Nordli, a charter member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago performance in Samuel Barber's Dale Warland Singers, is returning to the ensemble after 23 Anthony and Cleopatra was telecast nationally on PBS' years. David recently retired from 26 years as Vocal Music "Great Performances," and he sang world premiere Director at Hopkins High School. He holds a B.A. degree performances of Phillip Glass' Orphee at the American from Luther College and a M.Mu.Ed. from the University Repertory Theater, with subsequent performances at the of Minnesota. David has sung with the Festival Singers of Brooklyn Academy of Music. A graduate of Indiana Minneapolis, Concentus Musicus, and the Paul Kaye University School of Music, Jim has served as Adjunct Singers. He is Principal Tenor Soloist with the Professor of Music at Concordia University in St. Paul and Minnetonka Association of Music, as well as Director of chair of the voice faculty for Lutheran Summer Music. Music and Chancel Choir Director at Robbinsdale United Church of Christ.

Baritone Tim O'Brien is a musicology student at the University of Minnesota. A 1999 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Tim joined the Singers that same year.

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Kathleen Robinson, alto, is a piano major Baritone Brian L. Steele has enjoyed wearing from Wheaton College Conservatory in Illinois, and has a a number of hats including machinist, radio personality, Masters and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in church musician, recording artist, college voice instructor Evanston. She sang for thirteen years with the Chicago and woodworker. He has been with the Singers since 1994. Symphony Chorus and worked as a soloist in several As home, he and his wife Jackie, enjoy their recently churches in the Chicago area. Kathleen is currently an restored 1886 home. Associate Professor of Music at North'western College In Roseville, MN. This is her 2nd year with the Singers. Soprano Monica Stratton attended St. Olaf College and the New England Conservatory of Music from Soprano Eeva Savolainen, a native of which she received music degrees. She also holds a degree Finland, received her Master's of Music degree from the in Library Science from the University of Illinois. Monica Sibelius-Acaderny, Helsinki. She has been living in the sings and plays the violin at Guardian Angels Church in Twin Cities since 1996 and joined the Singers in 1997. Eeva Oakdale, and works as a librarian for the Ramsey County has also performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Library in Shoreview. Orchestra and the Hamline Oratorio Society. She currently teaches voice at . Gregory Tambornino, tenor, is in his third year with the Singers. He has been active in choral singing Terry Sheetz, baritone, holds a B.A. in music since he was a boy chorister. Greg performed as soloist and education and church music from Bethel College and an in ensembles for many years as a countertenor, most notably M.F.A. in choral conducting from the University of in a concert and on recordings with Concentus Musicus Minnesota. He has served on the music faculties of Renaissance Ensembles. He is currently a soloist and Macalester College, Bethel College, and several community section leader at the Church of St. Patrick in Edina. Mr. colleges in the Twin Cities. Terry has also served as Tambornino received a degree in Piano Performance from assistant conductor of the Minnesota Chorale and Oratorio the University of Minnesota School of Music, studying with Society of Minnesota. He is presently a piano technician Alexander Braginsky. Greg is an attorney in sole practice, and church music director, Terry was a member of the where he has served a number of music, arts, and nonprofit Singers from 1974-1975 and recently returned in 1999. organizations.

Originally from Houston, TX, tenor Hal Bass Tom Witry, a graduate of Macalester Snyder is in his second season with the Singers. He holds College, has a Bachelor's Degree in Music and Theater a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Arts. He has performed in over 50 professional musical Texas Tech University where he studied voice under the productions locally and nationally. Tom is an active direction of Karl Dent. member of the Screen Actor's Guild, Actor's Equity Association, and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He is a member of Jerry Rubino Plus! and Naomi Christensen Staruch, soprano, is offers his voice, directing and arranging skills at Spirit of currently in her third season with the DWS. She has been Hope United Methodist Church. a member and soloist with The Living Vine, the Augsburg Choir, the Sateren Singers, and the Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir. In addition to acting as liturgist/cantor at various Twin City churches with her husband Steven, Naomi also offers special music for many weddings and funerals. She received a B.A. degree from Augsburg College and spends her weekdays as an Assistant Vice President in the Investment Division of the United Bankers' Bank.

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26 1999-2000ANNUAL FUND DONORS

These generous contributions to the annual fund support the Dale Warland Singers' local concert season, touring state-wide and nationally, recording, commissioning new music and the Presto! education program. This list reflects gifts given between July 1, 1999 and October 1,2000. To become a contributor to the Dale Warland Singers, please call (612) 339-9707. Thank You!

Exu/tate ($2S,OOO+) Dale and Ruth Warland Don and Estelle Sell Katherine B. Anderson Fund Boake and Marian Sells The Bush Foundation Encore ($ r,OOO-2,499) Ginger Sisco Jerome Foundation ADC Telecommunications Barbara Spradley and Neil P. Kittlesen The McKnight Foundation Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Andersen Robert L. Veninga Sewell Family Foundation Foundation Hugh Wolff and Judy Kogan David Briggs Laudate ($ rO,OOO-24,999) Mary Lee and Wallace Dayton Applause ($2S0-499) F. R. Bigelow Foundation Glenna Dibrell Susan Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Drake, Jr. First American Asset Management Paula and William Bathke General Mills Foundation Cathie and Jerry Fischer Lynne and Bruce Beck A. J. Huss Foundation Steve Fox and Connie Fladeland with Elisabeth Bennett Mrs. John M. Musser matching funds from Minnesota Conley and Marney Brooks Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Monthly Publications Jerome and Linda Carlson Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Susan Federbusch and Barry Ovation ($S,OOO-9,999) Griggs Burke Foundation Graceman Pete and Margie Ankeny Ruth and Paul Hauge Ron Jeffers Glen and Harold Bend Foundation Sam and Thelma Hunter Richard and Lois Merrill Arland and Sharon Brusven Robin Keyworth Michael and Marilyn Miller Aaron Copland Fund for Music Jim and Donna Peter Peter and Judy Mitchelson Frederick and Margery Martin George and Sally Pillsbury Terry and Mary Patton Mike and Kay McCarthy Margaret Rivers Fund Patty and Stephen Paulus Timothy and Gayle Ober Marshall Rutter Jim and Susan Ramlet Perry G. and Elaine A. Phillips Sit Investment Associates Foundation Betty Reber Smart Associates / Jim Smart Ellen Mary Saul Bravo ($2,SOO-4,999) Glen and Mary Steinke Sue Shepard Baker Foundation Jack M. Weatherford and M. Walker Naomi and Steven Staruch James Ford Bell Foundation Pearce Bruce and [o Anne Taylor Kenneth and Judy Dayton Paul and Arlene Williams Dwight and Carolyn Townes Deluxe Corporation Foundation €h~rlesU pcraft Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia Fanfare ($SOO-999) Pul and GaroJynn Wiggin "" University Ronald Blackmore Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Dr. Lee A. Borah, Jr. The Hoeschler Fund Coldwell Banker Burnett Hella Mears Hueg Marie Spar Dymit Thomas G. Mairs Genny and Keith Ellefson Lawrence M. and Elizabeth Ann Zabel and Charles A. Geer Family O'Shaughnessy Foundation a Michael and Kathie Reeslund with Art and Martha Kaemmer matching funds from the Dorsey & David and Mary Beth Koehler Whitney Foundation John and Karen Larsen Gloria and Fred Sewell George and Pat Martin Vern Sutton David and Judy Ranheim with Patricia Whitacre matching funds from the Dorsey '& Whitney Foundation

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Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Burley Deborah Peterson with matching funds Susan Crawford John A. Chamberlain from the American Express Truman and Clarice Dalton •Steve and Kathy Coleman Foundation Joanne and Charlie DeVore Lisa Cumpston Carol L. Pine Terrance Dinovo Johannes and Arlene Dahle Christine Podas-Larson Lyle and Mary Dyck Sheldon and Carol Damberg William and Nancy Priedeman Carol Ellingson Jim and Sherry Davis Curtis and Shirley Ramlet Teresa Elsbernd Tom E. Davis David and Marty Raymond Milton Ettinger Leslie Merner Duke Conrad and Teresa Razidlo Philip Friedlund and Lisa Isenberg Dick and Mardene Eichhorn Dr. Paul and Joyce Riedesel Mr. James B. Gergen Laura and Jake Endres Robert Lee and Mary Schaffner Reinhold and Joan Goehl E. Duane and Marlene H. Engstrom Schmitt Music Company Dr. and Mrs. Gary D. Good Bob and Ginny Etem Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Schreurs N. Bud and Beverly Grossman Lorraine M. Ewald Elaine Schuessler Foundation Suzanne and Robert Flotten Nancy Slaughter Joanne Halsey Ronald Flugum Fred Stoutland Ruth and Jim Hembre Sam and Kay Gerth Greg and Mary Steeber Ron and Betty Hemstad Ann D. and Jack Goodwin John Land Mary M. Taylor William and Sue Herber Lauretta and Jere Graetz Gene Vader Howard Hodel G. Larry Griffith with matching funds Jeffrey and Brenda Vredenburg S. E. and Lynn Hodulik from the Dorsey & Whitney Ed and Carolyn White Howard and Mary Ann Huelster Foundation Ben Whitney and Mary Farnham Richard and Merideth Howell leva M. Grundmanis Whitney Kimberly Inskeep James and Kathleen Haglund Helen and J. Kimball Whitney Dr. and Mrs. William Jahnke Debra Harrer Jerry and Billie Wollan Bernt Johnson Mrs. Philip B. Harris Mike and Donna Wolsted Peter and Margaret Johnson Don and Arlene Helgeson Gary and Judith Zaimont Thomas Johnson Roger Hertzberg Pete Zirbel and Cathy Reed Michael C. Jordan and Brenda J. •Anders and Julie Himmelstrup Sally Zorich and Assoc. Powell Warren and Marian Hoffman Gene and Cindy Karwoski Richard and Carol Holy Friends ($25-99) Ramona M. Kaszas Paul Johnson and Sarah Miller John and Kay Alsip Bruce and Irma Kelley Bob and Janet Moline Mark and Donna Anderson Lucy Kennedy Donald and Phyllis Jacobson Sally Anson Steve Komula Alec and Barbara Janes Anton E. Armstrong, D. M. A. Becky Kleager and David Rusterholz Elizabeth A. Jensen Jack Armstrong and Barbara Share William and Rebecca Klein Marian S. Johnson Howard and Jane Barnes Denise Konicek S. Jerome and Leticia Johnson Bill and Marlene Bartlett Donald H. Leavenworth Roberta Keller Arthur Becker Mary Lynn and Gary Leff Sharon Kleckner John and Karen Becker Seymour and Virginia Levy Beth.and Roger.Knight Duane and Connie Bell Alice M. McCall Robert.Knudtson [oni Kelly Bennett F. Raymond McKenna Karen Koepp Fred and Joanne Bergsrud William and Kay McReavy Albert W.and Georgia Ray Lindeke Bruce and Judith Blackburn O.R. Minter Richard and Susan Lyman Doug and Kelly Boie Anna Mooy Dan and Christina Meyer Barbara Ann Brown Mu Phi Epsilon-Greater Minneapolis David and Kari Mink Barbara and Thomas Burke Alumni Chapter Jim and Carol Moller Arleen M. Carlson Ronald and Betty Lou Nelson Karla and Peter B. Myers Bill Chartrand and Terry Froyd David Nordlii John Neuchterlein Richard W. and Jean 1. Clarke Patricia A. O'Gorman Charles and Nancy Nolan Karla Clifford Brin Petersen Mary O'Brien George and Susan Coghill Luther and Ruth Peterson Steven J. Olson Bob and Harriet Collopy Thomas J. Rice •Richard and Deborah Osgood Pat Colwitz Bernis Rubright Gunta and Arijs Pakalns Stephen and Leslie Quigley Cornils Angela Gill Saunders

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Julian and Barbara Sellers Patrons Patricia Whitacre Julie Stroud Margie and Pete Ankeny Paul and Arlene Williams Richard Schuette Glenna Dibrell and David Cummings Randall E. Schumacher Robin Keyworth Singer Dinner Donors David and Susan Southwick Neil Kittleson and Barbara Spradley Margie and Pete Ankeny Lavaan L. Stutzman Thomas G. Mairs Glenna Dibrell and David Cummings Fred and Pat Thayer Elizabeth W. Musser Steve Fox and Connie Fladeland Paul and Lisa Theisen Gloria and Fred Sewell Debra K. Harrer Leon Thurman G. Jerome and Leticia Johnson Ruth and Paul Tillquist Table Sponsors Elizabeth W. Musser United Arts Steve Fox and Connie Fladeland Gayle and Timothy Ober Ceil T. Victor James E. Haglund, Central Container Katie Piehl and Rich Knowlton David and Kitty Weaver Corp. Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. White Gayle and Timothy Ober Mark and Bemis Rubright James and Ann Williams James and Donna Peter Ginger Sisco and Larry Griffiths Ginger Sisco and Larry Griffiths Naomi and Steve Staruch In-Kind contributions Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Mary and Glen Steinke Ruth Anderson Jim and Cindy Smart, Smart Associates Vern Sutton Margie and Pete Ankeny Vern Sutton Jeff and Rica Van Augsburg College Band Dale and Ruth Warland Patricia Whitacre Byerly's St. Louis Park M. Walker Pearce and Jack Carol A. Barnett Weatherford Event Donors Leslie Quigley Cornils Mark and Donna Anderson Susan Federbusch and Barry Friends The Baker Foundation Graceman Jay and Beth Althof Susan Federbusch and Barry Jerry and Cathie Fischer Susan Anderson, Liberty State Bank Graceman Helen Roberts Franczyk, Franczyk & William and Paula Bathke Bruce and Irma Kelley Associates Lynne Beck Judy and David Ranheim Debra Harrer Arland and Sharon Brusven Michael and Kathie Reeslund Minnesota Monthly Publications Jim and Sherry Davis John and Mary Taylor Timothy M. Ober Carl and Charlotte Drake Ed and Julie Titcomb Julie Pauley, Pauley Design Partners Teresa W. Elsbernd Dwight and Carolyn ..Townes Stephen and Patty Paulus Dick Geyerman Paul and Carolyn Wiggin Ellen Mary Saul Debra K. Harrer Julie Stroud Hella Mears Hueg Target Foundation on behalf of Sam and Thelma Hunter Dayton's, Mervyn's California and Steve and Anne Hunter Target Stores Elizabeth A. Jensen Bruce Taylor Glenn and Ann Karwoski Jeff and Rica Van Karen Koepp Dale and Ruth Warland Don and Joann Leavenworth WebPage Design Diana J. Leland Yamamoto Moss Rodger and [o Lundblad Members of the Dale Warland Singers David and Judy McCusky Dick and Lois Merrill Gala Friday David and Kari Mink Event Patrons John and Shirley Nilsen John L. Nuechterlein Corporate Sponsor Carole Olson Minnesota Monthly Publications, Inc. Mary Patton Greg and Mary Steeber Joe and Cynthia Tambornino Dwight and Carol Townes Wayne and Lola May Thompson Bob and Karen Veninga

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CONCERT SPONSORS

Americana is generously sponsored by Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

Cathedral Classics is generously sponsored by Minnesota Monthly Publications, Inc.

The New Choral Music Program is funded by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation, with additional support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Women's concert dress was provided by Target Stores, Dayton's and Mervyn's California by the Dayton Hudson Corporation.

Choral risers and Dale Warland's podium and music stand have been generously donated by Wenger Corporation.

The Dale Warland Singers wishes to thank those who have included the organization in their estate plans . .,,*'• The Dale Warland'S'ingers is a member of Chorus America.

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