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Vocal Colors 05-25 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 5/15/18 3:10 PM Page 1 Friday Evening, May 25, 2018, at 7:00 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage Celebrating DCINY’s 10th Anniversary Season! Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director presents VOCAL COLORS J. REESE NORRIS, Composer/Conductor DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONAL JENNIFER RUSHTON, Accompanist LISA YOUNG thulele mama ya Traditional Venezuelan La Paloma Folk Song arr. Cristian Grases JACOB NARVERUD Sisi ni moja HOAGY CARMICHAEL Georgia on My Mind arr. Ken Berg J. REESE NORRIS Endless Song Paper Crane We Sing of Love Ukuthula This Is Your Time Intermission PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. 05-25 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 5/15/18 3:10 PM Page 2 ERIC BARNUM, Composer/Conductor DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONAL KRISTEN KEMP, Accompanist ERIC BARNUM Afternoon on a Hill A Thousand Red Birds 1. Grounding 2. In the Silence NATHAN KRUEGER, Soloist 3. A Thousand Red Birds Evensong Ed. Eric Barnum Den blomstertid nu kommer Pause MARINA ALEXANDER, Conductor THE ARCADIAN CHORALE AND RICHMOND CHORAL SOCIETY AHRAM LEE, Accompanist KIM ANDRÉ ARNESEN Norwegian Alleluia (World Premiere Orchestration) OTTO OLSSON Te Deum We Want To Hear From You! Use #VocalColors to share your intermission and post-concert photos and comments to @DCINY on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! DCINY thanks its kind sponsors in education: Artist Travel Consultants, VH-1 Save the Music, Education Through Music, High 5, and WQXR. For information about performing on DCINY’s series or about purchasing tickets, e-mail [email protected], call (212) 707-8566, or visit our website at www.DCINY.org. DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK 250 W. 57TH STREET, SUITE 1610 NEW YORK, NY 10107 (212) 707-8566 05-25 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 5/15/18 3:10 PM Page 3 Notes ON THE PROGRAM LISA YOUNG thulele mama ya (b. 1959) (3 Minutes) Lisa Young is a renowned Australian India and Africa. In this evening’s contemporary composer whose works performance of the award-winning are known worldwide. Young is also “thulele mama ya” or “don’t worry, the founder of Coco’s Lunch, an all- Mama,” you will hear her expertise female vocal quartet that has toured at work in Zulu, the native language to sold-out houses around the planet. of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and She is an expert in the craft of vocal Mozambique. techniques and vocal percussion based in the languages and dialects of South —J. Reese Norris La Paloma, Traditional Venezuelan Folk Song arr. Cristian Grases (b. 1973) (3 Minutes) “La Paloma” (“The Dove”) is an exam - While the origins of the many gaita ple of a “drum gaita” (gaita de tambura) , forms have not been precisely established, a type of folk music from Zulia state in they are thought to have derived from the western part of Venezuela which chants introduced by Catholic mission - combines elements of Iberian, African, aries. Initially of primarily religious char - and Indigenous music. Typically they acter, and used in particular to celebrate include a fixed refrain which gives the the cult of Santa Lucia and later, Easter, name of the song, and are usually sung more recently gaita has become a means in a call and response style, with a of social protest and criticism. To this day, chorus alternating verses with a the gaita remains a vibrant, unique musi - soloist. They are also usually accom - cal form much esteemed in Venezuela. panied by two drums, large and small, maracas, and cuatro (a four-stringed This arrangement was originally writ - guitar, Venezuela’s national instru - ten for the Cantoria Juvenil de la ment) and become more popular dur - Schola Cantorum de Caracas, a youth ing the Christmas celebrations. chorus in Venezuela. —Walton Music 05-25 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 5/15/18 3:10 PM Page 4 JACOB NARVERUD Sisi ni moja (b. 1986) (4 Minutes) We all love. We all hate. We all want. We people in this hall tonight, we can all all need. We all feel pain. In Jacob come together to celebrate togetherness, Narverud’s “Sisi ni moja,” we celebrate as opposed to divisiveness. Narverud has the idea that we are all much more alike recently accepted positions as director of than we are different. Set to a Zulu text the Molloy College Chamber Singers and meaning “we are one,” Narverud takes will be teaching conducting in the fall. us on a subtly rhythmic journey of cele - brating that no matter how diverse we —J. Reese Norris are, how different we may be from the Ed. Dresden HOAGY CARMICHAEL Georgia on My Mind (1899-1981) arr. Ken Berg (b. 1955) (3 Minutes) Once deemed the “most talented, television, microphones, and studio inventive, sophisticated, and jazz- recording. Written in 1930, “Georgia oriented of all the great craftsmen” of on My Mind” is now recognized as the early pop music, Hoagy Carmichael official song of the state of Georgia. was an Indiana-born composer, per - The tune came to popularity in 1960 former, and bandleader. Most recognized when recorded by the one and only by the industry during the Tin Pan Ray Charles. Alley days of the 1930s, Carmichael was one of the first singer-songwriters —J. Reese Norris to delve into the electronic world of Ed. Dresden J. REESE NORRIS Endless Song (b. 1973) (3 Minutes) After the tragic events of 9/11, we all to choral rehearsal the next day, the were at a loss for what to do. Jessica director walked in and without a word Cantreras, the Commissioning Conductor held up a copy of a song we had been of the Lewisburg High School Capricio working on called ‘How Can I Keep Women’s Choir, shared her story with me: From Singing.’ We sang it together, and then she simply set it back on the piano, “I was in college on September 11, nodded, and said, ‘Let’s rehearse.’ It 2001. Following the tragedy, no one always stuck with me... music is how really knew what to do. We went to we make sense of tragedy.” band rehearsal, and we were sent away, the director saying he ‘couldn’t make —Jessica Cantreras, the music make sense.’ When we went Commissioning Conductor 05-25 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 5/15/18 3:10 PM Page 5 J. REESE NORRIS Paper Crane (Heiwa) (3 Minutes) Sadako Sasaki was born in Hiroshima, cranes from pill bottle labels, candy Japan, during the throws of WWII. wrappers, and paper scrounged from When the bomb detonated nearby, she other patients’ get-well presents. Her became secretly ill with radiation sick - selfless desire created a legacy that con - ness. When she finally became hospital- tinues today. She is memorialized in the bound, she learned of the custom of the Hiroshima Peace Park, thanks to the origami paper crane. The tradition was funding efforts of her former classmates. that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes that The engraving on the statue reads: “This a wish would be granted to you. is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace for Disregarding her personal situation and the world.” “Paper Crane” tells the certain fate, her only wish was for peace story of this powerful young teen. in the world. She died at the age of 12, after folding more than 1,400 paper —J. Reese Norris J. REESE NORRIS We Sing of Love (5 Minutes) Originally written as a gift to my wife passionate exploration—and at times for our wedding day in 2005, tonight’s exploitation—of the power, glory, and performance of “We Sing of Love” is a strength that love can have on the reimagined choral setting of that piece human heart. This one is for Joelle. for women’s voices. While occasionally quoting the text of the “Song of —J. Reese Norris Solomon,” the music is a dramatic and Ed. Dresden J. REESE NORRIS Ukuthula (3 Minutes) In 2016 the children’s chorus that my wife Swahili for “peace,” that left us full of and I co-founded, CoroRio, hosted the love and joy—and left most of us in tears. Nairobi Chamber Chorus from Kenya. It goes without saying that we were They were truly inspirational both in sprit inspired and motivated to join their cause. and in their message of peace that they infused into us. They ended the concert —J. Reese Norris that night with a piece titled “Ukuthula,” Ed. Dresden J. REESE NORRIS This Is Your Time (3 Minutes) As prime minister of Great Britain a social reformer and writer during and Spr. Com. of the Allied Forces, the trying times of World War II. His Sir Winston Churchill set his sights Nobel Prize earning text is just as on challenging, engaging, and in - relevant today as it was 75 years ago. spiring the minds of young people as “You are needed now more than ever 05-25 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 5/15/18 3:10 PM Page 6 before. Take up the mantle of change, this ideal will have to be embraced by for this is your time.” If lasting the youth of today. change and goodness are to come, —J. Reese Norris Ed. Dresden ERIC BARNUM Afternoon on a Hill (b. 1979) (5 Minutes) Set to Edna St. Vincent Millay’s time - warmth high atop a windy hill, and as less poem, this work examines pastoral evening approaches, the radiant lights themes while focusing on concepts of of home guide one home. transience, transformation, and nostal - gia. A day is spent with sun and —Eric Barnum ERIC BARNUM A Thousand Red Birds (21 Minutes) 1.
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