CHORUS of NEW YORK CITY® at ORCHESTRAAT HALL Every Kid Deserves a Brush with Inspiration
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season 46 2014 - 2015 PRESENTS PRESENTS YOUNG PEOPLE’S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY® AT ORCHESTRAAT HALL Every kid deserves a brush with inspiration. ROSEVILLE LUTHERAN CHURCH ©2012 Target Brands, Inc. Target and the Bullseye Design are Target Inc. Brands, Target ©2012 722966 Inc. Brands, Target registered trademarks of That’s why Target is on track to give Learn about the difference this support is making for $1 BILLION FOR EDUCATION kids nationwide. by the end of 2015. Sponsored by Target.com/Education S, N 22, 2014 8 2014-2015 46TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 2014-2015 SEASON SPONSORS YOUNG PEOPLE’S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY® Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 8 pm Roseville Lutheran Church 1215 Roselawn Avenue West Roseville, MN Pre-Concert Conversation at 7 pm with Minnesota Public Radio Host John Birge and Young People’s Chorus of New York City® conductor Francisco J. Núñez. Young People’s Chorus of New York City® Francisco J. Núñez, conductor Sponsored by This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. SPECIAL THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS CONCERT Roseville Community Fund of the North Suburban Community Foundation Charlie and Anne Leck Lois Quam VOCALESSENCE PLEASE NOTE 1900 Nicollet Avenue • This concert may be recorded for broadcast — please help us keep the performance space Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 quiet. Take a moment now to check that all cell phones, paging devices, wristwatch alarms and 612-547-1451 the like are turned of before the concert begins. Thank you for your cooperation. www.vocalessence.org VocalEssence is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. • Recording devices and cameras are prohibited. No photography, video, or audio recording is allowed in the concert hall. 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No refunds or exchanges can be given; however, you will be sent a receipt for Philip Brunelle your tax-deductible contribution. (VocalEssence subscribers may call 612-371-5642 to request Deane E. Bruner free ticket exchanges and lost ticket replacement.) Roma Calatayud-Stocks Karen Charles • Latecomers will be seated at appropriate pauses in the concert according to the conductor’s Judith Drobeck wishes. Please plan plenty of time for locating the concert venue and parking. Or better yet, Debbie Estes allow an extra hour and join us for Concert Conversations with the composers and artists, held Jamie Flaws one hour before most concerts. Art Kaemmer, M.D. Joseph Kalkman Fred Moore David Myers Kristen H. O’Brien James M. Odland Cay Shea Hellervik Don Shelby Timothy Takach Jenny L. Wade Dorene Wernke Honorary Directors Artistic Staf Dominick Argento Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director William Bolcom Sigrid Johnson, Associate Conductor Dave Brubeck* Charles Kemper, Accompanist Aaron Copland* Håkan Hagegård Administrative Staf Louise Hefelfinger Mary Ann Aufderheide, Executive Director Eskil Hemberg* Robert Graham, Education Manager and Music Librarian Betty Hulings* Bill Haugen, Interim Grants and Special Events Manager James Earl Jones Sharon Hodge, Communications Specialist Garrison Keillor Laura Holst, Development and Marketing Associate Donald Mitchell Kimberly Meisten, Director of Community Engagement Helmuth Rilling Patricia Starks-Faggétt, Accounting Manager John Rutter Shelley Strohm, Interim Director of Communications Peter Schickele Joel Swearingen, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant Dr. André J. Thomas Amanda Timmer, Education Manager for ¡Cantaré! in Rochester Eric Whitacre Katrina Wallmeyer, Director of Development and Communications *In remembrance Elissa Weller, Grants and Special Events Manager Page 2 2014-2015 Season THE PROGRAM WELCOME Young People’s Chorus of New York City® It is a great pleasure for Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director/Founder me to welcome all of Jon Holden, piano you to this exceptional evening—an opportunity Forever is My Song Francisco J. Núñez to hear one of the finest young people’s choirs in Vere Languores Nostros Tomás Luis de Victoria the world! Each year at VocalEssence we invite a Erste Begegnung from Spanisches Liederspiel Robert Schumann guest choir to appear, and it has been my dream for many years to have She Moved Through the Fair Irish Ballad, arr. Timothy C. Takach the Young People’s Chorus of New York City Três Cantos Nativos dos Indios Kraó Traditional Brazilian and their fantastic conductor (and my dear friend) Francisco Núñez come to Minnesota arr. Marcos Leite as VocalEssence guest artists. I know you will Sing Creations Music On Stephen Paulus be thrilled with their beautiful sound, their vitality, and the wonderful way that music is Orpheus Dominick Argento expressed through their singing. Cinnamon Michael Gordon Welcome, YPC and Francisco—we are thrilled to have you as our guests! TBD (Camina Toma) Francisco J. Núñez —Philip Brunelle West Side Story Medley Leonard Bernstein, Artistic Director and Founder, VocalEssence Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, arr. Matt Podd -INTERMISSION- SPECIAL THANKS Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal Traditional, arr. Alice Parker Bruce Becker, American Choral Directors Association Beautiful Dreamer Stephen Foster, arr. Robert Lau John Birge, Minnesota Public Radio Sara Durhman, Mall of America I’ll Fly Away Alfred E. Brumley, arr. Jim Papoulis John Helgen, Roseville Lutheran Church Take Five Paul Desmond, arr. Francisco J. Núñez Shannon Hirstein, Visit Roseville Jeferson Lines Moondance Van Morrison, arr. Francisco J. Núñez Patricia Mitchell, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Take This Hammer Traditional, arr. Francisco J. Núñez Mike Newman, Travelers St. Paul High School Choral Festival Rikitikitavi Faraualla, arr. Francisco J. Núñez participants: Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan Central High School, Martha Graber Como Park Senior High School, Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down Spiritual, arr. Paul Caldwell Carole Whitney and Sean Ivory Humboldt Secondary School, Barbara Lawrence-Windholz Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw Johnson Senior High School, Theresa Westcott Page 2 2014-2015 Season 2014-2015 Season Page 3 TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS She Moved Through the Fair Irish Ballad, arr. Timothy C. Takach Forever is My Song My young love said to me, “My mother won’t mind, and my father Francisco J. Núñez (b. 1965) won’t slight you for lack of kind.” And she stepped away from me and this she did say, “It will not be When others grow old long, love, till our wedding day.” I will always grow young And my tender soul She stepped away from me and she went through the fair, and Will sing like the kulintang fondly I watched her move here and there. And then she went homeward with one star awake, as the swan in When they talk of war the evening moved over the lake. I will sing my praise of love They say no but I say yes Last night she came to me, she came softly in, so softly she came, They say yin and I say yang that her feet made no din. And she laid her hand on me, and this she did say, “It will not be In a time of orphans long, love, till our wedding day.” I remember how my mother sang And in the dead of night How bright the music rang Três Cantos Nativos dos Indios Kraó Traditional Brazilian Melodies When all is weakened by the pang of loss, arr. Marcos Leite I am made of metal, My voice as strong These three pieces in one introduce melodies freely based on those As the brass gong’s clang. sung by the Kraó tribe in northwestern Brazil. The melody builds using a text with an unknown meaning. I will not disappear I will always be here Sing Creations Music On Music by Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) My world is my poem Text by John Clare (1793-1864) And forever is my song For I am the future Sing creations music on! And I have just begun Nature’s glee is in every mood and tone. Eternity. — Text by Eric Gamalinda Nature’s universal tongue singeth here Songs I’ve heard and felt and seen everywhere Vere Languores Nostros Songs like the grass are evergreen. Everywhere. Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) The giver said live and be and they have been, forever. Songs I’ve heard and felt everywhere. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. And with his stripes we are healed. Orpheus Sweetest wood, and sweetest iron, Music by Dominick Argento (b. 1927) Sweetest weight is hung on thee. Text by Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) Thou alone was counted worthy This world’s ransom to uphold. When Orpheus with his wind-swift fingers ripples the strings that gleam like rain, Erste Begegnung from Spanisches Liederspiel The wheeling birds fly up and sing, hither, thither echoing; Robert Schumann (1810-1856) There is a crackling of dry twigs, a sweeping of leaves along the ground, From the rosebush, O mother, from the roses I come.