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Lli Dale Warland Singers 2001-02 Season -'llI dale warland singers 2001-02 season season concerts special concerts Tickets available through Cathedral Classics choral ventures ,. Ticket Works at: Some of the most sublime music of Watch the DWS as they rehearse and 612.343.3390 the sacred choral repertoire, critique the new works of the four featuring Lauridsen, Tchesnokovand finalists in the 2001-02 choral Special discounts for group sales available through the Dale Howells, among others. ventures" program (seep. 19). You Warland Singers office: will have the opportunity to comment 651.632.5870 Saturday, March 9,2002, 8pm as well! The Basilica of Saint Mary Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 7-lOpm, Free! Sundin Hall, Hamline University Ballads and Strings The world renowned Lark Quartet joins the DWS as special Greater Twin Cities collaborative guests for an evening of Youth Symphonies grand music making. This spring In celebration of GTCYS's 30th concert promises many delights: anniversary, the DWS and select area English part songs by Pearsall, high school choirs share the stage for Rutter and Vaughan Williams, in a spectacular concert of choral and addition to Britten's suspenseful symphonic music, capped off with Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady selections from Orft's Carmina Burana. Barnard. Sunday, June 2,2002, 3pm Saturday, April 20, 2002, 8pm Orchestra Hall Ted Mann Concert Hall University of Minnesota mission statement The mission of the Dale Warland Singers is to enrich, inspire and entertain its audiences through the superb, world-class performance of important a cappella choral music, while fostering awareness, understanding and appreciation of recent choral music repertoire. Thank you for helping us accomplish this! If you have any questions or comments about tonight's program, please let us know: Dale Warland Singers 2300 Myrtle Ave., Suite 120 St. Paul, MN 55114 651.632.5870,phone 651.632.5873,fax table of contents The Dale Warland Singers 3 Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director. 5 Larry Bach, Assistant Conductor 6 Frank Ferko, Composer-In-Residence 6 choral verrtures" 7 Executive Director's Letter 8 Fire and Drums 9 Fire and Drums Program Notes : 11 Guest Choirs 18 Recordings 21 Singers' Biographies : 22 2001 Annual Fund Donors 27 Acknowledgements 29 2 the dale warland singers Now in its twenty-ninth season of broadcasts reach listeners concerts, tours, radio broadcasts, nationwide. The First Art and and critically acclaimed recordings, Performance Today often feature the the Dale Warland Singers is recog- Dale Warland Singers. nized as one of the world's foremost a cappella choral ensembles. The The Dale Warland Singers also choir, consisting of 40 professional performs in collaboration with other singers, is based in Minneapolis/St. Twin Cities arts organizations such Paul. as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the The Dale Warland Singers has James Sewell Ballet. The Singers earned a reputation for its have worked under the batons of the commitment to commissioning and late Robert Shaw, Hugh Wolff,Edo performing new choral music. The de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Bobby ensemble has kept the choral genre McFerrin, David Zinman, and Roger fresh and alive by commissioning Norrington. works from Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, Carol The Dale Warland Singers records on Barnett, George Shearing, Peter the American Choral Catalog label. Schickele, Bernard Rands, Frank During the 1999-2000season, the Ferko, Brent Michael Davids, Mary choir released a new recording Ellen Childs, Janika Vandervelde, featuring Leonard Bernstein's Aaron Jay Kernis and Augusta Read Chichester Psalms and Benjamin Thomas, among others. The Dale Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb. Past Warland Singers' choral ventures OM recordings include Blue Wheat, a program solicits works from collection of American folk music emerging composers, and through which The Seattle Times describes as this program, over $100,000 in "the loveliest choral disc to emerge in commissions have been awarded to a long time ... sung by what is over fifty talented musicians. probably America's best chorus." Another of the Singers' lauded In 1992,the Dale Warland Singers releases is December Stillness, which became the first-ever recipient of the BBC Music Magazine gave its highest Margaret Hillis Achievement Award rating for performance and sound, for Choral Excellence. The group's calling it, "... splendid, melting extraordinary efforts on behalf of stuff." The South Jersey's Courier- composers and new music resulted Post called the 1994 release of in ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Cathedral Classics, "an unmatched Programming in 1992, 1993, 1996, musical experience," while The and 1999. Oregonian stated simply, "peerless." Earlier recordings by the Singers In addition to a subscription season include, Fancie, A Rose in Winter, in the Twin Cities, the Dale Warland Christmas Echoes, Carols for Singers tours throughout the United Christmas, Choral Currents, as well States and abroad. In 1990,the en- as 12 others. semble 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 Garrison Keillor'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 3 Soprano Tenor Margaret Burton Jared L. Anderson* Sara Dick Joel Beyer Marie Spar Dymit* Joel C. Fischer Lynette Johnson Eric N. Hopkins Pamela Marentette Justin Karch Melissa Morey David Nordli Sarah Schlomer Hal Snyder Dawn Schuffenhauer Gregory Tambornino Monica Stratton Bass Alto Jeffrey Bipes Kelly Becker Bruce Broquist Abbie Betinis Matthew Culloton* Sara Boos Dave Jacobson Erin Colwitz Brian Kremer Joanne Halvorsen* Michael Meyer Shelley Kline Kevin Michael Norberg Mary C. Maiden Muller Tim O'Brien Krista Palmquist Brad Runyan Momoko Tanno Terry Sheetz Brian L. Steele * section leader 4 dale warland, founder and music director The 2001-2002season marks founder Dale Warland's twenty-ninth season as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his professional life to attaining the highest artistic level in choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to detail, he has built one of the finest choral ensembles in the 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. This year Dale Warland received the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conductor and his continued contribution to the arts in Minnesota. Dale Warland, Warland's outstanding accomplishments in the field of choral music were also founder and music director 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 Passion According to St. Luke for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1990,he also prepared Penderecki's Polish 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. This year Dr. Warland will be leading concerts and workshops at Eastman School of Music, Seattle's Opus 7 vocal ensemble, and the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain. 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 19years as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College, St. Paul. He holds degrees from St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern California, and has received distinguished alumni awards from two institutions. Warland also holds an honorary doctorate from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 5 artistic staff Lawrence Bach, assistant conductor, serves as the chairman of the Fine Arts Department at North Central University in Minneapolis, where he is in his twenty-first year. His work at NCU includes teaching classes in conducting and voice and directing the Concert Chorale. The Concert Chorale has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia singing in churches, schools and concert halls. The Chorale Lawrence Bach, has taken 13trips overseas and has performed with the Bruckner String assistant conductor Quartet in Salzburg, Austria, and the Oberursel Chamber Orchestra in Frankfurt, Germany. The group has also performed at several of the Minnesota State American Choral Directors Conventions. For six years, Mr. Bach sang with the Dale Warland Singers. He has also sung under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, Eric Erickson and Robert Shaw. Mr. Bach is a frequent guest conductor and clinician for school and church choir festivals. In May 2001, he had his debut performance at Carnegie Hall as a guest.
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