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The Dale Warland Singers, Twenty Fifth Anniversary Season, October 26, 1996, Ted Mann Concert Hall DALE WARLAND SINGERS Twenty-five years of subscription concerts, tour Expanding their audience at home are performances and festival appearances, radio broadcasts and critically of major choral symphonic works by the larger Warland acclaimed recordings have given the Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus in collaboration with renowned Singers recognition as one of the world's foremost orchestras and such artists as Edo de Waart, Robert a cappella choral ensembles. Shaw, David Zinman and Roger Norrington. The Singers' most recent release is titled Blue Wheat. A collection of American folk music, the Seattle Times calls it "the loveliest choral disc to emerge in a long time ... sung by what is probably Americas best chorus." Also among the Singers' acclaimed recordings is December Stillness, which BBC Music Magazine gave its highest rating for performance and sound, and called "... splendid, melting stuff' and which the Seattle Times placed at the top of its list of best holiday releases. The Singers' 1994 release, Cathedral Classics, drew high praise when the Seattle Times called it "... one of the most astonishingly beautiful CDs," South Jersey's Courier-Post called it "an unmatched musical experience," and The Oregonian caIled it "peer- Based in Minneapolis/Saint Paul, the Dale less." Earlier recordings by the Singers include [ancie, Warland Singers have earned a reputation for their A Rose in Winter, Christmas Echoes and Carols For commitment to commissioning and performing Christmas as well as Americana: A Bit of Folk, Choral zoth century choral music. This pioneering effort fosters Currents, and 12 others. a greater awareness and appreciation of contemporary choral literature and helps develop emerging and established composers, especially American composers. The Singers keep the choral genre fresh and alive with new musical ideas by commissioning such composers as Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, Carol Barnett, Brent Michael Davids, Mary Ellen Childs, Anthony Davis, Edwin London, George Shearing, Peter Schickele and Bernard Rands, among others. The Dale Warland Singers' New Choral Music Program commis- sions works from emerging composers, and through this program commissions have been awarded to nine talented musicians, with a tenth to be awarded in 1997· In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers became the first-ever recipient of the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence. Their extraordinary efforts on behalf of composers and new music also resulted in ASCAP Awards for Adventuresome Programming in 1992, 1993 and 1996. In addition to performances in the Twin Cities, the Dale Warland Singers tour throughout the United States and have concertized abroad. In 1990, the ensemble traveled to Stockholm and Helsinki to repre- sent North America at the Second World Symposiurn on Choral Music. The group has been heard on Garrison Keillor's original A Prairie Home Companion and has regularly been featured on Public Radio International's Saint Paul Sunday. The annual Echoes of Christmas holiday broadcast reaches millions of listeners nationwide. -2- DALE WARLAND MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR The 1996-97 concert season marks internationally-renowned conductor Dale Warland's twenty-fifth season as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his professional life to attaining the highest artis- tic level in choral singing. Consummate musicianship and attention to detail have been his tools in building one of the finest choral ensembles in the United States. Under Warland's leadership, the ensemble has thrilled choral music lovers, not just in its Twin Cities home, but throughout North America and Europe. In 1995 Dale Warland joined the ranks of such choral luminaries as Robert Shaw, Dominick Argento, Roger Wagner and Margaret Hillis as the recipient of the prestigious Michael Korn Founder's Award. The award, which ranks as the "Grammy" of choral music in the United States, was given to him at the 1995annual Chorus America Conference. Beyond his active schedule as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers, Warland is in demand as a guest conductor, lecturer and composer. He has conducted such prestigious orga- nizations as the Swedish Radio Choir, the Danish Radio Choir, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He has prepared major choruses around the world for performances, including Penderecki's Polish Requiem in 1990 - the culminating event of the Second World Symposium on Choral Music in Finland. 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 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 Singers, Dr. Warland maintained a demanding academic career which included 19 years as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College, St. Paul. He holds degrees from St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota and the University of Southern California, and has received two distinguished alumni awards as well as an honorary doctorate from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. JERRY RUBINO ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR Jerry Rubino has contributed many of his talents to the Dale Warland Singers during his 19-year relationship with the ensemble. His past and present efforts include singer, pianist and arranger for the Dale Warland Singers, Music Director for the Warland Cabaret Singers, and Music Coordinator of the Singers' education programs. Recently, he was appointed Associate Conductor. Rubino is a versatile musician, giving solo and chamber performances; serving as organist and choir director of Golden Valley United Methodist church; and appearing with the Twin Cities-basedNew Music Theater Ensemble and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He frequently serves as a choral clinician and adjudicator. Rubino began his professional studies as a cellist at the Curtis Institute of Music and went on to earn degrees in piano, music education and conducting from Temple University and the University of Minnesota. A published arranger with Jenson, Word and Hinshaw, he was named in International Who's Who in 1995. -3- vf;;~ /i~-d(U)/e- SATURDAY,OCTOBER 26, 1996, 7:00 P.M. TED MANN CONCERT HALL, MINNEAPOLIS The Dale Warland Singers created these Kaleidoscope concerts last season as a way to explore and celebrate America's musical heritage. The metaphor of the kaleidoscope is perfect: bits of colored glass - or, in our case, choral scores - set one against anotherto form a vibrant picture of who we are asa nation, each color necessary to make year we give the kaleidoscope a spin lens to view a few chips of Welcome to our North American I CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC Si j'avais le bateau (Newfoundland) Harry Somers Salish Song (Southern British Columbia) Derek Healey Feller from Fortune (Newfoundland) Harry Somers II WORLD PREMIERE Walden Pond (World Premiere) Dominick Argento (b. 1927) Nocturnes and Barcaroles for Mixed Chorus, Three Violoncellos and Harp 1. The Pond IV Extolling 'II. Angling V Walden Revisited III. Observing INTERMISSION III MODERN MADRIGALS keewaydin Harry Freedman (b. 1922) L'Invitation au Voyage John Corigliano (b. 1938) Of Crows and Clusters Norman DelIo Joio (b. 1913) IV EMPTINESS OF NIGHT Le Campane de Leopardi (Leopardi's Bells) Yehuda Yannay (b. 1937) Mindy Ratner, Speaker Jerry Rubino, Carol Barnett and David Sherman, tuned wineglasses V AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC Wonder Where (Spiritual) Carol Barnett Pretty Saro (Traditional) Mark Keller The Water is Wide (Traditional) ' Stephen Paulus Oh, Yes!(Spiritual) Carol Barnett 00 INSTRUMENTALISTS 00 Kathy Kienzle, harp Jim Jacobson, cello Robert Jamison, cello Jerry Rubino, piano Laura Sewell, cello -4- I Canadian FolkMusic HARRY SOMERS (B. 1925): SI ;'AVAIS LE BATEAU (NEWFOUNDLAND) We start with a bang, almost literally. Canadian Harry Somers took what he calls considerable "composer's license" with this rowdy drinking song from the Newfoundland ports, adding drums and trumpets (imitated by the singers). After a bohemian life in the 1950's when he drove taxi and played guitar professionally - all the while composing concert music - Somers began receiving commissions. By 1972 his services to Canadian music were rewarded when he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada, his country's highest award. DEREK HEALEY (B. 1936): SALISH SONG (SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA) The Salish are a tribe of natives that flourished in British Columbia. (The related tribe in the States called them- selves the Flathead.) Before European conquest, most Salish lived along the Pacific and were harpoonsmen; others living inland fished the Frazier River. Healey, a native of England, discovered their music while teaching at the University of Victoria, B.C. in the late 1960's. His arrangement of a Salish song begins bold and proud, quoting the original melody in a transliteration of the Salish tongue. The tune is repeated throughout, and acts as an anchor while the music grows more dissonant and varied, but gradually the entire sound begins to dwindle. In a poignant comment on the Salish's fate, the last bar fades a niente, to nothing. HARRY SOMERS (B. 1925): FELLER FROM FORTUNE (NEWFOUNDLAND) Back to the east, where Somers found this rollicking dance along the Newfoundland coast. No fewer than five Newfie ports are mentioned in this score, Carbonear, Cat Harbor, Fortune, St. Pierre, Bonavista (sadly, no men- tion of Heart's Content or Come By Chance), and unlike your normal dance tune, the rhythm here is constantly changing. See if you can get your toe tapping to the beat II World Premiere DOMINICK ARGENTO: WALDEN POND Nocturnes and Barcaroles for Mixed Chorus, Commissioned by and dedicated to Dale Warland and the This commission was made possible in part by the Barlow I. The Pond IV Extolling II. Angling V Walden Revisited III. Observing DOMINICK ARGENTO Dominick Argento won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for his song cycle From the Diary o/Virginia Woolf, commissioned by the Schubert Club and premiered by Dame Janet Baker.
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