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20 Bangor Area Children’s Choir Bangor Area Children’s Choir 11 We’re proud of the young musicians who make our community such a wonderful place. Thank you!

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16 Bangor Area Children’s Choir Bangor Area Children’s Choir 5 A tradition of excellence For more than 20 years, The Bangor Area Children’s Choir (BACC) has been Helping Youth Discover Their Voice. For members of the artistic staff, Board of Directors, and volunteers, this means providing an exceptional choral music experience. BACC’s multi- genre repertoire is carefully chosen to ensure a challenging, yet developmentally appropriate singing experience. Students learn music and performance skills that enhance vocal and personal growth. BACC is proud of its distinguished history. Founded in 1992, BACC served as the featured entertainment at the reunions of the Fifth Armored Division of the United States Army. The organization has continued serving youth under thoughtful and inspiring artistic direction. The legacy of the two first artistic directors, Jean Sigler and Michele Bremner Voss, continues to resonate in the lives of ANDREA HAND the adults who were once their choir members. The Scholarship artist & photographer Fund named in their honor has a vibrant impact on current youth members who are not able to afford tuition and participate in the Lifestyle Portraiture in joys of BACC despite challenging economic times. graphite photography Thank you for joining us in celebrating more than 20 years of acrylic Helping Youth Discover Their Voice! 207.299.3359

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6 Bangor Area Children’s Choir Bangor Area Children’s Choir 15 Special Thanks Recruitment

Bangor Area Children’s Choir thanks the following people and BACC will be holding its registration for the second semester during organizations who have supported our mission this year: January 2016, and we would appreciate your help in getting the word out about the wonderful musical and educational opportunities we St. John’s Episcopal Church, Bangor provide. As always, we are fortunate to be able to offer substantial Pulse Marketing Agency scholarship support, so that no young singer is prevented from Andrea Hand participating because of finances. Bre Clement If you know of any prospective candidates for BACC, please email Creative Print Services [email protected] or call 207-974-7715. W.S. Emerson Cyr Bus Lines There is also a “Try-It” Rehearsal on Wednesday, January 6 at 4:00 pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bangor, and any interested singers may John Bapst Memorial High School simply show up at that time for an audition. Foster Imaging For further information about the BACC experience, visit our website - http://www.bangorareachildrenschoir.com/

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Treasurer Bangor Area Children’s Choir PO Box 2732 Bangor, ME 04402-2732 Like Us on Facebook! Please make checks payable to BACC facebook.com/BangorAreaChildrensChoir News Discussions Events Images More! Thank you for supporting community music!

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Nancy Ludwig, a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, holds degrees Angels We Have Heard on High in music performance from The Curtis Institute of Music and Yale Angels we have heard on high, singing sweetly through the night, University. She has served on the music faculties of the Chautauqua And the mountains in reply echoing their brave delight. Gloria in excelsis Deo. Gloria in excelsis Deo. Institution, Episcopal Theological Seminary in Kentucky, and Eastern Kentucky University, as well as a choir trainer, accompanist, and Joy to the World! organist at a number of major churches, including the Cathedral of the Joy to the world! The Lord is come: let earth receive her King; Incarnation in Garden City, New York. She has performed extensively as Let every heart prepare him room, an organ soloist and accompanist throughout the eastern U.S., and is And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, currently Associate Organist/Choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church And heaven, and heaven and nature sing. in Bangor. White Christmas I’m dreaming of a White Christmas just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten and children listen “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more To hear sleigh bells in the snow. beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” I’m dreaming of a White Christmas with ev’ry Christmas card I write “May your days be merry and bright – -Leonard Bernstein, 25 November, 1963 And may all your Christmases be white.” Deck the Hall Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la la. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la la Fill the mead cup, drain the barrel, Fa la la la la la la la la Troll the ancient Christmas carol, Fa la la la la la la la la Board of Directors We Wish You a Merry Christmas Eric Boberg Hannah Dubois We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, Chair We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy new year! Rick Fraser Good tidings we bring for you and your kin, Jill Hoelzer Debbie Friedman We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy new year! Vice Chair Mary Kilbride Jim Paton George Wright Now bring us some figgy pudding, now bring us some figgy pudding, Treasurer Now bring us some figgy pudding, and a cup of good cheer! Vanessa Young We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, Judy Walker George Wright We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy new year! Secretary Board Members at Large

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Veni Emmanuel Robert Ludwig’s career has been focused on the training and 15th c., arr Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) performance of choral ensembles and has always included work with children and young people as a critical part of that work. He is currently Riu, Riu Chiu Organist and Choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bangor, and Spanish Villancico, Mateo Flecha the Elder (1481-1553) runs a private voice and piano studio. He is President of the Penobscot Prepare Thyself Zion Valley Music Teachers Association. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Mr. Ludwig’s previous positions include Director of Choral Music and Ave verum corpus Music Theory at Garden City High School (a multiple-year Grammy W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Signature School semi-finalist and one of the 100 best communities in the U.S. for music education), Choirmaster at Long Island’s Episcopal Nine Hundred Miles Cathedral of the Incarnation, Professor of Church Music at the Mercer American Folk Song, arr. Philip Silvey (b 1965) School of Theology, Minister of Music at Garden City Community White Winter Hymnal Church and Choirmaster at Christ Church (Cathedral) Lexington, KY. Robin Pecknold (b 1986) His choirs have performed from Canada to Florida, and have also sung in such notable venues as St. Paul’s Cathedral, London and Wells and Pie Jesu Coventry Cathedrals. He has conducted a wide variety of choirs (from Michael McGlynn (b 1964) four-year olds to adult professional), but has always maintained a primary focus on choirs of young people singing the finest of musical Siúil a Rúin Traditional Irish, arr. Michael McGlynn repertoire. Mary’s Lullaby Mr. Ludwig holds degrees in music from Davidson College (NC) and John Rutter (b 1945) Yale University with additional study in Vienna and The Netherlands. He has been an active member of the American Choral Director’s Lo How a Rose/The Rose Association, serving for a number of years on the NY State board Michael Praetorius and Amanda McBroom of that organization. Together with Nancy Ludwig, he presented a Arr. Craig Hella Johnson (b 1962) concert series featuring the complete organ music of J.S. Bach. He The Christmas Song has conducted numerous major choral works, often with orchestral Mel Torme, arr. Mark Hayes (b 1953) accompaniment and featuring historically informed presentations with period instruments. His programs have often included world premieres Christmas is Coming of commissioned pieces, multi-cultural offerings in foreign languages, Traditional English Carol, arr. Mack Wilberg (b 1955) and an unusually wide variety of musical styles from Gregorian chant to vocal jazz to Mongolian throat singing. Al Shlosha D’varim Allan Naplan (b. 1972)

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Treble Choir Vivace ($1000+) Madison “Rae” Baxter Isabel Kidwell Emily Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. William C. Voss Amorica Boggins Sophia Morrison Ava Samoluk Presto ($500-$999) Casey Hanson Anna Nangle Annalena Wittmann Contact us to become a sponsor! Brianna Jerome Abigail Phillips Roni Young Youth Chorale Allegro ($250-$499) Mr. & Mrs. Orlando Frati Julia Alexander Aliyah Ferrell Taylor Thurston George & Mary Wright Garreth Alley Patrick Fraser Kathrina Turner Tessa Alley Bryan Frost Sarah Viekman Andantino ($100-$249) Elisabeth Boberg Pollyanna Frost Jessica Walker Eric & Shirley Boberg Ethan Burns Matthew Hoelzer Kirk Willett David & Donna Casavant Samantha Carter Isabelle Kirk Abigail Williams Judith S. Jones Alexandra Creaser Elisabeth Landry Hana Woodard In memory of Donald Moffitt of Monroe Elyse Daub The Owen Family Charles Rudershausen - in honor of Julia Alexander Karl Sanzenbacher, MD & Barbara Ward “There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.” Carter & Elinor Stratton - Sergei Prokofiev

Andante ($50-$99) Alan & Vicki Anne Darrah “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” Gloria & Bill Miller

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