SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1980, AT 8:30P.M.

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion lOS ANGELES MASTER CHORAlE . and SINFONIA ORCHESTRA

ROGER WAGNER, Music Director

FOLK JUBILEE FOLK SONGS OF THE OLD WORLD Wales Men of Harlech arr. R. Wagner All Through the Night arr. R. Wagner France II "Etait Une Bergere arr. R. Wagner Au Clair de Ia lune arr. R. Wagner J'ai Du Bon Tabac arr. R. Wagner TWO SPANISH SCENES ROGER WAGNER Valencia, Spain Conductor Canto de Sereno (Night Watch Song) arr. S. Terri Salli Terri , Sing praises to the Holiest Sacrament! Singer-Arranger It is the night-watchman calling out to all! It is raining. Jubilee Singers, It is eleven o'clock. Albert McNeil, Director Alabado (Morning Hymn) Robert Hunter, Pianist· The Dawn is breaking! Bright shines the morning. Come join in singing praise: Ave Maria! Sa IIi. Terri Azulao (Bluebird) In Portuguese Brazilian love Song arr. Almeida & Terri fly, little friend, fly! Tell my love that life is nothing without him. Fly! Fly! Oh, sweet bird! Black Is The Color of My True love's Hair arr. R. Wagner He's Gone Away arr. Salli Terri FEBRUARY CONCERT Kerry Barnett, Baritone Japanese Children Song LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE Clii-Chi Pap-Pa arr. S. Terri AND SINFONIA ORCHESTRA (Chi-chi pap-pa is the sound of the sparrows) Roger Wagner, Music Director Mrs. Sparrow teaches at her singing school. TREASURES OF THE MASTERS Taps her baton to lead the little birds. HANDEL: Funeral Anthem on the All the tiny sparrows in a circle just so! Death of Queen Caroline Sweetly sing the pretty song of Chi-pap_- pa. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Benedicite "Open wide your mouth and sing Chi-pap-pa." VIVALDI: Dixit Dominus (with " Sing togethe r everyone: Chi-pap-pa." double chorus and orchestra) An Salli Terri & Chorale extraordinary offering of majestic music-these complex, works are Certainly, Certainly, Certainly, lord arr. Hall Johnso n seldom-performed gems to which Soloists: John Nix, Paul Smith, Tenors the Master Chorale brings its for­ Soloists: Victor Graham, Bass midable powers. Talk About A Child That Do love Jesus arr. Howard Roberts Roger Wagner, Conductor Go Down Moses arr. larry Farrow Soloists: Michael Gallup, Janet Smith, Lila Stuart and Byron Soloist: Michael Kelly, Baritone Wright. The Amen Chorus arr. Hairston/McNeil SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1980, Jubilee Singers 8:30 p.m. (Preview: 7:30 p.m.) INTERMISSION England Program Notes by Richard H . Trame, Greensleeves arr. S. Terri S.J., Ph.D. Oh, Dear! What Can The Matter Be? arr. G. Kubik Ireland This evening's concert billed as a Danny Boy arr. R. Wagner "Folk Jubilee" requires for its enjoy­ ment and appreciation some under­ SONGS OF THE FRONTIER standing from the listener not so I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy much of detailed analysis of each Home On The Range selection but rather some com­ Whoopee Ti Vi Yo prehension of the folk idiom, its Green Grow the Lilacs Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie characteristic variations among na­ Men of the Chorale tional genres represented. Folk music welled up among New Mexico/USA peoples as a natural musical evolution At The Gate of Heaven (A Ia Puerta del Cielo) arr. Dorothy Remsen without benefit of scientific training, At the gate of heaven, they sell shoes, a product of the common man com­ Come and try them Tiny barefoot angels, memorating in songs the whole Oh, come now and buy them, rhythm of life on land and sea, its joys Sleep, oh my baby arru, arru. God will send His blessings to all babes asleeping. and sorrows, its social festivals,.its ag­ God will bless the mothers as watch they are keeping. ricultural and religious celebrations, Sleep, oh, my baby, arru, arru. its times of mourning. Every facet of human life finds reflection in songs of American Folk Song arr. S. Terri war, patriotism and peace, love and Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies labor, lullabies, dance and dirge, and I Wonder As I Wander arr. R. Wagner even such pedestrian occurrances as American White Spiritual arr. S. Terri the hawking of street wares. like to­ Poor· Wayfarin' Stranger bacco. African lullaby-prayer arr. S. Terri Since the beginning of the Twen­ Aliunde (Oh, God, of the Sunrise) In Swahili tieth Century, especially, various na­ Oh, God of the Sunrise, tional composers like Vaughan As I have given of myself to my baby Williams, Kodaly, Bartok, and Cop­ Please prot ~t my child through the night. land to mention some of the more If the child awakes in the morning sunrise, noteworthy, have utilized modern re­ He will grow to be a man, and be a good member of the tribe. cording techniques to capture and Salli Terri and Chorale , preserve their country's heritage in Satisfied Andre Crouch its native and primitive form. Indeed Paul Smith, Pianist the treasures of a nation's fo1k song World Goin' Down (from the Lennox Suite) Arthur Cunningham had previously exercised consider­ Dolores Davis, Soprano able influence on the composition of Virginia White, Contralto refined art music as a melodic and rhythmic source. German and Aus­ Doodlin' (Jazz Novelty) Larry Farrow trian folk melody found highly Sinner Please, Don't Let This Harvest Past arr. Harold Montague sophisticated expression in the m1,1sic Veronica Howell & Gwendolyn Lytle, Sopranos of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Rocka My Soul arr. Howard Roberts Brahms. Haydn and Beethoven even Victor Graham, Baritone benefited financially when they con­ Jubilee Singers tracted with English publishers to arrange, for example, Scottish songs. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot arr. R. Wagner Many are aware of the rhythmic influ­ ence the Irish jig exerted on the com­ Set Down Servant arr. R. Shaw position of the fourth movement of Jubilee Singers & Chorale Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. The All Roger Wagner Arrangements (ASCAP) published by Hungarian Rhapsodies elaborated by lawson-Gould Music Publishers Brahms, Liszt, and Enesco similarly re­ 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY flect that people's vital folk idiom. Generally speaking, as the Oxford History of Music asserts, folk music The Musical presentations on this program are made possible, in part, through the originated with the voice and not the sponsorship of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the Los Angeles County instrument. Its rhythmic elaboration Music and Performing Arts Commission. depended on the flow of the words, the bearers of the message. The song Latecomers will not be seated untilthelirs: convenient pause'in the performance. / Invited guests are welcome backstage thus consists of melody without har­ altllf the performance; usa partormllfs' entrances: Grand Ava. Side ol Plaza lor PaviliOn, corner ol Tamp/a & Grand lor monic addition. Nevertheless the in­ Ahmanson. and riJIIf of theatre tor Forum. I Usa ol tapa recordllfs and/or cameras prohlllllad In auditorium. I Your usa of a ticket constHutas aclulowladgemanl ol willingness to appur·ln photographs taken In public areas ol Tha Music Centllf and herent .beauty and emotional impact releases Tha Music Center Operating Co .• Itt lessees and all others lrom 118blllty resuHing lrom usa ol such piiOiographs. 1 Program and artilll subject to change. I Patrons cannot be paged during a performance. IndividualS axpacl/ng emergency of this primitive melodic inventive­ caNs must leave their seat numbers with the H9Us1J Mar;ager. ness invited further development compatible with more cultivated and music of the British Isles particularly sophisticated tastes or national cus­ up through the mid-Nineteenth Cen­ tom. The Welsh love of choral music tury. Thenceforth the music of Britain led naturally to a strong choral em­ in turn came under strong American phasis in various festival competitions influence. A familiar and mutually in­ for which they are still famed. Modern teracting genre, for examp,e, is the ROGER WAGNER, Founder/Director choral arrangements, moreover, often Sea Shanty. A developed type unique of the Roger Wagner Chorale and constituted the only viable means by to American working and frontier Founder/Director of the Los Angeles which a folk song prior to electronic conditions is the familiar " Western" Master Chorale and Sinfonia Or­ means of amplification could be whose variety is illustrated in the chestra, has become a legend in his adequately communicated to a large familiar medley on the program. own time, known the world over as a audience or congregation. The second powerful contributory symbol of the highest achievements However, even though the folk stream influencing American folk in choral art. Dedicated to choral idiom customarily originated in the music is the Afro-American. Through music since early childhood, his in­ voice, as early as the Twelfth Century, their learning of the English language ter11ational reputation in that area has troubadour, trouvere and jongleur shaped as it became by the linguistic been enhanced by his work as a com­ songs, the foundation of French folk peculiarities of their native African poser, arranger, and symphonic con­ music, found elaboration through dialects, the Blacks came into contact ductor, and he is a highly regarded instrumental accompaniment' rein­ with British American music. They re­ authority on the religious music of forcing its characteristic rhythmic tained much of that native musical the Medieval and Renaissance precision and drive and fostering the heritage, but they transmuted what periods. He has been knighted twice subsequent marriage of dance and they learned whether through hymn for his contributions to sacred music. voice with harmonic support. or song and willed us their pro­ Radio, television, motion pictures, A successful modern presentation, foundly felt and magnificent fond of and recordings have all figured prom­ therefore, or folk music in choral ren­ Spirituals and secular songs. As the inently in his long and illustrious dition or with instrumental accom­ Afro-American tradition emerged it career. He has recorded over 60 al­ paniment requires that the straight­ interacted for example with the bums and received the Grammy forward simplicity of the song not be British form from the north in the Award for his album, Virtuoso. In ad­ obscured through over arrangements mountains of the South among dition to directing his own Sinfonia resulting in settings so complex that Whites to create the White Spiritual. Orchestra and the Los_ Angeles Mas­ the melody and words become The Spiritual continues to exercise an ter Chorale, he has served as guest murky. The criteria for judgment enduring influence on the vitality of conductor of the Los Angeles permits a person to receive the mes­ American music as so many of our Philharmonic Orchestra and has ap­ sage loud and clear, with simplicity recognized composers utilized its peared with leading orchestras all rather than by a polyphonic complex­ treasurers for the enrichment of their over the world. ity characteristic of a Renaissance art music. A long list of distinctions and signal motet. The choral and instrumental The bulk of this evening's presen­ honors on the local, national, and in­ web should provide that tonal and tations fall clearly within the British­ ternational level have accentuated Dr. coloristic variety consistent with the American and the Afro-American Wagner's unique contributions to the message of the words. traditions of folk music, amply illus­ world of music. In 1953 Wagner and This evening's concert presents a trating the inheritance. We are like­ his Chorale were invited to partici­ microcc.;; m of folk music from many wise afforded the opportunity of pate at the coronation festivities of lands in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the hearing these songs and those of Elizabeth II in London. In 1959 and Americas. The martial spirit of Har­ other national traditions· in masterly again in 1964 he and the Chorale were lech's Celtic men repelling the Saxon choral and instrumental arrange­ selected to represent the United invader contrasts with the repose ments by experts such as Wagner, States in concerts throughout Latin which peace and security bring to a Terri, Shaw, Farrow, Johnson, America. In 1966 the U.S. State De­ protected loved one in All Through Aairston, and others. These are sung partment, through its Cultural Ex­ the Night. "Two Spanish Scenes" pre­ by the Master Chorale and Jubilee change Program, again sent the sent the Valencian night watchman's Singers with the requisite authentic Chorale on tour to the Middle East, cries on his rounds. This Canto is fol­ inflection and sensitive nuance Turkey, Yugoslavia, France, and Italy. lowed ::,y tile Alabado inviting characteristic of their e.stablished In Rome, he and the Chorale had the families to morning prayer sum­ reputations. honor of singing for Pope Paul VI at an moned by the church bell. The poig­ STAFF ----- audience in St. Peter's Basilica-the nant lament of the mountain lass as ELLEN PETTIT first non-Italian choir to do so in 25 her lover goes off to civil war finds Group Sales Director years. In January 1973, Roger Wagner expression in the beautiful He's Gone RAE MACDONALD shared the podium with Eugene Dr­ Away. Production Assistant mandy to conduct the Philadelphia Although all immigrants to America MIKE RUBIN Orchestra and the Los Angeles Mas­ have contributed to our fond of folk Orchestra Personnel Manager ter Chorale at the Presidential Inau­ music, tWo streams have been most DOYLE PHILLIPS gural Concert at Kennedy Center. In influential and have mutually in­ General Manager May 1973, Dr. Wagner served as guest teracted with and contributed to each BETTE VAHL conductor of major symphonies dur­ others development. Dominant Secretary ing a month-long tour of the major among these national contributions FLORENCE PARISE capitals of South America, and in July has been the English language-based Publicist he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his Chorale in cert season of the world's greatest founder-director of the John Biggs Bach's B Minor Mass at the Hollywood choral masterworks at the Music Cen­ Consort. Much sought after for festi­ Bowl. In May 1974, he conducted a ter, giving Los Angeles a unique repu­ vals and music clinics of choral music, triumphal tour of the Soviet U11ion tation as the only city in' the country Salli Terri is a recognized specialist in with the Master Chorale, making a which supports its own professional early American music. Her Shaker notable impact on the Soviet musical resident chorus in an annual series of Worship Service and Moravian world. In july 1976, Dr. Wagner con­ · choral programs. Lovefeast are currently being widely ducted the New Philharmonic Or­ last season the Chorale joined the performed in America and have been chestra and the Chorale of Radio Los Angeles Philharmonic for the in­ presented in Europe. France in concerts in Paris, during the augural concert under the baton of its The recording Duets with the Span­ Festival de Paris. The prestigious Paris distinguished and newly appointed ish Guitar made with the guitarist publication, "Le Monde;' wrote: " ... director, Carlo Maria Giulini, in an un­ Laurindo Almeida brought attention under his dynamic direction, Roger forgettable performance of BeetHo­ to Salli's voice as an instrument, won Wagner emerged extremely precise, ven's Ninth Symphony, which was the "Grammy" award, and has be­ devoid of all stiffness and complai­ carried live on public television and come a classic Angel disc. The Na­ sance." Roger Wagner and his transmitted via satellite throughout tional Association of Recording Arts Chorale were invited to participate in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Sciences also nominated her for a the Israeli Festival in August 197(?. The and Mexico. joining the Philharmonic second Grammy for the recording Chorale was critically acclaimed for again this year under Maestro Giulini, Conversations with the Guitar. Duets its performance in Tel Aviv, jer­ the Chorale participated in four per­ with the Spanish Guitar was re-issued usalem, Caesarea and Haifa. In com­ formances of the 1979-80 season by popular demand. "Songs of the memoration of the Chorale's out­ opener (Verdi's Requiem) and is also American land" was reissued for the standing participation in the Israeli scheduled for three performances of Bicentennial. Versatility is her trade­ Festival, Wagner was awarded the Beethoven's Missa Solemnis next mark and it shows in the fact that Salli Knesset silver medal of the State of April. has recorded with Robert Craft and Israel. In july and September 1977, Igor Stravinsky as well as with Nor­ Wagner conducted the New Philhar­ man luboff, and done voice dubbings monic and Radio France Chorale in for judy Garland along with vocal im­ two performances in the Royal provisation with Lukas Foss. Chapel of Versailles. In the summer of She also wrote music for a pro­ 1978 he shared the podium with Loren duction of john Brown's Body and a Maazel and accompanied Olivier score for The Ballad of Robert Burns Messiaen on a tour of Japan with the with Karl Swenson and joan Tompkins French National Orchestra and Radio while portraying jo and being music France Chorus. In july1979, he toured director. twelve South American countries with his Chorale. Dr. Wagner is senior lecturer with a full professorship in the Music De­ partment at UCLA, where he serves as Director of Choral Activities. SALLI TERRI is a multi-faceted person in the musical arts. She is a singer, an THE LOS ANGELES MASTER arranger, a choral conductor, a CHORALE AND SINFONIA OR­ teacher, a writer, a music-researcher, CHESTRA, founded by Roger Wagner a wife and parent. Her father was a and the Los Angeles junior Chamber violinist, orchestra conductor and of Commerce, became a resident teacher. Although her mother was not company of the Music Center in 1964. a professional, a musical environment Dr. Wagner has been music director was nurtured. A scholarship student for the organization since its forma­ to Wayne State University, Salli ALBERT MCNEIL is a native Cal­ tion. Currently in its 16th season, the graduated magna cum laude with a ifornian-born in los Angeles. He 125-voice ensemble is one of the major in both music and communica­ completed his undergraduate train­ finest in the United States and in­ tions. She has a Master's dE:gree in ing at UCLA and went on to earn cludes in its select membership the Music Education from U.S.C. and her graduate degrees at the University of most outstanding professional talent teaching credentials from U.C.L.A. Southern California and to complete in the Southland. The Sinfonia Or­ plus advanced work from the latter additional graduate studies at the chestra membership is drawn from two universities. She has been on the University of Lausanne in Switzer­ professional ranks in the Los Angeles music faculties of Flintridge Academy, land, the Westminster Choir College, area and is one of the finest in the Villa Cabrini Academy, Marymount Princeton, New jersey, and Occiden­ United States. The Master Chorale College as well as U.C.L.A., U.C. tal College, Los Angeles. His career presented its first concert season at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Com­ has embraced three areas: teaching, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in munity College, Fullerton College publications and performance. 1965, receiving significant critical and U.C. Irvine. She has also taught in He taught for 15 years in the Los acclaim. Under the dedicated leader­ Japan, Austria and done workshops in Angeles Unified School District, and, ship of Dr. Wagner, the Chorale has Mexico, Taiwan and the Philippines in 1968, became a Professor of Music continued to present an annual con- with her husband John Biggs, at the University of California's Davis Campus, where he directs the Uni­ Assistant to Dr. jester Hairston on a LOS ANGELES versity concert choir and the chamber number of motion picture pro­ MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION Singers, and heads the Music Educa­ ductions. He was Director of Church BOARD OF DIRECTORS tion Program. Since 1975, he has been Music for People's Independent 1979-1980 a Visiting Professor of Music at the Church of Christ for a number of University of Southern California years and is presently Director of OFFICERS: where he teaches a class in Ethno­ Church Music for the Congregational Mr. Louis D. Statham musicology during the Fall Semester Church of Christian Fellowship, Los Honorary Co-Chairman of the Board each year. He appears frequently as a Angeles. He conducted the Sac­ Mr. Z. Wayne Griffin guest lecturer for Universities and ramento Chorale (the Sacramento Honorary Co-Chairman of the Board public school districts throughout the Symphony's choral arm) for 5 years Mrs. Frank Roger Seaver country. and presented them in the European Honorary Chairman In the performance area, Albert debut in Palma de Mallorca's Mozart Master Chorale Associates McNeil has been conducting concert Sal, in Spain. As Founder-Director of · Mr. Marshall A. Rutter President singing groups and church choirs for the Albert McNeil Los Angeles jubilee Mr. Warner W. Henry 782 most of his adult life. He has been Singers, he has conducted con­ Executive Vice President Staff Choral Director for Greek Thea­ certs abroad for commercial impre­ Mr. Clifford A. Miller tre Productions, Choral Director for sarios and for the United States De­ Executive Vice President the Los Angeles Bureau of Music, and partment of State. Dr. Louis W. Kang Vice President Mr. Thomas F. Kranz Vice President Mr. Donald J. Nores Vice President Mrs. Mary Reinhardt Vice President Mrs. john A. Richards Vice President Mr. Morton M. Winston Vice President Mr. William A. Ewing Treasurer Mr. Paul j. Livadary Secretary DIRECTORS: THE ALBERT MCNEIL JUBILEE composers Langston Hughes , Mrs. Charmay Allred SINGERS of LOS ANGELES William Grant Still, Hall johnson and ' Mr. Theodore G. Congdon Founder-Director Albert McNeit and Margaret Bonds have written works Mrs. Dale Dutton · his singers, a travelling company of for them. Mrs. Geraldine Smith Healy 13, a resident group of 19, have gar­ Twelve years ago the Singers under­ Mr. R. D. Johnson nered international acclaim and fo­ took their first European tour. Today, Mrs. Howard B. Keck, Jr. cused worldwide attention on the vast after six sold out European tours, Ms. Charlotte Kresl body of folk music termed "Afro­ three tours of the United States and Mr. john F. Maher American." The jubilee Singers have Canada, under Columbia Artists Ms. Bourne Morris become one of America's finest ex­ Management, tours of the Middle Mrs. John K. Pike ponents of the rich and vital body of East, Far East, Africa ·and South Mrs. Harrison A. Price music that is such an integral part of America (the group returns to South Mrs. Charles I. Schneider the Black experience. America in August, 1980, and Australia Mrs. Alan G. Stanford The Singers were hailed as one of in August, 1981), they are among the Mrs. Thomas Techentin Southern California's major cultural most honored singing ens~mbles in Mrs. Larry B. Thrall assets by official proclamation of Los the world. Mr. Fred Zepeda Angeles City Mayor Torn Bradley. They were selected three times to HONORARY DIRECTORS: They have performed in the Greek serve the U.S. State Department cul­ Mrs. George B. Allison Theatre, the Music Center and the tural exchange program in various Mr. Thomas P. Cassidy Hollywood Bowl, over coast to coast parts of the world, including East Mrs. Dorothy Kirsten French radio and television, and in motion Germany, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Mrs. Herbert Hilmer pictures. Afro-American poets and Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Mrs. Bob Hope CHOIR PERSONNEL Mr. Charles Luckman Michael Kelly, Assistant Director Mr. Meredith Willson Eric Browning Wilbur Howard Paul Smfth EX OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD: Dolores Davis Gwendolyn Lytle jacquelyn Sebastian Mark Gorey Andrea McCreary Virginia White Dr. Roger Wagner Lonnie Green joseph Nalls Ri,chard Wyatt Music Director Mrs. Neil Wilson Victor Graham Charlotte Neveu Diane Wright President, Master Chorale .Associates Veronica Howell john Nix Michael Wright Mr. Doyle Phillips Colleen Pierre-Louis General Manager