Sacred Dance David Earle, Choreographer Gerald Neufeld, Conductor

Alison MacNeill accompanist

Dancetheatre David Earle Musica Viva Orchestra

Saturday April 11, 2015 River Run Centre | 7:30 pm PHOTO BY KAROLINA KURAS

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In Paradisum...... Ēriks Ešenvalds Mary-Katherine Finch, cello Kathleen Kajioka, viola

Hymn to the Waters...... Gustav Holst Alison MacNeill, piano

Stabat Mater ...... Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Ave, Maris Stella ...... Diane Loomer Chris Fischer, soloist

Miserere...... Gregorio Allegri Solo Quartet Rebecca Whelan, Carolynne Davy, Chris Fischer, Neil McLaren

Intermission

Requiem ...... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Introitus Kyrie Dies irae Tuba mirum Recordare Domine Deus Lacrimosa

Soloists: Rebecca Whelan, Janice Coles, Chris Fischer, Neil McLaren

Page 2 Program cont’d Musica Viva Orchestra Violin 1 Viola Clarinet Trombone Joe Lanza Kathleen Kajioka Steve Pierre Rob Tilley Michelle Odorico Mary McGeer Stephen Fox Cathy Stone Valerie Gordon Peter Collins Cello Bassoon Violin 2 Mary-Katherine Finch Heather Carruthers Timpani Andrew Chung Laura Jones Ondrej Golias John Brownell Sheila Smyth Adele Pierre Contrabass Trumpet Organ Jeff Stokes Aaron Hodgson Christopher Dawes Andras Molnar

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Dancers Danielle Baskerville Michael English Julia Garlisi Evadne Kelly Georgia Simms Suzette Sherman Kelly Steadman Meredith Thompson

Susan Bowden Lisa Bush Corrado Cerruto Jordana Deveau Andrea Gregorio Samantha Grist Andrew Hartley Peter Hessel Emma Kerson Amanda LaRusic Nikolaos Markakis Matthew Montgomery Kristine Muth Megan Nadain Megan O’Donnell Sierra Chin Sawdy Stuart Wright

Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen Caryn Chappell Taylor Hunt Kathleen Legassick Marlowe Porter

In Paradisum Suzette Sherman Sacra Conversazione (Mozart Requiem) Susan Bowden Introit – Kyrie The Company Lisa Bush Dies irae The Company Jordana Deveau Tuba mirum Matthew Montgomery Julia Garlisi Stuart Wright Georgia Simms Meredith Thompson Kristine Muth Evadne Kelly Megan Nadain Recordare Suzette Sherman Megan O’Donnell Peter Hessel Kelly Steadman Danielle Baskerville Michael English Sacred Garden Suzette Sherman Domine Jesu The Company (Stabat Mater) Georgia Simms Lacrimosa The Company Costume Design: Denis Joffre Miserere The Company

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Page 3 Soloists “Clearly a singer to watch” as quickly realizing that I loved described by Geoff Chap- to sing, but also to teach. man of the Toronto Star, Having performed with some REBECCA WHELAN’s of the most noted choirs and enchanting, crystalline voice orchestras in North America, has thrilled audiences in both as a soloist and as a concert halls across North chorister, I have been so very America . fortunate to have sung at Rebecca started her such diverse places as Carn- career singing with The Elmer egie Hall, the Stratford Festi- Iseler Singers, The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and val, Westminster Hall, the Toronto International Festival, The Amadeus Choir where her solo voice was featured the Queen’s Plate, and for Prime Minister Chretien. on numerous CD recordings and CBC broadcasts “My vocal and piano studio continues to fi ll my life throughout North America. Some of her solo credits with wonderful students, both young and old, and as include performing with the Toronto Symphony Orches- an accomplished pianist, I also accompany my voice tra, Thunder Bay Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Esprit students for various performances. For a number of Orchestra, the Gryphon Trio, the Canadian Brass, years, I also taught in Toronto-area school systems as Nexus, Opera Barrie, Soundstreams, Tapestry New an ‘Artist in the School’. I continue to enjoy my position Opera Works, and most recently The Canadian National as music director and cantor at a large church in down- Ballet Orchestra in the production of Alice’s Adventures town Toronto, and in my ‘spare time’, I am the President in Wonderland . of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association Her opera credits include the role of Serpina in North York/York Region Branch. I have also served on Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, Laetitia in Menotti’s The the Board of Directors for Choirs Ontario, and I con- Old Maid and the Thief, the Angel of Death in Facing tinue to adjudicate numerous music festivals, as well as South, one of the Land of the Dead in Pimooteewin, examine voice, piano and various other musical instru- the fi rst ever Cree language Opera, which was toured ments for Conservatory Canada.” throughout Northern Ontario, and Dark Star Requiem, an Opera about the plight of HIV and AIDS in Africa. Janice coles has sung with Rebecca is pleased to once again be appearing the Guelph Chamber Choir with the Guelph Chamber Choir. since 2007, toured twice with the choir, and appeared as a Says carolynne daVy, alto, “Music is something we soloist on its two recent CDs. hear but also feel. It is something our souls experi- She has been a chorister with ence, and has encompassed many cultures through- the Ontario Youth Choir, the out history. I am thrilled to have been a part of this Opera Hamilton Chorus, and expressive adventure throughout my life. the Kingston Chamber Choir, “I graduated from Queen’s University with a to name a few. As a soloist, Bachelor of Music, and a Master of Education, and she appeared with the London Singers in Haydn’s Lord attended the University of Toronto’s Opera School, Nelson Mass, the Mozart Requiem, and a gospel tune

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Page 4 Soloists cont’d or two. In Kingston, she was the alto soloist with the Our bass soloist, neil Kingston Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, the Healey mclaren, has been a part of Willan Requiem and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; the Guelph music scene for performed Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Orchestra Kings- nearly 40 years. Beginning ton; and appeared frequently with the Melos Choir. As a with a brief period in Guelph recitalist, Janice is known for her innovative and varied Light Opera Company, play- programmes, which include everything from classical ing Balthazar in Menotti’s selections to cabaret repertoire. Janice holds a BMus Amahl and the Night Visitors, from Queens, and has studied with Mary Lou Fallis, he joined Dublin Street United Patricia Rideout, Sandra Graham and Ingemar Korjus. Church choir. A founding member of the Guelph Chamber Choir, his solo work Tenor chris fischer has has ranged from the Brahms Requiem to Luck Be a earned a reputation as a ﬂ ex- Lady Tonight. Helping to program Cabarets and arrang- ible and intelligent musician ing songs for the choir, Neil has supported the Choir’s with a multi-faceted career in presence in Guelph and helped to grow its audience. the areas of solo and choral Singing with the Elora Festival Singers for nearly 20 performance, church music, years gave further opportunities for solo assignments and private teaching and and for participating in fundraising events that used accompanying. A section opera, Gilbert and Sullivan, Broadway and Flanders and leader of the Guelph Cham- Swann to entertain supporters . ber Choir since 2002, he has He has provided musical leadership within his participated in three recordings – featuring as a soloist church and for the Guelph Wellington Men’s Club Choir on the 2010 CD, Christmas in the Royal City – and two and currently is director of the Village of the Arboretum international tours (to Austria and the Czech Republic in Singers. Although he taught mathematics, he served as 2006 and to England and Wales in 2012, where he was choral director for several high school musical produc- recital organist). Chris has appeared many times as a tions and most recently for the United Church Youth solo artist with this ensemble, most recently in last sea- Theatre production of Les Misérables . son’s groundbreaking performance of Mendelssohn’s Singing as a chorister and as a soloist remain musi- oratorio Elijah with the Musica Viva Orchestra on period cal delights of Neil’s career. instruments. This season he returns in a solo capacity with the GCC for Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, Handel’s Messiah, and Mozart’s Requiem . Operatic credits include the roles of King Caspar in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Don Basilio in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and the Narrator in Ruth: a Musical Drama, by Canadian composer Ronald Beckett. Chris has recorded with Arcady, Oakville Masterworks, and the Elora Festival Singers, and he is currently a member of Arcady, the Elora Festival Sing- ers, and the Tactus Vocal Ensemble.

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Page 5 Guest Artist daVid earle began his Among the awards and honours for his work, dance training at the age of David has received the Cliff ord E. Lee Award from the fi ve with the Toronto Chil- Banff Festival of the Arts (1987), a Dora Mavor Moore dren’s Players. He was a Award (1987), Toronto Arts Award for Performing Arts student of the National Ballet (1988) with Peter Randazzo and Patricia Beatty, Jean School of Canada and then A. Chalmers Award (1994), Muriel Sherrin Award (1998), spent two years at the Martha Member of the Order of Canada (1996), the Canada Graham School in New York Council for the Arts Jacqueline Lemieux Prize (2002) and was with the José Limón an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Faculty of Dance Company. David Education, Queen’s University, Kingston (2005), the helped form the London Contemporary Dance Theatre Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing and, in 1968, founded Toronto Dance Theatre with Arts (2006), and most recently, the Premier’s Award for Peter Randazzo and Patricia Beatty, where he worked Excellence in the Arts (2011) and the Queen Elizabeth II as Co-director, then sole Artistic Director and Resident Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). Choreographer with triumphant seasons in New York David Earle is much sought after as a respected and tours to Europe and Asia. 1996 saw the launch of teacher, lecturer and mentor. He has taught consistently Dancetheatre David Earle (www.dtde.ca). at his own studio throughout his career, and has been David has choreographed for the Stratford Music a guest instructor across North America as well as Festival, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Guelph Spring internationally. At 75 years of age he continues to teach, Festival, the National Ballet of Canada, the Toronto to create, and to inspire the next generation of modern International Festival, Banff Festival of the Arts, the dancers to explore their humanity in this, the oldest of Polish Dance Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival, as art forms. well as presenting at the Open Ears Festival, Le Baie de Chaleurs Festival, Dancers For Life, Spring Rites, dancetheatre daVid earle was created to promote NUMUS Concert Series, with the Penderecki String artistic development and education in the fi eld of Quartet, and with the KW Symphony. David’s works modern dance through the performance and teaching have been performed in Paris, London, New York, of the works and technique of David Earle. The com- Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, Warsaw, Edinburgh, Mexico pany has performed with the Penderecki String Quartet, City, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, and on tour in Spain, France, at the Elora Music Festival, Soundstreams, Rosedale Poland, Germany and the USA. They have also been Concerts, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, NUMUS, presented on fi lm and television in Moze Mossanen’s Tactus, the Guelph Chamber Choir, the Gryphon Trio, Dance for Modern Times and The Dancemakers. For and the Art of Time Ensemble. In addition to national Rhombus Media, he choreographed La Valse for a fi lm and international venues, DtDE has performed locally on the life of Maurice Ravel, and Romeos and Juliets, at the Guelph River Run Centre, Guelph Youth Music which received the Press Award from France’s Grand Centre, Harcourt United Church, E.L. Fox Auditorium, Prix International de Video-Danse de Sete and also a St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre, Milton Centre for the Gemini award . Arts, and the University of Waterloo Humanities Theatre, In March 2006 Dance Collection Danse published in addition to regular Studio Showings at their home David Earle: A Choreographic Biography, written by base on Quebec Street. Michele Green. DtDE established their studios in downtown Guelph in 2001, and began to off er professional level classes to advanced and professional dancers as well as community outreach classes for adult beginners and intermedi- ates. Their annual Summer Intensive in Guelph provides advanced dancers the opportunity for in-depth study in the dance language that David Earle has developed through his 40 years as a teacher and creator. (See www .dtde .ca) Tel 519-822-0160 | 800-263-1032 240 Victoria Road N. Guelph, ON www.sutherlandinsurance.com

Page 6 Program Notes in paradisum sacra conVersaZione In Paradisum was commissioned by Gerald Neufeld Many years ago, during a visit to France, I went to for the Guelph Chamber Choir concert on April 11, and the Abbey of St. Denis, north of Paris, to see the tombs will be my second work with that title. of the French Kings. As I stood amidst the fabulous My fi rst was in the Requiem Mass by Gabriel Fauré, white marble monuments, the great centre doors of the commissioned by Elmer Eisler for the Festival Singers church opened on a scene of unforgettable poignancy. of Canada in 1977. I created that work in memory of my A family dressed with all the dignity evident poverty father. would allow, stumbling wild-eyed with grief, under the Our most famous In Paradisum is the masterwork precious weight of a wooden coffi n, entered the pan- by James Kudelka choreographed in 1983 for Les theon of French royalty from a violent, wind-blown, rain- Grands Ballets Canadiens with a magnifi cent score by lashed world. And on a wreath … ‘à Jean 18 ans’. This Michael Baker. vision is perhaps the seed of this work. Mozart died at My new In Paradisum, which retains the title of 35—of poverty, of neglect—and left his Requiem Mass the luminous score by the Estonian composer Ēriks unfi nished. Ešenvalds is set for 10 women. I have taken the vantage Sacra Conversazione was created for the Banff point of an initiate, danced by Suzette Sherman, arriving Festival in 1984. This reconstruction of the original 1984 in this vast fi eld of stars the music opens up to us. version of Sacra Conversazione was directed by Michael From the fi rst moment working with the Ešenvalds English and Danielle Baskerville. choral poem six months ago, everyone engaged in the On July 26, the evening of its fi rst performance, the creative process or witnessing it has been profoundly 21 brave young ballet dancers could not have guessed moved and even haunted by the radiance of the score. that they were launching a dance work that was des- As always, when entrusted with an awesome task, tined to travel around the world. These aspiring dance one can only aspire to not in any way detract from the artists were dancing in an idiom unfamiliar to them, but power and beauty that the music already off ers. they gave selﬂ essly of themselves to realize the chal- lenge of Mozart’s magnifi cent Requiem and to speak sacred Garden passionately with their muscles and their souls of Life Sacred Garden was fi rst performed at Solar Stage and Death, of Love and Compassion. ‘Sacra’ addresses in 1986. The music is the fi rst movement of the Pergolesi the confrontation of violence and asserts the power of Stabat Mater . community to overcome adversity. It is not a morbid At the cross station keeping, experience. It manifests the extreme energies rooted in Stood the mournful Mother weeping, anger, but in the end speaks of the triumph of Love and Close to Jesus to the last. it does so with joy. Dancers from the past have been coaching the miserere young dance artists, and teaching the very physically We close the fi rst half of our performance with the demanding movement sequences. They will join these Miserere—to the luminous choral work written for the young people in this evening’s performance. Sistine Chapel in 1556 by Gregorio Allegri. The danc- David Earle ers provide a feast of human sculpture in an extended physical symphony of compassion and trust.

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Please note that donations can now be made online safely and securely via CanadaHelps.org OurProgram People Guelph Chamber Choir The Guelph Chamber Choir was founded in 1980 to foster the develop- 2014–2015 ment and appreciation of choral music in Guelph and the surrounding area. Consisting of highly talented mostly amateur singers from a wide Sopranos range of occupations, the choir is proudly presenting its 35th season this Anna Dolsen year with four concerts. Its repertoire ranges from Renaissance masters to newly commissioned Laura Harp works, from classical styles to Broadway and vocal jazz, and from masterworks for choir and Jane Houlding orchestra to choral gems for unaccompanied voices. Beverly Krzmarcik In addition to its regular series of concerts, the GCC has performed in numerous festivals, Marg McKenzie-Leighton including the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Wales (3rd place winner in the Mixed Choir Patricia Ramos Ward Category), Toronto International Choral Festival, Guelph Spring Festival, Elora Festival, and Sally Stelter festivals in Salzburg, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Exciting collaborations include work- Tammy teWinkel ing with Dancetheatre David Earle, professional choirs, regional choirs, community choirs, Felicia Urbanski and orchestras such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Orchestra London. Some of Alison Vicary our most engaging concerts have been accompanied by period instrument specialists from Toronto and southern Ontario. Altos The GCC has performed in England, Wales, Ireland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Holland, Lynn Beath Germany, Sweden and Denmark, has been broadcast on CBC Radio, and has won prizes in the Janice Coles CBC National Competition for Amateur Choirs. Recordings include Noel, On Christmas Night; Carolynne Davy Songs of the New World; Good Cheare: Christmas Celebrations Old and New (with the Oliver Joanne Gonsalves Whitehead Jazz Ensemble), Christmas in the Royal City, and Remember . Megan Hodge Gerald Neufeld has been conductor of the Guelph Chamber Choir since its founding. He Nancy Jackson holds the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Iowa and is presently a pro- Naomi Matsui fessor in the Don Wright Faculty of Music, Western University, where he conducts choirs and Laurie McDonald teaches choral conducting. Previously, he taught in the music department of the University Anne McKenzie of Guelph and conducted the University of Guelph Choir with which he toured in Britain and Susanne Schmidt-McQuillan Europe on two occasions. Under his direction, the Guelph Chamber Choir, the University of Guelph Choir, the Faculty of Music Singers, and the Thames Scholars from Western University Tenors all have won prizes in the CBC National Competition for Amateur Choirs. Naoki Chiba Gerald Neufeld is a previous winner of the Leslie Bell competition for choral conduc- Chris Fischer tors. He has served on juries for the Canadian recording industry’s Juno Awards, the Leslie Lanny Fleming Bell Competition and the Guelph Spring Festival national vocal competition. He is active as a Ken Frey choral clinician, festival adjudicator, and lecturer on topics of special interest in the choral field. Brad Halls Harold Jackson Alison MacNeill is a graduate of the University of Guelph music program, and of the Lawrence Sugden Royal Conservatory of Toronto. Born in Guelph, she returned to the area to live and work fol- Peter Thompson lowing graduate work at the University of Western Ontario, where she had studied piano and theory with Ronald Turini and Richard Parks. Basses Alison is active as an accompanist and chamber musician, and has been, at various Ken Carey times through the years, pianist for the University of Guelph Choir, the Elora Festival Singers, Mark Haslett the Guelph Youth Singers, and the Rainbow Chorus of Waterloo-Wellington, as well as with Brian Janzen many other ensembles and soloists. Andrew McLaren She maintains a large teaching studio and is the Director of Music Ministry at Harcourt Neil McLaren Memorial United Church. She has been the accompanist for the Chamber Choir for much of Ken McRory its existence, performing and touring with the ensemble. Graham Nancekivell Board of Directors Matthias Schmidt President Brad Halls | Secretary Dorothy Fisher | Treasurer Bob Housser James A. Walke Members at Large Lew Abbott, Mei-fei Elrick, Jean Hilborn, Ann Murray, Sally Stelter Scott Worsfold Administration Patricia Eton-Neufeld | Marketing Ken McRory Concert Promotions Brenda Lewis

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