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The Symphonic Chorus of the Upstate 2019 - 2020 59th CONCERT SEASON BINGHAM VICK, JR. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR THE MISSION OF THE GREENVILLE CHORALE is to promote and celebrate the art of choral music. THE VISION OF THE GREENVILLE CHORALE is to perform concerts of the great choral masterworks at the highest level of excellence; to support the creative and artistic lives of singers at all stages of their musical development; and, to reach into the community to bring the power of live performance to as many people as possible. We believe...that in a world of political, economic and personal disintegrations music is not a luxury but a necessity --not simply because it is “therapeutic,” nor because it is the “universal language,” but because it is the persistent focus of man’s intelligence, aspiration and goodwill. 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Visit your local dmv or our Web site to purchase a Driven by the Arts license plate! www.SouthCarolinaarts.com Bingham Vick, Jr Bingham Vick, Jr. is in his thirty- ninth season as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Greenville Chorale. Since 1981 he has expanded the repertoire of the Chorale and excited the Chorale’s ever-growing audience with highly acclaimed performances of great choral- orchestral literature. In 1997 he founded and continues to conduct the professional Herring Chamber Ensemble. Dr. Vick retired as Professor Emeritus from Furman University in May, 2010. He was Director of Furman Singers for forty years. A native of Charlotte, NC, he earned degrees from Stetson University and Northwestern University, where he was a student of Margaret Hillis and Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. He sang for several years in the Robert Shaw Festival Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw. Dr. Vick retired in 2003 as Musical Director at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greenville after twenty-eight years of service. At Furman, in addition to his choral work, Vick taught voice, conducting, choral literature, and vocal-choral methods. He is a Life Member of the American Choral Directors Association (a past president of the thirteen-state Southern Division ACDA), and an active member of the Music Educator’s National Conference, and the International Federation for Choral Music. Vick is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, Omicron Delta Kappa, and The Quaternion Society of Furman University. Over the past forty years, Dr.Vick developed an outstanding reputation as a conductor and teacher. During his career, he has conducted many of the great choral-orchestral masterworks, including J.S.Bach’s Mass in B-Minor, Handel’s Messiah, the Berlioz Requiem, Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Haydn’s The Creation, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, the great Requiem settings of Verdi, Mozart, Duruflé, Fauré, Rutter, and Howells, and significant works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He commissioned new choral music by Mark Kilstofte, Daniel Gawthrop, Robert Powell, and Dan Forrest. Under Vick’s direction, the Furman Singers performed at many Southern Division and National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, and for conventions of the Music Educators National Conference. Through annual tours in the East and Southeastern United States and nineteen concert tours to Europe, the Furman Singers performed in many of the great cathedrals of Europe, Russia, and the British Isles, and in the great churches of the United States. As an educator, Dr. Vick has trained many outstanding public school and church musicians, as well as collegiate conductors and teachers. He published a conducting textbook, Conducting – What Matters Most (2003). He has conducted all-county and all-state choirs in many southeastern states, and is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician. In 1984 Dr.Vick received the Furman University Meritorious Teacher Award. In 2000 he was presented the Order of the Palmetto by the Governor of South Carolina for his outstanding contributions and service to the arts in the state. Dr.Vick was honored by the South Carolina Arts Commission in 2004 with the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for his distinctive leadership and excellence in the arts. Dr.Vick was presented the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Stetson University, in the spring of 2005. In March, 2010, Dr. Vick was inducted into the exclusive Quaternion Club of Furman University as a faculty member who embodies the ideals of “leadership, scholarship, character and love for Furman.” The Greenville Chorale th 2019-2020 59 Concert Season Mozart and Bach Mozart - REQUIEM K.626 Bach - MAGNIFICAT IN D BWV 243 Kathryn Knauer, soprano Elizabeth Bishop, mezzo-soprano Grant Knox, tenor David Parker, bass-baritone Greenville Chorale Greenville Symphony Orchestra Bingham Vick, Jr., conducting 8:00 PM Saturday, October 19, 2019 Peace Center, Greenville, South Carolina REQUIEM, K.626 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) with some completions by Franz Süssmyer and revisions by Richard. Maunder I. Introit Requiem aeternam - Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. A hymn befits Thee, O God in Zion, and to Thee a vow shall be fulfilled in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer, for unto Thee all flesh shall come. Kyrie - Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. (the Requiem and Kyrie are the only movements completed by Mozart) II. Sequence Dies irae - Day of wrath, that day shall dissolve the world into embers, as David prophesied with the Sybil. Tuba mirum - The trumpet, spreading its wondrous sound through the tombs of every land, will summon all before the throne. Death will be stunned, likewise nature, when all creation shall rise again to answer the One judging. A written book will be brought forth, in which all shall be contained, and from which the world shall be judged. When therefore the Judge is seated, whatever lies hidden shall be revealed, no wrong shall remain unpunished. What then am I, a poor wretch, going to say? Which protector shall I ask for, when even the just are scarcely secure? Rex tremendae - King of terrifying majesty, who freely saves the redeemed: save me, fount of pity. Recordare - Remember, merciful Jesus, that I am the cause of your sojourn; do not cast me out on that day. Seeking me, you sat down weary; having suffered the Cross, you redeemed me. May such great labor not be in vain. Just Judge of vengeance, grant the gift of remission before the day of reckoning. I groan, like one who is guilty; my face blushes with guilt. Spare thy supplicant, O God. You who absolved Mary (Magdalene), and heeded the thief, have also given hope to me. My prayers are not worthy, but Thou, good one, kindly grant that I not burn in the everlasting fires. Grant me a favored place among thy sheep, and separate me from the goats, placing me at thy right hand. Confutatis - When the accursed are confounded, consigned to the fierce flames, call me to be with the blessed. I pray, suppliant and kneeling, my heart contrite as if it were ashes: protect me in my final hour. Lacrymosa (revised by R.Maunder) O how tearful that day, on which the guilty shall rise from the embers to be judged. Spare them then, O God. Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest. Amen. III. Offertory Domine Jesu Christe - Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, liberate the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of hell and from the deep pit; deliver them from the lion's mouth; let not hell swallow them up, let them not fall into darkness; but let Michael, the holy standard-bearer, bring them into the holy light, which once thou promised to Abraham and to his seed. Hostias - Sacrifices and prayers of praise, O Lord, we offer to thee. Receive them, Lord on behalf of those souls we commemorate this day. Grant them, O Lord, to pass from death into life, which once thou promised to Abraham and to his seed. IV. Sanctus (composed by F.X.Süssmayr) Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. V. Benedictus (composed by F.X.Süssmayr) Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. VI. Agnus Dei (composed by Süssmayr; revised by Richard Maunder) Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant them rest everlasting. VII. Communion - Lux aeterna (completed by Süssmayr/Maunder) May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord, in the company of thy saints forever and ever; for thou art merciful. Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. INTERMISSION Magnificat in D Major BWV 243 Johann Sebastian Bach Text: Mary’s song of praise (Luke 1: 46-55) (1685-1750) 1.Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum.