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''ScHUBERTIADE''

A Celebration of the Music of Franz Schubert: A Piano Sonata A String Quartet Vocal

Jennifer Cable, soprano (faculty) Suzanne Stevens, mezzo-soprano (faculty) Jeffrey Riehl, tenor (faculty) Jim Smith, bass (faculty) Charles Staples, piano (community artist) The Shanghai Quartet (Quartet-in-Residence) Weigang Li, violin Yiwen Jiang, violin Honggang Li, viola James Wilson, cello

DECEMBER 1, 1997, 8:00 PM

PERKINSON RECITAL HALL ••• PROGRAM •••

SONATA IN A MAJOR, D. 664 Allegro moderato Andante Allegro

Charles Staples, piano

QUARTET IN E-FLAT MAJOR, D. 87 Allegro piu moderato Scherzo: Prestissimo Adagio Allegro

The Shanghai Quartet

GOTT IM UNGEWITTER, D. 985 DES TAGES WEIHE, D. 763 GEBET, D. 815 DER TANZ, D. 826

Jennifer Cable, soprano Suzanne Stevens, mezzo-soprano Jeffrey Riehl, tenor Jim Smith, baritone Charles Staples, piano Translations

Gott im Ungewitter Des Tages Weihe The Thunder of God Guide of Destiny

You frightful one, who can stand Guide of Destiny, look downward before your thunder? Who? upon a thankful heart. Vast is God, how could we oppose You have kindled joy within us him? anew; every care has flown He motions and we vanish, far away and sorrow is He rests in the dark night and forgotten. the people tremble: Through all gloom we can winged destruction wakes around his discern your infinite goodness, terrible throne. shining like a brilliant crown of Red hot lightening shoots from his stars. hand into the dark heights and Lovingly you have drunk from thunder trembles on the land the bitter cup which was for and in the burning sea. our sake given to you by The thunder's rage causes the Earth the Heavenly Father. to quake and convulse in its Therefore, wherever I may go depths. your gentle kindness shall The arm of God recognizes the be known. quivering of Nature Guide of Destiny, look downward where fires rage between the heavens upon a thankful heart. and the fields. Who defends me throughout my life? Who defends me when I am dust? Who defends me when he who lives in the heavens picks the world of its foliage, leaving all barren where once there was such abundance and beauty? We have a God who is full of kindness and also shines in his anger: He rules with gentle patience, as the friend of all mankind. Gebet DerTanz Prayer The Dance

Thou font all goodness, The youths often talk and dream Thou font of all power, present in the of dancing, racing and drinking. breath of flowers, in the roar of Once they attain their deceitful battle, goal, one hears their sighing ever preparing for me a sanctuary and moaning. and a feast, Soon their throat aches, and I ever follow gladly where you direct. soon their breasts ache, You look into this, my heart, know causing all heavenly pleasure to its joy and grief, keep its flame vanish. flickering until the awesome call Only this time, my health returns of death. to me as I beseech heaven with a Within me resides together a hopeful look. child's grace and theblernish of guilt as well. I am prepared to die in the battle of my noble forefathers, indeed at thecost of wife, of (translations by child, of home. Jennifer Cable, David Lingerfelt, Yours is the love I feel in my and Raymond Beegle) heart, yours also, the courage I feel swelling in my breast. If you would give me an easy path, Lord, so be it, peace shall govern me and I will remain in tranquility. Where there is no peace, you shall give us light to work in the storm of night. Thou, ever loving, ever steadfast, Thy will be done! Wherever you would have me go, Lord, I am ready. To life's joys, to its strife I will be your messenger in battle and deed, your messenger in the quiet of home, and I shall rest in Thee, as if I were even now in heaven. Jennifer Cable Suzanne Stevens

Jennifer Cable has performed Suzanne Stevens has sung to critical throughout the United States and acclaim in the southeast and around the Europe in solo repertoire ranging from country. She enjoys singing both the Renaissance through the 20th concert and repertoire, and is Century. In addition to opera and equally at home in both venues. A oratorio, Miss Cable has sung with graduate of Michigan State University, many chamber music ensembles, she earned the Master of Music degree including Tragicomedia, Musica Nova, in Vocal Performance and Literature the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, from the Eastman School of Music, the Rochester Oratorio Society, the where she also earned the Performer's Richmond Chamber Players, and Certificate. Her operatic credits include Currents. She is a founding member and a recent performance with Opera regular artist with Affetti Musicali, an Carolina, where she sang the role of early music ensemble well known to Dinah in Leonard Bernstein's one-act Richmond audiences, and has made solo opera Trouble in Tahiti. Regionally, she appearances with the Richmond has also sung with the AshLawn Symphony Orchestra. Miss Cable was Highland Summer Festival in a top award winner of the National Charlottesville, performing the role of Association of Composers USA Young Ma Moss in its acclaimed production Artists Competition. Following of Aaron Copland's The Tender Land; undergraduate studies at Oberlin and with Virginia Opera as part of their College, she earned the Master's and SPECtrum Artist program, introducing Doctoral degrees in Vocal Literature and opera to schools and communities Performance at the Eastman School of throughout the Commonwealth. She Music. She has attended the Aspen made her professional debut with Music Festival, the Akadernie fiir Alte Portland Opera (Oregon) in Offenbach's Music in Bremen, the International Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and also has Institute for Chamber Music in Munich, sung the roles of Hansel in the Aldeburgh Festival and Britten­ Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Pears School, and the Franz Schubert Dorabellain Mozart's Cosifan tutte and Institute in Vienna. A member of the Mother Marie in Poulenc's Dialogues music faculty at the University of of the Carmelites. Concert work Richmond, she has recorded for Word includes appearances with the Records and the Contemporary Record Rochester Oratorio Society, Rochester Society. Philharmonic Orchestra, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman School Choral Society, the Lebanon County Symphony and most recently, the Choral Society, and the Children's University of Richmond Orchestra and Miracle Network Annual Messiah Sing. Choirs. She teaches on the adjunct He is active as a guest conductor, faculty at University of Richmond, and clinician, and adjudicator and has is on faculty with the Virginia recorded as a member of the Commonwealth University Community Westminster Choir for Chesky Records School for Performing Arts. In May of and Delos. this year, she married the best stage manager she ever had, Robert Aaron. Riehl earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Westminster Choir College, and Lebanon Valley College. Jeffrey Riehl His principal conducting mentors have been Joseph Flummerfelt, Frauke Jeffrey Riehl, a native of Central Haasemann, Robert Shaw, Helmuth Pennsylvania, is a versatile musician Rilling, Donald Neuen, and William who has distinguished himself as choral Weinert; voice study has been with conductor, pedagogue, and solo singer. Thomas Houser, Carol Webber, Ruth Riehl is currently Assistant Professor of Drucker, Oren Brown, and Marvin Music and Director of Choral Activities Keenze. at the University of Richmond, and was formerly a voice instructor at Nazareth College of Rochester, Instructor of Jim Smith Conducting and Director of the Chapel Choir at Westminster Choir College, Jim Smith is best known in Richmond and a member of the voice faculty at as a musical theatre performer. You may Lebanon Valley College in have seen him as Archibald Craven in Pennsylvania. Riehl was Artistic The Secret Garden, Papa Charlie in Director of the highly-acclaimed Shenandoah, and El Gallo in The Lancaster Chamber Singers and Fantastics, among others. While Conductor of the Lebanon County pursuing a masters degree at the College Choral Society. Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, he sang leads in two American As a singer, Riehl has performed with premiers under the direction of opera the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, buffa legend, the late ltalo Tajo. As Affetti Musicali, the Eastman Assistant Conductor of Opera Memphis Collegium Musicum, the Dickinson and Associate Music Director of College Choir, the Lebanon Valley Southern Opera Theater he sang leads College Chorus, the Bucks County in La Boheme, Cosi fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, Manon, and Le Nozza di Figaro. He has also Concert Orchestra twice, with the performed with Cincinnati Opera, Congress of Strings under Milton Hartford Opera, and Whitewater Opera. Katims, and the North Carolina Smith was the first place winner in the Symphony. He won prizes in the Southeastern Division of the National M1NA Southern Division competition, Association of Singers Competition. He and the Bryan Young Artist competition, has performed throughout Germany, the as well as Competitions at the Middle East, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Conservatory. He also made several Cuba, and Panama. As a guest artist he appearances as soloist and accompanist has sung at the French Embassy and at on Cincinnati's public radio station, the National Cathedral, both in SGUC. Upon graduation magna cum Washington, D.C. Last spring, here at laude, he was given an assistantship to the University of Richmond, he joined study piano with Martin Canin at the his colleagues Jennifer Cable and State University of New York at Stony Jeffrey Riehl, along with Affetti Brook and received his Master's and Musicali, in Carissimi's Jeptha, and Doctoral Degrees there, winning prizes with Currents he sang Steven Stucky's in the Five Towns and Sunwood "Four Poems of A. R. Ammons" with Competitions. He also represented Fred Cohen conducting. Most recently Stony Brook on WQXR radio in a series he sang song settings by Aaron Copland on New York's top five music schools. with the Richmond Symphony. Smith After graduation, he was chosen to open teaches voice at the University of the 1984 Select Debut Series in New Richmond and at Virginia York City's historic Town Hall. Since Commonwealth University. coming to Richmond, he has played numerous recitals, and has appeared in chamber music and orchestral concerts. Charles Staples During the 1994-95 academic year, he held the position of Visiting Assistant Charles Staples is a native of Alabama Professor of Music at the University of and an honors graduate of the Alabama Richmond. School of Fine Arts. After winning the Van Cliburn full tuition scholarship to Charles Staples has held teaching and Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of church music positions in New York, Music, he entered college after his Texas and Virginia. He is currently junior year of high school on an early Director of Music Ministries at Trinity admission program, and began his United Methodist Church, and lives in studies with internationally acclaimed the West End of Richmond with his pianist David Bar-Illan. While in wife, Joan, and a family of three Cincinnati he played with the CCM Recent seasons have seen the Quartet children and four pets. He performed perform in Amsterdam, Boston, this season as soloist with the Richmond Chicago, Hamburg, London, Los Symphony in Liszt's Totentanz, and last Angeles, Milan, Montreal, Shanghai, season with the Richmond Toronto, and Washington, D.C. Its Philharmonic in Beethoven's Emperor annual appearances in Concerto. After his first recital in have included a sold-out three concert Richmond, Richmond News Leader series with pianist Ruth Laredo at the music critic Francis Church wrote that Metropolitan Museum and regular Charles Staples "is a pianist of appearances at 's Mostly prodigious talent, fire and thunder, Mozart and Great Performers series. blood and guts ... This was no The Quartet's other distinguished metronomic keybanging. It was piano collaborators have included cellist Yo­ playing that reached to the listeners' Yo !"1a, guitarist Eliot Fisk, the Tokyo emotional jugular veins!" Stnng Quartet, violinist Arnold Steinhardt, flutist Eugenia Zukerman pianist Gerhard Oppitz, and actres~ The Shanghai Quartet: Claire Bloom. The ensemble has also Weigang Li, violin made annual tours of Europe, giving Yiwen Jiang, violin concerts throughout Italy, Germany, Honggang Li, viola Netherlands and the United Kingdom. James Wilson, cello In 1996, the Quartet made its highly successful debut tour of Asia , The New York Times has written, "If encompassing Hong Kong, Taipei, there is a string quartet in circulation Osaka and Tokyo, and its South today that produces a more beautiful American debut in Buenos Aires. 1998 sound than the Shanghai Quartet, the will see its return to Asia as well as its name doesn't immediately come to debut tour of Australia and New mind," while the Times has Zealand. stated that "not all major Quartets play with the rock-steady accuracy of these The Shanghai Quartet has been featured people." Since its New York debut at on the radio programs "St. Paul Sunday" Town Hall in the Spring of 1987, the and "Performance Today," and the Shanghai Quartet has been hailed by the television shows "CBS Morning Show" press and public alike as one of the and "Entertainment Tonight." The leading quartets of its generation. Soon Quartet is in its fourth year of a contract to be in the fifteenth year of its career, with Delos International, and has the Quartet is rapidly establishing itself recorded ten compact discs, ranging in the forefront of the world's chamber from the critically acclaimed debut ensembles. It performs annually to recording of works by Mendelssohn and exceptional critical acclaim in major Grieg, to the chart- topping "Heigh-Ho music centers throughout the United Mozart." States and abroad.