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2018-11-28 -- University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra and Choirs

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Scroll to see Program PDF University Choir Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor; Wen Chin Liu, assistant conductor; Gustavo do Carmo, accompanist SCHOOL OF SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Molly Carroll Kalina Bland Addison Armstrong Andrew Bryant Andrea Childs Genevieve Blazauskas Aaron Bowie Colin Cline MUSIC Ellen Erickson Emily Cronquist Brandon Burkhardt Dominic Cravero Mayte Gomez-Cruz Ashlynn Dale Nicolas Currant Avery Dugger Abby Hill Lillian De La Cruz Keaton Denker Andrew Kreigh Xingyu Huo Hannah Grandstaff Kevin Edens Luke Lesnik Elspeth Kangas Wen Chin Liu Matthew Engelken Jarod Martens Aishwarya Kothapalli Annie Majure Scott Griffin Fred Ogilvie Greta Larget Olivia-Margaret Manaligod Collen Mahoney Colton Powers Mackenzie Maurice Haylee Marner Will Neason Michael Rendleman Megan McCrary Megan Melia Cal Reed Jeff Rickerl Emma Melick Emily Much Brendan Sieck Josh Ring Avery Nabholz Rebecca Sandhu Grant Truax Zach Ring Aurora Navarro Lily Stephens George Roberts-Oakland Kelley Pillar Maddy Swaim Ben Tinsman Kristin Ramseyer Becca Swanson Callie Skillman Katie Welander Shelby Tipling Ella Wicks Haley Wolf Benjamin Wolfe

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DECEMBER 2018

02 3:00 p.m. UICO and AUSO Concert Hall 02 7:30 p.m. CNM Ensemble Concert II Concert Hall Tim Gill, principal cellist (London Sinfonietta)

03 7:30 p.m. University Band & Concert Band Concert Hall ENSEMBLE CONCERT 03 7:30 p.m. LOUi Concert I Stark Opera Studio University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra & Choirs 04 7:30 p.m. Jazz Repertory Ensemble Concert Hall Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor & director of choral activities Dr. William LaRue Jones, 06 4:00 p.m. Opera Workshop Scenes Stark Opera Studio director of orchestral studies

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. Hancher Auditorium *Tickets available through the Hancher Box Office at (800) HANCHER orhancher.uiowa.edu/tickets War and Peace Kantorei University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra & Choirs Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor; Kristin Ramseyer, assistant conductor; Benjamin Owen, accompanist Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor & director of choral activities Dr. William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Ericka Barloon Emma Gostonczik Will Adams Conor Broaders Anika Kildegaard Kelly Hill Juan Carlos Mendoza Erik Doucette Calli Lowry Wen Chin Liu Mason Montuoro Joshua Edmond PROGRAM Roshni Nair Ella Schmitz Ben Owen Brandon Garcia Kristin Ramseyer Emily Wheeler Colin Wilson Grant Lyons Tiani Swallow Tristan Miedema Missa in Tempore Belli (Mass in the Time of War) Joseph HAYDN Jack Simpson (1732–1809) Gloria Credo Women’s Chorale Grant Lyons, conductor; Benjamin Owen, accompanist Benedictus SOPRANO I SOPRANO II ALTO Lydia Kasap Kristin Ramseyer, soprano Sarah Burns Claire Deschamp Bella Alvarado Charlotte Lotenschtein Kalina Bland Emma Meyer Kelly Hill, mezzo soprano Karen Fox Molly Erickson Lauren Fuller Melinda Knowling Courtney Cordle Izzy Nanke Juan Carlos Mendoza, tenor Rachel Duhn Elizabeth Ouverson bass Danielle Geneser Amy Liu Conor Broaders, Jill Klinkefus Anna Patton Emily Graham Julia Prime Allie Payne Shannon Paudler Allison Green Lauren Whitesitt Kira Reed Shelby Hornaday ——— INTERMISSION ——— Kate Struble Elaina Irving

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace 1. The Armed Man (b. 1944) 2. Adhaan: Call to Prayer Camerata Singers Elfatih Abdallah, muezzin Dr. David Puderbaugh, conductor; Erik Doucette, assistant conductor; Gustavo do Carmo, accompanist 3. Kyrie Ericka Barloon, soprano SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS 4. Save Me from Bloody Men Emily Banes Madelynn Burn Brayden Bell Christopher Arp 5. Sanctus Julia Flaherty Makenna Carroll Christian Cripe Chase Castle 6. Hymn Before Action Mackenzie Fuller Molly Conway Randy Davenport Alex Dobrila 7. Charge! Chelsea Higgins Yariana Diaz Clayton Dryden Desmond Drischell 8. Angry Flames Faith Johnston Olivia Hansen Collin Kepner Jake Glaza Benjamin Wolfe, countertenor Darcy Mergens Gwen Hoffman Hudson Lourenco Arinze Ifeakandu 9. Torches Hailey Nelson Ann Holmes Quinn Miller Zachary Johnson Jaelyn Potvin Carolina Icardi David Petersen Scott Magnuson 10. Agnus Dei Katie Reha Soojeong Kim Michael Ryan Luke Most 11. Now the Guns Have Stopped Monica Rowland Courtney Mayes Jeff Shymanski Christopher Nichols Kelly Hill, alto Meggie Schroeder Njeri Mungara Jade Soriano Ryan Niemeyer 12. Benedictus Emily Swanson Olga Novoselova Tyler Van Alexander Ohlson 13. Better is Peace Krista Wahlstrom Miriam Ochs Puttipong Pongtanapaisan Ericka Barloon, soprano Darcy Waller Kyle Rector Richard Roller Benjamin Wolfe, countertenor Anna Wells Breana Rinker Cory Rude Colin Wilson, tenor Emily Roth Charles Schott Conor Broaders, bass Sarah Roy Bailey Vormezeele Cassie Scheer Andrew Winkers Sydney Schreiber Marie von Behren In consideration of our performers and guests, please take a moment to turn off your cell phone. (Tsachor bio. cont.)

University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra TRANSLATIONS Dr. William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies Missa in Tempore Belli (Mass in the Time of War) by whom all things were made. VIOLIN 1 Viola cont. Kyrie Who for us and for our salvation 1-1, 2-1 1 Luciana Hontila* Zachary Vig Jenna Sehmann Wiatt Cariveau Lord have mercy, came down from heaven. Anton Hoherz 1-2, 2-2 Breanna Thornton Allyson Kegel Christ have mercy, Therese Slatter Alex Jiricek And was incarnate by the Holy Spirit ENGLISH HORN Lord have mercy. Ha-Eun Ryu Marissa Beaty Travis Newman of the Virgin Mary. And was made man. Fernanda Lastra Lexi Doremus 1 Joshua Palazzolo PERCUSSION Crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, Amy Anderson Gloria Peter Naughton He suffered, and was buried. Simón Zerpa 1-1 Glory to God in the highest, Samuel Stapleton Eva Richards* Megan Schnoebelen Michal Sue Brauhn and on earth peace to all those of good will. 1-2, 2-1 And on the third day he rose again, Joanna Held Hui-Hsuan (Ariel) Su Melanie Long Connor LaPage Bennet Huang Kim Cassisa 1-bass Jilly Cooke according to the Scriptures. Maia Thompson 2-2 We praise Thee. We bless Thee. Emily Merten Bobbi Malmgren Yoni Eisenstein We worship Thee. We glorify Thee. He ascended into heaven and VIOLIN 2 Alexander Wemmie he sits at the right hand of the Father. Caleb Fruhling We give thanks to Thee according to Thy Megan Maddaleno* 1-1, 2-2 He shall come again with glory Alexander Escalada Shawn Seguin great glory. Amalia Helmkamp 1-2, 2-2 Hunter Floyd Rob Hillman to judge the living and the dead; Mila Kaut 1 Jenkins Brooke Steele for Lord God, Heavenly King, and of his kingdom there will be no end. Nicole Allen 2 Haydn Lydia Meikle for God the Father almighty, And I believe in the Holy Spirit, Guillermo Najarro Alex Johnson 1 Joseph Ellis the Lord and Giver of life, Daniel Thompson *indicates principal Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son. Lou Barker Connor Haines HORN who proceeds from the Father and the Son Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Sydney Walther Nathan Golden Komsun who together with the Father and the Son Anna Bonder 1-1 BASS Dilokkunanant Thou who takest away the sins of the world, is adored and glorified, Arielle Soemadi Katey Halbert 1-2 Will Yager* have mercy upon us. who spoke to us through the Prophets. Madeline McCourt Ethan Owens 1-3, 2-2 Alex Ferkey 1-4, 2-1 Thou who takest away the sins of the world, And I believe in one, holy, catholic Maddie Johnson Michael Kegel ORCHESTRA STAFF Anna Leahy Garrett Hilliard receive our prayer. and Apostolic Church. Caitlyn Valencia Tyler Lubke Samuel Stapleton, Thou who sittest at the right hand of the I confess one baptism Cescily Vance 1-1 UI orchestra manager Brandon Jenkins Bryan Powell Father, have mercy upon us. for the remission of sins. Abigail Williams-Yee 1-2, 2-2 Kexin (Kathy) Zhou Jarrid Jaynes Fernanda Lastra, I await the resurrection of the dead, Jack Eichelberger Aunna Marzen 1-3, 2-1 head librarian For Thou alone art holy, VIOLA Lauren Kundel and the life of the world to come. Amen. Sung Ryung Han, Thou alone art the Lord. Tyler Hendrickson* Abigail Whitford 1-1 wind librarian Sanctus Donghee Han Bjorn Swanson Thou alone art the most high, Jesus Christ. 1-2 Simón Zerpa, Holy, Holy, Holy, Dana Mietus 1-1 Joel Knipe Daniela Volkovinsky 1-3 string librarian With the Holy Spirit Dominique Archambeau 1-2/picc. Karissa Fjeldheim Lord God of Hosts. Kaitlyn Voss Gregory Bardwell Megan Maddaleno, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Chris Lampkin 1-picc. attendance Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Margaret Allen 2-1 Marissa Flemming Credo Hosanna in the highest. I believe in one God, The Father Almighty, Benedictus maker of heaven and earth, Blessed is He who comes and of all things visible and invisible. in the name of the Lord. And I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Hosanna in the highest. the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. Agnus Dei God from God, Light from Light, Lamb of God, True God from true God. who takest away the sins of the world, Begotten, not made, have mercy upon us. of one substance with the Father (continued) Lamb of God, 5. Sanctus College, Kirkwood Community College, and currently teaches voice at Augustana College. who takest away the sins of the world, — text from the of the Catholic Mass KRISTIN RAMSEYER is a second-year Doctor of Musical Arts candidate and teaching assistant have mercy upon us. Holy, Holy, Holy, in choral at the University of Iowa, where she studies conducting with Dr. Timothy Lord God of Hosts. Stalter and choral literature with Dr. David Puderbaugh. From Fall 2015 to Spring 2017, she Lamb of God, Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. served as assistant instructional faculty in the School of Music at Illinois State University where who takest away the sins of the world, Hosanna in the highest. grant us peace. she taught voice, directed the Women’s Choir, and served on the staff of The School of Theatre Street Scene 1776 6. Hymn Before Action & Dance and The School of Music’s joint productions of and . In May 2015, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace — text by Rudyard Kipling from she completed dual Master of Music degrees in choral conducting and voice performance at 1. The Armed Man The Seven Seas anthology (1896) Illinois State University. After earning her Bachelor of Music Education from the University of — anonymous 15th c. French secular song/text The earth is full of anger, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2003), Kristin spent the first ten years of her career teaching choir at The armed man should be feared. The seas are dark with wrath, Jeffrey C. Still Middle School (Aurora, Ill.) and Round Lake Senior High School (Round Lake, Ill.). Everywhere it has been proclaimed The Nations in their harness Kristin is also an active soprano soloist. Her operatic and musical theatre performances include L’enfant et les sortilèges, Sweets by Kate, Carmen, That each man shall arm himself with a Go up against our path: Ravel’s the premiere of Griffin Candey’s Bizet’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beethoven in Vienna, coat of iron mail. Britten’s the premiere of Nicola Jane Buttigieg’s Children of Eden The armed man should be feared. Ere yet we loose the legions, and Schwartz’s . Kristin is the music director at The Congregational Church, Ere yet we draw the blade, United Church of Christ, in Iowa City. Jehova of the Thunders, 2. Adhaan: Call to Prayer TIMOTHY STALTER, conductor Lord God of Battles, aid! — text from the Koran Timothy Stalter is director of choral activities at The University of Iowa, where he conducts the premier God is the greatest. High lust and forward bearing, choral ensemble, Kantorei, The University of Iowa University Choir, teaches graduate advanced I acknowledge that there is no deity but God. proud heart, rebellious brow, conducting, and oversees the graduate program in choral conducting and pedagogy. Prior to coming to I acknowledge that Muhammad is the Dear ear and soul uncaring, The University of Iowa, Dr. Stalter was assistant director of choral activities at the University of Wisconsin- Messenger of God. We seek Thy mercy now! Madison, director of choral activities at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and assistant professor Hasten to the prayer. of music at Goshen College (Ind.). He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hasten to the salvation. The sinner that forswore Thee, in choral conducting under Robert Fountain, his master’s from the University of Illinois-Urbana in choral God is greatest. The fool that passed Thee by, music under Don Moses, and his undergraduate degree in voice performance from Goshen College. There is no deity but God. Our times are known before Thee, Lord grant us strength to die, COLIN WILSON, tenor, and Iowa City native is in his second year at the University of Iowa 3. Kyrie pursuing a Master of Arts in voice. Colin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the — from the Ordinary of the Catholic Mass Lord grant us strength to die, University of Northern Iowa in 2016. While pursuing his Bachelor’s degree, Colin placed first in Lord have mercy, Lord grant us strength to die! the Iowa NATS competition in 2011 and 2012. During his time at UNI, he sang in various choirs, Christ have mercy, and was an active tenor soloist. Colin performed several tenor solos in the cantatas of J. S. Bach Lord have mercy. 7. Charge! as well as other choral solos while at UNI. Colin’s most recent stage appearances have been in J. S. — text from John Dryden’s Ode for St. Celilia’s Bach’s cantata, Jesu der du meine Seele, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with choirs at the University of 4. Save Me from Bloody Men Day and a loose translation by Jonathan Swift Iowa, and Haydn’s Missa Cellensis with Chamber Singers of Iowa City. Colin is the tenor section — text from Psalm 56:1 & 59:2 from the Roman poet Horace — third line: leader in the choir at the Congregational United Church of Christ and will be performing the solos Be merciful unto me, O God: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” in J. S. Bach’s cantata Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme in December. Colin currently studies voice For man would swallow me up. The trumpet’s loud clangour excites us to arms, with Dr. John Muriello. He fighting daily oppresseth me. With shrill notes of anger, and mortal alarms. BENJAMIN WOLFE is an undergraduate countertenor studying at the University of Iowa with Dr. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: How blest is he who for his country dies. Rachel Joselson. This January, he will be making his Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre debut as Mrs. For they be many that fight against me. The double beat of the thundering drum, Peachum in Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera. His past roles at the university consist of Madame O thou most high. Cries Hark! The foes come; Flora in The Medium and a pirate in The Pirates of Penzance. In the spring of 2018, he competed Defend me from them that rise up against me. Charge, ‘tis too late to retreat! in the Iowa Center for the Arts’ Upper Level Competition, earning first place. As a musician, his Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, Charge, charge, charge, charge! interests cover a wide range from performing opera and art song to composing and performing And save me from bloody men. contemporary music. BIOGRAPHIES 8. Angry Flames 10. Agnus Dei — text by Toge Sankichi, Japanese poet who — text from the Ordinary of the Catholic Mass ELFATIH ABDALLAH is the muezzin for this performance. A muezzin is a person appointed at a survived the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 Lamb of God, mosque to call people to prayer at various times of the day. Mr. Abdallah was born in Sudan and Pushing up through smoke who takest away the sins of the world, learned to recite/sing the Adhaan (Call to Prayer) when he was in third grade. It was at this time From a world half darkened have mercy upon us. when he gained a great love and appreciation for this very old Islamic tradition. He later moved By overhanging cloud to Germany and then to the United States, where he has repaired, bought, and sold vehicles The shroud that mushroomed out Lamb of God, for many years, first in the Des Moines area and now in Coralville where he owns a dealership, And struck the dome of the sky, who takest away the sins of the world, Universal Auto. He lives in Iowa City with his wife and four children. Black, Red, Blue have mercy upon us. ERICKA BARLOON, soprano and sophomore at the University of Iowa, has been able to take Dance in the air Lamb of God, advantage of the many performing opportunities available to her. She was selected in Spring 2018 Merge who takest away the sins of the world, to understudy the role of Dorabella in last spring’s Martha Ellen Tye Opera Theater’s production Scatter glittering sparks, grant us peace. of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti and was also one of two singers selected to represent vocal scholarship Already tower recipients in a concert given in honor of donors to the School of Music Scholarship Fund. She is in Over the whole city 11. Now the Guns have Stopped her second year performing with Kantorei and is a vocal student of Professor Stephen Swanson. Quivering like seaweed, the mass of — text by Guy Wilson flames spurts forward. Silent, so silent now, CONOR BROADERS, bass-baritone, is a first-year Master’s student in vocal performance studying Popping up in the dense smoke, Now the guns have stopped. with Professor Stephen Swanson. He is originally from Chicago where he received his Bachelor Crawling out I have survived all, I who knew I would not. of Music degree in voice from Northwestern University studying with Karen Brunssen. He has Wreathed in fire; But now you are not here. been a part of choral groups for the majority of his life including the Chicago Children’s Choir, Countless human beings Northwestern University Chorale, Constellation Men’s Ensemble, and Chicago Chamber Choir. On all fours. I shall go home, alone; His solo experience includes Schubert’s Mass in G Major, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and In a heap of embers that erupt and subside, And must try to live life as before Herbert Howells’s Requiem. Hair rent, Rigid in death, And hide my grief. KELLY HILL, mezzo soprano, has returned home to Iowa after completing her M.M. and A.D. at There smoulders a curse. For you, my dearest friend, the Yale School of Music. While living in New England, she performed leading operatic roles with Who should be with me now, 9. Torches the Opera Theater of Connecticut, Hartford Opera Theater, and Madison Lyric Stage, and sang Not cold, too soon, as a soloist with The Hartford Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Waterbury — text adapted by Guy Wilson from the Hindu epic poem Mahàbhàrata And in your grave, Symphony Orchestra, and the Yale Philharmonia. She has apprenticed with the Santa Fe Opera, Alone. Central City Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera Theater, and spent a summer as a Fellow at the Aspen The animals scattered in all directions, Music Festival and School. Her concert repertoire includes performances of Beethoven’s Symphony screaming terrible screams. 12. Benedictus No. 9, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. Operatic credits Many were burning, others were burnt. — text from the Ordinary of the Catholic Mass include the title role in Carmen, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, All were shattered and scattered mindlessly, Blessed is He who comes Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and the Witch their eyes bulging. in the name of the Lord. in Hänsel und Gretel. Most recently, she made her hometown debut as Marcellina in Mozart’s Some hugged their sons, Hosanna in the highest. Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Quad Cities. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical others their fathers and mothers, Arts degree at the University of Iowa as a recipient of the Iowa Performance Fellowship, and is a 13. Better is Peace unable to let them go, student of Stephen Swanson. — texts by Malory/Anon/Tennyson/Rev. 21:4 and so they died. Better is peace than always war, JUAN CARLOS MENDOZA, tenor, is a native of Muscatine, Iowa. Stage roles include Freddy in And better is peace than evermore war. My Fair Lady, Tigranes in the North American premiere of Cavalli’s La Doriclea, Gloster Hemming Others leapt up in their thousands, - Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Artur, 1495 in The Mother of Us All, and Bill in A Hand of Bridge. Concert highlights include Tenor Evangelist faces disfigured and were consumed by the fire, in Pärt’s Passio, and Tenor Soloist in Messiah (Handel), Requiem (Mozart), Magnificat and Mass in The armed man should be feared. Everywhere bodies squirming on the ground, b minor (Bach), and Bolts of Melody (Ford). As a choral performer Mr. Mendoza has performed Everywhere it has been proclaimed wings, eyes and paws all burning. in Tannhäuser with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Harmoniemesse (Haydn), Carmina Burana (Orff) That each man shall arm himself with a coat The Kingdom and (Elgar) with the Grant Park Music Festival (GPMF). Mr. Mendoza received a They breathed their last as living torches. of iron mail. Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor of Music degree from The The armed man should be feared. Juilliard School, with additional studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School. In addition to - anonymous 15th c. French secular song/text performing, he has served on the voice faculties of Drake University, Knox College, Monmouth the timpani and create a sinister backdrop to the movement and its final plea for peace; The year is going; let him go Haydn’s friend and biographer Georg August Griesinger noted that “the words ‘Agnus Dei, qui Ring, ring, ring, ring Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring, ring, ring, ring! tollis peccata mundi’ are performed in singular fashion with timpani accompaniment, ‘as though Ring, ring, ring, ring one heard the enemy coming in the distance…’” Indeed, as Haydn was completing the Mass, Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring, ring, ring, ring. Napoleon’s army was approaching Vienna, and the pall of war hung heavily over the city. The Ring in the thousand years of peace. - texts by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poem 150 Mass in Time of War, however, does not totally succumb to the prevailing atmosphere of fear and Ring out the old, ring in the new, from In Memorium A.H.H. (1850) dread; it still captures much of Haydn’s optimistic, joyful style, and ranks among the great musical Ring happy bells, across the snow. achievements at the end of the Classical era. God shall wipe away all tears The year is going, let him go, And there shall be no more death, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace Ring out the false, ring in the true. Neither sorrow nor crying, Whereas Haydn’s “Agnus Dei” movement in Missa in Tempore Belli depicts the distant rumble The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace Ring out old shapes of foul disease. Neither shall there be any more pain. of war through the kettle drum and trumpet fanfare, in war Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Praise the Lord. marches directly onto the stage. In contrast to the economical, austere, and more predictable Ring out the thousand wars of old, - Revelation 21:4 Haydn Mass, Jenkins’ work is capricious and theatrical. The , Sir Karl Jenkins CBE, was Ring in the thousand years of peace. born in Wales in 1944 and was educated at Cardiff University (Wales) and the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied the oboe. One of his earliest important contributions is that he Ring, ring, ring, ring, established the oboe as a jazz instrument. To that end, he was a member of several progressive ring in the thousand years of peace. jazz/rock bands—Nucleus (who won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1970) and Soft Machine—performing on the baritone and soprano saxophones, keyboard, as well as the oboe. Ring in the valiant man and free, This background heavily influences his compositions and, therefore, his works have gained popular The larger heart, the kindlier hand. appeal. In addition to The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, Jenkins has composed numerous other Ring out the darkness of the land, choral/orchestral works including Requiem (2005), Stabat Mater (2008), Te Deum (2008), and The Ring in the Christ that is to be. Peacemakers (2012). The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace was commissioned by the Royal Armories Museum for performance in the millennial year and was dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo war/conflict. PROGRAM NOTES Guy Wilson, the then master of the Royal Armories Museum in the UK, selected and compiled the texts in consultation with Jenkins. Much like the Britten , movements of the Catholic Mass (Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei) are sung throughout the work with the most Missa in Tempore Belli (Mass in the Time of War) doctrinal (the Gloria and Credo) removed. In addition to these texts, others selected by Wilson In 1795, Franz Joseph Haydn returned to Eisenstadt from his second tour of England, by now were from a number of faith traditions and sources including the 15th-century text/tune “L’homme Europe’s most famous living composer. As kapellmeister once again for the Esterházy household, armé,” the Islamic Call to Prayer, The Mahàbhàrata from Hindu Sanskrit writings (c. 6th century), a a position he had previously held from 1766 to 1790, Haydn’s primary duty was to compose a poem from the Japanese poet Toge Sankichi who survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, the Mass each year to celebrate the nameday (September 8) of Prince Nicolaus II Esterházy’s wife, the Psalms, as well as texts by Rudyard Kipling, Jonathan Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Sir Thomas Mallory Princess Maria Hermenegild. As a result, Haydn’s compositional output shifted almost exclusively and Alfred Lord Tennyson. to the Mass, a genre he had not contributed to since 1782. Haydn’s last six Masses, composed between 1796 and 1802, are some of his finest works, displaying a symphonic concept that looked The work can be divided into five sections with first and last movements serving as bookends forward to the Romantic style of the nineteenth century. That symphonic bearing is, no doubt, a utilizing the “L’homme armé” text and tune. Following Mvt. I, which draws back the curtain on the direct outgrowth of the twelve “London” symphonies Haydn composed during his England tours. work to reveal an advancing ominous armed man ready for battle, Mvt. II calls us all through the Furthermore, no longer did the orchestra double the voices and merely accompany them as was Islamic Call to Prayer (Adhaan) to circumspection and contriteness, pleading with God for mercy the practice in Haydn’s early Masses; rather, the orchestra was now an equal partner, with parts and deliverance in the next four movements. Mvt. VI (“Hymn Before Action”) ushers in the third quite independent of the vocal lines. section—one of preparing for battle leading us into the chaos of war (Mvt. VII, “Charge!”). When the battle reaches fever pitch, the sound of war overwhelms the audience followed by silence and The Missa in Tempore Belli (Mass in Time of War), composed in 1796 and the second of the the playing of the Last Post in memory of all who have died in war. The Last Post begins the fourth six Masses, is appropriately named. Three French armies bore down on Vienna, seat of the section (Mvts. VIII – XII) which contains the most vivid, raw images of the horrors of war ending with Hapsburgs, in the latter half of the year, placing the capital on edge. Such was the atmosphere in the reflective and healing “Benedictus.” Finally, the text/tune “L’homme armé” returns, this time August 1796 that the government issued a call to arms, to remain in effect until “the enemy was in major, followed by hopeful and uplifting texts of peace. However, when the choir and orchestra back in its old boundaries.” The Mass bears the subtitle “Paukenmesse” (“Timpani Mass”) due reaches a zenith and abruptly stops, the choir gently offers the final line of text from the prophetic to the prominent timpani part in the Mass’ final movement, “Agnus Dei.” The martial rhythms of biblical text Revelation 21:4. (see texts)