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The Dale Warland Singers 6

Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director 8

Dwight Bigler, Assistant Conductor 9

Frank Ferko, Composer-in-Residence 9

From the Board 10

Walden Pond: An American Choral Celebration 12

Program Notes 14

Singers' Biographies 22

Honor Roll 26

Event Patrons 28

Recordings 29

Acknowledgements 30

3 2002-03 concert season

Echoes of Christmas Saturday, December 7, 2002, 8:00 pm St. Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis pre-concert organ recital by Dr. Lynn Trapp, 7:30 pm Sunday, December 8, 2002, 4:00 pm Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata Saturday, December 14, 2002, 8:00 pm Central Presbyterian Church, St. Paul

Some 1.5 million listeners across the United States tune in to the Dale Warland Singers' annual Echoes of Christmas broadcast, but being there in person is something you will never forget! Welcome the season with songs that will warm and inspire you, including Alf Houkom's Rune of Hospitality, Dale Warland's Coventry Carol and Healey Willan's The Three Kings.

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5 the dale warland singers

Now celebrating its 30th Anniversary This summer the choir made its debut season of concerts, tours, radio broad- at the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). The casts, and critically acclaimed record- choir also performed at the American ings, the Dale Warland Singers is rec- Society of Harpists National ognized as one of the world's foremost Conference and the Sixth World a cappella choral ensembles. The 40- Symposium on Choral Music, both voice professional choir is based in held in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Dale Warland Singers also per- The Dale Warland Singers has earned forms in collaboration with other Twin a reputation for its commitment to Cities arts organizations including the commissioning and performing new Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the choral music. The ensemble has kept Minnesota Orchestra, and the James the choral genre fresh and alive by Sewell Ballet. The Singers have commissioning works from Dominick worked under the batons of the late Argento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Robert Shaw, Hugh Wolff, Edo de Larsen, Carol Barnett, George Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Bobby Shearing, Peter Schickele, Bernard McFerrin, David Zinman, and Roger Rands, Emma Lou Diemer, Alice Norrington. Parker, Frank Ferko, Brent Michael Davids, Mary Ellen Childs, Janika The Dale Warland Singers records on Vandervelde, Aaron Jay Kernis and the American Choral Catalog label. Augusta Read Thomas, among others. During the 1999-2000 season, the choir released a new recording featur- The Dale Warland Singers' Choral ing Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Ventures '" program solicits works Psalms and Benjamin Britten's Rejoice from emerging composers, and in the Lamb. Past recordings include through this program, over $100,000 in Blue Wheat, a collection of American commissions have been awarded to folk music which The Seattle Times over fifty talented musicians. described as "the loveliest choral disc to emerge in a long time ... sung by In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers what is probably America's best cho- became the first-ever recipient of the rus." Another of the Singers' lauded Margaret Hillis Achievement Award releases is December Stillness, which for Choral Excellence. The organiza- BBC Music magazine gave its highest tion shares this honor only with rating for performance and sound, Chanticleer and the Vancouver calling it, "... splendid, melting stuff." Chamber Choir among professional The South Jersey's Courier-Post called choirs. The group's extraordinary the 1994 release of Cathedral Classics, efforts on behalf of composers and "an unmatched musical experience, " new music resulted in ASCAP Awards while The Oregonian stated simply, for Adventurous Programming in 1992, "peerless." Earlier recordings by the 1993, 1996, and 1999. Singers include, Fancie, A Rosein Winter, Christmas Echoes, Carols for In addition to a subscription season in Christmas, Choral Currents, as well as the Twin Cities, the Dale Warland 12 others. Singers tours throughout the United States and abroad. In 1990, the ensemble traveled to Stockholm and Helsinki to represent North America at the Second World Symposium on Choral Music. During the 1999-2000 concert season, the group concertized in the Southeastern United States. It has also appeared on Garrison Keillor's original A Prairie Home Companion and has been featured on Public Radio International's Saint Paul Sunday. The annual Echoes of Christmas and Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach listeners nationwide.

6 Soprano Alto

Beth Althof Abbie Betinis Wendi Buck Galina Erickson Marie Spar Dymit* Joanne Halvorsen * Victoria S. Feldman Melissa Holm-Johansen Jodi Hermanson Lynette Johnson Pamela Marentette Natalia Kojanova Melissa Morey Mary C. Maiden Muller Deborah Loon Osgood Anna George Meek Dawn Schuffenhauer Krista Palmquist Monica Stratton

Tenor Bass

Joel Beyer Duane E. Andersen Joel C. Fischer* Jeffrey Bipes Eric N. Hopkins Matthew Culloton * Justin Karch Dave Jacobson David Nordli Brian Kremer Hal Snyder Patrick McDonough Anthony Sofie Michael Meyer Gregory Tambornino Jack Nelson Kevin Michael Norberg Tim O'Brien Brian L. Steele

* section leader

7 dale warland, founder and music director P

The 2002-2003 season marks founder Dale Warland's thirtieth season as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his professional life to attaining the highest artistic level in choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to detail, he has built one of the finest choral ensembles in the United States. Under Warland's leadership, the Dale Warland Singers has thrilled choral music enthusiasts not just in its Twin Cities home, but throughout North America and Europe.

In August 2002, Dale Warland was recognized by Chorus America and the American Dale Warland Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) with a special award honor- founder and music director ing 30 years of pioneering vision, leadership and commitment to commissioning and performing new choral works at the highest level of artistry. In presenting the award, composer Stephen Paulus, the symphony and concert representative to the ASCAP Board, remarked that, "His insistence on perfection and that perfectly balanced sound of the Dale Warland Singers has inspired hundreds of composers and amazed audiences the world over."

Dale Warland recently received the Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal from Chorus America at its annual conference in Denver, CO. The award is given every other year "to an individual who through his or her work with a member ensemble of Chorus America has demonstrated innovative action and entrepreneurial zeal in developing a professional choral ensemble." He was also given the 2001 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conductor, and his continued contribution to the arts in Minnesota.

Warland's outstanding accomplishments in the field of choral music were recognized in June 1995, when he received the Michael Korn Founder's Award at the annual Chorus America Conference in Seattle. This award, the highest honor for a choral conductor in the United States, has previously been given to Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner, among others.

Dale Warland often receives invitations to guest conduct, lecture, compose and present choral workshops. He has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. At Kryzstof Penderecki's request, Warland has prepared The Passion According to St. Luke for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1990, he also prepared Penderecki's Polish Requiem. Warland has served on the faculty of the All-Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan, and has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Most recently, he has been featured as guest conductor at Grant Park Music Festival, with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Chamber Artists, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, and was a panel member at the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain. In the summer of 2002 Warland made his debut at the Ravinia Festival with the Singers, and in August he conducted the Dale Warland Singers in performance at the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music held in the Twin Cities.

Warland is an active composer and a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He has served as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts and has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

8 artistic staff

Dwight Bigler joined the Dale Warland Singers in August 2001 as Pianist, Apprentice Conductor, and Artistic Administrative Assistant. In his new position as Assistant Conductor, he contributes to a variety of artistic areas including repertoire selection, programming and choral preparation. He continues to serve as DWS pianist and assist the Composer-in-Residence with the implementation of the Choral Ventures." program.

Mr. Bigler received his Associate in Music degree from Ricks College in 1996. During his time there, he was the principle oboist in the Ricks College Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, a winner of the annual Concerto Competition in the piano Dwight Bigler area and was the Assistant to the Ricks College Men's Choir. assistant conductor He is also a graduate of Brigham Young University, holding a Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude) in piano performance and pedagogy and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting. He has studied with Ronald J. Staheli, Mack Wilberg, Paul Pollei and Shulamit Hoffmann.

While at Brigham Young University, Bigler conducted the BYU Women's Chonfs, the University Chorale, and he served as pianist for a variety of BYU ensembles and for numerous student recitals. Dwight is also an emerging composer with a number of commissioned works and arrangements to his credit.

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Frank Ferko is a well-established composer who has specialized in compositions for the voice, particularly for choral ensembles. His music has been performed by a variety of distinguished ensembles, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce, Magnum Chorum, and the American Repertory Singers. In 2000 his music was presented in live performances or on radio broadcasts in thirty countries around the world.

Winner of a variety of awards, including three fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the Padrone-Kantscheidt Award from Northwestern University and annual Frank Ferko ASCAP Awards for the past 13 years, Ferko's work has received high critical composer-in-residence acclaim in The American Record Guide, Fanfare, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, The Diapason, The American Organist and the British journal, Choir and Organ. In 1997, Ferko was the winner of the Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program.

Ferko holds degrees from Valparaiso University, Syracuse University and Northwestern University. In addition to composing, he has lectured and published articles on many aspects of 20th century music.

9 from the board

Dear friends,

Welcome to the opening concert of our 30th Anniversary Season. As we begin this historic milestone, I'd like to reflect for a moment on where we've been and where we look forward to going.

From the very beginning, Dale Wariand has sought to create a professional chorus of the highest artistic quality. With this commitment to quality in artistic performance, choice of repertoire, creation of new works and the commitment to recording the American choral masterpieces of the 20th and 21st century, Dale and his singers have continually "raised the bar" for the rest of the field. Our peers have honored us with numerous awards, invitations to perform in their communities and through their purchase of the music we have commissioned and the recordings we have produced.

In our thirty years of commissioning, 230 new works and arrangements have been added to the professional choral repertoire. This year alone, we will add 14 new compositions written by 13 composers, ranging from Dave Brubeck to Aaron Jay Kernis.

Organizationally, we have grown from a budget of $4,500 in 1972 to one that will top $1 million in fiscal year 2003. Dale Warland's commitment to paying professional fees for singers has resulted in DWS being one of only 30 fully professional choruses in the United States and the fourth largest professional choir at 40 members. The board and staff have grown as well, and today we benefit from a lively, engaged board of 17 voting members and a full-time staff of six.

In the next five years we will look forward to increasing our national audience through a growing touring program, additional radio broadcasts of our concerts on MPR affiliated public radio stations and the release of as many as 8 new recordings. Locally, we plan to offer multiple performances of our most popular single concert, Cathedral Classics, a Lenten tradition in the Basilica. Regionally, we will look for opportunities to run-out our regular subscription concerts to greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota. Our educational programs will grow as we seek meaningful opportunities to support the Twin Cities' high school and college choral programs. Our commitment to commissioning new works will continue with our annual presentation of new compositions from both American and International composers.

These are exciting times for the Dale Warland Singers. We are delighted that you have joined us as we celebrate 30 years of choral music making. Please come again, bring friends to a concert, buy CD's for yourself and others, and, if possible, make a financial contribution to support our work.

Thank you for being with us tonight. We look forward to seeing you often in the coming months.

Warmest regards,

Robin Keyworth, Board President

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11 Walden Pond: An American Choral Music Celebration

Saturday, October 26, 2002, 8:00 pm Westwood Lutheran Church, St. Louis Park Sunday, October 27,2002,4:00 pm First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights

I. AMERICAN MADRIGALS

The Uncertainty of the Poet Cary John Franklin from With a Poet's Eye

Go, Lovely Rose Halsey Stevens

Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure Libby Larsen from Songs of Youth and Pleasure

Lark Aaron Copland

II.

Walden Pond: Nocturnes and Barcaroles Dominick Argento 1. The Pond 2. Angling 3. Observing This concert is sponsored 4. Extolling by Gaviidae Common 5. Walden Revisited

Joseph Johnson, Katja Linfield, Pitnarry Shin, cello Kathy Kienzle, harp

Please note: No cameras or recording devices of any kind Commissioned by and dedicated to Dale Warland and the may be used during perform- Dale Warland Singers on the occasion of their 25th anniversary, 1997, ances. Please turn off any with additional funding provided by The Barlow Endowment for electronic beeping devices Music Composition at Brigham Young University (watches, pagers, etc.) or leave them with an usher prior to the performance. Please hold your applause until each section is INTERMISSION completed.

12 III.

Confitemini Domino (Give Praise to the Lord) .Alberto Grau

Written especially for the Dale Warland Singers and their August 2002 performance at the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in honor of their many contributions to the art of choral music

IV. NEW AMERICAN ROMANTICS

Two Motets William Hawley Mosella Te Vigilans Oculis

A Spring Morning from A Share in this Loveliness Zhang Ying Kathy Kienzle, harp Zhang Ying, hulusi

Sonnet No. LXIV (in memoriam 9/11/01) Dominick Argento

V. AMERICAN FOLK AND SPIRITUALS

She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain Emma Lou Diemer

Deep River Carol Barnett

The Road Home Stephen Paulus

Hard Times Come Again No More Stephen Foster (Mark Keller)

13 program notes by brian newhouse

Walden Pond: An American Choral Music Celebration

I. AMERICAN MADRIGALS

Cary John Franklin: The Uncertainty of the Poet from With a Poet's Eye

Rule No.1 for A Program Note: The length of time needed to read the program note should never exceed the length of the music it's about-which is a trick given Cary John Franklin's 1987 The Uncertainty of the Poet. Come and gone in barely a minute, it shows the impish side of the composer who gained such notice recently with the successful premiere of his tragic opera on Charles Lindbergh, Loss of Eden. Franklin wears a variety of musical hats: in addition to composing, he's chorus master for the Opera Theatre in St. Louis, as well as director of the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis.

Halsey Stevens: Go, Lovely Rose

"... and studied with Halsey Stevens" is a line shared by hundreds of composer bios. Halsey Stevens (1908-89) taught at the University of Southern California and influenced generations of musicians, including Dale Warland who received his doctorate at USC. Dale remembers Stevens as warm-hearted, brilliant, but never intimidating-qualities that can also be found in Stevens' 1943 setting of Elizabethan Edmund Waller's poem. It was composed for Stevens' wife, Harriet, while Halsey was Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa.

Go, Lovely Rose Halsey Stevens Go, lovely Rose- Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

Then die-that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

-Edmund Waller (1606-87)

14 Libby Larsen: Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure from Songs of Youth and Pleasure

Libby Larsen's appetite for setting the four Renaissance poems, Songs of Youth and Pleasure, was whetted by challenges inherent in the madrigal tradition-leaps from key to key and delicate word painting. The texts express youth's joy in living for the present, "the kind of exuberance that only youth combined with beauty and opportunity can exude," Larsen says. For those lucky enough to know the ebullient composer, her choice of text strikes one as perfect. This is the second of the four songs.

Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure

Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure Youthful lordlings of delight While occasion gives you seizure, Feed your fancies and your sight After death when youth is gone Joy and pleasure there is none. Here on earth nothing is stable Fortune's changes are well-known While as youth doth then enable Let your seed of joy be sown.

Aaron Copland: Lark

Aaron Copland composed Lark in 1938 while putting the finishing touch- es on Billy the Kid, the ballet that helped make Copland a musical house- hold name in Depression-era America. Long hours of orchestration can be drudgework, so Copland kept his creative juices flowing by setting this 1933 poem of Genevieve Taggard. Howard Pollack, Copland's biographer, says the imagery "of a bird arising 'from the great dark' to announce 'the great day-rise' alludes to Taggard's hope that America might achieve economic democracy and by this means lay a foundation for a great cul- ture." Copland's worldview corresponded exactly with Taggard's. The combination of her words and his music created a powerful hymn to hoped-for social justice.

II.

Dominick Argento: Walden Pond: Nocturnes and Barcaroles

After our Great Lakes, America's most well-known body of water is a little, half-mile long pond in eastern Massachusetts: Walden. Far out of proportion to the pond's actual size, its name is mythic. Henry David Thoreau's 1854 book, Walden, written after two years of living on its shores, was a pivot in our literature-and more than 150 years later it can still challenge American notions about work, leisure, individualism, and the environment.

An easy drive now from suburban Boston, Thoreau's beloved pond is Dominick Argento besieged some days by as many as 3,000 tourists. Developers angle to presenting Dale Warland exploit its commercial potential while environmentalists and historians with Walden Pond fight back. Walden, the book, is similarly popular, taught from high school to graduate school, and held up by philosophers, naturalists, and authors as a model of their discipline. For all that popularity and influence, though, Walden has never attracted vocal composers. Its lean, incredibly graceful style puts them off: how do you set a masterpiece to music?

15 Enter, Dominick Argento. Born 75 years ago this month, the longtime University of Minnesota professor revels in setting classics to music. His song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, and he has mined Chekov, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and other literary stars for subsequent vocal works. "Using fine literature is almost an encouragement to me," he says, "because it's clean and honed, unlike a lot of lyrics or poetry."

The opportunity to write for the DWS directed Argento toward Thoreau. "It was a chicken-and-egg situation. I was looking for a text to set, and I kept thinking of the clarity of the Warland Singers' sound. That led me to Thoreau because of his clarity. I admire the DWS above all other vocal groups and wanted a text that would flatter them. Thoreau was it."

Walden Pond was written over six months at Argento's Minneapolis home, completed in spring, 1996. Rare in its choice of text, Walden Pond is also unique for its accompaniment; can you name a single other piece written for three cellos and harp?

"The sound these instruments make is one that might haunt the Walden woods," Argento muses. "Iwas reading the passage where Thoreau sits in his boat in the middle of the pond, and he can see forty feet down, and it struck me that the clarity and depth of that water-those are also the qualities of the cello. The choice of the harp was obvious, it's commonly associated with water. The trick was to craft music that doesn't suggest the obvious."

He more than mastered the trick in this score of immense warmth. The first movement is cast in a gentle 6/8 rhythm suggesting smooth waves lapping the shore. Note the choir's very first entrance, the chord built of major 2nds (from C to D, and D to E). These close harmonies, a pleasing sound, are the work's signature. Like the rhythm, it suggests the movement of all-but-quiet water. The dynamics rarely rise above a reverent softness in description of this pond "so pure, so fair."

The key to the second movement (Angling) lies in the text, "Our intercourse was thus altogether one of unbroken harmony." Thoreau is describing nothing fancier than a fishing scene, but Argento's setting raises the scene nearly to one of worship. Waves play against the boat (in the frequent meter changes), but the silence around Thoreau is holy. Listen for the quote of Abide With Me in the tenors; in Angling's closing moments it creates a passage of striking simplicity, beauty, and conviction.

The pace quickens in the third movement (Observing). Thoreau sees "dimpling circles incessantly inscribed on [Walden's I surface" and Argento's melodies becomes agitated, angular, the rhythm even more varied. Argento asks the musicians for a joyous mood at the sight of Walden's "constant welling up ... the gentle pulsing of its life..."

The fourth movement (Extolling) contains Argento's own favorite passage: the bitonal (keys of C# and A-major set against each other) arpeg- gios in the harp that open the work and lead to the ecstatic choral fortis- simo, "Sky water." The text here contains a dash of Thoreau's New England Transcendentalism, and Argento matches this bracing theology with exuberant music.

After years away, Thoreau returns to the forests of Walden to find the "woodchoppers have laid them waste". He is horrified and saddened. Argento's music in Walden Revisited, is bitter, full of thorns-but just in the beginning. Thoreau eventually sees Walden's regenerative power, too, how it is "springing up as lustily as ever" where it had been cut

16 down. He is warmed by that sight and takes great hope. Likewise, Argento brings back the warmth of the very opening (remember those 2nds?) and the work ends on a hauntingly optimistic note as Thoreau asks, and the choir whispers, "Walden, is it you?"

1. The Pond

Nothing so fair, so pure lies on the surface of the earth. It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods.

It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature; it is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksil- ver will never wear off; a mirror which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected on its bosom still.

There are few traces of man's hand to be seen. The water laves the shore as it did a thousand years ago. This water is of such crystalline purity that the body of the bather appears of an alabaster whiteness, which, as the limbs are magnified and distorted, produces a monstrous effect.Imak- ing fit studies for Michael Angelo.

So pure, so fair.

Of II. Angling

In warm evenings I frequently sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the perch, which I seem to have charmed, hovering around me, and the moon traveling over the ribbed bottom, which was strewed with the wrecks of the forest.

Sometimes, I spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat anchored in forty feet of water and communicating by a long flaxen line with mysteri- ous nocturnal fishes, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the creaking note of some unknown bird close at hand.

There was one older man, an excellent fisher; once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy. Our intercourse was thus altogether one of unbroken harmony, far more pleasing to remember than if it had been carried on by speech. m. Observing

It is a soothing employment to sit on a stump, on a height overlooking the pond, and study the dimpling circles incessantly inscribed on its surface amid the reflected skies and trees.

It may be that in the distance a fish describes an arc of three or four feet in the air, and there is one bright flash where it emerges, and another where it strikes the water. Or here and there, a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface; it is wonderful with what elaborate- ness this simple fact is advertised-this piscine murder will out- reported in circling dimples, in lines of beauty, the constant welling up of its fountain, the gentle pulsing of its life, the heaving of its breast. Then the trembling circles seek the shore and all is smooth again.

17 One November afternoon, the pond was remarkably smooth, so that it was difficult to distinguish its surface. I was surprised to find myself surrounded by myriads of small, bronze-colored perch. In such transparent water, reflecting the clouds, I seemed to be floating through the air as in a balloon, and their swimming impressed me as a kind of flight or hovering, as if they were birds passing just beneath my level, their fins, like sails, set all around them. rv; Extolling

Sky water. Lake of light. Great crystal on the surface of the earth.

Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.

Who knows in how many unremembered nations' literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain? or what nymphs presided over it in the Golden Age?

Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain and covered with ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall. Even then it had clarified its waters and colored them of the hue they now wear and obtained a patent of Heaven to be the only Walden Pond in the world. v. Walden Revisited

Since I left those shores the wood-choppers have laid them waste, but I remember, I remember...

I remember when I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grapevines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass. I have spent many an hour floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, in a summer forenoon, lying on my back across the seats, dreaming awake.

And though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, it struck me again tonight-Why, here is Walden, the same wood- land lake that I discovered so many years ago; where a forest was cut down last winter another is springing up as lustily as ever; the same thought is welling up to its surface that was then; it is the same liquid joy and happiness to itself and its Maker. He rounded this water with his hand, deepened and clarified it in his thought. I see by its face that it is visited by the same reflection; and I can almost say,

Walden, is it you?

INTERMISSION

18 III.

Alberto Grau: Confitemini Domino (Give Praise to the Lord)

The Venezuelan choral master Alberto Grau composed Confitemini Domino for the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music, and it was premiered by the Dale Warland Singers at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis last August. In Grau's words, the most important elements used in this setting are:

· imitation of Gregorian chant · imitation of fanfares and trumpet sounds · pronunciation of consonants as if they were syllables · use of irregular meters · imitation of Salsa and Tango rhythms · dynamic contrasts achieved through soloists singing serene sections, and others full of enthusiasm · use of whispering accompanied by engaging rhythmic movement, a main element of the composer's style.

Confitemini Domino Give Praise to the Lord

Confitemini Domino in cithara; Give praise to the Lord upon the harp; in psalterio decem cordarum play upon the ten-stringed psallite illi. psaltery.

Cantate ei canticum novum; Sing to him a new song, bene psallite ei in vociferatione. sing skillfully with a strong voice.

IV. NEW AMERICAN ROMANTICS

William Hawley: Two Motets Mose1la Te Vigilans 0cu1is

New Yorker William Hawley's luxuriant ThlroMotets were written in 1984 for the Gregg Smith Singers. He writes: "The artistic impetus for this work was an abiding interest of mine in bringing the words of ancient authors to a modern sensibility by means of capturing the resonances of the original language and clothing them in new harmonies, thus allowing the universally human aspects of the poetry to speak anew to our own time." Himself a singer, Hawley's music is as gracious for the voice as it is for the ear. He's also a sensitive linguist, rare among composers in that he translates his own Latin texts.

Masella Mosella

Ouis color ille vadis, What color that shoal, seras cum propulit umbras with the late shadows banished by Hesperus et viridi perfudit Hesperus, and verdure filling monte Mosellam! the hills of the Moselle! tota natant crispis iuga motibus Everything floats, rippling together et tremti absens in motion, the distant pampinus et vitreis vindemia vine-leaf trembles, and the grape turget in undis. swells in the glittering water.

-Austonius (310-395 AD.), translated by William Hawley

19 Th Vigilans Oculis My Eyes Watch for You

Te vigilans oculis, My eyes watch for you, animo te nocte requiro, by night my soul desires you, victa iacent solo cum alone and overcome, mea membra toro. my limbs tossing in bed. Vidi ego me tecum falsa I have seen myself with you, sub imagine somni: in the imagination of sleep: somnia tu vinces, in dreams you appear- si mihi vera venis. if only you would truly come to me.

-Petronious Arbiter (207-66 A.D.), translated by William Hawley

Zhang Ying: A Spring Morning from A Share in this Loveliness

The composer writes: "Spring is my favorite time of the year-new beginnings, freshness, clarity. There are many Chinese poems about spring, more than for any other season. It was difficult to choose from such a variety, but A Spring Morning, from Tang Dynasty (689-740 A.D.) poet Meng Hao Ran, finally won my heart.

"The instrument I chose for this piece is the hulusi. It is a traditional instrument of the minority Dai people of Yunnan province. It is unique, combining a hollow gourd and three bamboo rods. The reed inside the instrument, along with the drone from the extra bamboo rod, produce its other-worldly sound. Some of the syllables sung by the choir have no specific meaning, and are used as 'la' or 'ah' would be in Western music. These are often sung by minority groups in southwest China, and are a part of the traditional folk songs of the region. My wish: In some way, in some place in your heart, may it always be spring for you."

A Spring Morning

I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, Everywhere round me the singing of birds- But now I remember the night, the storm, And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.

-Translated by Innes Herdan

Dominick Argento: Sonnet No. LXIV (in memoriam 9/11/01)

Dominick Argento was in Italy when terrorists attacked America in September, 2001. A Minnesota friend emailed a Shakespeare sonnet to him. "It seems as if it'd been written for the occasion," Argento says of the poem which struck him with its lines, "When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd ... /Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate/That time will come and take my love away." Argento says, "Shakespeare gets at the universal emotion of fearing to lose what you most love. With words this beautiful and crucial, my task as a composer was simply to make them as understandable as possible." The Moscow Conservatory Chamber Choir premiered Sonnet No. LXIV (In Memoriam 9/11/01) last August at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis during the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music.

20 Sonnet No. LXIV

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage: When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

-William Shakespeare

v. AMERICAN FOLK AND SPIRITUALS

Emma Lou Diemer: She'll Be Gamin' Round the Mountain Carol Barnett: Deep River Stephen Paulus: The Road Home Stephen Foster (Mark Keller): Hard Times Gome Again No More

Here's a quartet of old friends, both personal and musical, to round out the program. The first three were written for the DWS. The tune Emma Lou Diemer chose to set, She'll Be Gamin' Round the Mountain, is one most American school kids learn, but few know this was originally an African American spiritual. The original was titled When the Chariot Comes, but was adapted by railroad work gangs out West in the roaring 1890s.

Carol Barnett and Stephen Paulus are both former Composers-in- Residence with the DWS and still maintain close ties to the choir. Barnett's arrangement of the spiritual Deep River is a popular number on the landmark DWS Blue Wheat CD. Initially uncertain how best to start her arrangement, Barnett was inspired by the serene opening of the second movement in Brahms' Violin Concerto.

Stephen Paulus came across a melody last year called The Lone Wild Bird, an adaptation of the early-nineteenth century American song Prospect. He also found several texts based on this tune, none of them quite right for the slightly melancholy air of the melody, so he commissioned a new lyric from his longtime collaborator, poet Michael Dennis Browne. With the old tune married to new words, Paulus then advanced the whole with his innovative harmonies.

Mark Keller became a friend of the DWS in the late '80s with his production and arrangements on the coveted Rose in Winter CD. A former member of the male choir Chanticleer, Keller is a pro at handling voices, as you'll hear in his vigorous arrangement of Stephen Foster's classic Hard Times Come Again No More.

21 the singers

Soprano Beth Althof teaches music at Rice Lake Elementary and voice lessons at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes, and is accompanist for the children's choirs at St. Mark Lutheran Church. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a music education degree. Beth was a member of the Elysian Singers, a five- voice early music group based in La Crosse, WI, and the LaCrosse Chamber Chorale before joining the DWS. She lives in White Bear Lake with her husband, Jay, and their two daughters. This is Beth's eighth season with the Singers.

Duane Andersen, bass-baritone, made his solo debut in England in 1994 singing Beethoven's Mass in C at the International Church Music Festival, conducted by Sir David Willcocks. Previously active in Abendmusik-Lincoln, Duane performed the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah in 1998 and was a soloist in Horatio Parker's Hora Novissima, a release by Albany Records, in 1992. Duane participates in area church and musical productions, and in 1989 and 1994 received honorable mention in the Metropolitan Opera auditions. Duane holds a bachelors degree in Business/ Computer Science from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska and works as a senior programmer/analyst in Bloomington.

Abbie Betinis, an alto in her second year with the Singers, is a freelance music engraver and composer. A recent graduate of St. Olaf College, she has also studied composition with faculty at Juilliard and the Paris Conservatory. Abbie is currently working for composer Libby Larsen while pursuing a masters degree in music composition at the University of Minnesota. She is from Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Joel Beyer, tenor, is a fourth year member of the Singers. A native of Bottineau, North Dakota, he is a graduate of North Dakota State University with a B.S. in music education. He is a 14-year teaching veteran, currently teaching at Apple Valley High School. Joel is a past state president of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) for the state of North Dakota.

Jeffrey Bipes holds a Bachelor of Music in K-12 Vocal Education from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. He has directed 7 choirs at Dover-Eyota High School and three different ensembles for the Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota. He is currently working for Best Buy Inc. Jeff sang with the Concordia College Choir, the Rochester Choral Arts Ensemble, and the RCAE Vocal Jazz Sextet before mov- ing to the Twin Cities and joining the DWS.

Soprano Wendi Buck sang with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 1996 and is thrilled to be able to return for the ensemble's 30th anniversary season. Wendi holds a B.A. in music from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in occupational therapy from the College of St. Catherine. She has spent the last three years working as an occupational therapist and teacher at the International School of Islamabad, Pakistan, and now lives in St. Francis, MN with her husband and daughter.

Matthew Culloton is currently in his fourth season with the Singers. In addition to his singing duties, he serves as Bass Section Leader and Music Librarian. Since Fall of 2000, Matthew has been Director of Choral Activities at Hopkins High School. He is also ACDA of MN's Male Choirs Repertoire and Standards Chair. As a composer and arranger, Matthew has works published by Hinshaw Music and Mark Foster Music (Shawnee Press). He is a 1998 graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead MN.

Marie Spar Dymit has sung with the Dale Warland Singers since 1985, and became soprano section leader in 1991. Marie teaches vocal music at White Bear Lake High School's South Campus, where she is in charge of four performing ensembles. She holds music degrees from St. Olaf College and Arizona State University, and serves as the Women's Choir Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for ACDA of Minnesota. Marie is a frequently heard soloist with the Singers, and has sung on eleven DWS recordings.

A native of Moscow, Russia, GaUna Erickson is in her second season with the Dale Warland Singers. She holds a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from North Central University, has sung with the Minnesota Opera chorus and now serves as a section leader at the Cathedral of St. Paul. Currently she works as a Russian medical interpreter.

22 Victoria S. Feldman, soprano, earned her BA in vocal performance from Kennesaw State College. She studied with Cynthia Hoffman at the Juilliard School and at the University of Miami School of Music in Salzburg. She has performed at Tanglewood, Aspen, AIMS in Graz, Austria, the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy, Ohio Light Opera, Opera Carolina, Capitol City Opera, Peter Harrower Opera and Brevard. She was a member of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Robert Shaw Chamber Singers and was a winner in the national Metropolitan Opera council auditions. She teaches voice at the International School of Minnesota and owns Gymboree Play & Music. Vicki lives in Eden Prairie with her husband, Marty, and son, Harry.

Tenor Joel Fischer received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Iowa State University in 1998. He has been a soloist at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis and at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth. Joel, in his fifth season with the DWS, is also the Music Director at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in St. Louis Park.

Joanne Halvorsen, alto section leader, is in her twenty-fifth season with the Dale Warland Singers. As a member of the ensemble, she has toured to Europe, Canada and around the United States, singing in some of the finest concert halls in the world. Jo recently retired from teaching after 31 years at Fridley Middle School as choral instructor and Fridley High School as musical and artistic director for the drama program. She is currently Music Director at Faith United Methodist Church, conducting the Sanctuary Choir and her youth group, "Able Cain Raisers."

Soprano Jodi Hermanson is excited to be in her first season with the Dale Warland Singers. Since graduating from Doctor Martin Luther College with majors in Elementary Education and Music Education, Jodi has taught in the elementary classroom, taught elementary level music and directed both children's choirs and adult choirs. Jodi has had the privilege of singing under Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Music Festival and LeRoy Kromm in the San Jose Symphonic Choir. She is currently serving as a Professor of Music in the areas of voice and choir at Doctor Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN.

A graduate from St. Olaf College in 1998, alto Melissa Holm-Johansen is currently pursuing a MM in voice performance/vocal pedagogy at the University of Minnesota. She is frequently a featured soloist at the Norwegian American Memorial Church, Mindekirken, where this year she will be performing music by Edvard Grieg, W.A. Mozart and Henning Sommerro at the annual Leiv Eriksson festival in October. The past summer was spent in Tuscany, Italy traveling and performing music by Mozart and Gluck. This fall, Melissa can be heard in the University of Minnesota school of Music's production of Strauss' Ariadne of Naxos. Besides enjoying performing around the metro, she teaches private voice and gui- tar lessons and sings at Wesley United Methodist church in Minneapolis.

Eric Hopkins, a tenor from Oregon, IL, is beginning his fourth season with the Dale Warland Singers. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in vocal music from Luther College where he sang in the Nordic Choir under the direction of Weston Noble. He also sings with the Hosanna Choir of St. Steven's Lutheran Church in Bloomington.

David Jacobson is a free-lance baritone, having just begun his seventh season with the Dale Warland Singers. He has sung with many diverse ensembles, such as the Rod Smith Big Band, Voce Magna, and the Minneapolis Vocal Consort. Currently, David performs with the Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers during the hol- idays, and is the bass soloist/section leader for Wesley United Methodist Church.

Lynette Johnson, mezzo soprano, joined the Dale Warland Singers in 1987. She is a past member of Voce Magna, a small, local voice ensemble and has appeared as a guest soloist with the Valley Chamber Chorale and at several area churches. Lynette also sings with the worship ensemble and choir at Excelsior Covenant Church. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from North Park College in Chicago.

Tenor Justin Karch, in his third year with the Dale Warland Singers, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from North Dakota State University. He has been a soloist as well as president and secretary of the NDSU Concert Choir. He was also active in the NDSU Madrigal Singers and the Little Country Theater at NDSU.

Natalia Kojanova, alto, is in her first year with the Dale Warland Singers. A native of Russia, she is a graduate of Novosibirsk State Music College, Russia, with degrees in choral conducting and vocal performance. Natalia has sung with some

23 of the finest ensembles and choirs, including The Chamber Choir of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society, Shadyside Presbyterian Chancel Choir and Bach Cantata Choir, Pittsburgh, PA, the vocal ensemble "Markell's Voices," and a vocal quartet at All-Saints Russian Orthodox Church, Russia.

Baritone Brian Kremer is enjoying his fourth season with the singers. He holds a B.M. in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music and has produced recordings for the Rose Ensemble and Dare To Breathe. He currently serves as cantor and section leader at St. Louis King of France Catholic Church in St. Paul and section leader/soloist for the Gregorian Singers. Brian has also performed with the Theatrical MusicCompany and the Vermont Symphony Chorus.

Mary Maiden Miiller, alto, is a graduate of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both vocal and flute performance. Mary has sung with the Dale Warland Singers in previous years and more recently participated in a number of choral projects in the Twin Cities area as well as serving as soloist and section leader for various church choirs. Mary is currently employed by the Hazelden Foundation as Development Data Systems Manager.

Pamela Marentette, soprano, is thrilled to return to the DWS for a third season. She holds Bachelor of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Music Education from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Pam has taught vocal and classroom music in Minnesota and Illinois, and she is currently working for the Northwest Area Foundation in St. Paul.

Patrick McDonough, bass and a native of Rochester, Minnesota, completed his undergraduate work in Music Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Superior then subsequently undertook graduate studies in Choral Conducting at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Patrick has previously held the position of Director of Music for several Twin Cities churches and is a former member of the Rose Ensemble and the Minnesota Chorale. Currently, Patrick works for American Express Financial Advisors as a Business Systems Analyst.

Anna George Meek, alto, is a freelance violinist who plays professionally with the Minnesota Sinfonia and The Aurora String Quartet; she also serves as concertmas- ter for The Mississippi Valley Chamber Orchestra. She has studied voice and violin at Yale University and The Peabody Conservatory, and currently has her own studio of violin students. Also a writer, Meek teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Her book of poems, Acts of Contortion, won the 2002 Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. She was recently awarded a 2002 Minnesota State Arts Board grant for her poems.

Michael Meyer is in his third season as a bass with the Singers. Originally from Silver Bay, Minnesota, Michael attended St. Olaf College and graduated with a degree in Economics in May of 2000. While at St. Olaf, Michael sang in the St. Olaf Choir for three years and performed in two on-campus operas. Since graduation, he has worked in the marketing department of the Minnesota Orchestra. Michael also serves as the Singer Representative to the Board of Directors for the Dale Warland Singers.

Soprano Melissa Morey begins her second season with the Dale Warland Singers this year. Originally from Noth Dakota, she is a graduate of St. Olaf College with a B.M. in Vocal Education. While at St. Olaf, Melissa was an active singer and horn player, performing with the St. Olaf Choir, St. Olaf Orchestra, and St. Olaf Band. She continues to sing and play in the Twin Cities in several professional, semi-professional and community ensembles.

Jack Nelson is new to the Singers this year. He studied music at Bradley University and Northwestern University, and after receiving his Masters in vocal performance from Northwestern, studied voice with Margaret Harshaw at Indiana University. Throughout, he performed many of the great choral works with choral groups in Illinois as Baritone soloist. He participated as Baritone in the Bradley University Chorale when it took the Grand Prix at the 1976 Recontres des Internationales, in Tours, France, and again in 1981 when the Chorale placed third. He is currently an attorney in Saint Paul.

Kevin Michael Norberg, bass, is delighted to return for his second season with the Singers. Kevin received a Congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and attended Bethel College in Saint Paul. A professional actor, singer, and published composer, he has appeared nationally on stage and network television. Kevin is known to theater audiences as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and the Apostle Peter in the widely acclaimed North Heights Lutheran Church Passion Play, a role he originated and has played for fourteen seasons.

24 Kevin also serves the Twin Cities arts community as a professional filmmaker and digital video producer with his own production company-Studio By The Pond. He lives in Arden Hills with his wife, Rebecca, and their son, Kris.

Tenor David Nordli is a charter member of the Dale Warland Singers. David recently retired from 26 years as Vocal Music Director at Hopkins High School. He holds a B.A. degree from Luther College and a M.Mu.Ed. from the University of Minnesota. David has sung with the Festival Singers of Minneapolis, Concentus Musicus, and the Paul Kaye Singers. He is currently Principal Tenor Soloist with the Minnetonka Association of Music, Director of Music and Chancel Choir Director at Robbinsdale United Church of Christ, and he teaches voice at Wayzata High School.

Baritone Tim O'Brien is a musicology student at the University of Minnesota. A 1999 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Tim joined the Singers that same year.

Deborah Loon Osgood joined the Dale Warland Singers in 1984 and has been heard in DWS concerts and recordings regularly since then. A soprano, Deb is a graduate of St. Olaf College and holds a degree in Political Science. While at St. Olaf, Deb sang in the St. Olaf Choir, where she was a regular soloist and soprano section leader. In addition to her performances with the DWS, Deb has sung with Magnum Chorum and has served many area churches as a soloist and section leader. Deb is president of The Osgood Group, a consulting firm that helps clients meet their objectives through communications, leadership and management services. She specializes in providing interim executive director services for non-profit organizations.

Krista Palmquist holds a BA in voice performance from Bethel College in St. Paul, an MA in voice performance from Eastern Michigan University, and has nearly completed her DMA in voice performance from the University of Minnesota. She is a soprano soloist at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, and she teaches voice at North Central University and at Saint Joseph's School of Music. Krista is also an active art song recitalist, performing music from a wide range of countries and musical periods. Krista lives in St. Paul with her husband and three children. This is her second season with the Dale Warland Singers.

Soprano Dawn Schuffenhauer recently attended St. Olaf College and received a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Music Education. While at St. Olaf, Dawn was a member of the St. Olaf Choir. She is currently employed at Donaldson Company, Inc. This is Dawn's third season with the Singers.

Originally from Houston, TX, tenor Hal Snyder is in his fourth season with the Singers. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Texas Tech University where he studied voice under the direction of Karl Dent.

Anthony Sofie, tenor, is joining the Singers for his first season this year. He recently completed both a BM in Vocal Performance and BA in Theatre at the University of MN Duluth. He has extensive accompanying, music theatre and choral experience.

Brian Steele is in his ninth season with the Dale Warland Singers. His credits include voice-over and studio session work, a national radio personality, and vocalist with numerous groups including the Montana Chorale and the Grammy award-winning Oregon Bach Festival Choir. He is a soloist and section leader with the Westminster Presbyterian Church choir in Minneapolis and teaches private voice at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Brian is also a professional restoration remodeler.

Soprano Monica Stratton is beginning her sixth year with the singers. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the New England Conservatory of Music, from which she received a Master's degree in vocal performance. Monica sings at Guardian Angels Church in Oakdale and is a freelance violinist. She also works in Maplewood as a librarian for the Ramsey County Public Library System.

Gregory Tambornino, tenor, is in his fifth year with the Singers. He has been active in choral singing since he was a boy chorister. Greg sang for many years as a countertenor, most notably performing and recording with Concentus Musicus Renaissance Ensembles. He is currently tenor soloist and section leader at the Church of St. Patrick in Edina. Greg received a degree in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota School of Music, studying with Alexander Braginsky. Greg is an attorney in sole practice, where he has served a number of music, arts, and nonprofit organizations.

25 honor roll

The Dale Warland Singers gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of all its friends and supporters. The following gifts were made between July 1, 2001 and September 30, 2002. exultate ($25,000 +) encore ($1,000-2,499) Barbara Spradley and Neil Kittlesen Katherine B. Andersen Fund of Baker Foundation Naomi and Steven Staruch the Saint Paul Foundation Boss Foundation Joseph and Cynthia Tambornino The Bush Foundation Brookfield Properties Robert L. Veninga Mardag Foundation The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Tom and Marty Whelan with Marshall Field's Project Colombia University matching funds from Minnesota Imagine with support from Jim and Sherry Davis Monthly Publications the Target Foundation Mary Lee and Wallace Dayton The McKnight Foundation Gerald B. and Catherine L. Fischer Minnesota State Arts Board Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation applause ($250-499) Dr. and Mrs. Arden O. Anderson in honor Ruth and Paul Hauge The Hoeschler Fund of Tim and Gayle Ober's 21st laudate ($10,000-24,999) The HRKFoundation wedding anniversary Anonymous Pete and Margie Ankeny William Hueg and Hella Mears Hueg Max and Marilyn DeLong General Mills Foundation Dr. Sam and Thelma Hunter Marie Spar Dymit Minnesota Monthly Ruth and John Huss Keith and Genny Ellefson Publications David and Mary Beth Koehler Margaret Flanagan Mike and Kay McCarthy John and Karen Larsen Zabel and Charles A. Geer Family Fund Gayle and Tim Ober James and Jane Marentette of The Minneapolis Foundation The Sewell Family Foundation Medtronic Foundation Ruth and Dale Warland Peregrine Capital Management, Inc. Robert and Katherine Goodale Anders and Julie Himmelstrup Jack Weatherford and Fund of Minneapolis Foundation Nancy Erickson Hoffman Walker Pearce Sally and George Pillsbury Rahr Foundation Meredith and Richard Howell Steve and Anne Hunter Michael and Kathie Reeslund Margaret Rivers Fund Ron Jeffers / earthsongs ovation ($5,000 - 9,999) Louise King Thomas and Gwynn Rosen Aaron Copland Fund for Music Don and Joann Leavenworth Ginger Sisco and Larry Griffith Andersen Foundation George and Dusty Mairs Sit Investment Associates Foundation Deluxe Corporation Vern Sutton George Martin and Peg Hanson Foundation Marian Melton Pat Whitacre Donald M. Davies Thomas W. and Jane M. Miller with Paul and Arlene Williams Bruce and Ruth Dayton matching funds from the American Kenneth and Judy Dayton Express Foundation Carl and Charlotte Drake Robert and Kay Moline Ecolab Foundation fanfare ($500-999) Elizabeth B. Myers The Thomas Mairs and Steve Barnett / Barnett Music Peter B. and Karla Myers Marjorie Mairs Fund of The Productions Todd Nicholson Saint Paul Foundation William and Paula Bathke John L. Nuechterlein Roberta Mann and Don Dr. Elisabeth R. Bennett, M.D. Deb and Dick Osgood Benson Ronald Blackmore Terry and Mary Patton Frederick K. Martin David Briggs David and Judy Ranheim Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Robert and Geraldine Bullard Jackie and Peter Reis The Saint Paul Companies Steve Cornils and Leslie Ouiqley-Cornils Marshall Rutter and Terry Knowles Foundation Emerson Charitable Trust Don and Estelle Sell Dan Schmechel and Frank Ferko Brian and Jackie Steele Mimi Wright Helen Franczyk Glenn and Mary Steinke Fred and Gloria Sewell Dick Geyerman John J. and Mary M. Taylor Xcel Energy Foundation Gerard and Linda Grzyb Wayne and Lola May Thompson James and Kathleen Haglund Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Titcomb Joanne Halvorsen American Express Financial Advisors bravo ($2,500 - 4,999) Debra Harrer Dwight and Carolyn Townes Shirley L. Harris Charles Upcraft Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Elizabeth A. Jensen Paul and Carolyn Verret Andersen Foundation Patti and Ken Wales Arland and Sharon Brusven S. Jerome and Leticia Johnson in memory of Dr. LaVonne Bergstrom Bob and Bev Warland David and Jane Cooper Doug and Mary Jones Nancy P.Zwickey Dorsey and Whitney, LLP Glenn and Madelaine Karwoski Robin Keyworth Gary and Donelle Kleman Kortemeier Lawrence M. and Elizabeth Joe and Charlotte Palmiter with Ann O'Shaughnessy matching funds from the Emerson donors ($100-249) Charitable Income Trust Jay and Beth Althof Electric Charitable Trust Jim and Donna Peter Henry and Mary Andersen Professor and Mrs. Calvin J. Roetzel US Bancorp, on behalf or Piper Marie Anderson Boake and Marion Sells Jaffray, Inc. Sally and Peter Anson James Smart/Smart Associates Wenger Foundation Anton E. Armstrong. D.M.A.

26 Sreela Banerjee Donald and Diana Lee Lucker recording fund Carol Barnett Sarab Lutman and Rob Rudolph Pete and Margie Ankeny Peter Bay Patty and George Maas Bruce and Ruth Dayton Lynne and Bruce Beck Liberty State Bank Mary Lee and Wallace Dayton Duane and Connie Bell Robert G. Mairs Carl and Charlotte Drake Judson Bemis Fund of The Olaf and Jan Malmin Gerard and Linda Grzyb Minneapolis Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Mayo Joanne Halvorsen Carrie Benson Patricia A. McAuliffe Roberta Mann and Don Benson Fred and Cynthia Betz Dan and Christina Meyer Daniel McKeown Kimberly J. Bowman David and Kari Mink Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Elizabeth Braden Pamela Mink The Sewell Family Foundation Meredith Brandsma Judy and Peter Mitchelson Bob and Bev Warland Conley and Marney Brooks Jim and Carol Moller Jack and Bobby Brose Pamela Hill Nettleton Barb Brown David and Barbara Nicholson Barbara and Tim Brown Nancy Nolan Thomas and Barbara Burke Carole A. Olson Ronald and Harriet Burley Gordon and Betty Olson **The Dale Warland Singers Steve and Kathy Coleman Steven J. Olson thanks the more than 110 people Douglas and Lois Sands Gunta and Arijs Pakalns who gave gifts up to $100.00, Coleman Jr. Curt Peterson helping us to raise over Drew Collins Carol Pine $4,200.00. Johannes and Arlene Dable Jay Pluimer Peter Dahlen Curtis and Shirley Ramlet Julie Davis Thomas J. Rice Tom E. Davis Dr. Paul and Joyce Riedesel Charles Denny Bernis S. Rubright Humphrey and Elisabeth W Susan Runbolt In spite of the staff's extensive Doermann Carol Mae Sandstrom efforts to avoid errors and omis- Debbie Dornaus Robert L. Lee and Mary E. Schaffner sions in this year's honor roll of Leslie Merner Duke Paul A. Schmitt / Schmitt Music contributors, mistakes can occur. Teresa and Jerry Elsbernd Company If your name was omitted, listed E. Duane and Marlene Elaine Schuessler incorrectly or misspelled, please Engstrom Sue A. Shepard notify us of the error: Mrs. Dewey S. Ewald Mark and Mary Sigmond Dolly Fiterman Dick and Ella Slade Suzanne and Robert Flotten Nancy Slaughter 651.632.5870, phone John and Priscilla Folin Henry and Georgette Sosin 651.632.5873, fax In memory of Eugene Arturo L. Steely Whitacre-lover of music Frank Steen and Lisa Habeck Thank you! Riney and Joanie Goehl Fred Stoutland Polly Gordon Herman and Charlotte Straka Lauretta and Jere Graetz Julie Stroud Bill and Pat Gurnon Mr. and Mrs. Greg Tambornino Julie A. Handberg Emily Anne and Gedney Tuttle William and Helen Hartfiel Gene Vader David and Susan Hendrickson Jeffrey and Rica Van Peter Hendrickson Jeffrey and Brenda Vredenburg S. E. and Lynn Hodulik Diane Weinfurtner Warren and Marian Hoffman John T.Westrom Richard and Carol Holy Mr. and Mrs. F.T. Weyerhaeuser Arlo and Carolyn Hovick Ed and Carolyn White Ken and Julie Hoyme Ben Whitney and Mary Farnham Donna and Dave Jacobson Whitney Maria Jette J. Kimball and Helen W Whitney Thomas C. Johnson Paul and Carolynn Wiggin Margaret and Peter Johnson James and Ann Williams Michael C. Jordan and Brenda Jerry and Billie Wollan J. Powell Mike and Donna Wolsted Jim and Mary Ellen Jordan Beverlee Wood Miriam and Erwin Kelen Pete Zirbel and Cathy Reed William and Rebecca Klein Genell Knatterud Barry and Julia Knight Karen Koepp in-kind donations Rick and Jan Kvam Steve Barnett / Barnett Music Susan and Edward Laine Productions Libby Larsen Michael and Kathie Reeslund Jean and Larry LeJeune Nancy and Everett Rotenberry Diana J. Leland

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28 recordings

ENJOY THE UNPARALLELED SOUND OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS IN YOUR OWN HOME WITH THIS MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF CDs!

Bernstein and Britten - 1999

The Singers' latest recording features Bernstein's provocative Chichester Psalms and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, plus contemporary works by Rautavaara, Wertsch, Harlap, Albright, Hovland and Paulus.

Blue Wheat - 1996

A delightful collection of American folk songs with an expressive range from joyous whimsy to placid profundity

December Stillness - 1995

Lush, twentieth-century settings of Christmas/winter inspired texts ( Cathedral Classics - 1994 The ethereal sounds of Martin, Barber, Howells, and Allegri

Fancie - 1994

Music by Brahms, Britten, Vaughan Williams, plus light selections from the Warland Cabaret Singers and more (available only on cassette)

A Rose in Winter - 1989 (Re-released 1997)

An intriguing blend of time-honored Christmas/winter works and engaging modern offerings

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1 & 2 - 1992 (Re-released 2001)

These CDs contain a magical and refreshing collection of well- known and less-familiar Christmas carols.

Carols for Christmas - 1987

A unique collection of arrangements of traditional Christmas carols by Minnesota composer Stephen Paulus.

These recordings are available during intermission and after the concert in the lobby.

You may also contact the Dale Warland Singers offices at 651.632.5870 or complete and mail an online order form at: www.dalewarlandsingers.org

29 acknowledgements

board of directors administrative staff

Officers Gayle Ober, executive director Robin M. Keyworth, president Tina Mechel, development director Daniel J. Schmechel, vice president Ruth Anderson, office volunteer James W. Peter, treasurer Jackie Steele, concert volunteer coordinator David L. Cooper, secretary Michael E. Reeslund, of council*

Honorary Directors artistic staff Margie Ankeny* Arland D. Brusven* Dale Warland, founder and music director Mary Steinke* Debra Harrer, general manager Dwight Bigler, assistant conductor, pianist Directors Frank Ferko, composer-in-residence Susan S. Fauver Cameron Rowe, operations manager Ann Fleischauer Matthew Culloton, librarian Roy Henderson Joanne Halvorsen, wardrobe coordinator Glen J. Karwoski Brian Newhouse, program annotator M. Walker Pearce Jacqueline Reis Stanley Romanstein Thomas Rosen Nancy Reitz Rotenberry Gloria Sewell Ginger Sisco* James K. Smart" Vern Sutton Tom Whelan Pre-Concert Moderator, Tom Crann Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director* Gayle Ober, Executive Director* Michael Meyer, Singer Representative*

*denotes ex officio

mission statement

The mission of the Dale Warland Singers is to enrich, inspire and entertain its audiences through the superb, world-class performance of important a cappella choral music, while fostering awareness, understanding and appreciation of recent choral music repertoire.

Thank you for helping us accomplish this! If you have any questions or comments about tonight's program, please let us know:

Dale Warland Singers 2300 Myrtle Ave., Suite 120 St. Paul, MN 55114 651.632.5870, phone 651.632.5873, fax www.dalewarlandsingers.org

30 special thanks

American Choral Catalog, Inc. Augsburg College Jennifer Dellmuth, Dorsey and Whitney Jodi Inlow, College of Saint Catherine Loft/Gothic Recordings Julie Pauley, Pauley Design Partners Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Inc., Susan Barnes Update Management Co. Gala Friday Committee and Volunteers Concert Volunteers and Ushers Graphic Design, Inc. Minnesota Public Radio Helen Franczyk

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