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2010 | 2011 Season 2010-2011 Season Sponsors WITNESS Friday,André March 4, 2011 Thomas at 8 pm Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis Concert Conversation at 7 pm with Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s John Birge and special guest Dr. André J. Thomas VocalEssence Chorus Sigrid Johnson, Philip Brunelle and André Thomas, conducting The St. Olaf Choir Anton Armstrong and André Thomas, conducting Combined High School Choruses André Thomas, conducting Central High School Concert Choir, Saint Paul Hastings High School Select Chorale, Hastings Washburn High School Miller Voices, Minneapolis Combined Choruses André Thomas, conducting Thanks for Special support of WITNESS VocalEssence Please Note 1900 Nicollet Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 • This performance is being recorded — please help us keep the concert hall quiet. Take a 612-547-1451 www.vocalessence.org moment now to check that cell phones, paging devices and wristwatch alarms are turned off VocalEssence is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. before the concert begins. Thank you for your cooperation! Board of Directors David L. Mona, President • Recording devices and cameras are prohibited. No photography, video, or audio recording Kent E. Eklund, Ph.D., Vice President is allowed in the concert hall. Please refrain from tweeting, texting or checking email during Mike McCarthy, Treasurer the concert. Susan J. Crockett, Ph.D., Secretary Warren Beck Bruce W. Becker • Student and group discounts are available for most VocalEssence concerts. Half-price Jo Michelle Beld, Singer Liaison Philip Brunelle tickets are available to students (ages 6-18 and college) with a student ID. Groups of Uri Camarena 10 or more save 15% on tickets. Children under age 6 are not allowed at VocalEssence Kari E. Davis performances, except for select community and family concerts, including ¡Cantaré! and Steve Fox John Geelan Star of Wonder. Karen A. Humphrey Nicolai A. Lewis Jan McDaniel • Accessible seating is available at all of our concert venues. However, some of our facilities Kristen Hoeschler O’Brien do not have elevator access to the balcony level. Please make your needs known when you Paul Pribbenow, Ph.D. order tickets. Mary Ann Pulk Kathryn Roberts Don Shelby • You may return VocalEssence single concert tickets for resale up to 48 hours prior to Debra Sit Peter Spink a performance. No refunds or exchanges can be given; however, you will be sent a receipt for your tax-deductible contribution. (VocalEssence subscribers may call 612-371-5642 to request free ticket exchanges and lost ticket replacement.) Honorary Directors Dominick Argento James Earl Jones Dave Brubeck Garrison Keillor • Latecomers will be seated at appropriate pauses in the concert according to the William Bolcom Donald Mitchell conductor’s wishes. Please plan plenty of time for locating the concert venue and parking. Aaron Copland* Helmuth Rilling Håkan Hagegård John Rutter Or better yet, allow an extra hour and join us for Concert Conversations with the composers Louise Heffelfinger Peter Schickele and artists, held one hour before most concerts. Eskil Hemberg* Eric Whitacre Betty Hulings* *In remembrance • Programs and artists are subject to change without notice. Artistic Staff Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director and Founder Sigrid Johnson, Associate Conductor Charles Kemper, Accompanist Administrative Staff This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an Mary Ann Pulk, Managing Director appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund Judy Blaseg, Development Consultant with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, a grant from the Wells Fargo Malia Cole, Director of Marketing and Public Relations Foundation Minnesota, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Katryn Conlin, Communications Manager Laura Holst, Development and Marketing Associate Delta Air Lines, Inc. is the preferred airline of VocalEssence. Beth Korleski, Operations Intern Katelyn Larson, WITNESS Intern Kimberly Meisten, Director of Community Engagement Leadership support for the Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation. Nick Peter, Director of Operations Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Patricia Starks-Faggétt, Accounting Manager Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Katrina Vander Kooi, Associate Director of Development Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Elissa Weller, Education and Volunteer Manager Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd. page 2 2010 | 2011 Season Program Order Introduction VocalEssence Chorus Spirituals constitute one of the largest Sigrid Johnson, Philip Brunelle and André Thomas, bodies of American song that have conducting survived to our time and are probably African Noel Deep River the best-known. It is, therefore, Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells appropriate that this year’s WITNESS I Open My Mouth theme be devoted to the spiritual and its Go Where I Send Thee legacy and uplifting quality that touches us all. When African people were forced The St. Olaf Choir to come to America as slaves in the Anton Armstrong and André Thomas, conducting 1600s, their former lifestyles faced upheaval. It was their musical Andrew Bourgoin, piano traditions, though greatly altered, that provided a semblance of Devin Orchard, Maggie Burke, Katie Burke, consistency in the midst of their new conditions. The result was: Karen Hopper, percussion the spiritual. Here’s a Pretty Little Baby Hold Fast to Dreams In West Africa music was a significant part of everyday life and Rockin’ Jerusalem The Kingdom the rhythm of work and community celebration created a shared My Good Lord’s Done Been Here music-making. In America spirituals came to express religious themes — both sorrow and joy, but always with a feeling of hope. By the time of Abraham Lincoln thousands of spirituals Intermission existed, passed down by oral tradition and therefore quick to adapt to the changing needs and dynamics of their creators. Combined High School Choruses Spirituals have experienced several notable surges of popularity André Thomas, conducting since the end of slavery in America. During the Harlem Keep Your Lamps! Renaissance, spirituals thrived in the concert hall with such Barbara Allen renowned musicians as Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes and Swing Down, Chariot Marian Anderson. They also inspired writers such as Langston Walk in My Shoes I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray Hughes, Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston. During the Great Depression spirituals reached a larger audience by means of the radio, and then the Civil Rights Movement Combined Choruses of the 1950s and 1960s added a new momentum to these André Thomas, conducting songs with spirituals and gospel songs being given new lyrics Beautiful City reflecting the ideals of the time. For example, the anthem “We I Dream a World Shall Overcome” came out of a gospel hymn, “I’ll Overcome I Hear America Singing Someday,” as well as the spiritual “No More Auction Block for Me,” which predates the Civil War. Whenever American choirs perform internationally there is always a request for spirituals, perhaps more than for any other kind of music. Spirituals possess the power to unite people across boundaries, expressing some of the most poignant of human emotions. It is in this spirit that we welcome Dr. André J. Thomas as our guest conductor, a man whose life’s work revolves around this music. And it is a joy to welcome all our visiting choirs as we share together in celebrating the beauty and power of the spiritual today. 2010 | 2011 Season page 3 Program Texts I Open My Mouth arr. André J. Thomas (1990) African Noel arr. André J. Thomas Done made my vow to the Lord. (1994) O, Lord, I’ll never turn back. Sing Noel, I shall go to see what the end is gonna be. Sing we all Noel. I open my mouth to the Lord, O come ye people, gather here to hear the news of And I won’t turn back. good cheer. I shall go to see what the end is gonna be. The King of kings, the Lamb of God is born today in Bethlehem. If you don’t believe that I’ve been redeemed, Just follow me down to Jordan’s stream, To see what the end is gonna be. Deep River arr. André J. Thomas (2002) Deep river, my home is over Jordan, Go Where I Send Thee arr. André J. Thomas Deep river, I want to cross over into campground. (1989) Children, go where I send thee. Oh, don’t you want to go to that gospel feast, How shall I send thee? That promised land where all is peace? I’m gonna send thee one by one. One for the little bitty baby. Two was for Paul and Silas. Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells arr. André J. Thomas Three was the Hebrew children. (2001) He was born in Bethlehem. Peter, go ring-a dem bells, Heard from heaven today! Four was the four that came knockin’ at the door. Oh sinner, why don’t you answer? Wonder where Mary has gone, Somebody’s knockin’ at your door. Heard from heaven today! I shall send thee five-by-five. Five for the Gospel preachers. Wonder where Martha has gone, I shall send thee six-by-six. Heard from heaven today! Six was the six that couldn’t get fixed. Good news! Seven went up to Heaven. Heard from heaven today. Eight was the eight that stood at the gate. Nine was the nine that got left behind! Wonder where’s Moses? Ten by ten ’cause ten was the ten commandments. Way down in Egypt Land, Tell Old Pharoah How shall I send thee? To let my people go.
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