June-August, 2021 Concert Season The Chords That Bridge Making the Music Our Community Deserves for 42 Years No charge for tickets – Donations welcome! GreenLakeFestival.org • 920-748-9398 The Chords That Bridge Making the Music Our Community Deserves for 42 Years This year we’ll be requiring all participating musicians be either vaccinated or regularly tested negative. Audience30 – 9:00 members p.m. will be required to pre-register onlineLawrence in advance Memorial and willing Chapel, to have their510 temperaturesE. College Avenue, taken as we Appleton check them into the performance. Masks covering mouth and nose will be required. We offer all concerts without charge; we rely on your donations. The Green Lake Festival of Music is committed to making performances accessible to everyone. We’re proud that since 2017 we have not charged admittance. Instead, we are grateful for all donations. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Suggested Donation: Please be as generous as you can. And if you can contribute more to ‘pay it forward’ for somebody else, that’d be wonderful. Free-will donations encouraged. You determine the value. Your generosity enables free concerts. Thank you! Due to limited seating, reservations are required. Reserve your tickets at GreenLakeFestival.org The Green Lake Festival of Music, Inc. is a tax-deductible 501c3 non-profit corporation whose mission is to entertain, inspire, and educate through musical performances and activities of the highest quality. Comments and questions about the Festival and its programs are always welcome. Please contact the Green Lake Festival of Music office at: PO Box 569, Green Lake, WI 54941 920-748-9398, [email protected] or GreenLakeFestival.org The Green Lake Festival of Music, Inc. is a member of Chamber Music America, the Green Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, the Ripon Area Chamber of Commerce, Arts Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Presenters Network. The Green Lake Festival of Music is supported in part by the Arts Midwest Touring Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional funding from the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Crane Group, and General Mills Foundations. Other funding comes from the Horicon Bank, Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, and private/corporate donations. Wisconsin Public Radio has provided promotional support. The Chords That Bridge Making the Music Our Community Deserves for 42 Years Table of Contents Doug Morris, In Memoriam ............................................................................................... 2 Welcome from the President ............................................................................................ 4 Greetings from the Festival Director ................................................................................ 5 Distinguished Friends of the Festival ............................................................................... 6 2020-2021 Business Sponsors .......................................................................................... 9 Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concerts ................................................................. 10 Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society ............................................................................. 12 Chaeyoung Park Piano Recital ........................................................................................ 14 The Songs of Morten Lauridsen ...................................................................................... 16 Hearts All Whole – The Music of Morten Lauridsen........................................................ 20 Calendar: Schedule of Events & Performance Locations .............................................. 24 Spektral Quartet in Concert ............................................................................................ 26 Circle of Sound Barn Concert ......................................................................................... 28 Chamber Music Faculty Concert ..................................................................................... 32 Cabaret Gala Remembering Douglas Morris .................................................................. 34 Third Lake Brass Quintet ................................................................................................. 38 Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble ........................................................................................... 40 Board of Directors, Staff, & Friends of the Festival ......................................................... 42 The Encore Society .......................................................................................................... 43 Donors ............................................................................................................................. 44 History of the Green Lake Festival of Music ................................................................... 48 No Charge For Tickets Donate what you can! There are two ways to donate: GreenLakeFestival.org/donate GreenLakeFestival.org • 920-748-9398 Douglas Morris — In Memoriam Tribute by Magda Krance, Associate Board Member The Green Lake Festival of Music is a thriving musical garden that perennially refreshes and replenishes our community. Doug Morris (1941-2020) was the metaphorical master gardener who dreamed it into being and sowed its hopeful seeds. With abundant faith, charm, persuasion, hard work, serendipity, and a steadfast circle of support, he brought the festival into joyful being in 1979. Lucky us. His earlier life and career comprised considerable triumphs over adversity, gallons of lemonade from life’s lemons. The sixth of seven children, Doug was born in Greenville, SC, then moved to Oak Ridge and Knoxville, TN. Money was tight; like his siblings, Doug learned the value of hard work early on. They also learned the magic of making music together, with their mother at the piano and their father singing in a beautiful baritone. For years Doug may have been the friendliest fellow in school because he couldn’t see who was approaching. Glasses transformed his life as a high-school junior; soon after, he got involved in church music and choral workshops, and learned how to conduct and teach music. He earned his B.A. in voice (UT-Knoxville), M.A. in voice and choral music (UA-Fayetteville), and his D.M.A. in voice performance and musicology (UW-Madison). A sought-after baritone soloist for Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’s German Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and other seminal works, he also performed over the years with the London Bach Choir, Blossom Festival Chorus, and Robert Shaw Singers. Along the way he married fellow musician Gailya Finley, with whom he had three children: Carla, Alison, and Rick. As a new music professor at Ripon College, Doug built enrollment by recruiting the best area students. Former opera singer Gail Dobish recalls that meeting him changed “the entire course of my life.” Doug found financial aid for her, “taught me how to be a better singer, and opened my eyes to some of the possibilities of a professional career. More importantly, Doug taught me about life and encouraged me to dream. All the tenacity, creativity, vision, commitment, and dreaming that I experienced with Doug were exactly the same qualities he brought to the Green Lake Festival of Music.” After exhilarating experiences with major festivals and workshops elsewhere, Doug decided that if he built a lively, accessible summer classical music festival in this area, we would come. And we did. He recruited the excellent Mirecourt Trio as resident artists when they became friends after concerts at Ripon College. Similarly, Sir David Willcocks 2 GreenLakeFestival.org said yes immediately when Doug, who’d Douglas Morris — In Memoriam spent a sabbatical with him in London, invited the eminent choral conductor to lead annual choral workshops and concerts. Several fine guest artists enriched the programming each season, as well. Doug also led five international tours with the Festival Chorus. New works were commissioned nearly every season, and audiences enjoyed performances of varied repertoire in several venues throughout our region. The festival blossomed and grew, and became an essential part of this community and our lives. “He delighted in the whole thing and was completely natural about what he was trying to achieve,” daughter Carla recalls. “He believed deeply in what the works expressed and what the composers intended. The point was to be transported by music making.” When Doug turned 50 in 1991, his second wife Sherry Fitzmorris (also a founding board member), commissioned Sir David to compose a piece for baritone and piano—cleverly composed in 50 measures to mark the occasion. The Festival also commissioned Sir David to write When Music Sounds for Doug’s retirement in 1998. “Many people have picked up Doug’s mantle to expand and sustain the Festival since its humble beginnings,” notes Gail Dobish. “They have done and continue to do incredible work. But Doug was the visionary who planted all the seeds that have enriched so many peoples’ lives.” Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 3 Greetings from the President Dear Green Lake Festival of Music family, I am delighted that you can join us for this year’s season, after the disappointment we all felt having to cancel every one of the in-person events at last year’s Festival. I certainly want to thank Maria Dietrich, Deb MacKenzie, and Sam Handley who worked so hard as a team to keep