Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 CISMF at Avon Old Farms School Friday, April 11, 2008 Concert begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Susan Casey Brown Auditorium Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Welcome! Musicians, Teachers, Parents, and Friends, Welcome to Avon Old Farms School. It is an honor for us to host this year’s Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival. Connecticut sets a benchmark for excellence in the performing arts, and we are proud to join with you in carrying on this fine tradition. My sincere best wishes to all of the schools and participants today! Ken LaRocque Headmaster Avon Old Farms School Welcome to Avon Old Farms School. We are honored to host the CISMF in 2008 and we wish all of the participants well. The guest conductors and students have done a great deal of work in a short time to prepare for this event. On behalf of Avon Old Farms and all our participants, I also extend a heartfelt thank you to our festival chair, Susan Chrzanowski, her assistants, and, especially, all the music faculty who have worked to make this festival a success. Robert E. Palmer Chairman, Performing Arts Department Avon Old Farms School Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Avon Old Farms School a brief history Avon Old Farms School was founded by Theodate Pope Riddle, Connecticut’s first licensed female architect. Theodate’s imaginitive genius as an architect and her vision and determination to create a school for boys, combined with her personal wealth, made possible the founding of the school in 1927. The original stone and oak architecture is modeled after structures found in the English Cotswolds, and was built by craftsmen in the Cotswold and Tudor styles using traditional English methods with materials hewn from the school’s property. The school sits upon 1,000 acres of rolling woodland, with the Farmington River to the east and picturesque Beaver Pond laying just a short walk south of the core campus. The center of campus includes a beautiful vista overlooking the Farmington Valley. In the founding years, Avon tried to combine the best of English traditions with a daring and radical modern curriculum. This provided for difficulties in attracting students, though the school found many successes along with the challenges. The school was forced to close during World War II, when it became a convalescent hospital for blinded Army veterans, but it re-opened in 1948; however, with no money, no endowment, no students, and no faculty, the institution faced major obstacles. Through the leadership of headmasters of Don Pierport, George Trautman, and Ken LaRocque, in addition to that of countless board members, alumni, parents, and friends of the school, Avon Old Farms stands strong today. The school has grown from 48 boys at its opening in 1927 to a full capacity of 400 boys in grades 9-12 and postgraduates. The campus offers outstanding facilities, including a new student center and athletic field house as well as an NHL-quality arena. The Ordway Science and Technology Center was completed in 2002, and the new Beatson Performing Arts Center opened in March of 2007. As Peter Aron ’65, then Board Chairman, wrote in 2002 on the occasion of the school’s 75th anniversary, “We have filled and overflowed Mrs. Riddle’s original buildings, and have continued to build. By any measure, we are very different today — academically, athletically, socially — as a reflection of a very different society. Yet certainly Mrs. Riddle would recognize her school, and I like to think that she would recognize her boys. The young men of Avon are recognizable, not just by the winged beaver on their blazers, but by their direct and friendly gaze.” Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Participating Schools Avon Old Farms School Avon, CT Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, CT The Ethel Walker School Simsbury, CT Fairfield Country Day School Fairfield, CT The Gunnery Washington, CT Hamden Hall Country Day School Hamden, CT Kent School Kent, CT Kingswood-Oxford School West Hartford, CT The Loomis Chaffee School Windsor, CT Miss Porter’s School Farmington, CT Suffield Academy Suffield, CT The Taft School Watertown, CT Westminster School Simsbury, CT Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Concert Program Choir Program O Clap Your Hands Ralph Vaughan Williams Sing Me to Heaven Daniel Gawthrop I Hear a Voice A-Prayin’ Houston Bright Orchestra Program Overture to Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell I crisantemi Giacomo Puccini The Capriol Suite Peter Warlock Band Program Asuka [1994 revision] Tetsunosuke Kushida Fu-Mon Hiroshi Hoshina The Susan Casey Brown Auditorium concert shell is a gift of the Avon Old Farms School Parents Association. The Steinway grand piano on the auditorium stage is a gift of Kathryn A. Ordway and James C. Sadler, parents of an alumnus. Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Festival Choir Sopranos Tenors Laurie Barth Miss Porter’s Muneeb Alam Taft Cordelia Brady Suffield Academy Michael Buenaventura Avon Old Farms Shelby Brown Westminster Andy Chan Kent Mary Carlson Kent Dylan Crittenden Gunnery Lauren Chai Kent Anthony Cusano Avon Old Farms Paula Fernandez-Baca Miss Porter’s Kevin D’Quilla Loomis Chaffee Eleanor Foster Choate Rosemary Hall Martin Flynt Choate Rosemary Hall Mary Foster Choate Rosemary Hall Brian Giacalone Hamden Hall Elizabeth Hawley Gunnery Ryan Harger Kingswood-Oxford Taylor Gorham Taft Connor Hoff Kent Chelsea Kane Suffield Academy Soochun Kang Avon Old Farms Ashlyn Kersten Ethel Walker Cam Keady Westminster Jo Kirby Taft Drew Mayer Taft Jessica L’Heureux Gunnery Gavin McGovern Westminster Rachel Livitin Hamden Hall Daniel Moorin Loomis Chaffee Hannah Loeb Kingswood-Oxford Justin Murphy-Mancini Loomis Chaffee Sarah Marco Westminster Adam Stasiw Choate Rosemary Hall Eliza Mandzik Westminster Alvin Paulino Avon Old Farms Kellyann McManus Hamden Hall Tucker Pearson Fairfield Country Day Angelina Newfield Loomis Chaffee Samuel Ratcliff Fairfield Country Day Jeein Oh Ethel Walker Grey Spencer Avon Old Farms Caitlin O’Halloran Taft Michael Weeks Avon Old Farms Isamar Ramirez Ethel Walker Hyon Myoung Woo Choate Rosemary Hall Jennifer Roach Miss Porter’s Lauren Schrader Miss Porter’s Basses Sara Seferian Ethel Walker Nicholas Auer Fairfield Country Day Elizabeth Speyer Loomis Chaffee Victor Bogachev Gunnery Becki Steinberg Kingswood-Oxford Michael Bryant Loomis Chaffee Louise Trueheart Taft Christopher Cheng Taft Taylor Visoski Choate Rosemary Hall Matthew Clarida Fairfield Country Day Elizabeth Wesche Loomis Chaffee Charlie Fraker Taft Joel Glassman Suffield Academy Altos Jordan Grice Fairfield Country Day Sage Bachmann Gunnery Rob Hallberg Hamden Hall Andi Boulanger Suffield Academy Tully Hannan Avon Old Farms Elyse Brey Taft Matt Harding Loomis Chaffee Naomi Carlson Kent Peter Holst-Grubbe Avon Old Farms Faith Castiglione Kent Frank Huang Kent Natalie Chan Westminster Zachary Hutton Fairfield Country Day Hannah Frank Suffield Academy Chase Grogg Kent Elaine Frost Hamden Hall Greg Jack Gunnery Emily Goldman Kingswood-Oxford Ray Jessell Taft Abigail Googel Kingswood-Oxford Marshall Kock Avon Old Farms Elizabeth Hackett Loomis Chaffee Kenny Lim Suffield Academy Joyce Han Miss Porter’s Brendan Maaghul Taft Kelly Harris Ethel Walker Andrew Moran Westminster Olivia Hendricks Miss Porter’s Michael Noel Choate Rosemary Hall Sarah Humphrey Choate Rosemary Hall Jason O’Conner Westminster Sarah Gillam Kent Michael Reilly Avon Old Farms Rachel Johnson Choate Rosemary Hall Harry Richards Westminster Tiffany Liu Westminster Duncan Roberts Avon Old Farms Emily MacLeod Choate Rosemary Hall Paul Ryder Choate Rosemary Hall Cicely Morris Loomis Chaffee Yong-Ho Song Choate Rosemary Hall Nora Nadire Kent Harrison Tross Hamden Hall Amanda Nelson Taft Garrett Wilkes Loomis Chaffee Gabi Norena Kent Samantha Primiano Loomis Chaffee Lucca Troutman Ethel Walker Connecticut Independent Schools Music Festival 2008 Hosted by avon old farms school - 500 old farms road - avon, connecticut 06001 - www.avonoldfarms.com Festival Orchestra Violin I Viola Laurie Barth Miss Porter’s Alex Lim Choate Rosemary Hall Kendra Nealon Miss Porter’s Amanda Fortner Kingswood-Oxford Kashi Elliott Choate Rosemary Hall Erica Yi Lin Choate Rosemary Hall Emily Bredemeyer Kent Martha Sutterlin Kent Sura Cho Miss Porter’s Abigail Guo Choate Rosemary Hall Julia Nick Choate Rosemary Hall Sophia Stich Kent Nicholas Fikre Avon Old Farms Suril Kantaria Choate Rosemary Hall Michelle Park Kent Ricky Jia Choate Rosemary Hall Natnaree Siriwon Taft Stephanie Choi Choate Rosemary Hall Cello Kelly Kim Kent Heather Soltis Ethel Walker Tessa Sacramore Choate Rosemary Hall Jacqueline Georgis Choate Rosemary Hall Christine Chung Kent Anna Lee Miss Porter’s Bo Ra Kim Choate Rosemary Hall Yuri Min Kingswood-Oxford Anthony Hsieh Kent Lucia Kim Kent Xiao