f[fji~~~ -------------------------------- HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR UPCOMING SEASON 2001-2002 Saturday, October 27, 200 1 Ted Mann Concert Hall A melting pot of American Music including folksongs, Native American Songs, Chinese-American music, spirituals, hymns and a little bit of jazz. Saturday, February 9, 2002 Benson Great Hall, Bethel College Three high school chamber choirs join the Dale Warland Singers in a program of international music. Saturday, March 9, 2002 Basilica of Saint Mary Hear the luscious sounds of the Dale Warland Singers in this magnificent cathedral setting- reflective, inspirational and contemplative. Saturday, April 20, 2002 Ted Mann Concert Hall Ballads and songs-by Argento, Brittten and others. JOIN US FOR OUR HOLIDAY CONCERTS: Echoes of Christmas Christmas carols-some old and some new. Home for the Holidays Friday, December 7, 200 1 Saturday, December 8, 2001 Sunday, December 9, 2001 A one-hour holiday favorite-especially for families and children. LOOK FOR OUR SEASON BROCHURE IN APRII:!-~ ________________ l~~~R:-- TABLE OF CONTENTS Program Book II January-May 200 1 The Dale Warland Singers .3 About Dale Warland ." .4 Artistic Staff .s Members of the Dale Warland Singers 6 Board of Directors and Staff 7 Executive Director's Message 8 The Italian Connection program 9 Cathedral Classics program .16 Songs of the Earth program 20 New Choral Music Program 25 Singer Biographies 26 Dale Warland Singers Recordings .30 Contributors .31 Acknowledgements .34 2 jijE~~1-.~ ------------------------------------ THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS Now in its twenty-ninth season of concerts, tours, Radio International's Saint Paul Sunday. The annual Echoes radio broadcasts, and critically acclaimed recordings, the Dale of Christmas and Cathedral Classics broadcasts reach listeners Warland Singers is recognized as one of the world's foremost nationwide. The First Art and Performance Today often feature a capella choral ensembles. The 40 voice professional choir is the Dale Warland Singers. based in Minneapolis/St.Paul. The Dale Warland Singers also performs in The Dale Warland Singers has earned a reputation collaboration with other Twin Cities arts organizations such for its commitment to commissioning and performing new as the James Sewell Ballet, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, choral music. The ensemble has kept the choral genre fresh and the Minnesota Orchestra. For many of these and alive by commissioning works from Dominick Argento, collaborations, the ensemble has joined with volunteer singers Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, Carol Barnett, Brent Michael from around the area to form the Warland Symphonic Davids, Mary Ellen Childs, Augusta Read Thomas, [anika Chorus. The Symphonic Chorus has worked under the batons Vandervelde, George Shearing, Peter Schickele, and Bernard of Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Hugh Wolff, the late Rands, among others. The Dale Warland Singers' New Robert Shaw, Bobby McFerrin, Roger Norrington, David Choral Music Program solicits works from emerging Zinman, and Paul Hillier. composers, and through this program, over $100,000 in commissions has been awarded to fifty-two talented The Dale Warland Singers record primarily on the musrcians. American Choral Catalog label, and the choir will release a new recording on this label during the 1999-2000 season. In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers became the first- Featuring Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and ever recipient of the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, it joins some 20 other Choral Excellence. The group's extraordinary efforts on Dale Warland Singers recordings including Blue Wheat, a behalf of composers and new music resulted in ASCAP collection of American folk music. The Seattle Times calls Awards for Adventurous Programming in 1992, 1993, 1996, Blue Wheat, "the loveliest choral disc to emerge in a long time and 1999. ... sung by what is probably America's best chorus." Also among the Singers' lauded releases is December Stillness, In addition to a subscription season in the Twin which BBC Music Magazine gave its highest rating for Cities, the Dale Warland Singers tours throughout the United performance and sound, calling it, "... splendid, melting States and abroad. In 1990, the ensemble traveled to stuff." The South Jersey's Courier Post called the 1994 release, Stockholm and Helsinki to represent North America at the Cathedral Classics, "an unmatched musical experience," and Second World Symposium on Choral Music. During the The Oregonian stated simply, "peerless." Earlier recordings 1999-2000 concert season, the group toured the Southeastern by the Singers include Fancie, A Rose in Winter, Christmas United States. It has appeared on Garrison Keillor's original A Echoes, Carolsfor Christmas, Choral Currents and 12 others. Prairie Home Companion and is featured regularly on Public 3 /3::.~~~~ ------------------------------------ DALE WARLAND, FOUNDER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR a guest conductor at Carnegie Hall, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the Zimriya Festival in Jerusalem, and with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. He has also served on the faculty of the All Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan, and has lectured on American ~usic at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Most recently, he has been featured as guest conductor with Grant Park Music Festival, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Chamber Artists and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Later this year Dr. Warland will be leading concerts and workshops at Eastman School of Music, Seattle's Opus 7, and the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain. 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 ofthe National Endowment for the Arts and has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. The 2000-2001 season marks founder Dale Warland's twenty-ninth season as Music Director of the Dale Before devoting himself full-time to the Singers, Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his professional life to Warland maintained an academic career which included 19 years as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College, St. I attaining the highest artistic level in choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to detail, he has built one of the Paul. He holds degrees from St. Olaf College, the University finest choral ensembles in the United States. Under Warland's of Minnesota and the University of Southern California, and leadership, the Dale Warland Singers has thrilled choral has received distinguished alumni awards from two of the music enthusiasts, not just in its Twin Cities home, but institutions. Warland also holds an honorary doctorate from throughout North America and Europe. Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Warland's outstanding achievements 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 outstanding choral conductors such as Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner. In addition to his active schedule as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers, Warland is in demand as a guest conductor, lecturer, composer, and clinician. He has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, the Danish Radio Choir, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He had 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 Kryzstzof Pederecki's request, he has prepared the St. Luke Passion for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart, and the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1990, he also prepared Penderecki's Polish Requiem, the culminating event of the Second World Symposium on Choral Music held in Helsinki. Warland has been featured as 4 m~~R-'-- ------------------------------------ ( ARTISTIC STAFF Jerry Rubino Associate Conductor Associate conductor, Jerry Rubino, has served for twenty-two seasons with the Dale Warland Singers as pianist, arranger, and director of special projects and music education. In 1983, at the request of the Minnesota Orchestra, Rubino formed the Warland Cabaret Singers. Under his direction, they have developed their own sound and style and became known for their flexibility, broad-based appeal and consistently high levels of music making. Mr. Rubino holds degrees in piano, music education, and conducting from Temple University and the University of Minnesota, and began his teaching career at Northwestern College in 1974. A native of Philadelphia, he was a charter member of the Philadelphia Singers and attended Curtis Institute as a cellist. Rubino's conducting and teaching credits include Honors Choirs in Australia, Taiwan, Hawaii, Europe, American Choral Directors Association. He is in demand the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the California State Summer nationally as a choral clinician and adjudicator. Rubino was Arts Workshops, the Wesley Balk Institute, and the appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music at University of Minnesota Jazz Festival. His arrangements are Carleton College, Northfield, MN, for the academic year of in print with four publishers. 1998-1999. He currently serves as Minister of