WORLDSTRIDES ONSTAGE PROGRAMS Presents The Elite Performance Series Festival of Gold ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA MARCH 23-26, 2019 THE NATIONAL INVITATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL THE NATIONAL INVITATIONAL BAND & ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL The national invitational choral festival the national invitational band and orchestra festival Segerstrom Performing Arts Center RENEE & HENRY SEGERSTROM CONCERT HALL MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2019 AT 8:00 PM WorldStrides OnStage programs PRESENTS Festival of Gold ENCORE CONCERT “Music from Across the Pond” Featuring Encore Performances Given by the Top Scoring Festival Ensembles Choir Concert Band String Orchestra The Festival Combined Treble Choir The Festival Combined Mixed Choir The Festival Symphony Orchestra GUEST CONDUCTORS Anton Armstrong • Peter Boonshaft • Robert Gillespie • Graig Jessop Dr. Michael Huff, Artistic Director Concert Program ENCORE PERFORMANCES Top Scoring Festival Choir Top Scoring Festival String Orchestra Top Scoring Festival Concert Band Top Scoring Festival Choir FESTIVAL TREBLE CHOIR Anton Armstrong, Conductor Chris Fresolone, Accompanist DEBRA SCROGGINS I Shall Not Live in Vain CAROLYN JENNINGS Jabberwocky (Join the Dance) FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Robert Gillespie & Peter Boonshaft, Conductors RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Rhosymedre MORTON GOULD American Salute FESTIVAL MIXED CHOIR Craig Jessop, Conductor Kelly DeHaan, Accompanist GEORGE FRIDERIK HANDEL Sing Unto God (from Judas Macabeus) MAURICE DURUFLE Ubi Caritas Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Where charity and love are, God is there. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Christ’s love has gathered us into one. Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum. Let us fear, and let us love the living God. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero. Amen. And may we love each other with a sincere heart. Amen. FESTIVAL MIXED CHOIR & SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Craig Jessop, Conductor ENGLISH FOLK TUNE Thou Gracious God, Whose Mercy Lends Arr. Mack Willberg text by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Artistic Staff Anton Armstrong Peter Boonshaft Robert Gillespie Anton Armstrong, Tosdal Professor Called one of the most exciting and Robert Gillespie, violinist and of Music at St. Olaf College, became exhilarating voices in music education professor of music, is Chair of Music the fourth conductor of the St. Olaf today, Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft has Education at Ohio State University Choir in 1990. He has served as Artistic been invited to speak or conduct in where he is responsible for string Director of the St. Olaf Christmas every state in the nation and around teacher training. Ohio State has one Festival which features over 550 the world. Honored by the National of the largest and most extensive student musicians who are members of string pedagogy degree programs five St. Olaf Choral ensembles and the Association for Music Education and in the nation. Under Dr. Gillespie’s St. Olaf Orchestra and was featured at Music For All as the first recipient leadership, Ohio State University the 2017 National ACDA Conference. of the “George M. Parks Award for received the 2015 Institutional Dr. Armstrong is a graduate of St. Olaf Leadership in Music Education,” Dr. String Education Award as the College and earned advanced degrees Boonshaft has recently been named premier string education university at the University of Illinois (MM) and Director of Education for Jupiter in the country. Dr. Gillespie is a past Michigan State University (DMA). He is Band Instruments. Dr. Boonshaft is national President of the American editor of a multicultural choral series the author of the critically acclaimed String Teachers Association. He is for Earthsongs Publications and of the best-selling books Teaching Music a frequent guest conductor of All- St. Olaf Choral Series for Augsburg State, region, and festival orchestras. with Passion, Teaching Music with Dr. Gillespie has appeared in 47 Fortress Publishers. In June 1998, he Purpose, and Teaching Music with began his tenure as founding conductor states, Canada, Asia, and throughout Promise. He is also co-author of Alfred Europe. He is co-author of the Hal of the Oregon Bach Festival Stangeland Music Publishing’s beginning method Leonard string method book series, Family Youth Choral Academy. During book series, Sound Innovations for Essential Elements for Strings, the 2017-18 season, Dr. Armstrong will Band and Sound Innovations for leading string instrument teaching serve as Guest Conductor of the 2018 series in the country with sales of Jeju Island International Choir Festival Strings, as well as Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young, over nine million copies. Also he is co- and Symposium, The Republic of author of the college text Strategies Korea as well as serving as a member Intermediate, and Advanced Concert Band. Currently on the faculty of for Teaching Strings: Building A of the Choral Jury for the 1st Tokyo Successful School Orchestra Program, International Choir Competition, Japan. Hofstra University in Hempstead, the String Clinics to Go DVD series, He will be serving as guest conductor New York, where he is Professor and the Teaching Music Through for choral concerts at Westminster of Music and Director of Bands, he Performance in Orchestra texts for Choir College (NJ), Florida State has received official proclamations GIA publications. He received the University (FL), Calvin College (MI), from the Governors of five states Distinguished Scholar award for and Salem College, (NC). Additionally, and a Certificate of Appreciation 2002-2003 in the School of Music at he will lead choral festivals at Carnegie from former President Ronald Ohio State University. In summers, Hall, New York, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Reagan, as well as performing for Gillespie directs the OSU String and the Kennedy Center, Washington former President and Mrs. George Teacher Workshop, the largest string/ D.C. In January 2006, Baylor University H. W. Bush, former President Bill orchestra teacher-training workshop selected Anton Armstrong from a in the country. In Columbus, he field of 118 distinguished nominees Clinton, and for Margaret Thatcher, conducts the Columbus Symphony to receive the Robert Foster Cherry former Prime Minister of the United Chamber Strings Youth Orchestra. Award for Great Teaching. In October Kingdom. His honors also include He is a performing violinist in the Pro 2009 he received The Distinguished being selected three times as a Musica Chamber Orchestra. During Alumni Award from Michigan State National Endowment for the Arts the 2017-2018 academic year, University. In June 2013 Dr. Armstrong “Artist in Residence,” three times Gillespie is giving string pedagogy received the Saltzman Award from awarded Honorary Life Membership and research presentations, and the Oregon Bach Festival. In the in the Tri-M Music Honor Society, conducting orchestra performances Fall of 2014, The St. Olaf Choir and and being selected for the Center in Ohio, Maine, Louisiana, Virginia, Dr. Armstrong received a Regional for Scholarly Research and Academic Georgia, Maryland, Alabama, Emmy for the PBS television program Excellence at Hofstra University. Missouri, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Christmas in Norway with The St. Olaf Massachusetts, Florida, and Oregon. Choir. Artistic Staff Craig Jessop Lori Marie Rios Michael Huff Dr. Craig Jessop is Professor of Music Lori Marie Rios is a highly accomplished Dr. Michael Huff is Director of Choral and the founding Dean for the Caine conductor, soloist, educator and Activities and Head of the Piano Area College of the Arts at Utah State voice teacher. She currently serves at Snow College’s Horne School of University. These appointments follow as Associate Professor of Music at Music where he leads the Cadence Dr. Jessop’s distinguished tenure as College of the Canyons, Valencia Chamber Choir, Advanced Women’s music director of the world famous where she is the music director of Choir, and the A Cappella Choir. Prior Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Head of the Chamber Singers and Voices of to his appointment at Snow College, the Department of Music at Utah State. the Canyons Community Chorus. She Dr. Huff was Executive Director of He is the founder and Music Director also teaches voice and administrates Legacy Music Alliance, a Utah non- of the American Festival Chorus and the applied music program. Prior to profit organization that serves Music Orchestra and has served as the music her appointment at COC, she directed Education. He previously served as director of the Carnegie Hall National the choral program at La Canada High Visiting Professor of Music Education High School Choral Festival sponsored School. Ensembles under her direction and Commercial Music at Utah by the Weill Institute of Music at have sung all over the United States. State University where he led the Carnegie Hall. Prior to his appointment Lori Marie also is an adjunct professor University Chorale, USU Women’s with the Tabernacle Choir, Dr. Jessop at Pasadena City College where she Choir, and the pop-music group, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. conducts the Concert Choir. She is also Out of the Blue. Prior to teaching at Air Force music programs. He has also on faculty at California State University, USU, he served on the faculty at the been music director of the Maryland Los Angeles Summer Graduate University of Utah School of Music. Choral Society, the Rhineland-Pfalz Program where she teaches voice and He is Founding Conductor of UTAH International Choir of