"Dr.s Joni Prado, soprano, and Kerry Jennings, tenor" program

Dr. Joni Prado, soprano & Dr. Kerry Jennings, tenor with Michael Schütze, piano

March 9, 2025

RONALD S. ROCHON

President, California State University, Fullerton

AMIR H. DABIRIAN

Provost and VP for Academic Affairs

ARNOLD HOLLAND, EDD

Dean, College of the Arts

DR. RANDALL GOLDBERG Director, School of Music

KIMO FURUMOTO

Assistant Director, School of Music

BONGSHIN KO

Assistant Director, School of Music

SCHOOL OF MUSIC FULL-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF

FACULTY

CONDUCTING

Kimo Furumoto instrumental

Dr. Robert Istad choral

Dr. Christopher Peterson choral

Dr. Dustin Barr instrumental

JAZZ AND COMMERCIAL MUSIC

Bill Cunliffe* jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director

Rodolfo Zuñiga jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology; Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble director

PIANO, ORGAN, PIANO PEDAGOGY

Bill Cunliffe jazz piano

Alison Edwards* piano, piano pedagogy, class piano

Myong-Joo Lee piano

Dr. Robert Watson piano

MUSIC EDUCATION, TEACHER TRAINING, AND TEACHING CREDENTIAL

Dr. Christopher Peterson choral

Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore* instrumental

MUSIC IN GENERAL EDUCATION

Dr. John Koegel*

Dr. Katherine Reed

MUSIC HISTORY AND LITERATURE

Dr. Vivianne Asturizaga musicology

Dr. John Koegel* musicology

Dr. Katherine Powers musicology

Dr. Katherine Reed musicology

STRINGS

Kimo Furumoto Director of Orchestra Studies and University Symphony Orchestra conductor

Bongshin Ko cello

Dr. Ernest Salem* violin

THEORY AND COMPOSITION

Dr. Pamela Madsen, composition, theory

Dr. Ken Walicki* composition, theory

VOCAL, CHORAL, AND OPERA

Dr. Robert Istad Director of Choral Studies and University Singers conductor

Dr. Kerry Jennings* Director of Opera

Dr. Christopher Peterson CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor

Dr. Joni Y. Prado voice, academic voice courses

Dr. Bri’Ann Wright general education

WOODWINDS, BRASS, AND PERCUSSION

Dr. Dustin Barr Director of Wind Band Studies, University Wind Symphony, University Band

Jean Ferrandis flute

Sycil Mathai* trumpet

Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore University Symphonic Winds conductor

STAFF

Michael August Production Manager

Eric Dries Music Librarian

Gretchen Estes-Parker Office Coordinator

Will Lemley Audio Technician

Jeff Lewis Audio Engineer

Chris Searight Musical Instrument Services

Paul Shirts Administrative Assistant

Elizabeth Williams Business Manager

* denotes Area Coordinator

Welcome to the College of the Arts Spring 2025 Season. As we come together to enjoy incredible art, dance, music and theatre programming from across the college, I know we are all still reeling from the recent fires that tore through the communities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. In many ways, we are all Angelenos and when our city breaks, we break. Many of our students, faculty, and staff are finding comfort in processing complex thoughts and emotions the only way we know how: through the arts. It is our calling and what ties us to our community. Through our programming, we hope to provide a bit of respite to all of you during this time of regrouping and rebuilding.

In the College of the Arts, every note, every movement, and every word spoken on stage brings opportunity for discovery and connection. Whether you are a fellow Titan, family member, or community supporter, we are thrilled to have you here. You are now part of something much larger than this single performance. You are joining a vibrant and diverse collective of artists and technicians working together to push the boundaries of their craft.

Spring 2025 brings us a season of fresh programming to challenge our perceptions and immerse us in new perspectives. Later this month, the School of Music presents “Hajar,” a contemporary opera synthesizing ancient Jewish and Islamic stories into a modern immigration tale. Theatre begins their season with “Significant Other,” a heartfelt tale of love and longing in 21st century New York City. If you haven’t yet seen our spectacular new gallery building, make time to see “Chris O’Leary: Gravity Well” – an exploration of the cosmic phenomena of gravitational waves using video, sound, and images. In May, our dancers and choreographers return to the intimate Hallberg Theatre in “Spring Dance Theatre: From All Sides,” where viewers will experience a variety of dance forms from every angle of the stage.

It takes more than just the emotional support of friends, family, professors, and mentors to enable students to take creative risks of expression. As a college, we remain committed to providing these aspiring arts professionals with scholarships, financial assistance, and the industry-ready equipment, facilities, and opportunities to further develop their skills outside the classroom. Our resolve is steadfast, but we need your continued support to sustain and expand our educational mission, ensuring our students have the tools necessary to succeed. Please consider a donation of any amount to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today.

I thank you for being here, for your ongoing support, and for your conviction in the power of the arts. Together, we can accomplish the extraordinary.

Sincerely,

Arnold Holland, EdD Dean, College of the Arts

Mädchenblumen, op. 22 (Felix Dahn)............................. Richard Strauss

Kornblumen (1864-1949)

Mohnblumen

Epheu

Wasserrose

Dr. Jennings

Wiegenlied (Richard Dehmel) ......................................... Richard Strauss

Freundliche Vision (Otto Julius Bierbaum)

Glückes genug (Detlev von Liliencron)

Dr. Prado ***** Intermission *****

“Marietta’s Lied” ...............................................................Erich Korngold (from Die Tote Stadt) (Paul Schott) (1897-1957)

Dr. Prado

Zdes’ khorosho (Glafira Adol’ fovna Galina) ........... Sergei Rachmaninoff

Son (Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev) (1873-1943)

Ne poi krasavitsa (Alexander Pushkin)

Dr. Jennings

Traum durch die Dämmerung (Bierbaum) ...................... Richard Strauss

Ich schwebe (Karl Friedrich Henckell)

Befreit (Dehmel)

Cäcilie (Heinrich Hart)

Dr. Prado

Kornblumen (Cornflowers)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Cornflowers are what I call those girls, Those gentle girls with blue eyes, Who simply and serenely impart The dew of peace, which they draw

From their own pure souls, To all those they approach, Unaware of the jewels of feeling They receive from the hand of Heaven:

Epheu (Ivy)

RICHARD STRAUSS

You feel so at ease in their company, As though you were walking through a cornfield, Rippled by the breath of evening, Full of devout peace and gentleness.

Mohnblumen (Poppies)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Poppies are the round, Red-blooded, healthy girls, The brown and freckled ones, The always good-humoured ones, Honest and merry as the day is long, Who never tire of dancing, Who laugh and cry simultaneously And only seem to be born

But ivy is my name for those

Girls with gentle words, With sleek fair hair

And slightly arched brows, With brown soulful

Fawn-like eyes that well up

So often with tears—which are

Simply irresistible; Without strength and self-confidence, Unadorned with hidden flowers,

To tease the cornflowers, And yet often conceal The gentlest and kindest hearts

As they entwine and play their pranks, Those whom, God knows, You would have to stifle with kisses, Were you not so timid, For if you embrace the minx, She will burst, like smouldering timber, Into flames!

But with inexhaustibly deep, True and ardent feeling, They cannot, through their own strength, Rise from their roots, But are born to twine themselves Lovingly round another’s life:— Their whole life’s destiny Depends on their first love-entwining, For they belong to that rare breed of flower That blossoms only once.

Wasserrose (Water-lily)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Do you know this flower, the fairy-like Water-lily, celebrated in legend?

On her ethereal, slender stem

She sways her colourless transparent head; It blossoms on a reedy and sylvan pond, Protected by the solitary swan that swims round it, Opening only to the moonlight, Whose silver gleam it shares. Thus it blossoms, the magical sister of the stars, As the dreamy dark moth, fluttering round it, Yearns for it from afar at the edge of the pond, And never reaches it for all its yearning.— Water-lily is my name for the slender Maiden with night-black locks and alabaster cheeks

Dream, dream, bud born of my anxiety, of the day the flower unfolded; of that morning bright with blossom, when your soul opened to the world.

Dream, dream, blossom of my love, of the silent, of the sacred night, when the flower of his love made this world my heaven.

With deep foreboding thoughts in her eyes, As though she were a spirit imprisoned on earth. Her speech resembles the silver rippling of waves, Her silence the foreboding stillness of a moonlit night, She seems to exchange glances with the stars, Whose language—their natures being the same—she shares. You can never tire of gazing into her eyes, Framed by her silken long lashes, And you believe, bewitched by their blissful grey, All that Romantics have ever dreamt about elves.

Wiegenlied (Cradle song)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Freundliche Vision (A pleasant vision)

RICHARD STRAUSS

I did not dream it in my sleep, In broad daylight I saw it fair before me: A meadow full of daisies; A white house deep in green bushes; Statues of gods gleaming from the foliage. And I walk with one who loves me, My heart at peace, into the coolness Of this white house, into the peace, Brimming with beauty, that awaits our coming.

Glückes genug (Abundant Happiness)

RICHARD STRAUSS

When softly in my arms you slept, I could hear you breathing, In your dreams you called out my name, A smile shone on your mouth –Abundant happiness.

Dream, dream, my sweet, my life, of heaven that brings the flowers; blossoms shimmer there, they live from the song your mother sings.

And when after a hot, exhausting day You banished my grievous cares, When I lay on your heart And thought no more about the morrow –Abundant happiness.

Marietta’s Lied (Marietta’s Song)

ERICH KORNGOLD

Translation © Bertram Kottman, Lieder.net

Happiness that has stayed with me, move up close beside me, my true love. In the grove evening is waning, yet you are my light and day. One heart beats uneasily against the other, while hope soars heavenward.

How true a mournful song. The song of true love bound to die.

I know this song. I often heard it sung in happier days of yore. There is yet another stanza –Have I still got it in mind?

Though dismal sorrow is drawing nigh, move up close beside me, my true love. Turn your pale face to me death will not part us. When the hour of death comes one day, believe that you will rise again.

Zdes’ khorsho (How Fair This Spot)

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

English Translation by Richard Stokes

How fair this spot... Just look, there in the distance The river is ablaze; The meadows are like a radiant carpet, And the clouds are white.

There is nobody here… here silence reigns… Here I am alone with God. And the flowers, and the old pine tree, And you, my dream!…

Son (A Dream)

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

English Translation by Philip Ross Bullock

I too had a native land, Which was so beautiful! A fir tree swayed over me there… But that was a dream!

A clan of friends still lived then, Surrounding me on all sides And speaking words of love to me… But that was a dream!

Ne poi krasavitsa (Oh do not sing, fair maiden)

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

English Translation by Philip Ross Bullock

Oh do not sing for me, fair maiden, Those Georgian songs so sad; They remind me

Of another life and a distant shore.

Alas, your cruel strains

Remind me

Of the steppe and the night, And the moonlit face of my distant beloved.

Traum durch die Dämmerung (Dream into dusk)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Broad meadows in grey dusk; The sun has set, the stars come out, I go now to the loveliest woman, Far across meadows in grey dusk, Deep into the jasmine grove.

Through grey dusk into the land of love; I do not go fast, I do not hurry; I am drawn by a soft velvet ribbon Through grey dusk into the land of love, Into a gentle blue light.

Ich schwebe (I float )

RICHARD STRAUSS

I float as if on angels’ wings, My foot hardly touches the earth, In my ears I hear a sound Like my love’s farewell greeting.

It sounds so sweetly, gently, softly, It speaks such tender, timid, pure words, The tune still sounds and lulls me gently Into bliss-laden dreams.

My glistening eyes—while I’m filled By the sweetest of melodies— See my love, without clothes or veil, Pass smiling by.

Befreit (Released)

RICHARD STRAUSS

You will not weep. Gently, gently you will smile; and as before a journey I shall return your gaze and kiss. You have cared for the room we love! I have widened these four walls for you into a world –O happiness!

Then ardently you will seize my hands and you will leave me your soul, leave me to care for our children. You gave your whole life to me, I shall give it back to them –O happiness!

It will be very soon, we both know it, we have released each other from suffering, so I returned you to the world. Then you’ll appear to me only in dreams, and you will bless me and weep with me –O happiness!

Cäcilie (Cecily)

RICHARD

STRAUSS

If you knew what it is to dream Of burning kisses, of walking and resting With one’s love, gazing at each other And caressing and talking –If you knew, Your heart would turn to me.

If you knew what it is to worry

On lonely nights in the frightening storm, With no soft voice to comfort The struggle-weary soul –If you knew, You would come to me.

If you knew what it is to live Enveloped in God’s world-creating breath, To soar upwards, borne on light To blessed heights –If you knew, You would live with me.

Translations for all Richard Strauss songs

Joni Prado

Joni Prado, soprano and associate professor of vocal studies at California State University, Fullerton, earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal arts at the University of Southern California, where her areas of specialty included vocal performance, choral music, music education, and jazz studies. She holds a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from California State University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor of Arts in music and psychology from California Baptist University. Teaching areas include private vocal studies, foreign language diction, song literature, vocal pedagogy, and leading vocal workshops. Prado performs throughout the Southern California region in concert and recital settings. She has performed with world-renowned ensembles and conductors such as the Pacific Symphony with Maestro Carl St. Clair, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Esa Pekka Salonen, and the Hollywood Bowl orchestra under the direction of John Mauceri. She has also been privileged to share the stage with operatic singers Alessandra Marc, Richard Margison, Rodney Gilfrey, and Andrea Bocelli. Her most recent operatic role was the lead role of the Duchess in Powder Her Face by Thomas Adés, a role appointed by the composer himself.

In addition to teaching and performing, Prado is also in demand as an adjudicator, choral clinician, and vocal coach for local school programs and festivals. Earlier this year, she presented a session at CASMEC entitled “Showing, Not Telling: The Effectiveness of Non-Verbal Communication in Choral Conducting.” She has also assisted on several recording projects as a vocal coach and vocal producer at Skywalker Ranch and Sony Pictures Studios and continues connecting with singers and educators nationwide through various singing and speaking engagements.

Kerry Jennings

Kerry Jennings is an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Opera at Cal State Fullerton. His stage direction has recently been recognized with 1st and 2nd Place Awards in the National Opera Association’s Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition with scenes from The Ballad of Baby Doe (2021) and Der Rosenkavalier (2020), as well as being named a national finalist for The American Prize in Collegiate Opera Direction for his production of Massenet’s Cendrillon. Scenes under his direction and featuring students from the CSUF Opera Program were chosen as national finalists in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions, as students performed scenes from La Rondine and Don Pasquale at the NOA national convention in Houston, TX. Additional directorial credits encompass works from Monteverdi to composers of the 21st Century and include highlights such as L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Dido and Aeneas, Cosí fan tutte, Hänsel und Gretel, La bella dormente nel bosco, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Old Maid and the Thief, Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, Sorry, Wrong Number, and The Cows of Apollo

Before turning to a concentration in directing, Jennings’ performance highlights included over forty lead and supporting roles comprised of early, standard, and contemporary repertoire, recently singing the role of Ernesto in Don Pasquale in Sankt Anton, Austria. As a concert soloist, he has been heard in works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Händel, Haydn, Mozart, Puccini, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Fonseco, Orff, Rorem, and others.

Noted for his “beautiful voice, great diction, and uncanny sense of style and phrasing,” Jennings recording In My Memory: American Songs and Song Cycles on Centaur Records was met with acclaim from both the composers and critics alike and features works by Libby Larsen, Tom Cipullo, Lori Laitman, and Richard Pearson Thomas. Libby Larsen has called Kerry’s recording of her cycle My Àntonia “the definitive reference performance for future performances.” He is also featured on David Arbury’s CD Alchemy and as tenor soloist on the Houston Camerata’s recording of Fonseca’s Missa Afro-Brasileira. He is currently working on his second solo disc of American Song Cycles. Jennings was a District Winner and Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Jennings is a member of several music organizations, including NATS, Opera America, The Recording Academy, The College Music Society, and NOA, where he is on his third cycle as a member of the Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition Committee.

Michael Schütze

Michael Schütze is a much sought-after pianist and collaborative artist across Europe and United States. In his professional career he has appeared as accompanist for international stars such as renowned baritones Olaf Baer and Andreas Schmidt, most recently for René Pape as well as for singers of the younger generation such as mezzo-soprano Kathrin Goering (Opera Leipzig), tenor Timothy Oliver, baritone Christoph Pohl and Bass Georg Zeppenfeld of the Semperoper Dresden and tenor Manuel Günther from Bayrische Staatsoper Munich. He has regularly played for master classes given by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Andreas Scholl, Peter Schreier, Brigitte Fassbaender, Edith Mathis and Norman Shetler and cellist Peter Bruns.

Schütze studied piano performance and vocal accompaniment in Dresden, where he graduated with honors in 2001. As a soloist he performed with several orchestras in Germany. In 2001 and 2002 he was a vocal piano fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Playing for the National Polish Singing Competition in Duszninki Zdroj in 2002 was the beginning of regular invitations to serve as official accompanist at international competitions such as the Robert Schumann Competition, La Voce (Bavarian Radio), Competizione dellopera, DEBUT (Weikersheim) and the NATS (Los Angeles).

Schütze has played in concerts throughout Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Czech Republic and the U.S. as well as at Moscow’s New Opera. His appearances at festivals include the Festival Mitte Europa, Sommerfestival Schloss Gauting, Dresdner Musikfestspiele and Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival. On a regular base he is playing with orchestras such as Elblandphilharmonie and Sächsische

Schütze makes his home in Dresden and since 1999 has served on the faculty of the Dresden Hochschule für Musik teaching piano and vocal accompaniment. In 2011 he received a professorship. In addition, he became a faculty member at Dresden’s University for Church Musicians and of Kreismusikschule Dreiländereck where he teaches piano.

Schütze frequently teaches master classes in the United States at California State University Fullerton, the University of Delaware, Brigham Young University (Utah), Azusa Pacific University, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Vanguard University (California). In February of 2014, he held a DAAD guest professor position at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He also held an ERASMUS scholarship which took him to teach Masterclasses at Ionia University of Corfu.

In 2016 Schütze collaborated with alto Henriette Gödde when she won 1st prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition. Radio recordings of his work can be heard on the major German public stations MDR and RBB. A CD with Korean art songs performed in collaboration with soprano Yoora Lee-Hoff was released in 2018 on the GENUIN label.

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COLLEGE OF THE ARTS • SELECT EVENTS

College of the Arts Galleries Exhibitions

Vitae: A New Generation

Chris O’Leary: Gravity Well

Michelle Emami: Arcana Past Forward (Redux) Through May 17

Sergei Babayan, piano

February 16 • Meng Concert Hall

Sō Percussion*

February 20 • Meng Concert Hall

Hajar: Opera In Concert

February 21 • Recital Hall

University Symphony Orchestra feat. Music Associates’ Student Concerto/Aria Competition Winner February 23 • Meng Concert Hall

World Citizen Band with Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble

February 26 • Meng Concert Hall

Advanced Vocal Workshop with guest Michael Schütze, piano

March 6 • Recital Hall

Significant Other March 6–15 • Hallberg Theatre

Collage: 18th Annual Benefit Concert Sponsored by Morningside

March 8 • Meng Concert Hall

Dr. Joni Prado, soprano & Dr. Kerry Jennings, tenor, with Michael Schütze, piano

March 9 • Meng Concert Hall

Mela Quartet

March 12 • Meng Concert Hall

University Singers & Concert Choir

March 15 • Meng Concert Hall

Bill Cunliffe & Alison Edwards, duo piano

March 16 • Meng Concert Hall

Tuesday Matinée

March 18 • Recital Hall

Ralph Farris, viola, with CSUF Wind Symphony and Rodolfo Zuniga, percussion

March 18 • Meng Concert Hall

Spring Awakening

March 20–29 • Young Theatre

Talich Quartet

March 28 • Meng Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra with the Talich Quartet

March 30 • Meng Concert Hall

Inna Faliks, piano

April 8 • Meng Concert Hall

Brightwork New Music and HEX Vocal Ensemble*

April 9 • Meng Concert Hall

Ernest Salem, violin and Alison Edwards, piano

April 13 • Meng Concert Hall

Mozart’s The Magic Flute

April 17–26 • Little Theatre

Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble and Fullerton Latin Ensemble

April 22 • Meng Concert Hall

Cello Choir

April 25 • Recital Hall

University Symphonic Winds

April 27 • Meng Concert Hall

CSUF New Music Ensemble and CSUF Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble*

April 30 • CPAC 119

University Band

April 30 • Meng Concert Hall

Spring Dance Theatre

May 1–10 • Little Theatre

Fullerton Jazz Orchestra

May 2 • Meng Concert Hall

University Wind Symphony

May 3 • Meng Concert Hall

Jazz Singers

May 5 • Meng Concert Hall

Titan Voices & Singing Titans

May 7 • Meng Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus

Gustav Mahler’s Ein deutsches Requiem

May 10 • Meng Concert Hall