2023 Santa Fe Desert Chorale Summer Festival Program

PERFORMANCE VENUE & INFORMATION

The Desert Chorale has the privilege of performing in some of the most beautiful and historic venues in New Mexico that provide the acoustic quality needed for excellent choral performances. While many of the venues and the music we sing represent specific religious or cultural traditions, we celebrate the diversity of faith, thought, artistry, and human experiences represented by the music performed in these spaces. We hope that this shared musical experience transcends and binds the audience, as we seek to be inspired by the power of great choral music.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

131 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM Parking available in the Cathedral Parking Lot or on the street of Cathedral Place. City of Santa Fe parking meters do not run after 6:00 pm or on Sundays.

Special Needs and Requests

Our facilities are ADA compliant, and accommodate those with special needs and physical challenges. Please contact our Box Office at (505) 988-2282 or at boxoffice@desertchorale.org to reserve a wheelchair location, or for other special needs. While at the concert, our ushers are available to assist you. A limited number of large-type text and translation inserts are available at each concert.

Lost and Found

Any items found at the concert will be collected by our staff and will be available in our offices for one month following each season, then donated to charity. Please call the office about lost items: (505) 988-2282.

Recycle and Reuse

To minimize printing costs and save paper, please recycle or reuse your program book, either by saving it for a future concert or by returning it to an usher at the end of the concert.

SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale is to excite, engage, and inspire diverse audiences with the beauty and power of great choral music.

Photo: Tira Howard Photography

Habermann | Artistic Director

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The 2023 Summer Festival program book is sponsored by Anne and Thomas Conner.

The Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s Summer Festival is supported in part by The City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Department, New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also partially funded by the County of Santa Fe Lodgers’ Tax. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale also receives generous support from New Mexico Bank & Trust, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe Selection Travel Guide, Thornburg Investment Management, and other individuals, corporations, and foundations. For a full list of donors, please see pages 53 to 56. The complete

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Welcome!

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Emma Marzen

When I began my tenure as Executive Director in January 2020, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale of today was merely a dream. At that time, our scrappy staff of one part-time and three full-time employees, including myself, worked around the clock to fulfill the mission in which we so deeply and passionately believe. In late February, the Chorale performed Strength and Refuge: A Joyous Exploration of the Psalms for audiences in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Dallas, TX, together with our beloved Artistic Director Joshua Habermann, and many friends and partners who made it all possible. Little did we know that two short weeks later, we would be facing down a global pandemic which would impact our entire world for years to come.

COVID-19 prevented us from sharing our music in-person with you for a whole year, but it couldn’t stop us from carrying on our mission. During that year we shared music digitally—for the very first time. We released a live recording from 2016 of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 as well as a virtual concert featuring all of our artists, including a quartet of singers who were able to perform together safely in New York. We planned and successfully completed the Chorale’s largest and most significant fundraising campaign to date: our Keep Our Voices Singing sustainability campaign, raising $400,000 to ensure we not only survived the effects of the pandemic, but that we could thrive thereafter. Due to the incredible, steadfast support of our entire Desert Chorale family, I am humbled and overjoyed to say that we are indeed thriving today.

Since 2020, we have created a new Endowment Fund, which has already grown to over $350,000; expanded organizational capacity by hiring and retaining expert personnel for a total staff of six full-time and two parttime employees, as well as investing in our technological capabilities; and have increased the organization’s net equity to nearly $1.6M. Through these remarkable efforts, we have catalyzed our growth beyond our wildest dreams.

We are now working to advance our mission even further. To this end, the Board of Directors has set visionary

strategic goals for the Chorale. By 2027, we aim to create educational programs for local youth; offer pre-professional opportunities for burgeoning artists and administrators; produce annual professional recordings; tour nationally; and grow our Endowment Fund to $1M (and beyond) to keep our voices singing forever

These accomplishments and future visioning are only made possible thanks to the unyielding and long-standing dedication and support of our patrons and funders. I recently spoke with Director Emeriti Mary Brennan, who noted that when Larry Bandfield created this artistic jewel in 1982, the Chorale’s fundraising budget was just $35,000. This may seem small relative to our budget of $1.6M today, but, at the time, these pioneers were hand-molding the Desert Chorale of their imaginations like clay. Every dollar was hard-won and a risk for those who gave them. Those supporters did not know that we would be here in 2023, performing to sold-out crowds in the Cathedral Basilica, as one of America’s premiere chamber choirs, comprised of the very best professional singers in the country. They did not know they were seeding the growth of our Summer Festival to become the largest annual choral event in the nation and to feature over 30 world premieres in the decades since. They did not know that a wonderful successor to Larry Bandfield, Joshua Habermann, would be celebrating 15 years with the Desert Chorale today (and counting).

It is because of the commitment of those who dreamed the impossible dream throughout our 41 year history that we are here today, singing with you and for you in the Land of Enchantment. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale salutes all of the visionaries, believers, and friends on whose shoulders we proudly stand as we enter our next 40 years. I would like to especially acknowledge one of our dearly departed Encore Society members, Dr. Thomas F. McGuire, whose major bequest will total over $800,000 when ultimately fulfilled. This marks the largest gift ever made in the history of the Chorale and has already helped to advance our vision into reality. We hope you will join us at our Gala

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Spectacular on July 20th where we will recognize Dr. McGuire’s generosity and leadership with this year’s Angel Award. Thank you for believing in us, Tom.

We are deeply grateful for each and every artist, ticket buyer, donor, grantor, Board member, Ambassador, employee, and community partner, whose multitudinous contributions propel us forward. As the next phase of the Chorale’s journey begins, we hope that you will join us in reaching new heights. Ticket sales alone are not enough to fund the work of the Desert Chorale. It is your continued support and generosity which allows us to excite, engage, and inspire diverse audiences with the beauty and power of great choral music. To secure the vitality of your Santa Fe

Desert Chorale, we kindly ask that you consider a donation to our annual fund today. Please see us in the lobby, or visit our website at desertchorale.org/support to explore our donor benefits, ways to give, and learn more about additional ways you can support the work of the Chorale.

We wish you a wonderful summer, and hope you enjoy the performance.

With gratitude and warmest wishes,

SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE STAFF

Emma Marzen, Executive Director

SCAN TO MAKE A GIFT TO YOUR DESERT CHORALE

From left: Charles Stober, Box Office & Front of House Manager

Joanna Armstrong, Marketing & Communications Manager

Ashley Hernandez-Salinas, Artistic & Community Coordinator

Mark Zero, Development Manager

Lydia Milá Garmaier, Board Liaison & Events Manager

Emma Marzen, Executive Director

Amanda Sidebottom, Operations Director

O’Shaun Estrada, Operations Coordinator

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, STAFF, AND ARTISTIC SERVICES

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Barry Lyerly, President

Diane Graves, Vice President

Catherine Gronquist, Treasurer

Gregory Dove, Secretary

Cathy Sickles, Asst. Treasurer

Hon. Barbara J. Houser (Ret.), Assistant Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Murray Bern, M.D.

Tom Conner

Jeffrey C. Fort, J.D

Joshua Habermann*

Chelsea Helm*

Singer Representative

Stephen Hochberg

Sheryl Kelsey, Ph.D.

Emma Marzen*

Fraser A. McAlpine

Felicia Morrow

Carmen Paradis

Patricia Stanley

Suzanne Timble

Susie Wilson, D.M.A. Honorary Director

Stan Yeatts

DIRECTORS EMERITI

Mary G. Brennan

David A. Bueschel

Mark Edw. Childers

Margie Edwards

Kirk Ellis

Allison Elston†

John Greenspan†

Kathleen Davison Lebeck, J.D.

Lynn F. Lee

William H. Lynn

Dorothy Massey

Ian McKee†

Haydock Miller†

Margaret K. Norton

Jane Clayton Oakes

Mary Lou Padilla, Ph.D.

Nina Hinson Rasmussen†

Don Roberts†

Brooke Bandfield Taylor

Jane Thomson

Frances White†

Brahna Lauger Wilczynski

Mac Wright†

*ex-officio member

† in memoriam

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Joshua Habermann, Artistic Director

Emma Marzen, Executive Director

Joanna Armstrong, Marketing & Communications Manager

O’Shaun Estrada, Operations Coordinator

Lydia Milá Garmaier, Board Liaison & Events Manager

Ashley Hernandez-Salinas, Artistic & Community Coordinator

Amanda Sidebottom, Operations Director

Charles Stober, Box Office & Front of House Manager

Adalyn Thorpe, Assistant Artistic Coordinator

Mark Zero, Development Manager

ARTISTIC SERVICES

Zina Jundi, Adverti-Zing!

Sean Johnson, Mesa Creative Solutions

Matthew “Kabby” Kabakoff, Kabakoff Sound Studios

Jennifer Kuyper, Jentech Marketing

Enrico Lagasca, Digital Content Manager

Clarissa Lovato, Elevate Media

Gabriella Marks Photography

Scarlett Ossorio, Social Media Manager

Brandon Soder Photography

Tira Howard Photography

West 40th Media

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EXPERIENCE THE EXTRAORDINARY Secret Byrd

Featuring The Gesualdo Six + Abendmusik

An immersive staged Mass celebrating the 400-year legacy of William Byrd

Created and directed by Bill Barclay

England’s finest Renaissance composer was a covert Catholic facing brutal prosecution in the Protestant Reformation. Nonetheless, he persisted, composing clandestine services for worshippers who risked everything for their faith. Hear Byrd’s divine Mass for Five Voices as he intended: sung one-on-a-part in strictest secrecy.

Nov 14+15 | 7:30 pm

Scottish Rite Temple Ballroom

$95

ABOUT THE SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE

Founded in 1982 by Lawrence “Larry” Bandfield, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale is one of the longest-running professional music organizations in New Mexico, as well as one of the most distinguished American professional chamber choirs. “The Santa Fe Desert Chorale [is] a topnotch, 24-voice group… comprising the crème de la crème of professional choral singers from coast to coast” (Dallas Morning News). Performing in historical venues such as the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, the Chorale’s Summer Festival has become a centerpiece of the cultural life of Santa Fe and is among the nation’s most significant choral events.

Artistic Director Joshua Habermann, now in his 15th season, leads the Chorale in repertoire spanning seven centuries, from early polyphony to contemporary works. Habermann’s versatile programming sets the ensemble apart as “a rara avis in the choral music world” (Santa Fe New Mexican).

The Chorale’s first commercial release, The Road Home, launched at No. 3 on the Billboard Classical Chart following a sold-out CD launch program in Santa Fe. The ensemble has traveled across the nation, performing in prominent conferences and cities such as Dallas, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In 2021, the Chorale began offering live streamed performances and access to full video recordings

through their streaming service, Desert Chorale TV, sharing the beauty and power of choral music to a wider audience across the country and around the world.

Throughout its history, the Chorale has maintained a commitment to give voice to music from Hispanic and Native American communities. Dedicated to advancing the composers of our time, the Chorale has commissioned 30 works by 27 composers; three-quarters of the composers commissioned have been American. In addition, another seven works have been given their world or American premieres by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. The organization’s Commissioning Club selects and funds a new commission annually.

While nationally recognized, the Chorale prides itself on its strong relationships within the community of Northern New Mexico. Since 2016, the Chorale has hosted an annual community singing workshop, Santa Fe Sings!, bringing together music-lovers of all backgrounds to express themselves through song under the direction of Joshua Habermann. In 2022, the Chorale launched its inaugural Insights & Sounds Symposium, an event featuring interdisciplinary dialogue through the lens of choral music. Through its community engagement programming, the Chorale partners with other musical, artistic, social service, and educational organizations in Santa Fe and beyond.

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PROGRAM SPONSORS

Catherine and Guy Gronquist

CONDUCTOR

Joshua Habermann Artistic Director

Sponsored by Carmen Paradis and Brian McGrath

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

James K. Bass

the TUDORS the MEDICI &

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Experience the Drama and Grandeur of Renaissance Europe

Step back in time into the extravagant and dramatic world of two of the wealthiest families of the Renaissance. These two European dynasties left a substantial imprint on the cultural landscape with their patronage and brought to fruition some of the greatest artistic achievements of their time. Sixteen Desert Chorale singers accompanied by period instruments will perform works fit for Queen Elizabeth’s court by composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. Songs written by King Henry VIII himself will also be performed.

The splendor continues with a musical reenactment from one of the most spectacular weddings in Italian history, including a work from opera’s founding father Jacopo Peri. Come and experience compelling stories of political intrigue and extraordinary music interwoven in this tour of London, Florence, and beyond.

Sunday, July 16, 2023 | 4 pm

Sponsored by Phyllis Lehmberg

Friday, July 28, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Thursday, August 3, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Sponsored by Dmitri Bovaird and Maggie Edmondson in loving memory of Nina Hinson Rasmussen and Dr. Prescott C. Rasmussen

Pre-concert Lecturer: Edmund Connolly

Sponsored by Janusz and Brahna Lauger Wilczynski

All concerts will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

CONCERT PROGRAM

PART I: THE TUDORS

Harpsichord & Organ: Kathleen McIntosh

Theorbo & Lute: Carey Morrow

TO BEGIN Hosanna to the Son of David Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

SECULAR TUDOR MUSIC

Greensleeves

Attributed to Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Flow My Tears John Dowland (1563-1626)

La Volta William Byrd (1540-1623)

Pastime with Good Company Henry VIII

SACRED TUDOR MUSIC

Te lucis ante terminum Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Ne irascaris Domine William Byrd

Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink and Pen? William Byrd

O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth

Sing Joyfully

PART II: THE MEDICI

La Pellegrina: Intermedi for the Wedding of Ferdinando de’ Medici and Christine de Lorraine (1589)

Intermedio V: Arion and the Dolphin

Solo: Io che l’onde raffreno Cristofano Malvezzi (1547-1599)

Chorus: E noi, con questa bella diva

Solo: Godi coppia reale

Chorus: Chi vede uscir

Trio: E discacciar dal mondo

Chorus: Onde farà ritorno

Interlude: Toccata #5 Giovanni Kapsberger (1580-1651)

Solo with echoes: Jacopo Peri (1561-1633)

Dunque fra le turbide onde

Interlude: Toccata prima Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

Chorus: Lieti solcando il mare Cristofano Malvezzi

Intermedio VI: Jove’s Gift to Mortals of Rhythm and Harmony

Chorus: O che nuovo miracolo Emilio de’ Cavalieri (1550-1602)

THE TUDORS

The dynastic European families engaged in patronage of the arts for multifaceted reasons. Some were true lovers of music and visual arts, supporting them for their own merits, while others saw the arts as a projection of political power or an opportunity for prestige. The music that was produced under their rule has as much to tell us about the political climate of the day as it does about the imaginations of the artists themselves.

The Tudors came to power with the ascent of Henry VII to the throne in 1485 and ruled until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Henry VIII, perhaps along with Elizabeth the most known of the Tudor monarchs, was not only a patron but also a participant in the arts. Descriptions from early in his reign commonly refer to an enlightened and moderate king with a love for the finer things in life. Little did they suspect the upheaval to come as Henry dissolved one marriage after another in search of a male heir.

Henry was proficient in multiple languages, played several instruments, and was said to be an enthusiastic singer. He also tried his hand at composition, and though his efforts cannot be considered equal to the professional composers of his day, he nonetheless produced some credible tunes, including Pastime with Good Company, an ode to the privileged life he enjoyed. The famous tune Greensleeves sometimes attributed to him, though we now believe that it likely dates from later in the Tudor period.

In addition to Henry, we hear music of two later Tudor composers, Orlando Gibbons and John Dowland, who represent a more mature and assured compositional style. Gibbons’ Hosanna to the Son of David is notable for intricate counterpoint, and Dowland’s Flow My Tears, for voice and lute, is an example of the beautifully sorrowful tunes in which he excelled. Byrd’s keyboard piece La Volta is a brief interlude.

When Henry VIII sought papal dispensation for a divorce from his first wife, the Pope refused, leading Henry to break from Rome and establish the Anglican faith with himself as head. Henry’s death in 1547 set off a period in which the official state religion shifted from Protestantism under Henry’s successor Edward VI, to Catholicism under Mary I, and back to Protestantism again under Elizabeth I. The two most famous Tudor composers, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, had to navigate these turbulent waters,

that we hear on this program, as well as Latin motets for Catholic use, many of which, like Ne irascaris Domine, had hidden or even overt messages of resistance.

Though Byrd enjoyed an official position with the Chapel Royal, there is no question that his sympathies lay with the Catholic community. In 1581, the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion, who was leading an underground Catholic ministry, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death. For Catholics, who had been reduced to holding their practices in secret, the praise of Campion in Why Do I Use was a dangerous act. Byrd escaped arrest due most likely to his political connections and his position at the Chapel Royal, which afforded him some measure of protection. Byrd’s O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth is both a beautiful anthem and a politically astute strategy to maintain that protection that allowed him to practice his faith in an increasingly hostile climate.

THE MEDICI

The power of the House of Medici stemmed from financial and business interests in Florence dating back to the 13th-century. Sponsors of generations of creators, the Medici supported the architect Brunelleschi, the sculptor Donatello, and the multi-faceted Leonardo Da Vinci. They were also instrumental in the creation of the Florentine Camerata, a group of poets, thinkers, and musicians who would create the world’s first operas.

The Medici consolidated their power through a series of political marriages that allied them first with other local Florentine families, then the Roman nobility, and finally with prominent royal families of the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and eventually France with the 1589 marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinando de’ Medici and Princess Christine of Lorraine. The wedding was a grand event in Florentine society which was celebrated by a month of elaborate pageantry. Meant to project the power of Florence’s most prominent family, it called upon the combined artistic, intellectual, and administrative forces of Tuscany at the peak of its wealth and cultural prestige, resulting in a dazzling expression of Florentine artistry. Great entertainments were planned for the couple and their guests, including the play La Pellegrina. Musical interludes known as intermedi were organized, featuring spectacular special effects that tested the ingenuity of Florence’s greatest artisans and musicians, who were engaged for these spectacles.

In setting the Greek myth Arion and the Dolphin (Intermedio V), composers Cristofano Malvezzi and Jacopo Peri set verse written in praise of Ferdinand and Christine. First, the Amphtrite, the sea goddess and wife to Poseidon, appears along with her nymphs, praising the couple, their expected progeny, and the golden age their reign will usher in. In the next scene we meet Arion, a poet and musician from the island of Lesbos, who travels to Sicily for a music competition. Having triumphed, Arion is on a ship returning to Greece when his companions contrive to steal the treasure that was his prize. Arion asks that before being killed he be given the chance to sing a final lament, Dunque fra le turbide onde. With its extensive echo effects and dramatic solo writing, this is the centerpiece of the intermedio and a precursor to the operatic style that Peri would eventually bring to fruition.

Given the choice of death on board or death in the water, Arion throws himself into the sea, and the sailors divide up his treasure in a rustic madrigal (Lieti solcando il mare). A friendly dolphin, attracted by the beauty of Arion’s singing, rescues him, and he sails on its back to safety, leading to a final song of praise (taken here from Intermedio VI) naming Ferdinand and Christine and wishing them happiness and long life.

— Joshua Habermann

Colin Jacobsen, violinist and artistic director

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Hosanna to the Son of David

Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Blessed be the King of Israel. Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest places. Hosanna in the highest heavens.

— Matthew 21:9

Greensleeves

Alas, my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; For I have loved you well and long Delighting in your company.

Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight.

Greensleeves was my heart of gold And who but my lady greensleeves.

Your vows you’ve broken, like my heart. Oh, why did you so enrapture me?

Now I remain in a world apart

But my heart remains in captivity.

Greensleeves was all my joy…

— Anonymous (attributed to Henry VIII)

Flow My Tears

Flow, my tears, fall from your springs!

Exiled forever, let me mourn;

Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorn.

Down vain lights, shine you no more!

No nights are dark enough for those That in despair their last fortunes deplore. Light doth but shame disclose.

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Never may my woes be relieved, Since pity is fled; And tears and sighs and groans my weary days Of all joys have deprived.

From the highest spire of contentment

My fortune is thrown

And fear and grief and pain for my deserts Are my hopes, since hope is gone.

Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell, Learn to condemn light Happy, happy they that in hell Feel not the world’s despite.

— John Dowland (1563-1626)

Pastime with Good Company

Pastime with good company I love and shall until I die Grudge who will but none deny So God be pleased thus live will I.

For my pastance* hunt, sing, and dance

My heart is set for my comfort

All goodly sport, who shall me let?

Youth must have some dalliance of good Or ill some pastance. Company methinks then best All thoughts and fancies to digest.

For idleness is chief mistress of vices all Then who can say but mirth and play are best of all.

*pleasure

— Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Te lucis ante terminum (sung in Latin)

Te lucis ante terminum, Rerum Creator poscimus, Ut solita clementia

Sis præsul ad custodiam.

Procul recedant somnia, Et noctium phantasmata; Hostemque nostrum comprime, Ne polluantur corpora.

Præsta, Pater omnipotens, Per Iesum Christum Dominum; Qui tecum in perpetuum Regnat cum Sancto Spiritu. Amen.

— Traditional Latin, translation by J. M. Neale

Ne irascaris Domine (sung in Latin)

Ne irascaris Domine satis, et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae. Ecce respice populus tuus omnes nos.

Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta. Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est.

— Isaiah 64:9-10

Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink and Pen?

Why do I use my paper, ink and pen, And call my wits to counsel what to say? Such memories were made for mortal men; I speak of Saints whose names cannot decay. An Angel’s trump were fitter for to sound Their glorious death if such on earth were found.

— Henry Walpole (1558-1595)

O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth

O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen to rejoice in thy strength:

Give her her heart’s desire, and deny not the request of her lips;

But prevent her with thine everlasting blessing, and give her a long life

Even for ever and ever. Amen.

— Traditional English prayer

Before the ending of the day, Creator of the world, we pray That with thy wonted favor, Thou Would be our guard and keeper now.

From all ill dreams defend our eyes, From nightly fears and fantasies; Tread under foot our ghostly foe, That no pollution we may know.

O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Shall live and reign eternally. Amen.

Be not angry, O Lord, and remember our iniquity no more. Behold, we are all your people.

Your holy city has become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem has been made desolate. Sing Joyfully

Sing joyfully to God our strength; sing loud unto the God of Jacob! Take the song, bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp, and the viol. Blow the trumpet in the new moon, even in the time appointed, and at our feast day. For this is a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

— Psalm 81

Intermedio V: Arione e il delfino (sung in Italian) (Arion

and the Dolphin)

Amphitrite (Goddess of the Sea)

Io che l’onde raffreno a mio talento e son del mar Regina a cui s’alterr’e inchina ogni nume ch’al mar alberga in seno. Ad inchinarmi o Regi sposi vegno fin dal profondo del mio vasto regno.

Nymphs

E noi, con questa bella diva nostr’Anfitrite, da liquidi cristalli di perl’e di coralli siam’a inchinar a voi gran regi uscite.

Amphitrite

Godi coppia reale poi che d’ardente zelo lieta s’inchina il mar la terra e’l cielo.

Nymphs

Chi vede uscir da voi un così chiaro seme, ch’adornerà l’un polo, e l’altro insieme.

Amphitrite and Two Nymphs

E discacciar dal mondo il crudo serperio che di più sempr’haver cresce il desio.

Nymphs

Onde farà ritorno la vaga età primiera Vostra mercede o regia coppia altera.

I, at whose command the waves are stilled the Queen of the Sea before whom do bow and bend their knee all the divinities who dwell in the ocean, to salute you, O Royal Pair, I come from the depths of my vast realm. We too, with this lovely Goddess, our Queen Amphitrite, have left our crystal waters bejeweled with pearl and coral to salute you, great Princes.

Rejoice, O Royal Couple, since with ardent zeal Earth, Sea and Sky salute you joyfully.

Fortelling a progeny of such lustre issuing from you That will grace the earth from pole to pole.

And rid the world of the rough, evil serpent Whose appetite but grows as he devours.

And thus the happiness of a former age will return by your bounty, O noble Royal Pair.

Amphitrite and the Nymphs disappear at the arrival of a great galleon, full of sailors who sing and play instruments.

Arion stands in the stern of the vessel, dressed as an ancient poet and crowned with a laurel. He has sailed from Italy with great riches, which the sailors covet. Knowing that they intend to kill him, he has prevailed on them to allow him to sing a final lament.

Arion (with echoes)

Dunque fra turbid’onde

Gl’ultimi mei sospir manderò fuore

Ecco gentil con tuoi soav’accenti

Raddoppia i miei tormenti.

Ahi lacrime, ahi dolore

Ahi morte tropp’acerba e troppo dura.

Ma deh chi n’assicura

O di terra, o di Cielo

S’à tort’io mi querelo.

E s’à ragion doglio

Movetevi a pietà del mio cordoglio.

So amid murky water

I am to breathe my last sighs. Kindly, Echo, let your sweet voice reiterate my plaint!

Alas, I weep! Alas, I grieve!

Alas, I die a bitter, cruel death! But tell me who on the earth or in the heavens

Will assure me that my fears are misplaced, Or, if my foreboding is justified, have compassion on my plight.

Sailors

Lieti solcando il mare cantiam compagni fidi

Ecco ch’il cielo

ai nostri bei desir cortese aspira

Già fatto freddo gielo

l’infelice Arion l’anima spira

Dentr’a quell’acque hor noi godiam felici dei tesori suoi.

— Giovanni de Bardi (1534-1612) and Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621)

From Intermedio VI: Jove’s Gift to Mortals of Rhythm and Harmony:

O che nuovo miracolo!

Ecco ch’in terra scendono,

Celeste alto spettacolo

Gli Dei che il mondo accendono

Ecco Himeneo e Venere

Col piè la terra hor premere

Three Ladies

Del grande Heroe che con benigna legge

Hetruria affrena e regge

Udito ha Giove in Cielo

Il purissimo zelo, E dal suo seggio santo

Manda il ballo e il canto.

Sailing cheerfully over the sea, let’s sing, old friends. Now that the Gods have kindly granted our wishes, ice-cold already, the wretched Arion has breathed his last. In these waters, let us now enjoy his riches.

What new miracles!

Behold descending to the earth

In noble celestial display

The life-kindling Gods

Behold Himeneo and Venus

Now setting foot upon the earth.

Jove in his heaven has affirmed

The purity and devotion of the great leader

Whose benign rule governs Etruria

Now from his sacred throne

He sends dance and song.

During the lament the sailors have crept up on him with knives drawn. Now they pounce, but he escapes by diving overboard, and is saved by a friendly dolphin, which had been attracted by his singing. The sailors, believing him drowned, sing a joyful madrigal as they divide up his treasure among themselves. (continued on next page)

All

Che porti, o drapel nobile ch’orni la terra immobile?

Ladies

Portiamo il bello e il buon che in ciel si serra per far al paradiso ugual la Terra.

All

Tornerà d’auro il secolo?

Ladies

Tornerà il secol d’oro, e di real costume ogni più chiaro lume.

All

Quando verrà che fugghino i mali e si distrugghino.

Ladies

Di questo nuovo Sole nel subito apparire; E i gigli e le viole si vedranno fiorire.

All O felice stagion, beata Flora!

Ladies

Arno, ben sarai tu beato a pieno per le nozze felici di Loreno.

All

O novella d’Amor fiamma lucente!

Ladies

Questa è la fiamma ardente che infiammerà d’amore ancor l’anime spente.

All

Ecco ch’Amor e Flora il Ciel arde e innamora.

Ladies

A la sposa reale corona trionfale Tessin Ninfe e Pastori dei più leggiadri fiori.

All

Ferdinando hor va felice altero.

Ladies

La Vergine gentil di santo foco Arde e si accinge a l’amoroso gioco.

What have you brought, o noble ones, to adorn the hard Earth?

We bring the goodness and beauty that are stored in heaven, so that the Earth may resemble Paradise

Will the Age of Gold return?

The Golden Age will return, and every bright light in royal display

When will all evil be banished and destroyed?

As soon as this new sun makes his appearance And lilies and violets are seen to bloom.

O season of happiness! Blest be Flora!

Arno, you will be fully blest by this joyful union with Lorraine.

O shining flame of nascent love!

This is the burning flame that will infuse with love even lifeless souls.

Behold how Cupid and Flora set the heavens ablaze with love.

For the royal bride, let Nymphs and Shepherds weave a triumphal garland of the most prized flowers

Happy indeed is Ferdinando.

The noble lady shines with holy ardor and prepares herself for lovers’ play.

(continued on page 23)

–2024

SHOWCASE OF THE STARS

Sep 10, 2023—4:00 pm | The Lensic

Anne-Marie McDermott, Piano

THE PLANETS

Oct 15, 2023—4:00 pm | The Lensic

Ida Kavafian, Violin

Himari Yoshimura, Violin

The Symphony Chorus Ensemble

Cris Moore, Narrator—SFI Professor

FREE! CHORAL MASTERWORKS

Oct 29, 2023—3:00 pm | Cathedral Basilica

SFS STRATA I—Fall 2023

HANDEL’S MESSIAH

Nov 18, 2023—7:00 pm The Lensic

Nov 19, 2023—4:00 pm The Lensic

The Symphony Chorus

Caitlin Gotimer, Soprano

Kathleen Felty, Mezzo-Soprano

Philippe L’Esperance, Tenor

Cory McGee, Bass-Baritone

SOUNDS OF THE SEASON

Dec 10, 2023—4:00 pm | The Lensic

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association

Toby Vigneaux, Bass

—2023 Concerto Competition Winner

FREE! CAROLS & CHORUSES

Dec 12, 2023—7:00 pm | Cathedral Basilica

NOCHEBUENA CLÁSICA!

Dec 24, 2023—4:00 pm | The Lensic

Jason Vieaux, Guitar

PHILIPPE QUINT IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE

January 14, 2024—4:00 pm | The Lensic

AMERICAN CLASSICS

Feb 18, 2024—4:00 pm | The Lensic

The Symphony Chorus

Alexi Kenney, Violin

ITALIAN NIGHTS

March 17, 2024—4:00 pm | The Lensic

Kimberly Fredenburgh, Viola

SFS STRATA II—Spring 2024

OCEANA

April 21, 2024—4:00 pm | The Lensic

Gabriel Martins, Cello

BEETHOVEN’S NINTH

May 19, 2024—4:00 pm | The Lensic

The Symphony Chorus

Teresa Perrotta, Soprano

Katherine DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano

Anthony Leon, Tenor

Griffen Hogan Tracy, Bass

FREE! WE REMEMBER

May 21, 2024—4:00 pm | Cathedral Basilica

Voi Dei, scoprite a noi la regia prole.

Nasceran semidei che renderan felice del mond’ogni pendice.

Serbin le glorie i cign’in queste rive di Medici e Loreno eterne e vive.

Le meraviglie nuove noi narremo a Giove. Hor te, Coppia Reale, il Ciel rend’immortale.

Le quercie hor mel distillino e latte i fiumi corrino, d’amor l’alme sfavillino e gli empi vitii aborrino, e Clio tessa l’histoire di così eterne glorie.

Giudin vezzosi balli fra queste amene valli, portin Ninfe e Pastori del Arno al ciel gli onori. Giove benigno aspiri ai vostri alti disiri. Cantiam lieti lodando Cristina e Ferdinando!

— Laura Lucchesini (1550-1599)

O Gods, reveal to us the royal progeny.

Demigods will be born, who will bring joy to all the land.

May our swans preserve the glory of Medici and Lorraine forever.

We will tell of all these new wonders to Jove. Upon you, O Royal Pair, the Gods confer immortality.

Let oak trees drip with honey and rivers run with milk; let all souls shine with love and the wicked turn from evil, and Cleo weave the story of these eternal glories. Let graceful dances resound through these pleasant vales, and Nymphs and Shepherds cry Arno’s glory to the sky. May benign Jove grant your fondest desires. With joyful song let us praise Cristina and Ferdinando!

Photo: Tira Howard Photography

the AMERICAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

PROGRAM SPONSORS

Members of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale Board of Directors and Directors

Emeriti in honor of Artistic Director

Joshua Habermann’s 15th Anniversary Season

CONDUCTOR

Joshua Habermann Artistic Director

Sponsored by Carmen Paradis and Brian McGrath

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

James K. Bass

Sonnet “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, 1883. “Haven to Home” at the Library of Congress. Right photo: Hoptocopter

Rich and Complex Stories from Our Nation’s Newcomers

The unique musical language of the United States is rooted in the songs brought to her shores by successive waves of immigrants. Listeners will embark on a musical journey that explores how their contributions have influenced and defined our country’s music, and given us the rich tapestry of American song. Combining the power of the spoken word with choral music, the full twenty-four voices of the Desert Chorale and collaborative pianist Nathan Salazar give voice to the complex stories of uncertainty and hope from those moving from one home to another. This program will also feature the world premiere of Northland, a piece written especially for the Desert Chorale by the GRAMMY®nominated composer Kile Smith. The text of this new work consists of four poems by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay (1890-1948) in which he wrestles with his own immigrant experience.

Sunday, July 23, 2023 | 4 pm

Sponsored by Greg Dove

Saturday, July 29, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Sponsored by Felicia and Daniel Morrow

Friday, August 4, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Sponsored by James Murphy and Roxanne Howe-Murphy

Pre-concert Lecturer: Dr. Gregory Grabowski

All concerts will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

CONCERT PROGRAM

THE GARDEN

Narrator: Ama Zathura

Piano: Nathan Salazar

Reading: I want to tell you a story: my story, our story

Luna Liberiana

Jesús Bonilla Chavarría (1911-1999) (arr. Song)

Fiesta Cristian Grases (b. 1973)

THE FALL

Reading: It all started with the gangs…

Identity from Cantos Sagrados James MacMillan (b. 1959)

Please Hold Your Applause

THE JOURNEY

Reading: When they came to the house the second time

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Trad. African-American (arr. Johnson)

Dominus Vobiscum Sydney Guillaume (b. 1982)

Please Hold Your Applause

Reading: Song of the Exiles

City Called Heaven

Precious Lord Take My Hand

Way Over in Beulah Lan’

TO ONE COMING NORTH

Reading: Mother Country I

Her Beacon Hand Still Beckons

Trad. African-American (arr. Poelinitz)

Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993)

Trad. African-American (arr. Gibbs)

Caroline Shaw (b. 1990) from To the Hands

Northland (2023 Commission)

1. The Tropics in New York

2. America

3. On Broadway

4. To One Coming North

THE DREAM

Reading: Mother Country II

Kile Smith (b. 1956)

North Ryan O’Neal (b. 1981) (arr. Chung)

Hands

Jocelyn Hagen (b. 1980)

PROGRAM NOTES

the AMERICAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

Reading: Our Story

I want to tell you a story, my story, our story. It’s a story of love, and of violence. The best of life and the worst, and losing everything you cared about in this world, only to land in a place you never expected to be.

I’ll tell you, the village where I was born was like a paradise. There were so many trees and animals, little birds, a lake, and a sweetly flowing stream. It was green, green like parrots, green like the sea. We didn’t have much, but what we had was enough, and there was a time when we lived happily there, never imagining what was to come.

Luna Liberiana (sung in Spanish)

¡Oh Luna divina que ilumina nuestra tierra! Misterio insondable que confunde nuestras almas.

Sale el astro, entre nubes, misteriosas y oscuras que ilumina nuestras almas.

Luna Liberiana, luna para amar, Misteriosas noches que embriagan de amor. Es un paraíso que el Creador nos dió, de mujeres bellas que saben amar.

Luna Liberiana, luna para amar, yo bajo tu manto lloro de placer, y en noches calladas cuando todo duerme, luna Liberiana yo velo por ti.

— Jesús Bonilla Chavarría (1912-1999)

Fiesta

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Reading: The Gangs

Oh divine moon that shines down on our land! Unfathomable mystery that bewitches us.

The star emerges amid deep and dark clouds illuminating our souls.

Liberian moon, moon for loving, mysterious nights of intoxicating joy. It is a paradise, given to us by the Creator, of beautiful women who know of love.

Liberian moon, moon for loving, under your mantle I cry for joy, and on quiet nights when everything sleeps, Liberian moon, I watch for you.

It all started with the gangs. We had to pay la renta; for protection, they said. At night they left little pieces of paper at people’s houses, threatening, “If you don’t pay us, we’ll kill your daughter, your son.” At first we managed, but they demanded more and more each month, and there was no way to keep up. Finally my grandmother had enough, and told them to leave us in peace, that we wouldn’t pay anymore. The beating she got was a warning to us all.

Identity

What did you say – they found another one? – I can’t hear you – this morning another one floating in the river?

talk louder – so you didn’t even dare no-one can identify him? the police said not even his mother not even the mother who bore him not even she could they said that?

the other women already tried – I can’t understand what you’re saying, they turned him over and looked at his face, his hands they looked at, right, they’re all waiting together, silent, in mourning, on the riverbank, they took him out of the water he’s naked as the day he was born, there’s a police captain and they won’t leave until I get there? He doesn’t belong to anybody, you say he doesn’t belong to anybody? tell them I’m getting dressed, I’m leaving now if the captain’s the same one as last time he knows – he knows what will happen.

that body will have my namemy son’s my husband’s my father’s name

I’ll sign the papers tell them tell them I’m on my way, wait for me and don’t let that captain touch him, don’t let that captain take one step closer to him.

Tell them not to worry: I can bury my own dead.

— Ariel Dorfman (tr. Edie Grossman)

(Sung in Latin)

Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu:

libera eas de ore leonis ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum.

— Requiem Mass

Please Hold Your Applause

Deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of hell, and from the depths of the pit:

deliver them from the lion’s mouth, that hell devour them not, that they fall not into darkness.

Reading: Firestorm

When they came to the house the second time, I grabbed my little sister and we ran to the mountain. From our hiding place we watched as they poured gasoline on our house and lit it with a match. Burned the whole place down. I told my grandmother, “Abuelita, we’ve got to get out of here.” We knew there was no choice, the time had come to leave everything we had ever known. Our abuelita was too old to make the journey, so she stayed behind, and my sister and I gathered what little we could, and set out alone. So very alone.

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, a long way from home.

Sometimes I feel like I got no friends, a long way from home.

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost home, a long way from home.

— Traditional African American spiritual

Dominus Vobiscum (sung in Haitian Creole)

Dominus vobiscum

Gran Mèt-la avèk nou

Li la nan mitan nou

Li la nan fon kè nou

Amen, amen aleluya

Depi nan tan benmbo

Nap mache, nap chèche, nap mande

Ki lè, ki tan, ki jou

Limiè-a va leve pou vin delivre nou?

Limiè lapè-a, limiè la verite-a

Limiè la joua-a, limiè lespwa-a

Limiè lanmou-a, limiè la vi-a

Koute, kilè, ki tan, ki jou?

Jodia an nou chante: Dominus vobiscum

Mache, chèche, mande

Li la nan mitan nou (li la, wi li la)

Mache, chèche, mande

Li la nan fon kè nou

— Gabriel Toussaint Guillaume (b. 1939)

Please Hold Your Applause

The Lord be with you

The Lord is with us

He is there among us

He is in the depths of our hearts

Amen, amen, alleluia

Since the beginning of time

We have been searching, seeking, asking

When will the light come, at last, to deliver us?

The light of peace, the light of truth,

The light of joy, the light of hope

The light of love, the light of life

Listen, when at last?

Today let us all sing: the Lord be with you

Search, seek, ask

He is among us (yes, He is here)

Search, seek, ask:

He is in the depths of our hearts

Reading: Song of the Exiles

(Maybe) there never was a garden, only a leaving: miles and miles of footprints in the dirt. In the beginning— the shattered sun, the wind, and nothing left but our shadows sifting through the dust behind us.

When we turned we did not turn to salt. When we turned there was nothing behind us to burn nothing to return to, though who could blame us for turning, with only the long days ahead, tongues tripping in the dirt. They said we didn’t belong. They blamed us for leaving the garden which never was or would be. Where could we go, we who had come from nowhere and hence could not return?

— Holly Karapetkova (b.

1974)

City Called Heaven

I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow I’m left in this wide world alone I ain’t got no hope for tomorrow I’m tryin’ to make it, make heaven my home

Sometimes I’m tossed and I’m driven, Lord Sometimes I just don’t know which way to turn I heard of a city called heaven I’m tryin’ to make it, make heaven my home

–Traditional African American

Precious Lord Take My Hand

Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me on, let me stand, I am tired, I am weak, I am worn. Through the storm, through the night lead me on to the light, take my hand, Lord, and lead me home. When my way grows drear precious Lord, linger near when my life is almost gone. At the river, Lord, I stand, guide my feet and hold my hand, take my hand, Lord, and lead me home.

— Thomas A. Dorsey

(Music on loan from the B.C. Choral Federation Virtual Library)

Way Over in Beulah Lan’

We gonna have a good, good time, way over in Beulah Lan’. Oh, when we get way over in Beulah Lan’, yes, way over in Beulah Lan’.

Oh, we gonna walk them golden streets. Oh, we gonna drink of the Holy wine. When we get to heaven, children, we gonna have a good, good time

Way over in Beulah Lan’!

— Traditional African American

Reading: Mother Country (excerpts)

To love a country as if you’ve lost one: 1968, my mother leaves for America, a scene I imagine as if standing in her place—one foot destined for a country she knew only as a name, a color on a map, her other foot anchored to her patria, her hand clutched around one suitcase, taking only what she needs most: hand-colored photographs of her family her wedding veil the doorknob of her house a jar of dirt from her backyard.

To love a country as if you’ve lost one: as if it were you departing forever the last scene in which you’re a madman scribbling the names of your favorite flowers, trees, and birds you’d never see again, the address and phone number you’d never use again, the color of your father’s eyes, your mother’s hair.

One last, deep breath of familiar air

One last glimpse at all she’d ever known

The palm trees wave goodbye as she steps into another life. — Richard Blanco (b. 1968)

Copyright © 2019 by Richard Blanco.

From How to Love a Country (Beacon Press, 2019), used with permission by Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents.

Her Beacon Hand Still Beckons

Her beacon hand beckons: give Give to me

Give to me those yearning to be free Tempest tossed they cannot see What lies beyond the olive tree Whose branch was lost amid the pleas for mercy

Give

Give to me

Your tired fighters fleeing flying from the From the From

Let them

I will be your refuge

I will be

We will be

We will be your refuge

— Text by Caroline Shaw, responding to “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, which was mounted on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty

Northland

I. The Tropics in New York

Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grapefruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs, Sat in the window, bringing memories

Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills, And dewy dawns, and mystical skies

In benediction over nun-like hills.

My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze; A wave of longing through my body swept, And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

II. America

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate, Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, And see her might and granite wonders there, Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand, Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

III. On Broadway

About me young careless feet Linger along the garish street; Above, a hundred shouting signs

Shed down their bright fantastic glow Upon the merry crowd and lines

Of moving carriages below. Oh wonderful is Broadway — only My heart, my heart is lonely.

Desire naked, linked with Passion, Goes trutting by in brazen fashion; From playhouse, cabaret and inn

The rainbow lights of Broadway blaze

All gay without, all glad within; As in a dream I stand and gaze

At Broadway, shining Broadway — only My heart, my heart is lonely.

IV. To One Coming North

At first you’ll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, Or waters of the hills that softly flow Gracefully falling down a shining stair.

And when the fields and streets are covered white And the wind-worried void is chilly, raw, Or underneath a spell of heat and light The cheerless frozen spots begin to thaw, Like me you’ll long for home, where birds’ glad song Means flowering lanes and leas and spaces dry, And tender thoughts and feelings fine and strong, Beneath a vivid silver-flecked blue sky.

But oh! more than the changeless southern isles, When Spring has shed upon the earth her charm, You’ll love the Northland wreathed in golden smiles By the miraculous sun turned glad and warm.

— Claude McKay (1890-1948)

Reading: Mother Country (excerpts)

To love a country as if you’ve lost one: My mother—once upon a time—reading picture books over my shoulder at bedtime, both of us learning English. I taste her first attempts at macaroni-n-cheese (but with chorizo and peppers), and her shame over Thanksgiving turkeys always dry, but countered by her perfect pork pernil and garlic yuca.

I smell the rain of those mornings huddled under one umbrella waiting for the bus to her ten-hour days at the cash register. At night, the zzz-zzz of her sewing her own blouses, quinceañera dresses for her nieces at home, guessing at their sizes, and the gowns she’d sell to neighbors to save for a rusty white sedan— no hubcaps, no air-conditioning, sweating all the way through our first American vacation.

To love a country as if I was my mother last spring hobbling, insisting I help her climb all the way up to the U.S. Capitol, cheeks pink as the cherry blossoms coloring the air that day when she stopped, turned to me, and said: You know, mijo, it isn’t where you’re born that matters, it’s where you choose to die—that’s your country.

— Richard Blanco

Copyright

© 2019 by Richard Blanco.

From How to Love a Country (Beacon Press, 2019), used with permission by Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents.

North

We will call this place our home

The dirt in which our roots may grow

Though the storms will push and pull

We will call this place our home

We’ll tell our stories on these walls

Every year measure how tall

And just like a work of art

We’ll tell our stories on these walls

Let the years we’re here be kind

Let our hearts like doors open wide, open wide

Settle our bones like wood over time, over time

Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine

A little broken, little new

We are the impact and the glue

Capable more than we know

We’ll call this fixer upper home

With each year our color fades

Slowly our paint chips away

But we will find the strength

And the nerve it takes

To repaint, and repaint, and repaint every day

Let the years we’re here be kind

Let our hearts like doors open wide, open wide

Settle our bones like wood over time, over time

Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine

Smaller than dust on this map

Lies the greatest thing we have

The dirt in which our roots may grow

And the right to call it home

— Ryan O’Neal (b. 1981)

Hands

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Join

The Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale requests the pleasure of your company at our 41st Season Gala Spectacular

FROM 6 pm

Cocktail reception featuring the High Desert Jazz Trio

AWARD PRESENTATION at 6:45 pm

Angel Award in memory of Thomas F. McGuire

DINNER at 7:15 pm

Tuscan-themed menu created by Executive Chef Andrew Fox

PERFORMANCE

Special performance by your Santa Fe Desert Chorale

PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A GALA DONATION

The success of our Gala relies entirely on your generous contributions in advance — no auctions, paddle raises, or other requests will occur during this event. Instead, we kindly ask that you consider making a gift at one of the levels below in support of your Santa Fe Desert Chorale.

Ruby: $5,000 Gold: $3,500 Silver: $2,500 Bronze: $1,500

FOR MORE INFORMATION (505) 988-2282, or desertchorale.org/gala

PROGRAM SPONSOR

Suzanne M. Timble

Two Glorious Collaborations that Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat

Prepare to be transported by two virtuosic works for strings and voices from the celebrated George Frideric Handel and award-winning living composer Tarik O’Regan. The program opens with O’Regan’s work, The Ecstasies Above, which is a setting of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Israfel,” describing an angel whose “heart strings are a lute, and who possesses the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures.”

We then continue into Dixit Dominus, showcasing Handel at his most Italianate with exciting ornamentation and rhythmic drive. Several Desert Chorale artists step out of the full ensemble texture for impressive solos throughout the piece. A chamber orchestra joins the twentyfour voices of the Chorale for this masterful program filled with musical acrobatics and ethereal soundscapes you won’t soon forget.

Thursday, July 27, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Sponsored by Sara J. McKenzie

Sunday, July 30, 2023 | 4 pm

Sponsored by Patricia “Tish” Romer in memory of Joan Berner

Saturday, August 5, 2023 | 7:30 pm

Pre-concert Lecturer: Dr. Kathryn Lowerre

Sponsored by Steven Kerchoff

All concerts will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

CONCERT PROGRAM

Violin I: Stephen Redfield, Elizabeth Baker

Violin II: David Felberg, Carla Kountoupes

Viola: Jeffrey Smith, Laura Steiner

Cello: Katie Rietman

Bass: Deborah Dunham

Organ & Harpsichord: Kathleen McIntosh

The Ecstasies Above

Dixit Dominus

I. Chorus: Dixit Dominus

II. Aria: Virgam virtutis tuae

III. Aria: Tecum principium in die virtutis

IV. Chorus: Juravit Dominus

V. Chorus: Tu es sacerdos in aeternum

Tarik O’Regan (b. 1978)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

VI. Soli and Chorus: Dominus a dextris tuis

VII. Soli and Chorus: De torrente in via bibet

VIII. Chorus: Gloria Patri et Filio

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PROGRAM NOTES

Our program features two composers with British connections, one who left home for the United States, and the other an immigrant who settled in London and became a British subject, living there for over 40 years.

Written in 2007, The Ecstasies Above takes its title from a phrase found in the lyric poem, Israfel, by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). Poe describes the angel Israfel, whose “heart strings were a lute” and was said to have the sweetest voice of all creation. In his program notes, O’Regan writes:

“Musically the score makes much use of textural variation between the three groups (full chorus, solo octet and string quartet). The tug of war between material that is almost childlike in its playfulness and sections that seem more sombre reflect my own thoughts on Poe’s œuvre…

I wrote The Ecstasies Above at Yaddo, a mansion now used as an artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York. Visitors to Barhyte’s estate included John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and, most importantly in the context of my work, Edgar Allan Poe. He visited in the early 1840s where he scripted part of an early version of his most famous poem, The Raven.”

Musically, Ecstasies is characterized by spirited imitation among the voices and driving rhythms in the string group, giving the work a whirling, propulsive energy. It is only in the work’s final minutes that a calm settles, with soloists floating above the texture, invoking the heavenly imagery of Poe’s text.

Handel’s Dixit Dominus is an early work, dating from the years he spent in Italy prior to settling in England. Upon his arrival in Rome, Handel was widely acclaimed in quotes such as this from Francesco Valesio:

“There has arrived in this city a Saxon, a most excellent player on the harpsichord and composer, who today gave a flourish of his skill by playing the organ in the church of S. Giovanni to the amazement of everyone present.”

While Handel had produced operas in Florence and Venice previously, opera had been banned in Rome, so Handel devoted himself to sacred music and cantatas, including his Dixit Dominus, which he completed in 1707, at 22 years of age. Written for a five-part string ensemble plus chorus and soloists, Dixit Dominus is a vigorous work, as befits the powerful and rather dark psalm text.

The first movement begins energetically with cascading arpeggios in the strings, punctuated by the chorus’s assertive repetitions of “dixit” (“[The Lord] said”) and florid solo passages requiring vocal agility. Virgam virtuis provides contrast with a gentler solo for alto, accompanied by cello and organ. In Tecum principium, a charming triple meter melody spins out in conversation between the soprano soloist and the strings.

Movement IV, Juravit Dominus, returns to the dramatic energy of the opening, with dramatic contrasts between the slow building “Juravit” and the vigorous outcries of “et non poenitebit” that follow. A similar energy is on display in Tu es sacerdos, in which the phrase “according to the order of Melchisedech” tumbles from one voice to another in a depiction of the ongoing lineage of the holy priesthood. The dynamic central section of the work comes to its full expression in movement VI, Dominus a dextris tuis, in which piercing accents and constantly running figures reflect the intensity and even violence of the text.

De torrente in via bibet represents a peaceful respite from the battle, with two soloists floating ethereally above the chanting men’s voices. This interlude sets up a return to vigor in the jubilant final movement Gloria Patri et Filio. Complex passagework, sophisticated imitation, and relentless energy propel the voices to a final triumphant “Amen.”

Composed exactly 300 years apart, these works share a common British lineage and a driving virtuosity that is the perfect vehicle for the glorious voices of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.

Tarik O’Regan

“I’m truly delighted that the Desert Chorale will be performing The Ecstasies Above, a piece very close to my heart. The work is really about perspective, about how sometimes distance is required to see beauty, and about how the immediate can be misleading. It’s a piece which requires concurrently immense rhythmic precision and textural warmth, and as a long-time admirer of the work of the Desert Chorale who embodies precisely this extremely rare combination in all that they do, I’ve long wanted the Chorale to interpret the work. Well, I’m excited to say that the day has come!” —

— Joshua Habermann

the ECSTASIES ABOVE

Israfel (as set by Tarik O’Regan)

In Heaven a spirit doth dwell

“Whose heart-strings are a lute”; None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends tell), Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute.

Tottering above

In her highest noon, The enamoured moon Blushes with love, While, to listen, the red levin (With the rapid Pleiads, even, Which were seven,) Pauses in Heaven.

And they say (the starry choir And the other listening things)

That Israfeli’s fire Is owing to that lyre

By which he sits and sings— The trembling living wire Of those unusual strings.

But the skies that angel trod, Where deep thoughts are a duty, Where Love’s a grown-up God, Where the Houri glances are Imbued with all the beauty

Which we worship in a star.

The ecstasies above

With thy burning measures suit— Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy love, With the fervour of thy lute— Well may the stars be mute!

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours.

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

From my lyre within the sky.

— Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

Dixit Dominus (sung in Latin)

I. Chorus

Dixit Dominus Domino meo: Sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.

II. Aria

Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex Sion: Dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.

III. Aria

Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae splendoribus sanctorum. Ex utero ante luciferum genui te.

IV. Chorus

Juravit Dominus et non poenitebit eum:

V. Chorus

Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech.

VI. Chorus with Solos

Dominus a dextris tuis confregit in die irae suae reges.

Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas, conquassabit capita in terra multorum.

VII. Duet with chorus

De torrente in via bibet, propterea exaltabit caput.

VIII. Chorus

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

— Psalm 110

The Lord said unto my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion: Be thou ruler, even in the midst of thine enemies.

Princes are with thee on the day of thy holy power. From the womb before the morning star have I begotten thee.

The Lord has promised and will not repent:

Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.

The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge the nations, fill the places with destruction, and shatter skulls in many lands.

He shall drink of the brook along the way, therefore shall he lift up his head.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now; and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT RECITAL

Sponsored by Allegra and Jim Derryberry

Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 4 pm St. Bede’s Episcopal Church

Our professional singers not only blend seamlessly in an ensemble—they also shine on the solo stage! Three of your favorite Desert Chorale artists come together for an art song recital with collaborative pianist Nathan Salazar in the intimate, surroundsound setting of St. Bede’s Episcopal Church.

Soave sia il vento from Così fan tutte

From 3 Poems by Edith Sitwell

Old Sir Faulk

Daphne

Sorge l’irato nembo from Orlando furioso, RV 728

Stirb in mir from Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169

Come nembo che fugge col vento

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

William Walton (1902-1983)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) from Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, HWV 46a

Angela Young Smucker, mezzo-soprano

From Shadow of the Blues

II. Litany

III. Island

From Das Buch des Hängenden Gärten op. 15

III. Als Neuling trat ich ein in dein Gehege

IV. Da meine Lippen reglos sind und brennen

X. Das schöne Beet betracht ich mir im Harren

From Ariettes Oubliées

I. C’est l’extase

II. Il pleure dans mon coeur

III. L’ombre des arbres

Shema from Sacred Place

Chelsea Helm, soprano

John Musto (b. 1954)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Alex Berko (b. 1995)

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Amazing Grace

I, Too from Three Dream Portraits

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor

When the Dove Enters In

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Miserables

He’s Got the Whole World

Make Them Hear You from Ragtime

Marques Jerrell Ruff,

bass-baritone

H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)

Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)

Claude-Michel Schönberg (b. 1944)

Moses Hogan (1957-2003)

Stephen Flaherty (b. 1960) and Lynn Ahrens (b. 1948)

TRANSIENT LANDSCAPES

Presented by Performance Santa Fe in partnership with Santa Fe Desert Chorale and St. John’s College

September 16, 2023 @ 6pm

St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Experience the sound of an Alaskan glacier in Transient Landscapes, an extraordinary, fully immersive live performance installation created by composer Matthew Burtner and percussionist Matthew Duvall. Featuring percussion, keyboards, voice, and field recordings of Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier, Transient Landscapes explores a performative means of remapping climate change into sound.

Six Desert Chorale Singers will take part in this monumental, once-in-a-lifetime sonic experience!

For tickets and more information visit performancesantafe.org/event/transient-landscapes or call

Performance Santa Fe at (505) 984-8759.

Photo: Gary Payne Angela Young Smucker

Photo: Caitlin Oldham Chelsea Helm

Photo: Darshae Spells Marques Jerrell Ruff Nathan Salazar

Photo: Evangeline Hodge

Angela Young Smucker is sponsored by Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan

Chelsea Helm is sponsored by Murray and Nancy Bern

Marques Jerrell Ruff is sponsored by Anne and Thomas Conner

Nathan Salazar is sponsored by Diane and Bill Graves

CANDLELIGHT CAROLS

DEC 9 - DEC 22, 2023

Catch a Glimpse of Snow and Evergreen this Holiday Season

Join in the festive Santa Fe holiday tradition of the Desert Chorale’s annual winter choral concert.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Encore SOCIETY

Encore is French for “Again;” a request for repetition or reappearance made by an audience; a second achievement that surpasses the first.

The Santa Fe Desert Chorale cordially invites you to join the Encore Society. Formerly known as the Legacy Circle, the Encore Society recognizes and honors all those who support us through planned giving and/or estate gifts.

Planned giving, or legacy giving, refers to the tools and techniques by which you make a charitable gift during or after your lifetime to take full advantage of current tax laws and make a substantial donation to the Desert Chorale.

There are many ways you can make a planned gift to the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Whether you give during your lifetime or from your estate, you will receive our deep appreciation and this simple word of praise again and again:

We look forward to your joining our Encore Society. To learn more or to inform us of your plans, please call (505) 988-2282 or visit desertchorale.org/support/planned-giving

Watercolor painting: Aija Jundi

Joshua Habermann is in his fifteenth season as Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Since joining the ensemble he has broadened its repertoire to include not only a cappella literature but also choral-orchestral masterworks and unique concert experiences that combine music, images, poetry and the spoken word.

Habermann has led honor choirs and choral festivals in North and Latin America, Europe and Asia. As a singer (tenor) he has performed with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus (Eugene, Oregon), and Conspirare (Austin, Texas). Recording credits include three projects with Conspirare: Through the Green Fuse, Requiem, a Grammy nominee for best choral recording in 2006, and Threshold of Night, a Grammy nominee for best choral recording and best classical album in 2009.

From 2011-2022, Joshua Habermann served as director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus, the official vocal ensemble of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, where he prepared the 200-voice chorus for classical series concerts. Highlights with the DSO include performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Verdi’s Requiem, Berlioz’s Te Deum, and Britten’s War Requiem, which was performed for the ACDA national convention in 2013. Recent international collaborations include performances of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and Duruflé’s Requiem with the Swedish Radio Orchestra, as well as tour performances in Spain, France, Sweden, Estonia and Finland.

From 1996-2008 Habermann was Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and Professor of Music at San Francisco State University, where under his direction the SFSU Chamber Singers received international engagements in Havana, Cuba, and undertook concert tours in Germany, the Czech Republic, and China. National

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Joshua Habermann

invitations included the Waging Peace Festival in Eugene, Oregon, multiple appearances at the California Music Educators Convention, and an appearance at the American Choral Directors Association regional convention in 2008.

From 2008-2011 Habermann was Director of Choral Studies at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he led the graduate program in conducting, and directed the Frost Chorale. Notable projects in Miami included an appearance at the Florida ACDA convention and collaborations with the New World Symphony and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in music of Ives, Schubert and Beethoven. During this same period Habermann led the Masterchorale of South Florida in performances of masterworks such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, and Mozart’s Requiem

A native of California, Joshua Habermann is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed doctoral studies in conducting with Craig Hella Johnson. He lives in Honolulu with his wife Joanna, daughter Kira, and son Kai.

Photos: Tira Howard Photography

2023 SUMMER FESTIVAL ARTISTS

A complete list of biographies for our 2023 Summer Festival Artists may be found on desertchorale.org

SOPRANOS ALTOS

Aine Hakamatsuka (1st Season)

Hometown: Tochigi, Japan

Current Residence: New York, NY

Chelsea Helm (6th Season)

Hometown: West Bloomfield, MI

Current Residence: Washington, DC

Savannah Porter (3rd Season)

Hometown: Fort Worth, TX

Current Residence: Provo, UT

Kathlene Ritch (15th Season)

Hometown: Kerrville, TX

Current Residence: Santa Fe, NM

Sarah Moyer (8th Season)

Hometown: Bixby, OK

Current Residence: Denver, CO

Alissa Ruth Suver (6th Season)

Hometown: Lexington, OH

Current Residence: Waco, TX

Sarah Brauer (16th Season)

Hometown: Portland, OR

Current Residence: Eugene, OR

Kerry Ginger (8th Season)

Hometown: Portland, OR

Current Residence: Chattanooga, TN

Dianna Grabowski (10th Season)

Hometown: Humble, TX

Current Residence: Nacogdoches, TX

Kate Maroney (7th Season)

Hometown: Toms River, NJ

Current Residence: Brooklyn, NY

Sarah Nickerson (15th Season)

Hometown: Fargo, ND

Current Residence: Santa Fe, NM

Angela Young Smucker (6th Season)

Hometown: Ellis Grove, IL

Current Residence: DeLand, FL

Photo: Shani Hadjian Photography

Photo: Summer Maulden

Photo: Adrian Kirtley

Photo: Olivia Ockey

Photo: Jiyang Chen

Photo: James Nickerson

Photo: Gary Payne

Photo: Blue Rose Photography

Photo: Buck Butler

Photo: Jared Rey

Photo: Shani Hadjian Photography

Chelsea Helm is sponsored by Murray and Nancy Bern

Photo: Caitlin Oldham

Sarah Moyer is sponsored by Allegra and Jim Derryberry

Kate Maroney is sponsored by Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan

Alissa Ruth Suver is sponsored by Bradley and Patricia Thompson

Kerry Ginger is sponsored by Elaine Wang Meyerhoffer in honor of Kay and Dick Anderson

Kathlene Ritch is sponsored by Stan and Janette Yeatts

Sarah Nickerson is sponsored by Jeffrey Fort and Diane Locandro

Angela Young Smucker is sponsored by Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan

Savannah Porter is sponsored by Laurie Meyer

Chris Albanese (1st Season)

Hometown: Cleveland, OH

Current Residence: Bloomington, IN

George Case (12th Season)

Hometown: Atlanta, GA

Current Residence: Santa Fe, NM

Brad Diamond (2nd Season)

Hometown: Birmingham, AL

Current Residence: Birmingham, AL

Erik Gustafson (8th Season)

Hometown: Portland, OR

Current Residence: Chattanooga, TN

Michael Jones (3rd Season)

Hometown: Peoria, IL

Current Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Bradley Naylor (15th Season)

Hometown: Houston, TX

Current Residence: Athens, OH

TENORS BASSES

Simon Barrad (2nd Season)

Hometown: Long Beach, CA

Current Residence: San Francisco, CA

James K. Bass (8th Season)

Hometown: Tampa, FL

Current Residence: Los Angeles, CA

John Buffett (10th Season)

Hometown: Hudson, OH

Current Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Harrison Hintzche (2nd Season)

Hometown: DeKalb, IL

Current Residence: New Haven, CT

Harris Ipock (10th Season)

Hometown: Chesapeake, VA

Current Residence: Granville, OH

Marques Jerrell Ruff (4th Season)

Hometown: East Hartford, CT

Current Residence: Tallahassee, FL

Photo: Hope Austin

Photo: Jonathan Cole

Photo: Lisa Kohler

Photo: Siobhan Doherty

Photo: Jackie Stevens

Photo: Kerry Travilla

Photo: Stefani Moore

Photo: Darshae Spells

Photo: Lora Sherrodd

Photo: Daniel King

Photo: Jon Simpson Photography

Matthew Fried Photography

Marques Jerrell Ruff is sponsored by Anne and Thomas Conner

Harrison Hintzsche is sponsored by Jeffrey Fort and Diane Locandro

George Case is sponsored by Richard and Chris Frenk

Bradley Naylor is sponsored by Greg Dove

Simon Barrad is sponsored by Dr. J. Randle Adair DO, PhD

2023 SUMMER FESTIVAL GUEST ARTISTS

A complete list of the biographies for our 2023 Summer Festival Guest Artists may be found on desertchorale.org

Elizabeth Baker Violin I

Program –The Ecstasies Above

Deborah Dunham Bass

Program –The Ecstasies Above

David Felberg Violin II

Program –The Ecstasies Above

Carla Kountoupes Violin II

Program –The Ecstasies Above

Kathleen McIntosh Harpsichord & Organ

Programs –The Tudors and the Medici, The Ecstasies Above

Steven Redfield Violin I

Program –The Ecstasies Above

Katie Rietman Cello Program –The Ecstasies Above

Carey Morrow Theorbo & Lute Program –The Tudors and the Medici

Nathan Salazar Piano

Program –The American Immigrant Experience

Jeffrey Smith Viola

Program –The Ecstasies Above

Laura Steiner Viola

Program –The Ecstasies Above

Ama Zathura Narrator

Program –The American Immigrant Experience

Nathan Salazar is sponsored by Diane and Bill Graves

COMMISSIONING CLUB

JOIN THE DESERT CHORALE’S COMMISSIONING CLUB AND IMPACT CONCERT PROGRAMMING.

Support the composers of our time by joining SFDC’s Commissioning Club today!

The Commissioning Club works to identify and advance emerging composers, to expand the choral canon for choruses around the world, and to ensure the legacy of the Desert Chorale as one of the country’s leading chamber choirs. The Club builds on the Desert Chorale’s rich tradition: over 41 years, the Chorale has commissioned 30 works by 27 composers. A composer for the 2025 programming season will be chosen after reviewing scores and listening to selections suggested by Artistic Director Joshua Habermann.

A $1,000 contribution per person toward the composer’s commissioning fee is all that is required to join. The result is an enduring addition to the repertoire. Commissioning Club members are invited to attend the dress rehearsal of the new work, enjoy a private evening with the composer, and take home an archival recording of the commissioned work – for your ears only.

For more information and to join the Commissioning Club, please e-mail commissioningclub@desertchorale.org.

FUND-A-NEED

SPONSORED BY THE COMMISSIONING CLUB:

Ernesto Herrera — 2025

Daniel Knaggs — 2024

Kile Smith — 2023

Jocelyn Hagen — 2022

YOUR DONATIONS SUPPORT THE CHORALE AND INVEST IN GREAT MUSIC FOR YEARS TO COME.

Subsidize a student ticket

Sponsor a singer’s travel expenses

Sponsor a pre-concert lecture

Sponsor an instrumentalist

Sponsor a singer’s housing for a season

Sponsor the Insights & Sounds Symposium

Sponsor a singer for a season

Sponsor a concert

Sponsor a video recording for Desert Chorale TV

Sponsor a composer commission

Sponsor Artistic Director

Joshua Habermann (Seasonal)

Sponsor a full concert program

Sponsor the Winter Festival season

Sponsor the Summer Festival season

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

If you would like your donation to be attributed to a specific need, please contact call our office at (505) 988-2282.

DONOR HONOR ROLL

FOUNDER

Gifts of $25,000+

Mary and Phil Delk

Greg Dove

Jeffrey Fort and Diane Locandro

Catherine and Guy Gronquist

Barry and Margaret Lyerly

The Estate of Thomas F. McGuire

Suzanne M. Timble

The 2010 Faith Charitable Lead Trust

FESTIVAL

Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999

Dmitri Bovaird and Maggie Edmondson

Johanna Cinader

Anne and Thomas Conner

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado

Bill and Diane Graves

Stephen and Jane Hochberg

Lynne and Joseph Horning

Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan

Susan Koehn, Habermann Koehn Foundation

The Estate of Evelyn Kupec

Felicia and Daniel Morrow

Carmen Paradis and Brian McGrath

MAESTRO

Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999

Dr. J. Randle Adair

James Babcock

Nancy and Murray Bern

Mark Edw. Childers

Halley Faust and Eve Cohen

Allegra and Jim Derryberry

Richard and Chris Frenk

Barbara Houser and Sarah Nolan

James Hutson-Wiley and Olga Echevarria, The Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation Inc.

Phyllis Lehmberg

Fraser and Alice McAlpine

Andrea Meditch

James Murphy and Roxanne Howe-Murphy

James and Sarah Nickerson

Susan Noel

Martha Rochelle

Patricia “Tish” Romer

Cathy and Todd Sickles

Patricia Stanley

Bradley and Patricia Thompson

Stan and Janette Yeatts

ARTIST

Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999

Anonymous (1)

Betsy and Dave Bueschel

George Case and Nathan Salazar

Margie Edwards and Ellie Edelstein

Susan Esco Chandler and Appy Chandler

John Gray and Ray Landy

Bill Keller

Lane and Phyllis Keller

Steven Kerchoff

Sara J. McKenzie

Elevate Media

Laurie Meyer

Elaine Wang Meyerhoffer

Nyla and Larry Rasmussen

Peter and Sara Rutenberg

Peter Siegel and John Fuller

Lee and David Takagi

Thornburg Investment Management

Owen Van Essen, Van Essen Family Foundation

Tobi Watson

Joyce Wolff and Richard Henderson

CHOIRMASTER

Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499

Anonymous (2)

Catherine and John Alsip

Rick Andrew and Diane Buchanan, Andrew Family Foundation

Loretta Armer

Brooke Bandfield Taylor

Cris and Marilyn Barnes

Robert and Sharon Barton

Richard Bentley

Bette Betts

Sallie Bingham

Nicholas and Catherine L. Carlozzi

Pamela Culwell and Charles Case

Susan and Conrad De Jong

Susan Eberlein

Gwen and Ralph Fuller

Karen and Bill Gahr

W. Peyton George

Jane and Ernest Godlove

Robert and Marian Haight

Nicole Hixon

Hutton Broadcasting

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Charitable Foundation Inc.

Bruce Jackson

Lynn and Jacqueline Johnson

Paul and Sylvia Johnson

Emma Marzen and Sean Johnson

Donald and Jean Lamm

Mary Anne and Bruce Larsen

Mary Lattimore

Joy and Phil LeCuyer

Charles MacKay and Cameron McCluskey

Dana and Jim Manning

William McArthur and Jennifer Martinez

New Mexico Bank & Trust

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Dana Pope

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Helena Ribe

Donald Shina and Kevin Waidmann

Karl Sommer

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Lore Thorpe

Jennifer Watson

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Susie and Jerry Wilson

PATRON

Gifts of $500 to $999

Richard and Joanne Akeroyd

May R. and Larry C. Ball

Walter Beckham

Martha Blomstrom

Diane Brinkmann

Michael L. Bustamante

Patrick Carr

Colston Chandler

Jane Clayton Oakes

Mary Costello

Dorothy Davis

George deGarmo

Isabel and Raul Delgado

Margaret M. Detwiler

Sheila and Kirk Ellis

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Madeleine Gehrig Lister

Paula Greer

Patricia Henning

Dora and Clinton Horn

Richard W. Hughes

Enrico Lagasca and Jonathan Stewart

Alan and Kathleen Davison Lebeck

Lynn F. Lee

Barbara Lynn

Rev. Hampton Mabry and Cha Foxhall

Richard Macklin and Dianne Eret

Janet McCroskey

Pamela and Don Michaelis

Network for Good

Michael and Barbara Ogg

John Overbey

David Rubenstein and Martha Braniff

John and Susan Shaffer

Judy and Bob Sherman

David and Patricia Shulman

Allen and Andrea Steele

Kazukuni Sugiyama

Total Wine & More

John Watson

With gratitude, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale recognizes gifts from individuals, businesses, and government agencies received between June 16, 2022 and June 16, 2023.

From left: David Rubenstein, Marty Braniff, Nancy Bern, Murray Bern. Photo: Tira Howard Photography

BENEFACTOR

Gifts of up to $499

Anonymous (10)

Analie Abella

Ann Aceves

Harro and Nancy Ackermann

Gabrielle Adams

Mehmet and Oya Agabigum

Mary Albani

Joseph Alcorn

Kim Alderwick

Page Allen

Richard Angelos

Albert Antonson

Andy Apple

Rev. Talitha Arnold

Janice J. Arrott

Phillip Askenazy

Patricia Assimakis

Debra Ayers and Greg DePrince

Patricia Baer

Laura Baldwin

Sarah Barlow

Dana Barnard

Mikaela Barnes

Charlene Bartolo

Sue Baum

Elizabeth S. Bayne

Constance and Douglas Beck

Anne E. Beckett

Norma Bekowies

Judith Benkendorf and Norman Marks

John and Jean Berghoff

Steven Berkshire

John and Jean Berndt

John Bernstein

C. Carvel and Betty Bevans

Lynne Bixler

Katherine Blagden

Donald G. and Jocelyn Blair

Craig Blessing

Perry and Patsy Bolin

Ted and Jamison Borek

Alina Boyko and Devendra Contractor

Iain Bray

Kathryn Braziel and Elizabeth Doak

Barbara Brooks

Isabel Bucher

Constance Burke

John Burks

Jason Burnett and Brandon Baker

Patricia Butler

Anna Cain

Maria Calderisi

Bill Cammock

Julie Ann Canepa

Stephen Canny

Maureen Cantlin

Wyndham Carlisle

Nansy and Steve Carson

Lowell Mark Carver

Michael and Suzanne Cate

Peggy Catron

Jean Charis

Jean and John Cheek

Michael Clancy

The Clorox Company

Laura Clyburn and Brad McWiliiams

Jerome Coe

Nancy Colalillo

Susan Collins

Elizabeth Colton

Laurel Colvin and Helio Fred Garcia

Marcia Congdon

Moira Connolly Marzen and Jeff Marzen

Paul Cook

Jerry Cooke

Judith Costlow

Robyn Covelli-Hunt

Diane Crane

Leslie Dala

Philip Dale

Abby Dan

Carol Deal Schaefer

Robert Deepe

Joel and Janet DeLisa

Rebecca Dempsey

Ann Dilworth and John Lathrop

Natalie Dimitruck

John and Lucy Draper

Cameron Duncan

Stephen Dunn

Edna Dunning

Dona Durham

Paul Durham

Betty Duson

Kathleen Dustin

Doug and Mary Earle

Juergen Eckert

Molly and Sam Elkind

Judy Elstner

Suzanne Epstein

Anastasia Erastova

Ralph Escue

Robert Evans

Gayle Farris

William and Margaret Feldman

Mary and Joe Ferguson

James C. and Martha S. Fifield

Peggie Findlay

Jo Fisher

Peter Fisk

James and Margaia Forcier Call

Judith Ford

Chantel Foretich

Timothy R. Fox

Anthony Franze

Charles R. Freuden

Charles Fugitt

Risa Garcia

David Gay

Monika Ghattas

Jean-Ellen Giblin and Jerome Gordon

Julanna and Bob Gilbert

Peggy Gilbert

James and JoAnn Gillula

Rochelle and Frederic Glantz

Julius and Suzan Glickman

Garry Gordon and Terri Giron

Nancy Gott

Becky Gould

Fred Graham

Wesley and Karin Granberg-Michaelson

Allen and Mary T. Gulledge

Gerald and Diane Gulseth

Robie Gunn

Rick Gustafson

Bonnie Hardwick

David Hartley

Jerald Head, M.D.

Donna and Robert Helmholz

Barbara Herrington

Ann Hicks

Jeffrey Hoffman

Miles Hoover

David and Mary Louise Hopson

Emily Hotovec

Rebecca and Steve Howard

Carol and Daniel Hughes

Linda Hummingbird

Jolie Humphrey

Hunter and Stephanie Hunt

Elizabeth Hurst-Waitz

William Jacquot

Michael and April Jaglo

Criss Jay

Gail Jensen

Brenda and Michael Jerome

Eli Jimenez

Christine H. Johnson

Kenneth and Jean Johnson

Judy Jones

Pamela A. Jones and Rupert Ortiz

Thomas and Betsy Jones

Bart Jozwik

Sara and Chris Julsrud

Marianne Kah

Canon Ted Karpf

David and Stephanie Kauffman

Diana King

Susan and Thomas Kingston

Thomas and Sally Kitch

Philippa and Karl Klessig

Robin Kline and William Summers

Kenneth Krasity and Margaret Cumming

Robert Kyr

Joanne Lang

Helen Larsen

Carol Lazier

Rita Leard

Nathan Leblang

Elizabeth Lee

Virginia Lee and Maurice Lierz

Bruce and Anne Legler

David and Julia Leifeste

Catherine and Henry Lewis

Tracy Lewis

Mark and Ann Livingston

Vicki and Jon Longmire

Thomas Lopez

From left: Margaret Lyerly, Carmen Salazar, Emma Marzen, Nate Salazar, George Case, and Roxanne Howe-Murphy.

Photo: Tira Howard Photography

Bruce Lorange

Christine and Pierre Lorillard

Linda Loving

Kathryn Lowerre and Robert Shay

Timothy Lowery

Chris Lucero

Donna Lukacs

Steven Lustig and Jessie R. Groothuis, MD

Robert Lynn and Janet Braziel

William H. Lynn and Russell M. Coffield

Donald and Judith Machen

Ann MacVicar

Sharon Manuel

Ruthann Marcelle

Yorgos Marinakis

Susan and Philip Marineau

Cheri Martinez

Charles and Maryann Marzen

William Mason

Marilyn Matthews

Janice L. Mayer

Bette Meyerson, B’nai Shalom Havurah

Frances McCain

Chad McDaniel

Michael McGinnis

David and Jane McGuire

Arin Mckenna

Patricia McKeown

Dorothy McMath

John and Angelika McNeil

Alan McQuiston

Michael and Frances Meier

Carol and Richard Mellor

Kathleen Meyer

Maria Meyer

Nicole Meyers

Brandon Moore

Diane H. Morain

Thomas M. Morales

Clifford Mumm

Hal Myers

Carla and Daniel Nagler

Emily and Richard Neff

Christian Negre

Diane Nelson

Jerome “Jerry” Nelson

Alexis Nguyen

Anne and Virginia Nickerson

Margaret K. Norton

David Nygren

Shannon O’Grady

Monica O’Reilly

Regina and Gregory Ockelmann

Christopher ODonnell

Katie Olivant

Eleanor Ortiz

Chris and Julie Anne Overton

Melinne Owen and Paul Giquere

K. Elise Packard

John Pakula and Marishka Rosinski

Panetiere Partners

Louise Pardoe

Joyce and Thomas Pavlis

Norman Pearson

Burton Pendleton

Sullivan Peraino

Heather Petkovsek

Versie Beth Pfaff and John Miller

Deborah Phillips

Lois Phillips

Cynthia Piatt

Nancy Pierce

Elizabeth Pinson

Robert and Mary Platt

Gail Price Fine and Douglas P. Fine, MD

Drs. Michael Privitera and Marcia Kaplan

Barry Qualls

James and Deborah Quirk

Jim Quirk

Ellen Raimer

Bruce Redford

Reflective Jewelry

Greg Reed

Kay Riley

Michele Ritter

John Rivera

Carol Robles

Linda R Rodgers

Juan Romero

Ted and Mary Roswarski

Charles and John Rountree

Nancy Rowland

Mary Ruddy

Lois and Steven Rudnick

Barbara Russell

Sara Sacra and Jeffrey Gruber

Carmen Salazar

Richard Schacht and Judith Rowan

Marvin Schneider and Lon Shapiro

Joanne Schulte

Jeannette Scott

Judith Seltzer

Michael and Kathy Serk

Frank Shelton

Mona and Ken Sherrell

Nancy Sherwood

James and Anne Shute

Paul Sidebottom

Johnathan Slater

Barbara and Glen Smerage

Kathleen Smith

Robin Smith

Tracey Smith

Dr. Peter and Jody Spalding

Nadine Stafford

John and Cynthia Stetson

Chris Stoneback

Laura Sullivan

Jan Swaney

Evangeline Swift

Donna Swindell

Leslie Talbot

Michelle Thomas

Jane and George Thomson

Sandy Tiller

Rebecca Tobey

Leonard Todd

Adam Torres

Julie Tregeagle

Deborah Trissel

Catherine Ulrich

Robert Upton

Denise Vanneman

Benita and Paul Vassallo

Karen Vinson

Patricia Vitrano

Eric von Stark

Paul and Christine Vogel

Duke Wagner

Robin and Jerry Ward

Wayne Ware

Adam Wasserman

Mayor Alan Webber and Frances Diemoz

David and Heather K. Weir

Paul Werenko

Kay West

William K. White and Anne Coller

Bill and Kay Whitman

Bill and Janislee Wiese

Karen Wiley

Ed Wilgus

Shelagh Wilmott

Dan Winske

Dean Winslow

James and Lori Winter

Jean Withers

Dr. Margaret Wolak and Angelo Tomedi

Linda Wolcott

Lyle York and Matthew Wilson

Donna Zahara and Larry Sachs

Douglas Ziedonis

Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky

Linda Zwick

HONORARIA

In Honor of Kay and Dick Anderson

Elaine Wang Meyerhoffer

In Honor of Martha Blomstrom

Patricia McKeown

In Honor of Sarah Brauer

Mary and Phil Delk

In Honor of Dr. Murray and Mrs. Nancy Bern

Kenneth and Jean Johnson

In Honor of Jeffrey Fort and Diane Locandro

Joy and Phil LeCuyer

In Honor of Jane Godlove

Allegra and Jim Derryberry

William K. White and Anne Coller

In Honor of Catherine Gronquist

Susan Esco Chandler and Appy Chandler

In Honor of Joshua Habermann

Brooke Bandfield Taylor

Anne and Thomas Conner

Halley Faust and Eve Cohen

Stephen and Jane Hochberg

Susan Koehn, Habermann Koehn Foundation

Joyce and Thomas Pavlis

Members of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale Board of Directors and Directors Emeriti

In Honor of Stephen and Jane Hochberg

William and Margaret Feldman

Janice L. Mayer

In Honor of Alice and Fraser McAlpine

Emily and Richard Neff

In Honor of Bradley Naylor

Betty Duson

In Honor of Kathlene Ritch

Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan

In Honor of Steven Soph

Regina and Gregory Ockelmann

In Honor of Dave and Lee Takagi

Peggy Gilbert

IN MEMORIAM

In Memory of Hugh Balaam

Martha Blomstrom

Laurel Colvin and Helio Fred Garcia

In Memory of Larry Bandfield

Brooke Bandfield Taylor

In Memory of Joan Berner

Patricia “Tish” Romer

In Memory of Joel Brauer

Mary and Phil Delk

In Memory of Ash Collins, Jr.

Susan Collins

In Memory of Lanham and Anne Deal

Carol Deal Schaefer

John Gray and Patricia Stanley. Photo: Tira Howard Photography

In Memory of Kaaren Erickson

Linda Hummingbird

In Memory of Jake Foster

Jason Burnett and Brandon Baker

In Memory of Cheryl Hall

Michael L. Bustamante

In Memory of Frances Contreras Hartley and Mary Graham Hartley

David Hartley

In Memory of Terry Hendrix

Margaret K. Norton

Nadine Stafford

In Memory of Graham Hereford

Jean Charis

In Memory of Bruce Noel

Michael and Barbara Ogg

In Memory of Mrs. Prochnow

Vicki and Jon Longmire

In Memory of Scott and Nina Rasmussen

Dmitri Bovaird and Maggie Edmondson

Lowell Mark Carver

In Memory of Bob Roach

Patricia Stanley

In Memory of Don Roberts

Maria Calderisi

Chris and Julie Anne Overton

In Memory of Craig Smith

Jo Fisher

In Memory of Mary Wright

James C. and Martha S. Fifield

Robin Kline and William Summers

Tracy Lewis

Diane H. Morain

Margaret K. Norton

While we endeavor to appropriately recognize all of our donors, please inform us if we have inadvertently omitted your name or listed it incorrectly.

IN MEMORIAM

We remember and will always have in our hearts our dear friends:

Diana Baker, Ambassador

Maile Mills Cuddy, Former Board member and artist

James and Julie Drennan, Supporters and Encore Society members

Terry Hendrix, Supporter

ENCORE SOCIETY

We salute the foresight and generosity of the following individuals who have chosen to include the Santa Fe Desert Chorale in their estate plans:

Anonymous

Rev. Talitha J. Arnold

Margaret Arrott†

Lawrence Bandfield†

John de Beer†

Dorothy B. Davis

Martin Dieter†

Dr. James C. and Julie J. Drennan†

Margaret Edwards

James and Allison Elston†

Halley Faust

Robert Fisher†

Diane and Bill Graves

Douglas Gould

Catherine and Guy Gronquist

Dorothy Harroun

Barbara Houser and Sarah Nolan

Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan

Arnold and Evelyn Kupec†

Lynn F. Lee

Nancy and Raymond Lutz

Barry and Margaret Lyerly

Charles MacKay and Cam McCluskey

Janice L. Mayer

Fraser and Alice McAlpine

Thomas F. McGuire†

Ian McKee†

Dorothea Morgan†

Jerome B. Nelson

Susan Noel

Margaret K. Norton

Carmen Paradis and Brian McGrath

Nina Hinson Rasmussen and Dr. Scott Rasmussen†

Paul Resnick†

Don† and Sally Roberts

Joseph P. Schitter†

Ann Marie Shaw†

Robert C. Smith†

Nadine Stafford

Patricia Stanley

Brooke Bandfield Taylor

Bradley and Patricia Thompson

Frances and Hywel White†

Brahna and Janusz Wilczynski

Margaret Wright

Betty L. Hileman, Supporter

Alex Klebenow, Ambassador

John Ed Withers, Ambassador

Mary Smaltz Wright, Supporter and widow of Director Emeriti Arthur “Mack” Wright

George Duncan and Brad Diamond. Photo: Tira Howard Photography

Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Archbishop John C. Wester, Rev. John Cannon, Carmen Flórez-Mansi, and Tom Mansi

Arizona Lithographers, Michelle Bonito

Patrick Barry

Sallie Bingham

The Church of the Holy Faith, The Reverend Canon Robin D. Dodge, The Reverend Lynn Finnegan, Canon Mark Edw. Childers, Marcos and Rocio Castillo, and Donna Lukacs

City of Santa Fe (Arts & Culture and Tourism Departments),

The Honorable Alan Webber, Mayor, Randy Randall, Erminia Tapia, and Celeste Valentine

Edmund Connolly

County of Santa Fe Lodgers’ Tax, Lisa A. Katonak

Dashing Delivery, Sandra and Justin Greene

Greg Dove

Jeffrey Fort and Diane Locandro

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe, William Powell

Karen and Bill Gahr

Dr. Gregory Grabowski

Catherine and Guy Gronquist

Susana Howard & Vince Pigott

Phyllis and Lane Keller

Bo Keppell

Steven Kerchoff

KHFM, Kathlene Ritch

Dr. Kathryn Lowerre

Barry and Margaret Lyerly

Dana and Jim Manning

Laurie Meyer

New Mexico Bank & Trust, Linda Bencomo, Trevor Lewis, and Shauna Shannon

Sarah and James Nickerson

THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR

Carmen Paradis and Brian McGrath

Reflective Jewelry, Marc Choyt

Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, Carolyn Graham, Editor

Karl Sommer

The State of New Mexico (New Mexico Arts), Secretary Debra Garcia y Griego, Senator Peter Wirth, Representative Brian Egolf, and Michelle Laflamme-Childs

St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, Jerome “Jerry” Nelson

Suzanne M. Timble

U.S. Representative from the State of New Mexico, Teresa Leger Fernandez

U.S. Senators from the State of New Mexico, Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján

AMBASSADORS

Ambassadors are individuals who have an appreciation for the beauty and power of great choral music. They promote and support the mission of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and foster a sense of community by introducing friends and neighbors to the Chorale. Santa Fe Desert Chorale programming would not be possible without the support of many individuals in the community who give generously of their time and talent. If you would like to join the Ambassadors, please contact Charles Stober by emailing charles@desertchorale.org. Thank you.

Anna Aguilera

Ann Alexander

Barbara Anderson Acosta

Kenneth Beier

Sue Benedict

Susan Breyer

John Burke

Martha (Marty) Carroll

Elaine Cheesman

Donna Clark

Brad Clements

Jane Clements

Kenneth Alan Collins

Doug Conwell

Judy Costlow

Diana Dallas

Colleen Davidson

Rebecca Dempsey

Lisa El-Kerdi

Doug Escue

Laura Escue

Gwen Fuller

Ralph Fuller

K.C. Garrett

Pam Gilchrest

Michaela Granito-Tibbetts

Janet Harris

Shari Hirst

Victoria Hudimac

Rose Ann James

Julia Johnson

Martha Kallejian

Anna Katherine

Bo Keppel

Jan Kerr

Barbara Kuzminska

Joan Lamarque

Beata Lewis

Dolores Lopez

Ann MacVicar

Cristy Marchand

Carole Mathison

Arin McKenna

Karen Meador

Estelle Miller

Linda Miller

Kathy Moore-Gregory

Karen Nelson

Marie Newsom

Mary O’Brien

Tina Ossorgin

Carole Owens

Linda Pasternacki

Grace Philips

Cindy Piatt

Rob Pine

Susan Pippin

Anita Pisa

Ross (Allen) Pope

Madeline S. Pryor

Chantal Quincy

Larry Rasmussen

Nyla Rasmussen

Donna Rigano

Pat Roach

Laurie Romero

Barbara Roush

Nickola Rubow

Karren Sahler

Anne Salzmann

Elizabeth Schwitz

John Schwitz

Diana Segara Mahony

Helen Senesac

Deb Smith-Davis

Sandy Sparks

Lynn Spray

Allen Steele

Andrea Steele

Marge Tartarka

David Taylor

Erin Taylor

Mark Tibbetts

Alice Tinkle

Jolanta Tuzel

Carrie Vogel

Joe Watt

Laura Watt

Linda Wieseman

Jean Withers

Photo: Zina Jundi