Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra - Choral Collaboration

CHORAL COLLABORATION Sunday, March 9, 2014 3:00 PM Helen Bader Concert Hall Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, UW-Milwaukee featuring

MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SENIOR SYMPHONY Margery Deutsch, Music Director Shelby Keith Dixon, Associate Conductor with guest choirs

HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR Ernie Brusubardis III, Director

MILWAUKEE CHORISTERS Dr. James B. Kinchen Jr., Director

BAPTIST COLLEGE OF MINISTRY CONCERT CHORALE Daniel J. Van Gelderen, Conductor

MYSO is a proud founding member of

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SIR WILLIAM WALTON Crown Imperial Coronation March

(1902–1983) MYSO Senior Symphony Shelby Keith Dixon, Conductor

LIAM McCARTY (b. 1995) Fellow, John Downey Creation Project Ron Foster, Supervising Composer

Reverie (2014) World Premiere MYSO Senior Symphony Margery Deutsch, Conductor

RICHARD STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

(1864–1949) MYSO Senior Symphony Margery Deutsch, Conductor INTERMISSION

arranged by Alice Parker Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal

Hartford Union High School Concert Choir

Ernie Brusubardis III, Conductor

JOHN NESS BECK Canticle of Praise

(1930-1987) Milwaukee Choristers Dr. James B. Kinchen Jr., Conductor Patricia Ilika Black, Accompanist

W. A. MOZART Ave Verum Corpus

(1756-1791) Milwaukee Choristers Dr. James B. Kinchen Jr., Conductor Patricia Ilika Black, Accompanist

DANIEL J. VAN GELDEREN Be Thou My Vision

(b. 1987) Baptist College of Ministry Concert Chorale Daniel J. Van Gelderen, Conductor

JOHN RUTTER

(b. 1945)

Gloria for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra I. Allegro vivace II. Andante III. Vivace e ritmico

MYSO Senior Symphony and combined choirs Margery Deutsch, Conductor

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Situated on the shores of Lake Michigan within the cultural corridor of Milwaukee and Chicago, Carthage offers young musicians the opportunity to follow their musical passion as a major or minor in music, or as a non-major. Scholarships are available, by audition, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 (a $13,000 scholarship is available to a qualified candidate in organ). The Carthage Music Department offers over $300,000 annually in scholarships to incoming freshman and transfer students. An audition is required for admittance into the Music Department and scholarship consideration. All scholarships are renewable for four years.

To schedule an audition, call 262-551-5859 or email music@carthage.edu.

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M ARGERY DEUTSCH Since 1987, Margery Deutsch has been Music Director of Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Senior Symphony and has led that orchestra on numerous international tours to critical acclaim. Under her leadership and direction, the Senior Symphony has performed in Austria, Czech Republic, China, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Canada (British Columbia and Quebec) and Scotland. In the summer of 2012 she led the Senior Symphony on a ten-day tour of Vienna and Prague where they were chosen to perform on the Gala Winners’ Concert in honor of their second prize placement in the 2012 Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival. In 2000, the Senior Symphony was chosen as one of only five U.S. youth orchestras to participate in the National Youth Orchestra Festival in Sarasota, Florida.

Nationally, Deutsch has conducted the orchestra in performances at Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Wisconsin Music Educators Conference (North Central Division) and the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Deutsch and the orchestra were selected by famed bassist and author Barry Green (The Inner Game of Music) to serve as the demonstration orchestra for his series of ensemble workbooks and videotape. In 2007, MYSO received a “Meet the Composer” grant through Music Alive and the American Symphony Orchestra League for which Deutsch conducted the world premiere of a commissioned work by composer Jeffrey Mumford.

Named Professor Emeritus in 2012, Deutsch served as Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1984-2012. She currently serves as the Music Director of UWM’s University Community Orchestra, an ensemble of over 120 musicians ranging in age from 12 to 100. Ms. Deutsch is actively involved with high school-age musicians throughout the country and is in frequent demand as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. She has served four terms on the Board of Directors of the League of American Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra Division.

Prior to coming to Milwaukee, Deutsch served as Music Director of the Shreveport (LA) Symphony where she conducted classical, chamber orchestra, pops and children’s concerts, as well as operas. Versed in both orchestral and choral repertoire, she was Music Director of the Long Island Singers Society and, in Milwaukee, has guest conducted The Master Singers, Bel Canto Chorus, Milwaukee Choristers, Lawrence University Choir, Milwaukee Children’s Choir and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus.

Deutsch has been a frequent guest conductor for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Youth, Children’s and Family concert series. In addition, she has worked with the Sheboygan Symphony, Aurora University’s Music by the Lake Opera Theater, Women’s Philharmonic (CA), Plymouth (MI) Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Charleston (SC) Symphony, Nebraska Sinfonia, Monroe (LA) Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, and the all-state orchestras of Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, Washington, Minnesota, Montana, Delaware, Maine and most recently, New York, as well as numerous district festivals throughout the country.

The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Deutsch received the 2001 Milwaukee Civic Music Association Award for Excellence in Contributions to Music and the 1990 UWM Undergraduate Teaching Award. She has been awarded conducting fellowships and scholarships from the Aspen Music Festival, the Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and the Nebraska-based “Festival of a Thousand Oaks.” She was also invited to participate in the conducting seminar at Tanglewood where she took master classes with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa and Colin Davis. Her other teachers include Thomas Briccetti, Franco Ferrarra, Bruno Bartoletti, Piero Bellugi, Sergiu Commisiona and Dennis Russell Davies; she has also studied flute with Samuel Baron and voice with Jan DeGaetani. A native New Yorker and Regents Scholar, she holds a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting, a Master of Arts degree in Musicology, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Flute and Vocal Performance.

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SHELBY KEITH DIXON Mr. Dixon has been a MYSO conductor since 1984 and Senior Symphony Associate Conductor since 1988. He is the retired Director of Orchestras and Chairman of Fine Arts at Homestead High School in Mequon. Prior to his tenure with the Mequon-Thiensville School District in 1975, he served as Choral Director at Deerfield High School, Deerfield, IL. For six years, he was Assistant Professor of Music at Alverno College in Milwaukee, where he taught the History and Literature of Music and was Musical Director of Theatre Alverno.

Mr. Dixon has extensive background in brasses, keyboard and strings. He has served as Music Director of Milwaukee Players at the Pabst Theatre, conductor with the Sullivan Chamber Ensemble Orchestra, Musical Assistant with Milwaukee’s Music Under the Stars, Assistant Conductor of the Northwestern University Chapel Choir and Interim Music Director of the Elgin (IL) Youth Symphony Orchestras.

Mr. Dixon holds both the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music degrees in the History and Literature of Music from Northwestern University, where he was a conducting student of the late John Phillip Paynter. He has taught on the music education faculty of Concordia University-Wisconsin, supervises student teachers in music education, and has served on the board of directors for the Milwaukee Civic Music Association and Gathering on the Green.

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DA N I E L J . VA N G E L D E R E N Daniel J. Van Gelderen is an accomplished cellist, conductor, and composer. Daniel’s interest in music began at an early age, encouraged by his family. All of his siblings play stringed instruments. As Daniel was growing up, his family participated in a number of musical competitions and events. Under the leadership of their father, a pastor in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, they spent weeks each year traveling around the country, using their talents to minister in churches as a family. Daniel studied violin before taking up cello, which he has now played for fifteen years. For nine years he participated in the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, and while still in high school, he spent three summers at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. In 2010 he graduated from Baptist College of Ministry with a double major in Bible and music, with an emphasis in conducting and composing.

Daniel, 26, has already composed and arranged over 100 works for various groups including symphony orchestra, string orchestra, concert band, choir, men’s ensemble, string quartet, and brass choir. His headline work to date, A Remembrance, was commissioned and performed by the Bel Canto Chorus and director, Richard Hynson.

His compositions are featured on seven professional recordings, six of which he produced.

Five of his recordings feature vocal groups that he founded and continues to direct. The Baptist College of Ministry Concert Chorale performs regularly and has been featured on four recordings. The Chorale has toured the East Coast and throughout several southern states. A select ensemble from the group (The 16 Singers) performs repeatedly at public and private functions, including singing regularly for Governor Scott Walker at the Executive Residence in Madison. Another group that Daniel founded, an a cappella eight-man ensemble, is also featured on two recordings and has toured the country. They were also a featured ensemble at the 2010 inauguration of Governor Walker.

Another recent milestone in his young career was performing as a guest conductor at the prestigious 2010 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, held in Chicago, Illinois. In high school, his conducting skills advanced under the tutelage of Margery Deutsch, Music Director of MYSO’s Senior Symphony. Daniel presently serves as the Artistic Director for Falls Baptist Music School and Baptist College of Ministry, a position that includes directing several large ensembles, including a symphony orchestra, concert band and a 120-voice college choir.

Groups under his direction have performed such works as Dvorak’s 8th Symphony, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Rutter’s Gloria and Handel’s Messiah.

As an instructor of music at his alma mater, Daniel teaches classes in composing and conducting. He also maintains a private cello studio offering private lessons. His work as an educator at the elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels flows from his passion to use music as a tool to develop personal character and leadership skills in the lives of students.

The ultimate goal in his training of musicians is to see them achieve excellence while learning how to use their skills to transform the lives of others.

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BAPTIST COLLEGE OF MINISTRY CONCERT CHOR ALE

Conducted by Daniel J. Van Gelderen, the 45-voice concert chorale first assembled for the recording of a sacred music album in 2008. Comprised of students from 10 states and several foreign countries, the group performs regularly and has been featured on four professional recordings, the latest of which is an album of completely a cappella sacred works. The chorale has toured the East Coast and throughout several southern states, and a select ensemble from the group (the 16 Singers) performs repeatedly at public and private functions, including singing regularly for Governor Scott Walker at the Executive Residence in Madison. In 2010, the chorale had the opportunity to perform with the Falls Baptist Chamber Strings at the prestigious Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.

In recent years, they have also been privileged to join forces with the Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee for three concerts. The chorale regularly performs works such as Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Rutter’s Gloria, and Eric Whitacre’s When David Heard. They also join with the Baptist College of Ministry Choir for programs including Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

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JA M E S K I N C H E N James has been Music Director of the Milwaukee Choristers since 1993. He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where he has been on the faculty since 1989.

A native of Jacksonville, Fla., James has directed choral groups at Southern Illinois University, Southeastern Illinois College, Hampton University and Winston-Salem State University. His degrees are from Jacksonville University, Southern Illinois University and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

He made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut on Easter Sunday of 1998 under the auspices of MidAmerica Productions, conducting a concert of “spirituals.” He returned to that stage in March of 2004 to lead a 190-voice choir and orchestra in a performance of the Fauré Requiem, and again in March 2006 to conduct choral/orchestral forces in a performance of the Vivaldi Gloria. In March 2010 he conducted the New York City premiere of Glenn Edward Burleigh’s Kwanzaa work, the Nguzo Saba Suite for chorus, tenor solo, and orchestra at Avery Fischer Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in a performance produced by DCINY. His travels as a choral conductor and scholar have taken him to Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, and, on three occasions, Cuba. In 2002, he was one of 18 Fellows selected for participation in the Chorus America-Chicago Symphony Choral/ Orchestral Conducting Workshop and Master Class.

James has been a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow and received the university’s 2002-2003 Stella Gray Teaching Excellence Award, an award made to two outstanding teachers at the university each year. He was also given the university’s 2005-2006 Faculty Distinguished Service Award. He was recently selected to receive the UW-Parkside 201213 Diversity Award.

James is an affiliate of the Center for Black Music Research and holds membership in the Music Educators National Conference, the International Federation for Choral Music, National Collegiate Choral Organization and Chorus America. An active member of the American Choral Directors Association, he has served ACDA in several leadership capacities at state, regional and national levels. He has presented at state, divisional and national ACDA conventions, and has written for and reviewed new music and new recordings for the Choral Journal at various times. He has been President of Wisconsin Choral Directors Association (2007-2009) and is now President of North Central Division of ACDA, a region that encompasses the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

In addition to his responsibilities for teaching and directing UW-Parkside’s three choral groups — the University Chorale, Master Singers and Voices of Parkside — James also teaches courses in basic and choral conducting, vocal materials and methods and African American Music, and helps supervise choral music student teachers. In frequent demand as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician, he is also on the music staff of Saint Paul Baptist Church, Racine.

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M I LWAU K E E C H O R I S T E R S

The Milwaukee Choristers, Inc., seeks to provide for its members and the public a rich and diverse musical experience that is anchored in the best of the choral repertory, and aspires to a consistent level of performance that represents the finest of the choral art.

The Milwaukee Choristers have distinguished itself as one of Milwaukee’s most versatile and popular vocal groups for 80 years.

The group began in November, 1933, when a group of nearly 20 graduates of Milwaukee’s Riverside High School A Cappella Choir, decided to meet, rehearse and, if possible, perform. With its high school conductor Ellen Sargeant on the podium, the dream was fulfilled and the rest is history.

In eight decades of existence, the Choristers have had only seven conductors: Ellen Sargeant, Dorothy Royt, Donald Mohr, Roger Tweiten, Mark Aamot and B.H. Diekhoff.

Currently, the singers are led by Dr. James B. Kinchen, Jr. of Sturtevant, WI, who was selected as the group’s Music Director in 1993. Dr. Kinchen is a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

ERNIE BRUSUBARDIS Ernie Brusubardis began teaching at Hartford Union High School in 1999. He is a graduate of UW-Milwaukee with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and a Master’s Degree in Music Education with an emphasis in choral conducting. He is Music Department Manager and conducts two choirs at HUHS, Concert Choir and Chorale, as well as teaching private and group vocal lessons. He also conducts the orchestra for the annual musical theatre production, as well as other community theatre productions throughout Southeastern Wisconsin. Mr. Brusubardis is the Artistic Director of the Waukesha Choral Union, an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association of Music Educators, and also Chairman of the American Latvian Choir Association, and conducts in Latvian choral music festivals around the world. He resides in Dousman with his wife Indra and six children.

HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR This 38 voice ensemble is the most advanced of four curricular choirs at Hartford Union High School. The Concert Choir is comprised of sophomores, juniors and seniors that are selected by audition from a total choral enrollment of 170 singers in a school population of 1,400 students. The choir rehearses daily for 47 minutes and gives 5 to 7 major concerts per year. The HUHS Concert Choir takes a major performance tour to New York City every three years and has sung for masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity Church as well as concert performances in St. John the Divine, St. Mark’s, St. Mary’s and St. Paul’s Chapel. The choir has been honored with performances at the Wisconsin 12

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Music Educators Association State Convention in 2006 and 2001 and the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association State Convention in 2010 and 2003. The group represented Wisconsin at the Festival of States in Washington D.C. honoring Abraham Lincoln in April of 2009. In addition to curricular responsibilities, two Madrigal Ensembles and a Vocal Jazz Ensemble are selected from the choir by audition. Hartford, Wisconsin, is a community of approximately 12,000 located 45 minutes northwest of Milwaukee. One of the largest geographical school districts in the state, Hartford Union High School has 16 feeder school districts and serves seven rural communities. The Concert Choir is so happy to share its love of performing with MYSO. SENIOR SYMPHONY FIRST VIOLINS Samantha Carter, Co-Concertmaster Wentong Zhang, Co-Concertmaster Rebekah Ruetz, Co-Concertmaster Linzheng Shi, Associate Concertmaster Abigail Schneider Rachel May Zaneta Domblesky Alex Zhu Mara Bajic Abigail Keller Jeffrey Teng Rishi Sachdev Liam McCarty Sebastian Chou Leah Lee Alex Quinn Marie Von Rueden Tristan Aniceto Justin Zhu Sonora Brusubardis Daniella Brusubardis Hannah Greene Lauren Crandall SECOND VIOLINS Julia Simpson, Co-Principal Mercedes Cullen, Co-Principal Brian Zhu Nathan Wang Ivana Bajic Malina Olsen Sarah Plachinski Vivian Jiang Jieun Heo

Abigail Lewis Sabrina Wang Cassie Anderson Marshall Peng Elizabeth Hayes Ina Yun Yunny Youm Nathan Oh Min Heo Ellie Plachinski Kelsie Menzia Samantha Bledstein Allyson Bigelow Judith Moy Andy Hung Patricia Avalos VIOLAS Timothy Reinholz, Co-Principal Nathaniel Sattler, Co-Principal Hannah Thompson, Co-Principal David Foster, Co-Principal Carly Schulz Rebecca Miller Jenna Mark Rishil Mehta Julia Steen Katie Voss Francesca Pessarelli Alex Heuer Jessica Hitchcock Joohee Sim Crystal Mu単oz Nick Reit Nicolas Calvache Rafael Rodriguez

CELLOS Kartik Papatla, Co-Principal Viktor Brusubardis, Co-Principal Matthew Frazier Garrison Keller Christian Morzinski Joshua Baerwald Ben Boehm Benjamin Bauer Eric Rokni Joshua Lukas Christian Anderson Bayla Jane Waite Gabriela Cardenas Emma Bittner Ben Karbowski Hannah Kasun Evan Stroud Margo Moran Matthew Pierce BASSES Christopher Carloni, Co-Principal Robert Earle, Co-Principal Alec Henry Henry Cloran Hadley Kling Olivia Reyes Alisha Bowen HARPS Liesel Gutzwiller Arilyn Mitchell

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SENIOR SYMPHONY FLUTES Rebekah Bain* Danielle Kulpins* Max Lin* Michelle Shin Alexis Wendling* PICCOLOS Danielle Kulpins Max Lin* OBOES Lulu Callies* Brigette Hall* Susan Mihalyi* Natalie Schmer Abigail Zeman* ENGLISH HORN Susan Mihalyi CLARINETS Stephen Bagin Amy Butler* Veronica Daniel Sophie Forster*

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Annie Tarmann* Alec Vohnoutka*

Luke Schwerer* Rachael Stein*

BASSOONS Rosalie Avery* Natalie Galles* Courtney Kochanski Conor O’Neill

TROMBONES Simon Hensen* Kevin Hodkiewicz* Charles Stahl*

CONTRA BASSOON Rosalie Avery HORNS Heather Casterline* Doris Cloran* Hannah Dion-Kirschner* Lindsey Frisch Chloe Groth* Erin Krofta Madison Larson Aliyah Qualls TRUMPETS Andrew Herndon* Kirsten Kliebenstein* Clement Mattox

BASS TROMBONE Alec Haase TUBAS Alex Acheson Kenton Cooksey* Jacob Thoreson TIMPANI & PERCUSSION Brendan Farrell Jun Lee Trevor Maliborski Aaron Miller Maddie Wilinski *Denotes principal player. In Senior Symphony, section leadership assignments rotate within each concert cycle.

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BAPTIST COLLEGE OF MINISTRY CONCERT CHOR ALE Soprano Alissa Boub Abigail Dedic Chelsey Grimes Bethany Krawiec Bethany O’Gorman Shelley Pardee Lisa Parker Michelle Shikoski Ashley Stoeckmann Allyssa Van Gelderen Hope Williams Joy Williams Mary Faith Williams* Alto: Jackie Baker Stephanie Boub Katie Chaney Jessica Knueppel

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Rachel Krawiec Miriam Meyer Rachel Meyer Ariel Mundt* Emma Parker Emily Roberts Carly Smith Michaela Smith Tenor Andrew Haertl Micah Kagin James Kotvas Micheal Laredo Paul Rains* Zach Reed Zach Rinehart Joel Roberts Micah Roberts

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Bass Mark Gillmore, Jr. Thomas Hames Alonso Ibarra Tyler Knueppel Daniel Needham Caleb Reed Luke Rains Andrew Sikma Devon Swanson Josh Swanson Ryan Swanson Jesse Williams* Stephen Williams *denotes section leaders

M I LWAU K E E C H O R I S T E R S Soprano Keralyn Bolliger Rachel Chiarello Janelle Dougherty Karen Engelhardt Jean Grainger Linda Gritter Trudy Haas Chris Halverson Rachel Mosey Cathy Nolan Katie Pitzl Peggy Welden

Alto Suzanne Clegg Kerry Dews Kathy Estlund Penny Hargarten Toni King Aileen Thorne Jeanne Tyszka Sue Wing Jennifer Zastrow Tenor Jerry Baldwin David Brown

Jim Halverson Dan Heidemann Jeff Hosler Jim Kelly B.J. Lillo Mark Weller Baritone/Bass Chris Bruett Tom Couillard Greg Davidson John Emanuel Fred Gerlach Nathaniel Kidd

HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR Soprano 1 Allison Beine Kelly Kirnberger McKenna Kopesky Emily Hirsch Deanna Knetzger Emily Perszyk Soprano 2 Kimberly Johnson Hannah Kangas Emma McCauley Victoria Deringer Elisha Jaeke Jessica Wachs Tenor 1 Noah Buhle Tyler HarriSon John Michalak

Tenor 2 Matthew Gehrman Andrew Jaszewski Alto 1 Audra Boettge Emma Guthrie Katherine Brown Emily Clement Brianna Hall Hannah Redders Alto 2 Natalie Corey Hannah Peters Hailey Shaw Aubrie Faust Natalie Tetrick

Bass 1 Carsen Baetz Jacob Shipley Roy Spieckerman Matthew Scharpf Alexander Scheller Bass 2 Conner Burgardt Mark Hermann Matthew Lane Jacob Braun Lawrence Sullivan

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PROGR A M NOTES William Walton b. March 29, 1902; Oldham, Lancashire, England d. March 3, 1983; the island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples Coronation March, Crown Imperial One of England’s major musical figures of the mid-twentieth-century, Walton was first regarded as a sort of enfant terrible for such early-1920s jazz-flavored works as Façade.

He ultimately revealed himself as a more substantial composer with such works as the Viola Concerto of 1928-29. Essentially, Walton can be seen as a composer who brilliantly attempted to find personal expression while neither embracing English conservatism nor the methods of Schoenbergian intellectualism. Although there is certainly a current of traditionalism in Walton’s music, it is also flavored by early-twentieth-century French musical attitudes, a certain creative kinship with Prokofiev’s music, and a Mediterranean joie de vivre (Walton lived most of his mature life on the Isle of Ischia, near the port of Naples).

Long the unofficial dean of British composers, Walton combined highly skilled traditional craftsmanship with a tendency toward certain compositional mannerisms that resulted in a distinctive style. Although each of his works has an unusual amount of individual integrity, Walton’s trademarks are rhythmic drive, with frequent cross rhythms; translucent contrapuntal textures; brilliantly conceived orchestration and a penchant for long melodic lines. Walton has written in virtually all instrumental forms, but is particularly celebrated for his symphonies and concertos.

For the coronation of King George VI in 1937, Walton was commissioned by the B.B.C. to write a ceremonial march. The result was the powerful and very English Crown Imperial, a glittering work that pays stylistic homage to the “Pomp and Circumstance” marches of Edward Elgar.

Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2014 Liam McCarty b. 1995 Reverie Reverie is a metaphorical dream, the orchestra and audience the metaphorical dreamers.

The apparent heartbeat that opens, closes, and is strewn throughout the music should reflect this theme. (For example, the tempos of the piece are taken directly from data of average heart rate during sleep). The music opens with a section called “Falling Asleep,” the dream beginning as the music drifts through an ethereal, amorphous, and highly textural landscape. A grand pause with a solitary heartbeat near the end of the piece serves as “Wake Up,” reminiscent of the moment when one wakes, heart pounding, from a dream. Note the importance of the dramatic arc of the music, analogous to the dramatic arc of a narrative. Listen for the two themes of the piece: the final section is a canon fugato, where the themes and their variations overlap in beautiful and mathematically complex ways.

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Richard Strauss b. June 11, 1864; Munich d. September 8, 1949; Garmisch-Partenkirchen Tone Poem, “Tod und Verklarung” (“Death and Transfiguration”), Opus 24 Composed in 1888-89, this work was first performed from manuscript, with the composer conducting, at the fifth concert of the 27th Musicians’ Convention of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein in the City Theater of Eisenach, June 21, 1890. The published score carries an anonymous poem which suggesting the work’s programmatic content. For many years it was thought that the poem inspired the music; eventually it became known that Strauss asked Alexander Ritter, the intellectual mentor of his youth, to describe the work in verse. Although the poem itself is rather banal, it is generally considered to be the most authoritative program of the music. The following is a prose translation by William Foster Apthorp: In the necessitous little room, dimly lighted by only a candle end, lies the sick man on his bed. But just now he has wrestled despairingly with Death. Now he has sunk exhausted into sleep, and thou hearest only the soft ticking of the clock on the wall in the room, whose awful silence gives a foreboding of the nearness of Death. Over the sick man’s pale features plays a sad smile. Dreams he, on the boundary of life, of the golden time of childhood?

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But Death does not long grant sleep and dreams to his victim. Cruelly he shakes him awake, and the fight begins afresh. Will to live and power of Death! What frightful wrestling! Neither bears off the victory, and all is silent once more!

Sunk back, tired of battle, sleepless, as in fever frenzy the sick man now sees his life pass before his inner eye, trait by trait and scene by scene. First the morning red of childhood, shining bright in pure innocence! Then the youth’s saucier play --exerting and trying his strength-- till he ripens to the man’s fight, and now burns with hot lust after the higher prizes of life. The one high purpose that has led him through life was to shape all he saw transfigured into a still more transfigured form. Cold and sneering, the world sets barrier upon barrier in the way of his achievement. If he thinks himself near his goal, a ‘Halt!’ thunders in the ear. ‘Make the barrier thy stirrup! Ever higher and onward go!’ And so he pushes forward, so he climbs, desists not from his sacred purpose. What he has ever sought with his heart’s deepest yearning, he still seeks in his death sweat. Seeks--alas! and finds it never. Whether he comprehends it more clearly or that it grows upon him gradually, he can yet never exhaust it, cannot complete it in his spirit. Then clangs the last stroke of Death’s iron hammer, breaks the earthly body in twain, covers the eye with the night of death.

But from the heavenly spaces sounds mightily to greet him what he yearningly sought for here: deliverance from the world, transfiguration of the world.

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Each of the above paragraphs describes one of the four continuous sections of the Tone Poem: I. Largo (Sleep, Illness, and Reverie); II. Allegro molto agitato (Fever and Struggle with Death); III. Meno mosso, ma sempre alla breve (Dreams, Childhood Memories, and Death); IV. Moderato (Transfiguration).

Commenting on Strauss’s tremendous powers of musical characterization, the American educator-composer Daniel Gregory Mason wrote, in 1916: “Superlatives are dangerous, but probably no other musician has ever carried to such a point the power of music to depict, or at least, to suggest, varieties of character, both in human beings and in inanimate objects. Strauss’s reported remark that music was becoming so definite that we should soon be able to portray a tablespoon so unmistakably that it could be told from the rest of the silverware is probably an instance of his sardonic delight in hoaxing the public.

“But if anyone is going to subject the art of tones to this curious test, we are all agreed, doubtless, that it should be Strauss himself. Meanwhile, failing a tablespoon, we have a sufficiently varied collection of portraits in his gallery, each sketched with a Sargent-like penetration.”

Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2014 Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal Arr. by Alice Parker Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal is a shape-note hymn that comes from the Sacred Harp tradition. The tune and lyrics are found in William Hauser’s 1878 shape-note collection Olive Leaf. Shape-note singing is a system of note reading created to assist people that had no music skills in sight reading music. This system is still used today in Sacred Harp singing societies around the country. In 1967 Alice Parker arranged this tune for the Robert Shaw Chorale. Parker masterfully used elements of the Sacred Harp tradition to create this arrangement that has become a staple of the American choral tradition.

Notes by Ernie Brusubardis John Rutter b. September 24, 1945; London, England Gloria, for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra British musician John Rutter has a long association with choruses, both as director and composer. Following training at London’s Highgate School, he spent a number of years directing a mixed choir at Cambridge’s Clare College. Rutter subsequently founded the Cambridge Singers, records them on his Cambridge label and continues to write accessible choral music that has found particularly receptive audiences in America. The earliest of his larger works, the Gloria is a product of 1974.

A portion of the basic liturgy of the Roman Catholic Mass, the standard Gloria text is as follows:

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Gloria in excelsis Deo, Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Laudamus te.

Benedicimus te.

Adoramus te. Glorificamus te.

Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex celestis, Deus Pater ominipotens, Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe.

Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.

Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram.

Qui sedes ad desteram Patris, miserere nobis.

Quoniam tu solus sanctus, tu solus sanctus Dominus.

Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe.

Cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.

Glory be to God in the highest.

And on earth peace to men of good will.

We praise Thee.

We bless Thee.

We adore Thee. We glorify Thee.

We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory.

O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty.

O Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father.

Who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

Who taketh away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.

Who sitteth at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us.

For Thou alone art holy.

Thou alone art Lord.

Thou alone, O Jesus Christ, art most high.

Together with the Holy Ghost, in the name of God the Father. Amen

Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2014

Discovering a Life in Music In the classroom, on the stage, and throughout the city of Chicago, our students uncover a depth and breadth of musical training that make a North Park education so remarkable.

The School of Music offers four degrees in music: bachelor’s of music in performance, music education, and music in worship, and bachelor of arts in music, with concentrations in arts administration, composition, jazz studies, and general studies — as well as a master of music in vocal performance.

We are also pleased to offer a new certificate in music for social change, based on the El Sistema-inspired philosophy of music instruction developed by celebrated Venezuelan economist and musician Maestro José Antonio Abreu.

Undergraduate Auditions February 8 and March 1, 2014 Schedule an audition, visit campus, attend a class, experience a performance, talk to faculty, and learn more by contacting Dr. Rebecca Ryan, music recruiter, at (773) 244-5623 or rryan@northpark.edu.

www.northpark.edu/music North Park University’s School of Music is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

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T H E J O H N D OW N E Y C R E AT I O N P R OJ E C T MYSO is proud to collaborate with one of America’s premier new music ensembles, Present Music, as we bring nine world premiere student compositions to performance this year. In memory of Dr. John Downey, both a visionary composer and an inspiring man, MYSO musicians are invited to have the opportunity to meet with a professional who guides them from the early structural and conceptual issues of composition through the final printing and rehearsals of their work. The John Downey Creation Project provides MYSO ensembles, as well as MYSO composers, important and exciting experience by undertaking the many challenges of new music.

John Downey served as Director of Music Theory and Composition for Music For Youth/ MYSO for more than 40 years and was a very important and beloved member of the MYSO family until his passing in 2004. Dr. Downey, a Distinguished Professor of Music at UWMilwaukee, was an internationally renowned composer who collaborated with the great artists of his time and, among many honors, was knighted by the French government.

Among many pieces performed by musicians all over the world, he wrote a number of works for Music For Youth/MYSO, as his MYSO students were an essential and joyous part of his career. Professor Downey played a critically important role in the lives of thousands of students, several of whom have become noted composers. He was absolutely central to our organization and mission for many years.

The 2014 John Downey Fellows and the MYSO ensemble for which they are composing are as follows: Liam McCarty, Senior Symphony; Josh Baerwald, Chamber Orchestra; George Papajohn, Philharmonia; Carlos Meyers, Junior Wind Ensemble; Andrew Crapitto, Sinfonia; Malik Johnson, String Orchestra; Brendan Farrell, Percussion Ensemble; and Timothy Reinholz and Samantha Carter, who are each composing string quartets as part of MYSO’s Davidson Chamber Ensembles Program.

We are confident that Dr. Downey would be thrilled by the enthusiasm, creativity and the seriousness of purpose displayed by these young MYSO composers, to whom he would have referred as “my geniuses.”

M Y S O B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S Chair Patrick Rath Chair Elect Jennifer Mattes Vice President Mike Fischer Treasurer Craig Peotter Secretary Patty Hanz

Directors Christine Beuchert Myra Edwards Patricia Ellis, PhD David Frank Dennis Garrett, PhD Troy Hilliard William Hughes, PhD Amy Jensen Renee Johnson Michael Jordan Danielle Machata

Brad Mahoney Paul Mathews Bill Mortimore Jamshed Patel John Pienkos Bunny Raasch-Hooten Andrew Sajdak Matthew Sauer Laura Snyder Kent Tess-Mattner Michael Van Handel Wesley Van Linda

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M Y S O S TA F F Linda Edelstein, Executive Director Carter Simmons, Artistic Director

Administration Libby Garrett................................................................................................................Office Administrator Michelle Hoffman............................................................................................Communications Director Andrew Jambura.......................................................................................................Equipment Manager Kim Jankowiak...................................................................... Finance and Human Resources Director Jenny Kozoroz.....................................................................Progressions Director and Viola Instructor Sarah Christie Kruis....................................................................... Community Partnerships Manager Chris Mell........................................................................................ Jazz Studies Director and Instructor David Rieder........................................................................................................................................Librarian Tim Rush............................................................................................................................... Calypso Director Justin N. Smith...................................................................................Operations and Program Director Emily Stern.................................................................................Development and Marketing Director Katie Truax....................................................................................Program and Development Manager Orchestral and Musical Studies James Burmeister....................................................................... Director of Music Theory Instruction Nicholas Carlson........................................................... Junior Wind Ensemble Assistant Conductor Margery Deutsch...............................................................................Senior Symphony Music Director Ashley DeYoung......................................................................................... String Orchestra West Coach Matthew DeYoung.................................................................................... String Orchestra West Coach Shelby Keith Dixon............................................................... Senior Symphony Associate Conductor

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Thomas Dvorak.........................................................................Junior Wind Ensemble Music Director Mike Giacobassi..........................................................................................Philharmonia String Advisor Denice Haney.........................................................................................String Orchestra Music Director Melissa Jastrow........................................................................................ String Orchestra South Coach Lyda Osinga............................................................................................String Orchestra Music Director Anne Marie Peterson...........................................................................String Orchestra Music Director Steven Rindt...........................................................................................................Sinfonia Music Director Linda Siegel...............................................................................................Percussion Ensemble Director Don Sipe.........................................................................................................................Brass Choir Director Carter Simmons........................................Music Director, Philharmonia and Chamber Orchestra Jared Snyder............................................................................................String Orchestra Central Coach Lenee Stevens................................. Flute Chorale and Chamber Flute Ensemble Music Director Kevin Stewart..........................................................................................String Orchestra Central Coach Brittany Szaj............................................................................................... String Orchestra North Coach Lynn Trinkl...............................................................................................String Orchestra Music Director Jazz Studies Tony Ayala..........................................................................................................................................Instructor Ethan Bender....................................................................................................................................Instructor Scott Currier......................................................................................................................................Instructor Neil Davis............................................................................................................................................Instructor Jason Goldsmith..............................................................................................................................Instructor Russ Johnson....................................................................................................................................Instructor Dean Lea.............................................................................................................................................Instructor Chris Mell........................................................................................ Jazz Studies Director and Instructor Conway Powell....................................................................................................Jazz Elements Instructor Tim Russell............................................................................................................Jazz Elements Instructor John Simons......................................................................................................................................Instructor Calypso Tim Rush............................................................................................................................... Calypso Director Charlie Short.................................................................................................... Calypso Assistant Director Progressions and MYSO Scholars John Babbitt ..................................................................................................Progressions Bass Instructor Michael Britz.................................................................................MYSO Scholars Cello/Bass Instructor Cathy Bush .................................................................................................. Progressions Violin Instructor Isabel Escalante.................................................. Progressions and MYSO Scholars Violin Instructor Lisa Fuller................................................................................................ MYSO Scholars Violin Instructor Alexis Ganos................................................................................................ Progressions Violin Instructor Ravenna Helson ......................................................................................... 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M I LWAU K E E YO U T H S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A Instrumental in changing lives since 1956, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) programs foster critical thinking skills, creativity and collaboration through more than 25 ensemble options, all providing high quality musical experiences to students at various skill levels. From full and chamber orchestra experiences to the internationally recognized Senior Symphony and multiple string orchestras; from wind, brass and percussion ensembles to jazz and steel pan bands, MYSO offers something for everyone.

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra is one of the most successful and respected youth orchestra programs in the nation, regularly recognized regionally, nationally and internationally for its artistic excellence. With nearly 1,000 young musicians ages 8-18 from as many as 14 counties, 60 communities and 200 schools throughout southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois participating in its many music programs, it has become one of the largest organizations of its kind in the United States.

MYSO offers an array of innovative Community Partnership Programs focusing on City of Milwaukee students who otherwise would not have access to music training including: • Progressions, a high-impact, high-intensity two-year string training program for third and fourth grade children. The success of the Progressions program consistently results in the advancement of Progressions graduates, often via MYSO’s central city string programs, Prelude Orchestra and String Orchestra Central.

• Calypso and Soca, two Trinidadian steel pan ensembles • Jazz Studies, featuring small jazz combos and focusing on improvisation techniques • MYSO Scholars, a strings initiative program hosted at Blair Elementary School, a predominately Latino public school in Waukesha • Hal Leonard Corporation Jazz Elements Program, a jazz training program for members of the Daniels-Mardak Boys & Girls Club • A partnership with Latino Arts Strings Program at the United Community Center.

• Neighborhood and Community Concert Series, free concert performances for more than 5,000 area children, engaging them in a peer-to-peer performance by a MYSO ensemble. These concerts include educational components, teaching student audiences about the featured music’s instrumentation, composers and history.

MYSO celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Community Partnership Programs in 2014.

In addition, MYSO offers more than 20 additional educational enrichment opportunities to its members including: • concerto competitions • music theory and composition instruction • a chamber ensemble program • rehearsals with and coaching by professional musicians • recording sessions • master classes • domestic and international touring • a lecture series for parents to learn more about the music their children are studying • merit-based scholarships • various summer programs For more information about MYSO and its many programs, please visit www.myso.org.

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