Vox Femina

WIDE OPEN SPACES

SARAH QUARTEL (B. 1982)

Benjamin Corwyn, piano

TO SIT AND DREAM

ROSEPHANYE POWELL (B. 1962)

Benjamin Corwyn, piano

ON MY DREAMS

JOCELYN HAGEN (B. 1980)

Benjamin Corwyn, piano

OPHELIA

JOCELYN HAGEN

IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE TELEGRAM

JEAN BELMONT (B. 1939) JENNIFER HIGDON (B. 1962)

PEACE*

SARAH QUARTEL

Commissioned by Managing Artistic Director Joel Rinsema for Kantorei, in memory of aunt, Patricia Hillegonds.

“Pat” found her peace on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. “E ho’omaha me ka maluhia” Rest in Peace.

Benjamin Corwyn, piano

NIGHT FLIGHT

CECILIA MCDOWALL (B. 1951)

Sarah Biber, cello

ARROW

JOCELYN HAGEN

Benjamin Corwyn, piano

VOICE ON THE WIND

SARAH QUARTEL

Laura Tribby, soprano; Adam Cave, hand drum

GIVE JOAN A SWORD*

JOCELYN HAGEN

Commissioned by the First Plymouth Foundation for Kantorei and conductor Joel Rinsema in celebration of the installation of Rev. Jenny Shultz-Thomas, as senior minister of First Plymouth UCC, and in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the canonization of Joan of Arc. Sarah Biber, cello; Benjamin Corwyn, piano; Matthew Eschliman, chimes; Emily Alexander, Lizabeth Barnett, Kai Berry-Helmlinger, Adam Cave, Sara Michael, Kirk Schjodt, and Laura Tribby, hand bells

WANTING MEMORIES

YSAŸE BARNWELL (B. 1946)

* World premiere To make a general contribution to Kantorei, text “Kantorei” to 44321

Thank you!

PROGRAM NOTES Designed to show off the compositional diversity and creativity of some of the most prominent women composers working today, Vox Femina, or “female voice” in Latin, includes world premieres of works by Canadian composer Sarah Quartel and U.S. composer Jocelyn Hagen. As Kantorei has returned from a long separation to prepare this muchanticipated program, many singers have been struck by the degree to which the music and words resonate with our collective experience over the past 18 months. This experience has brought grief, frustration, and loneliness, but also joy, compassion, and gratitude for the beauty of the human experience. It is with much excitement that Kantorei celebrates the voices of women composers and a return to live performance.

Inspired by the transformative relationships that develop while making choral music, Canadian composer and educator Sarah Quartel endeavors to write in a way that connects singer to singer, ensemble to conductor, and performer to audience. In 2018 she became the youngest of Oxford University Press’s select group of major choral composers, and she continues to work as a clinician and conductor at music education and choral events at home and abroad. The American Choral Directors Association commissioned Wide Open Spaces (2014), with text and music by the composer, for the Middle School/Junior High School Boys’ Honor Choir conducted by Bob Chilcott. The youthful energy and childlike spirit of this piece opens the program with an expression of joy and renewed optimism for the future.

The next two songs are dream songs. The first, To Sit and Dream (2008) is set to Harlem Renaissance leader Langston Hughes’s poem “To You.” This text addresses “our problem world” in the hope that those “who are dreamers too” will help “make our world anew.” According to composer Dr. Rosephanye Dunn Powell, a professor of voice and a scholar of spirituals and art songs by African American composers, she “sought to capture, in concert form, the jazz influences harmonically that were such a part of Hughes’s world,” using “harmonic colors that could be both ‘dark’ (representing ‘our problem world’) and ‘bright’ (‘our world anew’) dependent upon the listener’s perspective.”

A second dream song, On My Dreams (2007), laments, “I would spread the cloths under your feet; Had I the heav’n’s embroidered cloths,” but “I, being poor, have only my dreams.” Poet William Butler Yeats thus entreats the listener to “tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” Drawing on her background in songwriting, American composer Jocelyn Hagen sets this text so it can be clearly understood and deeply felt by the listener without sacrificing rich color and textural complexity in the music.

Notes by Dr. Leah Weinberg

The following song, also by Hagen, is set to text by another famous poet. Ophelia (2016) is based on passages from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act IV, Scene 7), in which Queen Gertrude brings news of Ophelia’s death by drowning to her brother Laertes. As fellow composer Timothy Brown notes, Hagen “keeps the vocal range quite small for most of the work, expanding only to word-paint certain passages such as those describing clothes filling with water.” A funeral song of sorts, Ophelia combines “precise text setting offset with surprising musical lines and dynamics that bring the varying emotions alternately receding into blank shock, and bubbling – even churning to the surface.”

Shakespeare forms the bridge to the next song, If Music Be the Food of Love. The text, written by English poet Henry Heveningham c. 1692, opens with a twist on one of the playwright’s best-known lines from Twelfth Night: “If music be the food of love, play on.” This song, by Kansas City composer, singer, and teacher Jean Belmont Ford, is an ode to the pleasures of singing and music. As she told MusicSpoke in 2017, “People recognize beauty in music just like they do in a flower without formal training. You recognize something like Amazing Grace that is caught in your gut like it’s always been there. Who wouldn’t want to do that? Even the singer next to you in church that can barely carry a tune is aspiring to it. Making sound out of your body affirms them without lectures.”

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club, Telegram (2014) is a clever song by Pulitzer Prize and three-time Grammy winner Jennifer Higdon set to the poetry of Jeanne Minahan. The words are snippets of “a recently discovered correspondence” using a charmingly antiquated mode of communication. Imagined telegrams from the future, the past, and faraway places “smelling of rum and coconut” rub shoulders with humorous messages from Elvis and Cleopatra. Might future composers use texts and tweets to the same effect?

Managing Artistic Director Joel Rinsema commissioned Sarah’s Quartel’s Peace (World Premiere), with text by the American lyric poet Sarah Teasdale, for Kantorei in memory of his aunt Patricia Hillegonds. Of the genesis of the work, Rinsema explains, “I got to know Sarah Quartel through my work at Oxford University Press, and I knew she wanted to set this poetry. My aunt died in March of 2019, and I never got the chance to see her again. She lived on the Island of Kauai for the last two decades of her life. She was a nurse and a nurse paralegal for most of her career. We will be memorializing her on October 20, 2021 in Kauai and will play Kantorei’s performance of this work as part of her service.”

PROGRAM NOTES Of Peace, the composer writes, “‘Peace flows into me as the tide to the pool by the shore’ – In my setting of Teasdale’s exquisite poem, you will hear many moments meant to depict the ebb and flow of gentle tides, the roll of a crashing wave, or the sparkle of sunlight on the sea. When I lived close to the ocean in Hawaii, I found it to be a great source of peace. It was a tremendous joy to write this work in memory of Joel’s treasured aunt, someone who also found great peace living near the ocean in Hawaii.” As the commissioning statement reads, “‘Pat’ found her peace on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. ‘E ho’omaha me ka maluhia.’ Rest in Peace.”

Celebrated London-born composer Cecilia McDowall has been short-listed eight times for the British Composer Awards, and in 2014 she won in the Choral category for her haunting work Night Flight. This work celebrates the pioneering 1912 flight of the first woman—American aviatrix Harriet Quimby—to fly across the English Channel, a feat overshadowed by the tragic sinking of the Titanic only one day before. McDowall describes the work, written for choir and cello solo, like this: “The three songs of Night Flight are settings of beautiful poems by the British poet Sheila Bryer.

Each song is linked to either night or flight in some way. ‘New Moon’ gives a sense of flying high over the sea in the light of the silver moon.” In the next song, ‘Crow, landing,’ the homophonic texture (characterized by one line of melody and harmony being sung/played by multiple instruments at the same time) “is angular and jagged, depicting the movement of a bird.” Finally, ‘Before Dawn’ “concludes Night Flight with an evocation of a fragrant summer’s night in the hour before dawn when ‘the garden, stripped of light and shade is utterly itself: a place of solid stillness.’”

Jocelyn Hagen’s Arrow (2019), for tenor, baritone, and bass voices, sets Ruth Whitman’s 1990 poem of the same name. The text depicts the shooting of an arrow in three parts—the aiming, the letting go, and the flight—and the music animates this action in three different styles. As the distinction between archer and arrow blurs, the work also depicts the centeredness and freedom of one who becomes like an arrow. When “you are let go” and “you are free,” then “you are moving along an invisible track (you make it yourself) straight as your spine is straight.”

Voice on the Wind (2015), with text and music by Sarah Quartel, reflects on the empowerment of singing. Written for soprano and alto voices, the work features several hallmarks of the composer’s style: a catchy melody, imitative scat singing, and a driving hand drum accompaniment.

Jocelyn Hagen’s Give Joan A Sword (World Premiere) pairs choir, cello, piano, chimes, and handbells with powerful text by Sister M. Thérèse. The poet’s brother was killed in the fall of Bataan and Corregidor during the Second World War, and Hagen’s intense music brings to life Sister M. Thérèse’s anguished, but also deeply devotional, language.

Programmed as the culmination of the concert, Give Joan A Sword invokes the spiritual energy of one of history’s most powerful women. Exalted as she is, Joan of Arc also becomes Sister M. Thérèse’s poetic avatar, an outlet for the writer’s feelings of powerlessness and frustration in the face of war: “How can she keep her soul in calm,” she asks of Joan/herself, “when towers of Rheims and Notre Dame send up their cry of muted bells that tear her heart with moans and knells?” More personally, “How must her hands have ached to hold her shining sword when pain patrolled the glory-riddled crimson shore of Bataan, and Corregidor.” In the end, however, it is clear that Sister M. Thérèse does not yearn for the power to join the violence, but rather to end it: “O God of peace, give Joan a sword! And in this moment send her down to Domrémy, to every town!”

First Plymouth Foundation commissioned this work for Kantorei in celebration of the installation of Rev. Jenny ShultzThomas, as senior minister of First Plymouth Congregational Church, and in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the canonization of Joan of Arc. Although the work was completed before the pandemic, Joel Rinsema explains, “We had no idea the relevance of Give Joan A Sword to what has transpired over the last year. Jenny is the first woman senior minister at First Plymouth and the youngest senior minister ever appointed. And then to lead a church through a pandemic for two of the first three years of her tenure! She is a fierce, integrity-filled, strong leader – much like Joan of Arc, and Kantorei is proud to call First Plymouth our home, and to be affiliated with a leader like Jenny.”

The program closes with Wanting Memories (1980), part of the larger work Crossings by multitalented composer and Sweet Honey in the Rock member Dr. Ysaÿe Barnwell. This built-in encore is a simple strophic song celebrating the gift of memories, both of people and of experiences that bring us peace and help us grow.

Joel M. Rinsema joined Kantorei in 2014, becoming the second conductor in its history. During his tenure, Kantorei has experienced tremendous growth of its audiences, nearly tripled its budget size, and launched an ambitious recording strategy. A frequent collaborator and champion of new works for chorus, Joel has commissioned and premiered work of many of today’s leading composers including Kim André Arnesen, Mason Bates, René Clausen, Ola Gjeilo, Jocelyn Hagen, Mark Hayes, Cecilia McDowall, David Montoya, Sarah Quartel, Jake Runestad and Eric Whitacre. In the summer of 2018, Joel conducted the Central American premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s “Dreamweaver” in Guatemala City and Antigua, Guatemala with Capella Cantorum de Guatemala.

Joel is a passionate advocate for the professional choral art form, and he frequently consults with other choral arts organizations around the country. Because of his leadership in his field, he received the Louis Botto Award for “Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal” from Chorus America, the industry’s advocacy, research, and leadership development organization for choruses, choral leaders, and singers.

JOEL M. RINSEMA Managing Artistic Director

He is an accomplished conductor of major works for choir and orchestra and was one of eighteen conductors chosen nationally through audition to participate in master classes and workshops presented by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Chorus America. As a tenor soloist, Joel performed across the United States, in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.

Joel is also the Director of Music and Technology in Worship at First Plymouth Congregational Church in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado and served as the North American Choral Promotion Manager for Oxford University Press based in Oxford, England from 2017 to 2020. He holds music degrees from Arizona State and Whitworth Universities and is a member of the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys), American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA).

Joel came to Kantorei from the Grammy Award-winning Phoenix Chorale. Throughout his 23-year tenure with the Phoenix Chorale, he served in nearly every capacity with the organization including his last 15 years as President & CEO and Assistant Conductor. He negotiated an ongoing recording contract with the prestigious U.K.based Chandos Records, and Phoenix Chorale recordings earned a total of eight Grammy nominations and two Grammy wins during his tenure. Joel appears on all of the Phoenix Chorale recordings and was a soloist on the Grammy Award-winning “Spotless Rose: Hymn to the Virgin Mary.”

In addition to his work with the Phoenix Chorale, Joel served as the Director of Music at Church of the Beatitudes United Church of Christ in Phoenix for 15 years, and was the founding chorus master of the Arizona Musicfest Chorus.

Kantorei is a Denver-based, choral ensemble comprised of volunteer singers under the direction of Artistic Director Joel M. Rinsema.

Formed in 1997 under the leadership of six friends and artistic director Richard Larson, Kantorei has established itself as one of the nation’s premier choral ensembles. Our choral artists have studied at schools with strong music programs across the United States such as Baylor University, Brigham Young University, Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, St. Olaf College, Wartburg College, and Westminster Choir College. Kantorei’s singers reside throughout the greater Denver area. Some serve as choral music educators, church choir conductors, and vocal instructors. Others are doctors, social workers, optometrists, counselors, clinical psychologists, accountants, realtors –all brought together in weekly rehearsals for shared artistic excellence and community.

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THE CHOIR SOPRANO

ALTO

TENOR

BASS

Victoria Bailey Mary Christ Kimberly Dunninger Christina Graham Heather Gunnerson Stacie Hanson Shannon Lemmon-Elrod Sara Michael* Heather Monagle Martina Richardson Pearl Rutherford Christianna Sullins Laura Tribby

Emily Alexander Lindsey Aquilina Lizabeth Barnett Lyn Berry-Helmlinger Sarah Harrison* Chelsea Kendall Melissa Menter Erin Meyerhoff Jennifer Moore Kali Paguirigan Tegan Palmer Allison Pasternak Emma Tebbe Andrea Ware-Medina Jane Wright

Benjamin Corwyn◊ Joshua Corwyn Kai Berry-Helmlinger* Matthew Eschliman Keith Ferguson Mason France Keith Harrison Bryce Kennedy Samuel Low Alex Menter Jonathan Meyer Zachariah Smith Amra Tomsic John Wright

John Bartley Jordan Black Michael Boender Adam Cave Garth Criswell Ryan D. Garrison Scott Horowitz Brad Jackson Brad Larson John Ludwig Marc Petersen Kirk Schjodt* John Schaak Griffin Sutherland Matt Weissenbuehler

* Section leader ◊ Collaborative Pianist

STAFF MEMBERS Sarah Harrison

Assistant Conductor

Alicia Rigsby

Accompanist, Collaborative Pianist

Sara Michael

Business Manager

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jennifer Moore

Matthew Gierke

Leslie Britton

Melissa Menter

President

Vice President

Treasurer

Secretary & Development Committee Chair

MEMBERS AT LARGE John Bartley

Keith Ferguson

Judy Bloomberg Shenkein

J. Scott Pusey

JOCELYN HAGEN Spotlight Composer

Photo courtesy of Jocelyn Hagen

Jocelyn Hagen composes music that has been described as “simply magical” (Fanfare Magazine) and “dramatic and deeply moving” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul).

She is a pioneer in the field of composition, pushing the expectations of musicians and audiences with largescale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, opera, and publishing. Her first forays into composition were via songwriting, still very evident in her work. The majority of her compositions are for the voice: solo, chamber and choral. Her melodic music is rhythmically driven and texturally complex, rich in color and deeply heartfelt.

In 2019, choirs and orchestras across the country premiered her multimedia symphony The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci that includes video projections created by a team of visual artists, highlighting da Vinci’s spectacular drawings, inventions, and texts. Hagen describes her process of composing for choir, orchestra and film simultaneously in a Tedx Talk given at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, now available on YouTube. Her dance opera collaboration with choreographer Penelope Freeh, Test Pilot, received the 2017 American Prize in the musical theater/opera division as well as a Sage

Award for “Outstanding Design.” The panel declared the work “a tour de force of originality.” She is also one half of the band Nation, an a cappella duo with composer/ performer Timothy C. Takach, and together they perform and serve as clinicians for choirs from all over the world.

Hagen’s commissions include Conspirare, Cantus, the Minnesota Opera, the St. Olaf Band, and Kantorei, among many others. Her work is independently published through JH Music, as well as through Graphite Publishing, G. Schirmer, Fred Bock Music Publishing, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and Boosey and Hawkes.

SARAH BIBER Spotlight Performer

Sarah Biber has played the cello and viola da gamba across the United States, Australia, and China. She studied the cello at Oberlin Conservatory with Peter Rejto, and then at the Sydney Conservatorium with Georg Pederson, where she performed in the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony and as a member of the Sydney Sinfonia, the training orchestra of the Symphony. After returning from Australia, she founded, directed, and taught the string orchestra program at KIPP DC: AIM Academy, a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of DC, at the time, grades 5-8. Sarah received her last degree, a Doctorate of Musical Arts in cello performance, at Stony Brook under renowned cellist Colin Carr. From 2010 to 2011, she was an assistant professor of cello performance and pedagogy at Montana State University, teaching music theory and string pedagogy to future music educators and founded Second Strings, an orchestra based in DC of adult amateur string players and Hill Harmony, an organization providing string classes and instruments to public schools in SE DC. Since 2015 Sarah has lived, performed, and taught in Colorado. She lives in Golden with her partner Keith Bradley, their two daughters, three cats and a parakeet named birdie.

Photo courtesy of Sarah Biber

On sale now at kantorei.org/sing-wearing-the-sky Canadian composer and educator Sarah Quartel is known for her fresh and exciting approach to choral music. Deeply inspired by the life-changing relationships that can occur while making choral music, Sarah writes in a way that connects singer to singer, ensemble to conductor, and performer to audience. Her works are performed by choirs across the world, and she has been commissioned by groups including the American Choral Directors Association, the National Children’s Chorus of the United States of America, and New Dublin Voices.

Since 2018 she has been exclusively published by Oxford University Press, and she continues to work as a clinician and conductor at music education and choral events at home and abroad.

SARAH QUARTEL Spotlight Composer

Photo courtesy of Sarah Quartel

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TEXT & TRANSLATIONS Wide Open Spaces

On My Dreams

If Music Be the Food of Love

Sarah Quartel

William Butler Yeats

Henry Heveningham

There’s part of my story, there’s part of my song, There’s part of my journey that’s yet to be found.

With life all around us and so much to see, Adventure is calling, It’s calling to me.

Out in the wide open spaces around me.

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light; I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

If music be the food of love, Sing on, till I am fill’d with joy; For then my list’ning soul you move To pleasures that can never cloy.

Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare That you are music ev’rywhere.

With big sky above me, I’m on my way, Scanning the horizon of a brand new day.

Feet to the earth now, there’s no turning back.

Into the world now, look at me, look at me go!

Out in the wide open spaces around me.

But as I journey out I look within and see The spaces inside of me yet to be filled, Filled with what I have seen and what I will be.

Oh! I’m filling the wide open spaces inside of me With something I love, something I would like to be!

Filling the wide open spaces within me.

To Sit and Dream Langston Hughes (from “To You”) To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

Outside our world of here and now.

Outside our world, our problem world.

To dream of vast horizons of the soul, Of dreams made whole.

Unfettered, free. Help me.

All you who are dreamers, too.

Help me make our world anew.

I reach out my hand to you.

To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

To sit and dream.

Ophelia

William Shakespeare (from “Hamlet” Act IV, Scene 7) There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious silver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes, (Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day,) As one incapable of her own distress, (And I a maid at your window,) Or like a creature native and indued (To be your Valentine.)

Unto that element: but long it could not be (You promised me to wed.)

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Pleasures invade both eye and ear, So fierce, the transports are, they wound, And all my senses feasted are; Tho’ yet the treat is only sound, Sure I must perish by your charms, Unless you save me in your arms.

Telegram Jeanne Minahan Telegram to my Career: Not what I meant or thought.

Weather fine. Come home soon.

Telegram from my Career: Splendors untold.

Rain. Will write again.

Telegram from the Past: You left a paintbrush, wet.

Send cash.

Telegram from the Future: Now you have money.

Bring paintbrush & more time.

Telegram from the Canary: It’s not bad, so far.

Telegram from Sancho Panza: I’m starting to see things.

Pack more wine.

Telegram from my Feet: Lighten up!

Telegram from the Sky: I’m the limit.

Telegram from Last Week: I can never catch up.

Telegram from Next Week: They won’t let me wait.

Telegram Smelling Suspiciously of Rum and Coconut from the Hour lost at the end of Daylight Savings Time: This time I’m not coming back.

Telegram from the Book left under the Covers: Do you read me?

Telegram from Cleopatra: Marc’s fine.

Boat race tomorrow.

Telegram to Last Week: I’ll carry you with me.

Telegram to Next Week: Wait.

Telegram from Elvis: Nice shoes.

Telegram to your Lips: Kiss me.

Telegram to the Hour from Daylight Savings Time (Smelling Suspiciously of Rum and Coconut): Flight booked. Joining you next week.

Telegram from Telegraph Office: Buy yourself a cell phone.

TEXT & TRANSLATIONS Telegram from the Library: Silence, please.

Night Flight

Telegram to the President: Peace, peace, peace.

1. New Moon You can be thrown off balance here, Amongst the wintry seaweed, rock and sand, As if the mind, like some young gull left teetering on an icy ledge Dared not look down.

Last night a new moon’s gleaming keyhole, Barest sliver of a nail, Drew me through and hung me high above the huddled town.

Such soaring freedom there – to fly from star To lightship, to and island’s throbbing beam, Trailing silver tightropes on the glitt’ring air -Or tumble headlon through a night cloud, rise unseen by all save one who holds the threads.

Spreading silken nets across a sullen sea.

They catch us as we waken, Plunging earthwards Out of dream.

Telegram to Emily Dickinson: We quote you now: Roses, Bees, but— Yours the Nectar—yours the Dash— Telegram to God: Message received.

Telegram from Summer: Have you forgotten me?

Telegram from Fall: I’ve changed.

Telegram from Winter: Be there, soon.

Telegram from Hope: Spring’s eternal.

Peace Sarah Teasdale Peace flows into me As the tide to the pool by the shore; It is mine forevermore, It ebbs not back like the sea.

I am the pool of blue That worships the vivid sky; My hopes were heaven-high, They are all fulfilled in you.

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies, — You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold.

Sheila Bryer

3. Before Dawn One hour before dawn, The garden, stripped of light and shade, Utterly itself: A place of solid stillness filled with Earth’s Heart murmurings and heavy scents.

After the languor of a wearying heat, We easily forget how wet her dew can be, Stepping out so carelessly barefoot over the moonlit grass With eyes on stars moulding in to prisms.

I might have been an early suppliant hurrying to greet the day Wrapt in summer morning My foot fall as an anchor, My hands outstretched, Reaching for their vast medieval heav’n.

Arrow Ruth Whitman

2. Crow, landing Sudden wing-lift, unexpected updraft, And beneath, brushed smooth, the tidal runway Shelving down to where a white surf melts the margins.

Coughing softly to itself.

Sudden wing-lift, unexpected updraft, This tidal stretch and pull becomes a cleansing Of old weariness, of tangled thought And malcontent left snagged on grasses.

Like the detritus from long forgotten picnics.

Day, swept blue and gold as benediction, Is an invitation to forget ourselves, Become abandoned, out of place; To take a chance below the waterline.

Ungainly hoverer, a blown rag, He angles steeply, braced.

Legs extended.

Sudden wing-lift, unexpected updraft, Day, swept blue and gold as benediction, Swept blue and gold, blue and gold.

The aiming: you aim at the center of the eye you gather all landscape around that single point: if a bird-ribbon flies across the edge if a cloud teases the sun you gather all to the one point there is only one The letting go: you are let go you are no longer grasped empty air surrounds you you no longer lean against the bow your hock is free you are free you are in danger remember the center all of you remembers the center

The flight: you are moving along an invisible track (you make it yourself) straight as your spine is straight

Voice on the Wind Sarah Quartel I heard a voice on the summer wind, Who she is I can’t explain.

I heard a voice on the summer wind, Blowing free and blowing wild.

I heard a voice on the summer wind, Strength and spirit in her song.

I heard a voice on the summer wind, With a song I seem to know.

I heard a voice on the summer wind, Sounds familiar like my own.

I heard a voice on the summer wind, Moves me like she knows me well.

I heard a voice on the summer wind, Sounds familiar like my own.

I am the voice on the summer wind, Strong and sure where e’er I stand.

I am the voice.

Give Joan a Sword Sister Mary Thérèse

The night down on Domrémy, Dark wings have circled every tree, Shut out the stars and steeped the sky In anguish lifted like a cry.

Shaking the young stars from her gown, Pushing the moon back, Joan peers down On lands by terror twisted bare That shake with battle everywhere.

A blight is on the world again; A blight is on the souls of men; And dark is death and dark is birth As sorrow runs along the earth.

TEXT & TRANSLATIONS How can she keep her soul in calm, When towers of Reims and Notre Dame Send up their cry of muted bells That tear her heart with moans and knells?

So, I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.

Since you’ve gone and left me, there’s been so little beauty, But I know I saw it clearly through your eyes.

How must her hands have ached to hold Her shining sword when pain patrolled The glory-riddled crimson shore Of Bataan and Corregidor.

Now the world outside is such a cold and bitter place, Here inside I have few things that will console, And when I try to hear your voice above the storms of life Then I remember that I was told.

How must her lips have burned to cry A challenge to the southern sky For heroes who would never see The sunset stain the Coral Sea.

Yes, I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.

Young Joan is restless in the sky; Young Joan is burning to defy The sign that sickens men with pride; Back to the wars young Joan would ride!

To rout out the bitter pagan horde, O God of peace, give Joan a sword!

And in this moment send her down To Domrémy, to every town!

Wanting Memories Ysaÿe M. Barnwell

I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.

You used to rock me in the cradle of your arms, You said you’d hold me till the pains of life were gone.

You said you’d comfort me in times like these And now I need you, and you are gone.

I think on the things that made me feel so wonderful when I was young, I think on the things that made me laugh, made me dance, made me sing, I think on the things that made me grow into a being full of pride; Think on these things, for they are truth.

And I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.

I thought that you were gone, but now I know you’re with me;vYou are the voice that whispers all I need to hear.

I know a “please,” a “thank you,” and a smile will take me far, I know that I am you and you are me and we are one, I know that who I am is numbered in each grain of sand, I know that I’ve been blessed again and over again.

Yes, I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.

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“Kantorei is a gem in the American choral scene. I love the passion of the singers and the familial quality of the group. They are continually working together to achieve a high level of musicality as well as deepening their personal relationships. I felt so welcomed into their family and this album was a beautiful collaboration in which every moment was handled with such care and such deep, spacious musicality.”

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Donors who contributed between September 1, 2020 and August 31,2021 are recognized in this program * Singers ^ Board & Staff ~ Volunteers

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Donors who contributed between September 1, 2020 and August 31,2021 are recognized in this program * Singers ^ Board & Staff ~ Volunteers

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In Kind

Cherry Creek High School First Plymouth UCC Susan Lewkow John Schaak

In Memoriam and Honorarium Frankie Anderson, in honor of Judy Fredericksen Emily Anderson, in honor of Lindsey Aquilina Bill and Carol Bartley, in honor of John Bartley Sharon and Reggie Bradford, in honor of Michael Bradford Michael Bright, in honor of Matthew Eschliman Liz and Dmitri Calvert, in honor of John Ludwig Andrew Christ, in honor of Mary Christ Linda Dey, in honor of Richard Larson Jena Dickey, in honor of Simon Harrison Beverly and Bruce Fest, in honor of Christina Graham Judy Fredericksen, in honor of Melissa Menter Elaine and Mike Gardner, in honor of Alicia Rigsby Diane Goodwin and Rush Pierce, in honor of Genette and Bob Henderson Annette Gunnerson, in honor of Kevin and Heather Gunnerson Benjamin Hensley, in honor of Jenn Moore Ken and Diane Hoagland, in honor of Joel Rinsema

Sarah Jamieson, in honor of Sarah Harrison Elaine Johnson, in honor of Karl Johnson Michael Kadovitz, in honor of Matthew Eschliman Betsy and Tad Lyle, in honor of Jennifer Moore Pam Midboe, in honor of Kristi Midboe Sannes Andy and Marybeth Pettitt, in honor of Erin Pettitt Alice and Dan Robinson, in honor of Heather Gunnerson Charity Fitness Challenge, in honor of Lindsey Aquilina Mary Nelle Gage/Ruth Routten, in honor of Michael Boender Lois Siegel, in honor of Kai and Lyn Berry-Helmlinger Frederick K. Trask, in honor of Keith Ferguson Rev. Dr. S. Patrice Von Stroh, in honor of Jonathan Von Stroh Laurence and Deborah Weinberg, in honor of Scott Horowitz Clara Winter, in honor of Sarah Harrison Larry Wood, in honor Michael Bradford Roberta R. Larson, in honor of Bryce Kennedy

Michael Bizzaro, in memory of Bill and Gay Eustice, and Vincent Bizzaro Julie Durst, in memory of Don Durst Judy Fredericksen, in memory of Jack Fredericksen Ruth McCollum Huff, in memory of Dr. Jerrald D. McCollum Mary Hupp, in memory of Frances Hupp Elaine Menter, in memory of Robert Menter Teresa Morgan, in memory of Joy Post Shane Endsley and Kali Paguirigan, in memory of Gerald Endsley Andrea Ware-Medina, in memory of Charlott Ware

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS KANTOREI'S 202I-2022 SEASON

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 202I

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2022

“A Winter’s Night,” with Cherry Creek High School Meistersingers 7:30 pm Bethany Lutheran Church

“Exile Lamentations,” 7:30 pm First Plymouth Congregational Church

SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 202I “Carols and Lullabies – A Kantorei Christmas,” 7:30 pm First Plymouth Congregational Church

SUNDAY, DECEMBER I2, 202I “Carols and Lullabies – A Kantorei Christmas,” 3:00 pm Christ Episcopal Church

FEBRUARY 24 & 25, 2022 Mixed High School Choir Festival, 7:30 pm (Locations to be announced)

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022 “Exile Lamentations,” 7:30 pm Wellshire Presbyterian Church

SATURDAY, MAY 2I, 2022 “Journey to Freedom,” 7:30 pm First Plymouth Congregational Church

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2022 “Journey to Freedom,” 3:00 pm Wellshire Presbyterian Church

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