Tapestry Singers Program - June 2023

REQUIEM

Tapestry Singers and St. Cecilia

Chamber Choir

Saturday, June 10, 7:30

Sunday, June 11, 4:00

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Tapestry Singers

Soprano

Jackie Belknap

Linda Blomquist

Jenny Brown

Kayla Cruz

Sarah Duggan

Clara Fagan

Nancy Gault

Judy Grey

Violet Holbrook

Lynn Kimball

Ava Nery

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Soprano

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Alto

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Tenor

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Bass

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Randy Cruz

Franklin Holland

Gordon Lind

Don Osier

Skip Simonds

Marcel Young-Scaggs

Tenor

Rick Humphries

Mary Benner

Bass

David Blanchard

Scott Budde

John Fischer

Richard Francis

Cecilia Chamber Choir

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Tapestry Singers

Music Director

Beth Preston holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Brigham Young University and a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from University of Southern Maine. In her role as Music Director for Tapestry Singers she has become known for championing the works of living composers. She directed Tapestry during 1998-2006 and then returned to the group in 2014. She was a founding member of the critically acclaimed, Brunswick-based Vox Nova Chamber Choir. She currently sings in its newer iteration, Una Voce Chamber Choir. She was a member of the chorus of Opera Maine in productions of La Bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, Faust, Roméo et Juliette, and part of a small women’s choir that performed with Midcoast Symphony Orchestra for Debussy’s Nuages and Holst’s The Planets. She was awarded “Distinguished Choral Director of the Year 2010” by Maine American Choral Directors Association, “Music Educator of the Year 2013” by Maine Music Educators District 3, and “Maine Music Educator of the Year 2019” by Maine Music Educators Association. She is actively involved with the Maine Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing, is a member of the VoiceCare Network, and a member of the National Association for Music Education. In June 2019 Preston retired from a 37-year career in the public schools where she conducted award-winning choirs and directed musical theater productions of the highest caliber. She teaches privately, coaching singers who win awards, scholarships, and acceptance into prestigious post-secondary programs.

Midcoast Brass Quintet

Emily Isaacson Artistic Director

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Cecelia Chamber Choir Music Director

Linda Blanchard earned her MA in Choral Conducting from University of Michigan School of Music, Ann Arbor, and her BA in Music from Bowdoin College. She is recipient of the Susan Winchell Burnet Music Prize, the Abraham Goldberg Prize for theatrical directing, and the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award. She studied orchestral conducting with Gustav Meier and Zae Munn, and choral conducting with Theodore Morrison, Jerry Blackstone, and Robert Greenlee. Ms. Blanchard is founding director of St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, directs the Sheepscot Valley Chorus and Lincoln Arts Festival Chorus, and is Director of Choirs at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Newcastle. She has worked as a festival adjudicator and clinician, directed the Bowdoin College Chamber Choir, University of Michigan Residential College Choirs and Orpheus Singers, worked in Maine and Michigan as a church organist and choir director, taught junior high and high school chorus in Maine, taught voice at Bowdoin College, and worked extensively as a musical theater director.

The St. Cecilia Chamber Choir is named after the patron saint of choral music and was formed in 1995 to promote excellence in choral singing in Midcoast Maine. Directed by Linda Blanchard with the assistance of accompanist Sean Fleming, the choir specializes in sacred music of the Renaissance and English choral traditions that rely on a straight vocal tone (no vibrato). The choir regularly performs compositions from contemporary composers as well, including composers residing in Maine. The choir’s members hail from communities across Midcoast Maine from Rockland to Dresden and are selected following an audition process.

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Mesa Schubeck, Pianist

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Accompanist

Sean Fleming is an in-demand keyboard artist, accompanist, and arranger. He performs regularly with the Bowdoin Chorus, Down East Singers, Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival Chorus, Midcoast Community Chorus, St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, and Tapestry Singers. He performs regularly with his two bands, the Sean Fleming Ragtime Band, and the Sean Fleming Dixieland Band. He is on the roster of the Amethyst Chamber Ensemble, and is a member of the Maine Friends of Music chamber ensemble. He is a member of the newly-formed professional vocal ensemble, Butterscotch Sock Hop. He was recently the music director for the Hearts Ever Young troupe. He regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals.

Fleming has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Colby College Chorale, Maine Pro Musica, Oratorio Chorale, Renaissance Voices, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, University of Southern Maine Chorale, University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, and Vox Nova Chamber Choir. He has directed or accompanied over 80 musical theater productions nationwide. A piano and organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Fleming studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past 28 years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation grant award.

Special Thanks

Pastor Marilee and Val Harris and the folks at Damariscotta Baptist Church

Lincoln Academy Music Department

Medomak Valley High School Music Department

The many volunteers that help set up and tear down every Monday night.

Photo: Bob Mitchell

Program Notes

Because Tapestry Singers has been committed to programming the works of living composers, it’s only logical to devote a concert to John Rutter who is considered “the most successful and well-known composer of choral music in recent British history.” (BBC Music Magazine) His works are part of the best-known choral repertory, performed around the world. His association with Clare College, Cambridge, first as a student, then as Director of Music, and later as the organizer of the much-recorded Cambridge Singers, has led to international recognition. Reviewer John Quinn attributed the lasting success of Rutter’s music to the fact that he “writes music that people want to perform and to hear.”

The Requiem is deeply personal for Rutter. It bears the dedication “in memoriam L. F. R.” (referring to John Rutter's father, who had died the previous year). Rutter has “an unfailing knack to get to the root of the text [with] exquisitely balanced vocal writing, melting harmonies, intensely sweet turns of phrase.” (The Gramophone Newsletter)

Gloria is one of Rutter’s most ambitious concert works, and its premiere was the occasion for his first visit to the US in May 1974. The Voices of Mel Olson commissioned the work, and the composer conducted the performance by that chorale in its Omaha, NE, home. Rutter himself sees this work as analogous to a symphony, with three movements—allegro vivace, andante, vivace e ritmico—i.e., fast, slow, fast, in common with symphonic practice, and, says Rutter, “exalted, devotional and jubilant by turns.” Gloria represents the second section of the Ordinary, the fixed-form portion of the Latin mass, i.e., the section following the Kyrie, and the Introit, when the latter is used. (Notes used with permission of Naperville Chorus, Naperville, IL.)

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Tapestry Singers is a wonderful mix of professional and highly skilled amateur singers. We commit to practicing outside the weekly rehearsals to learn our music using the practice tracks that are provided. We work hard at rehearsals, but also have fun in the process. Check out our website to set up an audition.

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The primary impulse to sing is to express something welling up inside you in a way you yourself enjoy. There’s a deep physiological and psychological impulse to express emotions through language and song. It’s this need that has closet, car and shower singers taking center stage at local karaoke bars. It’s the reason we come together to rehearse on Monday nights.

The Rutter “Requiem” Performed in Memoriam (names

shared by the singers)

Bob Abitabilo

Mike and Jo Abitabilo

Barbara Abrahamson

Alan Baldwin

Debbie Beam

Ted and Nancy Brown

David Campbell

Eleanor Campbell

Lindsey Milan Chapman

Robert Coller

Kernan Cross

Sandy Falconer

Paula Foster

Isabelle Fritschman Frost

Sue Ghoreyeb

Robert “Bob” Gorrill

Edwin J. Green

Lucy Hammond

Oliver Wendell Hammond

Thomas and Eileen Haney

Bob Harford

Jean Harford

Sidney Harvey

Andrew Ward Holland

Herb and Eleanor Langendorfer

Phillip Lincoln

Brian Long

Garry H. Margolis

Donald W. McLeod

Jeffrey Merrill

Barbara and William Mook

Russel Morris

Bobby Page

Robert Petti

Dan Preston

John Preston

Barbara Richards

Mary Reynolds

Dorothy Roberts

Raymond Roberts

Robert and Jean Strong

Jim Trefethen

Barbara Vitalo

Mary B. Wangerin

Shirley Webber

Doug Wright

Support Us

Tapestry Singers is a registered non-profit 503(c) organization so donations are tax deductible. Your gifts help support the choir and make it possible for us to give an award to a graduating senior. For online donations: TapestrySingersmaine.org/support-us/donate Or checks may be sent to: Tapestry Singers, PO Box 666, Newcastle, ME 04553.

Program

Audience is kindly requested to turn off cell phones. There will be no intermission.

Please save applause for the end of all seven movements of the Requiem and then again at the end of all three movements of the Gloria.

Requiem aeternam Out of the deep

Pie Jesu

Sanctus

Soloists: Ava Nery, Kayla Cruz, Violet Holbrook

Agnus Dei

The Lord is my Shepherd

Lux Aeterna

Soloist: Jenny Brown

Pause to reset the orchestra

Allegro vivace – Gloria in excelsis Deo

Andante – Domine Deus

Soloists: Ava Nery, Kayla Cruz, Violet Holbrook

Vivace e ritmico – Quoniam tu solus sanctus

Instrumentalists

Peter Stuart, trumpet *

Bruce Cole, trumpet *

Gerry Flanagan, trumpet

Elizabeth Solorzano, trumpet

Carolyn Kanicki, horn *

Megan Kennedy, trombone *

Caleb Wight, tuba *

Kristen Fox, oboe

Quinn Gormley, percussion

Suki Flanagan, harp

Nan White, flute

Benjamin Noyes, cello

Requiem John Rutter (b. 1945)

Gloria John Rutter (b. 1945)

*Midcoast Brass Quintet

Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen

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Requiem Text

Requiem æternam

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Ierusalem; exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet.

Kyrie, eleison! Christe, eleison! Kyrie, eleison!

Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may light eternal shine upon them.

It is fitting that a hymn should be raised unto Thee in Zion and a vow paid to Thee in Jerusalem; give ear to my prayer, O Lord, unto Thee all flesh shall come at last.

Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!

Out of the Deep

Out of the deep have I called unto thee,

O Lord.

Lord, hear my voice.

O let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss?

O Lord, who may abide it? For there is mercy with thee, therefore shalt thou be feared.

I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him; in his word is my trust. My soil fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch. O Israël trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israël from all his sins.

Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem, Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem, Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem sempiternam.

Requiem æternam

Blessed Lord Jesus, grant them rest, Blessed Lord Jesus, grant them rest, Blessed Lord Jesus, grant them eternal rest.

Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.

Man that us born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.

In the midst of life, we are in death; of whom may we seek for succor?

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi. dona eis requiem.

I am the resurrection and the life, Saith the Lord;

He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them rest.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them rest.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them rest.

The Lord Is My Shepherd

The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture: and leads me forth beside the waters of comfort.

He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.

But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Lux æterna

I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours; even so saith the Spirit.

Lux æterna luceat eis Domine; Cum sanctis tuis in æternum, quia pius es. Requiem æternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Let eternal light shine upon them, O Lord; with Thy saints for ever, for art merciful.

Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine on them.

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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 cælestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.

Domine Fili Unigenite, Jesu Christe,

Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis;

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Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus

Altissimus,

Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu: in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

20 YEARS

Tapestry Singers Student Award 2023

Donations to Tapestry Singers help us fund these awards each year to deserving Lincoln Academy students. This year’s recipients have been active members of Tapestry Singers and in the Lincoln Academy choral program. Their director, Emily Anderson, shared these descriptions.

Ava Nery has been an outstanding contributor to the Lincolnaires from the first day of freshman year. For the past few years, I could even count on her to lead rehearsals for me when there was a sub. Ava's strong vocal and personal presence in the choral program will be sorely missed, and I can't wait to see what scientific and musical contributions she will make to the world! Ava will be attending Hobart and William Smith Colleges and is the 2023 Lincoln Academy salutatorian.

Matthew Long is one of those students who lives and breathes music. The amount of growth he has demonstrated throughout the last four years through sheer force of will and passion for the subject is staggering. I could always count on Matthew to put in extra time working, reflecting, and practicing for the t of the ensemble. The field of music education is lucky to have him! Matthew will be attending Gordon College and is the 2023 Lincoln Academy valedictorian.

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