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Tapestry Singers Student Award 2025
Sophia Suzanne Scott is a seventeen-yearold singer/songwriter and guitarist from Boothbay, Maine. She has performed with Heartwood Theater’s drama program and Maine State Music Theatre, and won first place for four consecutive years at the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s Musical Theater Competition. Throughout high school, Sophia has been selected for the District III, All-State, and All-Eastern choir festivals. She has won awards for her vocal arrangements, original underscore, and acting at the Maine State One-Act Festivals. In 2023, she received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music's Aspire Summer Program for guitar. She recently starred in and produced the score for the full-length film, Getting Along. Sophia teaches beginner guitar and music theory lessons to children in Midcoast Maine. Her debut single “Steady” is out now on all streaming platforms. Sophia will be attending the University of Southern California in the fall for Music Production with a concentration in film scoring and double minoring in Sociology and Acting.
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Tapestry Singers gratefully acknowledges the contributions from the following:
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Tapestry Singers
Soprano
Linda Blomquist
Sarah Duggan
Anne Fanelli
Nancy Gault
Kelsey Gibbs
Patty Hammar
Andrea Handel
Audrey Harper
Violet Holbrook
Pam Meier
Jessica Picard
Kim Relick
Ann Springhorn
Julia Workman
Alto
Taylor Briggs
Julie Brown
Laurie Brown
Barrie Brusilla
Debby Carroll
Hildy Ellis
Karen Haney
Leah Hayes
Kristen Heller
Dana Isenberg
Gabby Kimball
Zora Margolis
Jaja Martin
Sue McLeod
Rachael Schuster
Sarah Tomasello
Tenor
Sam Bailey
Mal Briggs
Griffin Han-Lalime
Rick Horton
Niall Lessard
John Strong
Bass
Jim Bickford
Fred Bowers
Gordon Clark
James Crowley
Randy Cruz
Mark Freese
Justin French
Gordon Lind
Skip Simonds
Marcel Young-Skaggs
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. She directs the Newcastle-based Tapestry Singers, a community choir that has become known for championing the works of living composers. With Sean Fleming, she founded Classic Harmony, a group for singers aged 55+ that is under the non-profit umbrella of Tapestry Singers. She was a founding member of Vox Nova Chamber Choir in Brunswick (now Una Voce Chamber Choir).
Ms. Preston also teaches privately, coaching singers who win awards, scholarships, and acceptance into prestigious postsecondary programs. Ms. Preston has provided the vocal coaching for both amateurs and professionals in Heartwood Regional Theater Company’s musical theater productions. She was awarded “Distinguished Choral Director of the Year 2010” from Maine American Choral Directors Association, “Music Educator of the Year 2013” from District 3 Music Educators, and “Maine Music Educator of the Year 2019” from Maine Music Educators Association.
June 2019 marked Ms. Preston’s retirement from Lincoln Academy and a thirty-seven-year career in the public schools where she conducted award-winning choirs and directed musical theater productions of the highest caliber. She has recently enjoyed working with older students to help them rebuild their voices and rediscover the joy of singing.
Special Thanks
Pastor Marilee Harris and the folks at Damariscotta Baptist Church
Sean Fleming for music arrangements and transcriptions
Karen Haney for behind-the-scenes work
Mary Berger for generous help with housing Rehearsal and concert setup volunteers
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EDUCATION • ENSEMBLE • EXCELLENCE 22ND SEASON
Program
Audience is kindly requested to silence cell phones. There will be no intermission.
Jazz Missa Brevis Will Todd
Kyrie
Gloria Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Choral Prelude - Sleepers Awake
J. S. Bach
arr. Ward Swingle
Aria from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major J. S. Bach
arr. Ward Swingle
Evening Prayer
Up On the Roof
Ola Gjeilo
Gerry Goffin and Carole King
arr. Deke Sharon and Ann Raugh
Soloist: Niall Lessard
Blackbird/I Will John Lennon and Paul McCartney
arr. Ward Swingle
Soloists: Violet Holbrook and Griffin Han-Lalime
Because John Lennon and Paul McCartney
arr. Roger Emerson
Java Jive
The Girl from Ipanema
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Milton Drake and Ben Oakland arr. Ed Lojeski
Antônio Carlos Jobim arr. Paris Rutherford
Duke Ellington arr. Mark Hayes
I Could Write a Book
Over the Rainbow
Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers arr. Darmon Meader
Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg arr. Molly Ijames
Instrumentalists
Gary Wittner, Guitar
Joshua DeScherer, Bass
Glen Sargent, Saxophone, Flute
Jackson Cromwell, Percussion
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Translations
Kyrie
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison
Gloria
Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.
Laudamus te; benedicimus te; adoramus te; glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. 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 dextram Patris, O miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria
Dei Patris. Amen.
Sanctus
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Osanna in excelsis.
Benedictus
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Osanna in excelsis.
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei. Dona nobis pacem
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Glory be to God in the highest. And in earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee; we bless Thee; we worship Thee; we glorify Thee. We give thanks to Thee 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. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord, thou only art the most high, Jesus Christ. Together with the Holy Ghost in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Lamb of God. Grant us peace.
Translations
(cont.)
Evening Prayer
Text by St. Augustine
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones,
O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love’s sake. Amen.
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Accompanist
Sean Fleming is an in-demand keyboard artist, accompanist, and arranger. He performs regularly with Classic Harmony, the Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival 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 was recently the music director for the Hearts Ever Young troupe. He has also directed or accompanied over eighty musical theater productions nationwide.
He regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals. He has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Chorus, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Colby College Chorale, Down East Singers, Maine Pro Musica, Midcoast Community Chorus, 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.
A piano and organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Mr. Fleming studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past twentynine years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. Over his long career he has played for Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Congregational, Methodist, and Baptist services.
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Instrumentalists
Guitarist Gary Wittner has performed with numerous jazz luminaries on five continents, representing the USA as a Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador, Fulbright Specialist, and US Embassy Outreach Artist. He has released seven CDs. His book “Thelonious Monk for Guitar” has informed guitarists worldwide since its publication in 1999. Gary is a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine School of Music and Bowdoin College.
Bassist Joshua DeScherer’s compositions have been performed by The Sage City Symphony, the Tufts University New Music Ensemble, and various soloists and chamber ensembles. He has been a performing artist with St. Mary Schola in Portland, Colby and Bowdoin symphony orchestras and has given solo recitals at Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY) and Kennebec Valley Community College. He currently teaches at Kennebec Valley Community College.
Saxophonist and Reed Doubler Glen Sargent has played with Al Corey Big Band, Pat Michaud Big Band, Fire N’Ice Big Band, and Jump City Jazz, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Roy Orbison Hologram Tour, The Manhattan Transfer, Northeast Swing, Wayne Bergeron, Eric Marienthal, and various touring musicals. He has performed as a clarinetist with Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Maine Grand Opera Orchestra, and Maine Pro Musica. Glen offers top quality instrument repair at his business Second Wind.
Jackson Cromwell, Artist Faculty at University of Maine Augusta, specializes in percussion, drumset, and keyboard instruments. He attended the University of Maine at Orono, studying classical percussion and mallet percussion under Dr. Stuart Marrs and Dr. Thomas Wubbenhorst. He performs with the Americana band GoldenOak, “one of Portland's most important upcoming bands,” and various other ensembles.
Passionate & Fiery Compositions
Ethereal Weaves of Air
Director’s Notes
When you have a mix of singers and a pianist who are open to music other than classical, you look at what’s out there. It can’t be understated how hard some of this music is. It has challenged even the best of our musicians in the group. It has been good hard work.
I’m grateful for Sean Fleming whose jazz chops are just as prolific as his classical chops. We couldn’t have done it without him. I found two jazz masses that were likely anchors for the program. Linda Blanchard had a similar idea for Sheepscot Valley Chorus. Luckily we didn’t pick the same piece!
Will Todd’s Jazz Missa Brevis embraces a variety of jazz styles, the swinging jazz waltz Kyrie, an up-beat Latin-groove Gloria, a smooth jazz ballad Sanctus, the 7/8 Benedictus, and the soulful Agnus Dei.
The two Bach arrangements by Ward Swingle became popular in the 1960’s when the Swingle Singers brought a fresh, jazzy sound to Bach's compositions. Their debut album, Jazz Sebastien Bach, was a significant success, garnering critical acclaim and a Grammy Award.
Ola Gjeilo grew up with the sound of his father playing the saxophone. That was part of the inspiration for Evening Prayer. He said, “It was my first choral work incorporating instrumental improvisation.”
Our a cappella doo wop and other close-harmony charts are a challenge for even a professional choir. There is no autotune or reverb to help us out, just lots of repetitions and luck as we go live.
I’m so happy to be able to feature choir members Niall Lessard, Griffin Han-Lalime, and Violet Holbrook as soloists. It’s been exciting to welcome many of my former Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires to the choir!
We look forward to another great fall semester as we prepare for our very popular “’Tis the Season” concerts. I call them the Damariscotta Region’s answer to Portland’s Magic of Christmas. Please consider auditioning for Tapestry Singers. Check our website to request an audition.
Board of Directors
Sue McLeod, President
Randy Cruz, Treasurer
Rosie Bensen, Secretary
Gordon Clark, Director at Large
Jaja Martin, Director at Large
Skip Simonds, Director at Large
Niall Lessard, President-Elect
Ann Springhorn, President Emeritus
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Bookkeeper: Taylor Briggs
Webmasters: Karen Haney and Jean Haney
Advertising and Publicity: Karen Haney,
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Formalwear: Debby Carroll and Hildy Ellis
Program Editor: Carol Preston
Audition for Sept. - Dec. 2025 Semester
Audition for our September - December 2025 semester, which features our popular “‘Tis the Season Concerts.” The audition includes checking vocal range and music reading skills. Ability to read music is preferable but willingness to learn your part outside of rehearsal is a must.
To request an audition: tapestrysingersmaine.org/sing-with-us
Te joy of singing never grows old
Classic Harmony welcomes singers aged 55+ of all abilities, regardless of previous singing or musical experience (singers under 55+ are most welcome!) Join us for an hour of singing on Tuesdays from 2:00-3:00 at the Second Congregational Church in Newcastle beginning on September 2, 2025.
For more information: tapestrysingersmaine.org/classic-harmony/
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