FALL CHORAL FESTIVAL West Chester University Choirs Kimberly Dunn Adams & Ryan Kelly, Directors Tuesday, October 20, 2026 Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Philips Memorial Building 7:30 PM
PROGRAM
“Pur ti miro” from L’incoronazione di Poppea ................................ .......................... Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Рассвет (Daybreak) ................................ ................................ ................................ ................... P. I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Where the Light Begins ................................ ................................ ................................ .................. Susan LaBarr (b. 1981)
Allegro Voices Andrew Barnard , piano Laney Milton, graduate assistant conductor Dr. Ryan Kelly, conductor
Sing, My Child ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ..Sarah Quartel (b. 1982)
Tazmin Ratkowski, soprano and David Caldwell III, tenor Meghan Cramer, percussion
Ad pedes: Ecce super montes ................................ ................................ ........................ Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
William Baldridge, tenor
Verleih uns Frieden ................................ ................................ ................................ .............. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Gloria ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ............... Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Quoniam tu solus sanctus Cum Sancto Spiritu Recital Choir Mackenzie Keith , piano Laney Milton, Pyerce Oates, Amanda Erno, graduate assistant conductors
And Joy Is Everywhere ................................ ................................ ................................ .............. Andrea Ramsey (b. 1977)
“As Long as We Live” from Song of the Open Road................................ ............................. Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree ................................ ................................ ................................ .............. Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Arirang ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ......arr. Hyo-Won Woo (b. 1974)
Oriana Chorale Matthew Stolarksi, electric guitar; Graduate String Quartet Andrew Barnard , piano Adrian Camano , graduate assistant conductor Dr. Kimberly Dunn Adams, conductor
Requiem in D ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ .Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Offertorium (excerpt) Mastersingers Sándor Kádár , piano Dr. Ryan Kelly, conductor Valiant-for-Truth ................................ ................................ ................................ ........Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Selig sind die Toten ................................ ................................ ................................ ................... Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Concert Choir Sándor Kádár, piano Dr. Kimberly Dunn Adams, conductor The Testament of Freedom ................................ ................................ .............................. Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
The God who gave us life We have counted the cost We fight not for glory I shall not die without a hope Orpheus Singe rs William Baldridge , graduate assistant conductor Dr. Ryan Kelly, conductor WCU Alma Mater Processional ................................ ................................ ................................ . arr. Ryan Kelly (b. 1981)
Grand Chorus
TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Pur ti miro Text: Giovanni Francesco Busenello
Verleih uns Frieden Text : Martin Luther
I gaze upon you, I desire you, I embrace you, I enchain you; no more grieving, no more dying, O my life, O my beloved. I am yours, yours am I, my hope, tell it, tell. You are truly my idol, yes, my love, yes, my heart, my life, yes.
Grant us peace graciously, Lord God, in our time; there is indeed no other who could fight for us than you, our God, alone.
Рассвет Text: Ivan Zakharovich Surikov The king is busy; the sun will soon rise. Hark! The nightingale sings loudly. Brighter and brighter is the shimmer of dawn , like steam over a river it rose. Look. The flowers in the fields spread their scent all around, and the dew shines on the grass like silver. And bending toward the water, the reeds whisper something; All around, in the fields, see the unceasing embossing... Ah! How joyful, how easy to breathe freely! Come on, pray quickly! Come on, pray! Hurry! Come on, pray, and let's go! Bent over the river, the reeds whisper something... and all around, in the fields, an unawakened squeal … Where the Light Begins Text: Jan Richardson Perhaps it does not begin. Perhaps it is always. Perhaps it takes a lifetime to open our eyes, to learn to see the luminous line of the map in the dark, the vigil flame in the house of the heart, the love so searing we cannot keep from singing, from crying out. Perhaps this day the light begins in us. We are where the light begins. Perhaps it does not begin. Perhaps it is always. Sing, My Child Text : Sarah Quartel Sing for the promise in each new morning. Sing for the hope in a new day dawning. All around is beauty bright! Wake in the morning and sing, my child. Dance in the joy of the day unfolding. Dance as you work and dance as you’re learning ; all around is beauty bright! Take in the day and dance, my child. But when troubles come and worry is all that can be found, gather your strength and hear your voice. Sing, my child. Laugh in the cool and the fresh of the ev’ning. Laugh in your triumph, and laugh in succeeding. All around is beauty bright! Rest in the ev’ning and laugh, my child. Ad pedes: Ecce super montes Text : Nahum 1:15, Arnulf of Leuven , attr. Behold upon the mountains the feet of the one bringing good news and of one announcing peace. Hail, salvation of the world . Hail, hail dear Jesus! Align me with your cross . I truly wish you know why . Grant me an abundance of yourself.
Quoniam tu solus sanctus; Cum Sancto Spiritu Text: Traditional You alone are the Holy One, the Lord , the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen . And Joy Is Everywhere Text : Rabindranath Tagore And joy is everywhere . It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass , in the blue serenity of the Sky , in the reckless exuberance of Spring , in the severe abstinence of gray Winter , in the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame , in the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright , in Living , in the exercise of all our powers , in the acquisition of Knowledge , in fighting evil... Joy is there Everywhere. As Long as We Live Text: Walt Whitman The road is before us! It is safe— I have tried it — my own feet have tried it well. Be not detained! Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopened! Let the tools remain in the workshop! Let the money remain unearned! Let the school stand! Mind not the cry of the teacher! Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! Let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law. I give you my hand! I give you my love, I give you myself, Will you give me yourself? Will you travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? The Lake Isle of Innisfree Text: W. B. Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; nine bean -rows will I have there, a hive for the honey -bee, and live alone in the bee -loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; there midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; while I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core. Arirang Text: Traditional Arirang, arirang, arariyo . You are going over Arirang hill , my love. You are leaving me ; Your feet will be sore before you go ten .
Offertorium Text: Traditional We offer sacrifices and prayers of praise to you, Lord, on behalf of the souls we commemorate today, granting them to pass from death to life as promised to Abraham and his seed. Valiant -for-Truth Text: John Bunyan After this it was noised abroad, that Mister Valiant-for-Truth was taken with a summons; and had this for a token that the summons was true, ‘That his pitcher was broken at the fountain.’ When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it. Then, said he, ‘I am going to my Father’s and though with great difficulty, I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill, to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles, who now will be my rewarder.’ When the day that he must go hence, was come, many accompanied him to the riverside, into which, as he went, he said, ‘Death, where is thy sting?’ And as he went down deeper, he said, ‘Grave, where is thy victory?’ So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. Selig sind die Toten Text: Revelation 14:13 “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on . Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors , for their deeds follow them!” The Testament of Freedom Text: Thomas Jefferson The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them . – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them .
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great… We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favor towards us, that His Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting th e utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservat ion of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves . – Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775) We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death . In our native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves; against violence actually offered; we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. – Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775) I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on steady advance. . . And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. . . The flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them . – Letter to John Adams, Monticello (September 12, 1821) WCU Alma Mater Processional West Chester, hail, all hail, noble and strong, To thee with loyal hearts we raise our song. Swelling to heaven high, our praises ring, West Chester, hail, all hail, to thee we sing.
ENSEMBLES Allegro Voices Director: Dr. Ryan Kelly Graduate Assistant: Laney Milton Collaborative Pianist: Andrew Barnard Oliva Baker Taylor Barron Mara-Leigh Belga Grace Bell Maleah Booker
Alex Cuenca Rebecca Galvin Sadie Hanish Brigid Infanti Eva Krautheim
Addison Lesher Taylor McCoy Sophia Moyer Alexandra Musacchio Mckenzie Ott
Natalie Pape Addison Roach Taina Santiago Anja Schoepfer Hailey Sellers
Dakota Summers
Aidan Horn Niamh Kelly Lundy Langstaff Stephan Mann Delia Maldonado Laney Milton Andre Moquete Leah Morris
Pyerce Oates Emelio Ovalle Kylie Oyler Tazmin Ratkowski Ellie Rhinier Lauren Saks Rae Schnable Elijah Schwab
Lyndsay Spaziani Josue Tinoco Julia Webster Alex Werner Ava Wolfersberger Anna Maria Yates Brandon Zuniga
Lexi Hoyle Aurora Kishbaugh Mackenzie Keith Taylor Longo Jay Mason Jenna Micklos Laney Milton
Ava Nascimento Tazmin Ratkowski Iona Regn Cassia Sheehan Grace Tate Noelle Treloar Madie Truglio
Allie Vacaro Isabella Wissler MaK Yeager Jenna Zueno
Recital Choir Conductors: Amanda Erno, Laney Milton, Pyerce Oates Collaborative Pianist: Mackenzie Keith Paige Abramo Quinn Adams Fernando Angeles William Baldridge Joshua Bosire David Caldwell III Adrian Camano Nicole Carter
Patrick Cocoran Jess Czekaj Daniel Doyle Amanda Erno Jarrell Flippen Bailey Floyd Sean Francisco Cora Heiser
Oriana Chorale Director: Dr. Kimberly Dunn Adams Graduate Assistant: Adrian Camano Collaborative Pianist: Andrew Barnard Peyton Anastasio Addison Barry Brielle Bayly Maria Benavides Caitlin Biddle Lauren Bobb Maggie Carson
Lauren Cusick Autumn Dean Bee Domnisch Julia FitzPatrick Jazlyn Hall Kathryn Huber Lauren Houk
Mastersingers Director: Dr. Ryan Kelly Graduate Assistant: Pyerce Oates Collaborative Pianist: Sándor Kádár Damon Baierschmidt Tony Bello Ryan Beschler Joshua Bosire Gray Brice Faith Bullen Brandon Colapietro Parker Conard Nico Cooper Jessica Czekaj Josh Day Lizzy Fink Isabella Fleites-Cipriani
Bailey Floyd Abigail Grisolia Allison Hawley Cora Heiser, president A Eli Hoy Bri Iocona Damien Jordan Ryan Kelly Kallista Lake Delia Maldonado, secretary Elijah Martin Angel Martinez Damian Mattos
Jade McGee Andrew Milsten Daphnis Mock Leah Morris, vice president S Sam Moses Isabella Murteira Annabelle Nixon Connor Petula T John Phillips Ella Robinson Anessa Rodriguez Henry Romans Rae Schnable
Madison Scott Carmelena Smith Colin Stike Macayla Symonds Brody Tanner Josue Tinoco Dani Wempa Alex Werner B Dean Wilson SATB
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Concert Choir Director: Dr. Kimberly Dunn Adams Collaborative Pianist: Sándor Kádár Paige Abramo, president Quinn Adams B William Baldridge T Aidan Brickson David Caldwell III Adrian Camano B Nicole Carter Meghan Cramer Miles Cressley, treasurer
Isaiah Davitt Daniel Doyle T Amanda Erno S Jarrell Flippen Kailey Force Sean Francisco Lily Gonglik, vice president Samantha Gunchak Emma Hammen Niamh Kelly, secretary A
Lundy Langstaff Madelyne Máthé Laney Milton A Luke Mingacci Andre Moquete Pyerce Oates T Alaina OKunewick Emilio Ovalle Ellie Rhinier Lauren Saks S
Dan Schuetz James Valentine Rebecca Weidner A Max Whittle Ava Wolfersberger Anna Maria Yates Brandon Zuniga
Alexander Johnson Kadin Kingston Cody Kohler Michael McDonald Aidan McGlone Rowan McWilliams Nat Mansfield Mateo Mejia Josiah Moncayo Nicholas Myers
Noel Olmsted Cole O’Hara Cooper Pauliks Nicholas Read Will Rice Noah Schneck Isaac Wenger Skye Wiggins Coen Woodson Tristan Vogt
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Orpheus Singers Director: Dr. Ryan Kelly Graduate Assistant: William Baldridge Collaborative Pianist: Sándor Kádár Elbruz Atbakan William Baldridge Ajari Benn Adam Boone Ian Brookmyer Benjamin Bux Carson Boyer Christopher Caprio Braden Cavada Madeline Chandler
Avery Clary Zach Crowl Jonah Dibble Aiden Dougherty Leo Falkenstein Casey Forsythe Leo Garcia Angel Giron Camacho Hugo Gonzales Aidan Horn
Graduate String Quartet Stefania Osorio, violin Fabián Salamanca, violin Ricardo Vera, viola Adan Caldera Quintero, cello Instrumental Ensemble Violet Hummel, piccolo Taylor Barron, flute Lydia Wrubel, flute Michelle Pretsch, oboe Annabelle Pfeiler-Wunder, oboe Dayne Kishbaugh, bassoon Eva Krautheim, bassoon
Leigh Rose Hart, horn Ivy Visneski, horn Spencer Robinson, trumpet Emily Weschules, trumpet Brady Gehlert, trombone Aiden Edwards, trombone Aidan Brickson, bass trombone
Connor Landis, string bass Meghan Cramer, percussion Casey Russoman, percussion Nikolai Sbitaykov, percussion Angelina Wilson, percussion Sándor Kádár, organ
UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visitwcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Friday, October 23, 2026 , 7:30 PM Concert Choir & Mastersingers Concert Kimberly Adams & Ryan Kelly, directors Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center
Sunday, October 25, 2026 , 3:00 PM Wind Ensemble Concert Andrew Yozviak, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 , 7:30 PM Vocal Honors Recital In Young Lee, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 , 7:00 PM West Chester Halloween Parade Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band Downtown West Chester, PA
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 , 7:30 PM Guest Artist Recital: Suzanne Savoy, actress, with Mark Rimple Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 , 7:30 PM Keyboard Honors Recital Igor Resnianski & Carl Cranmer, directors Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building
Thursday, November 5, 2026 , 7:30 PM New Music at WCU: Network for New Music Concert Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building
Friday, November 6, 2026 , 7:30 PM 100 Years of Jazz Celebration Criterions and Statesmen Welcome Concert Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Philips Memorial Building
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