Robert Blocker, Dean
music in schools initiative
Morse Chorale Stephanie Tubiolo, music director
Yale Alumni Chorus Jeffrey Douma, music director
Orfeón San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico Daniel Alejandro Tapia Santiago, music & artistic director Guarionex Morales Matos, founder & co-director Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. | Woolsey Hall
Morse Chorale Rosephanye Powell b. 1962
Non Nobis, Domine (2002)
Braulio Dueño Colón El platanar (1904) 1854–1934 arr. Guarionex Morales Matos
Antonio Fernández Grillo
Mark A. Miller b. 1967
Laurie Zelman
Even Here (2013) Génesis Torrealba, Gabriel Rodríguez, & Soleil Nelson, soloists
Yale Alumni Chorus Traditional American arr. Marshall Bartholomew
Shenandoah
Robert Nathaniel Dett 1882–1943
Ave Maria (1930)
English text by Frederick H. Martens
Program cont. yale alumni chorus & morse chorale Traditional American arr. Stacey Gibbs
Down by the Riverside
yale alumni chorus Charles Ives 1874–1954
The Bells of Yale (1897)
Orfeón San Juan Bautista Peter Sykes, piano Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562–1621
Gaudete omnes (1619)
Cristóbal de Morales ca. 1550–1553
Circumdederunt me (1549)
Pablo Casals 1876–1973
O vos omnes (1932)
Fabio Fresi b. 1979
Ave Regina cælorum (2004)
Abel Di Marco 1932–2018
Dolorosa
Franz Biebl 1906–2001
Ave Maria (1964)
Ernesto Cordero b. 1946
Voz del güiro (1967)
Luis R. Miranda 1875–1949 arr. Daniel Alejandro Tapia Santiago
Recuerdos de Borinquen
Andrés Castro Ríos
Antonio Cabán Vale “El Topo” Verde luz (2005) b. 1942 arr. Morales Matos Carlos Padilla 1862–1902 arr. Morales Matos
Alondras en el bosque
Roger O. Maldonado Aramburu 1928–1989 arr. Morales Matos
Abril sin ti (1953)
Rafael Hernández Marín 1892–1965 arr. Morales Matos
Ahora seremos felices
Morse Chorale & Orfeón San Juan Bautista Bobby Capó 1922–1989 arr. Morales Matos
Piel canela (1952)
Yale Alumni Chorus & Orfeón San Juan Bautista Guarionex Morales Matos b. 1968
Ave Maria (1994)
Morales Matos
Ficus enim non florebit (1994)
Hernández Marín arr. Morales Matos
El cumbanchero (1947)
Morse Academy choir, Yale Alumni Chorus, & Orfeón San Juan Bautista Hernández Marín arr. Morales Matos
Preciosa (1937) Alex Whittington, soloist
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Artist Profiles Morse Chorale
Stephanie Tubiolo, music director
Marvin Castillo Camilla De Leon Bethany Edwards Lucas Nogelo Jordan Housen Caden Jenkins June Lanpher Wesley McBride Soleil Nelson Kayla Pinkard Sophia Rivkin Gabriel Rodríguez Lucas Rodríguez Landon Salkey Tiffany Scott Génesis Torrealba
Conductor Stephanie Tubiolo is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, where she directs the University Choir and teaches undergraduate conducting. She shares her time between New Brunswick, NJ, and New Haven, CT, where she has worked with the Yale School of Music’s Music in Schools Initiative since 2011, becoming its first Postgraduate Fellow in 2016. Since 2015, she has developed and directed Morse Chorale, which comprises New Haven Public School students in grades 3-12. Morse Chorale has been featured at the American Choral Director’s Association Eastern Region Conference, the Connecticut Music Educator’s Association All-State Conference, the Urban Music Leadership Conference, and in concert with the Yale Glee Club and Camerata, Tenebrae, and Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble.
In keeping with the Yale School of Music’s commitment to cultural leadership and service to society, the Music in Schools Initiative was established in 2007 to explore how music can foster social change in New Haven and beyond. In 2010, the New Haven program expanded to include a free summer intensive, the Morse Summer Music Academy, which is supported by a generous endowment from Enid and Lester Morse (Yale College ’51). The John Miller Instrument Fund awards instruments to dedicated students. A gift by Mr. and Mrs. Morse in 2017 established the Morse Postgraduate Fellowship, which allows a graduating teaching artist to continue working with the Music in Schools Initiative.
In her work as a conductor and educator, Tubiolo is eager to foster interdisciplinary artistic collaborations, to develop partnerships between higher education and public schools, and is especially passionate about building non-selective choral communities at all levels. Tubiolo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Yale College and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. She currently serves as Assistant Inclusivity Chair on the board of NJ-ACDA.
Yale Alumni Chorus Soprano Peggy Atherton Judy Case Diana Deacon Ainsley Donaldson Kristie Foell Karen Greer Liane McAllister Romaine Julianne Parolisi Amy Rice Alto Peggy Curchack Rita Helfand Gwen Myers Pam Resor Ariane van Buren Amy Weller Tenor Allan Atherton Brit Geiger Jeremy Hetzler Lawrence Krakoff Kenneth Liebman Fredrick Millner Sigourney Romaine Raleigh Tozer John Williams Bass Terence Benson Marvin Berenblum Roy Byrd Richard Collins Mark Curchack Jefferson Freeman Brian Mountford Griff Resor Raymond Wells
Founded in 1997 by alumni of the Yale Glee Club under the organizational leadership of Mark Dollhopf ’77, the Yale Alumni Chorus has embraced the mission of promoting harmony through choral music both at home and abroad. As “Ambassadors of Song,” the non-auditioned volunteer chorus strives to build international understanding through the universal language of music. The group’s first concert tour, in 1998, was a two-week tour of China. Following this successful maiden voyage, a second tour was organized to celebrate Yale’s 300th anniversary. The group sang concerts in St. Petersburg with the Kirov Orchestra and in Moscow with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and performed the honorary opening concert at the 55th Annual International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales. YAC also presented a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. In 2003, YAC became the first American chorus to appear in the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, performing with international opera star Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Philharmonia of Russia. In 2004 the group toured Brazil, Argentina, and Chile; highlights of this tour included YAC’s founding of a youth chorus in Rio de Janeiro’s Cidade de Deus (City of God) favela and the group’s sponsoring of a choral festival of eight Argentine choruses that traced their origins back to a Yale Glee Club tour in 1941 undertaken at the request of the U.S. State Department. YAC has since traveled to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in 2006 (including a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw with Valery Gergiev), to South Africa in 2007,
Artist Profiles cont. to Mexico and Guatemala in 2009, to Cuba in 2010, to Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia in 2011, to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 2013, to Washington, DC in 2014, to Vietnam and Singapore in 2016, to Toronto, Canada in 2017, and to Greece in 2019. During the intervening years, YAC has helped to produce and has participated in Yale International Choral Festivals in New Haven in the summers of 2012, 2015, and 2018. The group’s members organize community service projects in conjunction with almost every concert, and YAC itself has provided funding support for a number of student choirs around the world. YAC is happy to finally be performing with Orfeón San Juan Bautista after its scheduled concert with them in March of 2020 in Puerto Rico was cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jeffrey Douma, music director Since 2003, Jeffrey Douma has served as Director of the Yale Glee Club and Professor of Conducting at the Yale School of Music, where he also serves as Founding Director of the Yale Choral Artists and oversees the graduate program in choral conducting. He has appeared as guest conductor with choruses and orchestras on six continents, and makes frequent domestic and international appearances as a clinician and master teacher. He has prepared choruses for such conductors as William Christie, Valery Gergiev, Neville Marriner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmuth Rilling, Grete Petersen, and Marin Alsop, and has premiered new works by such composers as Jennifer Higdon, Paola Prestini, Ted Hearne, Han Lash, David
Lang, Martin Bresnick, Dominick Argento, James Macmillan, Angélica Negrón, Joel Thompson, and Shruthi Rajasekjar. He serves as editor of the Yale Glee Club Choral Series and Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series, and his original compositions are published by G. Schirmer and Boosey & Hawkes. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College, (Moorhead, MN). He lives in Hamden, CT, with his wife, pianist and conductor Erika Schroth, and their two children.
Orfeón San Juan Bautista Soprano Mariana Martínez Martínez Solimar Santiago Carrillo Aranxa Gutiérrez Collazo Blancamarina Grant Rivera Sarah Rampolla Bobbitt Mónica Peña Lozada Yara Meléndez Ordóñez Mariana Santa Martínez Alto Milamarys Colón Solla Cristina Denisse Dávila Angélica Ortiz Saldaña Cecille Martínez Martínez Johly An Quiñones Camille N. Toro Massari Gabriela Edmée Alicea Gabrielle Timofeeva López Marilú Alemán Sánchez Tenor Ricardo Acevedo Negrón Javier J. García Colón Xavier Pabellón Guadalupe Andreas Stoltzfus Kevin Ortiz Ramos Adelbert Soto González Bryan Louis Lamboy José Luis Calderón Natal Bass Rodrigo Martínez Vélez Emmanuel Fusté Zayas Rabel Echevarría Valentín Félix J. García Hiraldo Ángel H. Ortiz Rivas Rafael D. Martínez Ortiz Carlos Gutiérrez del Arroyo Sunder Shiwdin, Jr.
percussion Armando Rentas Orfeón San Juan Bautista is a professional chamber choral ensemble created in 2001. It is directed by professor Guarionex Morales Matos (its founder) and doctor Daniel Alejandro Tapia Santiago. Its repertoire includes sacred and secular works from the great universal traditions, as well as folkloric and popular pieces from Puerto Rico and Ibero-America. This diversity is featured in its extensive discography: Puerto Rico a capella (2002), Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Orfeón San Juan Bautista (2002), Reverencia (2004), El Orfeón (2005), Pura Navidad (2005), Antología: Quinto Aniversario 2001–2006 (2006), Himno al Alma Mater (2006), Pentagrama en blanco y negro: las voces de Jack Délano (1914–1997) (2007), Estampas criollas (2007), Cantos sagrados (2011), Orfeón San Juan Bautista: Cronología en música, grabaciones selectas 2001–2012 (2012), La Garita del Diablo (2013), Glorificamus te (2015), VII (2016), Anti-fonal (2016), Orfeón San Juan Bautista: quince años de absoluta armonía 2001–2016 (2017), and Por fin llegaron (2018). The expressiveness, the technical skill, and the consistent exceptionality of Orfeón all distinguish its 12 annual musical performances in Puerto Rico. Outside of the island, it has offered concerts at Yale University (Connecticut, US, 2002); the Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte Vecchio (Florence, Italy, 2005); Ohio State University, Dayton University, and Sinclair College (Ohio, US, 2005); Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Florida, US, 2007); Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, The Spence School, and The Church of the Blessed Sacrament (New York, US, 2008);
Artist Profiles cont. the Iglesia de San Alberto and the Iglesia de San Marcos (Sevilla and Huelva, Spain, 2010); the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and the Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la Encarnación, Primada de América (Dominican Republic, 2011); the Sala Beethoven del Conservatorio Antonio María Valencia (Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 2012); St. James United Church and l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Montreal, Canada, 2013); Harvard University and Westminster Choir College (Boston and New Jersey, US, 2014); the Oratorio San Felipe Neri and the Basílica Menor de San Francisco de Asís (Havana, Cuba, 2015); The Hispanic Society of America (New York, US, 2016); and the Teatro de la Ciudad de Puebla and the Foro Boca (Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, 2019). Most recently it embarked on a concert tour to Paris, France (2022) by invitation from the University of Paris and the professional vocal ensemble Soli-Tutti. The choir is committed to Puerto Rican composers and the promotion of contemporary works. For this reason, it holds yearly music premieres and in 2011 founded the Concurso de Composición Orfeón San Juan Bautista, a music composition contest for undergraduate students. Moreover, in March 2006, along with the University of Puerto Rico Alumni Association, it established the Beca Abel Di Marco, a scholarship aimed at providing musical instruments to academically distinguished students.
Daniel Alejandro Tapia Santiago, music & artistic director Doctor Daniel Alejandro Tapia Santiago, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After graduating from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, he was awarded a full merit scholarship to study at the Yale School of Music and its Institute of Sacred Music, where he earned a Master of Music degree with a concentration in choral conducting. He subsequently studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a second full merit scholarship. There he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree with a primary concentration in orchestral and choral conducting and a secondary concentration in harpsichord performance, the latter under the mentorship of the renowned harpsichordist Charlotte Mattax-Moersch. Tapia Santiago is Orfeón San Juan Bautista’s music director. In said capacity, he worked alongside Guillermo Figueroa, Maximiano Valdés Soublette and Rafael Irizarry, titular directors of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and the Casals Festival, in their concert seasons. Moreover, he has led the choir in performances in Spain, Italy, French Canada, the United States, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Mexico, as well as on multiple professional recordings. His contributions to academic literature include Jack Délano’s (1914–1997) ‘Burundanga or Cantata Antillana’: an art-music portrayal of Luis Palés Matos’s (1898–1959) black Caribbean, a detailed analysis of this choralsymphonic work and its relationship to the poetry of Luis Pales Matos. Another significant contribution is his essay “Un
compositor de entresiglos: obra y estilo musical,” a prologue to two publications by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture: Música popular puertorriqueña: adaptaciones corales and Composiciones corales originales (1994–2014), which compile original pieces and arrangements by Puerto Rican contemporary composer Guarionex Morales Matos (b. 1968). He served as professor and choral director at the University of Puerto Rico, and he regularly acts as a musical advisor and evaluator on various committees at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. He is currently Assistant Professor at Universidad Ana G. Méndez’s humanities department, where he also directs its choral program. Guarionex Morales Matos, composer, arranger & co-director In 2001, Morales Matos established Orfeón San Juan Bautista, a professional secular choir currently under his co-direction. As an arranger and composer, he has written more than a hundred pieces, most of which are a cappella choral works. His opus also includes art songs, film scores, choral music with instrumental accompaniment, choralsymphonic works, ballet music, opera, and a cappella choral adaptations of popular and folkloric music from Ibero-America. His compositions have been performed in Spain, Italy, Poland, France, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Canada, the United States, and Austria. In 2014, he composed Fault Lines, a piece for sopraninos commissioned by renowned plastic artists Allora & Calzadilla. It premiered in New York’s Museum of Modern Art during the exhibition of the same name
and is now part of its permanent collection. Along with Allora & Calzadilla, he also composed the soundtracks for two short films: Breaking into Trunks (2017) and Foreign in a Domestic Sense (2017). Other works by Morales include international collaborations with the Vassar College Women’s Chorus (US), Exaudi (Cuba), Seraphic Fire (US), the Coro de la Universidad Central de Venezuela and The Elm City Girls’ Choir (US). In Puerto Rico, the main national choruses have performed his music and regularly commission new pieces from him. For eight years (2004-2012), Morales Matos served as the radio announcer, script writer, and producer for Mayormente a capella, a radio series specialized in choral music aired on Radio Universidad, the University of Puerto Rico’s radio station. He also worked as a professor of music and art history at the Universidad Central de Bayamón and boasts countless collaborations in the field of advertising, among other professional activities. Guarionex Morales Matos holds a bachelor’s degree in public communications and a master’s degree in cultural management and administration, both from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
Artist Profiles cont. Morse Academy Choir Angel Mendoza Haedy Flores Vikram Dalal Caleb Ortiz Lyanna Baez Dhaniellie Freeman-Santaella Sachi Hernandez Oscar Tlacomulco Marvin Castillo Caden Jenkins Sophia Rivkin Lucas Rodríguez Camilla DeLeon Jordan Housen June Lanpher Soleil Nelson Tiffany Scott Landon Salkey Lucas Faraone Nogelo Wesley McBride Gabriel Rodríguez Genesis Torrealba Bethany Edwards Jennifer Sebastian Santiago Hernandez Gael Mattias Arias Daniel Garcia Akshay Dalal Osvaldo Hernandez Lucas Abbott Caleb Nierenberg Carlos Flores Israel Ortiz Aidan Lyons Emmy Rosario Xavier Smith Eden Levy-Roginsky Mikayla DeLeon Megan Corcoran
Kayla Pinkard Naruna Vora Camp Morse Academy Teaching Artists Rubina Bak Bryan Carrera Timothy Feil Russell Fisher Alexandra Green Sarah Grube Ashley Hale Alysoun Kegel Ju Hyun Lee Ethan Lippert Henry Lugo Addison Maye-Saxon Florrie Marshall Makana Medeiros Marco-Adrián Ramos Ana Reyes Rubén Rodríguez Perry Roth Meaghan Sheehan Tianyi Shen Danielle Storey Justina Sullivan Stephanie Tubiolo Samuel Walter Zikang Wang Alex Whittington
Acknowledgements Robert Blocker The Henry and Lucy Moses Dean Yale School of Music Rubén Rodríguez Director, Music in Schools Initiative Yale School of Music Iline P. Tracey Superintendent New Haven Public Schools Ellen P. Maust Supervisor of Performing and Visual Arts New Haven Public Schools Justina Sullivan Coordinator, Music in Schools Initiative Yale School of Music Enid & Lester Morse whose generosity and support make the Morse Summer Music Academy possible.
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