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The Newburyport Choral SocietyDr. George Case, Music Director

Anneliesfrom the diary of Anne Frank

Saturday, May 6 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 7 , 2017 at 4:00 pmBelleville Congregational Church, Newburyport

Newburyport Choral Society Dr. George Case, Music Director John Verkuilen, Assistant Conductor Kirsten Helgeland, Accompanist

2017 Spring Concert

Anneliesfrom the diary of Anne FrankThe NCS OrchestraRachele Schmiege, soloist

The Newburyport Choral Society gratefully acknowledges funding support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

This program is also supported in part by grants from the Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, and West Newbury cultural councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Newburyport Choral Society

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Dear Friends,

What is the point of music in our world today? What roles does it play in our personal lives… in our communal lives… in our spiritual and emotional lives?

Music is entertainment – yes, absolutely. We come to it to escape, to feel, to laugh, to love, to get swept away, and to leave the daily for the transcen-dent. Yet, isn’t it more, also?

I have watched members of this chorus struggle intimately with this subject matter; some have found it profoundly life-changing, others too difficult at this point, and others like any other piece of music: fulfilling, beautiful, and worthy of their time. Yet, I have also experienced moving conversations, yeoman’s work inspired by a deep passion for this subject matter, and overall, a unity of pur-pose in this chorus, which is new.

It has given us a chance to process our relationship with those who are different from us: ethnically, racially, socially, economically, and politically. This has occurred within the chorus and with the chorus and the surrounding commu-nity; we are not homogenous, and we are thankful for it. This is evidenced in the outpouring of support and interest from our community, which has galvanized this organization and its members.

Isn’t music more?This is the question that has occupied my mind this concert sequence, and

if I’m honest, always. When I first decided to program James Whitbourn’s Annelies, it was with the goal of the Newburyport Choral Society championing recent music by living composers and to give us and our audience a chance to interact with a living, breathing topic. Yet, never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how timely this concert would become.

So, what is the point of music in our world today? It is exactly this: it is meant to inspire, to further clarify, to bring to the forefront emotions, passions, and differences, and yet, perhaps most importantly, to bind us together.

Fondly, George

In these boxes throughout this program you will find some of the elegant revela-tions that nearly half of the chorus wrote in response to the prompt “I sing ANNELIES because ...” All our singers’ experiences are fully published on our website. For further reading please go to the Blog on newburyportchoralsociety.org.


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Program

Annelies (2005). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Whitbourn (b. 1963)

I Introit – PreludeII The capture foretoldIII The plan to go into hidingIV The last night at home and arrival at

the annexeResponse 1, Charlie Lake, NHS SeniorV Life in hidingVI CourageVII Fear of capture and the second break-inVIII Kyrie – Sinfonia

IX The dreamX Devastation of the outside worldResponse 2, Aberash Baisley, NHS SophmoreXI Passing of timeXII The hope of liberation and a spring

awakeningResponse 3, Sophie Cates, NHS SeniorXIII The capture and the concentration camXIV Anne’s meditation

All Shall be Amen and Alleluia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Whitbourn

We asked Newburyport High School Creative Writing teacher and NCS singer Debbie Szabo to request responses from three students approximately the same age as Anne Frank, when she wrote her diary. Those poems are displayed along with the Annelies libretto.

There will be no intermission. Please join us after the concert for a reception in the Parish Hall. Use of cameras, flash equipment and recorders during the concert is prohibited.

Please turn off all cell phones and pagers during the performance. Restrooms are in the Parish Hall next door.

NCS UPCOMING EVENTS2017 Collaboration with the Newburyport Chamber Music FestivalSaturday, August 19, 2017 8:00PMCentral Congregational Church, 14 Titcomb

Street, Newburyport, MAand Sunday, August, 20, 2017 4:00 PMSt. John’s Church, 101 Chapel Street,

Portsmouth, NH

2017 Summer SingMessiah’s Greatest HitsAugust 28th, 2017, 7:00-9:30 P.M. in the Sanctuary of the Annunciation Greek

Orthodox Church, 7 Harris Street, Newburyport, MA

NCS 2017 Fall RegistrationMonday, September 11, 18, 25th 2017 at

6:30 P.M.Rehearsals are 7:15-9:45 P.M.Belleville Congregational Church, Parish Hall

NCS 2017 Winter ConcertThe Rose and the Night Star featuring

Saint-Saëns Christmas OratorioSaturday, December 9, 2017 at 8:00 P.M.Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 2:30 P.M.Belleville Congregational Church

NCS 2018 Spring ConcertHarmony featuring Missa da Requiem by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Levin completion) and music of Jan Dismas Zelenka

Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 8:00 P.M.Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 4:00 P.M.Belleville Congregational Church

Information for these events is available at newburyportchoralsociety.org



Libretto

ANNELIES by James Whitbourn

Libretto by Melanie Challenger based on Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

INTROIT (PRELUDE)

THE CAPTURE FORETOLD

Up above you can hear the breathing, Eight pounding hearts, footsteps on the stairs, a rattling on the bookcase. Suddenly, a couple of bangs. Doors slammed inside the house. (11 April 1944) Bleibst du! Anschlag! (Stay there! Stop!)

We are in blue sky, surrounded by black clouds. See it, the perfectly round spot? but the clouds are moving in, and the ring between danger grows smaller. We look at the fighting below, and the peace and beauty above, but the dark mass of clouds looms before us, and tries to crush us. O ring, ring, open wide and let us out! (8 November 1943)

THE PLAN TO GO INTO HIDINGWhen would we go into hiding? Where would we hide? In the city? In the country? In a house? In a shack? (8 July 1942)

These questions kept running through my mind. I started packing my important belongings. The first thing was my diary. Memories mean more to me than dresses. (8 July 1942)

Ik zal, hoop ik, aan jou alles kunnen toevertrouwen, zoals ik het nog aan niemand gekund heb, en ik hoop dat je een grote steun voor me zult zijn.

[I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.] (12 June 1942)

It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened, it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. (8 July 1942)

THE LAST NIGHT AT HOME AND ARRIVAL AT THE ANNEXEMy last night in my own bed. A warm rain fell. The four of us wrapped in layers of clothing, the stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table. We closed the door behind us. (8 July 1942)


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Walking in the pouring rain, walking down the street, each of us with a satchel filled to the brim. (9 July 1942)

We arrived at Prinsengracht, led through the long passage and up the wooden staircase to the Annexe. The door was shut behind us, leaving us alone. Alone.

Then for the first time, I found a moment to tell you about it, to realize what had happened to me and what was about to happen. (10 July 1942)

We’re Jews in chains, chained to one spot, without any rights, a thousand obligations. We must be brave and trust in God. (11 April 1944)

we were already built on digging through frost biting our nails to let the blood run

in the silence we learned to be rough in the anguish we learned to be soft

i was wrong for calling this home our bones collected in a basket of people we know

left a pile of dust on a giant’s window let warmth in through cracks in the shadows

throw the shovel over your shoulder, the growing season is over withered as the nights get longer

in the winter freeze and stutter in the cold we hold each other

before we let go

Charlie Lake, Newburyport High School, grade 12

LIFE IN HIDINGThe days here are very quiet. (1 October 1942)

Having to sit still all day and not say a word, you can imagine how hard that is for me. On ordinary days, we speak in a whisper. Not being able to talk is worse. (29 September 1942)

The silence makes me so nervous, but the chiming of the Westertoren clock reassures me at night. (11 July I942)

You no doubt want to hear what I think of life in hiding? (11 July 1942)



The blue sky, the bare chestnut tree, glistening with dew, the seagulls, glinting with silver swooping through the air. As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, how can I be sad? (23 February 1944)

Prospectus and Guide to the Secret Annexe.A Unique Facility for the Temporary Accommodation of Jews and Other

Dispossessed Persons.

Now our Annexe has truly become a secret, a bookcase has been built in front of the entrance. It swings upon its hinges and opens like a door.

It is Open All Year Round, Located in Beautiful, Quiet, Wooded Surroundings, In the Heart of Amsterdam. Inside it is Necessary to Speak Softly at all times, Singing is Permissible, only Softly and After Six pm! (17 November 1942)

The strangest things happen when you’re in hiding. Try to picture this. We wash ourselves in a tin tub, since the curtains are drawn, we scrub ourselves in the dark, while one looks out the window and gazes at the endlessly amusing people. (29 September 1942)

The children run around in thin shirts and wooden clogs. They have no coats, no socks, no caps and no one to help them. Gnawing on a carrot to still their hunger, they walk from their cold houses through cold streets. (13 January 1943)

One day this terrible war will be over, and we’ll be people again, and not just Jews. (I I April 1944)

COURAGEIf you become part of the suffering, you’d be entirely lost. (7 March 1942)

Der Winter ist vergangen. Ich seh’ des Maien Schein; Ich seh’ die Blümlein prangen; Des ist mein Herz erfreut. Da singt Frau Nachtigalle Und manch’ Waldvogelein.

The winter is over. I see the light of May; I see blossoms everywhere; and my heart is pleased. There sings the nightingale and the small forest birds. — German traditional

Beauty remains, even in misfortune. One who is happy will make others happy, one who has courage will never die in misery. (7 March 1944)


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Ade, mein’ Allerliebste! Ade, schön’s Blümelein! Ade, schön’ Rosenblume; Es muß geschieden sein! Das Herz in meinem Leibe Gehört ja allzeit dein.

Goodbye, my beloved! Goodbye, beautiful blossoms! Goodbye, beautiful rose flower; I must leave you. My love for you will burn in my heart forever. — German traditional

FEAR OF CAPTURE AND THE SECOND BREAK-INIn the evenings, when it’s dark, lines of good innocent people and crying children walk on and on, ordered by men who bully and beat them. No one is spared, all are marched to their death. (19 November 1942)

Westerbork! Westerbork! [A refugee camp which Dutch Jews were forced to build, which later became the transit camp where Jews were held before being taken to Auschwitz and Sobibor.]

Night after night, green and grey vehicles cruise the streets and knock on every door. (19 November 1942)

Westerbork! Westerbork! Sshh. I heard a sound from the bookcase, hammering on the door. We turned white with fear. Had he heard something, this stranger? Open up! Open up! In my imagination, the man kept growing and growing, until he became a giant, the cruelest fascist in the world. (20 October 1942)

SINFONIA (KYRIE)Kyrie eleison [Lord, have mercy] — Greek liturgical

Help us. Rescue us from this hell. (27 November 1943)

We must be brave and trust in God. (11 April 1944)

THE DREAMLast night, just as I was falling asleep, an old friend appeared before me. I saw her there, dressed in rags, her face thin and worn. She looked at me with such sadness. Anne, why have you deserted me? Help me, help me, rescue me from this hell! (27 November 1943)



To me she is the suffering of all my friends, and all the Jews. When I pray for her, I pray for all those in need. (6 January 1944)

Merciful God, comfort her, remain with her so she won’t be alone. (27 November 1943)

Dear God, watch over her and bring her back to us. (29 December 1943)

DEVASTATION OF THE OUTSIDE WORLDOn Sunday, Amsterdam was bombed. (19 July 1943)

The planes dived and climbed. The air was abuzz with the drone of engines. (26 July 1943)

The streets are in ruins, countless are wounded. In the smouldering ruins, children search forlornly for their parents. (19 July 1943)

It makes me shiver to think of the dull, distant drone of approaching destruction. (19 July 1943)

I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird, whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. (29 October 1943)

“Let me out, where there’s fresh air and laughter,” a voice within me cries. (29 October 1943)

For Those Who Remain Silent:

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about

things that matter in this world There is nothing more dangerous

than sincere ignorance.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty of the bad people,

but the silence of the good people.

At the end, though, we won’t remember the

words of our enemies or the silence of the cowards,

but the strength of those we care about, the determination of those who resist, the inspiration of those who remind us

we must dare to stand out and speak out loud.

Aberash Baisley, Newburyport High School, Grade 10


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PASSING OF TIMEThe years went by. There’s a saying: “Time heals all wounds,” that’s how it was with me. (7 January 1944)

Until one day, I saw my face in the mirror. It looked so different. My eyes were clear and deep, my cheeks were rosy, my mouth was softer. I looked happy, and yet, in my expression, there was something so sad. (7 January 1944)

THE HOPE OF LIBERATION AND A SPRING AWAKENINGThis is D-Day, this is the day. Fighting will come, but after this the victory! Eleven thousand planes, four thousand boats, is this the beginning of the long-awaited liberation? (6 June 1944)

I walk from one room to another, breathe through the crack in the window frame, feel my heart beating as if to say, “fulfill my longing at last…” I think spring is inside me, I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. (12 February 1944)

Ich danke dir für all das Gute und Liebe und Schöne. [Thank you, God, for all that is good and dear and beautiful.] (7 March 1944)

My entire life I have been told

that learning about history will keep it from repeating,

that looking at pictures of dying faces will teach us to keep them alive next time, that hearing about hate and violence will teach us to fight it next time.

Next time…

The problem with “next time” is that we don’t realize that we’re in the middle of it right now.

That is what history class is for,” my teachers say, but in the back of the room I still hear hateful generalizations from kids who aren’t listening.

In a few years they’ll wish they had been.



But now - they brush these heavy topics off their privileged shoulders

like bits of dandruff, the detritus of other people’s lives. They see pictures of dying faces

and they are more afraid of the faces than the fact that they are dying. They see violence through their phones and they believe that the victims are part of the problem.

Anne, you would have been 77 today if America had just been stronger than the fear that tricked us into turning you away.

When politicians say we should be scared of your face, scared of your faith,

sounds like1938, when even your family’s ties to America didn’t mean we would accept you,

when you tried again and again to save yourselves and we didn’t let you, when you told us of the horrors and our selfishness let us reject you.

We should have learned from our mistakes, We should have welcomed the dying faces with open hearts,

We should have stopped the hate and violence from the start.

Some of us are lucky enough to be safe, Some of us are lucky enough to have childhoods,

Some of us are lucky enough to see dying faces only through our phones and not recognize them as our sisters and our brothers, our fathers and our mothers.

Look at the signs. Listen to the voices of history.

They are telling us that the next Anne Frank is in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Nigeria, in Eritrea,

hiding from killers, writing about her hopes, her humanity.

Look at the signs. Listen to the voices of history.

They are telling us we are all the same exact people

singing the same exact song. Let’s not make the same exact mistakes.

Sophie Cates, Newburyport High School, Grade 12

THE CAPTURE AND THE CONCENTRATION CAMP

On August the 4th 1944, a car pulled up at Prinsengracht. Several figures emerged, armed, and dressed in civilian clothes. The eight residents of the Annexe were taken to prison, and from there, transported to Westerbork, and onwards to the concentration camps. (information from contemporary reports)

The atmosphere is stifling, outside you don’t hear a single bird. A deathly silence hangs in the air. It clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld. (29 October 1943)


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[Anne did not continue her diary after she left the Annexe, but this extract, written about the Annexe, echoes the atmosphere described by others of the Nazi concentration camps.]

There is no speech or language Where their voice is not heard. Their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. (Psalm XIX, vs. 3–4)

Their blood have they shed like water, and there was none who could bury them. (Psalm LXXIX, vs. 3)

The young and the old lie on the ground; the maids and the young men are fallen. (Lamentations II, vs. 21)

ANNE’S MEDITATIONI see the world being slowly turned into wilderness. I hear the approaching thunder, that one day will destroy us too. And yet, when I look at the sky, I feel that everything will change for the better. (15 July 1944)

Whenever you feel lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking at the sky. As long as you can look Fearlessly at the sky, You’ll know you are pure within. (23 February 1944)

ALL SHALL BE AMEN AND ALLELUIA by James Whitbourn

All shall be Amen and Alleluia. All shall be Amen and Alleluia.

We shall rest and we shall see, We shall see and we shall know, We shall know and we shall love, We shall love and we shall praise. Behold our end which is no end.

All shall be Amen and Alleluia. All shall be Amen and Alleluia. Alleluia Amen

I sing in loving remembrance of my father, Walter Less, and his family – Leopold, Anni, Walter, Kate and Ernst – who escaped from Germany, forced to leave everything behind. My grandfather, Leopold (ID # 11135) was imprisoned in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen on Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938).

—Margaret McQuillan



Performers

DR. GEORGE CASE is the Director of Choral Activities at The Boston Conservatory, where he directs the chorale ensembles, teaches Choral Literature, and directs the graduate choral conducting program. Dr. Case is the Director ad interim of Choral Conducting at Boston University, where he directs the masters and doctoral programs in Choral Conducting. Dr. Case is also the music director of the Newburyport Choral society, an 83-year old choral society on the north shore. With a multi-faceted background as a conductor, educator, and professional singer, Dr. Case brings a wide-ranging body of

musical experience and a passionate artistic voice to his work. He holds Doctoral and Masters degrees in conducting from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors degree in vocal perfor-mance from Boston University.

While pursuing graduate degrees in Michigan, Dr. Case served as artistic director of the Arts Chorale, assistant conductor of the Grammy Award-winning University Musical Society Choral Union, graduate conductor of the Orpheus Singers, and co-teacher of Choral and Vocal Methods classes. Additionally, he was opera chorus director for Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and assis-tant conductor and accompanist for the university’s renowned Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs.

Dr. Case is an award-winning educator of young musicians who frequently leads clinics and workshops for high school and college singers, as well as professional development sessions for teachers around the country. During his tenure as Director of Choral and Vocal Programs at the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts in his native Atlanta, Georgia between 2007 and 2010, Dr. Case’s choirs were selected to participate in the Honor! Festival, curated by Jessye Norman and Carnegie Hall with Craig Jessop and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Dr. Case has been recognized as a 2010 Presidential Teacher Honoree and 2009 Star Teacher for Pebblebrook High School, and he served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute from 2005 to 2012.

As a soloist and professional chorister, Dr. Case has performed with major ensembles across North America and Europe. He is a regular member of and soloist with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Atlanta Singers, Meridian Chorale, Skylark Ensemble, Marsh Chapel Choir, and the Carnegie Festival Chorus, and he has appeared as soloist in Stravinsky’s Mass at the Great Lakes Music Festival and in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. He was a featured soloist in a gala performance of music by promi-nent American composer Susan Botti during the closing celebrations of the 2006 Prix de Rome Competition in Rome, Italy.

Dr. Case has prepared choruses for leading conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Craig Jessop, Leonard Slatkin, and Helmuth Rilling. His primary conducting teachers include Ann Howard Jones, Jerry Blackstone, Joshua Habermann, Paul Rardin, and Kenneth Kiesler, and he has received additional mentorship from David Hayes, Don McCullough, Tom Hall, Robert Page, Helmuth Rilling, Kathy Romey, and Anton Armstrong.

Upcoming engagements for 2016-2017 include concerts with Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Newburyport Choral Society, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Handel + Haydn Society, Kinnara Ensemble, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.

I sing ANNELIES to remember her, and to remain awake to the dangers and beauty of this world.

—Lucy B.


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DR. KIRSTEN HELGELAND holds degrees in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Cincinnati. During her seven-year tenure at Gordon College she was an active faculty member, teaching and serving as accompanist for the Gordon College Children’s Choir and Symphonic Chorale. After leaving Gordon, she opened

Studio K, a private teaching studio. During the summer of 2014, Dr. Helgeland returned to Gordon College where she began teaching as part of the Masters of Music Education program and is serving once again as accompanist for the Gordon College Children’s Choir. Since 2005, she has served as accompanist to the Newburyport Choral Society and also as Music Director and Organist at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dr. Helgeland has presented lecture-recitals to the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. She has appeared as a guest artist on WGBH-Radio’s Chamberworks.

JOHN VERKUILEN currently serves as Assistant Conductor for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Women’s Chorus and Conductor’s Choir. As a member of the Conservatory’s opera department, John worked as Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for the production of Verdi’s La Traviata and performed in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. John earned his bachelor’s degree

in International Studies, Economics and Music from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. John sang under the guidance of Cantus, the renowned men’s vocal ensemble, and later sang as a member of Westminster Choir College’s Summer Chamber Choir. Upon graduation, John assumed a position as Macalester’s Assistant Choral Director as well as with St. Olaf Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where he served as conductor and resident composer while studying music liturgy and organ with Dr. Lynn Trapp. This past summer, John completed a Conducting Apprenticeship with Berkshire Choral International where he worked with and learned from some of the nation’s top conductors. A native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, John studies conducting at Boston Conservatory at Berklee under Dr. George Case and voice under Robert Honeysucker.

RACHELE SCHMIEGE has been praised for her “powerful, pure, soaring voice” and “absolutely thrilling” portrayals. At home in both standard repertoire and new music, Ms. Schmiege consistently brings fine musicianship and a compelling dramatic presence to her work. Ms. Schmiege has performed a wide range of roles on the opera stage including: Anne Truelove, The Rakes Progress (Pacific

Opera Project); Violetta, La Traviata (Hubbard Hall Opera Theater); Gilda, Rigoletto (Cape Cod Opera); and Valencienne, The Merry Widow (Opera Providence). She has been a Young Artist at such prestigious companies as Opera On the James, Nashville Opera, and Flagstaff in Fidenza, Italy. Equally comfortable on the concert platform, her soprano soloist performances include: the Requiem, Verdi (Cape Cod Symphony, Mid Coast Symphony); Ein Deutsches Requiem, Brahms (Chatham Chorale); and The Mass in C Minor, Mozart (Newburyport Choral Society). Her concert performances have been described as “stunning” with “remarkable timbre and note clarity”. This past year, Rachele placed second in the Classical Singer National Vocal Competition, Young Artist/Emerging Professional Division, first place in the MetroWest Opera Competition and an Honorable Mention in the American Prize, Opera Division. Ms. Schmiege earned her Bachelors of Music at Western Michigan University and her Masters in Music from New England Conservatory. For more information, please visit: www.racheleschmiege.com.



A Note from the NCS Board of DirectorsThe Newburyport Choral Society wishes to express its sincerest appreciation to the Newburyport Senior Community Center and The Institution for Savings. NCS extends a special thank you to the Newburyport Chamber of Commerce; The Natural Grocer of Newburyport; Jabberwocky Book Shop of Newburyport; The Book Rack of Newburyport; Starbird Jewelers of Amesbury; Conley’s Drug Store of Ipswich; Jan Lorrey Flowers of Newbury; and Dianne’s Fine Desserts of Newburyport for their generous support. Many thanks to Debbie Szabo, English Teacher, Newburyport High, for working with her Creative Writing Class to develop the poems inserted into the Annelies piece. We are especially grateful to our House Manager, David Rogers, editor Mary Frakes, and graphic designer Joshua Faigen, and to the many individuals and businesses that make this concert possible through their ongoing support and contributions.

THE NEWBURYPORT CHORAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Joanne Johnson, PresidentJana Whiting, TreasurerSandra Starr, SecretaryRalph Johnson, Logistics DirectorSarah Hall, Membership DirectorPhilip Smith, Concert ManagerWinnie Martin, Sponsorship DirectorPenny Lazarus, Development Director

Al Cox, Fundraising DirectorMary Ann Lachat, Media Director/PublicityCarol Yunker, IT DirectorSolomon Berman, Member-At-LargeBrian Greenberg, Member-At-LargeAnthony Grassi, Member-At-LargeGeorge Case, Music Director

NCS Orchestra

VIOLINBeth Welty

CELLOShay Rudolph

CLARINETMarguerite Levin

PIANOKirsten Helgeland

ORGANDaniel Russell

Orchestra by Presto! Music, prestomusicnewengland.com

2017 NCS Betty Gillette ScholarshipNewburyport Choral Society annually awards the NCS Betty Gillette Scholarship of $1,000 to a local student pursuing an education in music. The scholarship winner will be announced in conjunc-tion with the Spring Concert. For more information and a scholarship application, please visit our website at newburyportchoralsociety.org

As a Holocaust survivor’s child, I grew up hearing, “If God is real, where is my family?” I knew it would be challenging to sing ANNELIES, so I decided to try to desensitize myself by listening to it beforehand. However, within an hour of the first rehearsal, the tears started. This extraordinary piece reminds us that there is indeed something divine in the human spirit.

—Debbie Szabo


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Newburyport Choral Society Members

SOPRANO IAbigail Bertelson Marion (Mimi) Brile Patricia Carlson-Gutta Suzanne Cox Mary Fraley Darcy Holland Victoria Leal-Bushey Judy Marie Letendre Kerri MacLennan Winnie Martin Maryellen Moreland Brenda Rich Amanda RobertsLindsey RodieMarie Shattuck Denise Ann Shea* Jana Whiting Jessica Wolkiewicz

SOPRANO IILucy Belter Gwyneth Bertelson Patricia Cox Song Suk Daw Elizabeth DiGiuseppe Terrie Harman Beverly Hill Judy Hu Mary Jacobsen Lois Klee Mary Ann Lachat Cassandra Perry Linehan Karen Norcross Susan Noyes Beth Rogers Meghan SchweizerAnn Smith Martha L. Taylor Kathleen Tucker Gustafson Anne Verret-Speck Aileen Waite* Mary Ann Webber

ALTO IMargaret Atkins Judy Clark Linda Cooper Nirmala Dole Pamela J. Fenner Carol Fisher Andrea Grant Sarah Hall Penny Lazarus* Ginny Legare Claudia Mathews Maria Ana Montalvo Nancy Morrissey Kimberly Nabinger Sandra Northrop Sherrill Pierce Elena Raucci Sandra Starr Diane Stowe-CohnAntoinette TreadwayBettina TurnerDeborah Woodward

ALTO IIJan Bernarducci Nancy Cahan Barbara Cann Janet DiGianni Tiphany DiRollo Lorrie Arianna Dispenza Kristin DriverNancy Ferretti Nancy Fitzgerald Jean Garnett Lori HartwigJoanne Johnson Carol Keating Bette Lischke Janice Martel Margaret McQuillan Olyce Moore Linda Paulet Pamela Shipp

Jan Soupcoff Pollyann Statom Karen Wakefield*

TENOR IPatti Batchelder Christina Bryant Robert Finneran James Minieri Jack PlimptonDavid Raucci Carol Yunker* Jonathan Yunker

TENOR IIRalph Johnson Jr.Carol KingstonJohn MorelandPhilip SmithRon Ziemba

BASS ISamuel Baily Solomon M. Berman* Thomas Clark Anthony J. Grassi Brian Greenberg Robert Hankard Stephen MooreForrest J. Speck John Statom Arthur Sullivan

BASS IIBob Brodsky David Clarridge Alfred Cox Joseph Cox Carroll Gustafson William Hastings Andrew Heaton Robert True Ray Wilson Joe Wrinn*Section Leader

To my Hebrew school principal and teacher, Yaakov (Jacob) Riz, whose entire family was sent to Auschwitz, where all except his brother perished. He believed that people must learn about the horrors of the Holocaust so that we, as a society, never forget.

—Brian Greenberg



INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEIn memory of Roxie Kalashian

Ms. Janet KalashianDr. George Case*Albert O. Wilson, Jr.Raymond WilsonCarol & Jerry Yunker*

ENDOWMENTSIn memory of Joan Eaton

Nancy Ferretti Roberta Hendee Ralph & Joanne Johnson Janet Juntunen Winnie Martin Deborah Morrison Susan & James Noyes Sherrill Pierce Deborah Woodward

In memory of Linda Ferguson Ralph & Joanne Johnson Winnie Martin Deborah Morrison Susan & James Noyes Sherrill Pierce Turning Point Carol and Jerry Yunker

In memory of Betty Gillette Sherrill Pierce

BENEFACTORIn memory of Christopher

Drelich Janet Nee

Anthony Grassi*Ralph & Joanne JohnsonPenny Lazarus & Josh FaigenVirginia PlayerBeth Rogers

PATRONBill & Nancy AmesKristen Anderson & Toni TalasJoseph (Judd) BrooksBucknall Family Foundation

Elizabeth Petty

Mary & Chuck FraleyCarol & Jim FurneauxJames Hickey & Donna

MaggioreFred & Janet HowellCarol KingstonWinnie MartinGerard & Suzanne PapinElizabeth PettyPeter RiceJean SoucyForrest & Ann Verret SpeckJohn & Sandy Starr

ASSOCIATETerry & Wanda BlanchardCarol Barron & David StickneyRobert Brodsky & Antoinette

TreadwayVictoria & Paul BusheyJoyce Canti & Averhill HainesLori & Tom Clark Barry & Susan ConnellAl & Colleen Cox Glen & Jennifer DeArmond Janet DiGianniElizabeth DiGiuseppeTiphany DiRolloRon & Jane DoescherRebecca Wish Esche & Jeffrey

EscheIn memory of Jacob Feenstra

Carol & Jerry YunkerNancy FerrettiMrs. Sidney F. FullerStephanie GaskinsRonald & Jan GeddesJudy & Bill Graves Brian & Peggy GreenbergIn memory of Esther Greenberg

Sondra GreenbergPeter GustafsonPaul Ivaska & Linda BuckleyIn memory of Dorothy Holland

Darcy HollandMr. & Mrs. Frederick Hufnagel

Viola JohnsonLois & Tim KleeMary Ann LachatChristian A. Levesque & Kevin

S. WillenPatricia Levesque & Vicky

Sielicki David LoringTimothy & Mary KuistGina LaGrassaJerry & Bette LischkeMoria E. McLaughlinJohn & Florence MercerPeter & Alicia MooreDeborah & William Morrison In memory of Esther Noyes

Susan & James NoyesSherrill PierceAlisha RousselleMarie L. ShattuckMynda & Lee Siskind Carl & Diane SoderlandJohn & Pollyann StatomThe Szabo FamilyRebecca Taylor & Tom PeaseEdward & Eva Marie WalkerIn memory of David Walsh

Elizabeth WalshIn memory of Donna M. Welch

Josiah H. WelchMaryann Webber Ray Ocock & Peg WhittierJohn & Betsy Woodman Deborah & James Woodward

FRIENDJennie AspinallMeg & Victor AtkinsSam & Joan BailyLynn BoydSuzanne CoxLucy Belter & Rich MurphyJan & Frank BernarducciLynn BoydLydia-Ann DeBenedictisElaine DeMers


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Honoring Our SponsorsAL WILSON

Al Wilson died peacefully December 24, 2016, aged one hundred years and 27 days, surrounded by his children including NCS singer Ray Wilson. He loved music his entire life. Brought up in a musical family, he sang from boyhood well into his nineties. His love of singing showed in his face and his enthusiastic manner. He was a devoted and generous supporter of the Newburyport Choral Society and many other musical groups.Photo courtesy of Rebecca Wish Esche.

HENRY C. RESLEWICIt is with great sadness and with equally great appreciation, that we acknowledge one of our most loyal business sponsors, accountant Henry C. Reslewic. Henry passed away New Year’s Day 2017. Even living with cancer for the past 6 years, Henry and his lovely wife Frances continued to attend NCS concerts and maintained his generous support of our programming through his own accounting and tax practice here in Newburyport. When I would visit his office, Henry loved to talk about his family and gardening. Fall was bulb-planting time. And we often compared notes. Henry, NCS is grateful for all that you have tended and cared for throughout your most successful life!

In memory of Jacob Feenstra Margaretha Feenstra

Ellen ForbesIn memory of Kathy Gallagher

Carol Ann GallagherSaul GoldbergAndrea GrantAnna GreenlawMr. & Mrs. Carroll GustafsonJean Hamel

Nancy HartmannAndrew & Joan HeatonPhilip & Patricia HurzelerCarol & Bill KeatingChris & Jim KelseyChip & Laurie KilgoreDonna Lardiere Mary Ann LeekleyJames & Cheryl MinieriOlyce Moore

Diana F. PackerKathy ScanlanDenise SheaJason & Marion SokolovAnn & William SmithJonathan & Margaret Stevens Karen & Jim WakefieldJana WhitingChallis & David Williams

* denotes Sustaining Sponsor

FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENT GRANTSInstitution for Savings

Charitable FoundationMassachusetts Cultural Council Local Cultural Councils

IpswichMerrimacNewburyNewburyportRowleySalisburyWest Newbury

I sing because I want my students to know that our voices can be powerful. —Kerri MacLennan



BUSINESS SPONSORSDIRECTORS CIRCLEThe Institution for SavingsNew England BiolabsStrem Chemicals, Inc.

BENEFACTORElliott, Woodworth & Rogers

Funeral HomeJourneyman PressPentucket Medical AssociationSPS New England

PATRONCastagna Construction

Corporation Carolyn Madison, D.M.D.Littlefield Wealth ServicesNewburyport DevelopmentThe Newburyport Five Cent

Savings Bank

Riley Associates, P.C.Stone Ridge Properties, Inc.Terrie Harman, Attorney at

LawASSOCIATEAbraham’s BagelsDouglas Bolick, Attorney at

Law Dr. Bernard & Susan HeersinkDr. John Shimer’s Psychological

SupportFunctional Coating Inc.Merrimac Valley Animal

HospitalPort Paint N’ PaperTalas ArtThe Children’s CastleRiver Valley Real EstateVoya FinancialWatts Eye Associates, Inc.

FRIENDAmesbury Industrial Supply

Co., Inc.Ann Olmstead, RealtorBlack Duck Market & DeliCircle Finishing Inc.Emery Rice, Attorney at Law Essex Street InnHarbor FramesKelly’s Service StationLombardi Oil Company Stephanie’s Village Pancake

HouseThe Tannery MarketplaceYork Harbor Inn

Our apology to those contributors whose names we received too late

to include in our program.

NCS Continuing a Choral TraditionThe Newburyport Choral Society traces its roots back to 1934, a year when the Great Depression was still ravaging the United States and political upheaval was occurring in Europe that would lead to World War II. Against that backdrop, with unemployment hovering around 22%, organist and choirmaster Clifton Lunt started a chorus in 1933 in Amesbury, MA, composed of girls just out of school and unable to get jobs. In 1934, he established the newly named Newburyport Choral Singers (later changed to Society), combining his Amesbury Choral Society and Newburyport volunteers into a group of 145 members, making the Newburyport Choral Society one of the oldest choral groups in the country. It also continues a tradition in Newburyport that dates to 1848, when the first community chorus was formed. The first performance of the Newburyport Choral Society (NCS) was held in April 1935 in Newburyport City Hall under Clifton Lunt. NCS has continued to grow under the direction of eight talented directors. NCS is celebrating 82 years as a community chorus offering sacred and secular musical performances for the cultural enrichment of Newburyport and surrounding communities. NCS encourages and supports choral music in our com-munity through our We Sing Program. Music is a vital part of our lives, and making music a special gift that brings joy and accomplishment to the musician as well as to those with whom it is shared.

I sing ANNELIES in memory of my late grandmother, a survivor of the blockade and genocide of Leningrad, as well as family members murdered in the Holocaust —and in the hope that we will all be able to live in a world free of naked hate and unbridled cruelty.

—Solomon Berman


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16 2016 Winter Concert

How do you create more Harmony in tHe world today?By believing in a world filled with music, where over a hundred people of different ages, income and background come together once a week to lift their voices together in song. When many breathe as one and match tone upon tone with a person standing next to you, the world of difference melts away. More people participate by singing in a chorus than any other active kind of performing arts. And your community, this community of the Greater Newburyport area of Massachusetts’ North Shore,

has one of the oldest non-auditioned choral groups in the United States.

Please consider becoming an individual or business sponsor of the Newburyport Choral Society. Become part of our fam-ily and join us in building both a chorus and an audience of 2,300 who are passionate about making exceptional music. We are committed to creating a safe place for children’s voices to thrive, and excited to give your family, friends, neighbors and business associates an opportu-nity to learn how to sing.

You make a difference by helping to raise the $40,000 that we need from sponsorship donations each year. Your gift will be recognized on our website, on our Facebook page, in our concert programs, and in every chorus member’s heart.

One-time or sustaining (monthly) sponsorship donations may be made online by clicking on the green “Donate Now” button at newburyportchoralsociety.org.

For donations by check mail this page to: N.C.S. PO Box 92, Newburyport, MA 01950. Please make check payable to the Newburyport Choral Society. Questions? Please call 978-462-0650.

Guest Conductor: $1,000. Includes guest conductor position during a holiday carol and 4 concert tickets to the winter concert.

Director’s Circle: $1,000 and up. Includes program mention and 8 concert tickets per year.

Benefactor: $500-$999. Includes program mention and 6 concert tickets per year.

Patron: $250-$499. Includes program men-tion and 4 concert tickets per year.

Associate: $100-$249. Includes program mention and 2 concert tickets per year.

Friend: Up to $99. Includes program mention.

Sustaining: Regular monthly donation charged to your credit card. Available online at www.newburyportchoralsociety.org.

Individual or Business Name: ____________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Email: ______________________________________________________________________

Phone: ____________________________ Amount of donation: ____________________The Newburyport Choral Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.




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I knew Anne from the Montessori School of Amsterdam. We were in a group together within the school and could decide what we wanted to work on during the day. She was two years older than me so I wasn’t close to her, but we were close as a group. We would hang around together and walk to school together. Then Anne and my other Jewish girl friends were gone and never came back. It was a terrible, terrible time.

Soldiers with guns blocked off the streets with trucks and they went house-to-house, and if there was a Jew, they were torn out into the street, lined up, and taken away. It was horrible and everyone was terrified. If anyone tried to do some-thing they were shot. [My late husband’s] family took a Jewish couple into hiding for three years in Amsterdam ... they couldn’t let them die.

We had the underground ... I was eight years old and they put newspapers and fly-ers under my clothes. There were people I was supposed to bring them to at night. We had the BBC on from England which was illegal, and we would distribute the notes. There was a curfew and we were not supposed to be out in the dark but I was a blond little thing and wasn’t stopped. I thought it was terrific because I was doing something ... but it was dangerous.

—Rie Feenstra



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As a native German I grew up with a strong feeling of collective guilt. Our German national anthem – including the beautiful melody from Haydn’s Emperor string quartet – was usurped by Hitler [“Deutschland, Deutschland über alles”].

—Bettina Turner



How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Remembrance honors the victims of all holocausts, trying to ensure that their suffering won’t have been in vain. It isn’t they who need the remembering, but us. We sing to give voice to our own dignity and our own capacity for compassion, for grief, for outrage, and for hope – for ourselves and a better future.

—Mary Jacobsen



When I began [working on] Annelies, I knew I was singing for the misunderstood and broken souls who live and have lived among us.

—Judy-Marie Letendre

As I sing, I can’t help wondering how it felt to my grandmother to live with her two little kids and her German immigrant parents while her husband fought the Germans in France and Germany during WWI.

—Carol Yunker


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Many thanks to the Newburyport Choral Society for their beautiful music!

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We sing ANNELIES in memory of the people who heard the knock on the door in World War II, and in solidarity with those who hear it today.

—Carroll and Kathleen Tucker Gustafson

Documents

Annelies - Newburyport Choral · PDF fileXII The hope of liberation and a spring awakening Response 3, ... Those poems are displayed along with the Annelies libretto. There will be