Dale WarlandMusic Director

Jerry RubinoAssistant Music Director and Pianist

January 31, 19948:00 P.M.

Louisburg College Auditorium

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NORTH AMERICAN MADRIGALSThe Urchins' Dance(from An Elizabethan Spring, 1983)* Stephen ChatmanTears(from An Unknown Past, 1951)* Ned Rorem10 Son la Primavera(from Six Madrigals, 1986)* William HawleyOf Crows and Clusters (1972)* Norman Dello Joio

MUSIC OF OUR TIMEThe Rose (1969)* John PaynterEpitaph for Moonlight (1968)* R. Murray Schafer

GREAT AMERICAN CHORUSESAlleluia (1940)* Randall ThompsonThe Promise of Living(from The Tender Land) Aaron Copland

NEW MUSIC FROM ESTONIARaua needmine (Curse Upon Iron)(1972, revised 1991) Velijo Tormis

• INTERMISSION •

FOUR SHAKESPEARE SONGSFancie (1961)* Benjamin BrittenThe Cloud-Capp'd Towers(from Three Shakespeare Songs, 1951)* Ralph Vaughan WilliamsTake, 0 Take Those Lips Away(from Three Madrigals, 1960)* Emma Lou DiemerBlow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind(from Music to Hear, 1985)* George Shearing

THE WARLAND CABARET SINGERSJerry Rubino, Conductor

selections to be announcedfrom the stage

A BIT OF FOLKAlouette (French-Canadian) Robert SundWater Under Snow is Weary (Finnish) Harri Wesseno Danny Boy (Irish) Fred PrenticeCindy* (American) Carol Barnett

*recorded by the Dale Warland Singers

There is a real trick to setting Shakespeare to music,because there's already a marvelous, subtle music in hiswords. The composer's job is to find notes that enhancethat music and meaning. Novices tear their hair out. Herearc four who've succeeded in capturing the Bard's muse:

Britten's "Fancie" was written in 1961 for a bookcalled Classical Songs for Children. The intention of thebook was to enable children to see how differentcomposers, in their own styles, respond to the same text.Poulenc and Kodaly were also invited to contribute, and allwere asked to set these lines from Shakespeare's Merchantof Venice. Britten marked his "Quick and Fantastic," andgave the piano a rippling motion. The voices are in unisonuntil the end, when they divide and imitate the bells of"Fancie's knell."

For "The Cloud Capp'd Towers," Vaughan Williamslifted lines from Shakespeare's last play The Tempest. The1951 Festival of Britain invited him to compose a test piecefor the choral competition. He refused at first, saying thechoirs should use something already written, but at the lastminute he changed his mind. He attached this gruff littlenote to the score and mailed it off: "Here are threeShakespeare settings, do what you like with them." This isthe second of the set, grave and tranquil and surprisinglyinspired for such a last-minute effort.

American Emma Lou Diemer chose the comedyMeasure for Measure as her Shakespearean source."Take" is the second of Three Madrigals she wrote for ahigh school choir in Arlington, Virginia. Like theVaughan Williams setting it is rather sedate and solemn,and the form is simple: the short first verse quietlyrhapsodizes the beloved's eyes and lips; a shorter secondverse turns melancholy because the poet's love isunrequited, then the first verse is simply repeated. Diemeris wise for realizing that, when putting Shakespeare tomusic, less is often more.

Jazzman George Shearing asks that his "Blow, Blow,Tt.._ .•• '1:7.: 4- _ '11.: •.. ...:111 l.c .•..•..•,.., __ ..•.A,'O'r A •...v"' •• T :1,i'Yo 1~\ l.......•.

Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and has prepared majorchoruses around the world for performances of works byKrzysztofPenderecki, with the composer conducting.

Prior to devoting himself full-time to The Singers,Warland maintained an active academic career thatincluded 19 years as director of choral music at MacalesterCollege in St. Paul. He holds degrees from St. OlafCollege, the University of Minnesota and the University ofSouthern California and is the recipient of major grantsand honors from institutions across the country, includingseveral distinguished alumni awards and an honorarydoctorate.

Jerry RubinoJerry Rubino holds multiple responsibilities with The

Dale Warland Singers: he is Assistant Director and pianistfor the 36-voice ensemble and Chamber Singers, as well asMusic Director and Conductor of the Warland CabaretSingers, whose performances include many of his originalarrangements. Rubino is a versatile musician, giving soloand chamber performances, serving as church organist andchoir director, appearing with the Twin Cities-based NewMusic Theater Ensemble and Minnesota ComposersForum, and serving frequently as choral clinician andadjudicator. Rubino began his professional studies as acellist at the Curtis Institute of Music, and went on to earndegrees in piano, music education and conducting fromTemple University and the University of Minnesota.

PERFORMANCE PERSONNELSopranoJane E. Andersen •Nancy HagenDina M. Humble *Kathy Josselyn "Angela MalekMelissa O'Neill •Brenda Sielaff

TenorDavid Fischer *Philip FryerThomas Larson *Steve J. Sandberg" •Steven StaruchFrancis John Vogt •

performed "cheerfully, with a beat." The pianist-composer,who's still swinging at the age of seventy-four, writes abouncy two bar piano riff to start things off, but the choirenters in an olden, madrigal style. After two verses, allbow-ties come loose and the choir joins the piano,delighting in gorgeously thick jazz chords-the Shearingtrademark for over fifty years.

AltoCarrie 1. Benson *Cyndee ChaffeeAnnaMooy 1\ *Patricia Thompson *Mitzi WestraKaren Wilkerson

BassJeffrey FieldsDavid Ryan Moberg *James RamletJerry Rubino 1\

Mark Sheldon *Brian 1. SteeleTom Witry

The Dale Warland SingersThe Dale Warland Singers, widely recognized as one

of the nation's foremost professional choral ensembles,have become especially well known for superb a cappellaperformances of choral masterworks and for expanding thechoral repertoire through commissions of exciting newworks. The 36-voice group was founded in 1972 in theTwin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and since hasdeveloped a loyal following of millions through domesticand international tours, subscription concerts, recordingsand appearances onA Prairie Home Companion and St.Paul Sunday Morning. An annual holiday program,Echoes of Christmas, is heard by an estimated 7 millionAmerican Public Radio listeners each year.

• Performing with the Warland Cabaret Singers1\ Section LeaderRosalie Miller, Tour Manager

This activity is made possible in part by a grantprovided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through anappropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature. TheMinnesota State Arts Board received additional funds tosupport this activity from the National Endowment for theArts.

Dale WarlandAs Founder and Music Director of The Dale

Warland Singers, Dale Warland has earned a reputationfor consummate musicianship and national leadership inchoral music circles. Maestro Warland, who is also acomposer, balances his commitment to The Singers with afull schedule as guest conductor of such prestigiousensembles as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the SwedishRadio Choir, the Oregon Bach Festival and the DanishRadio Choir. Warland is an active composer and a memberof the American Society of Composers, Authors andPublishers. He often serves on review boards, includingthe choral and recording panels for the National

The Dale Warland Singers is also a recipient of fundsfrom the Chorus Program of the National Endowment forthe Arts.

The Dale Warland Singers is a member of ChorusAmerica.

Compact discs and cassette tapes of The DaleWarland Singers will be available for purchase in the lobbyduring intermission and after the performance.

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PROGRAM NOTES by Brian Newhouse

Rorem: TearsNed Rorem is the twentieth century's Franz Schubert.

Like the Austrian of 175 years past, Rorem has staked hisclaim predominantly on one musical form, song-ereatinghundreds of lean, elegant works for the voice thatovershadow his fine instrumental works (including eventhe 1976 Pulitzer-winning orchestral suite Air Music.Rorem was born in Indiana, but spent most of the 1950s inFrance studying with Honegger and Poulenc. Tears waswritten in Hyeres and dedicated to the memory of a friend.This touching poem dates from the early 17th century andthe brief, beguilingly simple setting Rorem gave it isamong his best. Rorem now lives in New York City.

R. Murray Schafer: Epitaph for MoonlightIn 1968 Schafer gave his seventh graders the

assignment of creating synonyms for the word moonlight.Their list: nu-yu-yul, noorwahm, maunklinde, malooma,shalowa and many more.

Schafer wrote the piece to depict moonlight and tocommemorate the moon's pristine environment, which, in1968, he realized would be forever altered with the arrivalof Neil Armstrong and his colleagues the following year.

Musically, Epitaph is an exercise in ear training.There are no key signatures, bar lines, sharps or flatshere-not a stave of conventionally notated music. Thesopranos enter humming a "medium high note" and thechoir, divided into 16 parts, slides in behind on descendinghalf-steps; if all is lined up properly, this soft mash ofsound evolves into a major triad. Within this context, thevocalists can alter text, pitches, and rhythms to create,Schafer says, "the effect of moonlight on water."

Chatman: The Urchins' DanceThe perfect time for hearing The Urchins' Dance

would be a night with a sliver of a moon hanging in thesky, a new moon that brings out little hobgoblins andbugaboos to go bump in the night. Chatman's urchins willtumble and be gone in barely a minute, so keep sharp. Forthe most part they're very quiet, except, that is, when theyjust can't help themselves and proclaim "and about gowe!" in loud C-major chords.

William Hawley: 10 Son la Primavera (I amSpring)I am Spring,who gladly, lovely women, returns to youwith my beautiful, embellished mantleto dress the countryside in greenery and flowersand to arouse in your hearts new loves.For me Zephir sighs,for me the earth laughs, and so the serene heavens;frnm hrorrst to hrenst fly

Thompson: AlleluiaIf you see a certain smile, maybe even a tear, amongst

The Singers during Thompson's Alleluia there is goodreason: this music has been sung at more WarlandWeddings than anyone can remember. You see, thisensemble is happily notorious for having one eligiblemember, say, a bass, fall in love with another, perhaps analto. After their walk down the aisle and the vows at thealtar, in their first moment of marriage, their DWS friendsstand and offer the Alleluia as the couple's first gift. Themoment is nothing short of holy: Thompson only uses asingle word, but the music soars straight into heaven,leaving listeners at the wedding-we hope you as well-blessed.

the charming Amoretti by the thousands,armed with arrows and with torches.And you, again delighted,Take pleasure in my coming amidst laughing and song;Love your loversnow, while April adorns lovely faces with flowers;Spring for you will not return forever.

Norman DelIo Joio: Of Crows and ClustersThis nonsensical text dates from the turn of the

century, when poet Vachel Lindsay, like many Americans,was enamored of fantasies like Alice in Wonderland. Here,we've two bumbling black birds sitting on a fence,"thinking of cause and effect ... effect and cause, and ofnature's laws." One of them stutters, the other mutters, abee buzzes by and scares them both off, and that's that.Don't look for ultimate meaning here-just enjoy the witand snap of a great composer sporting with a goofy poem.

Aaron Copland's opera, The Tender Land, takesplace on a midwestern farm in the 1930s. It is a tale ofoutsiders, namely two young drifters, who came into anenclosed culture in which ties to the land and to traditionare strong, and the world outside is viewed with somesuspicion. The heroine, Laurie, is a young farm womaneager for freedom; naturally, she falls in love with one ofthe drifters, whose wider knowledge and experiencefascinate her. He, on the other hand, feels an ambiguouslonging to settle down. Their planned elopement is neveraccomplished, but there is no going back for Laurie: shemust break with tradition and leave the farm, though shedoesn't know quite where the road will lead her.

The Rose has become one of the signature pieces ofThe Dale Warland Singers. Though intended forChristmas, the reverent, almost mystical quality of both the15th-century text and Paynter's music is really quitetimeless. "The gradual unfolding of the music symbolizesthe opening of a rose," the composer says. To bring thatoff he gives the individual singer a lot of latitude, withlong sections of pitched but freely-spoken text. The lastpage is haunting, charming: the choir sings over and over"Salvator sine crimine" (Saviour without sin) on a gentlyrocking rhythm, while the alto soloist takes wing. Choirand soloist diminuendo, and the work closes as gently as aflower at sunset.

Tormis: Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron)Veljo Tormis is regarded today as a cultural treasure

in Estonia. Acting almost alone, he rescued Estoniannative music from extinction by tramping the countryside,encouraging old farmers, laborers and housewives to singhim the tunes of their grandparents. Wonderful, necessarywork, given the effects of both time ad the heavy hand ofthe former Soviet Union who used to control so much ofEstonian life. Lake Bartok in Hungary or VaughanWilliams in England, Tormis cataloged those melodies andhas made powerful use of them in his own seriouscompositions.

John Paynter: The Rose (1969)

Four Shakespeare Songs

Britten: FancieV. Williams: The Cloud-Capp'd TowersDiemer: Take, 0 Take Those Lips AwayShearing: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

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