D ALEWARLANDSINGERS

AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORSASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA

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FINAL CONCERTI I

I Have Had Singing -- A Choral Celebration

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Concert: 3:00 p.m.Orchestra Hall, MinneapolisTickets: $40 - $16

Reception following concert.Hyatt Regency MinneapolisTickets: $50/person

Please visit our website for more information:www.dalewarlandsingers.org.

Now celebrating its 31st season of con-certs, tours, radio broadcasts, and criti-cally acclaimed recordings, the DaleWarland Singers is recognized as oneof the world's foremost a cappellachoral ensembles. The 40-voice profes-sional choir is based in Minneapolis/St.Paul.

The Dale Warland Singers has earned areputation for its commitment to com-missioning and performing new choralmusic. The ensemble has kept thechoral genre fresh and alive by com-missioning works from DominickArgento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen,Carol Barnett, George Shearing, PeterSchickele, Bernard Rands, Emma LouDiemer, Alice Parker, JanikaVandervelde, Augusta Read Thomas,Aaron Jay Kernis, and Frank Ferkoamong others. The Dale WarlandSingers' Choral Ventures ,. programsolicits works from emerging com-posers, and through this program, over$150,000 in commissions have beenawarded to over fifty talented musi-cians.

In 1992, the Dale Warland Singersbecame the first-ever recipient of theMargaret Hillis Achievement Award forChoral Excellence. The organizationshares this honor only with Chanticleerand the Vancouver Chamber Choiramong professional choirs. The group'sextraordinary efforts on behalf of com-posers and new music resulted inASCAP Awards for AdventurousProgramming in 1992, 1993, 1996, and1999.

In addition to a subscription season inthe Twin Cities, the Dale WarlandSingers tours throughout the UnitedStates and abroad. It has alsoappeared on Garrison Keillor's originalA Prairie Home Companion and hasbeen featured on Public RadioInternational's Saint Paul Sunday. Theannual Echoes of Christmas andCathedral Classics broadcasts reach lis-teners nationwide.

In the summer of 2002, the ensemblemade its debut at the Ravinia Festival(Chicago). The choir also performed atthe American Society of HarpistsNational Conference and the SixthWorld Symposium on Choral Music,both held in the Twin Cities.

the dale warland singers

The Dale Warland Singers also per-forms in collaboration with other TwinCities arts organizations including theSaint Paul Chamber Orchestra, theMinnesota Orchestra, and the JamesSewell Ballet. The Singers haveworked under the batons of the lateRobert Shaw, Hugh Wolff, Edo deWaart, Leonard Slatkin, BobbyMcFerrin, David Zinman, and RogerNorrington to name a few.

This fall, the Dale Warland Singers willrelease its first "live" recording,Rachmaninoff Vespers. Last year, thechoir released two recordings: WaldenPond, containing three major choralworks written by Pulitzer-Prize win-ning composer, Dominick Argento; andChristmas with the Dale WarlandSingers, which The Seattle Timesdescribed as "impeccable, full ofvibrant life and blended like a bottle ofVeuve Clicquot Grande Dame." Theserecordings join some 24 other DaleWarland Singers recordings includingBernstein and Britten, which containsBernstein's Chichester Psalms andBritten's Rejoice in the Lamb, alongwith Stephen Paulus' Pilgrims' Hymnand movements from Albright'sChichester Mass. Another favorite, BlueWheat, is a collection of American folkmusic. Also among the Singers' laudedreleases is December Stillness, whichBBC Music Magazine gave its highestrating for performance and sound, call-ing it, "...splendid, melting stuff." TheSouth Jersey's Courier-Post called the1994 release of Cathedral Classics, "anunmatched musical experience," andThe Oregonian stated simply, "peer-less." Earlier recordings by the Singersinclude: A Rose in Winter; ChristmasEchoes, Vols. 1 and 2; Carols forChristmas; Choral Currents; as well as13 others.

Soprano Alto

Beth AlthofWendiBuck

Marie Spar Dymit*Carole Hofstad

Deborah Loon OsgoodJennifer Rissman

Jodi RoweDawn Schuffenhauer

Naomi StaruchTeresa Tierney

Abbie BetinisGalina Erickson

Joanne Halvorsen*Melissa Holm-Johansen

Lynette JohnsonNatalia Kojanova

Mary C. Maiden MullerKrista J. Palmquist

Susan Ramlet

Tenor Bass

Joel C. Fischer*Jon HermansonEric N. Hopkins

Justin KarchNicholas Eugene Lemme

David LowerRobert Pontious

Hal SnyderAnthony Sofie

Duane E. AndersenMatthew Culloton *

Eric HarstadDave Jacobson

Patrick McDonoughMichael Meyer

Jack NelsonThomas ShafferSteve SheppardBrian L. Steele

* section leaders

dale warland, founder and music director

Dale Warland, celebrated American musician, has made an indelible impression onthe landscape of contemporary choral music both nationally and internationally.During his time with the Dale Warland Singers, he has shaped a vocal ensembleknown for its exquisite sound, technical finesse, and stylistic range. From this plat-form, Warland not only masters the traditional repertoire, but has commissionedover 250 new choral works.

Dale Warlandfounder and music director

The choral world has responded by bestowing its highest honors on Warland,including the prestigious ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors andPublishers) Victor Herbert Award (2003) in recognition of Warland's artistic contri-butions and a special award from Chorus America and ASCAP for Warland's "pio-neering vision, leadership and commitment to commissioning and performing newchoral works at the highest level of artistry" (2002). Other awards and recognitioninclude the 2001 Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal;the 2001 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetimeachievements as a choral conductor and his continued contribution to the arts inMinnesota; and the 1995 Michael Korn Founder's Award, the highest honor for achoral conductor in the United States, previously awarded to Robert Shaw,Margaret Hillis, and Roger Wagner, among others.

Warland's appearances as a guest conductor have taken him to the podiums of theSwedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, EstonianPhilharmonic Chamber Choir, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, the Utah Chamber Artists,the Grant Park Music Festival and Israel's Cameran Singers, to name a few.Warland has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works incollaboration with notable conductors and composers including Robert Shaw, Edode Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, James Conlon and KryzstofPenderecki.

Warland is committed to sharing his knowledge about the choral arts and hasserved on the faculty of the Eric Ericson Award (conducting competition inSweden); the All-Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan;has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; served on theartistic staff of the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain; acted as co-chair of both thechoral and recording panels of the National Endowment for the Arts; and complet-ed a 19-year tenure as Director of Choral Music at Macalester College in St. Paul,Minnesota.

Ruth Palmer began her association with the Dale Warland Singers in January 2003with the preparation of Messiaen's Trios Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine, acollaboration with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and as assistant conductorfor the DWS 30th Anniversary concert. She is currently Director of Music Ministriesat Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul MN, and music director and vocal coach/pianistof The Institute for Art Song Recital Performance.

Ruth Palmerassistant conductor Ruth has spent her concertizing career playing for singers on stages such as Alice

Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, The National Gallery of Art, The Beaux Arts Society ofBrussels, the Ordway McKnight Theatre and Orchestra Hall. She has been accom-panist for master classes by Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin, andDavid Garvey. She has performed world premieres of works by Gian-Carlo Menotti,Libby Larsen, and Richard Hundley. Ruth played national competitions for NATSArtist Award, Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition,Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and she was official accompanist for the RosaPonselle Vocal Competition in Tully Hall. As a vocal coach/pianist she has workedextensively with art song and opera, preparing singers for roles in major houses aswell as in universities.

Ruth has taught at Philadelphia College of the Arts, West Chester University,University of Delaware, University of Minnesota, and at the NATS Master TeachersIntern Program at Penn State University.

American Choral Directors Association of MinnesotaFriday, November 21, 2003, 8: 15 pm81. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi

I. THANKSGIVING

*An American Thanksgiving Carol Barnett(three hymns from The Sacred Harp)

[Manuscript]

Lynette Johnson, mezzo sopranoEric N. Hopkins, tenor

I. Webster

Come, we who Love the Lord,And let our joys be known:Join in a song with Sweet accordAnd thus surround the throne.

Please note: No cameras orrecording devices of anykind may be used duringperformances. Please turnoff any electronic beepingdevices (watches, pagers,etc.) or leave them with anusher prior to the perform-ance. Please hold yourapplause until each sectionis completed.

Let those refuse to singWho never knew our God;But servants of the heav'nly KingMay speak their joys abroad.

The God that rules on high,That all the earth surveys,That rides upon the stormy skyAnd calms the roaring sea.

-- Isaac Watts, 1707

II. McKay

o the transporting, rapturous sceneThat rises to my sight!Sweet fields arrayed in living green,And rivers of delight

There gen'rous fruits that never failOn trees immortal grown,There rocks and hills and brooks and valesWith milk and honey flow.

---Samuel Stennet, 1787

III. Ninety-Third Psalm

Grace! 'Tis a charming sound,Harmonious to the ear;Heav'n with the echo shall resound,And all the earth shall hear.

Grace first contrived the wayTo save rebellious man;And all the steps that grace display,Which drew the wondrous plan.

'These works have beencommissioned andpremiered by the DaleWarland Singers.

Grace taught my wand'ring feetTo tread the heav'nly road;And new supplies each hour I meet,While pressing on to God.

Grace all the work shall crownThrough everlasting days;It lays in heav'n the topmost stone,And well deserves our praise.

-- Philip Doddridge, 1755

·We Gather Together Dutch Melody(Stephen Paulus)

We Gather Together

[Paulus Publications SP423)

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;He chastens and hastens his will to make known;The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing:Sing praises to his name; He forgets not his own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;So from the beginning the fight we were winning thou, Lord,was at our side: all glory be thine!

We all do extol thee thou leader triumphant,And pray that thou still our defender will be.Let thy congregation escape tribulation:Thy Name be ever praised! 0 Lord, make us free!

n. CHRISTMAS

Quatre motets pour Ie temps de NoeL Francis Poulenc

[Editions Salabert)

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel

1. a magnum mysterium

o great mystery, and wondroussacrament, that animals should see thenewborn Lord, lying in their manger!Blessed is the Virgin whose womb wasworthy to bear the Lord Jesus Christ.

II. Quem vidistis pastores dicite

Shepherds, whom did you see?Speak, tell us, who has appeared on theearth?We saw a new-born child, and choirs onangels giving praise to God.Tell what you have seen, and announceChrist's nativity.

III. Videntes stellam

At the sight of the Star, the Magirejoiced greatly.Entering the house, they offered theSavior gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

IV Hodie Christus natus est

Born today is Christ, born for us.Comes today, lo! to us the Savior comes.Songs today angels sing, sing to men onearth, and their praiseArchangels bring.Loud today the just men cry out,exulting:Glory be, glory to God on high, alleluia!

m. THE CATHEDRAL

Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre[Walton HL08501418j

Lux Aurumque

Teresa Tierney, soprano

Lux,calida gravis que pura velut aurumet canunt angeli mollitermodo natum.

Light,warm and heavy as pure goldand the angels sing softlyto the newborn baby.

Otche Nash Nicolai Golovanov[Musica Russica MRSM Vl-79J

OtcheNash

Otche nash, izhe yesi na nebeseh,Da sviatitsia imia Tvoye,Da priidet Tsarstviye Yvoye,Da budet volia Tvoya, yako na

nebesi i na zemli.

Hleb nash nasushchniy dazhd namdnes,

i ostavi nam dolgi nasha,yakozhe I mi ostavliayemdolzhnikom nashim;I ne vvedi nas vo iskusheniye,no izbavi nas, ot lukavago.

Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be Thy name.Thy Kingdom come.Thy will be done, on earth as it is inheaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,and forgive us our debts,as we forgive our debtors;and lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from the Evil One.

-- from the Divine Liturgy

rv AMERICAN HERITAGE

*Cindy American(Carol Barnett)

[Colla Voce PDW 1000]

Ruth Palmer, piano

Peace (from Shaker Songs) Shaker(Kevin Siegfried)

[earthsongs I

*By and By Spiritual(Carol Barnett)

[Colla Voce PDW 1008J

Lynette Johnson, sopranoJoel C. Fischer, tenor

Brian Steele, bass

PLEASE CONSIDER INCLUDING DWS IN YOURCHARITABLE GIVING THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!

Your support of the Dale Warland Singers is more important than ever during this final concert season ..-Iere's how you can help.

D SUPPORT THE FINAL CONCERT SEASON $. _(indicate how much you'd like to allocate to this project)

-- Five Concert Programs performed a total of 12 times in Minnesota

-- 15 Commissions from 10 established and emerging American composers

-- Flawless performances of choral masterworks and new works

D SPONSOR A DWS RECORDING $, _(indicate how much you'd like to allocate to this project)

CDs will be released and internationally distributed by Gothic Records (www.gothicrecords.com) in the next twoyears. All gifts of $500 or more will be recognized in the jewe1case booklet.

American Classics (working title) (Barber, Ross Lee Finney, Irving Fine, Charles Ives)

Cathedral Classics II (working title) (Biebl, Howells, Hanson, Lauridsen, Whitacre, Schnittke)

The Road Home (American folk and hymn tunes)

D PRESERVE THE MUSIC LIBRARY $, _(indicate how much you'd like to allocate to this project)

The 1,600 title DWS music library is a valuable resource for the entire choral field. We are working to find apermanent home for this collection at a major University. Your gift will help preserve and make accessible anextraordinary collection of American choral music, including the original manuscripts for 260 DWS commissions.

D FUND THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS' FINAL CONCERT $, _(indicate how much you'd like to allocate to this project)

The Dale Warland Signers final concert and celebratory party are being held to honor the Singers and Dale.Your contribution will help defray the expense of these events .

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Rachmaninoff Vespers - NEW RELEASE! - 2003

Don't miss this stunning new LIVE RECORDING of the compositionknown as "the crowning achievement of the 'Golden Age' of RussianOrthodox sacred choral music." Get your copy today!

Walden Pond - NEW RELEASE! - 2003

Three major works by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, DominickArgento, comprise our latest recording, Walden Pond, released byGothic Records. Order your copy today!

Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers - 2002

With this recording, the Dale Warland Singers respond to hundreds ofrequests for a new Christmas album. It includes familiar Christmastunes in new arrangements, brand new carols and old favorites.

Bernstein and Britten - 1999

This recording features Bernstein's provocative Chichester Psalmsand Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb plus Stephen Paulus' famous Pilgrim'sHymn and other contemporary works by Rautavaara, Wertsch, Harlap,Albright, and Hovland.

Blue Wheat - 1996

This delightful collection contains a number of American folk songswith an expressive range from joyous whimsy to placid profundity.Blue Wheat continues to be one of DWS' best sellers.

December Stillness - 1995

Lush, twentieth-century settings of Christmas/winter inspired texts.

Cathedral Classics - 1994

The ethereal sounds of Martin, Howells, and Allegri, including Barber'sAgnusDei.

Fancie - 1994

Music by Brahms, Britten, Vaughan Williams, plus light selections fromthe Warland Cabaret Singers and more (available only on cassette).

A Rose in Winter - 1989 (Re-released 1997)

An intriguing blend of time-honored Christmas/winter works andengaging modern offerings.

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1 & 2 - 1992 (Re-released 2001)

These CDs contain a magical and refreshing collection of well-knownand less-familiar Christmas carols.

Carols for Christmas - 1987

A unique collection of arrangements of traditional Christmas carols byMinnesota composer Stephen Paulus.

These recordings are available during intermission andafter the concert in the lobby.

You may also contact the Dale Warland Singers offices at 651.632.5870 orcomplete and mail/fax an online order form from our website:

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board of directors

OfficersDaniel J. Schmechel, presidentJacqueline Reis, vice president

James W. Peter, treasurerDavid L. Cooper, secretary

Michael E. Reeslund, of councilArlene Williams, emeritus board chair

DirectorsMichael Brand

Donald M. DaviesSusan S. Fauver

Ann FleischauerGlenn J. Karwoski

Robin KeyworthLynn Pahl

M. Walker PearceJacqueline Reis

Stanley RomansteinThomas J. Rosen

Nancy Reitz RotenberryGloria SewellGinger Sisco

James K. SmartVern Sutton

Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director*Gayle Ober, Executive Director*

Deborah Loon Osgood, Singer Representative*

Emeritus BoardMargie Ankeny*

Arland D. Brusven*Jerry Fischer*

Thelma Hunter*Terry Knowles *

Mike McCarthy*Nancy Slaughter*

Mary Steinke*

*denotes ex officio

administrative staff

Gayle Ober, executive directorTina Meckel, development directorGretchen Westergard, marketing and

communications directorElary Allen, office managerBeth Pickering, business managerHelen Franczyk, marketing and pr consultantRuth Anderson, office volunteerDick Geyerman, office volunteerJackie Steele, concert volunteer coordinator

artistic staffDale Warland, founder and music directorDebra Harrer, general managerRuth Palmer, assistant conductorMatthew Culloton, librarian and music advisorJohn Muehleisen, composer-in-residenceJoanne Halvorsen, wardrobe coordinatorBrian Newhouse, program annotatorCheryl Friedrichs, house managerJared Anderson, stage managerDan Ober, assistant stage manager

Tom Crann, pre-concert moderator

Minnesota Public Radio is the official broadcastpartner of the Dale Warland Singers.

special thanksMary Kay GestonJanice Gilbertson

mission statementThe mission of the Dale Warland Singers is to enrich, inspire and entertain its audiences through the

superb, world-class performance of important a cappella choral music, while fostering awareness,understanding and appreciation of recent choral music repertoire.

Thank you for helping us accomplish this! If you have any questions or commentsabout tonight's program, please let us know:

Dale Warland Singers2300 Myrtle Avenue, Suite 120

St. Paul, MN 55114651.632.5870, phone

651.632.5873, faxwww.dalewarlandsingers.org