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Season Sustaining Underwriter

November 2, 2019, 8pmAISD Performing Arts Center

November 3, 2019, 7:30pmSt. Luke’s United Methodist Church

Craig Hella Johnson Artistic Director & ConductorLos Angeles Guitar Quartet

Texas Guitar QuartetAustin Guitar Quartet

Doug Harvey Cello

Formerly South Texas Money Management

SAN ANTONIO | AUSTIN | HOUSTON | DALLAS

CORPUS CHRISTI | BRENHAM

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P R O G R A M C O M P O S E R N O T E SDear Friends,

Welcome to this very special evening of music for voices and guitars! Although it is true to a certain extent throughout the world, it goes without saying that in Texas, the guitar holds a place of great prominence—perhaps we could say it is our state instrument. The guitar is at the heart of so much of the expression of who we are. It feels extraordinarily special that the two central works on tonight’s program were birthed here

in Texas: Conspirare premiered Nico Muhly’s How Little You Are in 2014 and tonight we will premiere a work we commissioned: Kile Smith’s The Dawn’s Early Light. And tonight is also the premiere of a new instrumentation of Reena Esmail’s piece, When the Guitar. You will also here Reena Esmail’s “To the Guitar,” in a new instrumentation created for this performance.

Poets and songwriters have long written about the guitar’s distinctive, plaintive emotive qualities. Some of you remember Cary Ratcliff’s setting of Neruda’s “Ode to the Guitar”, part of Ode to Common Things that Conspirare recorded in 2014 (and which our Symphonic Choir performed the Austin Symphony Orchestra performed two years prior).

We are honored and delighted to collaborate with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Texas Guitar Quartet and the newly formed Austin Guitar Quartet. Within these works, the guitars play across a broad spectrum of musical style and technique and are woven throughout the program in extraordinary ways, both musically and symbolically.

A world premiere is always an exciting moment. We are delighted to welcome back Canticle composer Kile Smith. His music is compelling on many levels; his compositional voice and musical contributions are significant and deeply impactful. Sarah Winnemucca’s text addresses the significant divisions in our human family. You, our cherished listeners, become the midwives of the new work and listeners are partners in launching this new Austin-born work into the world.

It is our ongoing intention that tonight’s program, and our offerings throughout the season and in coming years, engage women’s voices which have been silenced and under-represented. It is a major Conspirare priority to commission, perform and champion music that contributes to the forward movement of equality and justice for all.

We are so grateful for your presence and engagement with us tonight. I look forward to experiencing this wonder-filled music and to sharing music with you throughout the season.

Warmly,

ChoraleChorale was originally commissioned by the New York City Classical Guitar Society for the New York City Guitar Orchestra in 2012. It was re-imagined for guitar quartet in this new version for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Based on a simple theme of three notes ascending in whole steps, Chorale is inspired by the Renaissance and Baroque choral music that I listened to in my youth. Although I’ve integrated some of my favorite jazz harmonies and rhythms into the fabric of the music, I feel that, at its core, it very much has an “early music” sensibility. – Frederic Hand www.frederichand.com

For the GuitarThis piece is about that first moment of trust, of softening. About the most inward moments of the human experience, of realizing that ‘breakthroughs’ often don’t have the hard edge, the burst of energy that the word implies, but that they can be about finding tender, warm, deeply resonant spaces within ourselves as well. When the guitar can forgive the past, it starts singing. – Reena Esmail www.reenaesmail.com

The Dawn’s Early Light Of all the national anthems, “The Star Spangled Banner” is the only one that’s a question. Is the flag still there? The flag we saw yesterday, before night and bombs fell on this land of the free and the brave, is it still there?

I pondered this while reading Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. Her 1883 autobiography is the first book by a Native American woman. Sarah was born Thocmetony (“shell-flower”) Winnemucca around 1844 in what is now Nevada. Through lectures and writings she became a tireless advocate for her continually oppressed people.

Good and bad interactions between Paiutes and whites fill her memoir. Surprising to me was her learning “The Star-Spangled Banner” from her grandfather, the tribal chief. He had welcomed the newcomers enthusiastically, and had worked with the U.S. Army. He believed that light-skinned and dark-skinned peoples, separated at the Creation, were now being reunited in one family.

When Sarah finally heard white people sing this anthem, though, it was different from the song she had learned. And so I wondered what a “Star-Spangled Banner”—untethered to memory, feeling its way through pride, atrocity, and respect for an ideal—might sound like. I imagined a wonder at our now well-known words in this early light, with their questions and fear. Does the flag still fly? Are the people still free and brave? But the wonder is Sarah’s, who will see herself—and everyone—as beautiful. She wants everyone to be happy with her. – Kile Smith kilesmith.com (see bio page 19)

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How Little You AreHow Little You Are is an extended meditation on the words of pioneer women in the 19th century. Organized in five large sections, it is scored for chorus and three guitar quartets. The text for the first movement has a typical combination of an intense reverence for nature combined with the practical realities of living on a frontier; the chorus functions, here, in a declamatory fashion, and there are extended sections for guitars alone. The music pauses and repeats the text, “We could see the silvery gold of the willows, the russet and bronze of the currants, and patches of cheerful green showed where the pines were.” The movement ends simply, with the voices of two women.

The second movement describes the everyday horrors of losing a child. Musically, the piece is an extended rhythmic process, spinning and turning around a single repeated text fragment: “do you remember?” This movement is dedicated to the composer David Lang, whose music is particularly adept at describing the abstractions of grief, and whose music was an explicit influence on me here. Under the text describing the construction of a little boy’s coffin, we begin to hear dry, anxious guitar chords, which reappear later in the work.

The third movement describes a moonlit night with a strange ghostly animal presence. The writer describes a “weird beauty,” and here, the strange chorus-like effect of many guitars playing the same pitch tremolando evokes this sentiment. After an extended instrumental introduction, the key shifts, and the chorus enters, singing the text simply. Over this, some of the women and men start imitating distant howls: alluring and sad. Between the third and fourth movements is an interlude — a brief expression of fast music, rare in this piece. Over a latticework of guitar harmonics and quickly-shifting rhythms, the choir sings about the beauty of springtime on the prairies. The obsessive nature of the guitar music is stolen from composer John Adams, to whom this movement is dedicated. While the main body of the piece is sunny and hopeful, the ending has a sudden reversal: “I was quite happy in my home with my husband and child, but suddenly doomed to be the reverse.”

Part four was the first piece of text I knew I wanted to set for this project. The line “But when you get among such grandeur you get to feel how little you are, how foolish is human endeavour, except that which unites us with the almighty force called God.” seems to sum up much of the pioneer movement and the poetry to be found in these extreme and sometimes inconceivably hard journeys. The beginning of this movement is austere: the members of one guitar quartet playing severely oblique polyrhythms, creating an effect of inscrutable distance, difficulty, and rhythmic uncertainty. Suddenly, a solo soprano begins singing, and the severity lightens into a reverential mode.

Part five begins with some remembered music from the first movement, and as this settles, a solo alto begins telling a story — a nocturne — about hearing a cowboy singing songs in the distance. A single guitar begins playing in an explicitly folk style, and the remaining eleven instruments fight him harmonically, and then give way. This guitar outlines a simple harmonic cycle of thirteen chords, and then the chorus enters, first wordlessly, and then with further narration. We hear a distant fragment of “O bury me not on the lone prairie,” and after a short silence, another guitar enters with a 12-bar cycle, and we hear a fragment of ‘I’m thinking of my dear old mother, ten thousand miles away.’ These two traditional songs then dissolve into a wash of songs delivered in infinite individual tempi. A thousand tiny percussive insects appear, staccato and arid, and the chorus sings wordlessly. The guitars dissolve and fade.

I would like to thank Tyne Rafaeli for her help in culling this text. – Nico Muhly nicomuhly.com

Nico Muhly (b.1981) is an American composer whose influences range from American minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition. The recipient of commissions from The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tallis Scholars and St. John’s College, Cambridge and others, he has written more than 100 works for the concert stage, including the opera Marnie (2017), which premiered at the English National Opera and was staged by the Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2018. Muhly is a frequent collaborator with choreographer Benjamin Millepied and, as an arranger, has paired with Sufjan Stevens, Antony and the Johnsons and others. His work for stage and screen include music for the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie and scores for films including the Academy Award-winning The Reader. Born in Vermont, Muhly studied composition at the Juilliard School before working as an editor and conductor for Philip Glass. He is part of the artist-run record label Bedroom Community, which released his first two albums, Speaks Volumes (2006) and Mothertongue (2008). He lives in New York City.

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The Song That I Came to SingThe song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart. The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house’.I live in the hope of meeting; but this meeting is not yet. – Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Listening’Tis you that are the music, not your song. The song is but a door which, opening wide, Lets forth the pent-up melody inside,Your spirit’s harmony, which clear and strongSing but of you. Throughout your whole life long Your songs, your thoughts, your doings, each divide This perfect beauty; waves within a tide,Or single notes amid a glorious throng. The song of earth has many different chords;Ocean has many moods and many tones Yet always ocean. In the damp Spring woodsThe painted trillium smiles, while crisp pine cones Autumn alone can ripen. So is this One music with a thousand cadences. – Amy Lowell

These concerts are dedicated to Sheila Youngblood with our deepest gratitude for the countless ways she has inspired our work.

OPENINGThe Song That I Came to Sing Craig Hella Johnson (b. 1962)Poem: Listening Amy Lowell (1874-1925)Poem: The Guitar Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)Chorale Frederic Hand (b. 1947)Poem: The Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)The Long Day Closes Daniel Elder (b. 1986)When the Guitar Reena Esmail (b. 1983)The Dawn’s Early Light (2019) Kile Smith (b. 1956) 1. I, Sarah Winnemucca 2. My grandfather jumped up 3. While they were fishing 4. The Paiutes are not fond of going to war 5. The Star-Spangled Banner 6. I Shall Be Beautiful World Premiere

Intermission

How Little You Are (2015) Nico Muhly (b. 1981) Part One Part Two Part Three Interlude Part Four Estelí Gomez, soprano Part Five

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I brood not over the broken past,Nor dread whatever time may bring;No nights are dark, no days are long,While in my heart there swells a song, And I can sing. – James Weldon Johnson

The Long Day ClosesNo star is o’er the lake, Its pale watch keeping,The moon is half awake, Through gray mist creeping,The last red leaves fall round the porch of roses,The clock hath ceased to sound. The long day closes.

Sit by the silent hearth in calm endeavor,To count the sounds of mirth, now dumb forever.Heed not how hope believes and fate disposes:Shadow is round the eaves. The long day closes.

The lighted windows dim are fading slowly.The fire that was so trim now quivers lowly.Go to the dreamless bed where grief reposes;Thy book of toil is read. The long day closes. – Henry Chorley (1808-1872)

The GuitarThe weeping of the guitarbegins.The goblets of dawnare smashed.The weeping of the guitarbegins.Uselessto silence it.Impossibleto silence it.It weeps monotonouslyas water weepsas the wind weepsover snowfields.Impossibleto silence it.It weeps for distantthings.Hot southern sandsyearning for white camellias.Weeps arrow without targetevening without morningand the first dead birdon the branch.Oh, guitar!Heart mortally woundedby five swords. – Federico García Lorca

Chorale

The Gift to SingSometimes the mist overhangs my path,And blackening clouds about me cling;But, oh, I have a magic wayTo turn the gloom to cheerful day— I softly sing.And if the way grows darker still,Shadowed by Sorrow’s somber wing,With glad defiance in my throat,I pierce the darkness with a note, And sing, and sing.

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When the Guitar When

The guitarCan forgive the past

It starts singing.When the guitar can stop worrying

About the futureYou will become

Such a drunk laughing nuisanceThat God

Will then lean downAnd start combing you into

HisHair.

When the guitar can forgiveEvery wound caused by

OthersThe heart starts

Singing. – Hafiz, rendered Daniel Ladi

The Dawn’s Early LightTexts: Life Among the Piutes (1883), Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (c.1844–1891) and “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814), Francis Scott Key (1779–1843)

1. I, Sarah WinnemuccaI, Sarah Winnemucca, am a shell-flower, such as I wear on my dress.

2. My grandfather jumped upThe first white people came into our country like a lion, like a roaring lion. They were more like owls than anything else. They had hair on their faces, and had white eyes, and looked beautiful.

My grandfather jumped up and clasped his hands together. “My white brothers have come at last! I want to welcome them. As I love all of you, I want to love them.” My grandfather was chief of the Paiute nation.

The people promised. How good of him to try and heal the wound.

3. While they were fishingMy father and grandfather and uncles and many more went down on the Humboldt River. And while they were fishing, their white brothers came

upon them and fired on them, and killed one of my uncles, and wounded another. Nine more were wounded. Five died. After all these things, my grandfather still stood up for his white brothers.

My people did not seek to kill them, nor steal their horses. During the winter my people helped them.

My grandfather met Captain Fremont, and they were soon friends. He would sing some of the soldiers’ roll-calls, and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Captain Fremont gave my grandfather the name of Captain Truckee. Truckee is an Indian word. It means “very well.”

When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do. With the help of Him who notes the sparrow’s fall, I mean to fight for my race while life lasts.

4. The Paiutes are not fond of going to warMajor Ormsbey said to my brother, “Will you help us get the Washoe chief to give up the men who killed the two white men?” My brother s aid they would. So that evening my people had what they call a war-dance. I never saw a war-dance before. The Paiutes are not fond of going to war. When it was over, the Major called his men and said, “We will sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’” That was the first time I had heard it sung by white people. It was not like the way my grandfather used to sing it.

5. The Star-Spangled BannerO say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fightO’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,O say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

6. I shall be beautifulI, Sarah Winnemucca, am a shell-flower, such as I wear on my dress. Who will come and dance with me while I am so beautiful? Oh, come and be happy with me! I shall be beautiful while the earth lasts.

INTERMISSION

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How Little You Are

Part OneThe sun was just gilding the hilltops when we arose. Everything, even the barrenness, was beautiful. We have had frosts, and the quaking aspens were a trembling field of gold as far up the stream as we could see. We were ‘way up above them and could look far across the valley. We could see the silvery gold of the willows, the russet and bronze of the currants, and patches of cheerful green showed where the pines were. A background of sober gray-green hills relieved the splendor, but even on them gay streaks and patches of yellow showed where rabbit-brush grew. We washed our faces at the spring,—the grasses that grew around the edge and dipped into the water were loaded with ice,—our rabbit was done to a turn, so I made some delicious coffee, Jerrine got herself a can of water, and we breakfasted.

Part TwoDo you remember I wrote you of a little boy dying? That was my own little Jamie, our first little son. For a long time, my heart was crushed. He was such a sweet, beautiful boy. I wanted him so much. I held him in my arms until the last agony was over. Clyde is a carpenter; so I wanted him to make the little coffin. He did it every bit, and I lined it, padded it, trimmed it, and covered it. … It was a sad pleasure to do everything for our little first-born ourselves.

Part ThreeI can never describe to you the weird beauty of a moonlit night among the pines. When the snow is sparkling and gleaming, the deep silence unbroken by the snapping of a twig. We were about to go back to bed when we heard faintly a long-drawn wail as if all the suffering and sorrow on earth were bound up in that one sound. We couldn’t tell where it came from; it seemed to vibrate through the air. …We went in, made up the fire, and sat in silence. Once or twice, that agonized cry came shivering through the cold moonlight.

InterludeIt was springtime, nature smiled. The beautiful prairie flowers put up their heads beneath leaves of green. The Jessamine covered the lattice. The atmosphere convinced me of the future resurrection of the body after death. All was sublime. I was quite happy in my home with my husband and child, but suddenly doomed to be the reverse. – Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Part FourWe had plenty of time to be still and know God. He was our nearest neighbor. Although the neighbor’s places were beginning to show up in the shimmering mirage of distance, as their trees began to tower above the new homes, we felt the absence of home folk. But when you get among such grandeur you get to feel how little you are, how foolish is human endeavour, except that which unites us with the almighty force called God. – Mary Alma Blankenship

Part FiveI dozed off to sleep, but I couldn’t stay asleep. I don’t think I was afraid, but I certainly was nervous. All nature seemed to be mourning something, happened or going to happen. Half a mile away the night herders were riding round the round the herd. One of them was singing— faint but distinct came his song: ‘O bury me not on the lone prairie.’—over and over he sang it. After a short silence he began again. This time it was, ‘I’m thinking of my dear old mother, ten thousand miles away.’ – Elinore Pruitt Stewart

1. O bury me not on the lone prairie, These words came low and mournfully From the pallid lips of a youth who lay On his dying bed at the close of day.

2. O bury me not on the lone prairie Where the wile coyotes will howl o’er me, In a narrow grave just six by three,O bury me not on the lone prairie.

3. It matters not, I’ve oft been told,Where the body lies when the heart grows cold; Yes grant, O grant this wish to me,O bury me not on the lone prairie.

4. Let my death slumber be where my mother’s prayer And a sister’s tear will mingle there, Where my friends can come and weep o’er me; O bury me not on the lone prairie.

5. O we buried him there on the lone prairie Where the wild rose blooms and the wind blows free, O his pale young face nevermore to see, For we buried him there on the lone prairie. – Cowboy Folk song

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Soprano

Anna Christofaro Mela Dailey Estelí Gomez+ Chelsea Helm (Minneapolis, MN) (Austin, TX) (Appleton, WI) (New York, NY)

Julie Keim Gitanjali Mathur Kathlene Ritch*+ Shari Alise Wilson (Washington, DC) (Austin, TX) (Santa Fe, NM) (Austin, TX)

Alto

Ana Baida Sarah Brauer Janet Carlsen Lauren McAllister +^ (Atlanta, GA) (Portland, OR) Campbell (Cincinnati, OH) (Omaha, NE)

Laura Keely Rhodes Mercado-Wright * (Aiken, SC) (Austin, TX)

Tenor

JD Burnett Dann Coakwell*^ Carr Hornbuckle+ Jos Milton (Athens, GA) (Ithaca, NY) (San Antonio, TX) (Oxford, MS)

Wilson Nichols+ Steven Soph+ (New York, NY) (Philadephia, PA)

Bass

Simon Barrad+ Robert Harlan Harris Ipock* Enrico Lagasca (San Francisco, CA) (Austin, TX) (Granville, OH) (Queens, NY)

Tim O’Brien John Proft (Austin, TX) (Austin, TX)

*denotes Section Leader+How Little You Are soloist^When The Guitar soloist

Texas Guitar Quartet Isaac BustosJay KacherskiAlejandro MontielJoseph Palmer

InstrumentalistsLos Angeles Guitar Quartet John Dearman Matt Greif Bill Kanengiser Scott Tennant

Austin Guitar Quartet Tom Clippinger Janet GrohovacChad IbisonStephen Krishnan

Faith DeBow Rehearsal Pianist (San Marcos, TX )

Douglas Harvey Cello (Austin, TX )

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The Grammy Award-winning LAGQ is one of the most multifaceted groups in any genre. The LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musicians bringing a new energy to the concert stage with programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach.

They consistently play to sold-out houses world-wide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground. Programs including Latin, African, Far East, Irish, Folk and American Classics transport listeners around the world in a single concert experience. Their ‘Don Quixote’ collaboration with Firesign Theater veteran, actor Philip Proctor, continues to expand and delight audiences and the Shingo Fujii’s ‘SHIKI: Seasons of Japan’ and Andrew York’s ‘By Chants’ written for the LAGQ plus guitar orchestra are connecting communities across the nation.

Winner of a 2005 Grammy Award, their “Guitar Heroes” CD released on Telarc is a brilliant follow-up to their Grammy nominated “LAGQ-Latin”. “Spin” (Telarc, 2006) continues their explorations of jazz and contemporary music. “LAGQ: BRAZIL” (Telarc, 2007), including collaborations with vocalist Luciana Souza, was released to rave reviews, and their newest recording of the Rodrigo “Concierto Andaluz” and Sergio Assad’s “Interchange”, written specifically for them, was released on Telarc in Spring 2010, and quickly climbed to top spot on the Billboard charts. The live DVD of “The Ingenious Gentleman: Don Quixote” was released on the Mel Bay label in spring 2012. In 2015, the LAGQ released “New Renaissance,” a unique blend of renaissance originals and renaissance-inspired modern compositions by Dusan Bogdanovic and Ian Krouse. “Shards of Light” their newest release will be available later this season.

lagq.com

Formed in 2009, the Texas Guitar Quartet has been hailed as “Impeccable in every respect” by Classical Guitar Magazine. Throughout the United States, Central America, Spain, and China, audiences have embraced the quartet for their daring programs, dazzling virtuosity and joyful music making.

Recent highlights include performances for the Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra 2016 (Nicaragua), Victoria Bach Festival, Guitar Foundation of America Convention, Festival Internacional del Noreste (Mexico), and Texas Music Festival. During the summer of 2015, the quartet presented a series of concerts in historic cathedrals along the Camino de Santiago, Spain.

The TxGQ premiered a landmark new work by lauded American composer Nico Muhly in collaboration with Grammy-winning chamber choir Conspirare, Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and the Dublin Guitar Quartet. The group continues to push the boundaries of the guitar quartet medium by premiering new works by Joseph Williams II, Peter Lieuwen, Mark Anthony Cruz, Benoit Albert, and John Truitt, and by creating daring arrangements of orchestral works by Mozart, Beethoven and Ravel.

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K I L E S M I T H , C O M P O S E RA U S T I N G U I T A R Q U A R T E TThe Austin Guitar Quartet is made up of Dr. Chad Ibison, Dr. Janet Grohovac, Stephen Krishnan, and Tom Clippinger.

A versatile group, their repertoire consists of modern standards by Stepan Rak and Sergio Assad, timeless classics by Bach and De Falla, and new commissions by Sebastian Zel, Matthew Lyons, and Zach Gulaboff Davis. With its four unique and

accomplished musicians, the Austin Guitar Quartet Delivers captivating performances of quartet masterworks across styles and centuries.

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Kile Smith, composer of “The Dawn’s Early Light” has gained national and international acclaim with commissions from The Crossing, Piffaro, Helena Symphony, Lyric Fest, Westminster Choir College, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Gaudete Brass, The Arcadian Trio, Red Shift, Khorikos, and Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, whose recording of their commission Canticle was released in 2018. His music has also been performed by Conspirare, Seraphic Fire, The 24, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Delaware Symphony, Orchestra 2001, Network for New Music, and Gaudete Brass, among many others.

Kile’s work has been called “like no other music” by the Miami Herald, “ecstatically beautiful” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, and “eerily beautiful” by Boston Classical Review. He has been composer in residence for Lyric Fest, the Helena Symphony, the Jupiter Symphony, and the Church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia. Kile has received grants from the Philadelphia Music Project, Meet The Composer, the Argosy Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Independence Foundation, which is supporting the composition of his first opera, The Book of Job. He has hosted Fleisher Discoveries on radio and podcast since 2002, and is a contributor to the arts and culture magazine Broad Street Review. Five Kile Smith CDs were released in 2018/19, including In This Blue Room by Lyric Fest, and The Arc in the Sky by The Crossing. kilesmith.com

P E R F O R M I N G N O T E Conspirare has the privilege of performing in a variety of beautiful venues that best enhance choral performances. While our performing venues and the text of some of our repertoire may be representative of specific traditions, it is in no way intended to exclude any individual whose experience or set of beliefs is not represented. Conspirare respects and celebrates the great diversity of religious, artistic and human experiences represented among our singers and audience members. The audience creates the space in which the music is held.

S T E P H E N P R U I T T , I M A G E S C U R A T O R Stephen Pruitt is a photographer, visual artist, and scenic and lighting designer based in Austin, TX. He is the resident designer for Forklift Danceworks, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance, and Tapestry Dance Company, a company member with Austin’s Rude Mechs, and artistic director of Catastrophe Theory Arts.

He’s been a photographer since being handed his first film camera more than thirty years ago, and has

been making images ever since in nearly every film format as well as digital, often in remote and difficult to reach places. Prints of Stephen’s work have been show in solo shows and exhibitions across the country and can next be seen as part of the East Austin Studio Tour, at his studio in Prizer Gallery.

As a designer, Stephen has been creating sets, lights and all aspects of productions for some Austin’s most iconic dance and theater companies for over twenty years. He has been nominated for and won multiple awards, and been named Austin’s outstanding lighting designer three times by the Austin Critics Table. Stephen has designed shows for Conspirare several times and is happy be working with them again. His work, can be seen at fluxiondesigns.com

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Craig Hella Johnson is the Founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Conspirare and Music Director of Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble. Known for crafting thought-provoking musical journeys that create deep connections between performers and listeners, Johnson is in frequent demand as a guest conductor of choral and orchestral works

Johnson joined the faculty at Texas State as Artist in Residence in fall 2016. He is a published composer and arranger, guest conductor and educator. Johnson’s first concert-length composition Considering Matthew Shepard was premiered and recorded by Conspirare for a 2016 CD release. Johnson’s accomplishments have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. Notably among them, he and Conspirare won a 2014 Grammy® for Best Choral Performance, Chorus America awarded him the Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art in 2015, and the Texas State Legislature named him Texas State Musician for 2013.

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Conspirare is a professional choral organization under the leadership of Craig Hella Johnson. Inspired by the power of music to change lives, this ensemble engages singers from around the world who join voices to deliver world-class, extraordinary live musical experiences and recordings.

Their discography includes 13 commercial albums and 19 self-produced live albums. Johnson and Conspirare were awarded a 2014 Grammy® for Best Choral Performance for The Sacred Spirit of Russia album and have been nominated seven other times. Conspirare’s most recent recording, The Hope of Loving, features works of Jake Runestad and was released in August 2019. Conspirare was awarded the Texas Medal of Arts in 2019. Based in Austin, Texas, they perform an annual concert series and tour in the United States and abroad. Conspirare has performed throughout the U.S., including appearances as a featured choir at the American Choral Directors Association annual conference and regional ACDA conventions. At home, Conspirare performs a full annual season in Austin and Central Texas where it has received ongoing recognition from local organizations and critics. Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson was named Texas State Musician. The group is also committed to an ongoing outreach program which includes free community Big Sings and performances at Travis County Correctional Facility. In 2013, Conspirare became a Resident Company of Austin’s Long Center for the Performing Arts. Conspirare is a growing organization, and while known for the flagship vocal ensemble, the organization also boasts the Conspirare Symphonic Choir (a large auditioned ensemble that performs works for chorus, often with instrumental ensemble), the Conspirare Chamber Orchestra, and Conspirare Youth Choirs, an educational program made up of three choirs (Prelude, Kantorei, and Allegro) under the direction of Nina Revering.

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This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

B O A R D A N D S T A F F

Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Bloomberg Philanthropies Eva & Marvin Womack Foundation James K. Ferguson Foundation

Kodosky Foundation Rachael & Ben Vaughan FoundationRed Bird Foundation Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts

Still Water Foundation

Outreach Partners

In-Kind Sponsors

Media Sponsor

Season Sustaining Underwriter

Sustainers & Major Donors

Foundation Supporters

Hella Circle Hospitality Sponsor

Restaurant Partners

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LEGACY OF SOUND

Board of Directors Nancy Lesch, Chair Robert Harlan, Vice Chair Tricia Yost, Treasurer William C. Bednar, Secretary Ken Beck Mark W. BiernerMarvin J. Brittman Mary Anne Connolly Susanna Finnell Sandy FivecoatMarcus Cruz Sanchez Joni Wallace

Advisory Board Stephen Aechternacht John Aielli Sue Barnes Mark Bierner Ray Brimble David Claflin Tom Driskoll Virginia Dupuy Maydelle Fason JoLynn Free Billy Gammon Vance George Helen Hays Dan Herd William B. Hilgers Wayne Holtzman Judith Jellison Bob Murphy Lynn Murphy Cliff Redd Gayle Glass Roche Nancy Scanlan Angela Smith Bernadette Tasher Louann Temple Eva Womack Midge Woolsey

Artistic & Administrative StaffCraig Hella Johnson Artistic Director

Ann McNair Managing Director

Penny BrandtGrants Manager

Scott Dinger Development Manager

Rick GabrilloAssociate Conductor

Robert Harlan Technical Director & Stage Manager

Sam Henderson Conspirare Concierge

Ben R. King Production Assistant

Meri Krueger Artist Relations

Karen Langley Director of Development

Jaime Leighton Production Administrator

Kathy Leighton House Manager

Jane Ramirez Business Manager

Nina Revering Conspirare Youth Choirs Director

Christy StrangeMarketing Manager

Kendall Walshak Production Assistant

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Kathleen Kinney*+Angie & Steve Larned*+Kathy & Henry Leighton*Joyce MayerJanet McCullar*+Becky & Ted Mercado*+The Cynthia and George Mitchell FoundationSuzanne Mitchell & Richard Zansitis*+ Judy MorrisMargaret Murray-Miller & Carl Caricari*+Judy & Douglas RhodesLinda & Nick van Bavel*Julia & Patrick Willis*+

$2,499-$1,000Anonymous (2)Anonymous+Anonymous*+Anonymous*+#James Arth*+Joy AuthurWayne Baker*Ginger & Michael Blair*+# Vera Bowen+Cynthia BrinsonLeslie Brown+Greg Bryant*+Denise & Timothy Burke+Sarah & Ernest ButlerRichard Campbell*Annette Carlozzi & Dan BullockChristine & J. Dennis Cavner+Alice & Gary ChildressFleur ChristensenJanice & Rowland Curry*Margaret & Marc Curtis*+Susan DuncanGregory Cash Durham & Bob Gutermuth*Kerry EdwardsSylvia FatzerSusan Feagin & Rip Wilson+Susan Nash FeketyAnn B. Fields+Khris Ford+Susan & John FoxJolynn & Gregory Free*+Mary Nell Frucella*+Evelyn & Rick GabrilloDee Garcia+Mary Gifford*Kim & Steve GilbertGlenda Goehrs*+Helen & Bob Hays*+Margaret HendersonGeorge Henry

Your Generosity Brings Our Song to Life. 2019/20 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN DONORS—Conspirare donors support the annual budget of the organization with a yearly gift.

We are deeply grateful to every individual, foundation, business, and government agency for your investments in Conspirare’s mission to change lives through the power of music. This list represents cash and in-kind gifts made from July 1, 2018 through September 15, 2019.

* Denotes Hella Circle Member+ Denotes Considering Matthew Shepard donor# Denotes Legacy of Sound 2 donor

$50,000 +Anonymous+Bloomberg PhilanthropiesCAPTRUST | STMMCity of Austin – Cultural Arts DivisionLynne Dobson & Greg Wooldridge*#Tina & Dale Knobel*+Still Water Foundation # $49,999-$20,000Marvin Brittman*+# Fran & Larry Collmann*+#Danna & Crutch Crutchfield*+Lara & Robert Harlan*+H-E-B Tournament of ChampionsRichard Hartgrove & Gary Cooper*+#Wendi & Brian Kushner*+#Gayle & Mike Roche*+Eva & Marvin Womack*+#

$19,999-$10,000Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationCasey Blass & Lee Manford*+# Dixie CampEric Copper+Eclectic Philanthropic Fund of the Southwest Community FoundationCarol & Chris Elms*+Susanna & Richard Finnell*+#Keating Family FoundationThe Kodosky Foundation, Gail & Jeff Kodosky*+#National Endowment for the Arts+Per Stirling Group, Monica & JP O’SullivanCorey Proffitt, Toyota Motor N.A.+Susan & Jack Robertson*+#DeDe Rogers+Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the ArtsShield-Ayres FoundationTexas Commission on the ArtsRachael & Ben F. Vaughan Foundation

$9,999-$5,000Anonymous+#Elizabeth Armstrong+Nancy & Randy Baden*+Joyce & Ken Beck*+Bill Bednar*+#Mark Bierner*+#Paula D’Arcy, Red Bird Foundation+Beverly Dale+Mary & Phil Delk+Jim Ferguson & Art Sansone+James K. Ferguson Foundation+Sandy & Bill Fivecoat*+# Gusto Italian Kitchen, Cameron Lockley Hoisington Investment Management Co.Merick Strategies, Mela Sarajane DaileyTrish & Robert Karli*+# Nancy Lesch & Janet Bezner*+Susan & Craig Lubin*+Dee Anne & Steven Paulson*+Quartz Financial Nancy Quinn & Thomas Driscoll+Nancy Scanlan*+ Johanna & Mitch Vernick*+Joni Wallace*+ Patricia & Chris Yost*+

$4,999-$2,500Randy AdairAnonymous*Karen & Ray Brimble+Brad BuchholzJanis & David Claflin*+Catherine Clark+Mary Anne Connolly*+Joanne & John Earls, The John C. Griswold Family Foundation+Cynthia Gonzales & Bill Guajardo*+Carol & Bob Hayden*Sherry & Gary Jacobson*+Ronald Jernigan+Craig Hella Johnson & Phil Overbaugh*+Mary Kevorkian & Tom Holzbach*+

Garrett Higley+Jeanne & Van Hoisington+Kelli & Van Jr. HoisingtonLinda & Ken Holmen*+Melissa & Andy HopwoodCarr Hornbuckle & Jack Leifer+Pam & Rick Huffman*David Hunt+Guiberteau & D. JacksonMarjorie Johnson*Karen Kibler & Tom GrimesKMFADan KrausDina Kuntz+Jodi LazarEric Leibrock*+Gomer Lesch+Marcia & Bruce LevyLiveOak Venture PartnersSheila Lummis*Marcia ManhartLeigh McAlister+Suzanne McAllister*+Amy McCaffrey+Staci McIntyre Ann McNair*Milton MillerElizabeth & Jerele Neeld*+Suzi & Douglas Nelson+Nona Niland*Cynthia & Lip NorvellLinda & Paul Parrish*+Sonny PayneStu Phillips*+ Rebecca & Phil PowersLynn & Dick RewKarin Richmond*+Teresa Ringness*David RockwoodDuane Roth*Deborah & Ed Rupp*+Senaida San Miguel+Norm Schumaker*Barbara Schutz+Marilyn Sharratt+David Smith+Paula & Ken SmithLiz StewartJames StolpaCason Swindle*Bernadette Tasher*+John C. R. Taylor & Peter Flagg MaxsonSusanne Tetzlaff & Eric TiblierSusan & John Tew+Sandra & Bob Tomlinson*+Dale & Roy Truitt*

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$999-$500Chris & Ronald AskewMargaret & Robert AyresBarbara & Kevin Barry+Molly BeanBecky BeaverMargaret & Robert BerdahlVictoria & Robert BerginGeorge BrennanLinda & George Brown*+Kyle & Amy BrysonShirley BurgerCarla & Stephanie Burzyk-SmithJudy & John Bush+Viera BuzgovaJames CampbellPatrick Cantilo+Jane & Phil CapronPatricia Cherico*+Cicada LightingOwen ConnellyKatelena & James CowlesCory Cox+ Marie CraneCina CrisaraPaula & Stuart D’AmoreMichael DiLeoMelissa Eddy & Tracy Schiemenz*+Constance & Rex Esau*Patricia & Fred FlorenceMelinda & Robert FloydConstance & Thomas FosterSteven FoxHelen FraserCheryl Fuller*Regan & Billy GammonDeena Graham+William Halverson+Danny Hamilton & Paul Hilliard+Martha & David Harrington*Karen & Leroy Haverlah+Megan & Michael Helmbrecht*Jay Henry & Marc Coté* James Hornbuckle+Peggy Howard & Bill Wood*Joan & Paul Hudson*Judith Jellison & Robert DukeKaren & Donald Kirmis+Lynn Knaupp & John Griffin+

Claire KoriothLou Ann & Bill Lasher+Kati Lewis+Cindy Libera+Emily Little*+Kathleen LowryMary G. Lund+Aaron MalakoffJoey Martin+Sue & Phil MaxwellRuth McGregor+Debe & Kevin McKeandLisa McLean & Michael Dennis Browne+Vance McMahan+Henry MeadowsSusan & John Meurling+Barbara Miller+Janice MorrisHoward MorrisonChandra MullerLynn & Bob Murphy+William Nemir+Eric NeuvilleMarcia Noebels+Kathie & Peter NycklemoeTamra-Shae OatmanPelton Charitable Foundation, Inc.Carol Ann Pevehouse*Jan & Joseph PickleAndrea Pobanz*+Lynn & Brian PowellJane Ramirez*Flo Ann Randle+Louis RenaudDavid Renner+Kimberly & Dan Renner+Jennifer & Mark RoeLeilani Rose+Michelle Schumann & Matt Orem*April SchweighartGabrielle SigelBea Ann Smith+Carol Smith & Barbara Corbin+Jare & Jim Smith*Katy & Chris Steiner*Les SunadaMeredith Thomas+Faith & Don Trapp*+Anne & Tony Vance*Nancy WhitworthBarbara WilliamsonKarla & James WintleTim Young+

$499-$250Albertsons SafewayAmazon Smile CampaignFrances AndersonAnonymousAnton ArmstrongRobbie & Tom AusleySteve BakerSteven Beebe+Bridgette Beinecke+Ingrid & Nathan BickClint Bledsoe*Dianne & Douglas Brehmer Bailey+Kay BrumleyLinda BuehlmannAnne ByarsJanet CampbellPaul Carapetyan+Doug CarrollKaren & Clay CaryThomas Christie+Bob Clagett*Marv ClottJanie Cook+Lisa & Eric CravenNancy Crichlow+Marianne DeLeon*Sandra Derby+Nina & Jeffrey Di Leo+Sharon DuboisePam EdgerlyRandi Eisner & William SchwartzKemper FlorinElliott Forrest+Jody GillitKendal & Ken Gladish+Melissa Gray+Karen Hale & Al LindseyGlenn HaluskaChristy HenryHQ 83Diane Humes & Allan Treiman+Carolyn HynsonCecile Johnson+Janie Keys & Ivan MilmanErvin Knezek+Hillary Larson+Ann & Steve LaubachConnie LeBeauKevin Lemoine+Carey S. LevaMichelle LingoKaroline & Daniel LiuAlaire & Tom Lowry+Dax McCrackenAdrienne McCullough

Mary Jane McReynolds+Jeanie Miley+Glenn Miller+Janet Miller+Phyllis MillerFran & Steven MossMonty NorthrupBarbara Jean OlsonGretchen Olson Kopp+Jean PermannDonna & Paul PovseKaty & Buzz Pruitt*Steve PyhrrErma & Chris Richter+Kathlene Ritch & Scott Noakes*+Michal Rosenberger*Mary & Jo-Michael ScheibeSally SchottSara SharpPeter ShestokCarole & Charles SikesDerald SkeenMarga Speicher+Marion Lear Swaybill+Kerry Tate+Linda & John ThomasFranklin Tinney+Michael TwomeyLauren Vick*Julie Ward*Lynn Whitten & Jim ButlerShari Wilson+Kira Winter*Patricia & Curtis WymanTed YanecekJoyce Zehr+

Conspirare is grateful for all donors who contributed gifts under $250 and regrets that space does not permit the listing of each name. Your support is very much appreciated. We strive to publish an accurate donor list. If an error or omission is noted, please let us know by calling Sam Henderson at 512.476.5775.

We are pleased to have 100 students attending tonight’s performance due to the generosity of an anonymousdonor.

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Cameron LockleyAfter graduating from the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in professional accounting, Cameron first worked as a senior accountant in Deloitte and Touche’s Dallas office on the financial statement audits of, among companies in other business sectors, restaurant corporations. Cameron then moved to Houston where he honed his front-of-house skills working for his cousin Grant Cooper (Ibiza, Brasserie 19, Coppa, Punk’s, The Dunlavy) at the critically acclaimed Catalan Food & Wine

Bar where Chris Shepard (of James Beard Award winning Underbelly) headed the kitchen.

A self-proclaimed “citizen of the world” Cameron traversed much of Europe as well as the great dining cities of the United States during his formative years. “My travels have shaped the way I view food, wine, and the overall dining experience,” said Cameron. At the end of the day, my goal is always to strike a balance between professionalism and the human touch that results in genuine hospitality.”

Whether it is encouraging guests to experience a new wine, planning the details for a celebratory happy hour, or answering the phone on a bustling evening in the restaurant, one can be assured to always find Cameron with a welcoming Texas-sized smile. A graduate of the Leadership Austin Emerge & Essential programs, Cameron has served on the Leadership Council for the Austin Independent Business Alliance as well as the Advisory Board for The Wine & Food Foundation of Texas. He is an avid foodie and Austin enthusiast who spends what spare time he has at various farmer’s markets planning his next meal, laying out with friends at Barton Springs Pool or Lake Travis, and hiking with his fun-loving puppy, Rafa, at Red Bud Isle or the Greenbelt.

Gusto proprietor Cameron Lockley generously supports Conspirare and is the inaugural Hella Circle Hospitality sponsor. Conspirare is grateful for his partnership and our fans are always happy to see Cameron’s welcoming smile at his restaurant and events catered by Gusto. We are delighted to share his passion for great music and great food!

Julie AdamsBrit and Laurie BarrJanet BeznerAlice DayTim FerchillVivian FerchillStephanie FosterLeslie FriedlanderMary GiffordEmily HaeusslerRod HowardVirginia HydeKathleen TaylorJimmie JohnsonHenry LeightonBecky MillerCourtney NevaBarbara O’BrienDon O’BrienPat ReedKathleen Weitzel

Our ambassadors are critical for welcoming audiences, promoting upcoming concerts, and housing out-of-town artists. We welcome music lovers of all ages to participate. If you’re interested in giving back to Conspirare and enjoying a free performance as our thank you please visit our volunteer web page or email Kathy Leighton at kleighton@conspirare.org.

P R O D U C T I O NJennifer Braham, Program DesignerViera Buzgova, Stage ManagerWill Pearson, Assistant Stage Manager

F R I E N D S A N D S U P P O R T E R SBarrie Steinberg, Frank Salomon AssociatesSt. Luke’s Methodist Church, Sid Davis, Grace Roman, and Randy MurrowPhillip OverbaughSt. Rose Music PublishingUniversity Presbyterian Church, Jan HamesThe University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Music, Kurt Martinez, DirectorChloe Vergara, Insight FellowMcCarthy Print

F E A T U R E D A M B A S S A D O R Bill Hulsey“I participate with Conspirare because, in so doing I surround myself with the most inspiring people. Whether singing under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson and the other profoundly experienced and talented Conspirare musical leaders or Austin Symphony’s Peter Bay, I know every Conspirare practice or performance will be inspiring.”

Now in his 10th year with Conspirare, Bill’s service as an Ambassador includes helping with administration, stage setup, and performance assistance. Bill is not a musician by training, but a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer turned military scientific intelligence analyst, turned economist, turned patent & trademark lawyer. The Conspirare standards of personal excellence, musical development, and community building inspire Bill, as he grows in both his music and his profession of high technology, legal rights and regional economic development.

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