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FROM THE PRES IDENT
As President, as well as a singing member of the WaukeshaChoral Union, I am honored and privileged to welcome you to
our 2011-2012 concert season,” Heaven and Nature Sing”.Collaboration with the youthful choral artists of HartfordUnion High School in this beautiful and historic venuemakes this first concert extraordinarily special.
In these tough economic times, the WCU is doing its best to
provide a season of introspection, enjoyment, and fulfillment toits singers and audiences. We appreciate your attendance and your support. Wehope that you will make attendance at each WCU concert a priority. We singerswill do our best to make each concert a highlight of your season. Our ambitious 2011-2012 season is made possible not only by the hard work anddedication of our singers and musicians, but also by the support of our donors,advertisers, sponsors, volunteers, and all those who attend our concerts. In orderto be successful our organization needs the efforts of all of these participants.With reduced public funding for the arts, each of these participants becomes more critical to our continued success. As a member of today’s audience you are one of these valued participants. Youcan increase that value by inviting friends, family members, and neighbors toexperience the wonderful performances that will make up the rest of our 2011-2012 season. Tom CustisWCU President
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MISS ION
The Waukesha Choral Union will challenge, enrich, and engage its singing members, audiences, and community through the pursuit of excellence and a variety of programming. The WCU mission includes expansion of the effectiveness of its educational efforts throughout Waukesha County through collaboration.
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ABOUT THE WAUKESHA CHOR AL UNION
The Waukesha Choral Union has been musically active in the community for over 60 years. Originally a combination of the Carroll College student chorus and community singers named Waukesha Choral Society in 1949, the group became the Town and Gown in 1961 and the Waukesha Choral Union in 1974, taking its present form as an auditioned choir in 1978.
WAUKESHA CHORAL UNION
Board of DirectorsPresident: Tom Custis Vice President: Diane McGeenTreasurer: Thomas HeringSecretary: Susan WallenslagerEx-officio: Ernest Brusubardis, IIIKristina BoergerPhyllis CramerAaron FrankKristin HansenReanne HolmesSarah HolmquistTom Smith
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AdministrationArtistic Director: Ernest Brusubardis, IIIMarketing Manager: Jim LaBelle
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ARTISTIC D IRECTOR
Ernest Brusubardis, III, Artistic
Director of the Waukesha Choral Union, is a
graduate of UW Milwaukee with the
Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Music and the Master’s Degree in Music Education with an emphasis on choral conducting. His other choral directorships include the advanced ensembles of Hartford Union High School and the Brusubardis-Dzimente Latvian Choir, a podium he shares with his father. His expertise in this latter pursuit has earned him the chief conductorship of Latvian Song Festivals in the United States, Canada, and Latvia.
As a music theater enthusiast, he conducts the orchestra for the annual productions at Hartford Union High School and boasts a record as music director for community theater productions throughout Southeastern Wisconsin, including Menomonee Falls Patio Players, On the Wall and Off the Wall theaters, Archangel Productions, and shows at the UW Milwaukee and West Bend extensions.
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FROM THE ARTISTIC D IRECTOR
Welcome to our Waukesha Choral Union’s season opener, The Human and the Divine. This evening WCU is joined by the Hartford Union High School Concert Choir. The performance includes songs about people’s relationships with each other as well as with the divine. We will offer songs of praise, love, victory, people, life, comfort, and community. All of this will be experienced through various musical styles and texts in many languages not to mention different cultural perspectives.
Here is a small taste of what we have to offer. Psalm is based upon the yoik style of the Sami people. The text has no literal meaning, but the combination of the syllables and music is meant to evoke the context of the title. Bēdu manu, lielu bēdu is a song that encourages us to put our troubles behind us regardless of how bad things might be. Yet in another way, Vamudara, in the Shona tradition, respectfully admonishes someone to change their behavior who is wasting their life away. You will also hear songs from many more cultures and traditions.
The choirs will combine to sing Past Life Melodies, a song that mimics aboriginal singing techniques, and Hope for Resolution, which melds an anti-apartheid song from South Africa with a European chant melody. We hope this concert encourages you to live out your humanity during an age when we indeed need more humanity.
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This 48-voice ensemble is the most advanced of four curricular choirs at HartfordUnion High School. The Concert Choir comprises sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are selected by audition from a total choral enrollment of 180 singers in a school population of 1,500 students. The choir rehearses daily for 46 minutes and gives 5 to 7 major concerts per year. The HUHS Concert Choir takes a major performance tour to New York City everythree years and has sung for masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity Churchas well as giving concert performances in St. John the Divine, St. Mark’s, and St. Mary’s. The choir has been honored with performances at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association State Convention in 2006 and 2001and the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association State Convention in 2010 and 2003. The group recently represented Wisconsin at the 2009 Festival of States in Washington D.C. honoring Abraham Lincoln. In addition to curricular responsibilities, two Madrigal Ensembles and a Vocal Jazz Ensemble are selected from the choir by audition. Hartford is a community of approximately 12,000 people located45 minutes north-west of Milwaukee. One of the largest geographical schooldistricts in the state, Hartford Union High School has 16 feeder school districts andserves seven rural communities. The Concert Choir is so happy to share its love of performing with the WaukeshaChoral Union in their 2011-2012 season opener.
HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR ROSTER
SOPRANOAllie BeineEmily BergerJessie BlodgettMegan BraunschweigRose BuhleVictoria ChanceKelsey Durante*Beatrice GerfinAnna HirschEmily JaszewskiHannah KangasJoelle MichalakHailee Von HadenBrianna Wesner
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Awakening and RenewalSaturday, May 5, 2012 7:00pmSt. William Parish, Waukesha
Handel’s MessiahFREE CONCERTSunday, Mar. 25, 2012 3:00pmShattuck Auditorium, Carroll University
A Collage of CarolsFriday, Dec. 9, 2011 8:00pm St. Luke’s, WaukeshaSunday, Dec. 11, 2011 3:00pm St. Catherine’s, Oconomowoc
The Human and the DivineWith the Hartford Union High School ChoirSaturday, Oct. 15, 2011 8:00pm Holy Hill Basilica
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PraiseConsecrate The Place And Day ........................................................................ Lloyd PfautschExultate justi in Domino ...........................................................Lodovico Grossi da ViadanaHark, I Hear The Harps Eternal ........................................................................arr. Alice Parker
LoveAmor De Mi Alma ..........................................................................................Z. Randall StroopeDie Nachtigall ................................................................................................ Felix MendelssohnThink On Me ................................................................................. James Quitman Mulholland
VictoryRide On, King Jesus ................................................................................................ Moses Hogan
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PeoplePsalm ........................................................................................................................Frode FjellheimVamudara ................................................................................................... arr. Dumisani Maraire
LifeLebenslust .............................................................................................................. Franz Schubert Bēdu manu, lielu bēdu ..................................................................................Valters KaminskisNechevala Tuchka .......................................................................................... Peter TchaikovskyChoose Something Like A Star ................................................................ Randall Thompson
ComfortSicut Cervus ............................................................................Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaLacrymosa .....................................................................................................................W.A. MozartCantique de Jean Racine ...................................................................................... Gabriel FauréTrue Light ............................................................................................................... Keith Hampton
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CommunityPast Life Melodies ..................................................................................................Sarah HopkinsHope For Resolution ................................................................ Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory
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AUDITION INFOR M ATION
Waukesha Choral Union is always seeking new members. To schedule an auditionplease call (414) 297-9310 or email at [email protected]
The 2011-2012 Waukesha Choral Union season, “Heaven and Nature Sing” is sponsored in part by grants from the Arts Alliance of Waukesha County and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Waukesha Choral Union is deeply grateful to these donors for their meaningful financial support. Their commitment to live, local music will help the WCU remain affordable and accessible to the communities we serve.
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In 1925, the Shrine of Mary was razed to the ground to be replaced by a third, larger shrine, completed and consecrated in 1931. Various renovations and expansions were made throughout the 20th century to better accommodate pilgrims, visitors, and those on private retreat.
Holy Hill is the highest peak of the Kettle Moraine, a chain of hills and pot-shapedvalleys that begins in the Whitewater area and extends northeast to DoorCounty. The shrine itself sits on about 40 acres, but over the years the friars haveacquired an additional 400 acres of surrounding woodland to preserve the area’scontemplative atmosphere. Visitors can tour the shrine chapel and the grounds,attend daily services, climb an observation deck, and - during the summer - eat atthe Monastery Inn Cafeteria. There are daily devotions at the shrine. Mass is celebrated on the weekends, and confession is available.
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THE L AST WORD
Composer John Adams received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Juilliard School and delivered the commencement address on Friday, May 20, 2011. Here are excerpts, reprinted by permission of the author. For additional comments visit his website www.earbox.com.
I want to say thank you to all of you students who have chosen a life in the arts. All the “models” for success and happiness American-style are about what is ultimately a disposable life, centered around material gain and about finding the best possible comfort zone for yourself. You’ve set yourselves apart from a nation that has become such a hostage to distraction that it can’t absorb a single complex thought without having it reduced to a sound byte. Most people now live in a fractured virtual environment where staying focused on a single thought for a mere seven seconds presents a grave challenge. (I mention seven seconds because a researcher at Google told me that 7.3 seconds was the amount of time an average viewer stays on a YouTube video.)
The arts, however, are mind-bendingly and refreshingly difficult, and utterly useless. You can’t eat music or poetry or dance. This “uselessness” is why politicians and other painfully literal-minded people during times of budget crises (which is pretty much all the time now) can’t wait to single the arts out for elimination. They don’t realize that what we artists offer is one of the few things that make human life meaningful. A life in the arts means you value communicating about matters of the spirit over the baser forms of human interaction, because you know that life is not simply a game about winning someone’s confidence purely for purposes of material gain.
Be bold, be humble, don’t mind being difficult, and don’t ever feel that what you’re doing in this attention-deficit disorder country of ours is marginal or unimportant. You are in fact the heart and the soul of its very being.
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