D SINGERS. February 3, :30 p.m. Goddard Auditorium Earlham College, Richmond Indiana. The Earlham Guest Artist Series

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1 D SINGERS February 3, :30 p.m. Goddard Auditorium Earlham College, Richmond Indiana The Earlham Guest Artist Series

2 THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS DALE WARLAND, CONDUCTOR Winter Tour, 1991 PROGRAM (Please hold applause until the end of each section during the first half of this evening's program. Thank you.) The Garden of the Seraglio Come To Me, My Love La Passeggiata (The Excursion) (sung in Italian) Epitaph for Moonlight The Rose Two Choral Settings (sung in Hungarian) 1. Ejszaka (Night) 2. Reggel (Morning) How Lovely is thy Dwelling Place (from A German Requiem) PIorate Filii Israel (Weep, Ye Children of Israel, from Jephte, sung in Latin) Gloria (from The Masque oj Angels) I. Modern Romantic Music II. Music of Our Time III. Great Choruses Intermission Wilhelm Stenhammar Norman DelIo Joio Gioacchino Rossini R. Murray Schafer John Paynter Gyorgy Ligeti Johannes Brahms Giacomo Carissimi Dominick Argento Nelly Bly Open thy Lattice, Oh, Susanna Love (selections to be announced from stage) Sourwood Esti Dal Wearing Mountain of the Green Feller From Fortune IV. Music of Stephen Foster v. Music by the Cabaret Singers Roger Wagner Salli Terri Edwin Fissinger VI. Folk Music From Around the World Tennessee Fiddle Song (John Rutter) Hungarian Folk Song (Zoltan Kodaly) Irish Folk Song (Norman Luboff) Old-Time Newfoundland (Harry Somers) Song Refreshments are available in the lobby during intermission. The Dale Warland Singers recordings are available during intermission and post concert.

3 The Dale Wadand Singers Dale Warland, Conductor and Music Director Sigrid Johnson, Associate Conductor and Symphonic Chorus Music Director Jeny Rubino, Pianist and Cabaret Singers Music Director Soprano Janice Hunton *Sigrid Johnson Kathy Josselyn Barbara Nelson Lea Anna Sams- McGowan *Linda Steen Tenor Paul W. Gerike *John William Henley Gary A. Kortemeier Thomas Larson Steve J. Sandberg Timothy Sawyer Alto Lynette Johnson *Anna Mooy Rachael Dawn Nelson Mary J. Oldakowski Joan Quam Claudia Zylstra Bass Wayne A. Dalton Jeny Johnson Jin Kim *Jeny Rubino Arthur LaRue Frank Steen Paul A. Theisen "section. leader Founded in 1972, The Dale Warland Singers has emerged as one of the world's premier choral ensembles. Based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, the group has gained countless fans from nineteen years of concert tours, festival appearances, radio broadcasts and fifteen critically acclaimed recordings. Regarded as leaders in the intemational choral music scene, Dr. Warland and The Singers performed at the Second World Symposium on Choral Music in August, 1990 in Sweden and Finland. As the sole North American professional choir in residence at the festival, the ensemble featured American choral works, and joined with other leading choirs from around the world in a series of workshops, concerts and broadcast activities. The past November, The Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus joined the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Edo de Waart in a concert performance of Verdi's comic opera Falstaff at Carnegie Hall. Critics and music professionals intemationally hail The Singers for their artistic and technical virtuosity, praising especially the broad repertoire that ranges from sacred, classical, jazz and folk music to the most demanding atonal and 20th century a cappella selections. Regular commissioning projects have included such composers as Dominick Argento, George Shearing, Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Lucas Foss and Peter Schickele.

4 English Translations and Program Notes l v' La Passeggiata (The Excursion) Gioacchino Rossini II Calm and serene the heavens, limpid the waves below us, sailing from shore to shore guided alone by love. To gentle winds and flowers we speak our words of love, all beating heartstogether to them respond in love. ],~ Winds now are blowing stronger, rippling the sea around us, winds now are whistling, winds now are blowing, quickly let us depart, move on; Ah! no, the moon appearing tums all our fear to gladness, in this delightful country we sing our songs of love. Epitaph for Moonlight R. Murray Schafer Epitaph is, in a sense, an exercise in ear training. There are no key signatures, bar lines, sharps or flats here--not a stave of conventionally notated music. The sopranos enter humming on a "medium high note," and the choir, divided into 16 parts, slides in behind on descending half-steps; if all is lined up properly this soft mash of sound evolves into a major triad. Within this context, the vocalists can alter text, pitches, and rhythms to create "the total effect (of)moonlight on water." The Rose John Paynter Of a rose singe we Misterium mirabile. (Marvelous mystery) This rose is red of colour bright, Thro' whom our joye gan alight Upon this Christmasse night, Claro David germine. (Of David's noble seed.) Of this rose was Christ ybore, To save mankind that was forlore, And us aile from sinnes sore. Prophetarum carmine. (As sung by the prophets.) 1 ']

5 This rose of floweres she is flower; She ne will fade for no shower; To sinful men she sent succour. Mira plenrtudtne. (Of wondrous fullness.) This rose is so fair of hue: In maid Mary that is so true Yborne was Lord of virtue, Salvator sine crimine. (Saviour without sin.) 1. Ejszaka (Night) Thomy huge jungles, mystery forests, infinite wildemess, Still! boundless and endless and still! Darkness. Night. 2. Reggel (Moming) Ring, tick -tock, tick -tock, bell! And the clock ticks wishing well. Tick -tock, bell! In the dawn, cock-a-doo-dle-doo, the cock cries and the duck too, in the dawn, cock-a-doo-dle-doo, the cock cries and the duck too. Two Choral Settings Gyorgy Ltgett Weep, ye children of Israel, weep all ye virgins, and bewail Jephte's only daughter with a song of mouming. Plorate Filii Israel Giacomo Carissimi I [ Esti Dal (Hungarian Folk Song) Zoltan Kodaly I pray: Lord, give me a home, I am tired of wandering on foreign earth. Give me a good night and send me an angel to strengthen my heart.

6 Dale Warland Dale Warland's mission is nothing less than the raising of choral music to a new standard. Consummate musicianship and attention to detail have been Dr. Warland's tools in building one of the finest choral groups in the United States. In addition to his active schedule as Music Director of The Dale Warland Singers, Dr. Warland is in demand both in the U.S. and abroad as a guest conductor, teacher and composer. He has conducted such prestigious groups as the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, the Cameran Singers of Israel and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus. An acclaimed expert on the music of Krzysztof Penderecki, Warland prepared the select choirs of the World Symposium on Choral Music in August, 1990 for a performance of Penderecki's Polish Requiem in Helsinki, Finland. A former co-chair of the choral panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, he was recently named choral advisor of the Oxford University Press. Dr. Warland has served as Professor of Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from St. Olaf College as well as the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Southem Califomia. Dale Warland holds Masters degrees in theory and composition from the University of Minnesota and a Doctorate in choral music from the University of Southem Califomia. Sigrid Johnson Associate Conductor and Symphonic Chorus Music Director Sigrid Johnson is a resident of Northfield, Minnesota and serves on the music faculty of St. Olaf College where she conducts the Manitou Singers. In addition to her work with the core DWS, Sigrid often prepares The Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus for concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra. Past projects include Fidelio, Turadot, and Aida. Most recently she prepared the group for performances of Falstaff with the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Edo de Waart. Concert performances of Falstaff included Carnegie Hall. An active clinician and conductor for regional and national ACDA conventions and workshops, Sigrid is also in demand as a repertoire consultant. She conducted master classes today with the Earlham choral groups and guest high school choirs. She holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. Jerry Rubino Pianist and Cabaret Singers Music Director Jerry Rubino attended the Curtis Institute of Music as a cellist and holds degrees in piano, music education and conducting from Temple University and the University of Minnesota. An active free-lance musician, Jerry regularly appears as a guest artist throughout the upper Midwest. He performs in solo and chamber music recitals with the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Composers Forum and the 'si. Paul Chamber Orchestra. A published arranger with Jenson, he frequently serves as. a choral clinician and adjudicator at conventions and workshops. Jerry teaches private voice and piano at his Minneapolis/St. Paul studios. The Dale Warland Singers administrative staff includes: Russ Bursch General Manager Charles Peterson Development and Communications Beth Kellar Press Operator Lisa Strandjord Administrative Assistant Director

7 Upcoming Earlham Fine Arts Events February 14, 15, 16 Valentine's Day Madrigal Dinners February 22 & 23 Saturday, February 23 Wednesday, February 27 Thursday, February 28 March 1 & 2 Sunday, March 3 Saturday, March 9 May 17, 18, 24, 25 Saturday, June 1 ETC - "Lyststrata", Richmond Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Bach's Mass in B Minor Musicians of Swanne Alley Chamber Musician & Cello Choir Concert ETC - "Lysistrata" Meetinghouse Concert Tamara Orlovsky, Pianist Winter Choral Concert ETC - "Spring Shorts" Spring Choral Concert A very special welcome to all participants of the High School Choral Festival: Concordia Lutheran High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana North Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana Jay Country High School, Portland, Indiana Northeastem High School, Fountain City, Indiana Connersville High School, Connersville, Indiana For more information regarding performances or recordings, please contact: The Dale Warland Singers 120 North Fourth Street Minneapolis, MN (612) The Dale Warland Singers is a member of Chorus America