Oratorio Singers Westfield s musical treasure. Trent Johnson, Music Director. Te Deum (HWV 283) G.F. Handel. D. Buxtehude (S.N 2 0) P.D.Q.

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1 Oratorio Singers Westfield s musical treasure Trent Johnson, Music Director Te Deum (HWV 283) G.F. Handel Magnificat Anima Mea D. Buxtehude Missa Hilarious (S.N 2 0) P.D.Q. Bach Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 3 PM First United Methodist Church One East Broad Street, Westfield, NJ Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs and by a grant from the Westfield Foundation.

2 Brace Negron, Bass-Baritone Bass-Baritone Brace Negron has been a prolific performer since his arrival in New York in Upcoming performances include Colline in La Boheme with Opera Manhattan. Recent performances include performing the role of Count Ceprano in Rigoletto with San Antonio Opera, Figaro in a concert version of Le nozze di Figaro with the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra; Pantaleone in Bronx Opera s Der Drei Pintos this past January. Mr. Negron had his European debut performing the title role of Donizetti s Don Pasquale and the Bonze in Puccini s Madame Butterfly with Lyrique en Mer Opera Company in Belle Île, France in with a national radio broadcast of Don Pasquale s first act on the radio station, France Musique. In March 2009, Mr. Negron was invited back to Toledo Opera to perform the 1st Nazarene and the Cappadocian in Strauss s Salome. In the Fall of 2008, Mr. Negron had his debut with Toledo Opera as Count Ceprano in Verdi s Rigoletto with a favorable mention in the Toledo Blade newspaper. In the summer of 2008, Mr. Negron performed Christiano in Verdi s Un ballo in maschera with Des Moines Metro Opera earning him a review in Opera News that appeared in the October 2008 issue. He then traveled to Beaulieu sur Mer, France to participate in a concert series/competition as a finalist in the Azuriales Opera Festival/Competition later that summer. Other recent performances include Jupiter in Offenbach s Orpheus and the Underworld with Bronx Opera, which earned Mr. Negron a solid review in the New York Times, the Herald in Rigoletto with New Jersey Opera, and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Queens College Opera Studio. Mr. Negron received his master s degree from Manhattan School of Music and his undergraduate degree from Stetson University in Deland, Florida. Jeffrey Mandelbaum, Countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum is fast becoming known for his powerful and elegant countertenor voice, and for his dynamic stage presence. Especially recognized for his affecting interpretations of the operas and oratorios of Handel, he debuted with Virginia Opera as Narciso in Agrippina, and was dubbed a first-class countertenor by the Washington Post. Mr. Mandelbaum recently covered the title role in Handel s Flavio with New York City Opera, where he was also engaged for Il Ritorno D Ulisse and Hansel and Gretel. He appeared as Ottone in The Coronation of Poppea with Opera Omnia for the company s inaugural production at Le Poisson Rouge in New York s Greenwich Village. Of this performance, critic Allan Kozinn states in the New York Times, Jeffrey Mandelbaum gave an appealingly sensitive portrayal of Ottone. In addition to his work in the baroque field, he is also known for his performances of contemporary music, including his recent debut with Opera Pacific in Cyrano de Bergerac. He appeared with the Spoleto Festival USA in Meredith Monk s Quarry; in Bernstein s Chichester Psalms with the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut; as Mulholland in Hause s Man: Biology of a Fall at New York City s Kumble Theater; and was engaged for Philip Glass Galileo Galilei at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mr. Mandelbaum is a winner of the 2003 Metropolitan Opera Competition, New York Districts. He received a B.A. with Honors in Interdisciplinary Performance from Oberlin College, and a Master of Music degree in Historical Performance-Voice from the Mannes College of Music. He has coached in baroque style with Drew Minter and Julianne Baird, and continues his studies of vocal technique and artistry with Linda Monssen. Trent Johnson, Music Director Trent Johnson is the Music Director of the Oratorio Singers of Westfield, NJ and is the Minister of Music of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Bernardsville, NJ. He is an organist, composer, pianist, and conductor. As conductor of the Oratorio Singers, he has led this organization in much of the standard literature for chorus and orchestra, including works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Verdi, Dello Joio, Bernstein, Kodaly, Poulenc and others, as well as 5 premieres of his own works. He is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and The Juilliard School. Major conducting influences have come from his work with Frederick Prausnitz, Dr. David A. Weadon and Norman Scribner of the Choral Arts Society of Washington D.C. An active organ recitalist, Mr. Johnson frequently performs in the major churches of New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Northern New Jersey and in Europe. In 2004 he traveled to Kiev, Ukraine to participate in the Second International Organ Festival, where he played organ recitals and gave a masterclass in composition at the Mykola Lysenko School of Music and Drama. In 2005 he was invited by his alma mater the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University to present an organ concert, featured compositions, and an organ masterclass for students. In 2005 he also recorded the organ works of Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker for Albany Records. In 2006 he was an organist at Radio City Music Hall in

3 New York City where he played for the Christmas Spectacular Show. In January 2007 the New York Theater Organ Society invited him to appear in recital on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ at RCMH. In the Spring of 2011 he will be traveling to Russia on an organ concert tour of several Russian cities. As a composer recent premieres include his Celebration Overture for orchestra (2010), and In Homage of Spring (2009), for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, both written for the Oratorio Singers. His viola and trumpet concertos and Elegy for Chernobyl for organ and string orchestra premiered in April 2008 in Kiev, Ukraine as part of the Kiev Contemporary Music Festival. While in Kiev, his concertos were recorded by the Kiev Camerata conducted by Valery Matiukhin. In July of this year his Concertante for Organ and String Quartet (2011) will be premiered at the American Guild of Organists Convention in Morristown, NJ with the Shanghai String Quartet and organist Marilyn Keiser as performers. Other recent premieres include commissions from the Westfield Symphony, the Colonia Symphony, the Cygnus Ensemble NYC, the New Jersey Saxophone Ensemble, and choral works written for the Oratorio Singers. As a recording artist Mr. Johnson can be heard on Summit Records, Albany Records and the Xtreme Label. Mr. Johnson is the recipient of grants from Meet the Composer, funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is the recipient of the Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in composition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in NYC. Oratorio Production Staff Chairperson...Janet Poland Financial Development Chairperson...John R. Panosh Treasurer...Robert Curtis Graphic Design and Program...Barbara Alexander Shopiro Concert Personnel... Patricia Curtis Financial Development...Cheryl Notari, Joan Sanborn, Margaret Thompson Hospitality...Judy Corrello, Wendy Daugherty, Mary Lou Jackson, Janette Perkins Poster Distribution...Jill Tozier Products... Gloria Brodersen Recording... Rich Ford, John R. Panosh Stage Construction...Stephen Merrill and Charley Asbury, Co-Chairman Kevin Dresely, Gary Brodersen, Judy Sullivan Tickets...Robert and Nancy Anderson, Judy Corrello Publicity...John R. Panosh Program Editor...Elaine Fiorino Head Usher...John Fiorino Photography...Virginia Jakubowski Program Notes...Paul Somers

4 Seeming and Being by Paul Mack Somers Things are not always what they seem, as the old saw has it. Take, for example, the Magnificat by Dietrich Buxtehude. The composer was the great career model for J. S. Bach. He had become the music director for all but operatic productions in the wealthy Hanseatic League city of Lübeck. There he had carved out a place as both an important organist and choral composer. Unlike Bach, he was never required to produce weekly choral music, so his large body of work is due to his own vision of what music was needed for various occasions in the city during his long tenure. Buxtehude instituted the five annual Abendmusik (evening music) concerts that were so famous that when Bach visited Buxtehude, walking all the way to Lübeck from Arnstadt in Saxony to do so, he stayed on long after his allowed visit of one month partly in order to attend two of the Abendmusik concerts, which impressed him greatly. These progams were considered by contemporaries as being the equivalent of opera performances! Handel also visited the already legendary Buxtehude. There was a time when Buxtehude was seen mostly as an important precursor to Bach and Handel. But nowadays he is seen as important in his own right, as well as being a transmitter of the style of spatially organized music which flows from Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice, through Heinrich Schütz in Dresden, to Buxtehude, and on to both Bach (as in his St. Matthew Passion) and Handel (as in the Dettingen Te Deum of today s concert). To sing Buxtehude s music is to discover his special way of making dissonances sweet. Still holding onto the late renaissance Italian conceit of the sweet pain of love, Buxtehude directs this sweet pain toward religious subjects. If the music lacks that particular sweetness, it doesn t sound like Buxtehude. So it cannot be a surprise to the attentive listener that the Magnificat of today s performance has been placed by scholars into the doubtful and misattributed part of a list of Buxtehude s works. One can be sure that these scholars have eliminated Buxtehude as the composer by making all of the usual comparisons of papers, water marks, and inks and by attempting to track the copy back to Uppsala University of the late 1600s. But all it really takes to make the piece doubtful is to listen to it with the sound of Buxtehude s other works in one s mind. Those patented sweet dissonances are missing. And the type of counterpoint in play seems earlier and of a different, more Italianate ethos. Putting aside any connection to Buxtehude, however, the now anonymous Magnificat is a wonderful and expressive work. Its crystal-clear vocal and instrumental lines carry the text perfectly. Solos and choral parts mix well into a single lucid musical picture. It may not be by Buxtehude, but it is clearly by a masterful composer. Were we to identify this person, this Magnificat would be listed among that person s finest works. Another example of something not being what it would seem is George Frideric Handel s Dettingen Te Deum. To be sure, the text is that of the standard Te Deum, written in the 4th century as a prayer of praise. But those words are merely the underlying mannequin upon which astonishingly martial musical clothing is hung. It was a millenium-long tradition that after a military victory a Te Deum would be sung. So when King George II of England, whose master of music was Handel, personally led the British infantry in a victorious battle against the French cavalry at Dettingen, Bavaria, on June 27, 1743, a Te Deum of suitable proportions was required. And Handel pulled out all the stops. Here Handel makes full use of the old tradition of trumpets indicating the King in battle, while oboes indicate the King away from battle as father and protector of his people. The simple heavenly affirmations of the text are expanded into peals of earthly grandeur featuring three trumpets and timpani. Indeed, it is a good place to note that the early timpanists originally played the same music as the third trumpet in baroque music. One of the aspects worth considering in the Dettingen Te Deum is its ancestry in the antiphonal music of Giovanni Gabrieli s Venice and Heinrich Schütz s Dresden, as mentioned above. In such music a large force is echoed or counterbalanced with music from a different location to the side or opposite the performers and listeners. Though this kind of spatial arrangement may not have been envisaged by Handel, there is a sense that the soloists are musical entities distinct from, and often seemingly distant from, the chorus. A large choral statement is followed by soloists as if from a different musical space, rather in a relationship like the larger ripieno and smaller concertino of the baroque concerto grosso style in which Handel loved to compose. Finally this afternoon, there are the satirical and musical slap-stick antics of P. D. Q. Bach, the always bizarre alter ego of Peter Schickele. He is also the composer of excellent

5 serious music, though he is sadly not half as well-known for these works as he should be. His masterful Viola Concerto is but one example of Schickele in serious mode. To fully appreciate his comic works does require a strong sense of what is normal. We can only find the humor in Alice s visit through the looking glass if we know how living life not through the mirror works. So despite all the shenanigans and invented instruments (yes, that s a taped recorder, and check out the corrugahorn made out of flexible gas-line piping and a two-liter soda bottle), if you don t know how an honest to God (as it were) Mass really works, you ll never get all that Schickele has put into this music. On a personal note (E-flat), several times this writer has had a good time chatting with Peter Schickele. He is a very amusing person, abounding with witty off-the-cuff remarks when appropriate. But he is also a very smart (we re talking Swarthmore College here) and seriously thoughtful man. I hold him in high esteem as a person as well as composer. P.D.Q. Bach: Biographical Notes by Professor Peter Schickele In the 17th and 18th centuries the name Bach was synonymous with fine musicmaking: Johann Sebastian, certainly the biggest twig on the family tree, was both preceded and followed by many accomplished and well known musicians, some of whom were in the service of royalty. It is easy to understand, therefore, why the Bach clan was loath to admit the existence of a member who was called a pimple on the face of music, the worst musician ever to have trod organ pedals, the most dangerous musician since Nero, and other things not quite so complimentary. They even started a rumor that P.D.Q. Bach, without a doubt Johann Sebastian s last and least offspring, was not really a member of the Bach family the implication being that he was illegitimate, or, even better, an imposter. Although P.D.Q. Bach was born on April 1, 1742 and died on May 5, 1807, the dates on his first tombstone (before he was moved to an unmarked pauper s grave) were inscribed in a transparent attempt to make it appear that he could not have been the son of J.S., who died in Nice try, Bach family close, but no cigar: some of us, or at least one of us, are not fooled, or at least, is not fooled. P.D.Q. Bach once said that his illustrious father gave him no training in music whatsoever, and it is one of the few things he said that we can believe without reservation. His rebelliousness was such, in fact, that he avoided music as much as possible until he was well into his thirties (as a teenager he did assist in the construction of the loudest instrument ever created, the pandemonium, but he wisely skipped town before the instrument s completion, having sensed with uncanny accuracy, that the Pavilion of Glass was perhaps not the most felicitous location for the inaugural concert). But by the mid-1770s he realized that, given his last name, writing music was the easiest thing he could do, and he began composing the works that were to catapult him into obscurity. This most mini musical life has been divided into three creative periods: the Initial Plunge, the Soused Period, and Contrition. The middle period was by far the longest of the three, and was characterized by a multiplicity of contrapuntal lines and a greater richness of harmony due to almost constant double vision. It was during this period that he emulated (i.e., stole from) the music of Haydn and Mozart, but his pathetic attempts to be au courant were no more successful than his pathetic attempts to be passé had been during the Initial Plunge; having to cope with the problems that accompany immense popularity was something P.D.Q. Bach managed to avoid. It has been said that the only original places in his music are those places where he forgot what he was stealing. And, since his memory was even shorter than his sightedness, he was in point of fact one of the most original composers ever to stumble along the musical pike. When you come right down to it, which is something we should all do every once in a while (As Plato said, or was it Aristotle? the unexamined life isn t worth a hill of beans. Maybe it was Socrates.), P.D.Q. Bach was perhaps not as pitiful as we are often led to believe: he was, by all accounts, intimately acquainted with all three components of the proverbial wine/women/song life style, he died a wealthy man (due to a little patent medicine thing he had going on the side), and he can now boast 17 record albums and annual concerts in New York City devoted almost exclusively to his own music. How many of us can say that? Well, can you?

6 This concert is dedicated to the memory of Caroline Holt, longtime member of Oratorio Singers, who ensured our success in many ways including helping on our stage-builidng crews. A little lady who wielded a big hammer, she will be sorely missed. Magnificat Anima Mea by Dietrich Buxtehude Magnificat anima mea Dominum. Et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo. Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae: ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes. Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est: et sanctum nomen ejus. Et misericordia ejus a progenie in progenies timentibus eum. Fecit potentiam in brachio suo dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis et divites dimisit inanes. Suscepit Israel puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae suae. Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros; Abraham at semini eius in saecula. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, My spirit rejoices in God my Savior. He has looked with favor on his lowly servant: From this day all generations will call me blessed. The Almighty has done great things for me and holy is His name. He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation. He has shown strength with His arm and has scattered the proud in their conceit. Casting down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. He has come to the aid of His servant Israel, to remember His promise of mercy. The promise made to our ancestors; to Abraham and his children forever. Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning and is now and always and throughout ages of ages. Amen.

7 Te Deum (Dettingen, HWV 283) by George Frideric Handel 1. Chorus We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. 2. Chorus All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. 3. Semi-Chorus To thee all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. 4. Chorus To thee Cherubim and Seraphim, continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory. 5. Semi-Chorus and Chorus The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee. The noble army of Martyrs praise thee. The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee, The Father of an infinite Majesty. 6. Chorus Thine honourable, true and only Son; also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter. 7. Bass and Chorus Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. 8. Bass When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou did st not abhor the Virgin s womb.

8 9 and 10. Chorus When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. 11. Trio (Alto, Tenor, Bass) Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. 12 and 13. Chorus We therefore pray thee, help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. 14. Chorus Make them to be numbered with thy Saints in glory everlasting. O Lord, save thy people and bless thine heritage. Govern them and lift them up for ever. 15. Chorus Day by day we magnify thee. 16. Chorus And we worship thy Name ever world without end. 17. Bass Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is in thee. 18. Alto and Chorus O Lord, in thee have I trusted, let me never be confounded. A Ten-Minute Intermission

9 The existence of P. D. Q. Bach ( )?, the youngest and oddest of J. S. Bach s 20 some children is the discovery of composer, musicologist, and humorist Peter Schickele. It has been observed that P.D.Q. Bach seldom wrote original tunes; he stole melodies from other composers and rearranged them using instruments not often used in orchestras, such as the tromboon, trombonus interruptus, slide whistle, horn & hardart, lasso d amore, left-handed sewer flute, car horn, and kazoo. In the end though, through all their many mutilations, P.D.Q. s pieces never deviate from Big Daddy Bach s original harmonic structure. Missa Hilarious (S.N 2 O) by P.D.Q. Bach 1. Bargain Counter Tenor and Chorus Yriekay 2. Basso Blotto, Bargain Counter Tenor, and Angels Gloria 3. Chorus and Bargain Counter Tenor Credo 4. Chorus, Angels and Basso Blotto Sanctus 5. Bargain Counter Tenor, Basso Blotto, Chorus Angus Dei

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15 Oratorio Singers Soprano 1 Louise Ayd Gloria Brodersen Ann Marie Centrella Wendy Daugherty Livia Galante Suzanne Beeny-Jones Evelyn Loderstedt Elizabeth Parks Barbara Shopiro Rachel Shopiro Gwen Thompson Jill Tozier Barbara Wensberg Soprano 2 Sarah Blood Ginny Bucci Mary Heller Kelly Maizenaski Janet Poland Janelle Raupp Regina Shopiro Margaret Thompson Alto Carolann Aspray Christine Yuhas Bernstein Kathy Carlson Kathryn Ciurczak Patricia Curtis Sarah Ehinger Paula Fine Elaine Fiorino Pia Grant Kathy Havens Carol Hines Marcie Horowitz Barbara Juarez Jan Kameros Patricia Klatt Roberta Lichtenberg Sabine Loechner Paula Long Elaine Meredith Cheryl Notari Debra Ondeyka Janette Perkins Dana Rosen-Perez Joan Sanborn Carol Schwarz Mariam Shastri Mary Beth Smith Sharon Snyder Tenor Harry L. Allen Charley Asbury Robert Curtis Richard B. DeVany Michael Gale David Norwine Kerry Stubbs* Bass Judy Corrello Ulf Dolling Mark Fine Gary Grant David Heller Donald Kalbach Tom McGrath John R. Panosh Richard Perry Donald Williams * Tenor soloist in Handel Te Deum Oratorio Orchestra Violin I Brennan Sweet, Concert Master Sasha Gorokhovsky, Principal 2nd Fatima Aaziza John Connelly Hector Falcon Darryl Kubian Francine Storck Ming Yang Viola William Hakim, Principal Kathleen Foster Steliana Nedeva Christine Terhune Cello Stephen Fang, Principal Na-Young Baek Bronwyn Banerdt Bass Jonathan Storck, Principal Flute Andrew Lamy, Principal Janet Somers Oboe Robert Ingliss, Principal Keisuke Ikuma Bassoon Mark Timmerman, Principal Horn Andrea Menousek, Principal Susan Standley Trumpet Dominic Derasse, Principal Jason Bitonti Christopher Stingle Trombone Roger Verdi, Principal Timpani James Thoma, Principal Percussion James Neglia,Principal Personnel James Neglia Rehearsal Accompanist/Organ Yang-Hee Song

16 This year marks our 31st consecutive annual concert. Over the years we have presented many oratorios, motets, and cantatas including Bach s Magnificat and Mass in b minor, Verdi s Requiem, Mendelssohn s Elijah, Handel s Judas Maccabaeus and Israel in Egypt, Haydn s Creation, Poulenc s Gloria, Mendelssohn s Lobgesang, Kodály s Missa Brevis and original works such as Five Psalms and In Homage of Spring, composed by our music director, Trent Johnson. Last season s 30th Anniversary Concert premiered Celebration Overture by Trent Johnson and Prayer and Litany for the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi by our founding director, Philip R. Dietterich. Our concerts are made possible by the donations, ticket sales, grants, and business advertisements which we seek each year. We take pride in knowing it is because of the generosity of our musical friends, patrons of the arts young and old and local businesses that we can continue to present these significant and memorable cultural experiences. Our grateful thanks to all our supporters! Again this year, we are pleased to acknowledge grants from the Westfield Foundation and from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs. For membership information, call Janet Poland at or visit our web page at