Oratorio Singers W e s tfield s m usical t reasure. Trent Johnson, Music Director. Gloria. Antonio Vivaldi. Magnificat.

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1 Oratorio Singers W e s tfield s m usical t reasure Trent Johnson, Music Director Antonio Vivaldi Gloria John Rutter Magnificat Trent Johnson Cantus Avium Solamen Est Birdsong Brings Relief to my Longing Sunday, March 18, 2012 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 Hope Hudson, Soprano Soprano Hope Hudson is gaining national recognition for her work as an advocate of new American art song. She is a frequent collaborator with composer/pianist Richard Pearson Thomas and has commissioned and premiered several of his chamber works and song cycles. In June of 2008, Ms. Hudson premiered Tom Cipullo s song cycle Of a Certain Age at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Commissioned by Ms. Hudson, the cycle won the 2008 Composition Competition sponsored by NATS. In the spring of 2009, Ms. Hudson premiered a new song cycle by Lori Laitman and Richard Pearson Thomas latest work for soprano, both commissioned by Ms. Hudson. She has been a frequent performer at the Aldeburgh Festival in England and sang the role of The Female Chorus in Benjamin Britten s The Rape of Lucretia at the Festival. She has been featured on BBC radio performing the songs of Britten, which she has studied extensively under the tutelage of Sir Peter Pears. Ms. Hudson is active in both oratorio and concert work. She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in New York, having earned Bachelor s, Master s and Professional Studies degrees in vocal performance. She is also a recent graduate of Teachers College Columbia University with a Master of Education degree and is now a candidate for the Doctor of Education in College Teaching at Teachers College. Ms. Hudson is an Affiliate Artist in Voice and an Adjunct Professor in both the Music Education and Theater faculties at Kean University. Denise Woods, Mezzo Soprano Mezzo soprano Denise Woods is a member and soloist in the choir at the Riverside Church in New York City. After graduating from the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, Ms. Woods moved to New York City to pursue a career in music. She has performed with Houston Grand Opera in Porgy and Bess (American, European and Asian tours), the Paris Opera, the New York City Opera, the Opera Theater of St. Louis, the Santa Fe Opera, the Merola Opera program in San Francisco, and the Boston Lyric Opera. Ms. Woods has also performed with numerous orchestras around the country in the symphonic works of Ravel Sheherazade, Berlioz s Les Nuit d ete, and Mahler s Symphony #2. Oratorio performances include Handel s Messiah, Beethoven s 9th Symphony, Rossini s Stabat Mater, and the Mozart Requiem. She has been a prize winner in the Toulose Competition, the New York Oratorio Society Competition, the Rosa Ponselle Competition, and a recipient of the Richard Tucker Grant. She can be heard in a recent recording of the Brahms Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes which is available on Amazon.com. Andy Lamy, Clarinet Clarinetist Andrew Lamy has received consistent critical acclaim for his sweet, colorful tone, liquid phrasing, immaculate technique, and his energetic performance style. Mr. Lamy has performed live national and international broadcasts with the Metropolitan Opera and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and is a founding member of the Halcyon Trio. He has collaborated with the Artis Quartet of Vienna, the Getty Center, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Mixed-Flock Orchestra Project, the Mad Coyote Ensemble, and is the Artistic Director of the eclectic Terra Lyrica Ensemble. His solo engagements include concerto performances with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra, the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, the Terra Lyrica Baroque Consortium, the North Shore Philharmonic, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Lamy has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, the Concordia Orchestra, and the Royal Opera of London. He has appeared as a guest teacher at The Juilliard School, USC, CSU Northridge, Occidental College, Rutgers University, University of Tennessee, University of Maine, Bard College, and the Cal Arts Institute. Students of Mr. Lamy have gone on to attain professional positions in the Milwaukee Symphony, The Pacific Symphony, and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Lamy is also active in field ornithology, currently in charge of conducting the Federal Breeding Bird Survey at Jockey Hollow National Park. He has led bird-watching and research tours for ORSTOM (L Office de la Recherche Technique et Scientifique Outre-Mer), IRD (Institute of Research for Development), Birds of The Gambia, Inc., and the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory. He is active in the study of regional variation in birdsongs of Eastern North America and West Africa. Mr. Lamy is the invenotr and creator of the precision high-frequency Lamy Bird Whistle, a bird-luring instrument credited with having produced several regional first-record bird sightings (Green-winged Pytilia, Blue Rock Thrush, Red-necked Nightjar in The Gambia, and Zebra Waxbill in Senegal) and rare sightings of secretive birds (Greater Swamp Warbler in The Gambia, Buff-spotted Fluff-tail in South Africa and a rare winter-time Wilson s Warbler in New Jersey).

3 Trent Johnson, Music Director Trent Johnson is the Director of Music of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Bernardsville, NJ and is the Music Director and conductor of the Oratorio Singers of Westfield, NJ. He is an organist, composer, pianist and conductor. As conductor of the Oratorio Singers, he has led this organization in the 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 several 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 of the Peabody Institute, Dr. David A. Weadon of the Brick Presbyterian Church, 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 and Asia. In March/April 2011 he returned from a very successful concert tour of Russia, playing on many fine pipe organs. He has performed at the International Organ Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, where he played several organ recitals and gave a master class in composition. 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 master class for students. In 2005 he also recorded the organ works of Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker for Albany Records. In 2006 and 2011 he was an organist at Radio City Music Hall in 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. As a composer, recent premieres include his Concertante for Organ and String Quartet (2011) commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, with performers organist Marilyn Keiser and the Shanghai String Quartet, his Celebration Overture (2010) for orchestra celebrating the Oratorio Singers 30th anniversary, and In Homage of Spring (2009) for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, written for the Oratorio Singers. His viola and trumpet concertos, and Elegy for Chernobyl for organ and string orchestra where 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. Other premieres include the Westfield Symphony premiere of The New Colossus (2006), the premiere of his 2 Vignettes for Quintet (2006) at New York City s Merkin Concert Hall, commissioned by the Cygnus Ensemble, and the Oratorio Singers premiere of his Five Psalms (2005) for 4 soloists, chorus and orchestra. 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 NEA, and is the recipient of the Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in composition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City. 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 Early Christian Psalms: The Gloria and The Magnificat by Paul Mack Somers, Director of Adult Education, Bay-Atlantic Symphony Important words intended to be raised above mundane human expression have been sung as part of religious expression since the earliest pages of history. So it was no innovation for the early Christian church to develop a tradition of hymnody. Indeed, they would have been considered a strange religious group had they not had singing as part of their rituals, even in the earliest days. For Christians the Gloria and the Magnificat, both with origins in Greek texts, are drawn from the New Testament book of Luke. Luke 2:14, often called the Angelic Hymn, is delivered from on high to the gathered shepherds, and consists simply of Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis (Glory in the highest to God, and on earth peace to men of good will). The two clauses of the hymn are contrasted in mood and thus often set in music as two different pieces or sections. That this text would be sung as early as the second century and probably earlier, in spite of the King James text suggesting that the angels were speaking, grows from the long history of song as elevated speech. Further additions in the form of prayers of praise, which also serve as elaborations on the Trinitarian understanding of God, were in place by 370 AD. Because the Gloria is part of the daily morning prayer liturgy, it is the text most often set to music through Christian history. Vivaldi s setting is probably the most famous as a work separate from the complete Mass. He composed three settings of which this is the second (the third is lost). Its opening motive of octaves is a conscious evocation of physics as a symbol of God the Father, for the first overtone is an octave above the fundamental pitch (D up to the next D), and as such represented the first element of the Trinity. After this motive is stated twice, two instruments respond with a motive which fills the range of a fifth (D up to A), which is the second overtone, and thus, of course, represents God the Son. So before a word is sung, the orchestra has symbolically told us the topic of the complete work: God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. Probably composed in or around 1715, it pre-dates the mature works of J. S. Bach in which he increasingly used such symbolic use of motives. The connection between the two baroque masters, whether through this Gloria or not, is no surprise when one learns that Bach avidly studied and even transcribed several of the works of Vivaldi. Yet Vivaldi s opening octaves was already so iconic, so boldly recognizable, that no one, including Bach, dared come close to imitation. Even though the vast majority of modern performances of Vivaldi s Gloria are for mixed chorus of women and men, the composer was certainly writing for the exemplary female chorus found in Venice s Ospedale della Pietà, the girls orphanage at which he was the music master. Not only were all the vocal parts sung by them, but the orchestra s players were also girls of the school. These young ladies helped support the orphanage which cared for them by singing for various occasions in the courts of the Venetian upper class. Venice had long been a cosmopolitan mercantile city. So it is hardly a surprise that the Domine Fili unigenite movement for chorus, is redolent of the snappy rhythms most associated with the music of Lully and Rameau from the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. This style in music swept Europe as surely as in architecture mini-versailles appeared in many non-french locations. But Venice itself was a place where musical innovations had already taken place. It was in St. Mark s Cathedral that, a bit over a century before Vivaldi, Giovanni Gabrieli had created surround-sound, as we might call it, by placing brass and choral forces in different places within the space to quite effectively use what is called antiphonal writing. Even with his Gloria no doubt conceived for a more limited sound-space than San Marco, Vivaldi often set up contrasting blocks of sound which could work antiphonally. The opening movement has the rhythmically busy orchestra contrasted to the almost chorale-like chorus. And in the Domine Deus, Agnus Dei movement the alto and the responding chorus could easily be perceived as each occupying a different arm of the transept of a church. The Quoniam, which openly brings back the adoration of God the Father and Son found at the beginning of the Angel s Hymn, made Vivaldi s return of the original God and Son motives an equally dramatically strong statement, though not antiphonal, certainly working like an echo of the opening. The final chorus Cum Sancto Spiritu is a double fugue (with two independent subjects) actually by an earlier Venetian composer named Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (fl ). His was also a Gloria, but for two choruses (again the antiphonal idea at work in Venice) composed in The Magnificat, or, The Song of Mary (in some early sources considered to be the Song of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist) is quoted directly from Luke 1: Gloria Patri is often attached as a conclusion.

5 The text itself can set the astute reader on a detective hunt, for it does not take long to begin to recognize resonances, even direct or near direct quotes from the Old Testament or Apocrypha: I Samuel, Habbakuk, Isaiah, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiasticus, Esther, and Genesis all can be discovered to be sources. John Rutter, certainly one of the most famous modern composers of church music, has written these program notes: The passage from St. Luke (Chapter 1, verses 46-55) known as the Magnificat has always been one of the most familiar and well-loved of scriptural texts, not least because of its inclusion as a canticle in the Catholic office of Vespers and in Anglican Evensong. It is a poetic outpouring of praise, joy and trust in God, ascribed by Luke to the Virgin Mary on learning that she was to give birth to the Christ. Musical settings of it abound, though surprisingly few of them since J. S. Bach s give the text extended treatment. I had long wished to write an extended Magnificat, but was not sure how to approach it until I found my starting point in the association of the text with the Virgin Mary. In countries such as Spain, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, feast days of the Virgin are joyous opportunities for people to take to the streets and celebrate with singing, dancing and processions. These images of outdoor celebration were I think somewhere in my mind as I wrote, although I was not fully conscious of the fact until afterwards. I was conscious of following Bach s example in adding to the liturgical text: the interpolated Sanctus (to the Gregorian chant of the Missa cum jubilo) in the third movement seems to grow out of the preceding thought et sanctum nomen eius. The lovely 15th Century English poem Of a Rose (which forms the second movement) and the prayer Sancta Maria (which the soloist sings to its Gregorian melody in the middle of the Gloria), both strengthen the Marian connection further. As any good composer would, Rutter has a wonderful time translating visual images in the text into musical images. Probably most easy to hear are the big fanfare passages which accompany Quia fecit mihi magna (For he that is mighty hath magnified me), or the strength of the Lord (Fecit potentiam) in the rigorous discipline of a fugue followed by the scattering of the proud (Dispersit suberbos) in which each section of the choir is violently thrown down the scale part by part. This is dramatic writing at its best. Rutter is not afraid to refer, either directly or by imitation, to other musical styles. When he wants to emphasize the timelessness of et sanctum nomen eus, as he mentions in his own notes, he then quotes the plainsong chant of the Sanctus, the words of which are from the Old Testament book of Isaiah, as a musical commentary on this portion of the Magnificat text, and a further reference to all the other Old Testament references. But when he wants to make sure that musicians and listeners alike understand that the text is still meaningful in modern times, there can be no mistaking the likeness of the opening to the ethos of Leonard Bernstein. Cantus Avium Solamen Est by Trent Johnson Cantus Avium Solamen Est or Birdsong Brings Relief to My Longing is in short a concerto for clarinet, bird whistle, chorus and orchestra. Though it is not a concerto in the traditional sense in which a solo instrument is front and center accompanied by an orchestra. In this case it is a collaboration between the clarinet, bird whistles, chorus and orchestra. This performance is a preview to a larger work that will ultimately contain perhaps 4 or 5 movements. The primary focus of the work is birdsong and poetry that evokes the imagery and musical landscapes on which birdsong can flourish. When approached by Mr. Lamy about this project, I began to contemplate how I might best merge birdsong and poetry to the required forces. Together we decided upon the poems, Birdsong by the 13th century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi, I Live My Life in Growing Orbits by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and the humorous children s poem Eletelephony by the American poet Laura Richards. After contemplating and meditating on these poems, the movements ultimately seemed to write themselves as the poetic language, style, rhythm and imagery of these poems entirely dictated their outcome. In these works there are actual birdsong quotations as well as birdsong inspired gestures and motives. The movements set to the poems of Rumi and Rilke make ample use of birdsong and birdsong inspired material. Eletelephony is a different matter. A favorite of Mr. Lamy s since childhood, this poem takes the overall theme into a different direction to be sure, but it so delightful (and we hope that the musical setting is also) that we are able to venture into other animal realms while still collectively remaining focused on birdsong.

6 Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi Gloria in excelsis Deo I. Gloria in excelsis Deo Glory to God in the highest II. Et in terra pax hominibus Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis and on earth peace to people of good will Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te III. Laudamus te We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you IV. Gratias agimus tibi Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, we give you thanks for your great glory, Domine Deus, Rex cœlestis Deus Pater omnipotens. V. Domine Deus, Rex cœlestis Lord God, heavenly King,, O God, almighty Father. VI. Domine Fili unigenite Domine Fili Unigenite, Iesu Christe, Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, VII. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, qui tollis peccata mundi, you take away the sins of the world, miserere nobis; have mercy on us; Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, Father, miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe Cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen. VIII. Qui tollis peccata mundi You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. IX. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris You are seated at the right hand of the have mercy on us. X. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ XI. Cum Sancto Spiritu With the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

7 Cantus Avium Solamen Est (Birdsong Brings Relief) by Trent Johnson Birdsong Poem by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Birdsong brings relief to my longing I m just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please universal soul, practice some song or something through me! Eletelephony Poem by Laura Richards Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone (Dear me! I am not certain quite That even now I ve got it right.) However it was, he got his trunk Entangled in the telephunk; The more he tried to get it free, The louder buzzed the telephee (I fear I d better drop the song Of elephop and telephong!) I Live My Life in Growing Orbits Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of this world. Perhaps I can never achieve the last, but that will be my attempt. I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years. And I still do not know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. A ten-minute intermission

8 Magnificat by John Rutter 1. Magnificat anima mea Magnificat anima mea Dominum. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, Et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo. My spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae: He has looked with favor on his lowly servant: ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent From this day all generations omnes generationes. will call me blessed. 2. Of a Rose, a lovely Rose Of a Rose, a lovely Rose Of a rose, a lovely rose, of a rose is all my song. Hearken to me both old and young, How this rose began to spring; A fairer rose to mine liking, In all this world ne know I none. Five branches of that rose there been, The which be both fair and sheen; The rose is called Mary, heaven s queen; Out of her bosom a blossom sprang. The frst branch was of great honour: that blest Marie should bear the flow r; There came an angel from heaven s tower, To break the devil s bond. The second branch was great of might, That sprang upon Christmas night; The star shone over Bethlem bright, That man should see it both day and night. The third branch did spring and spread; Three kinges then the branch gan led, Unto our Lady in her child-bed; Into Bethlem that branch sprang right. The fourth branch it sprang to hell, The devil s power for to fell: That no soul therein should dwell, The branch so blessedfully sprang. The fifth branch it was so sweet, it sprang to heaven, both crop and root, Therein to dwell and be our bote: So blessedly it sprang.

9 Pray we to her with great honour, She that bare the blessed flow r, To be our help and our succour, And shield us from the fiendes bond. 3. Quia fecit mihi magna Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est: The Almighty has done great things for me et sanctum nomen eius. and holy is His name. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt cœli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are filled with thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Et misericordia eius a progenie in progenies timentibus eum. 4. Et misericordia And His mercy is on them who fear Him, throughout all generations. 5. Fecit potentiam Fecit potentiam in brachio suo: dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. 6. Esurientes 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. 7. Gloria Patri Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. He hath shown strength with His arm: hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich He hath sent empty away. He remembering His mercy hath holpen His servant Israel. As He promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed forever. Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, iuva pusillanimes, refove flebiles: ora pro populo, interveni pro clero, intercede pro devoto femineo sexu: sentiant omnes tuum iuvamen, quicumque tuum sanctum implorant auxilium. Alleluia. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Holy Mary, succor those in need, help the faint-hearted, support the weak: pray for the laity, assist the clergy intercede for all devout women: may all feel the power of your help, whoever prays for your holy aid. Alleluia. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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14 Business Sponsors Donors continued khavensart Paintings & Photography 127 Glenmere Drive Chatham Township, NJ B. KUBICK OPTICIANS/ HEARING AID CENTER Hearing Aids, Eye Exams, Contact Lenses,Eyeglasses 110 Central Avenue Les Cheveux Salon 255 Main Street Chatham, NJ Hair & Nail Service For The Entire Family Dr. Edward O. Lubrano Family Chiropractor 118 Westfield Avenue Clark, NJ , Fax The Madrigal Singers Celebrating a cappella music through the centuries For information or to audition, call Mastapeter Funeral Home 400 Faitoute Avenue Roselle Park, NJ Mike s Mini-Maintenance Free Estimates-Fully Insured 332 Darby Lane Mountainside, NJ Plains Auto Body, Inc. Perfection Is Our Aim Foreign & Domestic Models Approved by All Insurance Companies 24 Hour Towing 2380 Beryllium Road Scotch Pains, NJ Salon 1100 Elevate Your Look! 1100 South Avenue West, 2nd Floor Tel: Web: Neil Schembre Certified Public Accountant 282 South Avenue, Suite 103 Fanwood, NJ Scotchwood Florist Designed Especially For You 265 South Avenue Fanwood, NJ STYLE, color and cut 1833 Front Street Scotch Plains, NJ STYLES Hair Salon 700 Somerset Street Watchung, NJ Suburban Optik, Inc. Michael Paone, Optician 369 Springfield Avenue Berkeley Heights, NJ Summit Medical Group Located in Berkeley Heights, Short Hills, Summit, Warren, Westfield, Bayonne, Morristown & Millburn Survivor Fire & Security Systems, Inc Service - Design - Installation 39A Myrtle Street Cranford, NJ Fax THS Travers Home Solutions Specializing in Home Theatre and Audio Installations Consultation-Instruction-Tech Support Tiffany Natural Pharmacy Brian Pinto, R. Ph. Your Prescription to Better Health 1115 South Avenue, Vine Republic 1267 Route 22 East (Corner of Mountain Avenue) Mountainside, NJ Fax Westfield Lumber & Home Center 700 North Avenue East Lumber, Hardware, Paint Lawn & Garden

15 v Friends Christoffers Flowers and Gifts 860 Mountain Avenue Mountainside, NJ Dial Electronics Electronic Equipment Repair COMPUTER SERVICES, LCD - PLASMA TVs Stereos, CamCorders Home Theater Installation 417 Park Avenue Scotch Plains, NJ v Nancy s Hair Studio 1810 East Second Street Scotch Plains, NJ Robert M. Saunders CPAs, llc 241 North Avenue West SIDELINE SPORTS Screen Printing and Embroidery 2566 Plainfield Avenue Scotch Plains, NJ Our special thanks to St. Paul s Episcopal Church in Westfield for their loan of music stands and to The First United Methodist Church in Westfield for providing us with rehearsal and performance space. Van Stevens, D.M.D., P.A. Periodontics And Dental Implants 213 Summit Road Mountainside, NJ drvanstevens@comcast.net 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

16 Oratorio Singers Soprano Louise Ayd Suzanne Beeny-Jones Gloria Brodersen Ginny Bucci Diana S.G. Crandall Wendy Daugherty Livia Galante Carol Hines Stephanie Kissenberth Donna Klein Alexandria Levie Elizabeth Noone Janet Poland Janelle Raupp Barbara Shopiro Rachel Shopiro Carolee Stewart Margaret Thompson Jill Tozier Ellen Wieting Alto Carolann Aspray Patricia Curtis Sarah Ehinger Elaine Fiorino Helen Gallant Pia Grant Kathy Havens Barbara Juarez Patricia Klatt Roberta Lichtenberg Sabine Loechner Cheryl Notari Debra Ondeyka Janette Perkins Dana Rosen-Perez Carol Schwarz Mariam Shastri Sharon Snyder Tenor Harry L. Allen Charley Asbury Robert Curtis Richard B. DeVany Michael Endy Michael Gale David Norwine Mark Norwine Donald Sapara Kerry Stubbs John Wieting Bass Larry Boyd Judy Corrello Mark Fine Herb Freeland Gary Grant David Heller Tom McGrath John R. Panosh Richard Perry Erwin Petri Kirk Robbins David Saybrook James J. Seiler Oratorio Orchestra Violin I Brennan Sweet, Concert Master Alexandra Gorokhovsky, Principal 2nd Fatima Aaziza Hector Falcon Joanna Farrer Alexandros Sakarellos Francine Storck Ming Yang Viola William Hakim, Principal Kathleen Foster Steliana Nedeva Christine Terhune Cello Amy Butler, Principal Arash Amini Katherine Cherbas Bass Jonathan Storck, Principal Flute Reva Youngstein, Principal Oboe William Meredith, Principal Clarinet Andy Lamy Bassoon Maureen Strenge, Principal Horn Andrea Menousek, Principal Trumpet Christopher Stingle, Principal Timpani Wayne Church, Principal Percussion James Neglia, Principal Personnel James Neglia Rehearsal Accompanist/Organ Yang-Hee Song