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Deo dicamus gratias<br />
Prog ram<br />
C. A. Homilius<br />
(t7t4-t785)<br />
Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle welt<br />
Johann Pachelbel<br />
Psalm 100 Double Choir<br />
(1653-t706)<br />
Jenny Spence, Jeannette Cantor, sopranos, Erin Wishek, Evangelina Woo, altos;<br />
Noah Friedman, Kevin Williams, tenors', Rick Roesler, Steve Coggeshall, bass<br />
Outer Hebrides<br />
Martin Creen, organist<br />
Te Deum in C<br />
Theodora Bellinger, soprqno<br />
Martin Creen, organist<br />
Lamentations of Jeremiah<br />
I O vos omnes qui transitis per viam<br />
l! Ego vir videns paupertatem meam<br />
American Hymns<br />
God ls Seen (Tune: Captain Kidd)<br />
Come Away to the Skies (Tune: Exultation)<br />
Come Ye That Love the Lord (Tune: Albion)<br />
Paul Halley<br />
(b. | 9s2)<br />
Benjamin Brittqn<br />
(t 9t 8-t 976)<br />
Alberto Cinastera<br />
(t9t6-1983)<br />
arr. Alice Parker<br />
(b. r e2s)<br />
lntermission<br />
Selections from Hail, Bright Cecilia<br />
Henry Purcell<br />
Hail! Bright Cecilia (Chorus)<br />
(t 659-t 695)<br />
Hark, each tree (enny Spence, soprano', Drew Duncan, bass)<br />
Thou tun'st this world (Jenny Spence, soprano)<br />
Wondrous Machine! (Drew Duncan, bass)<br />
Hail! Bright Cecilia (Chorus)<br />
Tracy Hirschfeld, soprano; Christine fripp, mezzo soprano;<br />
Kevin Williams, tenori Tim Mclellan, bass<br />
Under the Willow Tree from Vanessa<br />
Cali Bolyard, mezza-soprqno<br />
Strekotunya beloboka (Magpie Chatter)<br />
Jantina Perry, Jeanette Cantor,<br />
Jennifer French, Libby Weber, sopranos<br />
To Music<br />
Commissioned for the 5O'h Anniversary season<br />
of the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master Chorale<br />
Samuel Barber<br />
(t 910-t 981)<br />
Ceorgy Sviridov<br />
(r 9t s-t 998)<br />
David Conte<br />
(b. I es5)<br />
Great Day (African-American Spiritual)<br />
arr. Warren Martin<br />
Jennifer French, Jeremiah Brown, Steve Coggeshall, so/oists (l9l 6-l982)
About <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master Chorale<br />
The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master Chorale (SDMC), "The Voice of <strong>San</strong><br />
<strong>Diego</strong>" by mayoral proclamation, includes I 25 of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>'s<br />
finest singers who perform more than 25 times each year all<br />
around <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> County. Now entering its 50,h season, the<br />
SDMC produces its own annual concert series in addition to<br />
regular appearances with the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Symphony and Orchestra<br />
Nova. The singers, who are all unpaid volunteers, also participate<br />
in the Chorale's active community outreach programs, including<br />
an interactive presentation on the History of Choral Music to<br />
elementary school music classes and entertainment for local<br />
retirement homes. The SDMC has made a number of concert<br />
tours throughout Europe and is planning a tour of France after<br />
the 2010-201<br />
'l season to celebrate its Golden Anniversary.<br />
In 2009, the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master Chorale was honored as<br />
the recipient of the prestigious Chorus America ASCAp/A|ice<br />
Parker Award for Innovative<br />
Choral Programming<br />
recognition of the SDMC debut<br />
performance of Daniel<br />
Kellogg's "The Fiery Furnace"<br />
with the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Symphony<br />
Orchestra.<br />
The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master<br />
Chorale's mission is to promote<br />
and preserve the art of choral<br />
music through performance, education, and diverse community<br />
outreach. Their repertoire ranges from the masterworks of choral<br />
literature to contemporary songs, spirituals, folk songs, opera<br />
choruses, and choruses from musical theatre. The SDMC is<br />
funded in part by a grant from the City of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Commission<br />
for Arts and Culture, by the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> County Board of<br />
Supervisors, and by donations from its singers, corporate<br />
sponsors, and dedicated friends.<br />
This evening's program celebrates the beginning of<br />
SDMC's 50th Anniversary Season. We are so glad you've chosen<br />
to be with us. Thank you for your support during this halfcentury<br />
of fine music-making!
Dr. Gary McKercher<br />
Music Director, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master Chorale<br />
Cary McKercher was born, raised, and educated in the rural<br />
upper Midwest, earning his undergraduate music degree at Luther<br />
College, Decorah, lowa. After a year of public school teaching in<br />
Minnesota, he spent a research year at Fitzwilliam College in<br />
Cambridge, England, singing with several Cambridge University choral<br />
ensembles including the Cambridge University<br />
Music Society conducted by David Willcocks,<br />
longtime conductor of Kings College Choir,<br />
Cambridge.<br />
His advanced degrees in choral music were<br />
earned from California State University, Fullerton<br />
(M.A.), and University of Southern California<br />
(D.M.A.). Over the past thirty years he has held<br />
college/university choral positions in Wisconsin,<br />
lowa, California, and Kentucky. In addition, he<br />
completed post-doctoral study at the American Conservatorv in<br />
Fontainebleau, France (l9BZ), and in the summer of 2004 he studied<br />
and performed with the famed Tallis Scholars at Oakham, England.<br />
While in California, Dr. McKercher sang with several<br />
distinguished choral organizations including the Los Angeles Master<br />
Chorale, the William Hall Chorale, theJohn Biggs Early Music Consort,<br />
the Carmel Bach Festival, and conducted the celebrated Music at<br />
lmmanuel concert series at lmmanuel Presbyterian Church in Los<br />
Angeles.<br />
Since I998 until coming to <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>, he has been active in<br />
Madison, Wisconsin, founding the Wisconsin Chamber Choir, while<br />
freelancing seasonal productions with area musical and light opera<br />
companies. The chamber choir has been invited to perform for several<br />
state events including the opening of Madison's Overture Center,<br />
Wisconsin Public Radio broadcasts, and state choral conventions, in<br />
addition to recording and producing several CDs.<br />
Over the course of his career, Dr. McKercher has conducted over<br />
forty choral/orchestral works including Bach's Christrnas oratorio and<br />
Mass in B minor, Britten's Cantata Academica and Cantata<br />
Misericordium, Haydn's Creation; Handel's Messiah, Ode to St Cecilia,<br />
and Dixit Dominus; Mozart's Solemn Vespers of the Confessor and<br />
Requiem, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius; Brahms' A German Requiem<br />
and Naenie, Purcell's Fairie Queen, and Stravinsky's Mass and<br />
Symphony of Psalms.
David Conte<br />
Composer<br />
David Conte (b. 1955) is currently Professor of Composition and<br />
Conductor of the Conservatory Chorus at the <strong>San</strong> Francisco<br />
Conservatory of Music, He has received commissions from Chanticleer,<br />
the <strong>San</strong> Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Dayton, Oakland and Stockton<br />
Symphonies, the American Cuild of Organists, Sonoma City Opera and<br />
the Cerbode Foundation.<br />
Conte has composed five operas: The<br />
Dreamers; The Gift of the Magi; Firebird Motel; and<br />
America Tropical; (these last two commissioned by<br />
<strong>San</strong> Francisco theater company Thick Description, for<br />
whom Conte has been Composer-ln-Residence since<br />
l99l ); and Famous, based on the book "Famous for<br />
I 5 Minutes - My Years with Andy Warhol" by Ultra<br />
Violet.<br />
He is also the composer of a musical, The Passion of Rita St.<br />
James, produced at the SF Conservatory in 2003. The Cift of the Magi<br />
has been produced by the Asheville Lyric Opera, Winnipeg Opera,<br />
Muddy River Opera Company, Creenburg American Opera, and Opera<br />
South. He has also composed songs for singers Barbara Bonney,<br />
Thomas Hampson and Phyllis Bryn-Julson. His work is represented on<br />
many commercial CD recordings.<br />
A Fulbright Scholar in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a Ralph<br />
Vaughan Williams Fellow and an Aspen Music Festival Conducting<br />
Fellow, Conte earned his Bachelor's degree from Bowling Creen State<br />
University, where he studied with Ruth Inglefield and Wallace DePue,<br />
and his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Cornell University where he<br />
studied with Karel Husa, Robert Palmer, Steven Stucky and Thomas<br />
Sokol. In 1982, Conte worked with Aaron Copland preparing a study of<br />
the composer's sketches.<br />
Conte has taught at Cornell University, Keuka College, Colgate<br />
University and Interlochen. With composer Todd Boekelheide, Conte cowrote<br />
the film score for the documenlary Ballets Rasses, shown at the<br />
Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals in 2005 (now available on DVD),<br />
and composed the music for the PBS documentary, Orozco: Man of Fire<br />
in 2006, shown on the American Masters Series in the fall of 2002. His<br />
composition The Nine Muses was commissioned bv the American<br />
Choral Director's Association for their National Convention and was<br />
premiered on March 8th, 2007, in Miami.
<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Master Chorale<br />
Dr. GaryMcKercher,<br />
MusicDirector<br />
Soprano:<br />
Alto:<br />
Julie Ames<br />
Jane Baker<br />
Theodora Bellinger Lisa Rothstein Benson<br />
Brandy Bollen<br />
Patti Blair<br />
Sarah Campanozzi Cali Bolyard<br />
Jeanette Cantor<br />
Kira Bounds<br />
Ann Clegg<br />
Eileen Brown<br />
Rebecca Cress<br />
Mary Ann Buckles<br />
Jeannine Dahl-Fogel Cindy Burnham<br />
Sharon Davis<br />
Bonnie Campbell-Davis<br />
Alice Dodd<br />
Maureen Caton<br />
Wendy S. Eastland Andrea Decker<br />
Jennifer French<br />
Carla Morand Dustin<br />
Anita Hansen<br />
Kristen Fallon<br />
Janice Hansen<br />
Priscilla Hall<br />
Patricia Hay<br />
Sonja Hershkowitz<br />
Yoshiko Higurashi-Jensen Aletha Hotaling<br />
Tracy Hirschfeld Loydene Keith<br />
Marjorie Wei n stock-HoegelNicole<br />
Kemp<br />
Haeji Hong<br />
Lynn Kerstan<br />
Patricia Hurt<br />
Sheila Latus<br />
Tatiana James<br />
Carol Manifold<br />
Melanie Lammers Susan Marberry<br />
Barbara McGowen Valerie McCartney<br />
Carolyn Moulton Judy Mowers<br />
Elizabeth Mustol Linda Musengo<br />
Janet O'Brien<br />
Noreen Newmark<br />
Jantina Perry<br />
Connie Crader Reed<br />
Elissa Pinson<br />
Chanara Casey Richmond<br />
Amanda Schrader Carolyn Rollin<br />
Jenny Spence<br />
Susan Simpson<br />
Rose Mary Taylor Merina Smith<br />
Kathryn Thickstun Leslie Stringfellow<br />
Lea Ann Walker<br />
Christine Tripp<br />
Shirley P. Ward<br />
Stacey LeVasseur Vasquez<br />
Libby Weber<br />
Marlene Walters<br />
Debora Wells<br />
Erin Wishek<br />
Molly Williams<br />
Evangelina Woo<br />
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seN DIEGo MAsTER cHoRALE<br />
Martin Green, Assistant Music Director<br />
Joanne Couvrette, Executive Director<br />
Bryan Verhoye, Accompanist<br />
Tenor:<br />
Ceorge Arcaina<br />
Tim Barnes<br />
Jeremiah G. Brown<br />
Wayne Cornelius<br />
Jon Paul Derryberry<br />
Matt Falleson<br />
Noah Friedman<br />
Martin Creen<br />
John Hansen-Tarbox<br />
K. Dean Hansen-Tarbox<br />
Carlos A. Lewis<br />
James A. Roth<br />
Allan Sathyadev<br />
Jim Stevenson<br />
Jeff Wallin<br />
Kevin Williams<br />
Bass:<br />
Kevin Adams<br />
Leland Beck<br />
Trent Biggs<br />
Matthew Bounds<br />
Bill Burch<br />
Adam Burnworth<br />
Stephen Coggeshall<br />
Tim Daly<br />
Rob Donaldson<br />
Drew Duncan<br />
Steven Fines<br />
Chris Crim<br />
Tom Higbee<br />
Robert Holst<br />
Augustine Kim<br />
KJ Ben Kim<br />
Winston Ku<br />
Christopher<br />
Landis<br />
Angel Mannion<br />
Ryan M. Martinez<br />
Tim Mclellan<br />
Steven Moreen<br />
Stephen Ott<br />
Rick Roesler<br />
Barry R. Smith Jr.<br />
Dirk Van Proyen<br />
Patrick E. walker<br />
Sibley L. Ward lll<br />
Scott Werkheiser<br />
Wen Wu
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