"David O. Thorsen Tribute Concert" program

California State University, Fullerton UNIVERSITY CREDITS

Framroze Virjee, President, California State University, Fullerton

Carolyn Thomas Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

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COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

Arnold Holland, Ed.D, Dean

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a Welcome from the Dean

Good afternoon and welcome to this very special performance as our choral ensembles, past and present, come together in celebration of a truly remarkable Titan: professor emeritus of music and founding director of Cal State Fullerton’s choral music program, David O. Thorsen. Many of you in the audience knew David personally and were well-acquainted with his immense talent, heart, and zest for life. Some of you here were his students and had the privilege of being directly impacted by his teaching and learning. While many more of you experienced David’s characteristic drive and spirit through choral performances given by his meticulously trained singers, much like the ones you are about to enjoy.

When David Thorsen began his remarkable career at Cal State Fullerton in 1960, he was charged with the enormous task of creating a choral program for the recently established Orange County State University. Then comprised of only one group of 40 singers, CSUF’s School of Music choral program now boasts over 300 singers performing in five vocal ensembles. Thanks to Thorsen’s leadership, the choral program gained national recognition and toured the United States and Europe, later performing with famed conductor Zubin Mehta. Today, the University Singers regularly perform at the Hollywood Bowl under maestros John Williams and Gustavo Dudamel and have most recently toured Spain and Australia.

As you listen to these soaring voices today, it is impossible to imagine a School of Music without their commanding vocals – a precedent set in motion by David’s visionary direction. The choral program he passionately devoted himself to for 35 years shines brighter than ever, representing a North Star for choral excellence. Headed by Robert Istad and Christopher Peterson, its graduates are highly sought after and can be found leading high school music programs, performing in professional choirs, and attending prestigious post-graduate music schools. Each of these former students carries an inspired legacy of commitment, training, and artistry that began more than 60 years ago, forever distinguishing them as Titans.

On behalf of the College of the Arts, I thank you for joining us for this exceptional performance as CSUF choral history meets its future onstage. Enjoy!

Be well, Arnold Holland, Ed.D Dean, College of the Arts

Program

CONCERT CHOIR, UNIVERSITY SINGERS, UNIVERSITY BRASS ENSEMBLE

JUBILATE DEO OMNIS TERRA Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557-1612) Dr. Robert Istad, Prof. Sycil Mathai, Dr. Christopher Peterson

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Dr. Arnold Holland, Dean, College of the Arts Fram Virjee, President, CSUF

CONCERT CHOIR GLORIA

Stephen Chatman (b. 1950)

ABENDLIED, OP. 92, NO. 3 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

HARK, I HEAR THE HARPS ETERNAL Traditional, Arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)

TRIBUTE

Mrs. Karen Thorsen McClung Daughter of Prof. Thorsen, CSUF alumna

CONCERT CHOIR

TO THE MOTHERS IN BRAZIL: SALVE REGINA Lars Jansson (b. 1951) Arr. Gunnar Eriksson (b. 1936) Elizabeth Provencio,

UNIVERSITY SINGERS

AMABILE ALLELUIA Sarah Quartel (b. 1982)

SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524-1594) Jared Pugh, graduate assistant conductor

HE’S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS

Traditional, arr. Cedric Dent (b. 1962) Jaime Reza, tenor Gukhui Han, graduate assistant conductor

TRIBUTE Mrs. Lori Loftus

Prof. Thorsen’s former collaborative pianist, CSUF almna, Artistic Director, Southern California Children’s Chorus

UNIVERSITY SINGERS

MOTET BWV 230: LOBET DEN HERRN, ALLE HEIDEN Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

TUTTARANA

Reena Esmail (b. 1983)

TRIBUTE

Dr. Galen Darrough CSUF alumnus, Professor Emeritus University of Northern Colorado

David o. Thorsen

David Oliver Thorsen, Professor Emeritus and founding member of the School of Music at Cal State, Fullerton, was born in Holland, Michigan on June 6, 1927. Dave is the son of Oliver Theodore Thorsen and Nora Arntzen Thorsen both natives of Escanaba where Dave spent his formative years on the shores of Lake Michigan with his younger sister, Norma. In 1943, when he was sixteen, Dave and his family settled in Long Beach, California. He attended and graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High. In May 1945, seventeen-year-old Dave signed up for duty in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was immediately assigned to the Naval Hospital in Corona, California where he was a medic for the next eighteen months. After an honorable discharge, Dave received music degrees from both Redlands University and Occidental College along with a California teaching credential. At Redlands, he met his then future wife, Cathrynn Ellen Bossard. Dave and Katie, as she was known, were married on July 12, 1952. They welcomed a son, Paul David, in 1954 and then a daughter, Karen Marie, in 1961. They were married for 64 years until Katie passed in August 2016.

Dave began his teaching career in Pasadena at McKinley Jr. High in 1952 and John Muir College in 1953. The following year, he joined the music faculty at Pasadena City College where he directed the choirs and taught conducting. In 1960, at age 33, he was asked to join the music department of the newly opened Orange County State College which eventually became California State University, Fullerton. Charged with building the choral program, Dave took the challenge seriously and continued to strengthen the department throughout his thirty-five years on the faculty. He conducted numerous all-state honor choirs, conducted lauded convention performances, and toured often with his choirs, both in the United States and in Europe. His efforts attracted talented singers from all over the world and expanded CSUF’s reputation as a tour de force in the choral world. Dave prepared the University Singers to perform Mahler’s “Symphony No. 2” in the final concert led by Zubin Mehta, outgoing conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1977. He also prepared them to perform Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony,” led by Carlo Maria Giulini in his first performance as incoming music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1978. Dave served as CSUF Music Department Chair (1981-1987) and led the choral department throughout his tenure before retiring in 1995. CSUF honored him by naming the choir rehearsal room Thorsen Hall.

Most summers were spent studying with well-known conductors such as Howard Swan, Julius Herford, Helmuth Rilling, and Robert Shaw to whom he was an assistant for four summers in San Diego. Other years involved organizing, teaching, and conducting at various music festivals. Dave spent fifteen summers at the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, five summers at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Germany, and four at the Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska. In addition, he was Director of Music at several churches in the Pasadena area and in Orange County including Oneonta Congregational in South Pasadena, First Presbyterian in Pasadena, First Presbyterian in Fullerton, and First Presbyterian in Anaheim where he was Minister of Music for twelve years.

Dave served as past president of the American Choral Directors’ Association (ACDA), the National Association of Church Musicians, and was active on the board of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM) where his University Singers represented the US at the first “World Symposium of Choral Music” held in Vienna, Austria in 1987. He also served

as Vice-President of the Southern California Vocal Association, President of the Choral Conductors’ Guild of California, President of the National Association of Church Musicians, and was a member of California Music Educators’ Association, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Magic was a childhood hobby and Dave fostered this interest throughout his life. He was a charter member of the Academy of Magical Arts (The Magic Castle) in Los Angeles upon its opening in 1963. After retirement, Dave returned to CSUF to teach magic classes in the Theater Department. Shortly after, Dave was invited to teach at the Magic Castle which he did for the next twenty years. He also performed onstage and when asked, “How did you do that?”, he would answer with a straight face, “Very well.” Dave is responsible for bringing in hundreds of new members from all over the world to the ‘Mecca of magicians’ during his many years of teaching there. He was also a member of the Society of American Magicians.

Dave filled his leisure time with myriad activities. He attended Sunday matinees with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, liked to read, and was a competitive game player. He favored card games like canasta, 3 to 13, and rummy tiles but was always up for a game of mahjong or dominoes. Another hobby was his love of painting with acrylic. Dave’s work was mostly abstract geometrics, known as hard edge painting, in the style of Kandinsky, Mondrian, and others. He enjoyed traveling to many European countries whether work related or on vacation. He was self-disciplined in exercise workouts throughout his life which included swimming, running, and going to the gym several days a week even into his nineties. Dave often spent quality time with his six grandchildren and supported them in their many activities by being there to cheer them on. He attended numerous basketball games, dance recitals, and plays. Moreover, he was always happy to entertain the grands as their chief babysitter when each was young. He was referred to as “magic grandpa.”

Thousands of former students of music and magic, church choir members, friends, and acquaintances throughout six decades had the privilege to experience the pleasure of working with and/or befriending David Thorsen. Dave was, by definition, a fine example of a Renaissance man, “A well-educated, charismatic gentleman, cultured in the arts.” Music was his life’s work and magic was his lifelong passion. It is fortunate for many that Dave had the knowledge and the skill to teach both. He was a born teacher and, because of that natural ability, those who knew him are all beneficiaries of his talents.

With his earthly work completed and surrounded by family, Dave passed gently, at age 94, on Sunday, October 10, 2021, in Fullerton where he had happily resided for fifty-seven years. He is survived by his son, Paul (Gail) of La Habra; his daughter, Karen McClung (William) of Fullerton; niece, Maren Killian of Portland, OR; six grandchildren, Alia Thorsen, Jericho Azizi (Komron), Ashley Robertson (Ryan), Micah McClung, Jason McClung, Katie Grace McClung; two great grandchildren, Jared and Elliana Robertson; and the many whose lives he touched.

Donations in Dave’s name can be made to the David Thorsen Choral Scholarship Fund College of the Arts, 2600 Nutwood Ave., Suite 850, Fullerton, CA 92831

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE THORSEN TRIBUTE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Aleta Braxton

Anne & Tom Henley Jill Hillary

Sandy Johnson Lori Loftus

Karen Thorsen-McClung Grace Ward

THORSEN ALUMNI SINGERS

Soprano

Sue Scott Ardrey Sharlane Hinton Blakeley Jenny Crandall Shawna Ellis

Jeralyn Meyers Lambourne Melva Joy Morrison Alto Barbara Clauson Patty Darrough Diane Elias Nancy Bliss Estes Betty Folsom Anne Henley

Joanne Mikuni Hong Valerie Maybrier Merilee McHenry Sara Minton Holly Moore-Harvey Lynne Searfoss Sue (VerPlanck) Siebels

Personnel UNIVERSITY SINGERS

Cathryn Tortell Grace Barnes Ward Bass

Dr. Henry A. (Hank) Alviani Gary Ardrey Greg Ellis Branton Lachman Tom Henley Frank Riddick William Shelly David Topping Scott Walter James Wilson

Tenor Michael Ben-Yehuda C. Leonard (Lee) Coduti Galen Darrough David Hensley Jonathan Osbrink

Dr. Robert Istad, conductor Grant Rohr, pianist Gukhui Han & Jared Pugh, graduate assistant conductors

Soprano 1

Beatriz Avila Casillas Jordan Birgy-Krasnoff Kirsten Leon* Mai Saito

Soprano 2 Corina Gonzales Gukhui Han* Jenna Hansen Thalia Moore-Shearer

Alto 1 Adena Bentley Martina Goldring Bekka Knauer* Ahlitney Lucas-Krebs

Alto 2 Hannah Black Joy Dorko Elizabeth Provencio* Jessica Salsgiver

Tenor 1 Zachary Lindquist* Sam Miller Jaime Reza Frank Watnick

Tenor 2 Abraham Cervantes Evan Banks David Melendez Jared Pugh*

Baritone

Daniel Freeman Ashton Hackwith Emilio Lopez Felix* Dylan Leisure Bass

Adam Daruvala Mitchell Sampang Fernando Muñoz* Bryce Livingston

Section Leader

Personnel

CONCERT CHOIR

Dr. Christopher Peterson, conductor Mark Salters, pianist Elizabeth Provencio, graduate assistant conductor

Soprano 1

Angel Hudak Hawkins Lilah Hernandez Alejandra Morales Nya Nulty Hannah Park Gabrielle Roberts Abigail Sorber Marissa Valenzuela

Soprano 2

Alliah Anid Gabriela Atkinson Sarah Cabrera Alyssa Cavero Irene Crain Sarah Gediman Sophia Khurana Sidney Wu Alto 1 Elizabeth Butler Katelyn Cruz Benny Fisher Julia Galvan Emily Hernandez Minji Kim Emily Morley

Amber Napoli Savana Thomas

Alto 2 Kimberly Calica Z Dickerson Karlee Dix Madeline Miranda Marilyn Negron Elizabeth Provencio Hyerin Song Melanie Whiter Korie Smith

Tenor 1

Timothy Coleman Aron Demarest Juan de Leon Josh Evans Ryan Guidotti Enrique Ortega Reinhard Siedenburg

Tenor 2

Michael Judge Ferrer Jacob Gonzalez Nathan Oelkers Anthony Osborn

Alexei Rehorn Bryce Rivera Jakob Swetland

Baritone Walker Dixon Michael Kronenberg Michael Monaghan Ryan Morris Jeremy Peña-Barrios Jack Pruitt David Pulanco Bass Cj Koehn Jonathan Ongman Ben Reyes Miles Rojo

*Denotes Section Leader

Trumpet

Roger Duran Flores Christopher G. Rodriguez Alex Santiago Corbin Starr James Teubner

French Horn Alexander Delperdang Andrew Fong Grant Laren Sophia Saldaña Adam Sevilla

CSUF BRASS ENSEMBLE

Sam Stevens Quintin Toma

Euphonium Dylan Barnum Casey Tran

Tenor Trombone Rami El-ghossaini Eduardo Madrigal Bryan Melchor Matheu Padua

Bass Trombone Carlo Bonelli Paulina Ramirez Tuba David Jimenez

Faculty & Guest Artists

DR. GARY L. UNRUH , CSU Fresno Professor Emeritus, was the Director of Choral Activities at CSU Fresno from 1984 to 1998. Retiring after 33 years of teaching and conducting on several California State University campuses (including CSU Fullerton), he spent another 11 years professionally organizing concerts and festivals in Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, China, Israel and Australia. Those events, involving hundreds of top performing groups, were held in many of the most prestigious concert venues in the world, including the Sydney Opera House (3 sold-out performances, each with 300-plus singers), the Forbidden City Concert Hall, St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome (700-plus singers with Dr. William Hall), the Moscow Conservatory, the Berliner Dom, Prague’s Smetana Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus (5 children’s choirs performing together with the Vienna Boys Choir), and many other world-class venues.

His BA and MA degrees from Occidental College included years of study with highly regarded Dr. Howard S Swan. His doctoral degree in Choral Conducting is from the University of Illinois. He sang professionally with the Roger Wagner Chorale and he performed numerous times with Robert Shaw. He served as Western Division President of the American Choral Directors Association as well as California ACDA President, and he served six years as Director of the San Joaquin District Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Dr. Unruh spent ten years on the CSU Summer Arts Board of Directors and was himself the Director of three highly successful two-week CSU Summer Arts Choral Symposiums. Dr. Unruh’s lifelong career in music has included significant international performance tours, for which he prepared and conducted more than 30 acclaimed university and church choirs on overseas concert tours. Dr. Unruh has been recognized on four occasions with Resolutions from the California State Senate. He is listed in the International Who’s Who

Faculty & Guest Artists

DR. ROBERT ISTAD is Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton and Artistic Director of Pacific Chorale. Mr. Istad regularly conducts and collaborates with Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Sony Classical Records, Yarlung Records, Berkshire Choral International, and Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Istad and Pacific Chorale are featured on an album of Tarik O’Regan’s compositions on Yarlung Records and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s live recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon for which Istad won a GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance, on April 3, 2022.

Istad has prepared choruses for a number of America’s finest conductors and orchestras, including: Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, as well as conductors Esa–Pekka Salonen, Keith Lockhart, Nicholas McGegan, Vasilly Sinaisky, Sir Andrew Davis, Bramwell Tovey, John Williams, Eugene Kohn, Eric Whitacre, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, George Fenton, and Robert Moody.

Istad is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He was recognized as CSUF’s 2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year. At CSU Fullerton, Istad conducts the University Singers, coordinates CSUF’s graduate choral conducting program, and teaches courses in conducting, performance practice and literature. Recently, he and the University Singers performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Andrea Bocelli, Kathleen Battle, recorded albums with Yarlung Records and with composer John Williams and Sony Classical.

He and his singers brought staged performances of David Lang’s little match girl passion throughout Spain in 2019. They performed a retrospective of Tarik O’Regan’s music for Distinguished Concerts International New York at Carnegie Hall in November 2015. They have performed at numerous regional and national ACDA conferences including the 2018 ACDA Western Division Conference and 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas. They also performed for the 2013 National Collegiate Choral Organization National Conference in Charleston, SC. Istad and the CSUF University Singers have performed all over the world, including a 2017 performance in Russia’s famous Glinka Cappella, a 2015 residency and performances in Paris, France, engagements at the 2012 Ottobeuren Festival of Music in Germany, the 2012 Eingen Festival of music in Germany, a 2010 performance for UNESCO in Pisa, Italy, and in 2008 at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.

Istad received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, his Master of Music degree in choral conducting from California State

Faculty & Guest Artists

University, Fullerton and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral music at the University of Southern California. He studied conducting with Dr. William Dehning, John Alexander and Dr. Jon Hurty.

Istad serves on the Executive Board of Directors of Chorus America, as Dean of Chorus America’s Conducting Academy, and is in demand as an adjudicator, guest conductor, speaker and clinician throughout the nation.

SYCIL MATHAI is a trumpeter with a global musical career spanning genres from ensembles like The Knights Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra to Broadway shows like “South Pacific” and “Mary Poppins.” He has also worked with artist Carter Burwell, the dance companies of Merce Cunningham and Mark Morris Dance Group, and movie directors Andy Kaufman and the Coen Brothers. Mathai has recorded for RCA, PBS, CBS, EA Sports, and Warner Classics, and has shared the stage with artists ranging from Yo-Yo Ma to Stevie Wonder. Recently, he saw the release of his recording with The Knights Orchestra featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and a recording of violin concertos featuring Gil Shaham.

Sycil is a graduate of Juilliard under the tutelege of Mark Gould, and Texas Christian University as a student of Steve Weger. Mathai formerly taught at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Faculty & Guest Artists

DR. CHRISTOPHER PETERSON is Professor of Music at California State University, Fullerton where he directs the Concert Choir and the CSUF Singing Titans and teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in choral music education. In May of 2019 he was honored as the annual recipient of the CSUF Carol Barnes Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2018 he received the CMEA Outstanding Music Educator Award for the Southeastern Section of California. In his thirty years as a music educator, Dr. Peterson has taught in elementary, middle school, high school, church, community, festival, and collegiate settings. He is also a published author, editor, composer, and choral arranger for Hal Leonard Music Publishers. His choral methods college textbook Resonance: The Art of the Choral Music Educator is currently in press and will be published by Pavane Publishing in Spring of 2021. Peterson has served as State Choral Representative and Southern Section President for the California Music Educators Association (CMEA), as well as the Western Division Representative for the National Association for Music Education’s (NAfME) Council for Choral Education. He has also served the California Choral Directors Association in various offices and is the current CCDA President-Elect. He has been invited to teach, judge, and conduct choirs in more than thirty US states, five Canadian Provinces, and nine countries including China, England, Sweden, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, and Holland, and has conducted All-State Choirs across the nation including Maine, North Carolina, Oregon, and California. Dr. Peterson also holds the position of Director of Music at Irvine United Congregational Church in Irvine, CA. In his “spare time” Chris sings bass with the Masters of Harmony, nine-time International Men’s Chorus Champions of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Dr. Peterson earned the Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Southern Maine, and the Master of Music in Choral Conducting performance from the University of Maine. He earned the Doctor of Philosophy in Choral Music Education and

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