CSUN University Chorus and Northridge Singers
present
Requiem, by Gabriel Fauré
with vocal soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra
Katherine Ramos Baker, conductor
Jahyeong Koo, accompanist
Allison Allport, faculty guest harpist
Featuring CSUN student soloists (in order of appearance):
Rose Krieder, mezzo-soprano
Cassiddy Feskowitz, soprano
Jacob Alvarez-Ruiz, bass
Jeannine Allen, soprano
Dominic Lim, bass
Plaza del Sol Performance Hall
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 7:30 p.m.
I: Northridge Singers
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 (1864-65): Piano accompaniment
True holy Word, our unique hope. . .
Cast your gaze upon us. . .
Spread us with the fire of your grace. . .
Grant your favor. . .
May the hymns to your immortal glory return fulfilled!
II: Student Soloists: Art Song by Fauré
“Automne", from Trois Melodies (Op. 18), No. 3
Rose Krieder
“Claire de Lune”
Cassiddy Feskowitz
III: University Chorus, Northridge Singers, soloists and orchestra
Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (1887-1890; revised and completed in 1900)
I. Introitus and Kyrie (Chorus)
Lord, grant them eternal rest, and may perpetual light shine on them.
Lord, have mercy on us, and grant us peace.
II.
Offertorium
Domine Jesu (Chorus)
Deliver the souls of the faithful from the pains of hell, from the lion’s mouth:
Bring them into holy light, which you promised to Abraham and his descendants.
Hostias (Bass solo: Jacob Alvarez-Ruiz)
Receive our sacrifices and prayers, and grant them to pass from death to life.
III. Sanctus/Benedictus (Chorus)
Sanctus:Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts! Heaven and earth are filled with your glory. Hosanna in the highest!
Benedictus:Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!
IV. Pie Jesu (Soprano solo: Jeannine Allen)
All-merciful Jesus, grant them rest. . .grant them eternal rest.
V. Agnus Dei (Chorus)
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them rest. . .eternal rest.
VI. Libera me (Bass solo: Dominic Lim, and chorus)
Deliver me, Lord, from eternal death on that fearful day
When the heavens and earth shall be moved Day of wrath, day of exceeding bitterness. . . When you come to judge the world with fire. . . Grant eternal rest, Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them.
VII. In Paradisum (Chorus)
May the angels lead you into Paradise, May the martyrs lead you into the Holy City, May choirs of angels receive you, and, with the poor man, Lazarus, May you have eternal rest.
Members of the CSUN University Chorus
Agos, Arden
Aiello, Slater
Aki, Riley
Azpeitia, Dayanara
Badillo, Daniel
Beard, Marisa
Beltran, Kayla
Boling, Olivia
Burton, Wylan
Cantu, Lexi
Cartagena, Josh
Carvalho De Oliveira, Fernando
Cervantes, Maya
Cohen, Eliana
Der Stepanian, Allen
Dillon, James
Engstrom, Jonathan
Exler, Alyssa
Farrell, Travis
Fee, Amanda
Fralin, Curtis
Guerra-Rivera, Fantasia
Hadley, Andrew
Hall Matthew
Harris, Megumi
Headly, Shalom
Herrera, Ruby
Humphrey, Jackson
Ito, Brad
Knickerbocker, Liz
Krieder, Rose
Kruger, Dana
Lazo, Blake
Lecaine-Valdivia, Shelly
Li, YuQiao
Longacre, Sadie
Lopez, Carmen
Lozada, Esmeralda
Lu, ChenYan
Macias, Alexa
Majors, Mary
Marquez, Dianne
Meador, Esai
Mkrtychyan, Ayida
Ochoa, Nicholas
Padden, Katherine
Park, Seongho
Parker, Azi
Parker, Pyrec
Pijuan-Galindo, Alexander
Pineda, Randall
Ramos, Destiny
Rogers, Chanel
Rosenberg, Samantha
Saehle, Christian
Schlanger, Emory
Shoaf, Megan
Shousha, Melodie
Stevens, Michelle
Tang, Brianna
Telon, Leilah
Tikarya, Shiv
Vantz, Rylie
Velazquez, Kayli
Villanueva, Anthony
Walker, Albert
Warren, Nadia
Zhao, XiaoQin
Members of the CSUN Northridge Singers
Jacob Alvarez-Ruiz
Lily Berthold
Egan Carroll
Nelya Coomans
Rolando Corona
Garrett Cypher
Megan Ehrenberg
Jonathan Engstrom
Faith Esajian
Amanda Fee
Cassiddy Feskowitz
Gabriel Granillo
Xiaoshan Huang
Yan Liang
Madison McCurdy
Kristin McGinnis
Alicia Morgan
Matt Morton
Sophia Paz
Emilio Pozo
Diego Schwarzbach
John Thompson
About CSUN University Chorus:
The CSUN University Chorus is a non-auditioned ensemble of university students, including freshmen and graduate students from many departments across the university. This Chorus is comprised of music majors and many other disciplines. The music majors include: media composition, composition, guitar, piano, winds, voice, breadth studies, music education, music therapy, and a large section from music industry studies. Singers from other disciplines include: art, biology, communication studies, criminology, CTVA, deaf studies, mathematics, mechanical engineering, sociology, and theatre
The Chorus meets twice each week and performs: major choral works, such as, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and Handel’s Messiah; dramatic choruses from opera, oratorio, musicals, and film; and multicultural works from the continents of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In Fall 2021, we performed beautiful folk songs from China, Japan, and Korea. In Spring 2022, we performed epic, enchanting, and enduring works from cinema. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, in Fall 2022, we were excited to present a major choral work with orchestra and student soloists, collaborating with CSUN Northridge Singers and with the CSUN Symphony Orchestra, in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem
We welcome all students from the campus community to consider the opportunity to sing in this Chorus!
About Northridge Singers
The CSUN Northridge Singers is a select ensemble, open to all university students who meet the audition requirements. Northridge Singers is known for its standards of excellence, its commissions of special works for performance, touring internationally, and garnering several prestigious performance awards. Northridge Singers usually presents four live concerts each academic year, participates in at least one collegiate choral festival, and often hosts a high school or junior college choral festival. During the pandemic lockdown, there were several changes due to the coronavirus: Zoom rehearsals, for large group and small group; the use of collaborative media tools for peer and instructor review of individual recordings; and virtual choir audio and video recordings mastered by Soundhouse, a professional musical educational
tech company. Northridge Singers is featured twice on their page: https://edtech.ccsoundhouse.com/recent-projects
In Spring 2021 there was a virtual choral concert shared with University Chorus, with a final work that included both choirs. In Spring 2022 Northridge Singers and University Chorus had a live shared concert that featured choral music from the movies and musicals. On December 10, 2022, Northridge Singers presented a concert of Spanish music: Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Romances) by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, featuring CSUN faculty guest guitarist Dr. Bryan Fasola.
Thank you for being here this evening to enjoy this concert, and we hope to see you at our upcoming concerts!
About the conductor:
Katherine Ramos Baker, Professor, Department of Music, CSU Northridge, earned the Doctor of Education in Music Education degree from the University of Illinois, the Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree from CSU Fullerton and holds a Life Teaching Credential in Music from the State of California.
Dr. Baker has an array of professional experience teaching in higher education, high school, and middle school. Prior to coming to CSU Northridge, she was Director of Choral Activities at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho, where she was received the “Excellence in Teaching” award for the School of Arts and Sciences, 1996. Her choirs have performed internationally in the Benedictinus 2000 Festival in Rome and the Innsbruck International Choral Festival in Austria. Her CSU Northridge Women’s Chorale performed in 2007 and 2011 at universities and cultural centers in Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. She has been a board member of CSU Northridge’s China Institute and its International Education Committee, working groups dealing with educational international issues and agreements among various institutions of higher education. In August 2010, Dr. Baker made presentations at the International Society for Music Education’s conference held in Beijing, and then presented lectures and workshops to teachers and graduate students in Shanghai. During her sabbatical in spring 2012, she was a guest scholar at six universities in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. In October 2018 she was a featured guest panelist and one of the six keynote speakers for the First International Seminar on Evaluations Systems for Primary and Secondary Music Education, Shanghai, China. She has received two awards for her contributions to international education: The China Institute Outstanding Contributions Award (2012) and the Phi Beta Delta Outstanding Faculty Award (2011).
While at CSU Northridge, her work has continued in conducting/performing, music education and music technology, and assessment. The CSU Northridge’s Women's Chorale, under her direction, premiered works by California composers at CMEA conference, performed Holst's The Planets with the San Fernando Valley Symphony and the CSUN Symphony Orchestra, recorded music for the documentary film, That All May Be One, and has performed on two tours of China (2007 and 2011). Dr. Baker also has served as an adjudicator/clinician and as an honor choir conductor for state and regional ACDA, MENC, and SCVA festivals, as well as “Music in the Parks” festivals and “Festivals at Sea.” In October 2010 she presented workshops on and a solo recital of the music of Hildegard von Bingen for the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho.
Her work in technology includes participation in federal and state technology programs, web-enhanced and distance learning courses, presentations at national MENC conventions, and the publication of interactive multimedia software for Bach's Magnificat, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Mozart’s Requiem by Educational Courseware Systems.
Her experience in assessment in music includes: Keynote Speaker and Panelist for The First Conference on Assessment of Music for Elementary and Secondary Education in Shanghai, China, October 2019; presentations for AssessNet consortium, for CMEA, IUPUI, and at the International Society for Music Education (in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China). She is currently the Assessment Liaison for the Music Department and has been a member of the CSUN eLearning Community, collaborating with other faculty in the department on improving student achievement. She was the primary author of the CSUN Music Subject Matter Waiver Program document and was also a Field Reviewer of the Draft Standards for Programs in Music for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
About the accompanist:
Jahyeong Koo is a staff accompanist for the California State University, Northridge. Ms. Koo is a member of the LA Trio, as well as the founder of the Valley Philharmonic Orchestra. Originally a graduate of the Sun-Hwa Performing Arts School in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Koo received B.M. and M.M. Degrees from the University of Northern Iowa in piano performance, along with an enrollment as a doctoral candidate at USC with an Accompanying Assistantship. Ms. Koo has won numerous piano competitions and awards both as a solo artist and as an accompanist throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Having been invited to perform with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia and the Razgrad Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Ms. Koo also performed with the LA TRIO and taught Master Classes in China, as well as performing for the International Clarinet Festival in Japan and serving as resident accompanist for the International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival in Beijing, China. California State University, Los Angeles, Adjunct Professor of Music from 2004-2009, Ms. Koo is a member of the MTNA and SYMF, and currently accompanies the Pasadena City College Opera Workshop, Los Angeles Children Chorus, and the Youth Choirs at All Saints Church in Pasadena.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to:
Jahyeong Koo, our wonderful accompanist, for all her work throughout the semester and her flexibility and support of the University Chorus, the Northridge Singers, and the vocal area.
The University Chorus’ and Northridge Singers’ Section Leaders, for their time and work to make rehearsals and performances extra special.
The Voice Faculty: Dr. Hugo Vera, Professor Shigemi Matsumoto, Professor Diane Ketchie, Professor Erika Davis, and Dr. Joshua Wentz, for their support of University Chorus and Northridge Singers and the entire vocal area.
The VPAC and Plaza del Sol administration, Carey Christensen, and Beto Sistos and his stage crew, and Shawn Kolb and his stage crew, for their work on this concert.
Phil Calvert, Recording Engineer, for his recording of all of our concerts.
Vanessa Jimenez, for programs and posters.
Professor Andrew Surmani, Music Industry Administration, and Professor Jeffrey Izzo, Music Industry Studies, for their support and their areas’ financial support of the matadormusicvideos.com site that provides live streaming of concerts as well as concerts on demand.
Vice-President Diane Stephens, AS Executive Director Patrick Bailey, and the members of the Instructionally-Related Activities Board, for their continuing support of the University Chorus and Northridge Singers.
Dean Dan Hosken, Associate Dean Samantha Fields, and Department Chair John Roscigno, for their support of our music program.
The CSUN Music Department is thankful for generous donations of support from the following individuals and foundations.
Planned Gifts
Linda S. Anderson
Sandra J. Bostrom Aguado and Donald E. Bostrom
Nancy Fierro
Deanna M. Gorman (dec.)
Sherry Lapides
Shigemi E. Matsumoto and Martin Stark
Carson E. Schreiber
Richard J. Wiegand (dec.)
$25k+
The Herb Alpert Foundation
The Colburn Foundation
Nancy Fierro
Michael Gintz
Sherry Lapides
Shigemi E. Matsumoto and Martin Stark
$10k-$24,999
Rising Star Music Fund
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
Rosa Maria Belli
Synne Hansen Miller
David (dec.) and Gita Kronen
Joan Thompson
$5k-$9,999
Marilyn N. Hankins
$1k-$4,999
Linda Anderson
Aurelio De la Vega (dec.)
The Benny Golbin Foundation
Joe Goodman
Eden Miller
Michael Ryan and Kenneth Howard
Michael Sandler
David W. and Judith G. Scott Revocable Trust
Peter Rotter
$500-$999
Jonathan Braun
Jane Brockman
Brian Driscoll
Joseph Gardner
Diane Ketchie-Saar and Raymond Saar
Michael McClish