Bel Canto-Stabat Mater

Richard Hynson, Music Director presents

Stabat Mater Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM Christ King Parish featuring Romelia Lupas Soprano Stacey Rishoi Mezzo-soprano Zach Borichevsky Tenor Christopher Burchett Bass and the Bel Canto Orchestra Thank You to Our Concert Sponsors:

with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts Bel Canto Chorus 1

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Stabat Mater – Quartet and Chorus Quis est homo – Quartet Eja Mater – Chorus Fac, ut ardeat cor meum – Bass Solo and Chorus Tui Nati vulnerati – Chorus Fac me vere tecum flere – Tenor Solo and Chorus Virgo virginum praeclara – Chorus Fac, ut portem Christi mortem – Soprano/Tenor Duet Inflammatus et accensus – Alto Solo Quando corpus morietur – Quartet and Chorus

2012-2013 SEASON PREVIEW Be sure to visit local artist Dena Nord as she interprets Dvořák’s Stabat Mater on canvas. The 2012-2013 Bel Canto Chorus Season (Maestro Hynson’s 25th anniversary season with Bel Canto!) will include elements of visual art at each performance. Pick up a free season preview magnet from Dena, and mark your calendars.

Announcing Auditions

Ellen Shuler, Director 2012-2013 Rehearsals: Thursdays, 6-7:15pm at MYAC

For more information, or to schedule an audition: (414) 481-8801 www.belcanto.org 2 Bel Canto Chorus

PROFILES RICHARD HYNSON, Music Director/ Conductor This season marks Richard Hynson’s 24th season as Music Director of the Bel Canto Chorus and Orchestra. In addition, Hynson has served as Music Director of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra since 2006. In demand as a guest conductor, Hynson’s past engagements include performances with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Skylight Opera Theatre, and the Racine, Sheboygan, and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras.

Hynson has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he led a large national festival chorus and orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem. In the summer of 2008, Hynson conducted the string orchestra and chorus for the Prelude Music Academy summer camp in Madison. In 2009, he guest-conducted the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in one of the Concerts on the Square in Madison. He also served as the Music Director for Gathering on the Green, the popular outdoor music festival in Mequon, WI, in 2009 and 2010, and will again be Music Director this summer.

Hynson and members of Bel Canto Chorus have performed internationally at the acclaimed Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, the Festivals of Troyes and Rheims in France, the Llangollen Festival in Wales, and the Elora and Huntsville Festivals in Canada. During Bel Canto’s 2006 tour, Hynson and members of Bel Canto International, including singers from six states, performed to critical acclaim in Ireland.

In addition to its annual concert season, the chorus is often called upon to participate in national touring performances. In July 2010, Bel Canto participated in Star Wars in Concert; and in November 2010, Bel Canto sang in the Video Games Live national touring concert. Bel Canto completed another successful international tour in July 2011, performing with several orchestras in Argentina and Uruguay.

In addition to his work as a conductor and educator, Hynson is a composer.

He has written a substantial body of published choral, vocal, and ensemble works, many of which he has recorded with Bel Canto Chorus singers. The U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants have frequently performed Hynson’s In the Midst of Life, composed in response to the events of September 11. Most notably, they presented it in New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall for the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association.

Under Hynson’s direction, Bel Canto opened its 81st season on Sunday, September 11, 2011, with United We Stand in Cathedral Square Park.

This free concert marked the tenth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, and featured Mozart’s Requiem and Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” in collaboration with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra. “The chorus sang with force and assurance, easily separating the complex vocal lines...and following Hynson’s judicious phrasing in when to hold back and when to let go.” (David Lewellen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) ROMELIA LUPAS, Soprano Soprano Romelia Lupas began her vocal studies at the age of 14 at the “Sabin Dragoi” Fine Arts High School in Arad, Romania. Under a full scholarship, she studied voice performance with Sylvia Munteanu at the Western University of Timisioara. After residency in the United States, Lupas was accepted in the voice performance program at Wayne State University in Detroit (2008), where she currently studies with Dr. Emery Stephens. She frequently coaches her opera roles with Professor George Shirley, a Wayne alum, at the University of Michigan.

Her operatic credits include Mariane in Mechem’s Tartuffe, Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and The Night Visitors, Euridice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Sister Angelica (Suor Angelica), and Bel Canto Chorus 3

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Peony (A Childhood Miracle). Other solo concert appearances include Mozart’s Missa Brevis and Coronation Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Rutter’s Gloria. Lupas is a winner of the Sabin Dragoi National Contest, Emil Montia National Contest, Szolnoc International Voice Competition, Romanian National Olympiad for Vocal Performance, Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee Regional Artists Competition, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Lupas was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Orpheus Vocal Competition, sponsored by the Middle Tennessee Choral Society. She is currently a semifinalist for The American Prize Vocal Competition.

STACEY RISHOI, Mezzo-Soprano This season Stacey Rishoi sings as Amneris in Aida (Opera Tampa), joins Lyric Opera of Chicago for Aida, returns to Jacksonville Symphony in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9, to Cincinnati Opera as La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi and as Flora in La Traviata, and to Kentucky Symphony Orchestra as Dalila in Samson et Dalila. Recent highlights include Amneris (Calgary Opera), Maddalena in Rigoletto and Madama Larina in Eugene Onegin (Cincinnati Opera); Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos (Toledo and Calgary operas); Dalila in Samson et Dalila (Nashville Opera); Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Orlando Opera); and Waltraute in Die Walküre (Washington National Opera). On concert stages she has sung with Alexandria, Atlanta, Kalamazoo, Springfield, Toledo, Virginia and Pacific symphony orchestras; Bel Canto Chorus; Fresno and Buffalo philharmonics; West Virginia Symphony; Washington Choral Arts Society; the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra; and at the Washington National Cathedral.

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ZACH BORICHEVSKY, Tenor This season has been busy for tenor Zach Borichevsky.

He debuted Alfredo (La Traviata) with Knoxville Opera and Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Academy of Vocal Arts. He also created the role of Nicholas Astor in the world premiere of Kirke Mechem’s latest opera The Rivals with Skylight Opera in Milwaukee. In concert, Borichevsky sang excerpts of La Bohème with The Philadelphia Orchestra, premiered two new works by David Cone with the Princeton Symphony, and sang the Mozart Requiem with the Symphony in C under Rossen Milanov. This summer, he will return to The Philadelphia Orchestra for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and he will make his role and company debuts as Matteo (Arabella) at the Santa Fe Festival under Sir Andrew Davis.

CHRISTOPHER BURCHETT, Bass Christopher Burchett has sung with companies such as Boston Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Kentucky Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall. This season he sings Blazes in The Lighthouse with Boston Lyric Opera, Chou En’lai in Nixon in China with Eugene Opera, Carmina Burana with the York Symphony, sings concerts in Montreal, Quebec with L’Harmonie des Saisons, Fauré’s Requiem with the Omaha Symphony, makes his Kennedy Center debut in the world premiere of Paola Prestini’s opera Oceanic Verses, sings the role of Bruno Mahler in Music in the Air with Music by the Lake, and makes his Virginia Opera debut as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. Future seasons include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the York Symphony and appearances with the BBC Orchestra in London and Fort Worth Opera.

PROGR A M NOTES by Susan Chamberlin Smit h Antonín Dvořák, arguably the most famous composer of the Czech Republic, was born on September 8, 1841 in the village of Nelahozeves, near Prague. The eldest of eight children of the local innkeeper and butcher, Dvořák helped his father in the inn from an early age, playing the violin to entertain guests. At the age of 12, he was sent to the nearby town of Zlonice to live with his uncle and to study German, as most of the visitors to the inn spoke German. However, because his German instructor, Antonín Liehmann, was also the church organist, most of Dvořák’s time in Zlonice was spent learning organ, piano, violin, viola, and music theory. Impressed with the young man’s progress, Liehmann persuaded Dvořák’s father to allow his son to pursue a formal musical education with the financial assistance of his uncle. In 1857, Dvořák entered the Prague Organ School, destined to never become the butcher and innkeeper his father had envisioned. He completed his studies at the Organ School in 1859, and joined the Komzak concert band, which played in concert halls and inns in Prague and Germany. The band was incorporated into the orchestra of the Provisional Theatre in Prague, and for several years, Dvořák was privileged to play under the baton of Bedřich Smetana, who encouraged him to write music based on folk tunes. The need to supplement his income by teaching left Dvořák with limited free time, and in 1871 he gave up playing in the orchestra in order to compose. During this time, Dvořák fell in love with one of his pupils and wrote a song cycle, Cypress Trees, which expressed his anguish at her marriage to another man. However, in 1873, he married her sister, Anna Čermakova.

The following year Dvořák entered the competition for the Austrian State Stipendium, submitting the 3rd and 4th symphonies, some overtures, and some songs. He won a significant cash prize (400 gulden) which gave him further confidence, launched new compositional projects, and prompted him to enter the competition in several subsequent years as well. After he won an even higher amount of money from the same source in 1877, one of the jurors, the famous Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, informed Dvořák that another of the jurors, Johannes Brahms, was deeply impressed by Dvořák’s music. Brahms recommended the young composer to his publisher, Fritz Simrock in Berlin, who published Dvořák’s first set of Slavonic Dances in 1878. The Slavonic Dances were overwhelmingly successful, not only in the Austrian Empire, but in England as well. A review of the Stabat Mater in the March 1883 issue of the English journal The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular states, “There is so much to say in an analysis of this very important work that we shall take up no space with mere words of introduction. Such, indeed, are not needed - Dvořák is sufficiently well known for a hearty welcome and respectful attention.”

Dvořák began work on the Stabat Mater in 1876, when his joys at his first successes as a composer were shattered by personal tragedy. His daughter Josefa died at just two days old, and as a man with deep religious beliefs, Dvořák began work on the Stabat Mater as a way to cope with his grief. He soon put aside the work to deal with other commissions, but returned to it after the family was struck another bitter blow. On August 13, 1877, his 11-month-old daughter Ruzena accidentally drank a phosphorous solution and died. Less than a month later, his 3-year old son Otakar contracted smallpox and died on the composer’s 36th birthday, leaving Dvořák and his wife Bel Canto Chorus 5

P R O G R A M N O T E S b y S u s a n C h a m b e r l i n S m i t h ( c o n t .) completely childless. They subsequently had other children, but at the time, their grief was overwhelming. As a means of working through his loss, the composer immersed himself in his Stabat Mater, completing it on November 13, 1877.

The Stabat Mater, a 13th century devotional poem, is generally attributed to the Franciscan monk Jacopone da Todi (1228-1306) although some controversy persists over his authorship. It consists of ten verses of six lines each and a rhyme scheme of AAB CCB. The first four verses are in the third person, describing Mary as she stands beside the cross. The last six verses are in the first person, becoming a personal prayer to Mary as intercessor. The first person prayer closes with the text “when my body dies, grant that my soul be given the glory of paradise.” In Dvořák’s setting of the Stabat Mater, the ten movements do not correspond to the ten stanzas of the poem. In fact, it is clear that the structure of the text is not the focus of the work at all. Rather, this is the work of an orchestral composer, seeking to express the moods and emotions of his journey from grief to acceptance, with his unshakeable faith in God always at the core. It is helpful to view the work as a whole, whose essential unity is made apparent by the use of similar material at the opening and close. The piece is balanced like an arch, with the densest material at the two bases and progressively lighter material above. The structural arch of the piece might look something like this: IV (Soloist + Chorus) III (Chorus) II (Quartet) I (Quartet + Chorus)

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The first performance of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater took place in Prague at the Provisional Theatre on December 23, 1880, conducted by Adolph Cech. On March 10, 1883, at St. James’s Hall, the London Musical Society – an amateur organization conducted by the late Sir Joseph Barnby – gave the first performance of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater in England. The performance was so successful that the composer was invited to visit England to conduct another performance of the work at the Albert Hall on March 13, 1884. For this performance, the promoter assembled a chorus of 250 sopranos, 160 altos, 180 tenors, and 250 basses, and an orchestra of 92 string players. The first U.S. performance was in New York City’s Steinway Hall on April 3, 1884. Dvořák was immensely popular in England, composing many of his larger works for English orchestras and receiving an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1891. In that same year, he was appointed professor of composition at the Prague Conservatory, but moved to America in 1892 to become director of the recently founded National Conservatory of Music in New York. At the conservatory, he was expected to take a light teaching load and serve as a composer in residence.

During this time, he began writing his best known work, Symphony from the New World, No. 9 in E Minor, which was first performed by the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in December of 1893.

In 1895, Dvořák returned to his beloved Czechoslovakia and resumed teaching at the Prague Conservatory, becoming its director in 1901. That same year he was honored in his homeland on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and became the first musician ever to be named to the Austrian House of Lords. However, despite the international recognition he had achieved, he lived in relative poverty as a result of unfavorable contracts with his music publishers. The composer was diagnosed with a kidney disease, contracted influenza, and died in Prague on May 1, 1904. A national day of mourning was declared, and Dvořák was honored with a burial in Vysehrad Cemetery, where many prominent Czechs are also buried.

Antonín Dvořák was a man who rose from humble roots as the son of a Bohemian innkeeper and butcher to become one of the most famous composers of his time.

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By Antonín Dvořák 1. Stabat Mater Stabat Mater dolorosa Juxta crucem lacrimosa, Dum pendebat Filius.

The sorrowful Mother stood weeping Beside the cross, Where her Son was hanging.

Cujus animam gementem, Contristatam et dolentem, Pertransivit gladius.

A sword of sorrow pierced Her lamenting soul, Suffering and grieving.

O quam tristis et afflicta Fuit illa benedicta Mater Unigeniti!

O how sad and how afflicted Was that blessed Mother Of the only-begotten Son! Quae maerebat et dolebat Pia Mater, dum videbat Et tremebat, dum videbat Nati poenas incliti.

How painfully she mourned, The tender Mother, And how she trembled, When she saw the torments of her noble Son.

Grieving with her Son? Pro peccatis suae gentis Vidit Jesum in tormentis, Et flagellis subditum.

For the sins of her own people She saw Jesus in torment, Subjected to the lash.

Vidit suum dulcem Natum Moriendo desolatum, Dum emisit spiritum.

She saw her own sweet Child Deserted, dying, As He breathed His last.

3. Eja Mater Eja, Mater, fons amoris, Me sentire vim doloris Fac, ut tecum lugeam.

O, Mother, wellspring of love, Make me feel the force of your sorrow, That I may grieve with you.

4. Fac ut ardeat cor meum Fac ut ardeat cor meum In amando Christum Deum, Ut sibi complaceam.

Make my heart to burn In the love of Christ our God That I may be pleasing to Him.

2. Quis est homo

Sancta Mater, istud agas, Crucifixi fige plagas, Cordi meo valide.

Quis est homo, qui non fleret, Matrem Christi si videret In tanto supplicio?

Holy Mother, do this: Fix the wounds of the Crucified Powerfully within my heart.

Who is the man who would not weep If he could see the Mother of Christ In such agony?

5. Tui Nati vulnerati

Quis non posset contristari Christi Matrem contemplari Dolentem cum Filio?

Who could not be saddened To contemplate Christ’s Mother

Tui Nati vulnerati Tam dignati pro me pati, Poenas mecum divide.

Share with me the pains Of your wounded Son Who deigned to die for me.

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6. Fac me vere tecum flere Fac me vere tecum flere, Crucifixo condolere Donec ego vixero.

Make me weep tenderly with you, Sharing the pain of the Crucified As long as I live.

Fac me plagis vulnerari, Cruce hac inebriari, Ob amorem Filii.

May I be wounded by the lashes, Inebriated with that Cross Through love for your Son. 9. Inflammatus et accensus

Juxta crucem tecum stare, Te libenter sociare In planctu desidero.

I long to stand by the cross with you, Gladly keeping company with you In your lamentation.

Inflammatus et accensus, Per te, Virgo, sim defensus In die judicii.

7. Virgo virginum praeclara

Fac me cruce custodiri, Morte Christi praemuniri, Confoveri gratia.

Virgo virginum praeclara, Mihi jam non sis amara: Fac me tecum plangere.

Radiant Virgin of virgins, Be not bitter to me now; Make me grieve with you.

8. Fac ut portem Christi morten Fac ut portem Christi mortem, Passionis fac consortem, Et plagas recolere.

Make me bear the death of Christ; Make me a sharer in His Passion And mindful of His wounds.

Blazing and scorched, May I be protected by you, Virgin, On the day of judgment.

Let me be guided by the cross, Defended by the death of Christ, Fostered by grace.

10. Quando corpus morietur Quando corpus morietur, Fac ut animĂŚ donetur Paradisi gloria. Amen.

When my body dies, May my soul be given The glory of Paradise. Amen.

Bel Canto Chorus New Member Auditions Saturday, August 18, 2012 More info at www.belcanto.org Contact us to schedule your appointment 414.481.8801 • info@belcanto.org 8 Bel Canto Chorus

B E L C A N TO C H O R U S Jill Andersen Vaughn Ausman Kevin Bailey+ Jonathon Bartos Kelly Bartyczak Alison Bayne Carol Bayne Jan Becker Deborah Betsworth Sara Bitner Eloise Black CarolAnne Bozosi Susan Brown Marc Cohen Peter Craig Elaine Ernst Christine G. Fitch Emily Fox Josefina Z. S. Gardinier Janet Gibeau Andrea S. Goetzinger+ Eileen Griffiths Lynn Gutoski James U. Hammond Brett Hanisko Carrie F. Hardel Joshua Hart Keith Heidmann Joan Henkel James Hill Bruce Himelstein Amanda Hoffman Craig Hoffmann Glenna Holstein Dan Holzmiller Jeanne Houle Ronald Houle Sally D. Hoyt

Christopher Hughes Katherine Hughes Kathleen Hughes+ Michelle Hynson+ Elizabeth Janicek Katie Kaminsky Tom Kibbe Susi Kiefer Kieth Klemp Kyle Kolberg Russell Kopitzke+ Steve Kunda Erin Laabs Jonathan A. Laabs+ Penny Laferriere Lindsay Lamm Helga Larsen Sandi Lash+ Angela Lee Alex Lesko Gary Lesko John W. Lettermann+ Loretta Jelinek Lieske K. David Lupardus Barbara L. Lyons Patrick C. Lyons Carol Lynne McKean TJ Perlick Molinari Stacey Naffah Erik Olson Sarah Pabbathi Lori Ann Pannier+ Marjorie Piechowski Alexandra Pieper Renee Pottorff John Reinardy Betty Reul David Reul

Kay Richardson Marie Romero Kerry Saver Kathleen Schilz Kate Schmitt Glenn Schumann Trinny Schumann Isaac Schwabacher Fred Sentman Joe Skurzewski Nicolas Sluss-Rodionov+ Cameron Smith Susan Chamberlin Smith William R. Smith+ Binette Solomon Philip Starr Joan Stevens James D. Stout Sheila Strock Lora Sunder Jon Szczepaniak Tim Szczepaniak Ken Tazelaar Kim Terek Mary Thiele Tom Thiele Carolyn Tramel Kristin Traut Tom Treder Fausta Urboniene Sharri Van Alstine Sarah Warran Jennifer W. Watson Nathan Wessolowski+ Hazel Wheaton Rebecca Whitney+ Jessica Wirth +Denotes Section Leader

B E L C A N TO O R C H E S T R A Flute Janice Bjorkman Linda Korducki Oboe Andrea Gross Hixon Suzanne Geoffrey English Horn Suzanne Geoffrey Clarinet Christian Ellenwood Anna Najoom Bassoon Lori Babinec Steve Whitney Horn Kristina Crago Anne Maliborski Kathryn Krubsack

Elizabeth Olson Trumpet Donald Sipe Thomas Schlueter Trombone David Lussier Jonathan Winkle Mark Hoelscher Timpani Terry Smirl Violin 1 Gerald Loughney, Concertmaster Catherine Bush Elizabeth Warne Pamela Foard Laura Caballero Christopher Ruck

Violin 2 Gina Wood Kris Hurlebaus Erik Leveille Christine Annin Heather Broadbent Alexander Ayers Viola Amanda Koch Jamie Hofman Ann Stephan Laura Rooney Cello Charles Stephan Roza Borisova Braden Flanagan-Zituon Sara Sitzer Bass Charles Grosz Michael Britz Bel Canto Chorus 9

B E L C A N TO C H O R U S O R G A N I Z AT I O N Board of Directors President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Merilou Gonzales Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Hyland Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Thiele Chorus Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kerry Saver Marc Cohen, Patrick Foran, Betty Reul, Peter Storer, Martin Tierney, Ariana Voigt Artistic Staff Music Director/Conductor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hynson Assistant Conductor/Accompanist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Hynson Boy Choirs Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ellen M. Shuler Administrative Staff Executive Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marla Hahn Development Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Whitney Patron Services Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim LaBelle Technical Staff Equipment Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James D. Stout Chorus Cabinet Kelly Bartyczak, Jan Becker, CarolAnne Bozosi, Susan Brown, Susi Kiefer, K. David Lupardus, Carol Lynne McKean, Marjorie Piechowski, Kerry Saver, Kathleen Schilz, Kate Schmitt, Hazel Wheaton B E L C A N TO C H O R U S M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T The mission of Bel Canto Chorus is to enrich the lives of its audiences and singing members through the outstanding presentation of the finest choral music, and to reach out to the community in order to share the benefits and the joy of the singing arts.

B E L C A N TO C H O R U S E N D OW M E N T F U N D Consider donating to Bel Canto Chorus’ Endowment Fund, where your gift to choral music can be appreciated for years to come. Whether it is a gift of stock or a check, simply indicate that you would like your investment to go toward our Endowment Fund. For more information, contact the Bel Canto office at (414) 481-8801.

B E L C A N TO L E G AC Y S O C I E T Y Members of the Bel Canto Legacy Society have agreed to include the Chorus as part of their estate planning arrangements. You may join them by contacting the Bel Canto office (414) 481-8801.

Vaughn Ausman and Sally D. Hoyt Margaret E. Haggerty Kerry Saver Chris and Joanna Smocke

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S P E C I A L T H A N K S TO Christ King Parish, Dena Nord, Peter Storer, Tom Thiele, Sr. Bernadette Prochaska, FSPA, PhD 10 Bel Canto Chorus

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Sandra Christensen Kay & John Crichton Ebert’s Greenhouse Village Ann Fritsch Dawn & Tom Gagliano Josefina Gardinier+ Eileen & Reese Griffiths+ Marla Hahn & David Poytinger Louise & Robert Hedrick Herbert Kohl Charities, Inc. Christine & James Hill+ Kathleen & Tyrrell Hughes+ Richard C. Johannes, DDS+ Bonnie & Kieth Klemp+ Adeline & Harvey Kohn Charmaine & James LaBelle+ Lindsay & Tim Lamm+ Barbara & Patrick Lyons+ Gwen & Jim Plunkett Connie Pukaite Margaret Robertson Tolly & Jim Rutz Marcia & Jeff Schwager Brenda Skelton-Bendtsen Kris Smith Judy & James Stoddard Helen Vettori Nicole Warner Heather Watson Tina & Scott Weiss Mezzo Forte ($100 - $249) Anonymous (2)+ Becky & James Anderson Lynne Ausman & David Croll Blanche Banerian Deborah Betsworth+ Evert Bos Dawn & Dave Brightsman Susan Brown+ Annette Byrne Don Carlson Doris Chamberlin Ellen & Michael Comiskey Nan & Richard Conser Jennifer Cooley Emily & Dean Crocker Mary & Rich Davenport Jane & Joseph Dean In Honor of Peggy Dean Rosemarie Deisinger+ Patricia Donohoe Maureen & Bill Dowling John R. Dunn East Shore Specialty Foods+ Marcella Egges Rosemary Fischer Bel Canto Chorus 11

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June Fisher Patrick Foran+ Stanley & Janet Fox Danella & Mark Friday Naomi Fritz Karri L. Fritz-Klaus & Timothy John In Memory of Dr. Robert J. Fritz Cindy Gallun Mary Gillstrom Joan Henkel+ Elna Hickson William Hoppenjan Jeanne Houle+ Ron Houle+ June Hoyt Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee+ Susan Jasan In honor of Sally Hoyt and Vaughn Ausman Denise & Keith Johnson Kasdorf Family Trust c/o Kaztex Companies Sally & Kenan Kersten Susan & Don Kiefer+ Michelle & Ed Kotnarowski+ Lynn & Cal Kozlowski Ray Krueger Penny & Bob Laferriere Helga Larsen Lynne & Thomas Lindemann Mavis & Jeffrey Luther+ Roy MacGregor Dorothy Jane Martin Sue Martin-Steiner & Tony Steiner Raquel Maxwell Megan McGovern Jayne & Roger Micheln+ Kelsey & Theodore Molinari Edith Moravcsik Mary Moscisker Mary Ann Mueller Margaret Neis-Robertson Maribeth & Chet Nielsen Old Fashioned Foods+ Heather & Jason Parsons Deborah & Jamshed Patel Jane & David Patterson Richard Pietsch Mary Pollock Kathy & Dan Pomeroy Laurel & Mark Poytinger Carol & Mark Rausch Adrienne & John Reinardy+ Nikki & Darin Riggleman Marian Roeglin Kathy Rossie Susan Rugg Mary & Michael Ryan E. Thomas Schilling 12 Bel Canto Chorus

Kathleen & Timothy Schilz+ Timothy & Molly Schmidt+ Fred Sentman Mary Smith Binette Solomon+ Patty & Brad Spaits In honor of Elaine Kennedy, Bel Canto Senior Singers Gerry & Jack Spooner Joan & Bill Stevens Ed Stieg Sheila Strock Ellen Strommen Yvonne & John Stubbs+ Barbara Sullivan Lora & Gregg Sunder+ Ken Tazelaar+ Kimberly VerHoef Ariana & Peter Voigt+ Judith & Richard Wagner We Energies Foundation Elizabeth & Carl Wege Midge Wheeler & Peter Foris Michelle & Brad Wilkins Virginia Wirth Gail Zander Friend (to $99) Anonymous J. Mark Baker+ Patricia & Chris Barnard Betsy Benes Lydia Bishop & Don Hands Mary & Daniel Boote Robert Christie Kate & Craig Coldiron Julie & Peter Craig+ Patricia & Phil Crump Ruth Danby Peggy Dean Catherine & Eric Draeger+ Geralyn Dunning Elaine Ernst Lisa & Bill Falcon Deborah Feingold Jean & John Fico Patricia Foley+ Joanne Foran Marynell Foran Constance Forrest Stanley Gabik Caryl & Wayne Galler Steve Geiermann Louis Germanotta Andrea Goetzinger+ Janet Goldsmith Linda & Ervin Golembiewski Virginia Halaska Marilyn Hartmann Keith Heidmann Mary Henszey Mary Horne June Hoyt

Mary Jaeckle Beth Janicek Marjorie Jothen Katie Kaminsky Martha Kehoe Elaine Kennedy Kind Inc. DBA Culvers Angela Lee+ Debbie & Randy LeRoy Loretta & John Lieske Thelma Mahoney Richard Masters Laurie Mather Carol Lynne McKean+ Grace Merten Sally Mills Ione Minster Eleanor Moe+ Randall Moles Linda & Edward Mordy Susan & Frank Mrnik Christine & Robert Mueller Curt Nunn Erik Olson+ Ann Panlener Lori Ann & Scott Pannier Jayne Pelton Roberta Piper Marilyn & Henry Powers Debbie Rakestraw Lee Renner Ginny Tierney Rogers Marie Romero Barb Bernhardt-Roth & Roy Roth Aida Sabulyte-Gust Hollie & Herb Schick Carol Schmitt Quenten Schumacher Glenn & Trinny Schumann Mark Schwertfeger Maureen & Jim Sieveke Mary Smiltneek Barbara Smith Julita Snell Philip Starr Esther Tito Carolyn & Chuck Tramel Christina Treiber David Unruh Pat Warchol Hazel Wheaton Rebecca & Steve Whitney Mary Wyant Betty & Tom Zamzow Marilyn & Doug Zwissler * “United We Stand” 9.11.11 Stars & Stripes Campaign Sponsor + “United We Stand” 9.11.11 Stars & Stripes Campaign Donor