Loyola University Chicago Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Presents
Christmas Chapel Concert Featuring University Chorus, Chamber Choir, Schola Cantorum and Orchestra
December 5, 2011 7:30 p.m. Madonna della Strada Chapel
Joyola! Featuring the Jazz Band and Wind Ensemble
December 8, 2011 7:30 p.m. Auditorium, Mundelein Center
C H R I S TM A S C H A P E L C O N C E R T Program for December 5, 2011 7:30 p.m. Chamber Choir Charles Jurgensmeier, S.J., director
3 Mottetti Latini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niels La Cour Hodie Christus natus est (b. 1944) The Huron Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Michael J. Oczko In dulci jubilo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carl Thiel (1861-1939) The Salutation Carol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th Century Ave, dulcissima Maria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Julian Wachner (b. 1969) Bogoróditse Djévo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Orchestra Dr. Colin Holman, director
Pastores a Belen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975) Russian Folk Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anatol Liadov Religious Chant (1855 – 1914) Christmas Carol Plaintive Song Humorous Song O Little Town of Bethlehem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Leroy Anderson Winter Concerto in F minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antonio Vivaldi Allegro non molto (1678 – 1741) Largo Allegro Momoko Takahashi, soloist Nutcracker Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Tchaikovsky Arabian Dance (1840 – 1893) March Schola Cantorum Steven Betancourt, director E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Manz (1919 – 2009) Jesus Christ the Apple Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Poston (1905 – 1987) Redeemer of the Nations, Come. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. J. Michael Thompson (b. 1953) 2 Loyola University Chicago
C H R I S TM A S C H A P E L C O N C E R T ( c o n t ) University Chorus Kirsten Hedegaard, director Gloria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Rutter Allegro vivace (b. 1945) Andante Vivace e ritmico Lindsay Maher, Lisa Sroka, Angelica D’Souza, Kelly Hof, soloists Gaudete Brass: Ryan Berndt, Trumpet, Bill Baxtresser, Trumpet, Jean McCullough, Horn, Paul Von Hoff, Trombone, Scott Tegge, Tuba Cassandra Gerber, Percussion, Tom Hopkins, Percussion, Steven Betancourt, Organ AU D I E N C E S I N G A L O N G M E D L E Y O Come All Ye Faithful.......................................................................................... arr. David Willcocks Audience join on verses 1, 3 and 4; choir only verse 2 1. O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold him, born the King of angels. Refrain: O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. 2.God of God, Light of Light, lo, he shuns not the Virgin’s womb; Very God, begotten not created. Refrain 3.Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation; Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above! Glory to God in the highest. Refrain 4.Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning, Jesus, to thee be glory given. Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing. Refrain Silent Night...................................................................................................................................... Franz Gruber Audience join on all three verses. 1.Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. 2.Silent night, holy night, shepherds quake at the sight; glories stream from heaven afar, heavenly hosts sing Alleluia! Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born! 3. Silent night, holy night, Son of God, love’s pure light; Loyola University Chicago 3
AU D I E N C E S I N G A L O N G M E D L E Y radiant beams from thy holy face with the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth. Joy to the World......................................................................................................................... arr. John Rutter Audience join on verses 1, 2, and 4; choir only verse 3 1. Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing. 2. Joy to the world, the Savior reigns! Let all their songs employ; while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy. 3. No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found. 4. He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness, and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love.
P R O G R A M N O T E S : D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 011 Hodie Christus natus est Niels La Cour’s setting of Hodie Christus Natus Est is heard with the entrance of the female voices. This music has meter and harmonies unlike the monophonic and unmetered chant. When La Cour composed this piece he designed it to feel like the original text, which has a natural meter. The metrical structure he has given this piece gives it a sense of timelessness and space. He does this by allowing the meter to change with each bar and the need of the text. In dulci jubilo (“In sweet rejoicing”) is a traditional Christmas carol. The text, a combination of Latin and German, is thought to have been written by the German mystic Heinrich Seuse in 1328. According to folklore, Seuse heard angels sing these words and joined them in a dance of worship. In his biography (or perhaps autobiography), it was written: “Now this same angel came up to the Servant (Suso) brightly, and said that God had sent him down to him, to bring him heavenly joys amid his sufferings; adding that he must cast off all his sorrows from his mind and bear them company, and that he must also dance with them in heavenly fashion. Then they drew the Servant by the hand into the dance, and the youth began a joyous song about the infant Jesus...” 4 Loyola University Chicago
P R O G R A M N OTE S (c o n t) Subsequent translations into English, such as J. M. Neale’s arrangement “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” have increased its popularity to the present day. The arrangement by the German composer Carl Thiel highlights the simple beauty of the melody and the lush harmonies that surround it. The Huron Carol The first North American Christmas carol was written by a saint -- and a member of the Society of Jesus. Now known as “The Huron Carol”, it was written by Saint John de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary to the Huron Indians, who was martyred in 1649 by the Iroquois. Father de Brébeuf wrote the Huron language Christmas hymn, “Jesous Ahatonnia” (“Jesus is Born”), which he adapted from a sixteenthcentury French folk song,” Une Jeune pucelle” (“A Young Maid”). The translation of Brébeuf’s hymn is by George Middleton, performed here this evening. The Salutation Carol “Salutation” is an old English name for the Annunciation, the feast celebrated on March 25, when Mary consented to be the mother of God. This simple setting was a helpful way of teaching the faithful the story from the Gospel of St. Luke in song. Ave, dulcissima Maria This wonderful setting of this famous Latin text is quite elegant and profound in its harmonic and rhythmic expression. The anthem opens with shimmering harmonies whose text greets the virgin Mary. As the texts emerge, the music changes to darker harmonies that carefully express the text. In general, the rhythms and harmonies become more complex with each phase shape. After the complexity intensifies, each section concludes with an antiphon, musically reminiscent of the late medieval period. “Ave, dulcissima Maria” is the fourth movement of a larger work entitled Regina Coeli.
T R A N S L AT I O N S Hodie Christus natus est Hodie Christus natus est, hodie salvator apparuit. Hodie in terra canunt angeli, Laetantur archangeli. Hodie exultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia.
Today Christ is born, today the Savior appeared. Today on earth the angels sing, archangels rejoice. Today the righteous rejoice, saying: Glory to God in the highest. Alleluia.
In dulci jubilo (text: Germany, 14th Century) In dulci jubilio nun singet und seid froh. Unsers Herzens Wonne leit in praesepio, und leuchtet als die Sonne matris in gremio. Alpha es et O.
In sweet singing Sing now and be glad. Our hearts’ joy lies in a manger and shines like the sun in his mother’s lap. You are the beginning and end.
O Jesu parvule, nach dir ist mir so weh. Tröst mir mein Gemüte, o puer optime, durch alle deine Güte, o princeps gloriae! Trahe me post te!
O little Jesus, my heart yearns for you. Comfort my soul, O blessed child through all your goodness, O Prince of Glory! Draw me after you! Loyola University Chicago 5
T R A N S L AT I O N S ( c o n t ) O patris caritas, o nati lenitas! Wir wären all verloren per nostra crimina, so hat er uns erworben coelorum gaudia. Eia, wärn wir da!
O love of the Father, O sweetness of the child! We were all lost because of our sins but He has earned us the joys of heaven. Ah, were we only there!
Ubi sunt gaudia? Nirgend mehr denn da, da die Engel singen nova cantica und die Schellen klingen in regis curia. Eia, wärn wir da!
Where are the joys? Nowhere else than there, where the angels sing new songs, and the bells ring in the King’s realm. Ah, were we only there!
Ave dulcissima Maria (Latin, 12th Century) Ave dulcissima Maria, Vera spes et vita. Dulce refrigerium. O Maria, flos virginum.
Hail, sweetest Mary, Fount of hope and life! Sweet refreshment. O Mary, Virgin flower.
Bogoróditse Djévo Rejoice, O Mother of God. Virgin Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, for you have born the Savior of our souls. University Choir Gloria was written as a concert work. It was commissioned by the Voices of Mel Olson, Omaha, Nebraska, and the composer directed the first performance on the occasion of his first visit to the United States in May 1974. The Latin text, drawn from the Ordinary of the Mass, is a centuries-old challenge to the composer: exalted, devotional and jubilant by turns. Rutter’s setting, which is based mainly on one of the Gregorian chants associated with the text, divides into three movements roughly corresponding to traditional symphonic structure. The accompaniment is for brass ensemble with timpani, percussion and organ – a combination which in the outer movements makes quite a joyful noise unto the Lord, but which is used more softly and introspectively in the middle movement. The composer later made a version with full orchestra. © Collegium Records Audience Singalong Lyrics Latin I. Glória in excélsis Deo et in terra pax homínibus bonae voluntátis. Laudámus te, benedícimus te, adorámus te, glorificámus te, grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam glóriam tuam II. Dómine Deus, Rex cæléstis, Deus Pater omnípotens. Dómine Fili Unigénite, Jesu Christe, Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris, qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére University Chicago 6 Loyola
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English Translation I. Glory be to God on high. And in earth peace towards men of good will. We praise thee. We bless thee. We worship thee. We glorify thee. We give thanks to thee for thy great glory. II. O Lord God, heavenly King God the Father almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son Jesus Christ. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
glóriam tuam
glory.
II. Dómine Deus, Rex cæléstis, Deus Pater omnípotens. T R A NFili S LUnigénite, AT I O N SJesu ( c oChriste, n t) Dómine Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris, qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis; qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram. Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris, miserére nobis. III. Quóniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dóminus, tu solus Altíssimus, Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spíritu: in glória Dei Patris. Amen.
II. O Lord God, heavenly King God the Father almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son Jesus Christ. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right of the Father, have mercy upon us. III. For thou only art Holy. Thou only art the Lord. Thou only art the Most High. Jesus Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art Most High in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
J O YO L A Program for December 8, 2011 7:30 p.m. Jazz Band Scott Burns, director Raincheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy Strayhorn (1915 – 1957) arr. Les Hooper My Favorite Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979) Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960) arr. Paul Jennings The Christmas Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mel Tormé (1925 – 1999) Robert Wells (1922 – 1998) arr. Paul Jennings Greensleeves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Traditional arr. Greg Yasinitsky Wind Ensemble Frederick Lowe, director Huldigungsmarsch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) ed. William Schaefer Fantasia on a Thirteenth Century Carol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James L. Hosay (b. 1959) Sleigh Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leroy Anderson (b. 1908 – 1975) A Christmas Festival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leroy Anderson (b. 1908 – 1975) Loyola University Chicago 7
P R O G R A M N O T E S : D E C E M B E R 8 , 2 011 A Christmas Festival Lyrics Joy to the World Joy to the world, the Lord is come Let earth receive her King. Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room. And heav’n and nature sing. And heav’n and nature sing. And heav’n and heav’n and nature sing. Deck the Halls Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. ’Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la, la la la, la la la. Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la, la la la la. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, Remember, Christ, our Savior Was born on Christmas day, To save us all from Satan’s power When we were gone astray: O tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy. Good King Wenceslas Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel When a poor man came in sight Gath’ring winter fuel. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King, Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies; With angelic host proclaim, “Christ is born in Bethlehem.” Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” Silent Night Silent night, holy night; All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and child. Holy Infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. Jingle Bells Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh, O’er the fields we go, Laughing all the way; Bells on bob-tail ring, Making spirits bright; What fun it is laugh and sing A sleighing song tonight. Refrain: Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way; Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh! (repeat) O Come All Ye Faithful O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem. Come and behold him, born the King of angels; Refrain: O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.
BIOGR APHIES Steven Betancourt is the director of music for Madonna della Strada Chapel and University Organist for Loyola University Chicago. He teaches applied organ and directs the Schola Cantorum in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. Additionally, he is Sub-Dean of the Chicago Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, an auxiliary music staff member of the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Divine Worship and a consultant to The American Federation Pueri Cantores. Steven earned his B.A. in music education from Whittier College in California studying with Dr. Frances Nobert and David McVey. His M.M. from Indiana UniversityBloomington was a double-major program in organ performance and church music. His teachers at Indiana included Drs. Larry Smith, Carla Edwards and Marilyn Keiser. 8 Loyola University Chicago
BIOGR APHIES Scott Burns is the Director of the Loyola University Chicago Jazz Band and instructor of applied jazz saxophone. Burns earned his bachelor of music degree in jazz and studio music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, graduating at the top of his class. After gaining varied professional performing and teaching experience both regionally and internationally, he relocated to Chicago to attend DePaul University, where he earned his master of music degree in jazz studies. While playing with DePaul’s award-winning jazz ensemble, Burns was a prominently featured soloist alongside legendary jazz performers Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner, Louis Bellson, and Tom Harrell, and received an outstanding soloist award from Down Beat magazine in 1999. As an established member of the Chicago jazz scene, Burns frequently shares the stage as a leader and sideman with the area’s finest jazz musicians. His wide-ranging performing credits include select dates with popular singer/pianist Harry Connick Jr., national tours with the Mighty Blue Kings, and performances with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and Chicago Jazz Orchestra. He has played at the JVC Jazz Fest, Newport Jazz Fest, Chicago Jazz Fest, Symphony Center, Kennedy Center and many other festivals and venues, and has appeared with international jazz artists McCoy Tyner, David Hazeltine, Ira Sullivan, and Ahmad Jamal. Scott’s debut CD as a leader, Passages, was released on Origin Records to critical acclaim, and features his original compositions. He can currently be heard performing in Chicago and the Midwest region. Burns has been a guest soloist and/or clinician at the University of Cincinnati, University of Illinois, Bowling Green University, and Bloomington North H.S. (IN). He has also taught at Columbia College, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, and the Northwestern University High School Music Institute summer program, as well as maintaining a private teaching studio. Susan Chou is the accompanist for the Loyola University Chorus. In 2004, she was awarded full scholarship to study with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she completed her master degree in piano performance and continued on to her doctorate degree. Chou also served as an Associate Instructor from 2004 to 2010. In addition to giving numerous solo and chamber recitals, she had worked with famous musicians such as Cliff Colnot, Julian Martin, Ursula Oppens, Miriam Fried, Victor Yampolsky and Trio Chicago and Friends. She has appeared as soloist with the Good Samaritan Symphony Orchestra, IU University Orchestra, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Symphony of the Mountains. Chou was a prize winner in the 2008 National Society of Arts and Letters Music Competition and the winner of 2011 Farwell Trust Award from Musician’s Club of Women. Currently, she is a Doctoral Candidate in piano performance at Indiana University. Kirsten Hedegaard has enjoyed a dual career as a singer and conductor. As a soprano soloist, she has been praised for her voice that “blends beautifully” (Chicago Tribune) and “soars perfectly in the upper registers” (Barrington Quintessential). She has performed numerous Bach cantatas and baroque chamber music and has been a soloist with many early music specialists including Nicholas McGegan, Paul Hillier, Ivars Taurins, Kenneth Slowik, and John Butt. Ms. Hedegaard has sung with Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque, the Newberry Consort, Ars Antiqua, the Opera Company and Bella Voce, among other ensembles. Also interested in contemporary music, Ms. Hedegaard has premiered several new works and was engaged as soprano soloist for an international tour of Louis Andriessens’s The Odyssey. This past winter she made her debut with the Grammy-award winning new music ensemble, eighth blackbird. Currently on faculty at Loyola, Ms. Hedegaard has taught conducting at Concordia University, River Forest and has conducted choirs and orchestras for various institutions including Eastman House, Chicago Children’s Choir, Gallery 37, Loyola Academy, and the University of California. She was guest conductor with Chicago Choral Artists for the 2009-10 season and is the former conductor for the Bella Voce Loyola University Chicago 9
B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .) Outreach program. In 2000, she co-founded The Musical Offering, a nonprofit music school in Evanston where she held the position of Executive Director until 2005. She also holds the position of Director of Music at the Presbyterian Church of Barrington. Ms. Hedegaard holds a B.M. from Northwestern University and her M.A. in conducting from the University of California, where she was an assistant to Paul Hillier. In 2008, she was invited to be a conducting Fellow at the Yale Norfolk Festival, studying with Simon Carrington. Colin Holman maintains an active professional career in Chicago where he divides his energies between conducting and musicology. Holman graduated from the University of Birmingham, England, and was awarded a Direct Exchange Scholarship and a Graduate Honors Fellowship to complete his Master’s degree in orchestral conducting and his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Kansas, where he was a conducting student of George Lawner and Zuohuang Chen. For two years, Holman taught Japanese and American students at Teikyo Westmar University before moving to Chicago, where he has lectured at both the undergraduate and graduate level at Northwestern University, Northern Illinois University, Wheaton College, and North Park University. Holman’s extensive conducting credits include work in opera and musical theatre, with orchestras and concert bands, and in early music. Since moving to Chicago, he has conducted many of the orchestras in the area, including a tenure with the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra and guest appointments with the Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, the Harper Symphony Orchestra, the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Virtuosi. Holman began his tenure as Orchestra Director at Loyola in the fall 2007 and was recently named founding conductor of the newly formed Fox Valley Orchestra. Rev. Charles Jurgensmeier, S.J. is currently director of the music program and associate professor of music in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago. Before coming to Loyola University, he was on the faculty at Creighton University in Omaha. For several years he performed with Opera Omaha and the Omaha Symphonic Chorus as singer, soloist, and conductor. He has given solo recitals in Holland, Italy, and Germany, as well as in Omaha, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked as a church musician and choral director while pursuing his theological studies at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and later at Loyola Marymount University during his doctoral studies. He continues to be active as a church musician as well as devoting his time and talents in the performance of early music, focusing on the choral music of J. S. Bach, Johann Valentin Rathgeber, O.S.B., and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. He is also active as a scholar, writing on Franz Schubert’s only psalm setting in Hebrew, Psalm 92, Tov lehodos, the Magnificat settings from the Vespers services and the Rural Masses of the eighteenth-century German composer, J. V. Rathgeber. He has presented papers in the United States and in Germany. Frederick Lowe conducts Loyola’s Wind Ensemble and directs the men’s and women’s basketball pep band, the Band of Wolves. Mr. Lowe earned his bachelor of music degree at the University of Michigan, after which he became assistant band director at Lake Zurich (IL) High School (LZHS). While at LZHS, Mr. Lowe directed the concert, symphonic, and marching bands and also taught music theory and electronic music composition. Mr. Lowe has pursued graduate conducting studies at Northwestern University, where he led six graduate conducting recitals in addition to guest conducting the following ensembles: Contemporary Music Ensemble; Concert Band; 10 Loyola University Chicago
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B I O G R A P H I E S (c o n t) Symphonic Band; Symphonic Wind Ensemble; “Wildcat” Marching Band; and Men’s Basketball Band. Mr. Lowe has served as guest conductor with the Singapore Festival Winds, and has made frequent guest appearances with the McHenry County (IL) Youth Orchestras. He has judged several music festivals in the Chicago area and served as a high school band guest clinician. His music analyses are published in the GIA Publications series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, in Volume I (second edition), Volume VI, and the soon-to-be released volume of solo music with wind ensemble accompaniment. Momoko Takahashi was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1989, beginning her violin studies at age three under Shiho Suzuki. At age five, she continued her studies under Ellen Martin of the Royal Academy of Music, and Valerie Hougham of The Guildhall School of Music in London. She then moved to the United States at age nine, and was under the tutelage of Yuko Mori of Music Institute of Chicago for several years before switching to Michael Hining. At age seventeen, she returned to England to attend Kings College, University of London; during that time she was under the tutelage of Maxim Vengerov. She is currently attending Loyola University Chicago under the instructions of MingHuan Xu and is a member of the university quartet Bequadri. Momoko is majoring in biophysics and physics, with minors in chemistry and mathematics.
CHAMBER CHOIR SOPRANO Drew Elliott Anna George Ashley Guinn Julie Kim Makiah Nuutinen
ALTO Angelica D’Souza Clara Flaherty Mollie Heath Claire Orzel
TENOR Andrew Ferrer Adam Noecker RJ Silva Joshua Zepeda
BASS Alex Chellberg Zach Martinez Brice Vinson
TENOR Nicholas Amatangelo James Luisi Brice Vinson
BASS David Jackson Tony Jurich Mike Masterton Charles Wilson Daniel Zemniak
S C H O L A C A N TO R U M SOPRANO Jeanne FrisbyZedan Sarah Guszkowski Margaret Hertel Cassie Krupp Joann Li Christel Richard Kathryn Rose
ALTO Jackie Gorman Katie MacKendrick Katie Pacyna Elaina Jo Polovick Marcella Perez
Joshua Lucas, Organist
CHORUS SOPRANO Grace Affetranger Morgan Barry Allison Cole Sarah Comer Nathalie Corbett Meredith Glass † Eileen Grogan Shelby Hart Chitra Iyer Jenna Janiga Heather Kita 12 Loyola University Chicago
Kathleen Lewis Katherine Little † Lindsay Maher Lynnea Malley Jaclyn Martin Amelia Mestelle Luchia Moreno Mia Morzel Makiah Nuutinen Danielle Parde † Hollis Redmon Sarab Shada †
Kristina Skul Lisa Sroka Alex Thielen Emily Tishler † Rachel Toporek Katherine Walther Lydia Wassman Alexa Welch † Kelsey Welch Meagan Westhoven
C H O R U S (c o n t) ALTO Pooja Agrawal Sarah Banks Bethany Collins Nicole Cribaro Vania Davalos-Martinez Coralia Davila Mary DeHaas Gabriella Demirdjian Angelica D’Souza Amatzia Escamilla Gomez Emily Frankman Alexis Gaines Christine Garces Lliani Gardiner Moira Geary Mollie Heath Olivia Hedstrom Kelly Hof Francina Juncaj Anna Kebe Julie Kim Spirit Kimbrough Paityn Korner Lindsey Kurdi
Samantha Mascari Kaitlin McMurry Katharine Mosher Victoria Mronga Lauren Nelson Katherine O’Neil Anna Perrotti Claudia Salvador Priya Shah Charu Singhal Christina Skopec Teresa Veselek Lindsey Wedow Jasmine Wilson TENOR Alex Chellberg Daniel Chung* Andrew Ferrer Graham Henderson Jack Holland Fotis Manousogianakis Max Senn Josh Zepeda
BASS Jeff Barack Evan Czerwonka Benton Fletcher* Ryan Hamman David Lancelle Zach Martinez Victor Reyes Ray Rivera Billy Schmitt Kevin Sisler Jonny Swift Jackson Tenclay Brice Vinson Susan Chou, rehearsal accompanist *denotes student assistant conductor †denotes Silent Night Soloists
ORCHESTR A VIOLIN 1 Sarah Bruce Mary Daly Logan Finucan Kara Fleherty Claire Gaddis Jordyn Kowalski Melissa Mandarino Meriam Ben Hadj Tahar Momoko Takahashi Sarah Zaza VIOLIN 2 Meagan Arrott Megan Carnes Paula Grzebien Paul Guziewski Agnes Kukla Molly O’Brien Sara Randazzo Allie Rosales Eunji Shin Mary Kate Styler Aleksandra Wojtowicz VIOLA Philip Arbogast-Wilson Courtney Bowe Colleen Hautzinger
Olivia Hedstrom Kelly Lavieri Rachel Wood
BASSOON Gwyn Downey Derek Kane
CELLO Sarah Anderson Geneva Costopulos Pieter De Tombe Jordan Farrell Andrea Marshall Anita Mendoza Kara Kwiatkowski Kelsey Nippert Mike Niroumandpour Marylin Palackel
FRENCH HORN Anne Hauser Jonathan Hauser
BASS Jeremy Beyer FLUTE Mazy Hofman Connor Quinby OBOE Elizabeth Greiwe Abigail Levy
TRUMPET Rebecca Brantley Edward Loy TROMBONE David Kantor TIMPANI Thomas Moushey HARPSICHORD Charles Jurgensmeier, S.J. LUC Orchestra utilizes rotating seating. Sectional Coaches: MingHuan Xu (violins/ violas) and William Cernota (cellos)
CLARINET Karolina Krawczyk John O’Hara
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WIND ENSEMBLE PICCOLO Sarah Ellis Connor Quinby FLUTE Sarah Ellis Audrey Gelb Kristin Hoffman Amy Jurczak Monica Mills Connor Quinby Meagan Yothment Rebecca Youssef OBOE Olivia Chan Bianca Grove Abigail Levy CLARINET Emily A. Caminiti Ashley Fitzgibbons Sarah Formentini Tracy Kanda Lindsey Kramer Katie Lamont
Ieva Misiunaité Amanda Newling John B. O’Hara Emily Sammon BASS CLARINET Dominique Kincaid BASSOON Maria Marchione ALTO SAXOPHONE Roxie Able Evan Czerwonka Nikki Gaseor Ciara Nicholson Brendan O’Brien TENOR SAXOPHONE Joel Thorson BARITONE SAXOPHONE Jack York
TRUMPET Jessica Drafke David Lancelle Zachary Parsons Ian Rogers Nick Thomas Kevin Trieu Chris Urbon Nikolaus Weiner HORN Ruth M. Bisek Laura Grenlin Aaron Kirkman Kyle Sullivan Aleksander Weismantel
TUBA Brittney Cabrera Mirza Krijestorac Chris Waskiewicz PERCUSSION Mason Brown Tom Hopkins Mason Jenkins Thomas M. Moushey Annette J. Nowacki Ellie Ritzer † The Wind Ensemble uses rotating seating. Players are listed alphabetically.
TROMBONE David Kantor Brian May Julian Terry EUPHONIUM Caryn Pavlak
JA Z Z B A N D ALTO SAX Nicholas Bush Addison Jacobs
Chris Urbon Kevin Trieu
Zachary Brand Benjamin Pellittieri DRUMS Stevenson Valentor
BARITONE SAX Roxanne Able
TROMBONE Erol Atac Thomas Boisseau Julian Terry Raphael Crawford PIANO *Pat Collins
TRUMPET Cory Engler Nicholas Hadjokas
GUITAR Jarrett Donoghue BASS
TENOR SAX Justin Howe Maria Marchione
VIBRAPHONE & PERCUSSION Cassandra Gerber *guest performer
M U S I C FAC U LT Y Kyle Asche Andrew Baker Steven Betancourt Scott Burns William Cernota Robert Dillon Victor Garcia Kirsten Hedegaard Colin Holman Ellen Huntington Christine Hwang Charles Jurgensmeier, S.J. Haysun Kang 14 Loyola University Chicago
Rebecca Kornick Benjamin LeClair Gustavo Leone Rick Lowe Anthony Molinaro Kelli Morgan McHugh Keith Murphy Andrew Nogal Sunshine Simmons Cameron Smith Steve Suvada MingHuan Xu
D E PA R TM E N T O F F I N E A N D P E R F O R M I N G A R T S S TA F F Chair......................................................................................................................................... Sarah Gabel, Ph.D. Director of Music...................................................................................................Charles Jurgensmeier, S.J. Managing Director....................................................................................................................April Browning Director of Public Programming.............................................................................................Jennie Martin Operations Manager.................................................................................................................... Scott Heston Management Assistants..........................................................................Andrew Dillon, Julian Gonzalez, Andrew Lehmkuhl Office Assistant............................................................................................................................... Nina Bonano Administrative Assistant............................................................................................................. Marta Wasko Box Office Manager..................................................................................................................James Dunford Box Office Staff....................................................................................... Beatrice Brittan, Gabrielle Caputo, Ysatis Hill, Sara Hubbard, Ayman Moussally, Michelle Peters, Sallyann Price, Kathryn Siemianowski, Margaret Tomasik, Rachel Toporek, Daniel Tsang, Alyssa Vitale, Ceara Zennie
MUSIC EVENTS CREW Evan Fazio, Manager of Events Cassie Gerber David Lancelle Arianna Loehr
Ashley Lundgren Monica Mills David Morrah Rachel Wood
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Jazz Chamber Recital Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 pm Mullady Theatre Classical Chamber Recital Friday, December 9 at 7:30pm Mundelein Center 14th Fl William Ferris Chorale Concert Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 pm Madonna della Strada For more information, you can visit our blog at blogs.luc.edu/artsalive All concerts are free and open to the public
ABOUT OUR DESIGNEE Harmony, Hope & Healing (HHH) is a creative and therapeutic music program offering dignity and spiritual healing to homeless and underserved women, children and men in some of Chicago’s most challenging neighborhoods: Englewood, Woodlawn, New City and the West Side. Incorporated as a non-profit in 2003, HHH works in collaboration with shelters and community outreach centers to provide therapeutic music programs for adults in recovery and transition, at-risk children and families, and low-income senior citizens as well as offering musical English lessons for non-native speakers. Using the restorative power of music, HHH programs provide emotional and spiritual support to individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and dignity. We bring hope and a healing presence to communities marred by poverty and violence. Loyola University Chicago 15
A B O U T L O Y O L A U N I V E R S I T Y ’ S D E PA R TM E N T O F F I N E A N D P E R F O R M I N G A R T S
Loyola’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts aligns the creative energies of dance, music, theatre and visual arts to provide quality arts education to students. This interdisciplinary collaboration, and the renovation of two arts facilities on the Lake Shore Campus, has inspired a renaissance of the arts on campus. This year’s public programming includes over 70 innovative events engaging several art forms. For information and events, visit LUC.edu/DFPA. Box Office Contact Information Phone: 773.508.3847 Email: BoxOffice@LUC.edu Hours are from Noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday in Mundelein 1302, and an hour before curtain on performance days. Tickets can also be ordered online at LUC.tix.com. Information The taking of photographs and the use of any type of recording devices are not allowed in the chapel during performances and are a violation of state and federal copyright laws. Tape or film will be confiscated. Electronic pagers and portable phones should be given to the house manager, who will notify patrons in the event that they are paged, if it is necessary that they be contacted during the performance. Patrons wearing alarm watches are respectfully requested to turn them off before entering the chapel. Patrons are asked to turn off portable phones before entering the chapel. Lost and Found information may be exchanged at the Box Office; please call 773.508.3847. Smoking is prohibited. If you have any questions about the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, or would like to volunteer or support the theatre program in any way please call us at 773.508.7510, visit our website at LUC.edu/DFPA, or check out our blog at blogs.LUC.edu/artsalive Thanks again for your patronage!
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