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The Thirteenth Season

2010-2011 PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S VOCAL ENSEMBLE S SHARON H A R O N AA. . HHANSEN, A N S E N , FOUNDER F O U N D E R AND A N D MUSIC M U S I C DIRECTOR DIRECTOR

PEACE — LOVE — JOY

Soaring Heights: Music of Joy and Inspiration with Jeffry Peterson, keyboard Sanctus......................................................................................................................Jan Sandström Laudate Pueri Dominum................................................... Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) *** Rejoice in the Lamb.................................................................Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) “Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues” “Let Nimrod, the mighty hunter“ “Hallelujah“ “For I will consider my Cat Jeffrey“ (Sarah Shestek, solo) “For the Mouse is a creature“ (Sandra Lash, solo) “For the flowers are great blessings“ (Paula Garcia, solo) “For I am under the same accusation with my Savior” “For H is a spirit” (Marjorie Fowler, solo) “For the instruments are by their rhimes” “For at that time malignity ceases” “Hallelujah” *** No Time.................................................................................................Traditional, arr. Brumfield Our Island Barque............................................................................................. Paula Foley Tillen INTERMISSION Everyone Sang (world premiere)............................................................................... Paul Rudoi MCA 2011 Young Composer Contest Winner *** The Giver of Stars...................................................................................................... Joan Szymko Sure on this Shining Night........................................................ Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Life Has Loveliness to Sell...................................................................................... Robert Harris *** In Praise of Music .......................................................................................................David Conte *** Encore for MCA’s Thirteenth Anniversary Season, “Peace, Love, and Joy” Peace like a River ..................................................................................................... Joan Szymko *** Moments where applause is appreciated April 9, 2011 North Shore Presbyterian Church

7:30PM 4048 North Bartlett Avenue, Shorewood WI

A NOTE FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR: MUSIC OF JOY AND INSPIRATION In thinking about this evening’s program, I take inspiration from Tom Morris, one of America’s most active public philosophers, who wrote: “Music is an art that brings us both beauty and miracles. Ancient philosophers speculated that it’s the language of creation. And it’s the paradoxically wonderful meeting place of mathematics and the soul - numbers dipped in delight. Music moves us and lifts us up. Its ratios, rhythms, and harmonies can cause your spirit to soar. Like all the most wonderful things in life, no one can fully explain it, but anyone can feel it. As Plato understood: “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”

Some of the most prominent stoic thinkers of first century Rome surmised that joy is our most fundamental natural state. Watch young animals at play. Observe small children running and tumbling outside on a sunny day. Their exuberance comes naturally. Their bodies move freely. Laughter explodes and flows. Play is creation’s celebration of itself. There is often an almost musical rhythm to it. It is an important part of the dance of life.

And then things come our way that we allow to take us far from the spirit of play and disturb and even erase our joy. The world is full of distractions and difficulties, obstacles and challenges, frustrations and tragedies that can scatter us inwardly and bring us down. But the world also provides antidotes, keys to the doors that our struggles may have locked, talismans of transformation that can restore us to our best and highest state.

One of these gifts of creation is music. In fact, music seems to put us in touch with that native joy that may indeed be our birthright. We sway, we move, we dance, and we free ourselves from the troubles and constraints all around that would disturb us. As Emerson saw it, “Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” It can refresh us deeply as it returns us closer to the source of all our energy, hope, and love.

Huffington Post, November 26, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-morris/music-and-joy_b_788663.html.

Joy on tonight’s program takes many shapes. In the first half, spiritual joy is reflected first in the exclamation of the ancient prayer “Sanctus” – “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts,” then set in the hand of Mendelssohn, “O praise the Lord, ye children, Praise the name of the Lord.” Benjamin Britten’s tour de force, “Rejoice in the Lamb,” an ecstatic outburst of joy, takes as its text a poem by mystic Christopher Smart, who sees the abundant joy of creation in all things. We conclude the first half with two different takes on humankind’s yearning for that which is called “heavenly joy,” first, with two traditional songs woven together in “No Time,” and last, with MCA’s Paula Tillen’s haunting arrangement of “Our Island Barque.”

Our second half features music by Paul Rudoi, the winner of the 2011 MCA Young Composer’s Composition Competition. For his piece, Paul selected a poem by Siegfried Sassoon on the subject of the Armistice Agreement of 1918. Pure joy manifested itself when the end of that world conflict came, as the poet wrote, “Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight.” MCA is pleased to present the world premiere of “Everyone Sang” this evening, and we congratulate Paul on his very fine composition.

Three short pieces follow, each presenting a take on joy and inspiration in its own unique way: “The Giver of Stars,” with poetry by one of America’s first 2 Milwaukee Choral Artists

A NOTE FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR: THE LANGUAGES OF LOVE (cont.) renowned female poets Amy Lowell; “Sure on this Shining Night,” Samuel Barber’s inspirational setting of a James Agee poem, again on the subject of World War I; and Chicago composer Robert Harris’“Life has Loveliness to Sell,” with the sublime poem “Barter” by American poet Sara Teasdale, in which we all are reminded to live our lives completely and with all we have.

David Conte’s major work, “In Praise of Music,” takes its text from an unfinished poem by Shelley and the well-known Ode to St. Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden. This rhapsodic work, with a piano accompaniment that is romantically inspired, is a fitting end to our program of music that finds its way in inspiration and joy. And as a special treat, in celebration of our Thirteenth Season, “Peace—Love—Joy,” we sing an encore by Joan Szymko, with its good thoughts of peace, love, and joy that we wish you, our devoted audience.

MCA celebrates its Fourteenth Season next year in splendid style, where “All Directions Lead to MCA.” You will be treated to music from all corners of the globe, in countless languages and styles, in true MCA fashion. Year Fourteen is an exciting prelude to MCA’s Festive Fifteenth Anniversary Season, with world premieres, fabulous concerts, special events, and a gala event you won’t want to miss. The next two years will be glorious—you won’t want to miss one note of them!

UPCOMING CONCERTS Waukesha Choral Union ALLBEETHOVEN CONCERT Ernest Brusubardis, III, Music Director 2010-2011 Season

Saturday, April 30, 2011 8pm Shattuck Auditorium, Carroll University

Includes Beethoven’s Choral Mass in C (excerpts) and the Choral Fantasy for piano, organ and chorus.

GIVE US PEACE

Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:30pm Oconomowoc Arts Center With Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Bel Canto Chorus

2011-2012 SEASON

HEAVEN AND NATURE SINGS

THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE

Saturday, October 15, 2011 8:00pm Basilica at Holy Hill With Hartford Union High School Concert Choir

A COLLAGE OF CAROLS

Friday, December 9, 2011, 8:00pm St. Luke’s Church, Waukesha Sunday, December 11, 2011, 3:00pm St. Catherine’s, Oconomowoc

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A B O U T T H E M I LWAU K E E C H O R A L A R T I S T S Heidi Boyd graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance.

She has recently appeared onstage at the Skylight Opera Theatre; as a concert soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; with Full Score Chamber Orchestra (Zion, IL); and at Fox Point Lutheran Church. An advocate of both new music and the art song tradition, Ms. Boyd frequently performs solo recitals throughout the greater Milwaukee region. She is the Development Manager at the Florentine Opera Company and is a student of Connie Haas.

Faith Danneil is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Resources from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Her first professional choral engagement was with Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, where she was a member of the professional choir as well as a cantor.

Faith was a member and soloist of the Cantus Angelicus Choral Society in Fairfield, Iowa, and later was part of the professional core of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. Presently, Faith is soloist at The First Church of Christ, Scientist (Wauwatosa), and is a frequent soloist at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee.

Skylight Opera Theater, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Racine Symphony, Present Music, and the Florentine Opera Company. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and teaches private voice lessons at Pius XI High School. *Marjorie Fowler is a founding member of MCA and has been a soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Florentine Opera Company. She toured Europe twice, singing in Salzburg, Milan, Prague, and Westminster Cathedral. She was on the faculty at Mount Mary College for eighteen years, where she directed two of the collegiate choral ensembles and was Professor of Voice. At present, she maintains a private voice studio in Brookfield. Marj is a soloist on the Pro Arte recording of Lukas Foss’ Psalms, with Foss conducting the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. A former member of the American Choral Directors’ Association, Marj received her Bachelor of Science in Music Education from SUNY - Potsdam, and her Master of Arts in Education from California Polytechnic Institute-Pomona. In 2008, the Wisconsin Music Educators Association presented Marj with the Michael C. George Award for meritorious service, excellence, and dedication to music education.

Jill Freese began her musical career as a child singing in Milwaukee’s Schola Leslie Fitzwater has Cantorum. Since that been performing in time, she has the Milwaukee area performed with a for more than twenty variety of local years, and has had a musical and theatre groups both in varied career encompassing opera, Milwaukee and in Indiana. Jill received the Bachelor of Arts degree from music theater, straight theater, mime, and cabaret. She Valparaiso University, where she sang under the direction of Eldon Balko, and has performed with most of the major the Master of Science degree from the groups in the area, including the 4 Milwaukee Choral Artists

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Jill is a professional speech pathologist at Easter Seals. *Paula Garcia is a founding member* of MCA and has been singing with Milwaukee area choral groups for nearly forty years.

She sang with the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus and Chamber Singers for ten years and was a member of the professional core. She was also a performer and soloist with the Master Singers of Milwaukee. She has performed with the Skylight and has enjoyed many feature roles with area community theater companies.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from the University of Wisconsin – Stout, but has worked in the financial services industry for the past twenty-eight years, the last seven with Northwestern Mutual.

Kerry Hart received her Master’s degree from Northwestern University. Since that time, Kerry has sung with such companies as Florentine Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, Opera for the Young, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and Bel Canto Chorus. Kerry is also a busy pianist, and has served as an accompanist with Florentine Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, Opera for the Young, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Waukesha Choral Union, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently teaching voice at Lawrence University in Appleton WI. *Charmaine LaBelle is a founding member* of MCA. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of

Wisconsin - Madison and her Master of Music degree from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Charmaine is an elementary general music specialist for the Mukwonago Public Schools. She has been a member of the professional core of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, a soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and can be heard as soprano soloist on the Pro Arte recording of Lukas Foss’ Psalms.

Sandi Lash is a recent graduate from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, where she received her bachelor’s degree in music with voice emphasis. In addition to UWM performing ensembles, she has performed with the Bel Canto Chorus and the Kalliope Vocal Arts. Roles performed include “Venus” in Orpheus in the Underworld, “Miss Todd” in Old Maid and the Thief, and “Aunt Sue” in Carlisle Floyd’s Slow Dusk. She will be a featured artist in the Kalliope Vocal Arts American Composers recital in May. Mary MacDonald earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. She is a music specialist with the West Allis-West Milwaukee Public Schools. She sang for ten years with the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, the Vocal Arts Consort, and the Wisconsin Conservatory Chamber Singers, including solo performances in their concerts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra. Mary has performed as soloist and recitalist in the Milwaukee and Racine area, and was presented as a young artist by the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee.

She studied and performed lieder for two summers at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

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A B O U T T H E M I LWAU K E E C H O R A L A R T I S T S ( c o n t .) *Cynthia Matchette is a founding member* of MCA. Cynthia graduated from Westminster Choir College, where she was a member of the world-famous Westminster and Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi choruses. She has also sung under such renowned conductors as Bernstein, Levine, Boulez, Penderecki, Keene, Muti, Chailly, and Conlin. In addition, Cynthia has sung with the Dayton, Cincinnati and Florentine Opera Companies, and is currently a section leader and soprano soloist at North Shore Congregational Church.

Cynthia is the president of her own business, SmArt Sales, a sales representation firm that specializes in servicing the giftware market.

Christine Papania received her Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. At IU she studied with Mary Ann Hart, Alan Bennett, and Paul Elliott, and was a member of University Singers, University Chorale, Pro Arte Singers, and Concentus. While at IU, Christine was heavily involved in the Early Music Institute, and appeared as a soloist with the Pro Arte Singers and Concentus.

New to the Milwaukee area, Christine is presently a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Chorus and MCA, and is the Advertising Assistant at Hal Leonard Corporation.

Karen Ann Peters holds the Master of Music degree in organ from Concordia University and the Master of Education: (Mathematics Emphasis) degree from Whitewater, WI. She is currently celebrating her fiftieth year as church organist, currently serving at Living Christ Lutheran Church in Germantown, WI. She is also a music minister at Good Shepherd 6 Milwaukee Choral Artists

Catholic Church in Menomonee Falls, WI. Her singing experience includes memberships in the Community Chorus in Hales Corners, WI and the Milwaukee Choristers under the direction of Dr. James Kinchen. She recently performed Verdi’s “Requiem” in Brookfield, WI under the direction of Rick Hynson and “The Nguza Saba Suite” by Glenn Edwards Burleigh at Lincoln Center, New York, under the direction of Dr. James Kinchen. She serves on the Board of Directors of Early Music Now. She is the president and owner of an independent property assessment company.

Meaghan Reider graduated with a Master of Music in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Iowa. During her studies as an undergraduate, Meaghan performed in the top university choral ensemble Kantorei, as well as the University of Iowa Opera Theatre and the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. While receiving her Masters, she sang with the UWM Concert Chorale, UWM Opera Theatre, and was a soloist with the 2007 UWM Orchestra. Meaghan has previously served as the soprano section leader at North Shore Presbyterian Church and was a scholarship recipient and soloist with the Master Singers of Milwaukee. This season, Meaghan will be performing with Chicago’s Bella Voce and with the Milwaukee Choral Artists.

Jacqueline Rivera is a graduate of the University of WisconsinMilwaukee with degrees in choral and general music education. She has been a member of the UWM University Choir, Women’s Chorus, Gospel Choir, and Concert Chorale, and previously

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Jacqueline has taught in the school districts of Brown Deer and University Lake School, and recently sang under the direction of conductor/composer Eric Whitacre at the Lincoln Center in New York City.

Sarah Shestak completed her Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. At UWM she studied with Teresa Seidl, performed with the Opera Theater, sang in the Concert Chorale, and served as Teaching Assistant in the Voice Department. Sarah completed her Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude at Viterbo University, where she studied with Jean Saladino. Her opera credits include Eurydice (ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD), Laetitia (THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF), Madame Goldentrill (THE IMPRESARIO), and Queen of the Night (THE MAGIC FLUTE).

In recent years, Sarah has received 1st place at the Wisconsin NATS Auditions and an Encouragement Award from the Wisconsin District MET Auditions.

Currently, Sarah is the soprano section leader at North Shore Presbyterian Church in Shorewood and teaches voice lessons at JS Cable Music Studio in Riverwest.

Jennifer Sweetland is a graduate of the University of WisconsinMilwaukee with a BFA in Music Education and Vocal Performance. In addition to singing with the UWM Opera and Choirs, she has performed with groups such as the Milwaukee Children’s Choir and the Florentine Opera. She is the Preschool/K4 Teacher, Music Specialist, and Theater Director at St. Sava Orthodox School, as well as the director of children’s music at North

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master teacher throughout the United States and in Europe, Hansen has *Paula Foley Tillen conducted the Romanian National is a founding Radio Choir (Bucharest), the Gächinger member* of MCA. Kantorei and Bach Collegium-Stuttgart, Paula is director of the Stockholm Conservatory Chamber music at Choir, the Moldavian and Oltenian Southminster Philharmonic Choirs (Iasì and Craiova, Presbyterian Church Romania), and the University of in Waukesha, serves Regensburg (Germany) Symphony as musical director for the Musical Orchestra. Hansen holds a Doctorate of Mainstage Series at Sunset Playhouse Musical Arts in Conducting from the (Elm Grove), and is an adjunct music University of Missouri-Kansas City faculty member at Pius XI High School. Conservatory of Music. She is Professor Her compositions and arrangements and Director of Choral Activities at the have been performed by choral groups University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee throughout the United States and and Chair of the Graduate Choral Canada, and are found in the program. Author of the book Helmuth catalogues of Hal Leonard Publishing, Rilling: Conductor— Teacher, Hansen is Santa Barbara Music Press, and Treble a member of the Editorial Board of The Clef Music Press.

Choral Journal, where she is editor of “On the Voice,” dedicated to issues of Jeffry Peterson is vocal pedagogy and health. Her best known for his chapter “Women, Conductors, and the work in the field of Tenure Process: What’s Up in the vocal accompaniAcademy” is part of the new book ment and has perWisdom, Wit, and Will: Women Choral formed throughout Conductors on their Art, published in the United States 2009 by GIA Press. Her latest with such celebrated monograph, On the Voice: ACDA, singers as Yolanda Marculescu-Stern, Teacher Preparation, and Voice Training Erie Mills, Evelyn Lear, and Kurt Ollmann. in the Choral Classroom (1959-2009), Recording credits include collaborawill be published this year by the tions with Yolanda Marculescu-Stern, an American Choral Directors’ Association. album of American flute music with Her professional memberships include Robert Goodberg, and the Something NATS (National Association of Teachers to Sing About choral anthology for G. of Singing), ACDA (American Choral Schirmer. His recent CD with the reDirectors Association,) Chorus America, nowned soprano Erie Mills, Always It’s IFCM (International Federation of Spring (VAI audio), includes three songs Choral Music), MENC (Music Educators

by John Downey. Peterson is associate National Conference), and The professor of piano at the University of VoiceCare Network. Locally, Hansen Wisconsin - Milwaukee and often perserves on the Board of Directors for the forms with the UWM voice faculty. He Southeast Wisconsin Chapter of the founded UWM’s Vocal Arts Series and National Voice Foundation, having chairs the graduate program in vocal previously served Early Music Now and accompanying. the Milwaukee Children’s Chorus. In 2003, she was honored by the Sharon Hansen is Milwaukee Civic Music Association for founder and music Excellence in Choral Music. She was the director of the recent recipient of the 2010 Alumni Milwaukee Choral Achievement Award from the HixsonArtists. Widely Lied College of Fine and Performing known as a Arts at the University of Nebraskaconductor and Lincoln.

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H I S TO R Y Now in its thirteenth season, the Milwaukee Choral Artists (MCA) is Wisconsin’s premier professional choral ensemble, and one of only five professional women’s choral ensembles in the country. With its signature lush sound, MCA brings a distinctive repertory of choral and vocal masterworks—including well-known pieces, new music, seldom-performed works, and music of diverse cultures and historical periods—to concert audiences throughout the region.

Founded in 1998 as a chamber ensemble comprised of professional solo singers, MCA occupies a singular position of excellence in the city, state, and region. In December 2007, Tom Strini, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Music Critic, named the Milwaukee Choral Artists—Present Music collaborative performance of Olivier Messiaen’s “Trois Petites Liturgies” (with MCA’s Sharon Hansen conducting) the #1 Performing Arts Event of the Year. Two years previously, MCA’s “Liederabend” was named the Journal Sentinel’s #1 performing arts event of 2005; of the top ten events named that year, MCA held two positions.

Regularly hailed for its imaginative programming, the group has quickly established itself in the mainstream of professional music making both within and beyond Milwaukee. Milwaukee Choral Artists enjoys regular appearances with Present Music, Milwaukee’s internationally acclaimed contemporary music ensemble. In 2006, the Milwaukee Choral Artists joined Present Music in the world premiere of Kamran Ince’s “Hammers and Whistlers,” which Journal-Sentinel music critic Tom Strini selected as one of his “Top Ten Performing Arts Events” for the year. Under Hansen’s baton, the two ensembles also presented the 2005 world premiere of Milwaukee-born composer Daron Hagen’s “Flight Music,” a sixmovement work with texts by Amelia Earhart, named by Strini as “Best Musical Premiere of 2005.” In November 2004, MCA and Present Music performed the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Brant’s “Wind, Water, Clouds and Fire,” which Tom Strini also selected as one of his “Top Ten Classical Music Events for 2004.

Equally well versed in early music, the Milwaukee Choral Artists has performed twice with the internationally acclaimed The Boston Camerata, presented by Early Music Now (the Midwest’s renowned early music presenting organization.) In May 2009, MCA was heard once again on the Early Music Now stage when they joined San Francisco’s professional female vocal ensemble KITKA in a collaborative concert. MCA has also performed as part of the Fine Arts Concert Series at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Milwaukee) and St. James Cathedral (Chicago), at the national convention of Catholic Cathedral Musicians, and in state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors’ Association. Its first professional CD, SKY-BORN MUSIC, was released in February 2010.

The Milwaukee Choral Artists performs three regular season concerts each year at historic venues throughout the Milwaukee area. Committed to presenting music from diverse cultures, the ensemble has performed music in twenty-eight languages from more than forty world cultures since its inception.

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DONORS The Milwaukee Choral Artists deeply appreciates the contributions received from its generous donors. As ticket sales do not fully cover concert production costs, your continued support is vital to our success. The following list includes contributors whose support was received as of March 2011. We regret any omissions or inaccuracies.

Conductor’s Circle ($5,000 and above) United Performing Arts Fund Aficionado ($2,500-4,999) Greater Milwaukee Foundation Harry C. and Jean I. Snyder Family Trust Wisconsin Arts Board Benefactor ($1,000-2,499) CAMPAC Martha Brown and Tony Lam Guarantor ($500-999) Dean and Emily Crocker Susan and Chris Griswold Louise Hunter Living Trust Raquel and Andy Lauritzen Patron ($250-499) Jill and Dr. James Freese Dr. Robert Harris Charles Christian Rich Sponsor ($100-249) Phyllis and Alan Brostoff Neil Bubke Marvin and Cheryl Danneil Gloria Eckman Curt and Connie Fowler Dr. Henry and Barbara Gale Paula and Ralph Garcia Mike Fischer and Elaine Griffin Gloria and Jim Hansen Sharon A. Hansen Juleen and Richard Jaeger Charlie and Ann Siverling Kirchhoff Richard Kirwin

Charmaine and James LaBelle Margaret Murphy and Jeff Sweetland John Paradowski and Jeffrey Reeves Deborah and Jamshed Patel Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation Deborah Paukner Dr. Ronald and Sue Reider Dan and Valerie Stefanich Sister Marion Verhaalen Tom and Helen Voell James Ward Nick and Becky White Contributor (Up to $99) Dr. John and Mary Ruth Alberti David and Larie Petrie Anderson Cheryl Axford Wesley Beusse Antonija Briedis Dr. Trent and Linsday Brown Margaret Crowley and Ernie Brusubardis Teresa Burkhart Marlene and Wayne Cook Russ and Marilyn Eisenberg Robert and Sarmite Greenwood Dr. Charlotte and Wayne Heidenreich Ellen Kellen Patricia and Robert Maile Janet and Marlowe Nortrom Judy and Gilbert Paradowski Dr. Jeffrey Reider Barbara and Ronald Ritchey Kevin Stalheim Frank and Rene Will Mary and Merrill York

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Milwaukee Choral Artists also gratefully acknowledges: Mark Ehlers, photography (head shots) Deone Jahnke, photography (group photo) Jeanne Mueller, founding contributor Andy Risser, Backbone Designs (web management) Ann Siverling, founding contributor University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Milwaukee Choral Artists 11

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Milwaukee Choral Artists Board of Directors 2010-2011 Jill Freese, President Raquel G. Lauritzen, President-Elect, Chair, Development Committee John Paradowski, Secretary Deborah Paukner, Treasurer Emily Crocker, Chair, Marketing Committee Jennifer Sweetland, Ensemble Representative Charles Christian Rich, at large Martha Brown, at large Neil Bubke, at large Sr. Marion Verhaalen, at large Dr. Sharon A. Hansen, ex officio Advisory Council Michael Fischer Dr. Dean R. Fowler Scott Grady Dr. Robert A. Harris Richard Kirwin James LaBelle Michael MacDonald Administration and Staff Artistic Dr. Sharon A. Hansen, Founder and Music Director Executive Nancy J. Herro, Managing Director

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