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Milwaukee Youth Music Celebration Sunday, March 10, 2013 3:00 PM

Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, UW-Milwaukee

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Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Senior Symphony Margery Deutsch, Conductor Shelby Keith Dixon, Associate Conductor

Milwaukee Youth Chorale Jason Clark, Director with guest choir

Milwaukee Choristers Dr. James B. Kinchen Jr., Director and singers from

The Master Singers

Eduardo García-Novelli, Music Director members of the

West Allis Central and Nathan Hale High School Choirs Steven Joyal, Director singers from

MYSO’s Senior Symphony

This concert is dedicated in loving memory of Edith Deutsch (1923-2013) This concert, Milwaukee Children’s Choir and Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra are supported in part by generous grants from the United Performing Arts Fund and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. We gratefully acknowledge this important support as well as the critically important donations from so many individuals, foundations and corporations, listed in full detail in the enclosed donor listings.

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Engelbert Humperdinck

Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel

MYSO Senior Symphony Shelby Keith Dixon, Conductor

Sabrina Raber a Luctum ad Pacem (2012)

World Premiere MYSO Senior Symphony Margery Deutsch, Conductor

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia

MYSO Senior Symphony Margery Deutsch, Conductor

Intermission

George Frideric Handel

African American

Eric Barnum

John Lennon

Giuseppe Verdi

“Va, pensiero” from Nabucco

Giuseppe Verdi

“Anvil Chorus” from Il trovatore

Giacomo Puccini

“Nessun dorma” from Turandot

Giuseppe Verdi

“But as for His people” from Israel in Egypt

Ride On, King Jesus

arr. Moses George Hogan

Milwaukee Choristers Dr. James B. Kinchen, Jr., Director Fumi Nishikiori, Accompanist

I am In Need of Music

MCC’s Milwaukee Youth Chorale Jason Clark, Conductor Amanda McFall, Accompanist

Can’t Buy Me Love

arr. Carrington

MCC’s Milwaukee Youth Chorale Jason Clark, Conductor

Margery Deutsch, Conductor MYSO Senior Symphony and combined choirs

Margery Deutsch, Conductor MYSO Senior Symphony and combined choirs

Margery Deutsch, Conductor MYSO Senior Symphony and combined choirs

“Triumphal Hymn and March” from Aida

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Margery Deutsch, Conductor MYSO Senior Symphony and combined choirs

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Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) Prelude to the opera “Hänsel und Gretel”

The simple charm of Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel has won it a lasting place among the young of all ages throughout the world. With a text adapted from Ludwig Grimm’s familiar fairy tale by the composer’s sister, Adelheid Wette, the opera scored a sensational success when it was premiered in Weimar two days before the Christmas of 1893.

A microcosm of the opera’s story line, the Prelude begins with horns and bassoons intoning the music of the Prayer. A trumpet call introduces the music associated with the witch and the spell she casts on the children. The trombones’ recollection of the Prayer and horn calls lead to the joyful music after the witch has been crisped and the children released from her evil power. Growing in intensity, this dance music culminates in a return of the Prayer music and then subsides to a tranquil conclusion.

Program Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2013

Sabrina Raber (b. 1995) a Luctum ad Pacem (2012)

On December 14, 2012, tragedy struck the small town of Newtown, Connecticut. In what will be remembered as one of the worst school shootings in American history, twenty students, ages between six and seven, and six adults, were brutally shot and killed while in their daily classes. It was an emotionally gripping moment, and it is the event that inspired this piece. Like many others, I heard the news while in school and found my belief in humanity shattered and my emotions a wreck. To deal with the rush of feelings I was feeling, I did what I knew best, compose. Within two hours, a Luctum ad Pacem was created, my emotions flowed into a melody for string orchestra. In the piece, the violins open with a lone note, and then continue with a slow, melancholy melody while the remaining strings build up support in minor chords. As the piece goes on, there is a gradual build, leading to a rousing string chorus of tension and the pain I was feeling.

It ends in a gentle, major chord, a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dark piece. The title, a Luctum ad Pacem, means simply in Latin, “from heartache to peace.” It is my wish that in a time as heartbreaking as the Newtown shootings, we are able to find peace and for a better, less dismal future. I wrote this piece to let out upsetting feelings, but I also wrote it with the hope that those twenty-six people will never be forgotten. For this reason, I dedicate this piece to all those who lost their lives in the shootings; I will remember them always.

Program Notes by Sabrina Raber © 2013

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Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasia

During the spring of 1869, the Russian composer, Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), suggested to Tchaikovsky that he employ the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet as a basis for a symphonic work. Following a few technical suggestions from Balakirev, Tchaikovsky plunged into the actual composition of the work in October of 1869; further revision in 1880 produced the most familiar version of this romantic masterpiece.

The work was called an “Overture-Fantasia” in order to emphasize the free formal concepts that went into its creation. It is in four basic sections, illustrating the essential episodes of the play. The first, a quiet and solemn prologue, is often associated with Friar Laurence’s cell. An excited Allegro giusto represents the conflict between the Montagues and the Capulets. In this section is the first appearance of the “love theme” widely regarded as one of the most beautiful melodies in the symphonic repertoire. Agitation returns, followed by a section dealing with the meeting of the lovers. When the themes of the work return, a sense of imminent tragedy is evoked by the trumpet quotation of Dies Irae (“Day of Wrath,” an ancient chant from the mass for the dead) against the love theme. The music dies with the lovers as the timpani’s heartbeats ultimately cease. A few sounds from the harp suggest that Romeo and Juliet found happiness in the hereafter.

Program Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2013

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Chorus: “Va, pensiero” from Nabucco

Generally considered to be the most successful of Verdi’s early operas, Nabucco was first produced at Milan’s La Scala on March 9, 1842. Verdi’s third opera deals with the tribulations of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who, having conquered Jerusalem and taken the Hebrews as slaves, promptly goes mad and is locked away. In his absence, one of his daughters ascends the throne and tries to have her sister executed. Praying for help, the king regains his sanity, manages to save his imperiled daughter and watches as his guilt-ridden other daughter commits suicide.

Sung by the enslaved Jews on the banks of the Euphrates, “Va, pensiero” (“Fly, a thought on golden wings”) is a heartfelt paean to their distant homeland. Italians immediately identified with this nationalistic chorus; it became a rallying song for one of Verdi’s lifelong concerns: the unification of Italy. Describing Verdi’s ceremonial second funeral in Milan, Franz Werfel wrote: “…then came one of the great and rare moments when people and music become one. Without any preconcerted plan, by some inexplicable inspiration, there suddenly rose out of the monstrous soul of the multitude the chorus from Nabucco with which Giuseppe Verdi had become the voice of consolation and hope for his people, sixty years before. ‘Va, pensiero sull’ ali dorate!”

Program Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2013

Giuseppe Verdi “Anvil Chorus” from Il trovatore

Having retained his penchant for gloomy drama after Rigoletto, Verdi was attracted to a drama by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, El Trovador (“The Troubadour”) which was quite popular in Spain. While waiting for a translation of the play, Verdi returned to the Villa Sant’ Agata with his mistress, Giuseppina Strepponi (their relationship was formalized in later life). Legend has it that Il trovatore was composed in a creative burst between November 1 and 29, 1852, but it seems more likely that he wrote it during 1851 and then locked it away until public pressure for a new Verdi opera would make it more difficult for the censors to over edit the production.

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No doubt the censors had as much difficulty as the audience in understanding the plot’s complexities. Henry Fothergill Chorley summed it up in one huge sentence: “To this day (1855) many persons have not found out the right and wrong betwixt the false child roasted by the gypsy and mistaken vengeance and the true one, spared, and mistaken, and flung into all manner of miserable dilemmas, and at last beheaded, in order to give the avenging Fury an opportunity of saying to her noble persecutor, ‘He was thy brother!’”

The “Anvil Chorus” takes place in the first scene of Act II as the gypsy men, working in their forge, praise their life with its agreeable balance of work, drinking and lovemaking.

Program Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2013

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) “Nessun dorma” from Turandot

Puccini’s last and most original opera, Turandot is filled with exotic sounds and powerful lyricism. Set in legendary Peking, the story tells of the beautiful Princess Turandot, who will marry any nobleman who can answer her three riddles on the condition that they forfeit their lives if they answer incorrectly. An unknown prince answers correctly, but then offers to release the distressed princess from her vow if she can uncover his true identity before dawn. A royal edict goes out that no one shall sleep until the prince’s identity is discovered. In this aria, he muses upon the cries Nessun dorma! (“None shall sleep”), singing that she will know his name only from his lips…learn it in a kiss that will make her his own.

Program Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2013

Giuseppe Verdi “Triumphal Hymn and March” from Aida

When Ferdinand de Lesseps completed the 107-mile Suez Canal after a decade of toil in 1869, all Egypt joined in the celebration. The Khedive built a new theater in Cario and commissioned Verdi to write an opera as part of the ceremonies. Having twice refused the potentate’s earnest offer, Verdi received a brief outline of an Egyptian tale written by the famed French Egyptologist, Marinette. Intrigued with the story, Verdi finally accepted the Khedive’s proposal and set to work on the new opera, Aida, in 1870.

The premiere was scheduled for early 1871, but the Franco-Prussian War delayed preparations until December of the same year. Fearing ocean travel, Verdi preferred to remain in Italy; he sent the bass virtuoso-conductor, Giovanni Bottesini, to prepare the performance and conduct the premiere. Attended by a veritable “Who’s Who” of Europe and Africa, the glamorous opening night of Aida was a splendid triumph.

Central to the opera’s plot is the love of Aida, an enslaved Ethiopian princess, for Radames, captain of the Egyptian guard. At the beginning of the opera, the king of Egypt gives Radames command of an army with the direction that he is to quell the advance of the Ethiopians. Aida is torn between wanting that Radames should be victorious, yet not wanting her people to be defeated.

Among the greatest spectacles in operatic literature, the victorious return of the Egyptian army in the second scene of Act II is enhanced by the Triumphal March. Amid those thrilling strains, the Pharaoh and populace rejoice in the hymn Gloria all’Egitto (“Gloria to Egypt”).

Program Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2013

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Biogr aphies Margery Deutsch, Music Director, MYSO Senior Symphony Margery Deutsch has been the conductor and Music Director of MYSO’s Senior Symphony since 1987.

Under her direction, the Senior Symphony toured China in 2007, and in 2012 she led the Senior Symphony on a ten-day tour of Vienna and Prague where they were chosen to perform on the Gala Winners’ Concert as part of the 2012 Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival.

Past tours include concerts in Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Canada (Quebec and British Columbia), Scotland, Carnegie Hall, and the National Youth Orchestra Festival in Sarasota, Florida.

Professor Emeritus Deutsch served as Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at UW-Milwaukee from

1984 until 2012 and received the UWM Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1990. She is currently the Music Director of UWM’s University Community Orchestra, an ensemble of over 120 musicians ranging in age from 12 to 99, comprised of college, high school, and middle school students and community members.

Prior to arriving in Milwaukee she was the Music Director of the Shreveport (LA) Symphony. She has worked with many professional orchestras including the Women’s Philharmonic (CA), Charleston Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, and Dayton Philharmonic and has guest conducted numerous choirs in the Milwaukee area. She has been a frequent guest conductor for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Concert Series and is in demand for all-state and district orchestra festivals throughout the country.

She has studied at Aspen, Tanglewood, and the prestigious Academia Chigiana in

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Shelby Keith Dixon, Associate Conductor, MYSO Senior Symphony Mr. Dixon is the retired Director of Orchestras/ Chairman of Fine Arts at Homestead High School in Mequon. Before going to the Mequon-Thiensville School District in 1975, he served as Choral Director at Deerfield High School, Deerfield, Illinois.

For six years, he was Assistant Professor of Music at Alverno College in Milwaukee.

There he taught the History and Literature of Music and was Musical Director of Theatre Alverno. Mr. Dixon has extensive background in brasses, keyboard and strings. He has served as Music Director of Milwaukee Players at the Pabst Theatre, conductor with the Sullivan Chamber Ensemble Orchestra, Musical Assistant with Milwaukee’s Music Under the Stars, Assistant Conductor of the Northwestern University Chapel Choir, and Interim Music Director of the Elgin (IL) Youth Symphony Orchestras. He holds both the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in the History and Literature of Music from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

He has taught on the music education faculty of Concordia University-Wisconsin and has served on the boards of directors of the Milwaukee Civic Music Association and Gathering on the Green. Mr Dixon has been a MYSO conductor since 1984.

Jason A. Clark Conductor, Milwaukee Youth Chorale Jason Clark made his Carnegie Hall début in 1990, performing Carmina Burana with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and has subsequently performed there three other times: twice in 1996 and most recently with the Shorewood High School Chorus, in 2001. From 1996-1999, he served on the performing and administrative staff of the Berkshire Choral Festival-Santa Fe, NM and Sheffield, MA where he won the Charles Dodsley Walker Award, in 1997.

Clark presently serves as Director of Choral Activities for the Shorewood Schools, where he has taught for the past fifteen years and built one of the finest choral programs in Wisconsin. Additionally, he has been conductor of the Milwaukee Youth Chorale since 2009, the high school level group for the Milwaukee Children’s Choir, and Artistic Director and Conductor of the Shorewood Choral Arts Society, which he founded in 1998.

He taught K-12 vocal music in Glidden, Iowa, where he and his band colleague received the Exemplary Music Program Award in 1995. Clark also works closely with the Wisconsin School Music Association, for which he helped develop the class “A” madrigal list, in 2003, and served a three-year term as tenor coach for the Middle Level Honors Choir from 20022004.

An Iowa native, he holds a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal and instrumental music education from Coe College and a Master of Music degree in conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Marco Antonio Melendez Artistic Director, Milwaukee Children’s Choir A native of San Angelo, Texas, Marco Antonio Melendez began his musical career as a member of the world renowned American Boychoir, performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center and with renowned musical figures such as Dr. James Litton, Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Yo-Yo Ma, Andre Previn, Wynton Marsalis, and Kurt Masur.

Prior to joining Milwaukee Children’s Choir, Mr. Melendez was director of music ministries and accompanist at St. Lawrence O’Toole – St. Cyril Catholic Church in Oakland, California, and music teacher for Saint Anthony Immaculate Conception School in San Francisco. Mr. Melendez has extensive experience in choral music leadership and education, including directing the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choirs, founding and directing the Southwest Texas Children’s Choir, founding and directing the Princeton Academy Choir, and conducting a variety of community adult and children’s choir groups throughout the country.

At the age of fifteen, Mr. Melendez was named the music director of the San Angelo Singing Boys of San Angelo, Texas. Two years later, he was named music director of a Presbyterian Church and founded the Marco Melendez Vocal Music Institute to provide young, dedicated vocal musicians with advanced musical training.

Mr. Melendez’s musical talents have also been recognized through several local and national awards. He was one of 49 individuals nationwide to receive the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts annual merit award. He has been a featured recording artist on API Records and has performed solo recitals throughout the country. Mr. Melendez has a Bachelor of Music in sacred music from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, and is a candidate 8

for a Master of Music in vocal pedagogy from Holy Names University in Oakland, California. In his first season as Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Children’s Choir, Mr. Melendez conducts Jubilate, as well as Cantabile Central, East, and West Choirs and Prelude West.

James B. Kinchen, Jr., Director, Milwaukee Choristers is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and has directed choral groups at Southern Illinois University, Southeastern Illinois College, Hampton University, and WinstonSalem State University. His degrees are from Jacksonville University, Southern Illinois University, and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. His conducting teachers include William McNeiland, Robert Kingsbury, Robert Bergt, John Locke, Richard Cox, and Peter Perret. Dr. Kinchen is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, which faculty he joined in 1989.

Dr. Kinchen made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut on Easter Sunday of 1998, under the auspices of MidAmerica Productions, conducting a concert of “spirituals.” He returned to that stage in 2004 to lead a 190-voice choir and orchestra in a performance of the Fauré Requiem and again in 2006 to conduct choral/orchestral forces in a performance of the Vivaldi Gloria. In 2010 he conducted the New York City premiere of Glenn Edward Burleigh’s Kwanzaa work, the Nguzo Saba Suite for chorus, tenor solo, and orchestra at Avery Fischer Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in a performance produced by DCINY. His travels as a choral conductor and scholar have taken him to Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, and, on three occasions, Cuba. In 2002, he was one of 18 Fellows selected for participation in the Chorus AmericaChicago Symphony Choral/Orchestral

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Conducting Workshop and Master Class, where he worked with a faculty that included Stephen Cleobury, Fiora Contino, Gustav Meier, Michael Morgan, James Paul, and Duaine Wolf.

Dr. Kinchen has been a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow and received the university’s 2002-2003 Stella Gray Teaching Excellence Award, an award made to two outstanding teachers at the university each year. He was also given the university’s 2005-2006 Faculty Distinguished Service Award. He was recently selected to receive the UWParkside 2012-13 Diversity Award.

He is an affiliate of the Center for Black Music Research, and holds membership in the Music Educators National Conference, the International Federation for Choral Music, National Collegiate Choral Organization, and Chorus America.

An active member of American Choral Directors Association, he has served ACDA in several leadership capacities at state, regional, and national levels. He has

presented at state, divisional, and national ACDA conventions, and has written for and reviewed new music and new recordings for the Choral Journal at various times. He has been President of Wisconsin Choral Directors Association (2007-2009) and is now President of North Central Division of ACDA, a region that encompasses the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.

In addition to his responsibilities for teaching and directing the university’s three choral groups, the University Chorale, Master Singers, and Voices of Parkside, Dr. Kinchen also teaches courses in basic and choral conducting, vocal materials and methods, and African American Music and helps supervise choral music student teachers. In frequent demand as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, Dr. Kinchen has been Music Director of the Milwaukee Choristers, a large community chorus, since 1993. He is also on the music staff of Saint Paul Baptist Church, Racine.

senior symphony FIRST VIOLINS Holly Spangenberg Co-Concertmaster Anna Belle Hoots Co-Concertmaster Samuel Femal Co-Concertmaster Meghan Murphy Associate Concertmaster Abigail Schneider Rachel May Fatima Gomez Rebekah Ruetz Sean Oh Katherine Willden Linzheng Shi Leah Plachinski Jenna Greene Samantha Carter Alexanna Quinn Austin Budiono Sebastian Chou

Tristan Aniceto Justin Zhu Leah Lee Marie Von Rueden Anna Penkert Liam McCarty Kingshuk Mazumdar Hannah Greene SECOND VIOLINS Jeffrey Teng Co-Principal Rishi Sachdev Co-Principal Nils Hjortnaes Ariana Van Parys Mara Bajic Petra Momcilovic Nathan Wang Sonora Brusubardis Monika Greco Lauren Crandall

Abigail Brooks Archit Baskaran Malina Olsen Sarah Plachinski Ivana Bajic Erica Meier Allen Hung Vivian Jiang Sabrina Wang Cassie Anderson Sreedevi Nair Ina Yun Judith Moy VIOLAS Timothy Reinholz Principal Nathaniel Sattler Assistant Principal Jenna Mark Hannah Thompson Carlos Orozco Milwaukee Youth Music Celebration

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senior symphony Carly Schulz Minhi Kang Samuel Soik Katie Voss Francesca Pessarelli Melanie Galeno David Foster Ellen Soyka Natalia Hernandez Rebecca Miller Henry Windau CELLOS Kartik Papatla Co-Principal Viktor Brusubardis Co-Principal Matthew Frazier Joshua Baerwald Christian Morzinski Joshua Lukas Ben Boehm Benjamin Bauer Seth Banaszak Charles Phil Gabriela Cardenas Joseph Krmpotich Eric Rokni Christian Anderson Allie Pritzl Ben Karbowski Bayla Jane Waite BASSES Isaiah Simons Co-Principal Christopher Carloni Co-Principal Robert Earle McKenzie Ross Katherine Kostich Rachel Poli Alisha Bowen Peter Crapitto

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HARP Chloé Tula FLUTES and PICCOLOS Kristen Alberty Danielle Kulpins Max Lin Kayla Mantey Sabrina Raber OBOES Lulu Callies Sarah Friedland Brigette Hall Brittany Yerges Abigail Zeman ENGLISH HORNS Brittany Yerges Abigail Zeman CLARINETS Amy Butler Sarah Clapp Gina Richter Kelly Riordan Annie Tarmann BASSOONS Rosalie Avery Natalie Galles Austin Holik Courtney Kochanski Anastasia Pjevach CONTRABASSOON Rosalie Avery HORNS Sarah Bubik Heather Casterline Jessica Cribbs Hannah Dion-Kirschner Chloe Groth Torrin Hallett

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Brianna Meyer Madeleine Severance Katherine Seybold Annika VanRyzin TRUMPETS Zachary Bednarke Thomas Hougard Jordan Smith Rachael Stein Amanda Wahl TROMBONES Thomas Bagin Rachel Buchanan Rachel Burczyk Mitchell Rieckhoff Michael Schumacher Frances Way TUBAS Kenton Cooksey Zachariah Dietenberger TIMPANI & PERCUSSION Irene Hougard Evan Sneed Lucas Treptow Maddie Wilinski CELESTA Charles Phil In Senior Symphony, section leadership assignments rotate within each concert cycle.

m i lwau k e e yo u t h c h o r a l e Olivia Burns Morgan Dobersek Lorna Gray Evan Johnson Josh Koch Billy Krager Emily Kregloski

Benjamin Kuhlmann Jordan Llanas Hilary Merline Janay Newman Katie Nguyen Zachary Olson Jason Rose

Deanna Schneider Lauren Smrz Katelynn Vande Leest Shona Voigt Alana Woodall

m i lwau k e e c h o r i s t e r s Soprano1 Debbie Bernhardt Keralyn Bolliger Rachel Chiariello Jean Grainger Stephanie Nichols Cathy Nolan Mary Rundle Allison Schweitzer Soprano 2 Janelle Dougherty Karen Englehardt Ana Gerlach Linda Gritter Marilyn Harrower Trudy Haas Jean Jankovich Rachel Mosey Katie Pitzl Daun Puetz Claudia Roessel Bridget Smeaton

Rachel Rueckert Peggy Welden Jean Wesley Alto 1 Jennifer Becker Ellen Buggy Kerry Dews Kathy Estlund Penny Hargarten Toni King Kristin Smith Aileen Thorne Jeanne Tyszka Sue Wing Monica Zamzow Jennifer Zastrow Alto 2 Linda Ertel Katie Rasmussen Donna Tanzer Patricia Witt

Tenors Jerry Baldwin Joe Bonfiglio David Brown Dan Heidemann Jeff Hosler Jim Kelly B. J. Lillo Mark Weller Baritones/Bass Chris Bruett Tom Couillard Greg Davidson John Emanuel Fred Gerlach John Schmitt John Spartz Josh Walker

MYSO s e n i o r s y m p h o n y s i n g e r s Kristen Alberty Ivana Bajic Mara Bajic Seth Banaszak Hannah Dion-Kirschner Hannah Greene Jenna Greene

Torrin Hallett Minhi Kang Rachel May Judith Moy Julia Murphy Carlos Orozco Anna Penkert

Charlie Phil Gina Richter Chloe Tula Amanda Wahl Brittany Yerges

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upcoming mcc perfor m ance Morning Song to Evening Tide 1 p.m. Saturday, May 11, 2013 Hales Corners Lutheran Church 12300 W. Janesville Rd., Hales Corners, WI 53130 Tickets and information: 414-221-7040 or www.milwaukeechildrenschoir.org. m i lwau k e e c h i l d r e n ’ s c h o i r Milwaukee Children’s Choir is Southeastern Wisconsin’s premier children’s choir. Established in 1994 by Emily Holt Crocker, the Milwaukee Children’s Choir (MCC) has been providing children with exceptional choral music instruction and performance experiences unmatched by any program in the area throughout the past nineteen years.

As an audition-based, advanced children’s choral music program, MCC maintains five levels of choral education: Songbirds, Prelude, Cantabile, Jubilate, and Milwaukee Youth Chorale. Offering rehearsal locations throughout the Milwaukee area, MCC is able to incorporate children from throughout the whole of Southeastern Wisconsin. Apart from the five choir levels, MCC’s Harmony Program brings grant-funded music instruction and performance experiences to more than 270 children who attend Milwaukee Public Schools. Through MCC, these children receive weekly music classes throughout the school year.

MCC maintains a collaborative relationship with Milwaukee Public Schools while also supporting area music educators through clinics, workshops, and open rehearsals.

Other frequent collaborations include those with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Ballet, and the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. Each year, MCC receives the opportunity to perform in the Milwaukee Ballet’s production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s, “The Nutcracker.” Recently, Milwaukee Children’s Choir was featured with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in the performance of John Adam’s, “On the Transmigration of Souls,” an avant-garde piece composed in remembrance of tragedies of September 11, 2001.

Milwaukee Children’s Choir represents the best Southeastern Wisconsin has to offer.

Choir members represent 56 zip codes, 33 communities and six counties. They represent grades K4-12 and more than 100 schools.

Please look for us next year as we celebrate our 20th season!

MCC’s Mission To give children exceptional choral music instruction and performance experiences that foster creativity, personal expression and social growth.

MCC is a proud member of:

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Now enrolling children in grades K4 - K5!

Songbirds is MCC’s Kodaly-inspired and non-performance based program for little ones!

• 30 minute classes • singing games • age-appropriate songs • fun teaching toys

Locations in Mequon and at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center!

Songbirds develop language, small and large motor skills, and social skills and prepare to enter MCC’s Prelude Choir. Email membership@milwaukeechildrenschoir.org or call 414-221-7040 for more information

Auditions

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for Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s 58th season will be held April 24-28, 2013

for students at all levels, ages 8-18.

Call 414-267-2912, beginning March 25, to make an appointment.

Go to www.myso.org for more information.

Scholarships are available.

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MCC S ta f f MCC Artistic Staff Julie Maurer, Harmony Instructor Marco Melendez, Artistic Director Amanda McFall, Accompanist Annemarie Travia, Prelude & Songbirds Christopher Berry, Accompanist Jason Clark, Milwaukee Youth Chorale East Director and Prelude Coordinator Director MCC Administrative Staff Kristin Dillahunt, Songbirds and Prelude North Director Paula Bell, Executive Director Lorinda Liongson, Membership Manager Elizabeth Green, Accompanist Cecilia Davis, Development Manager Lani Knutson, Cantabile North Director

Milwaukee Children’s Choir 158 N. Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202 414-221-7040 membership@milwaukeechildrenschoir.org www.milwaukeechildrenschoir.org Milwaukee Children’s Choir wishes to thank our generous foundation and corporate sponsors and the multitude of individual donors on the program insert.

m c c b oa r d o f d i r e c to r s Patrick Murphy, President Robert Fichtner, Vice President Katie O’Neill, Treasurer Bridget DeLoge, Secretary David Dorgan, Past President Christine Burgener, Past President

Beth Berger Sarah Fowles Kelley Karakis Deborah Patel Jayme Tschanz

Auditions for

Milwaukee Children’s Choir’s 2013-2014 season held this spring for singers of all school ages.

Email membership@milwaukeechildrenschoir.org or call 414-221-7040 for more information or an appointment.

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u p c o m i n g MYSO p e r f o r m a n c e s Sunday, March 24, 2013 Davidson Chamber Ensemble Recitals—1 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM, 7 PM, Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut Street, Milwaukee. MYSO presents the fruits of its extensive Chamber Ensemble Program, which exists thanks to the generosity and vision of the late Arthur and Francesca “Peter” Davidson.

Sunday, April 28, 2013 Honor Recital—2 PM, Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. Some of the crème de la crème of southeastern Wisconsin’s youth music scene take the stage. This recital will feature solo performances by the runner-up and honorable mentions from MYSO’s 2013 Senior Symphony Concerto Competition plus several advanced ensembles.

Sunday, May 5, 2013 Spring Concert I—6 PM, Uihlein Hall, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St. MYSO presents its first in a series of five spring concerts with performances by the Brass Choir, Junior Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wind Ensemble and the Senior Symphony. The Flute Chorale and Prelude Orchestra will perform a pre-concert performance in the Anello Atrium.

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READING, MATH, WRITING, STUDY SKILLS, TEST PREP, COLLEGE PREP AND MORE! Milwaukee Youth Music Celebration

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Celebrating nearly 57 years of excellence, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) has been instrumental in changing the lives of young people since 1956 when it began as a single orchestra of 30 musicians. Since its early beginnings it has grown to become, by several measures, the largest and most extensive youth orchestra program in the country. Serving more than 900 talented young musicians from as many as 14 counties in southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, this award-winning program offers the highest level of training in ensemble musicianship to motivated young people from diverse backgrounds. Students with varied levels of instrumental skills benefit from the broad range of MYSO experiences, all created to foster talent, build character and enhance lives by nurturing an enduring love of music.

In 2005, MYSO moved into the acclaimed Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, a collaborative initiative of MYSO and First Stage. Home, also, to dance and vocal music training programs, this 56,000 sq. ft. state of the art facility in Milwaukee’s historic Schlitz Park is quickly becoming a national model for arts education, with a mission of using the arts to enhance all children’s lives. Several innovative MYSO offerings, prompted and made possible by the move, have received notable awards and recognition—locally, regionally and nationally. Particular recognition has come to MYSO for its ambitious efforts in outreach and community partnerships.

Building on the rich past of its first half-century, MYSO combines many respected, established programs with exciting new ventures. Founded with assistance from the Junior League and Rotary Club of Milwaukee, MYSO has expanded its offerings to include more than a dozen ensembles, including the Senior Symphony, MYSO’s internationally acclaimed flagship ensemble, a chamber orchestra, as well as less advanced full orchestras, plus string orchestras, wind ensemble, steel band, flute ensembles, jazz and Latin jazz combos, urban string and wind training initiatives and more. Students range from 8 to 18, with membership in most groups based on auditions.

MYSO’s extensive schedule of rehearsals, performances, outreach initiatives and enrichment opportunities also includes: a large chamber music program, music theory and composition classes, “side-by-side” rehearsals which match less experienced players with those who are more advanced, free master classes, workshops, competitions, recitals, recording sessions, periodic international touring and much, much more!

MYSO has partnered with numerous other organizations to better serve both students and community. Examples of these collaborations, in addition to the facility initiative with First Stage, include a well-established partnership with the Latino Arts Strings Program, side-by-side reading workshops with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, an annual concert with the Milwaukee Children’s Choir, a “new music” 16

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composition initiative with Present Music, a talent development partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs, ongoing programs in cooperation with Milwaukee Public Schools and periodic artistic initiatives with such groups as Danceworks, Master Singers, Milwaukee Choristers, Milwaukee Ballet, and others.

MYSO’s talented music faculty members blend creativity and pedagogical expertise with their great breadth of musical knowledge. They come from all corners of the musical world and include UW-Milwaukee faculty, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra players, seasoned and recognized school educators and other noted area musicians. MYSO’s experienced, capable administrative staff has doubled the organization’s enrollment over the past fifteen years while successfully completing the fundraising for—and building of—MYAC, a major new community facility. The entire MYSO family is united in its dedication not only to training future performers and music educators but especially to instilling in many thousands of young people a much deeper appreciation of the arts—fine music in particular.

While participation in most ensembles is tuition-based, MYSO has a longstanding commitment to making its programs available to all qualified musicians; scholarship assistance is available upon application, and no student shall be denied an opportunity to participate because of financial need. A major community initiative to raise $2 million in scholarship funds (“Fran’s Fund”) is nearing completion. MYSO has been a member of the United Performing Arts Fund since UPAF’s founding in 1969. MYSO exists—and thrives—thanks to UPAF and to the thousands of other generous donors who support its programs!

M y SO S ta f f EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Linda Edelstein ¯ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Carter Simmons ¯ PROGRAM DIRECTOR, Justin N. Smith ¯ COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, Michelle Hoffman ¯ DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Emily Stern ¯ PROGRAM COORDINATOR, Katie Truax ¯ COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER, Sarah Christie ¯ EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, Aaron Apaza ¯ FINANCE DIRECTOR, Kim Jankowiak ¯ MUSIC DIRECTOR, SENIOR SYMPHONY, Margery Deutsch ¯ ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR, SENIOR SYMPHONY, Shelby Keith Dixon ¯ MUSIC DIRECTORS, PHILHARMONIA, Ronald Melby, Carter Simmons ¯ MUSIC DIRECTOR, SINFONIA, Steven Rindt ¯ MUSIC DIRECTOR, JUNIOR WIND ENSEMBLE, Thomas L. Dvorak ¯ ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS, JUNIOR WIND ENSEMBLE, Nicholas Carlson, David Shaw ¯ MUSIC DIRECTOR, FLUTE CHORALE, CHAMBER FLUTE ENSEMBLE, Lenee Stevens ¯ MUSIC DIRECTORS, STRING ORCHESTRAS, Denice Haney, Lynn Trinkl, Lyda Osinga, Anne Marie Peterson ¯ DIRECTOR OF THEORY INSTRUCTION, James Burmeister ¯ MUSIC LIBRARIAN/ STAGE AND EQUIPMENT MANAGER, David Rieder ¯ COACH, SINFONIA, Lyda Osinga ¯ COACHES, STRING ORCHESTRAS, Ashley DeYoung, Matthew DeYoung, Isabel Escalante, Melissa Jastrow, Jared Snyder, Kevin Stewart and Brittany Szaj ¯ JAZZ STUDIES PROGRAM DIRECTOR and INSTRUCTOR, Chris Mell ¯ INSTRUCTORS, JAZZ STUDIES, Tony Ayala, Ethan Bender, Scott Currier, Neil Davis, Jason Goldsmith, Russ Johnson, Dean Lea, and John Simons ¯ CALYPSO DIRECTOR AND INSTRUCTOR, Tim Rush ¯ CALYPSO CO-DIRECTOR AND INSTRUCTOR, Charles B. Short ¯ PROGRESSIONS DIRECTOR and INSTRUCTOR, Jenny Kozoroz ¯ PROGRESSIONS ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR, Mary Pat Michels ¯ PROGRESSIONS INSTRUCTORS, John Babbitt, Cathy Bush, Isabel Escalante, Alexis Ganos, Ravenna Helson ¯ Milwaukee Youth Music Celebration

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MYSO B oa r d o f d i r e c to r s President Patrick Rath Past President Susan Graham Wernecke Vice-Presidents Patricia Ellis Michael Fischer Michael Van Handel Treasurer Craig Peotter Secretary Bunny Raasch-Hooten Directors Joyce Altman Christine Beuchert David De Bruin Myra Edwards David Frank Chris Halbleib Lawrence Hammond Patty Hanz

Troy Hilliard William Hughes Amy Jensen Renee Johnson Michael Jordan Marlene Lauwasser Danielle Machata Paul Mathews Jennifer Mattes Bill Mortimore Jamshed Patel John Pienkos Andy Sajdak Matthew Sauer Gregory Schmidt Laura Snyder Kent Tess-Mattner Wesley Van Linda Ex Officio, Advisors of Note Paul Kritzer Angela Johnston Ex Officio, First Stage Liaison Chad Tessmer

Excursions under the direction of

Dr. James B. Kinchen, Jr.

April 19 & 20 - 7:30 pm

Wisconsin Lutheran High School, Milwaukee Featuring music that will take you on an aural journey to a wide variety of locations and cultures!

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Discovering a Life in Music

In the classroom, on the stage, and throughout the city of Chicago, our students uncover a depth and breadth of musical training that make a North Park education so remarkable.

The School of Music offers six degrees in music: bachelor of arts in music; bachelor of music in performance, music education, music in worship, and composition, and master of music in vocal performance. Students have ample opportunity to perform in one or more of the University’s chamber ensembles and the University Orchestra.

Schedule an audition, visit campus, attend a class, experience a performance, talk to faculty, and learn more by contacting Dr. Rebecca (Olthafer) Ryan, music recruiter, at (773) 244-5623 or rryan@northpark.edu.

www.northpark.edu/music North Park University’s School of Music is fully accredited by the

National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

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Featuring the World Premiere of “Desert Sky” by Ola Gjeilo

PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S VOCAL ENSEMBLE SHARON A. HANSEN, FOUNDER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR

saturday, April 13, 2013

7:30PM st. Matthew’s Lutheran Church 1615 Wauwatosa Avenue, Wauwatosa, WI

Tickets: adult $25 • senior $20 • student $15 • Purchase online or by phone: 414/376-5878 www.milwaukeechoralartists.org Milwaukee Youth Music Celebration

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