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Program Note Welcome Have you ever been bullied? When I asked our members that question at our first rehearsal, just over 90% put their hands up. So if we seem to be singing with particular passion tonight, bear that in mind! Our story is your story. We are all Tyler Clementi. We are all potential bullying victims, and some of us are/may be potential bullies too. That is why this show is so important. Do you have an online persona—a profile on a dating website, for example? Hmm, I thought you might. And is it the same as your “real” identity, or not? Maybe you have several. It’s complex now, right? It is important to stay safe and to guard our privacy from stalkers, bullies, and the government. But as human beings, we also need to share who we are, to connect, to find love. These days, with so many ways to communicate, bullying comes in more and more creative forms. The Millennials, or GenY as they are often called, were the first generation to grow up in this digital world, the first with the potential to be cyber-bullied. Born from 1980 onwards, they hit their tweens and teens just as the digital revolution began. In some ways they invented the rules. We can all learn from their experience. So tonight we present GenY, an evening about Millennial life and our new “connected,” perhaps disconnected, lifestyle. We begin with Tyler’s Suite, a piece that NYCGMC co-commissioned with several other LGBTQ choruses across the US. It reflects on the story of Millennial Rutgers undergrad Tyler Clementi: a son, a brother, a musician, a newly out gay man, a unicyclist, a confident college freshman, a victim of deadly cyber-bullying. I want to thank Tyler’s family and the Tyler Clementi Foundation, who have worked so closely with us on this project. You have been unfailingly supportive. Thanks too to the other choruses across the country who have helped shape this exciting work, and to all the composers, and especially Stephen Schwartz, who have contributed their love through their music tonight. In creating this piece together, we have become a powerful coalition—a musical anti-bullying campaign that has already had huge impact across the US. Join us! Dr. Charles Beale,
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Saturday, June 13, 2015, at 8:00 pm
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS, INC. Jason Cannon, Interim Executive Director Presents the
DR. CHARLES BEALE, Artistic Director
JASON CANNON, Staging Director AARON DAI, Accompanist DANNY MORENO, Musical Staging TOM McGILLIS, Sign Language Interpreter STEPHEN KUROWSKI, Production Manager JONATHAN JONES, Assistant Production Manager
With Special Guest
ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY
THE TAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHS OR THE MAKING OF ANY RECORDING, AUDIO OR VIDEO, OF ANY PART OF THE PERFORMANCE IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. nycgmc 5
P rogram TYLER’S SUITE
NYCGMC performing version devised by Dr. Charles Beale and Jason Cannon Text by Pamela Stewart Justin Smith, Violin Aaron Dai, Piano
Part I: Tyler
NOLAN GASSER I. I Have Songs You Haven’t Heard Larry Tantay, Soloist CRAIG CARNELIA II. The Unicycle Song TJ Witham, Soloist
Part II: Reflections
LANCE HORNE III. A Wish Leo A. Campos, Soloist Tim Howard, Scott Morwitz, Alex Bernhardt, Chris Layton, Dan Cutter, Larry Tantay, Russell Johns, Jim Vivyan, Small Ensemble
JOHN BUCCHINO
IV. Just a Boy
arr. Tim Sarsany Willis Goodmoore, Soloist
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ V. Brother, Because of You Noah Fleischaker, Soloist
ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY
JOHN CORIGLIANO
NOLAN GASSER
VI. I Love You More
arr. Tim Sarsany Ann Hampton Callaway, Guest Soloist
Part III: The Narrow Bridge VII. Meditation
VIII. I Have Songs You Haven’t Heard (reprise)
JAKE HEGGIE IX. The Narrow Bridge John Hager, Soloist Tyler’s Suite was co-commissioned by San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus, Seattle Men’s Chorus, Turtle Creek Chorale (Dallas), Windy City Gay Chorus (Chicago), with the collaboration of the Tyler Clementi Foundation. Premiere originally directed by Dr. Timothy Seelig, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. I N T E R M I S S I ON
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Aaron Dai, Piano Justin Smith, Violin Steve Bargonetti, Guitar Jason DiMatteo, Bass Dan Gross,* Drums
Hand in My Pocket
ALANIS MORISsETTE, GLEN BALLARD
Dan Wise, Douglas Cooper, Tony Lin, arr. Steve Milloy Nathan Merrill, Tym Byerz, Soloists
JOHN RZEZNIK Iris arr. Charles Beale
Pomp and Blah-Blah-Blah Defying Gravity
EDWARD ELGAR STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
arr. Charles Beale Paul Bagley, Soloist
It Had to Be You
GUS KAHN, ISHAM JONES
arr. Ann Hampton Callaway Ann Hampton Callaway, Guest Soloist choral adaptation Tim Sarsany JONI MITCHELL The Circle Game arr. Charles Beale Edwin V. Yangga, Bruce Ward, David Boyd, Soloists
Atlas
GUY BERRYMAN, JONATHAN BUCKLAND, WILLIAM CHAMPION, CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
arr. John J. Atorino JACK ANTONOFF, JEFFREY BHASKER,
We Are Young
Dennis Moran, Soloist
ANDREW DOST, NATHANIEL RUESS
arr. Charles Beale
Cast Baby Boomer: Frank Stancati Gen Xer: Eric Wallace Millennial: Eugene Lovendusky Defying Graduates: Billy Barry, Jo Lee, Christian Tanja, Joseph Vincente
*Musical Coordinator All musicians are proud members of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians.
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M eet Currently celebrating its 35th season, the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus is one of the oldest and possibly the most well-known chorus in the LGBTQ choral movement. NYCGMC’s commitment to equality for LGBTQ citizens is matched by their commitment to fabulous singing, and their musicianship and professionalism has connected with audiences in all five boroughs and throughout the world. Able to perform in a wide range of vocal styles, from classical to pop, jazz, gospel, and Broadway, NYCGMC has worked with acclaimed talents in every genre: Marilyn Horne, Roberta Peters, Barbara Cook, Elaine Stritch, Stephen Sondheim, Judy Collins, Petula Clark, Kelli O’Hara, Carolee Carmello, Victoria Clark, Martha Wash, and Sia—to name just a few. In June 2014, NYCGMC embarked on a tour of London and Dublin. In London, they performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in a joint concert with London Gay Men’s Chorus, and in Dublin, NYCGMC donated a “Big Gay Sing” performance which raised over €35,000 in support of Marriage Equality Ireland. To complement concerts like this one, NYCGMC also runs the Connect program, a series of smaller concerts and sing-alongs that aim to engage people outside of the concert hall in all corners of New York City. Through the Connect program, NYCGMC has conducted sing-alongs with LGBT elders and with Caribbean and Latina women living with HIV. Artistic Director Dr. Charles Beale and Interim Executive Director of Big Apple Performing Arts Jason Cannon lead the Chorus. The Chorus is a member of the New York Choral Consortium and the American Choral Directors Association. For information about events, auditions, and
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non-singing memberships open to both women and men, write the NYCGMC at 561 Seventh Avenue, Suite 803, New York, NY 10018, visit our website at www.nycgmc.org, or call (212) 344-1777. Born in London in 1964, Dr. Charles Beale is a choral conductor, a jazz pianist, a music educator, and a speaker on the arts and LGBT issues. He has been Artistic Director of New York City Gay Men’s Chorus for eight years. Under his energized leadership, the chorus has expanded to 275 singers, has a renewed, more passionate sound, has developed a more interactive style with audiences, and has transformed and expanded its outreach programs. NYCGMC has achieved strong commercial success in recent years and is recognized for its innovative and entertaining performances locally, across the US, and internationally. In recent months, NYCGMC has performed with Sia, appeared in the Emmy Award–winning movie of Larry Kramer’s iconic The Normal Heart, toured Europe, and raised around $55,000 for Marriage Equality Ireland in one Dublin performance. A campaigner for stylistic diversity within music education, Charlie became one of the UK’s leading jazz educators. Central to the invention of a worldwide system of assessments for beginner jazz musicians, he toured within the UK, and in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand, working over ten years with thousands of musicians and educators on first steps to improvising, jazz rhythm skills, and teaching and learning by ear. nycgmc
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He was nominated for a UK Jazz Parliamentary Award for services to jazz education in 2005. Having received his doctorate in 2001 from the Institute of Education, he is also a prolific writer and arranger in jazz and choral music, published by Oxford, Hal Leonard, Faber, and ABRSM Publishing.
Jason has been a singing member of NYCGMC since 2001, and he has co-conceived and staged three concerts: High in 2010, (Accentuate the) Positive in 2011 and again at the GALA Festival in 2012, and America the Beautiful in 2013. Jason holds a BA in drama from the University of Washington.
In recent years, Charlie has continued to give frequent clinics and workshops internationally, focusing more and more on the transforming power of music. He worked with an all-Australia LGBT chorus of 200 in Summer 2013 and has been central to “Big Gay Sing” events in Denver Colorado, Trafalgar Square in London, and New York City since 2009.
Ann Hampton Callaway is a multiplatinum-selling singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny, writing songs for Barbra Streisand, and starring in the Broadway musical Swing! Callaway has produced two critically acclaimed public television specials called “Singer’s Spotlight With Ann Hampton Callaway” featuring guests Liza Minnelli and Christine Ebersole. Callaway has composed over 250 songs for television, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and several of today’s leading interpreters of songs. Her music and lyrics have been performed and recorded by Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Michael Feinstein, Blossom Dearie, Peter Nero, Karrin Allyson, Donna McKechnie, Harvey Fierstein, Lillias White, Barbara Carroll, Amanda McBroom, Liz Callaway, and Carole King. She composed At the Same Time for Barbra Streisand, and that recording, Higher Ground, debuted nationally at #1, giving Ann her first of three platinum records. In 1994 she wrote God Bless My Family as a gift to the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. She has garnered fourteen awards from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, two Backstage Bistro Awards, the 2005 Nightlife
Jason Cannon (Director) stepped into the role of Interim Executive Director of Big Apple Performing Arts (the umbrella management organization for the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus and Youth Pride Chorus) in January 2015 and is responsible for all management aspects of the organization including strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising, public relations, and marketing. Jason’s career in arts management began at Annex Theatre in Seattle, where he served as business manager and managing director. He has over 20 years experience in digital media and marketing and most recently served as executive producer for CafeMom Studios, where he produced over 30 web series and was a 2013 Webby Award honoree for best online film and video variety channel. 10
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M eet Award, the Johnny Mercer Songwriter Award, and the Norman Vincent Peale Award for Positive Thinking. The Tyler Clementi Foundation, guided by the life and story of Tyler Clementi, promotes safe, inclusive and respectful social environments in homes, schools, campuses, churches and the digital world for vulnerable youth, LGBT youth and their allies. Through educational partnerships, research, public dialogues and awareness programs, TCF fosters empathetic, constructive discussions of respect and dignity for youth and families, at all levels of society. They envision a world that embraces all members of society with human dignity and unconditional love regardless of sexual orientation or differences, real or perceived. Visit www.tylerclementifoundation.org for more information. TYLER’S SUITE
I Have Songs You Haven’t Heard Nolan Gasser is a critically acclaimed composer, pianist, and musicologist—most notably, the architect of Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project. His original works have been performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, La Salle Pleyel (Paris), and the Rose Bowl (Pasadena), among many others. Key current projects include a musical, Benny and Joon, in partnership with H2H Productions and MGM On Stage, and a forthcoming book on the interrelation of music and science. His opera, The Secret Garden, was commissioned by San Francisco Opera and premiered on March 1, 2013. It received rave reviews and will next move to Houston Grand Opera. His Cosmic Reflection: A Narrated Symphony—the second commission associated with NASA’s Fermi mission (depicting the entire
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history of the universe)—received its premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. The Unicycle Song Craig Carnelia is a composer and singer best known for his collaborative work on the musicals Working (with Stephen Schwartz), and Sweet Smell of Success (with Marvin Hamlisch). His works have been seen Off-Broadway and across the country, including Is There Life After High School? and Three Postcards. He also composed songs for the 2002 Nora Ephron play Imaginary Friends. He has received the Johnny Mercer Award and has been nominated three times for the Tony Award and twice for a Drama Desk Award. In addition he has been awarded the Kleban Award. Carnelia serves as a mentor to young writers through the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, the Dramatists Guild Musical Theatre Fellowship, and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. A Wish Lance Horne has performed alongside, composed, and/or provided arrangements for Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Ricki Lake, Cheyenne Jackson, Kelli O’Hara, Jake Shears, Meow Meow, Justin Bond, Sandra Bernhard, Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls, and the Boston Pops. He received an Emmy for Best Original Song (Daytime: One Life to Live), the Jonathan Larson Award for composer-lyricist, a Bistro Award for producing Alan Cumming’s album I Bought a Blue Car Today, and the ASCAP Young Composer Award. He has appeared with Seoul Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, London Gay Men’s Chorus, and Sydney Dance Company; opened for Death Cab, Michael Feinstein, and Dwight Yoakam; performed for President Obama, the First Lady, and Queen Elizabeth; conducted return engagements at Sydney Opera House; and nycgmc
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appeared for two seasons at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s in music composition from The Juilliard School where he has taught for a decade. Just a Boy John Bucchino’s songs have been performed and recorded by artists Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Barbara Cook, Michael Feinstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Deborah Voigt, Nathan Gunn, and Audra McDonald. His music has been performed by the Boston Pops and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Among his honors are two Drama Desk nominations, the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, and the Kleban Award. He has written scores for the musicals Urban Myths, Lavender Girls, Broadway’s A Catered Affair (book by Harvey Fierstein), and the DreamWorks animated film Joseph, King of Dreams. Brother, Because of You Stephen Schwartz is perhaps the premier musical theater composer of our time. In 1971, he wrote the music and new lyrics for Godspell, followed by his collaboration with Leonard Bernstein on Bernstein’s Mass. Then came Pippin and The Magic Show. He next wrote The Baker’s Wife, followed by a musical version of Studs Terkel’s Working, to which he contributed four songs, and Children of Eden. He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, and Enchanted. He has released two CDs, on which he sings new songs entitled Reluctant Pilgrim and Unchartered Territory. Mr. Schwartz’s most popular musical, Wicked, opened in the fall of 2003. Mr. Schwartz is the only songwriter in Broadway history ever to have three shows run more than 1900 12
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performances. His first opera, Séance on a Wet Afternoon premiered at Opera Santa Barbara in the fall of 2009 and was subsequently produced by New York City Opera. Mr. Schwartz has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He received the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award at this year’s Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. I Love You More Ann Hampton Callaway (see previous bio) Meditation John Corigliano is one of the most widely celebrated composers of the last forty years. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award, and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. John serves on the composition faculty at The Juilliard School of Music. He has composed three symphonies, an opera for the Metropolitan Opera, The Ghosts of Versailles, and major works for strings, including the score to the movie The Red Violin for which he won the Oscar. His Symphony No. 1 (1991) channeled his personal grief over the loss of friends to the AIDS crisis. Over 150 orchestras worldwide have performed it. The Symphony’s second movement incorporates a reworking of his choral piece Of Rage and Remembrance that was co-commissioned by NYCGMC, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and Seattle Men’s Chorus in 1991; NYCGMC sang the New York premiere performance at Carnegie Hall in June 1992. The Narrow Bridge Jake Heggie is the American composer of the operas Moby-Dick (libretto: Gene Scheer), Dead
M eet Man Walking (libretto: Terrence McNally), Three Decembers (libretto: Scheer), The End of the Affair (libretto: Heather McDonald), To Hell and Back (libretto: Scheer), For a Look or a Touch (libretto: Scheer) and At the Statue of Venus (libretto: McNally). He has also composed more than 250 art songs, as well as orchestral, choral, and chamber music. The Dallas Opera has announced the commission of Heggie’s next opera, Great Scott, with librettist Terrence McNally, set for a premiere in October 2015. Pamela Stewart is a lyricist and librettist with over 200 pieces in publication. In 2000, Susan G. Komen for the Cure commissioned her to write a song cycle for chorus and orchestra. Twice performed at Carnegie Hall, Sing for the Cure had its European premiere at Royal Festival Hall in London in 2010 and was recorded with Dr. Maya Angelou as narrator. Ms. Stewart’s work has received both editor’s choice and merit series awards from top choral music distributors, and she has been honored by Creator Magazine’s “Select 20.” In 2012, for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Pamela penned the text for Give ‘Em Hope, based on speeches by Harvey Milk. It was included in the 35th anniversary commemoration of Harvey Milk’s assassination in June 2013. Ms. Stewart lives in Tempe, Arizona. A graduate of Columbia University and Mannes College of Music, Aaron Dai began studying piano at the age of five and went on to win the UNICEF Youth Concerts Competition three times by the age of 15. He has concertized around the country, performing in
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New York venues such as CAMI Hall, Steinway Hall, and Symphony Space, and cities such as Philadelphia, Houston, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Collaboratively, he has shared the stage with artists as varied as Clay Aiken, Varla Jean Merman, and coloratura soprano Marisol Montalvo. As the Resident Composer of The Chelsea Symphony, he is best known for his fifteenminute miniature opera Hamlet which debuted with Darius de Haas in the title role, and The Night Before Christmas for Narrator and Orchestra, which has been narrated by Richard Kind (2006), Ana Gasteyer (2007), David Hyde Pierce (2008), Charles Busch (2009), Andrea Martin (2010), Rachel Dratch (2011), Mo Rocca (2012), Victor Garber (2013) and BD Wong (2014). He collaborated in 2008 with American abstract painter Louise Fishman and poet Eileen Myles on Con Furia (Four is Louise), a five-part work for soprano, baritone, and orchestra that premiered in New York in January 2009. The 2011 symphonic poem The Whydah Returns was recently added to the archives of the Whydah Museum in Provincetown, MA, and To a Ten-YearOld—written in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11—has been incorporated into the aural archives of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The choral work You Yourself Must Change It (text by poet Adrienne Rich) was commissioned by the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus in 2012 and premiered at The Town Hall that December. It aired on Sirius XM Satellite Radio nationally in March and April of 2013. Mr. Dai is a four-time recipient of the ASCAP Plus Award, Concert Music Division (2011–2014). Aaron was the musical consultant for the award-winning Off-Broadway play The nycgmc
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Temperamentals by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Jon Marans. A former clarinetist, oboist, and bassoonist, he is now a staff pianist and vocal coach at Mannes College of Music. Aaron lives and teaches in New York City. Tom McGillis is thrilled to be celebrating 27 years with the NYCGMC this season! His other artistic signing credits include Forever Plaid at Paper Mill Playhouse, Christmas Revels at Symphony Space, and several productions with Very Special Arts Theatre Company and
the George Street Playhouse. Mr. McGillis has voice-interpreted signed productions including Progress at Hudson Guild Theatre and Handstone Productions’ Anna and Danilo. He studied artistic interpretation at The Juilliard School. He is a dedicated advocate for individuals with disabilities, heading up efforts for access under the Americans with Disabilities Act in employment, education, and the arts, and he serves on several business advisory boards. He has presented workshops for GALA Choruses, addressing interpreting issues for choral performances. By day, Mr. McGillis is vice president of human resources for ORC International, a provider of customized business and market research and analysis.
The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus is a member of GALA Choruses, the international association of the lesbian and gay choral movement. Founded in 1982, GALA Choruses represents 170 choruses, their 8,000 singers, and patrons in Australia, Europe, and North America. The association’s programs and services include annual conferences, matching grants to support the creation of new choral works, publication of reference materials, a resource center, training programs and music festivals. For more information please contact GALA Choruses, PO Box 99998, Pittsburgh, PA, 15233. Phone: (412) 304-1174; Web site: www.galachoruses.org; E-mail: info@galachoruses.org
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NYC Gay M en's C horus FIRST TENORS Shafiq Akhtar# Tony Alberti# Fabian Andujar Paul Bagley Jack Bartholet J. Christopher Beck William Berrios J. Arthur Brost Leo A. Campos Tommy Casmento Steven Chaiken Pedro Colón Jim Daly Brian Dann Scott Davenport# Michael R. Dekker Filemon Dela Cruz# Trent Ballard Franco Johnathan Gibbs Nelson González-González# Ryan Gordon# Nate Gray Tom Guthrie# John Hager Thomas C. Henson# Tim Howard+ Jonathan Jones Hunter Kaczorowski# Vince Kelly Mike LaBruna# Samuel Lartigaut Jo Lee Tim Leonard# Matthew Levison# Gary Lipps James D. Matte Nathan Merrill Danny Moreno Timothy Morrell Scott Morwitz Skie Ocasio Syville Padayao Carlos J Rios Andrew Roberts# Jordan Ruefle 16
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Mark Schall Allen Scheler Raymond Sheen, Jr. Edwin Sutton Anthony Taccetta# A. LaMar Torrence SECOND TENORS Fred Aiese Johnny Atorino Michael Byre Baker Jonathan Bannigan# Alex Bernhardt+ Philip Bialer Dave Bolton Ransom Bruce# Tym Byerz Jason Cannon Andrae Capito# Steve Chazaro# Jerry Irwin Christman Michael Connolly# Rob Cordell# Bobby Darnell Guy P. Dauerty# Gary Wayne Farris George Fletcher JJ Flores# Stephen Fuller Willis Goodmoore Addison Heeren# Brent Henderson# Rafael Hidalgo# David Hopkins Marcus Huffman# Daniel Jeoung Michael Johnson# Cato Tony Jones# Donovan Jones# Jürgen Jones Phillip D. Karg# Alex Keomurjian Matthew Kirk# D. Scott Laubner Chris Layton Richard A. Lemberg
Jeff Lettiere# Tony Lin Keitaro Manzen Paul Maulucci# Drew McCarthy# Carlos Mesa Stephen Bennett Milbauer# Codie Milford# Michael Miller# Matthew Mroczka# Jonah Rosen Herb Rubenstein Ricardo Santos# Henry A. Schoenfield Ryan Scoble Sean Segerstrom# Takefumi Semba# Bill Siegfried# Mark Simpson# William Frederick Smith Frank Stancati Christian Tanja Danny Taveras# Michael Tryba# David Urbieta# Joseph Vincente Eric Wallace TJ Witham William Zeolla BARITONES Jonathan Antonelli+ Jordan Michael Barbakoff* Billy Barry Sam Benedict David Boyd Joel Bright John B. Cadue Virgil Cebrian Raymond Cerabone Tim Chan Leon Chung Michael Coleman Douglas Cooper Dan Cutter Nick Deyo#
Nic D’Sposito# Frank DiVenuto# Andrew Duren# Daniel Egan# Gregory Elfers# Damon Epps Ron Foster Gennaro Fredella# Laurence Frommer# Bobby Hall# Francis Hoch James Horan Steven Horowitz# Jason Huber Daniel Hurewitz Chad Allen Jackson# Corey Jenkins Gavin Kenny# Donald G. King, Jr.# Damian Kington# Stephen M. Kurowski Patrick Leader Pete Lenz David Leventhal Eugene Lovendusky Christopher M. Lucas# Steven Carl McCasland# Brian McManus Tyrone McMurren# Patrick McNaughton# Jeffrey Meyer# David Mitsch# Christopher Mohler-Morgan# Dennis Moran William Morland Joshua Nelson Jeremiah Oliver Tom Orians Scott Piro Edwin Ruiz# Craig Sabbatino# Adam Sank# Michael Scheman# Marv Schoenberg Dennis Sprick Mark Tagwalan#
NYC Gay M en ’s C horus Larry Tantay Henri Frederic Van Ryn Nick Vermane# Jared Whertvine# Patrick D. Williams# Dan Wise David Witzel Edwin V. Yangga BASSES Alan J. Anderson Christopher J. Anderson# Robert J. Anthony Shane Antony# Mark Armbruster John M. Barrett Néviton Barros# Dallas Beasley# Chris Bell# Tim Blanchard-Modisette Matthew Bond# Stephen Brown Jonathan Chang Edgar Colón-Hernández* Morgan Crawford Mark A. D’Ambrosi# Robert Davis Gary Diamante# Thomas Dieter# Dain Evans Robert J. Featherstone Noah Fleischaker Dylan Ftera Tom Gallagher# Ashton Giese# Mark Goldfarb# Jerome Graber Steve Greer Troy Gunther David Hill W. Scott Horne Michael Huczko# John Huffstetler# Andrew Hull David Hunter Alexander Iwachiw *Charter Member 1980-81 Season # On Leave ^In Memoriam +Section Leader
Guy S. Jacobs# Philip Jeffery Russell A. Johns+ Andy Kao# Bob Kirkpatrick# Garret Lambert Scott Langenstein Pedro Lavin Jacob Levine# D. Brendan Marchesani Bradley A. Moot# Glenn A. Nobel Hannibal Person# Claude Peters Scott Phillips Gregory Pierson Benjamin Richards# Greg S. Rider José Rincón# Leke Salihu# Casey Schmoll Justin Kerr Sheckler# Stephen Singerman Christopher Slavik Dan Smith Kevin Sterns# Dave Stevens# Robert Stevenson Raphael Taurel# Jason Villarreal Jim Vivyan Bruce Ward Allan Weidenbaum# Steve Wise Robert Wolf# ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Anthony G. DeLisio Howard Vaiselberg Michael Varrone ALUMNI MEMBERS Wm. N. Ciffairy Michael Goldstein* Jay Lesiger* Mark McManus*
Craig Notte Manuel Ovando* Mark Short Mark Wolmetz CHORUS CIRCLE Norman Hanson HONORARY MEMBERS John Bucchino Ann Hampton Callaway Liz Callaway Kristin Chenoweth Petula Clark Harry Dias Chuck Dima Leslie Downs Faith Esham Ann Harada Gean Harwood^ Casey J. Hayes Jerry Herman Dudley Hogue
Cyndi Lauper Robert MacWilliams Sharon McKnight Ruth Messinger Larry Moore Scott Nevins Barry Oliver Ellen Osborne Roberta Peters Faith Prince Joan Rivers^ Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson Joe Scialo^ Judy Sherman Jim Singleton Stephen Sondheim Jonnah Speidel Elaine Stritch Deborah Voigt Wally Wallace^ Lillias White Margaret Whiting^
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NYC Gay M en's C horus In Memoriam The Chorus mourns the loss of its members who have died from AIDS as well as from other causes. Their contribution to our collective voice will be sorely missed.
Michael Alhonte Joe Alleva* Stephen A. Anderson, Jr. John Annunziata* Tony Anthony* Gary L. Armstrong* David Bartee Randy Bastian Joel Baum Earl Becker Rob Berray Neil Jon Bickford* George Bihlmayer* Hagop Bijimian James Black Tim Blaylock David Boulanger Richard Bousquet Mark Bradley* Steven Curtis Bradley Thomas Bradley* Joel Breslof Benn Brown Gary Brubach Philip Butler Dick Cable Michael Callen* Michael Capece* Paul Casey* Michael Chiusano Joe Chorba Marty Christian Dale Christopher David Clarkson James W. Clayton* Danny Colvin David Coobs William Costello
Thomas H. Cunningham Don Curry Lee Danser* Luke A. Davis Patrick Dearborn Hector Denis Robert L. DeStefano* Garon Douglass Albert S. Dula Erroll Edwards* Rick Emery John Evans Jay Farrar Rick B. Farwick Jim Festa Andrew FitzPatrick Alan Fraser Mark Fuschetti Richard I. Garf* Fred Goldhaber* Sheldon Goodmoore Lloyd Goren Donald Grasso Gary Austin Graves Stephen Gray Kevin Hain Richard Halpern Jack T. Hamilton* Skip Hartstirn Michael Haubrich-Visconti John R. Hawkins Robert O. Hawkins, Jr. JohnPaul Hernández Steven Hicks Larry Hill* Bruce Hlibok* Bill Honey Christopher Humble*
Richard W. Jasper, Jr. Joey Jenner Dean X Johnson Quinton Johnson* Wayne M. Kell Greg Khoury Michael Kinnamon Jon Kirbie Dominic Lanza Brett Larson Mark Lazore Robert N. Levine Lewis Love Michael MacDonald Robin McCarty Ray McCurdy Michael McDonald John McDowell Brian McGlothlin Scott A. McIntosh Scott McKinley John Messina Arthur Metzgar* James Meyer* Jerry Milano Steven Minier Peter J. Monette* Máximo Morales Fernando Moreno Fred Mutti Peter O’Connor Carl Off Gary Olde* Roman Olivos Ronald A. Oxendale John Parton David J. Pasacrita Eddie Peters
Charles W. Pilling Sheldon Post* William Pressley Ronathan Price* Russ Radley* Peter Reed Morgan Rice Mark Riese Louis A. Rizzo J. R. Robbins II* Christopher D. Rogers Jon Rollins Ken Sanden Robert Santucci* William J. Scarola* David Lloyd Sears* Gary Serriane Raymond L. Shelton Michael Shepard Bob Snyder Keith Soroko Stephen W. Surber* Norman Sweet Martin Teitel* Daniel Deford Thompson Edward M. Tilchen* Pascual Vaquer David Torres Valentin Danny Weaver Ed Dryer Weaver* Gary D. Wells* Clive Wilson Dennis Wilson Larry Woods Roland Wybenga * Charter Member
Legacy Circle Big Apple Performing Arts thanks the following donors for providing leadership gifts to the New York
City Gay Men’s Chorus endowment fund. Please contact us to find out how you can help keep the Chorus singing long into the future.
Dan Baillie C harter Member Jordan Barbakoff and Dr. Philip Jeffery, in memory of Grant Jeffery and Robert L. Cooper D onald A. Bickford, in memory of John Fiske Robson Thomas H. Cunningham Robert Fisch
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Dennis Furbush Michael Goldstein John R. Hawkins Robert O. Hawkins, Jr. William Healey Bruston Manuel and Roy Ardizzone Bert Marro and Herb Rubinstein J ack Nieman and Rick Reder, Fritzie and Chloe
Manuel Ovando Brad Parks Mark Short R ob Sinacore, in memory of Dr. Malcolm Berg Dave Stevens Mark-Edward Wadley
Board and Staff Board of Directors Jason Sirois, Chair Craig Anzalone, Vice Chair Steve Greer, Treasurer Karen Yair, PhD, Secretary Rick Clodfelter Scott Davenport Tom Guthrie Bobby Kean Kelsey Louie Michael Miller Skie Ocasio Dominic Paolillo Daniel Singer Kelly Coogan Swanson
J onathan Jones, Assistant Production Manager J ason Cannon, Stage Director, Video Editor Danny Moreno, Stage Movement Bill Ciffairy, CI/CT, Sign Language Coach Matt Berman, Lighting Design Ellen Osborne, Production Team Kevin Nicholas Gravit, Celebrity Liaison Glenn Nobel, Music Editor Christopher Slavik, Ticket Sales Jim Vivyan, Concert Program Editor Tim Paul, Design C over Illustration© Tim Paul 2015, timpaulillustrations.com
NYCGMC Artistic Staff Dr. Charles Beale, Artistic Director Aaron Dai, Accompanist Tom McGillis, Sign Language Interpreter Gary Miller, Conductor Emeritus
Youth Pride Chorus Staff Wes Webb, Artistic Director Rona Siddiqui, Music Director McKenzie Angelo, Program Assistant
BAPA Operations, Production, Concert Ticketing and Marketing Staffs Jason Cannon, Interim Executive Director C eleste Leibowitz, Development Associate Alex Bernhardt, Administrative Assistant S tephen M. Kurowski, Production Manager
Chelsea Studios Edgar Colón-Hernández Kevin Curry—Carroll Music Michael Dekker A ngus Gephart and the staff of West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ James Horan Steve Milloy Matt Morgan—Concert Audio NOLA Studios P.S. 41 P hil Rosenberg and the team at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Christopher Slavik Special heartfelt thanks to the Clementi Family.
Special Thanks R okia Shearin and the Production Crew at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Stephen Schwartz John J. Atorino J onathan Bannigan, Mark Goldfarb, Jason Huber, Eugene Lovendusky, and Carlos J Rios Erlinda Brent—Church of the Holy Trinity CAP 21 Ray Cerabone
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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