Pacific Spring Choral Concert, 4/23/22

Pacific Choral Concert Saturday I April 23, 2021 Faye Spanos Concert Hall

I 7:30 pm

University Chorus and Pacific Singers Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artist in Residence and Guest Conductor Ricardo “Ric” Campero & Paul Kimball, Conductors

94th Performance I 2021–22 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific

CONCERT PROGRAM I APRIL 23, 2022 I 7:30 PM University Chorus Paul Kimball, director Monica Adams, piano Christina Brice Dolanc

Absence (2014)

(b. 1976) Lyrics by Henry Hewlett Hey Nonny, Nonny (2004)

Carl J. Nygard

(b. 1947) Text by William Shakespeare (from Much Ado About Nothing)

Jude Markel, piano

The Rhythm of Life (1965)

Cy Coleman (1924 - 2004) arr. Richard Barnes

- PAUSE Pacific Singers Valérie Sainte-Agathe, director Five English Folk Songs (1913) I. The Dark Eyed Sailor II. The Spring Time of the Year III. Just As The Tide Was Flowing IV. The Lover’s Ghost V. Wassail Song

R. Vaughn Williams (1872 - 1958)

CONCERT PROGRAM I APRIL 23, 2022 I 7:30 PM Johannes Brahms

Tafellied, Op. 93b (1884) (Dank der Damen)

(1833 - 1897)

Dem dunkeln Schoß der heilgen Erde (1880) (Aus Schillers Lied vonder Glocke) Kleine Hochzeits-Kantate (1874) Patricia Grimm, piano Bobby McFerrin

Psalm 23 (1990)

(b. 1950) Aaron Copland

At The River (1952)

(1900 - 1990) arr. R. Wilding White Ricardo “Ric” Campero, director; Patricia Grimm, piano Panda Chant II (1984)

Meredith Monk (b. 1942)

- PAUSE Tundra (2011)

Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)

Brylan Finley & Juliette Friediere, soloists

PACIFIC SINGERS Sopranos Mara Baldwin Rose Dickson Juliette Frediere Ria Patel Susan Perez Jordan Bell Souza Jordan Yang Altos Alexis Bondoc Hailey Cating Brylan Finley Elaine Hanley Mia Janosik Rebecca Mahon Lily Tumbale

Tenors Riley Brearton Joshua Cabardo Filo Ebid Robert Escobar Leo Hearl Michael Megenney Basses Mateus Barioni Dion Nickelson Ryan Vang

UNIVERSITY CHORUS Sopranos Gabby Baluyot Eli Bocks Kyra Comstock Renee Alexandria Jaena Judy Kim Jiho Sarah Lee Izzy Martinez Samantha Perrego Alexis Rabago Olivhea Ross Sydney Zucco Altos Miranda Albertoni Ainsley Berryhill Gabby Campitelli Lilia Casaro Lilia Gracia Mary Denney Simone Gamble Leah Hernandez Maggie Juarez Hyejun Lee Grace Liaw Stella Mahnke Mallory Norman Andrea Reposa Alexandria Lou Watson Jordan Wier

Tenors Glenn Adcock Jermaine Donatiuh Campos Robert Escobar Ka Nam Matthew Hui Domenic Jimenez Jamie Lue Matthew Miramontes Nick Rider James Scott Basses Logan Adams Victor Alcaraz Peter Altamura Henry Bao Robin Bisho Wyatt Cannon Chin-Jui Chang Andy Chen Gavin Downing Marco Galvan Edgard Gonzales Jude Markel Seth Neves Christopher Penn Michael Robertson Iker Rodriguez Frühauf Jake Scallon Cole Torquemada Kasey West

TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES Tafellied, Op. 93b (Dank der Damen) Johannes Brahms The women: Just as the echo of happy songs must give a happy answer, so we also approach and return the gallant greeting with thanks.

The men: Oh, you kind and charming ones!

For the fair flight of the echo Take from the joyful musicians the homage that is offered!

All: That is right! All around clink toasts and returned toasts!

Where singers and women are united, there will be a bright sound!

Dem dunkeln Schoss der heiligen Erd (Aus Schillers Lied vonder Glocke) Johannes Brahms

To holy earth’s e’er-darkening bosom The Sower doth entrust his seed And hopes, indeed, that it will blossom To bless, as Heaven’s bath decreed.

The women: Still costlier the seed we’ve buried Ah, but we perceive that you pay homage With sorrow in the womb of earth to other Gods as well.

And hope, that from the coffin carried Red and gold we see it twinkling, ‘Twill bloom to fairer fortune forth..

Tell us how should we take that?

The men: Dear ones! Daintily with three fingers, more securely with the entire hand And so the glass is filled from those not halfway, but to the rim.

The women: Now we see that you are masters.

But we are liberal today.

Hopefully, as handsome spirits you can be led to some ideal.

Kline Hochzeits-Kantate Johannes Brahms (Deutsch) Two lovers, devotedly paired, Stroll through the world, Each of them has lost his heart, But the other one has found it.

Each bears the light burden As the watch attaches to the chain.

Thus, it goes on paths and byways Quietly onward with identical beats.

The men: “Look, they can do it!” speak in the Each one sips and thinks of his own lady distance and he who doesn’t have one in particular - The stars on the heights of heaven, now, he drinks in general “Who are they?” immediately we call out: renewed praise to all beautiful ones!

Sigmund and Emilia!

All: That is right! All around clink toasts and returned toasts!

Where singers and women are united, there will be a bright sound!

CONDUCTOR BIOS Paul Kimball is an active musician in Stockton. He is a graduate from UOP in Music Education, and has a Master’s degree from Holy Names University in the Kodaly Method.

He was a French Horn player with the Stockton Symphony for 27 years in which he has guest conducted and soloed as a vocalist and horn player. He has conducted and prepared the voices for hundreds of performances of local musicals, and is the conductor and artistic director of the Zion Chamber Orchestra. Many UOP Conservatory faculty have played and soloed with this group. He is in his 34th year in the Lincoln Unified School District where he has taught Orchestra, Choir, Piano and Classroom Music. He is an Eagle Scout, loves hiking and is the Current Mr. San Joaquin. In 2018 he and his wife, Dr. Dominee Muller-Kimball were presented with the Star Award by the Stockton Arts Commission.

He is the author of Sight Singing Magic and We are all Human Beings/An Adoptee Ponders.

Ricardo (Ric) Campero received his Bachelor’s of Music in Music Education from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in 1979.

Mr. Campero taught instrumental and choral programs at Ceres High School for 25 years, then decided to apply his talents at the elementary level where he was successful at increasing music participation and further encouraging enrollment in the junior high school and high school music programs. Mr. Campero retired from Ceres Unified School District in 2018 after 38 years.

In 2019, the Ceres Unified School District Board of Directors announced plans to name the first performing arts center in Ceres, the Ricardo “Ric” Campero Performing Arts Center.

Construction will be completed January 2023.

Mr. Campero served as assistant director for The Stockton Chorale and Master Chorale and currently serves the Stockton community through music as director of The Stockton Singers, in affiliation with The Stockton Chorale, and director of the Central United Methodist Church Chancel Choir.

Mr. Campero is in demand as a choral singer and soloist, as well as a clinician. He will be conducting the San Joaquin and Stanislaus County Jr. High School Honor Choirs in Spring 2022, and will be singing with the Stockton Symphony honoring astronaut and UOP graduate Jose Hernandez in May 2022.

CONDUCTOR BIOS Valérie Sainte-Agathe has prepared and conducted the San Francisco Girls Chorus since 2013, including performances with renowned ensembles such as the Philip Glass Ensemble, The Knights, Kronos Quartet, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Voices of Music, TENET Vocal Artists, and the San Francisco Symphony. Through high profile musical collaborations, Ms. Sainte-Agathe continues to welcome acclaimed guest artists and ensembles from across the United States and beyond to work alongside the choristers of SFGC. She most recently joined forces with The King’s Singers and Roomful of Teeth to further SFGC’s creative energy during the COVID-19 pandemic with several unique video and audio projects to be released in spring 2021.

In February 2018, Ms. Sainte-Agathe made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Philip Glass Ensemble, conducting with Michael Riesman in Glass’s Music with Changing Parts. She also conducted The Photographer by Philip Glass in October 2017. In June 2016, she conducted SFGC alongside The Knights and Brooklyn Youth Chorus for the New York Philharmonic Biennial Festival at Lincoln Center. She also collaborated with The Knights for the SHIFT Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Her first recording as SFGC’s Music Director, Final Answer, was released on Orange Mountain Music in February 2018, and her second recording, My Outstretched Hand, featured composer Aaron Jay Kernis, The Knights, and Trinity Youth Chorus and was released in July 2019. Between 2014 and 2016, she prepared choruses for Lisa Bielawa’s made-for-TV opera, Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser.

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