It Takes Two Music for Soprano and Mezzo Anne Gross, soprano Emily Bullock, mezzo-soprano Gary Garletts, piano Monday, October 15, 2018 Philips Autograph Library Philips Memorial Building 7:30 PM
GUEST ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY ANNE GROSS, soprano, who has been praised for her exquisite tone, excellent breath control and enjoyable stage presence, is a polished performer who delights audiences with her musicality and sense of humor. Dr. Gross holds vocal performance degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B.M.), the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.) and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance (D.M.A.). While completing her doctoral degree, she studied with world-renowned soprano Shirley Verrett and coached extensive song and operatic repertoire with internationally-known collaborative pianist Martin Katz, performing on many of his students’ recitals. She joined with Mr. Katz to record the audio examples for his book The Complete Collaborator: The Pianist as Partner, published by Oxford University Press in May 2009. Dr. Gross began her musical studies as a pianist and often serves as a collaborative pianist for her voice students. Dr. Gross has presented solo recitals and has appeared on various concert series throughout the United States. She has been a favorite soloist with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, performing such diverse works there as Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Rob Kapilow’s musical settings of Dr. Seuss’ beloved Green Eggs and Ham and Gertrude McFuzz. Dr. Gross has been invited to perform in concert in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Havana, Cuba, where she sang music of Jose Maria Vitier, accompanied by the composer. Among her oratorio performances are numerous cantatas of J. S. Bach as well as the Mass in B Minor, the St. John and St. Matthew Passion, Missa Cubana (Vitier), Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn’s Paukenmesse and Handel’s Messiah. She sang the U.S. premiere of Vitier’s Ave Maria por Cuba for soprano, choir, and orchestra. Dr. Gross has also created and performed several solo musical theater cabarets. Recent performances include concerts in South Africa as soloist with the Elizabethtown College Jazz Band and an Oberlin alumnae chamber music tour in New South Wales, Australia, where she was a soloist with the Limestone Consort in Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV 51). Dr. Gross also recently gave guest recitals and master classes at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Riverina Conservatorium in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, the University of Notre Dame, and Eastern Oregon University as well as faculty recitals at Whitman College, Anderson University, and Elizabethtown College. She is in demand as a master clinician for both choral groups and solo singers. Dr. Gross has served on the voice faculties of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Whitman College, Anderson University, the College of Visual and Performing Arts at West Chester University, and Eastern Mennonite University. She is an active member of NATS. In addition to her college-level teaching, Dr. Gross chaired the voice department for six years at Belvoir Terrace, a performing arts camp for girls aged 8-16 located near Tanglewood in Lenox, MA. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania where she teaches studio voice, vocal chamber ensemble, FENICE (women’s choir), and Diction for Singers.
GARY P. GARLETTS, during 2018-19 Gary P. Garletts celebrates his 40th year as a professional musician, enjoying activity as a conductor, accompanist, organist, and administrator. The year also marks his 20th as Director of Music-Organist at Ardmore Presbyterian Church, and as Artistic Director-Conductor of Chester County Choral Society. Additionally, during 2005-10 he was staff accompanist for the School of Music at West Chester University of PA. At APC Gary leads a six-choir program and provides music for all services. Special events include semi-annual cantatas, annual Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols, annual Easter festival services, biennial youth musicals, and biennial three-church choir festivals. In 2007 he led its Chancel Choir on a tour of Scotland and Northern England. Gary has led CCCS (an 80-voice auditioned community chorus) through transformative growth in membership, musicianship, and repertoire. CCCS presents both major choral works and thematic programs, and its Chamber Ensemble offers concerts of advanced a cappella repertoire. This fall CCCS joins Kennett Symphony for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Gary earned music degrees at Oberlin College and Duquesne University, studying organ with Haskell Thomson and Ann Labounsky, piano with Frances Walker, and conducting with Sandra Willetts and Daniel Moe. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, and is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists, which he has served in various capacities via its Pittsburgh, Lancaster, and Philadelphia chapters.
PROGRAM
Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten, from BWV 78 ......................................... J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Lost is my quiet....................................................................................................... Henry Purcell What can we poor females do? (1659-1695) (Keyboard realizations by Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976)
Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich ..............................................................Felix Mendelssohn Gruß (1809-1847) Die Schwestern ................................................................................................. Johannes Brahms Die Boten der Liebe (1833-1897)
“Ah, guarda, sorella!” .............................................................................................. W.A. Mozart from Cosí fan tutte (1756-1791)
Les trois oiseaux ........................................................................................................ Léo Delibes (1836-1891) La nuit ................................................................................................................. Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) Tarantelle ................................................................................................................. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
“There’s Always a Woman” ..........................................................................Stephen Sondheim (Written for Anyone Can Whistle) (b.1930)
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TRANSLATIONS Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten We hurry with weak, yet eager footsteps, oh Jesus, o Master, to you to help. You faithfully look for the sick and straying, Oh, hear, as we raise our voices, to pray for help! May your gracious countenance give us joy! Translation: Anne Gross
Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich (Heinrich Heine) I wish my love would pour itself into a single word, I would give it to the merry winds, who would carry it merrily along. To you, my sweetheart, they would carry the love-filled word; you hear it every hour, you hear it in every place. And when you have quietly closed your eyes in nighttime slumber, my picture would follow you, even in your deepest dream. Gruss (Josef von Eichendorff) Wherever I go and look, in field and mountain and valley, from the hills up to the meadow, from the mountain upward into the blue; I greet you a thousand times. In my garden I find many little flowers, pretty and nice, I bind many garlands from them, and a thousand thoughts and greetings I wind into them. I must not give you one, you are too noble and fair; they must all fade too soon, unparalleled love stays in the heart forever. Die Schwestern (Eduard Mörike) We two sisters, we beauties, our faces the same, identical as two eggs, as similar as two stars. We two sisters, we beauties, we have nut brown hair, if you braid the strands together, you can't tell them apart.
We two sisters, we beauties we wear the same clothes, while walking in the meadow, and singing hand in hand. We two sisters, we beauties, we race each other at spinning, we sit together in an alcove, and sleep in the same bed. Oh, you two sisters, you beauties How the tables have turned, You love the same sweetheart; And now the song has an end! Die Boten der Liebe (Bohemian, trans. Josef Wenzig) How many messengers have already flown down the path, from the forest, Messengers of fidelity; they carry me little letters from the distance, little letters from my sweetheart! How many breezes have already blown from morning till evening so quickly without rest; they carry little kisses from the cool water, they carry little kisses from my sweetheart! How the grass waved on the green mountain, how the ears of corn waved gently in the fields; “My golden sweetheart”, they all whispered, “My golden sweetheart, I love you so passionately.” Translations: Anne Gross
Ah, guarda, sorella! (Lorenzo da Ponte) The two sisters are looking at portraits of their fiancés and discussing them. Fiordiligi Ah, tell me sister, if one could ever find a nobler face, a sweeter mouth. Dorabella Just look, see what fire is in his eye, if flames and darts do not seem to flash forth! Fiordiligi This is the face of a soldier and a lover. Dorabella This is a face both charming and alarming. Fiordiligi I am so happy! Dorabella How happy I am! Fiordiligi and Dorabella If ever my heart changes its affection, may love make me live in pain. Translation: Anne Gross
The Three Birds (François CoppÊe) I said to the pigeon: Leave and fly away beyond the fields of oats and hay, Find me a flower which will make her love me. The pigeon said: It is too far. And I said to the eagle: Help me, I intend that it is the fire of heaven I desire, take your flight and go up, so that I can enjoy it. And the eagle said: It is too high. And at last I said to the vulture: Devour this heart too full of her, and take it for yourself. Leave that which can be whole again. The vulture said to me: It is too late. The Night (Theodore de Banville) We bless this sweet night, whose fresh kiss frees us. Under its veils where we have lived without unrest and without noise. Devouring care flees. The perfume of the air intoxicates us. We bless this sweet night, whose fresh kiss frees us. Pale dreamer pursued by a God, rest yourself, close your book. Through the white sky, like frost, a stream of stars shiver and shine. We bless this sweet night. Tarantella (Marc Monnier) In the sky the moon rises and shines, it is midnight but as bright as day. Come with me I said to her, come on the sizzling sand, where we jump and shine as we whirl the tarantella. There! Here are two dancers, gather around them! The man is well built and the girl is pretty. But beware, it is the game of love they are dancing without knowing. The tarantella! Sweet is the sound of the tambourine! If I were a daughter of the sea and you a fisher, she said to me, we would joyously dance every night. We would dance and we would love the tarantella! Ah! The tarantella! Translations: Emily Bullock
UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visit www.wcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 8:15 PM Chamebr Winds Andrew Yozviak, director Philips Autograph Library Philips Memorial Building Thursday, October 18, 2018, 8:15 PM Fall Choral Festival Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Philips Memorial Building Saturday, October 20, 2018, 4:00 PM Graduate Recital: Il-Su Yoon, piano Carl Cranmer, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Monday, October 22, 2018, 7:30 PM Faculty Recital: In Young Lee, soprano In Young Lee, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 8:15 PM Vocal Honors Recital Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building
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