A Choral Christmas SpectacularThe Dale Warland Singers and Symphonic Chorus

and Holiday BrassText for the Sing-Along

.Hark! The Herald Angels SingI. (Everyone)

Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King;Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled:Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies,With th'angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem.Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King.

II. (Sung by The DaleWarland'Singers)ill. (Everyone) .

Hail the heav'n born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness!Light and life to all he brings, Risen with healing in his wings:Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die,Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth.Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King.

The First NoelI. (Everyone)

The first Noel the angel did say,Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;In fields where they lay, keeping their sheep,On a cold winter's night that was so deep:Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel!

II. (Everyone)They looked up and saw a star,Shining in the east, beyond them far:And to the earth it gave great light,And so it continued both day and night:Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel!

ill. (Sung by The Dale Warland Singers)

N. (Everyone)Then let us all with one accord,Sing praises to our heav'nly Lord, <: "That hath made heav'n and earth of naught,And with his blood mankind hath bought:Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel!

.The Dale Warland Singers and Symphonic Chorus. Dale Warland;Music Director

Jerry Rubino, Assistant Conductor, Pianistand Cabaret Singers Music Director

SopranoLauraA. BoeAmy BoxrudDeborah BrudeBarbara ButcherAnne CemohousBarbara DavisHeather M. DickJeanne de Brun DuffyLinda Flanders .Mary Mahle FrenchWendy HalversonDebra K. HarrerKathy Hering• Janice A. Hunton• Kathy Josselyn• Polly Buchanan JustumChristine KallmanMary Lynn Kubik• Norah Long• Barbara Nelson• Julie Ann Olson• Deborah Loon OsgoodMary PattonLynn QuelloErin Rash• Lea Anna Sams-Mctsowan• Lisa SawatskyBrenda SielaffDeb Southworth+. Marie SparMerilu StevensonJeanne WegenerMarlyss Wolf

AltoSusan M. Barnes••Lisa A. Barry• Patricia Bather

.Doris F. BergetHarriet Collopy• Linda Mindlin DanilewskiCeline FitzmauriceRuth Gaylord+.Joanne HalvorsenAnnamarie HillLynn W. Hodulik• Lynette R. JohnsonRamona Kaszas• Shelley KlineJanet L. LechmanJanet Swenson LimaMary Maiden MuellerJeanne Mayer• Rachael Dawn NelsonAngela Newhouse• Mary [o OldakowskiRomalee Morgan OlsonCarol PetersonDennie McCollom ScottKristen E. TibbenDeborah TiedemanRica Jane Van• Denise Wahlin-FiskumRuth WarlandMargaretJ. WestinMary Bell Wolff

• Member of The Dale Warland Singers+ Section Leader

PercussionMatthew BarberJulie Olsen SchmidOrganJerry RubinoPianoHerb PilhoferJerry RubinoRecording and TapePreparationsEric Pilhofer

Tenor• Paul J. AndersonThomas Barth• Brent Benrud• Philip BlackburnAndrew S. CarrThomas J. ChervenakBob CollopyJohn P. DutmerPhilip Friedlund• Paul William GerikeRobert A. Knudtson• Gary A. Kortemeier• Thomas LarsonSpike Maiden MuellerLee Mauk• Dean Palermo+·SrevenJ.Sandberg,..Timothy SawyerScott Seyforth• Randall C. Speer

BassleRoy AltermattLeifBergetPhilip N. Boe• Steve BurgerJohn C. DuffyRobert HainlenSteven Hodulik• Thomas James• Jerry [ohnson• Daniel Kallman·JinKim• Arthur LaRueChuck Risser+. Jerry RubinoLoren SawatskyWesSchultz• Julian Sellers• Kevin M. Shannon• Paul A. Theisen• Scott Thomas ToperzerJohn R. Towler

InstrumentalistsTrumpetDavid BaldwinChristopher VolpeDavid ChapmanGlenda CloutierHomPaul StrakaLawrence BarnhartCaroline LemenPatrick Hughes

TromboneDaniel CloutierSue RobertsLee DummerRichard GaynorTubaRalph HepolaTympani .Eric RemsenContractorSteven Lund

Cassette tapes of thenewest Dale WalrandSingers' recording"Choral Currents" areavailable for purchllse inthe lobby!

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A Choral Christmaswith The Dale Warland SingersGlenn Yarbroughand The New Christy MinstrelsPat Boone & Florence Henderson"On Broadway"The Heidi Chronicles

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ORDWAY MUSIC THEATREBOARD OF Gus M. Donhowe Leonard Keyes Hon. James ScheibelDIRECTORS Carl B. Drake, Jr.* Darrell Knudson G. Richard Slade +Sidney Barrows Vice Chairman George Latimer William Slattery*Judson Bemis + Linda Hoeschler Elizabeth W. Musser + ChairmanColeman Bloomfield" Karen Hubbard Philip Nason F. T. WeyerhaeuserCharles E. Brown Horace H. Irvine 11* John G. Ordway, Jr.++ + Honorary membersKenneth Croken ++Honorary member for life

OFFICERS Henry P. Blodgett, Jr.* Michael J. Brand * Frank D. Marzitelli*William Slattery* Vice President, Vice President, Corporate Secretary

Chairman Development & Treasurer Program &MarketingCarl B. Drake, Jr.* Bill Conner"

*Members of the Executive CommitteeVice Chairman President

STAFF William H. Krog House Operations Richard RauscherAdministration Systems Manager Mary McColl Production Stage ManagerBill Conner Gail J. Nelson Director of House Jamie Ryan

President Personnel Manager Operations Production AssistantJolene Suns ten Dan Ostertag Rita Jones David Colby

Secretary to the President Accounts Payable House Services Manager Head CarpenterMelissa LaBreche Priscilla Farnham Beverly Vellieux Richard McGuireJudy Wells Durigan Membership Manager Food & Beverage Assistant Carpenter

Receptionists Terry Heer Manager David KarlsonMembership Assistant Glenn Gierok Head Electrician

Program/ Anne Root Assistant Food & Joseph Holloway

Marketing Development Assistant Beverage Manager Assistant Electrician

Michael J. Brand Carol Defiel James M. Pfitzinger, Jr.

Vice President, Box Office House Operations Head Sound Engineer

Program &Marketing William H. KrogManager Wayne Willard

Jim Martinez Assistant SoundJames c. Sheeley Acting Director of Ticket Jonathon Heide Engineer

Program Director Services Tom Neska Mike MackinJulie Ellingboe Sheryl Levine Security Guards Head of Properties

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Ann L. Petersen ManagerMarketing William Mask Katherine Ferguson Production crew is a member ofCommunications David Lucas

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Diane StutesmanGroup Sales Coordinator House Administrative Chris SchmittDevelopment/ Cherisa Broadwater Assistant Chief Engineer

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Vice President, Carla Steen (volunteer) Engineers

Development &Event Supervisors

Addison KermathTreasurer Phone Sales Supervisor Production Plus over 150 part-time ushers,Anne Howden Michael Ziegahn Michael Welch doorkeepers, floor supervisors,

Director of FinanceRichard Madsen Laura Bulling Production Director stage hands, housekeepers, tour

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The Ordway Music Theatrepresents

A Choral ChristmasThe Dale Warland Singers and Symphonic Chorus

and the Holiday BrassDale Warland, conducting

Friday, December 7, 1990 8 p.m.Sunday, December 9, 1990 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

I. Carolso Come, All Ye Faithful Tradi tional

(Arthur Harris)

o Come Emmanuel•

Tradi tional(Arthur Harris)

Hark! The Herald Angels SingEveryone Sing!

Felix Mendelssohn(David Willcocks)

II. American and Canadian MusicCradle Lullaby Fred Prentice

All on a Christmas Morning Alfred Burt

Out of the Orient Crystal Skies Richard Zgodava .

The Three Kings Healey Willan

III. Carols New-Fashionedby Herb Pilhofer

Alle Jahre Wieder(Every Year Again)

t, Fr. Schiller

Susser Die Glocken Nie Klingen(The Bells Never Ring More Sweetly)

German

We Wish You a Merry Christmas Traditional

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IV. Great Festive ChorusesHodie Christus Natus Est

(Christ is Born Today)

Evergreen

0, Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)

Intermission

, V. Carols for BrassLo How a Rose e'er Blooming

. Wassail Song

VI. Eating Lutefisk with Chopsticks:Christmas on the Road

by Bill Holm

VII. Christmas ChestnutsChristmas Song

Christmas Madness: Mixed Nuts and Fruit Cake

VIII. CarolsJoy to the World

The First NoelEveryone Sing!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Giovanni Gabrieli

Daniel Pinkham

R. Vaughan Williams

German(Chip Davis)

English(John Rutter)

Mel Torme(Jerry Rubino)

Susan Berksonand Jerry Rubino

George Frideric Handel(Arthur Harris)

Tradi tional(David Willcocks)

Tradi tional(Arthur Harris)

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THE DALE WARLAND SINGERSFounded in 1972,The Dale Warland Sing-ers has become one of the nation's premierprofessional choral ensembles. The groupgained international recognition as a leaderin the performance of new Americanchoral works at the Second World Sympo-sium on Choral Music in August 1990. Asthe sole North American choir in resi-dence at the Symposium, The Singerspresented a concert featuring new Ameri-can choral works and joined with otherleading ensembles from around the worldin a series of workshops, concerts andbroadcasts.

Noted for performing a vast repertoireof a cappella music, The Singers inspireaudiences with programs ranging fromthe great choral classics to American folksongs and vocal jazz. Performances ofworks by contemporary composers havealso won the ensemble great acclaim.Regular commissioning projects haveinvolved such composers as DominickArgento, Libby Larsen, Mary Ellen Childsand William Hawley ..

The Dale Warland Singers perform anannual subscription series in the TwinCities and tour extensively throughoutthe Upper Midwest and other parts of theUnited States. The group can also be.heard through frequent public radiobroadcasts.

THE DALE WARLANO SYMPHONICCHORUSIn the six seasons since its formation, TheDale Warland Symphonic Chorus hasperformed in fifteen programs with theMinnesota Orchestra, including Sommer-fest 1990 performances of Beethoven'sNinth Symphony and Puccini' sMadama But-terfly. The chorus has appeared under thedirection of Leonard Sla tkin, NevilleMarriner, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,Neemi Jarvi and under Richard Buckleyin the world premiere of Stephen Paulus'"Voices." In November of this year, the

ensemble was featured in the MinnesotaOrchestra's performance ofVerdi' sFalstaffat Orchestra Hall and in New York's Car-negie Hall.

Sigrid Johnson, music director of theSymphonic Chorus, also serves as associ-ate conductor and soprano section leaderfor The Dale Warland Singers. In hervarious roles with the organization, Ms.Johnson has prepared the SymphonicChorus and Singers for many major per-formances, including Sommerfest concertperformances of operas Turandot andOtello. A resident of Northfield, Ms.Johnson is a member of the music facultyat St. Olaf College, where she conducts theManitou Singers. Ms. Johnson is a notedauthority on women's choral literatureand travels nationally as a clinician andcond uctor. '

DALE WARLANDDale Warland has devoted his professionallife to attaining the highest musical levelin choral singing. Consummate musi-cianship and attention to detail have beenDr. Warland's tools in building one of thefinest choral ensembles in the country:The Dale Warland Singers.

In addition to his active schedule asMusic Director of The Dale Warland Sing-ers, Dr. Warland is in demand as a guestconductor, lecturer and composer. He hasconducted such prestigious groups as theSwedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir,Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, MormonTabernacle Choir and Israel's CameranSingers. In August 1990, Dr. Warland didthe choral preparation for the perform-ance of Penderecki's Polish Requiem at theSecond World Symposium on ChoralMusic in Sweden and Finland.

A former co-chair of the choral panel ofthe National Endowment for the Arts, hewas named Choral Advisor of OxfordUniversity Press in 1988. Dr. Warlandhasserved as Professor of Music at MacalesterCollege and recently received the Distin-

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guished Alumnus Award from St. OlafCollege as well as the Outstanding Alum-nus Award from the University of South-ern California.·-

HERB PILHOFER· Herb Pilhofer's experience as a composer,

performer, arranger and producer, com-bined with an intimate understanding ofthe '80s computer technology, is leadingthe way toward a revolutionary union ofsight and sound.

Among Pilhofer's recent accomplish-ments are musical scores for nationallyadvertised television clients, as well as themotion picture industry. He has com-posed pieces for the film Sometimes I Won-

. der, starring Colleen Dewhurs; On TheEdge, starring Bruce Dern and directed byRob Nilsson; and collaborated with DougTrumbull of Close Encounters fame on hislatest effort, New Magic.

Born in Germany, Pilhofer's education'began at the Nuremberg Music Conserva-tory. His style and talent as a self-taughtjazz musician soon earned him a place onthe European Armed Forces Radio Net-work. In the late '50s, he studied andtaught at the University of Minnesota andwrote the first jazz compositions everperformed by the Minneapolis SymphonyOrchestra. When the Guthrie Theater ofMinneapolis decided to hire their firstmusical director in the' 60s, they looked toPilhofer. His unusual compositions even-tually drew requests from the DenverCenter Theater Company and the Reper-tory Theater of Lincoln Center in NewYork.

Herb Pilhofer's first company won aGrammy Award and two nominations for

the recording of Copland's" AppalachianSpring." His album Spaces, a specialcommission of the 3M Company, was thefirst digital 32 track recording. His "Nightof The Dreams" recording, an architec-tural experiment in sound, was backed byParamount Studios.

The music presented in this programwith The Dale Warland Singers was pro-duced and recorded by Pilhofer', a state ofthe art, computer based sound studio and

..a collaboration with his son Eric, an ac-complished recording engineer and sounddesigner.

BILL HOLMWriter Bill Holm lives in Minneota, Min-nesota, in an old house full of keyboardsand boxelder bugs. He teaches at South-west State University in Marshall, Minne-sota and recently published his book ofChinese adventures, Coming Home Crazy.

"Holm was raised on a farm not farfrom the Yellow Medicine River nearMinneota ... Holm demonstrated an earlypenchant for books and music. At Gus-tavus Adolphus College in St. Peter and inhis graduate studies at the University ofKansas, he was smitten with the Great

•American Transcendentalist writers of the19th century: Emerson and Thoreau andWhitman. Holm grew up to become eve-rything that was most improbable for astrapping farm boy: fine tenor, skilledclassical pianist, accomplished bridgeplayer, poet, essayist, teacher, wandererof the world." - St. Paul Pioneer Press

He has also published many poemsand a marvelous volume of prose calledThe Music of Failure.

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