C O L L E G E O F F I N E A R T S

Fred Fox School of Music

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UA Symphonic ChoirElizabeth Schauer, conductor

The Arizona ChoirMiguel Ángel Felipe, conductor

Christ Church United MethodistSunday, February 24, 2019

3:00 p.m.

UA Symphonic ChoirElizabeth Schauer, conductor

Christian Hagedon, piano

O Sacrum Convivium ..................................................... Antonio de Salazar (1650-1715)

T’amo mia vita ........................................................................Vittoria Aleotti (1574-1646)Kaddish ....................................................................................Salamone Rossi (c. 1570-1630)

Sierra Norris, recorderPaulo Sprovieri, cornettoJosé Luis Puerta, guitar

Juan Mejía, cello

If There Be Sorrow ...................................................................... David Baker (1931-2016)

Ivo Shin, fluteJosé Luis Puerta, guitar

Christian Hagedon, pianoElizabeth LaBrie, percussion

Dallas Carpenter, bassHymne au Soleil .......................................................................Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Diana Peralta, mezzo-soprano

Ascribe to the Lord......................................................... Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)Ride On, King Jesus (World première).......................Donté Alexander Ford (b. 1992)

Donté Alexander Ford, conductor

B R I E F I N T E R M I S S I O N

The Arizona Choir & UA Symphonic Choir

“All of Us”Sunday, February 24, 2019

Christ Church United Methodist, 3:00 p.m.

Upcoming Choral ConcertsPlease join us!

Choral Concert: Recital ChoirFebruary 25, Monday, 3:10 p.m., Room 232, $Free

Choral Concert: Recital ChoirApril 2, Tuesday, 3:10 p.m., Room 232, $Free

“Choralpassion” – Arizona ChoirApril 14, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, $Free (2331 East Adams Street)

Choral Concert: University Singers, Honor Choir, Kantorei April 23, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $Free

Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa Cellensis in CArizona Symphony Orchestra, UA Symphonic Choir

and Guest ChoirsApril 24, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5

“Words & Music”University Community Chorus & UA Wildcat High School Outreach Choir

April 28, Sunday, 4:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $12, 6

Collegium MusicumApril 28, Sunday, 7:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $5

Choral Concert: Recital ChoirApril 29, Monday, 3:00 p.m., Room 232, $Free

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Arizona ChoirMiguel Ángel Felipe, conductorAngelica Dunsavage, manager

The National Anthems (2014) (Regional première) ............................. David Lang (b. 1957)

Stella Kim, violinLaura Cásarez, violinJoseph Bingham, violaDiana Yusupov, cello

The New Colossus (2018) (Regional première) .................................Saunder Choi (b. 1988)

All of Us ................................................................................... Craig Hella Johnson from Considering Matthew Shepard (b. 1962)

Combined ChoirsDouble trio:

Grace Bryars, Angelica Dunsavage, Kelsie Grimsley, Lauren Jackson, Rebeckah Resare, Ashley Sova

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A free will offering will be taken at the conclusion of the concert to benefit the Choral Endowment.

Please make checks payable to: The University of Arizona.

Thank you!

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Dr. Miguel Ángel Felipe joined the faculty of the University of Arizona in 2018 and serves as director of choral activities and associate professor of music. He has held similar positions at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Boston University.

Felipe is active in the U.S., Asia, South America and Europe. Upcoming and recent engagements include leading choirs in Spain, Brazil and Texas; presenting master classes in Sweden, Singapore and Pennsylvania; and adjudicating choirs in Indonesia, Germany and Arizona.

Felipe’s choirs have performed internationally and domestically, often to high praise: “the [ensemble], under the direction of Miguel Felipe, has progressed to the point that it is simply a fine vocal instrument in absolute terms.”

A devoted supporter of new music and lesser known masterpieces, Felipe has commissioned extensively and spoken at U.S. events about the composer-conductor relationship. His programs often meld adventurous with traditional repertoire exploring with audiences and singers an evolving, global choral traditional. His research focuses on choral innovations in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, on concepts of the influence of choral societies in cultural development, and on conducting pedagogy.

Felipe has served on the faculty of Oberlin College & Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Brown University, and Mount Holyoke College. He has led choirs at Harvard University; Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto (Brazil); and in various churches including the Lutheran Church of Honolulu where he served as the director of music and liturgy from 2011 to 2014.

A frequent guest conductor, Felipe has been described as a “a dynamic ... conductor who had clearly committed himself to bringing the best” of singers. He’s active as vice president of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, as the past vice president of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and as a member of Chorus America. Felipe is a proud member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society.

Felipe earned his Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at Boston University where he studied with Dr. Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, Craig Smith, and Joseph Flummerfelt.

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Texts & Translations

O Sacrum Convivium

O sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of the passion is recalled, the mind is filled with grace, and the pledge of future glory is given to us. Alleluia!

T’amo mia vita (I love you, my life)Text by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538–1612)Edited by Amelia LeClair

“I love you, my life!” is what my beloved says to me, and in these few sweet words it seems as if the god of love fills my heart with joy, taking control of it. Such sweet, delightful words: Cupid, take them and imprint them on my heart. May I live and breathe only for you; Let “I love you, my life” be my life.

Kaddish

May His great name be magnified and sanctified in the world that He created according to His will. And may he establish His kingdom during your life and during your days and during the life of all the house of Israel, speedily and in the near future, and say Amen.

Blessed, praised and glorified, exalted, extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the Name of the Holy One; blessed be He, more exalted than all blessings and hymns, praises and songs that are uttered in the world, and say Amen.

Let the prayers and supplications of all Israel be accepted before their Father in heaven, and say Amen.

May there be abundant peace from heaven and life for us and for all Israel, and say Amen.

May He who makes peace in His heavens establish peace for us and for all Israel, and say Amen.

Hymne au Soleil (Hymn to the Sun)Text by Jean-François Casimir-Delavigne (1793-1843)

Let us bless the power of the reborn sun; With all the universe, let us celebrate its return.Crowned in splendor, it rises and bounds forward.The awakening of the earth is a hymn of love.Seven steeds that God can scarcely restrainSet fire to the horizon with their burning breath.O fertile sun, you appear!

The Arizona Choir is the premier graduate choral ensemble at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music. Internationally, the Arizona Choir has performed with the Budapest Chamber Orchestra at the famed Liszt Academy, the City of Prague Philharmonic in Vienna’s Musikverein and Prague’s Dvořák Hall. Convention appearances include ACDA, AGO, and AMEA. The Arizona Choir has partnered with professional touring groups including the Kronos Quartet and Ethel for performances on UA Presents concerts, and with Tucson’s own Artifact Dance Project for a Tucson premiere of Menotti’s The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore. Last year the Arizona Choir collaborated with True Concord Voices and Orchestra for performances of Elijah,and with the University of Arizona School of Dance for centennial celebratory performances of Stravinsky’s Les Noces.

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With its flowering fields, its mountains, its dense woods,The vast sea burning with your fire,The universe, younger and fresher From the mists of morning, arises sparkling from the dew!

The National AnthemsDavid Lang (b. 1957)

1. our land with peaceour land with peaceour land with swordsall of us are bravewe have one wishwe have one goalwe swear by lightningand by our fragrant bloodheaven gave us life and we alone remainwe fight for peaceour country calls usand we hear her callwe hear the sound of our chains breakingwe crown ourselves in glory and we diedeath is the same for everyonebut dying for our land will make us blessedfor we are young and freeland with mountainland with riverland with fieldif you need our deathour blood, our heart, our soulwe are readywe lift our heads up to the rising sunour peaceour valuesour skiesour heartsour songsour tearsour timeour landour seedour pridewe have no doubts or fearsour faithful friends are faithful in the battleour land, we swear to you

The Arizona ChoirMiguel Ángel Felipe, conductor

SopranoCrystal Kachevas, MM Vocal Performance §Chunghee Lee, DMA Vocal PerformanceAnna Li, DMA Choral Conducting §Yuchen Luo, DMA Vocal PerformanceYujia Luo, DMA Choral ConductingSunny Park, DMA Choral Conducting ‡Emma Petersen, BM Vocal PerformanceRebeckah Resare, MM Vocal Performance ‡

AltoFrannie Barrows, BM Vocal Performance §Erika Burkhart, MM Vocal PerformanceAngelica Dunsavage, DMA Choral ConductingEmily Garcia, BM Vocal PerformanceKelsie Grimsley, BM Vocal PerformanceSarahBeth Redlhammer, MM Vocal Performance § ‡

TenorJoshua Hill, BM Vocal Performance/Music EducationTim Klingler, DMA Choral ConductingGabriel Machado, MM Choral ConductingNicky Manlove, MM Choral Conducting ‡Jeff Vanderlee, DMA Choral ConductingThomas Wininger, DMA Choral Conducting

BassDavid Asher, BM Music EducationBrayton Bollenbacher, MM Choral ConductingSimon Faddoul, BM Vocal PerformancePeter Fischer, MM Choral Conducting ‡Juan Flores, BM Vocal PerformanceJeremy Meeker-Hackett, BM Music EducationJordan Murillo, BM Vocal PerformanceErik Peregrine, DMA Choral ConductingTodd Wachsman, DMA Choral ConductingJohn Willis, DMA Choral Conducting

‡ Solos in The National Anthems§ Small group for opening of All of Us

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our blood is yours to spillkeep watch, angelskeep watch, starskeep watch, moonour parents knew how to fightthe sun will shine on us foreverwhen the wicked comelet them prepare for deathfor we would rather diethan live as slavesour land, you fill our souls with fireour blessed landour parents left this land to usour hearts defy our deathsa vivid ray of love and hope descends upon us and our landbless us with long lifeour land is love and beauty without endharvest our vows, which ripen underneath your sunour land, to lead a peaceful lifewe give our liveswe were woundedwe were bruisedthen we rose upour past is sleeping in our forestsyou are our gardenand our grave

2. our hearts are glowingour hearts are glowingsing brother, sisterour freedom must be sungwe were slaveswe were scornedbut now, our future is oursour flowersour fieldsour fertile soilwe will die before we letthe wicked step upon themwe are not slaveswe are the seed that sproutsupon the fields of painwe are one bloodon our land we were bornour heads were bowed –now raise themwe are wild with joy

Dr. ELIZABETH SCHAUER serves as associate director of choral activities and professor of music at the University of Arizona, where she is in her fifteenth year of teaching. An award-winning educator, Dr. Schauer directs the Symphonic Choir and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. She is in demand as an adjudicator, clinician, presenter and guest conductor throughout the United States, including recently for performances with the National High School Women’s Honor Choir at Carnegie Hall and Georgaia, Connecticut and New Mexico All-State Choirs.

Choirs under her direction have been selected by audition and invited to perform on local,

state and regional conferences of American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), National Association for Music Education, College Music Society and American Guild of Organists. In addition her choirs have been featured on the ACDA National YouTube Channel and the Community Concert Series of Arizona Public Media’s KUAT-FM Classical Radio, and are regularly invited to collaborate, notably with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Arizona Symphony and the UA Wind Ensemble. Repertoire embraces choral and choral-orchestral masterworks of the western canon from the Middle Ages through the present, up to and including new works commissioned for her ensembles, as well as music of our time and from a variety of cultures.

Dr. Schauer has presented sessions at the national conventions of American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM) and College Music Society (CMS); regional conferences of ACDA, and state conferences of ACDA and National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Former students are active as music educators at public and private schools, churches, colleges and universities throughout the country, and have been accepted into respected graduate schools and programs for continued study. Dr. Schauer holds degrees from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Westminster Choir College and University of Michigan.

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and if we have to diewhat does it matter?our children knowthe fight has made our faces glowsweet shelterkissed by our sun, our trees, our wind we don’t fear deathdie for our land and livewe know our selvesby our terrifying swordours is our landours is our beautiful landour land is whereour heroes restour earthour skyour peaceour bloodthese are our giftswe broke our chainsunited, firm, determinedour face is brighter than our sunwe are our loyal guardianin each of us the hero remembers how to fightwe walk the path of happinessto our rightful placewith our last breathwe thank ourselves

3. fame and gloryfame and gloryfame and gloryno valleyno hillno waterno shorethe bloody flag is raisedthe wicked howlthey come to cut our throatsto throw us back in chainsno sorcerersno poisonno deceiversno fearwe strivewe workwe prayour star rises up

SYMPHONIC CHOIR, the select undergraduate ensemble at the University of Arizona, carries on a sixty five-year tradition of choral excellence. In addition to performing formal concerts on campus, on Tucson-area concert series, and on tours throughout the Southwest, the choir collaborates with university and professional ensembles, including on performances of Bach Matthäuspassion and Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (University of Arizona), Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Chorus) and Mozart Requiem (University Community Chorus and Orchestra). Students represent a broad variety of disciplines and hail from throughout the United States.

The group’s repertoire embraces music from many cultures and from every historical period up to and including premières of new works and those commissioned especially for the choir. The ensemble was honored to perform for the 2014 and 2010 Western Divisional Conferences of American Choral Directors Association, the 2012 Pacific-Southwest Regional Conference of College Music Society and the 2011 Annual Conference of Arizona Music Educators Association. In 2017, the ensemble also was awarded second place in the American Prize Choral Competition for the college/university division. Dr. Elizabeth Schauer is in her 15th year as conductor of Symphonic Choir.

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and shines between two seasour heart and handare the pledges of our fortunewith mind and strength of armwe recognize ourselvesby our terrifying swordwith heads, with hearts, with handswe will die before we are made slaves our historic pastour sun, our sweat, our seaour pain, our hopethe flower of our bloodbranches of the same trunkeyes in the same lightthe sea, the land, the dawn, the sun are singingour parents never saw the glory that we seewe turn our faces upthere is a star, the clearest lightbring us happier times and wayseach day is like a thousand yearsvictory, victory, victorylong live our land, our people, our body, our soulthe light in our eyes is the brilliance of our faithwill we see you? our woe or our wealthour eyes turn eastwe are awake

4. keep us freekeep us freebe our lightuntil pebbles turn to boulders and are covered in mossour light and our guidegolden sun, golden seedfill our hearts with thankswhen our hearts beat as oneshow us the wayuntil the mountains wear awayand the seas run drybe safe and be gloriousbuild our own fortunemove forwardour sons singour daughters bloomour parents and our childrenawait our callour peace

T’amo mia vita chamber group

Soprano Hailey Butler

Lauren Jackson

AltoKatrina BleyEmily Drum

TenorPeter Arriola

Joshua TroyaniTJ Simon

BassDavid Condit

Sean Finn

Dr. Schauer and the members of Symphonic Choir extend our heartfelt gratitude and best wishes to the following students for whom this

is the last semester in Symphonic Choir. They have been generous in contributing the best of their talent, energy

and time to the betterment of the choir, and they will be sorely missed.

We know they will leave us to continue to grow in their personal journey and to enrich the world with

the gifts they have shared with us.

Sebastian Alameda, Katrina Bley, Hailey Butler,Sean Finn, Jinzhou Jia, Jesus Quintero,

Ashley Sova and Jacob Walters

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our rainbe greenwe are your sacrificefortunate and faithfulthe sun drives off the cloudswe risk everythingwe sing new songsfor you, for you, for everour love, our zeal, our loyaltyour land, where our blood spillsour fields will flower with hopeour land gives us our nameand we will never leavewe walk the path we have chosenwe will die while we are on itour land, sweet is your beautya thousand heroesour full measure of devotionour language is a burning flameour flag flies in the windour unwavering landour rocky hillsfrom where our lights rise upour name is freedomour blood waters itwe pray for youwoven from a hundred flowerswe won’t let the wicked wash their handsin this guiltless blood of oursmay our blessings flowlet nothing dim the lightthat’s shining in our skya single leapinto the dazzling skyobey our callwe are not manybut we are enoughbe happyand may our land be happyinterpret our pastglorify our presentinspire our futurewe are coming forthwith strength and powerour seas roar at our feetshout our nameshout it againthere is no middle ground

UA Symphonic ChoirElizabeth Schauer, conductor

PianistChristian Hagedon, BM Piano Performance

SopranoHailey Butler, BA Vocal Studies, BS Public Health §Kaitlyn Fahrendorf, BM Music Education §Lylah Field, BM Vocal PerformanceLauren Jackson, BM Music Education §Bridget Marlowe, BM Vocal PerformanceAllison Rascon, BS Public HealthAshley Sova, BM Music Education *§

AltoKatrina Bley, BM Music Education §Grace Bryars, BA Undeclared §Pauline Castro, BS Civil Engineering §Ashlee Davis, BM Vocal PerformanceEmily Drum, BA Sociology *§Diana Peralta, MM Vocal PerformanceAbigail Prusinski, BA Journalism

TenorSebastian Alameda, BM Vocal PerformancePeter Arriola, BM Music CompositionTrevor Bourland, BM Music CompositionJoseph Campbell, BS Family Studies and Human DevelopmentJinzhou Jia, BM Vocal PerformanceArmando Ramirez, BA Spanish and Portuguese TJ Simon, BM Vocal PerformanceJoshua Troyani, BA Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and TheoryJacob Walters, BM Vocal Performance*

BassDavid Condit, BS Computer ScienceMichael Di Camillo, BS Sustainable Built EnvironmentsJoshua Elias, BM Vocal PerformanceSean Finn, BS Information Science and TechnologyJames Howerton, BM Vocal Performance and BS PsychologyDavid Ingram, BM Vocal Performance *Jesus Quintero, BA Vocal StudiesGabe Sulser, BS Psychology

* Section leader§ Small group for opening of All of Us

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between the free man and the slavemay the light be denied usif we break our solemn vowthe burning of the heartin our chests is aliveour land will not dieas long as we livethe rays of the sunare a mother’s kisswe swear by the skyby the spreading lightnow, or neverwe will make our fate ourselvesit was, it is, it will always beat last, our pride is worth our pride

5. our common fateour common fateour brighter dayour loyalty and love and vowour crownour virtuous honorour sacred hymn of combatour light, reflecting guidanceour sword with no flawour sepulcher of agesour only landour voices on highour noble aspirationour thunders, wildly beatingour fire in every veinour tears, flowing down our cheeksour everlasting mountainsour milk, our honey, our people working hardour different voices, our one heartour breath of lifeour death, our glory and our landour fight – there is a fight to fightour fair land, its hills and riversour memories of days long goneour morning skies, grown redour sacred home, our suns that never setour future is the future, our meaning is the meaningour shields are wisdom, unity and peaceour sacrifice of every drop of bloodour love, our service, our untiring zealour prayer for us, unseenour fires of hope and prayer

our thunderbolts, our fireour star, and it will shine foreverour light and song and soulour song forever moreour own dear landour fate, which smiles once moreour sacrifice, our blood, our soulsour enemies, scattered and confoundedour land, our home, our free, our braveour land, our graveour glory, for as long as the world shinesour many ways before and our many ways todayour rock, our beaconour scream out loudour steps, resounding on the long and tiring roadour song – echoing over and over againour brothers and sisters under the sun may the rains come

The New ColossusEmma Lazarus (1849-1887)

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries sheWith silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”