Celebrate Youth! Sunday - October 14, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. Zion’s...
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Celebrate Youth!
Sunday - October 14, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.Zion’s Walls Copland/arr. KoponenConsecrate the Place and Day from Triptych P f a u t s c hOur Father Gretchaninoff
O Clap Your Hands RutterGloria from Mass in D op. 86 DvořákChildren of the Heavenly Father arr. Scholz
O’Connor A Cappella Choir
Intermission
Mass of the Children RutterI. KyrieII. GloriaIII. Sanctus and BenedictusIV. Agnus DeiV. Finale (Dona Nobis Pacem)
Melody Rich, SopranoGary Mabry, Baritone
PROGRAM NOTES
The Mass of the Children received its première in Carnegie Hall, New York,in February 2003, and the first UK performance followed a month later inGuildford Cathedral, the composer conducting on both occasions. The work isscored for adult mixed choir, children’s choir, soprano and baritone soloistsand orchestra. The Mass is a Missa Brevis – a Latin Mass without a Credo –in five movements. Several additional English texts are also included, andthese form a progression from waking to sleeping that runs through the workas a counterpart to the liturgy of the conventional Mass text.
The piece does not begin immediately with the Kyrie Eleison but, in keepingwith the ‘waking to sleeping’ theme, opens with the children’s choir singinglines from Bishop Thomas Ken’s fine morning hymn, ‘Awake, my soul, andwith the sun’, written in about 1674 for the scholars of Winchester College.After the Kyrie comes an exuberant Gloria featuring energetic, unequalrhythms that are typical of Rutter at his liveliest, and then a complete changeof mood is introduced with the gently lilting harmonies of the Sanctus andBenedictus. The Agnus Dei text is divided between the fourth and fifthmovements, with the first part being followed by William Blake’s movingpoem, ‘The Lamb’, sung by the children’s choir. The final movement beginswith two prayers by John Rutter, for the baritone and soprano soloists, basedon verses by Lancelot Andrewes and St Patrick.
The Mass now returns to the poetry of Bishop Ken. In one of Rutter’s mostinspired passages the beautiful evening hymn, ‘Glory to thee, my God, thisnight’ is sung by the children to the sublime melody of Tallis’s Canon whilstthe adults chant ‘Dona nobis pacem’ (Grant us thy peace). Finally the choirsare joined by the soloists, and the combined voices gradually bring the workto its peaceful conclusion.
The idea of combining a children’s choir with an adult one is of coursenothing new, but most of these works tend to treat the young voices as asubsidiary musical resource. In his Mass of the Children, however, thecomposer has given the children’s choir a central part to play. It is they, notthe adults, who are heard at the very outset, and their role throughout isintegral to the overall concept of the Mass. As always with Rutter, the musicis beautifully written for the voices and superbly orchestrated. His skilfulwriting for soloists, choirs and orchestra and his sensitive interweaving of thevarious Latin and English texts have resulted in one of his finest and mostmoving works.
John BawdenMusical Director (1994 - 2006),Fareham Philharmonic Choir. http://www.choirs.org.uk/prognotes/Rutter-MassoftheChildren.htm
Gary Mabry joined the UTSA faculty in 1991. Heconducts both the Women's Choir and the UTSA JazzChoir, both of which he founded. Every other year heproduces the UTSA Madrigal Dinner. Also a memberof the voice faculty, he has served as president of theSouth Texas Chapter and of the Montana chapters ofthe National Association of Teachers of Singing. He isan active member of the American Choral DirectorsAssociation and the Texas Choral DirectorsAssociation. He has served as the Repertoire andStandards Chair for Women's Choirs for TCDA and asbeen a TCDA conducting mentor for the Student
Conductors Symposium. Dr. Mabry is a frequent clinician and conductor forvarious schools, churches and region choirs. For seven summers he taught onthe faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp. With over thirty years of leadershipexperience in church music, he currently serves as a staff member of theUniversity United Methodist Church of San Antonio. As a singer-actor he hasa number of professional roles to his credit in both musical theatre and opera:Juan Peron (Evita), Colonel Pickering (My Fair Lady), Herr Schultz(Cabaret), Horace Tabor (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Figaro (The Barber ofSeville) and Marcello (La Boheme). Dr. Mabry earned a Doctor of MusicalArts degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has a Mastersdegree from Hardin-Simmons University and Bachelors from AbileneChristian University.
Soprano
Taylor Alanis
Cassandra Collins
Alina Dunbar
Alyssa Fuentes
Celina Gullette
Lauren Kahre
Kathleen Langford
Allison Lopez
Katelyn Manning
Samantha Recalde
Nancy Severson-Olson
Veronica Wright
Tenor
Adrienna Becker
Kristen Burress
Rebecca Krewet
Laura Molinar
Jenessa Short
Ashley Whan
Macy Wideman
Alto
Adrienna Becker
Kristen Burress
Rebecca Krewet
Laura Molinar
Jenessa Short
Ashley Whan
Macy Wideman
Bass/Baritone
Edgar Elizondo
Salvador Farias
Eric Johnston
William Mackie
Jonathan Pillow
Nathan Rhoden
Christopher Semmelmann
Samuel Towns
Levin Tull
Jacob Zieben
The A Cappella choir is an auditioned ensemble and is one of eight performing groupsthat make up the O’Connor Vocal Music Department. The department boasts over230 singers who are continuing the pursuit in excellence in the art of choral music.Members of the A Cappella choir and others of the O’Connor Vocal MusicDepartment will be traveling to New York City this spring to sing in Carnegie Hall.The group has also had the privilege to travel to Washington D.C. and sing for theschool’s namesake Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. O’Connor High School is locatedin Helotes and is a part of the Northside Independent School District.
Soprano
Laurie Amagan *
DeAnna Bowling
Kim Buzonas
Sara DeTurk
Emilie Ehrisman
Mary Navarro-Farr
Lauren Forbes **
Bobbie Feldstone
Kay Grosinske
Debby Heitzke
Gail Jackson
Robin Kaiser
Stephanie Lamprea **
Maureen McCann
Polly Mitchell
Ann McAllister
Polly Mitchell
Becky Nelson
Harriet Newgent
Michele Omenson
Melody Rich +
Molly Roth
Sandra Schiller
Jan Starnes
Sue Wingenter
Sharon Winn
Rozlyn Wurtz
Sandi Yarbrough
Alto
Tiffany Arenas
Sandi Ashworth
Sharon Beales
Sr. Anna Rose Bezner
Thelmarie Browne
Mary Jane Ely
Rachel Epperson
Sandy Falkenberg
Frances Garner
Janet Hays
Nettie P. Hinton
Donna Hogan
Carol Key
Jennifer Kiertscher
Mira Kirkland
Pat Lange
Susan Mendel
Carole Pachecano
Mary Ann Quick
Mitzi Roberts
Diane Sellers
Susan Seydler
Joanne Smith
Maya Snodgrass
Nettie Taylor
Ann Vellom
Gayle Weinraub *
* Section Leader
+ Assistant Director
** Mentee
Tenor
Joel Birkenfeld
Graham Bridges
Steve Colunga
Rod Haff *
John Hudson
Chuck Miller
John Navarette
Jim Oberhausen
David Phipps
Gustavo Rios, Jr.
Nick Southerland
Michael Taylor
Charles Winn
Bass/Baritone
Sean Driffill
Leslie Ellison
Al Ely
Anthony Garant
Jim Garner
Lowell Goode
Pete Guzzardo
Gus Hahn
John Hammer
Tavis McGeachin
Jack McKown
Walter Mika *
Jim Noël
Ben Plummer
Nathen Rhoden **
Dennis Schaffer
James Smith, Jr.
Steven Work
*Section Leader
**Mentee
Instrumentalists
Rita Linard, Flute Deana Johnson, Oboe
Steve Girko, Clarinet Mark Rogers, Bassoon
Jill Rodriguez, Horn Allen Sharps, Timpani
Richard Helms, Percussion
Aaron C. Hufty returns for his second year as artistic director of theSan Antonio Choral Society. Mr. Hufty is currently serving as thevocal music director at Sandra Day O'Connor High School in SanAntonio's Northside ISD. Under his direction the program has grownto nearly 250 students with 8 performing ensembles. From 2003 to2006, Mr. Hufty helped create and direct the Northside ElementaryHonor Choir. This outstanding group of young people wascomprised of students from NISD’s 50+ elementary schools. Duringhis tenure, the choir was asked to sing with the Lyric Opera of SanAntonio and the San Antonio Mastersingers. In addition to hisresponsibilities as an educator and director, Mr. Hufty also serves the
school as the Fine Arts Department Chair, and as TMEA Region XI Vocal Chairman. Hekeeps a very active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator. A strong advocate for choralmusic in San Antonio, Mr. Hufty has sung with the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingerswhere he was often a soloist. He also has the distinct privilege of being a charter memberof the San Antonio Chamber Choir. Mr. Hufty also had the honor of being chorusmasterfor the Lyric Opera of San Antonio’s productions of Carmen (children’s chorus), DonGiovanni, and The Barber of Seville. Mr. Hufty received his B.S. in Music Education in 1997from Northwest Missouri State University, and his M. M. in Choral Conducting in 2001from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he studied voice with Linda Poetschkeand conducting with Dr. John Silantien. He has begun work on his Doctorate in MusicalArts with Dr. John Dickson at Texas Tech University. Mr. Hufty lives in San Antonio withhis wife April and daughter Rachel.
Melody Rich is the Assistant Conductor of The San Antonio Choral Society. Her musical horizon includes teaching at theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio in both the vocal and choralareas and having served as the Associate Minister of Music atChrist Episcopal Church where she is currently an Artist inResidence. As a soloist, Melody has been delighting audienceswith a sparkling voice that spans the spectrum of musical stylesfrom classical to contemporary, having concertized extensivelywith numerous organizations including the Austin Lyric OperaYoung Artist Program, the San Antonio Symphony, the SanAntonio Choral Society, the Texas Chamber Consort, and
Musical Bridges Around the World. She appears as a featured singer in the televised CDrelease concerts: Behold and Steal Away, produced by Good for the Soul Music and hasperformed in Europe with the AIMS Orchestra under the batons of Cornelius Eberhardtand Heiko Mathias. Dr. Rich holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University ofTexas at San Antonio and both a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree fromthe University of Texas at Austin. Her entry appears in Who’s Who Among America’sTeachers, Who’s Who of American Women, and Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Education.
N. Seth Nelson serves as accompanist for The San Antonio ChoralSociety. He earned both Doctor and Master of Arts degrees in organperformance at The University of Michigan, under the tutelage ofDr. Marilyn Mason, where he was the first to earn the Certificate inMusicology. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio, as a pupil of Dr. BessHieronymus. There he received numerous awards for his work asan organist, pianist, and accompanist, and was honored with thePresser Award, graduating from the UTSA Honors College SummaCum Laude. Presently, Dr. Nelson is an accompanist for TrinityUniversity and the San Antonio Opera.
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