HANDEL SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGERobert Duff artistic director and conductor

SONGS OF HOPE

with special guestMatthew Winston Cole boy alto

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 • 7 pm Spaulding Auditorium • Dartmouth College

This performance is made possible in part by generous support from the Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation, the Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley (choralartsuv.org), the Gordon Russell 1955 Fund, the Glick Family Student Ensemble Fund and Friends of the Handel Society.

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PROGRAMThe Handel Society of Dartmouth College

Alleluia Paweł Łukaszewski (b. 1968)

Cantate Domino canticum novum Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm Frederik Pacius (1809-1891)

The Road Home Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) Rebekah Schweitzer soprano

I Tell the Story Dominick DiOrio (b. 1984)

The Handel Society Touring EnsembleThis ensemble will represent Dartmouth College in public concerts throughout

Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland from December 7-19, 2016

Stars Eriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)

Simala triceja dancojot Jekabs Graubinš (1886-1961)

The Beatitudes Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

The Handel Society of Dartmouth College

Light of a Clear Blue Morning Craig Hella Johnson (b. 1962) Susan Cancio-Bello soprano; Angelia Cho violin

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Trinity Te Deum Eriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)

Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) 1. Psalm 108, verse 2 and Psalm 100 2. Psalm 23 and Psalm 2, verses 1-4 3. Psalm 131 and Psalm 133, verse 1

Matthew Winston Cole boy alto Marietta Formanek soprano; Camilla Tassi GR alto Brian Clancy tenor; Charles Freeman bass

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PROGRAM NOTESTonight the Handel Society gives to our audience a program entitled “Songs of Hope.” In a world that has been intensely plagued with mass shootings, profiling and hate speech, we recommit ourselves to creating beauty in this world. Composer and activist Leonard Bernstein once wrote: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

The works on this program are both eclectic and unifying. We celebrate songs of the American people while introducing you to music from the Baltic region, where next month, members of the Handel Society will bring this message of hope. Our tour of the region will include performances in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, and we will have the opportunity to sing alongside other choirs from around the world in the Cantate Domino Choral Festival in Lithuania.

Tonight’s program opens with Alleluia by Paweł Łukaszewski. Born in 1968 in Poland, Professor Łukaszewski is a leading composer who specializes in sacred and choral music. He studied both composition and cello at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Following Alleluia, we share two pieces with you from Estonia. The first, also from the sacred choral tradition, is Cantate Domino canticum novum, composed by Arvo Pärt in 1976. Born in 1935 in Tallin, Estonia, Pärt’s compositional career is marked by three periods: early experimental works, collage technique, and finally, minimalism. Cantate Domino canticum novum comes from this last period. Within this period of composition that began around 1976, Pärt’s compositions employ the application of various inversions of a certain chord. The second Estonian work on the program is the Estonian national anthem based on a folk melody that served as the

rallying cry for Estonians as they endured Soviet occupation.

The Road Home by Stephen Paulus was composed in the spring of 2001 for the Dale Warland Singers. The tune set in this arrangement is taken from The Southern Harmony Songbook of 1835. The melody is constructed from the pentatonic scale, a scale set that has been extant for centuries and is present in almost all cultures around the globe.

The Handel Society commissioned the next work on our program from Dominick DiOrio, associate professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. I Tell the Story is scored for mixed ensemble and piano, and sets the text of an anonymous poem entitled I Am Music written in 1919. The work and tonight’s premiere performance is in honor of Margaret Robinson, a long-time member of the Handel Society. Robinson served the Handel Society in many capacities over the three-decade long tenure with the ensemble.

Members of the touring ensemble will present three works from the Baltic region. Stars was written by Latvian composer Eriks Ešenwalds in 2012 for the Salt Lake Vocal Arts/Salt Lake Choral Artists, Brady Alfred, conductor. This evocative setting of Sara Teasdale’s poem of the same name is scored for divisi mixed chorus and numerous water glasses. The compositions by Ešenwalds feature simple melodies that are expounded upon by lush tone clusters.

Simala triceja dancojot (The forest shook from dancing) is a Latvian folksong. The arrangement of this lively melody is by Jekabs Graubinš. The work is scored for four-part women’s chorus, and vividly depicts the trees of the forests surrounding Graubinš’ hometown of Riga, being shaken by the dance of the villagers.

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Arvo Pärt’s setting of the Beatitudes is scored for mixed choir and organ. Set in English, this is a musical interpretation of the blessings, a well-known part of the Sermon on the Mount (in the Gospel according to Matthew, 5, 3-12). The work was first premiered in Berlin by Theater of Voices, Paul Hillier, conductor. The first half of tonight’s program concludes with Light of a Clear Blue Morning, arranged by Craig Hella Johnson. Originally from Minnesota, Johnson studied piano and sang in the St. Olaf, and went on to graduate studies at Juilliard, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University, from which he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Johnson’s setting of Dolly Parton’s Light of a Clear Blue Morning is infused with light and hopefulness as it opens with a solo soprano and gradually builds to a joyful overflowing of sound and vocal texture, then gently relaxing into a reflective conclusion, drawing us to a new day dawning.

Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) In 1964, to make more time for composing, Leonard Bernstein took a year’s sabbatical from his post as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. This sudden leisure provided Bernstein with a sort of tabula rasa, devoid of the Broadway openings or film-score deadlines that had spurred his creativity in the past; he was free to fill it with whatever music he cared to write. Of course, that “freedom” brought an obligation with it: the moment could no longer be post-poned when composer Bernstein, the blithe tunesmith, would confront the avant-garde in concert music, and decide if he had any use for it. “I spent almost the whole year writing twelve-tone music and even more experimental stuff,” he later recalled. “I was happy that all these new sounds were coming out; but after about six months of work I threw it all away. It just wasn’t

my music; it wasn’t honest. The end result was the Chichester Psalms, which is the most accessible, B-flat-majorish tonal piece I’ve ever written.”

This work’s title commemorates the occasion for which it was written, the annual summer choral festival at Chichester, Winchester and Salisbury Cathedrals in England. Bernstein completed it on May 7, 1965. Unlike its immediate predecessor the “Kaddish” Symphony—another choral work on Hebrew texts—it adopts a quietly hopeful view of the relation of people to God and to each other.

Bernstein’s setting of the opening line (“Awake, psaltery and harp”) clearly evokes the majesty of dawn in the desert, and the stringed and percussion instruments the Israelites played. The melody’s upward leap of a seventh is a Bernstein thumbprint (as in, for example, the opening of the Candide overture and Somewhere from West Side Story). The rapturous dance on Psalm 100 exudes celebration and gratitude; its 7/4 meter suggests that the Israelites may have danced to this music on the “west side” of Mt. Sinai.

The boy alto’s rendition of Psalm 23, delicately accompanied by harp, invokes the wisdom of childlike innocence; the tangy blues seventh in his melody (as often in Gershwin) touches on the common ground between the modal scales of Jewish and African American music. After the women’s chorus quietly joins in, the men interrupt with the “raging” Psalm 2; innocent and bloody-minded voices continue in counterpoint, ignorant of each other.

The orchestral interlude that follows recognizes this conflict with the most dissonant music in the work: a fervent outburst in the strings and a dark meditation on cruelty and sin. It gives

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TEXTS AND TRANSLATION

Cantate Domino canticum novum: cantate Domino omnis terra. Cantate Domino, et benedicite nomini ejus: annuntiate de die in diem salutare ejus. Annuntiate inter gentes gloriam ejus, in omnibus populis mirabilia ejus. Quoniam magnus Dominus, et laudabilis nimis: terribilis est super omnes deos. Quoniam emones dii gentium daemonia: Dominus autem coelos fecit. confessio et pulchritudo in conspectu ejus: sanctimonia et magnificentia in sanctificatione ejus. Afferte Domino patriae Gentium, afferte Domino gloriam et honorem: afferte Domino gloriam nomini ejus. Jollite hostias, et introite in atria ejus: adorate Dominum in atria sancto ejus. Commoveatur a facie ejus universa terra: dicite in Gentibus quia Dominus regnavit. Eternim correxit orbem terrae qui non commoevbitur: judicabit populos in sequitate. Leatentur caeli et exsultet terra: commoveatur mare, et plentitudo ejus: gaudebunt campi, et omnia quae in eis sunt. Tunc exsultabunt omnia ligna silvarum a facie domini quia venit: quoniam venit judicare terram. Judicabit orbem terrae in aequitate, et populos in veritate sua.

Sing unto the Lord a new song: Sing unto the Lord, all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless His name; show forth His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the heathen, His wonders among all people. For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens. Honour and majesty are before Him: strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Give unto the Lord, o ye kindres of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name: bring an offering, and come into His courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before Him, all the earth. say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: He shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord; for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth; He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.

Cantate Domino canticum novum Arvo Pärt

way to a setting of Psalm 131 (“Lord, my heart is not haughty...Surely I have calmed and quieted myself...”), a song of quiet hope in broadly flowing 10/4 meter, which becomes still quieter

in a section for solo voices and violin, and finally dwindles to the unaccompanied coda on Psalm 133, a hymn to peace, sempre pianissimo.

—David Wright

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mis mul nii armas oleks ka, kui sa, mu isamaa!

Sa oled mind ju sünnitand ja üles kasvatand; sind tänan mina alati ja jään sull’ truuiks surmani, mul kõige armsam oled sa, mu kallis isamaa!

Su üle Jumal valvaku mu armas isamaa! Ta olgu sinu kaitseja ja võtku rohkest õnnista, mis iial ette võtad sa, mu kallis isamaa!

Which would be so dear to me As you, my fatherland!

You have given me birth And raised me up; I shall thank you always And remain faithful to you ‘til death, To me most beloved are you, My precious fatherland!

May God watch over you, My precious fatherland! Let Him be your defender And provide bountiful blessings For whatever you undertake, My precious fatherland!

The Road Home Stephen Paulus Tell me, where is the roadI can call my own,That I left, that I lostSo long ago?All these years I have wandered,Oh when will I knowThere’s a way, there’s a roadThat will lead me home?

After wind, after rain,When the dark is done,As I wake from a dreamIn the gold of day,Through the air there’s a callingFrom far away,

TEXTS AND TRANSLATION CONTINUEDMu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm Frederik Pacius

Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, kui kaunis oled sa! Ei leia mina iial teal see suure, laia ilma peal,

My fatherland, my happiness and joy My fatherland, my happiness and joy, How beautiful you are! I shall not find such ever In this huge wide world

There’s a voice I can hearThat will lead me home.

Rise up, follow me,Come away, is the call,With the love in your heartAs the only song;There is no such beauty

As where you belong;Rise up, follow me,I will lead you home.

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Servant and master am I; servant of the dead, and master of the living.

I am music.

I tell the story of love. I tell the story of hate. I tell the story that saves.

I am music.

I am close to the marriage altar, and when the graves open I stand nearby.

I am music.

I call the wanderer home. I rescue the soul from the depths, I open the lips of the lovers.

I am music.

I am the incense upon which prayers float to Heaven. For I am the instrument of God.

I Tell the Story Dominick DiOrio I Am Music; Anonymous poem, c. 1919.

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The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge Thee;The Father of an infinite Majesty;Thine honourable, true, and only Son;Also the Holy Ghost: the Comforter. Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ.Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man: Thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.When Thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father.We believe that Thou shalt come to be our Judge.We therefore pray Thee, help Thy servants whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy precious blood.Make them to be numbered with Thy Saints in glory everlasting. O Lord, save Thy people: and bless Thine heritage.Govern them and lift them up for ever.Day by day we magnify Thee; and we worship Thy Name, ever world without end.Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.O Lord, have mercy upon us.O Lord, let Thy mercy lighten upon us: as our trust is in Thee.O Lord, in Thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded.

Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein Movement IPsalm 108:2Urah, hanevel, v’chinor!A-irah shahar!

Psalm 100Hariu l’Adonai kol haarets.

Awake, psalerty and harp:I will rouse the dawn!

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye lands.

Trinity Te Deum Eriks Ešenvalds¯We praise Thee, O God: we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.All the earth doth worship Thee, the Father everlasting.To Thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens and all the powers therein.To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth;Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of Thy Glory.The glorious company of the Apostles praise Thee.The godly fellowship of the Prophets praise Thee. The noble army of Martyrs praise Thee.

TEXTS AND TRANSLATION CONTINUEDIv’du et Adonai b’simha.Bo-u l’fanav bir’nanah.D’u ki Adonai Hu Elohim.

Hu asanu, v’lo anahnu.Amo v’tson mar’ito. Bo-u sh’arav b’todah,Hatseirotav bit’hilah.Hodu lo, bar’chu sh’mo.Ki tov Adonai, l’olam has’do,V’ad dor vador emunato.

Serve the Lord with gladness.Come before His presence with singing.Know ye that the Lord, He is God.

It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves.We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,And into His courts with praise.Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.For the lord is good, his mercy is everlasting,And His truth endureth to all generations.

Adonai ro-I, lo ehsar.Bin’ot deshe yarbitseini,Al mei m’nuhot y’nahaleini,Naf’shi y’shovev,Yan’heini b’ma ‘aglei tsedek,L’ma ‘an sh’mo.

Gam ki eilechB’gei tsalmavet,Lo ira ra,Ki Atah imadi.Shiv’t ‘cha umishan ‘techaHemah y’nahamuni.

Psalm 23: 5-6Ta’aroch l’fanai shulchanNeged tsor’raiDishanta vashemen roshiCosi r’vayah.

Ach tov vahesedYird ‘funi kol y’mei havay,V’shav’ti b’veit AdonaiL’orech yamim.

Psalm 2: 1-4Lamah rag’shu goyimUl’umim yeh’gu rik?

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures,He leadeth me beside the still waters,He restoreth my soul,He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness,For His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walkThrough the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil,For Thou art with me.Thy rod and Thy staffThey comfort me.

Thou prepares a table before meIn the presence of mine enemies,Thou anointest my head with oil,My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy Shall follow me all the days of my life,And I will dwell in the house of the LordForever.

Why do the people rage,And the people imagine a vain thing?

Movement II Psalm 23: 1-4

Im lo shivitiV’domam’ti.Naf’shi k’gamul alei imo,Kagamul alai naf’shi.Yahel Yis’rael el AdonaiMe’atah v’ad olam.

Psalm 133:1Hineh mah tov,Umah nayim,Shevet ahimGam yahad.

Surely I have calmedAnd quieted myself,As a child that is weaned of his mother,My soul is even as a weaned child.Let Israel hope in the LordFrom henceforth forever.

Behold how good,And how pleasant it is,For brethren to dwellTogether in unity.

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Movement III Psalm 131Adonai, Adonai,Lo gavah libi,V’lo ramu einai,V’lo hilachtiBig’dolot uv’niflaotMimeni.

Lord, Lord, My heart is not haughty,Nor mine eyes lofty,Neither do I exercise myselfIn great matters or in thingsToo wonderful for me.

ABOUT THE ARTISTSMatthew Winston Cole, age 14, is currently a ninth grade student at Newton South High School in Newton, MA, where he has performed extensively in elite ensemble choirs and solo performances. He has been singing regionally with the Boston Children’s Chorus and Youth Pro Musica and was the featured soloist in the Boston Children’s Chorus Concert Choir Production of the original Ouroboros Trilogy Opera, Gilgamesh, which premiered at New

England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and Boston University. Cole’s operatic debut was with a performance as Amahl in Opera North’s production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. He recently performed at Beethoven and Berlioz with the Portland Symphony Orchestra in Portland, Maine, with a featured performance of Te Deum, by Berlioz. Cole has a special interest in musical theater and has performed locally as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music,

Yit ‘yats ‘uv malchei erets, V’roznim nos’du yahadAl Adonai v’al m’shiho.N’natkah et mos’roteimo,V’nashlichah mimenu avoteimo.Yoshev bashamayimYih’hak, Adonai,Yil’ag lamo!

The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together Against the Lord and against His anointed.Saying, let us break their bands asunder,And cast away their cords from us.He that sitteth in the heavensShall laugh, and the LordShall have them in derision!

Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks in Annie, and Professor Harold Hill in the Brown Working Theater production of The Music Man. When not singing and acting, he enjoys playing piano, and arranging music with his sister, Hannah, as well as reading, science, cycling, tennis, rowing and spending time outdoors with his family.

Handel Society of Dartmouth College is the oldest student, faculty, staff and community organization in the United States devoted to the performance of choral-orchestral major works. The Society was founded in 1807 by Dartmouth faculty and students to promote the cause of true and genuine sacred music.” Led by John Hubbard, Dartmouth Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, the Society sought to advance the works of Baroque masters through performance. Members of the Society believed the grand choruses of George Frideric Handel exemplified their goals and thus adopted his name for their group. Since its inception, the Handel Society has grown considerably in size and in its scope of programming. Today comprising 100 members drawn from the Dartmouth student body, faculty and staff and the Upper Valley community, the Society performs two concerts a year of major works both old and new. For more information about the Handel Society, call (603) 646-3414 or visit our website at www.handelsociety.org.

Robert Duff conductor is in his twelfth year as the artistic director of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College. Duff is also on the faculty at Brandeis University, where he oversees the vocal program, conducts the Brandeis University Chamber Singers and University Chorus and teaches conducting. He has served on the faculties of Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University and Mount St. Mary’s College. He holds degrees in conducting, piano and voice from the University of Massachusetts

at Amherst, Temple University and the University of Southern California, where he earned a doctorate of musical arts in 2000.

An active commissioner of new music, Duff has given several world premieres of works for both orchestral and choral forces. He has served as Councilor to the New Hampshire Council on the Arts, and is the past President of the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association.

Erma Mellinger vocal coach has been a principal artist with many opera companies across the US, including the Cleveland Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Sarasota Opera, the Chautauqua Opera, the Fresno International Grand Opera, Opera North, the Pittsburgh Opera Theater and the Shreveport Opera. Her roles, in over thirty operas, include: Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Idamante in Idomeneo, Empress Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Nicklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Prince Charming in Cendrillon, Martha in Faust, Tisbe in La Cenerentola and Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Hailed for her “rich, vibrant, creamy voice,” Mellinger is also at home on the concert and recital stage. She has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras, including the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Monterey Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Westfield Symphony, the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. She has given solo recitals sponsored by the Buffalo Opera, the Adirondack Ensemble, ChamberWorks at Dartmouth College and Classicopia.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS CONTINUEDMellinger graduated first in her class from Northwestern University, where she received her bachelor of music degree in vocal performance. She earned her master of music degree from Eastman School of Music, where she also received honors in performance and teaching. She is a frequent guest artist on the Dartmouth campus, performing regularly with the Handel Society, the Wind Ensemble and the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra. Mellinger began teaching voice at Dartmouth in 1996.

Annemieke McLane collaborative pianist was born in Kampen, The Netherlands, and started piano lessons with Joke Venhuizen at age seven. She studied classical piano at the Conservatory in Zwolle, The Netherlands, with Rudy de Heus, earning her degrees Docerend and Uitvoerend Musicus (bachelor and masters as performing artist) for soloist, chamber music and art song accompaniment. She later studied art song accompaniment at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam as a duo with German tenor Immo Schröder. She has often been invited to serve

as collaborative artist at conservatories and in national and international competitions. At age twenty-one, Spoelstra was first-prize winner at the Dutch National competition Young Music Talent Nederland for best accompanist. She was praised for her touch and coloring. In 1997, she was first-prize winner for Music Student of the Year for her final recital. The jury report wrote, “She shows great intellect in music pedagogy and is a sensible, great performer, with well-balanced programs.” In 2001 she was a finalist in Paris at the international Nadia and Lili Boulanger competition. Since January 2004, she has been a US resident living in Vermont. She performs solo, teaches piano at St. Michael’s College and at her studio, and coaches vocalists and instrumentalists for auditions, competitions and performance. Spoelstra serves as accompanist for the chorale at St. Michael’s College, and has accompanied the Vermont Youth Orchestra Choruses and the Thetford Chamber Singers. She has performed concerts in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the US.

Many thanks are extended to the Board of Directors of the Handel Society and the numerous members-at-large of the organization, community and student, for their fine work on behalf of the Handel Society.

We thank the Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley and the Friends of the Handel Society (Dartmouth College alumni, past and present community Handel Society members, and regional audience supporters of the Handel Society) for the financial support of the Handel Society’s concert season.

Additional thanks to Hilary Pridgen of The Trumbull House for providing accommodations for guest soloists. The Trumbull Bed & Breakfast, 40 Etna Road, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2370 or toll-free (800) 651-5141; www.trumbullhouse.com

The Handel Society wishes lastly to thank Simon Pearce for furnishing the water glasses used in tonight’s performance of Stars. www.simonpearce.com

For information on the Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley, please contact:

Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper ValleyP.O. Box 716, Hanover, NH 03755info@ChoralArtsUV.org

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Robert Duff conductorErma Mellinger vocal coach

Annemieke McLane collaborative pianistBenjamin Weinstock ’17 student manager

HANDEL SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

SopranoAlice BennettEugenia BraaschKate CaldwellSusan Cancio-Bello†Meg Darrow WilliamsElse DrooffLaura ElliottKaren EndicottMarietta FormanekTara Gallagher ‘19Karina Graeter GRJoyce HanJulianne J. HardenMardy HighEmma Mazzuchi ‘19Sharon McMonagleKatie PriceMary Quinton-BarryKatie Kalata RuschHeidi RuthRebekah SchweitzerCamilla Tassi GRGretchen TworkDiana G. VizzeValerie WiersmaSandra WieseSophie Wohltjen

AltoCarissa Aoki GR Carol Barr Andrea N. Brown Kathy Christie Helen Clark* Elizabeth Cornell Alicia Dale Johanna Evans ‘10* Anne Felde Linda L. Fowler Anna Gado ‘90 Kim Genzer ‘91 Ridie Wilson Ghezzi Emma Hadden Nicole Johnson† Jennifer Karr Mary MacVey Kristi Medill Cathleen E. Morrow Rosemary Orgren* Bonnie Robinson Jo Shute* Jacqueline Smith Katharine Strong Elisebeth Sullivan* Averill Tinker Veronica Werner ‘20

Tenor Gary E. Barton*† Brian Clancy Michael Cukan Scot Drysdale Jon Felde Dan Gottsegen* Jeffrey Iler Jamie King Joel Lazar Aaron Samuels ‘20 David Thron Richard Waddell* Marshall Ward Adam Weinstein ‘98* Benjamin Weinstock ‘17*

BassJohn Archer*†Kenneth BauerWilliam BraaschStephen CampbellDavid C. ClarkTucker Evans ‘19Charles FaulknerRobert FoggCharles FreemanThom HealyPaul HechtHenry HiggsRob HoweJonathan KenkelEthan Klein ‘ 16Daniel MeersonDavid T. RobinsonErland SchulsonRyan Spector ‘19Jack Van HoffAllan Wieman

GR=Graduate Student*Member, Board of Directors

† Section leader

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HOPKINS CENTER DIRECTORATE

Maria Laskaris ‘84 Interim Director

HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Austin M. Beutner ’82, P’19 Kenneth L. Burns H’93

Barbara J. Couch Allan H. Glick ’60, T’61, P’88, GP’19

Barry Grove ’73 Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, P’16, P’18

Kelly Fowler Hunter ’83, T’88, P’13, P’15, P’19

Robert H. Manegold ’75, P’02, P’06Michael A. Marriott ’84, P’18Nini MeyerHans C. Morris ’80, P’11, P’14 Chair of the Board Laurel J. Richie ’81 Trustee RepresentativeRobert S. Weil ’40, P’73 HonoraryJennifer A. Williams ’85

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP & THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE LAYLA AND MAJNUN fri JAN 6 • 8 pm sat JAN 7 • 2 & 8 pm • THE MOORE THEATER

Ancient love story comes to life in stunning new chamber opera.

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HANDEL SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEsat MAY 20 • 8 pm • SPAULDING AUDITORIUM

Celebrating the town-gown choral society’s 210th anniversary with Dvorák’s poignant Stabat Mater, Op. 58.

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