Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses National Seminar2008 National Seminar

hosted by

The Washington Men’s Camerata and The U.S. Army Chorus

March 27 – 29 • 2008Vienna Presbyterian Church • Vienna, Virginia

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Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses National SeminarVienna Presbyterian Church

Vienna, Virginia March 27 – 29, 2008Hosted by the Washington Men’s Camerata and the U.S. Army Chorus

SCHEDULE OF EVENTSThursday – March 27, 2008

1:00 p.m. Sort through IMC archival material 2nd floor Conference Room

4:00 p.m. Registration opens Church Foyer

8:00 p.m. Concert Session 1 Church Sanctuary Virginia Glee Club of the University of Virginia U.S. Army Chorus

9:30 p.m. Reception Great Hall

Friday – March 28, 2008

8:30 a.m. Interest Session 1 Great Hall Conductor’s Breakfast Roundtable

10:30 a.m. Interest Session 2 Choir Room Repertoire for Male Voice Choir from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and The Netherlands Dion Ritten, Limburg, The Netherlands

12:00 p.m. Lunch (IMC Board Lunch Meeting in Great Hall; others on their own)

1:30 p.m. Reading Session 1 3rd floor Activity Center Terry Sisk, accompanist

3:00 p.m. Concert Session 2 Church Sanctuary University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club Miami University Men’s Glee Club Penn State Glee Club

5:00 p.m. Dinner (on your own)

7:30 p.m. Concert Session 3 Church Sanctuary Washington Men’s Camerata Brethren The Singing Apes Mastersingers USA

9:30 p.m. Afterglow Great Hall

Saturday – March 29, 2008

8:30 a.m. Interest Session 3 Choir Room Men’s Glee Clubs - A Brief History Jeremy Jones, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

10:30 a.m. Interest Session 4 Choir Room SSAA Repertoire for TTBB Choruses Erick Lichte, Artistic Director, Cantus Mary Nelson, accompanist

12:00 p.m. IMC Membership Luncheon Great Hall

1:30 p.m. Reading Session 2 Chapel Mary Nelson, accompanist

3:00 p.m. Concert Session 4 Church Sanctuary University Glee Club of New York City Fairfield Country Day School Chamber Choir Bowling Green State University Men’s Chorus

5:30 p.m. Banquet (advance reservations required) Great Hall

7:30 p.m. Concert Session 5 Church Sanctuary University of Michigan Glee Club Rutgers University Glee Club Cantabile Limburg

9:30 p.m. Afterglow Great Hall

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— Concert Session 1 Thursday, March 27, 2008, 8:00 p.m. —

The Virginia Glee Club of the University of VirginiaFrank Albinder, Conductor | Daniel Hine, Accompanist

Non Nobis, Domine Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)Gentry Publications JG2341 arr. William Powell

Alleluia William Boyce (1711-1779)Pro Art 2383 arr. Theron Kirk

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes Steven Sametz (b. 1954)(from We Two, 2007 Male Chorus Commissioning Consortium work)ECS Publishing 6900

Down the Mother-Volga River arr. Victor Kalinnikov (1870-1927)Musica Russica FS 016

Shenandoah arr. James Erb (b. 1926)Lawson-Gould LG52677

Lambscapes Eric Lane Barnes (b. 1960)

1. Gregorian Chant2. Handel3. Schubert 4. Verdi5. Orff6. Sons of the Pioneers7. GospelShawnee Press C 0323 & ericlanebarnes.com

Vir-ir-gin-i-a George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) arr. by Donald Loach

Virginia, Hail J. A. Morrow, ‘21

The Good Old Song Traditional Scottish

The U. S. Army ChorusAllen Crowell, Guest Conductor

Five Part Songs from the Greek Anthology, Opus 45 (1902) Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Yea, cast me from heights of the mountainsWhether I find theeAfter many a dusty mileIt’s oh! to be a wild windFeasting I watchNovello

Three songs from Opus 33 (1840) Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Der träumende SeeDie MinnesängerDie LotusblumeSchott

Give me the splendid silent sun (1973) Thomas Beveridge (b. 1938)Manuscript

No Child Shall Be Left Fearful (2003) Daniel E. Gawthrop (b. 1949)Dunstan House DH 0310

Begin the Beguine, from Jubilee (1935) Cole Porter (1891-1964)Manuscript arr. Joseph Willcox Jenkins

Three Railway Madrigals (1958) Joseph Willcox Jenkins (b. 1928)

Morning Commuter (Electric)Funeral March of a Steam EngineDieselitaManuscript

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The Virginia Glee Club of the University of VirginiaFrank Albinder, Conductor | Daniel Hine, Accompanist

T he Virginia Glee Club, founded in 1871, is the oldest musical organization at the University of Virginia. For the past twenty years, the Glee Club has been an independent, student-run ensemble. It receives no financial support from The University and students receive

no academic credit for participation. The Club’s members, primarily undergraduate students, come from every school and college within the University. Members consider the group a “fraternity of talent,” committed to performing at a professional level, promoting fellowship, and preserving longstanding tradition. Throughout its history, the Virginia Glee Club has been consistently recognized as a leader among American men’s choruses, performing primarily sacred choral music in the classical tradition. The group performed for former President Bill Clinton at the national celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s 250th birthday and has also been heard on broadcasts of NBC’s Today Show, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, Virginia Public Radio, and the Voice of America. In addition to presenting on-grounds concerts, the group has toured widely, both domestically and abroad, and has collaborated with some of the finest women’s choruses in the eastern and southern United States. The Club toured France in the summer of 2000, and during the spring break of 2006, the Glee Club had a very successful tour of the Southern United States, where the group performed for the Mississippi State Senate and was filmed singing for a BBC travel documentary. The Club is now in its 137th year of musical excellence under the baton of conductor, Frank Albinder, who is currently in his fifth season with the Glee Club. The Glee Club is having an exciting year, including performances with the University of Chicago Men’s Choir and the Wellesley College Choir.

Grammy® Award-winning conductor and singer Frank Albinder currently directs the Virginia Glee Club, the Washington Men’s Camerata and the Woodley Ensemble. A native of Hollywood, California, Mr. Albinder attended Pomona College and the New England Conservatory of Music. Like most musicians, he has held a number of non-musical jobs, including counter man in a delicatessen, secret document destroyer for a major military contractor, tour guide at Universal Studios and problem-solver for FedEx. He was Director of Choral Activities at Davidson College in the mid-1980s, and for 11 years, he was singer, associate conductor and, finally, acting director of Chanticleer, the world-renowned vocal ensemble. During his tenure with the group, Mr. Albinder performed in all 50 states and in 20 foreign countries. He appears on 19 of the ensemble’s recordings, including Wondrous Love, which was recorded under his direction, and the Grammy® Award-winning Colors of Love, for which he designed the concept and selected the repertoire. Other per¬formance credits include the Boston Camerata, the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the Washington Bach Consort, and the Concord Ensemble. He is the National Chair of Repertoire and Standards for Male Choruses for the American Choral Directors Association, as well as Vice-President of Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, Vice-President of ChoralNet, the internet’s principal portal for information and resources relating to the choral field and the Washington, DC representative for the newly-formed National Collegiate Choral Organization.

The U. S. Army ChorusAllen Crowell, Guest Conductor

Jonathan Chung Xiang Gao Karl Lugo Jeff McKenzieJack McQuarrie

Scott McQuiddyGerie PalancaMayank Tandon

Jalil AndraosGeorge Glass Nick Gunter Daniel Hine Yuchen Jin

Mustafa KhanShayne Shiflett Varun Srirangarajan Nathan Swayne Kelin Swayne

Matthew Young

Jasper Adams Matthew Burnham Jonathan Damron Dan Eichelberger Steve Grant Jimmy KoPatrick LeDuc Young Tak Lee

David Leon Varun SharmaMichael Shenefelt Tom ShortMatt SmithGarrick SuemithPaul Tiffany Chris Tutino

Matt Waring Christoph Wilhelm Robert Wingfield

Frank Block Richard Block Dan BrownGreg Chafuen Ynigo CoronaciónNathan Glass

Matt Hogancamp Michael Jefferson Patrick O’KellyDarin Showalter Daniel Singer Blake Tysinger

Trevor Wesolowski Steve Young

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SGM Robert M. Petillo, Rumson, NJSGM Andrew J. Patterson, Athens, PA †SFC Michael D. Bicoy, Kaunakakai, HISFC Antonio S. Giuliano, Pensacola, FLMSG Michael J. Ford, Knoxville, TN *SFC Patrick J. Sobolik, Charles City, IASFC Colin D. Eaton, Jacksonville, FL ‡‡

SFC Nathan A. Sommers, Sioux Falls, SD *SFC Henry L. Fiske, Jr., San Diego, CASFC Pablo Talamante, Sonora, MEXICOSFC Stephen P. Cramer, Blakeslee, PASSG Ian A. Lane, Fairfax, VASSG Jason M. Gottshall, Camp Hill, PASSG Matthew P. Heil, Pine Mountain Valley, GA

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PianoMSG Joseph G. Holt, Columbus, GA * | SFC Raffi J. Kasparian, Los Angeles, CA

Alumni SingersJim Evans, Bill Fox, Jim Golterman, Mike Malovic, Leon Wilch

** = Group Leader † = NCOIC ‡ = Enlisted Conductor * = Section Leader ‡‡ = Producer

I n 1956 The U.S. Army Chorus was established as the vocal counterpart of The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” and is one of the nation’s only professional, all male choruses.

From its inception, The U.S. Army Chorus has established and maintained a reputation of excellence in the performance of male choral literature. Beyond the traditional military music and patriotic standards, the repertoire of the Army Chorus covers a broad spectrum which includes pop, Broadway, folk, and classical music.

The Army Chorus performs often at the White House and in support of functions hosted by the State Department and Department of Defense. The Chorus participated in the dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and the George W. Bush Presidential Library. The Chorus is a standard feature at events for each presidential inaugural, and has been featured in official ceremonies and special events at the U.S. Capitol.

World leaders, such as Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess of Thailand, former British Prime Minister John Major, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and President of France Nicolas Sarkozy have been serenaded by the Army Chorus during state visits. These visiting dignitaries are often greeted in their native tongues, as the Chorus is able to sing in more than 26 languages.

The U.S. Army Chorus regularly appears with the National Symphony Orchestra in televised Memorial Day and Independence Day performances from the U.S. Capitol. The group has been featured on many well-known stages, including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and Carnegie Hall. The Chorus has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Grant Park Symphony (Chicago), and was featured during weekly radio and television broadcasts of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Army Chorus was personally requested to perform for the private interment services of former Presidents Ronald Wilson Reagan in 2004, and Gerald R. Ford in early 2007. The group was featured at the official state dinner held in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic visit to the U.S. in 2007.

The men of the Army Chorus, most of whom hold advanced degrees in music, are selected from among the nation’s finest musicians. In 2006 the group celebrated its 50th Anniversary which was marked with concerts that included a reunion of past members, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in music education and as soloists on Broadway and opera stages around the world.

Professor Allen Crowell is the Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Choral Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Georgia where he conducts the Concert Choir and the Men's Glee Club. He teaches conducting and related subjects and oversees the choral conducting doctoral program. Prior to coming to this position in the fall of 1999, he taught and conducted at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey for twenty years.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, he studied at Florida State University and earned his bachelor's degree from Westminster Choir College in 1959. At Westminster he was a soloist with The Westminster Choir under the founder of the school, Dr. John Finley Williamson. In 1965 he received a Master of Music from The Catholic University of America.

In 1959, Professor Crowell entered the U.S. Army as a member of The United States Army Chorus of Washington, D.C. and served for five years as bass soloist and enlisted leader until 1964 when he received a direct commission to Second Lieutenant. He then became Associate Bandmaster of The United States Army Band and Director of The United States Army Chorus a position he held until July, 1979, when he retired as Executive Officer and a Major.

For many years he maintained an active vocal career appearing in concert and opera productions in the Washington and Baltimore area. In May 1966 and 1967 he was the bass soloist for the famous Bach Festival of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

For many years, Professor Crowell has worked closely with the musical youth of the nation conducting All-State Bands and Choruses, honors groups, festivals and clinics from Florida to Montana and Maine to Alaska.

He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, Georgia Music Educators Association, Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Lambda honorary music society, an Honorary Life Member of the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, and a retired member of The American Bandmasters Association.

SFC Bob McDonald, Falls Church, VA **SFC Clifton D. Ogea, Ishpeming, MI *SFC Alex Helsabeck, Winston-Salem, NCSFC Neil F. Ewachiw, Baltimore, MD ‡‡SSG Robert P. Burner, Richmond, VASSG Jesse S. Neace, Maryville, TNSSG Matthew R. Nall, Dallas, TX

SGM David D. Helveston, Tampa, FL ‡MSG Jonathan J. Deutsch, Fargo, NDMSG Gregory S. Lowery, Charleston, SC ‡‡SFC(P) Alec T. Maly, Basking Ridge, NJ *SFC Kerry Wilkerson, Greensboro, NCSFC Alvy R. Powell, Cape Charles, VASSG Kristopher C. Armstrong, Mt. Holly, NC

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— Concert Session 2 – Friday, March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m. —

University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee ClubRichard Teaster, Conductor

Pater Noster III Franz Liszt (1811-1886)Carus Verlag

John Was a Writer spiritual, arr. Uzee BrownAlfred Publishing

How Can I Keep From Singing? traditional, arr. Richard TeasterManuscript

My Bonnie Lass Thomas Morley (1557-1602) ECS Publishing arr. A.T. Davison

Come Again Sweet Love John Dowland (1563-1621)ECS Publishing arr. A.T. Davison

Greensleeves 16th Century EnglishKjos arr. Jameson Marvin

Oh Che Incanto Hummel (1778-1837)Cantate Music Press Ed. John Eric Floreen

The Silent Land David N. Childs (b. 1969) (newly commissioned work based on text of C. G. Rossetti)

Dream A Little Dream of Me Kahn/Schwandt/AndreSPEBSQSA arr. Tom Gentry

When I’m Sixty-Four Lennon/McCartneySPEBSQSA arr. Tom Gentry

Miami University Men’s Glee ClubEthan Sperry, Conductor

The Last Words of David Randall Thompson (1899-1984)ECS Publishing

In Taberna Quando Sumus from Carmina Burana Carl Orff (1895-1982)Schott

O Lux Beatissima Howard Helvey (b. 1968)Hinshaw

Suite de Lorca Einojuhaani Rautavaara (b. 1928)Walton

MLK - U2 arr. Bob ChilcottHal Leonard

Ramkali - Indian Raga arr. Ethan Sperryearthsongs

Penn State Glee ClubChristopher Kiver, Director | Matthew Travis, Assistant Director | Christopher Orzech, Accompanist

I will greatly rejoice Knut Nystedt (b.1915)Hinshaw Music HMC2019

Miserere mei, Deus Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)Alliance Music Publications AMP 0611 arr. James Rodde

Ev’ry time I feel the spirit arr. William DawsonKjos Music T125

The stars are with the voyager Eleanor Daley (b.1955)Rhythmic Trident Publishing RTCA-003

A Celtic Triptych Ron Jeffers (b.1943)earthsongs

Go way from my window Traditionalmanuscript arr. Beverly Patton

Hol’ You Han’ arr. Paul RardinSanta Barbara Music Publishing SBMP 123

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University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee ClubRichard Teaster, Conductor

T he Pitt Men’s Glee Club is the oldest extra-curricular organization at the University of Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1890, beginning as a mere octet. It was the first musical organization at the University, which at the time was known as the “Western University of

Pennsylvania.” The Club celebrated its Centennial in 1990, with a series of alumni events, as well as a European Tour. The Glee Club has also enjoyed successful tours throughout the U.S. and Canada, most recently performing a series of concerts in Montreal and Toronto, as well as Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, DC, San Antonio, Philadelphia, and New York City. The Glee Club has often collaborated with other singing groups at major colleges and universities in the United States, including the University of Illinois, Duquesne University, Boston College, University of Texas, North Carolina State University, and Tulane University. The Glee Club has been a featured performing group at two World’s Fairs, including the New York World’s Fair of 1964, and has also been heard at the prestigious Chautauqua Music Festival, in western New York. The group has been featured prominently in the Pittsburgh media, boasting several recordings and radio/T.V. broadcasts. The men perform a wide variety of repertoire, specializing in male a cappella works. Such styles of music covered are classical (sacred/secular), folk song settings, spirituals, pop/rock classics, jazz standards, patriotic and collegiate fight songs. The group is very proud to have represented the University of Pittsburgh in Europe this past May, when it embarked on a 12 day tour of Eastern and Central Europe, performing in such cities as Budapest, Vienna and Salzburg. This was the first European tour since 1990, the club’s centennial. They were very well received by the European audiences, and performed many encore numbers at the close of the concerts.

Richard Teaster, conductor, holds degrees in vocal performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Rice University, and completed further professional studies at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Pittsburgh Opera Center at Duquesne University. He conducts the University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club and also is an adjunct faculty member at Pitt, where he teaches a voice class and maintains a private voice studio. In addition, he is Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Duquesne University, where he directs the Pappert Men’s Chorale, and is Director of Music at First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh. He was previously the assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Men’s Chorus for two seasons, where he also served as the group’s accompanist.

As a professional bass-baritone, he has sung with such groups as the Cincinnati Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, Pittsburgh Opera, Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Des Moines Metro Opera/Opera Iowa, Chatham Baroque, and the Detroit Oratorio Society. Mr. Teaster recently made his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony as soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, under the direction of Daniel Myers. Upcoming performances include the role of Jesus in Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, with Chatham Baroque and the Calvary Episcopal Church Choir of Pittsburgh.

Miami University Men’s Glee ClubEthan Sperry, Conductor

F ounded in 1907 by Raymond Burke, the composer of Miami’s Fight Song and Alma Mater, the Miami Men’s Glee Club has maintained a tradition of excellence throughout its first 99 years. Numbering over 100 singers selected by audition from the Miami University

community, the Club is among the oldest and largest groups of its kind in the nation.

In 1927, the Club made its first European tour, and since that time, the Club has toured Europe ten times, most recently in May 2005, where the tour concluded with a performance at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. In the summer of 2001, the Glee Club traveled to Puerto Rico and Guadeloupe, where they were the first American chorus to host the Karukoral, the annual choir festival of the French West Indies. In 2003 members of the Glee Club participated in Miami’s first musical tour to Russia, Estonia, and Finland where they performed with professional orchestras in St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall and Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall. In March 2004, the Glee Club sang at the National Male Chorus Conference at Harvard University. Again in the spring of 2006, they were invited back to the IMC Conference held in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The Glee Club is proud to have once again been invited to perform at this distinguished conference in the spring of 2008 in Washington, D.C. Each year the men of the Glee Club tour the United States, performing for churches, civic groups, and schools in Ohio and other states and this summer is planning its first tour to China!.

As a major performing ensemble, the Glee Club has been called upon many times to perform with major symphony orchestras in the surrounding areas. Such performances have included working with Beverly Sills, Morten Lauridsen, Thomas Schippers, Martina Arroyo, Margaret Hillis, Robert Shaw, Max Rudolf, Paul Salamunovich, and the Cincinnati, Dayton, Richmond, and Middletown symphonies. Each year the Glee Club has taken part in an on-campus performance of a major choral/orchestral work.

James AndersonEric BishopScott Goodwill

Ben GreenwoodAdam JonesToby Jones

Matt ShuskoChad Slyman

Kyle GraperChristopher P.

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Christopher W.Lyons

Michael McKibben

Ajeet MehtaAmar MehtaPatrick Newsome

Joe BaranoskiMichael FastucaChauncey LeeMichael Maloney

Ryan A. MelnykVikram RaghuLoran SekelyMark Stuckel

Chris SweattEvan Williams

Richard BrownMason CooperSteven HeinMichael Mihalevic

Michael PollockBriton WesterhausJared Wilson

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The Glee Club’s repertoire encompasses everything from Gregorian Chant and Renaissance motets to modern popular music, folksongs, and spirituals. Several small groups within the Glee Club specialize in popular music and jazz arrangements, often including choreography.

Born in New York City, Ethan Sperry began studying conducting at the age of eight, cello at the age of twelve, and singing at the age of eighteen. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Harvard College and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Southern California. Ensembles under his direction have toured to Bermuda, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Guadeloupe, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Taiwan, and have performed at major venues in the United States including The Hollywood Bow, The Kennedy Center, The Washington National Cathedral, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, The Nassau Coliseum, Cincinnati’s Music Hall, and Boston’s Symphony Hall.

Currently Sperry is Associate Professor of Music at Miami University in Ohio, where he conducts the Men’s Glee Club, Collegiate Chorale, and Global Rhythms Ensembles and teaches classes in vocal and choral music and The Music of Russia. He is also the artistic administrator of the Arad Philharmonic Chorus in Arad, Romania, and from 2001-2003 was the principal conductor of the Choeur Regional de Guadeloupe, the only symphonic choir in the French West Indies. An enthusiastic cook, Sperry has won awards for his baking and his recipes have been printed in Bon Apetit magazine and the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Penn State Glee ClubChristopher Kiver, Director | Matthew Travis, Assistant Director | Christopher Orzech, Accompanist

T he Penn State Glee Club was founded in December of 1888, and is Penn State’s oldest student organization on campus. Since its first spring tour in March of 1889, the Glee Club has toured throughout the United States and abroad, with recent tours to Wales, Trinidad

and Tobago, France, and California. In recent years, the Glee Club has sung at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and Notre-Dame de Paris. They have sung for conventions of the Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Association (April 2007) and the Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses (March 2008). The annual Blue and White concert will be held in Schwab Auditorium at University Park at 8:00pm on Saturday April 19, and the Glee Club will join forces with all Penn State choirs and Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 on Saturday April 26th in the Eisenhower Auditorium..

Christopher Kiver joined the Penn State University faculty in 2005, and directs the Penn State Glee Club and the Chamber Singers. Kiver also teaches classes in choral conducting and choral literature. He received a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Michigan, a masters degree in choral conducting from Florida State University, and a bachelor of music degree from the University of London.

A native of the United Kingdom, he has received numerous prizes and scholarships including a Fulbright Award, and the 2002 Sydney World Symposium Foundation Scholarship. In February 2006, he was a double Grammy Award winner (“Best Choral Performance” and “Best Classical Album”) as a chorusmaster for the critically acclaimed Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s monumental Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Kiver has appeared as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. He currently serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Men’s Choirs for the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. In the summer of 2008, Kiver will direct the choir at Penn State’s Summer Music Camp program.

Andrew BaxterStephen Blouch Christopher Caswell Ross Clark Thomas Foley Peter Gray Patrick Hagen

William Hennon Dan Landers-Nolan Tyler Laughlin Ryan Lower Aaron Magaro Matt McClure Stephen Millett

Christopher Panzer Herbert Payung Ross Peduzzi Paul Schubert Matthew Travis

Marty Broser Scott Campbell Christopher Caster Michael Chobot Joe Engers Charles Hastings Brendan Hunt

Christopher Johnson Matthew Jones Steve Krugle Ryan Leach Nino Mazzurco Benjamin Mingle William Nichols

Aditya Rao Joseph Singer Tim Skiles Ben Thomas Bryan Thurston Erik Weir

Vaughn Climenhaga Dan Conway Nicholas DuBee Philip Eberhardt William Emhof Shane Flickinger Brian Fowler Brett M. Goodnack

Scott T. Harris Chip Hinkel Chris Madden Bryan Marsh Christopher Orzech Evan Petersen Daniel A. Pollak Jesse E. Raines

Eric Reese Ross Rohbeck John Schmidt Michael Smith Ryan Svoboda Jason Usdin Ronald Vega Nathan Wagner

Jason AdamsJordan BarrettJoseph BeckerJacob BrobstBrian CassanoKyle GarciaJoseph HergenrederNed Kimble

Louis KugelmanChristopher LandiSean LorsonMichael MacartneyEric MaloneChris MartinSean McGrathAndrew Patko

Peter ReaAlexander RedfordMatt ReeseStephen

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— Concert Session 3 – Friday, March 28, 2008, 7:30 p.m. —

Washington Men’s CamerataFrank Albinder, Music Director | Mark Vogel, Accompanist

The Singer (Laulja) Veljo Tormis (b. 1930)Boosey & Hawkes

I Have Had Singing Ron Jeffers (b. 1943)earthsongs

Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)ECS Publishing

Cantate Domino Vytautas Miškinis (b.1954) Carus Verlag

I Have Had Singing Steven Sametz (b. 1954)Manuscript

Pianola D’Amore (The Choral New Yorker) Irving Fine (1914-1962)Carl Fischer

How Can I Keep From Singing? arr. Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)ECS Publishing

Rigoletto Quartette (Travesty) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)Jerome H. Remick & Co. arr. George Botsford

BrethrenPat Vaughn, Artistic Director

E’en So Lord Jesus Quickly Come arr. Ruth ManzMorningstar Music

Heavenly Light Alexandr Kopylov (1854-1911)Musica Russica Kp 001

The Lord Is My Light arr. Joseph Linn

Be Thou My Vision arr. J. Harold Moyer Shawnee Press

Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)Walton Music

Light at the End of the Darkness arr. Kim Cargile

When I Cross Over Jordan As Recorded by IIIrd Tyme Out

I Have Seen the Light Robert Sterling arr. Jason Gottshall

The Singing ApesJohn Robert Liepold, Conductor | James Balmer, Associate Conductor | Mary Nelson, Accompanist

De Profundis Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)Universal Edition

Viderunt Omnes Perotin (fl. c. 1200)

Quatres Petites Priéres de St. François d’Assise Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)Editions Salabert

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child arr. Fenno HeathG. Schirmer

Shenandoah arr. James ErbLawson Gould

Mastersingers USABruce G. McInnes, Music Director | Kerry P. Brennan, Associate Conductor | Peter Stoltzfus Berton, Organist

A Tribute to Fenno Heath (b. 1926)

Psalm 96 Robert Berglund, tenor(Commissioned by and dedicated to the Amherst College Glee Club on the occasion of it’s Centennial in 1968 - IMC Library)

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The Lamb(The Third of a set of “Three Blake Poems” composed in 1961 - Manuscript)

Thy Word Is A Lantern(Composed in 1963 for the Inauguration of Kingman Brewster as President of Yale University--published by G. Schirmer in the Yale Glee Club Series)

Death Be Not Proud(Composed in 1960 for the Centennial of the Yale Glee Club - published by G. Schirmer in the Yale Glee Club Series)

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands(published by G. Schirmer in the Yale Glee Club Series)

The Train(published by G. Schirmer in the Yale Glee Club Series)

My Lord, What A Mornin’ Todd Mathias, bass(published by G. Schirmer in the Yale Glee Club Series)

Ezekiel Saw the WheelManuscript

with the Washington Men’s CamerataGeneral William Booth Enters Into Heaven

G. Schirmer

Washington Men’s CamerataFrank Albinder, Music Director

Mark Vogel, Accompanist

* = On Leave

T he Washington Men’s Camerata was founded by its members in 1984 to perform, promote and preserve the rich legacy of men’s choral music. In support of its mission, the Camerata seeks to: 1) present concerts of the highest artistic quality to the widest possible audience;

2) educate young people and generate interest on their part in choral music; 3) collaborate with orchestras, other ensembles and recording companies in performances and recordings of the men’s choral repertoire; 4) through the Demetrius Project, our National Repository Library of Men’s Choral Music, preserve and share worthy collections of music that are no longer in use; and 5) encourage composers to write music for male chorus by promoting and performing newly composed men’s chorus works.

In addition to its regular subscription series, which since 1994 has included annual performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Camerata has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra (Christopher Hogwood, Guest Conductor) and the National Gallery Orchestra (George Manos, Music Director); at the Smithsonian Institution; the Embassy of the Russian Federation; the National Building Museum; Harvard, Princeton, and Rutgers Universities; and the White House. The Camerata has colleborated with internationally renowned artists including soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson, baritone John Shirley-Quirk, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Listeners nationwide have heard the Camerata on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Performance Today” and “Pipe Dreams.”

Tim CashinJim Cohen Joey Coleman Joe Gordon Michael Greaney Francis Gutierrez *Chip Heath

Rob Hennings Craig Lustig *Patrick McMahan *Carib Mendez *John Meredith Jim Nix Edward Potosnak III

Jeff Skeer *Scott Spencer *Dave Witkowski

Tom Baldridge Steve Bauer Chuck Baxter Armin BondocHoward Frost Ned Goldberg Eliott Grabill

John Harpold Robert Harris *Michael Hurlbut *Larry Lengbeyer *Steve Lipps *Michael McHenry Jerry Parshall

Kasi G. Patterson *Reg Richards Chris Ritthaler Paul Seligman Rich Steffan G. A. Vick Mark Young

Colin Agnew Kevin ComerKeith Davis*Thomas M. Deal David Duxbury *Ken Finley David Glass Aaron Guertin

*Joe Hamner AJ Holliday Terry Horner Rick LatterellSteve Lockwood Antonio Mayorga Bob McKinless *Gary C. Mead

Peter Pfaffenroth *Ken Rubin Bob Sinclair Nelson Smith Rus Thomas Kuo-Wei Wang *Gregory White

Bob Chase David Evans Dean Goeldner Gregg Grisa *Ben Grosz Oliver LewisKevin Locke Jim Mastracco

Jake Mello *Derek Minshew Alan Munter*Jim Nichol Mike Regan Craig Ruskin Steve Sacks *Harry Schechter

*Michael Schrier Peter Scott Brad Spencer John Terry Bob Wood Chris Yim

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The group’s 1993 CD, Masters In This Hall: Christmas Music for Men’s Chorus (Gothic), has enjoyed critical acclaim, frequent airplay, and brisk sales nationwide. A second critically acclaimed recording, Over The Sea to Skye (Gothic), featuring folk songs from around the world, was released in March 1997. The third Camerata CD, The Spirit of Freedom (Gothic), featuring patriotic songs and military anthems, was released in March 1999, prompting Washington Post music critic Joseph McLellan to declare that it “is performed at a level that matches the best work of Robert Shaw.” Sing We Noel (Gothic), the Camerata’s newest Christmas CD, was released in Fall 2001. It features Daniel Pinkham’s glorious Christmas Cantata and favorite carols from around the world.

Our newest CD, Brothers, Sing On! Classics for Men’s Chorus (Gothic) was released in 2006. It features favorites from the male chorus repertoire, including Biebl’s “Ave Maria,” “What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?,” “Spaseniye sodelal” and “Vive L’Amour.”

Frank Albinder’s professional biography is listed under the Virginia Glee Club of the University of Virginia entry on page 3.

BrethrenPat Vaughn, Artistic Director

B rethren a group of professional vocalists who gather with a Christian heart to make music, as a ministry to themselves and others. At any given time Brethren may represented by as few as three or four and as many as twelve or fourteen men, performing with or

without accompaniment. Their repertoire encompasses everything from traditional hymns to patriotic standards to contemporary popular music.

Brethren performs in many configurations, from Southern Gospel quartet to doo-wop group to chamber ensemble. These and other formats are available for hire for events of all kinds, including picnics and parties, business meetings and conferences, recording sessions and festivals. Brethren is also available for full-length concerts, particularly as part of a church or community concert series. Compensation can be arranged in the form of a fee or a good-will offering; the opportunity to sell Brethren recordings at an event is appreciated.

The Singing ApesJohn Robert Liepold, Conductor | James Balmer, Associate Conductor | Mary Nelson, Accompanist

T he Singing Apes were formed in 2006 to perform and perpetuate the great canon of literature for men’s voices. Depending on the repertoire, the Apes comprise 30 to 60 of New York City’s finest professional ensemble singers.

Conductor John Robert Liepold has led vibrant choral programs in Connecticut, New York, and Virginia. He received critical acclaim for his work with the University of Virginia Men’s Glee Club, with whom he made several recordings and commissioned and premiered a dozen major new additions to the repertoire. He has also led choral programs at the Dalton School, the New School’s Mannes College of Music, and Grace Choral Society in New York City; and at Hampden-Sydney College and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Choruses under Liepold’s direction have given command performances at regional and national conventions of the ACDA and IMC, have made regular national and international tours, and have performed at the Cathedrals of Chartres and Notre Dame de Paris, at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and for the President of the United States. They have been broadcast on NBC’s Today Show, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, Connecticut and Virginia Public Radio, and the Voice of America. Liepold is a member of the Board and Past-President

of IMC.

Brad BennettNathan Carlisle

Mike FordTodd Gaither

Gary Glick

Matthew IrishMatt Nall

Rob SwaffordMark Tilley

Adam Tyler

Bill GabbardJason Gottshall

Joe HaughtonNathan Sommers

Pat Vaughn

KC ArmstrongGreg Lowery

Mike WebbKerry Wilkerson

Courtney Williams

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James BalmerMarc BaroneAlexander BenaimMichael CallasDan CameronWilliam Cranch

Edward DaltonCorey DavisRon DukenskiJoseph ElbertsonTerrence FayLaurence Freedman

Phil GeretyAl GillespieTerrence GongSean GuerrierGlenn LashleyAndy Lebwohl

Neil McDonaldDavid McGuireKevin MillerZach ObermanKnud RosenkrantzRick Ryan

David SkeistMatt SmythBill TortorielloJames WeberCharlie WilderPeter Zoogman

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Mastersingers USABruce G. McInnes, Music Director | Kerry P. Brennan, Associate Conductor

M astersingers USA is a unique chorus made up of seventy men. They are an amateur choir who have achieved and sustained the highest professional standards under the leadership of their founder and Music Director, Professor Bruce G. McInnes.

Members of the Mastersingers come from all over the United States: Maine to California, Oregon to Florida, Minnesota to New Mexico, and the members have distinguished themselves in many professions: they are doctors, lawyers, artists, businessmen, professors, clergymen, school teachers, authors, civil servants, and university students. The Chorus ranges in age from 21 to 72, and its members are graduates of some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in America: Amherst, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Kenyon, MIT, Pacific, Stanford, Tufts, Union, VMI, Wake Forest, WPI, Yale and the Universities of California, Chicago, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Men are selected for membership in the Mastersingers based on the extent of their musical and singing experience, and on the timbre and quality of their voice. What these men have in common is a love of choral music and the fact that each has, at one time or another, been a member of a choir conducted by Bruce McInnes. Most have participated in previous international concert tours under the leadership of Professor McInnes, whose choirs have now performed in 62 countries on five continents.

The Mastersingers’ repertoire includes sacred and secular music, folksongs and spirituals. The Chorus performs polyphonic masterpieces (deKerle, Palestrina, Victoria, Praetorius, Allegri), sacred and secular art songs (Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Thiman) as well as sophisticated twentiethth century compositions (Biebl, Heath, Theimer, Stroope, and Thompson), including newly commissioned works. The repertoire is challenging, varied, and mostly a cappella.

This choir represents the highest calibre of male choral singing in the United States. They have performed at festivals, in cathedrals, small village churches, concert halls, amphitheaters, and even on street corners as the spirit moved them. The Mastersingers won first place in the prestigious International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, North Wales during their 2003 tour to Ireland and the United Kingdom, and again during the First International Congress of Men’s Choirs in Barcelona, Spain in 2005.

Bruce G. McInnes, Music Director of MASTERSINGERS USA, received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College where he majored in Music and Romance Languages. After graduating from Dartmouth he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique in Paris; his teachers included the legendary Nadia Boulanger, Pierre Cochereau, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius Milhaud.

Mr. McInnes completed his graduate studies in Organ and Choral Conducting at Yale University and went on to teach at Amherst College in Massachusetts where he served as Professor of Music, Director of Choral Music, College Organist, and ultimately, Chairman of the Music Department. During his 21 years at Amherst his choirs achieved international acclaim on ten tours to fifty-six countries on five continents. His choirs have participated in several major international festivals including those at Athens, Baalbek, Byblos, Dubrovnik, and Tyre, the Casals Festival, Les Heures Musicale du Mont Saint Michel, and the Festival Estival de Paris. Specializing in a repertoire of sacred music led to invitations to perform in some of the world’s most prestigious churches including St. Peter’s in Rome (during an audience with Pope Paul VI), the Cathedrals of Notre Dame in Paris, and Monaco, San Marco in Venice, and those at Chartres, Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, Budapest, Prague, and Byblos. In recognition of distinguished teaching, Amherst College conferred an honorary degree on Bruce McInnes in 1979.

After leaving Amherst College Professor McInnes became Dean of the School of Music at Pacific University in Oregon. Three years later Pacific presented him with the Trombley Award as the Professor who had done the most to foster good student-faculty relations. Professor McInnes left Pacific to become Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Loten BaskinBlair BergerRobert BerglundMatt BurnellDavid DunneRick GaspardHugh GastonSteve Greene

Derek HemkerJohn HillmanJohn LinnPaul Linn, JDPaco Martinez-

AlvarezAnthony McGlaunGeoff Piper

Nate PiperMark RaileyDavid RobinsonBruce Towner, JD Tim van ZeelandJesse WarrDavid Weiland,

MD

Doug AudetteDarren BergerKerry BrennanAndy Cavagnetto,

PhDTed DonatTommy Dunne David Edie

James Funnell Bill Hannay JDJohn Harpold Mike JarrardTed Lenox, MDMichael McHenryRalph NelsonDan Ojserkis, JD

Andy Pierce, PhDTerry Rogers, MD Troy Rustad, MD Robert Ulery, PhD Morrison Webb, JD John Williams, JD Julian Young

John Bendix, PhDPeter Stoltzfus

BertonTony Castle, MDKeith DavisBill DavisRob Denious, JDBill Hayes

Dave Hollis, JDJohn Hunt, MDJon Larson William McCorkleCharles MessengerChristopher Mixter James MixterJohn Ong

Jerry Scheinfeldt, JD

Keith Stephenson, MD

Robert Stoddard Thomas TeRondeJ.D. Vogt

Tim ArmourMorrie BaileyJon DavisWilliam Domb,

DMD Richard Frantzreb,

JDJohn Gilbert

Matthew HallZach HalopJohn HoweGreg LewisTodd MathiasJames MessengerJohn Messenger, JDPaul Osborn

Jim PattersonGordon Sands, PhDJeffrey SandsPeter SnedecorTom Sullivan, PhDJames Vernon, MD

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From 1992 to 1999 he served as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Grace Church in New York. In the fall of 1999 he was appointed Interim Dean of the Conservatory at the Cleveland Institute of Music, a position which he held until his retirement in 2001. Presently Bruce McInnes is serving as a Visiting Professor of Music at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr. (born 1926) is an American conductor and composer of choral music. He attended Yale University, where he majored in music and graduated in 1950. As an undergraduate he sang in the Freshman Chorus, the Apollo Glee Club, the Yale Glee Club, and the Spizzwinks, the country’s second-oldest a cappella singing group. In his senior year he was chosen to direct the Whiffenpoofs, the prestigious all-senior a cappella group. Heath continued to graduate studies at the Yale School of Music and received the M.M. degree in 1952. He was appointed conductor of the Apollo Glee Club, and eventually succeeded the legendary Marshall Bartholomew as Director of the Yale Glee Club, a position which he held for nearly forty years.

The Yale Glee Club was originally composed of men only (as was Yale’s undergraduate college). In 1969, Yale admitted its first women undergraduates, and the following year Heath changed the Glee Club from an all-male chorus to a mixed chorus. During his term as director of the Yale Glee Club, Heath also held the post of “Marshall Bartholomew Professor of Choral Conducting” at the Yale School of Music. Fenno Heath retired in 1992. Since his retirement Professor Heath has continued to conduct at choral festivals and alumni get-togethers, and to compose distinguished choral music.

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— Concert Session 4 Saturday, March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m. —

University Glee Club of New York CityFounding Member of the IMC | Francisco Nunez, Conductor | David James, Accompanist

Kyrie, from St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass Glen McClureartforbrains.com

Otche Nash (Our Father) Nicolai Kedroff, Sr. (1871-1940)Musica Russica Ke 001mc

Laudate Dominum Francisco Nuñez

In Flanders Fields Stephen Chatman (b. 1950)earthsongs

Ol’ Man River Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II arr. Russell Robinson

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel arr. Fenno Heath Hal Leonard

Guys & Dolls Medley Frank Loesser (1910-1969) arr. Russell Ames

New York, New York John Kander & Fred Ebb

Fairfield Country Day School Chamber ChoirJames Balmer and Mary Nelson, Conductors

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Harold Flammer Music C-5020

Ave, Maria Jacob Arcadelt (c. 1504-1568)E.C.Shirmer No.526

O Sifuni Mungu arr. David MadduxHal Leonard 08744884

Little Innocent Lamb arr. Marshall Bartholomew G. Schirmer 9907 and Fenno Heath

Praise His Holy Name Keith Hampton (b. 1957)earthsongs

Al Shlosha D’Varim Allan E. Naplan (b. 1972)Boosey & Hawkes M-051-46783-9

Yo Le Canto Todo El Dia David L. Brunner (b. 1953)Boosey and Hawkes M-051-46932-1

Bowling Green State UniversityCollege of Musical Arts | University Men’s Chorus | Dr. William Skoog, Director

Andrew Schultz and Christopher Baumgartner, Graduate Student Conductors | Mariam Vardzelashvilli, PianistHeleluyan Jerry Ulrich

Alan Gamble and Danny Klohn, percussion, Nathan Johnson, solo arr. William SkoogAbingdon Press

Miserere Mei, Deus Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)Alliance Music Publications arr. James Rodde

Dies Irae Z. Randall Stroope (b. 1953)Alliance Music Publications

And Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Timothy Takach (b. 1978)Commissioned by and written for the BGSU Men’s Chorus

Songs from Matengo Folktales (selections) Peter Hamlin (b. 1951)Daniel English, Alan Gamble and Danny Klohn, percussionRoger Schupp, faculty guest artist, marimba

I Can’t Tarry arr. David MorrowMark Gardner and Matthew Koehler, solos

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University Glee Club of New York CityFounding Member of the IMC | Francisco Nunez, Conductor | David James, Accompanist

T he University Glee Club of New York City is an all-male singing group founded in 1894 “to encourage male voice singing of the highest excellence.” Many of its 150 members sang in college glee clubs and small groups and still participate in small group and

quartet singing.

The UGC is especially proud of its role in forming the IMC, which began as the Intercollegiate Musical Council, first incorporated in New York State in 1920 by members of the UGC.

Our esteemed conductor is Francisco Nuñez, who in 2000 succeeded John L. Baldwin, the club’s inspiration and leader for 39 years. Francisco was born in New York City of Dominican descent and has gained a national reputation as a choral conductor and composer. He is also widely recognized as the founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, a remarkable ensemble of 225 singers gives 35-40 concerts each year.

During the 1920s, the University Glee Club’s director was Marshall Bartholomew, long-time director of the Yale Glee Club and a major figure in male choral singing and arranging. It was Bartholomew who was instrumental in the development of the IMC, founded in 1913 and incorporated in 1920. He himself wrote the IMC’s early history, which also tells of his founding of the International Student Musical Council in 1931 to promote international good will through singing.

Fairfield Country Day School Chamber ChoirJames Balmer and Mary Nelson, Conductors

F airfield Country Day School was founded in 1936 in Fairfield Connecticut, to provide superior academic instruction to boys in an environment that fosters the scholastic and extra-curricular activity of each boy. FCDS has a student population of 270 boys in grades

Kindergarten through the Ninth Grade. Mary Nelson and James Balmer have been the Music Directors since 1996 and 1998, respectively. The forty-five voice Chamber Choir is a subset of the ninety-six member Concert Choir. Other musical ensembles at FCDS include the Pinstripes, the 5th and 6th grade Choir, the Bell Choir, and two string ensembles. In addition to concerts, FCDS presents an annual full length musical. Past shows have included, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and Beauty and the Beast. Choir members also are annual participants in honor choirs within the auspices of the American Choral Directors Association. In the summer of 2007 the Chamber Choir members toured Italy. They presented five concerts and sang two masses, including singing Mass in the Vatican in Rome. The choir has recently received an invitation to sing in the International Haydn Festival in Vienna in 2009.

James Balmer, a native of Pennsylvania, is one of the two music directors at Fairfield Country Day School. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Choate Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford, Connecticut and the Co-Director of their Summer Arts Conservatory. Mr. Balmer has a Bachelors of Music Degree in Education from the College Misericordia in Pennsylvania and a Masters Degree in Music Education with a Choral Emphasis from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford Connecticut. He is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois in Champaign and has additional graduate work at the Laudinella Institue in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the Julliard School and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Balmer has also been on the faculties of the Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut and the Belmont Hill School in Boston, Massachusetts.

As a conductor, Mr. Balmer was the assistant conductor of the University of Illinois Varsity Men’s Glee Club while in Champaign. He has also been a conducting intern in New York City with Dennis Keene and the Voices of Ascension. He also served as a board member for Keenefest in Kent, Connecticut. He is a former board member of the Connecticut American Choral Directors Association and has served as a conductor and clinician with the ACDA. Mr. Balmer is an Interim Music Minister at the First United Church of Christ in Milford, Connecticut. His conducting responsibilities include the Adult, Youth and Children’s Choirs as well as with the Meetinghouse Chorale, a community/church

Glenn Blair 6th Samuel Brancucci 7th

Taylor Casey 8th

Russell Clarida 6th

Harold Clarke 7th George Crawford 6th

Nicholas Figueroa 7th Samuel Flicker 7th Sharrieff Grice 6th

Richard Hyde 7th

Marton Krizsan 6th John Lawrence 6th

David Mascarenhas 7th

Taylor Norton 8th

Dylan Roncati 6th Thomas Sargent 6th Ryan Seymour 6th

Jake Skurja 6th William Slade 6th Peter Solazzo 7th

Timothy Steckler 6th

Richard Van de Berghe 6th

Juan Carlos Zumeta 6th

Alexander Auer 7th

Alexander Broadbent 8th

William Dailey 7th

Scott Deutsch 7th

William Kreitler 8th

William O’Donnell 7th

Tucker Pearson 9th

Christopher Ramey 6th

William Sargent 8th

Nicholas Auer 9th

Zachary Hutton 9th

Paul Mascarenhas 8th

Samuel Maximin 8th

Daniel Menard 8th

Andrew Slade 8th

Matthew Clarida 9th

Jordan Grice 9th

Lucjan Kazmierczak 8th

Samuel McIntire 8th Thomas Mulroy 9th

Alexander Rossetti 8th

Cameron Ross-MacCormack ‘99

Chris Verrillo ‘02

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choir which presents two concerts of major works a season. Previously, Mr. Balmer served as the Co-Director of the Chancel, Youth and Children’s Choirs, and, taught in the Center for Christian Studies, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City.

Mary Nelson, a Minnesota native, is one of the two music directors at Fairfield Country Day School. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the Choate Rosemary Hall School and the Co-Director of Choate’s Summer Arts Conservatory. Ms. Nelson has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters of Musical Arts Degree in Music Education with a Choral Conducting Emphasis from the Hartt School of Music. She has also done additional graduate work at the Laudinella Institute in Switzerland, the Julliard and Westminster Choir Schools. Ms. Nelson has previously taught in the mid-west and at Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Connecticut. Ms. Nelson is a member of the Board of Director’s for Intercollegiate Male Choruses’ and a former board member of both the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers and the Connecticut American Choral Directors’ Association.

As a pianist, organist and pianist, Ms. Nelson has performed with orchestras in the mid-west, east coast and Texas. She has performed with Layton James of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the 3M Orchestra of Minnesota, the Baroque Artists’ of Champaign and in recitals at Yale and as a symphonic member of local and regional symphonies. Recent performances have included performances at Carnegie Hall on several different occasions including concerts conducted by John Rutter and Donald Neuen. Ms. Nelson is currently an Interim Minister of Music at the First United Church of Christ in Milford, Connecticut. In addition to the choir responsibilities, Ms. Nelson also serves as the organist and director of the bell choir. Previously, she had been the organist and co-director of the Chancel, Youth and Children’s Choirs, and, taught in the Center for Christian Studies, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City.

Bowling Green State UniversityCollege of Musical Arts | University Men’s Chorus | Dr. William Skoog, Director

Andrew Schultz and Christopher Baumgartner, Graduate Student Conductors | Mariam Vardzelashvilli, Pianist

+ Denotes Graduate Assistant, * Denotes section leader, ^ Denotes Chorus officer

A n auditioned large ensemble open to all male students at Bowling Green State University, the chorus’ motto and reputation as “America’s Finest Singing Machine” is well deserved, emanating from over 35 years of musical excellence. The ensemble

encompasses students from all majors; over half are non-music majors, representing all seven colleges at the University.

The chorus organizes and presents two tours each academic year. Fall finds the singers traveling to locations in Ohio and Michigan, performing at high schools during the day and various concert venues in the evenings. The spring tour ventures to a new location each year, and past trips have taken the men to Colorado, Florida, New York City, Washington D.C., and Toronto. These off-campus pursuits provide opportunities to perform for diverse audiences, serve as musical ambassadors for BGSU, see different parts of the country, and bond and create lasting friendships with fellow chorus members.

The ensemble, which has produced numerous CDs, has performed with distinction at a number of regional and national ACDA conferences, as well as the North Coast Conference of OMEA and at OMEA state conferences. It recently commissioned a work by famed jazz artist Dave

Marcus BedingerJeremy BraleyJace CrosslandHunter C. Dahl^Daniel EnglishMark A. GardnerNick Gordon Albert M. L.

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Nathanael HeinBrandon JacksonJordan JonesMatthew Koehler*Nicholas KottmanBrian KlueterScott KriskaAndrew KuzasTyler Martin

Daniel Moore Drew OchoaBenjamin PhillipsMatt RebmanPaul Roerig Jr.Kevin Rutkowski Andrew Schultz*+ Andrew Willford Eric Young

Nickolas AngiocchiCory BartlettChristopher

Baumgartner *+Eric BlairLucas ChaltryTimothy DelnayMichael FerraroKyle FisherJohn GruberMatthew Hayner

Austin Heath *Christopher A.

KulhanekJoshua JonesPete MackeScott NicholsChris NicholsonRob NoelJoseph J. OhlingerWilliam PeakeMichael Phillips

Nicholas RadfordBrian ScavoAtonn Smeltzer^Lucas Marshall

SmithChris SpiveyTrevor StabileMichael TarasAaron J. Waryk Philip Williamson^Alex Zimmerman

Nathaniel BoyselR. J. CappaJohn M. Carmack *Shane CoeMichael Del Vecchio

Jr.Charles DentAlex EdingBenjamin Fidler *Alan Gamble

James P. GagenLee Gibson Patrick Grayshaw^Chris GuyotAdam HaynesDustin HillBeau JohnsonJay ManningCharles MayerBen Mitchell

Austin MorrisAnthony RegaladoBenjamin Schroeder Scott SanvilleEric SteyerRyan SparksMark SwinertonGary WashingtonZachary WeissK. J. West

Michael BretelsonDean BrysonCraig CarderJesse CoderAlex D’EttorreNick DominguezJason Eschhofen Mitch Frost^Anthony GallinaMatt Gramza

Eryk Grycza^Andrew P. HermanNathan JohnsonRyan JonesMike JudgeDanny KlohnAdam LiddleMark LohrumJacob Lowry Jason Mould

Will O’HanlonDavid ParrettJake RichmanKyle Rohrs *Adam RosengartenBrent Sibert^Kyle SpicerAaron WagnerEric Watts *Enoch Wu

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Brubeck titled Love Flows from God, which the group performed at OMEA with the composer present. The chorus has also commissioned works from Timothy Takach of CANTUS, Michael Cox and Steven Sametz, as part of the Male Chorus Commissioning Consortium, sponsored by CANTUS.

William Skoog is in his seventh year as associate professor and Director of Choral Activities at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He directs the University Men’s Chorus and Collegiate Chorale, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting and literature.

Choral ensembles under his direction have distinguished themselves at conference performances for ACDA, OCDA, and MENC, and IMC (Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses) including performing the choral works of Dave Brubeck in 2006 with the composer present. He conducted the Moravian Symphony Orchestra with the University Choral Society on a European tour in summer 2006, and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with university choruses in summer of 2001 and 2003, for the renowned Dvorak Festival, including European premieres of works by Dave Brubeck.

He will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Chorus at the Lucerne Choral Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2008, invited by Music Celebrations International. His choirs have performed at special events honoring William F. Buckley Jr. and Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf. Sought after as a choral/vocal adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor, his additional conducting credits include the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philhamonic Orchestra, Heartland Chamber Chorale, Indiana Opera North, the Arvada Center Theatre Company, the Golden Youth Symphony, Littleton Chamber Orchestra, and the Elkhart (Indiana) and Longmont (Colorado) symphonies and choruses. Prior to his BGSU appointment, Skoog served in similar positions at the University of Northern Colorado, Indiana/Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan.

He has prepared choruses for Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Edvard Tchivzhel, Stephan Sanderling, and Giordano Bellincampi, Emily Freeman Brown, and Bruce Moss. Skoog is a champion of new music, and choral ensembles under his direction have performed and premiered numerous pieces as part of the renowned New Music Festival for Mid American Center for Contemporary Music, and international festival held at BGSU.

As a singer, he has participated for several years in the Robert Shaw Festival and Institute Singers, performing under Robert Shaw, Sir Neville Marriner, André Previn and Peter Schreier at Carnegie Hall. He is published in the Music Educators Journal, Choral Journal, and has presented on numerous occasions, most recently at the International Conference on the Literature of War at the Durrell School in Corfu, Greece, a paper that will be published by the Cambridge Scholars, UK, in 2008

Skoog holds a bachelor’s degree from Gustavus Adolophus College, master’s degrees in voice performance/pedagogy and conducting from the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music, and a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado. He is married to Elaine, has three children; Miles, Rebekah, and Jacquelyn Skoog, and one grandchild, Isabella.

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— Concert Session 5 Saturday, March 29, 2008, 7:30 p.m. —

The University of Michigan Men’s Glee ClubPaul Rardin, conductor | David Zobel, pianist

Streets of Rome

Salterelle, Op. 74 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)Andrew Wollner, Baylee Miller, Andrew Mueller, RomansDurand 3510

American Muse

From Me and America Sent! Edie Hill (b. 1962)East Coast Premiere PerformanceHummingbird Press 04-15

To Musick Steven Stucky (b. 1949)Merion Music 342-40190

Abrahamic Chant

Pater noster Javier Busto (b. 1949)Mark Marotto, conductor transcribed by Paul RardinManuscript

Barechu Salamone Rossi (c. 1570-1630)IMCLS 34

Zikr A.R. RahmanDavid Zobel, guitar | Adam Clarke, doumbek | Nestor Dub, djembe | Ben Stange, tambourine arr. Ethan Sperryearthsongs

Streets of Havana and New Orleans

Murmullo Aguilar Hurtado SalvadorLance Jones, Jonathan Smith, soloists arr. Paul RardinManuscript

Tremé Second Line Kermit RuffinsJoshua Sanchez, soloist arr. Paul RardinManuscript

The Rutgers University Glee Club Dr. Patrick Gardner, Director | Sohee Lee & Brian Katona, Accompanists

Good Friday Gustav Holst (1874–1934) from Six Choruses for Male VoicesBoosey & Hawkes

Inveni David Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) Eric Drylewicz, Mark Mucci, Patrick Murphy, Jeff Smith, trombonesC. F. Peters

Invocation Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Mark A. Boyle, Tenor C. F. Peters

Canticle (From the Rising of the Sun) David Conte (b. 1955)from Three Sacred Pieces ECS Publishing

Dona nobis pacem Joseph Gregorio (b. 1979) ECS Publishing

Tarantella Elliott Carter (b. 1908) Brian Katona, Sohee Lee, PianoAssociated Music Publishers

Po’ Ol’ Laz’rus Traditional Work SongMark A. Boyle, Tenor, Seung Cho, Baritone arr. John Work (1901–1967) J. Fischer & Bro.

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Cantabile LimburgJürgen Faßbender, Conductor

Wandrers Nachtlied Carl.A.Mangold (1813-1889)

Der Fichtenbaum Carl Loewe (1796-1869)

Hell ins Fenster Max Reger (1873-1916)

Der träumende See Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Vom Rhein Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Der Lindenbaum Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860)

Abendständchen Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Ein Jägerlied Sigfried Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

Gute Nacht Adolf Marschner (1819-1853)

with the Rutgers University Glee Club

The Last Words of David Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

Ave Maria (Angelus Domini) Franz Biebl (1906-2001)

The University of Michigan Men’s Glee ClubPaul Rardin, conductor | David Zobel, pianist

T he Men’s Glee Club is the oldest student organization on the campus of the University of Michigan and one of the oldest collegiate men’s choirs in the United States. Founded in 1859, the Club will enjoy its sesquicentennial celebration in 2009-2010. The graduate

and undergraduate members of the Glee Club, chosen by audition at the beginning of both the Fall and Winter terms, represent a wide spectrum of majors in a majority of the University’s nineteen schools and colleges and its student officers are responsible for the management of all non-musical Glee Club operations.

Having adopted the “three pillars” of Tradition, Camaraderie and Musical Excellence as guiding principles, the Men’s Glee Club has enjoyed a rich history of performance, recording, and travel that includes tours of five continents, performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the

Anthony AmbroselliAustin ArnettErvis BurdaNick BringardnerAndrew ConiglioGregory W. FearEthan HainJames HartrickAbraham HiattLance JonesMiles Kaufmann

Ronald E. KendallJacob McCloryBaylee Weston

MillerTom PhillipsEric PortengaBrennan

QuennevillePhilip SchettenhelmKyle SerillaZachary D. Shell

Josh SmithAndrew Remington

WilsonAndrew Wollner

Ruben Eli AderyJake AftergoodAbdullah AwamlehErik BagagliaClark BaxtresserAndrew BollingerYuri BrozeConnor BuhagiarDavid ColemanNestor DubRobert Christopher

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Matt GlennDavid GoldenDavid HawkinsMatt HopkinsKeith David

HudolinJames Ignatz-HooverBenjamin JamoZach JungaBrian MagnusonSamuel MaxbauerSean Michael Morris

Daniel PesickLee QuackenbushJoshua Ethan

SanchezKeegan SchriderDrew SmithJonathan Bryan

SmithScott Bradley

VenmanAdam Wilmers

Chang-Hoon BaeReed BlaylockBernard ChanBrian ChrzanowskiAdam Sebastian

ClarkeAdam DearingW. Ethan EagleEric EmeottMatthew FinkelJoshua Glassman

Scott GrostColin IveyKevin KlinkeNils KlykkenKarol KobyleckiMichael MadiganTim McQuadeAndrew Martin

MuellerArvind NarayananVincent Roberts

Matt RomanelliScott RoffmanBen StangeAndrew TillJohn TrumblePhilip VigesAlex Phillip

WeatherupJuno Yoo

Andy BallardJamie BlockSimon ChanMichael CromwellAndrew DoDaniel DunlapLarry DunlapNikhil GuptaJames JonnaJosh KatzensteinChris LeeBen LeRoy

Marcus LewisColin McCorkleDominic MericaAlex MontgomeryJason MooneyElliott PolakoffKian Preston-SuniMike RowanJohn SielskiJesse TsaurMitch VossJoe Wieciek

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Kennedy Center and the Washington National Cathedral, and appearances with such diverse artists as the Kirov Orchestra of the Marensky Theatre, Mannheim Steamroller, and Bob McGrath. The Men’s Glee Club has won four prizes at the International Music Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales since 1959, and has appeared on national (1997) and central division (1992, 2000) conferences of the American Choral Directors Association.

The UM Men’s Glee Club is honored to perform at its third national IMC seminar, and would like to thank Frank Albinder, Clayton Parr and Steven Grives for their leadership of this organization and this seminar.

Paul Rardin is Associate Director of Choirs at the University of Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate conducting and conducts the Men’s Glee Club, University Choir, and Michigan Youth Chamber Singers. He previously taught at Towson University in Towson, Maryland where, for twelve years, he served as Director of Choirs. Professor Rardin’s choirs have performed in such venues as Boston Symphony Hall, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and Washington National Cathedral, and have appeared with the Kirov Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Professor Rardin is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Michigan, where he received the M.M. in composition and the D.M.A. in conducting. He has served as guest conductor for state and regional high school choral festivals in nine states, and has presented clinics for state, regional, and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association. His settings of spirituals and folk songs are published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and his articles, many on the topic of contemporary music, have appeared in the ACDA publications Choral Journal, Troubadour, and Bel Canto. Rardin lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Sandy.

Originally from California, David Aro Zobel is a conductor and pianist who now makes his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A musician of eclectic tastes, Mr. Zobel has appeared throughout the nation as a soloist, collaborator, conductor, and singer. Mr. Zobel received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied piano with Dr. Charles Asche and Choral Conducting with Michel Marc Gervias, and received his graduate degree from the University of Michigan, where he studied piano performance with Phillip Bush. Mr. Zobel appears regularly with area ensembles including the Ann Arbor and Saginaw Bay Symphonies, and is substitute pianist for the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. As a soloist, Mr. Zobel has won prizes in national competitions, including a gold medal from the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, and won the first prize in the Adrian Boyer Concerto Competition. Mr. Zobel is a prolific collaborator, having performed regularly in recital while holding the position of chorus master and coach of the Toledo Opera. Mr. Zobel has also coached and performed opera productions for the Great Lakes Lyric Opera Company, for the the Bay View Festival Opera. Mr. Zobel is currently chorus master and director of music at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Mark Marotto is a first-year doctoral student in choral conducting at the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, he worked as a musician, teacher and researcher in Switzerland. Most recently, he was conductor of the University Choir of Bern, the Lausanne Youth Choir and “Le Louverain,” a weeklong choral retreat in the Swiss mountains. He has served on the faculty for the Pepperdine University program in Lausanne. He holds a bachelors degree in music from Duke University, a postgraduate diploma in choral conducting from the Conservatoire de Fribourg, Switzerland and a masters degree in orchestral conducting from the National Music University of Bucharest, Romania. Mark has participated in master classes with Kurt Masur and George Pehlivanian.

The Rutgers University Glee Club Dr. Patrick Gardner, Director | Sohee Lee & Brian Katona, Accompanists

T he Rutgers University Glee Club is one of the oldest and most distinguished men’s choruses in the United States. Tracing its roots back to 1872, the Rutgers University Glee Club has been among the nation’s premier collegiate choirs for one hundred and thirty-six

years. Strongly linked to the history of Rutgers University, the Glee Club’s early repertoire was dominated by songs of school spirit and the emerging collegiate sport of football.

Andrew Arcilla Mark A. BoyleDaniel Braff Christopher

Georgetti Patrick Hosfield

Robert Ono Zhivago Paul Sean Plante Ryan Potosnak Neil Ramchandani David Valla

Christopher Zingler Xavier Adames Jonathan Baldasare Spencer Brooks Dennis Chu John Cifelli Bryan Gross

Matthew Gunther Brian KatonaStephen Markowski Daniel Martin Kevin Moon Mark Mucci

Louis Nicastro Christofer Peckhardt Roberto Rodriguez Alexander Smyk Adam Vidal Richard Wells

Rakesh Babu TJ Bertrand Rupnath

Chattopadhyay Seung Cho Joe Hernandez John Maeng

Andrew Marulanda Alexander Miller Michael Nurthen Dave Regner David Reiss Steve Rocha Casey Schlosser

Eric Schreier David Seamon Daniel Smith Matt Sturgis Billy Tsang

Christopher Bleeke Mathew Cavanaugh Dan Comito Mark DiGiovanni Eric Drylewicz Vincent Grana Jeffrey Kessler

Jonathan Ko Richard Kunz Samuel Levine Jeffrey Masino Christopher

Meiman Patrick Murphy

David Park Matthew Prepis Jeffrey Smith

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In the past few years, under the direction of Dr. Patrick Gardner, the Rut¬gers University Glee Club has moved to the forefront of men’s choral mu¬sic. The Glee Club hosted the National Seminar of Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, highlighting the conference with the première of The Miracle, commissioned for the Glee Club from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom. In 2000 the Glee Club performed Arnold Schoenberg’s monumental Gurrelieder under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, appearing at Carnegie Hall the following year to present the New York première of The Miracle before joining with the Rut¬gers University Orchestra, Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir and piano soloist Ruth Loredo in a presentation of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the Choral Fantasy. Critics from the New Jersey Star Ledger and Home News Tribune lauded the “beautifully prepared” and “wonderful” performance, which displayed “Patrick Gardner’s superb direction” and the Glee Club’s “honeyed blend and sense of ticking rhythm.”

In 2001 the Glee Club was invited to perform at the National Conference of the American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA) in San Antonio, Texas. In 2003 they embarked on their third tour of Europe under Dr. Gardner with concert events in the Netherlands, Germany and France. Performances were held at significant venues including Eglise de la Sainte Trinité, Cathédrale Notre Dame de Chartres, and Eglise Saint-Sulpice. The tour culminated with a performance during the Pentecost Vigil Mass at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. Also in 2003, the Glee Club performed the Berlioz Requiem with the Philadelphia Singers in Philadelphia’s new Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. In 2005 they appeared yet again at Carnegie Hall with the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir, Riverside Choral Society and Rutgers University Orchestra in a performance of Poulenc’s Gloria. The Glee Club continued to be active in New York City into Spring 2006, when they performed at St. Thomas’ Church for the ACDA Eastern Division conference, to a standing ovation. That Fall, the Rutgers Glee Club joined pianists Misha and Cipa Dichter in the première performance of the recently discovered four-hand piano version of Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, Babi Yar. The Club went on to sing Babi Yar with the Riverside Choral Society, the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir and the Kirov Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Valery Gergiev at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Hall.

The Glee Club recently concluded its 2007 European Tour, which featured performances in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Meissen, Nijmegen, Venlo, and Utrecht, at venues such as the Berliner Dom, Dresden’s Dreikönigskirche, and the Thomaskirche of Leipzig.

Patrick Gardner’s performances have been acclaimed by New York audiences, critics, and an international roster of composers whose orchestral and choral works he has conducted. Active in premièring new music, he has won the praise of such notable composers as William Bolcom, John Harbison, Lou Harrison and Lukas Foss. Now in his 18th season as Director of the Riverside Choral Society, Dr. Gardner is also Director of Choral Activities at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he conducts the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir and the Rutgers University Glee Club, and supervises an outstanding group of doctoral students in choral conducting. He has led the Rutgers University Glee Club in performances at national conventions of the American Choral Directors Associa¬tion and Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, Inc. The Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir can be heard on two recent recordings under Dr. Gardner’s direction on the Naxos label.

Dr. Gardner prepared the Riverside Choral Society and the Rutgers University choruses for Val¬ery Gergiev’s Lincoln Center performances of Shostakovich’s 2nd, 3rd and 13th Symphonies with the Kirov Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. His critically acclaimed preparation of the choral work for the Mark Morris Dance Group’s production of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, performed at Lincoln Center in the summer of 2005, led to his engagement to prepare Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as part of the Mark Morris Dance Group’s 25th anniversary season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In the summer of 2006, Dr. Gardner presented concerts in Taichung, Taiwan, and in 2007 he pre¬sented master-classes for professional conductors in the Netherlands for the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Koordirigenten. In recent orches¬tral performances at Rutgers and with the Riverside Choral Society Orchestra he has conducted the Brahms 2nd Symphony, the Schubert 5th Symphony, Shostakovich and Mozart piano concerti, Arvo Pärt’s Canticum in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, and Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral.

Dr. Gardner has prepared choruses for the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Austin Symphony, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, collaborating with Valery Gergiev, Lukas Foss, Robert Shaw, Gerard Schwarz, Carl St. Clair, and Gustav Meier.

Cantabile LimburgJürgen Faßbender, Conductor

B y now, the Male Chamber Choir Cantabile Limburg is one of the most internationally recognized top ensembles amongst male choirs. The origins of choir itself lie in the beginning of the Seventies starting with the Limburger Domsingknaben, where the 18

singers obtained their musical education. The common musical background and the unique continuity of team composition are defining for the characteristic “Cantabile-Sound”. Looking back, one can observe that Cantabile Limburg successfully performed at numerous concerts, radio broadcast productions, festivals and contests.

Albert BalmertKarl-Heinz DernbachGerd FachingerWolfgang HaberstockMichael Hofmann

Andreas JungChristoph KippingStephan KippingDieter KuchAxel Kunz

Markus LudwigGernot MüllerPaul PfeifferPeter PfeifferMatthias Schindler

Christoph SchmidtJan SchuhmacherAndreas SehrbrockVolker StollStefan Thimm-Pfeiffer

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Thus, the singers are regularly performing guests at renowned concerts (amongst others: International Bach-Days in Berlin, Kasseler Music Days, Lauterbacher Whitsun Music Days, International Choral Festival Stettin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Cantus Norway, Londrina Brazil) and have also established a very successful series of concerts for several years in Limburg (amongst others: with Orphei Drängar/ Sweden and Vocal del Angel/ Argentina, Cantus/ Norway, Jazz Choir Freiburg “Raum und Zeit” in the Limburger Dome as well as a much rejoiced piece of Schubert).

The choir became first in the male category male at the 4. German Choir Contest in Fulda. Cantabile also won twice - 1992 and 1995 - the International Broadcast competition “Let the people sing” in the category “identical voices” where in 1995 the final was broadcasted live worldwide.

Further highlights were first prizes at international choral contests in Budapest, Trelew (Argentina), Arezzo (Italy) and Darmstadt. At the international choral contest in Kleipeda (Lithuania) in 1999 Cantabile succeeded for the first time not only to win the first prize in the category “identical voices” but also to win the “Grand Prix” i.e. the highest award in this contest. In the year 2004 Cantabile became first in the category Male Chamber Choir at the Choral Olympics in Bremen. Also, Jürgen Faßbender and his choir regularly received awards for their musical interpretation of contemporary literature.

In 1998 Cantabile Limburg organised a special concert due to the 5. German Choral Contest in Regensburg, which was revelled in the crowded Trinity-Church by a panel audience with standing ovations. Part of this concert has been recorded and has been released on CD.

The Carus-Verlag Stuttgart published in cooperation with the “Hessischen Rundfunk” the Cantabile CD “Männergesang”. In 2003 also in cooperation with the “Hessischen Rundfunk” there was a CD release with many favourite songs from different eras with the title: All you need is love”. In summer 2005 Cantabile Limburg was European Representative at the World Choir Symposium in Kyoto (Japan) and this year Cantabile will give a special concert called “Perlen der Männerchorliteratur” in line with the Austrian Congress for Choral music.

The program of Cantabile Limburg is characterised by its enormous variety ranging from classical vocal polyphony, madrigal, romantic pieces from Schubert to Reger, contemporary compositions in the spiritual as well as mundane field (numerous composers have confided their word premiers to Cantabile Limburg) and from different languages and cultural background. The program is rounded off by several assortments in the field of Pop, Jazz and Mainstream.

From an educational background, Jürgen Faßbender did Music as well as German language and literature studies. Today, he is choir master of several highly qualified choirs. Faßbender was inspired by working with semi professional ensembles for many years (i.e. Kammerchor Stuttgart, studio vocale Karlsruhe) and through further education (e.g. Eric Ericson, Volker Hempfling and Wolfgang Schäfer).

Jürgen Faßbender and his choirs won nearly all important international choral contests (amongst others: Arezzo, Tours, Riva del Garda, Verona, Prague, Trelew (Argentina), Heythusen (The Netherlands), Kleipeda (Lithuania), Choral Olympics in Bremen as well as in 1995 he won together with Cantabile Limburg the international broadcast radio contest “Let the peoples sing”.) He also was given special awards by several committees for outstanding artistic performance many times.

At the German Choir Contest in Fulda in 1994 as for the first time in history at this contest he became first together with his choirs “Carpe Diem” and “Cantabile Limburg” in the categories male choir and female choir respectively. Also, he was given an award for outstanding musical interpretation of a contemporary piece of choir. In 1995 Jürgen Faßbender became stipendiary of the German Music Committee and due to the 1. European Choir Symposium in Ljublijana was invited to the master class of Eric Ericsons.

At that time, he was regularly asked to act as juror for national and international choral contests, as guest conductor (Youth Choir of the County Rhineland-Palatinate, German-Polish Choir Academy “In terra pax”, European Youth Choir) as well as lecturer and head of workshops, especially for male and female choirs (amongst others: Europe-Cantat, World Assembly of Choirs “Zimriya” Jerusalem, Musical Academy of the County Rhineland-Palatinate, Association of Choir Vorarlberg, Hessian Alliance of Singers, Bavarian Alliance of Singers, German-Polish Choir Academy, Choir Academy Siena, Musica Mundi, Choir Studio of the International Chamber Choir Contest Marktoberdorf ).

Besides radio and television recordings with HR, BR and SWF Cantabile Limburg released a CD called “Men singing” published by Carus-Verlag Stuttgart in 1996. Owing to the German Choir Contest there were live CDs recordings by Cantabile and Carpe Diem with contemporary choral music from the laureate concert in 1998 in Regensburg. Last year love songs with the CD title “all you need is love” were released ranging from musical pieces by Frank Schubert to the Spice Girls. This was a further well acknowledged male choral CD from Cantabile Limburg.

Faßbender together with both chamber choirs regularly performance at renowned concerts and festivals such as International Bach-Days in Berlin, International Week of the Organ Nürnberg, Kasseler Musical Days, Whitsun Days Lauterbach, Toulouse Festival, International Kathaumixw Powell River/ Canada, International Choral Festival Cork/Ireland, Choir Festival Tolosa/ Spain as well as “Florilege Vocal des Tours” France and the Choral Festival in Londrina/ Brazil.

Moreover, Jürgen Faßbender is member of the Federal Musical Committee of the Hessian Alliance of Singers, of the Musical Advisory Committee of the German Centre of Choir Music as well as of the Literature Committee of the German Choir Contest. Also, he gives recommendations as guest author in the “International Choral Bulletin” of the IFCM and in “Song and Choir”. Since winter semester 2003/2004 he is lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt.

In the year 2005, Faßbender and the Male Chamber “Cantabile Limburg” took part as European Representatives at the World Choir Symposium in Kyoto/ Japan. After that, he ran several choral seminars in different cities of Japan for the Japanese Choir Alliance.

Last year he was responsible for 2 choral studios at Europe Cantat. He also will act in similar roles in The Netherlands, Austria and Italy this year.

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Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, Inc.imci.us

Board of DirectorsClayton Parr, President

Frank Albinder, Vice-PresidentKerry Wilkerson, Secretary

Lewis Cisto, TreasurerSteven Grives, Editor, Quodlibet

A Bit of History by Marshall BartholomewThe usefulness and future promise of the Intercollegiate Musical Council are due to the idea of an undergraduate at Harvard who in 1913 felt strongly that fields of intercollegiate competition other than sports offered a great deal for the immediate participants and the public. This man, Albert Pickernell, during his senior year planned and held an intercollegiate glee club contest with Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Pennsylvania participating. Harvard, with Pickernell leading, won the contest. When he graduate in 1914, he went to New York to work and joined the University Glee Club of New York. This Club, founded in 1894, is made up of men who sang in their college glee clubs and in its membership Pickernell found the kindred spirits to support him in his ideas. A first intercollegiate glee club contest was held in 1914 and three additional contest were held until the entry of the USA into World War I brought them to a close. In 1916 and 1917, Princeton, Amherst and Penn State joined the original four. The contests were resumed in 1921, eight clubs participating, New York University having joined the group. The number grew slowly. Then with funds from individuals and foundations. Harriet Steel Pickernell, an experienced concert manager, took up her duties as Executive Secretary and later, Marshall Bartholomew became part-time Executive Director. Through their efforts, the program was expanded to cover the entire country.

The printed program of the “15th Annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest”, held in Carnegie Hall, New York, March 14, 1931 mentions 67 Glee Clubs competing in 11 Regional or State Contests. There were students from colleges in 24 states plus a Metropolitan Region which included Columbia, NYU, Fordham and Yale. George Washington University participated in this 1931 Contest as winner of the National Finals in the previous year. Also the following regional winners: Lafayette College (Penn State Association), Washington University (Missouri Valley Association), Capitol University (Ohio State Association), Williams College (New England Regional Association), Union College (New York State Association).

The first National Finals Contest to be held outside of New York City was in the Spring of 1932 when the ten winning Clubs of the Regional Contests met at St. Louis and Pomona College from Southern California won the Prize Cup, with Yale 2nd and Penn State 3rd.

The climax of all previous activities of the IMC was to have come in 1933 with an International Festival of Student Singers upon which Harriet Pickernell and I had been working in collaboration with the Organizing Committee of the Chicago Centennial World’s Fair. Student Choruses were all set to come to Chicago from eight European countries. The deepening economic depression in the United States and the rapidly increasing menace of the Nazi movement in Germany and the Fascisti in Italy combined to defeat that project.

In spite of the catastrophic sequence of disappointments mentioned in this “bit of history” the IMC reached a peak of activity in 1933-34 with a membership of 139 college glee clubs representing 19 Regional Associations.

The IMC in America remained active until World War II made not only the former National Finals but even the Regional Festivals impossible, although a few of the better organized groups, such as the Southern California and the New England Association remained active until the outbreak of the War.

The International Student Musical Council was founded in Munich in 1931. Sponsored by the Intercollegiate Musical Council and financed by Francis P. Garvan, a prominent New York philanthropist, the moving spirits in this undertaking were Dr. Friedrich Beck of the University of Munich and myself. Delegates from Student Choruses of Austria, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States participated. A paralyzing blow to this movement was dealt when Friedrich Beck was murdered in the Nazi Blood Purge of June 30, 1934. Before that tragic happening, however, the ISMC had met in Zurich (1932) and in Copenhagen (1933). The concert tours in the United States by the Budapest University Chorus (1936), Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat of Helsinki (1937) and NorskeStudentersangforening of Oslo (1938) were sponsored by the IMC and the ISMC.

Donald CaldwellDonald Eddy

Patrick GardnerBuddy JamesErick Lichte

John LiepoldJameson MarvinDavid MorrowMary Nelson

Francisco NuñezGerald Polich

William SkoogGary Schwartzhoff

Ethan SperryBruce TrinkleyScott Tucker

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One more meeting of the International Council was held in Copenhagen in 1937 for the principal purpose of laying plans for the Centennial celebration of the founding of the Danske Studenter Sangforeningen which was to take place during the third week of September 1939 in Copenhagen. A chorus of fifty singers from the UGC of New York planned to join forces in Copenhagen with student choruses from ten European countries but the Nazi army invaded Poland September 1st of that year, the Second World War got underway and that was the end of that well planned international songfest.

From 1939 until 1952 the Council remained inactive. Then Frank H. Baxter, a former President of the University Glee Club, became President of the Council and took the initiative to revitalize it. He devoted his efforts and resources unstintingly to this end and in 1954 the first evidence of life was the highly successful Seminar at Purdue University. Successful Seminars were held in order as listed separately.

As to its formal organization, the Intercollegiate Musical Council was incorporated in New York State in 1920, the incorporators, officers and directors being members of the University Glee Club, each representing his alma mater on the Board, each keeping in touch with his campus and speaking for it in the deliberations of the Board. In 1957, the organization was changed so that individual male glee clubs became members, the large Board of forty or more elected by the University Glee Club was reduced to seventeen, two being elected by the University Glee Club as the Founder Member and the others being elected by the member clubs.

When Frank H. Baxter died in 1958, his friends and business associates established the Baxter Fund which made possible the 1961 Prize Song Contest.

The historic past was fruitful. We have a great future!

W e are grateful to the staff and congregation of Vienna Presbyterian Church for making their facilities available to IMC for our 2008 Seminar.

We would especially like to thank:

We would also like to thank:

Special thanks to Frank Albinder (Washington Men’s Camerata & Virginia Glee Club) and Kerry Wilkerson (U. S. Army Chorus & Vienna Presbyterian Church) for spearheading the organization of this year’s Seminar.

Peter James, Senior Pastor

Dick Egan, Executive Director

Lance Vining, Director of Music Ministries

Gerri Webb, Calendar Administrator

Tom Whitton, Site Coordinator

Dave Reynolds, Audio Visual Tech Team Leader

Deb Crumbliss & Deborah Mateer, Caterers

Terry Sisk, Organist/Music Associate

Andrew Schmidt, Worship Ministry Intern

Jack Ay and The Musical Source - reading session musicJoey Coleman and Design Symphony - programs

Jonathan Palant - reading session coordinationJill Strachan - reservations and registration

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