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Andrew Gallagher, PresidentWalla Walla Choral Society

Ah, springtime! A time when the sun is warm, the grass is green, and the hearts of both men and women turn to love. This spring evening, the Walla Walla Choral Society will treat you to a wonderful collection of classic and popular love songs.

We will be singing two pieces based on texts from centuries ago. One is “If Music be the Food of Love” based on a line from Shake-speare’s Twelfth Night; the other is “Set Me as a Seal” based on The Song of Solomon 8:6.

One of our singers’ favorite selec-tions is “Dirait-on” (As One Would Say). This lovely melody is one of five songs based on poems by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke written in French called the Les Chansons des Roses. The composer, Morten Lauridsen, currently a mu-sic professor at USC in Los Angeles, has Washington and Oregon roots. Born in Colfax and a graduate of Whitman College, he composed the Les Chansons de Roses for a Portland, Oregon choir. The song is a reflection on the beauty of a rose whose self-reflection is almost an obsessive love like that of Narcissus.

We also include several pop and Broadway songs such as “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” from My Fair Lady, “Love Changes

Everything” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender,” Harry Connick, Jr.’s version of the clas-sic “It Had to be You,” and the late Selena’s “Dreaming of You” re-leased after her untimely death.

Our music this evening also in-cludes the challenging Liebeslieder (“Love Song”) Waltzes by Johannes Brahms, composed in 1869. Al-though an accomplished composer of serious music, Brahms wrote a variety of popular dances and songs including the famous “Hungarian Dances” and “Brahms’ Lullaby.” For the Liebeslieder Waltzes he composed music for a set of 18 poems by Georg Friedrich Daumer which were translations of poems by a 14th century Persian mystic poet named Hafez. The poems tell of the ups and downs of love. They use wonderful metaphors describ-ing love in terms of birds, streams and oceans. For example, in Waltz #4, the woman sings, “Like the sunset’s crimson splendor/I would glow with beauty’s fire./ If one heart to me were tender/joy unend-ing I’d inspire.”

We hope you like our collec-tion of love songs. Thank you for supporting the Walla Walla Choral Society!

Love in the SpringPRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Program and promotional materials and images created by Brenden Koch

Dr. Janis re-ceived her Doc-torate in voice performance and Master’s in vocal pedagogy from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. While completing her

graduate degrees Dr. Janis sang profes-sionally with the Columbus Light Op-era, Opera/Columbus and the Cantari Singers. She also performed with the OSU Opera Theater in such roles as Adele in “Die Fledermaus”, Giannetta in “L’Elisir d’Amoré”, and Margot in “The Desert Song.”

In 1990 Dr. Janis was awarded a scholarship to attend The American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. A review of her performance in a Schumann Liederabend called her singing “sensitive and warmly con-veyed.” At the Spoleto Festival in 1985 she sang in the American premiere of Handel’s opera “Ariodante” which was nationally broadcast on NPR. As an undergraduate at Westminster Choir College Dr. Janis was a member of the Westminster Choir and had the privi-lege to sing under Kurt Mazur, James Levine, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw and Riccardo Muti, with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Since coming to the

Walla Walla valley in August of 1994 Dr. Janis has been active as a solo perform-er. She has been heard in recital and as soloist with the Walla Walla Sym-phony, the Walla Walla College Choir, the Whitman Chorale, the Walla Walla Mastersingers, and the Mid-Columbia Symphony. Dr. Janis is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Kappa Phi, and is past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Dr. Janis studied conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt, Frauke Haaseman, Allen Crowell and Maruice Casey, and has served as church choir director for both adult and children’s choirs in New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Washing-ton. From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Janis taught voice at Whitman College and for seven years served as choir director at the First Presbyterian Church in Walla Walla. In addition to teaching voice at Walla Walla University, she currently maintains a private voice studio and directs the choir at St. Silouan Ortho-dox Church in Walla Walla. In 2004 Dr. Janis formed the Walla Walla Chamber Choir, a select choir of 40, to perform special projects with the Walla Walla Symphony. In December 2004 the Chamber Choir debuted with the Sym-phony for their performance of “Mes-siah” by Handel. This is Dr. Janis’ 13th season as Artistic Director/Conductor of the Walla Walla Choral Society.

Kristin Vining’s mother encouraged her to sign up for choir in middle school in Olympia, WA, and she has been accom-panying for choirs and vocalists ever since. Kristin currently teaches piano at Whitman College and Walla Walla University, and works in the music department at Walla Walla Community College. She is a graduate of Whitman

College, where she studied French with Mary Anne O’Neil, Patrick Henry, and Dale Cosper, and piano with Leonard Richter. Kristin is an avid composer, particularly inspired to write for her students, friends, and for dancers. She accompanies and composes for Summer Dance Lab, an intensive dance program held at Whitman College.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dr. Christine Janis

ACCOMPANIST Kristin Vining

WALLA WALLA CHORAL SOCIETYpresents

Dr. Christine Janis, Artistic Director Terri Koch, Accompanist

If Music Be the Food of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . David C. Dickau

The Water is Wide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Luigi Zaninelli

Dirait-on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morten Lauridsen

Set Me as a Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rene Clausen

Liebeslieder Waltzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johannes BrahmsFrankie Bones, Kristin Vining - pianists

Anne Marie Jones, Brenden Koch - soloists

~ Intermission ~

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face . . . . . . . . . . arr. Ed Lojeski

I Remember it Well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lerner and LoeweTerry Koch, Elissa Stites

Love Me Tender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elvis Presley, Vera Matson

So In Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole PorterChristine Janis

The Man I Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Kirby Shaw

Sixteen Going on Seventeen . . . . . . . . .Rodgers and HammersteinGabe Anderson, Elena Janis

Karen Kelly, piano

It Had to Be You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Steve Zegree

If I Loved You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rodgers and HammersteinDixie Cramer

Love Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victor YoungRichard Young

Dreaming of You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Ruth Elaine Schram

Love Changes Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Ed Lojeski

Love in the Spring

TEXT TRANSLATIONSDirait-on Abandon surrounding abandon,tenderness touching tenderness...Your oneness endlessly caresses itself, so they say;

Self-caressing through its own clear reflection.Thus you invent the theme of Narcissus fulfilled.

Liebeslieder Waltzes 1. Oh give answer, maiden fairest, thou those smile my heart entrances, who has slain me with thy glances, tell me, hath thy heart relented? Or like cloister’d nun, contented, wilt thou dwell by love forsaken? Say, how long must I entreat thee, say, oh fairest, wilt thou, wilt thou meet me?

Nay, to dwell by love forsaken, gives a doom for which I care not, Wistful eyes, take heart, despair not, when the stars are bright I’ll meet thee, when they’re bright I’ll meet thee.

2. O’er the rocks the tide beats high, lash’d thro’ many a furrow; If thou ne’er has leart to sigh, love will teach thee sorrow.

3. Dark-eyed maiden, with all fond delights o’erladen! Long the staff and cowl had won me, had thy witching not undone me, hadst thou not undone me.

4. Like the sunset’s crimson splendor I would glow with beauty’s fire. If one heart to me were tender joy unending I’d inspire.

5. Thou tender trailing ivy, why creep so low thy branches green?

Thou damsel young and dainty, why is so sad thy mien?

Oh say, thou glist’ning ivy, why is’t thou dost not heav’nward rise?

Oh say, thou damsel dainty, why melts thy heart with sighs?

What ivy can grow heav’nward with none to give it strength or stay? Or how can a maid have pleasure while he she loves’ away!

6. Was once a pretty birdie, flew where fruit in garden fair hung bright to view. If that a pretty tiny bird I were I’d fly away and seek you gar-den fair.

Lime twigs and treach’ry all its branches bore, Ah hapless bird, thou wilt fly no more!

If that a pretty tiny bird I were, I think of yonder garden I’d beware, I’d beware.

That birdie came in hand of ladye bright.

And there he had full store of fond delight.

If that a pretty tiny bird were I, like him to yonder garden straight I’d fly.

7. How sweet, how joyous dawn’d each morrow, when he was kind for whom I sorrow;

Then would he stand beneath my bower, nor lock nor wall to part had power,

But, woe betide me! when now I look on his cold averted face beside me, he doth not heed that my heart is sore.

8. When thy glance is fond and kind, and thou smilest on me, care and trouble flee behind, in thy smiles I sun me.

Keep alight this fire of joy, that it may not perish! Ne’er will other lover prove what for thee I cherish.

9. In wood embower’d, ‘neath azure sky, a rosy maid looks from lattice high. Well guarded is she with lock and key, with ten iron bars is that maiden’s doorway made fast.

What, ten iron bars are a jest to me, as tho’ they were glass they shall shatter’d be.

10. Oh how soft yon murm’ring stream thro’ the meadow gliding! Oh how sweet when fond eyes beam love and trust abiding!

11. No, there is no bearing with these spiteful neighbors; all one doth inter-pret wrongly, each one labors.

Am I merry? then by evil thoughts I’m haunted, am I sad? they say I am with love demented.

12. Locksmith, ho, a hundred pad-locks, bring me padlocks, padlocks great and small! For the slandr’rous lips with them I’ll fasten, I will fas-ten, fasten once for all.

13. Bird in air will stray afar, will stray afar, seeks a shelter’d bower; So the heart a heart must find ere its life can flower.

14. Bright thy sheen, oh lucent wave, as yon moon above thee!

Thou whose heat alone I crave, maiden dearest, love me!

15. Nightingale, thy sweetest song sounds when night is darkling.

Love me, oh my heart’s delight, when no star is sparkling in darkness.

16. Ah, love is a mine unfathom’d, a bottomless well of affliction;

I gazed and fell in, oh sorrow! Since then of sense I’m bereft. I sigh for a happy morrow, but groaning is all that’s left.

17. Nay tarry, sweet heart, nor seek thou the flow’ry mead, ‘tis for thy tender feet to wander too wet, so heed.

Over the pathways, O’er the grasses hath fall’n a show’r; where I went weeping tears abundant in morning hour.

18. A tremor’s in the branches, a bird has brush’d his pinions thro’ yonder tree.

And thus my heart within me thro’ all its depths is trembling; in love and joy and sorrow I think of thee.

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Chris Aguilar Leah Bailey Dixie Cramer Brenda Criss Susan Fleming Shelly Franklin Lois Hahn Cheryl Hair Velma Rose Harvey Anne Marie Jones Karissa Kravig Judy Loposer Cindy Maggard Su Meredith Nancy Reiff Audrey J. Renaud Brittany Smith Cathy Stewart Jeanne Stoddard Lindsay Winsor

Emily Canwell Lynda Cheney Karyl Dennis Annie Charnley Eveland Gwyn Frasco Maria Garcia Sherry Goff Susan Johnson Ginger Johnston Carolyn McAnlis Karen Peddicord Christy Petrie Brenda Ramirez Debra Rood Heather Schermann Jody Schneidmiller Ann Skoglund Elissa Stites Susan Tayson Shernie Wilkes

Austin Anderson Dick Bunnell Casey Cramer Deborah Ellis Mark Franklin Chuck Hindman Brenden Koch Terry Koch Vic Walker

Lee Canwell Paul Dennis Michael Ferrians Andrew Gallagher Jeremy Irland John Junke Leo Lapke Norman Skeels Dan Snider Harley Unruh Rich Young

WALLA WALLA CHORAL SOCIETY

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS Artistic Director/Conductor Dr. Christine Janis Accompanist Kristin Vining Librarian Terry Koch

OfficersPresident Andrew GallagherVice President Debra Rood Secretary Audrey Campbell Treasurer Nancy Reiff

Board MembersDeborah Ellis

Annie Charnley Eveland Susan Fleming • Cheryl Hair

John Junke • Heather Schermann Jody Schneidmiller • Jeanne Stoddard

Roydan Tomlinson • Rich Young

CONTRIBUTORSWe thank you for helping us make a positive sound in the community.

Platinum >$2500We welcome donations at this level

Gold $1000-$2499Blue Mtn. Community Foundation

George T. Welch TrustRich Young

Su Meredith, Michael Meredith and Steven Meredith

in memory of Robert MeredithSilver $500-$999

We welcome donations at this levelBronze $250-499

We welcome donations at this levelFriend of the Choral Society

<$249 Adult Day Care Center Program,

Senior Citizens Center Banner Bank Dick Bunnell

Audrey & Roy Campbell Lynda & Doug Cheney

Liz Conover Norma Ernest

Michael Ferrians Andrew Gallagher Lois & Rod Hahn

Cheryl & Fred Hair

If you’d like to make a tax-deductible charitable donation to the Choral Society, you may send it to PO Box 2367, Walla Walla, WA 99362.

(Friends cont.)Susan & Jim Johnson

John Junke Linda Pearson

Karen & Thomas Peddicord Nancy & Steve Reiff

Jody & Paul Schneidmiller Vic Walker

SamWells — Edward Jones Shernie Wilkes Lindsay Winsor

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