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Sunday, October 23, 2016, 3 p.m.The Church of the Holy Trinity, 1904 Walnut Street , Philadelphia, PA

Works of Love, Hope & Peace

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Singing CityJeffrey Brillhart, Artistic & Music Director

presents

Works of Love, Hope & Peacewith

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture Hanna Khoury and Hafez Kotain

Parker Kitterman, PianistThe Singing City Children’s Choir, Emily Sung, Director

Sunday, October 23, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

The Church of the Holy Trinity1904 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Cover: Anne Hess, soprano. Photo by Nick Antony

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“This will be our reply to violence. To make music more intensely, more beautifully and more devotedly than ever before.” -Leonard Bernstein, after President Kennedy was shot in 1963

GATHERING TOGETHER

“Let us build a house where love can dwelland all can safely live,

a place where saints and children tellhow hearts learn to forgive.”

–Marty Haugen

How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)Singing City Choir

How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!For my soul, it longeth, yea fainteth,For the courts of the Lord.My soul and body crieth out, yea for the living God.How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!Blest are they that dwell within thy house,They praise thy name evermore.How lovely is thy dwelling place!

Hine Ma Tov Allan E. Naplan (b. 1972)Singing City Children’s Choir

Hineh ma tov uma na’imShevet achim gam yachad.

Longa Farahfaza Riyad al-SunbatiAl-Bustan

Let Everything That Hath Breath Jeffery L. Ames (b. 1969)

Singing City Choir; Kerri Williams, mezzo-soprano

Sing unto the Lord a new song.Sing unto the Lord all the earth.

How good and pleasant it isFor brothers and sisters to sit together.

During the concert, please feel free to tell everyone that you are present with us through Twitter and Facebook (#portalsofhope#Singing City). All we ask is that your phone

is in silent mode! Photos during the first ten minutes of the concert are also welcome (no flash, please).

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Declare His glory among the nations.Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord!Magnify the Lord with me and exalt His name togetherHallelujah, bless His name for He is worthy to be praised.Clap your hands all ye people. Shout with the voice of triumph!For the Mighty Lord is great and greatly to be praised.Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord!Come on and praise the Lord. Let’s all praise His name.Give him the highest praise. Praise Him, the LordPraise Him with the timbrel, praise him with the dance.Stand up on your feet and just lift up holy hands.Sing “Hallelujah,” praise His holy name.For the Lord is worthy to be praised! Lets praise the Lord.Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.You oughta Praise Him!

TALES OF LOVE

“We sing a love that sets all people free,That blows like wind; that burns like scorching flame,

Enfolds like earth, springs up like water clear.Come living love, live in our hearts today.”

–Herbert O’Driscoll

Prayer of the Children Kurt Bestor (b. 1958)Singing City Choir

Can you hear the pray’r of the childrenon bended knee, in the shadow of an unknown room?Empty eyes with no more tears to cry,turning heavenward toward the light.

Cryin’ who will help meTo see the mornin’ light of one more day,but if I should die before I wake,I pray my soul to take.

Can you feel the hearts of the childrenaching for home, for something of their very own?Reaching hands with nothing to hold on to,but hope for a better day, a better day.

Cryin’ who will help meto feel the love again in my own land,

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but if unknown roads lead away from home,give me loving arms, ‘way from harm.Can you hear the voice of the childrensoftly pleading for silence in their shattered world?Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate,blood of the innocent on their hands.

Cryin’ who will help meto feel the sun again upon my face?For when darkness clears, I know you’re near,bringing peace again.

Dali čŭjete sve dječje molitve?*Can you hear the pray’r of the children?

* (Croatian translation: ‘Can you hear all the children’s prayers?’)

Sama’i Hijaz Garip Goksel BaktagiAl-Bustan

Like a Child Loretta Ellenberger (1935-2013) arr. Rupert Lang

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Like a child that is quieted is my soul,Like a child that is quieted is my soul.

Out of the depths I cry to thee,Oh you hear my pleaAnd like a child that is quieted is my soul.Like a child I am O so restless. Like a child I cannot be still and knowthat you are keeper of us all.And you are there when I call,Just like a child that is quieted is my soul.

As the Full Moon, the Messenger arr. John Conahan (b. 1974)World Premiere

Tala’al-Badru ‘alayna, min thaniyyatil-Wada’ wajaba al-shukru ‘alayna, ma da’a lillahi da’

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O the White Moon rose over us From the Valley of Wada’ And we owe it to show gratefulness Where the call is to Allah Ayyuha al-mab’uthu fina ji’ta bi-al-amri al-muta’ Ji’ta sharrafta al-Madinah marhaban ya khayra da’ O you who were raised amongst us coming with a work to be obeyed You have brought to this city nobleness Welcome! best call to God’s way Tala’al-Badru ‘alayna, min thaniyyatil-Wada’ wajaba al-shukru ‘alayna, ma da’a lillahi da’

WE SING OF HOPE

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—

And sings the tune without the words—And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—

And sore must be the storm—That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm—

I’ve heard it in the chillest land—And on the strangest Sea—

Yet, never, in Extremity,It asked a crumb—of Me.”

–Emily Dickinson

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

He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,

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even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Alleluia. Amen

A Portal of Hope Joan Szymko (b. 1957)

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? Why do you stay in prison when the door is open wide? Come, come, whoever you are: Wanderer, wonderer, worshipper, infidel, come! Come, even if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times— Come. Come again. Open your hands, if you want to be held. Open your heart, light the fire within. Open your soul if you want to be filled. Ours is a portal of hope,Come as you are.

-attributed to Rumi (1207-1273)

Amazing Grace Traditional Audience & Choirs

1) Soloist (Cody Müller): Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like meI once was lost, but now am found Was blind, but now I see. 2) ALL: ‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved;How precious did that grace appearThe hour I first believed!

3) ALL IN CANON: RIGHT SIDE BEGINS: Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come;‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

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4) ALL: When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun,We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise, Than when we first begun.

-PAUSE- 10 MINUTES

WE LONG FOR PEACE

“When despair grows in meand I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting for their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” –Wendell Berry

Vocalise Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

Read by Peggy Curchack

A free bird leapson the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.

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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breezeand the trade winds soft through the sighing treesand the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawnand he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Ffe Mwe, Mwe Ffe Joan SzymkoSinging City Choir; Cody Müller, bass

(Text sources; Bantu adages, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Joan Szymko)

Ffe mwe, mwe ffegwanga mujjeBe the change you wish to see.You can start by looking at meand knowing that I am youand you are me. Ffe mwe, mwe ffegwanga mujjeWe are them and they are we.I am them and they are me.We belong to each other.*

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Ffe mwe, mwe ffegwanga mujje

* Mother Teresa quote in its entirety: “If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, Traditional arr. Moses Hogan (1957-2003)

Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Then why not every man?Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel,Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,And why not a every man?Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel,Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,And why not a every man?

He deliver’d Daniel from the lion’s den,Jonah from the belly of the whale,And the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace,And why not every man?Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel,Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,And why not a every man?

The wind blows east and the wind blows west,It blows like the judgement day,And ev’ry poor soul that never did prayWill be glad to pray that day.Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel,Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,And why not a every man?

I set my foot on the Gospel ship,And the ship, it begin to sail,It landed me over on Canaan’s shore,And I’ll never come anymore.Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel,Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,And why not a every man?

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Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel,Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel,From the lion’s den,And Jonah from the belly of the whale,And the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace,

Oh yes, He did.Tell me why not every man?

Shine On Me Rollo Dilworth (b. 1970)Singing City Children’s Choir

Shine on me, shine on meI wonder if the lighthouse will shine on meOh, shine on me, shine on meI wonder if the lighthouse will shine on me.

Is a light shinin’ above? Is it shinin’ above in the heavens for me?I’m wonderin’, wonderin’, wonderin’ if there’s a lightThat is shinin’ above in the heavens for me.

Walk Together, Children Traditional spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan

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Walk together children, Don’t you get weary. Walk on, my children, Don’t you get weary. There’s a great camp meetin’ in the promised lan’. Gonna walk an’ never tire, Gonna sing an’ never tire, Gonna shout an’ never tire, Great camp meetin’ in the promised lan’. Oh, walk together, children, Don’t you get weary. Sing on, my children, Don’t you get weary. Just-a shout together, children, Don’t you get weary. There’s a great camp meetin’ in the promised lan’.

Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu (Salaam) TraditionalAudience & Choirs

Od yavo’ shalom aleinuOd yavo’ shalom aleinuOd yavo’ shalom aleinuVe al kulam (x2)

Salaam (Salaam)Aleinu ve al kol ha olam,Salaam, Salaam (x2)

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Peace will come upon usPeace will come upon usPeace will come upon us

Verleih uns frieden (Grant Us Thy Peace) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)Singing City Choir; Audience joins in final verse

Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich,Herr Gott, zu unsern Zeiten.Es ist doch ja kein andrer nicht,der für uns könnte streiten,denn du, unser Gott, alleine.

English translationIn these our days so perilous,Lord, peace in mercy send us;No God but thee can fight for us,No God but thee defend us;Thou our only God and Saviour.

To My Old Brown Earth Pete Seeger (1919-2014)Singing City Choir

To my old brown earthAnd to my old blue skyI’ll now give these last few molecules of “I.”And you who sing,And you who stand nearby,I do charge you not to cry.Guard well our human chain,Watch well you keep it strong,As long as sun will shine.And this our home,Keep pure and sweet and green,For now I’m yoursAnd you are also mine

Please join us for some post-concert cheer in Centennial Hall.

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PROGRAM NOTES

Johannes Brahms’ How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place needs no introduction. One of the most iconic and beloved choral works of the 19th century, it falls in the center of Brahms’ German Requiem and prepares the setting for this concert: namely that, all religions include a sense of moving into a holy place, a dwelling place, a place of praise that yearns of hope, love, and peace.

The delightful Jewish folk song, Hine Ma Tov, presents a seemingly simple message: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all people could sit together in peace?

Longa Farahfaza, by Riyad al-Sunbati is a slow multi-sectional Turkish musical form, comprised of four short movements followed by a refrain, often utilized in classical Arab music.

American composer, Jeffery Ames continues this spirit of inclusivity with Let Everything That Hath Breath. This fabulous original composition in gospel and jazz style, profoundly implores everyone and everything to join together in praise.

Kurt Bestor’s Prayer of the Children has become one of the most recorded choral works of our time (over 100 at last count) and is heard often at special occasions, such as 9/11 remembrances, a yearly memorial services for Columbine High School Students and the Oklahoma bombing. Sadly, it immediately brings to mind the horrifying tragedy that continues to unfold in Syria.

Prior to the outbreak of war in the Balkans, Bestor lived in Sarajevo, falling in love with the local people while working with childre as a piano teacher. He wrote,

“Of course, I was always aware of the bigotry and ethnic differences that bubbled just below the surface, but I always hoped that the peace this rich country enjoyed would continue indefinitely. Obviously that didn’t happen. When Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito died, different political factions jockeyed for position and the inevitable happened - civil war. Suddenly my friends were pitted against each other. Serbian brother wouldn’t talk to Croatian sister-in-law. Bosnian mother disowned Serbian son-in-law and so it went. Meanwhile, all I could do was stay glued to the TV back in the US and sink deeper in a sense of hopelessness.


Finally, one night I began channeling these deep feelings into a wordless melody. Then little by little I added words....Can you hear....? Can you feel......? I started with these feelings - sensations that the children struggling to live in this difficult time might be feeling. Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian children all felt the same feelings of confusion and sadness and it was for them that I was writing this song.”

Prayer of the Children has a special place in Singing City’s heart. We sang this song throughout the Balkans during its 2014 tour, including a benefit concert we presented for an orphanage in Sarajevo. The song is both a cry for help and a yearning for the return of love in a broken land.

Sama’i Hijaz Garip, by Goksel Baktagir is a multisectional composition common in Arab and Turkish music, comprised of four short movements (each called khana) followed by a refrain (taslim). Like a Child was arranged by Canadian composer Rupert Lang, who was the founder of the Vancouver Children’s Choir. Set for children’s choir, accompanied up by adult choir, it uses the metaphor of a quiet child to describe the human soul.

As the Full Moon, the Messenger is an arrangement of a traditional Arabic song known as a nasheed. This was sung to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), upon his arrival at the city of Yathrib in Arabia, now known as Al-Madinah after completing the Hijra in 622 CE. The Hijra is the emigration of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his followers to the city of Medina in 622 CE, marking the first year of the Islamic calendar, 1 AH (anno Hegirae). The song is currently over 1400 years old, and one of the oldest in the Islamic culture.

Dr. Rollo A. Dilworth is Professor of Choral Music Education and Chair of the Music Education Department at Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, PA. He is an award-winning composer, conductor, and educator with vast expertise in African-Ameri-can music. In describing his arrangement of Shine on Me, he notes,

“Like many African-American spirituals, the melody is built on a pentatonic scale, and it utilizes a text that has multiple meanings. The original text of this spiritual can be found in the opening chorus:

Shine on me, Shine on me.I wonder if the lighthouse will shine on me.

“The second line of the text metaphorically represents a search for guidance and direction on both a physical and spiritual level. The additional text and melodies in this arrangement … create

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harmonic progressions consistent with the African-American singing tradition.”

Vocalise is the last of a set of fourteen songs that Sergei Rachminoff completed in 1914. Composed long before “atmospheric music” came into fashion, the work’s wordless and hypnotically beautiful musical lines capture the spirit of Ivanovka, the country estate where it was composed. Though not attached to any particular sentiment, we felt it to be a splendid accompaniment for Mayo Angelou’s magnificent poem of hope, “Caged Bird.”

Joan Szymko describes A Portal of Hope as a reflection about how spiritual loneliness may be met with the exuberant embrace of acceptance—and of “beginning again” on the path of spiritual enlightenment. This setting of texts adapted from Sufi poet, Rumi was commissioned by the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Portland, Oregon, a church that is renowned for its diverse and hospitable membership.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned Randall Thompson to write The Last Words of David in honor of conductor Serge Koussevitzky’s 25th anniversary as its Music Director. Thompson found the text while leafing through a Gideon Bible in a hotel room during his research travels for College Music. Dr. Koussevitzky conducted the Berkshire Music Center Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the premiere on August 12, 1949, at Lenox, Massachusetts. The work demonstrates Thompson’s lush, romantic style, the text supported by dynamics and glorious harmonies. Thompson takes a dramatic approach, with an emphatic first stanza, followed by joy and then calm.

Ffe Mwe Mwe Ffe is a Bantu phrase which means: they are us and we are them. In the composer’s words:

“In 2013 I led a drum circle at a Portland First Unitarian Church event where folks worked on making gifts for members of FUUC’s sister church program in Uganda. In preparation, I went looking for traditional Ugandan rhythms to introduce in the circle and came across this Bantu adage: ffe mwe, mwe ffe—‘they are us and we are them.’

Ffe Mwe Mwe Ffe begins with a simple unison call, the energy of community coming together for the common good grows with each interwoven and layered rhythm that enters; most important being the drum rhythm, gwanga mujje—‘come to my rescue.’ A soloist then introduces Mahatma Gandhi’s inspiring words, ‘be the change


you wish to see.’ The message of the work shines brightly: compassion begins when we see ourselves in each ‘other.’”

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel and Walk Together, Children are two of the most celebrated of the 70 settings of spirituals arranged by Moses Hogan, whose life mission was to revitalize the true African-American spirit of the genre. Hogan was an Oberlin and Julliard trained pianist. Yet, along with André Thomas, he wanted to bring the plantation song back from cheerful parlor tunefulness to the essence of its origins, a well-known spiritual that quotes the Old Testament and also refers to concepts of judgment day in the Book of Revelation.

Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu is a song of Mosh Ben Ari, composed while in the band Sheva (Seven) and is sung in Hebrew and Arabic. Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu means “Peace will come upon us, yet.” A large hit in Israel several years ago, it has now come to symbolize a call for peace and an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Verleih’ uns Frieden was composed, along with the Opus 23 Sacred Choruses, during the period following the composer’s first flush of public success with such undisputed masterpieces as the String Octet and the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Between May 1830 and October 1831 Mendelssohn undertook a grueling tour which included stops at Munich, Salzburg, Linz, Vienna, Pressburg, Graz, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Genoa, Milan and Geneva. By far the longest stay was in Rome, between 12 November 1830 and 10 April 1831, and it was there that he composed this prayer for peace, dated on the manuscript 10 February 1831. This soulful piece is a continuous, three-verse setting (the same text is heard three times) in four parts. Only the last verse utilizes the full harmonic possibilities of the choir, and does so with a warmth of expression that leaves one in no doubt that ultimate peace cannot be far away.

To my Old Brown Earth was composed by Pete Seeger in 1958 for the funeral of the editor of a radical newspaper. How fitting that a radical environmentalist and peace activist composed this song for that occasion. Seeger died at age 94, in January, 2014. One year later, celebrating what would have been Seeger’s 95th birthday, a grand concert took place in Minnesota’s Fitzgerald Theater. The producer of that concert, Larry Brown, wrote that,

“Pete Seeger was a giant of a man who walked humbly on this Earth. He changed the course of history by changing the lives of everyone he met. He inspired us all to be a little less selfish and

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ABOUT SINGING CITY

Singing City was founded as an integrated choir in 1948 in Philadelphia by Dr. Elaine Brown. The Choir was born out of the Fellowship House movement, and has been deeply engaged not only in creating a community of mind and purpose in Philadelphia, but also in other civil rights and social justice movements since the 1950s. For over half a century, Singing City has been Philadelphia’s premier avocational chorus, committed to bringing people of diverse races, creeds and backgrounds together under the common purpose of music making.

In addition to its deep commitment to inclusion and community building, Singing City has consistently achieved the highest levels of performance practice and artistry. The chorus has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic, and Israel Philharmonic, and has to its credit a number of critically acclaimed national and international concert tours and festival appearances. The 90-member strong chorus is led by Artistic & Music Director Jeffrey Brillhart and continues to fulfill its original mission, which today encompasses an educational program for youth, the Singing City Children’s Choir, and programs for under-served populations.

Through Performance, Arts Education, and Fellowship,

Singing City is a force for social impact, bringing people together

and lifting the human spirit through the artistry of choral music.

more courageous in our giving. He carried the memories of the people in the songs he wrote, the songs he sang, the stories he told and the decisions he made daily to stand for justice from wherever he stood. He cared deeply for his neighbors, and we cared for him, because the entire world was his neighborhood. His kitchen table was filled with letters that arrived daily from those who loved him. He would separate those letters in piles and meticulously go through each one with handwritten responses in the margins or on postcards with a sketch of a banjo next to his name.”

–Jeffery Brillhart


JEFFREY BRILLHART, Artistic & Music Director

Appointed in 1999, Jeffrey Brillhart directs the Singing City Choir and oversees all aspects of Singing City’s musical initiatives. He provides artistic leadership for a rich program of formal concerts, choral music education and performance as part of the Singing City Children’s Choir, and outreach concerts in diverse communities in and around

Philadelphia. Jeffrey is also Director of Music and Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr and is recognized as one of the foremost musicians working in the Presbyterian Church. He has won national recognition for his abilities in organ improvisation, organ per-formance, and conducting. Mr. Brillhart’s formal training was at Drake University, where he received his Bachelor of Church Music degree in 1977, and at the Eastman School of Music, where he received a Master of Performance and Literature Degree in 1979 and studied piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, and conducting.

In addition to his position as Director of the Fine Arts Program at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, where he works with over 600 youth and adults, Jeffrey supervises nine choral and handbell ensembles, an art program and youth chorale. He directs the 120-voice Senior Choir which sings for two services each week and prepares several special performances each season. Mr. Brillhart also directs the Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers, a 24-voice ensemble specializing in baroque and 20th century music. His church ensembles have performed for national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the American Choral Directors Association. Mr. Brillhart has presented master classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Iowa, Drake University, and the Eastman School of Music. He served as chorus master for The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Martin Luther King Tribute Concert in January 2004. In January 2005, he joined the music faculty of Yale Univer-sity to teach organ improvisation. He is the author of “Breaking Free,” an improvisation textbook, that is in wide use throughout the United States and Europe.

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PARKER KITTERMAN, Accompanist

Parker Kitterman is Director of Music and Organist at historic Christ Church, Philadelphia. He directs the Christ Church Choir and Children’s Choir in weekly choral services and monthly Even-song services, among other re-sponsibilities. A graduate of Duke University and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, he also studied organ at the Brussels Royal Conservatory on a Fulbright Grant. Parker was a finalist in international organ competitions in Tokyo and Toulouse, and remains active as a soloist, accompanist, conductor, teacher, clinician, and composer of choral and congregational music. His compositions and arrangements can be heard on a weekly basis at Christ Church.

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Lauren AndersonSoryl AngelBrian AuerbachKatie AumentAminda BairdElise BjordammenJason BlacketerPeter BoyerWendy BrowderGloria Ruszkiewicz BrownLuke BrownSara Harris BrownTheresa CarterEmily CathcartElizabeth ChildsDeb ClarkeSteve CrandallPeggy CurchackElaine Del VecchioTony Del VecchioKelly DolanSusan DomingosDana Fiero

Martha Fried-CassorlaJennifer GottschalkMarlene GrahamAnne HessMichael HogueMark HollernRebecca HorowitzClaire HuffAdam JohnsonBeth JohnsonMarianne KerrRobert KidderRachel KleinmanFrancine LevinWilliam Lim, Jr.Kristen MaguireRobert MannJoyce MarshallCortlandt MatthewsBarbara MilesCody MüllerKim MurphyRob Mygatt

Rhiannon NoltRosalyn OminskySterling RandolphLaura RandolphJennifer RileyJacy RingMark RitterGili Ronen Mindy RubinlichtM’Annette RuddellKen SchoenholzMatt SiverdRichard SobelBetty StockwellRobert ThuenerJeffery ThyerDanielle TraitzBill Van StoneAmberly WilliamsKerri WilliamsBarbara WilligLaVerne WoodWilliam Young


SINGING CITY CHILDREN’S CHOIREMILY SUNG, Director

Emily Sung is thrilled to begin her inaugural year as the director of the Singing City Children’s Choir. Sung has worked for and sung with several Philadelphia choirs, including the Mendelssohn Club, the Philadelphia Voices of Pride, the Chestnut Street Singers, and the choirs of Christ Church Philadelphia. She currently serves as the Assistant Chorus Master at Opera Philadelphia and teaches on the conducting faculty at Temple University.

A native of New Jersey, Sung earned her MM in choral conducting at Westminster Choir College and her AB in history at Princeton University. She has been a conducting fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Illinois Choral Conducting Symposium, and the Conductors Institute of Bard College. Her teachers include conductors Gabriel Crouch, James Jordan, Joe Miller, Amanda Quist, Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, Paul Rardin, Harold Farber-man, and Mark Shapiro, as well as Philadelphia-based pianist Sandrine Erdely-Sayo and composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle. A versatile teacher and musician, Sung believes deeply that music and the arts bring incredible vibrancy into children’s lives, greatly enrich their education and learning potential, and are a vital force for building community.

The Singing City Children’s Choir (SCCC), is a choral music education and performance program open to children at the James Rhoads Elementary School in West Philadelphia and, beginning this fall, the Wissahickon Charter School in Germantown. Music from all styles and periods form the foundation for musical learning and serve as the basis for the curriculum. Concepts about music (melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre, dynamics, form, style and performance practice) and musical skills (singing, theory, sight reading, etc.) are taught throughout the rehearsals through singing, listening and analysis. Singing skill and musical understanding are essential components of the creative process and a fundamental resource basic to music education. The children perform throughout the year in concert with Singing City’s adult choir, on their own, and in collaboration with other arts organizations.

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Abdullah Abdul Kareem Idris Noah Abdul Kareem Idris Matisyn Allen Janeyah Broqn-JonesJaniyah Brown-Jones Shame Cameron Sapphyre Clinton Sanea Cox India DeanesBrianna DicaroNashay Dickerson Alicia DoeShawn FryeNayyirrah Gonzales Iquilla HairstonKristin Hayde

James Rhoads Elementary School

Isaiah James-Cheatham Aaron Johns Jamal King Lauren McGarrell Shavon McGarrell Khayla Miller Nikiese Nelson Larry Phillips Trinity ShawZhamir Stratton Simir Stubbs Gerald Todd Shikarah ToddShanae WeatherbeShayne Williams

Awbury Wissahickon

2ndSimone Monras-PickardJenesis PattersonBrynn DavenportCamilla CreamerJuniper ReggianiPatrice ThomasLaila TriumphChloe LewisSasha Shimoyama

3rdKrisslyn Nellons

4thDemyia BooneJazmine OsbourneRiese HighesViyanah HarriganAma Dicastanado

5thLaayla SmithMirrah MorrisKaila LeeJazelle MinorAdannyah Dicastanado


JOHN CONAHAN

John Conahan is a composer, conductor, performer, and educator. As a composer, John’s choral and orchestral works have received much acclaim and are performed frequently all over the world. His works have been premiered by Donald Nally & The Crossing, Lorin Maazel, Marin Alsop, Denyce Graves, Deborah Voigt, and Sir James Galway—at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kimmel Center, and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

John is a frequently featured Guest Conductor and visiting clinician for a number of ensembles, including State Music Education Festivals, Choral Unions, and numerous academic institutions. In addition to his life as a composer and conductor, John is an active performer and recording artist, maintaining a number of albums as a singer/songwriter, as well as with an experimental improvisation trio, and as a solo pianist focusing on his spontaneous piano works. His recordings are featured both on television and in film.

John attended Ithaca College, the Manhattan School of Music, the University of the Arts, and the Juilliard School. You can find out more about John Conahan online at www.johnconahan.com.

AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture is dedicated to presenting and teaching Arab culture through the arts and language.“Al-Bustan,” Arabic for “The Garden,” offers structuredexposure to the language, art, music, dance, literature, and natural environment of the Arab world. Al-Bustan promotes cross-cultural understanding among youth and adults of all ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds through artistic and educational programs. Al-Bustan supports the pursuit and affirmation of Arab American cultural identity, while playing a constructive civic role within broader American society.

HANNA KHOURY

Hanna Khoury is Director of Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture’s Music Program since 2010. He is a recipient of the 2010 Pew Fellowship in the

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Arts for his exemplary talent in Arab music. A Palestinian violinist trained in the classical traditions of Arab and Western music, Khoury recorded two music albums with the Arabesque Music Ensemble: Al-Fursan Al-Talatha and The Songs of Sheikh Sayyed Darweesh: Soul of People. Prior to joining Al-Bustan, he collaborated and performed with major artists including Lebanese superstar Fairuz, Iraqi singer Kazem Al-Saher, Grammy winner Youssou

N’Dour, Algerian singer Cheb Khaled, and Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin. Khoury can be heard on several pop songs, including the Grammy nominated song Beautiful Liar (Beyoncé and Shakira) and Love and Compassion (Paula Cole and Kazem Al Saher). He recorded strings for Shakira’s Grammy performance of Hips Don’t Lie. Khoury graduated Magna Cum Laude with departmental honors from UCLA with a Bachelors in Economics and Music Performance, and obtained his Masters degree in Music from Temple University. Khoury is currently a PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Music.

HAFEZ KOTAIN

Hafez Kotain is Percussion Director with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture. Fluent in both Arab and Latin rhythms—a fluency he honed in his native countries of Syria and Venezuela, he received the prestigious 2013 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He began studying the doumbek in Syria at the age of seven, first performed on stage at age nine, and went on to study with master Syrian percussionist Hady Jazan, winning the national percussion competitions in Syria for five consecutive years. In Venezuela he studied percussion at the TMV Institute for Music in Valencia. Kotain performed with Marcel Khalife and Al-Mayadine Ensemble in their US and Canada tour for Fall of the Moon: An Homage to the Poet Mahmoud Darwish. He also toured with Syrian singer George Wassouf in Canada and the US, and performed in Philadelphia with acclaimed artist Sting and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Throughout the year, Kotain teaches with Al-Bustan in schools and at University of Pennsylvania.


The Singing City Board of Directors

cordially invites you to join them for

Make A Joyful NoiseSaturday, November 12, 2016, 4-7 p.m.

Silent and Live Auction to Benefit Singing CityWine and Hors d’oeuvres

Live Music

George McNeely, auctioneer

The Cira Centre, 12th floor2929 Arch Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

R.S.V.P. by November 9, 2016

Purchase tickets online at singingcity.org

Family Band by Jon Serl (1894-1993) The Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, 1950s-1980s

The Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Staff

Jeffrey Brillhart, Artistic and Music DirectorLauren Anderson, Executive Director

Emily Sung, Director, Singing City Children’s ChoirCortlandt Matthews, Choir Administrator and Office Manager

Parker Kitterman, Accompanist

Special Thanks

Friends of Singing CitySinging City Children’s Choir Volunteers Peggy Gregg,

Nancy Fairman, Eve Bogle, Walter Johnson, Jane Murphy, David Scott, Jehlani Lee, and Stacy Triumph

The Church of the Holy TrinityProgram Advertisers

Ushers, Box Office Volunteers, and Riser CrewTo everyone who provided food and drink and helped with

this afternoon’s post-concert reception.

Foundation & Government Support

Archie W. and Grace Berry Foundation The Connelly Foundation

Samuel S. Fels Fund Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

John K. and Elizabeth W. Knorr Foundation The Philadelphia Cultural Fund

The Philadelphia Foundation The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

The Presser Foundation

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Diane Mallery PresidentBrian Auerbach, Vice-President Jane Gardner, TreasurerPeggy Curchack, SecretaryPeter J. BoyerWendy BrowderPeggy C. Gregg, ex-officioJackie LesserJane MurphyBarbara Rittenhouse

Advisory Board Anton E. ArmstrongJack AsherJeffrey CorneliusJoseph FlummerfeltDeVonne Gardner Elizabeth L. HaslamRobert H. HolmesScott JenkinsWalter JohnsonMary Tryon LedwithClaire McKinleyWeston Noble Helmuth RillingSandra StoufferAndre J. ThomasRadclyffe Thompson

Season Subscribers

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Affleck, Jr.Lauren AndersonBrian and Sarach AuerbachPeter J. BoyerJeffrey BrillhartWendy BrowderJessica BrownDeb Clarke and Cheryl BruttomessoPeggy and Mark CurchackDoug and Deb FaulknerJane GardnerHelen GilmoreRon and Peggy GreggMargeurite HarrisElizabeth HaslamRichard and Ruth HorowitzWarren E. and Claire HuffBeth JohnsonBob and Louise KidderLinda LitwinJim and Clare MackieJanet M. MaguireBarbara A. MaxwellKim and Jane MurphyBarbara RittenhouseDavid SachsElaine B. ShafferBill and Betty StockwellGeraldine Woodroffe

Singing City PartnersFounder’s Circle

The Baldwin SchoolFirst Trust BankThe Glaucoma Foundation to Prevent Blindness

Choral PatronsPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society

To learn more about our Partner Program, visit our website:www.singingcity.org

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$5,000 and aboveAnonymousMark and Peggy CurchackRajeev Sachdeva

$1,000-$4,999Robert J. AligLauren AndersonPeter J. BoyerBryn Mawr Presbyterian ChurchRobert KidderMary Tryon LedwithJonathan E. LehmanDiane MalleryCharles (Kim) and Jane Murphy

$500 to $999Jeffrey BrillhartWendy BrowderJeffrey CorneliusSusan DomingosRoy and Nancy FairmanKevin and Sarah FoxNancy R. FrandsenJane GardnerSue Anne GrierElizabeth HaslamHerbert and Margaret HeinemanRobert H. HolmesC. Stewart PatrickMark RaderDavid L. RawleBarbara RittenhouseRichard and Rachel SobelBill and Betty Stockwell

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SINGING CITY FRIENDS DRIVE 2015-16

Thank you to the following individuals who made a gift during the last fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2016. Annual contributions to Singing City are of crucial importance because they support the operating budget of the Choir. Annual

Friends Drive gifts are spent throughout the year on operating needs such as our formal concert series, community concerts at care facilities and retirement homes, the SC

Children’s Choir, and to support our small but dedicated staff.


The Legacy Fund

We would like to recognize the following supporters who have included Singing City in their wills or estate plans. A bequest or deferred gift to Singing City supports the Choir’s endowment which helps sustain the choir’s work for decades to come.

We hope that you will consider including Singing City in your estate plans. To learn more, please contact Executive Director Lauren Anderson at 267-519-5321 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Up to $100Ellen G. AndersonSoryl AngelAnton E. ArmstrongElaine W. BaerElise BjordammenElizabeth BlockKathleen BradySara Harris BrownJohn C. ConnellSteve CrandallDave and Cyndi DetwilerFrank and Janet DomingosDana FieroJayne L. FieroDaniel and Debbie FleishmanMartha Fried-CassorlaCarol Frieder

Every effort has been made to assure the accuracy of these lists. Please contact us with any omissions or errors. Thank you.

Patricia Goldentyer, Ph.D.Jennifer GottschalkGene and Marge HamiltonMark HollernIvan and Bev KazzeRobert and Susan KettellDierdre KonarBeth and Bob KrickDolly KuykendallCarolyn LeitchDr. Bruce and Francine LevinRenee LisgarisPeggy and Rob MacGregorKristin Elise MaguireDorothy Marshall

Maria and Brian McBrideJanet McCarterJohn McNicholKarl MillerRuth Miller CoxRobert MygattRhiannon NoltRosalyn OminskyLaura RandolphGili RonenRobin RoseckyJohn RossheimFrancis B. RubinsohnMatt SiverdNeville E. StrumpfRobert ThuenerJeann TroySallie Van MerkensteijnAlan T. Willoughby

Rosalyn OminskyBarbara RittenhouseM’Annette RuddellMary Ann SullivanJean S. WeissJohn H. Wood

Douglas & Deborah FaulknerJulie FriedmanSue Anne GrierElizabeth L. HaslamCarolyn LoweryJudith R. Neilson

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SINGING CITY 2016-2017 Concert Season

Jeffrey Brillhart, Artistic & Music Director

Fall Concert—Works of Love, Hope & PeaceSunday, October 23, 2016, 3 p.m.The Church of the Holy Trinity, 1904 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA With Al-Bustan Seeds of CultureFeaturing the world premiere of Tala’ al-Badru ‘Alayna by John Conahan and works by Johannes Brahms, Randall Thompson, Moses Hogan, Felix Mendelssohn, Joan Szymko, Sergei Rachmaninov, Pete Seeger, and audience singing. Post-concert reception.

Holiday Concert—Joys of the SeasonSunday, December 18, 2016, 4:00 p.m.The Church of the Holy Trinity, 1904 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PAWith Guitarist Allen KrantzFeaturing works by Ola Gjello, Eric Whitacre, Francis Poulenc, Alf Houkoum, Giuseppe Verdi, Moses Hogan, Matthew Culloten and more. Post-concert reception.

Winter Concert—Music in the White HouseCollaboration between Singing City and Lyric FestSaturday, January 28, 2017, 7:30 p.m.St. David’s Episcopal Church, 763 Valley Forge Rd, Wayne, PA &Sunday, January 29, 2016, 3 p.m.The Church of the Holy Trinity, 1904 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PAThis entertaining and historical concert is a timely retrospective on the American Presidency and the role that music has played in shaping the American spirit. Featuring music performed in the White House from the early 1800s to the present and narration of presidential history. Singing City with Suzanne DuPlantis, Stephen LaBrie, Latonia Moore, Laura Ward, piano; and Charlotte Blake Alston, Narrator. Post-concert reception.

Spring Concert with Anton Armstrong & André ThomasSunday, May 21, 2017, 3 p.m.Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA The Chamber Orchestra of PhiladelphiaSinging City and the Singing City Children’s ChoirThe Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir and BMPC Youth Choirs

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