Chancellor`s Arts Showcase program - School of Music

Thank You
University Concert Series presents
A collaborative event of this magnitude does not get done without a lot of cooperation and teamwork. In addition to the
100 students involved, we thank the following faculty and staff members for their contribution to this evening’s performances as well.
College of Arts and Science
Melody Galen
Jordan Yount
Carla Schlink
Department of Art
Josephine Stealey, Chair
Alexis Callender
School of Music
Julia Gaines, Director
Paul Crabb
Tina Price
Abby Rehard
Christine Seitz
Arthur White
Department of Theatre
Heather Carver, Chair
Dory Colbert
University Concert Series/
Event Production Services
John Murray
Madeline Stanley
Karlan Seville
Department of Theatre
Production Staff:
Producer: Cat Gleason
Assistant Producer: Hannah
Atencio
Director of Production:
Brad M. Carlson
Lighting Designer:
David Schneider
Costume Coordinator:
Caitlin Allen
Costume Director:
Kerri S. Packard
Acting coaches/directors:
Cheryl Black,
Suzanne Burgoyne,
Kevin Brown, Cat Gleason,
Chris Oliver and Jennie Pardoe
“Spirited Wenches”
Our hosts and docents
for the evening
Asher Alt
Hannah Atencio
Leslie Howard
Sara Nolan
Clare Stribling
Sinquefield Prize in Composition and the Mizzou New Music Initiative
The University of Missouri School of Music annually awards the Sinquefield Prize, part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative,
to its top student composer. The competition is open to all student composers, undergraduate or graduate, at the University
of Missouri. The competition process includes submission of a completed musical work, which is then judged by a panel of
professional composers from outside the University. The winner is then expected to compose a new work for one of the School
of Music’s large ensembles, which is given its world premiere at the annual Chancellor’s Arts Showcase. The Prize includes a
scholarship to the University of Missouri, a cash prize for the production of score and parts, and the opportunity to record the
winning composition after the concert. Past winners of the Sinquefield Prize include Patrick Dell (2006), Katie Andres (2007),
Mark Woodward (2008), Stephanie Berg (2009), Michael Strausbaugh (2010), Patrick David Clark (2011), Michael Anderson
(2012), David Witter (2013), José Martínez (2014), and Trey Makler (2015).
The Mizzou New Music Initiative brings together a diverse array of programs intended to position the University of Missouri
School of Music as a leading center in the areas of composition and new music. The Initiative is the direct result of the generous support of Dr. Jeanne and Mr. Rex Sinquefield, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The Sinquefields’ vision is to
create an incubator for the composition and performance of new music, and to position Missouri as a major center for the
music of tomorrow. The Initiative includes full-tuition scholarships for undergraduate composers; graduate assistantships for a
six-member New Music Ensemble; the Mizzou International Composers Festival, launched in July 2010 in partnership with the
twenty-member New York-based new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound; and the Creating Original Music Project (COMP),
established in 2006. COMP includes a competition for K-12 composers throughout Missouri and a unique summer camp for
high school composers. The 2008 camp was chronicled in the award-winning documentary film, Genius Among Us.
Chancellor’s
Arts Showcase
APRIL 11, 2016 | 7:30 PM
MISSOURI THEATRE
Celebrating
Shakespeare
in the Arts
Chancellor’s Arts Showcase: Celebrating Shakespeare in the Arts
April 11, 2016 • 7:30 PM • Missouri Theatre
Upcoming Events
Department of Art
School of Music
Tonight’s event is the second time we’ve
collaborated as fine arts departments to present
the Chancellor’s Arts Showcase. Last year’s
theme of Thomas Jefferson for the initial
collaboration was an obvious choice with
the event falling on his birthday. This year’s
theme again was not difficult to select as many
people this month are acknowledging the 400th
anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. While
the performance of his works primarily fall to the theatrical arts,
much music has been influenced by his writings as well. We offer
examples tonight of such music, both fine art and jazz, that have been
inspired by Shakespeare’s words.
The School of Music is always eager to share new music with our
audiences and is excited to be offering something new again this
evening. Henry Stewart, a graduate student in composition, is
this year’s Sinquefield Prize winner and has written a piece for
the University Singers using a sonnet by Shakespeare. Instead
of describing the piece myself, I invite you to read the program
notes by the composer as he talks you through his thought process
and influences. The Sinquefield Prize is one of the programs we
facilitate through the Mizzou New Music Initiative as a result of the
generous contributions from our long-time donors, Rex and Jeanne
Sinquefield. We hope you enjoy tonight’s world premiere.
Julia Gaines, Director
Department of Theatre
The Department of Theatre has the unique
distinction of being named one of the most
prolific programs in the country for theatre
research as well as one of only a few departments
that offer the BA, MA, and PhD. We continue
to foster creativity, enlightenment, and
academic investigation as we explore the endless
possibilities of theatre and performance. Since Professor Donovan
Rhynsburger joined the MU faculty in 1925, this department has
been committed to artistic innovation by presenting six to eight
productions each year.
We are excited to join the celebration of 400 years of performing
William Shakespeare’s plays on stages across the globe. Tonight’s
monologues and scenes produced by Dr. Cat Gleason are what some
might call Shakespeare’s “greatest hits” from an incredibly extensive
number of plays written by the Bard. Although some scholars debate
about whether each play attributed to Shakespeare was actually
penned by him, there is no doubt that the plays have lived on in
dramatic history. Every day we see the truth in Shakespeare’s famous
line that “all the world’s a stage,” and we are proud to join the School
of Music and the Art Department to bring MU audiences an evening
featuring this important classical work. The Department of Theatre
continues to engage in Shakespeare’s legacy as we open a full production
of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Dr. Cheryl Black on our
Rhynsburger stage April 27-May 1. We hope that you will join us!
Founded in 1877, the Department of Art is
home to the George Caleb Bingham Gallery
which features works by faculty and students
several times each year. Instruction is included
in drawing, painting, printmaking photography,
graphic design, ceramics, fibers, sculpture, and
new media.
The Department of Art is pleased to collaborate
with our sister programs at MU to present this evening of art, music,
and theatre. We look forward with anticipation each year to this
memorable event and the unique contribution each of the arts make
to the annual theme. The visual arts interpret history in a variety
of ways. This year, inspired by the Shakespearian theme selected
for the Chancellor’s Arts Showcase, Drawing II students, created
an installation entitled Vessels, which consist of several large-scale
drawings, suspended and projected into the ornate architecture of
the Missouri Theater. Inspired by Shakespearean and Elizabethan
costume, the drawing students researched archival material to
understand how thespians developed and wore their costumes. The
costumes of Shakespeare’s plays act as a kind of architecture to the
body of the actors, but also an architecture or vessel that holds the
lineage of his plays that have been performed again and again the
world over, reimagined and reinterpreted over time. The student’s
charcoal drawings and ghostly projections recount a history and
presence of this tradition, and of the performance of costume in our
imaginations. We hope you enjoy the inventive interpretation the art
students have developed.
School of Music
The Choral Union and University Singers
and Columbia Civic Orchestra
present
Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky
Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev
Featuring Jane Bunnell, Mezzo-Soprano
Conducted by R. Paul Crabb
Jenna Braaksma, accompanist
April 21, 2016 • 7:00 p.m. • Jesse Auditorium
Department of Theatre
Jo Stealey, Chair
Department of Art - Participating student artists and project
description:
Inspired by Shakespearean and Elizabethan costume, Drawing
II students from the MU Art Department, created Vessels. This
installation consists of several large-scale drawings, which are
suspended and projected into the architecture of the Missouri
Theater. Shannon Cahill, Coleman Hunter, Jordan Finney, Barbara
Kern, Madison Love and Julia May with assistance from Professor
Alexis Callender designed and executed this contemporary
interpretation of the Shakespearian era. Special thanks to Professor
Travis Shaffer and his Photo I students, who collaborated on this
project, selecting and digitally preparing dynamic costume images to
be used as drawing material.
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
directed by Dr. Cheryl Black
adapted by Patricia Downey and Cheryl Black
April 27 - May 1, Rhynsburger Theater
7:30 pm: April 27 - 30
2:00 pm: May 1
Department of Art
Mizzou Botanic Garden sponsored the floral displays in the Missouri Theatre this evening. We would like to thank student designers
from the Mizzou Student Chapter of the American Institute of Floral
Designers as well as the Columbia Area Career Center floral design
students, under the direction of Sherie Rodekohr, for Contributing.
April 12-14 • AGAS Presents: Kim Winkle
Winkle, interim director of the Appalachian Center of Craft will be offering
Professional Development Advice & strategies. Presented by AGAS & ORG.
Heather Carver, Chair
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FRIENDS OF MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
Includes annual gifts of $500 or more to the Friends of Music scholarship or endowment funds
Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Allendorf
Drs. Ginny and Terry Barnes
Dr. and Mrs. David Bedan
Dr. Janice Wenger and Mr. Lynn Behrns
Ms. Linda Butterfield Cupp and Dr. William
B. Bondeson
Dr. and Mrs. Winfield J. Burggraaff
Dr. and Mrs. Ron Carter
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Coe, Jr.
Frank and Carla Conley
Mr. Gary and Mrs. June De Weese
Drs. Brady and Anne Deaton
Dr. David A. Fleming and Dr. Karen E.
Edison
Dr. and Mrs. James W. Elliott
Ms. Norma J. Fair
Mrs. Joan Firley
Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gaines
Dr. and Mrs. Barry Gainor
Mrs. Janice Gaston
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Gordon
Dr. Janet and Mr. Philip Harrison
Mr. Stephen H. Hasselriis
Dr. Margaret Henrichs
Mr. Darrell Hendon
Ms. Jacquelyn K. Jones
Mrs. Grayson Neate Kabler
Jerry and Michele Kennett
Professors Ann Harrell and John Lande
Mrs. Patricia Lawnick-Ritchie
Miss Linda K. Lyle
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Ms. Tracey Mershon
Dr. Roland P. Meyer
Dr. and Mrs. William H. Miller
Mrs. L. G. Morehouse
Dr. and Mrs. Thor Norregaard
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Norton
Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Ross, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Sanders
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schulz
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steele
Dr. and Mrs. Truman Storvick
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Summers
Mr. Gary A. Tatlow
Mrs. Sue Troutner
Dr. Mark and Mrs. Carol Virkler
Mr. Jim Weaver
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Zahn
Ms. Lois K. Zitzmann
Introduction
Dean Michael J. O’Brien
Jean Tartiere as “Christopher Marlowe”
Master of Ceremonies
The Bard’s Greatest Hits: Shakespearean scenes and monologues
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 1
Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
Romeo - Alex Givens
Tybalt - Michael Bayler
Lady Macbeth – Lynett Vallejo
The young men of the two waring houses have met in the street.
Tybalt of the house of Capulet is looking for a fight with Romeo.
Romeo does not want to fight because he has just married Tybalt’s
cousin, Juliet.
Henry V, Prologue
Dr. Charles W. and Mrs. Irene O. Alexander
Mrs. Lynne Greene
Mr. Erwin R. Sackin
Mellodie Wilson and William Allen
Oline Cogdill and Bill Hirschman
Mr. Joaquin M. Sampson
Professor Jerry and Mrs. Joanne Berneche
Mr. Stanislav Kolenikov
Earl Edward See, Ph.D.
Kara Le Fevre Braudis and Scott Braudis
Dr. Aarom and Ms. Natalie Kravitz
Mr. Robert and Mrs. Barbara Smith
Chris and Mike Buehler
Reverend Susan Langhauser
Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Jan Summers
Mr. Wayne M. Buehler
Dr. Michael L. and Mrs. Judith LeFevre
Gary Tatlow
Delores and William Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O’Rourke, Jr. Ph.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Ernie Wallace
Robert M. Doroghazi, M.D.
Ms. M. June Pfefer
Robin Remington Wallace and Paul Wallace
Jamie and Robert Driver
Mr. Bernard and Mrs. Lesley W. Rosenblatt
Mr. Jay and Mrs. Rosemary Giessing Ward
Dr. and Mrs. James Elliott
Theophil Walter Ross, Ph.D.
Jane and Bill Goodson
Andrew R. Sackin
Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
Ophelia – Courtney Wagoner
Chorus-Jean Tartiere
In the scene before this one, Hamlet made a show of his apparent
madness and told Ophelia to “get thee to a nunnery.” This is
Ophelia’s lament after being cast aside by her love.
This opening speech for one of Shakespeare’s history plays asks
the audience to use their imaginations to let the story come to life.
Taming of the Shrew, Act II, sc.1
Department of Theatre Donors
Lady Macbeth’s sleep is disturbed by sleepwalking and the
memory of the deaths her hunger for power has caused. The
speech we present here is her last that we see before she kills
herself.
Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV, sc. 1
Katherina – Ali Kertz
Petruchio – Allan Benson
Beatrice - Dani Tucker
Petruchio has just made a deal with Katherina’s father to woo and
wed her in exchange for her dowry. This scene is the first time the
two meet.
This scene follows Hero and Claudio’s failed wedding ceremony,
where Claudio accused Hero of being unfaithful. Beatrice is angry
and saddened by the slander hurled at her cousin. Even though
Beatrice and Benedick have been sparring throughout the play,
Benedick tries to comfort her in this scene.
Benedick - Jean Tartiere
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, sc. 1
Puck – Clare Stribling
The fairy, Robin Goodfellow, or simply, Puck, delivers this speech
to usher the nobles to their beds at the end of a long evening.
Here we use it to set up the darkness expressed in the next two
monologues.
University Singers
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Jenna Braaksma, accompanist
Our Joyful’st Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Einojuhani Rautavaara
(b. 1928)
Soloists: Abby Meeds, Bailey Wilkerson
When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tu-whoo!
Tu-whit! tu-whoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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When all around the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian’s nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tu-whoo!
Tu-whit! tu-whoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
– William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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So, now is come our joyful’st feast,
Let every man be jolly.
Each room with ivy leaves is drest,
And every post with holly.
Though some churls at our mirth repine,
Round your foreheads garlands twine,
Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,
And let us all be merry.
Now all our neighbours’ chimneys smoke,
And Christmas blocks are burning;
Their ovens they with bak’d meats choke,
And all their spits are turning.
Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We’ll bury’t in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry.
– George Wither (1588-1667)
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Some say that ever ‘gainst that Season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
This Bird of Dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome, then no Planets strike,
No Fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
– William Shakespeare
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Three Shakespeare Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958)
I. Full Fathom Five
Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
II. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Ding-dong, bell.
The Tempest Act I Scene 2 (1610-1611)
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest Act IV Scene I (1610-1611)
– William Shakespeare
Presentation of the Sinquefield Prize
Dean Michael J. O’Brien - Introductions
Chancellor Hank Foley
Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield
Sonnet 73: De Profundis*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Breneman Stewart
*World Premier - Sinquefield Prize Winner
(b. 1992)
A Summer Sonnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Olson
Soloist: Ian Meyer
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the sun of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
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By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18
– William Shakespeare
(b. 1970)
PATRON
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Atkins
Mrs. Jack L. Batterson
Ms. Sally Beattie
Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilson Beckett
Lina M. Berrier
Ms. Sue Bohm
Dr. Murray Boles
Professor Bonnie Bourne
Mrs. Charmian Boyle
Mrs. Anne Braisted
Mr. and Mrs. O.W. Brauss
Michael W. Brewen
Dr. Katinka Kersten and Dr. Robert Cheek
Mrs. Martha B. Chesney
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Clark
The Honorable Ann K. Covington
Mr. and Mrs. David Cowan
Dr. Robert M. Doroghazi
Dr. Mary Dohrmann and Dr. Thomas Dresser
Brian Christopher Elder
Mrs. Betty Eyestone
Dr. John Faaborg
Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Fair
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Foote
Prof. Elizabeth Geden
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Geen
Ms. Gisela Groiss
Dr. Keith A. Haan
Mr. and Mrs. Milt Harper
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Harris, Jr.
Ms. Kay Henderson
Marjory Hicks
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hillbrick
Darwin and Axie Hindman
Dr. and Mrs. Haskell Hinnant
Mrs. Carla Johns *
Mr. Matthew Kendrick
Dr. and Mrs. David Klachko
Ms. Kim Klaproth
Ms. Sandra Knight
Mrs. Joann E. Koeppe
Drs. John and Patricia Koonce
Marika Kyriakos
Mr. Ferd and Mrs. Ann LaBrunerie
Dr. Doris Littrell
Ms. Florence Lockridge
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGlothlin **
Mr. and Mrs. William S. McKenzie
Mr. Thomas L. McRoberts
Mr. John and Dr. Margaret M. Merrion
Mr. Scott Mertens
Mr. and Mrs. John O’Connor
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Orr
Dr. and Mrs. David E. Payne
Mrs. Alice Payne
Mrs. Laura Perez-Mesa
Mrs. June Pfefer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Poe
Dr. Jim Preston
Jim and Linda Reed
Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Riggs, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Riley
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sappington
Mrs. Janey Sarther
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schaeperkoetter
Mrs. Loleta A. Scott
Ms. Mary Ann Shaw
Mrs. Virginia Sinclair
Dr. Kathleen Warner Slane
Mrs. James M. Spellings
Mr. Adrian Sprick
Professor Eva Szekely
Ms. Shannon Tindall
Mrs. Judy Gast Tucker
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Tyrer
Ms. Joy Underdown
Mr. J.B. and Dr. Dori Waggoner
Mr. and Mrs. Brand Walker
Ms. Marcia Walker
Mrs. Betty Wilson
Ms. Beverly Hughes Yarger and
Mr. David A. Yarger
* In memory of William D. Johns
**In memory of Virginia Pyle
SUSTAINING MEMBER
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bancroft
Mr. Chris Barchesky
Ms. Patty Blenden
Mrs. Eulamae Love Byron
Stephen Paul Clayton
Dr. and Mrs. Craig Datz
Ron and Carole Sue DeLaite
Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Dellande
Ms. Dorinda Derow
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Driver
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Dunkerley
Mrs. John H. Dunn
Mr. Paul C. Evans
Dr. and Mrs. William Fales
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Fulk
Mrs. Jan Haffey
Mr. Edwin Hanson
Mrs. Miriam Hemphill
Steven D. Houser, Ph.D.
Rex A. Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Don Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Gary F. Jones
Mrs. Beverly Kabrick
Mr. and Mrs. William Kennedy
Mrs. Moray Loring Kiehl
Mrs. Carol Lane
Ray Henderson Lewis
Miss Desiree Long
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Loveless
Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mayer
Mr. Carmel Mazzocco
Dr. and Mrs. Wayland McKenzie
Dr. James A. Middleton
Dr. Neil Minturn
MU Chancellor’s Office *
Mrs. Olive Newman
Margaret R. Niemeyer
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome O’Laughlin
Rev. and Mrs. Gary Ostercamp
Dr. and Mrs. Einar W. Palm
Dr. Stuart B. Palonsky
Ms. Halcyone E. Perlman
Sherry Printz
Dr. Jill Raitt
Dr. and Mrs. V. James Rhodes
Ms. Vicki Russell
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Schatz
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Schermer
Ms. M. B. Scofield
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Stoll
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Tarkow
Drs. Haskell and Maria Taub
Drs. Boyd and Carolyn Terry
Julia and Bill Thompson
Mr. Tim and Mrs. Suzette Vos
Steven and Sarah Wills
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Wood
Dr. and Mrs. Russell Zguta
* In memory of Ed Hunvald
OTHER GIFTS
Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Alberty
Ms. Marilyn J. Anderson
Mrs. Robert L. Beasley
Mrs. Peggy J. Bohnenkamp
Dr. Tacey Adams Brewer
Ms. Jacalyn A. Craig
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Fulweiler
Ms. Kimberly Boothe Guilford
Diane Annette Halliburton
Mrs. Marilee Lidikay McCallister
Ms. Karene Louise Mills
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Orth
Ms. Sonia Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Stegall
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stephanchick
Ms. Sydney Stonner
Dr. DennisTuggle
Mr. Matthew Vines *
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Wills
* In memory of Edward H. Hunvald
GARY AND CAROL SMITH
FRIENDS OF MUSIC ANNUITY
WILLIAM BONDESON AND
LINDA BUTTERFIELD CUPP
FRIENDS OF MUSIC ENDOWMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Foreman
BRADY AND ANNE DEATON
FRIENDS OF MUSIC ENDOWMENT
Dr. Brady J. and Dr. Anne Deaton, Sr.
FRIENDS OF MUSIC ENDOWMENT
Mr. Sam and Mrs. June S. Hamra*
Mrs. Bette Weiss*
*In memory of Dr. Ed Hunvald
Special thanks to Shelter Insurance Foundation
and State Farm Companies Foundation for
their generous participation in matching gift
programs.
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Department of Art Scholarships/Endowments/Donors
Donald L. Bartlett Memorial Fund
Eric Sweet Memorial Printmaking
Scholarship
Janet Berry – Dorothy L. Rollins Memorial
Scholarship
Richard & Patricia Wallace Endowmwnt
Professor Emeritus Jerry & Joanne Berneche
John S. Weller Memorial Fund
Hazel Steel Burney Endowment
Verna Wulfenkammer Art Doctoral
Fellowship
Matthew Fahey Cox Memorial Scholarship
Ann Hoffman Memorial Scholarship
William B. Ittner Sr. Fine Arts Prize
Redford Michael Perrine Arts Scholarship
Kevin & Michele Morland – Connor
Moreland Memorial Prize in Printmaking
Richard M. Hennessy Scholarship
Kinder Faculty Enhancement Fund
Intermission
Other Gifts
Julie Allen
Thad Bartlett
Dorothy Baumgartner
Jane Domke
Craig Maas
Tom and Gretchen O’Neal
Barbara Owen
Regina Shaver
Bill and Mary Taylor
Many donors to the Eric
Sweet Memorial Scholarship
SAINT
Dr. and Mrs. David Bedan
Dr. Janice Wenger and Mr. Lynn Behrns
Dr. and Mrs. Ron Carter
Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gaines
Professors Ann Harrell and John Lande
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steele
BENEFACTOR
Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Allendorf
Drs. Ginny and Terry Barnes
Ms. Linda Butterfield Cupp and
Dr. William B. Bondeson
Dr. and Mrs. Winfield J. Burggraaff
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Coe, Jr.
Ms. Norma J. Fair
Mrs. Joan Firley
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Gordon
Mr. Stephen H. Hasselriis
Ms. Jacquelyn K. Jones
Mrs. Grayson Neate Kabler
Mrs. Patricia Lawnick-Ritchie
Dr. Thor and Mrs. Julia Norregaard
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Sanders
Ms. Marjorie R. Sable and
Mr. George P. Smith
Dr. and Mrs. Truman Storvick
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Summers
SPONSOR
Frank and Carla Conley
Mr. Gary and Mrs. June De Weese
Dr. David A. Fleming and
Dr. Karen E. Edison
Dr. and Mrs. James W. Elliott
Dr. and Mrs. Barry Gainor
Mrs. Janice Gaston
Dr. Janet and Mr. Philip Harrison
Dr. Margaret Henrichs
Jerry and Michele Kennett
Miss Linda K. Lyle
Mrs. Sarah Elaine McCoy
Dr. W. Thomas and Mrs. Judith McKenney
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Ms. Tracey Mershon
Dr. Roland P. Meyer
Dr. and Mrs. William H. Miller
Mrs. Georgia Morehouse
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Norton
Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Ross, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schulz
Mr. Gary A. Tatlow
Mrs. Sue Troutner
Mark and Carol Virkler
Mr. Jim Weaver
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Zahn
Ms. Lois K. Zitzmann
DONOR
Boone County National Bank
Dr. and Mrs. Roger Bumgarner
Mrs. Mary B. Bush
Mrs. James T. Cassidy
Dr. and Mrs. John Cheetham
Mr. and Mrs. W. Randall Coil
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Costello
Dr. John and Patricia Cowden
Charlie and Kathy Digges, Sr.
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Act I scene i Witches’ Chorus from Macbeth (1847). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei(1813-1901)
Liyue Yin, piano
Paden Richey, solo percussion
Scotland, mid-11th century -The witches meet on the moor at night, and tell each other about their latest spells. They hear Macbeth approaching
with his retinue, and rejoice in the havoc they will create for him and his followers.
The Bard’s Greatest Hits: Shakespearean scenes and monologues
Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Act II, sc. 2
Juliet - Leah Huskey
Romeo – Alex Givens
Viola – Leah Huskey
The “Balcony Scene” is the signature scene where Romeo finds
Juliet at her home. They declare their love and explore their
predicament as lovers from warring families.
Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
This comedy features a love triangle. Count Orsino loves his
neighbor Olivia, and Olivia loves Orsino’s servant Cesario.
Cesario is really shipwrecked Viola disguised as a boy who is
in love with Orsino. In this speech Viola has just come from
delivering a message to Olivia while disguised as Cesario.
Othello, Act IV, sc. 2
Hamlet – Michael Bayler
This soliloquy is perhaps the quintessential Shakespearian speech.
It occurs while Hamlet is waiting for Ophelia and exemplifies his
indecision about avenging his father’s death.
Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4
Mercutio – Ali Kertz
Known as the “Queen Mab” speech, this piece is delivered to
Romeo and his friends as they terry on the way to the Capulet’s
Ball.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
Guildenstern - Michael Bayler
Rosencrantz - Dylan Bainter
The characters and scenario for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead are drawn directly from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This
play answers the question: What do bit characters do when they
are not on stage? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are old friends
of Hamlet’s who are invited to Elsinore to help find out what
is wrong with Hamlet. This scene happens as the two friends
prepare to meet with Hamlet.
Iago – Jackson Harned
Roderigo – Alex Givens
In this tragedy, Iago plots against his general, Othello because he
promoted Cassio over him. Iago has made promises to Roderigo
to help him win Othello’s wife Desdemona. Iago has been
stringing Roderigo along through much of the play and Roderigo
has had enough.
The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
Prospero - Cheryl Black
The Tempest begins with a storm remote island where the sorcerer Prospero seeks revenge on those who deposed him from his
dukedom. This speech is delivered by Prospero as he dismisses the
nymphs who have been entertaining his guests. This speech will
round out our selection of scenes
Concert Jazz Band
Arthur White, director
Such Sweet Thunder (1957) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder (Othello) Half the Fun (Antony & Cleopatra) Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down) (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Lady Mac (Macbeth)
Madness In Great Ones (Hamlet)
Circle of Fourths
(1899-1974)
William Thomas ‘Billy’ Strayhorn
(1915-1967)
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Program Notes
Such Sweet Thunder (1957)
Sonnet 73: De Profundis
Few artists have enjoyed as close a working relationship as did Duke
Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. The two met in Pittsburgh following an
Ellington Orchestra performance in 1938. Strayhorn played some of
his own compositions, including “Lush Life,” which he had completed
a year earlier at the age of twenty-one. Ellington hired him on the spot
but without a clear agreement as to just what it was he was hiring him
to do, nor was the arrangement formalized over the course of the next
thirty years. Ellington once said, of Strayhorn that he was “my right
arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in
his head, and his in mine.”
As part of the commission for this piece, I was asked to incorporate
text from Shakespeare to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his
death. I chose Sonnet 73:
Such Sweet Thunder, also known as Ellington’s Shakespearean Suite, is
a twelve-movement work that was first performed in its entirety at the
Stratford Festival in Ontario on September 5, 1957. Although there
was an earlier debut at Town Hall in New York on April 28, 1957, the
day before Ellington’s 58th birthday, the suite was incomplete with
only eleven of the twelve movements written. At that time, Ellington
was consumed by another major work, A Drum Is A Woman and the
eleventh movement was only completed on the day of the Town Hall
performance. Instead of listening to the tracks in the order they are
presented on the 1957 recording, Jack Chambers, the distinguished
professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto, who is also
well known for his writings about jazz, suggests that the pieces be
grouped categorically as tragedies, comedies, sonnets, or historically
based works. The composers attempted to mirror both the meter
of Shakespeare’s poetry and the sonnet form, as recited in iambic
pentameter (pairs of alternating weak and strong emphases), akin
to the way eighth notes are ‘felt’ in a swing pattern. Each work has
a soloist-as-recitative concept, as if the soloist (Johnny Hodges, Cat
Anderson, Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, et al) were reciting as the
specific character depicted in the work: Hodges’s powerfully bending
alto saxophone depicting the exotic nature of the relationship between
Antony and Cleopatra, e.g.
In some respects, Ellington and Strayhorn’s compositions are like
that of writers who harmonize hip vernacular, popular idiom, and
traditional approaches into works that feel thrillingly fresh and
timeless all at once. And so it makes perfect sense that Ellington and
Strayhorn would compose a suite of songs based on scenes from
William Shakespeare, that most skillful of literary alchemists, and
that it would turn out to be, in the words of poet and music critic
A.B. Spellman, “one of the most remarkable orchestral pieces in all of
American music.”
– Program notes by Dr. Arthur White
That time of year thou may’st in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day,
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by-and-by black night doth take away,
Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
In the first twelve lines, this sonnet describes the narrator’s internal
trauma. Because this part of the sonnet is in many ways “from the
depths,” I added the first part of Psalm 130: the first verse in Latin and
the first clause of the second verse in English.
De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine;
Lord, hear my voice.
From the depths I have cried out to you, O Lord.
While the final couplet of the sonnet resolves the narrator’s strife
through an outside agent, I felt the resolution should come from
within the narrator. I rewrote the sonnet, keeping only the text I
thought was most meaningful to my interpretation, omitting the final
couplet and moving “glowing fire” to the end.
In me behold
Fallen leaves.
Boughs shake against cold.
Where late birds sang,
Bare ruined choirs.
In me twilight,
Sunset fades,
Black night.
On ashes I lie,
Consumed.
In me glowing fire!
Together, the sonnet and the psalm tell a story about depression and
self-acceptance, raising the question of salvation by human or divine
means, respectively. The first line of the psalm occurs three times
throughout the piece; the first two times as a stoic underpinning for
the text from the sonnet, and the third time, alone in three ascending
clusters. Simultaneously, the sonnet follows a spiraling emotional
trajectory from the beginning until “on ashes I lie, consumed,”
catharsis on the way to the realization of self-worth: “in me glowing
fire!”
– Program notes by Henry Stewart
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Soprano
Hoerchler, Erin
Munsell, Madelyn+
O’Meara, Madeline
Page, Maddie
Sandstedt, Catherine#
Schlabach, Erin
Soprano II
Baker, Pax+
Braaksma, Jenna
Kettlewell, Mary#
Meeds, Abby
Schulte, Sarah
Yerganian, Jennifer
Alto I
Allen, Martha
Holleman, Kristen
Jones, Bria#
Lombardo, Madison
Phillips, Rachel
Wilkerson, Bailey
Wrigley, Lauren
Tenor I
Flanagin, Andy
Fratzke, Nathan#*
Harrison, EJ+*
Meyer, Ian+
Skinner, Holt
Baritone
Graham, Patrick
Harris, Austin
Heruth, Hans
Layton, Ryan
Wright, Sam#
Tenor II
Cox, Jordan#
Hayes, Savon
Kindle, Chris#*
Otake, Topher
Peng, George
Walker, Jordan*
Bass
Crader, Jonathan
Knoth, Colin#*
Richey, Paden
Roth, Christian
Wagner, Jeremy+
Worley, Ben
Alto II
Coleman, Darneisha
Kitchel, Laura#*
Ramos, Alma+
Stokes, Samantha
Wakefield, Paige
Walker, Samantha
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Chorus of Witches
Allen, Martha
Baker, Pax
Coelho,Júlia
Coleman, Darneisha
Gal, Cassandra
Jones,Bria
Kettlewell,Mary
Lombardo, Madison
Munsell,Madelyn
O’Meara,Madeline
Page, Madison
Ranfeld, McKenna
Sandstedt,Catherine
Schulte,Sarah
Wakefield,Paige
Wilkerson,Bailey
Yerganian,Jennifer
Zizza, Hannah
Concert Jazz Band
Saxophone
Aryana Nemati, alto 1 & 2, Kansas City, MO
Joseph Rulli, alto 1 & 2, Fayetteville, AR
Michael Neu, tenor 1, Webster Groves, MO
Jeremiah Rittel, tenor 2/clarinet, Missoula, MT
Sam Riley, baritone, Kansas City, MO
Trombone
Caleb Roman, lead, Lenexa, KS
David Roth, St. Louis, MO
Grant Flakne, Columbia, MO
Tyler Bevill, bass, Little Rock, AR
Rhythm Section
Ben Colagiovanni, piano, St. Louis, MO
Ethan Moll, guitar, Stillwater, OK
Caleb Alexander, guitar, Wichita, KS
Sam Copeland, bass, Billings, MT
Rebecca McDaniel, vibes, Birmingham, AL
Kyle Bauche, drums, Farmington, MO
Eric Grumke, drums, Webster Groves, MO
Trumpet
Chris Van Leeuwen, split lead, Des Moines, IA
Brady Schach, split lead, Athens, Greece
Austin Walker, Richland, MO
Kris Williams, Columbia, MO
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Violin
Bryan Biswell
Vivian Chang
Emily Cowan
Rachel Dacus-Hill
Xiaoxiao Du
Jesus Gomez
Genivieve Jones
Renan Leme
Britney McMurry
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Viola
Clifton Gilliland
Tyler Hannz
Leo Kim
Andrew Monson
Julie Nguyen
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Catherine Sandstedt
Yaxing Zhao
Cello
Rachel Czech
Madison DeWeerd
Anna Haberdash
Shannon Merciel
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Faith Ordonio
Patrick Ordway
Kelly Weber
Alex Williams
Bass
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Grant Flakne
Luke Henderson
Maura Higgins
Massimo Montalbano
Meyer Neel
Lauven Taylor
Bassoon
*Anthony Hasek
Tuba
Luke Vetter
Trumpet
*Taylor Gustad
Adam Matejek
Ethan Cartee
CJ Maus
Percussion
*Jared Rivera, timpani
Kyle Bauche (extra)
anna provo (extra)
Flute
*Breanna McCaughey
Julie Youngers
Karen Sanders (piccolo)
Horn
*Kyle Tye
Jaron Lester
Christoph Stuhler
Nathan Schulte
Evan Schaffer
Oboe
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Frank Clark
Clarinet
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Devin Kaveler
Trombone
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Tristan Detzel
Greyson Holliday
Carter Stephens
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