You Are the Music - Schola Cantorum on Hudson

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Media?
“I’m here for the music, nothing else!” —and we couldn’t be more pleased. You lose nothing in
choosing not to access the complementary media. “The treat is [truly!] sound!”
“I know at least my kid will like it!” Great! Our Creative Media Team has devised a livestreaming imagery presentation that is artistically complementary, and contains the full texts
of the whole concert embedded within it.
Here’s How:
As part of Schola’s Third Decade Agenda, parallel media presentation is available, using your
smart device.
To access live streaming of images,
go to ScholaOnHudson.org and follow the instructions and links provided on the home
page for free download of GoToMeeting access.
As we enter our Third Decade
Credimus •
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We believe that music has a unique power to reach into the human heart and soul, inviting each of us
to become more fully aware, conscious,—human.
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experiences.
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live choral experiences provides an important complement to the increasingly pervasive virtual
connections in which we live and work.
As a result, we believe it is especially important to embrace young professionals and young families, through:
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socially conscious programming;
integration of virtual and real presence in communication for building community;
parallel media accessible (via tablet or smartphone) to audience members for whom visual involvement
enhances the experience, providing the e-activity familiar especially to our youngest audience
members; and
free admission to children, and deep discounts to students age 13 and older.
• Choral Artistry for the 21st Century
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A fond farewell
to
Emily, Jeremy, and Gil
Go with all the love of your Schola singing family •
We’ll miss you!
These mid-season departures create
Three Singing Positions,
open immediately,
for
One Mezzo-Soprano,
and
Two Bass/Baritones
Auditions solicited: www.ScholaOnHudson.org/auditions
Call 888-407-6002, ext 3, OR
talk to the Artistic Director following today’s performance.
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Special Thanks
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2014 Gala Committee and Donors
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About Our (Mostly) Modern Day Prophets
(in order of sound)
Randall Thompson: One of the choral greats of the 20th century. Although he wrote operas, symphonies, and
chamber music as well, it is his choral music for which he is most noted. Leonard Bernstein was one of his students,
both at Harvard and at Curtis. The selection that begins tonight’s music offering is the eighth movement of his
35-minute a cappella oratorio, The Peaceable Kingdom, inspired by Edward Hicks’s painting of the same name.
Jake Runestad: A rising star in the world of composition, and the composer Schola has commissioned for Season
21’s focus on the immigration experience. A native of the Midwest, Jake resides in Minneapolis and makes his
living exclusively from his compositions—an unusual accomplishment! We met Jake through PROJECT : ENCORE™
of Schola Cantorum on Hudson, through which several of his works are endorsed and promoted. “Alleluia” is a
PROJECT : ENCORE™ work.
Joshua Shank: Another prodigious young composer out of the Midwest. Joshua wrote ‘Musica animam tangens’
when he was but 20 years of age! Primarily a choral composer, he is increasingly awarded, commissioned, and
performed by professional ensembles. He recently wrote to Schola: “I’m so honored that you would use my work to
represent yourselves with on such a wonderful occasion [20th Anniversary].”
Stephen Paulus: The late American composer primarily of operas and choral music. Grants, honors, and
commissions were many throughout his career, and he was known equally as a passionate advocate for the works and
careers of his colleagues, co-founding the American Composers Forum in 1973.
David L. Brunner: Acclaimed conductor, teacher, and widely-published composer, hailing from Illinois, currently
at the U of Central Florida. He refers to “I Am In Need of Music” as “not an easy piece to write.” It was to honor
the memory of his mentor, at the request of the deceased’s wife. Upon hearing Schola recently, David exclaimed,
“Beautiful singing!”—to which we respond: “We believe you met this difficult challenge with compelling beauty.”
Fraser Weist: Our youngest composer prodigy represented this evening, and hailing from Westfield, NJ! Fraser
won the Harmonium Choral Society’s 2014 Composition Competition with “Musica Dei Donum Optimi,” and is
continuing to expand his oeuvre in orchestral and chamber genres, as well.
John V. Mochnick: Active for thirty-five years as a university choral and orchestral conductor, composer/arranger,
administrator, and teacher, John retired to Winston-Salem in 2005 and has devoted himself full-time to pursuing
his life-long love of jazz. His compositions and historical performing editions are widely published and performed.
David C. Dickau: Widely published and commissioned primarily of choral music, residing near the Twin Cities.
Peter Willsher: Canadian composer and conductor who immigrated from his native England in 1986. Upon hearing
a recent rehearsal recording of “Everyone Suddenly...” Peter exclaimed, “You totally get it! I am so overwhelmed!”
The poem was written by a WWI poet inspired by hearing a division of Welsh soldiers singing at a distance. We are
overwhelmed, too, Peter.
Stephen Sametz: Active conductor and prolific composer in all genres, friend and colleague from Lehigh
University. Beyond his training at Yale and the U of Wisconsin, Stephen is compositionally influenced by chant and
polyphony, and French Impressionism. “I Have Had Singing” has been recorded by Chanticleer.
Dan Forrest: Widely published and awarded, prolific composer in many genres, residing in Kansas. Dan’s work is
deeply informed by his belief that creation of beauty is a gift. It is with humility that we take the title of our concert
from his marvelous setting of Amy Lowell’s poem “Listening.”
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About Schola Cantorum on Hudson
Choral programming with a social message is fundamental to the work of Schola Cantorum on Hudson. Schola
members are drawn together both by their love of singing, and by their ardent belief in the power of music for nurture
and positive change within individual lives, and in society as a whole.
Founded in 1995 by Dr. Deborah Simpkin King as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit choral/vocal organization,
Schola performs its full concert season in both Manhattan and New Jersey. Substantially more than a singing group,
the organization reflects both breadth and depth that bespeak the full meaning of a ‘schola’ (school). For example…
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Alums of our Scholar Programs are successful professionals in the music industry.
Over 100 composers benefit daily from the promotional efforts of PROJECT : ENCORE™, an SCH subsidiary
business.
Each annual thematic vision explores aspects of the human journey primarily through newly discovered,
newly written music, and a diverse stylistic mix.
Concerts are filled with commissioned, premiere and post-premiere new compositions, bringing forward
fresh voices of visionary creative artists.
Do you share our vision?
We see a bright future. We believe the Arts are midwife to the continual birthing of that bright future. If you share
our vision, we invite you to explore with us what kind of involvement would be meaningful to you. Shall we talk?
[email protected]
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888-407-6002
For more, visit our web site at www.ScholaOnHudson.org.
Dr. Deborah Simpkin King has been deemed “a choral force to be reckoned with in New York and New Jersey” by
© 2014 John Greene, photographer
the American Record Guide. Noted conductor, program builder, artistic innovator,
advocate and educator, she is increasingly active as a guest conductor, leader
of master classes in conducting, and presenter at professional conferences. Her
tenure as founding artistic director of Schola Cantorum on Hudson has seen its
growth into an organization with an international reach, most notably in support
of working composers through PROJECT : ENCORE™. Her commitment to giving
back has led her into leadership positions with the New York Choral Consortium
(initially Co-Chair with Kent Tritle; currently Chair) and within ACDA, as 20year continuing Coordinator of the High School Choral Festival in New Jersey.
The consistent personal mission within her broad spectrum of professional activity
is that of seeking to be instrumental to the deepening and enlivening of the human
spirit through music.
Joseph Arndt joined Schola Cantorum on Hudson as accompanist this fall. He received his Master of Music
degree from The Juilliard School and his Bachelor of Music degree from Westminster Choir College. He is Director
of Music at Grace Church in Newark, where he directs three choirs and a concert series. He serves as Sub Dean
of the Metropolitan NJ Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He is also on the Board of Directors for the
Hetrick Martin Institute, an organization now offering counseling, tutoring, and other services to at-risk LGBT
youth in Newark.
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Schola Cantorum on Hudson
Erica T. Appel *
Mark Aro *
Susan Baer
Frank Borroto
Jeremy Fratti *
Nkechi Fyle
Gilberto Gomez *
Christopher Greene *
Laura Greenwald-Strom *
Andrew Jones *
Gordon King
Sherry Kosinski *
Nicole Lake
Sara Livolsi
Betsy Mackenzie-Stubbs *
John Maderazo *
Joseph Martin-Stowe
Alyson Navarro
Carol Nelson
Joyce Nestle
Lam Nguyen *
Naomi Perley *
Amanda Regan
Caroline L. Sargent
Alison Self
Emily Sharrett *
Karen Lea Siegel
Jeffrey Soto *
Ilya Speranza *
James Splond
Alex Wentworth *
Roger West
Julian Whitley *
Darlene Southard Wyzga *
* indicates SRS singers
Joseph Arndt, Rehearsal and Concert Accompanist
Acknowledgements
The work of Schola Cantorum on Hudson is made possible in part by generous grants from
The New Jersey Cultural Trust, The Marjorie Bunnell Charitable Fund,
and
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State,
a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts
We wish to express our deepest appreciation for the hospitality of our rehearsal venues:
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ,
Rev. Jessica Lambert, Pastor, and Chris Greene, Music Director
and
St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church, West Village, NYC
The Rev. Lloyd Prator, Rector, and Gordon King, Organist and Choirmaster
Special thanks to our gracious performing homes:
St. Malachy’s Roman Catholic Church, Midtown Manhattan
The Rev. Gilbert Martinez, CSP, Pastor, and Mark Pacoe, Music Director
and
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Montclair, NJ
The Rev. Joseph A. Scarangella, Pastor, and Preston Dibble, Music Director
We gratefully acknowledge the many people who worked off-stage in support of this performances.
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This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council
on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Please silence all cell phones, pagers, watch alarms, and other electronic devices.
Choral Artistry for the 21st Century!
Please DO feel free to real-time Tweet, photograph, and share your live performance experience!
You Are the Music
I—Joy in the Power of Song
Ye shall have a song, from Peaceable Kingdom
Alleluia@1
Randall Thompson (1899–1984); Text: Isaiah 30 : 29
Jake Runestad (b. 1986)
Schola Repertory Singers
II—Connection with the Divine
To Music (1961)
David Stanley York (1920–2010)
Anonymous poem
Musica animam tangens (2000)
Joshua Shank (b. 1980)
Original poem by Ryan Newstrom; Latin adaptation by Byron Stayskal
III—Connection with Each Other
Hard Times
Text and Melody, Stephen Foster (1826–1864),
arr. Craig Hella Johnson (b. 1962)
Emily Sharrett, mezzo-soprano
Music, Spread Thy Voice Around, from Solomon
Lam Nguyen, countertenor
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
IV—Internal Connection with Our Own Eternity
When Music Sounds (2012)
I Am In Need of Music (1995)
Stephen Paulus (1949–2014)
Poem “Music” by Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)
Gilberto Gomez, baritone2
David L. Brunner (b. 1953)
Sonnet by Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
1 This work is part of PROJECT : ENCORE™ of Schola Cantorum on Hudson. PROJECT : ENCORE™ works have been premiered,
and then evaluated via blind adjudication by prestigious conductors as being works of excellent quality. The online,
searchable database is located at: ProjectEncore.org.
2 Gil is the second graduate (2002) of Schola’s Choral Scholar Program. We are so thrilled to have him singing with us
while he is home on vacation from his intense performing career in Madrid, Spain.
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V—A Gift to Soothe and Delight
Musica Dei Donum Optimi (2014)
Fraser Weist (b. 1995)
Anonymous Latin text
Schola Repertory Singers
Music, When Soft Voices Die, from Shelley Songs (1997)
John V. Mochnick (b. 1942)
Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
Andrew P. Jones and Joseph Martin-Stowe, whistlers
If Music Be The Food of Love (2001)
David C. Dickau (b. 1953)
Text: Henry Heveningham (1651–1700)
VI—’Tis You
Everyone Suddenly Burst Out Singing (1976)
Peter Willsher (b. 1951)
Poem “Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
I Have Had Singing (2005)
Steven Sametz (b. 1954)
Text from Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (b. 1922)
You Are the Music (2006)
Dan Forrest (b. 1978)
Poem “Listening” by Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
Laura Greenwald, soprano; Jeremy Fratti, clarinet
The material spoken by the singers as part of tonight’s concert
consists of quotes from the following individuals:
John O’Donohue, T.S. Eliot, Maurice Ravel, Elizabeth Lesser,
Cynthia Bourgeault, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Amy Lowell.
The speakers, in order of appearance, are:
Amanda Regan, Carol Nelson, Susan Baer, Sara Livolsi, Gilberto Gomez, Laura Greenwald
Schola Cantorum on Hudson
is a proud member of the
NY and NJ Choral Consortia
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The Peaceable Kingdom, VIII
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy
solemnity is kept,
and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe,
to come into the mountain of the Lord.
There’s a pale, drooping maiden who toils her life away
with a worn heart whose better days are o’er.
Though her voice would be merry, ’tis sighing all the
day
Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.
To Music
How many of us ever stop to think of music as a
wondrous, magic link with God,
taking sometimes the place of prayer,
when words have failed us ’neath the weight of care.
Music that knows no country, race, or creed,
but gives to each according to his need.
’Tis a sigh that is wafted around the troubled wave,
’Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore.
’Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave,
Oh Hard Times, come again no more.
Refrain
Musica animam tangens
Musica animam tangens
Maria vitae effundens
Flumina cor liberantia omnes amore amantia
Musica sonans resonans
Implens meam essentiam
Meam inundat animam
Velut fluctibus montem submersum
Ut tangam Deum.
Music touching;
Exhaling its breathless oceans of life
Currents that free hearts giving love to
All that open the sounds that fill
The mountain of my existence
And overflow my soul to touch
God.
Hard Times
Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh Hard Times come again no more.
Refrain
’Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Oh Hard Times, come again no more.
While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and
gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will
say,
Oh, Hard Times, come again no more.
Refrain
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Music, Spread Thy Voice Around
Music, spread thy voice around;
Sweetly flow the lulling sound.
When Music Sounds
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees,
Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies.
When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.
When music sounds, all that I was I am
Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
While from Time’s woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.
I Am in Need of Music
I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song, sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!
There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep
To the subaqueous stillness of the sea,
And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.
Music Dei Donum Optimi
Musica Dei donum optimi, trahit homines, trahit deos!
Musica truces mollit animos. Musica trahit, musica
erigit.
Musica movet arbores, et musica movet feras!
Musica cuntisque solatia prestans.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away…O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will
never be done.
Music, the gift of the highest God, draws men and
gods to it.
Music calms angry souls, and uplifts sad spirits.
Music moves even the very trees, and the wild beasts.
Music gives solace.
I Have Had Singing
The singing.
There was so much singing then
And this was my pleasure, too.
We all sang, the boys in the field,
The chapels were full of singing.
Here I lie:
I have had pleasure enough;
I have had singing.
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Music, when soft voices die,
vibrates in the memory.
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
are heaped for the beloved’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
love itself shall slumber on.
If Music Be the Food of Love
If music be the food of love,
Sing on ’til I am fill’d with joy;
For then my list’ning soul you move
To pleasures that can never cloy.
Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare
That you are music ev’rywhere.
Pleasures invade both eye and ear,
So fierce the transports are, they wound,
And all my senses feasted are.
Tho’ yet the treat is only sound,
Sure I must perish by your charms,
Unless you save me in your arms.
You Are the Music
’Tis you that are the music, not your song.
The song is but a door which, op’ning wide,
Lets forth the pent-up melody inside,
Your spirit’s harmony, which clear and strong,
Sings but of you.
Throughout your whole life long
Your songs, your thoughts, your doings,
each divide, each divide this perfect beauty.
Waves within a tide, or single notes amid a glorious
throng.
The song of earth has many diff’rent chords;
Ocean has many moods and many tones,
Yet always ocean.
So is this One music, with a thousand cadences.
’Tis you that are the music…
Everyone Suddenly Burst Out Singing
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of
sight.
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Find a home with Citizen Artists at work in the world!
Choral programming weaving together a rich stylistic tapestry with a social message is increasingly fundamental
to the work of Schola Cantorum on Hudson. It is our hope that you’ll share our enthusiasm for this form of
Citizen Artistry with your active participation and support. Here are some ways you can do that.
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Participate in the work of Schola by contributing your expertise and energy. We
currently have project-based task forces developing in areas that include education,
sociology, e-audio/-video, music publishing, promotion and marketing. Many
forms of operational support are welcome. Let’s talk!
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Sing with Schola! For those with fluent music reading skills, vocal and choral
training and experience, and an interest in a non-traditional range of musical
expression, Schola provides a vibrant singing family. The summer months are the
active audition season, but auditions can be entertained throughout the year, with
the option of acceptance should an opening appear during the season.
or by check to Schola Cantorum on Hudson, PO Box 3914, Jersey City, NJ 07303.
To explore how you can become part of the Schola Family of Citizen Artists,
call 888-407-6002 x3 or write [email protected]
~ Schola Summer Choral Festival ~
Once annually Maestra King opens and explores the treasures found in
time-honored masterworks with the larger singing community!
Singers from throughout the region join Schola singers in a week of rehearsals
and a concluding performance of a major choral work.
Third Annual Festival
July 12–16, 2015: Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass
with Organist Preston Dibble,
Director of Music at Church of the Immaculate Conception
Location
Church of the Immaculate Conception
30 North Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ
Information and registration online at:
www.ScholaOnHudson.org
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Schola Cantorum on Hudson
Board of Directors
Gordon King, Chair
Richard Seeger, Treasurer
Nicole Lake, Recording Secretary
Alexander Wentworth, Mary Lou West
Artistic and Executive Staff
Deborah Simpkin King, Artistic Director and Founder
Christopher Greene, Executive Director
Darlene Southard Wyzga, Director of Operations and Project : Encore™ Manager
Wayne Eastwood, Webmaster
Joseph Arndt, Rehearsal and Concert Accompanist
Support Staff
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We Have Had Singing!
Celebrating 20 Years Together
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You Are the Music
Even as SCH celebrates its own 20-year history, Schola artists celebrate the power of human connections music
inpsires, in a concert entitled “You Are the Music.”
Saturday, December 13, 2014 • 8 pm
St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel)
49th St. between 8th & Broadway, New York, NY
Sunday, December 14, 2014 • 5 pm
Church of the Immaculate Conception
30 N. Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ
No Greater Love
The East Coast premiere of John Muehleisen’s oratorio, Pietà, for three choirs, soloists, instruments, dancer, and
media. The composer’s own libretto combines writing as disparate as Kipling, Owen, Blake, Martin Luther King,
orthodox hymnody and scripture in its exploration of compassion and mercy. Performed in collaboration with The
Dominoes of St. Dominic’s Academy, and VOX of St. Peter’s Preparatory High School, both of Jersey City.
Saturday, March 7, 2015 • 8 pm
St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel)
49th St. between 8th & Broadway, New York, NY
Sunday, March 8, 2015 • 5 pm
Church of the Immaculate Conception
30 N. Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ
We Have Had Singing!
For 20 years, we have gathered to share and process life through song as the Schola Family of Singers, from 9/11
to Hurricane Sandy, from births and graduations to deaths and other significant life transitions . Repertoire will be
selected by singing members, both current and alumni.
Saturday, May 16, 2015 • 8 pm
St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel)
49th St. between 8th & Broadway, New York, NY
Sunday, May 17, 2015 • 5 pm
Church of the Immaculate Conception
30 N. Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ
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Gala: In honor of Musica in our lives
Save the date: Saturday, May 30, 2015
Location: South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC)
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