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Richard Hynson, Music Directorpresents

Stabat MaterSunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Christ King Parish

featuring

Romelia LupasSoprano

Stacey RishoiMezzo-soprano

Zach BorichevskyTenor

Christopher BurchettBass

and the Bel Canto Orchestra

Thank You to Our Concert Sponsors:

with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts

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Stabat Mater Antonín Dvořák

1. Stabat Mater – Quartet and Chorus2. Quis est homo – Quartet3. Eja Mater – Chorus4. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum – Bass Solo and Chorus5. Tui Nati vulnerati – Chorus6. Fac me vere tecum flere – Tenor Solo and Chorus7. Virgo virginum praeclara – Chorus8. Fac, ut portem Christi mortem – Soprano/Tenor Duet9. Inflammatus et accensus – Alto Solo10.  Quando corpus morietur – Quartet and Chorus

2012-2013 SEASON PREVIEWBe sure to visit local artist Dena Nord as she interprets Dvořák’s Stabat Mater on canvas. The 2012-2013 Bel Canto Chorus Season (Maestro

Hynson’s 25th anniversary season with Bel Canto!) will include elements of visual art at each performance. Pick up a free season preview magnet

from Dena, and mark your calendars.

AnnouncingAuditions

Ellen Shuler, Director2012-2013 Rehearsals:

Thursdays, 6-7:15pm at MYAC

For more information, or to schedule an audition:

(414) 481-8801www.belcanto.org

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PROFILES

RICHARD HYNSON, Music Director/ConductorThis season marks Richard Hynson’s 24th season as Music Director of the Bel Canto Chorus

and Orchestra. In addition, Hynson has served as Music Director of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra since 2006. In demand as a guest conductor, Hynson’s past engagements include performances with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Skylight Opera Theatre, and the Racine, Sheboygan, and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. Hynson has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he led a large national festival chorus and orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem. In the summer of 2008, Hynson conducted the string orchestra and chorus for the Prelude Music Academy summer camp in Madison. In 2009, he guest-conducted the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in one of the Concerts on the Square in Madison. He also served as the Music Director for Gathering on the Green, the popular outdoor music festival in Mequon, WI, in 2009 and 2010, and will again be Music Director this summer.

Hynson and members of Bel Canto Chorus have performed internationally at the acclaimed Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, the Festivals of Troyes and Rheims in France, the Llangollen Festival in Wales, and the Elora and Huntsville Festivals in Canada. During Bel Canto’s 2006 tour, Hynson and members of Bel Canto International, including singers from six states, performed to critical acclaim in Ireland. In addition to its annual concert season, the chorus is often called upon to participate in national touring performances. In July 2010, Bel Canto participated in Star Wars in Concert; and in November 2010, Bel Canto sang in the Video Games Live national touring concert. Bel Canto completed another successful international tour in July 2011, performing with several orchestras in Argentina and Uruguay.

In addition to his work as a conductor and educator, Hynson is a composer. He has written a substantial body of published choral, vocal, and ensemble works, many of which he has recorded with Bel Canto Chorus singers. The U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants have frequently performed Hynson’s In the Midst of Life, composed in response to the events of September 11. Most notably, they presented it in New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall for the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association.

Under Hynson’s direction, Bel Canto opened its 81st season on Sunday, September 11, 2011, with United We Stand in Cathedral Square Park. This free concert marked the tenth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, and featured Mozart’s Requiem and Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” in collaboration with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra. “The chorus sang with force and assurance, easily separating the complex vocal lines...and following Hynson’s judicious phrasing in when to hold back and when to let go.” (David Lewellen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

ROMELIA LUPAS, Soprano Soprano Romelia Lupas began her vocal studies at the age of 14 at the “Sabin Dragoi” Fine Arts High School in

Arad, Romania. Under a full scholarship, she studied voice performance with Sylvia Munteanu at the Western University of Timisioara. After residency in the United States, Lupas was accepted in the voice performance program at Wayne State University in Detroit (2008), where she currently studies with Dr. Emery Stephens. She frequently coaches her opera roles with Professor George Shirley, a Wayne alum, at the University of Michigan. Her operatic credits include Mariane in Mechem’s Tartuffe, Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and The Night Visitors, Euridice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Sister Angelica (Suor Angelica), and

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Peony (A Childhood Miracle). Other solo concert appearances include Mozart’s Missa Brevis and Coronation Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Rutter’s Gloria. Lupas is a winner of the Sabin Dragoi National Contest, Emil Montia National Contest, Szolnoc International Voice Competition, Romanian National Olympiad for Vocal Performance, Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee Regional Artists Competition, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Lupas was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Orpheus Vocal Competition, sponsored by the Middle Tennessee Choral Society. She is currently a semi-finalist for The American Prize Vocal Competition.

STACEY RISHOI, Mezzo-SopranoThis season Stacey Rishoi sings as Amneris in Aida (Opera Tampa), joins Lyric Opera of Chicago for Aida,

returns to Jacksonville Symphony in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9, to Cincinnati Opera as La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi and as Flora in La Traviata, and to Kentucky Symphony Orchestra as Dalila in Samson et Dalila. Recent highlights include Amneris (Calgary Opera), Maddalena in Rigoletto and Madama Larina in Eugene Onegin (Cincinnati Opera); Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos (Toledo and Calgary operas); Dalila in Samson et Dalila (Nashville Opera); Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Orlando Opera); and Waltraute in Die Walküre (Washington National Opera). On concert stages she has sung with Alexandria, Atlanta, Kalamazoo, Springfield, Toledo, Virginia and Pacific symphony orchestras; Bel Canto Chorus; Fresno and Buffalo philharmonics; West Virginia Symphony; Washington Choral Arts Society; the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra; and at the Washington National Cathedral.

ZACH BORICHEVSKY, TenorThis season has been busy for tenor Zach Borichevsky. He debuted Alfredo (La Traviata) with Knoxville Opera and

Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Academy of Vocal Arts. He also created the role of Nicholas Astor in the world premiere of Kirke Mechem’s latest opera The Rivals with Skylight Opera in Milwaukee. In concert, Borichevsky sang excerpts of La Bohème with The Philadelphia Orchestra, premiered two new works by David Cone with the Princeton Symphony, and sang the Mozart Requiem with the Symphony in C under Rossen Milanov. This summer, he will return to The Philadelphia Orchestra for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and he will make his role and company debuts as Matteo (Arabella) at the Santa Fe Festival under Sir Andrew Davis.

CHRISTOPHER BURCHETT, BassChristopher Burchett has sung with com-panies such as Boston Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach

Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Kentucky Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera The-atre of St. Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall. This season he sings Blazes in The Lighthouse with Boston Lyric Opera, Chou En’lai in Nixon in China with Eugene Opera, Carmina Burana with the York Symphony, sings concerts in Montreal, Quebec with L’Harmonie des Saisons, Fauré’s Requiem with the Omaha Symphony, makes his Kennedy Center debut in the world pre-miere of Paola Prestini’s opera Oceanic Verses, sings the role of Bruno Mahler in Music in the Air with Music by the Lake, and makes his Virginia Opera debut as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. Future sea-sons include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the York Symphony and appear-ances with the BBC Orchestra in London and Fort Worth Opera.

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PROGR A M NOTES by Susan Chamber l i n Sm i th

Antonín Dvořák, arguably the most famous composer of the Czech Republic, was born on September 8, 1841 in the village of Nelahozeves, near Prague. The eldest of eight children of the local innkeeper and butcher, Dvořák helped his father in the inn from an early age, playing the violin to entertain guests. At the age of 12, he was sent to the nearby town of Zlonice to live with his uncle and to study German, as most of the visitors to the inn spoke German. However, because his German instructor, Antonín Liehmann, was also the church organist, most of Dvořák’s time in Zlonice was spent learning organ, piano, violin, viola, and music theory. Impressed with the young man’s progress, Liehmann persuaded Dvořák’s father to allow his son to pursue a formal musical education with the financial assistance of his uncle. In 1857,

Dvořák entered the Prague Organ School, destined to never become the butcher and innkeeper his father had envisioned. He completed his studies at the Organ School in 1859, and joined the Komzak concert band, which played in concert halls and inns in Prague and Germany. The band was incorporated into the orchestra of the Provisional Theatre in Prague, and for several years, Dvořák was privileged to play under the baton of Bedřich Smetana, who encouraged him to write music based on folk tunes. The need to supplement his income by teaching left Dvořák with limited free time, and in 1871 he gave up playing in the orchestra in order to compose. During this time, Dvořák fell in love with one of his pupils and wrote a song cycle, Cypress Trees, which expressed his anguish at her marriage to another man. However, in 1873, he married her sister, Anna Čermakova.

The following year Dvořák entered the competition for the Austrian State Stipendium, submitting the 3rd and 4th symphonies, some overtures, and some songs. He won a significant cash prize (400 gulden) which gave him further confidence, launched new compositional projects, and prompted him to enter the competition in several subsequent years as well. After he won an even higher amount of money from the same source in 1877, one of the jurors, the famous Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, informed Dvořák that another of the jurors, Johannes Brahms, was deeply impressed by Dvořák’s music. Brahms recommended the young composer to his publisher, Fritz Simrock in Berlin, who published Dvořák’s first set of Slavonic Dances in 1878. The Slavonic Dances were overwhelmingly successful, not only in the Austrian Empire, but in England as well. A review of the Stabat Mater in the March 1883 issue of the English journal The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular states, “There is so much to say in an analysis of this very important work that we shall take up no space with mere words of introduction. Such, indeed, are not needed - Dvořák is sufficiently well known for a hearty welcome and respectful attention.”

Dvořák began work on the Stabat Mater in 1876, when his joys at his first successes as a composer were shattered by personal tragedy. His daughter Josefa died at just two days old, and as a man with deep religious beliefs, Dvořák began work on the Stabat Mater as a way to cope with his grief. He soon put aside the work to deal with other commissions, but returned to it after the family was struck another bitter blow. On August

13, 1877, his 11-month-old daughter Ruzena accidentally drank a phosphorous solution and died. Less than a month later, his 3-year old son Otakar contracted smallpox and died on the composer’s 36th birthday, leaving Dvořák and his wife

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completely childless. They subsequently had other children, but at the time, their grief was overwhelming. As a means of working through his loss, the composer immersed himself in his Stabat Mater, completing it on November 13, 1877.

The Stabat Mater, a 13th century devotional poem, is generally attributed to the Franciscan monk Jacopone da Todi (1228-1306) although some controversy persists over his authorship. It consists of ten verses of six lines each and a rhyme scheme of AAB CCB. The first four verses are in the third person, describing Mary as she stands beside the cross. The last six verses are in the first person, becoming a personal prayer to Mary as intercessor. The first person prayer closes with the text “when my body dies, grant that my soul be given the glory of paradise.” In Dvořák’s setting of the Stabat Mater, the ten movements do not correspond to the ten stanzas of the poem. In fact, it is clear that the structure of the text is not the focus of the work at all. Rather, this is the work of an orchestral composer, seeking to express the moods and emotions of his journey from grief to acceptance, with his unshakeable faith in God always at the core. It is helpful to view the work as a whole, whose essential unity is made apparent by the use of similar material at the opening and close. The piece is balanced like an arch, with the densest material at the two bases and progressively lighter material above. The structural arch of the piece might look something like this:

V (Chorus)IV (Soloist + Chorus) VI (Soloist + Chorus)

III (Chorus) VII (Chorus) VIII (Duet)

II (Quartet) IX (Soloist)I (Quartet + Chorus) X (Quartet + Chorus)

The first performance of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater took place in Prague at the Provisional Theatre on December 23, 1880, conducted by Adolph Cech. On March 10, 1883, at St. James’s Hall, the London Musical Society – an amateur organization conducted by the late Sir Joseph Barnby – gave the first performance of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater in England. The performance was so successful that the composer was invited to visit England to conduct another performance of the work at the Albert Hall on March 13, 1884. For this performance, the promoter assembled a chorus of 250 sopranos, 160 altos, 180 tenors, and 250 basses, and an orchestra of 92 string players. The first U.S. performance was in New York City’s Steinway Hall on April 3, 1884. Dvořák was immensely popular in England, composing many of his larger works for English orchestras and receiving an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1891. In that same year, he was appointed professor of composition at the Prague Conservatory, but moved to America in 1892 to become director of the recently founded National Conservatory of Music in New York. At the conservatory, he was expected to take a light teaching load and serve as a composer in residence. During this time, he began writing his best known work, Symphony from the New World, No. 9 in E Minor, which was first performed by the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in December of 1893.

In 1895, Dvořák returned to his beloved Czechoslovakia and resumed teaching at the Prague Conservatory, becoming its director in 1901. That same year he was honored in his homeland on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and became the first musician ever to be named to the Austrian House of Lords. However, despite the international recognition he had achieved, he lived in relative poverty as a result of unfavorable contracts with his music publishers. The composer was diagnosed with a kidney disease, contracted influenza, and died in Prague on May 1, 1904. A national day of mourning was declared, and Dvořák was honored with a burial in Vysehrad Cemetery, where many prominent Czechs are also buried. Antonín Dvořák was a man who rose from humble roots as the son of a Bohemian innkeeper and butcher to become one of the most famous composers of his time.

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Stabat Mater By Antonín Dvořák

1. Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater dolorosaJuxta crucem lacrimosa,Dum pendebat Filius.

The sorrowful Mother stood weepingBeside the cross,Where her Son was hanging.

Cujus animam gementem,Contristatam et dolentem,Pertransivit gladius.

A sword of sorrow piercedHer lamenting soul,Suffering and grieving.

O quam tristis et afflictaFuit illa benedictaMater Unigeniti! O how sad and how afflictedWas that blessed MotherOf the only-begotten Son!

Quae maerebat et dolebatPia Mater, dum videbatEt tremebat, dum videbatNati poenas incliti. How painfully she mourned,The tender Mother, And how she trembled, When she saw the torments of her noble Son.

2. Quis est homo

Quis est homo, qui non fleret,Matrem Christi si videretIn tanto supplicio?

Who is the man who would not weepIf he could see the Mother of ChristIn such agony?

Quis non posset contristariChristi Matrem contemplariDolentem cum Filio?

Who could not be saddenedTo contemplate Christ’s Mother

Grieving with her Son?

Pro peccatis suae gentisVidit Jesum in tormentis,Et flagellis subditum. For the sins of her own peopleShe saw Jesus in torment,Subjected to the lash.

Vidit suum dulcem NatumMoriendo desolatum,Dum emisit spiritum.

She saw her own sweet Child Deserted, dying,As He breathed His last.

3. Eja Mater

Eja, Mater, fons amoris,Me sentire vim dolorisFac, ut tecum lugeam.

O, Mother, wellspring of love,Make me feel the force of your sorrow,That I may grieve with you.

4. Fac ut ardeat cor meum

Fac ut ardeat cor meumIn amando Christum Deum,Ut sibi complaceam.

Make my heart to burn In the love of Christ our GodThat I may be pleasing to Him.

Sancta Mater, istud agas,Crucifixi fige plagas,Cordi meo valide.

Holy Mother, do this:Fix the wounds of the CrucifiedPowerfully within my heart.

5. Tui Nati vulnerati

Tui Nati vulneratiTam dignati pro me pati,Poenas mecum divide.

Share with me the pains Of your wounded SonWho deigned to die for me.

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6. Fac me vere tecum flere

Fac me vere tecum flere,Crucifixo condolereDonec ego vixero.

Make me weep tenderly with you,Sharing the pain of the CrucifiedAs long as I live.

Juxta crucem tecum stare,Te libenter sociareIn planctu desidero. I long to stand by the cross with you, Gladly keeping company with you In your lamentation.

7. Virgo virginum praeclara

Virgo virginum praeclara,Mihi jam non sis amara:Fac me tecum plangere.

Radiant Virgin of virgins,Be not bitter to me now;Make me grieve with you.

8. Fac ut portem Christi morten

Fac ut portem Christi mortem,Passionis fac consortem,Et plagas recolere. Make me bear the death of Christ;Make me a sharer in His PassionAnd mindful of His wounds.

Fac me plagis vulnerari,Cruce hac inebriari,Ob amorem Filii.

May I be wounded by the lashes,Inebriated with that CrossThrough love for your Son.

9. Inflammatus et accensus

Inflammatus et accensus,Per te, Virgo, sim defensusIn die judicii.

Blazing and scorched, May I be protected by you, Virgin, On the day of judgment.

Fac me cruce custodiri,Morte Christi praemuniri,Confoveri gratia.

Let me be guided by the cross,Defended by the death of Christ,Fostered by grace.

10. Quando corpus morietur

Quando corpus morietur,Fac ut animæ doneturParadisi gloria. Amen.

When my body dies,May my soul be givenThe glory of Paradise. Amen.

Bel Canto Chorus New Member AuditionsSaturday, August 18, 2012

More info at www.belcanto.org

Contact us to schedule your appointment414.481.8801 • info@belcanto.org

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BEL CANTO CHORUS

BEL CANTO ORCHESTR A

Jill AndersenVaughn AusmanKevin Bailey+Jonathon BartosKelly BartyczakAlison BayneCarol BayneJan BeckerDeborah BetsworthSara BitnerEloise BlackCarolAnne BozosiSusan BrownMarc CohenPeter CraigElaine ErnstChristine G. FitchEmily FoxJosefina Z. S. GardinierJanet GibeauAndrea S. Goetzinger+Eileen GriffithsLynn GutoskiJames U. HammondBrett HaniskoCarrie F. HardelJoshua HartKeith HeidmannJoan HenkelJames HillBruce HimelsteinAmanda HoffmanCraig HoffmannGlenna HolsteinDan HolzmillerJeanne HouleRonald HouleSally D. Hoyt

Christopher HughesKatherine HughesKathleen Hughes+Michelle Hynson+Elizabeth JanicekKatie KaminskyTom KibbeSusi KieferKieth KlempKyle KolbergRussell Kopitzke+Steve KundaErin LaabsJonathan A. Laabs+Penny LaferriereLindsay LammHelga LarsenSandi Lash+Angela LeeAlex LeskoGary LeskoJohn W. Lettermann+Loretta Jelinek LieskeK. David LupardusBarbara L. LyonsPatrick C. LyonsCarol Lynne McKeanTJ Perlick MolinariStacey NaffahErik OlsonSarah PabbathiLori Ann Pannier+Marjorie PiechowskiAlexandra PieperRenee PottorffJohn ReinardyBetty ReulDavid Reul

Kay RichardsonMarie RomeroKerry SaverKathleen SchilzKate SchmittGlenn SchumannTrinny SchumannIsaac SchwabacherFred SentmanJoe SkurzewskiNicolas Sluss-Rodionov+Cameron SmithSusan Chamberlin SmithWilliam R. Smith+Binette SolomonPhilip StarrJoan StevensJames D. StoutSheila StrockLora SunderJon SzczepaniakTim SzczepaniakKen TazelaarKim TerekMary ThieleTom ThieleCarolyn TramelKristin TrautTom TrederFausta UrbonieneSharri Van AlstineSarah WarranJennifer W. WatsonNathan Wessolowski+Hazel WheatonRebecca Whitney+Jessica Wirth +Denotes Section Leader

FluteJanice BjorkmanLinda Korducki

OboeAndrea Gross HixonSuzanne Geoffrey

English HornSuzanne Geoffrey

ClarinetChristian EllenwoodAnna Najoom

BassoonLori BabinecSteve Whitney

HornKristina CragoAnne MaliborskiKathryn Krubsack

Elizabeth Olson

TrumpetDonald SipeThomas Schlueter

TromboneDavid LussierJonathan WinkleMark Hoelscher

TimpaniTerry Smirl

Violin 1Gerald Loughney, ConcertmasterCatherine BushElizabeth WarnePamela FoardLaura CaballeroChristopher Ruck

Violin 2Gina WoodKris HurlebausErik LeveilleChristine AnninHeather BroadbentAlexander Ayers

ViolaAmanda KochJamie HofmanAnn StephanLaura Rooney

CelloCharles StephanRoza BorisovaBraden Flanagan-ZituonSara Sitzer

BassCharles GroszMichael Britz

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Board of DirectorsPresident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Merilou GonzalesTreasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim HylandSecretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom ThieleChorus Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kerry Saver

Marc Cohen, Patrick Foran, Betty Reul, Peter Storer, Martin Tierney, Ariana Voigt

Artistic StaffMusic Director/Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard HynsonAssistant Conductor/Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle HynsonBoy Choirs Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ellen M. Shuler

Administrative StaffExecutive Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marla HahnDevelopment Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca WhitneyPatron Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim LaBelle

Technical StaffEquipment Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James D. Stout

Chorus Cabinet Kelly Bartyczak, Jan Becker, CarolAnne Bozosi, Susan Brown, Susi Kiefer,

K. David Lupardus, Carol Lynne McKean, Marjorie Piechowski, Kerry Saver, Kathleen Schilz, Kate Schmitt, Hazel Wheaton

BEL CANTO CHORUS ORGANIZATION

The mission of Bel Canto Chorus is to enrich the lives of its audiences and singing members through the outstanding presentation of the finest choral music, and to reach out to the community in order to share the benefits and the joy of the singing arts.

Christ King Parish, Dena Nord, Peter Storer, Tom Thiele, Sr. Bernadette Prochaska, FSPA, PhD

BEL CANTO CHORUS MISS ION STATEMENT

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Consider donating to Bel Canto Chorus’ Endowment Fund, where your gift to choral music can be appreciated for years to come. Whether it is a gift of stock or a check, simply indicate that you would like your investment to go toward our Endowment Fund. For more information, contact the Bel Canto office at (414) 481-8801.

BEL CANTO CHORUS ENDOWMENT FUND

BEL CANTO LEGACY SOCIET Y

Members of the Bel Canto Legacy Society have agreed to include the Chorus as part of their estate planning arrangements. You may join them by contacting the Bel Canto office (414) 481-8801.

Vaughn Ausman and Sally D. HoytMargaret E. Haggerty

Kerry SaverChris and Joanna Smocke

James SteinmanDavid and Roseann Tolan

Louis Winter

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ( l i s t e d a s o f a p r i l 17, 2012 )

Bel Canto Chorus wishes to thank these friends for their generous support of our 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons. Please consider

adding your name to this list.

Bravissimo ($5,000 +)Chuck Barnum*Lynde & Harry Bradley

FoundationHerzfeld FoundationSally Hoyt & Vaughn

Ausman*Hydrite Chemical*Milwaukee County -

CAMPACNicholas Family FoundationOconomowoc Area

FoundationThe Riverbend Fund at

Schwab Charitable FundBert L. & Patricia S.

Steigleder Charitable Trust

George B. Storer FoundationPeter & Jean Storer+Ireene Sullivan+United Performing Arts FundWisconsin Arts BoardKaryn & Bernard Youso*

Bravo ($1000-$4,999)AnonymousBaird FoundationCarole & Thomas Barnum*Jan & Robert BeckerCMGRP, Inc.Wendy & Marc Cohen*Susan & Thomas Connor*Mary Alice Tierney DunnGardner FoundationJanet Gibeau+Greater Milwaukee

Foundation - David and Roseann Tolan Fund

Harley-Davidson Motor Company*

John W. Hayes, Sr.*Laura & Jim Hyland+Michelle & Richard Hynson*Rudy MalzMorgan Stanley FoundationJean & Hilton NealNorthwestern Mutual

FoundationOconomowoc Area

Foundation’s Richard R. and Karen Bertrand Charitable Fund

Betty & Dave Reul* Donation in part

in memory of Doris Chamberlin

S. C. Johnson*St. Camillus/San Camillo*

Billie & David SmithSusan & William Smith*Mary & Tom Thiele*Janet & Martin Tierney+Roseann & David Tolan*Uihlein Charitable

FoundationWegner LLP*Inge & Frank Wintersberger*

Fortissimo ($500 - $999)Carol Alexander & James

Coutts*American Landscape*Eloise Black*Karen BubenzerJohn Cullen Fund*Cindy & Brian DearingDeloitte*Linda & Vincents DindzansDirect Supply, Inc.*Janice DodsonFirst Bank Financial Centre*Christine & Jim Fitch+J. William and Lois M. Foran

Family Trust*Katherine Hughes*Eileen & Bud Kehoe*Kiwanis Club of Milwaukee*Kristine & Russell KleiserLisa & Mark KruegerSue & Gary LeskoJamy & Michael Malatesta*Keith Mardak*Patricia & Ray Mehler*Linda & Jock MutschlerMarjorie Piechowski*Alexandra & Rick Pieper*Suzanne & Richard PieperRamiah Investment Group*Kerry Saver*Mary Schueller & Michael

Walton*Katherine & Don SchwerinPatricia Teets & Michael

HayesKay & Joseph Tierney IIIKristin & Dave Traut*Glen Van FossenBetsey & Earnest WilliamsonWipfli Foundation*Jessica Wirth+Zeppos & Associates, Inc.*

Forte ($250 - $499)Carol & Jay Bayne+CarolAnne Bozosi+Randy CaseySally & Mike Chier

Sandra ChristensenKay & John CrichtonEbert’s Greenhouse VillageAnn FritschDawn & Tom GaglianoJosefina Gardinier+Eileen & Reese Griffiths+Marla Hahn & David

PoytingerLouise & Robert HedrickHerbert Kohl Charities, Inc.Christine & James Hill+Kathleen & Tyrrell Hughes+Richard C. Johannes, DDS+Bonnie & Kieth Klemp+Adeline & Harvey KohnCharmaine & James LaBelle+Lindsay & Tim Lamm+Barbara & Patrick Lyons+Gwen & Jim PlunkettConnie PukaiteMargaret RobertsonTolly & Jim RutzMarcia & Jeff SchwagerBrenda Skelton-BendtsenKris SmithJudy & James StoddardHelen VettoriNicole WarnerHeather WatsonTina & Scott Weiss

Mezzo Forte ($100 - $249)Anonymous (2)+Becky & James AndersonLynne Ausman & David CrollBlanche BanerianDeborah Betsworth+Evert BosDawn & Dave BrightsmanSusan Brown+Annette ByrneDon CarlsonDoris ChamberlinEllen & Michael ComiskeyNan & Richard ConserJennifer CooleyEmily & Dean CrockerMary & Rich DavenportJane & Joseph Dean In Honor of Peggy DeanRosemarie Deisinger+Patricia DonohoeMaureen & Bill DowlingJohn R. DunnEast Shore Specialty Foods+Marcella EggesRosemary Fischer

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (c o n t.)

June FisherPatrick Foran+Stanley & Janet FoxDanella & Mark FridayNaomi FritzKarri L. Fritz-Klaus & Timothy

John In Memory of Dr. Robert J.

FritzCindy GallunMary GillstromJoan Henkel+Elna HicksonWilliam HoppenjanJeanne Houle+Ron Houle+June HoytInterfaith Conference of

Greater Milwaukee+Susan Jasan In honor of Sally Hoyt and

Vaughn AusmanDenise & Keith JohnsonKasdorf Family Trust c/o

Kaztex CompaniesSally & Kenan KerstenSusan & Don Kiefer+Michelle & Ed Kotnarowski+Lynn & Cal KozlowskiRay KruegerPenny & Bob LaferriereHelga LarsenLynne & Thomas LindemannMavis & Jeffrey Luther+Roy MacGregorDorothy Jane MartinSue Martin-Steiner & Tony

SteinerRaquel MaxwellMegan McGovernJayne & Roger Micheln+Kelsey & Theodore MolinariEdith MoravcsikMary MosciskerMary Ann MuellerMargaret Neis-RobertsonMaribeth & Chet NielsenOld Fashioned Foods+Heather & Jason ParsonsDeborah & Jamshed PatelJane & David PattersonRichard PietschMary PollockKathy & Dan PomeroyLaurel & Mark PoytingerCarol & Mark RauschAdrienne & John Reinardy+Nikki & Darin RigglemanMarian RoeglinKathy RossieSusan RuggMary & Michael RyanE. Thomas Schilling

Kathleen & Timothy Schilz+Timothy & Molly Schmidt+Fred SentmanMary SmithBinette Solomon+Patty & Brad Spaits In honor of Elaine Kennedy,

Bel Canto Senior SingersGerry & Jack SpoonerJoan & Bill StevensEd StiegSheila StrockEllen StrommenYvonne & John Stubbs+Barbara SullivanLora & Gregg Sunder+Ken Tazelaar+Kimberly VerHoefAriana & Peter Voigt+Judith & Richard WagnerWe Energies FoundationElizabeth & Carl WegeMidge Wheeler & Peter ForisMichelle & Brad WilkinsVirginia WirthGail Zander

Friend (to $99)AnonymousJ. Mark Baker+Patricia & Chris BarnardBetsy BenesLydia Bishop & Don HandsMary & Daniel BooteRobert ChristieKate & Craig ColdironJulie & Peter Craig+Patricia & Phil CrumpRuth DanbyPeggy DeanCatherine & Eric Draeger+Geralyn DunningElaine ErnstLisa & Bill FalconDeborah FeingoldJean & John FicoPatricia Foley+Joanne ForanMarynell ForanConstance ForrestStanley GabikCaryl & Wayne GallerSteve GeiermannLouis GermanottaAndrea Goetzinger+Janet GoldsmithLinda & Ervin GolembiewskiVirginia HalaskaMarilyn HartmannKeith HeidmannMary HenszeyMary HorneJune Hoyt

Mary JaeckleBeth JanicekMarjorie JothenKatie KaminskyMartha KehoeElaine KennedyKind Inc. DBA CulversAngela Lee+Debbie & Randy LeRoyLoretta & John LieskeThelma MahoneyRichard MastersLaurie MatherCarol Lynne McKean+Grace MertenSally MillsIone MinsterEleanor Moe+Randall MolesLinda & Edward MordySusan & Frank MrnikChristine & Robert MuellerCurt NunnErik Olson+Ann PanlenerLori Ann & Scott PannierJayne PeltonRoberta PiperMarilyn & Henry PowersDebbie RakestrawLee RennerGinny Tierney RogersMarie RomeroBarb Bernhardt-Roth & Roy

RothAida Sabulyte-GustHollie & Herb SchickCarol SchmittQuenten SchumacherGlenn & Trinny SchumannMark SchwertfegerMaureen & Jim SievekeMary SmiltneekBarbara SmithJulita SnellPhilip StarrEsther TitoCarolyn & Chuck TramelChristina TreiberDavid UnruhPat WarcholHazel WheatonRebecca & Steve WhitneyMary WyantBetty & Tom ZamzowMarilyn & Doug Zwissler

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