BUTLER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

presents

STUDENT SHOWCASE SERIES

Butler University Chorale and Chamber Singers Eric Stark, director

Butler Opera Theatre

Oliver Worthington, director

JCA Composers Orchestra Frank Felice, director

Butler Symphony Orchestra Richard Auldon Clark, director

Livestream Thursday, October 29, 2020

7:30 P.M.

The twentieth program of the Butler University School of Music 2020-21 season

BUTLER UNIVERSITY CHORALE Neue Liebesleider Waltzer (excerpt) Johannes Brahms (1833-97) O Holy Lord Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee Jean Berger

(1909-2002)

BUTLER UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Amor Vittorioso Giovanni Gastoldi (1554-1609) Hark! All Ye Lovely Saints Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)

BUTLER OPERA THEATRE Into the Night Clara Edwards

(1880-1974) Kate Fehan, soprano James Caraher, piano

JCA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA Aphasia (2009) Mark Applebaum

Ben Blackketter, performer

BUTLER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Divertimento for Strings in D Major, KV 136 (1772) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro (1756-1791) Andante Presto Psycho (1960) Bernard Herrmann

(1911-1975) Simple Symphony, op. 4 (1933) Benjamin Britten Boisterous Bourée (1913-1976) Playful Pizzicato Sentimental Sarabande Frolicsome Finale

Butler University Chorale Eric Stark, Director

SOPRANO I ALTO I TENOR I BASS I Adrian Daeger Caleb Crawford Ethan Schopp Gavin Craig Marianne Marten Sarah Doran Antony Winfrey Devon Cummings Kyra Opdyke Meg Schiliro Walker Demel Adri Palacio Sophie Strasheim SOPRANO II ALTO II TENOR II BASS II Paige Butler Emily Schlorf Jason Freer Joey VanHooser Emma Eyrich Yzabel Tio Griffin McPhail Douglas Perez Emma Hubeny Lauren Tooley Kevin Reyes Alex Schildgen Ruthie Miller

Butler University Chamber Singers Eric Stark, Director

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Paige Butler Caleb Crawford Kevin Reyes Luke Barath Kate Fehan Meg Schiliro Alejandro Reyna Gavin Craig Emma Hubeny Ethan Schopp Douglas Perez Jillian Jordan Alex Spannenberg

Butler Symphony Orchestra Richard Auldon Clark, director

VIOLIN I

Erin Gardiner, Perrysburg, OH Marcus Mizelle, Avon, IN

Bailey Yates, Lexington, KY Kathryn Tuttle, Columbus, IN Jessie Miller, Indianapolis, IN

Lisa (Sung Yeon) Kim, Greenwood, IN Charlea Schueler, Seymour, IN

Rebecca Wager, Indianapolis, IN Erin Jeffrey, Indianapolis, IN

VIOLIN II

Anna Smith, Naperville, IL Annie Donato, Jasper, IN

Eric Clevenger, Indianapolis, IN Carmela Thiele, Edina, MN

Caroline Wenokur, Geneva, IL Adia Mimms, Indianapolis, IN

Abigail Hopkins, Villa Grove, IL Mario Laing, Indianapolis, IN Lal Mawia, Indianapolis, IN

VIOLA Cassandra Tosh, Carmel, IN

Nicole Felker, Indianapolis, IN Jenna Small, Bargersville, IN

John Qualkenbush, Indianapolis, IN Alex Spees, Avon, IN

Lexi Scida, Valparaiso, IN Anna White, Avon Lake, OH

Martine Cardichon, Potomac, MD Meredith Resener, Indianapolis, IN

CELLO

Lydia Sarver, Fishers, IN Amelia Ball, Nashotah, WI

Katie Stitsworth, Frankfort, IN Rebekah White, Fishers, IN Ella King, Indianapolis, IN

Marjie Hanna, Indianapolis, IN Philip Kettler, Bethesda, MD

BASS

Sara Austin, Lombard, IL Amanda Murbach, Libertyville, IL Nick Gundersen, Noblesville, IN

Van Barnes, Indianapolis, IN

BIOS ERIC STARK In a dynamic career that combines performance, scholarship and collaborative leadership, conductor Eric Stark has established himself as a choral-orchestral specialist. In May 2016, he conducted the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus in a highly regarded performance of concert entitled "Our Spirit, Our Love, Our Joy" in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. In May 2012, Stark led over 300 musicians in an acclaimed perfor- mance of the massive Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) by Hector Berlioz with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Butler University Chorale (“The discipline of the choir’s preparation was evident from the start....the ‘Dies irae’...is one of the most thrilling episodes in the chorus-or- chestra literature, and Stark managed it with aplomb.” Indianapolis Star). He made his podium debut as guest conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in a 2008 presentation of Handel’s Messiah(“galvanic per- formance....the Choir sang excellently throughout.” Nuvo Newsweekly). His December 2007 Washington, DC debut with the Washington Chorus was also met with critical and popular acclaim (“Eric Stark had the chorus singing crisply and brightly....its rich, close harmonies shimmering.” Washington Post).

Stark has led performances of the Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts, Britten’s War Requiem and Saint Nico- las, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s Mass in B minor, the Weihnachts-Oratorium and numerous cantatas, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Zipoli’s Te Deum, Bee- thoven’s Mass in C, Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass and Requiem, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, the Poulenc Gloria, Fauré’s Requiem, and Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna. He has prepared choruses for such notable conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Raymond Leppard, Jahja Ling, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Mario Venzago, Carl St. Clair, Erich Kunzel, Krzysztof Urbanski and Jack Everly. His choruses are heard on multiple compact discs, including Festi- val of Carols Vol I (2014), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (2011); From East to West (2005) a holiday compilation with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; The Harmonies of

Hoosier History, (2001) featuring works by Indiana composers performed by the Indianapolis Arts Chorale; and A Festival of Carols (1997) with the Muncie, IN Masterworks Chorale.

Stark’s work as artistic collaborator and community leader has been both broad and unique. Under his leadership, his choirs have performed with such groups as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Dance Kaleidoscope, Indiana Repertory Theater, Indianapolis Children’s Choir, American Pianists Association, Jordan College Academy of Dance, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Clowes Memorial Hall, Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) and Butler University. He has conducted in the Oriental Art Center Concert Hall in Shanghai, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Strathmore Hall in Bethesda, MD, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. He has made conducting appearances in Greece, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay, and has led choirs on domestic tours in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans, Orlando and Tampa.

In 2012, Stark served as chorus master for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, featuring Madonna, Cee Lo Green, Nicki Minaj and LMFAO. He was honored with a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis in 2005. A firm believer in the power of music to connect diverse audiences and enrich lives, Stark has led a revitalized program of innovative educational outreach programs since joining the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in 2002. In-Choir-ing Minds is an interactive discussion/performance featuring engaging dialog interspersed with live musical examples. Hallelujah—What’s It to Ya?! is a light-hearted musical inspection of the greatest musical work of all time, Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus. The in-depth Choral Colloquium focuses on the contextual issues surrounding the great works for chorus and orchestra, and has featured such notable participants as composers Morten Lauridsen and Kyle Gann, scholar/performers Vance George, John Shirley-Quirk, Nick Strimple, Byron Adams and R. Larry Todd, and theologians Richard Hamilton and Frank Burch Brown.

In addition to his duties as Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Stark is also Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music of the School of Music at Butler University’s Jordan College of Fine Arts. There he leads the graduate program in choral conducting, conducts the Butler Chorale, and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and choral literature. His former conducting students have received appointments at leading choral positions around the United States, including Stetson University, Princeton University, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Los Angeles Opera, Transylvania University, Fort Wayne Children’s Chorus and the University of Wisconsin. In 2003 and 2009 he taught a Butler University honors course he designed, Putting Wings on Dreams—the First 100 Years of Powered Flight, using the dramatic stories of aviation pioneers as case studies in human determination and innovation. He has served on the faculties of Christian Theological Seminary, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne and Earlham College. He received the doctoral degree in choral conducting from Indiana University, where he was a student of Jan Harrington, Robert Porco and Thomas Dunn. He is a 2014 Sagamore of the Wabash, the state of Indiana's highest civilian honor. A 1988 graduate of Wabash College, he is also a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, a non-profit network of pilots providing free air transportation for those with medical needs. OLIVER WORTHINGTON Oliver Worthington, baritone, has performed extensively as an opera singer, oratorio soloist, and recitalist in Texas before moving to Indianapolis to join the faculty at Butler University. He has appeared with regional opera companies like South Texas Lyric Opera, San Antonio Opera, San Antonio Symphony, Hill Country Lyric, Austin Opera, and Lone Star Lyric in diverse roles from Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus to Mamma Agatha in Viva la Mamma. Other roles include Count Gil in Il Segreto di Susanna, Bruschino in Il Signor Bruschino, Dr. Greg in Gallantry, The Duke of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers, Le Podestat in Le Docteur Miracle, and others in more traditional repertoire. Dr. Worthington maintains a full schedule as an educator and performer and serves as the President of The Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation (www.jensenfoundation.org), a non-profit dedicated to supporting the arts with cash prizes to young singers.

FRANK FELICE Frank Felice is an eclectic composer who writes with a postmodern mischievousness: each piece speaks in its own language, and they can be by turns comedic/ironic, simple/complex, subtle/startling, or humble/reverent. Recent projects of Felice's have taken a turn towards the sweeter side, exploring a consonant adiatonicism.

His music has been performed extensively in the U.S. as well as garnering performances in Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom, China, the Russian Federation, Austria, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. His commissions have included funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Omaha Symphony, the Indiana Arts Commission, The Indiana Repertory Theatre, Dance Kaleidoscope, Music Teachers National Association, the Wyoming State Arts Board, the Indianapolis Youth Symphony, Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma, as well as many private commissions and consortia. A recording of electronic and electro-acoustic music entitled "Sidewalk Music" is available on Capstone Records & Ravello records on iTunes, Naxos, and other online sites. Scores and other performance materials can be obtained from Mad Italian Bros. Ink Publishing.

Frank began his musical studies in Hamilton, Montana, singing, playing piano, guitar and double bass. His interest in composition began through participation with a number of rock bands, one of which, Graffiti, toured the western United States and the Far East in 1986-1987. He attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, the University of Colorado, and Butler University, studying with Michael Schelle, Daniel Breedon, Luiz Gonzalez, and James Day. Most recently he has studied with Dominick Argento, Alex Lubet, Lloyd Ultan, and Judith Lang Zaimont at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he completed his Ph.D in 1998. Frank currently teaches as an associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the School of Music, Jordan College of Arts at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

He is member of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S., the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, The Society of Composers Inc., and the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers. Residencies include those with the Wyoming Arts Council and the Banff Centre for the Arts, and a number of mini-residencies in universities and high schools throughout the west and mid-west. In recent years he has been in demand as an electric and upright bassist, playing in various rock/funk/prog rock/big bands in the greater Indianapolis area. In addition to musical interests, he pursues his creative muse through painting, poetry, cooking, home brewing, paleontology, theology, philosophy, and basketball. He is very fortunate to be married to mezzo-soprano Mitzi Westra. RICHARD AULDON CLARK Composer, conductor, violinist, and violist Richard Auldon Clark is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival. A strong proponent of American music, Mr. Clark has performed and/or recorded hundreds of world premieres, and his work has received extraordinary praise in the New York Times, Fanfare, American Record Guide, Washington Post, and dozens of others. Mr. Clark has recorded the music of David Amram, Henry Cowell, Seymour Barab, Lukas Foss, Alan Hovhaness, Otto Leuning, Osvaldo Lacerda, Dave Soldier, Alec Wilder, and many more. An active studio musician as well, Mr. Clark has performed and recorded for Broadway, television, commercial, and film music, including several films for Philip Glass. Mr. Clark’s compositions have been praised in the New York Times and broadcast on NPR stations around the country. With more than twenty chamber works to his credit, Mr. Clark has premiered six new compositions in the past three years at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, and in September 2016, his opera Happy Birthday, Wanda June with a libretto by Kurt Vonnegut was premiered by Indianapolis Opera. A frequent collaborator, Mr. Clark works with dancers, choreographers, and visual artists in the creation of new works. Currently, Mr. Clark is Professor of Music at Butler University where he conducts the Butler Symphony Orchestra and Butler Ballet.

JCA LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT We acknowledge that we gather here at Butler University on the traditional land of indigenous peoples including the Potawatomi, Miami, Delaware, and Shawnee. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the indigenous peoples past and present who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit, while also acknowledging that some were brought to this land not by choice.

The Butler University School of Music is proud to acknowledge Meridian Piano Movers

as a corporate sponsor of our programs.