dale warland singers, farewell concert, may 30, 2004

table of contents

Available Recordings 2

Introduction 3

Tribute from Doug Lowry 5

Letter from Dale Warland 4

Dale Warland Singer Biography and Roster 6

Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director 8

Tribute Letters 9

Artistic Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Special Guest: Tom Crann 13

I Have Had Singing: A Choral Celebration 14

Program Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The Singers 25

Historical Highlights 28

Memories and Photographs 32

Discography 40

Alumni Singers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Former Board Members And Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Honor Roll .. ".................... 45

Program Design: Mary Stromberg

Production: Contributed by Minnesota Monthly Publications

Printing: Sexton Printing, Inc.

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recordings

NEW ON DVDI

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Brand new CD and DVD available on May 30th!

The Dale War land Singers Commemorative DVD

A video tribute to the Dale Warland Singers, one of the world's great choral ensembles andGrammy" nominated artists. Celebrating 31 seasons of music-making with interviews, high-lights from the photo archives, concert and behind-the-scenes footage, plus photomontageswith audio excerpts from live broadcasts. Approx. 60 minutes. Special features include:

• animated menus and chapter selections• previously unreleased material.• never-before-seen photos and video footage• reviews, articles, and commentary

Special Price on May 30th only: $20 (after May 30th: $25)

Reincarnations - NEW RELEASE - 2004Five 20th century masterworks by Irving Fine, Jacob Avshalomov, Samuel Barber, Ross LeeFinney and Charles Ives. This stunning new recording cements DWS' reputation as America'schampions of contemporary choral music.

GRAMMY NOMINATED! - Walden Pond - 2003Three major works by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Dominick Argento, comprise ourGrammy nominated recording, Walden Pond, released by Gothic Records. GramophoneMagazine calls it "...pure 'liquid joy'."

Rachmaninoff Vespers - NEW RELEASE! - 2003Don't miss this stunning new LIVE RECORDING of the piece known as "the crowningachievement of the 'Golden Age' of Russian Orthodox sacred choral music."

Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers - 2002Familiar Christmas tunes in new arrangements, brand new carols and old favorites.

Bernstein and Britten - 1999This recording features Bernstein's provocative Chichester Psalms and Britten's Rejoice in theLamb plus Stephen Paulus' famous Pilgrim's Hymn and other contemporary works byRautavaara, Wertsch, Harlap, Albright, and Hovland.

Blue Wheat - 1996 - Best SellerA wonderfully expressive collection of American folk songs ranging from the whimsical to theprofound. Featuring spirituals, Stephen Foster ballads and new arrangements of such oldclassics as Oh Shenandoah and Deep River.

December Stillness - 1995Lush, twentieth-century settings of Christmas/winter-inspired texts.

Cathedral Classics - 1994The ethereal sounds of Martin, Howells, and Allegri, including Barber's Agnus Dei.

A Rose in Winter - 1989 (Re-released 1997)An intriguing blend of time-honored Christmas/winter works and engaging modern offerings.

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1 & 2 - 1992 (Re-released 2001)Magical and refreshing collections of well-known and less-familiar Christmas carols.

These recordings are available during intermission and after the concert in the lobby.

Starting June 2004, to order any DWS recording or to send for a complete DWS CD catalog,please contact Gothic Records at (800)735-4720 or www.gothicrecords.com

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introduction

I Have Had Singing

The singing!There was so much singing then,and this was my pleasure too.We all sang, ob, the chapels were full of singing, always singing.I have had pleasure enough,I have had singing.

-Fred Mitchel, age 85, Akenfield, England

Composer Steven Sametz set this poignant text to music in 1993, and it capturesthe fullness of a life lived with music.

Tonight's farewell concert is a celebration of the peerless artistry, dedication andtalent that Dale Warland and the more than 350 current and former vocalists havegiven the Twin Cities and the world for nearly 32 years. They have brought alevel of beauty and perfection to the choral repertoire that will be hard to matchin years to come.

This commemorative program outlines the organization's many accomplishments,such as:

• commissioned 270 new works for chorus,• presented more than 400 concerts,• toured in the USA and abroad• produced 27 highly acclaimed recordings.

Harder to quantify, however, is the influence the Dale Warland Singers has hadon countless choral organizations and communities across the nation - and theworld.

DWSalumni and fans are scattered all over the country. (Some will join theSingers onstage tonight for a special performance of five movements fromRachmaninoff's Vespers.) They sing, teach, compose, conduct, and critique.Most importantly, they continue to share their passion for choral music, inschools, universities, churches and communities of all sorts.


To all those who have come from near and far, our deepest appreciation andgratitude for your support.

We look forward to the exciting new paths ahead.

Yes, we have had singing. Oh, what singing! We have had pleasure enough.I

UNIVERSITY OFl(fCincinnati

FRIENDS OF THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS:

On behalf of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University ofCincinnati, it is our honor to have been selected as the final repositoryinstitution for the Dale Warland Singers Score Library and Archives.

Victoria Montavon, Dean of University Libraries at the University ofCincinnati, shares with me her enthusiasm for this marvelouscollection. Dr. Montavon's passionate commitment to excellentarchival materials is more than just commendable. In concert withthe Choral Studies program at CCM, Dr. Montavon intends tomake this is a living archive, using the sophisticated technologicalresources of a major research library in order to make availablethe message of the Dale Warland Singers archives to a worldwideaudience.

College-Conservatory of Music

Office of the DeanUniversity of CincinnatiPO Box 210003Cincinnati OH 45221-0003

PhoneFaxEmail

(513) 556-3737(513) [email protected]

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We are also indebted to Dr. Earl Rivers, Director of Choral Studies, Head of the Division of Ensemblesand Conducting at CCM and Music Director of the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati. His persistence,patience and commitment to the principles of choral music education at the very highest artisticand pedagogical levels, as well as his firm belief that the collection really had, from the beginning,only one conceivable home outside of St. Paul, means that you are assured of loving and committedstewardship.


These documents constitute one of the great cornerstones of American culture. Our goal is to makesure that future generations of choral conductors and musicians will learn from these testaments ofmusical insight and knowledge. We are committed as a school to high standards, and we believeyou have found the right home.

Finally, I would like to thank Gayle Ober, Executive Director of the Dale Warland Singers. Sheexpertly represented the interests of the DWS and Board through her knowledgeable and probingquestions that helped us in the end to bond your mission and legacy with ours.

Sincerely,

Douglas LowryDean and Thomas James Kelly Professor of Music

An affirmative action/equal opportunity institution

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something youbring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most importantthing is-it must be something you cannot possibly do!"

Henry Moore- as told to poet and writer Donald Hall in his book Life Work

In this final year of the Dale Warland Singers (DWS),so manypeople have gone out of their way to thank me for my work. ButI have a confession to make. It is I who should be offering thanksto all of you-most earnestly.

By being friends, supporters, and audience members you havegiven me the daily opportunity to do my life's true work. WhenI reflect on the magnitude of that gift, I can only hope I havemanaged to return something meaningful to all of you.

Earlier this year, we finished a recording that includes CharlesIves' Psalm gO-the disc is entitled Reincarnations. The textincludes the aphorism "Rejoice in Beauty and Work." For thepast 31 years of the Dale Warland Singers, I have been able to dojust that.

You won't be surprised to hear me say that I believe choral singing is the most perfect form ofbeauty. But you may not know that my daily touchstone is the belief that beauty has the power tomove people so deeply it can change the world.

Singing can reach places within the human spirit that are impenetrable to the ordinary and imperfectnoises of our lives. My endeavor, along with the singers, has been to create moments when we cantranscend the ordinary and dwell with beauty. What happens in those moments happens at the coreof our beings. And somehow the world looks different afterwards.

Of late, I have been wondering how the world is different for the presence of DWS and what willchange without this unique voice. It is my deep hope that each individual who has contributed tothe "voice" of DWS will carry something with them. Wherever the road takes these talented menand women, I hope they will also rejoice in beauty and work.

In closing, allow me to express my deep gratitude for all the support you have given me to realizemy vision and dream. Let this concert be a celebration of thanks ... and let beauty and work continueto fill our lives.

Dale Warland,Founder and Music Director


the dale warland singers

Based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, theDale Warland Singers (DWS)is recog-nized as one of the world's foremosta cappella choral ensembles. This40-voice professional choir is currentlycelebrating its 31st and final season ofconcerts, tours, radio broadcasts, andcritically acclaimed recordings.

Besides its pristine and peerlesssignature sound, the Dale WarlandSingers is also renowned for rejuve-nating the choral genre. It has com-missioned an astounding 270 worksin 31 years - more new choralmusic, in fact, than probably anyother classical music organization inthe country.

In total, more than 150 notablecomposers have worked with DWS,including Grammy-winners DominickArgento and Libby Larsen, StephenPaulus, Carol Barnett, Aaron JayKernis, George Shearing, DaveBrubeck, Peter Schickele, AliceParker, Kirke Mechem, Mary EllenChilds, Augusta Read Thomas,Janika Vandervelde, Bernard Rands,Emma Lou Diemer, Brent MichaelDavids, Frank Ferko and EricWhitacre.

In this final season alone, DWS pre-miered 16 new works by 14 Ameri-can composers - eight of whom livein the Twin Cities. The Dale WarlandSingers' annual Choral Ventures"Program, created in 1987, has award-ed over $162,000 in commissions to60 talented emerging composersfrom all over the USA.


In 1992, the Dale Warland Singersbecame the first-ever recipient ofASCAP's Margaret Hillis Achieve-ment Award for Choral Excellence.The group's extraordinary efforts onbehalf of composers and new musicresulted in ASCAP Awards forAdventurous Programming in 1992,1993, 1996, and 1999.

In addition to offering an annualsubscription season in the TwinCities, the Dale Warland Singerstoured throughout the United Statesand abroad. In 1990, DWS traveledto Stockholm and Helsinki to repre-sent North America at the SecondWorld Symposium on Choral Music.Most recently, in 2002, DWS madeits debut at The Ravinia Festival(Chicago), and performed at theAmerican Society of HarpistsNational Conference and the SixthWorld Symposium on Choral Music,both held in the Twin Cities. In2003, the Singers performed withthe Mormon Tabernacle Choir dur-ing a tour of the western UnitedStates. Its Spring 2004 concerts inOhio, Florida and West Virginiareceived rave reviews.

DWS collaborated with many otherTwin Cities arts organizationsincluding the Saint Paul ChamberOrchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra,the Greater Twin Cities YouthSymphonies and the James SewellBallet. The choir worked under thebatons of the late Robert Shaw,Leonard Slatkin, StanislawSkrowaczewski, Neville Mariner,Edo de Waart, Hugh Wolff, BobbyMcFerrin, David Zinman, RogerNorrington and James Conlon, toname a few.

The ensemble also appeared onGarrison Keillor's original A Prairie

Home Companion show and per-formed regularly on Public RadioInternational's Saint Paul Sunday.Its annual "Echoes of Christmas"and "Cathedral Classics" broadcastsreach listeners nationwide.

In late May 2004, DWS is releasingReincarnations, its 27th recordingand the first of three planned finalCDs. In 2003, the choir produced itsfirst "live" recording, Rachmaninoff's

Vespers, and Walden Pond, whichfeatures the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argen-to and was recently nominated for aGRAMMY.The Seattle Times

described Christmas with the Dale

Warland Singers, released in 2002, as"impeccable, full of vibrant life andblended like a bottle of Veuve Clic-quot Grande Dame."

DWS' Bernstein and Britten recordingfeatures Bernstein's Chichester

Psalms, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb,Stephen Paulus' Pilgrims' Hymn andmovements from Albright'sChichester Mass. Another favorite,Blue Wheat, is a collection of Ameri-can folk music. Among the Singers'lauded releases is December

Stillness, which BBC Music Magazine

gave its highest rating for performanceand sound, calling it, " ... splendid,melting stuff". The South Jersey's

Courier-Post called 1994's CathedralClassics, "an unmatched musicalexperience." Earlier recordings byDWS include Fancie, A Rose in

Winter, Christmas Echoes Volumes Iand II, Carols for Christmas, andChoral Currents.

Soprano

Beth AlthofWendi Buck

Marie Spar Dymit*Carole Hofstad

Deborah Loon OsgoodJennifer Rissman

Jodi RoweDawn Schuffenhauer

Naomi StaruchMonica StrattonTeresa Tierney

Soprano

Pam MarentetteSarah Schlomer Melander

Melissa Morey

Alto

Abbie BetinisGalina Erickson

Joanne Halvorsen *Melissa Holm-Johansen

Lynette JohnsonNatalia Kojanova

Anna George MeekMary C. Maiden-Mueller

Krista J. PalmquistSusan Ramlet

Tenor

Joel C. Fischer*Jon HermansonEric N. Hopkins

Justin KarchNicholas Eugene Lemme

David LowerRobert Pontious

Hal SnyderAnthony Sofie

Alto

Additional Singers

Tenor

Carrie BensonTeresa Elsbernd

Debra HarrerRosita Tendall

Jared AndersonLarry BachJoel Beyer

Steve Staruch

Bass

Duane E. AndersenMatthew Culloton *

Eric HarstadDave Jacobson

Patrick McDonoughMichael Meyer

Jack NelsonThomas ShafferSteve SheppardBrian L. Steele

* section leader

Bass

Jeffrey BipesBruce BroquistKevin Norberg

Bob PeskinBrian PettyJim Ramlet

Terry Sheetz

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dale warland, founder and music director

Dale Warlandfounder and music director


Dale Warland, celebrated American musician, has made an indelibleimpression on the landscape of contemporary choral music both nationallyand internationally. During his time with the Dale Warland Singers, he hasshaped a vocal ensemble known for its exquisite sound, technical finesse,and stylistic range. From this platform, Warland not only masters the tradi-tional repertoire, but has commissioned 270 new choral works, more thanany classical music organization in the country.

The music world has responded by bestowing its highest honors on War-land, including a 2003 Grammy nomination for Walden Pond in Best ChoralPerformance, the prestigious ASCAP (American Society of Composers,Authors and Publishers) Victor Herbert Award (2003) in recognition of War-land's artistic contributions, the Distinguished Master Artists Award fromthe University of South Florida (2004), the Sally Ordway Irvine Award forVision (2003), and a special award from Chorus America and ASCAP for War-land's "pioneering vision, leadership and commitment to commissioning andperforming new choral works at the highest level of artistry" (2002).

Other awards and recognition include the 2001 Louis Botto Award for Innov-ative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal; the 2001 McKnight DistinguishedArtist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conduc-tor and his continued contribution to the arts in Minnesota; and the 1995Michael Korn Founder's Award, the highest honor for a choral conductor inthe United States, previously awarded to Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, andRoger Wagner, among others.

Warland's appearances as a guest conductor have taken him to the podiumsof the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir,Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, the UtahChamber Artists, the Grant Park Music Festival and Israel's CameranSingers, to name a few. Warland has also rehearsed and prepared choirs forperformances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors andcomposers including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, StanislawSkrowaczewski, Sir Neville Marriner, Kryzstof Penderecki, Roger Norrington,James Conlon, Hugh Wolff, and Bobby McFerrin.

Warland is committed to sharing his knowledge about the choral arts. Hehas served on the jury of the Eric Ericson Award (international conductingcompetition in Sweden); the All-Japan Chorus League National Competitionin Fukuoka, Japan; has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academyin Helsinki; served on the artistic staff of the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain;and acted as co-chair of both the choral and recording panels of the NationalEndowment for the Arts.

Warland served 19 years as Director of Choral Music at Macalester Collegein St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds bachelor and master of music degrees fromSt. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota, respectively, and a doctoratein choral conducting from the University of Southern California. He has alsoreceived honorary doctorates from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SouthDakota and Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dear Friends,

I write this letter with no small degree of sadness, knowing that it is a eulogy to one of this country'sfinest choral ensembles, the Dale Warland Singers, and a postscript to its conductor, my long-time friendof 45 years, Dale Warland.

The Dale Warland Singers is without doubt a 'choral masterpiece' that has set an artistic standard towhich all other choirs aspire. After attending the Singers recent concert in St. Paul on April 26, 2004, I wasreminded again of its beauty of sound, the sensitivity to expression, and the quality of musicianship. I leftthe concert realizing why the Dale Warland Singers is considered to be the premier professional choir inthis country,

What is very special about the Dale Warland Singers is that it has earned a reputation nationally andinternationally for its commitment to performing new choral music, commissioning 270 new works.The choir's 26 recordings have brought critical acclaim to its conductor and the organization, the ulti-mate achievement being a GRAMMYnomination for its 2003 recording of Walden Pond, a collection ofthree major choral works by University of Minnesota Professor Emeritus Dominick Argento.

The choir's collaborations with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra, per-formances on Minnesota Public Radio, appearances at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Helsin-ki and Minneapolis, and its extensive touring schedule have brought the choir numerous accolades andawards. Twin Cities, you have been so fortunate to feast at this table of richness.In your remarkable cultural life, the Dale Warland Singers is a crown jewel.

And to Dale, who is now completing 31 years of molding this ensemble into a fine tuned instrument - achoral Stradivarius might be a better term - I salute you. As founder of the DWS, you went through thebirthing process of the organization, nurtured it during its adolescent years, and realized its true per-sonality as a mature adult. What a significant accomplishment! What a great parent!

And now you have the challenge of looking ahead to new landscapes.

Indisputably you are one of the most important figures in American choral music today. Your impor-tance stems not only from your depth of understanding about the choral art, but also from the fact thatyou have helped bring this art form to a new level. At the peak of an illustrious career you are recog-nized as a consummate artist and conductor who has devoted your life to the nurturing and promotionof choral music worldwide.

You have reached significant heights as guest conductor of the Swedish and Danish Radio Choirs, theEstonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Israel's Cameran Singers, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.You have served as a juror at international choir competitions in Japan and Spain, andlectured at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

So where do you go from here?

It would be presumptuous of me to speculate, but I am certain that the 'fire within' will not die. I sus-pect that you will- you must! - continue to share your knowledge through teaching, conducting, andcomposing. And to this end I wish you God speed.

With continued affection and good wishes,

Royce Saltzman

Executive Director, Oregon Bach FestivalPast President, International Federation for Choral Music


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To the Dale Warland Singers,

Ten years ago, a friend at Concordia College in Moorhead told me that a great professionalchoir out of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area had recorded one of their conductor's compositions.Knowing that I was a connoisseur of top-level choral music, he recommended that I try toget one of the group's CD's. So I called your office and ordered "Cathedral Classics".

After I received the recording, I slipped on a good pair of headphones, sat on the couchand prepared to listen to a great choral group.

But I heard much more than that. I heard a sound that I had only dreamed about. Asound that was rich and warm, exact in vowel and consonant and with a reverence thatwas absent in all of the recordings that I had previously heard. And the sound was fullybalanced throughout the voices. I was mesmerized. But living in California limited myability to hear you "in concert".

Seeing that you would be performing in Idaho in 2003 sealed my fate. I will never forgetsitting in the concert hall prior to your concert, listening to your rehearsal, my heartbeating out of my chest. I was so worried that the greatest choral music I had heard"on CD" would not be the same in person. My fears quickly disappeared sixty secondsinto the rehearsal. The concert I heard that night will forever remain one of my life'shighlights.

Your music has inspired and amazed me. The reverence in your recordings as well as yourperformances has renewed and invigorated my faith. Your music is an integral pert of mylife. Imagine having 40 singers, all outstanding performers in their own right, unselfishlycoming together to sing as one. The result is the finest choral group ever in the UnitedStates, if not the world.

Paul JeskeCalifornia


Sunday, May 30, 2004

To Dale Warland and our esteemed friends and colleagues of the Dale Warland Singers:

On this day of celebration and farewell, the members and staff of the Mormon TabernacleChoir wish to honor you for more than 30 years of magnificent music. You have brought joyand inspiration to countless audiences throughout the world.

Your music has set a standard of excellence in the choral community. Your achievementsare many as you have given of your time in preparation and shared your talents in harmony.Your musicianship is unmeasured. We delight in the memory of uniting in song for theMarch 20, 1988 and March 30,2003 broadcasts of Music and the Spoken Word.

We congratulate you now on the culmination of 31 years of touching hearts andstirring souls through your sweet song. Though we feel profound sadness as the sound ofyour voices is silenced, we take heart that your recordings will keep your presence felt farinto the future. There is a message in music that can be felt when words fail us.Your music will be missed.

We thank you for the generous gift of music you have given us.

On behalf of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir:

Mac ChristensenPresident

John LonghurstTabernacle Organist

Craig JessopMusic Director

Clay ChristiansenTabernacle Organist

Mack WilbergAssociate Music Director

Richard ElliottTabernacle Organist

The Dale Warland Singers joined the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its"Music and the Spoken Word" broadcast, Salt Lake City, 2003.


artistic staff

Ruth Palmerassistant conductor

John Muehleisencomposer-in-residence

Ruth Palmer began her association with the Dale Warland Singers in January2003 with the preparation of Messiaen's Trios Petites Liturgies de la PresenceDivine, a collaboration with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and as assistantconductor for the DWS 30th Anniversary concert. She is currently Director ofMusic Ministries at Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul, Minnesota, and musicdirector and vocal coach/pianist at The Institute for Art Song Recital Perfor-mance.

Ruth has spent her concert career playing for singers on stages such as AliceTully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, The National Gallery of Art, The Beaux Arts Soci-ety of Brussels, the Ordway McKnight Theatre and Orchestra Hall. She hasbeen accompanist for master classes by Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, DaltonBaldwin, and David Garvey. She has performed world premieres of works byGian-Carlo Menotti, Libby Larsen, and Richard Hundley. Ruth played nationalcompetitions for NATS Artist Award, Carnegie Hall International AmericanMusic Competition, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and she was official accom-panist for the Rosa Ponselle Vocal Competition in Tully Hall. As a vocalcoach/pianist she has worked extensively with art song and opera, preparingsingers for roles in major opera houses as well as in universities.

Ruth has taught at Philadelphia College of the Arts, West Chester University,University of Delaware, University of Minnesota, and at the NATS MasterTeachers Intern Program at Penn State University.

Northwest composer John Muehleisen specializes in composing works forvoice and for choral ensembles. Since 1996, he has served as composer-in-resi-dence for Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble directed by Loren Ponten, and completedeight commissions for the Seattle-based group. Two of these works, The Great'0' Antiphons and De Profundis appear on Opus 7 CDs on the Gothic/LoftRecordings label.

Besides the Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, Muehleisen's works have also been per-formed by the Dale Warland Singers, Seattle Girls Choir, Seattle Pro Musica,The Esoterics, Dulces Voces, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, WashingtonKantorei (D.C.), Quake, and the Louisville Orchestra. His compositions havebeen featured at the Sixth World Choral Symposium in the Twin Cities; theInternational Choral Festival in Cantonigros, Spain; Greenwich House's CuttingEdge concert series; the Ernest Bloch Music Festival; Seattle Spring; June inBuffalo; the 22nd Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State University; andthe Modern American Music Festival at California State University, Sacramento.

John was the 1988 recipient of the Louisville Orchestra's Orchestral Composi-tion Competition Award and has received awards and grants from Meet theComposer, ASCAP, the American Music Center, the University of Washington,and Indiana University. John was a finalist in the 2000 Dale Warland SingersChoral Ventures" Program, and, in August of 2002 his epitaph for SATB choirand trumpet, entitled Snow (The King's Trumpeter), was featured by the DaleWarland Singers in the final concert of the Sixth World Choral Symposium heldin Minneapolis. He holds a Master of Music degree in Composition from theUniversity of Washington, where he studied with William Bergsma, William O.Smith, and Diane Thome. During doctoral studies at Indiana University, hestudied with John Eaton, Donald Erb, Eugene O'Brien, and Harvey Sollberger.


special guest

tom crannpre-concert moderator and narratorEvery weekday from 9 am to 1 pm, Tom Crann is the host on Minnesota PublicRadio's classical music stations, including 99.5 FM in the Twin Cities. Listenersnationwide also hear Tom during those same hours as a part of Classical 24,the live round-the-clock classical music service produced by Minnesota PublicRadio.

Tom CrannA 20-year radio veteran, Tom has worked at stations in St. Louis, Evansville,Buffalo, and Los Angeles. He was a founding voice of Classical 24, when it firstwent on the air in December 1995, and of Ireland's Lyric fm, when it first start-ed in 1999.

In addition to his work for Classical 24, Tom is the host for a variety of specialprograms from Minnesota Public Radio, including the US broadcasts of concertsfrom England's BBC Proms Festival, as well as the 2003 broadcasts by the DaleWarland Singers, Cathedral Classics and the annual Echoes of Christmas concert.

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MAY 30, 2004, 3:00 PMORCHESTRA HALL

I HAVE HAD SINGING: A CHORAL CELEBRATIONI

Proudly sponsored by St. Paul Travelers, Ecolab and Private Bank Minnesota

A 20th Century Eclectic Mass

1. CATHEDRAL CLASSICS

+Kyrie (from Chichester Mass) William AlbrightGloria (from Mass for Mixed Chorus) Vincent PersichettIChorale (from Mass) Leonard Bernstein

+Sanctus (from Mass for Double Chorus) Frank Martin+Agnus Dei (from Chichester Mass) William Albright

II. ARGENTO: AN AMERICAN ICON

+ ·Walden Pond: Nocturnes and Barcaroles Dominick Argento

Commissioned by and dedicated to Dale Warland and The Dale Warland Singers

on the occasion of their 25th anniversary.

I. The PondII. Angling

III. ObservingIV. ExtollingV. Walden Revisited

Please hold your applause until the end of each section.

Please note: No cameras or recording devices of any kind may be used during performances.

Please turn off any electronic beeping devices (watches, pagers, cell phones, etc)

or leave them with an usher prior to the performance.

Minnesota Public Radio is recording and broadcastingthis performance live.


May 30, 2004 is Dale Warland Singers Day

in the State of Minnesota as proclaimed by Governor Tim Pawlenty

and in the City of Saint Paul as proclaimed by Mayor Randy Kelly

and in the City of Minneapolis as proclaimed by Mayor R.T. Rybak

INTERMISSION

III. ECHOES OF CHRISTMAS

+Magnificat Arvo Part

+*What Child is This? Dale Warland

Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre

IV. RUSSIAN SPLENDOR

+Excerpts from Vespers, Op, 37 Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rejoice, 0 Virgin

9. EJIaroCJIOBeHeca, Tocnona Blessed Art Thou, 0 Lord

13. Tponaps ~ecb cnaceaae The Troparion "TodaySalvation Has Come"

The Troparion "Thou DidstRise from the Tomb"

14. Tponaps Bocxpec H3rp06a

15. B36paHHOHsoeaozre To Thee, the VictoriousLeader

Instrumentalists:Linda Chatterton, fluteJoseph Johnson, celloKathy Kienzle, harpKatja Linfield, celloPitnarry Shin, cello

+ Recorded by the Dale Warland Singers* Commissioned and premiered by the Dale Warland Singers


program notesby brian newhouse I HAVE HAD SINGING: A CHORAL CELEBRATION!

Sponsored by St. Paul Travelers, Ecolab and Private Bank Minnesota

How to end it? After nearly 32 years, 26 recordings (and three more on the way), 270 new scorescommissioned, hundreds of concerts, thousands-through broadcasts, probably millions-of livestouched by the beauty of voices in song ... how do you pull the plug on all this and say good-bye?

By simply saying thanks.

This concert, says Dale Warland, is "an expression of gratitude, a greeting card of thanks for thecommunity and friends who've supported us all these years. Of all the music I could have chosenfor this program, it came down to these selections: they say in words and music, 'Thank you forall you've given us.'"

I. Cathedral Classics

A 20th Century Eclectic Mass

Kyrie (from Chichester Mass) William Albright

The concept of the Eclectic Mass is a Warland original. Many years ago, Dale Warland beganpulling selected movements from his favorite Mass settings to create concert suites for his choirsto perform. "Some Mass settings, like those by Albright and Martin, I love and wanted to do thewhole thing. But in other settings, I loved individual movements. So it occurred to me to puttogether my own Mass from particular movements." This Eclectic Mass pays tribute to four greatchoral composers.

William Albright (1944-98) was a gifted University of Michigan professor and an accomplishedkeyboardist. He believed in music as an intuitive art, stressing the importance of communicatingthrough imagination and beauty of sound. "My music is generous, eclectic and maximal. I enjoymessy diversity to boring unity," Albright said. His Chichester Mass, based on the traditionalAnglican text, was composed in 1974 for the 900th anniversary of Chichester Cathedral in Sussex,England the following year.

KyrieKyrie eleison.Christe eleison.

Lord have mercy.Christ have mercy.

Gloria (from Mass for Mixed Chorus) Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Persichetti (1915-87) enrolled in his first college-level music theory course when he was anine year old in Philadelphia. The wunderkind went on to head the Iuilliard School's renownedcomposition department in the 1960s and write 166 works for orchestra, band, and choir. Someof these were written while driving his car; he said driving helped him compose, and he oftentaped score paper to his steering wheel! He described his music as either gritty or graceful, thelatter of which characterizes the "Gloria" from his 1960 Mass for Mixed Chorus.

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Sloria

Gloria, gloria in excelsis DeoEt in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Glory to God in the highestand peace on earth to men of good will.

Chorale (from Mass) : Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) expressed the dynamism of his Jewish heritage in several composi-tions, notably his three symphonies (subtitled respectively Jeremiah, Age of Anxiety, and Kaddish).He was also intrigued his whole life by the Roman Catholic Mass, a service he found moving,mysterious, and inherently theatrical. In 1971, for the opening of the Kennedy Center inWashington, D.C., Bernstein's created his own Mass. It follows the liturgy exactly, but is frequentlyinterrupted by a Celebrant and congregation as they portray the drama of a man whose faithbecomes unsustainable in the face of human misery. The score calls for orchestra, three choruses,a Broadway-sized cast with ballet company, marching band and a rock band-but the quiet eye inthe storm is this choral prayer.

Almighty FatherAlmighty Father, incline Thine ear:Bless us and all those who have gathered here.Who shall defend us all.And fill with graceAll who dwell in this place.Amen.

Sanctus (from Mass for Double Chorus) Frank Martin

Frank Martin (1890-1974) wrote his Mass when he was in his thirties, then put it away, neverintending to hear it publicly. Later he wrote: "I considered it as being a matter between God andmyself. I felt then that an expression of religious feeling should remain secret and removed frompublic opinion." It lay in a drawer for nearly forty years and was finally uncovered in the early1960s. The "Sanctus" is the' climax of Martin's Mass, and the luminous music he wrote for the line,"Hosanna in excelsis," (Glory in the highest) is the peak of the mountain.

SanctusSanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus DeusSanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus DeusSabaothPleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tuaHosanna, hosanna, hosanna in excelsisBenedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini,Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in excelsis

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts,Heav'n and earth are full of thy glory.Glory be to thee, 0 Lord most high.Blessed is he who comes in the name ofthe Lord.Hosanna in the highest.

Agnus Dei (from Chichester Mass) William Albright

Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei,qui tollis peccata mundi,miserere nobis.Dona nobis pacem.

Lamb of God,who takes away the sins of the world,have mercy on us.Grant us peace.


Dominick Argento

II. Argento: An American Icon

Walden Pond: Nocturnes and Barcarolesfor Mixed Chorus, Three Violoncellos and Harp Dominick Argento

I. The Pond11. AnglingIll. ObservingIV. ExtollingV. Walden Revisited

Walden. Far out of proportion to the pond's actual size, its name is mythic in the Americanconsciousness. Henry David Thoreau's 1854 book, Walden, written after two years of living on itsshores, was a pivot in our nation's literature-and 150 years later it still challenges American notionsabout work, leisure, individualism, and the environment.

For all that popularity and influence, Walden has never attracted vocal composers. Its lean, incrediblygraceful style puts them off: how do you set a masterpiece to music? But former University ofMinnesota professor Dominick Argento says: "Using fine literature is almost an encouragement tome, because it's clean and honed, unlike a lot of lyrics or poetry."

The opportunity to write for the DWS directed Argento toward Thoreau. "It was a chicken-and-eggsituation. I was looking for a text to set, and I kept thinking of the clarity of the Warland Singers'sound. That led me to Thoreau because of his clarity. I admire the DWS above all other vocal groupsand wanted a text that would flatter them. Thoreau was it."

Walden Pond was commissioned for the DWS 25th anniversary in 1996 and written over a sixmonth period in Argento's Minneapolis home. The choir has recorded it, and it was nominatedfor a 2003 GRAMMY Award. Dale Warland calls it "one of the most significant works of one ofthe most significant composers we've ever done."

Rare in its choice of text, Walden Pond is also unique for its accompaniment; can you name asingle other piece written for three cellos and harp?

"The sound these instruments make is one that might haunt the Walden woods," Argento muses."I was reading the passage where Thoreau sits in his boat in the middle of the pond, and he cansee forty feet down, and it struck me that the clarity and depth of that water-those are also thequalities of the cello. The choice of the harp was obvious, it's commonly associated with water.The trick was to craft music that doesn't suggest the obvious."

He more than mastered the trick in this score of immense warmth. The first movement is cast in agentle 6/8 rhythm suggesting smooth waves lapping the shore. Note the choir's very first entrance,the chord built of major seconds (from C to D, and D to E). These close harmonies, a pleasingsound, are the work's signature. Like the rhythm, it suggests the movement of all-but-quiet water.The dynamics rarely rise above a reverent softness in description of this pond "so pure, so fair."

The key to the second movement (Angling) lies in the text, "Our intercourse was thus altogetherone of unbroken harmony." Thoreau is describing nothing fancier than a fishing scene, butArgento's setting raises the scene to one nearly of worship. You can feel waves play against theboat (in the frequent meter changes), but the silence around Thoreau is holy. Listen for the quoteof "Abide With Me" in the tenors; in Angling's closing moments it creates a passage of enormoussimplicity, beauty, and conviction.


The pace quickens in the third movement (Observing). Thoreau sees "dimpling circles incessantlyinscribed on [Walden's] surface" and Argento's melodies becomes agitated, angular, the rhythmeven more varied. Argento asks the musicians for a joyous mood at the sight of Walden's "con-stant welling up ... the gentle pulsing of its life..."

The fourth movement (Extolling) contains Argento's own favorite passage: the bitonal (keys ofC# and A-major set simultaneously against each other) arpeggios in the harp that open the workand lead to the ecstatic choral fortissimo, "Sky water." The text here contains a dash of Thoreau'sNew England Transcendentalism, and Argento matches this bracing theology with exuberantmusic.

After years away, Thoreau returns to the forests of Walden to find the "woodchoppers have laidthem waste." He is horrified and saddened. Argento's music in Walden Revisited, is bitter, full ofthorns - but just in the beginning. Thoreau eventually sees Walden's regenerative power, too,how it is "springing up as lustily as ever" where it had been cut down. He is warmed by that sightand takes great hope. Likewise, Argento brings back the warmth of the very opening (rememberthose seconds?) and the work ends on a hauntingly optimistic note as Thoreau asks, and the choirwhispers, "Walden, is it you?"

I. The Pond

Nothing so fair, so pure lies on the surface of the earth. It is a clear and deep green well, half amile long; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods.

It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature;it is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off; a mirror whichretains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface,and be reflected on its bosom still.

There are few traces of man's hand to be seen. The water laves the shore as it did athousand years ago. This water is of such crystalline purity that the body of the bather appears ofan alabaster whiteness, which, as the limbs are magnified and distorted,produces a monstrous effect, making fit studies for Michael Angelo.

So pure, so fair.

II. Angling

In warm evening I frequently sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the perch, which I seem tohave charmed, hovering around me, and the moon traveling over the ribbed bottom, which wasstrewed with the wrecks of the forest.

Sometimes, I spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat anchored in forty feet of water andcommunicating by a long flaxen line with mysterious nocturnal fishes,serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the creaking note of some unknownbird close at hand.

There was one older man, an excellent fisher; once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at oneend of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf inhis later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with myphilosophy. Our intercourse was thus altogether one of unbroken harmony, far more pleasing toremember than if it had been carried on by speech.


III. Observing

It is a soothing employment to sit on a stump, on a height overlooking the pond, and study thedimpling circles incessantly inscribed on its surface amid the reflected skies and trees.

It may be that in the distance a fish describes an arc of three or four feet in the air, and there isone bright flash where it emerges, and another where it strikes the water. Or here and there, apickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface; it is wonderful with what elaborate-ness this simple fact is advertised -- this pis cine murder will out - reported in circling dimples,in lines of beauty, the constant welling up of its fountain, the gentle pulsing of its life, the heavingof its breast. Then the trembling circles seek the shore and all is smooth again.

One November afternoon, the pond was remarkably smooth, so that it was difficult to distinguishits surface. I was surprised to find myself surrounded by myriads of small, bronze-colored perch.In such transparent water, reflecting the clouds, I seemed to be floating through the air as in aballoon, and their swimming impressed me as a kind of flight or hovering, as if they were birdspassing just beneath my level, their fins, like sails, set all around them.

IV. Extolling

Sky water.Lake of light.

Great crystal on the surface of the earth.

Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and stillits water is green and pellucid as ever.

Who knows in how many unremembered nations' literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain?or what nymphs presided over it in the Golden Age?

Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, Walden Pond wasalready in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain and covered with ducks andgeese, which had not heard of the fall. Even then it had clarified its waters and colored them of thehue they now wear and obtained a patent of Heaven to be the only Walden Pond in the world.

V.Walden Revisited

Since I left those shores the wood-choppers have laid them waste, but I remember,I remember ...

I remember when I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick andlofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grapevines had run over the trees next thewater and formed bowers under which a boat could pass. I have spent many an hour floatingover its surface as the zephyr willed, in a summer forenoon, lying on my back across the seats,dreaming awake.


And though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, it struck me againtonight - Why, here is Walden, the same woodland lake that I discovered so many years ago;where a forest was cut down last winter another is springing up as lustily as ever; the samethought is welling up to its surface that was then; it is the same liquid joy and happiness to itselfand its Maker. He rounded this water with his hand, deepened and clarified it in his thought. I seeby its face that it is visited by the same reflection; and I can almost say,

Walden, is it you?INTERMISSION

III. Echoes of Christmas

Magnificat Arvo Part

Estonian composer Arvo Part has achieved remarkable acclaim by creating music that is as hardto describe as it is appealing. Dale Warland says Part creates "spiritual, simple, and yet hauntingmusic. I take to his writing so much." This 1989 setting of the Magnificat is little more than anF-minor chord inverted and re-inverted for eighty-one bars. It succeeds by its very simplicity,about which Part says: "The complex and many-faceted only confuse me. I search for unity. Howdo I find my way to it? Traces appear in many guises. Everything that is unimportant falls away."

MagnificatMagnificat anima mea Dominum.et exultavit spiritus me usin Deo salutari meo.Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae;ecce enim ex hocbeatam me dicent omnes generationes.

My soul doth magnify the Lord;And my spirit hath rejoicedin God my savior.For He hath regarded the low estate of hishandmaiden;for behold, henceforth all generationsshall call me blessed.For He that is mightyhath magnified me;and holy is His Name.And His mercy is on themthat fear him from generation to generation.He hath shown strength with His arm;He hath scattered the proudin the imagination of their hearts.He hath put down the mighty from their seats,and exalted those of low degree.He hath filled the hungry with good things;and the rich He hath sent empty away.He, remembering His mercy,hath helped His servant Israel.As He promised to our forefathers,Abraham and his seed forever.My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Quia fecit mihi magnaqui potens estet sanctum nomen ejus.Et misericordia ejus a progeniein progenies timentibus eum.Fecit potentiam in brachio suo;dispersit superbosmente cordis suiDeposuit potentes de sedeet exaltavit humiles.Esurientes implevit bonis:et divites dimisit inanesSucepit Israel puerum suum,recordatus misericordiae suae.Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros,Abraham et semini ejus in saecula.Magnificat anima mea Dominum.

Arvo Part and Dale Warland


What Child is This? Dale Warland

When this program was first conceived, this selection wasn't included; it contained only the musicof Part and Whitacre. But those who have known Dale Warland over the years, and know whatlies ahead for him, twisted his arm, feeling that there would be a gaping hole in this concert with-out a Warland composition or arrangement in it. "Composition is something I deep-down have todo;' says Warland. "But building a first-rate choral organization takes all your energies, so compo-sition has had to take a back seat. It's going to be a high priority in the future." Warland's tenderversion of What Child is This? dates from 1980 and is dedicated to his son, David.

Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre

Chances are you were at the "Echoes of Christmas" concert last December and, if so, can remem-ber the held-breath hush that came over the hall as Eric Whitacre's Lux Aurumque unfolded. Itsbeauty lies in Whitacre's way of tightening the screws to inner harmonies, then releasing them.DWS audiences came to know Whitacre's music several seasons ago when the composer was onlyin his twenties. He was a new voice in choral music then, one of dozens that the DWS havebrought to a national light and championed. Whitacre, now at the ripe old age of 34, is one of themost performed and commissioned choral composers in the States.

Lux AurumqueLux,calida gravisque pura velut aurumet canunt angeli mollitermodo natum.

Light,warm and heavy as pure goldand the angels sing softlyto the newborn baby.

IV. Russian Splendor

Excerpts from Vespers, Op, 37 Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff had an ambivalent relationship his whole life with the Russian Orthodoxchurch of his homeland, but for it he composed a masterpiece. Mired in a creative droughtbrought on by WWI, he surprised even himself when he began setting Psalm and Gospel texts tomusic in January, 1915. Within two weeks, Vespers was done. It was conceived for a night-longservice in Orthodox seminaries and churches, though it was premiered (March, 1915) at a concertto raise war-relief funds, and today is most often heard in the concert hall.

For Dale Warland, Vespers was also something of a surprise. "It snuck in my back door," he recalls,"and I didn't take to it immediately. But when we performed about half of it in one of our"Cathedral Classics" concerts, it became a favorite of mine and the Singers. You always look for awork like this, one so well crafted and spiritually so packed. We took it on tour with us in theSouth a few seasons ago, and the highlight of that was performing it in Spivey Hall (Clayton Col-lege & University) which conductor Robert Shaw had dedicated. Shaw was one of my heroes, andour Spivey concert wasn't long after he died in 1999. His spirit was there that night. It was one ofour finest performances ever."


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Rejoice, 0 Virgin Theotokos,Mary full of grace, the Lord iswith Thee.Blessed art Thou among women,and blessed is the Fruit of Thywomb,for Thou hast born the Savior ofour souls.

Blessed Art Thou, 0 Lord

Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord,teach me Thy statutes.

The angelic host was filled withawe, when it saw Thee amongthe dead.By destroying the power of death,o Savior, Thou didst raise Adam,and save all men from hell!


"Why, 0 women disciples, do youmingle myrrh with your tears ofcompassion?" the radiant angel inthe tomb cried to themyrrhbearers."Behold the tomb andunderstand!The Savior is risen from the dead!Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord,teach me Thy statutes.

Very early in the morning themyrrhbearers ran with sorrow toThy tomb, but an Angel came tothem and said: "The time forsorrow has come to an end! Donot weep, but announce theresurrection to the apostles!"


Thy myrrhbearers were sorrowfulas thy neared Thy tomb,but the Angel said to them:"Why do you number the livingamong the dead?"Since He is God, He is risen fromthe tomb!"

Glory to the Father and to the Sonand to the Holy Spirit.

We worship the Father, and HisSon, and the Holy Spirit: the HolyTrinity, one in essence!We cry with the Seraphim:"Holy, Holy, Holy art Thou, 0Lord!"



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The Troparion "TodaySalvation Has Come"

Today salvation has come to theworld. Let us sing to Him whorose from the dead, the Author ofour life. Having destroyed deathby death, He has given us thevictory and great mercy.

The Troparion "Thou DidstRise from the Tomb"

Thou didst arise from the tomband burst the bonds of Hades!Thou didst destroy thecondemnation of death, 0 Lord,releasing all mankind from snaresof the enemy! Thou didst showThyself to Thine apostles, anddidst send them forth to proclaimThee; and through them Thoudidst grant Thy peace to theworld, 0 Thou, who art plenteousin mercy!

To Thee, the VictoriousLeader

To Thee, the victorious Leader oftriumphant hosts, we Thyservants, delivered from evil,offer hymns of thanksgiving,o Theotokos!Since Thou dost possessinvincible might, set us free fromall calamities, so that we may cryto Thee:"Rejoice, 0 unwedded Bride!"

the singers

Soprano Beth Althof teaches music at Rice Lake Elemen-tary and choir at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes.She graduated from the University of Illinois with a musiceducation degree. Before joining the DWS,Beth was amember of the Elysian Singers, a five-voice early musicgroup based in La Crosse, WI, and the LaCrosse ChamberChorale. This is Beth's ninth season with the Singers.

Duane Andersen, bass-baritone, made his solo debut inEngland in 1994 singing Beethoven's Mass in C at theInternational Church Music Festival, conducted by SirDavid Willcocks.Previously active in Abendmusik-Lincoln,Duane performed the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah in1998 and was a soloist in Horatio Parker's Hora Novissime,a release by Albany Records, in 1992. Duane participatesin area church and musical productions and in 1989 and1994 received honorable mentions in the MetropolitanOpera auditions. He holds a bachelors degree in Business/Computer Science from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Abbie Betinis, an alto in her third year with the Singers, isa freelance music engraver and composer. A recent gradu-ate of St. Olaf College, she has also studied compositionwith faculty at Juilliard and the Paris Conservatory. Abbieis currently working for composer Libby Larsen while pur-suing a master's degree in music composition at the Uni-versity of Minnesota. She is from Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Soprano Wendi Buck sang with the Dale Warland Singersfrom 1992 to 1996 and feels privileged to be able to returnfor the ensemble's last two seasons. Wendi holds a B.A. inmusic from the College of Williamand Mary and an M.A. inoccupational therapy from the College of St. Catherine.

Matthew Culloton is currently in his fifth season with theSingers, where aside from singing duties he serves asMusic Advisor, Bass Section Leader, and Choral Librarian.He is in his fourth year as Director of Choral Activities atHopkins High School. Since 1999,Matthew has served asACDAof Minnesota's Male Choir Repertoire and StandardsChair, and is this year's recipient of the VocalEssence ACDACreative Programming Award. His choral compositions andarrangements are published with Mark Foster Music andHinshaw Music.

Marie Spar Dymit has sung with the Dale Warland Singerssince 1985 and became soprano section leader in 1991.Marie teaches vocal music at White Bear Lake HighSchool's South Campus, where she is in charge of four per-forming ensembles. She holds music degrees from St. OlafCollege and Arizona State University and serves as theWomen's Choir Repertoire and Standards Chairperson forACDAof Minnesota. Marie is a frequently heard soloistwith the Singers and has sung on eleven DWSrecordings.

A native of Moscow, Russia, Galina Erickson is in her thirdseason with the Dale Warland Singers. She holds a Bache-lor of Music Performance degree from North Central Univer-sity, has sung with the Minnesota Opera chorus and nowserves as a section leader at the Cathedral of St. Paul.

Tenor Joel Fischer is a native of Sleepy Eye, Minnesotaand received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from IowaState University in 1998. He has been a soloist at HennepinAvenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis and at St.Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth. Joel, in hissixth season with the DWS,has also sung with the RoseEnsemble and is Director of Liturgy and Music at MostHoly Trinity Catholic Church in St. Louis Park.

Joanne Halvorsen, alto section leader, is in her twenty-sixth season with the Dale Warland Singers. As a memberof the ensemble, she has toured Europe, Canada andaround the United States, singing in some of the finest con-cert halls in the world. She is currently Music Director atFaith United Methodist Church, conducting the SanctuaryChoir and her youth group, "Able Cain Raisers."

Eric Harstad, bass, is from West Allis, Wisconsin. He hasan A.A. from Bethany Lutheran College, a B.M. from St.Olaf College in music education, and a M.M. from Minneso-ta State University, Mankato in choral conducting. Ericteaches choirs, general music, and music theory at BuffaloLake-Hector. He also enjoys directing the church choir atGrace Lutheran Church in Hutchinson, and composing andarranging music. This is his first year with the Singers.

Jon Hermanson, tenor, from New Ulm, MN, is beginninghis first season with the Dale Warland Singers. Currently,he is working toward a degree in music education fromMartin Luther College in New Ulm,MN. Jon also sings withthe Martin Luther College Choir and studies voice privately.

Carole Hofstad, soprano, has been performing in the TwinCities area for over 20 years. An advocate of contemporarymusic and a lover of early music, she premiered many newworks under the auspices of the American ComposersForum and was a founding member of Minstrels, an earlymusic ensemble that recorded under the Lyrichord label.As a soloist, she has appeared with numerous local organi-zations, including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Min-nesota Opera, Lyra Consort and the Plymouth Music Series.Carole has also performed with other orchestras around thecountry including the Kansas City Symphony, among oth-ers. She graduated from Concordia College Moorhead andearned her Master's degree at the University of MN. Car-ole is currently on staff at MacPhail Center for Music andsings at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis. Shereturns to the Singers after a twenty-year hiatus.

Melissa Holm-Johansen, mezzo-soprano, is currently aDMAcandidate in voice at the University of Minnesota andan independent voice instructor. A native Norwegian, shefrequently sings at the Norwegian American LutheranMemorial Church and has appeared several times in theannual Leiv Eriksson Festival, performing music by Grieg,Sommerro and Mozart. Melissa spent the summer of 2002traveling through Tuscany, Italy performing Italian operaticmusic. She holds a MMin voice and vocal pedagogy fromthe University of Minnesota and a BMin voice and musiceducation from St. Olaf College.


Eric N. Hopkins, tenor, from Oregon, IL, is in his fifth seasonwith the Dale Warland Singers. Eric holds a bachelor'sdegree in vocal music from Luther College where he sang inthe Nordic Choir under the direction of Weston Noble. Healso sings with the Hosanna Choir of St. Steven's LutheranChurch in Bloomington.

Dave Jacobson, baritone, is in his eighth season with theDale Warland Singers. He has sung with many diverseensembles, such as the Rod Smith Big Band, Voce Magna,and the Minneapolis Vocal Consort. Currently, Dave servesas the bass soloist/section leader for Wesley UnitedMethodist Church.

Lynette Johnson, mezzo soprano, joined the Dale WarlandSingers in 1987. She is a past member of Voce Magna, asmall, local voice ensemble and has appeared as a guestsoloist with the Valley Chamber Chorale and at several areachurches. Lynette also sings with the worship ensembleand choir at Excelsior Covenant Church. She holds a Bache-lor of Music Education degree from North Park College inChicago.

Tenor Justin Karch, in his fourth year with Dale WarlandSingers, holds a B.A. in music from North Dakota State Uni-versity. At NDSUhe was a soloist as well as president andsecretary of the NDSUConcert Choir. For the last two years,Justin has been a member of a quartet of singers featuredduring Minnesota Public Radio's holiday broadcasts. He isalso a past section leader at St. Patrick's Church in Edina.

Natalia Kojanova, alto, is in her second year with the DaleWarland Singers. A native of Russia, she is a graduate ofNovosibirsk State Music College, Russia, with degrees inchoral conducting and vocal performance. Natalia has sungwith some of the finest ensembles and choirs, includingThe Chamber Choir of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Soci-ety, the vocal ensemble "Markell's Voices," a vocal quartetat All-Saints Russian Orthodox Church, Russia, ShadysidePresbyterian Chancel Choir and Bach Cantata Choir,Pittsburgh, PA.

Tenor Nicholas Eugene Lemme of Rapid City, South Dakotais honored to be in the DWSfor their final season. Hereceived a BA in Music Education with a voice emphasisfrom the University of Wyoming, Laramie, where he hadthe opportunity to study under Larry Hensel. Since beingin Minneapolis, he has taught music at Saint Francis SaintJames United School in St. Paul and sang as a tenor for theBasilica of Saint Mary Cathedral Choir.

David Lower, tenor, is a native of Iowa City, IA andrecently moved to the Twin Cities. He graduated fromLuther College in 2003 where he received a Bachelor ofArts degree in Music Performance. At Luther College,David sang in the Nordic Choir under the direction ofWeston Noble. This is the first year David will performwith the Singers.


Patrick McDonough, bass, completed his undergraduatework in music performance at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and subsequently undertook graduate studies inchoral conducting at the University of Minnesota - TwinCities. Patrick has previously held the position of Directorof Music for several Twin Cities churches and is a formermember of the Rose Ensemble and the Minnesota Chorale.

Anna George Meek, alto, is a freelance violinist who playsprofessionally with the Minnesota Sinfonia and the AuroraString Quartet. She also serves as concertmaster for theMississippi Valley Chamber Orchestra. She has studiedvoice and violin at YaleUniversity and The PeabodyConservatory and currently has her own studio of violinstudents.

Bass Michael Meyer attended St. Olaf College and graduatedwith a degree in economics in May 2000. While at St. Olaf,he sang for three years in the Choir under the direction ofAnton Armstrong. Since graduating, he has been a mem-ber of the Singers and is currently in his fourth season.

Mary C. Maiden-Mueller, alto, is a graduate of CornellCollege in Mount Vernon, Iowa where she received aBachelor of Arts degree in both vocal and flute performance.Mary has sung with the Dale Warland Singers in previousyears and more recently participated in a number of choralprojects in the Twin Cities area as well as serving as soloistand section leader for various church choirs.

Jack Nelson is in his second season with the Singers. Hestudied music at Bradley University and NorthwesternUniversity. After receiving his Masters in vocal performancefrom Northwestern, he studied voice with Margaret Harshawat Indiana University. Throughout, Jack performed many ofthe great choral works with choral groups in Illinois asBaritone soloist. He participated as Baritone in the BradleyUniversity Chorale when it took the Grand Prix at the 1976Recontres des Internationales, in Tours, France, and againin 1981 when the Chorale placed third.

Deborah Loon Osgood joined the Dale Warland Singers in1984 and has been heard in DWSconcerts and recordingsregularly since then. A soprano, Deb is a graduate of St.Olaf College and holds a degree in Political Science. Whileat St. Olaf, Deb sang in the St. Olaf Choir, where she was aregular soloist and soprano section leader. Deb has sungwith Magnum Chorum and has served many area churchesas a soloist and section leader.

Krista Palmquist holds a BA in voice performance fromBethel College, an MA in voice performance from EasternMichigan University, and a DMAin voice performance fromthe University of Minnesota. She is a cantor, soprano sec-tion leader and soloist at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, andshe maintains voice studios at North Central Universityand at St. Joseph's School of Music. Krista is also an activeart song recitalist, performing music from a wide range ofcountries and musical periods.

Tenor Robert Pontious is the choir director at MahtomediHigh School and the adult choir director at the Church of theNativity in St. Paul. He graduated from Truman State Univer-sity (Kirksville,MO)with a Bachelor of Music Education anda Master of Arts in Conducting and VocalPerformance. Robis a returning member of the DWShaving sung from 1992-1998 and also served as their Director of Operations for fiveof those years.

Susan Ramlet, alto, is pleased to join the Singers for a 5thseason. Susan is the alto soloist for St. Philip the DeaconLutheran Church in Plymouth and has served as a soloistand section leader for several churches in the Twin Cities,Houston, San Antonio, and Santa Fe. Susan has conductedseveral youth choirs and handbell choirs and has workedas a French language coach for singers. She sang fourseasons with Houston Grand Opera chorus and was in thecompany of Houston's Stages Repertory Theater for threeseasons as an actor and music director, performing inproductions such as Marry Me a Little, Hair, and Merrily WeRoll Along. Susan studied voice under Kay Paschal andJoseph Amaya. She studied conducting under BruceChamberlain, and has a degree in Music and French fromTrinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Soprano Jennifer Rissman graduated from Drake Universityin Des Moines with a degree in vocal performance whereshe studied with Leanne Freeman-Miller and sang with theDrake University Choir under the direction of Aimee Beck-mann-Collier. Before moving to the Twin Cities, Jennytaught voice lessons at Drake University and worked as agrant writer in Des Moines. This is Jenny's first seasonwith the Singers.

Soprano Jodi Rowe is excited to be in her second seasonwith the Dale Warland Singers. Since graduating fromDoctor Martin Luther College with majors in ElementaryEducation and Music Education, Jodi has taught in theelementary classroom, elementary level music and directedboth children's choirs and adult choirs. Jodi has had theprivilege of singing under Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo MusicFestival and LeRoy Kromm in the San Jose SymphonicChoir. She is currently serving as a Professor of Music inthe areas of voice and choir at Doctor Martin Luther Collegein New Ulm, MN.

Soprano Dawn Schuffenhauer recently attended St. Olaf Col-lege and received a Bachelor of Music degree in VocalMusicEducation. While at St. Olaf, Dawn was a member of the St.Olaf Choir. This is Dawn's fourth season with the Singers.

Bass Thomas Shaffer is a charter member of the DaleWarland Singers returning this season after an eighteen yearabsence. His performance credits include: The MinnesotaBach Societyincluding performances in Canada; The PlymouthMusic Series includingperformances in England; The SaterenChoirincluding performances in Norway; The Norman LuboffChoir touring the United States and Canada; Center Opera;The St. Paul Opera; and The Minnesota Opera. He has also

performed for early DWSrecordings and radio broadcasts aswell as concert tours of Sweden, Norway and Germany.

Steve Sheppard, bass, attended Macalester College in St.Paul, MN to study with Dale Warland. After receiving aBachelor of Arts degree in Music, he moved to Nevada toteach music K-12. Steve has sung with the Las VegasOpera Company and spent nine years as a singer, arranger,orchestrator and producer for Back to the Bible, an interna-tional radio ministry. During that time he traveled exten-sively throughout the U.S., Canada and Jamaica. This ishis third season with the Dale Warland Singers.

Originally from Houston, TX, tenor Hal Snyder is in his fifthseason with the Singers. He holds a Bachelor of Musicdegree in vocal performance from Texas Tech Universitywhere he studied voice under the direction of Karl Dent.

Anthony Sofie, tenor, is beginning his second year with theSingers. A native of East St. Paul, Tony spent six years atthe University of Minnesota-Duluth achieving a Bachelor ofMusic in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in The-atre. Tony also has an extensive background in accompany-ing and music theatre.

Music strikes a special chord that creates a melodious bal-ance in life. Naomi Christensen Staruch is extremely hon-ored to be a soprano in the Dale Warland Singers. This isher sixth season in the ensemble. Previously she has sungwith the Augsburg College Choir, the (Leland B.) SaterenSingers, and Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir.

Bass Brian Steele teaches voice at Minneapolis Communityand Technical College and is on staff with the WestminsterPresbyterian Church as soloist and choir section leader. HisMFAdegree in Vocal Performance is from the University ofMinnesota where he studied with Clifton Ware and RoySchuessler and sang with the U of M Minnesingers, touringGermany and Austria. He has sung with the MontanaChorale, the Grammy winning Oregon Bach Festival Choirand as a studio vocalist as singer and voice-over artist onnumerous recordings.

Monica Stratton soprano, is a graduate of St. Olaf Collegeand New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA,where she received her Master's degree in music. Beforejoining the singers, Monica sang for two seasons with theVocal Arts Ensemble in Cincinnati. Locally,Monica singsand plays violinat Guardian Angels Church in Oakdale.She is also a professional librarian with the Ramsey CountyLibrary System. She and her husband reside in North St.Paul. This is Monica's seventh season with the Singers.

Soprano Teresa Tierney is returning for her 10th year withthe Singers. She received her bachelor's degree from theCollege of St. Catherine, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and hermasters degree from the University of Colorado at Boulderwhere she studied music theory and composition in additionto voice. Currently, she teaches at Century College, Rob-binsdale Armstrong High School, and Eagan High School andmaintains a private studio at her St. Paul home.


highlights of 31 years of glorious singing

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Dale Warland, music professor at Macalester College, asked to organize a chorus to performRalph Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love with Center Opera Company (now Minnesota Opera)and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO).

Debut of Dale Warland Singers on June 11 at Walker Art Center, co-sponsored by the SchubertClub and the Walker. Performed Barber's The Lovers with Minnesota Orchestra in October.

DWS' first "official" performance with The SPCO, singing Messiaen's Cinq Rechants, and withAmerican Brass Quintet on Pinkham's Christmas Cantata. World premiere of Gorecki'sSymphony No.2, Opus 31 (Copernicus) with Minnesota Orchestra.

DWS collaborated with Macalester Festival Chorale for several concerts. PerformedBeethoven's Symphony No.9 with Minnesota Orchestra at Northrop Auditorium.

Regular concerts presented at the Walker Art Center. Premiere of Kuisma's Serenade.

Special concert for His Majesty Karl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, at the American SwedishBicentennial Festival in Minneapolis. Recorded Swedish Choral Ballads and Gloria withNorman Luboff, with Luboff and Warland conducting. "A Choral Salute to Minnesota" concertto celebrate the bicentennial.

Tour of Norway and Sweden in June. Collaborated with Minnesota Opera onSt. Matthew's Passion conducted by Philip Brunelle. Mozart's Requiem with the SPCO.

Handel's Messiah with Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Robert Shaw. Midwest concert tour.

Recorded Dave Brubeck's La Fiesta de la Posada with music director Dennis Russell Davies andthe SPCO. Released first solo album, Echoes of Christmas. Hired first full-time general manager

Recorded Choral Mosaic. Participated in "Night at the Pops" concert with Norman Leyden andthe Minnesota Orchestra. First "Echoes of Christmas" concert at Orchestra Hall. Firstsubscription series offered.

Achieved fully professional status. Released Americana: A Bit of Folk recording. MinnesotaState Arts Board Individual Artist grant awarded to Dale Warland to work with Robert Shaw,Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Warland conducts Swedish Radio Choir ofStockholm. First appearance on MPR's nationally broadcast Saint Paul Sunday Morning program.

Performed world premiere of Dominick Argento's I Hate and I Love (Odi at amo) on DWS' 10thanniversary. "A Choral Salute to Scandinavia" concert with premiere of Bo Holten's The Clod

and the Pebble. Participated in the "World's Largest Choir" for "Scandinavia Today." Hostedthe Swedish Chamber Choir for a week.

DWS' "Echoes of Christmas" concert featured guest artists The Elmer Iseler Singers of Canada.Performed Bach's B Minor Mass at Orchestra Hall. Premiered Lukas Foss' De Profundis.

Released Sing Noel recording, featuring the music of Daniel Pinkham.

Appeared with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion. Two concerts with BritishFestival of Minnesota, featuring the best of English choral music. MN Composers Forumcollaboration at the Walker Art Center.

DWS and Macalester College Concert Choir traveled to Frankfurt to take part in 300th Birthday

Celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach, sponsored by Helmuth Rilling and the International Bach


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Acadamie. First performance at Ordway Music Theatre. Premiered George Shearing's Music to

Hear. Organized the Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus for Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest

production of Puccini's Turandot.

Dale Warland resigned from Macalester College to become full-time Music Director of DWS.

MN Composers Forum concert at Walker Art Center. Sang Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a

"Minnesota Farewell to Neville Mariner" concert with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Highly acclaimed performance before American Choral Directors Association national conven-tion in San Antonio, Texas. Major grant from Jerome Foundation launched the New ChoralMusic Program for Emerging Composers. Dale and Singers in summer residence at theChautaqua Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

First joint performance and broadcast with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. DWS participated inMinnesota Midsummer Music Festival, and was the featured ensemble at Indiana University'sContemporary Music Festival. Premiered Stephen Paulus' Voices with the Minnesota Orchestra.

First annual fundraising benefit by the Friends of DWS. DWS subscription concerts featuredperformances with San Francisco's Chanticleer and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Midwest tour.

Inaugural concert of "Neo-Choral" subscription series featured contemporary choral music at

Walker Art Center. Hosted the national convention of Chorus America, and was the only North

American Choral group selected to perform at the 2nd World Symposium on Choral Music in

Finland and Sweden. Concert production of Verdi's Falstaff with Minnesota Orchestra at

Carnegie Hall.

Stephen Paulus named first Composer-in-Residence. Performed works by Minnesota composersin conjunction with the Minnesota Composers Forum (CD on the Forum's INNOVA label). Theonly chorus selected for NEA Advancement program. Performed The Magic Flute and Requiem

at Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest; and Requiem at summer residence workshop at California

State University arts program.

World premiere of Stephen Paulus' Visions of Hildegard, Part Two, with the Eastman Brass.

DWS organization was awarded the very first Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, plus

one of the first Chorus America/ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming. Carol Barnett

appointed as 2nd Composer in Residence. First radio broadcast of "Echoes of Christmas" con-

cert carried by 175 public radio stations nationwide.

Performed "Neo Choral" concerts at Walker Art Center. Participated in the Sixth Annual QuadCity Mozart Festival and the Sommerfest Finale concert of Verdi's Rigoletto.

Singers toured 15 cities as part of the Columbia Artists Community Concerts program. Performedfirst" Cathedral Classics" concert at the Basilica of Saint Mary, Mpls. Produced videotape Attention

to Detail: A Choral Conductor's Guide. Released Fancie (on DWS label). Established relationshipwith American Choral Catalog label with release of Cathedral Classics CD.

Dale Warland received the Michael Korn Founders Award by Chorus America. DWS premieredBrent Michael David's Native American Suite at "American Kaleidoscope" concerts.

Opened 25th Anniversary Season with premiere of Dominick Argento's Walden Pond at Ted

Mann Concert Hall. Released December Stillness and Blue Wheat CDs. Received 3rd Chorus


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America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Handel's Messiah with the SPCO

conducted by Bobby McFerrin.

Continued 25th Anniversary with "Voices in Celebration" benefit with special guest GeorgeShearing. "Singers Choice" concert at Ted Mann Concert Hall invited DWS alumni back to singand help celebrate. DWS recordings featured on soundtracks of films "My Best Friend's Wed-ding" and "The Garden of Redemption."

Toured Toronto, Canada, Michigan and Ohio with concert at Glenn Gould Concert Hall broad-cast on CBC Radio and a joint performance with The SPCO at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor.PerformedBritten's War Requiem with MN Chorale, conducted by Robert Shaw.

Released Bernstein & Britten CD. Highly successful southeastern United States tour. Performed

concert at the Chorus America national conference held in Minneapolis. Received 4th ASCAP

Award for Adventurous Programming.

Completed four residencies as part of Minnesota State Arts Board's new Arts Across Minnesotaprogram. For his farewell concert, Hugh Wolff conducted DWS and SPCO in three sold-outperformances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Dale Warland awarded McKnight Foundation's 2001 Distinguished Artist. Frank Ferko named

3rd Composer-in-Residence. DWS celebrated 15th Anniversary of its Choral Ventures program

(formerly the New Choral Music Program); it had awarded 57 composers more than $100,000 in

commissioning funds since 1987.

DWS began year-long celebration of its 30th Anniversary. Dale Warland honored with

Chorus America/Louis Botto Award for Innovative Spirit and Entrepreneurial Zeal, and Chorus

America/ASCAP Special Award for "pioneering vision, leadership and commitment to commis-

sioning and performing new choral works at the highest level of artistry." DWS debuted at The

Ravinia Festival, Chicago, and performed with other Twin City choral ensembles at 6th World

Choral Music Symposium held in Minneapolis. Released 24th recording Christmas with the Dale

Warland Singers on the Gothic Label.

Released Walden Pond CD. Closed 30th Anniversary Season with concert featuring new works

by Dale Warland and Pulitzer-Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis. Ensemble toured Iowa and

greater Minnesota, Utah and Idaho, including numerous workshops and an appearance with

the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its Sunday broadcast service. Presented "Keynote

Concert" at the 26th Chorus America annual convention in Kansas City including two-day con-

ducting workshop. Dale Warland received the Victor Herbert Award from ASCAP and the Sally

Ordway Irvine Award for Vision. Dale Warland announced his final season as conductor; Board

decided to disband choir after end of season.

John Muehleisen named 4th Composer-in-Residence. Released live concert recording of

Rachmaninoff's Vespers. Dale Warland and DWS nominated for a GRAMMYfor "Best Choral

Performance", Walden Pond CD. Acclaimed sell-out tour to Ohio, West Virginia and Florida,

with student workshops at University of Cincinnati and University of South Florida. Dale

Warland received the Distinguished Master Artist Award from University of South Florida. DWS

performs its final concert series to capacity crowds. Release of new CD, Reincarnations, and a

commemorative DVD to coincide with its Farewell concert at Orchestra Hall. Two additional

CDs recorded for release later in the next two years.

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dale warland singers 1972-2004

DWS, October 2003

One of DWS' first performances in 1972 atWalker Art Center, Minneapolis.

I met Dale Warland when he assembled a chorus forMinnesota Opera. The Dale Warland Singers was born,and we embarked on a journey that has become a lifelongfriendship. He shaped and honed my artistic sensibilitiesduring seven years of music-making, and I cut my volun-teer teeth during ten years on his Board of Directors.And I am grateful to him beyond words for so generouslysharing himself with me.

- Terry Knowles, Executive Director,

Los Angeles Master Chorale


June 6, 2003: I don't know if I can tell you howoverwhelmed I was at your concert. It has only been25 years or so since I heard DWS live. The sound wasperfect 30 years ago - how did you make it better thanthat?? I was completely unprepared for the sheerbeauty of the sound. After listening to CDs of manychoirs, I am fairly jaded. Yet you blew me away!

What words could be used to describe such sound?You could talk about effortless, relaxed vocal produc-tion, the homogeneity of pitch and timbre, the clarityof each part, the breadth of tone, and still not 'get it' ...you would still need to talk about how every noteebbed and flowed, creating colors on the way up anddown, and how it interlaced with other parts doingthe same, at once together, and again in complexcanons of incongruity.

I also thought how much this concert was, at itscore, a poetry reading. In liturgy, the ritual singing oftext consecrates the "sound space" of the words ....Mastery [of this] makes the text unforgettable, causingthe mind to revisit the meaning of the texts in dozensof ways which could not be perceived otherwise.

The second thought renewed my conviction thatthe expression of love and beauty is a way of wonder-ing about the nature of God and envisioning heaven.The pursuit of beauty is its own theology .... More thananything, your concert today reminded me that musicis a means to inspire our deepest thoughts AND ourhighest intellect. It's what puts us in the mode of dis-covery, of healing and health, of imagination, of aware-ness of ourselves and the humanity of others. It awak-ens the search for meaning.

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- Roger Sherman,

Loft Recordings & Gothic Records

DWS and guest soloist Wanda Cobb at theGuthrie Theater, Minneapolis, 1973.

St. Jakob Church, Stockholm, 1977.

I have been listening to, performing and recording withthe Dale Warland Singers for the past 32 years, and it'salways the same old thing: challenging repertoire,fabulous intonation, sustained richness of tone at alldynamic levels, balance, vocal lines filled with nuanceand color, elegant phrasing, clear diction, and emotionalcontent. I just don't know if I can take much more ofthis astonishing beauty and unbelievable excellence.Thanks for performing my compositions, and for32 years of close friendship and great memories.

- Jeffrey Van, Composer and Guitarist

Never did I think when I joined the DWS in September1978, that, for 23 years, it would completely reprioritizemy life values and goals. I'm grateful to Dale and theorganization for helping me develop so many of my owngifts: vocal performance, piano accompaniment, arrang-ing, and conducting; as well as educational outreach,management skills, and championing new composersand arrangers, all of which set the precedent for choralprofessionalism at ACDA and Chorus America. My per-sonal AND professional life has been nurtured andenriched through my many DWS relationships. I'm proudto be part of the legacy this organization has created!

- Jerry Rubino, former Associate Conductor,

Cabaret Singers Music Director, and Singer, DWS

In 1972, to add even more fire power to a highlyanticipated Schubert Club International Artist Seriesrecital with the great Swiss tenor Ernst Haefliger(father of piano virtuoso Andreas Haefliger), ThelmaHunter and I and a few others arranged to have thebrilliant young choral conductor, Dale Warland, preparea group of his singers to embellish Haefliger's recitalwith several lovely Schubert works for solo and malechoir. The results were spectacular. The Dale WarlandSingers were immediately and obviously on Haefliger'slevel - the level of world-class artists. Dale rosemagnificently to this challenge and he has never doneanything less. It's an honor and privilege to have thissuperb choral director based right here in Minnesota.

- Bruce Carlson, Executive Director, The Schubert Club

At Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College,St. Paul, 1979.

Ricky Herrick and Sue Herber Doran,Sweden, 1977.

Dale with section leaders, 1979: ClydeThompson, bass, Dianne Prieditis, alto,Nancy Grundahl, soprano, Wayne Kivell,assistant conductor, Rob Engelson, tenor.

I have had the pleasure of working together withDale Warland almost all my professional life. Wemet during one of my concert tours to USA in thelate 60s and then I invited him to guest conductthe Swedish Radio Choir, where he introduced, tomuch acclaim, little-known new American choralworks ....DWS, on their first concert tour to Swe-den in 1977 [gavel a splendid performance of myMessa d'oggi.

- Eskil Hemberg, Composer,

president of International Federation for Choral Music

and former genera,J director, Royal Swedish Opera


"Dale's belief in commissioning new works risesfrom his desire to further the repertoire, as wellas his eagerness just to tackle something new. Iam convinced he believes the very new thingsenrich the old. There is a long line of composerswho wouldn't dream of saying no to Dale'srequest for new work, no matter how busy theymight be."

- Stephen Paulus, DWS Composer-in-Residence 1991-1992

Way back in the early 1970s, John Daly Goodwin applied toMacalester College. He chose Macalester specifically to sing with DaleWarland, who was then the director of choral music at the college.Jack the Younger, as John is known to his family, already knew whathe wanted to do with his life: He wanted to conduct choral music. Thefifth year, Jack served as Dale's assistant conductor. Today he is musicdirector of the New York Choral Society and the Westchester ConcertSingers, and is a member of the music faculty at two universities. Jacksays, "I am following the career of my dreams, and my years with Dalewere instrumental in that. "Dale, please accept the deepest gratitude of two parental hearts.

- Ann Daly Goodwin and John A. Goodwin

The Dale Warland Family Singers, early 80's:(front) Steve Pearthree, Sigrid Johnson,Diane Ridder, Robert Elmore; (back) Tim Johnson,Paul Boyce, Joanne Halvorsen, Jerry Rubino,Carole Hofstad, John Henley.

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Composer/ conductor Norman Luboff and Daleprepare to record the Swedish Choral Balladsand Gloria LPs, 1976.

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Sigrid Johnson, singerand later assistant conductor, 1970s.

DWS performs the Chorus inMinnesota Opera's production ofBach's St. Matthew's Passion, 1977.

It is from the years that I spent with the Dale WarlandSingers (three as a singer and eight as the first assistantconductor) that I developed the love of quality contempo-rary choral music in general and Scandinavian musicspecifically. It was exciting to be a part of the first 11years of the Dale Warland Singers and to watch its devel-opment both during and after that time. Dale indeed creat-ed a national treasure, and we can be so proud that hechose to do so in Minnesota.

- Wayne Kivell, Executive Secretary, ACDA of Minnesota

"DWS has its own sound; it is beautifully

balanced and expressive and, of course,

musically authoritative. You have created a

very personal and unique choral instrument,

and music in America is greatly enriched

thereby."- Robert Shaw, Music Director and Conductor

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

At the time [I met Dale Warland] I was rehearsing with theCambridge University Musical Society the Stabat Mater ofPenderecki. I remember noting Dale's interest in andknowledge of Penderecki's works. I was not surprised,therefore, to learn many years later that Dale had foundedand developed with great success a group of professionalsingers whose repertoire included not only standard classi-cal choral works but also demanding contemporary works.The Dale Warland Singers have acquired an internationalreputation for excellence in this wide repertoire, some ofwhich I have been privileged to hear on their CDs. Animportant aspect of Dale's work has been to encourageyoung composers in Minnesota ... [such as] JanikaVandervelde and her contemporaries, followed by theopportunity to hear these works performed at the highestlevel.

- Sir David Willcocks, CBE MC, Conductor

Rehearsal, 1980s: Denise Wahlin Fiskum, Deb Loon Osgood, Sigrid Johnson

Early 1980's concert: (Row 1): Carole Hofstad, Bill Rollie, Rica Van;(Row 2): Steve Pearthree, Paul Theisen, unidentified, Lois Laitenen;(Row 3): Steve Burger, Dan Kallman (1985).

Susan Barnes, Debra Harrer, Robert Shaw, Dale and Joanne Halvorsen, 1994.

Row 1: Sigrid Johnson, Barb Nelson, Linda Burk, Denise Wahlin Fiskum;Row 2: Joanna JohnstonRow 3: Jim Fiskum, John Opsata, David ReeceRow 4: John Henley, Paul Gerike.


Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Royce Saltzman,Executive Director of Oregon Bach Festival, andDale in Oregon, 1990.

Jerry Rubino, Joanna Johnston and Sigrid Johnsonat rehearsal for concert production of Verdi's Falstaffwith Minnesota Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, 1990.

Jo Halvorsen, Norah Long and Janice Huntonperform at Dale's birthday party, 1992.

Dale Warland is one of the best choirmasters I have ever known.It was a great pleasure for me to cooperate with him on manyoccasions. Each of the performances he prepared was excellent.

- Krzysztof Penderecki, Conductor & Composer, Polan "

)We watch him, trying to figure out how he does it .... Maybe it'ssomething we don't see, a genuine concern and caring for hissingers, an emotional vulnerability that lets him be touched bythe core of the music, and an overwhelming desire to express inperfect heavenly sound what is on the page. From one of themany composers whose works you have championed, thank you!

- Carol Barnett, DWS Composer-in-Residence 1992 -2001

I want to thank Dale Warland and the Dale Warland Singers forchanging the culture and society in a positive way through poetryand music. Dale's dedication to living composers through thecommissioning and performance of new works has left a legacythat is both timeless and invaluable. I am grateful to have beenone of the hundreds of composers whose music has come to lifethrough the unique and exceptional voices of this ensemble.

- Steve Heitzeg, Composer

Dale Warland has unfailingly represented a passionate commit-ment to the music of our own time. He has never flagged in hisdetermination to build an inspiring choral repertory through hisdiscriminating commissioning of composers. Working with DWSas music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, I always found thepreparation of these vocalist-musicians to be excellent. WhenDWS performed my Christmas Cantus in December 2000, theirmeticulous, intelligent, thorough preparation of this ratherdifficult piece resulted in a beautiful performance.

- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Composer & Conductor Laureate,

Minnesota Orchestra

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I have had the honor of working with many wonderful practitionersof the choral arts .... It was Shaw who would always tear up a bitwhen discussing Dale, sometimes out of love, sometimes out ofenvy because Shaw felt there were so many things Dale did betterthan he!

- Welz Kauffman, President and CEO, The Ravinia Festival

DWS in concert, 1994: (women L-R) Teresa Elsbernd, Mitzi Westin,Anna Mooy, Jane Andersen, Mary Jo Oldakowski, Kathy Josselyn, JoHalvorsen; (men L-R) David Moberg, Arthur La Rue, unidentifiedbaritone, Randy Speer, Steve Sandberg, Rob Pontious, Paul Johnson.

On tour in Terre Haute, Indiana, 1988: (L-R) Singers David Reece,Steve Burger, Claudia Zylstra, Lea Anna Sams McGowan, John Henley,Tom Larson, Joan Quam McKenzie, Gary Kortemeier, Solveig Ackert Nel-son, Karen Johnson, Paul Theisen, Arthur La Rue, and Barb Johnson(kneeling).


How can I begin to sum up 19 years with Dale and the Dale WarlandSingers? I've been lucky enough to sing some of the finest choralrepertoire with the greatest choral musicians I've ever known. My life isricher as a result; I will miss this more than I can possibly imagine.

- Marie Spar Dymit, Singer

If there is just one moment involving the Dale Warland Singers that willforever be in my memory, it is the concert at the Chorus America confer-ence in the Twin Cities at which the Dale Warland Singers performed foran audience of their peers. Seated in the balcony of the church, we heard aconcert of such beauty and emotional impact that we all wept. I will neverforget the sound and the impact of that performance.

- Frances Richard, Vice President & Director of Concert Music, ASCAP

"December 31,2002: Your Christmas CD arrived

the day after Christmas. Now I have had a

chance to listen and am thrilled, not only by the

best performances of my pieces I have ever

heard, but by the beautiful singing throughout,

and the interesting repertoire as well. Your

people sing like angels."- Kirke Mechem, Composer

Perhaps most personal for me is the commitment by Dale, by the DWSorganization, and by the donors and funding organizations, particularly theJerome Foundation, to encouraging us emerging composers as individualartists and promoting our works in the wider choral world, many of whichhave already entered the standard repertoire. It is with great gratitudethat I thank Dale, the Singers, the staff, and all of the donors and fundingorganizations from the bottom of my heart for all that you have done formore than 30 years to enrich our lives, both culturally and personally.

- John Muehleisen, DWS Composer-in-Residence 2003-2004

and finalist in DWS' Choral Ventures 2000

Singers Marie Spar Dymit, Teresa Elsbernd (alumnus), Naomi Staruch,Deborah Loon Osgood, Beth Althof and general manager Debra Harrer atThe Ravinia Festival, Chicago, 2002.

Handel's Messiah with the SPCO, 1996:(front) Brian Steele, Patrick McDonough,Larry Bach, (back) Conductor BobbyMcFerrin, Dale, Rob Pontious.

Dale working with Choral Ventures 2002finalist Huang Ruo.

In 1999 DWS presented Rachmaninoff's Vespers inSpivey Hall (Georgia), which had been dedicated by Robert Shaw.


On the road again, March 2004: Beth Althof,executive director Gayle Ober, Dale, JoHalvorsen, Dave Jacobson, Duane Anderson.

Ruth & Dale Warland, executive directorGayle Ober and general manager DebraHarrer at the GRAMMY Awards in LosAngeles, February 2004

February 1, 2003: David and I justreturned from the wonderful concertyou and the Singers gave tonight.It would have been a special gift atany time, but tonight it was sopoignant, the sadness overwhelm-ing us with the shuttle disaster thismorning and the thought of warwith Iraq. Thank you for dedicatingthe concert to the shuttle victimsand to those who love them. Thankyou for giving us the incrediblebeauty of your "Vespers" to help usfind some serenity when there issuch craziness in the world.

- Judy and David Ranheim


Go west, young singers! On the road to Utah, 2003: Dave Jacobson, Brian Kramer,Matt Culleton, Tim O'Brien, Lynette Johnson, Pam Marentette, Monica Stratton,Tony Sofie, Abby Betinis, Justin Karch, Melissa Holm-Johansen.

June 2003: The concert you gave last week in Kansas City wasEXTRAORDINARYin every way. What an honor it was to be in thepresence of such an inspired, generous, committed group of artists.You are the TOP OF THE HEAP.

- Tom Hall, Music Director, Baltimore Choral Arts Society

June 12, 2003: The concert on Friday by the Dale Warland Singers was amusical event of amazing dimension. That glorious compelling sound thatenvelops our souls is a wonder of the music world. We all thank you .... Wethank you also for your brilliant work with the emerging conductors in theworkshop ...watching you work with your Singers and the Conducting Fel-lows was truly inspirational.

- Duain Wolfe, Director Chicago Symphony Chorus; Chair, Chorus America

You first performed a work of mine, Tria Carmine Paschalia, back in 1970,and even though that was three years before the Dale Warland Singers wasborn, you gave it the best performance I've ever heard of that piece. And sothe tradition continued: you've given the best performance I've ever heardof I Hate and I Love, of A Toccata of Galuppi, and of Walden Pond. You'resimply the best, not only in this country, but, in the world!

- Dominick Argento, Composer

Dominick Argento & Dale, July 1996

Thank you, Dale, for having the vision and the "guts"to leave a college teaching career those many years agoto devote your energies full-time to the development of.he Dale Warland Singers. Your bravery provided uswith a true American treasure: a choral ensemble thathas met the highest international standards of profes-sional excellence.

Thank you, Dale, and the Dale Warland Singers, for thewonderful musical gifts you have given us over all ofthese years.

- John Alexander, Artistic Director of the Pacific Chorale and

John Alexander Singers, California; Professor of Music and

Director of Choral Studies at California State University, FUllerton;

and Immediate Past President of Chorus America.

It's difficult to describe what it has been like to havethe privilege of singing for Dale for so many years - myentire professional life. Perhaps one of my lastingimages of Dale will be of him in rehearsal mode. Sittingon his ancient metal stool behind the crook of a babygrand, with his notes and music set out in neat stacksin front of him. Beside him, his special tempo watch anda glass of water. "Basses too loud," he'll say. "More upand down on that phrase ...Tenors, take a hold of it! ..."Write it in. 'MaLTa!'" ... "Sopranos, I'm hearing a lot ofzibrato on the end of that phrase. Mark it 'Non-vibrato'.""Altos, line! 'Taaaa, taaaa, ta, ta, taaaa" as his pointedfinger shows us visually the tension of the sustainedphrase. So many years of learning Dale's musical short-hand. All the little rituals of each rehearsal. Octave Csharps on the piano to tell us that break time is over.His double thumbs up to us from the podium after anespecially glorious performance during a concert. Learn-ing the difference between a breath and a "break, nobreath, "as well as how to mark it all on a score.

"Every region needs andbenefits from high qualityartists and artwork. TheDale Warland Singers'virtuosic artistry makeseveryone here, audiencesand artists alike, aspire togreater heights."

- Neal Cuthbert, McKnight Foundation

Then there was Kansas City last year. We were justfinishing our conducting workshop at Chorus America.It was the last time we'd be together that season. Forsome, it was their last time ever with Dale. We'd justbeen through the wringer, pouring out every thread ofmusicality for a slough of conducting fellows who tooktheir turn in front of us. Then somebody realized thatthese last precious moments of the season had beenunder somebody else's musical direction. One of thesingers asked Dale if he would please take the podiumand lead us on something, anything. It turned out to beStephen Paulus' "Pilgrims' Hymn."

With the most incredible look of love in his eyes, Dalestood and led us through that song. His gaze sweptacross the choir, acknowledging each of us, one by one. Itwas a moment in time that stood with such clarity. Thisis what it means to be a member of a choir, and this iswhat it means to sing for Dale.

- Lynette Johnson, Singer

Dale with former and current singers, in rehearsal for the closing 30th Anniversary concert, April, 2003.


dale warland singers discography


Echoes of Christmas1979Augsburg, LF, 1621Burt, Ives, Paulus, Preston (arr.), Van(arr.), Wagner (arr.), Warland (arr.),Zgodava

La Fiesta de la Posada:A Christmas Choral Pageant1979CBS, LF, 36662Brubeck

250 Years of Great Choral Music1980Musical Heritage Society, LF, MHS 4358Argento, Bach, Brahms, Ginastera,Messiaen

Choral Mosaic1980Augsburg - Musical Heritage Society, LPAugs 1454-MHS 4358Argento, Bach, Brahms, Ginastera,Messiaen

Americana: A Bit of Folk1981Augsburg, LF, 23-0980Arr. by Churchill, W Hall, Kubik, A.Parker, Paulus, Rutter, Van, Warland

Carols of Christmas1981Augsburg, LF, 1317Billings, Fissinger, Luboff (arr.), Paulus(arr.), B. Pierce, Rutter (arr.), Van,Warland (arr.), Warlock

Gloria: Twentieth CenturyChoral Music1981Walton Music Corporation, LF, WR 1Edlund, Hallock, Janson, Mellniis

Swedish Choral Ballads1981Walton Music Corporation, LF, WR 2Alfven, Larsson, Lundvik, Malmfors,Pettersson, Rangstrom, Stenhammar

Sing Noel: Christmas Music ofDaniel Pinkham1982Augsburg, LF, 1916Pinkham

Sing We of Christmas1983Augsburg, LP 1918Britten, Distler (arr.), C. Franklin (arr.),Paulus, Poston, Rutter (arr.), Van

On Christmas Night1986Augsburg, LF, 1761S. Barnett (arr.), C. Franklin (arr.),Holst, Joubert, Paulus, Prentice (arr.),Van (arr.), Walton, Warland (arr.),Warlock, Willcocks

Stephen Paulus: Carols forChristmas1987,1996d'Note Records (re-release), CD,DND 1015Paulus

Dominick Argento: Peter Quinceat the Clavier - I Hate and I Love1988Musical Heritage Society, LP/CD,912199ZArgento

A New Creation1990Mark Foster, CD, MFCD01Clausen

The Dale Warland Singers:Choral Currents1991Innova Recordings, CD, MN110C. Barnett, S. Barnett, Childs,C. Franklin, Hodkinson, 1. Larsen, Paulus

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 11992Augsburg, CD, 4-11Billings, Burt, Fissinger (arr.), Ives,Luboff (arr.), Paulus, Pierce, Preston(arr), Rutter (arr.), Van, Wagner (arr.),Warland (arr.), Warlock, Zgodava

Christmas Echoes, Vol. 21992Augsburg, CD,4-12Britten, Distler, C. Franklin (arr.), Holst,Joubert, Paulus, Pinkham, Poston,Prentice (arr.), Rutter (arr.), Van, Walton,Warland (arr.), Warlock, Willcocks

Cathedral Classics1994American Choral Catalog, CD, ACC 120Allegri, Barber, Howells, Martin

Fancie1994DWS Collections, CD, 1001C. Barnett (arr.), Brahms, Britten,Carmichael, Chatman, DelIo Ioio,Diemer, Ellington, Erb (arr.), Gershwin,Hawley, Oxley (arr.), Rorem, Rossini,Schafer, Shearing, R. Thompson,Vaughan Williams

December Stillness1995American Choral Catalog, CD, ACC 121Busto, Heitzeg, Hess, Houkom, Howells,Kverno, Part, Paulus, Penderecki,Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky

Blue Wheat1996American Choral Catalog, CD, ACC 122C. Barnett (arr.), Burleigh (arr),De Cormier (arr.), Fissinger (arr.),Foster, Houkom (arr.), Keller (arr.),Kubik (arr.), Luboff(arr.), G. Martin(arr.), A. Parker (arr.), Paulus (arr.),Rutter (arr.)

A Rose in Winter1997 (re-release)d'Note Classics, CD, DND 1022Carney, Hassler, Koszewski, Kverno,Messiaen, Paynter, Poulenc, Sandstrom,Tavener, Van, Victoria, Warland (arr.),Willan

Bernstein & Britten1999American Choral Catalog, CD, ACC 123Albright, Bernstein, Britten, Harlap,Hovland, Paulus, Rautavaara, Wertsch

Christmas withthe Dale Warland Singers2002Loft Recordings, LLC, CD, G49208C. Barnett (arr.), Gardner, Houkom,Jalkeus (arr.), [ansons (arr.), Luboff(arr.), Mechem (arr.), Parker/Shaw(arr.), Paulus, Rubbra, Sandstrom (arr.),Sargent (arr.), Schultz (arr.), Van (arr.),Warland (arr.), Wilhousky (arr.)

Walden Pond2003Loft Recordings, LLC, CD, G49217Argento

Rachmaninoff Vespers2003Loft Recordings, LLC, CD, RZCD 5011Rachmaninoff

Reincarnations2004Loft Recordings, LLC, CD, G49239Fine, Avshalomov, Barber, Finney, Ives


alumni singers

Jan Arneson AbrahamRussell P. AllenSally AllenJane AndersenCurtis AndersonJared L. AndersonPaul AndersonPaul AndressCraig ArnoldJohn Ause*Steve BaardsonLarry BachBrad BakJuni Bannerjee-StevensRosemary BarenzJeffrey BarnettPeter BartholomePatricia BatherBrent BenrudCarrie BensonDavid BensonRoxanne BentleyGeorge BerglundPaul BergquistJoel BeyerJeffrey BipesJohn BischoffPhilip BlackburnRon BolingerSara BoosPaul BoyceRonald BraceElizabeth BradenGeraldine BradenAnna Mooy BraithwaiteRuth BrewsterDavid BriggsBruce BroquistBruce BrownHalyna BrynSteve BurgerLynn Jones BurgerLinda BurkRuss BurschMargaret BurtonDonald CarlsonClaude CassagneCindy ChaffeeCharles ChristiansonErin E. ColwitzLeslie Quigley CornilsRobert CowlesThaxter CunioMary Heston Dahl

Michael DaileyWayne DaltonPhilip DavisKenneth DenzerSara DickMark DietrichDavid DocterRita DocterSue Boxrud DonaldsonJeff DoumaCynthia Anderson DutyCraig Edwall*Robert ElmoreJerome ElsberndTeresa ElsberndRobert EngelsonThea Sikora EngelsonA.B. EngenDavid EngenHelen EngenJayson EngquistKorissa ErbeleDaryl EricksonPaul EvansDavid FischerBryan FischerDenise Wahlin FiskumJames FiskumRonald FlugumCary John FranklinGil FrenchRyan FrenchPhilip FryerCharles GabrielsonPaul GerikeJames GoodrichScott GormanNancy GrauffRolaine GreenNancy GrundahlPeter HanslepLloyd HansonSally Hanson *Charles K. HarderSandra Penning HendersonKaren Louise HendricksPeter HendricksonLarry Lee HenselJohn William HenleySue Doran HerberFredrika HerrickJan HeumanGil HighLynda Madej Higson


Julie HimmelstrupLloyd HjelleKristen L. HoffmanMarian HoffmanNancy Erickson HoffmanAnne HolmesElizabeth HolmesChristopher HopkinsWaynne HornickeVicki HultineDina HumbleKathleen HumphreyJanice HuntonChris JacksonLinda JacobsJack Jaeger*Thomas JamesAmanda JohnsonJanet JohnsonJerry JohnsonKaren Johnson *Maren JohnsonPaul A. JohnsonSigrid JohnsonTimothy JohnsonVicki Ann Dean JohnsonJoanna JohnstonSusan Sondrol JonesKathy JosselynAdam JuddPolly Buchanan JutsumPaul KaatrudLinda KachelmeierSusan KahnDaniel KallmanKory KassulkeSusan KathmanPatricia KentJin KimWayne KivellSharon KecknerShelley KlineAnne Mollison KlusSteven KnightMatthew KnoesterTerry KnowlesRobert A. KnudtsonDenise KonicekDonelle Kleman KortemeierGary Kleman KortemeierBrian KremerLois LaitenenCatherine McCord LarsenThomas Larson

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Arthur LaRueJanet L. LechmanRuth Thompson-LeMayLori R. LewisTodd LiljenquistJoel LillethunMarita J. LinkPaul LohmanFredrick LokkenFrances LongNorah LongGregory LorenzRebecca LowePeter LovettChristine LudwigAlan MadisonMichaela MahadyAngela MalekPamela MarentetteTimothy McGlynnDavid MeissnerSarah Schlomer MelanderDavid MichelMarilyn MillerMichael MillerPaula MillerLinda MindlinLarry MittelstaedtDavid Ryan MobergJ. David MooreMelissa MoreyBarbara NelsonBetty Lou NelsonJerry D. NelsonRon NelsonDan NeumannBrian NewhouseLaura NicholsA. Douglas NodlandKevin NorbergDavid A. NordliCarolyn NorquistSolveig Nyberg-AkertTim O'BrienMary Jo OldakowskiMichael D. OlsenJulie OlsonGordon OlsonMary OlsonSandra Oltman OlsonMelissa O'NeillJohn OpsataDean PalermoMary Patton

Elizabeth PaulySteven PearthreeRobert PeskinDavid PetersMichael PetersRalph PetersenBrian E. PettyRichard PowellDianne PrieditisJoan QuamLiz Miller RacineStan RagnesJames RamletSusan Hodges RamletDavid ReeceSusan ReedLaurie B. RejzerStephanie ReuerDiane RidderKrista RiverKathleen RobinsonJennaya RobisonJames RoddeWilliam RollieJerry RubinoBrad RunyanPaul RusterholzLea Anna Sams- McGowanSteve SandbergKay E. SandeenMarie SathrumEeva SavolainenLisa SawatskyTimothy SawyerMichael P. SchmidtRobin SchoenwaldJohn D. SchonebaumDavid SchwandtArlene SedioJulian SellersKevin ShannonTerry SheetzMark Sheldon *Sue A. ShepardDana SkoglundJohn P. SlausonEmma SmallKelly Becker SorkinMark SotebeerRandall SpeerRuth SpiegelDavid StarkSteve StaruchFrank Steen

Michael SteinerCarrie StevensRoxanne StoufferCharlotte Straka *Lisa Boers StrandjordWilliam StromJune SwansonMark TaintorGregory TamborninoDeborah Tamte- HoranMichael Tamte-HoranMomoko TannoJo Anne TaylorRuth TaylorPaul TeieRosita TendallLisa TheisenPaul A. TheisenClyde ThompsonPatricia ThompsonRachel ToperzerScott Thomas ToperzerRica Jane VanPaul R. VanHoutenFrancis John VogtLori VosejpkaSandra WaldenMary Helen WaldoThomas WalterRuth WarlandJeanne WegenerMitzi WestraDavid WeyhrauchHoward WhiteKaren WilkersonGary Brooks WilsonJane WilsonTodd WilsonMichael WinikoffThomas WitryKarin WolvertonWoody WoodwardLinda Steen ZeligSue ZemlinClaudia Zylstra

* deceased


May G. Munson *Frances A. NelsonMichael O'ConnellGordon W. OlsonCarol Lynn PineJudy RanheimEstelle Quinn SellBoake A. SellsNancy SlaughterRobert S. SpongMary SteinkeJohn J. TaylorJohn R. ThomasJames Treanor*Thomas WhelanArlene C. WilliamsBillie Young

Executive Directors

former board members and staff

Former Board Members

Mark AddicksMargie AnkenyArthur BellDuane BellDixon BondArland D. BrusvenMaureen BuhrmasterJames L. DavisGeorgia DeCosterRogerJ. DeLangeGlenna DibrellCherie Doyle-RiesenbergTeresa ElsberndRobert EngelstadGerald B. FischerMargaret FlanaganSteve FoxDavid H. FrancisCharles GaillardRoy HendersonAnders HimmelstrupThelma HunterWilliam L. JonesJon N. KietzerTerry KnowlesMark KoenigMary Beth KoehlerJohn LundquistMichael W. McCarthy


Bonnie McClainBruce Taylor

Assistant Conductors

Larry BachDwight BiglerPeter HendricksonSigrid JohnsonWayne KivellJerry Rubino

Composers in Residence

Past Staff

Carol BarnettFrank FerkoStephen Paulus

General Managers

Russell P. AllenRuss BurschCraig CarnahanSusan FederbuschDiana J. LelandAnn LeverseePatrick RomeyMarie Sathrum

*deceased

honor rollThe Dale Warland Singers gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of its friendsand supporters who made gifts over the history of the organization.

Individuals

Helen S. AckermanTom and Shirle AdamsMark AddicksMary Ann AdrianPhyllis AhernCharles and Sharon AkreEvelyn AlbinsonJohn and Meredith AldenCoralie AllenRussell P. AllenJohn and Kay AlsipJay and Beth AlthofDuane E. AndersenMr. and Mrs. Elmer J. AndersenHenry and Mary AndersenAnthony L. AndersonDr. and Mrs. Arden O. AndersonBonnie AndersonDean W. AndersonDouglas AndersonJoyce L. AndersonMarie AndersonMark and Donna AndersonMartha and Renner AndersonDr. Michael J. and Linda

AndersonOmar B. AndersonPaul J. and Mary A. AndersonPeter AndersonPete and Margie AnkenySally and Peter AnsonJanice Rae ArcandNina and John ArchabalMr. and Mrs. Milo ArkemaAnton E. Armstrong, D.M.A.Jack Armstrong and Barbara ShareMila AroskarCathleen and Michael AubartSteven and Diane BaardsonJohn and Patty BaileyEvan BallardJerry and Elayne BallardSreela BanerjeePat and Louis BanittHoward and Jane BarnesSusan BarnesCarol BarnettJeffrey Barnett & Jamie EarlSteve Barnett / Barnett Music

ProductionsBarnhart Percussion ServiceMartha B. and Alexis BarronMrs. Lyman BarrowsJohn BarryBill and Marlene BartlettWilliam and Paula BathkeIris BauermeisterPeter BayLynne and Bruce BeckArthur Becker

Karen and John BeckerRichard and Solveig BeckmanFrederick J. and Joan B. BeebeAllen L. BeersArthur and Fran BellDuane and Connie BellElinor Watson BellJudith BellMargaret BeltzSusan BenjaminDr. Elisabeth R. Bennett, M.D.Joni Kelly BennettElizabeth and Russell BennettCarrie BensonJanet and Keith BensonVickie BensonDoris F. BergetInez BergquistJoyce M. BergquistFred and Joanne BergsrudDonald BettsFred and Cynthia BetzMr. and Mrs. William W. BeyerWarren and Jean BillingsMichael and Ann BirtKatherine BishopBruce and Judith BlackburnPhilip W. BlackburnRonald BlackmoreMary Anne BlahaPhilip N. and Laura A. BoeDouglas and Kelly BoieOmega Travel, Inc.Karen BonawitzDixon BondPenny Bond and Chuck GrimsrudDonna BonelloDick and Sue BoninSara BoosGerald J. and Priscilla M. BormannShirley BowersKimberly J. BowmanElizabeth BradenG. BradenGary and Doris BraleyMichael and Margaret BrandMeredith BrandsmaLaura BrandtKarl and Ellen BreyerRobert and Judith BrezinskiMr. and Mrs. Fred BrianHerb and Anne G. BrigginDavid BriggsConley and Marney BrooksBrooks Family Fund of the

Minneapolis FoundationJack and Bobby BroseRay and Julie BrovoldBarb BrownBarbara and Tim BrownDeborah J. BrudeArland and Sharon Brusven

David K. BucherMaria Bucka in Memory of Chuck RisserSusan BucknamMaureen and Robert BuhrmasterTyrone and Delia BujoldJohn R. BulgerBob and Gerry BullardLane and Lynn BurgerSteven and Karen BurgerThomas and Barbara BurkeRonald and Harriet BurleyRussell and Jane BurrisRuss BurschBarbara ButcherKaren CapelGary T. and Joan CapenDouglas CarlsenAnn J. CarlsonArleen CarlsonJoan CarlsonJeanine and Rolf CarlsonJerome and Linda CarlsonJosephine B. CarpenterGeraldine CarpenterCarolyn and Charlie CaswellJohn and Patricia CavanaughJohn and Katha ChamberlainBill Chartrand and Terry FroydDavid and Susan CherwienKaren ChestnutEldonna and Ray ChristensenRachel and Don ChristensenWilbur C. ChristensenPaul and Lois ChristensonEdmund P. and Harriett ChuteRichard W. and Jean 1. ClarkeLinda ClemensKarla CliffordGeorge and Susan CoghillGary Cohen and Margaret MacNealeDouglas and Lois Sands Coleman JrSteve and Kathy ColemanDrew CollinsDonald E. CollinsonBob and Harriet CollopyPat ColwitzKathy J. ConnollyDavid and Jane CooperSteve Cornils and Leslie Quigley-CornilsPat and Betsy CorriganSusan CrawfordStefanie R. CristMarlene CulbersonJohn A. and Elizabeth CullenLisa CumpstonCharles and Kathy CunninghamDr. G. Stanley and Vi CusterJohannes and Arlene DahlePeter DahlenTruman and Clarice DaltonSheldon and Carol DambergMichael Danko


',ileen Hockroward D. Hodel

Bruce HodgesS. E. and Lynn HodulikThe Hoeschler Fund of the Saint Paul

FoundationDennis HoffmanWarren and Marian HoffmanNancy Erickson HoffmanWendy Holmes NelsonGale HolmquistRichard and Carol HolyMartha and Alan HopemanEric HopkinsJim and Sally HornigArlo and Carolyn HovickMarne and Les HovlandMeredith and Richard HowellMarcus and MariAnn HoyerKenneth and Julie HoymeRichard and Ingrid HoytKaren HubbardCharles F. HubertyWilliam Hueg and Hella Mears HuegHoward and Mary Ann HuelsterRon and Carol HumbleSteve and Anne HunterDr. Sam and Thelma HunterDr. and Mrs. Donald B. HuntonJanice Hunton and Betsy PeregoyMary E. Huscheneffrey Huset

Ruth and John HussSally HwangJerome J. HymanJim and Carole HynesKimberly InskeepPhilip Friedlund and Lisa IsenbergDonna and Dave JacobsonDonald and Phyllis JacobsonLois JacobsonPaul JacobsonRon and Judy JacobsonRobert JaehneDr. and Mrs. William R. JahnkeAlec and Barbara JanesTruman and Leila JeffersAnn JensenElizabeth A. JensenRobert L. JensenPaul JeskeMaria JetteJoann E. JewettB.J. and Sigrid JohnsonD. Ward and Shotsy JohnsonDr. and Mrs. Daniel P. JohnsonElizabeth JohnsonJim Johnson and Maggie Wirth-JohnsonLavone JohnsonLowell and Andrea JohnsonLyle and Corky Johnson'Vlarian S. Johnsonv'Iartha Johnson

Paul JohnsonMargaret and Peter JohnsonS. Jerome and Leticia JohnsonTed and Ruth Johnson

Thomas C. JohnsonJanet and Tim JohnsonJill and William JohnsonBob and Sonja JohnstonKatherine JonesDoug and Mary JonesMary JonesWaring and Lucy JonesWilliam and Susan JonesJim and Mary Ellen JordanMichael C. Jordan and Brenda J. PowellCharles and Mary JungmannGlenda JungquistPolly Buchanan JutsamValerie KabatArt and Martha KaemmerJoni MacDonald and Raye KanzenbachJustin KarchMarkle and Charlotte KarlenGene KarwoskiGlenn and Madelaine KarwoskiJohn KaselRamona Bole KaszasIvars and Gloria KaulsMarge KazmierczakMiriam and Erwin KelenRoberta KellerBruce and Irma KelleyBarry KemptonLucy KennedySuzanne KennedyRobin KeyworthCatherine Hartman and Rene KidderKaren KiefferJohn and Jerry KiesowJinKimLouise KingMr. and Mrs. Richard KingSarah KinneySharon KlecknerWilliam and Rebecca KleinGeorge Klein Jr.Martha KleinsasserGary and Donelle Kleman KortemeierWilliam H. KlingDiane KlodtDr. Genell KnatterudBarry and Julia KnightRev. Roger and Beth KnightTerry Knowles and Marshall RutterRobert and Joan KnudtsonDavid and Barbara KochDavid and Mary Beth KoehlerMark KoenigJohn M. KoepckeStepehn and Marilyn KoepckeKaren KoeppMarcella KolackeSteve KomulaDenise KonicekDebbie KortemeierMr. And Mrs. Duane KullbergRick and Jan KvamSusan and Edward LaineYale Hicks and Dot LandisMark and Catherine Larsen

John and Karen LarsenKarla LarsenLibby LarsenTrygve and Helen LarsenBrian and Ardia LarsonJana LarsonShirley LarsonDon and Joann LeavenworthRobert LeeGary and Mary Lynn LeffJean and Larry LeJeuneDiana J. LelandShirley LernerDon and Emily LeutgebKim Leventhal and Kevin NosbischSy and Ginny LevyAlbert W. and Georgia Ray LindekeKenneth LindgrenRussell and Avis LindquistGunilla LuboffDonald and Diana Lee LuckerMarianne LudwigSteven P. LundRoger LundbladJohn and Liz LundquistSarah Lutman and Rob RudolphMr. and Mrs. Richard LymanDoug LynnMarina LyonPatty and George MaasSandra MacDonaldHarvey and Carol Ann MackayMr. and Mrs. W. Duncan MacMillanDavid and Lisa MahoneySpike and Mary Maiden MuellerGeorge and Dusty MairsRobert G. MairsThe Thomas Mairs and Marjorie Mairs

Fund of The Saint Paul FoundationOlaf and Jan MalminLiz and Steven ManganielloRoberta Mann and Don BensonConnie Manske and James RedmonWilliam and Martha MarchandJames and Jane MarentetteBonnie MarronGeorge Martin and Peg HansonTeresa MartinVivian Mason, in Memory of Jack MasonKathryn 1. MathesMrs. Robert E. MattesonPhil MattsonDr. and Mrs. Charles H. MayoPatricia A. McAuliffeBruce E. and Alice M. McCallCorrine McCarthyMike and Kay McCarthyMichael C. McCartyBonnie L. McClain and Phil JenningsJames and Shirley McFarlandTimothy McGlynnRobert McIlrathF. Raymond McKennaPatricia McKenzieRonald McKinleyDeb and Carl McNally.


Dan and Carrie DaunerMorris and Karen DavidmanCatherine· Rose and Don DaviesJim and Sherry DavisJulie DavisPhil Davis and Leanne K. HansenThomas E. DavisBruce and Ruth DaytonCharles DaytonMrs. Donald C. DaytonDouglas J. DaytonHarriett DaytonJudy W. DaytonMary Lee DaytonTed and Bev DeikelJohn and Virginia DellMax and Marilyn DeLongCharles DennyKenneth and Arlene DenzerDarwin and Mary Ann DeRosierRobert DettlingJoanne and Charlie DeVoreGlenna Dibrell and David CummingsAnn and Dennis DiersDennis and Nickie DillonDiane DingleyTerrance DinovoSamuel C. DixonLinville DoanDavid and Rita DocterKatherine G. DoepkeDr. Gordon DoeringHumphrey and Elisabeth W. DoermannNancy Neu and Karen DoolittleDebbie DornausTom and Nancy DownerChuck and Cherie Doyle-RiesenbergCarl and Charlotte DrakeRegina DriscollLeslie Merner DukePeter and Lucy DunningCindy & Dennis DupontSister Luanne DurstLyle and Mary DyckMarie Spar DymitEthel DzubayJules Ebin and Elizabeth SandlerJay F. EcklundJ. Michele EdwardsDick and Mardene EichhornKeith and Genny EllefsonCarol A. EllingsonEmily EllsworthTeresa and Jerry ElsberndLaura and Jake EndresE. Duane and Marlene EngstromThomas and Karen ErdmannMr. and Mrs. L. W. EricksenGalina EricksonRob EricksonShawn ErwinGeneva EschweilerVirginia and Robert EtemMilton EttingerJennifer Jane EvansKaren & Richard Evans


Wendy EvansMrs. Dewey S. EwaldBrian and Betty FalkFloyd and Caron Farmer, Jr.Susan S. FauverSusan Federbusch and Barry GracemanDavid E. FeinbergFrank FerkoBernard FischerGerald B. and Catherine L. FischerBruce and Marilyn FisherDr. Edwin M. FissingerDolly FitermanLeonard and Shirley FlachmanMargaret FlanaganAnn FleischauerShelly FlingSuzanne and Robert FlottenRonald A. FlugumCheryl FogartyDavid and Cindy FolinDavid E. FolinJohn and Priscilla FolinBarbara Forster and Larry HendrickDorothy ForsytheDeb and Gary FossCarl and Velma FoxConnie Fladeland and Steve Fox

with matching funds fromMinnesota Monthly

The Francis Fund ofThe Saint Paul Foundation

Helen FranczykMary and Donn FrenchPhilip FriedlundCynthia Hulburt FritzMr. Larry FuschbergCarolyn FugateDiane and Roger GagneCharles and Jane GaillardLiz Gamble TaylorSusan GarrettTad and Carol GatesZabel and Charles A. Geer Family Fund

of The Minneapolis FoundationPam GeorgeJim and Betty GergenPaul and Mona GerikeSam and Kay GerthDoug and Mary Kay GestonDick GeyermanTed and Eloise GiannobilePeter and Dorothea Gilligan In memory

of Eugene Whitacre-lover of musicPeter GoddardRiney and Joanie GoehlSteven and Bonnie GoldsmithRoger Gomoll and Gloria BengstonDr. Gary GoodRobert and Katherine GoodaleAnn D. and Jack GoodwinPolly GordonWarren and Kiki GoreAbby and Jack GraberLauretta and Jere GraetzStanley Graham

Sheridan GrangerMary GrantJames C. GreenLouise GreenbergKathleen GrendahlG. Larry GriffithDorothy GrossNancy and Stephen GrundahlJohn and Bev Grundhoferleva M. GrundmanisBruce and Jean GrussingGerard and Linda GrzybLarry and Kathi GunterBill and Pat GurnonJames D. HabigerMichelle HackettJames and Kathleen HaglundKarin and Erick HakansonAmmon and Elary Allen HallJoanne HalseyMary B. HaltvickDr. James and Dorothy HalversonWendy HalversonJoanne HalvorsenJerry HalvorsonSandra HalvorsonRobert HamiltonWilliam and Lynette HamlinBette HammelJulie A. HandbergDr. Jo-Ida C. HansenBarbara and John O. HansonLois HansonAmelia HapkeDebra HarrerShirley L. HarrisPat Hart and A. Sheffer LangWilliam and Helen HartfielJohn and Lucy HartwellPatricia HaswellFiona HatfieldRuth and Paul HaugeTom HauschildPat HeilmanDon and Arlene HelgesonH. Thomas and Mary HellerH.K. and Betty HelsethRuth and Jim HembreRon and Betty HemstadEthan A. HendersonRoy and Delores HendersonDavid and Susan HendricksonPeter HendricksonBill and Sue HerberKathy HeringRoger and Ricky HerrickRoger HertzbergMarsha Hartman and Russ HeuckendorfGene and Karene HeupelHoward and Lynda MadejElden and Doris HillFrances P. HillierChuck and JoAnn HilstadAnders and Julie HimmelstrupTrudy HinesMaurine N. Hintz

h. Dennis Shrockzlariana and Craig Shulstad

Beverly J. ShupeJoseph ShusterPauline SiepkaMichael Edwards and Elizabeth SiessMark and Mary SigmondMike and Barbara SillGinger Sisco and Larry GriffithPaul SiskindJanet SkedDick and Ella SladeSaraan SlatteryNancy SlaughterMarilyn SlenkEmil and Emily SlowinskiTerry and Leah SlyeMary W. SmailJim and Cindie SmartJim and Jeanne SmithDavid SoliHenry and Georgette SosinBill and Roxanne SothDavid and Susan SouthwickRebecca J. SparRandall SpeerDr. Michael and Sherry SpenceChristine & Archibald SpencerHarriet and Edson Spencer Fund of the

Minneapolis FoundationRobert S. and Jean Spong

arbara Spradley and Neil KittlesenElizabeth J. St. AngeloElizabeth StarlingNaomi and Steven StaruchFreida StavrouGreg and Mary SteeberBrian and Jackie SteeleArturo L. SteelyFrank Steen and Lisa HabeckPhilip and Arvida SteenPeter SteinerGlenn and Mary SteinkeBill and Cheryl StephensonEric and Juni StevensKathleen C. StoneFred StoutlandJudith Anderson StoutlandHerman and Charlotte StrakaPhyllis and Marjorie StrangerJulie StroudLavaan L. StutzmanSharon SudmanVern SuttonEleanor SwansonMr. and Mrs. H. Richard SwansonHenry and Virginia SweattMr. and Mrs. John G. SzafranskiJoseph and Cynthia TamborninoGreg TamborninoMary Tambornino'ruce and Jo Anne Taylorohn J. and Mary M. Taylor

Rosita TendallJames TermanFred and Pat Thater

Elvera and Elmer TheisenPaul and Lisa TheisenJill and Peter ThelenJack and Pat ThomasJim and Judy ThomasOliver and Carol ThomasClyde ThompsonWayne and Lola May ThompsonLeon ThurmanJoanne TierneyPaul TillquistMr. and Mrs. Lee TimpeMr. and Mrs. E. R. TitcombMark and Donneen TorreyMarylou TorreyDwight and Carolyn TownesDr. Lynn TrappCharlotte TreanorBlair and Linda TremereRev. Kent TuohinoEmily Anne and Gedney TuttleCharles UpcraftGene VaderJeffrey and Rica VanTed and Joy VanDan and Anita Vander PloegJanika VanderveldeGretchen VanHoofRobert L. & Karen VeningaBill Venne and Doug KlineCeil T. VictorDr. Kathryn L. VigenJeffrey and Brenda VredenburgPatti and Ken WalesMaxine and Win WallinMarianne Baird WallmanCarol WardJennifer K. WardRuth and Dale WarlandJoel and Lorraine WarlandRex and Carol WarlandBob and Bev WarlandPeggy Watson and Dr. Gordon DoeringDavid and Kitty WeaverArlene WeberCandace WegersonDiane WeinfurtnerGeol WeirsJanet and Gerhard WeissDavid and Karin WendtGretchen Westergard and Steve BoulkaMargaret WestinJohn T. WestromMr. and Mrs. F. T. WeyerhaeuserDavid and Sue WeyhrauchTeresa K. WhaleyTom and Marty Whelan with matching

funds from Minnesota MonthlyPublications

Pat WhitacreEd and Carolyn WhiteMr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. WhiteBen Whitney and Mary Farnham WhitneyJ. Kimball and Helen W. WhitneyTimothy J. Wicker and Carolyn M. DetsrsGerald Wieneke

Ru.ss and Norma Jean WigfieldPawl and Carolynn WigginHarold F. WildungKarren and Gary WilkersonParol and Arlene WilliamsDiane and Evan WilliamsJarnes and Ann WilliamsDa::ryl and Eloise WilliamsonDr. Rodney and Marilyn WilmothAlex and Marguerite WilsonAruthony and Jennifer WilsonJane WilsonPaail WinterTOJ[llWitry and Melissa O'NeillHu.gh Wolff and Judith KoganSteve Wolff and Mary BellJerry and Billie WollanMilm and Donna WolstedBewerlee WoodJoron M. WoodwardElsrie Jo WoolcottAnme and Philip WorrellChrristopher and Suzanne WrightBilllie YoungTraa.cy K. S. Yue in memory of Jacqueline

K::oYueGarry and Judith ZaimontPat;e Zirbel and Cathy ReedSallly E. Zorich and AssociatesNamcy P. Zwickey

F<»undations & Corporations

AD C FoundationArm.erican Express Financial AdvisorsArnaerican National Bank of MinnesotaAncx:lersen FoundationKat;herine B. Andersen Fund of the

Saint Paul FoundationElmner L. and Eleanor J. Andersen

FooundationBakser FoundationThe Barry FoundationThe Beim FoundationBelfford FoundationGlelD and Harold Bend FoundationBetlhlehem Lutheran Church FoundationF. Rt. Bigelow FoundationBosss FoundationBro.;okfield PropertiesBrocoks Family Fund of the MinneapolisFOUJ.ndationThre Bush FoundationCemtral Container CorporationCitW of Saint Paul, Cultural STAR ProgramAarron Copland Fund for MusicDaY"ton Hudson FoundationDeluuxe Corporation FoundationThee Alice M. Ditson Fund of

c:.::::olumbiaUniversityDisc::iplined Growth InvestorsDoresev and Whitney LLPEcoIIlab FoundationEmserson Charitable TrustFirsrt Asset Management•

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H. B. Fuller CompanyGeneral Mills FoundationMary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs

Burke FoundationN. Bud and Beverly Grossman FoundationHoneywell FoundationThe HRK FoundationThe Hubbard FoundationHuss FoundationJerome FoundationLiberty State BankLutheran BrotherhoodRoberta Mann FoundationMardag FoundationMarshall Field's Project Imagine with

support from the Target FoundationThe McKnight FoundationMedtronic FoundationMeet the Composer programMinnesota State Arts BoardMyers FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsLawrence M. and Elizabeth AnnO'Shaughnessy Charitable Income Trust

in honor of Lawrence M. O'ShaughnessyPeregrine Capital Management, Inc.Fund of Minneapolis FoundationPiper Jaffray Cos. Fdn. on behalf.Pitney BowesProspect Creek FoundationPrudential Matching Gifts ProgramRahr FoundationMargaret Rivers FundThe St. Paul Companies, Inc. FoundationThe Saint Paul FoundationSchmitt Music CompanyThe Sewell Family FoundationSit Investment Associates FoundationThe South ways FoundationHarriet and Edson Spencer Fund of the

Minneapolis FoundationTarget Stores, Dayton's and Mervyn'sUnited ArtsU.S. Bancorp FoundationUS West FoundationWenger FoundationWeyerhaeuser FoundationWinton-Whitney FundWood-Ril FoundationXcel Energy Foundation


In-kind Contributions

Aguava New Music /Dr. Cary Boyce:sheet music

Steve Barnett / Barnett MusicProductions: recording services

Children's Home Society& Family Services

David and Jane Cooper: CD player,cassette deck & receiver

Peter Dahlen: ACDA promotional videoJohn A. Heller: office cleaningMinnesota Monthly Publications: lay-out

and design, advertising space andhotel certificates

Curtis and Shirley Ramlet: file storagecontainers

Jim and Susan RamletMichael and Kathie Reeslund: digital

camera and accessoriesNancy and Everett Rotenberry: flowers,

picture frames, and postageSexton PrintingGinger Sisco and Larry Griffith: Bacon's

DirectoriesSmart AssociatesStems & Vines: flowersJulie StroudTarget Stores, Dayton's and Mervyn's:

computers and costumes?Jeffrey and Rica Van: alumni receptionRuth and Dale WarlandWebPage Designs

Recording Fund

Robin Perry AllenBeth and Jay AlthofDuane AndersenHenry and Mary Andersen

to honor James Peter and hisyears of devotion to the DaleWarland Singers

Pete and Margie AnkenyAnn and Robert BakerBaker FoundationCarol BarnettCarrie BensonSara BoosBoss FoundationArland and Sharon BrusvenRobert CooperLynda Crane

Don Davies and Catherine RoseBruce and Ruth DaytonMary Lee DaytonCarl and Charlotte DrakeTeresa and Jerry ElsberndGalina EricksonCharles R. FacerFloyd and Caron Farmer, Jr.Susan S. FauverGerald B. and Catherine L. FischerJack and Terry ForsytheGerard and Linda GrzybJoanne HalvorsenDebra HarrerHennepin Ave. United Methodist Church

Sanctuary ChoirRoger and Ricky HerrickAnders and Julie HimmelstrupWilliam Hueg and Hella Mears HuegEric HopkinsPaul JeskeSusan KnightTerry Knowles and Marshall RutterKatherine R. LilleheiGunilla LuboffThomas G. MairsRoberta Mann and Don BensonMike and Kay McCarthyAlbert J. McNeilNational Endowment for the ArtsDavid and Carol NordliGayle and Tim OberDeborah Loon OsgoodJim and Donna PeterDr. Earl RiversDavid A. RobinsonThomas and Gwynn RosenNancy and Everett RotenberryDawn SchuffenhauerThe Sewell Family FoundationNancy SlaughterSteve and Naomi StaruchBrian and Jackie SteeleEric and Juni StevensRosita TendallJeffrey and Rica VanBob and Bev WarlandDale and Ruth WarlandPatricia M. WhitacreArlene and Paul WilliamsJane WilsonDuain Wolfe

*deceased

acknowledgements

board of directors

OfficersDaniel J. Schmechel, presidentJacqueline Reis, vice president

James W. Peter, treasurerDavid L. Cooper, secretary

Michael E. Reeslund, of councilArlene Williams, emeritus board chair

DirectorsMichael Brand

Donald M. DaviesSusan S. FauverAnn Fleischauer

Glenn J. KarwoskiRobin Keyworth

Lynn PahlM. Walker Pearce

Stanley RomansteinThomas J. Rosen

Nancy Reitz RotenberryGinger Sisco

Gloria SewellVern Sutton

Dale Warland, founder and music director*Gayle Ober, executive director*

Deborah Loon Osgood, singer representative *

Emeritus BoardMargie Ankeny*

Arland D. Brusven *Jerry Fischer*

Thelma Hunter*Terry Knowles *

Mike McCarthy*Nancy Slaughter*

Mary Steinke *

*denotes ex officio

administrative staff

Gayle Ober, executive directorTina Meckel, development directorTracy K.S. Yue, marketing and

communications directorElary Allen Hall, office managerBeth Pickering, business managerRuth Anderson, office volunteerDick Geyerman, office volunteerJackie Steele, concert volunteer coordinator

artistic staff

Dale Warland, founder and music directorDebra Harrer, general managerRuth Palmer, assistant conductorMatthew Culloton, librarian and music advisorJohn Muehleisen, composer-in-residenceJoanne Halvorsen, wardrobe coordinatorThomas Shaffer, education coordinatorBrian Newhouse, program annotatorCheryl Friedrichs, house managerJared Anderson, stage managerDan Ober, assistant stage manager

Tom Crann, pre-concert moderator

Minnesota Public Radio is the official broadcastpartner of the Dale Warland Singers.

mission statement

The mission of the Dale Warland Singers is to enrich, inspire and entertain its audiences through thesuperb, world-class performance of important a cappella choral music, while fostering awareness,

understanding and appreciation of recent choral music repertoire.

Thank you for helping us accomplish this! If you have any questions or commentsabout this program, please let us know:

dale warland singers2300 myrtle avenue, suite 120

st. paul, mn 55114651.632.5870, phone 651.632.5873, fax

www.dalewarlandsingers.org


sponsors and special thanks

special thanks

Susan Barnes, MorganStanley DeanWitter, Inc.,

Ted Cadwell, SteveMcLaird and PaulRobbenholt of Dorsey&t Whitney LLP

Concert Volunteers andUshers

Gala Friday Committeeand Volunteers

Anne Hunter and JackieSteele, Co-Chairs

May 30 CelebrationCommittee andVolunteers

Minnesota Public RadioJulie Pauley, Pauley

Design PartnersJohn Provo, Maslon,

Edelman, Borman &Brand LLP

Naomi Staruch

Composer appearances atconcerts throughout thisfinal season were made

possible by fundsprovided by the

Meet The Composer program.

Funding fromMeet The Composer, Inc. is

provided with the support ofThe Jerome Foundation,ASCAp, Virgil Thomson

Foundation, and NationalEndowment for the Arts.


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Dale Warland Singersis a member of Chorus America.

Choral risers provided byWenger Corporation.

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Funny how·.31 years of vocalperfectioncan make yourvoice crack.'

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Saying goodbye is never easy, especially to a well-loved musical icon. As longtime supporters of

the Dale Warland Singers, we'd like to congratulate them on their contribution to the Twin Cities.

We're choked up now, but we look forward to supporting local arts organizations for years to come.

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