THE ELEVENTH ANNUALDALE WARLAND SINGERS

NEWCRO LMUSICREADINGSESSION

FOR EMERGING COMPOSERS

featuring works by:

Cary Boyce

N. Lincoln Hanks

Michael Nathaniel Hersch

Vera Stanojevic

tuesday • 2 june 1998 • 7:00 PM

sundin hallhamline university • saint paul

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NEWCHO LMUSICREADINGSESSION

A Dream within aDream

by Cary BoyceHe Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenHad I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light;The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light;I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor; have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

-William Butler Yeats

SOPRANOBeth AlthofMarie Spar Dymit*Catherine McCordLarsen

Rebecca LoweJulie OlsonEeva SavolainenMonica StrattonRuth ThompsonTeresa TierneyJeanne WegenerJane Wilson

ALTODevjani Banerjee-Stevens

Joanne Halvorsen-Lynette JohnsonLinda Kachel meierShelley KlineMarita LinkLaura NicholsSusan Hodges

RamletTeresa Woollums

TENORBryan FisherObed F10anSteven KnightKevin McNamaraDavid MeissnerJ. David MooreBrian NewhouseRandall Speer-Steve Staruch

BASSBruce BroquistRyan FrenchDave JacobsonPatrick McDonoughBob Peskin-Jim RamletBrian SteeleMichael WinikoffWoodyWoodward

A Dream within a DreamTake this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you no~Thus much let me avow -You are not lV.l'ong;who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if Hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

DALE WARLAND SINGERSDale Warland, founder and music directorJerry Rubino, associate conductor and pianist

"Section Leader I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handGrains of the golden sand -How few! yet how they creepThrough my fingers to the deep,While I weep - while I weep!oGod! can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?o God! can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?

-Edgar Allan Poe

Major support for this program is provided by the JeromeFoundation, with additional funding from the Alice M.Ditson Fund of Columbia University. This activity is alsomade possible by a grant provided by the Minnesota StateArts Board, through an appropriation by the MinnesotaState Legislature. The Minnesota State Arts Board receivedadditional funds to support this 'activity from the NationalEndowment for the Arts.

The Dale Warland Singers also extends its gratitude to theNational Advisory Committee for their work on behalf ofthis Commissioning Project. The committee consists of:Frank Albinder, Bill Bandfield, Philip Blackburn, JohnCorigliano, Brent Michael Davids, Anthony Davis, EmmaLou Diemer, Adolphus Hailstork, Aaron Jay Kernis, TaniaLeon, Stephen Paulus, Joan Tower, and Chen Vi.

For additional information about concert tickets, availablerecordings, and auditioning for the Dale Warland Singers,please call or write: Dale Warland Singers, 119 NorthFourth Street, Suite 510, Minneapolis, MN 55401; Phone(612) 339-9707 Fax (612) 339-9826.E-Mail: DWSINGER@AOL.COMWEB PAGE:www.dalewarlandsingers.org

Cary Boyce writes:The setting of different texts simultaneously in thesame musical piece is a practice that dates from atleast the motets of the Middle Ages. Often aunifying theme ties the texts together, and thecontrasting views highlight each other. This workuses such a medieval idea: the dream of happiness(Yeats) contrasts with a poem that denies thepossibility (Poe). Together they form "A Dreamwithin a Dream".

IN ORDER TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH COPYRIGHTLAW, WE ASK THAT YOU RETURN ALL MUSIC SCORESAS YOU LEAVETONIGHT'S READING SESSION.

BiographyCary Boyce was born in 1955 and raised inCalifornia. He received his Doctor of Music degreein Composition in 1993 from the Indiana UniversitySchool of Music where he had a teaching scholarshipin music theory. His music has been presented inconcerts, recitals and festivals across the United Statesand Europe, as well as on nationally syndicated radio,European television, and international film. Venuesinclude the Villa Medici in Rome, the PompidouCentre in Paris, Davies Symphony Hall in SanFrancisco, the National Cathedral in Washington,D.C., the International College Music SocietyConference in Berlin, the National Gallery in London,and international film festivals in over 15 countries,in cities from Munich to Montreal. Dr. Boyce isactive as a conductor, singer, and pianist, as wellas a founding member and creative associate ofAguava, a production company for new music.

Tota Pulchraby N. Lincoln Hanks

N. Lincoln Hanks writes:I love the Marian texts in the Catholic liturgy, andthis text is gorgeous with its vivid imagery("vestimentum tuum candidum quasi nix," "post tecurremus in odorem unguentorum tuorum") andshapely phrases. I have composed the piece as threelarge sections; the second and last are related, andincluded in the final section are the "tota pulchra"motives that begin the piece. My rhythms are almostexclusively derived from the natural syllabic rhythmsuggested by the text, and Iam always very carefulto use as much as possible the natural textaccentuation when setting words - especially poetictexts where rhythm and phrase shape (e.g, goalsand cadential figures within the text) are obviouslyconsidered by the poet. Ihave also tried to besensitive to the cross-relationships within the textitself where literal or even abstract returns of ideas,moods or any other poetic element occur; Isometimes even create my own cross-relationshipsby setting some text with similar (even slightlysimilar) musical material that Iset in an earlier andseemingly unrelated text (listen to the setting of"facies tua sicut sol" and compare it to how I set thelast two lines of text).

Tom pulchrs es Maris,ct macula originalisnon est in te.

Tu gloria ferusalem, tu Isetitis Israel,tu hanoriiiccnti populi nostri.

BiographyCurrently residing in Bloomington, Indiana,N. Lincoln Hanks is nearing the end of his tenure asa doctoral student in composition at IndianaUniversity School of Music. His teachers ofcomposition include Don Freund, Frederick Fox, andClaude Baker; he has also studied with JohnHarbison at the Aspen Music Festival. Awards andrecognitions include National Winner-CollegiateLevel of the 1990 MTNA Composition Competition,and the Indiana University School of Music Dean'sPrize in Composition. He has been commissioned byBrigham Young University's Winter Chorale, andwas selected as a participating composer in the 1997Chorus America National Conference and in the1998 Society of Composers, Inc. National ConferenceHaving worked with Paul Hillier and ThomasBinkley, Mr. Hanks has maintained a keen interest inearly music and is a founding member of TheConcord Ensemble, a professional sextet of men'svoices that specializes in early as well ascontemporary vocal music.

Vestimentum tuum csndidum quasi nix,et facies tua sicut sol.

Benedicta es tu, Vkgo Maria7

a Domino Dec excelsoprse omnibus mulieribus super terrsm.

Trshe nos Virgo immaculata.post te curremusin odorem unguentorum tuorum.

Thou art aU tsir; 0M81Y7And the stain of original sinis not in thee.

Your vestments are as white as snowand your face is like the sun.

Thou art the glory of 'ferusslem,the JOYof Israel,and the honor of our people.

Thou art blessed, Virgin M8rY7by the exalted Lord G0c4before aU women on earth.

INTERMISSIONDraw us, Virgin unspotted,we run after thee,amid the fragrance of your perfumes.

From Ecclesiatesby Michael Nathaniel Hersch

ltY17enyou are beside me my heart sings; a branch it is, ..dancing,Dancing before the Wind-spirit in the moon ofstrawberries .. ltY17enyou fTOlV11upon me, beloved, my heart growsdark--A shining river the shadows of clouds darken,Then with your smiles comes the sun and makes fo looklike goldFurrows the cold wind drew in the wafer's face.Myself! behold me! blood of my beating heart.Earth smiJes--the waters smile-seven the sky-of-cloudssmiles-- but I,I lose the way of smiling when you are not near,Awake! awake! my beloved

~:..And I declared that the deadare happier than the Jiving,

But better than both is he who hasnot yet been -

ltY170has not seen the evil that isdone under the sun ...»

-Ecclesiastes

Michael Nathaniel Hersch writes:This work was one taken on with much excitement,as the choral medium is among my favorites forwhich to write. As a consequence, some of my mostimportant compositions are for chorus. This work inparticular was one that came about in the midst ofmuch personal turbulence. At the time the textseemed to fit my mood quite closely and related inwords what I wanted to convey musically. It is notunlike much of my other work in its cast, but due tothe external conflicts that surrounded me rather thanthe internal ones, this made it somewhat unique tomy output.

BiographyLast year at age 25, Mr. Hersch became one of theyoungest composers ever to recieve a GuggenheimFellowship in Music. Other awards include FirstPrize in the American Composers Awards, an Ivesscholarship from the Amercian Academy of Arts andLetters, two ASCAPYoung Composer Grants, and aFirst Music Award. Upcoming performances includethe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, NewYork Chamber Symphony, Colorado Symphony andthe Pacific and Cabrillo Music Festivals..'Mr. Herschholds degrees from the Peabody and MoscowConservatories. Mr. Hersch has been a fellow at theTanglewood Music Center. His principal teacherswere Morris Cotel, John Corigliano, George Rochbergand Albert Leman. His music is published byTheodore Presser Inc.

-OjibwaTranslated by Charles Fenno Hoffman

Vera Stanojevic writes: ..Finding a text for a composition is often a process offinding a perfect mirror that reflects part of thecomposer's self--a part that strives to express itselfoutwardly.

This was certainly the case with the birth of A wake!

If there were any rational decisions to be made at thetime in the search for the text, they didn't.work-vmanybeautiful poems were put aside for use at some other time.or occasion,

When I found the Ojibwa-Indian poem, Calling One'sOW11, it was as if I were its author--my emotions--mywriting the poem.

I am a part of a shared universal human emotion, wherewe, all of us, meet--and where my Slavic Soul and that ofthe unknown Indian poet encountered each other.

The piece does not tend to imitate the sounds of Indianmusic tradition: it is the emotion--a combination ofintimacy, gentleness, and high passion, that make a bondbetween cultures: and that emotion is expressed in a 'mixture of my musical experience that certainly includesthe music tradition of myown culture's roots.

by Vera Stanojevic

BiographyVera Stanojevic holds a Special Diploma from theMokranjac School of Music, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, andthe Bachelor and Masters degrees in composition fromthe Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia. She is ~candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at OhioState University. Among her many awards are, an OhioArts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Composition,a Presidential Fellowship from Ohio State University, theBelgrade, Yugoslavia October Prize, and a GreaterColumbus Arts Council Fellowship in Composition. She iscurrently writing a new orchestral work for the ViennaModern Masters 1998 Millennium CommissioningCompetition and a new work for percussion ensemblefunded by the American Composers Forum's ComposersCommissioning Project.

AWAKEI

Calling One's OwnA wake! flower of the forest, sky-treading bird of the

° °prauie,A wake! awake! wonderful fawn-eyed One, ,I

ltY17enyou look upon me I am satisfied; as Cowers thatdrink dew. .The breath of your mouth is the fragrance of flowers inthe morning, .Your breath is their fTagrance at evening in the moon-of-fading-leaf.Do not the red streams of my veins run toward youAs forest-streams to the sun in the moon of bright nights?