CWC 2015 Spring Program

Women of the
Americas
Saturday, May 9, 2015, 4:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church,
81 Elm Street, Concord, MA
www.concordwomenschorus.org
Concord Women’s Chorus
presents
Women of the
Americas
Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director
Scott Nicholas, Pianist
With special guests
from
Rumbarroco
Laury Gutiérrez, Artistic Director, viola da gamba, guitar
Irisley Luis Gómez, guitar
Gerson Lazo Quiroga, bass
Alexis Soto, percussion
Kera M. Washington, percussion
We wish to thank the following grantors
for generously helping to fund today’s concert:
This program is supported in part by grants from the
Concord, Carlisle, Acton-Boxborough, and Lincoln Cultural
Councils, local agencies, which are supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
President’s Letter
On behalf of the Concord Women’s Chorus, I am so pleased to welcome you to this afternoon’s concert, Women of the Americas. Our program highlights music of great vitality composed by North American
and Latin American women specifically for women’s voices.
We are also delighted to welcome Rumbarroco, the celebrated LatinBaroque Fusion Ensemble, with whom we will be performing today.
Founded and led by Venezuelan viola da gambist Laury Gutiérrez,
Rumbarroco is based on the transformative passion of Iberian and Latin
American music, artfully combining early music and Latin rhythms.
We are taking much of the music you will hear this afternoon on tour
to Montreal and Quebec City in June, where we are excited to have the
opportunity to perform in some special places, including Christ Church
Cathedral of Montreal and the historic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in
Quebec City. We are looking forward to collaborating with several local
women’s choral groups during our tour.
The chorus is thrilled to be back at Trinity Church. Over the past year,
Trinity has been undergoing a significant renovation of its Parish House
Facility. I warmly invite you to attend our December 19, 2015 holiday
concert, when Trinity’s transformation will be complete.
As always, please accept our sincere thanks for your ongoing support.
Whether you purchase a concert ticket, make a donation to our annual
appeal, become a sponsor, or champion us in some other way, you
are offering us an amazing gift—the opportunity to share our love of
singing and to imagine and plan for a bright future. We could not be
more grateful.
We believe that the act of singing brings us, as individuals and in our
collective identity, to a new place, one we experience from within and in
which we feel deep and profound enrichment. It is a privilege to share
this experience with you.
Sincerely,
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the
earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Concert Program
The Lake Isle of Innisfree [2001]
Chasing the Northern Lights [1999]
Things That Never Die [2013]
Coplas de Cuna [1982]
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Nancy Telfer (b. 1950)
Wade in the Watah [2001]
Traditional Spiritual
arr. Ysaye M. Barnwell (b. 1946)
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Wanting Memories [1980]
Barnwell
Breaths [1980]
Barnwell
Modesta Bor (1926-98)
Emma Pérez (b. 1954)
RibereñasBor
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The Path of Light [2005]
1.Landscape
2.Night
Now I Become Myself [2000]
INTERMISSION
Ruth Watson Henderson (b. 1932)
El Monigote
Traditional Venezuelan Folk Song
Arranged by Diana V. Sáez
Mariposa del aire (1960)
Bor
Lorca
Plena
Sáez/adapted by Rumbarroco
Text by Lucy Jun
Text by Thomas Fulton
Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)
May Sarton (1912-95)
Please join us in the Undercroft after the concert
for refreshments and conversation.
Program Texts and Translations
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
Chasing the Northern Lights
Things That Never Die
Nancy Telfer
Charles Dickens
Federico García Lorca/Tr. by Johann Soults
Dicen que tienes cara (balalin balalin)
de luna llena (balalán balalán)
Cuantas campanas ¿oyes? no me dejan (balalán balalán)
pero tus ojos ¡ah! perdona tus ojeras (balalán balalán)
y esa rosa de oro (balalin balalin)
y esa no puedo (balalán)
They say you have a heavenly face.
How many bells do you hear? They don’t let me be.
And this gold rose
And that I cannot…
The Path of Light
1. Landscape
Absolute silence prevails
until the morning sun rises
from her beauty sleep
and grooms herself in the mirror
of the purple lake.
The sun brightens and reveals
everything she touches
as if a blanket is being removed
from the night sky.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find some work to do,
Lose not a chance to waken love
Be firm and just and true.
So shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angel voices say to thee,
These things can never die.
La adormidera siempre al sueño espera
Ribereñas
They forgive the dark circles under them.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need,
A kindly word in grief’s dark hour
That proves a friend indeed;
The plea for mercy softly breathed,
When justice threatens high,
The sorrow of a contrite heart;
These things shall never die.
Quisiera que de noche mi niño fuera
una dulce matica de adormidera suave,
la adormidera suave los ojos cierra,
cuando el aire sin labios sus hojas besa
What would you like for tonight my child?
Outside of a sweet poppy balm
The soft poppy closes your eyes
When the air without lips kisses your leaves
Dreams always await the poppy
When you hear it passing you get weak.
But your eyes! Aha!
The pure, the bright, the beautiful
that stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulses to wordless prayer,
The streams of love and truth,
The longing after something lost,
The spirit’s yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes;
These things can never die.
Coplas de Cuna
y cuando oye sus pasos se desmadeja.
Quisiera que de noche fuera
una fácil matica de adormidera.
In a fit of giggles
the yellow marigolds whisper
a secret to the trees
with rainbow coloured leaves,
Emma Pérez/Tr. by Johann Soults
then pass on to the
snowy mountain tops
that are rugged as glass thorns
colliding with each other.
All day long the air
buzzes with excitement
until the blanket falls back down
and night descends.
Ruth Watson Henderson
Lucy Jun
2. Night
Thomas Fulton
When the sun fades,
Night rolls her Cover of Darkness
Out from beneath the horizon.
She casts her magic spell.
Everyone goes to sleep.
Night grabs her can of Glowing paint
And starts dotting the sky with Stars.
Then she whistles for the Moon.
He appears, loyal as always.
Suddenly, she sees a faint glow on the Horizon.
The Sun, the Sun!
Playtime is over.
The Moon disappears.
Reluctantly, Night grabs a can of Turpentine
And washes the paint away.
Then she rolls her Cover of Darkness
Back over the Horizon.
And disappears.
‘Till the Sun sleeps again.
Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself.
It has taken Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people’s faces,
Run madly, as if Time were there,
Terribly old, crying a warning,
“Hurry, you will be dead before--”
(What? Before you reach the morning?)
Now to stand still, to be here,
Feel my own weight and density!
The black shadow on the paper
Is my hand; the shadow of a word
As thought shapes the shaper
Falls heavy on the page, is heard.
All fuses now, falls into place
From wish to action, word to silence,
My work, my love, my time, my face
Gathered into one intense
Gesture of growing like a plant.
As slowly as the ripening fruit
Fertile, detached, and always spent,
Falls but does not exhaust the root,
So all the poem is, can give,
Grows in me to become the song;
Made so and rooted so by love.
Now there is time and Time is young.
O, in this single hour I live
All of myself and do not move.
I, the pursued, who madly ran,
Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!
Wade in the Watah
Traditional Spiritual
arr. Ysaye M. Barnwell
Done made my vow to the Lord,
and I never will turn back.
I will go. I shall go.
I’m gonna wade in troubled watahs.
God’s gonna trouble the watahs.
And before I’ll be a slave,
I’ll be buried in my grave.
I hear her voice. I hear her voice.
I hear her voice saying “wade on, sistah.”
Done made my vow unto The Lord.
I heah Harriet telling me gonna be troubled watahs.
Done seen the sistahs dressed in red,
Must be the ones that Moses led.
Done made my vow unto The Lord.
Gonna wade, gonna wade, gonna wade!
Wanting MemoriesBarnwell
May Sarton
I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me
to see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.
You used to rock me in the cradle of your arms,
You said you’d hold me ‘til the pains of life were gone.
You said you’d comfort me in times like these and now I need you.
Now I need you and you are gone.
Since you’ve gone and left me, there’s been so little beauty,
but I know I saw it clearly through your eyes.
Now the world outside is such a cold and bitter place,
here inside I have few things that will console,
and when I try to hear your voice above the storms of life
then I remember that I was told.
I think on the things that made me feel so wonderful when I was young,
I think on the things that made me laugh, made me dance, made me sing,
I think on the things that made me grow into a being full of pride;
think on these things, for they are truth.
I thought that you were gone, but now I know you’re with me;
you are the voice that whispers all I need to hear.
I know a “please,” a “thank you,” and a smile will take me far,
I know that I am you and you are me, and we are one,
I know that who I am is numbered in each grain of sand,
I know that I am blessed again and over again, and again, and again.
I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me
to see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.
I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me
To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.
Breaths
Birago Diop
Listen more often to things than to beings
‘Tis the ancestors’ breath
When the fire’s voice is heard
‘Tis the ancestor’s breath
in the voice of the water
Mariposa del aireLorca
Tr. by Ian Krouse
Mariposa del aire que hermosa eres,
dorada y verde.
Luz del candil,
¡quédate ahi!
no te quieres pararte
no te quieres.
Mariposa del aire
dorada y verde.
Those who have died have never, never left.
The dead are not under the earth
They are in the rustling trees.
They are in the groaning woods.
They are in the crying grass.
They are in the moaning rocks.
The dead are not under the earth
Butterfly of the air,
how beautiful you are,
butterfly of the air
golden and green,
Light of the candle,
butterfly of the air,
Stay there, there, there!
You don’t wish to stay
to stay you don’t wish.
Butterfly of the air,
golden and green,
Stay there, there, there!
Stay there!
Butterfly, are you there?
They are in the woman’s breast.
They are in the wailing child.
They are with us in our homes.
They are with us in this crowd.
The dead are not under the earth
El Monigote
Traditional Venezuelan Folk Song
Arr. Diana V. Sáez
Tr. Anonymous
1. Vendo está monigote,
Se lo vendo por dos reales.
Y si no tiene dinero
Me lo paga con un baile.
Ahí está mi monigote.
I am selling this ragdoll.
I will sell it for two coins.
And if you have no money,
You can pay me for him with a dance.
There is my ragdoll.
2. Cómprelo Doña Juana
que le vendo cosa buena.
Él se alimenta con ñame,
con batata y berenjena.
Buy it, Madame Juana.
I am selling you something good.
He eats with ñame*,
with sweet potato and eggplant.
3. Le dejo el monigote,
ojalá que a usted le guste.
Y si salta a medianoche,
Doña Juana, no se asuste.
I’ll let you have the ragdoll
and I hope you will like him.
If he jumps at midnight,
Madame Juana, don’t be frightened.
* ñame is a root vegetable from the Caribbean.
Plena
Sáez/adapted by Rumbarroco
Tr. by Peter Banos
Plena, bailemos la plena,
plena borinqueña con mucho sabor.
Plena, let’s dance the plena,
The Puerto Rican plena,
with lots of flavor
Se toca con pandero,
con güiro, con tambor.
It’s played on the hand-drum,
the güiro, the drum.
Bailemos la plena con mucho sabor.
Bailemos la plena de mi corazón.
Let’s dance the plena
with lots of flavor.
Let’s dance the plena
of my heart.
Plena, es un ritmo bueno de verdad.
Plena, es muy bueno pa’ bailar.
Plena, it’s very good
for dancing.
Program Notes
The Concord Women’s Chorus mission makes an explicit commitment to
The history of choral music in Canada, while more recent than that of Europe,
music written by women for women’s voices. Today’s program is no excep-
is no less distinguished. The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada tells us that
tion; you will hear diverse repertoire chosen from the Americas – Canada, the
singing in choirs, particularly in large community choirs, became immensely
United States and Latin America. The three styles vary greatly, but the human
popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century,
heart is all there – the fiery passion of Venezuela and Puerto Rico; the cool
the face of choral music in Canada evolved tremendously, as children’s, youth
longing and tone painting of Canada’s northern regions; the stirring, ances-
and professional choirs were established. As the choirs themselves evolved,
tral African and African-American rhythms of the United States.
so did the repertoire, and conductors and their choirs have given Canadian
Our stage is graced by Laury Gutiérrez and her marvelous group, Rumbar-
composers an important voice in the cultural landscape. Canada’s choirs
roco. Laury, a viola da gambist, conductor and arranger, is a fiercely talented
love to sing the music of their compatriots, and through their efforts in com-
musician from Venezuela, and I have had the great pleasure of working with
missioning new works and programming Canadian works, the choirs have
her as a colleague at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Cen-
helped composers to create a body of choral literature that is sung the world
ter. At Brandeis, we share a passion for women composers – historical and
over. Today, you will hear three of Canada’s best-loved composers: the tune-
contemporary – unearthing, promoting, performing this music with commit-
ful Eleanor Daley; the painterly Ruth Watson Henderson; the highly respected
ment and joy. So it was only a matter of time before I was able to blend these
Nancy Telfer.
two worlds, bringing Laury and her band of musicians to our stage. The work
I have done at Brandeis and my work with Concord Women’s Chorus have
And finally, Ysaye M. Barnwell represents the United States as one of our
been moving in parallel for many years, and it is a pleasure to find myself at
country’s finest composers, arrangers, educators, conductors, teachers and
this exciting musical intersection.
singers. We have loved her music over the years, and today we give you three
This past year, I had the opportunity to co-produce Rumbarroco’s new CD,
Rumbarroco: Latin-Baroque Fusion. It is a beautiful and electrifying recording,
of her pieces – two original compositions, and one arrangement. Her music
explores, from an African American world view, the values imbedded in the
showing European influence on Afro-American and indigenous music in Latin
music, the role of cultural and spiritual traditions and rituals, the nature of cul-
America – fusing these styles with European classical music – and creating
tural responses to and influences on political and social struggle, and finally
new musical genres! Today, you will hear the use of percussion and early
the significance of a shared communal experience in one’s personal life.
instruments to create music that is both lovely and exhilarating: in essence,
pure fun. Laury introduced me to the music of Modesta Bor, an award-winning, prolific Venezuelan composer, teacher, musicologist and conductor. Her
output was enormous; with numerous orchestral, chamber and choral works,
she composed 130 small choral pieces for equal voices. You will hear three
of them today, with imaginative and surreal texts (Lorca and Pérez). Another
newcomer to my experience is the clever and talented composer/arranger
Diana Sáez. She brings the dances of Latin America to life, and we hope that
you will enjoy the infectious melodies and rhythms.
Women of the Americas has been a pleasure for us to rehearse and present. After a very long winter, we hope that these pieces bring you a little fire,
beautiful light and encompassing warmth. We are grateful to each one of you
for your continued support of Concord Women’s Chorus. I look forward, as
always, to greeting you at our reception.
With warmth and gratitude,
Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director
Jane Ring Frank,
Artistic Director
Jane Ring Frank is pleased to be in her 22nd
year as Conductor of the Concord Women’s
Chorus, a 60-voice ensemble based in Concord, Massachusetts. Concord Women’s Chorus prides itself on rehearsing and performing
challenging, new music written especially for
women.
For twelve years, Frank was also the Artistic
Director and Founder of Boston Secession –
one of Boston’s premiere professional choral
ensembles. She began her conducting career
on meeting her conducting mentor, Frank Pooler (then Director of Choral Activities) at California State University, Long Beach. His specialty was
avant-garde music and unique programming.
She then went on to graduate with degrees in accompanying and conducting. At CSULB, she became associate conductor of the 70-voice University
Choir, staff pianist, lecturer, and musical director/conductor for the Department of Theatre Arts. She also worked as a répétiteur with professional
opera companies in Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles Music Center Opera and the Long Beach Opera Company. Other artistic mentors
include Randall Behr (former conductor and music director of the Department of Vocal Arts, Juilliard Opera Center, and former resident conductor,
Los Angeles Music Center Opera), the late Michael Carson (conductor,
Lake George Opera), and Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio).
Frank moved to Boston in 1991 to conduct at Harvard University and
five years later founded Boston Secession. In addition to her aggressive
conducting responsibilities, Frank is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s
Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Minister of Music at the
First Congregational Church in Winchester, and Artistic Director of Cantemus (a 40-voice chamber chorus located on Boston’s North Shore). For a
number of years, she also served as Conductor for E.C.Schirmer Publishing Company’s professional recording choral ensemble, Philovox, and, for
ten years, served on Emerson College’s faculty.
Frank has conducted and produced two CDs with Boston Secession.
“Afterlife: German Choral Meditations on Mortality” features the works of
Distler, Brahms, Bach, and Ruth Lomon. This debut disc received critical
acclaim for its outstanding performance quality. Frank and Boston Secession’s second CD, “Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music”,
which features works by Lomon, Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars, and William
Duckworth, was outstandingly reviewed by the New York Times, Gramophone, and American Record Guide, along with many other journals,
magazines, and blogs.
Scott Nicholas,
Pianist
Based in Boston, Scott Nicholas is an accomplished
pianist known as much for exceptional sensitivity
to the performers he accompanies as for his technique. With a repertoire spanning classical and
musical theater, Nicholas has appeared throughout
the U.S. and internationally in solo and chamber
performances. In addition, he has served as the
rehearsal and performance pianist for Tanglewood
Festival Chorus, the Borromeo String Quartet, the US Airforce Clarinet
Ensemble, Longwood Opera, the Minnesota Opera, Boston Secession, the
Concord Women’s Chorus, Boston Lyric Opera’s outreach programs, and
the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition.
Nicholas has recorded several works by Graham Gordon Ramsay, most
recently Six Piano Preludes, part of a collection of solo instrumental works
from Albany Records. He has also recorded frequently with E.C. Schirmer’s
Philovox Ensemble and performed on WGBH-FM and WBUR-FM in Boston.
Nicholas has served as music director for the New England Conservatory
Opera Workshop, Central Square Theater, Franklin Performing Arts Company, Suffolk University, and Emerson College. He is also on the faculty at
Emerson; teaches piano and coaches opera and music theater at Suffolk;
and offers instruction in piano, theory, and vocal coaching at Encore Music Academy. Nicholas holds a B.A. in music education from The College
of New Jersey and an M.M. in accompanying/coaching from the New
England Conservatory.
Special Thanks
Paul Anagnostopoulos, printing
Rick Krug, printing
Stoney Ballard, graphics and audio recording
Rev. Tony Buquor, Rector, & Robert Barney, Director of Music,
Trinity Episcopal Church
Rev. Dr. John Lombard and Trinitarian Congregational Church
Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba, guitar. Laury and her
mother were serenaded by her father and other local
musicians at the birth clinic in Venezuela, on the day she
was born. In her teens she moved from Caracas to the
country’s cowboy/girl zone Los Llanos (The Plains). In their
home the family often held musical soirées, criollo style,
where musicians spend the evening playing folk music
by ear. Laury soaked up the amazing improvisations by
both singers and instrumentalists. She took up the cuatro
(Venezuela’s small guitar) and also began guitar lessons.
Soon she became part of the town’s Folkloric Orchestra
on guitar and mandolin. Moving back to Caracas after
high school, she heard the viola da gamba for the first time and fell in love
with it. Laury then received the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Venezuela’s most
prestigious scholarship award for study abroad, along with other top awards
and recognitions, and graduated in music with honors from the College of St.
Scholastica in Minnesota. She did graduate work in music at the Longy School
of Music, Indiana University, and Boston University. She was a 2009 Fellow at
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and was included in a 2009 exhibit honoring 100 Boston-area women for their leadership
and achievements. She is a resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research
Center, Brandeis University. Praised as “a first-rate instrumentalist” (Boston
Globe), Laury specializes in music by women composers and in early music
from Ibero-America. She has performed under the direction of Thomas Binkley,
Monica Huggett, and Wendy Gillespie, among others, and has been a featured
guest artist–lecturer at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Simmons
College. She is the founding director of La Donna Musicale and RUMBARROCO. La Donna Musicale’s four groundbreaking CDs, Antonia Bembo’s The
Seven Psalms of David Vols. I and II, The Pleasures of Love and Libation: Airs by
Julie Pinel and other Parisian Women, and Anna Bon, La virtuosa di Venezia,
have received critical acclaim at home and abroad, as well as awards. (www.
ladm.org and www.rumbarroco.org)
Irisley Luis Gómez is a classical guitarist, singer, and music
teacher, with an in-depth knowledge of harmony and music
theory, and a knack for inspiring students. She studied at the
Conservatory of Music José White in Camagüey, Cuba, where
she conducted popular music ensembles, and at the National
School of the Arts in Havana. Irisley has performed with the
Plectrum Orchestra in Havana and has given solo recitals in
Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. Since moving to
the United States, she has played bass and managed CruzWay,
a Cuban musical band in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is now a member and
manager of the Clave & Blues Latin jazz band in Boston. She is also first guitar
in the Boston Guitar Orchestra and a member of the Boston Classical Guitar
Society, and has performed at Jordan Hall and other local venues as part of the
annual Boston GuitarFest. She won first prize at the Espiral Eterna Guitar competition, the Musicalia composition contest, and the Contest Amadeo Roldán,
plus a special award for her interpretation of Villa-Lobos’s Etude No. 7.
Bassist Gerson Lazo Quiroga was born in Concepción,
Chile. Gerson started studying guitar with his father at
age 5. When he turned 11 his interest switched to electric
bass, and from that moment on it became his best friend.
Gerson has performed with Michelle Coltrane, She
Welsh, Quintino Cinalli, Jaime Murrell, and many others.
He is a Presidential Scholar at Berklee College of Music, where he is studying Jazz
Composition, Performance, and Contemporary Writing and Production.
Alexis Soto, percussionist and maracas player, was born in
Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the Emil Friedman School
for his high school studies and the Emil Friedman and Simón
Bolívar conservatories for his musical studies. He studied piano
with Goulnara Galimchina, classical percussion with Ricardo
Alvarado, world percussion with Jose Granado, and maracas
with Manuel Rangel. Ranked first in his high school graduating
class, Alexis was admitted to Berklee College of Music in 2014
and awarded a scholarship. He has played in orchestras such
as the Youth Orchestra of Caracas and El Chaco Municipal
Orchestra in Venezuela, under the direction of such musicians as Alfonso Lopez (Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra concertmaster). Alexis
has played with many talented Venezuelan performers, including violinist Eddy
Marcano, singer Daniel Somaroo (ex-member of Guaco), flutist Luis Julio Toro,
and cuatro player Hector Molina (member of C4 Trio). He has also worked with
internationally known musicians such as Rob Lewis, Brian McKnight, and Antonio
Serrano (former harmonica player with Paco de Lucía).
Kera M. Washington, percussion, is an ethnomusicologist
and the founder of Zili Misik, formerly Zili Roots, (an all female
world music ensemble performing roots music of the African
Diaspora, or “New World Soul.” She is on faculty in the Music
Department of Wellesley College, MA, where she is Artistic
Director of the Yanvalou Drum and Dance Ensemble. She also
teaches music at the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester,
MA, and is completing a dissertation on Haitian folkloric music
at Tufts University. Kera found her first love, percussion, while
studying ethnomusicology at Wellesley College, Wesleyan
University and Brown University, and has been performing and
teaching music for over two decades. She has studied with master musicians from
Haiti, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Brazil, and the United States, and has traveled throughout Africa and the Americas to further her studies. Kera has taught at
Wellesley College, MIT and Northeastern University, as well as at St. Peter School
in Cambridge, MA. She also has worked as an artist/educator in the All In One
Boat Program, and has presented numerous workshops and music residencies in
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Concord Women’s Chorus Patrons
Benefactor
With great pleasure, we welcome you to our spring concert, Women of the
Marilyn K. Kucharski
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Susan Avery
Sara and Stonewall Ballard
Bee Fortin
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Jane Fisher
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Americas, featuring dramatic music composed by North American and Latin
American women specifically for women’s voices. We are thrilled to collabo­
rate with musicians from Rumbarroco, a latin-baroque fusion ensemble.
Women of the Americas will demonstrate CWC’s dedication to presenting
high-quality works for women’s voices with a textured and varied program
that brings new music to life. We wish to share the relevance, power, and
beauty of this repertoire with our audience.
CWC strives to touch lives through music, artistic collaborations, charitable
works, and performances that benefit the community. We also seek to keep
music written for women’s voices very much alive on the concert stage and to
inspire the next generation of women singers.
Your support is so important to us as we increasingly reach out to the community and expand our repertoire. If you have not made a donation during
our annual appeal campaign, we hope that you will consider doing so now.
Tax-deductible gifts from generous donors will help pay for our increasing
venue rentals, soloists and instrumentalists, and salaries for our accomplished
conductor and accompanist. Envelopes for donations can be found inside
your program, or you may give through our website,
www.concordwomenschorus.org. Any amount will make a difference.
Alan Merry
Richard and Deborah Minns
Marilyn Morgan
Norma Murray
Ariadne Nevin
Scott Nicholas
Hope Noe
Alfreda L. Nowak
Josephine R. Paladini
Julie Rohwein and Jonathan Aibel
Elizabeth N. Suter
Emily and Tom Teller
Kathy Wangh
Barbara Wheeler
Peggy and Chris Williamson
We greatly appreciate the support of our donors, and apologize for any omissions or misspellings. This list includes donations received as of the time the program went to print.
Whether you are helping the chorus for the first time or renewing your support, please accept our deep appreciation. We hope you enjoy today’s concert
and that you stay for our reception. We would love to greet you there and
introduce you to Artistic Director, Jane Ring Frank.
Sincerely,
Director, CWC Annual Appeal
The Chorus
Soprano I
Melissa Apperson, Rebecca Besthoff, Judy Bose, Dolly Curtiss,
Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director
Jane Fisher, Bee Fortin, Elizabeth Hoermann, Jane Luckner,
Ellen Materne, Kathleen Molony, Ena Sandler, Bozena Smith,
Pam Swing, Laura Weiss, Peggy Williamson
Donʼt miss a note!
Please mark your calendars and join us next season:
Holiday Concert
(with our popular sing-along)
Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.
Soprano II
Spring Concert
(chase away those winter blues)
Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.
Susan Avery, Sara Ballard, Elaine Chertavian, Patsy Eickelberg,
Jennifer Kobayashi, Judi Kotanchik, Susan Mills, Judy Munn,
Trinity Episcopal Church
81 Elm Street, Concord, MA
Lisa Pohl, Mary Rubel, Jeannette Taylor, Donna Vaillancourt
For tickets and information: www.concordwomenschorus.org
Alto I
Sue Beck, Suzanne Frank, Ginny Huettner, Lydia Lauderdale,
Susan Leeming, Rowena Nelson, Cynthia Nunan,
Stephanie Smith, Cynthia Sorn, Emily Teller
Sixty-ninth season
Concord Chorus
Kevin Leong, Music Director
v
Alto II
Karen Barton, Liz Berk, Carole Bundy, Debbie Clark,
Jane Farber, Joy Hamel, Anne Hayden, Angela Healy,
Joan Laxson, Ariadne Nevin, Lisa Sandeen, Kathy Wangh
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Handel’s
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Deborah Selig, soprano
Julia Cavallaro, mezzo-soprano
Stefan Reed, tenor
Thomas Jones, baritone
George Frideric Handel’s monumental masterpiece
performed with professional Baroque orchestra
Saturday, May 30, 2015 • 8:00 P.M.
Church of St. Brigid, 1981 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington
If you would like to audition for the Concord Women’s Chorus, please
contact Chorus Manager Stephanie Smith at s.s.smith@verizon.net.
For more information about the chorus, please visit our website at
www.concordwomenschorus.org.
$25 general • $20 seniors (65+) • $10 students & children
For tickets and more information, please visit www.concordchorus.org.
CWC Board and Volunteers
We are pleased to support the
Concord Women’s Chorus
Board of Directors
Patsy Eickelberg, Chair
Ellen Materne, Vice Chair
Elaine Chertavian, Treasurer
Cynthia Sorn, Secretary
Karen Barton, Director at Large
Rebecca Besthoff, Director at Large
Cynthia Nunan, Director at Large
Emily Teller, Director at Large
Laura Weiss, Director at Large
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Greater Boston Choral Consortium
2014-15 Season; www.bostonsings.org
Call numbers listed for chorus information or 978-595-2293 / gbccinfo@gmail.com
The A Cappella Singers: www.theacappellasingers.org
Andover Choral Society, www.andoverchoral.org
Arlington-Belmont Chorale: www.psarlington.org
Back Bay Chorale: www.bbcboston.org
Belmont Open Sings, www.powersmusic.org
The Boston Cecilia: www.bostoncecilia.org
Boston Choral Ensemble: www.BostonChoral.org
Boston City Singers, bostoncitysingers.org
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus: www.bgmc.org
Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus: www.saengerfest.org
Broadmoor Chamber Singers: www.broadmoorsingers.org
Brookline A Cappella, www.brooklineacappella.com
Calliope: www.calliopemusic.org
Cambridge Chamber Singers, www.cambridgechambersingers.org
Cambridge Community Chorus www.cccchorus.org
Cantata Singers: www.cantatasingers.org
Cappella Clausura: www.clausura.org
Cappriccio Children's Chorus, www.riversschoolconservatory.org
Choral Art Society www.choralartsociety.org
Chorus Boston, www.chorusboston.org
Convivium Musicum: www.convivium.org
Coolidge Corner Community Chorus, www.bostonchorus.net
Coro Allegro, www.coroallegro.org
Coro Dante, groups.yahoo.com/groups/CORO-DANTE/
Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus, www.bostonchorus.net
Halalisa Singers, www.halalisa.org
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Harvard University Choral Groups
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Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus: www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrc/
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Fine Arts Chorale, Richard Travers, Dir., 781-­‐910-­‐7711. Nov 23, 2PM Corigliano "Fern Hill", Pergolesi "Magnificat", Pachelbel "Magnificat in G", Old South Union Congregational Church, Weymouth,MA. May 3,2015, 2PM, Schuberts "Mass in E Flat Major" www.fineartschorale.org Golden Tones Chorus, Deborah Lee Marion, Dir., 508-­‐318-­‐6318. We are men and women of retirement age who sing and dance to lift spirits, have fun, and promote health and social engagement to benefit our audiences and ourselves, providing almost 50 concerts per year to the community. www.goldentones.org Highland Glee Club, David Tiedman, Music Director -­‐ contact Dick Wulf 508-­‐622-­‐1854. Rehearsals Monday evenings, 7:15-­‐9:30 PM at First Baptist Church, 858 Great Plain Ave, Needham. Winter th
Concert 12/7, Songs of the Civil WarFirst Baptist Church. Spring Concert April 19 , Newton City Hall (War Memorial Auditorium) -­‐both at 3PM. Handicapped access www.highlandgleeclub.com In Choro Novo, Therese Provenzano, Music Director. In Choro Novo Winter Concert: Saturday December 6th at 7:30pm at Marsh Chapel in Boston Spring Concert: Saturday May 2nd at 7:30pm at Marsh Chapel in Boston. www.inchoronovo.com Labyrinth Choir, Dr. Anita Kupriss, Dir., 508-­‐481-­‐2453. Nov 8, 7:30 PM: Celestial Spaces, St. John the Evangelist, Wellesley, MA. Nov 15, 7:30 PM: Celestial Spaces, Hancock Church, Lexington, MA. CD release concert in March 2015 (TBD). labyrinthchoir@gmail.com; www.labyrinthchoir.org The Master Singers of Lexington. Adam Grossman, Dir., 781-­‐729-­‐7975. Nov. 1, 8 PM: Mendelssohn, Debussy, Barber; Doncaster (Ruth, 1st performance).Dec. 7, 4 PM: Pachelbel, Pinkham; Lister (Christmas Chorale, 1st performance). Feb. 28, 8 PM: P.D.Q. Bach, Berlin, Loesser, Porter; Cohen, Feinstein, Hicks (1st performances). May 16, 8 PM: Bach; Grossman (1st performance). First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Road, Lexington. www.themastersingers.org MIT Women's Chorale, Kevin Galiè, Dir., 617-­‐354-­‐0402. Dec. 6, 6 PM: M. Haydn, St. Aloysius Mass, Harvard-­‐Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge, MA. May 2, 6 PM: Brahms, Four Songs for Womens’ Chorus, Horns and Harp; E. Whitacre, Five Hebrew Love Songs, Harvard-­‐Epworth Church; Rehearsals Wednesdays 7.30 pm, MIT. web.mit.edu/womensleague/womenschorale/ Metropolitan Chorale, Lisa Graham, Music Dir. Nov. 22, 8pm, The Ecstasies Above, title piece by Tarik O’Regan; Mar. 7, 8pm, HANDEL Israel in Egypt, with Zamir Chorale, Joshua Jacobson, Music Dir.; May 16, 8pm, Lost in the Stars, Best of Broadway and American Songbook, with baritone Justin Hopkins. Nov. and May concerts at All Saints Parish, Brookline; Mar. concert at NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston. www.metropolitanchorale.org Nashoba Valley Chorale, Anne Watson Born, Dir., 978-­‐842-­‐4044 . Dec. 7, 2 PM: Messiah Sing, First Church Unitarian, Littleton, MA. Jan 31, 2015, 8PM: Beethoven Missa Solemnis with orchestra. May 9, 8PM: Orff Carmina Burana. Rehearsals Mondays 7.30-­‐9.30pm at First Baptist Church, Littleton. www.nashobachorale.org Neponset Choral Society, Inc., Christopher Martin, Artistic Dir., 617-­‐462-­‐2597. Winter concerts Dec. 6, 8 pm, Dec.7, 2:30 pm. Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" and seasonal pieces. Spring concerts Apr 11, 8 pm, Apr 12, 2:30pm; "I Believe" -­‐ works of Verdi, Stroope, Whitacre, Lauridsen. Open rehearsals Jan. 5,12 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South St. Foxboro MA 7:30-­‐10 pm. www.ncschorus.org. Newton Choral Society, David Carrier, Music director 617-­‐527-­‐SING SWEEPING HORIZONS: Sun. Nov. 16, 2014 3pm Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony. SACRED VISIONS: Sun. March 15, 2015, 3 pm, Second Church W. Newton. Music of church & synagogue: Langlais, Messe solonelle; Howells, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis; Brahms, Janowski, BLOOMING IN BOSTON: Sat. May 16, 2015, 8 pm, Church of the Holy Name, W. Roxbury. Pinkham, Garden Party; Woodman, Narcissus; works by Cooman; www.newtonchoral.org Quincy Choral Society, John Nichols, Mus. Dir. 508-­‐932-­‐7284. Dec. 7, 7:30PM, "O Star!" -­‐ Stella Natalis-­‐Jenkins;Chelsea Beatty -­‐Soprano; Star Carol -­‐ Rutter .May 17, 7:30PM, "In Nature's Realm" -­‐Benedicite-­‐Vaughann Williams-­‐Chelsea Beatty-­‐Soprano; Frostiana -­‐ Thompson, Sacred Heart Church, N. Quincy, March 15, 2PM, "Swingin' Into Spring", Pops Concert and Silent Auction. Music by Ellington, Gershwin & Van Heusen,Quincy Catholic Academy, N.Quincy. www.quincychoral.org Seraphim Singers, Jennifer Lester, Dir. Nov. 16: Short 20th Century, Mission Church-­‐Boston. Feb. 8 / 13: Choral settings of sacred poetry, First Church-­‐Cambridge / St. Cecilia’s-­‐Boston. Apr. 26: Jerusalem-­‐themed program, First Church-­‐Cambridge. $15-­‐20, SeraphimSingers.org. The Spectrum Singers, John W. Ehrlich, Dir., 617-­‐492-­‐8902. Nov. 22: A Holiday Prelude, music from diverse cultures celebrating end-­‐of-­‐year festivities; Mar. 7: Mozart Requiem and Ave verum corpus; May 16: What is This Thing Called Love, torch songs from Brahms and Schubert to Porter and The Duke. All concerts 8 PM at 1st Cong Camb. $45/$30/$15. www.spectrumsingers.org Sounds of Stow Chorus and Orchestra, Barbara Jones, Artistic Dir., Nov. 23, 3 PM: J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio -­‐ Choruses, Arias and Chorales. March 23, 3 PM: Music by John Rutter, including Mass of the Children, Psalm 150, This is the Day, For the Beauty of the Earth, and Colors by Bert Appermont, At Hale School, 55 Hartley Road, Stow, MA. soundsofstow.org Somerville Community Chorus: www.somervillechorus.com
Stämbandet - The Scandinavian Vocal Ensemble: www.stämbandet.org
Treble Chorus of New England: www.treblechorusne.org
Voices of MetroWest www.VoicesofMetroWest.com
Voices Rising, www.voicesrising.org
Wakefield Choral Society, www.wakefieldchoralsociety.org
Wellesley Choral Society, www.WellesleyChoralSociety.org
Youth pro Musica, www.youthpromusica.org
Zamir Chorale of Boston, www.zamir.org
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