MFSM Program 2013 - Michigan Festival of Sacred Music

Seventh Biennial
Michigan
Festival
of
Sacred
Music
music …
celebrating
many faiths
November 7–17, 2013
Sounds of the Season
Saturday, Dec. 21| 8pm
Miller Auditorium
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
presents a festive concert of seasonal
hits and sacred and popular favorites.
A treat for the entire
family during the most
magical time of the year!
Tickets 387-2300 | KalamazooSymphony.com
Table of Contents
Dedication to Dr. Wen Chao Chen . . . . . . . . . . 5
A Welcome from the Executive Director . . . . . 6
Please consider
becoming a supporter
of the Festival.
All donations are
tax-deductible.
MFSM Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Festival Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Festival Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Michigan Festival
of Sacred Music is a
nonprofit 501(c)(3)
corporation.
Sound & Spirit of Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
P.O. Box 50566
Kalamazoo, MI
49005-0566
Sons of the Three Fires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
(269) 382-2910
Scott Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Scott Montgomery masterclass . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Briner Lecture
Cor Cantiamo and Daniel Knaggs . . . . . . . . . 19
www.mfsm.us
Chatur with Rohan Krishnamurthy . . . . . . . . . 20
Find us on Facebook!
Cor Cantiamo and Daniel Knaggs . . . . . . . . . . 22
Festival Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Joshua Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Michigan Festival of Sacred
Music follows an Equal Employment
Opportunity Policy and employs
personnel and provides programs
and services without regard to
gender (including pregnancy), gender
identification, sexual orientation, race,
color, ethnic or religious background,
descent or nationality, disability
(including past, present, or future
physical, intellectual or psychiatric
disability, learning disorders or
disease), marital status, age, height
and weight.
This EEO policy applies to employment,
internal promotions, training,
opportunities for advancement,
terminations, relationships with
outside vendors and customers, use
of contractors and consultants and in
dealing with the general public.
Joseph & Grace Byrd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Konya Turkish Tasawwuf Music Ensemble
with Whirling Dervishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Samite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Southwest Michigan Taizé Collective
with guest artist Elden Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Golosá Choir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
James Falzone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Allos Musica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Paul Winter Consort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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D e d i c at i o n
We dedicate this festival to the memory
of Dr. Wen Chao Chen.
Dr. Chen was a pillar
of the Kalamazoo
area for decades,
and we at the
Michigan Festival
of Sacred Music
(MFSM) are just a
small segment of the population
who benefited from his wealth of
ideas and talent for bringing people
together in common causes. The
MFSM was his brainchild, and in true
Chen fashion, once the idea gained
momentum and he had brought
together appropriate people to
address the task, he stepped back
and coached from the sidelines as
the idea took form and came to
life. He continued, informally, as a
valued adviser to the festival until
his death in August 2012. We at
the MFSM strive to continue, in our
small way, his legacy by connecting
community constituents through
our programs and collaborations.
We truly miss him.
Wen Chao Chen was born in Chen
Village, Fenxi County, Shanxi
Province, China, one of seven
children. At the age of six he began
working on his father’s 33-acre farm,
attending small village schools,
before an older brother helped
him attend boarding school and an
American Christian missionary center.
After his studies were interrupted in
1937 by the Japanese invasion, he
worked as a tax collector, medic, and
newspaper proofreader, while taking
college courses.
By 1943, Chen was a lieutenant
in the Chinese Army, and a translator
for the US Army in China. Toward
the end of WWII, he was sent to
the U.S. for further training. After
the war, he completed a bachelor’s
degree in political science at
Grinnell College, then a master’s
degree in public administration
and a doctorate in political science
from St. Louis University. While
teaching at Kalamazoo, he earned
a master’s degree in library science
from the University of Chicago.
Chen became a U.S. citizen in 1983.
Chen joined the faculty of
Kalamazoo College in 1950 as
professor of political science.
During his 36 years with the
College, he also served as librarian,
director of academic services, dean
of special services, vice president,
acting president, and executive
director of the L. Lee Stryker
Center, and helped establish the
Heyl Scholarship program.
Chen received honorary
degrees from Nazareth College,
WMU, and Kalamazoo College
and Kalamazoo College’s Weimer
K. Hicks Award. He was named a
Fellow of the College, Emeritus;
and the Wen Chao Chen Chair in
East Asian Social Sciences was
endowed at Kalamazoo College.
Throughout his career in
Kalamazoo, Chen was active
in civic, business, and cultural
matters. He helped establish the
Michigan Festival of Sacred Music,
the Kalamazoo Network, the
Kalamazoo Forum, and the Core
Council of Governments. In 2000,
he and wife Lilia, a gifted artist,
created an art scholarship fund.
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W e l c o m e f r o m t h e f e s t i va l D i r e c t o r
Welcome to the 7th Biennial
Michigan Festival of Sacred Music
… Our 12th year presenting events which bring our
community together to celebrate our rich heritage of many
faiths and explore new ideas. We are very excited about our
line-up of programs, featuring artists from near and far, and
our collaborations with partners old and new. We dedicate
this festival to the memory of one of our very special
founders, Dr. Wen Chao Chen, who was a master at bringing
people together in common causes.
Last year, we began asking “What’s Sacred to You?”, in
an effort to develop new collaborative partners in human
services and environmental awareness, which our audiences
will encounter as volunteers at some of our programs. As
with our musical programs themselves, we can only sample
from a wealth of wonderful resources. The organizations
participating in this “What’s Sacred to You?” connection are
Mothers of Hope, Hispanic American Council, Kalamazoo
Junior Girls Organization, Volunteer Kalamazoo, Open Doors,
Loaves and Fishes, Peace House, Ministry with Community,
Kalamazoo River Cleanup Coalition, Deacon’s Conference,
Partners in Transition and Clean Water for the World.
Please join us as we enjoy transformational music and
celebrate the rich fabric of our community and beyond.
Photo © Tom Hansen
Elizabeth Start, Executive Director
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B oa r d
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council
|
s ta ff
Executive Director
Elizabeth Start
2013-2014 Board
of Directors
Shaghil Husain
President
Zahida Luqmani
Vice President
Betsy Meagher, CSJ
Secretary
Maureen Dobbie
Treasurer
John Hemmer
Aubrey Matthews
Sherie Veramay
Mary Wills
Shirley Wise
Nadia Zafar
Advisory Council
Jeffrey Harkins
Raymond Harvey
Joy Light
Betty Lee Ongley
Nancy Owen
Denise Posie
David Reilly
Alfrelynn Roberts
Harvey Spivak
Kathleen Tosco
Finance
Committee
Shaghil Husain, Chair
Maureen Dobbie
John Emilio
Sherie Veramay
Nadia Zafar
Elizabeth Start, ex officio
Marketing & PR
Committee
Betsy Meagher, CSJ, Chair
Shaghil Husain
Zahida Luqmani
Alfrelynn Roberts
Mary Wills
Shirley Wise
Elizabeth Start, ex officio
Kathy Jennings, ex officio
Programming
Committee
Janet Hill, Chair
John Hemmer
Aubrey Matthews
Betsy Meagher, CSJ
Eric Strand
Elizabeth Start, ex officio
Staff
Kathy Jennings
Marketing Coordinator
Michael Krischer
Festival Assistant and
Volunteer Coordinator
The Michigan
Festival
of Sacred Music
Offering events
which represent
diverse religious
traditions,
promoting mutual
respect and
understanding
through sharing
the music
treasured by
these traditions.
We continue in
our efforts to
contribute to the
sacred music
repertoire by
commissioning a
new work from
Daniel Knaggs. The
MFSM welcomes
inquiries from
donors interested
in commissioning
works for future
festivals.
Volunteers
Welcome
If you enjoy
inspirational
music, like to
meet new people
and receive free
admission to
concerts when you
volunteer, contact
the MFSM office
at (269) 382-2910
or by email at
director@mfsm.us.
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Kalamazoo Community Foundation
269.381.4416 www.KalFound.org
2013 Sponsors
Arts Fund through Arts Council of
Greater Kalamazoo
Arts Midwest Performing Arts Fund
Burdick-Thorne Foundation
Dorothy U. Dalton Foundation
Constantin & Ruth Butiu, John E.
Fetzer Institute Funds, through
Kalamazoo Community
Foundation
Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Michigan Council for Arts and
Cultural Affairs
National Endowment for the Arts
Ravitz Foundation
Jacob & Naomi Stucki Fund
Harold & Grace Upjohn Foundation
Corporate Matching Gifts
Pfizer and IBM
Platinum Business Sponsors
Briner Lectureship
Jewish Federation of Kalamazoo
and Southwest Michigan
Kalamazoo Nature Center
Supporting Business
Sponsors
Borgess Health
Congregation of Moses
David J. McCarthy, First VP,
Raymond James & Associates
Zion Lutheran Church
Associate Business Sponsors
Orrin B. Hayes
Gurdwara Singh Sabha
Congregation of St. Joseph
Event co-sponsors
First Congregational Church
First Presbyterian Church
Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Russian Festival
St. Augustine Sacred Music at
the Cathedral
Southwest Michigan Chapter,
American Guild of Organists
Turkish American Society of
Michigan
WMU Dept. of Music Therapy
WMU Student Music Therapy
Association
Support for this program
was provided by a grant
from the Kalamazoo
Community Foundation.
This activity is supported
in part by an award from
the Michigan Council for
Arts and Cultural Affairs
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Joshua Nelson
concert is sponsored by
The Jewish Federation
of Kalamazoo and
Southwest Michigan with
support, in part, from the
Ravitz Foundation.
The presentation of
Paul Winter Consort
is supported by the
Arts Midwest Touring
Fund, a program of
Arts Midwest that
is funded by the
National Endowment
for the Arts, with
contributions from
Michigan Council
for Arts and Cultural
Affairs and General
Mills Foundation.
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2013 in-kind Donors
2013 individual Donors
current as of October 22, 2013
Congregation of Moses
Discover Kalamazoo
Maureen Dobbie
Fisher Spiegel Kunkle &
Gerber P.L.L.C.
First Baptist Church
First Congregational Church
First Presbyterian Church
Henderson Castle
Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth
Kalamazoo Nature Center
Kalamazoo Public Library
Carolyn Koebel
Gurdwara Singh Sabha
Muslim Community of
Kalamazoo
Russian Festival
Saffron Restaurant
Shawarma House
Shawarma King on
Westnedge Ave.
St. Augustine Cathedral
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Clarice W. Start
Elizabeth Start
Turkish American Society of
Michigan
Turkish Ministry of Culture
Mary and Doug Wills
Shirley Wise and Frank Szopo
Zion Lutheran Church
Zooroona Restuarant
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Festival Sponsor
Lilia Chen, in memory of
Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Pete Koenig, in memory of
Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Timothy & Joy Light
Clarice W. Start, in memory of
Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Elizabeth Start, in memory of
Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Jacob & Naomi Stucki Fund
Doug & Mary Wills
Benefactor
John R. Light
Elizabeth Upjohn Mason & Lowell
B. Mason, Jr.
Patron
Bill & Martha Beverly
Dennis & Janice Burke
Arthur & Marilyn Feinberg
Shaghil & Gulnar Husain
Ejaz Iqbal & Mrs. Mariya Ejaz
Thomas & Gail Kasdorf
Aubrey & Yolanda Matthews
Ann Paulson & William Pierce
Barbara & Milt Rohwer, in
memory of Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Rabbi Harvey & Natalie Spivak
Sherie Veramay
Supporter
Michelle H. Angel
Carol & Bernard Baker
Hari & Urmila Bhargava
Maureen Dobbie
Diane & Randall Eberts
Dr. Anne Arbetter Fischell
Charles M. Hall
John Hemmer
E. Kathy Jennings
Barbro & Norman Jung
Dr. & Mrs. Azzam Kanaan
Roger Start Keyes & Elizabeth
Ismay Coombs
Carolyn Koebel
Michael Krischer & Janet Heller
Nadeem & Sidratul N. Mirza
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Tom Nehil & Gail Walter
George M. Nielsen
Catherine Niessink
Carolyn Nycum
John & Joyce Petro
Sophia Quraishi & Ishrat
Farooqui
Phyllis Rappeport
David & Janet Scarrow
Robert & Carol Payne Smith
LaVonne & Richard Stavig
James vanWestrienen
Bill & Carrie Venema
Roger & Molly Williams
Friend
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Anonymous
Anonymous
Saadat Abbasi & Sattar Shaikh
Aqeel Ahmed & Humaira Aqeel
Ione Ambrose
Amy Anderson
Imtiaz, Shahnaz & Iqra
Chaudhary
Nauman Choudhry
Ruth L. Collins
Sherwood & Mary Cordier, in
memory of Dr. James William
Armstrong
Clifford Davidson
Carl Doubleday
Karen & Stuart Eddy
Peg Edmondson
Kay Ensfield
Gyula & Sarolta Ficsor
George & Edna Fleming
Gary Forsleff
Joe & Louise Fugate, in memory
of Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Dorothy A. Giovannini
Michele Gossman
Mohammad & Shakila Hassan
Tajammal A. & Nasreen A. Hayat
James & Martha Hilboldt, in
memory of Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Janet & Kent Hill
Sarah Husain
Sajid Hussain & Farhana Sajid
Isabel Jackson
Judy K. Jolliffe
Howard & Hildy Kerney
Betty Kirch
Patricia & Richard Kirschner
Kenneth & Marlena Kirton
Robert & Nancy Klesert
Dr. Mushtaq & Mrs. Zahida
Luqmani
Chalmer & Alice Mastin
Judy Maze
Anne Mehring
Marsha Meyer & Michael Dunn
M.A. & Shahida A. Mohiuddin
Rosalie & Joe Novara
Don & Ann Parfet, in memory of
Dr. Wen Chao Chen
Ahsan Qureshi & Aisha Ahsan
Rick & Lynn Russell
Chris & Kathy Shook
Robert Graham Small & Kathleen
Tosco
Michael R. Stoline
Dr. & Mrs. Paul Wienir
Shirley Wise & Frank Szopo
Deanna Witkowski
Mohammed Zafar
Nadia Zafar & Muhammad A. Dar
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Special Events
Include these special Festival events
on your calendar!
Middle Eastern Dinner
with a Turkish Flair
Special appearance by members of the
Konya Turkish Tasawwuf Music Ensemble
Zooroona, 1710 West Main St., Kalamazoo
Sunday, November 10, 2013
5:00 pm Appetizers and Cash Bar
5:30 pm Dinner, Dessert and Music
$50 plus tax and gratuity
Proceeds benefit MFSM & the Turkish American Society of Michigan
Seating is limited
Reservations:
by phone: 269-382-2910 or 269-207-3909
by email: info@zooroonarestaurant.com or director@mfsm.us
Sunday, December 1, 2013, 4 pm
First Congregational Church, 129 S. Park St.
Annual Messiah Sing
The 18th Annual “Messiah” Sing will be held in the
historic First Congregational Church sanctuary,
downtown Kalamazoo, in collaboration with the
Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. A Kalamazoo community tradition
since 1995, the Sing features a Chamber Orchestra made up of
musicians from the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and the Aspire
Quartet as soloists. Conducting this year will be Michael Palmer, First
Congregational Church Interim Music Director.
Portions of the “Messiah” as Handel composed them will be sung by
those who wish to participate. Please bring a “Messiah” score with
you, or copies will be available to borrow at the door. For those who
wish to listen only, you are welcome and encouraged to join us!
Admission is free; however, a
free-will offering will be accepted.
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F estival Sc he dule
Thursday, November 7, 2013, 7 pm
First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, 315 W. Michigan
Free; donation suggested
Sound & Spirit of Kalamazoo
A sampling of sacred music from the Kalamazoo area
Performers include:
Bell Book and Canto is a women’s vocal group from Kalamazoo, MI
that specializes in what they call “Pagan Sacred Choral” music. Their
members come from a variety of spiritual backgrounds ranging from
Asatru to Unitarian, Wiccan to Christian, and a few points in between.
They are thrilled to be a part of this year’s festival, and to have a
chance to celebrate their faith through song!
Borgess Resounding Spirit Choir, Jeffrey Spenner, Music Director:
Comprised entirely of Borgess associates and volunteers, the Resounding
Spirit Choir believes that music enables people to be well, get well and
live well. They believe their job is to celebrate the gift of music — and give
this gift to those they care for and care about.
Carmen Chamochumbi, a native of Peru, is a retired Kalamazoo
Public School teacher’s aide and is a well known local teacher of
Hispanic dance. She has lived in the USA for a long period of time, and
welcomes inquiries into the culture, dance, and foods of Peru.
Robert Jordan, organ: Originally from southern Indiana, Robert
Jordan completed his BME in Music Education and Trumpet at the
Robert Jordan
Bell Book and Canto left to right
Lisa Tyson (1st Sop), Jennifer Jones (Director,
1st Alto), Christen Kat Baxter (2nd Sop), Susan
Fisher (2nd Alto) , and Martha Bay (2nd Alto)
Carmen
Chamochumbi
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Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University-Bloomington in 1998. After
teaching instrumental music in the Coldwater Community Schools,
Robert moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., attended Western Michigan
University and completed a MM in Organ Performance with Dr. Karl
Schrock in 2008. He is now the Music Director at First Baptist Church
of Kalamazoo and teaches choral and instrumental music in Portage
Public Schools.
Michigan Hiryu Daiko/Flying Dragon Drummers under the direction of
Sensei Esther Vandecar: The mission of Michigan Hiryu Daiko (Flying
Dragon Drummers) is to educate and entertain children and adults in
Michigan by introducing them to the 2000 year old authentic art of
Taiko, from Japan. Performances are dynamic and exciting, with great
audience appeal. Director Esther Vandecar learned this tradition in
Japan for 7+ years. She studied, performed, and taught taiko there.
She studied with KODO and Oguchi, Daihachi, (father of modern taiko)
among many. She brings back many traditional pieces, 1000 years old
to modern. Esther teaches all over the USA.
Sikh musicians Rajwinder Kaur (baja and vocalist) and Gaggan Singh
(tabla) perform a Sikh traditional song of praise in Gurbani (words)
from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib in classical raga and tala.
Persian tombak player/singer Reza Sedaghat Shirazinejad, a performer
and teacher in his native Iran, is presently in his second semester
studying civil engineering at WMU.
Taizé duo comprised of Carolyn Koebel and Elizabeth Patterson.
Reza Sedaghat
Shirazinejad
Rajwinder Kaur
(baja and vocalist)
and Gaggan Singh
(tabla)
Flying Dragons,back left to right: Kaitlin Koto, King Chang,
Gerren Young, Carolyn Koebel, Heather Bergseth,
Miza Timmer. Front center: Sensei Esther Vandecar
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F estival Sc he dule
Friday, November 8, 2013, 7 pm
St. Augustine Cathedral, 542 W. Michigan Ave.
Free, $10 suggested donation
Scott Montgomery
Presented in collaboration with St. Augustine’s
Sacred Music at the Cathedral series
Scott Montgomery is Director of Music Ministries and Organist for
Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Champaign, Illinois. Scott
received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in organ performance, studying with
Dr Dana Robinson.
Scott has been a prize winner in several competitions including firstprize in the American Guild of Organists’ Region V Competition in
Evansville, Indiana (1997), second-prize in the Arthur Poister National
Organ Competition in Syracuse, New York (2002), and was also the
first recipient of the M. Louise Miller Scholarship (2002) sponsored by
the Greater Bridgeport Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
In 2006 he was winner of both the Lilian Murtagh Memorial Award
(first-prize) and the Audience Prize of the American Guild of Organists’
National Young Artist Competition in Organ Playing (NYACOP), the
first person to win both prizes in the history of the competition.
Scott has given numerous concerts and master classes around
the country including performances at the 1998 National AGO
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Convention in Denver, the 2006
National Convention in Chicago,
and two performances at the
2008 National Convention in
St Paul-Minneapolis. Scott has
also been a featured performer
and presenter at the Tallahassee
Church Music Conference in
Tallahassee, Florida; the National
Pastoral Musician Conference
in Indianapolis, Indiana; and for
the 2009 Pipe Organ Encounter
(POE) in Wheaton, Illinois.
His performances have been
broadcast on American Public
Media’s series, Pipedreams. His
debut recording, Water and Light,
was released in 2008 by the Pro
Organo label. His second CD,
Inspirations From England, was
released in 2009 by the Regent
Record label. Most recently, Scott
has released his third CD, Organo
Plano: Music for a Joyous Occasion
on the Raven label.
www.scottmontgomerymusic.net
Friday night’s program includes works by
Johann Sebastian Bach, Seth Bingham,
Herbert Brewer, Dudley Buck, César
Franck, Alexandre Guilmant, John
Knowles Paine, and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Saturday
November 9, 2013
10 am
St. Augustine
Cathedral
542 W. Michigan Ave.
Free
Masterclass
Scott
Montgomery
with
Performers will include:
David Heinze:
Buxtehude D Minor,
BuxWV 140
Lucky Middaugh:
Raymond Haan —
Organ Hymn
Alexis Young:
Dieterich
Buxtehude —
Praeludium in C
BuxWV 137
(“Prelude, Fugue,
and Chaconne”)
“Here is an artist of great
promise — technically
assured and well able to
interpret very different
styles of music.”
— The Organ, 2008
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Saturday, November 9, 2013, 2 pm and 3:30 pm
Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St. Free
Sons of the Three Fires
Native American Music and Dance, sponsored
in part by the Kalamazoo Public Library
Sons of the Three Fires present Native American Pow-Wow
music and dance representing sacred and social traditions of
the Three Fires Tribes, known as the Bode’wadmi, Ojibwe and
Odawa (Potawatomi, Ottawa and Chippewa). Their program
includes informative commentary and dancers in regalia.
Left to right: Junsun Bush, John Bush, Terry Chivis, Kyle Freund, Eric Angell
PROGRAM
Grand Entry, Welcome Song Sons of the Three Fires
Invocation John Bush, elder, Match-e-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of
Pottawatomi
Introductions Sons of the Three Fires and our women back-up singers
Veterans Song This is an Honor Song for all those who have served our
country. All veterans are welcome to come into the dance area. Please
stand to show respect.
Inter-Tribal Dances Inter-Tribal dances, sometimes called Friendship Dances,
offer everyone the opportunity to participate. Anyone can join this dance
that brings the community together.
Specialty Dances Round Dance, Crow Hop, Two-Step, Buffalo Dance
Traditional Dance Traditional male and female dancers preserve the oldest
style of Native American dancing.
Old-style Girl’s Traditional Dance Onyleen Zapata
Hoop Dance Mary Bush: With her many hoops she will dance to the beat
of the drum and form various shapes such as an eagle, thunderbird,
butterfly, turtle and shawl.
Jingle Dress Dance Based on a young Ojibwe woman’s dream, the jingle
dress is a special dress covered in 365 cones made from rolled snuff can
lids. There is one cone for each day of the year. These cones are special
and filled with prayers that are sent to the Creator as the woman dances.
Closing Songs AIM Song (2:00) Traveling Song (3:30)
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Saturday, November 9, 2013, 4 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 321 W. South St. Free
The 20th Anniversary
Briner Lecture
Cor Cantiamo and Daniel Knaggs
A workshop with the chamber choir and composer. Knagg’s
piece, Hear My Voice, commissioned by the Michigan Festival of
Sacred Music and the Briner Lectureship, will have its premiere
performance on November 10 (see page 22 for biographical
information about Cor Cantiamo, Eric Johnson and Daniel Kraggs.).
Co-sponsored by the Briner Lectureship of First Presbyterian Church
Eric A. Johnson,
Artistic Director, Cor Contiamo
Daniel J. Kraggs,
Composer
Hear My Voice (2013) by Daniel J. Knaggs
Commissioned by Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and the Briner
Lectureship of First Presbyterian Church of Kalamazoo for Eric A.
Johnson and Cor Cantiamo, Hear My Voice is a cry for an end to
hatred and violence — a prayer for peace. The text consists of five
“invocations” which come from words delivered by John Paul II at the
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Japan) on Feb 25, 1981. Each invocation is
preceded and followed by relevant passages from the Psalms, drawn
from the Latin Vulgate Bible: a translation stemming back from late
4th century.
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Saturday, November 9, 2013, 8 pm
First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, 315 W. Michigan $
Chatur: Sacred Indian Music
and Dance Quartet with Rohan Krishnamurthy
Meaning “four” in Sanskrit, Chatur is a novel music and dance quartet
drawing from the ancient and sacred classical traditions of India. The
ensemble blends pitched drums from South and North India — the
mridangam and tabla, respectively — with the bamboo flute and
bharatanatyam dance. Chatur showcases the breadth of the traditional music
and dance repertoire, along with new works representing contemporary
streams in the Indian arts. Each piece will be described from stage.
Acclaimed an “international performer and promoter” of the South
Indian pitched drum, the mridangam, by USA Today, and “Pride of
India” by India’s leading newspaper, The Times of India, Dr. Rohan
Krishnamurthy, a Kalamazoo-native, is considered a young musical
ambassador. Having received advanced mridangam training with
maestro Guruvayur Dorai in India, Rohan
has performed in hundreds of concerts
around the world since the age of nine.
He has spearheaded new cross-musical
collaborations with eminent symphony
orchestras, jazz ensembles, dancers, and
Grammy Award-winning musicians.
Rohan has presented Indian percussion
institutes and camps, workshops, and
lectures at esteemed institutions, and
is the recipient of international awards.
An innovator, Rohan designed a new
drumhead tensioning system and
obtained a patent.
Rohan’s multifaceted accomplishments as
a performer, composer, educator, researcher, and entrepreneur earned him
a one-on-one meeting and performance for the President of India, Dr. Abdul
Kalam, at the presidential office and estate in New Delhi.
Rohan obtained bachelor’s degrees in music and chemistry from Kalamazoo
College as a Heyl Foundation Scholar, and Master’s degrees in musicology
and ethnomusicology from the Eastman School of Music. He completed a
Ph.D. in musicology at Eastman as a Provost Fellow. www.rohanrhythm.com
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Samir Chatterjee is a virtuoso tabla player, and
travels worldwide, performing in numerous
festivals as a soloist or with other musicians from
both Indian and Western traditions. He performed
at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo,
Norway in December, 2007. In the fall of 2009 he
performed twice at the UN General Assembly.
Samir is the Founder-Director of Chhandayan, an organization promoting
and preserving Indian music and culture. He teaches at Yale University,
University of Pittsburgh, Manhattan School of Music and New School for
Jazz and Contemporary Music. He has authored two significant books on
Indian music: A Study of Tabla and Music of India. Since June 2008 Samir
has been doing pioneering work in Afghanistan toward their musical
revival. www.tabla.org/samir.html
V.K. Raman is one of the leading flautists in the
Carnatic style. He was awarded Best Flautist from the
Madras Music Academy for his concert in December
2009. As a performer, producer, and educator, he
has performed in all genres of music. Raman has
been very successful as a composer, and has released
more than 60 CDs which include several best-sellers on
various labels worldwide. His latest CD, Music for Deep
Meditation, produced by Inner Splendor Media, reached #1
on Apple iTunes for world music. www.ramankalyan.com
Malini Srinivasan is a third-generation Bharatanatyam
choreographer, dancer and teacher. A critically
acclaimed soloist, Malini also performs with her
company, Malini Srinivasan and Dancers, and with
groups including Ragamala, Rajika Puri and Dancers,
and Thresh. Malini has performed at prestigious
venues worldwide including The Music Academy
(Chennai), The New Victory Theater (NYC), Joyce SoHo
(NYC) and the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Germany).
She was awarded the NYC Fringe Award for Overall Excellence in
Choreography (2012), the Dance in Queens Residency (2009) the
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Residency (2010), and the Queens
Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant (2010 & 2012).
Based in Queens, NY, Malini is a lecturer at the Asian & Asian-American
Studies Department at SUNY Stony Brook and is on the dance faculty of
the Young Indian Culture Group and Anamika. www.malinisrinivasan.com
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Sunday, November 10, 2013, 3 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 321 W. South St. $
Cor Cantiamo premieres new work
by Daniel Knaggs
Commissioned by Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and
the Briner Lectureship
Cor Cantiamo is a touring chamber choir in residence at Northern
Illinois University, founded with the mission to perform and promote
contemporary choral music and foster new composers for the art form.
Since their founding in the spring of 2009, the choir has emerged as an
energetic and accomplished vocal ensemble, receiving accolades for their
performances. In their inaugural year, Cor Cantiamo performed with Morten
Lauridsen, who praised the ensemble for presenting “choral artistry at its
finest.” In spring 2014 Centaur Records will release Cor Cantiamo’s first
commercial recording, a CD of choral music by Finnish composer Jaakko
Mäntyjärvi. Maestro Mäntyjärvi participated in all of the recording sessions
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and commended Cor Cantiamo as representing “professional excellence in
choral music, examples of which are few and far between.” Cor Cantiamo
will be performing at the American Choral Directors Association Division
Convention 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In partnership with Soli Deo Gloria,
Inc., Cor Cantiamo will present two premieres in 2014, the US premiere of
a new Psalm setting by Ukrainian-born composer Galina Grigorjev, and the
world premiere of a new work by Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon. Over
the next three years, Cor Cantiamo has also been contracted to record all
fifteen of the SDG Psalms Project choral works. www.corcantiamo.org
(continued on page 26)
Cor Cantiamo: The Singers
Soprano
JoEllyn Caulfield
Kim Duncan
Sarah Fallon
Carrie M. Filetti
Chelsey Kloster
Jenilyn Roether
Erin Truesdell
Alto
Amy Allen
Julie Dee
Adrianne GallaugherBeetstra
Kirsten LaPrade
Janna Mudlin
Toria BurrellHrencecin
Tenor
Mark Baglione
Peter Barsch
Daniel Beetstra
Robert Campbell
Niall Casserly
Zach Weiss
John Paul Rakes
Bass
Brian Balika
Ryan Ferguson
Tom Foust
Nicholas Kalina
Anthony Quaranta
Bobby Truong
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Fest i val S c he dul e
Thursday, Nov. 7†
7 pm
Sound & Spirit of Kalamazoo
Friday, Nov. 8†
7 pm
Scott Montgomery
Saturday, Nov. 9
10 am
Scott Montgomery Masterclass
Saturday, Nov. 9
2 pm & 3:30 pm
Saturday, Nov. 9
4 pm
Briner Lecture: Cor Cantiamo and Da
Saturday, Nov. 9*
8 pm
Chatur with Rohan Krishnamurthy
Sunday, Nov. 10*
3 pm Cor Cantiamo and Daniel Knaggs
Sunday, Nov. 10*
7 pm
Joshua Nelson
Monday, Nov. 11
7 pm
Joseph & Grace Byrd
Tuesday, Nov. 12†
7 pm
Konya Turkish Tasawwuf Music Ensem
Wednesday, Nov. 13
7 pm
Samite
Thursday, Nov. 14†
7 pm
SW Michigan Taizé Collective with Eld
Friday, Nov. 15*
8 pm
Golosá Choir
Saturday, Nov. 16†
3 pm
James FalzoneH
Saturday, Nov. 16*
8 pmAllos MusicaH
Sunday, Nov. 17*
3 pm
Sons of the Three Fires
Paul Winter Consort
* Indicates a ticketed event. † Free, donation suggested. All other events a
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aniel Knaggs
First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, 315 W. Michigan Ave.
St. Augustine Cathedral, 542 W. Michigan Ave.
St. Augustine Cathedral, 542 W. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St.
First Presbyterian Church, 321 W. South St.
First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, 315 W. Michigan Ave.
First Presbyterian Church, 321 W. South St.
Congregation of Moses, 2501 Stadium Dr.
Zion Lutheran Church, 2122 Bronson Blvd.
mbleHoly Family Chapel, Nazareth, 3427 Gull Rd.
den Kelly
Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St.
Kalamazoo Nature Center, 7000 N. Westnedge Ave.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 247 W. Lovell St.
Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, 3427 Gull Rd.
Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, 3427 Gull Rd.
Chenery Auditorum, 714 S. Westnedge Ave.
are free. Schedule and venues subject to change.
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Eric A. Johnson D.M.A. is the Founding Artistic Director of Cor
Cantiamo (www.corcantiamo.org) and Director of Choral Activities
at Northern Illinois University. Ensembles under his direction have
performed at national, division and state ACDA, MENC and NCCO
conventions, Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center, toured internationally,
and appeared with many professional orchestras.
Internationally, Johnson has served as a guest conductor of
the Clare College Chapel Choir, Cambridge, England, taught at
Makumira University, Tanzania, and directed guest choral residencies
at Canterbury and Worcester Cathedrals. Dr. Johnson has published
music with Santa Barbara Music Publishing, served as a music editor
for Earthsongs Publications, and has published articles in the Choral
Journal. He is active nationally as a clinician and conductor and is a
Past-President of Illinois-ACDA.
Dr. Johnson has collaborated with many leading composers
of our time including Morten Lauridsen and Libby Larsen and
commissioned new works from Sir John Tavener, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi,
and Stacey Gibbs. He currently is collaborating with Soli Deo Gloria,
Inc. (SDG) to perform and record newly commissioned works
created through the Psalms Project (SDGmusic.org/Psalms), which
is made possible by a grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. The
scope of the SDG Psalms Project,
during the initial three-year pilot, is
to create a collection of fifteen
contemporary choral works
in the Western art-music
tradition, written by the
world’s foremost composers
engaging with the text of
the Hebrew Psalter.
MFSM thanks our volunteer hosts for their hospitality in housing Cor Cantiamo.
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Daniel J. Knaggs, native of southeast Michigan, is a concert
composer working in a wide range of media and styles. He has
lived in France, Mexico,
and Nicaragua and many
aspects of these diverse
cultures and languages find
their way into his music.
Daniel’s music is heard in
concert halls, churches, and
radio broadcasts in both
Europe and the Americas.
His compositions have secured performances throughout the USA,
Mexico, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, and the UK. Performers of his music
include Trinity College Choir (UK), Polski Chór Kameralny (Poland),
Jauna Muzika (Lithuania), Coenobium Vocale (Italy), Mexico City
Philharmonic Orchestra (México), Xanthos Ensemble, Great Noise
Ensemble, Third Millenium Ensemble, Young New Yorkers’ Chorus,
Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Boston Metro Opera, and the Basilica
Choir of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (USA).
Daniel completed his master’s degree in music composition at
Bowling Green State University in 2009 and graduated in 2007
from the University of Michigan with bachelor’s degrees in voice
performance and Spanish. His composition teachers include Bright
Sheng, Marilyn Shrude, Karim Al-Zand, and Pierre Jalbert. Daniel
was a full-time high school Spanish teacher for three years (20092012) and is now pursuing a doctorate in music composition at Rice
University Shepherd School of Music. www.danieljknaggs.com
Sunday’s 3 pm program also includes works by William Appeling,
Eriks Esenvalds, Pietro Ferrario, Moses Hogan, Craig Hella Johnson,
Ily Matthew Maniano, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina, Heinrich Schütz, and Jan Pieerszoon Sweelink.
Sunday, Nov 10, 10:30 am
Thomas Kasdorf and the First Presbyterian Church choir will
perform the premiere of Knaggs’s “I am the Good Shepherd”
for choir and oboe at worship service, as part of the 20th
anniversary celebration of the Briner Lectureship.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013, 7 pm
Congregation of Moses, 2501 Stadium Dr. $
Joshua Nelson
The Prince of Kosher Gospel
Recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 10 Jewish Music stars,
Joshua Nelson is the Prince of Kosher Gospel. Kosher gospel is the
marriage of Jewish religious lyrics and meanings with the
soulful sounds of American gospel music. While the word
“gospel,” a Greek word meaning good news, is usually
associated with African-American Christian churches,
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the musical styling is African, sounds that came from several African
tribes, and developed as a tool to escape social injustice. This was the
Spiritual, the Meter Hymns, Jubilee songs and ultimately, the coined
“Gospel Music.” These African rhythms pre-date the West Africans’
introduction to Christianity. These same sounds have been retained
in the musical cultures of Black African Muslims and Jews, and such
soul-inflected vocalizations filled the Black Hebrew synagogue Joshua
Nelson attended as a child with his family, observant Jews who traced
their lineage back to Senegal.
When he was eight, Joshua Nelson discovered an album by Mahalia
Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, in his grandparents’ record collection,
and he fell in love with her singing. During his teens and early twenties,
he became widely celebrated as a gospel singer continuing the
Jackson legacy. Born and raised Jewish, he continued studies of
Judaism, including two years on a college and kibbutz program in
Israel, and clarified his understanding that throughout history, Jews
had always integrated Jewish law and religious practices with the
cultural context in which they lived; for example, as Nelson points
out, any ethnic style of cuisine can be Jewish if it is kosher. Upon his
return from Israel, Nelson began to apply this understanding to music,
beginning what has been called “a revolution in Jewish music” by
combining Jewish liturgical lyrics with one of America’s best-known
indigenous musical forms; thus kosher gospel music was born.
For Joshua Nelson, kosher gospel is a way to claim both parts of
his identity as a Black Jew. For his audiences, whatever their faith or
heritage, kosher gospel has been a revelation. Now in his early thirties,
Nelson has performed around the world, for Presidents, congregations,
major music festivals — and for Oprah, who named him a “Next Big
Thing.” He has produced a stellar album, Mi Chamocha, sung with stars
from Aretha Franklin to the Klezmatics, and served as the subject of
the acclaimed documentary film Keep on Walking. Nelson also passes
on this musical gift as an artist in residence at Jewish congregations
across the country, including at his home synagogue of Temple Sharey
Tefilo-Israel, a Reform congregation in South Orange, New Jersey
where he taught Hebrew School for 15 years. Whatever the venue,
Joshua Nelson, the Prince of Kosher Gospel, brings people — and
cultures — together in joyous song. www.joshuanelson.com
The Joshua Nelson concert is sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Kalamazoo and Southwest
Michigan with support, in part, from the Ravitz Foundation.
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Monday, November 11, 2013, 7 pm
Zion Lutheran Church, 2122 Bronson Blvd. Free
Joseph & Grace Byrd
Guided Meditations: From Words to Wordlessness
Co-sponsored by Zion Lutheran Church
A journey through music of Vaughan Williams, John Beall, and Arvo
Pärt all framed by the words of poet and visionary William Blake
and by Appalachian folk hymnody as we sit with questions about
innocence, experience, awareness, and acceptance. Joseph and Grace
Byrd are your guides through this mystical terrain including images
from Blake’s oeuvre, stories from their work with Shakespeare Behind
Bars, and meditative exercises on the structure and substance of the
music of these three master composers.
Grace Byrd is Violist-in-Residence with the Kalamazoo Symphony and
the Burdick-Thorne string quartet. She received Bachelors and Masters
degrees from the Eastman School of Music and was a kontaktstudentin
of Kim Kashkashian at the Hochschule ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin,
Germany. As a member of the Rogue Valley Chamber Players, she
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visited over 10,000 students in Southern Oregon through the Rogue
Valley Symphony’s ‘Meet the Composer’ education series, has played
with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the
Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele Orchestra, the Ohio Light Opera, and has
appeared as a guest artist with Fontana Chamber Arts.
Joseph Byrd’s love of the interior process, and of how the arts
and social justice collide, has happily led him toward working as a
Facilitator with Shakespeare Behind Bars, as well as the Animator
of The School for Contemplatives in Action in Holland, Mich.,
partnering with those interested in learning, and living, the riches
of the inner life. His music is published by earthsongs and he
holds Masters degrees from the Eastman School of Music, as well
as the Performer’s Certificate in Voice and a Doctor of Ministry
in Spiritual Direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation.
Since 1998 he’s served as Minister of Music and Spiritual Life at Zion
Lutheran Church in Holland, Mich. and he is chaplain for the Order
of Lutheran Franciscans, a religious community of vowed Lutheran
brothers and sisters committed to living in the simple ways of
Francis of Assisi. www.theschoolforcontemplativesinaction.org
From Words to Wordlessness….
Ten Blake Songs
R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Infant Joy
A Poison Tree
The Piper
London
The Lamb
The Shepherd
Ah! Sun-flower
Cruelty has a Human Heart
The Divine Image
Eternity
Wondrous Love: Variations
for Viola & Piano
John Beall (b. 1942)
Andante espressivo
Lightly, same tempo
Fast and driving
Vigorously
Suddenly slower
Vigorously
Somewhat faster
Slower, rhapsodically
Cadenza-like, somewhat faster
Moderately fast
Spiegel im Spiegel, für viola und klavier (1978)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 7 pm
Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, 3427 Gull Rd.
Free; donation suggested
Konya Turkish Tasawwuf
Music Ensemble
with Whirling Dervishes
Co-sponsored by the Turkish American Society of Michigan
The dervishes perform a ritual dance, called Sema, that is among
the most exquisite ceremonies of spirituality. For the whirling
dervishes this is an act of love and a drama of faith. The Sema is a
precise choreography, a meditation in motion in which the dervishes
are accompanied by beautiful,
authentic Sufi music. The
Vocalists
music contains some of the
Ömer Faruk Belviranlı
most core elements of Eastern
Ufuk Yürüç
classical music and serves as
Kudüm Player
an accompaniment for Rumi’s
Ümit Atalay
poetry. The evening ends with
Tanbur Player
Turkish coffee.
Ahmet Yavuzhan Erdem
Ney Player
Hüseyin Kutsi Sezgin
Kanun Player
Atilla Akıntürk
Whirling dervishes
Ahmet Tekelioglu
Sıtkı Çokünlü
Res, at Varol
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 7 pm
Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St.
Free
Samite
Co-sponsored by the Kalamazoo Public Library
The world-renowned musician and music therapist Samite was born
and raised in Uganda, where his grandfather taught him to play
the traditional flute. When he was twelve, a music teacher placed a
western flute in his hands, setting him on his way to becoming one
of East Africa’s most acclaimed flutists. He performed frequently to
enthusiastic audiences throughout Uganda until 1982, when he was
forced to flee to Kenya as a political refugee. Samite immigrated to
the United States in 1987, and now he and his wife Sandra make their
home in Ithaca, New York. Today, his smooth vocals accompanied
by the kalimba, marimba, litungu, and various flutes, mesmerize
audiences throughout the world.
www.almaartistbooking.com/samite/
Samite will also visit the Music Therapy Department at Western
Michigan University during his time in Kalamazoo.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013, 7 pm
Instrument Petting Zoo, 6:30 pm
Kalamazoo Nature Center, 7000 N. Westnedge Ave.
Free; donation suggested
Southwest Michigan Taizé
Collective with guest artist Elden Kelly
The ensemble consists of core members Carolyn Koebel, Rainbow
Weldon, and Heather & Janice Marsh-Prelesnik. They will be joined
in this program by vocalist Beth Patterson, bassist Jon Moody, and
multi-string virtuoso Elden Kelly.
The ensemble will invite young listeners to a pre-show preview of
instruments and sounds at 6:30. This time will be an opportunity for
new listeners to experience the kinesthetic vibrations of the gongs
and singing bowls that will be woven into the Taizé experience.
The program will include music, songs, chants, and meditations
from a host of the world’s most beloved spiritual traditions, with an
underlying theme of the natural world.
The Southwest Michigan Taizé Collective came together nearly
three years ago out of a shared interest in multi-cultural, interfaith ministry. Group members’ backgrounds and interests include
Judeo-Christianity, Sufism, Paganism, Shamanism, Baha’i teachings,
Native wisdom, and the New Thought movement. This program also
acknowledges music from Islamic traditions, Bhakti Yoga, Tibetan
Buddhism and indigenous peoples. Group members combine broad
interests in traditional musics of the world, as well as a broad palette
of instruments, sounds and timbres reflective of diverse cultural
traditions. Further, group members’ backgrounds in music therapy,
sound healing, and the expressive arts merge to create an interactive
sensory experience for audiences of all ages.
“Taizé is an ecumenical sung and silent participatory
prayer service designed to achieve a contemplative
state through music, song and silence.”
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Guest artist Elden Kelly holds degrees
of distinction from the New England
Conservatory in jazz studies and
contemporary improvisation, and a
graduate degree in ethno-musicology
from Michigan State University.
His specific interests include
classical Indian music and Turkish
music, bringing the diverse voices
of the glissentar and Turkish banjo to
the Taizé experience. He previously
appeared at the MFSM presenting a program
of original settings of Baha’i prayers in song. www.eldenkelly.com
The Taizé Community is an ecumenical monastic order in Taizé,
Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. It is composed of more than one
hundred brothers, from Protestant and Catholic traditions, who
originate from about thirty countries across the world. The tradition
was founded in the 1940’s by Brother Roger in Taizé, France.
Short chants, repeated again and again, give it a meditative character.
Using just a few words, the chants express a basic reality of faith,
quickly grasped by the mind. As the words are sung over many times,
this reality gradually penetrates the whole being. The purpose of the
prayer is to foster reconciliation and peace among all people.
Left to right:
Heather Marsh-Prelesnik,
Rainbow Weldon,
Carolyn Koebel,
Janice Marsh-Prelesnik,
Jon Moody.
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2013/14 Artist Series
November 10 - Bronze Medalist
Laura Park-Kalamazoo Junior Symphony
Chenery Auditorium - 4pm
January 5 - Gold Medalist
Youjin Lee-Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Dalton Center Recital Hall - 3 pm
March 7 - Master Class Students
Art Hop, Epic Center, Downtown Kalamazoo
May 17- Stulberg Competition
Dalton Center Recital Hall, WMU
May 16&18 - Stulberg Master Classes
Dalton Center, WMU
stulbergcomp@yahoo.com
www.stulberg.org or 269/343-2776
Many of the seeds that grew into
the Michigan Festival of Sacred
Music were first sown at
First Baptist Church.
Come see what else is growing at First
Baptist...introducing our new pastor,
Rev. Dr. George A. Huffsmith
Sunday worship 10:30 am
First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo
315 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo 49007
(269) 345-2195
www.fbckazoo.org, email office@fbckazoo.org
Friday, November 15, 2013, 8 pm
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 247 W. Lovell St. $
Golosá Choir
Presented in collaboration with the Kalamazoo Russian Festival
Golosá is Chicago’s one and only Russian folk choir, founded in
1997 at the University of Chicago. Under the supervision of Artistic
Director Tamara Ghattas, they sing sacred and secular Russian folk
songs in a mixed-voice a capella ensemble, and perform all year
long throughout the Chicago area and beyond.
The songs that Golosá (Russian for “voices” and also “melodies”)
performs are the descendents of songs heard in the early twentieth
century in villages throughout Russia; and those songs in turn were
the latest incarnation of music many years older.
In 1996, Founder Noel Taylor first encountered the repertoire when
he sang with the famous Russian Choir of Frieburg, founded in 1929
by Aleksander Kresling. In 1999, he met “Sud’binushka”, a group
from the village of Tarbagatay in the province of Buryatia on the
shores of Lake Baikal. The songs learned from Sud’binushka became
the core of Golosá’s repertoire. Members of Golosá have traveled to
Siberia twice since then to study. They have also studied the unique
singing style and the history and culture of the Semeiskie Old
Believers of the Trans-Baikal, who created it. www.golosa.org
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Saturday, November 16, 2013, 3 pm
Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, 3427 Gull Rd.
Free; donation suggested
James Falzone (clarinet, Allos Musica)
Sighs Too Deep For Words
A solo clarinet work at the intersection of improvisation and
composition, Sighs Too Deep For Words uses words of St. Paul
as the starting place for an exploration of mindfulness and
contemplative practice through sound. Reminiscent of the haunting
music of Olivier Messiaen and incorporating clarinets, ritual bells,
shruti box, and percussion, the work has been performed by
Falzone in the US, Canada, and Europe and was documented on
film in a 2011 performance at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago
and released on James’ Allos Documents label.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013, 8 pm
Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, 3427 Gull Rd. $
Allos Musica
James Falzone: clarinet, tin whistle, launeddas, shruti box
Jeremiah McLane: accordion
Ronnie Malley: oud, voice, harmonium
Tim Mulvenna: hand drums and percussion
Working at the intersection of classical, jazz, and world music
traditions, James Falzone’s Allos Musica will present repertoire
from the Middle East, Andalusia, and Brittany, alongside original
compositions and arrangements from Falzone, many newly created
for the 2013 Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. Incorporating
wind, string, and percussion instruments from around the globe,
this unique quartet takes the listener on a contemplative yet
lively journey where tradition
and experimentation blend
seamlessly. Allos Musica
“The variety of
has performed and toured
approaches that
extensively in the US and was
featured on the 2010 recording
he employs—the
Lamentations (Allos Documents),
solemn tolling of
described by Phillip McNally of
prayer bells, fragile
Cadence magazine as having
“Intense feeling and great
reed multiphonics,
beauty, filled with the sadness of
tangles of piercing,
reality yet flashing with the joy
writhing tones—not
of returning hope in the end . . .
remarkable.”
only displays the full
range of his technique
but also speaks to the
breadth of spiritual
experience, from
serenity to struggle.”
—Bill Meyer, on “Sighs
Too Deep for Words”
The Chicago Reader
Multi-faceted clarinetist/
composer James Falzone is an
acclaimed member of Chicago’s
jazz and creative improvised
music scene, a veteran
contemporary music lecturer
and clinician, the longtime
Director of Music for Grace
Chicago Church and an awardwinning composer who has
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been commissioned by chamber ensembles, choirs and symphony
orchestras around the globe. He leads his own ensembles KLANG,
The Renga Ensemble, and Allos Musica and has released eight
highly regarded recordings on Allos Documents, a label he founded
in 2000. James has performed in recital halls, festivals and jazz
venues throughout North America and Europe, appears regularly
on Downbeat magazine’s Critics’ and Readers’ Polls, and was
nominated as the 2011 Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist
Association. His work has been featured in the New York Times,
The Chicago Tribune, New Music Box, Point of Departure, and many
other publications. Educated at Northern Illinois University and New
England Conservatory, James is a respected educator himself and is
currently on faculty at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches
in the interdisciplinary First Year Seminar program. allosmusica.org
Since the early 1990s accordionist and pianist Jeremiah McLane
has helped shape the sound of New England and
Franco-American roots music through his
work as a composer, performer and teacher.
He holds a Master’s in Contemporary
Improvisation from the New England
Conservatory of Music and teaches regularly
at summer music programs throughout
the US. Formerly on the faculty on the
State University of New York in Plattsburg,
NY and St. Michael’s College in Colchester,
VT, he is currently on the faculty of the Summit
School of Traditional Music in Montpelier, VT, and director of the
Floating Bridge Music School in Sharon, VT. In addition to teaching
and performing, Jeremiah has also composed numerous pieces
for film and theatre. In 1996, he received National Public Radio’s
“favorite picks” award for his second solo recording, Smile When
You’re Ready, and in 2003 the French music magazine Trad Mag’s
“BRAVO” award for his fifth release, Hummingbird. His most recent
release, DANSE with classical pianist Annemieke Spoelstra, came
out in 2013. jeremiahmclane.com
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A Chicago native of Palestinian descent, Ronnie Malley is a versatile
and multi-talented instrumentalist, who tours internationally
with Lamajamal, Mucca Pazza, Duzan Ensemble to
perform a vast repertoire of folk, classical,
and spiritual music from all over the world.
After years of playing Middle Eastern and
American rock music, Ronnie expanded
his musical palette to explore different
traditions from around the world. He has
studied and collaborated with musicians
from Senegal, Sudan, North Africa, India,
Kashmir, Macedonia, Iran, Greece, Turkey, as
well as with Afro-Peruvian folk artists, Rodolfo
Munoz and Miguel Ballermos. He has collaborated
as both musician and actor in Lookingglass, Berkeley, Arena Stage
Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions of renowned
director Mary Zimmerman, and has also produced music for film
documentaries. Ronnie began his education with guitar lessons
at age nine, later moving on to piano, Middle Eastern percussion,
and taught himself his principal instrument, the Oud (Mid-Eastern
lute). He played percussion with his father and brother in the family
band and accompanied renowned artists such as Kazem Al Saher,
Majdi Husseini, Wael Jassar, and Tony Hanna. Ronnie currently
teaches at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and conducts Arabic
music workshops for Chicago Public Schools and the University of
Chicago’s Startalk camp. ronniemalley.com
Tim Muvenna has been performing and
teaching for the last two decades in
Chicago, as well as playing festivals and
touring in the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe,
Thailand, and Brazil. Tim has worked with
many international artists including the
Eternals, Robbie Fulks, Ken Vandermark,
Fareed Haque, Fred Anderson, Lin Halliday,
Jarek Smietana, Jeb Bishop, Ritchie Cole, the
Smothers Brothers, Roscoe Mitchell, Rob Mazurek,
Ella Leya, Jeff Parker, Ken McIntire, Liquid Soul, Michael Urbaniak,
Dan Phillips, Peter Brotzmann, John Abercrombie, and the Gypsy
Rhythm Project. His playing is represented on over 70 recordings on
labels as diverse as Blue Note, Drag City, Delmark, Atavistic, Okka
Disc, Submarine, Blujazz, and Aesthetics. timmulvenna.com
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Sunday, November 17, 2013, 3 pm
Chenery Auditorum, 714 S. Westnedge Ave. $
Paul Winter Consort
a short moderated discussion follows the program
Award-winning saxophonist, bandleader, composer, explorer of the
world’s musical traditions and founder of Living Music and the Paul
Winter Consort, Paul Winter has been motivated for the past thirty years
by the vision of a musical-ecological community, and has followed a
steady course towards his unique ‘Earth Music’, a vital celebration of the
creatures and cultures of the whole earth. Paul’s musical realm has long
embraced the traditions of many of the world’s cultures, interweaving
widely diverse instruments and elements with the extraordinary voices
from what he refers to as “the greater symphony of the Earth”, including
wolves, whales, eagles, and several dozen other species of ‘wilderness
musicians’. This program will celebrate the sacredness of the earth, and
feature especially reflections on water. Paul is joined by pianist Paul
Sullivan; cellist Eugene Friesen; and percussionist Jamey Haddad.
Paul Winter has spent a lifetime exploring the music of the world. From his
college days as the leader of a jazz sextet to his later work
with the Paul Winter Consort, the saxophonist and composer
has aspired to bridge the cultures of the world through music.
Fame first found Winter in 1961 when his sextet won the
Intercollegiate Jazz Festival. The US State Department then
sent the group in 1962 on a six-month concert tour of 23
countries of Latin America. The tour opened Winter’s ears to
a wider world, and led to an invitation from First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy
to play at the White House, presenting the first jazz concert ever held there.
As an outgrowth of his original sextet, he founded in the late ‘60s a
new ensemble, the Paul Winter Consort, as a forum for the broad range
of music he had come to love. With the Consort he has toured in 52
countries, playing some 3,000 concerts, and recorded over 50 albums,
six of which have won Grammy® awards: Spanish Angel, Prayer for
the Wild Things, Celtic Solstice, Crestone, Silver Solstice, and, in 2011,
Miho: Journey to the Mountain. Winter also produced Pete Seeger’s
Grammy-winning album Pete. In May, 2011 Winter was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Hartford.
His latest album, Count Me In, is a 2-CD 50th anniversary anthology of his
1962/1963 jazz Sextet, which includes the never-released recordings from
their historic concert at the Kennedy White House. paulwinter.com
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The presentation of Paul Winter Consort is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program
of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with contributions from
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and General Mills Foundation.
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Eugene Friesen has been the cellist with the Paul Winter Consort for
over 30 years. A graduate of the Yale School of Music,
he is featured on over 20 Living Music albums, including
two solo recordings: New Friend and Arms Around You.
Eugene has produced four albums: In the Shade of Angels,
Sono Miho, The Song of Rivers, and Colorful Transitions.
Since 1992, he has also been a member of Trio Globo,
which he founded with Glen Velez and Howard Levy.
Eugene is currently on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music, and
resides with his family in Vermont. celloman.com
Jamey Haddad’s musical voice transcends styles and trends, and the
universal quality of his playing has attracted many
international collaborations. Regarded as one of the
foremost world music and jazz percussionists in the U.S.,
Haddad is an associate professor at Boston’s Berklee
College of Music, New England Conservatory, Oberlin
Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Haddad collaborates regularly with Paul Simon, Simon and
Garfunkel, Osvaldo Golijov, Yo Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Joe Lovano, Elliot
Goldenthal, Brazil’s Assad Brothers, Daniel Schnyder, Simon Shaheen, the
Paul Winter Consort, Nancy Wilson, Dave Liebman, Esperanza Spalding,
Maya Beiser, Trichy Sankaran, vocalist Betty Buckley, Steve Shehan, Leo
Blanco, Nguyen Lee, among others.
He can also be heard on more than 170 recordings and routinely has
articles published internationally relating to the experiences of the
contemporary world musician. www.jameyhaddad.com
Paul Sullivan grew up in Boston, receiving his first professional training
in Cambridge. He graduated from Yale with a BA in Music
in 1977. Since then, he has enjoyed a richly varied and
distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. As a
soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter
Consort, he has played concert tours worldwide. He has
performed with legendary orchestras, and in New York’s
most prestigious jazz clubs. His work has been performed
extensively on and off Broadway and in the dance world. A Grammy
Award-winning artist with the Paul Winter Consort for his collaboration
on the Consort CD Silver Solstice, he has produced over 15 CDs under his
own label, River Music, available at www.rivermusic.com. He and his family
live on the coast of Maine.
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