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ABOUT BEL CANTO CHORUS

Founded in 1931, Bel Canto Chorus enriches the lives of its audiences and members through the presentation of fine choral music. The group has been led for more than 25 years by Richard Hynson, considered one of the nation’s finest choral and orchestral conductors. (American Prize Winner 2012)

Bel Canto Chorus ranks in the top ten percent of choral organizations in the country in terms of budget, longevity, and repertoire. Educational outreach includes the Bel Canto Senior Singers and Bel Canto Boy Choirs. Rehearsals are held at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center.

Characterized by a heartfelt belief in the value of Bel Canto Chorus, and supported by its devoted singers, audiences, talented artistic and administrative staff, and dedicated board members, the group’s passion for sharing the thrill of live, choral music has remained steadfast throughout its long, proud history.

To learn more about singing with Bel Canto Chorus, go online at www.belcanto.org, call (414) 481-8801, or email info@belcanto.org.

MISS ION STATEMENT

BOARD OF D IRECTORS

The mission of Bel Canto Chorus is to enrich the lives of its audiences and its singing members through the outstanding live presentation of the finest choral music and to reach out to the community in order to share the benefits and joy of the singing arts.

President .......................................................................................................................................................Martin TierneyTreasurer ..............................................................................................................................................................Jim HylandSecretary ............................................................................................................................................................Marc CohenChorus Representative .......................................................................................................................................... Jim Hill

Joshua Blakely, Sequoya Borgman, Tyler Draheim, Raúl C. Galván, Todd Jones, Betty Reul, Tom Thiele

ARTISTIC STAFF

ADMINISTR ATIVE STAFF

CHORUS CAB INET

Music Director/Conductor .................................................................................................................. Richard HynsonAssistant Conductor/Accompanist ..................................................................................................Michelle HynsonBoy Choirs Director .................................................................................................................................. Ellen M. ShulerSenior Singers Director ............................................................................................................................James D. Stout Senior Singers Assistant ..............................................................................................................Andrea S. Goetzinger Boy Choirs/Senior Singers Accompanist ................................................................................................Elna Hickson

Executive Director ....................................................................................................................................... Nina M. JonesEducation and Outreach Manager ..................................................................................................Rebecca WhitneyMarketing and Patron Manager ............................................................................................................. James LaBelleEquipment Manager .................................................................................................................................James D. Stout

Jan Becker, CarolAnne Bozosi, Susan Brown, Elaine Ernst, Jim Hill, Susi Kiefer, Carol Lynne McKean, Marjorie P. Piechowski, Kerry Saver, Kristin Traut, Jennifer Watson

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R ICHARD HYNSON

RICHARD HYNSON,Music Director/ConductorThis season marks Richard Hynson’s 26th year as Music Director of the Bel Canto Chorus and Orchestra. In addition, Hynson has served as Music Director of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra since 2006. In demand as a guest conductor, Hynson’s past engagements include performances with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Skylight Music

Theatre, and the Racine, Sheboygan, and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. Hynson has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he led a large national festival chorus and orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. He has guest-conducted the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in one of the Concerts on the Square in Madison. He has also served as the Music Director for Gathering on the Green, the popular outdoor music festival in Mequon, WI. In 2012, Hynson was awarded the American Prize – community choral division. This national prize provides evaluation, recognition, and reward to America’s finest performing artists, ensembles, and composers. In making the award, the American Prize committee wrote: “During his 24 years as Music Director, Dr. Richard Hynson has transformed Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee from a venerable community chorus to a vibrant, successful arts organization respected for its artistic excellence, innovative programming, and impactful outreach…”

Hynson and members of Bel Canto Chorus have performed internationally at the acclaimed Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, the Festivals of Troyes and Rheims in France, the Llangollen Festival in Wales, and the Elora and Huntsville Festivals in Canada. In addition to its annual concert season, the chorus is often called upon to participate in performances by national touring companies. In 2010, Bel Canto participated in Star Wars in Concert and in the Video Games Live national touring concert, and in February 2013, Bel Canto sang in the Distant Worlds touring concert. The chorus completed a successful international tour in July 2011, performing with several orchestras in Argentina and Uruguay, and in June 2013, Hynson conducted Bel Canto and two French choruses in three performances of Brahms’ Requiem with L’Ensemble Orchestral de Bordeaux in France.

In addition to his work as a conductor and educator, Hynson is a composer. He has written a substantial body of published choral, vocal, and ensemble works, many of which he has recorded with Bel Canto Chorus singers. The U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants have frequently performed Hynson’s “In the Midst of Life,” composed in response to the events of September 11. Most notably, they presented it in New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall for the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association.

Under Hynson’s direction, Bel Canto opened its 81st season on Sunday, September 11, 2011, with United We Stand in Cathedral Square Park. This free concert marked the tenth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, and featured Mozart’s Requiem and Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” in collaboration with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra. “The chorus sang with force and assurance, easily separating the complex vocal lines...and following Hynson’s judicious phrasing in when to hold back and when to let go.” (David Lewellen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) This year marked the third annual commemorative concert celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., presented by the Bel Canto Chorus and Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra.

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MILWAUKEE CHA MBER ORCHESTR A

Lotta Alajoki Vaughn Ausman Kevin Bailey +Jonathon Bartos Kelly Bartyczak Carol Bayne Jan Becker Sara Louise Bitner CarolAnne Bozosi Susan Brown Jillian Hansen Bruss Nancy Butch Marc Cohen Kenzie ConnerPeter Craig Sue D’Alessio Rachel M. Dees Linda Dindzans Elaine Ernst Christine G. Fitch Chelsey Foscato Emily Fox Karri Fritz-Klaus Janet Gibeau Jim Gingery Andrea S. Goetzinger +Eileen Griffiths Lynn GutoskiBrett Hanisko Keith Heidmann Joan HenkelJames Hill Craig HoffmannGlenna Kate Holstein Dan R. HolzmillerRonald Houle Sally D. Hoyt Katherine Hughes Kathleen Hughes +

Michelle Hynson +Susi Kiefer Kieth Klemp Jessi A. Kolberg Kyle Kolberg Russell Kopitzke Steven Kunda Jonathan A. Laabs +James LaBelle +Penny Laferriere Lindsay Lamm Sandra Lash +Angela Lee John W. LettermannLoretta Jelinek Lieske K. David Lupardus Barbara L. Lyons Patrick C. Lyons Chris Martin +Dan McDermott Kristin McGowan Carol Lynne McKean David Meyers Jeff Nesta Sarah Pabbathi +Marjorie P. PiechowskiAlexandra Pieper Elizabeth Pierson Bryan Previte Nicholas Scott Pullen+Debbie Rakestraw John ReinardyBetty ReulDavid Reul Kay Richardson Shira Richardson Ofra Rybak Kerry Saver Kathleen Schilz

Kate Schmitt Allison Schnier Glenn R. Schumann Sarah Schwab Marcia Schwager Brian J. Schwanz Gregory Smith Susan Chamberlin Smith William R. Smith +Binette Solomon Erin Stamm Philip Starr Eric Stein Joan StevensJames D. Stout Sheila Strock Amanda Sullivan Lora Sunder Jonathan Szczepaniak Kim Terek Mary ThieleTom Thiele Veronica ThomasKristin Traut Thomas Treder Fausta UrbonieneBernadette VitolaSarah Warran Jennifer W. WatsonAlissa WeberNathan Wesselowski +Hazel Wheaton Rebecca Whitney +Alyssa Wilda Ben Wilda Jessica Wirth

+ Denotes Section Leader

Piano ISteven Ayers is a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees as well as a Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University. He attended the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and began work on his doctoral degree at UW-Madison. Ayers has taught at Lawrence Academy of Music in Appleton and Indiana University. He has been on the faculty of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music since 2005. Ayers currently serves as company pianist with the Milwaukee Ballet. He is also a certified public accountant and currently works part-time in tax preparation. Ayers will soon complete a series of recitals presenting all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas.

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MILWAUKEE CHA MBER ORCHESTR A c o n t.

Ellen Shuler holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Montana State University and a Master of Music Education with Choral Emphasis from Florida State University. In September 2009, Shuler helped establish the Bel Canto Boy Choirs. The choirs, composed of more than 25 audi-tioned boys, perform choral repertoire from classical to modern. Their first four seasons included concerts with Bel Canto Chorus, the Chorknaben Utersen, Vocal Arts Academy, and Midwest Vocal Express. Currently in their fifth anniversary season, the choirs were praised by music critic Elaine

Schmidt (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as being “well-trained, nicely blended, [and] disciplined.”

Prior to leading the Bel Canto Boy Choirs, Shuler was a director of the Milwaukee Children’s Choir for seven years, directing the first level premier choir, as well as the beginning and training choirs. She worked as the assistant director and accompanist of the Bozeman Children’s Choir in Montana, as well as for Bozeman’s Mastodon Productions, singing jingles for area businesses and back-up vocals for local artists. While in Montana, she was a member of the Bozeman Intermountain Opera Company. Shuler taught choral and general music in Idaho, Colorado, and New Hampshire, as well as pre-primary music and movement classes in Colorado and New Hampshire. She worked for several years as a choral music editor at Hal Leonard Corporation, where she was a contributing author to the Macmillan McGraw-Hill mu-sic education series, “Spotlight on Music” and “Music Express” magazine. Shuler was recently selected to be the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Children’s Choirs for the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association.

In addition to her position with Bel Canto Chorus, Shuler works at the University School of Mil-waukee, where she directs the Upper School Concert Choir and Swing Choir, is music director of theatrical productions in both the Middle and Upper Schools, and teaches the pre-primary general music classes. She also directs the youth choirs at Mequon United Methodist Church and maintains a voice and piano studio in Mequon, WI.

ELLEN SHULER , BEL CANTO BOY CHOIRS D IRECTOR

Piano IIStefanie Jacob made her solo debut with the Boston Pops at age 17 and her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1984. An avid chamber musician, she was twice awarded second prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and was awarded Indiana University’s Leo Weiner Prize for Chamber Music. Jacob has performed as a soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra and the Waukesha and Manitowoc Symphonies, and has recorded for the Arundax, CRI, Fleur de Son and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music labels. A graduate of Harvard and Indiana Universities, Jacob taught at the University of Tampa from 1985 to 1987, and since then at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, where she is the founding pianist of the resident Prometheus Trio.

TimpaniTerry Smirl

PercussionVictoria DanielNicolas Lange

Colin O’DayCarl Storniolo

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BEL CANTO BOY CHOIRS

Kai BartlBrody Drews Kevin EberleSawyer EstenTeddy EstenMichael Feist

Dylan GarzaPeter GarzaNicholas HightdutisJoshua HodgeSam LaferriereBjorn Larson

Louis MillerConnor O’BrienAJ PaeaLeo PaeaEthan ShulerPhilip Shuler

Trevor SmithAidan TrederJoey WieberschMichael WieberschJordan Yoon-Buck

Natalie AdamsAlex AldenMaria ArmaniousEvan BagwellCindy BianCedric BlackLeslie CamposMaya CamposMaria CourchaneShaylin CrosbyCatherine DingGrace Anne EllisContessa Ganske

Mattie GerhardtZoe GulbronsonAbigail HannaErik Hansen CardonaGabrielle HauserJanice JonesKasey KarakisSarah LeeMeghan LongMax LuksichMackenzie McEvoyLily MillerChandler Murphy

Annika MuyresNadia NainesAnne O’KrayEmily O’KrayBella SchiekAlanna SingletonGabrielle SweeneyMicki UsamaEmily WangAden WeisserAkili Wynn-Beavers

MILWAUKEE CHILDREN ’S CHOIR

MILWAUKEE CHILDREN ’S CHOIR RES IDENT CHOIR

Milwaukee Children’s Choir is Southeastern Wisconsin’s premier children’s choir. Established in 1994, the Choir’s mission is to provide children, ages 4-18, with exceptional choral music instruction and performance experiences that foster creativity, personal expression and social growth.

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary season, the Choir maintains a collaborative relationship with area schools while also supporting music educators through clinics and workshops. In 2013, led by Artistic Director Marco Melendez, the Choir produced the 1st Annual Milwaukee Choral Conference. This intensive choral workshop for choral conductors, choral music educators, and aspiring music educators was created to explore solutions for promoting and preserving the choral arts today and for future generations.

A proud member of the United Performing Arts Fund, Milwaukee Children’s Choir frequently collaborates with area groups including Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, and others.

To schedule an audition, contact the Choir at membership@MilwaukeeChildrensChoir.org, 414.221.7040, or www.MilwaukeeChildrensChoir.org.

Steven Joyal, Associate Music Director

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UWM PERCUSS ION ENSEMBLE

SOLOISTS

Carl Storniolo, Music Director, guides undergraduate and graduate percussion students through a curriculum that addresses a variety of instruments, techniques, and music genres. The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee percussion program provides students with a diverse education through private instruction, ensembles, and percussion coursework. The Percussion Curriculum guides students towards becoming versatile performers capable of playing a variety of percussion instruments in specific musical styles.

Nick KalenakThomas Killian

Liz ParsonsBob Schaab

Matt Silverberg

Sarah Richardson, soprano, is currently working toward her D.M.A. degree in vocal performance at UW-Madison, where she is a student of Paul Rowe. A native of Antigo, Wisconsin, Richardson holds a Master of Music degree from UW-Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Music degree from Viterbo University. Credits include the roles of Phyllis Iolanthe, Eurydice Orpheus in the Under-world, Laetitia The Old Maid and the Thief, Madame Goldentrill The Impresario and Queen of the Night The Magic Flute. She has achieved numerous awards including winner of the Bel Canto Chorus 2013 Regional Artists Competition, first place in the Wisconsin NATS auditions, second place in the Schubert Club

Competition, and an Encouragement Award at the Wisconsin MET Auditions. Actively perform-ing and teaching in the Milwaukee area, Richardson has been featured with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Ensemble Musical Offering, Milwaukee Choral Artists, Kalliope Vocal Arts, and the East Side Chamber Players.

Andrew Wilkowske, baritone, has been described as one of the most versatile performers on the stage today. His recent performance of La Rocca in Verdi’s King For a Day at Glimmerglass Festival was called “superb” by the New York Times and “[he] brought impressive command to the text” according to the Wall Street Journal. Recent engagements include Guns N’ Rosenkavalier, a rock recital with Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Glimmerglass Festival, a project he created with composer John Glover; Mr. Gedge Albert Herring with Florentine Opera; Guglielmo Così fan tutte with Intermountain Opera Bozeman; Sharpless Madama Butterfly with Minnesota Opera; Tonio I Pagliacci with Mill

City Summer Opera; Belcore L’Elisir D’Amore with Utah Opera; Carmina Burana with the Minnesota Orchestra; and Emperor Overall The Emperor of Atlantis with Boston Lyric Opera. Active on the musical theatre stage, Wilkowske’s performance in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris was called “chilling” and “deeply moving” by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and his performance in the world premiere of Sleeping Beauty with the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati earned him a nomination for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award.

Tenor Robert Breault enjoys an international career that features an extraordi-nary breadth of repertoire. His warm, flexible voice and superb artistic sensibil-ities combine to make him a consummate singing actor. Opera News noted, “Besides a ductile tenor that allows him to negotiate a full dynamic span, from silvery head tone to ringing forte, even within a single phrase, Breault offers truly superb diction.” Opera News also praised him for making “an excellent impression, his mellifluous tenor boasting clarity of both tone and diction; clearly reveling in high notes, he sang with notable dynamic variety.”

Performance highlights for this dynamic tenor include: Narraboth in Salome, Beethoven’s Sym-phony No. 9, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Creation and Bach’s St. John Passion, Cavaradossi in Tosca, the Duke in Rigoletto, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Gluck’s Ezio, and Britten’s Les Illuminations. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Breault received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan in 1991 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. Norbert College. He was also one of the first winners of Bel Canto’s Region Artist Contest. Breault serves as Professor of Music and Director of Opera at the University of Utah.

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PROGR A M NOTES BY SUSAN CHA MBERLIN SMITH c o n t.

Image of the Wheel of Fortune from the first page of the 13th century manuscript Carmina Burana

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CAR MINA BUR ANA TEXT

FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI

1. O FORTUNA O Fortuna, velut Luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!

2. FORTUNE PLANGO VULNERA Fortune plango vulnera stillantibus ocellis, quod sua michi munera subtrahit rebellis. Verum est, quod legitur fronte capillata, sed plerumque sequitur Occasio calvata. In Fortune solio sederam elatus, prosperitatis vario flore coronatus; quicquid enim florui felix et beatus, nunc a summo corruigloria privatus.

Fortune rota volvitur: descendo minoratus,alter in altum tollitur; nimis exaltatus rex sedet in vertice caveat ruinam! Nam sub axe legimus Hecubam reginam.

FORTUNE EMPRESS OF THE WORLD

1. O FORTUNE O Fortune, like the moon ever changing, rising first, then declining;hateful life, treats us badly, then with kindnessmaking sport with our desirescausing power and poverty aliketo melt like ice. Dread destiny and empty fate, an ever turning wheel, who make adversity, and fickle healthalike turn to nothing, in the dark and secretlyyou work against me; how through your trickery my naked back is turned to you unarmed. Good fortune and strength now are turned from me, affection and defeat, are always on duty. Come now, pluck the strings; without delay, and since by Fate the strong are overthrown, weep ye all with me!

2. I LAMENT THE WOUNDS THAT FORTUNE DEALSI lament the wounds that Fortune dealswith tear-filled eyes, for returning to the attack she takes her gifts from me. It is true, as they say,the well-thatched pate may soonest lose its hair. Once on Fortune’s throne I sat exalted, crowned with a wreatheof Prosperity’s flowers; but from my happy flower-decked paradise, I was struck downand stripped of all my glory.

The wheel of Fortune turns: dishonored I fall from grace. and another is raised on high; raised to over dizzy heights of power the king sits in majesty but let him beware his downfall! For ‘neath the axle of Fortune’s wheel behold Queen Hecuba.

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I. PRIMO VERE 3. VERIS LETA FACIES Veris leta facies mundo propinatur, hiemalis acies victa iam fugatur, in vestitu vario Flora principatur, nemorum dulcisono que cantu celebratur. Ah! Flore fusus gremio Phoebus novo more risum dat, hoc vario iam stipate flore. Zephyrus nectareo spirans in odore; certatim pro bravio curramus in amore. Ah! Cytharizat cantico dulcis Philomena, flore rident vario prata iam serena, salit cetus avium silve per amena, chorus promit virginum iam gaudia millena. Ah!

4. OMNIA SOL TEMPERAT Omnia sol temperat purus et subtilis, novo mundo reserat facies Aprilis, ad Amorem properat animus herilis, et iocundis imperat deus puerilis. Rerum tanta novitas in solemni vere et veris auctoritas iubet nos gaudere; vias prebet solitas, et in tuo vere fides est et probitas tuum retinere. Ama me fideliter! fidem meam nota: de corde totaliter et ex mente tota sum presentialiter absens in remota. Quisquis amat taliter, volvitur in rota.

I. SPRINGTIME

3. THE MERRY FACE OF SPRING The joyous face of spring is presented to the world, winter’s army is conquered and put to flight, in colorful dress Flora is arrayed, and the woods are sweet with birdsong in her praise. Ah!

Reclining in Flora’s lap Phoebus again laughs merrily, covered with many colored flowers.Zephyr breathes around the scented fragrance; eagerly striving for the prizelet us compete in love. Ah! Trilling her song sweet Philomel is heard, and smiling with flowers the peaceful meadows lie, a flock of wild birds rises from the woods, the chorus of maidens brings a thousand joys. Ah!

4. ALL THINGS ARE TEMPERED All things are tempered by the sun so pure and fine, in a new world are revealed the beauties of April, to thoughts of love the mind of man is turned, and in pleasure’s hauntsthe youthful god holds sway. Nature’s great renewal in solemn spring and spring’s example bid us rejoice; they charge us to keep to well-worn paths, and in your springtime there is virtue and honestyin being constant to your lover. Love me truly! remember my constancy: with all my heart and all my mind, I am with you even when far away. Whoever knows such love,knows the torture of the wheel.

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5. ECCE GRATUM Ecce gratum et optatum Ver reducit gaudia, purpuratum floret partum Sol serenat omnia; Iamiam cedant tristia! Estas redit, nunc recedit Hyemis sevitia. Ah! Iam liquescit et decrescit grando, nix et cetera, bruma fugit, et iam sugit,Ver Estatis ubera; illi mens est misera,qui nec vivit,nec lascivitsub Estatis dextera.

UF DEM ANGER

6. TANZGloriantur et letantur in melle dulcedinis qui conantur, ut utantur premio Cupidinis; simus iussu Cypridis gloriantes et letantes pares esse Paridis. Ah!

7. FLORET SILVA Floret silva nobilis floribus et foliis. Ubi est antiquus meus amicus? Ah!hinc equitavit, eia, quis me amabit? Ah! Floret silva undique, nah mime gesellen ist mir wê. Gruonet der walt allenthalben, wâ ist min geselle alse lange? Ah! der ist geriten hinnen, owî, wer sol mich minnen? Ah!

8. CHRAMER, GIP DIE VARWE MIR Chramer, gip die varwe mir, die min wengel roete, da mit ich die jungen man an ir dank der minnenliebe noete.

Seht mich an, jungen man! lat mich iu gevallen!

Minnet, tugentliche man, minnecliche frouwen! minne tuot iu hoch gemuot unde lat iuch in hohen eren schouwen.

Seht mich an…

5. BEHOLD THE WELCOME Behold the welcome long-awaited spring which brings back pleasure, and with crimson flowers adorns the fields.The sun brings peace to all around; Away with sadness! Summer returns, and now departs cruel winter. Ah! Melt away and disappear hail, ice, and snow, the mists flee, and spring is fedat summer’s breast; wretched is the manwho neither livesnor lustsunder summer’s spell.

ON THE GREEN

6. DANCE They taste delight and honeyed sweetness who strive for and gainCupid’s reward; let us submit to Venus’s rule and joyful and proudbe equal to Paris. Ah!

7. THE NOBLE WOODS ARE BURGEONING The noble forest is decked with flowers and leaves.Where is my old,my long-lost lover? Ah!he rode away on his horse.alas, who will love me now? Ah! The forest all around is in flower,I long for my lover. The forest all around is in flower,whence is my lover gone? Ah! he rode away on his horse,alas, who will love me now? Ah!

8. SALESMAN, GIVE ME COLORED PAINT Salesman, give me colored paintto paint my cheeks so crimson red, that I may make these bold young men whether they will or no, to love me.

Look at me, young men all! Am I not well pleasing?

Love, all you right-thinking men, women worthy to be loved! love shall raise your spirits high and put a spring into your step.

Look at me, etc.

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Wol dir Werlt, daz du bist also freudenriche! ich will dir sin undertan durch din liebe immer sicherliche.

Seht mich an…

9. REIE SWAZ HIE GAT UMBESwaz hie gat umbe, daz sint allez megede, die wellent an man alle disen sumer gan. Ah! Sla!

CHUME, CHUM, GESELLE MINChume, chum, geselle min, ih enbite harte din. Suzer rosenvarwer munt, chum un mache mich gesunt. 10. WERE DIU WERLT ALLE MIN Were diu werlt alle min von dem mere unze an den Rin, des wolt ih mih darben, daz diu chünegin von Engellant lege an minen armen. Hei!

II. IN TABERNA 11. ESTUANS INTERIUS Estuans interius ira vehementi in amaritudine loquor mee menti: factus de materia, cinis elementi similis sum folio, de quo ludunt venti.

Cum sit enim proprium viro sapienti supra petram ponere sedem fundamenti, stultus ego comparor fluvio labenti, sub eodem tramite nunquam permanenti.

Feror ego veluti sine nauta navis, ut per vias aeris, vaga fertur avis; non me tenent vincula, non me tenent clavis, quero mihi similes et adiungor pravis. Mihi cordis gravitas res videtur gravis; iocus est amabilis dulciorque favis; quicquid Venus imperat, labor est suavis,que nunquam in cordibus habitat ignavis. Via lata gradior more iuventutis, inplicor et vitiis immemor virtutis, voluptatis avidus magis quam salutis, mortuus in anima curam gero cutis.

Hail to thee, O world that art, in joy so rich and plenteous! I will be ever in thy debt surely for thy goodness’s sake!

Look at me, etc.

9. ROUND DANCE

THEY WHO HERE GO DANCING ROUNDThey who here go dancing round, are young maidens all,who will go without a man this whole summer long. Ah! Sla! COME, COME, DEAR HEART OF MINECome, come, dear heart of mine, I so long have waited for thee. Sweetest rosy-colored mouth, come and make me well again.

10. IF THE WHOLE WORLD WERE BUT MINE If the whole world were but mine from the sea right to the Rhine, gladly I’d pass it by if the Queen of England fairin my arms did lie. Hey!

II. IN THE TAVERN

11. SEETHING INSIDE Seething inside with boiling rage, in bitterness I talk to myself: made of matter, risen from dust, I am like a leaf tossed in play by the winds.

But whereas it befits a wise manto build his house on a rock, I, poor fool, am a meandering river never keeping to the same path.

I drift along like a pilotless ship, or like an aimless bird,carried at random through the air; no chains hold me captive, no lock holds me fast, I am looking for those like me and I join the depraved. The burdens of the heart seem to weigh me down; jesting is pleasant and sweeter than the honeycomb; whatever Venus commands is pleasant toil, she never dwells in craven hearts. On the broad path I wend my way as is youth’s wont, I am caught up in vice, and forgetful of virtue, caring more for voluptuous pleasure than for my health, dead in spirit, I think only of my skin.

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12. OLIM LACUS COLUERAM Olim lacus colueram, olim pulcher extiteram, dum cignus ego fueram. Miser, miser! modo niger et ustus fortiter! Girat, regirat garcifer; me rogus urit fortiter: propinat me nunc dapifer. Miser, miser! etc.

Nunc in scutella iaceo, et volitare nequeo, dentes frendentes video:

Miser, miser! etc.

13. EGO SUM ABBAS Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis et consilium meum est cum bibulis, et in secta Decii voluntas mea est, et qui mane me quesierit in taberna, post vesperam nudus egredietur, et sic denudatus veste clamabit: Wafna! Wafna! quid fecisti sors turpissima? Nostre vite gaudia abstulisti omnia! Haha!

14. IN TABERNA QUANDO SUMUS In taberna quando sumus, non curamus quid sit humus, sed ad ludum properamus, cui semper insudamus. Quid agatur in taberna, ubi nummus est pincerna, hoc est opus ut queratur, si quid loquar, audiatur.

Quidam ludunt, quidam bibunt, quidam indiscrete vivunt. Sed in ludo qui morantur, ex his quidam denudantur, quidam ibi vestiuntur, quidam saccis induuntur. Ibi nullus timet mortem, sed pro Baccho mittunt sortem.

12. ONCE IN LAKES I MADE MY HOME Once In lakes I made my home, once I dwelt in beauty that was when I was a swan. Alas, poor me! now I am black and roasted to a turn!

On the spit I turn and turn; the fire roasts me through; now I am presented at the feast.

Alas, poor me! etc. Now in a serving dish I lie, and can no longer fly, gnashing teeth confront me: Alas, poor me! etc.

13. I AM THE ABBOTI am the abbot of Cucany and I like to drink with my friends, I belong from choice to the order of Decius, and whoever meets me in the morning at the tavern, by evening has lost his clothes, and thus stripped of his clothes cries out: Wafna! Wafna! what has thou done, O wicked Fate? All the pleasures of this life thus to take away! Haha!

14. WHEN WE ARE IN THE TAVERN When we are in the tavern, we spare no thought for the grave,but rush to the gambling tables, where we always sweat and strain. What goes on in the tavern, where a coin gets you a drink, if this is what you would know, then listen to what I say.

Some men gamble, some men drink, some indulge in indiscretions. But of those who stay to gamble, some lose their clothes, some win new clothes, while others put on sackcloth. There no one is afraid of death, but for Bacchus play at games of chance.

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Primo pro nummata vini ex hac bibunt libertini: semel bibunt pro captivis, post hec bibunt ter pro vivis, quater pro Christianis cunctis, quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis, sexies pro sororibus vanis, septies pro militibus silvanis.

Octies pro fratribus perversis, nonies pro monachis dispersis, decies pro navigantibus, undecies pro discordantibus, duodecies pro penitentibus, tredecies pro iter angentibus. Tam pro papa quam pro regebibunt omnes sine lege.

Bibit hera, bibit herus, bibit miles, bibit clerus, bibit ille, bibit illa, bibit servus cum ancilla, bibit velox, bibit piger, bibit albus, bibit niger, bibit constans, bibit vagus, bibit rudis, bibit magus.

Bibit pauper et egrotus, bibit exul et ignotus, bibit puer, bibit canus, bibit presul et decanus, bibit soror, bibit frater, bibit anus, bibit mater, bibit iste, bibit ille, bibunt centum, bibunt mille.

Parum sexcente nummate durant cum immoderate bibunt omnes sine meta, quamvis bibant mente leta, sic nos rodunt omnes gentes et sic erimus egentes. Qui nos rodunt confundantur et cum iustis non scribantur.

Io, io, io!

First the dice are thrown for wine; this the libertines drink. once they drink to prisoners, then three times to the living, four times to all Christians, five to the faithful departed, six times to the dissolute sisters, seven to the bush-rangers.

Eight times to delinquent brothers, nine to the dispersed monks, ten times to the navigators, eleven to those at war, twelve to the penitent, thirteen to travelers. They drink to the pope and king alike,all drink without restraint.

The mistress drinks, the master drinks, the soldier drinks, the man of God, this man drinks, this woman drinks, the manservant with the serving maid, the quick man drinks, the sluggard drinks, the white man and the black man drink, the steady man drinks, the wanderer drinks, the simpleton drinks, the wise man drinks.

The poor man drinks, the sick man drinks, the exile drinks, and the unknown, the boy drinks, the old man drinks, the bishop drinks, and the deacon, sister drinks and brother drinks, the old crone drinks, the mother drinks, this one drinks, that one drinks, a hundred drink, a thousand drink.

Six hundred coins are not enough when all these drink too muchand without restraint, although they drink cheerfully, many people censure usand we will always be short of money. May our critics be confoundedand never be numbered among the just.

Io, io, io!

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III. COUR D’AMOURS

15. AMOR VOLAT UNDIQUE Amor volat undique, captus est libidine. Iuvenes, iuvencule coniunguntur merito. Siqua sine socio, caret omni gaudio, tenet noctis infima sub intimo cordis in custodia:fit res amarissima.

16. DIES, NOX ET OMNIA Dies, nox et omnia michi sunt contraria, virginum colloquia me fay planszer, oy suvenz suspirer, plu me fay temer.

O sodales, ludite, vos qui scitis dicite, michi mesto parcite, grand ey dolur, attamen consulite per voster honur. Tua pulchra facies, me fey planszer milies, pectus habet glacies, a remender statim vivus fierem per un baser.

17. STETIT PUELLA Stetit puella rufa tunica; si quis eam tetigit, tunica crepuit. Eia. Stetit puella, tamquam rosula; facie splenduit, os eius floruit. Eia.

18. CIRCA MEA PECTORA Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria de tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere. Ah!

Manda liet, manda liet, min geselle chumet niet. Tui lucent oculi sicut solis radii, sicut splendor fulguris lucem donat tenebris. Ah!

Manda liet, etc. Vellet deus, vellent dii, quod mente proposui: ut eius virginea reserassem vincula. Ah! Manda liet, etc.

III. THE COURTS OF LOVE

15. LOVE FLIES EVERYWHERE Love flies everywhere, and is seized by desire. Young men and women are matched together. If a girl lacks a partner she misses all the fun, in the depths of her heartis darkest night:it is a bitter fate.

16. DAY, NIGHT, AND ALL THE WORLD Day, night, and all the world are against me, the sound of maidens’ voices makes me weep, I often hear sighing, And it makes me more afraid.

O friends, be merry,say what you will, but have mercy on me, a sad man, for great is my sorrow, yet give me counselfor the sake of your honor. Your lovely face, makes me weep a thousand tears, because your heart is of ice,but I would be restored at once to life by one single kiss.

17. THERE STOOD A YOUNG GIRL There stood a young girl in a red tunic; if anyone touched her, the tunic rustled. Heigho! There stood a girl fair as a rose: her face was radiant, her mouth like a flower. Heigho!

18. MY BREASTMy breast is filled with sighing for your loveliness, and I suffer grievously. Ah! Manda liet, manda liet, my sweetheart comes not. Your eyes shine like sunlight, like the splendor of lightning in the night. Ah!

Manda liet, etc. May God grant, may the gods permit the plan I have in my mind: to undo the bonds of her virginity. Ah! Manda liet, etc

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19. SIE PUER CUM PUELLULA Sie puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula, felix coniunctio. Amore sucrescente, pariter e medio avulso procul tedio, fit ludus ineffabilis membris, lacertis, labiis.

20. VENI, VENI, VENIAS Veni, veni, venias, ne me mori facias, hyrca, hyrce, nazaza, trillirivos! Pulchra tibi facies, oculorum acies, capillorum series, o quam clara species!

Rosa rubicundior, lilio candidior, omnibus formosior, semper in te glorior!

21. IN TRUTINA In trutina mentis dubia fluctuant contraria lascivus amor et pudicitia. Sed eligo quod video, collum iugo prebeo; ad iugum tamen suave transeo.

22. TEMPUS EST IOCUNDUM Tempus est iocundum, o virgines, modo congaudete vos iuvenes.

Oh, oh, oh! totus floreo, iam amore virginali totus ardeo!novus, novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!

Mea me confortat promissio, mea me deportat negatio.

Oh, oh, oh! etc.

Tempore brumali vir patiens, animo vernali lasciviens.

Oh, oh, oh! etc. Mea mecum ludit virginitas, mea me detrudit simplicitas.

Oh, oh, oh! etc. Veni domicella, cum gaudio, veni, veni, pulchra, iam pereo.

Oh, oh, oh! etc.

19. IF A BOY AND A GIRL If a boy and a girl linger together, happy is their union. Increasing love, leaves tediousgood sense far behind, and inexpressible pleasure fills their limbs, their arms, their lips.

20. COME, COME, PRAY COME Come, come, pray come, do not let me die, hyrca, hyrce, nazaza, trillirivos! Lovely is your face, the glance of your eyes, the braids of your hair, oh, how beautiful you are! Redder than the rose, whiter than the lily, comelier than all the rest, always I shall glory in you!

21. IN THE SCALES In the scales of my wavering indecision, physical love and chastity are weighed. But I choose what I see, I bow my head in submission; and take on the yoke which is after all sweet.

22. PLEASANT IS THE SEASONPleasant is the season, o maidens, now rejoice together young men!

Oh, oh, oh! I blossom now with pure love! I am on fire! This love is new, is new, of which I perish!

My love brings me comfort when she promises,but makes me distraught with her refusal.

Oh! oh! oh! etc. In wintertime the man is lazy, in spring he will act gaily.

Oh! oh! oh! etc. My chastity teases me, but my innocence holds me back.

Oh, oh, oh! etc.

Come, my darling, come with joy, come with beauty, for already I die!

Oh! oh! oh! etc.

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23. DULCISSIMEDulcissime, Ah! totam tibi subdo me!

BLANZIFLOR ET HELENA

24. AVE FORMOSISSIMA Ave formosissima, gemma pretiosa, ave decus virginum, virgo gloriosa, ave mundi luminar, ave mundi rosa, Blanziflor et Helena, Venus generosa!

FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI 25. O FORTUNA O Fortuna, velut Luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!

23. SWEETEST BOY Sweetest boy! Ah! I give my all to you!

BLANZIFLOR AND HELENA

24. HAIL TO THEE Hail to thee, most lovely, most precious jewel, hail, pride of virgins, most glorious virgin, hail, light of the world,hail, rose of the world, Blanziflor and Helena, Noble Venus, hail!

FORTUNE EMPRESS OF THE WORLD

25. O FORTUNE O Fortune, like the moon ever changing, rising first, then declining;hateful life, treats us badly, then with kindnessmaking sport with our desirescausing power and poverty aliketo melt like ice. Dread destiny and empty fate, an ever turning wheel, who make adversity, and fickle healthalike turn to nothing, in the dark and secretlyyou work against me; how through your trickery my naked back is turned to you unarmed. Good fortune and strength now are turned from me, affection and defeat, are always on duty. Come now, pluck the strings; without delay, and since by Fate the strong are overthrown, weep ye all with me!

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BEL CANTO CHORUS’ ENDOWMENT FUND

BEL CANTO LEGACY SOCIET Y

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Members of the Bel Canto Legacy Society have agreed to include the Chorus as part oftheir estate planning arrangements. You may join them by contacting the Bel Cantooffice (414) 481-8801.

Sally D. Hoyt & Vaughn Ausman Margaret E. HaggertyKerry Saver

Joanna & Chris SmockeJames Steinman

Roseann & David TolanLouis Winter

CORPOR ATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT (1/1/13 -2 /15 /14)

$100,000+United Performing Arts Fund

$20,000-$50,000Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation

$5,000 - $10,000CAMPACHerzfeld FoundationHydrite ChemicalNicholas Family FoundationBert L. and Patricia S. Steigleder

Charitable Trust

$1,000 - $4,999San Camillo Senior Living

CommunityT. Rowe Price Program for Charitable

Giving; Justus F. and Barbara J. Paul Fund

Uihlein Charitable FoundationWilliam Stark Jones Foundation c/o

Lambert Law LLC

$250 - $999Becker, Hickey & Poster, S.C.Kasdorf Family Charitable TrustHerbert Kohl Charities, Inc.Miller Coors

Matching Gift CompaniesGE FoundationNorthwestern Mutual FoundationPNC Foundation Matching Gift

ProgramRockwell AutomationWe Energies Foundation

INDIV IDUAL SUPPORT (1/1/ 2013 – 2 /15 / 2014)

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LoRayne Kostecke

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Jones

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Forte $250 - $499Paul BerlinDon CarlsonRandy CaseyNan & Dick ConserKay & John CrichtonPatricia & Phil CrumpSusan & Dennis DayeJanice B. DodsonPatrick ForanLouise Hedrick*

Bel Canto Chorus wishes to thank these friends for their generous support. Please consider adding your name to this list.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (1/1/ 2013 – 2 /15 / 2014) c o n t.

Sue & Doug HecklerChristine & James HillNina M. JonesKieth KlempHelga LarsenBarbara & Patrick Lyons in memory

of Tim LyonsKathy & Mike PratscherConnie PukaiteSue Martin-Steiner & Tony SteinerKay & Joseph Tierney IIIRoseann & David TolanMichael WaltonBetsey & Earnest Williamson

Mezzo Forte $100 - $249Deborah BetsworthEvert BosDanielle BrinkmanSusan BrownJillian Hansen BrussKaren BubenzerAnnette ByrneSally & Michael ChierSandra ChristensenRobert ChristieJames CieslakLynne Ausman & David CrollErikajoy & John Daniels IIICindy & Brian DearingHelen & Paul DexterPatricia DonohoeTyler DraheimJohn DunnElaine ErnstLeona Fitzsimonds*Patricia FoleyJanet & Stanley FoxAnn FritschDawn & Tom GaglianoWilliam HoppenjanKathleen & Tyrrell HughesDolores KallenbergerSusan & Donald KieferMichael KingAdeline & Harvey KohnKelly & Jeff KonkolCharmaine & James LaBellePeter LarsonAnn & DeWayne LemkeLynne & Thomas LindemannSandie LofteJoseph LoukotkaMavis LutherErin LyonsRichard & Nell MaceMeridee MaynardCarol Lynne McKean in memory of

Mary Louise TammiDavid McKoneEdith MoravcsikKatherine & Oliver MossMary Ann MuellerMary & Patrick MurphyJoanne Nevins

Hanna NeumannMaribeth & Chet NielsenDeborah & Jamshed Patel Mira & Ivo Pecina in memory of

James PlunketAlexandra & Richard PieperDiane Lane & Bob Pipes in honor of

Carol & Jim CouttsMary Pollock*Richard ProtzmannJoseph PukacKay RichardsonDarin RigglemanGail SchambowLaura SchloesserSarah & Joseph SchwabIsolde Schwegler *Arleen SjobergMary SmiltneekJack SpoonerRachel & Scott SteeleJessica & Andy StenzJudy & James StoddardJean M. & Peter StorerSheila StrockLora & Gregg SunderRalph SzablewskiRonald TabbertKen TazelaarHolly Von Estorff*Judy & Richard WagnerPat WarcholJames Ward *Adrienne & Robert WebbCarl WegeRebecca & Steve Whitney in memory

of Betty WegeMichelle & Brad WilkinsVirginia Wirth

Friend to $99AnonymousJoan AnsinkRuth ArmendainzCatherine BallewBlanche BanerianSandra & Michael BeilChristina & Adam BergerJohn BolgerJames BrennanMary BykowskiSallyanne & Michael ChierRuth DanbyMarcella Egges in memory of

Elaine KennedyRosemary FischerChristine FitchJoanne ForanRobert FrischKarri Fritz-KlausJanice & John GardettoFr. David H. Gau, S.J.Michael GayCraig GebauerSandy Grivett

Virginia HalaskaRobert HallfeldMarilyn HartmannBernadette HillDan HolzmillerMary HorneJune Hoyt in honor of Sally HoytJoanne IhlingMary JaeckleCarole JezekRichard JohnsonMarjorie JothenJohn JumpKatie KaminskyEmily & Kevin KaneMary & Jerry KarthauserSuzanne KenyonTerri KuhlmannJulie & Steve KundaPenny LaferriereLindsay & Timothy LammTiffany LangeAngela LeeDebbie & Randy LeRoyJohn LettermannAnne LewandowskiLoretta & John LieskeSarah & Todd LundquistGail MeilingerIone MinsterMary Moscisker in honor of Fr.

Robert Betz’s 40th Anniversary to the Priesthood

Lynn O’GormanLinda Rehorst-Paea & Sioeli PaeaKimberly PalusChristine PapousekDennis PelzekJohn ReinardyMarian RoeglinLois RomagnaSusan RozemaKathleen & Tim SchilzMargaret SchumannLinda Schumann-SuminskiJohn ShierMary SmithJulita SnellBinette SolomonGlen StavensJean & Stuart SteinSonja SullivanPatricia VicenziAriana VoigtBeth Ann WaiteElizabeth WesselRobert WesselMary Beth WhalenBrenda Smith White & Wesley WhiteColleen WilsonPeggy Wipplinger

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