Bel Canto Chorus Requiem - Gloria

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FROM THE BOARD PRES IDENT

As current Board President, I am honored to be part of the leadership of Milwaukees premier choral organization: Bel Canto Chorus. As part of its mission, Bel Canto is dedicated to music education, collaboration with other performing arts groups, and advocating for emerging artists. Now in its 83rd year, Bel Canto continues to be a commanding presence in the Milwaukee arts community, and I am proud of the direction in which we are heading.

I am excited that this year we will be expanding our collaborative efforts in the community in a season we are calling Works with Friends. Bel Canto continues to build on the strong tradition of live choral music, and with new Executive Director Nina M. Jones, a dedicated staff, and over 100 passionate and committed singers, this promises to be one of our best seasons yet.

Through the support of your attendance, your financial contributions, and yourcommitment to exceptional choral music, this organization will continue to grow and thrive. Thank you for joining me in supporting the magic that is BelCanto Chorus.

Martin Tierney Board President

WELCOME FROM R ICHARD HYNSON

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Bel Cantos first concert of the 2013-14 season! With this concert, we launch a season-long exploration of collaborations that we have called Works with Friends. Our first musical partner, the inimitable Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, will join us in performing two twentieth-century French masterpieces: Maurice Durufls Requiem and Francis Poulencs Gloria. While both pieces feature sacred texts, they were written as concert pieces to reach a broader, ecumenical audience. Durufl and Poulenc knew each other, and their music reflects the turbulent times of Europe during the Cold War era.

If you enjoyed tonights performance, we hope that you will join us for upcoming concerts. On December 14/15, we will present our popular Christmas at the Basilica concerts. As always, we will be joined by the Bel Canto Boy Choirs and Stained Glass Brass to perform holiday music that you know and love, with some brand new surprises to keep things interesting. On March 9, the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra will join us to present two compelling works: James MacMillans Seven Last Words from the Cross and Morten Lauridsens Lux Aeterna. This music is gripping, passionate, and sublime. On May 21, Bel Canto and the Boy Choirs will be joined by members of the Milwaukee Childrens Chorus to perform Carl Orffs iconic Carmina Burana.

Please mark your calendars and join us as we play Works with Friends.

We hope to see you there.

Richard Hynson Music Director

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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 nations 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 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 groups 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 [email protected].

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 commu-nity 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, Ral C. Galvn, 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 Elna Hickson ............................................................................................... Boy Choirs/Senior Singers Accompanist

Executive Director ....................................................................................................................................... Nina M. JonesEducation and Outreach Manager ..................................................................................................Rebecca WhitneyMarketing and Patron Manager ...................................................................................................................Jim 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

R ICHARD HYNSON

RICHARD HYNSON,Music Director/ConductorThis season marks Richard Hynsons 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, Hynsons 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 Williamss 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 Americas 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 Brahmss Requiem with LEnsemble 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 Hynsons In the Midst of Life, composed in response to the events of September 11. Most notably, they presented it in New York Citys Avery Fisher Hall for the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association.

Under Hynsons 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 Mozarts Requiem and Samuel Barbers 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 Hynsons 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.


BEL CANTO ROSTER

Lotta AlajokiVaughn AusmanKevin Bailey+Jonathon BartosRenee BartosKelly BartyczakCarol BayneJan BeckerSara Louise BitnerCarolAnne BozosiSusan BrownMarc CohenPeter CraigSue DAlessioRachel M. DeesElaine ErnstChristine G. FitchChelsey FoscatoEmily FoxNaomi FritzKarri Fritz-KlausJanet GibeauJim GingeryAndrea S. Goetzinger+Eileen GriffithsLynn GutoskiBrett HaniskoKeith HeidmannJoan HenkelJames HillCraig HoffmannGlenna Kate HolsteinDan R. HolzmillerJeanne HouleRonald HouleSally D. HoytKatherine HughesKathleen Hughes+Michelle Hynson+Dorothea Janisch+

Susi KieferKieth KlempJessi A. KolbergKyle KolbergRussell KopitzkeSteven KundaErin LaabsJonathan A. Laabs+James LaBelle+Penny LaferriereLindsay LammSandra Lash+Angela LeeJohn W. Lettermann+Loretta Jelinek LieskeK. David LupardusBarbara L. LyonsPatrick C. LyonsChris Martin+Kristin McGowanCarol Lynne McKeanDavid MeyersTheodore Perlick MolinariJeff NestaSarah Pabbathi+Marjorie P. PiechowskiAlexandra PieperBryan PreviteNicholas Scott Pullen+Debbie RakestrawJohn ReinardyBetty ReulDavid ReulKay RichardsonShira RichardsonKerry SaverKathleen SchilzKate SchmittAllison SchnierGlenn R. Schumann

Sarah SchwabMarcia SchwagerBrian J. SchwanzSusan Chamberlin SmithWilliam R. Smith+Binette SolomonErin StammPhilip StarrEric SteinJoan StevensJames D. StoutSheila StrockAmanda SullivanLora SunderJonathan SzczepaniakKen TazelaarKim TerekMary ThieleTom ThieleVeronica ThomasKristin TrautThomas TrederFausta UrbonieneBernadette VitolaSarah WarranJennifer W. WatsonNathan Wesselowski+Hazel WheatonRebecca Whitney+Alyssa WildaBen WildaJessica Wirth

+ Denotes Section Leader

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, under the dynamic leadership of Music Director Edo de Waart, has embarked upon a new era of artistic excellence and critical acclaim. Now in his fifth year with the MSO, Maestro de Waart has led sold-out concerts, elicited rave reviews, and conducted an acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall on May 11, 2012, in the Spring for Music festival.

Since its inception in 1959, the MSO has become one of the finest orchestras in the na-tion. The MSOs 83 full-time professional musicians perform over 130 classics, pops, fam-ily, and education concerts each season in venues throughout the state. A cornerstone of Milwaukees arts community, the MSO provides enrichment and education activities for audiences of every age, economic status, and background.

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MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ROSTER

EDO DE WAARTMusic Director Polly and Bill Van Dyke Music Director Chair

FRANCESCO LECCE-CHONGAssociate Conductor

ANDREAS DELFS Conductor Laureate

LEE ERICKSONChorus DirectorMargaret Hawkins Chorus Director Chair

TIMOTHY J. BENSONAssistant Chorus Director

FIRST VIOLINSFrank Almond, Concertmaster Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair Ilana Setapen, Associate Concertmaster Jeanyi Kim, Associate Concertmaster Third Chair Karen SmithAnne de Vroome Kamerling, Associate Concertmaster Emeritus Michael GiacobassiPeter VickeryDylana LeungYuka KadotaLynn HornerZhan ShuAndrea WagonerMargot SchwartzDavid Anderson

SECOND VIOLINSJennifer Startt, Principal

Woodrow and Andrea Leung Principal Second Violin Chair

Timothy Klabunde, Assistant PrincipalTaik-ki KimLisa Johnson FullerShirley RosinAlexander Ayers Paul MehlenbeckJanice HintzLes KalkhofGlenn AschMary TerranovaLaurie Shawger

VIOLASRobert Levine, Principal Richard O. and Judith A. Wagner Family Principal Viola ChairWei-Ting Kuo, Assistant Principal Friends of Janet F. Ruggeri Viola ChairNathan HackettSara HarmelinkLarry SorensonErin H. PipalNorma ZehnerDavid TaggartHelen Reich

CELLOSSusan Babini, Principal Dorothea C. Mayer Cello ChairScott Tisdel, Associate PrincipalPeter SzczepanekGregory MathewsPeter J. ThomasElizabeth TumaLaura LoveMargaret WunschAdrien ZitounKathleen Collisson

BASSESZachary Cohen, Principal Donald B. Abert Bass ChairAndrew Raciti, Assistant PrincipalRip PrtatLaura SnyderCatherine McGinnScott KregerRoger Ruggeri

HARPDanis Kelly, Principal Walter Schroeder Harp Chair

FLUTESSonora Slocum, Principal Margaret and Roy Butter Flute Chair Jeani Foster, Assistant PrincipalJennifer Bouton Schaub

PICCOLOJennifer Bouton Schaub

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ROSTER c o n t.

OBOES Katherine Young Steele, Principal

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League Oboe Chair

Martin Woltman, Assistant Principal EmeritusMargaret Butler, Acting Assistant Principal

ENGLISH HORNMargaret Butler, Acting Philip and Beatrice Blank English Horn Chair in memoriam to John Martin

CLARINETSTodd Levy, Principal Franklyn Esenberg Clarinet ChairKyle Knox, Assistant Principal Donald and Ruth P. Taylor Assistant Principal Clarinet Chair William Helmers

E FLAT CLARINETKyle Knox

BASS CLARINETWilliam Helmers

BASSOONSTheodore Soluri, Principal Muriel C. and John D. Silbar Family Bassoon Chair Rudi Heinrich, Assistant PrincipalBeth W. Giacobassi

CONTRABASSOONBeth W. Giacobassi

HORNSMatthew Annin, Principal Krause Family French Horn ChairKrystof Pipal, Associate PrincipalDietrich Hemann Andy Nunemaker French Horn ChairDarcy HamlinJoshua Phillips

TRUMPETSPrincipal

Walter L. Robb Family Trumpet ChairDavid Cohen, Associate Principal** Martin J. Krebs Associate Principal

Trumpet Chair Alan Campbell Fred Fuller Trumpet Chair

TROMBONESMegumi Kanda, Principal Marjorie Tiefenthaler Trombone ChairKirk Ferguson

BASS TROMBONEJohn Thevenet

TUBARandall Montgomery, Principal

TIMPANIDean Borghesani, PrincipalThomas Wetzel, Associate Principal

PERCUSSIONThomas Wetzel, PrincipalRobert Klieger, Assistant Principal

PIANOWilanna Kalkhof Melitta S. Pick Endowed Chair

PERSONNEL MANAGERSLinda UnkeferRip Prtat, Assistant

LIBRARIANPatrick McGinn, Principal Librarian Anonymous Donor, Principal Librarian Chair

STAGE & TECHNICAL MANAGERKyle Remington Norris

** Acting member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 2013.14 Season


KEVIN BAILEY

Kevin Bailey is the Director of Worship and Music at Fox Point Lutheran Church, where he is organist and choir director. He is a graduate of Augustana College (IL) and Indiana University, and is an alumus of Westminster Choir Colleges summer conducting institute. His principal teachers for organ have been Tom Robin Harris and Christopher Young, and he studied church music and improvisation with Marilyn Keiser. He has accompanied and conducted choirs at

Anderson University (IN) and served as choir director and organist at several churches in Indiana before moving to Milwaukee in 2003.Bailey remains active outside the church as an accompanist and continuo performer throughout the Milwaukee area, performing with such groups as the Master Singers of Milwaukee, The Wisconsin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bel Canto Chorus, and the Milwaukee Chamber Choir.

GER ARD SUNDBERG

For nearly a decade, Gerard Sundberg has captivated audiences with his performances of Handels Messiahwith the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.Recent performances include theSt. John Passionconducted by John Nelson in Paris at the Notre Dame Cathedral.He has appeared as soloist with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, and with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Shaw.Sundberg maintains an impressive presence in the Chicago area, frequently appearing as soloist with the West Suburban

Choral Union.He also has sung extensively with the Oregon Bach Festival under the artistic leadership of Helmuth Rilling, who praises Sundberg for his exceptionally stunning high range and perfect command of the German language and high musicality.Previous performances with Bel Canto include Brahmss Ein deutsches Requiem, Handels Messiah, FinzisRequiem da Camera, and Mozarts Requiem. Sundberg is a graduate of Bethel College (St. Paul, MN), and holds both Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Minnesota where he studied voice with Clifton Ware and Roy Schuessler.He is presently Professor of Voice at Wheaton Conservatory of Music (Wheaton, IL).

NICOLE WARNER

REBECCA WHITNEY

Mezzo-soprano Nicole Warner is best known for the chocolate richness of her voice and the unforgettable emotional engagement she shares with the audience. Warner last sang with the Bel Canto Chorus for the 9.11.11 United We Stand concert in Cathedral Square Park.

With skills spanning a wide variety of genres and languages, Warner was the first singer ever to present the entire Vietnamese language song-cycle Spring Reverberations by composer Tin Cung. Her first

commercial recordings, Fly With Me, Maybe So, and Siana were released on iTunes and CDBaby in 2010.

Other performances include Pergolesis Stabat Mater with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Fairy #2 solo in Mendelssohns Midsummer Nights Dream with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hans Graf; Handels Messiah; Bachs Christmas Oratorio, Mendelssohns Paulus, and Mozarts Requiem.

Visit www.nicolewarner.com for up-to-date concert listings and a free mp3 download.

Rebecca Whitney received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Vocal Music Education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has performed as a soloist with numerous groups in Southeastern Wisconsin, singing works such as Handels Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Haydns The Creation, Mozarts Vesperae solennes de confessore and Coronation Mass, Faurs Requiem, Richard Hynsons Evensong, and works by Bach, Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams, and John Rutter. Whitney joined Bel Canto Chorus as a soprano section

leader in 2005, the same year she was named a finalist in the Bel Canto Regional Artists Competition. She also currently serves as Bel Cantos Education and Outreach Manager. Whitney was honored to appear as the soprano soloist in Mozarts Requiem for Bel Cantos 9.11.11 United We Stand concert in Cathedral Square Park, which was viewed by tens of thousands via Wisconsin Public Television. In June of 2013, she traveled to France with Bel Canto Chorus International as the soprano soloist in Brahmss Ein deutsches Requiem.

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Richard Hynson, Music Director/Conductorpresents

Requiem Maurice Durufl Gloria Francis Poulenc

featuringMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Music Director

Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 7:30 PMChrist King Parish

Requiem Maurice Durufl1. Introit (1902 1986)2. Kyrie3. Domine Jesu Christe4. Sanctus5. Pie Jesu6. Agnus Dei7. Lux aeterna8. Libera me9. In Paradisum

Kevin Bailey, OrganGerard Sundberg, Baritone

Nicole Warner, Mezzo-soprano

IntermissionGloria Francis Poulenc

1. Gloria (1899 1963)2. Laudamus te3. Domine Deus4. Domine fili unigenite 5. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei 6. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

Rebecca Whitney, Soprano

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Naxos, Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available on iTunes and at www.mso.org.

MSO Binaural recordings (digital only) available at www.mso.org.Steinway is the official piano of the MSO.

Please note: there is no video recording or flash photography allowed during the concert.

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with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts


DURUFL REQUIEM TEXT AND TR ANSL ATION

1. IntroitRequiem aeternamdona eis, Domine,et lux perpetua luceat eis.Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion,et tibi reddeturvotum in Jerusalem;exaudi orationem meam,ad te omnis caro veniet.Requiem aeternamdona eis, Domine,et lux perpetua luceat eis.

2. KyrieKyrie eleison.Christe eleison.Kyrie eleison.

3. Domine Jesu ChristeDomine Jesu Christe, rex gloriae,libera animas omnium fideliumdefunctorum de poenis inferniet de profundo lacu.Libera eas de ore leonis,ne absorbeat eas tartarus,ne cadant in obscurum. Sed signifer sanctus Michaelrepraesentet easin lucem sanctam,quam olim Abrahae promisistiet semini ejus.Hostias et preces tibi, Domine,laudis offerimus.Tu suscipe pro animabus illis,quarum hodiememoriam facimus;fac eas, Domine,de morte transire ad vitamquam olim Abrahae promisistiet semini ejus.

4. SanctusSanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.Pleni sunt coeliet terra gloria tua.Hosanna in excelsis!Benedictus, qui venitin nomine Domini.Hosanna in excelsis!

5. Pie JesuPie Jesu Domine,dona eis requiem sempiternam.

1.Eternal restgive to them, O Lord,and let perpetual light shine upon them.A hymn, O God, becometh Thee in Zion,and a vow shall be paid to Theein Jerusalem;O Lord, hear my prayer,all flesh shall come to Thee.Eternal restgive to them, O Lord,and let perpetual light shine upon them.

2.Lord have mercy on us,Christ have mercy on us.Lord have mercy on us.

3.O Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,deliver the souls of all the faithfuldeparted from the pains of helland from the deep pit.Deliver them from the lions mouth,that hell engulf them not,nor they fall into darkness. But that Michael,the holy standardbearer,bring them into the holy light,which Thou once didst promiseto Abraham and his seed.We offer Thee, O Lord,sacrifices and prayers of praise.Do Thou accept themfor those soulswhom we this day commemorate;grant them, O Lord,to pass from death to the lifewhich Thou once didst promiseto Abraham and his seed.

4.Holy, Lord God of hosts.The heavens and the earthare full of Thy glory.Hosanna in the highest!Blessed is He Who comethin the name of the Lord.Hosanna in the highest!

5.Gentle Lord Jesus,grant them eternal rest.

DURUFL REQUIEM TEXT AND TR ANSL ATION c o n t.

6. Agnus DeiAgnus Dei, qui tollispeccata mundi,dona eis requiem sempiternam.

7. Lux aeternaLux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,quia pius es.Requiem aeternamdona eis, Domine,et lux perpetua luceat eis.

8. Libera meLibera me, Domine,de morte aeterna,in die illa tremenda,quando coelimovendi sunt et terra,dum veneris judicaresaeculum per ignem.Tremens factus sum ego et timeodum discussio veneritatque ventura ira,quando coelimovendi sunt et terra.Dies illa, dies irae,calamitatis et miseriae,dies magnaet amara valde.Requiem aeternamdona eis, Domine,et lux perpetua luceat eis.Libera me, Domine,de morte aeterna,in die illa tremenda,quando coelimovendi sunt et terra,dum veneris judicaresaeculum per ignem.

9. In ParadisumIn Paradisumdeducant te Angeli in tuo,adventu suscipiant te martyrset perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus Angelorum te suscipiatet cum Lazaro quondam paupereaeternam habeas requiem.

6.Lamb of God, Who takest awaythe sins of the world,grant them eternal rest.

7.May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord,with Thy saints forever,for Thou art kind.Eternal restgive to them, O Lord,and let perpetual light shine upon them.

8.Deliver me, O Lord,from eternal deathon that dreadful daywhen the heavensand the earth shall be moved,and Thou shalt cometo judge the world by fire.I quake with fear and I trembleawaiting the day of accountand the wrath to come,when the heavensand the earth shall be moved.Day of mourning, day of wrath,of calamity, of misery,the great day,and most bitter.Eternal restgive to them, O Lord,and let perpetual light shine upon them.Deliver me, O Lord,from eternal deathon that dreadful daywhen the heavensand the earth shall be moved,and Thou shalt cometo judge the world by fire. 9. May the angelsreceive them in Paradise,at thy coming may the martyrs receive theeand bring thee into the holy city Jerusalem. There may the chorus of angels receive thee,and with Lazarus, once a beggar,may thou have eternal rest.


POULENC GLORIA TEXT AND TR ANSL ATION

1. GloriaGloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

2. Laudamus teLaudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi Propter magnam gloriam tuam.

3. Domine DeusDomine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens, Gloria.

4. Domine fili unigeniteDomine Fili unigenite Jesu Christe. Domine Deus unigenite Jesu Christe.

5. Domine Deus, Agnus DeiDomine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris,Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi, Suscipe deprecationem nostram.

6. Qui sedes ad dexteram PatrisQui sedes ad dexteram Patris, Miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dominus. Tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris, Amen.

Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill towards men.

We praise Thee. We bless Thee. We worship Thee. We glorify Thee. We give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory.

O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty, Glory.

O Lord, the only begotten son, Jesus Christ. O Lord God, the only begotten son, Jesus Christ.

O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. O Lord God, heavenly King, Who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.

Thou that sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy. Thou only art the Lord. Thou only, O Jesu Christ, art most high. With the Holy Spirit, in the glory of the Father,Amen.

PROGR A M NOTES

He was not an innovator but a traditionalist. At a time when Alain and Messiaen broke all preconceived ideas, Durufl evolved and amplified the old traditions, making them his own. -Marie-Claire Alain

Maurice Durufl (January 11, 1902 June 16, 1986), who grew up in the small town of Louviers in northern France, became a chorister in the Rouen Cathedral Choir School at the age of ten, where he was introduced to liturgical music, including Gregorian chant. In 1919, he moved to Paris to study organ with Charles Tournemire in order to prepare for the entrance exams for the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, which required improvisation on Gregorian chant themes. Durufl became Tournemires assistant at Basilique Ste-Clotilde and many years later recalled how that great

organist instilled in him an appreciation for the use of chant:

PROGR A M NOTES c o n t.

Tournemire never played from a prepared score at Sunday Mass; the book of Gregorian chant was always on the music rack open at the liturgical office of the day. He improvised the entire Low Mass That meant a full half-hour of music. I hasten to add that this half-hour of music was always inspired by the Gregorian themes appropriate to the day and reflected the successive portions of the service. It was not a concert, but a genuine musical commentary on the liturgy.

A year later Durufl entered the Conservatoire, winning first prizes in organ, harmony, piano accompaniment, and composition. In 1927, he became the assistant of Louis Vierne at Notre Dame, and was at the side of his mentor and friend when Vierne died at the console of the Notre-Dame organ on June 2, 1937. Durufl served as organist of St-tienne-du-Mont in Paris from 1929 until his death in 1986. However, after both his legs were broken in a 1975 car accident, he no longer performed, and it was his wife Marie-Madeleine who actually played the services in the later years. In 1939, Durufl premiered Francis Poulencs organ concerto (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor), having previously advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part.

Durufl was highly critical of his own compositions, which may explain why there are only fourteen published opus numbers attributed to him. He once said in an interview, I work slowly, and I throw a lot away. In fact, the manuscript for his first opus, Triptych (1926) for piano, is marked in large red letters, Not to be published.

On May 16, 1941, Durufl was commissioned by the Vichy regime, established after Germany defeated France in 1940, to compose a symphonic poem, for which he would be paid 10,000 francs, an amount considered to be adequate to cover expenses for the period of six to twelve months necessary for such a composition. Durufl took six years to complete his work, the Requiem, Op.9, which is considered to be his greatest composition. The nine-movement Requiem was finished in September of 1947, and the first performance was broadcast to a national audience over French radio on November 2, 1947, on All Souls Day, the day on which the Roman Catholic Church prays for the dead in purgatory. Because the Vichy regime had been replaced by a new French government at the end of WWII, on January 21, 1948, Durufl submitted a certificate to the Administration des beaux-arts of the Fourth Republic, indicating that his Requiem fulfilled the commission granted to him in 1941. The government paid him 30,000 francs rather than the contracted 10,000 francs.

These program notes, written by Durufl for a 1980 performance of the Requiem under the direction of Elaine Chevalier, his wifes sister, give us great insight into the composers intentions for the work.

This Requiem is composed entirely on the Gregorian themes of the Mass for the Dead. Sometimes the musical text has been respected in full, the orchestra intervening only to sustain or to comment on it; sometimes I was simply inspired by it or sometimes removed myself from it altogether; for example, in certain developments suggested by the Latin text, namely in the Domine Jesu Christe, the Sanctus, and the Libera. Generally speaking, I tried to get the particular style of the Gregorian themes firmly set in my mind.

I also endeavored to reconcile as much as possible the Gregorian rhythm, as has been established by the Benedictines of Solesmes, with the demands of modern metrical notation. The rigidness of the latter, with its strong beats and weak beats recurring at regular intervals, is hardly compatible with the variety and fluidity of the Gregorian line, which is only a succession of rises and falls.



The strong beats had to lose their dominant character in order to take on the same intensity as the weak beats in such a way that the rhythmic Gregorian accent or the tonic Latin accent could be placed freely on any beat of our modern tempo

This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from earthly worries. It reflects, in the immutable form of the Christian prayer, the agony of man faced with the mystery of his ultimate end. It is often dramatic, or filled with resignation, or hope or terror, just as the words of the Scripture themselves which are used in the liturgy. It tends to translate human feelings before their terrifying, unexplainable or consoling destiny. This mass includes the nine parts of the Mass of the Dead: the Introit, Kyrie, Domine Jesu Christe, Sanctus, Pie Jesu, Agnus Dei, Lux aeterna, Libera me, and finally In Paradisum, the ultimate answer of Faith to all the questions, by the flight of the soul to Paradise.

Take Chabriers dominant sevenths, Ravels major sevenths, Faurs straight triads, Debussys minor sixths, Mussorgskys augmented fourths. Filter them, as Satie did, through the added-sixth chords of vaudeville blending a pint of Couperin with a quart of Stravinsky, and you get the harmony of Poulenc. -Ned Rorem, Opera News, 1977

Francis Poulenc (January 7, 1899 January 30, 1963) was born into a wealthy Parisian family and grew up in the city center, near the lyse palace. The huge pharmaceutical firm, Rhne-Poulenc, was founded by his grandfather and run by his father and uncle. His mother, a talented amateur pianist, began teaching him piano at age five. Poulenc later studied with Csar Francks niece and then with the Spanish virtuoso Ricardo Vies, who was a friend of Debussy and Ravel. He soon began to meet the artistic celebrities of the day, including Satie, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. The young Poulenc was enchanted with the music of both

Stravinsky and Satie, and at age 18, he dedicated his first work, Rapsodie ngre, for baritone and chamber ensemble, to Satie.

In 1920, Poulenc and five of his composer friends, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, and Louis Durey, were dubbed Les Six. Les Six made an impression on the music world, but the designation may have unfairly branded all the members as frivolous, cheeky followers of Jean Cocteau. Despite Poulencs early enthusiasm for the radical, rebellious composers of Paris, he was essentially a traditionalist. I am not the kind of musician who makes harmonic innovations, like Igor, Ravel, or Debussy, he said. There is a place for new music that is content with using other peoples chords.

When Poulenc began to study renaissance and early baroque counterpoint with Charles Koechlin in the 1920s, he became enchanted by the vertical structure of harmony. He later wrote:

Having soon sensed that, like many Latins, I was more a harmonist than a contrapuntist, he had me harmonize Bach chorale themes in four parts while I continued working on my contrapuntal exercises. This work, which fascinated me, had a decisive influence on me. It is due to these chorales that I acquired a feeling for choral music.


Poulencs most celebrated choral work, Gloria, was commissioned in 1959 by the Koussevitsky Foundation in honor of Sergei Koussevitzky and his wife Natalia, the namesakes of the foundation. It was premiered on January 21, 1961, one of Bostons snowiest days, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chorus Pro Musica under conductor Charles Mnch with soprano soloist Adele Addison, best known today as the singing voice of Bess in the 1959 film Porgy and Bess. In the beginning, a sacred work for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and an orchestra consisting of two flutes and two piccolos, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, harp, and strings was not what the Foundation had envisioned as their commission.. Just a year before his death, Poulenc told his audience at the Club des Trois Centres in Paris, First they asked me for a symphony. I told them I was not made for symphonies. Then they asked me for an organ concerto. I told them I had already written one and I didnt want to write another. Finally they said: All right, then do what you like!

Poulencs letters to his friend Pierre Bernac, from Bostons Sheraton Plaza Hotel in January 1961, indicate that the rehearsal process for the premiere was initially a shaky affair:

... as for the Gloria, if I had not come here, what peculiar music would have been heard! Dear, adorable, exquisite Charlie had understood precisely nothing ... Arriving late for the first rehearsal of the choir, I heard something so unlike me that my legs almost failed me on the staircase ... all those worthy Protestants were singing sharp and shrill (especially the women) as they do in London, with that Oh! My good Lord quality. All Mnchs tempi were wrongall too fast naturally ... I tell you, I wanted to run a mile.

Fortunately, things had changed by the final rehearsal two days later:

The rehearsal yesterday was extraordinary. Mnch suddenly inspired: as for [soprano soloist Adele] Addison, she drives you wild, she is sheer heaven, with that warm Negro purity... Everyone was full of enthusiasm ... The Gloria is without doubt the best thing I have done. The orchestration is marvelous (the ending, among other things, is astonishing) ... It has given me a confidence that I badly needed.

After the successful premiere performance, Poulenc was showered with accolades, including a kiss from actress Marlene Dietrich. The next morning the critic for the Boston Globe called the Gloria one of the French composers major scores and an exceedingly fine work. Likewise, the reviewer for the Boston Herald called it a major work, prominent in the career of a contemporary master and a significant addition to the repertory of twentieth-century music.

Some critics received the Gloria badly, however, saying it bordered on sacrilege. Poulenc retorted: While writing this composition I constantly had in mind those Gozzoli frescoes [in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence] with angels sticking out their tongues, and also some solemn-looking Benedictine monks I had once seen reveling in a game of football. Poulencs friend Claude Rostand described Poulenc as le moine et le voyou (the monk and the hooligan), and American composer Ned Rorem called him a whole man always interlocking soul and flesh, sacred and profane. That duality is at the heart of the ebullient and moving Gloria, written in Poulencs unique musical language, a combination of cathedral and Parisian caf, majesty and playfulness.

After completing his final choral work, Sept rpons des tnbres, shortly before his death, Poulenc said, With the Gloria and the Stabat Mater, I think I have three good religious works. May they spare me a few days of purgatory, if I do narrowly avoid going to hell.


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