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Celebrating Our 80th anniversary seasOn

Richard Hynson, Music Director

presents

Remembrance:Legacy of the Civil War

Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 3:00 pmChrist King Parish

featuring

Milwaukee Chamber OrchestraRichard Hynson, Conductor

Baptist College of Ministry Concert Chorale Daniel Van Gelderen, Director

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIS G. (BILL) SULLIVAN,REMEMBRANCE IS SPONSORED BY HIS FAMILY

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Festival Overture on the National Air ......................................................... Dudley Buck(1839-1909)

A Remembrance: A Musical Legacy of the American Civil War ............................Daniel J. Van Gelderen

(b. 1987)Mary Faith Williams, Soprano

Sarah Krawiec, AltoMicah Kagin, Tenor

Christopher Knobil, Bass

Intermission

An American Requiem ...................................................................................... Joseph Baber(b. 1937)

Prologue: RequiemPortents

I. John BrownII. Sumter

Conflict of Convictions: Battle LinesAftermath

I. VoicesII. Raven DaysIII. No More

Epilogue: Great Fields; New SoilSoloists, in order of appearance:

Michelle Hynson, SopranoAndrea Goetzinger, Mezzo-soprano

Rebecca Whitney, SopranoKathleen Hughes, Mezzo-soprano

Kerry Saver, Mezzo-sopranoErin Laabs, Soprano

Jonathan A. Laabs, BaritoneJonathon Bartos, Baritone

Marc Cohen, BaritoneTimothy W. Schmidt, Bass

This concert was sponsored in part by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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RICHARD HYNSON, Music Director/Conductor This season marks Richard Hynson’s 23rd season as Music Director of the Bel Canto Chorus and Orchestra. In addi-

tion, Hynson has served as Music Director of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra since 2006. In demand as a guest conductor, Hynson’s past engagements include per-formances with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Skylight Opera Theatre, and the Racine, Sheboygan, and Waukesha Symphony Or-chestras. Hynson has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he led a large national festival chorus and orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem. In the summer of 2008, Hynson conducted the string orchestra and chorus for the Prelude Music Academy summer camp in Madison. In 2009, he guest-conducted the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in one of their Concerts on the Square in Madison. He also has been the Music Director for Gathering on the Green, the popular outdoor music festival in Mequon, WI, for the past two summers.

Hynson and members of Bel Canto Chorus have performed internationally at the ac-claimed Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, at the Festivals of Troyes and Rheims in France, at the Llangollen Festival in Wales, and at the Elora and Huntsville Festivals in Canada. During Bel Canto’s most recent tour, Hynson and members of Bel Canto International, including singers from six states, performed to critical acclaim in Ireland. In addition to its annual concert season, the chorus is often called upon to participate in national touring performances. In July 2010, Bel Canto partici-pated in Star Wars in Concert; and in Novem-ber 2010, Bel Canto sang in the Video Games Live national touring concert. Bel Canto will perform with several orchestras in Argen-tina and Uruguay in the summer of 2011.

In addition to his work as a conductor and educator, Hynson is a composer. He has writ-ten a substantial body of published choral, vocal, and ensemble works, many of which he has recorded with Bel Canto Chorus sing-ers. 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. Music critic Elaine Schmidt (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 11, 2010) wrote, “The Bel Canto Chorus and music direc-tor Richard Hynson…gave a dynamic, polished performance [and] thoughtful, credible performances of the selections.”

DANIEL J. VAN GELDEREN, Baptist College of Ministry Concert Chorale Conductor Daniel J. Van Gelderen is an accomplished cellist, conductor, and compos-

er. In 2010, he graduated from Baptist College of Ministry with a double major in Bible and music, with an emphasis in conducting and composing. Only 23 years old, Van Gelderen has already composed and arranged more than 70 works for full orchestra, chamber orchestra, concert band, choir, men’s en-semble, string quartet, and brass ensemble. He regularly composes classical and sacred works for Falls Baptist Church, Baptist Col-lege of Ministry, and other organizations.

In addition to conducting vocal groups, he directs the Falls Baptist Church Orchestra and serves as the Director of Bands and Or-chestras for Falls Baptist Academy, a private school that utilizes music instruction as a core element in the development of students.As an instructor of music at his alma mater, Van Gelderen teaches classes in composing

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and conducting. He also maintains a cello studio offering private lessons. His work as an educator at the elementary, second-ary, and collegiate levels flows from his passion to use music as a tool to develop personal character and leadership skills in the lives of students. His ultimate goal in training musicians is to see them achieve excellence while learning how to use their skills to transform the lives of others.

BAPTIST COLLEGE OF MINISTRY CONCERT CHORALEConducted by Daniel J. Van Gelderen, the 35-voice concert chorale first assembled for the recording of a sacred music album in 2008. Comprised of students from ten states and one foreign country, the group regularly

performs for special events and recently recorded a Christmas album that was re-leased last year. They have been invited by Manhattan Concert Productions to perform at Carnegie Hall, and this spring they will tour several major cities on the east coast of the United States in addition to performing with the Bel Canto Chorus and the Milwau-kee Chamber Orchestra. A men’s group com-prised of members of the chorale has also performed for Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker’s inauguration. In recent years, the group has performed such pieces as Men-delssohn’s Elijah and Handel’s Messiah as part of the Baptist College of Ministry Choir.

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PROGR A M NOTES b y S u S a n ch a m b e r l i n S m i t h

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, DUDLEY BUCK (March 19, 1839 - October 6, 1909) was encouraged by his father to enter the family’s shipping business rather than follow his interest in music. However, when Buck took his first piano lessons at age sixteen, his rapid progress convinced his father to allow the boy to pursue a musical career. In 1858, Buck began his travels abroad to complete his formal education, choosing to study in Leipzig, Dresden and Paris. Buck returned to his native Hartford to become organist at the North Congregational Church and to begin touring as a concert organist, playing transcriptions of symphonic works, giving the first American performances of pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn, and introducing his own music.

Looking for a larger venue for his talents, Buck spent three years in Chicago as organist at St. James’s Episcopal Church. After the Great Fire of 1871 in which many of his manuscripts were lost, Buck returned to Boston, joining the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1875, he moved to New York to serve as assistant conductor of the Theodore Thomas Orches-tra. Two years later, Buck assumed the position of organist/choirmaster at Brooklyn’s Church of the Holy Trinity. In the same year, he began his tenure as founding director of the Brooklyn Apollo Club’s male chorus.

Buck’s sacred compositions include 4 cantatas, 55 anthems, and 20 sacred songs. He played a central role in the development of organ and choral music in the United States, writing the first American organ sonata and educational texts such as Illustrations in Choir Accompaniment with Hints on Registration (1877) and The Influence of the Organ in History (1882). Reportedly, his choral works, including his dozen secular cantatas, received more performances in America in the 1880s than any other composer’s music. In 1898, Buck was honored by election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Buck’s Festival Overture on the American National Air, The Star-Spangled Banner, began as a set of variations for organ in 1868 that was masterfully adapted for orchestra a decade later, in 1879. Although The Star-Spangled Banner was not officially established as the national anthem until 1931, Francis Scott Key’s patriotic words, sung to the popular 18th-century British melody, “Anacreon in Heaven,” were first performed on October 19, 1814, only a month after they were written. Buck’s overture, composed for Independence Day festivities, opens with an exuberant and stirring theme, followed by the national air as the second theme. Showing Buck’s confi-dence in orchestral scoring, the work is propelled toward its rousing climax by a compelling rhythmic drive. Adept at programming, Buck provided for an optional chorus at the conclusion. In a letter to his son dated July 7, 1891, he writes of a performance: “They also played my ‘Star Spangled Banner Overture.’ According to the wish of Vander Stucken [conductor Frank Vander Stucken] I have added a coda after the fermata in the orch. So that the song was sung 3 times – 1st verse 100 voices, 2nd verse 500 voices, 3rd verse like in the original score by 3000 and the public.”

JOSEPH BABER, born in 1937 in Richmond, Virginia, began com-posing at an early age. A graduate of Michigan State University and the Eastman School of Music, Baber spent a number of years in Japan as principal violist with the Tokyo Philharmonic. After returning to this country, he took a position at Southern Illinois University, followed by a year as composer-in-residence for a Ford Foundation College co-operative venture in Kansas. He assumed his present position as composer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1972.

Although he has written in all the major genres, Baber is perhaps best known for his collaborations with the novelist John Gardner on three operas, Frankenstein, Rumpelstiltskin, and Samson and the Witch.

In addition to operas, Baber has composed almost 200 songs and a sizable body of orchestral music, including overtures, suites,

symphonies, marches and tone poems. He has also written works for solo instruments with orchestra, as well as keyboard, chamber and choral music.

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Joseph Baber has been an award-winning member of ASCAP since 1971, and has received a number of national prizes and commissions. Baber, who is principal viola of the Lexington Philharmonic, has received several commissions from that orchestra.

Baber’s song cycle for tenor, horn and piano, Shiloh, Op. 60, based on the Civil War poems of Melville, led to the large work for chorus and orchestra entitled An American Requiem, Op. 80. This work, based on Civil War diaries and poems, was commissioned by The Lexington Singers, who sang the premiere performance in November 1999. A second performance with the Lex-ington Philharmonic followed in 2003. After the premiere, Lexington Herald-Leader critic, Car-men Geraci, noted that the work “surely brought forth spirits of the past. The intertwining texts from Civil War documents created a kaleidoscope of triumph and anguish.”

In his notes for the first performance, Baber described his process of working with words from diaries, letters, poems, and orations of the Civil War: “I have freely changed the order of phrases, dropped or repeated words, and made the tenses uniform within sections. Thus the beginning of a sentence, taken from a soldier’s account of a battle at Plymouth, N.C., is continued by another from Gettysburg and ended by yet another from Second Manassas. And without certain parts of speech, the phrases become indefinite, thereby more suitable to music’s necessary abstraction.”

Far from abstract, however, An American Requiem recalls that painful time when this country went to war with itself, and speaks of continued need for healing and the yearning for peace. Baber, a native of Richmond, the Confederate capital, notes, “Henry Timrod of Charleston opens and closes the Requiem, a courteous leaning toward the South in me from my Virginia heritage, growing out of a nostalgia shared by many on both sides in the days of the War. While shifting Timrod’s ‘Christmas’ lines around at the end of the Requiem, I stumbled on that inadvertent theme of the piece, present all along, of course. By placing ‘in a thousand fields’ out of order as the last line, the Epilogue, which had already begun with some of the words used at the dedication of the Gettysburg field as a National Cemetery, becomes a kind of hymn to the land, and echoes the lines of Whitman in the Prologue. I have let the poetry do the work of crossing boundaries, the southern ode speaking the requiem for both sides.”

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A Remembrance: A Musical Legacy of the American Civil Warby Daniel J. Van Gelderen

Lyrics taken from“The Blue and the Gray” by Francis Miles Finch;“Gettysburg” by Herman Melville and“The High Tide at Gettysburg” by Will Henry Thompson

By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment Day; Under the one, the Blue,Under the other, the Gray.

These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet:

Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, In the storm of the years that are fading No braver battle was won. He charged, and in that charge condensedHis all of hate and all of fire;He sought to blast us in his scorn,And wither us in his ire.

Before him went the shriek of shells,Aerial screamings, taunts and yells;Then the three waves in flashed advanceSurged, but were met, and back they set:Pride was repelled by sterner pride,And Right is a strong-hold yet.

They fell, who lifted up a handAnd bade the sun in heaven to stand!They smote and fell, who set the barsAgainst the progress of the stars,And stayed the march of Motherland!

They stood, who saw the future comeOn through the fight’s delirium;They smote and stood, who held the hopeOf nations on that slippery slope.

Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns!

Love rules. Her gentler purpose runs.A mighty mother turns in tearsThe pages of her battle years,Lamenting all her fallen sons!

No more shall the war cry sever,Or the winding rivers be red;They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead!

Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day, Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray.

An American Requiemby Joseph Baber, Op. 80

Prologue: Requiem 1867Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause. 1a

Line after line in stark conformity –The gravestones lend their names to the firmament,The wind stirs, the dead leaves fly, To the annual finality of death.

Meanwhile, behalf the tardy yearsWhich keep in trust your storied tombs,Behold! Your sisters bring their tears, And these memorial blooms. 1a

And what shall the pictures be that adorn the burial house?The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light,Manhattan’s spires, Ohio’s shores and the flashing Missouri,And ever the prairies, the prairies with grass and corn. 3a

Stoop, angels hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned! 1a

Portents I. John BrownHanging from the beam,Slowly swaying (such the law),Gaunt the shadow on your green,Shenandoah! 4a

It is a comfort to feel permitted to die for a cause.

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My whole life before had not afforded one half the opportunityTo plead for the right. 5

The cut is on the crown (Lo, John Brown),And the stabs shall heal no more.

Hidden in the cap Is the anguish none can draw;So your future veils its face, Shenandoah! 4a

I may be very insane, if insane at all.Insanity is like a pleasant dream to me.I am not conscious of my ravings, Of my fears. 5

But the streaming beard is shown(Weird John Brown),The meteor of the war. 4a

II. SumterCalm as that second summer which precedesThe first fall of the snow, 1b

The town in great excitement.Secession flags flying, Secession drums beating, Secession men hurrahing. 7a

In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds,The city bides the foe. 1b

Our beloved Kentucky is about to be engulfedIn the fearful strife. 7a

As yet, behind their ramparts stern and proud,Her bolted thunders sleep. 1b

We could hear the rumbling sound of heavy guns,And the distant tread of a marching army, The coming storm soon to break With the sound scarcely before heard on this earth.The archangel of Death looked on with outstretched wings. 8

Dark Sumter like a battlemented cloud,Looms o’er the solemn deep. 1b

Sarah, something whispers to me that I shall return.If I do not, my last breath shall whisper your name.If the dead come back to this earth unseenAround those they loved,I shall always be near you.

Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee. 6

The thunder cloud lifts up its awful voice in terrible majesty. 7b

Stars waning over head, far off the heavens red.Signal rockets pierce the night.Gunners hold their breath. Artillery massing on the right,Black squadrons wheeling down to death.

Conflict of Convictions: Battle LinesDrawn up in line,10 large brigades in front, advancing,Arms glittering in the sun,11 awaiting the enemy.10

Blinding, the sun beats down,12 choking, the clouds of dust.A hundred guns open upon us.They come, ten thousand strong and lithe. They fall like wheat before the scythe.Smoke fills our eyes. Bursting shells crash through the trees. 21

All day bombardment. 19 A solid line of blazing fire,12 sharp rattle of musketry. 19

Here a man suddenly lying still,There, another, all bloody, cursing and rising and starting for the surgeon. 22

“There’s the devil’s own fun, boys along the whole line.” 13a

In that confusion I knew not where I was. 17

My first thought was to run but run back I would not do,So there was nothing to do but stand and take what come. 21

Before us full of smoke and fire, swarming with horses,Riderless horses and fighting, fleeing, pursuing men. 15

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel. 23

Fire pours into our very faces, singeing hair and clothes,The hot blood of our dead and wounded, Above all the battle roar. 12

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat. 23

I threw myself down amidst the high grass.I could not see the balls that whistled

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close over me.I could see the timothy heads around me falling from their stem as if by magic,Falling apparently of themselves. 20

Morning comes after a night of terror. 19

“I am the rider of the wind. 17

The stone wall bristling with muskets, 22

The stirrer of the storm, 17

Stars and stripes fluttering, advancing with cheers, 11

The hurricane I left behind to be with lightning warmed.”17

The line of men, sweating, grimy, firing and loading and firing again. 22 Tho enemies, we cannot resist admiration. 11

Yea and nay, Each has his say;But God he keeps the middle way. 4b

By the light of powder flashes, during awful moments,We see the whole of both lines. 16

Bright lives going out like tapers in the wind. 18

None was by when he spread the sky; Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. 4b

Fighting on our right. 10 The woods between us. 18

The still trees in the heat, and the bullets whistling over. 22

Oh, to God it would stop. 10

AftermathI. VoicesClose the eyes on sights of horror. Shut the ears against sounds of anguish.But who shall describe the horrible atmosphere?The rifle pits, the dead horses, shattered windows, and stone walls all scattered.And many soldiers’ graves. 20

The church so lone, the log-built one. 4c

Wounded men were stretched on boards across the high-backed pews.These poor sufferers’ faces, white and drawn with pain,Were on a level with my own.I seemed to stand breast-high in a sea of anguish. 31

That echoed to many a parting groan

and natural prayer. 4c

There were the groaning and crying, the struggling and dying.

Before night the barn was filled with shattered and dying men crowded side by side. 26

Or dying foe –men mingled there. Foe-men at morn but friends at eve. 12

We found the union soldiers side by side with the rebels.I found Maine boys, many from Wisconsin and Minnesota,But the first was a young Mississippian.30

Fame or country least their care: 4c Three desperately wounded men begged for ice.Death is very busy on both sides. 30 (What like a bullet can undeceive!) 4c

There is no hope. Since Atlanta I have felt as if all were dead within me, forever.That agony is over. Atlanta is gone. Atlanta is gone. 38 No more, no more. 35

Upon the open fields like sheaves bound by the reaper,In crevices, behind fences, trees, buildings, in thickets, where they had crept for safety,By stream or wall or hedge, wherever their weakening steps could carry them, lay the dead. 33

Many thousands gone. 35

I am at a loss to know how any of us are left. The best blood of old Carolina has been shed and that freely. 34

Many thousands gone. 35

I think there never was such slaughter as we made. I could have walked a half mile on the dead and not put my feet on the ground. 27

When darkness was over us, the surgeons’ knives, busy by the flickering light of candles in the orchard in our front: Sorrow to hundreds of northern and southern homes. 18

Many thousands gone. 35

II. Raven DaysOur hearths have gone out, and our hearts are broken,

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And but the ghosts of homes to us remain,And ghostly eyes and hollow sighs give tokenFrom friend to friend of an unspoken pain. O Raven Days, dark Raven Days of sorrow,Bring to us some sign out of the far land of Tomorrow. 39

Disaster and gloom bourne upon every breeze,Suffering no tongue can describe.The history of this will not bear reflection.

Ye float in dusky files, with your dreary shade.Pale, in the dark, we lie in chains, too weak to be afraid.O Raven Days, dark Raven Days of sorrow. 39

Of many a face of the dead,Of many a face of anguish, Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide, I dream. Where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps, I dream. Long have they passed, faces and trenches and fields, But now of their forms at night, I dream. 30

O Raven Days, dark Raven Days of sorrow.

Will ever any warm light come again? Will ever the lit mountains of Tomorrow Begin to gleam across the mournful plain? 39

III. No moreDestruction has rivaled the earthquake, the whirlwind, The pestilence that walketh in darkness, and wasteth at noonday, 36

No more.Many thousands gone. 35

Planted agony at a million hearthstones, thronged our streets with the weeds of mourning,Filled our land with stumps of men, ridged our soil with rudely formed graves,Mantled it all over with the shadow of death. No more.For what is all this? 36 No more. 35

Can anybody want the answer? 36 There’ll be no more. Oh, no more.No more slavery chains for me,Many thousands gone. 35

Epilogue: Great Fields; New SoilIn great deeds something abides.On great fields something stays.Men and women from afar shall comeTo this deathless field, and lo!The shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, And the power of the vision pass into their souls. 44

Peace in the crowded town.Peace on the windswept down!Where the scholar thinks, the hunter roams. 1c

Sorrow treads on the footsteps of the nation’s joy. 42

This was the hand that knew to swing the axe.Thus would freedom train her son. 13b

God has seen fit to summon another.It is ours then to bow and let our chieftain go. 42

He knew to bide his time and can his fame abide.Our children shall behold the kindly foreseeing man,New birth of our new soil.

Peace in the quiet dales.Peace in the peopled vales!In our sheltered bays and ample streams,In the woodland, the lonely glen made fertile by the blood of men. 1c

Boom, cannon, boom to all the winds and waves!Clash out, glad bells, from every rocking steeple!My country! Ours once more!What were our lives without thee? What all the lives to save thee?What words can tell our love and make thee know?Ask whatever else and we will dare. 41

Peace, God of Peace! Peace in our hearts, in our homes,In the highway, in a thousand fields. 1c

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FOOTNOTES

1a Henry Timrod (1828-1867) from poem “Ode sung on the occasion of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead, at Magnolia Cemetery Charleston, S.C. 1867” 1b Henry Timrod (1828-1867) from poem “Charleston”1c Henry Timrod (1828-1867) from poem “Christmas”2 Baber, J. (1937-) from poem “In the Graveyard of the Late Dr. Tate”3a Walt Whitman (1819-1892) from poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”3b Walt Whitman (1819-1892) from poem “Old War-Dreams”4a Herman Melville (1819-1891) from poem “The Portent” 18594b Herman Melville (1819-1891) from poem “The Conflict of Convictions”4c Herman Melville (1819-1891) from poem “Shiloh” 18624d Herman Melville (1819-1891) from poem “Misgivings” (1860) (last three lines)5 John Brown: letter to his pastor, Dr. R. Tilden, Charles Town, Virginia, November 28, 18596 Major Sullivan Ballou, 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, Bull Run, July 14, 1861 (killed in battle)7 Ellen Kenton McGaughey Wallace, diarist and plantation owner, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 18, 18618 Private Sam R. Watkins, 1st Tennessee Infantry, Maney’s Brigade, Atlanta, June 27, 18649 Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) abridged from poem “Fredericksburg”10 Pvt. Joseph F. Kauffman, 10th Virginia Infantry, Taliaferro’s Brigade, Second Manassas, August 28, 186311 Pvt. Alexander Hunter, 17th Virginia Infantry, Corse’s Brigade, Second Manassas, August 30, 186312 Pvt. Sam R. Watkins, 1st Tennessee Infantry, Maney’s Brigade, Atlanta, June 27, 186413a Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) from poem “Kearny at Seven Pines” quoting Gen. Philip Kearny, Seven Pines, May 31, 186213b Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) from poem “The Hand of Lincoln”14 Last lines of anonymous poem describing the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, June 27, 186415 Lieutenant Porter Farley, 140th New York Infantry, Weed’s Brigade, Gettysburg, July 2, 186316 Major Rufus R. Dawes, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, Gibbon’s Brigade, Second Manassas August 28, 186217 Sgt. John V. Hadley, 7th Indiana Infantry, Thoburn’s Brigade, Second Manassas, August 30, 186218 Corporal Theron W. Haight, 24th New York Infantry, Hatch’s Brigade, Second Manassas, August 38, 186219 S. J. Gibson, 103rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, Plymouth N. C. April 19, 186420 Sgt. Edwin A Gearhart, 142nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Biddle’s Brigade, Gettysburg, July 1, 186321 Sgt. William H. Andrews, 1st Georgia Infantry, Anderson’s Brigade, Second Manassas, August 30, 186222 Captain Abner Small, 16th Maine Infantry, Paul’s Brigade, Gettysburg, July 1, 186323 Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) from poem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”24 Captain John E. Dooley, 1st Virginia Cavalry, Kemper’s Brigade, Northern Virginia, June 186325 Pvt. David J. Hill, 2nd Mississippi Infantry, Davis’ Brigade, Gettysburg, July 1, 186326 Adjutant Franklin A. Haskell, General John Gibbon’s staff, Second Manassas, August 30, 186227 Pvt. Andrew Park, 42nd Mississippi Infantry, Davis’ Brigade, Gettysburg, July 1, 186328 Tillie Pierce, resident of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 186329 Bushrod W. James, Volunteer Doctor, U.S. Christian Commission, Gettysburg, July, 186330 Emily Bliss Souder, Volunteer Nurse, U.S. Christian Commission, Gettysburg, July 15, 186331 Cornelia Hancock, Volunteer Nurse, Gettysburg, July 186332 Pvt. Day, Co. B. 25th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Roanoke Island, N.C. February 9, 186233 Corporal Thomas D. Marbaker, 11th New Jersey Infantry, Gettysburg, July 4, 186334 Pvt. Alexander McNeill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry, Kershaw’s Brigade, retreating from Gettysburg, July 7, 186335 American Spiritual36 Frederick Douglass, New York, N.Y. January 13, 1864 (New York Cooper Union address)37 Chaplain George W. Pepper, 80th Ohio Infantry, Raum’s Brigade, Atlanta, August 28, 186438 Mary Chestnut, diarist and plantation owner, Charleston, S.C. 39 Sidney Lanier (1842-1902) poem “The Raven Days”40 Bret Harte (1839-1902) from poem “John Burns of Gettysburg”41 James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) from “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration”42 Frances Watkins Harper (to William Still) Boston, April 15, 186543 Stonewall Jackson, dying, Guinea Station near Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 10, 186344 General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry at Gettysburg), October 3, 1889

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Leigh AkinJill AndersenVaughn AusmanTom BarnumJon BartosKelly BartyczakJan BeckerEloise BlackCarolAnne BozosiSusan BrownMarc CohenMichael J. ComiskeyPeter CraigElizabeth EversonChristine G. FitchAmanda FiorelliEmily FoxNaomi FritzJosefina Z. S. GardinierJanet GibeauAndrea S. Goetzinger+Sarah GramsEileen GriffithsLynn GutoskiBrett HaniskoCarrie F. HardelJoshua HartKeith HeidmannJoan HenkelCraig HoffmannDan HolzmillerJeanne HouleRonald HouleSally D. Hoyt

Katherine HughesKathleen Hughes+Michelle Hynson+Elizabeth JanicekKatie KaminskySusi KieferKieth KlempJessi A. KolbergKyle KolbergRussell Kopitzke+Erin Laabs+Jonathan A. Laabs+Penny LaferriereLindsay LammBrian J. LarsenHelga LarsenAngela LeeGary LeskoLoretta Jelinek LieskeK. David LupardusBarbara L. LyonsPatrick C. LyonsAmanda MatherJessica MorrisonErik OlsonCarol Osburn-McKeanSarah PabbathiLori Ann Pannier+Andrea PelloquinTJ Perlick-MolinariMarjorie PiechowskiAlexandra PieperJohn ReinardyBetty Reul

David ReulSusan RuggKerry SaverKathleen SchilzTimothy W. Schmidt+Kate SchmittGlenn SchumannTrinny SchumannFred SentmanCameron SmithSusan Chamberlin SmithWilliam R. Smith+Binette SolomonPhilip StarrJoan StevensJames D. StoutLora SunderKen TazelaarKim TerekMary ThieleTom ThieleCarolyn TramelKristin TrautTom TrederFausta UrbonieneNathan Wesselowski+Hazel WheatonRebecca Whitney+JoDee WickJennifer W. WilliamsonJessica WirthKaryn Gimbel Youso

+Denotes Section Leader

BAPTIST COLLEGE OF M IN ISTRY CONCERT CHOR ALE

Jacob Allen Abi BoslerJosh BudaKatie Chaney Sarah CondonAbigail DedicMicah Kagin Christopher KnobilAmber Knueppel Michelle KnueppelBethany Krawiec

Sarah KrawiecMichael Laredo Miriam Meyer Ariel MillsAnna Grace OvermillerRick Pardee Lisa ParkerRachel Patterson David Rains Paul RainsPhilip Rains

Emily RobertsTim Roberts Andrew Sikma Carly Smith Summer Smith Allyssa SwansonJosh Swanson Nathan SwansonJesse WilliamsMary Faith WilliamsD.J. Willis

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UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD:SUNG IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROJECTED ABOVE THE STAGE

MARCH 18-20, 2011 MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

DirecteD by William theisen

TICKETS START AT $30!For tickets: 414-291-5700 ext. 224

Production Sponsors: Mary Ann & Charles LaBahn

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www.FlorentineOpera.org

Florentine opera CompanyWilliam Florescu, General Director

by Gioacchino Rossini

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Board of DirectorsPresident ............................................................................................................................................ Sally D. HoytPast President ..........................................................................................................................Thomas BarnumSecretary ...............................................................................................................................................Tom ThieleTreasurer .............................................................................................................................................. Jim Hyland

Patrick Foran, Tom Gagliano, Merilou Gonzales, Betty Reul, Kerry Saver, Peter Storer, Martin Tierney, Ariana G. Voigt

Artistic StaffMusic Director/Conductor ................................................................................................... Richard HynsonAssistant Conductor/Accompanist ................................................................................. Michelle HynsonBoy Choir Director ........................................................................................................................... Ellen Shuler

Administrative StaffManaging Director ...........................................................................................................................Marla HahnDevelopment Director ........................................................................................................ Rebecca WhitneyPatron Services Manager ................................................................................................................ Bryce Lord

Chorus Cabinet Kelly Bartyczak, Jan Becker, CarolAnne Bozosi, Susi Kiefer, Dave Lupardus, Carol McKean, Marge Piechowski, Kerry Saver, Kathleen Schilz, Kate Schmitt, Jim Stout, Hazel Wheaton

BEL CANTO CHORUS ORGANIZATION

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

BEL CANTO CHORUS MISS ION STATEMENT

MILWAUKEE CHA MBER ORCHESTR A

FLUTEJudith OrmondJanice Bjorkman

PICCOLOScott Metlicka

OBOEMartin WoltmanPhilip Koch

ENGLISH HORNPhilip Koch

CLARINETWilliam HelmersAnna Najoom

BASSOONBeth GiacobassiLori Babinec

HORNKrystof PipalRichard TremarelloKristina CragoKathryn Krubsack

TRUMPETDonald SipeThomas SchlueterJennifer Atwater

TROMBONEDavid LussierJonathan WinkleMark Hoelscher

TUBADaniel Neesley

TIMPANIThomas Wetzel

PERCUSSIONPatrick McGinnTerry SmirlCarl Storniolo

VIOLIN 1Jeanyi Kim, ConcertmasterAlexander MandlEric SegnitzMargot SchwartzPeter VickeryDylana Leung

VIOLIN 2Michael GiacobassiGerald LoughneyPamela SimmonsCatherine BushNina SaitoElizabeth Warne

VIOLANathan HackettJamie HofmanAmanda KochOlga Tuzhilkov

CELLOScott TisdelGregory MathewsKathleen CollissonPeter Szczepanek

BASSCatherine McGinnAndrew Raciti

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Consider donating to the Bel Canto Chorus Endowment Fund, where your gift to choral music can be appreciated for years to come. Whether it is a gift of stock or a check, simply indicate that you would like your investment to go toward our Endowment Fund. For more information, contact the Bel Canto office at (414) 481-8801.

BEL CANTO CHORUS ENDOWMENT FUND

BEL CANTO LEGACY SOCIET Y

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

Vaughn Ausman and Sally D. HoytMargaret E. Haggerty

Kerry SaverChris and Joanna Smocke

James SteinmanDavid and Roseann Tolan

Louis Winter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bel Canto Chorus wishes to thank these friends for their generous support of our 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seasons. Please consider adding your name to this list.

Bravissimo ($5,000+)Vaughn Ausman and Sally

D. HoytLynde and Harry Bradley

FoundationHydrite ChemicalRichard and Michelle HynsonPatricia and Ray Mehler+Milwaukee County - CAMPACNicholas Family Foundation*Oconomowoc Area

Foundation’s Scherfiuss FundRiverbend FundBert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder

Charitable TrustGeorge B. Storer FoundationIreene SullivanUnited Performing Arts FundMrs. Harriette VickWisconsin Arts BoardBernard and Karyn Youso

Bravo ($1,000 - $4,999)Charles BarnumThomas & Carole BarnumJan and Robert BeckerJohn and Kay CrichtonBrian and Cindy DearingGardner FoundationJanet GibeauGreater Milwaukee

Foundation Dave and Roseann Tolan

FundRobert and Penny LaferriereSue and Gary LeskoJean and Hilton NealJoe and Katie PickartBetty and Dave Reul*San Camillo Senior Center*William Smith and Susan

Chamberlin Smith

Peter and Jean StorerThomas and Mary ThieleDavid and Julia Uihlein

Charitable FoundationOconomowoc Area

Foundation’s Richard R. and Karen

Bertrand Charitable Fund

Fortissimo ($500 - $999)Linda and Vincents DindzansSusan and Ralph HarkinsJohn W. Hayes, Sr.*Michael Hayes and Patricia

TeetsRudy MalzNorthwestern Mutual

FoundationSuzanne and Richard PieperConnie PukaiteKerry Saver*Katherine and Don SchwerinKay and Joseph Tierney IIIMartin and Janet TierneyWhyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.

Forte ($250 - $499)Julie AllensteinBlanche Banerian*Shari BensonRandy CaseySusan and Thomas ConnorDennis DayeMary Alice Tierney DunnTom and Dawn GaglianoJosefina GardinierEileen and Reese Griffiths*Bill and Libby HansenLouise and Robert HedrickKatherine HughesKathleen and Tyrrell HughesJim HylandBonnie and Kieth Klemp*

Herbert Kohl Charities, Inc.Helga and Gerald LarsenBarbara and Patrick Lyons+Mequon United Methodist

Outreach Team*Marjorie PiechowskiKathleen and Timothy SchilzMarcia and Jeff SchwagerFred SentmanBrenda Skelton*Judy and James StoddardKen TazelaarEarnest and Betsey WilliamsonBob WinterJessica Wirth+

Mezzo Forte ($100 - $249)Anonymous*Lynne Ausman and

David CrollRev. Joseph Biscoffi*Eloise BlackEvert BosCarolAnne BozosiDavid and Dawn BrightsmanSusan BrownAnnette Byrne*Sally and Mike Chier*Sandra Christensen*Michael and Ellen ComiskeyNan and Richard ConserEmily and Dean CrockerJohn CullenMary and Rich DavenportPeggy Dean*Rosemarie Deisinger*Patricia Donohoe*Kelsey ErdahlDeborah FeingoldRosemary Fischer*June Fisher*Joanne ForanAnn Fritsch*

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (c o n t.)

David GlobigThomas Goris, Northwestern

Mutual In Honor of Dave TolanSandy Grivett and John

SchwartzElna Hickson*William Hoppenjan*June Hoyt In honor of Sally Dean HoytEileen Kehoe*Tom KibbeSusan and Don KieferAdeline and Harvey KohnLindsay and Tim LammJeff and Mavis Luther*Dorothy Jane Martin*Sue Martin-Steiner and Tony

Steiner*+ In Memory of Jeannette

SteinerBarbara McCallumMegan McGovern+Mary Ann Mueller*Margaret Neis-Robertson*Betty NordahlDeborah and Jamshed PatelJayne PeltonRichard Pietsch*Jim and Gwen PlunkettMary Pollock*Marian Roeglin*Kathleen Rossie+Michael and Mary RyanTimothy SchmidtKate and Steve SchmittEllen and Dain ShulerBinette Solomon*David and Lydia SovinePatty and Brad Spaits*Ed and Elisabeth Stieg*Sheila Strock+Connie Sylvester*Richard TerlauTim and Nancy ThieleRoseann and David TolanGlen Van Fossen*Judy and Dick VogelAriana and Peter Voigt*Michael Walton and

Mary Schueller+Carl and Elizabeth WegeScott and Tina WeissWE Energies FoundationGail Zander+

Friend (to $99)Judith AndersonJean AngermeierTolly Arthur and Jim RutzDevin ArtleyAudrey BairdAnn BarnishBetsy BenesDeborah BetsworthPaul BonauitoLois and Bob BraznerPeter and Margaret BrowneCarl CheliusRobert Christie

Marc CohenBlanche and Eugene

ComiskeyJames CouttsPatricia and Phil CrumpRuth Danby*Christine Del ReSteve DubackDouglas and Geralyn

Dunning*Regina DunstMarcella Egges*Lori EshlemanChristine and Jim Fitch+Patrick ForanEdward FordConstance ForrestStanley and Janet Fox* In Honor of Emily FoxMark FridayStanley Gabik and Family+Wayne and Caryl Galler+Cindy Gallun* In honor of Jack Hayes’s

birthdayGary and Laura GardettoLouis Germanotta*John GerzelMadeleine and Kenneth

GimbelAndrea GoetzingerErvin and Linda

GolembiewskiHenry Gozdowiak*Joe HaganMarilyn Hartmann*Keith Heidmann+Joan HenkelRev. John Hentzer*Glenna HolsteinMary Horne*Barbara Hunt*Mary Jaeckle*Beth JanicekMarjorie JothenOscar Joyner*Katie KaminskyEmily and Kevin KaneMartha KehoeJim and Elizabeth KellyElaine Kennedy*Kind Inc. DBA Culvers+Ed and Michelle KotnarowskiJohanna KubicekDeborah Larkey and

Jack HarrisAngela LeeMarcelena Lemanski*Debbie and Randy LeRoy*Lorette and John LieskeTom Lindemann*Thelma Mahoney*Joe MallerGloria Mandella*Richard MastersDavid and Laurie Mather+Raquel Maxwell*Hugh and Katie McManus*Sally Mills+Ione Minster+

Randall MolesLinda and Edward MordyMary Moscisker+Susan and Frank Mrnik+Margaret Mary Newell*Erik OlsonJune Peterson*Marjorie PiechowskiRoberta PiperMarilyn and Henry Powers+Irene Quast*Debbie RakestrawJohn ReinardyLee Renner*Ginny Tierney Rogers*Katharina Ruckstadter*Megan SarverJoanne Schatzlein, OSFCarol SchmittJames SchollerJanet SchroederTrinny and Glenn SchumannNancy ShirleyNancy V. Sipperly*Mary Smith*Julita Snell*Philip StarrDaniel StefanichJessica and Andy StenzJoan and Bill Stevens+Lora and Gregg SunderEsther Tito+Carol TotschTom and Martha TrederRuth TreismanDavid UnruhRichard and Judith WagnerGenevieve Warhanek*Carrie WeddleSarah WeitzerMidge Wheeler and

Peter ForisRebecca WhitneyVirginia Wirth*Bonnie and Daryl WunrowMary WyantTom and Betty Zamzow+Gordon ZionMarilyn and Doug Zwissler

*Donation in whole or part to George B. Storer Foundation Grant Match

+ Donation in whole or part in memory of Nate Moscisker