Sunday Evening, April 1, 2012, at 8:30

Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY)Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director

Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

Presents

Distinguished Concerts Singers International

This Shining Night: The Music of Whitacre

and Lauridsen ERIC WHITACRE, Composer and ConductorSpecial Guest Artist MORTEN LAURIDSEN

TALI TADMOR, Piano

Program to be introduced from the stage

ERIC WHITACRE Animal Crackers Vol. II. The PantherII. The CowIII. The Firefly

Animal Crackers Vol. II (DCINY 2009 Premiere Project)I. The CanaryII. The EelIII. The Kangaroo

A Boy and a Girl

Five Hebrew Love SongsI. Temuná (A picture)II. Kalá kallá (Light bride) III. Kalá kallá (Light bride) IV. Éyze shéleg! (What snow!)V. Rakút (Tenderness)

Lux Aurumque

Seal Lullaby

MORTEN LAURIDSEN Sure on This Shining Night

Intermission

Please hold your applause until after the final movement.PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

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ERIC WHITACRE the city and the sea (DCINY 2010 Premiere Project)i. i walked the boulevardii. the moon is hiding in her hairiii. maggie and milly and molly and mayiv. as is the sea marvelousv. little man in a hurry

Cloudburst

Go, Lovely Rose

Sleep

With a Lily in Your Hand

MORTEN LAURIDSEN Dirait-On

Please hold your applause until after the final movement.

NOTES ON THE ProgramWorks by ERIC WHITACRE:

Text of Animal Crackers Vol. IText by Ogden Nash

I. The PantherThe panther is like a leopard,Except it hasn’t been peppered.Should you behold a panther crouch,Prepare to say Ouch.Better yet, if called by a panther,Don’t anther.

II. The CowThe cow is of the bovine ilk;One end is moo, the other, milk.

III. The FireflyThe firefly’s flame is something forwhich science has no name

I can think of nothing eerierThan flying around with an unidentified glow on a

person’s posterier.

Text of Animal Crackers Vol. IIText by Ogden Nash

I. The CanaryThe song of canariesnever varies.And when they’re moulting,they’re pretty revolting.

II. The EelI don’t mind eels,except as meals,and the way they feels.

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III. The KangarooO Kangaroo, O Kangaroo,Be grateful that you’re in the zoo.And not transmuted by a boomerangInto zestful, tangy Kangaroo meringue.

Text of A Boy and a GirlText by Octavio Paz

Stretched out on the grass,

a boy and a girl.Savoring their oranges,giving their kisses like wavesexchanging foam.

Stretched out on the beach,

a boy and a girl.Savoring their limes,giving their kisses like cloudsexchanging foam.

Stretched out underground,a boy and a girl.Saying nothing, never kissing,giving silence for silence.

(Please turn the page quietly.)

Text of Five Hebrew Love Songs Text by Hila Plitmann

I. Temuná (A picture)A picture is engraved in my heart;Moving between light and darkness;A sort of silence envelopes your body,And your hair falls upon your facejust so.

II. Kalá kallá (Light bride)Light brideShe is all mine,And lightlyShe will kiss me!

III. Lárov (Mostly) “Mostly,” said the roof to the sky,“the distance between you and I isendlessness;

But a while ago two came up here,And only one centimeter was leftbetween us.”

IV. Éyze shéleg! (What snow!)What snow!Like little dreamsFalling from the sky.

V. Rakút (Tenderness)He was full of tenderness;She was very hard.And as much as she tried to stay thus,Simply, and with no good reason,He took her into himself,And set her downIn the softest, softest place.

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Text of Seal LullabyText by Rudyard Kipling

Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,

And black are the waters thatsparkled so green.

The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us,

At rest in the hollows that rustle between.

Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow,

Oh weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee,

Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seas!

Text of the city and the seaText by ee cummings

i. i walked the boulevardi walked the boulevard

i saw a dirty childskating on noisy wheels of joy

pathetic dress fluttering

behind her a mothermonsterwith red grumbling face

cluttered in pursuit

pleasantly elephantine

while nearby the fathera thick cheerful man

with majestic bulbous lipsand forlorn piggish hands

joked to a girlish bore

with busy rhythmic mouthand silly purple eyelids

of how she was with child

ii. the moon is hiding in her hair the moon is hiding inher hair.thelilyof heavenfull of all dreams,draws down.

cover her briefness in singingclose her with intricate faint birdsby daisies and twilightsdeepen her,

reciteupon herfleshthe rain’s

pearls singly-whispering.

Text of Lux AurumqueText by Edward Esch | Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri

Lux AurumqueLux,Calida gravisque pura velut aurumEt canunt angeli molliterModo natum.

Light of GoldLight,Warm and heavy as pure goldAnd the angels sing softlyTo the newborn baby.

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iii. maggie and milly and molly and maymaggie and milly and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play oneday)

and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn’t remember hertroubles, and

milly befriended a stranded starwhose rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horriblething

which raced sideways while blowingbubbles: and

may came home with a smoothround stone

as small as a world and as large asalone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

iv. as is the sea marvelousas is the sea marvelous from god’shands which sent her forthto sleep upon the worldand the earth withersthe moon crumblesone by onestars flutter into dust

but the seadoes not change

and she goes forth out of hands andshe returns into handsand is with sleep….

love, the breakingof your souluponmy lips

v. little man in a hurrylittle man(in a hurryfull of animportant worry)halt stop forget relax wait

(little childwho have triedwho have failedwho have cried)lie bravely down

sleep

big rainbig snowbig sun

bug moon(enter us)

(Please turn the page quietly.)

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Text of CloudburstText by Octavia Paz; Adapted by Eric Whitacre; Translated by Lysander Kemp

The rain…Eyes of shadow-watereyes of well-water,eyes of dream-water.

Blue suns, green whirlwinds,birdbeaks of light pecking openpomegranate stars.

But tell me, burnt earth, is there nowater?

Only blood, only dust,Only naked footsteps on the thorns?

The rain awakens…

We must sleep with open eyes,we must dream with our hands,we must dream the dreams of a river seeking its course,

of the sun dreaming its worlds,we must dream aloud,we must sing till the song puts forth roots,

trunk, branches, birds, stars,we must find the lost word,and remember what the blood,the tides, the earth, and the body say,and return to the point of departure…

Text of SleepText by Charles Anthony Silvestri

The evening hangs beneath the moonA silver thread on darkened duneWith closing eyes and resting headI know that sleep is coming soon

Upon my pillow, safe in bed,A thousand pictures fill my head,I cannot sleep, my minds aflight,And yet my limbs seem made of leadIf there are noises in the night,A frightening shadow, flickering light…

Then I surrender unto sleep,Where clouds of dream give second sight

What dreams may come, both dark and deep

Of flying wings and soaring leapAs I surrender unto sleepAs I surrender unto sleep.

Text of With a Lily in Your HandText by Federico Garcia Lorca | Translated by Jerome Rothenberg

O! o my night love! With a lily in your handI leave you, o my night love!Little widow, Little widow of my single star

I find you, I find you,Tamer of dark butterflies!I keep along my way, my way.

After a thousand years have goneyou’ll see me, o, my night love!By the blue footpath,tamer of dark stars.I’ll make my way.Until the universe, until the universe,until the universe can fit inside myheart.

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Works by MORTEN LAURIDSEN:

Text of Sure on This Shining NightText by James Agee

Sure on this shining nightOf star made shadows round,Kindness must watch for meThis side the ground. The late year lies down the north.All is healed, all is health.

High summer holds the earth. Hearts all whole.Sure on this shining night I weep forwonder wand’ring far

aloneOf shadows on the stars.

Text and Translation of Dirait-onText by Ranier Maria Rilke, from Les Roses

Abandon entouré d’abandon, tendresse touchant aux tendresses…C’est ton intérieur qui sans cesse se caresse, dirait-on;

se caresse en soi-même, par son propre reflet éclairé. Ainsi tu inventes le thème du Narcisse exaucé.

Abandon surrounding abandon, tenderness touching tenderness…Your oneness endlessly caresses itself, so they say;

self-caressing through its own clear reflection.Thus you invent the theme of Narcissus fulfilled.

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MEET THE ArtistsERIC WHITACREEric Whitacre is one of the most pop-ular and performed composers of ourtime, a distinguished conductor, broad-caster, and public speaker. His firstalbum as both composer and conductoron Decca/Universal, Light and Gold,won a Grammy Award in 2012, reapedunanimous five star reviews, and becamethe number one classical album on theU.S. and U.K. charts within a week ofrelease. His second album, Water Night,is scheduled for release on Decca in laterthis month. It features seven worldpremiere recordings and includes per-formances from his professional choir,the Eric Whitacre Singers, the LondonSymphony Orchestra, Julian LloydWebber, and Hila Plitmann. His com-positions are also featured on multipleother recordings made in Europe,North America, and Australasia.

Mr. Whitacre’s ground-breaking VirtualChoir, Lux Aurumque, received over amillion views on YouTube in just 2months (now three million), featuring185 singers from 12 different countries.Virtual Choir 2.0, Sleep, was releasedin April 2011 and involved over 2,000voices from 58 countries. Co-producedby DCINY, Virtual Choir 3, WaterNight, received 3,746 submissionsfrom 73 counties and will be premieredat Lincoln Center on April 2, 2012.

He has written for the London Sym-phony Orchestra and Chorus, Chanti-cleer, Julian Lloyd Webber and thePhilharmonia Orchestra, RundfunkchorBerlin, and The King’s Singers, among

others. His musical, Paradise Lost:Shadows and Wings, won both theASCAP Harold Arlen award and theRichard Rodgers Award, and earned tennominations at the Los Angeles StageAlliance Ovation Awards. A versatilemusician, he has also worked with leg-endary film composer Hans Zimmer,co-writing the Mermaid Theme forPirates of the Caribbean: On StrangerTides. In 2011 Mr. Whitacre was oneof the judges and conducted the win-ning entries of the Abbey Road 80thAnniversary Anthem Competition,recording the London SymphonyOrchestra and his professional choir,the Eric Whitacre Singers, in AbbeyRoad Studio One.

His latest initiative, Soaring Leap, is aseries of dynamic workshops for singers,instrumentalists, conductors, and com-posers to read, rehearse, and performhis works, digging deep into the poetryand exploring compositional tools.Guest speakers, other composers, and

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musicians make regular appearancesat Soaring Leap events.

An exceptional orator, he was honored toaddress the U.N. Leaders program andgive a TEDTalk in March 2011 whichearned the first full standing ovationof the conference. He has addressedaudiences at Duke and Harvard, TheEconomist, Seoul Digital Forum, andJCDA Conference in Tokyo.

Many of Mr. Whitacre’s works haveentered the standard choral and sym-phonic repertories and have becomethe subject of scholarly works anddoctoral dissertations. He has receivedcomposition awards from the BarlowInternational Composition Competition,

the ACDA and the American ComposersForum. In 2001 he became the youngestrecipient ever awarded the covetedRaymond C. Brock commission by theACDA, despite coming to classical musicrelatively late in life when he joined hiscollege choir in Las Vegas. The first piecehe ever performed—Mozart’s Requiem—changed his life. Inspired to compose,his first piece, “Go, Lovely Rose,” wascompleted at the age of 21. He went onto The Juilliard School, where he earnedhis master of music degree studying withPulitzer Prize and Academy Award–winning composer John Corigliano.

Mr. Whitacre is currently composer-in-residence at Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

MORTEN LAURIDSENThe music of Morten Lauridsen, composer-in-residence of the LosAngeles Master Chorale from 1994 to2001 and professor of composition atthe University of Southern CaliforniaThornton School of Music for morethan 30 years, occupies a permanentplace in the standard vocal repertoireof the 20th century. His seven vocalcycles—Les Chansons des Roses (Rilke),Mid-Winter Songs (Graves), CuatroCanciones (Lorca), A Winter Come(Moss), Madrigali: Six “FireSongs” onRenaissance Italian Poems, Nocturnes,and Lux Aeterna—and his series ofsacred a cappella motets (O MagnumMysterium, Ave Maria, O Nata Lux, UbiCaritas et Amor, and Ave DulcissimaMaria) are featured regularly in concertby distinguished ensembles throughoutthe world. O Magnum Mysterium,Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses),and O Nata Lux (from Lux Aeterna)

have become the all-time best-sellingchoral octavos distributed by TheodorePresser, in business since 1783.

In speaking of Dr. Lauridsen’s sacredworks in his book, Choral Music inthe 20th Century, musicologist andconductor Nick Strimple describes Dr.Lauridsen as “the only American

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composer in history who can be calleda mystic, (whose) probing, serene workcontains an elusive and indefinableingredient which leaves the impressionthat all the questions have beenanswered… From 1993 [Dr.] Lauridsen’smusic rapidly increased in internationalpopularity, and by century’s end hehad eclipsed Randall Thompson as themost frequently performed Americanchoral composer.”

His works have been recorded on overa hundred CDs, three of which havereceived Grammy nominations, includ-ing O Magnum Mysterium, by the NewYork–based ensemble Tiffany Consort,led by Nicholas White, and two all-Lauridsen discs entitled Lux Aeterna bythe Los Angeles Master Chorale con-ducted by Paul Salamunovich (RCM)and Polyphony with the Britten Sinfo-nia conducted by Stephen Layton(Hyperion). His principal publishers are

Peermusic (New York/Hamburg) andPeer’s affiliate, Faber Music (London).

A recipient of numerous grants, prizes,and commissions, Dr. Lauridsen chairedthe Composition Department at theUSC Thornton School of Music from1990 to 2002, founded the School’sAdvanced Studies Program in filmscoring, and is currently distinguishedprofessor of composition. In 2006 Dr. Lauridsen was named an Ameri-can Choral Master by the NationalEndowment for the Arts. In 2007 hewas the recipient of the NationalMedal of Arts from the president in aWhite House ceremony, “for his com-position of radiant choral works com-bining musical beauty, power, andspiritual depth that have thrilled audi-ences worldwide.” The National Medalof Arts is the highest award given toartists and arts patrons by the UnitedStates government.

TALI TADMORTali Tadmor began her musical careerat the age of six, when she enrolled inTel Aviv’s Israeli Conservatory forMusic. Currently Ms. Tadmor is on thefaculty of the California Institute of theArts (CalArts) after having earned herdoctorate in keyboard collaborativearts from the University of SouthernCalifornia (USC). Additional profes-sional engagements include work withLos Angeles Opera’s Education andCommunity Programs and numerousperformances collaborating with a widevariety of musicians, including herdebut recital at Carnegie Hall’s WeillRecital Hall in June of 2009 alongsidesoprano Courtney Huffman.

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DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONALPerforming in Act 1 Desoto Central High School Chorale (MS), Megan Morgan, DirectorLegacy Christian Academy Concert Choir (TX), Sandra Clark, DirectorOrrville High School Choir (OH), Laurel Manning Labbe, DirectorWest Monroe High School Choir (LA), Greg A. Oden, Director Winter Springs High School Chorus (FL), Kara Knowles, DirectorAnd individuals from around the globe

Performing in Act 2 Classical Ensemble and Bel Canto Choirs (CA), Marti Martinez, Director Delta State University Chorale (MS), Nicholaus B. Cummins, DirectorThe Lowell Choir (CA), Jason Chan, Directormolto cantabile (Switzerland), Andreas Felber, DirectorOlive Branch High School Choir (MS), Michael Wegener, DirectorRidgeland High School Choir (MS), Lisa Fournet Clark, DirectorRiver Dell High School Select Choir (NJ), Lisa Smith, DirectorRose Choir (NJ), Kelsey Rose, Director

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DCINY 2012 SEASON

Please join us for one of our other events:

Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

Over the StoneA Welsh Celebration

Karl Jenkins Over the Stone (Harp Concerto)Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

Catrin Finch, HarpBryn Terfel, Special GuestHaydn: St. Nicholas MassMartin: The Awakening

Richard W. Weymuth, Guest ConductorKara Shay Thomson, SopranoDoris Brunatti, Mezzo-soprano

David Guzman, TenorStefan Szkafarowsky, Bass

Special appearance by KHORIKOSJesse Mark Peckham, Director

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Bryn Terfel appears by kind permission of the Metropolitan Opera.

Monday, April 23, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

Symphony of Voices from Turkish LandsA. Adnan Saygun: Yunus EmreAcclaimed Turkish oratorioRengim Gökmen, ConductorFerda Yetişer, Mezzo-soprano

Şenol Talinli, TenorTuncay Kurtoğlu, Bass

TURKSOY Symphony OrchestraJonathan Griffith Singers

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DCINY 2012 SEASON

Monday, May 28, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. (Memorial Day)Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

Of Faith and FreedomJoseph Martin, Composer and Conductor

The Music of Joseph MartinThe Music of Dan Forrest

James Melton, Guest ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concert Singers International

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at 8:00 p.m.Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie HallDistinguished Concerts Artist Series

West Coast Sounds: The Pianist Program from the Orange County High School of the Arts

Patricia Dobiesz, Director

Friday, June 15, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Allen Room

Distinguished Concerts Artist Series: What About Us?Darcy Reese, Director

Robert Robinson, Soloist

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