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Dynamic convergenceFeaturing DuruFlé’s Requiem

June 5 & 6, 2010

mass in B minorBy J. s. Bach

June 12 & 13, 2010

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Dynamic convergencefeaturing Requiem by Maurice Duruflé

Conspirare Symphonic ChoirVictoria Bach Festival ChorusJudith and Gerre Hancock, organKeely Rhodes, mezzo sopranoDavid Farwig, baritone

Saturday, June 5, 8:00 pmUniversity Presbyterian Church, Austin

Sunday, June 6, 4:30 pmCorpus Christi Cathedral, Corpus Christi

Presented in collaboration with the Victoria Bach Festival

mass in B minorby Johann Sebastian Bach

ConspirareVictoria Bach Festival OrchestraSoloists from the ensembles

Saturday, June 12, 8:00 pmOur Savior’s Lutheran Church, Victoria

Presented in collaboration with the Victoria Bach Festival

Sunday, June 13, 7:00 pmPre-concert talk by Margaret Perry, 6:00 pm

Dell Hall, Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin

Craig Hella Johnson, Artistic Director & Conductor

VICTORIA BACH FESTIVALACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PROGRAM NOTESrequiem Maurice Duruflé, one of several generations of gifted French organist-composers, produced only about fifteen compositions, yet their quality is such that he is particularly celebrated among this group of artists. From the earliest days of his musical education, beginning around his tenth birthday, Duruflé was steeped in the literature of Gregorian chant, and this influence is frequently present in his compositions. Upon his move to Paris in 1919 for studies at the Conservatory, two influences emerge: Charles Tournemire at St. Clotilde, who was strongly rooted in Gregorian chant, and Louis Vierne at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, from whom he particularly gained a sense of compositional structure and form. Duruflé’s Requiem was commissioned in 1947 by the French music publishing company Durand and was written in memory of the composer’s father. Gregorian chant is often present in the Requiem, either by quotation or as a kind of musical shadow. Sometimes, as in the first movement, the chant melody is quoted verbatim in one of the chorus parts; other times it appears as an echo. Only occasionally are all of the voices completely new--“Osanna in excelsis” and the later portions of “Agnus Dei.” A second influence in the Requiem can be discerned in that Duruflé’s selection of liturgical texts is the same as that used by Gabriel Fauré in his Requiem, completed in 1877: “Dies Irae” is omitted except for its last phrase (“Pie Jesu Domine”), and “Libera me” and “In Paradisum” are borrowed from the Burial Service. The general mood of Duruflé’s music also emulates Fauré: not merely peaceful, but at peace amid grief through the gift of God’s grace.

The richness of Duruflé’s Requiem stems from his combination of chant, counterpoint, and church modes with the sumptuous harmony of the French compositional tradition. The early movements of the composition have a deeply felt beauty that leads to, but doesn’t reduce the surprise of, the other-worldliness of “In Paradisum”: whatever we were or had in this world melts completely away as we are drawn to God’s own ineffable presence.

cantos sagraDos The Scottish composer and conductor James MacMillan, whose substantial list of works manifests a distinctive artistic and spiritual voice, is still finding new audiences. Stephen Johnson in the New Grove Dictionary describes the “characteristically intense expressivity” of MacMillan’s music, an intensity that is often expressed in soft dynamics and with seemingly reduced forces.

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Ubi Caritas Plainsong Chant

Reading: Where the mind is without fear Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Cantos Sagrados (Sacred Songs) James McMillan (b. 1959) I. Identity II. Virgin of Guadalupe III. Sun Stone

Geistliches Lied, Op. 30 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

I n t e r m I s s I o n

Requiem Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Introit Kyrie Domine Jesu Christe Sanctus Piè Jesu Agnus Dei Lux Aeterna Libera Me In Paradisum

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MacMillan writes, “In writing [Cantos Sagrados] I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title (Sacred Songs) is therefore slightly misleading as the three poems are concerned with political repression in Latin America and are deliberately coupled with traditional religious texts to emphasize a deeper solidarity with the poor of that sub-continent.”

The first of the three songs is the most overtly dramatic, with agitated phrases almost shouted between sections of the chorus. The motion suddenly stops as the volume drops to a horrified whisper in a central interlude. The Latin text is heard last as a kind of coda. In the second and third songs, one portion of the chorus sings the Latin text in very slow note values while the other sections interject the text of the poem. This is not music that will make complete sense at first hearing, nor will MacMillan’s handling of his texts. The emotional communication in these songs, on the other hand, is immediate and direct. In an era in which there are few thoroughly original ways to juxtapose contrasting texts, MacMillan in the Cantos Sagrados finds striking ways to compel the listener to consider the larger moral significance of what are customarily reported as simple political events.

geistliches lieDIn 1856, Johannes Brahms was still in his early twenties and already wrestling with demons. Among them was the burden imposed on him by Robert Schumann’s ecstatic article, “New Paths,” hailing Brahms as the hope of German art music. The younger composer determined that living up to such expectations required him to gain total technical control over his musical materials. The result was a collection of counterpoint exercises that he exchanged starting in February 1856 with Joseph Joachim. One of these exercises had sufficient artistic merit for Brahms to publish it as the Sacred Song for chorus and organ, Opus 30.

As a contrapuntal exercise, this five-minute movement is a virtuoso performance. The four-part chorus sings two interlocking canons: the sopranos begin, with the tenors imitating them exactly, singing pitches a ninth lower; the altos and the basses have their own canon, also at the interval of a ninth. The organ part, while not strictly canonic, is freely imitative, often built from motives sung by the voices.

The text by 18th-century German poet Paul Fleming voices the poet’s determination to rest peacefully with God’s ordained plans for him. Brahms sets the three strophes in an A-B-A form in a soothing mood, but the greatest beauty is in the coda, which sets “Amen” in less strict counterpoint. There is a moment of joyful catharsis, followed by a classic “Amen” cadence. - David Mead, ©2010

TExTS ANd TR ANSlATiONS Ubi caritas

Ubi caritas et amor Where there is charity and love,Deus ibi est. God is thereSimul ergo cum in unum congregamur: Likewise, therefore, when we come together Let us be united as one;Ne nos mente dividamur, caveamus. Let us be careful, lest we be divided in intention. Cessent jurgia maligna, cessent lites. Let us cease all quarrels and strife.Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero. And from a sincere heart let us love one another.

Where the mind is without fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic wallsWhere words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfectionWhere the clear stream of reason has not lost its wayInto the dreary desert sand of dead habitWhere the mind is led forward by theeInto ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Cantos Sagrados

I. IdentityWhat did you say – they found another one? – I can’t hear you – this morning another one floating / in the river? talk louder – so you didn’t even dare no one can identify him? the police said not even his mother     not even the mother who bore him      not even she could  they said that? the other women already tried – I can’t understand what you’re saying, they turned him over and looked at his face, his hands they looked at,     right,  they’re all waiting together,silent, in mourning,  on the riverbank,  they took him out of the water he’s naked      as the day he was born,  there’s a police captain and they won’t leave until I get there? He doesn’t belong to anybody, you say he doesn’t belong to anybody?

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Sweet Virgin of Guadalupe,  oh virgin of the gentle eyes,  dark-eyed virgin, my girl,  my love, I want to ask you  this question, dear mother:Why is it that in Spain,     on the far side of our hills and valleys,         across the sea,  why is there      another Virgin of Guadalupe,             Patron Saint of the Conquerors?              men with great beards, men on horses,     men with swords and fire, who crush and burn our homes,      and the Indians,      your children,                  still inside?Why is it, Sweet Virgin,          sweet mother,  why is there another Virgin of Guadalupe,  “Patroness of the Conquerors”?

- Ana Maria Mendoza (tr. Gilbert Markus o.p.)

Salve Mater coeli porta Hail Mother, portal of heavenVirga florens et exorta Flowering Virgin, sprungDavid ex prosapia. from the line of David.

- Latin hymn

III. Sun StoneThey put the prisoner  against the wall. A soldier ties his hands. His fingers touch him – strong, gentle, saying goodbye. – Forgive me, compañero – says the voice in a whisper. The echo of his voice and of     those fingers on his arm  fills his body with light     I tell you his body fills with light  and he almost does not hear  the sound of the shots.

- Ariel Dorfman (tr. Edie Grossman)

Et incarnatus est de spiritu sancto. He became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, Ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est. and was made man. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis. For our sake he was crucified.

- from the Creed

    tell them I’m getting dressed,         I’m leaving now     if the captain’s the same one as          last time     he knows          what will happen         that body will have my name -         my son’s my husband’s             my father’s         name I’ll sign the papers tell them     tell them I’m on my way,         wait for me  and don’t let that captain touch him don’t let that captain take one step closer      to him. Tell them not to worry: I can bury my own dead.

- Ariel Dorfman (tr. Edie Grossman) Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum Liberate the souls of all the faithful departedde poenis inferni et de profundo lacu; from the pains of hell and from the deep pit;libera eas de ore leonis, deliver them from the lion’s mouth,ne absorbeat eas tartarus, let not hell swallow them up,ne cadant in obscurum. let them not fall into darkenss.

- from the Requiem Mass

II. Virgin of GuadalupeSweet Virgin of Guadalupe,     oh virgin of the gentle eyes,  dark-eyed virgin,     good Lady, my love,  painted by God’s own hand     on the cloak of the Indian Juan Diego,  Sweet virgin, my love,  who commanded the bishop  to build you a shrine,  where my brothers the Indians lived  in Tapeyepac in Mexico,  outside the city. Flogged and burned were these poor little ones, despised, deceived and mocked,  my brothers the Indians.  A thousand times mistreated,  a thousand thousand killed.

What did you say to the bishop?      “You will build me a house          outside the city, where I will wait,     where I can hear the cries,         the pleas of my Indian children.”

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SanctusSanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy, Holy, Holy,Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Lord God of HostsPleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.Hosanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.Hosanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.

Piè Jesu Piè Jesu Domine, Merciful Lord Jesus,dona eis requiem sempiternam. grant them everlasting rest.

Agnus DeiAgnus Dei, Lamb of God, qui tollis peccata mundi, who takest away the sins of the world,dona eis requiem. grant them rest.Agnus Dei, Lamb of God,qui tollis peccata mundi, who takest away the sins of the world,Dona eis requiem sempiternam. grant them rest everlasting.

Lux AeternaLux aeterna luceat eis, Domine: May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord,Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum: in the company of thy saints forever and ever;Quia pius es. for thou art merciful.Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord,Et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.

Libera MeLibera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, Deliver me, O Lord, from death eternal,In die illa tremenda: on that dreadful day:Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra: when the heavens and the earth shall quake,Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem. when you come to judge the world by fire. Tremens factus sum ego, et timeo I am seized by trembling, and feardum discussio venerit, until the judgment should come,atque ventura ira. and I also dread the coming wrath.Dies illa, dies irae, O that day, day of wrath, calamitatis et miseriae, day of calamity and misery,dies magna et amara valde. momentous day, and exceedingly bitter,Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem. when thou shalt come to judge the world by fire.Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord,et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.

In ParadisumIn Paradisum deducant te Angeli May the angels lead you into paradise;in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, may the martyrs welcome you upon your arrival,Et perducant te in civitatem And lead you into theSanctam Jerusalem. Holy city of JerusalemChorus Angelorum te suscipiat, May a choir of angels welcome you,et cum Lazaro quondam paupere and, with poor Lazarus of oldaeternam habeas requiem. May you have eternal rest.

Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauren (Geistliches Lied)

Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauren mit Trauren, Do not be sorrowful or regretful;sei stille, wie Gott es fügt, be calm, as God has ordained, so sei vergnügt mein Wille! and thus my will shall be content.  Was willst du heute sorgen auf morgen? What do you want to worry about from day to day? Der Eine steht allem für,  There is One who stands above all der gibt auch dir das Deine. who gives you, too, what is yours.  Sei nur in allem Handel ohn Wandel,  Only be steadfast in all you do, steh feste; was Gott beschleußt,  stand firm; what God has decided, das ist und heißt das Beste. that is and must be the best. Amen. Amen.

Requiem

IntroitRequiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord.et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine upon them.Te decet hymnus Deus in Zion, A hymn befits thee, O God in Zion,Et tibi redetur votum in Jerusalem. And to thee a vow shall be fulfilled in Jerusalem.Exaudi orationem meam, Hear my prayer,ad te omnis caro veniet. for unto thee all flesh shall come.Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord,et lux perpetua luceat eis. And let perpetual light shine upon them.

KyrieKyrie eleison. Lord have mercy.Christe eleison. Christ have mercy.Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy.

Domine Jesu ChristeDomine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum liberate the souls of all the faithful departedde poenis inferni et de profundo lacu; from the pains of hell and from the deep pit;libera eas de ore leonis, deliver them from the lion’s mouth,ne absorbeat eas tartarus, let not hell swallow them up,ne cadant in obscurum. let them not fall into darkness.Sed signifer sanctus Michael But let Michael, the holy standard-bearer,repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam bring them into the holy light,quam olim Abrahae promisisti which once thou promised to Abrahamet semini ejus. and to his seed.

Hostias et preces tibi, Sacrifices and prayers of praise, Domini, laudis offerimus. O Lord, we offer to thee. Tu suscipe pro animabus illis, Receive them, Lord, on behalf of those souls quarum hodie memoriam facimus. we commemorate this day.Fac eas, Domine, Grant them, O Lord,de morte transire ad vitam, to pass from death unto life,quam olim Abrahae promisisti which once thou promised to Abrahamet semini ejus. and to his seed

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GuEST ARTiSTS

gerre & JuDith hancockDr. Gerre Hancock is Professor of Organ and Sacred Music and Dr. Judith Hancock is Senior Lecturer in Organ and Sacred Music, both at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Together they direct the Organ Performance and Sacred Music Center programs, teach organ, and are developing a curriculum for the study of sacred music.

Gerre Hancock, one of America’s most highly acclaimed concert organists and choral directors, previously held the position of Organist and Master of Choristers at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City where, for more than thirty years, he set a new standard for church music in America.  He has also held positions as organist and choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati, where he also served on the Artist Faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and as assistant organist at St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City.

Judith Hancock, a leading interpreter of Romantic organ repertoire, was for twenty-five years the Associate Organist of Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York, where she assisted her husband in conducting the Saint Thomas Choir. She was previously organist and director of music at Saint James’s Church, Madison Avenue, New York, and the Church of Saint James the Less in Scarsdale, New York.  She has also held positions of organist and choirmaster at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, and at churches in Bronxville, New York, and Durham, North Carolina.

keely rhoDes, mezzo sopranoKeely J. Rhodes has performed regularly with Conspirare since 2002. Keely received her Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory and her Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and was a Fulbright scholar to Italy in 2006-2007. Along with teaching private voice lessons, she performs as a soloist and collaborative artist for choral, chamber, and symphonic groups and as an opera singer in the United States, Europe, Central America and South America.

DaviD Farwig, BaritoneDavid Farwig performs with professional choral ensembles throughout the country including Conspirare, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Choral Arts-Seattle, The Oregon Bach Festival, and Seraphic Fire. He has also sung with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, USAF Singing Sergeants, and many other professional companies. As a concert soloist, David has appeared with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Albuquerque Baroque Players, The Santa Fe Symphony, Choral Arts-Seattle, and the Carmel Bach Festival. David holds undergraduate degrees in voice and music education and a master’s degree in choral conducting from Lamont Conservatory at the University of Denver.

ARTiSTic PERSONNEl

conspirare Symphonic choir

SopranoIrene Adams Rebecca Atkins Erika Bacon Makenna Balvanz Inge Biosevas Christine Boone* Blair Campion Cina Crisara*+ Catherine Davis Alicia Denney Susan Fernandez* Jeanette Franz Caroline FrommholdKimberly Gerber*+Glenda GoehrsRonda Hall Sara Hill Angela Irving Laurie Locke Cynthia Lux Gitanjali Mathur*Beverly Mintz Suzanne Mitchell Angela Padilla Lena Salha Toko Sato Kay Sherrill*Mary Simon Jennifer Tiller Melissa Vandergriff Erica WeismanJaneene Williams*

AltoMichelle BarrientesPat Fatter BlackKaren Hoffman BlizzardBecky ClarkFran CollmannMary Anne ConnollyDorea Cook*Barbara DurhamMelissa Eddy

Cheryl FullerWravan GodsoeHelen HaysLou Ann LasherKatie LessleyMim LuetjeLindsay NelsonSusan Ohlrich*Sara OrtizLinda Ramsey*Flo Ann RandleDeborah RuppChristy SalinasMary SmithAgatha TorkuJennifer TullisCarol WalkerKendra Welton*+

TenorRoland BarreraKen BeckAnne BertholfHoward BurkettDaniel CooperPaul D’Arcy*+Dan DworinMarvin FrankAndrew Gray*Gus GutmanRobbie LaBancaBill LasherJim MaxwellJos Milton*Louis RenaudDick RewJonathan Riemer*+David W. SchwarzDan SpenceRaymond Votolato+Brandon Young+

BassChris BakerKlaus BichtelerKelly Cook*Marshal CrenshawCarlos FernandezRobert Harlan*+

Bruce HauflerBob HaydenBob KarliGeoffrey R. Korf*Jack LeiferJoe LoukotkaNick May*Tom MorrisonWill PearsonGary PyleSteve SchwartzFrank ShirleyWalter StewartTigh Walters

Faith DeBow, rehearsal pianist

* Section leader+ Sectional rehearsal leader

Victoria Bach Festival chorus

SopranoJanet Born Ann Herbst Sara Sawey AltoElisa Coffey Diana Farley Patti Franklin Jo Ann Hoffman Linda Markert Kelley Moody Donna Salinas Shirley Williamson Raymond Votolato, chorus director Janet Born, chorus liaison Beverly Cheshire, rehearsal pianist

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PROGRAM NOTESThe primary source for the group of compositions known conventionally as the Mass in B minor is a complete autograph manuscript which Bach prepared in 1738-1739. The manu script, which carries no all-embracing title (such as “Mass”), is instead in four sections, each with its own title page. Bach’s titles for these sections are reproduced in the bold-faced titles in the program listing. Any unfamiliar titles and, in isolated passages, variant text reflect the usage of these texts in the eighteenth-century Lutheran church. When Lutherans spoke of a “Mass,” the term was understood to refer to a Kyrie and Gloria. The title of the Credo specifies that it is the “Nicene symbol” of the faith. The significance of the grouping of movements at the end of the Mass is that, unlike the Missa, Symbol um Nicenum, and Sanc tus, which were each composed (and very likely performed) as independent compositions, the final movements were prepared and added to the first three sections to make it a virtually complete setting of the Mass ordinary. It is only “virtually” complete because Bach, for whatever reason, omitted the third statement of “Agnus Dei . . .” which precedes “Dona nobis pacem.”

The question is, then, whether Bach intended the Mass to be performed as a complete work. Friedrich Smend, editor of the Mass for the Neue Bach-Aus-gabe (“New Bach Edition”), takes significant pains in his preface and in his Critical Report to make clear that the Missa, Credo, and Sanctus are inde-pendent compositions and goes so far as to declare that these pie ces should not be performed together as a “Mass.” It is understood that the Kyrie-Gloria pair, the Credo, and the Sanctus were presented in concer tante style on various festive occasions, but presumably not together. Further, neither Smend nor biographer Philipp Spitta give any explicit indication that the movements from the Osanna to the end of the Mass had any significant use in the Lutheran liturgy. This makes more credible the suggestion that Bach compiled his manuscript in hopes of the music being used in a Roman Catholic context.

But if the movements following the Sanctus received no separate musical treatment in Bach’s church and Prof. Smend doesn’t allow us to perform music in any form other than that in which the composer actually performed it, then there will be no occasion for which the last movements of the Mass in B minor will be appropriate. So let’s agree that the work as Bach notated it was for him an abstraction: let’s get on with performing it, and let’s give it a complete performance.

PROGR AMMass in B minor, BWV 232 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Missa Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Lauren Snouffer, soprano, and Cecilia Kittley, alto Kyrie eleison Gloria in excelsis Et in terra pax Laudamus te Kathlene Ritch, sopranoGratias agimus tibi Domine Deus Abigail H. Lennox, soprano, and Matt Tresler, tenorQui tollis peccata mundi Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris Emily Lodine, alto Quoniam tu solus sanctus Glenn Miller, bassCum sancto spiritu

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Symbolum Nicenum (Credo) Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem Et in unum Dominum Stefanie Moore, soprano, and Pam Elrod, alto Et incarnatus est Crucifixus Et resurrexit Et in spiritum sanctum David Farwig, bassConfiteor Et expecto

Sanctus

Osanna

Benedictus Dann Coakwell, tenor

Osanna

Agnus Dei Wendy Bloom, alto

Dona nobis pacem

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The work is known as the “Mass in B minor” because that is the key in which it begins. Also, the keys of the three movements setting the Kyrie (B minor – D major – F-sharp minor) outline a B minor triad. But B minor is the relative minor of D major, and almost from the first note of the Gloria onward it is clear that the “home” key is D major. Bach’s use of keys suggests that the penitential B minor is balanced, even fulfilled by, the D major of redemption and praise.

Unlike all of Bach’s other works with voices and orchestra, the Mass in B minor begins with the chorus singing with the orchestra from the first downbeat. Only after this powerful, massed exclamation of “Kyrie eleison” does the orchestra proceed with Bach’s customary instrumental introduction of thematic material. The duet, “Christe eleison,” employing solo voices and all of the violins in unison, has a warmer, more intimate character that reflects the person of Christ, son of God and son of man. The second Kyrie is more rigorously fugal than the first, with a secondary theme which is treated in stretto (several voices state the theme in close succession).

The first three movements sung by the chorus in the Gloria are all in D major, firmly establishing that tonality, and employ increasingly complex counterpoint. The first chorus and much of the second are freely contrapuntal; “Et in terra pax” also has in its course two expansive fugal expositions. “Gratias agimus tibi” is built from two phrases, both of which are treated entirely in stretto: that is, every phrase sung by each of the five chorus parts is one of these two themes. The gently rising melis mas and the rich ornamentation of the violin obbligato in “Laudamus te” might be a kind of musical levitation. In the duet, “Domine Deus,” the two voice parts enter in close imitation, portraying the nature of Jesus as the earthly realization of the will of the Father.

The next two movements (“Qui tollis” and “Qui sedes”) return to the penitential mood and are both in B minor. The chorus displays more close imitation, including two stretti, and Bach’s magnifi cently expressive chromatic harmony. The instrumentation of the bass aria is almost bizarre: the highest voice is the obbligato horn, then the bass soloist. There are also two obbligato bassoons in addition to the basso continuo group, resulting in joyous but mellow-colored worship. It leads without a break to the unbounded joy of “Cum sancto Spiritu.” These final two movements return emphatically to D major--again, penance followed by praise.

The Credo, in which Bach possibly intended to portray the fullness and perfection of the faith, is an arch form. There are nine movements in all, in the center of which is a group of three choruses. These movements deal with Jesus Christ as a human being. There is one movement for solo voices on either side of the central group of

choruses: one is the duet for soprano and alto, with one voice following the other like a shadow (like the duet in the Gloria), portraying how Jesus embodied the will of the Father; the other is the solo for bass, filled with peaceful confidence.

This leaves the pairs of choruses that open and close the Credo. The first movement of each pair is cast in the “old style” of counterpoint (as written in the 15th and 16th centuries). Note the steady, moderate rhythm and, in the very first chorus, the well-known Gregorian intonation used as a cantus firmus. Each of these “old-style” movements leads into a large, fugal movement in the brilliant baroque concertante style.

The Sanctus, brilliant and festive, also with trumpets and drums, is really two movements fitted together. The slow, opening section (setting “Holy Lord, God of Saba oth”) has the chorus divided into six parts, singing antiphonally. In the second half, the rhythm quickens to a dance-like pace. In the Osanna, the chorus is divided into two four-part mixed choruses. The antipho nal effects are combined with imitative writing within each of the four-part groups. The Bene dictus, an aria for tenor solo with obbligato flute, is a moment of intimacy and peace amid the festivity. The solo alto’s “Agnus Dei,” the final penitential moment in the Mass, is full of the falling two-note phrases associated in baroque music with sadness. “Dona nobis pacem,” set to the music of “Gratias agimus tibi” from the Gloria, even as it prays for the peace of the Lord, does so in a peaceful frame of mind.

- David Mead, ©2010

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Mass in B Minor

Kyrie eleison Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Christe eleison Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy upon us.

Kyrie eleison Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Gloria in excelsis Gloria in excelsis Deo. Glory be to God on high.

Et in terra pax Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. And on earth peace to men of good will.

Laudamus te Laudamus te, benedicimus te, We praise thee, we bless thee, adoramus te, glorificamus te. we worship thee, we glorify thee.

Gratias agimus tibi Gratias agimus tibi We give thanks to thee propter magnam gloriam tuam. for thy great glory.

Domine Deus Domine Deus, rex coelestis, Lord God, heavenly King, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Father Almighty. O Lord, the only begotten Son,Jesu Christe, Altissime, Domine Deus, Jesus Christ most high, Lord God,Agnus Dei, Filius Patris. Lamb of God, Son of the Father.

Qui tollis peccata mundi Qui tollis peccata mundi, Thou that takest away the sins of the world,miserere nobis. have mercy upon us.Qui tollis peccata mundi, Thou who takest away the sins of the world,suscipe deprecationem nostram. receive our prayer.

Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, miserere nobis. have mercy upon us.

Quoniam tu solus sanctus Quoniam tu solus sanctus, For thou only art holy,tu solus Dominus, thou only art the Lord,tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe. thou only, Christ, art most high.

Cum sancto spiritu Cum Sancto Spiritu With the Holy Ghostin gloria Dei Patris. Amen. in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Credo in unum Deum Credo in unum Deum. I believe in one God.

Patrem omnipotentem (Credo in unum Deum) (I believe in one God)Patrem omnipotentem, The Father Almighty,factorem coeli et terrae, maker of heaven and earth,visibilium omnium et invisibilium. and of all things visible and invisible.

Et in unum Dominum Et in unum Dominum, And in one Lord,Jesum Christum, Jesus Christ,Filium Dei unigenitum, the only begotten Son of God,et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula, begotten of his Father before all worlds,Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, God of God, light of light,Deum verum de Deo vero, genitum, true God of true God, begotten,non factum, consubstantialem Patri, not made, being of one substance with the Fatherper quem omnia facta sunt, by whom all things were made:qui propter nos homines who for us menet propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis. and for our salvation came down from heaven.

Et incarnatus est Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto And was incarnate by the Holy Ghostex Maria virgine, et homo factus est. of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.

Crucifixus Crucifixus etiam pro nobis And was crucified alsosub Pontio Pilato, under Pontius Pilate,passus et sepultus est. suffered, and was buried.

Et resurrexit Et resurrexit tertia And the third daydie secundum scripturas, he rose again according to the Scriptures,et ascendit in coelum, and ascended into heaven,sedet ad dexteram Patris, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father:et iterum venturus and he shall come againest cum gloria judicare vivos et mortuos, with glory to judge both the living and the dead;cujus regni non erit finis. whose kingdom shall have no end.

Et in spiritum sanctum Et in Spiritum Sanctum, And I believe in the Holy Ghost,Dominum et vivificantem, the Lord and Giver of Life,qui ex Patre Filioque procedit, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,qui cum Patre et Filio who with the Father and the Sonsimul adoratur et conglorificatur, together is worshipped and glorified,qui locutus est per prophetas. who spake by the Prophets. Et unam sanctam catholicam And I believe in one holy Catholicet apostolicam Ecclesiam. and Apostolic Church.

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Confiteor Confiteor unum baptisma I acknowledge one baptism in remissionem peccatorum. for the remission of sins.

Et expecto Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum And I look for the resurrection of the dead,et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen. and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Sanctus Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts.Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria ejus. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.

Osanna Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.

Benedictus Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Blessed is he, who cometh in the name of the Lord.

Osanna Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.

Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world,miserere nobis have mercy upon us.

Dona nobis pacem Dona nobis pacem. Grant us peace.

ARTiSTic PERSONNEl

company of Voices

SopranoRachel CarlsonMelissa GivensNicole LamartineAbigail H. LennoxGitanjali MathurStefanie MooreKathlene RitchLauren SnoufferSonja Tengblad

AltoWendy BloomJanet Carlsen CampbellPam ElrodCecilia KittleyEmily LodineMelissa MarseJustin Montigne

TenorDann CoakwellPaul D’ArcyCarr HornbuckleJos MiltonKelly NeillTracy Jacob ShirkMatt Tresler

BassDavid FarwigRick GabrilloRobert HarlanGlenn MillerJohn ProftLarry SpeakmanPaul Max Tipton

Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra

Violin i Stephen Redfield, concertmasterSusan DoeringDan GolleherTess IsaacGesa Kordes

Violin iiKaren Clarke* Joan Carlson Bruce ColsonBoel GidholmKana Kimura ViolaSuzanna Giordano Gignac*Melissa BrewerMartha PerryBruce Williams celloMyron Lutzke*Christopher HaritatosDieter Wulfhorst double BassMelanie Punter*Deborah Dunham Flute Carol Redman*Alaina Diehl OboeMary Ann Shore*Sarah DavolGeorge Riordan

BassoonDennis Godwin*Yueh Chou Natural HornPaul Avril TrumpetBrian Shaw*Nathan BottsRobert Cannon TimpaniDavid Davenport Harpsichord/OrganDana Ragsdale

* principal

Craig Hella Johnson, Artistic Director & ConductorRick Gabrillo, Assistant Conductor

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Classical). Harmonia Mundi also released Requiem in Europe in 2009, and it has just received the prestigious 2010 Edison Award in the Choral Music category. The Edison Award is the Dutch equivalent of the U.S. Grammy.

A third recording, Threshold of Night, was released worldwide in September 2008 on Harmonia Mundi. Threshold of Night received two Grammy nominations, Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Album. In October 2008, in cooperation with Austin’s public television station KLRU, Conspirare filmed a PBS television special, “A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert,” that was broadcast nationally in March 2009 and is available on both CD and DVD. “A Company of Voices” received a Grammy nomination as Best Classical Crossover Album.

Conspirare has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. In 2005 the organization received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, presented by national service organization Chorus America. In 2007, as one of the select choruses in the country to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under its American Masterpieces initiative, Conspirare presented a choral festival entitled “Crossing the Divide: Exploring Influence and Finding Our Voice.” The four-day festival featured a distinguished gathering of composers and conductors, performances of three world premieres, and a gala closing concert with a choir of 600 singers. In July 2008 Conspirare represented the United States at the Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen, joining invited choirs from nearly forty countries. Most recently, Conspirare received the 2010 Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America to support the commission of a new work by Seattle composer Eric Banks.

The Conspirare ensembles’ 2009-2010 season consists of 25 performances of eight different programs, in Austin, Wimberley, Fredericksburg, San Antonio and Victoria. In February 2010 Conspirare was an invited, featured choir at the annual convention of the American Choral Directors Association/Eastern Division in Philadelphia.

ABOuT cONSPiR AREThe word “conspirare” derives from the Latin “con” and “spirare”

translated as “to breathe together.”

Conspirare was founded in 1991 as the New Texas Festival to present a summer classical music festival in Austin, Texas. Since then, the organization has grown rapidly to become an internationally recognized, professional choral organization that combines outstanding vocal artistry with innovative programming. Led by founder and artistic director Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare is comprised of two performing ensembles and an educational program. A chamber choir (“Conspirare”) of extraordinarily talented singers from around the country is presented in an annual concert series in Austin, other Texas communities, and locations in the U.S. and abroad. The Conspirare Symphonic Choir of both professional and volunteer singers performs at least one large choral/orchestral work annually. The Conspirare Youth Choirs is an education and performance program for singers ages 8-16, who learn and perform in two separate ensembles, Kantorei and the Conspirare Children’s Choir.

Conspirare produced its first commercial recording, through the green fuse, in 2004 on the Clarion Records label. A second CD, Requiem, also on Clarion and since reissued by Harmonia Mundi, was released in 2006 and received two Grammy® nominations (Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album,

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Johnson served as Director of Choral Activities (1990-2001) at the University of Texas in Austin where he led the graduate program in conducting. He was artistic director of San Francisco-based Chanticleer (1998-1999) and has served as guest conductor with the Austin Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, and the Berkshire Choral Festival. In September 2009 Johnson travelled to Taiwan to conduct the Taipei Male Choir.

Praised by audiences and critics, Johnson’s programs are hailed as thought-provoking musical journeys. One unique aspect of Johnson’s programming is his signature “collage” style: through-composed programs that marry music and poetry to seamlessly blend sacred and secular, classical and contemporary, classical and popular. In 2006 he was engaged to create a special peace-themed collage program for the North Central ACDA convention. He was also engaged by the St. Olaf Choir to create and conduct a collage program during a five-week residency with the choir in spring 2007.

A composer and arranger, Johnson works with G. Schirmer Publishing on the Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series, featuring specially selected composers as well as some of his original compositions and arrangements. His works are also published by Alliance Music Publications. Also an accomplished vocalist and pianist, he released his first solo CD “Thorns on the Rose” in 2008 on the Booker Music label.

Johnson’s distinctive style and commitment to the choral art have led him to be honored with several awards, including 2008 induction into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame and the 2009 Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal, given by Chorus America.

A native of Minnesota, Johnson studied at St. Olaf College, the Juilliard School, and the University of Illinois and earned his doctorate at Yale University. As the recipient of a National Arts Fellowship, Johnson studied with Helmuth Rilling at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Germany.

ABOuT cRAiG HEllA JOHNSON

Renowned as one of the most influential voices in choral conducting in the United States, Craig Hella Johnson brings a depth of knowledge, artistic sensitivity, and imagination to his programs. As founder and artistic director of Conspirare, Johnson has assembled some of the finest singers in the country to form a world-class, award-winning organization committed to creating dynamic choral art.

In addition to his work with Conspirare, Johnson also serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Victoria Bach Festival, an annual event that draws musicians and critical praise from around the country. Of Johnson’s performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Mike Greenberg of the San Antonio Express-News wrote: “Through all the amazing ebbs and flows of dynamics, the radiant balances, the seamless connection of episodes, the theatrically astute tempo relations, the unified structural arc, the music shone forth with organic naturalness. Nothing sounded fussed over. Everything just sounded right.”

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cONSPiR ARE AudiO & VidEO REcORdiNGS

“A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert” – available on CD and DVDPBS show, nationally broadcast in March 2009; Grammy-nomimated

“Thorns on the Rose” – Craig Hella Johnson’s first solo CD

“Threshold of Night” – Two 2009 Grammy nominationsConspirare sings the music of Tarik O’Regan

“Requiem”– Now reissued on the Harmonia Mundi LabelTwo 2007 Grammy nominations; 2010 Edison Award for Choral Music

“through the green fuse” – A favorite collection featuring several spirituals

“Angel Be” (2 CDs) – A collection of favorite live recordings by Cynthia Clawson and Craig Hella Johnson, including four previously unreleased selections

“Crossing the Divide: Exploring Influence and Finding Our Voice” (2 CDs) – Recorded during the NEA sponsored American Masterpieces Festival in January 2007

Christmas at the Carillon “Here Comes the Light” (2009) “Lay Me Low” (2008)

“Love Again” (2007)“Love Calls You” (2006)“I Still Love You” (2 CDs - 2005)“Always” (2 CDs - 2004)“Nearer” (2003) “Where Does Morning Lie?” (2002) “Back to the Garden” (2001) “Home” (2000)

American Choral Directors Association-North Central Division Convention (Omaha, 2006) “Peace Concert” CD (2 CDs)Closing Concert CDClosing Concert DVD

“Hidden Music” (2006 - mono)

To order, please call (512) 476-5775; hear samples at www.conspirare.org.

BOARd OF diREcTORSFran Collmann, ChairRobert J. Karli, Vice ChairBernadette Tasher, TreasurerRobert Harlan, SecretaryJack BrannonDavid ClarkLarry CollmannJeri DeAngelisPatrick L. DeLauneTom DriscollAnn FieldsLou Ann LasherEric LeibrockHope MorganLouise MorseE. Stuart PhillipsHon. Bea Ann SmithMary StephensonMarion Lear SwaybillCatherine WildermuthSheila Youngblood

AdViSORy BOARdStephen AechternachtJohn AielliSue BarnesMark BiernerRay BrimbleDavid BurgerDavid ClaflinVirginia DupuyMaydelle FasonJoLynn FreeBilly GammonVance GeorgeHelen HaysDan HerdWilliam B. HilgersWayne Holtzman Cassandra JamesJudith JellisonBob MurphyLynn MurphyGayle Glass RocheNancy ScanlanRussell SchulzAngela SmithLouann TempleEva Womack

ARTiSTic & AdMiNiSTRATiVE STAFFCraig Hella JohnsonArtistic Director

Ann Hume WilsonExecutive Director

Katie AppleDirector of Special ProjectsExecutive Assistant to the Artistic Director

Tamara BlankenTicketing & Online Services Manager

Cynthia DensmoreFinance Manager

Melissa J. EddyCommunications & Grants Manager

Rick GabrilloProduction ManagerDirector, Conspirare Youth Choirs

Wravan GodsoeOperations/Ticketing Assistant

David HammondOperations Manager

Robert HarlanProduction Coordinator

Debbie KenkelAccounting Assistant

Meri KruegerArtist Relations

Nina ReveringDirector, Conspirare Youth Choirs

Nicki TurmanHouse Manager

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leadership circleMaestro Circle ....................................$25,000+Impresario Circle ...............$15,000 — $24,999Benefactor Circle ...............$10,000 — $14,999Platinum Baton Circle ...........$5,000 — $9,999Golden Baton Circle ..............$2,500 — $4,999Silver Baton Circle .................$1,000 — $2,499

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SuPPORT cONSPiRAREConspirare invites you to join our family of donors. Your contribution supports our gift of music through performances of the highest artistic quality and through educational and outreach programs, including the Conspirare Youth Choirs.

Conspirare is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin

through the Cultural Arts Division, the Texas Commission on the Arts,

and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that

a great nation deserves great art.

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LEADERShIP CIRCLE

Maestro CircleCity of Austin Cultural Arts

DivisionFran & Larry CollmannThe Kodosky FoundationThe Mattsson-McHale

FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsSouth Texas Money

Management

Impresario CircleWilliam R. DicksonRobert & Lara HarlanGayle Glass RocheCarolyn & Marc SeriffTescom, Inc.Texas Commission on the Arts

Benefactor CircleAnonymousAustin Community FoundationRay & Karen BrimbleKen & Joyce Beck Family FundJoe & Cynthia CainJeri DeAngelisGE FoundationHelen & Bob HaysRobert & Trish KarliCarolyn J. KeatingJeff & Gail KodoskyCaren ProthroRussell Hill Rogers Fund for

the ArtsRick & Jill SalwenStill Water Foundation

Platinum Baton CircleCenTex BeverageDavid & Catherine ClarkThomas Driscoll &

Nancy QuinnMary Nell FrucellaKeating Family FoundationCynthia KeeverWendi & Brian KushnerKGSR – 93.3 FMKMFA – 89.5 FMKUT – 90.5 FMMid Atlantic Arts Foundation

Perkins-Prothro FoundationSusan & Forest ReesLouise ReeserShoehorn DesignThe Rachael &

Ben F. Vaughan FoundationBen & Daphne Vaughan

Golden Baton CircleAnonymousCindy & Chic BainWilliam C. Bednar &

Flo Ann RandleClark, Thomas & WintersCrutch & Danna CrutchfieldPatrick DeLaune & Sadaf Khan

In honor of Robert HarlanThe Fetzer InstituteCindy KeeverLouise MorseE. Stuart PhillipsLinda RamseySara & Scott ReichardtDonna & Christy SalinasWilliam Schleuse &

Virginia McDermotHonorable Bea Ann Smith

Silver Baton CircleAnonymous (2)Eva AndriesMargaret & Robert AyresRobert & Pat BrueckAmelia Bullock &

Bill KrumpackDan Bullock &

Annette CarlozziDavid BurgerRichard CampbellJanet Carlson CampbellPablo CardenasJanis & David ClaflinJerry CraftRena & Richard D’SouzaRobert & Virginia DupuyMelissa Eddy &

Tracy SchiemenzJenelle EdwardsRev. Dr. Ann FieldsFischer & Weiser Specialty FoodsSteve GilbertBalie J. & Beverly Griffith

Tom Grimes & Karen KiblerCarolyn Harris-HynsonRichard Hartgrove &

Gary CooperJane HilferJohn HoganJoan & Tom KobayashiTimothy KoockBill & Lou Ann LasherJohn & Katie LavendoskiJodi Lazar & Michael NussbaumEric LeibrockLee ManfordJoyce MayerKevin & Debe McKeandJanet MillerHope MorganBob & Lynn MurphyAnne Nagelkirk & Jason OrrWilliam NemirChristopher Novosad, tiki2.comCarlisle PearsonAnn Praderus & Tony VanceNancy ScanlanGene Alice & Max ShermanAngela & Charles SmithDavid C. SmithDian & Harlan StaiMary StephensonJames StolpaSyzygy MarketingBernadette TasherKerry Tate & Susan RieffAnne & William WagnerWaxmanCavnerLawsonCatherine & David WildermuthEva & Marvin WomackLucia & Paul WoodruffSheila Youngblood

CIRCLE Of fRIENDS

SponsorsJulie ArendSusan BarnesKen & Joyce BeckAnne BertholfKlaus Bichteler & Mary ParseKaren & Mike BlizzardJeff & Ann BomerJack Brannon & Brian MillerJohn & Trina Braun

dONORSGifts to Conspirare provide financial support for concerts, recordings, educational programs, and outreach activities. The following roster of donors includes cash and in-kind gifts received from individuals, family and private foundations, businesses, and government agencies between July 1, 2008 and May 21, 2010. We express our gratitude to each and every one of our donors.

Chez ZeeKathy & David ClemGwen & Dean CollmannNatasha & David CollmannMarie Crane & Bill KellyRobert DaileyNell & Al DalePaula & Stewart DamoreRena & Richard D’SouzaPam ElrodGreg Edens & Dorothy Drummer

In honor of the Hon. Bea Ann SmithCassandra EwerSam & Maydelle FasonGwen & Bruce FloryR. John & Susan FoxGregory & JoLynn FreeCheryl FullerGerre & Judith HancockWalter & Ann HerbstVan & Jeanne HoisingtonRobert E. HollingsworthNancy & Bobby R. InmanDiane IresonJane JacksonEric Leibrock

In memory of Helen LeaMark LevyKati LewisSheila LummisTrish MerrillMicro-Bac InternationalMilton D. Miller IIIvan Milman & Janie KeysLinda MonkJerele & Elizabeth NeeldTom & Mary Sue Koontz NelsonKaren Ann NorrisRichard E. OrtonRobert Patterson & Diana SellersHonorable Robert PitmanThe Prodicus GroupMilbrey & Bev RaneyJerome RavelDick & Lynn RewJonathan & Kari RiemerSally & Andy RitchRikky Rivers & Jim SchultzJack & Susan RobertsonMichal RosenbergerLarry Sager & Jane CohenPieter & Frances SchenkkanNan SeidenKay SherrillMary Smith & Walter StewartAnna SorensenPatty Speier & Charles WoodruffBrenda & Larry SmithJames StolpaLaFern & Virgil SwiftLois VanLaninghamEvan & Ann Hume WilsonJames Winkle

PatronsAnonymousSandi AitkenBob & Marcia BaileyMark Biemer & Cassandra JamesLinda Ball & Forrest PreecePatrick & Cindy BehlingOla BellLeah BillingsleyPat BlackNancy BowmanEvelyn BoyerChip BuergerPierre & Nancy BulhonToni & Paul BurnsJudy CardinaleRita CarlsonPeggy DanielNancy & Jimmy DavisNina Di Leo

In memory of Dottie WeltonWill Dibrell & Beverly BajemaDoor Number 3Barbara DurhamSusan & Robert Epstein

In honor of Wendi & Brian KushnerSusan Nash FeketySteve GilbertGlenda GoehrsStephen & Stefanie GriffithTom Grimes & Karen KiblerLynette HeckmannJohn Griffin & Lynn KnauppPaul GuttreyJanet HarmanLeroy & Karen HaverlahAnne & Jim HesterJoan & Wayne HoltzmanCarr Hornbuckle & Jack LeiferH. David & Jan Hughes

In honor of the Hon. Bea Ann SmithLauren Hughes & Donald MeagherIBMJudith Jellison & Robert DukeMorris & Marge JohnsonSteve Kahle

In honor of Glenda GoehrsJulie KeimAnn & Bill KleinebeckerMartha KopraCynthia & Greg KozmetskyFrances & Robert KushingNicole LamartineJill & Roger LaneMay LatsonJosh LauerNora LiebermanW. Jackson & Carolyn LongThomas & Alaire LowrySue & Mike MaineMary MatusArthur & Patricia McCormick

In honor of the Hon. Bea Ann SmithVance McMahan

Margaret Menicucci & Michael Whellan

Glenn MillerBonnie MillsAnn MoodyLaura MooreRebecca A. MunizDouglas NelsonLip & Cinnie NorvellPatty OlwellBrian & Lynn PowellFlo Ann RandleSandra & Smith RayLynn & Louis RenaudLari & Tom RoggeBrian Sands HQ83

In memory of Rick ReynoldsPeter Schram & Harry UllmannRussell E. SchulzKatharine B. & Gregory ShieldsSuzanne & John ShoreJames Shultz MDBrenda SmithMargo SmithJim SotirosJanice & John SpencePaul StoneMary StumbergMartha TerryMeredith Thomas &

Walter StroupThomas GraphicsJoy TurmanErich VollmerAlan & Debra WaldropConnie & Robert WebbFrankie WestbrookRichard Zansitis &

Suzanne Mitchell

SustainersClaudia & Stephen

AechternachtShannon ArmstrongAnn BahanBrick & Laura BalvanzJanette BarlowRoss & Kristin BassingerSteven BeebeBridgette BeineckeAmy BlairWendy BloomBette & Whitney BodmanPam BoerstJohn BriggsBillye Jean BrownJo & George BrownTracy BrunoBette-Jo BuhlerAmy BumpusBarbara J. Burnett

In memory of Jake FosterSarah & Ernest ButlerJudy Bush

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James CampbellChris & J. Dennis CavnerPatricia ChericoThomas CollinsRalph Coonrad Maria CorbettCheryl CoswayBecky & Cory CoxLisa & Eric CravenCina M. CrisaraJames & Glenda CroutKarel DahmenMela Sarajane Dailey

& Peter BayPaula D’ArcyRichard J. DavisFaith DeBowDellRobin & Karl DentPaul Dlabal M.D.Derrick DodgeDianne Donovan

& Mitch WatkinsRobert M. DraperSharon DuboiseJames DunnJames ElrodMary FarabeeJanet FaulknerJerry FolsonMerle & Ginna FrankeJoetta & Gregg FreebyDana Friis-Hansen

& Mark HolzbachCaroline FrommholdAnneliese & Robert GeisSue GeorgeMary GiffordMarlene & William GladeDavid & Kay GoffGraves, Dougherty,

Hearon & MoodyAndrew GrayJames & Jo GreenGary GreenblumSam & Suzanne HaddadSally HamiltonMary HatchetteLewis HoffackerBetty HolmesJeffrey Hudson &

Robert BlodgettMelissa HuebschB.J. & Constance IhlenfeldtCassandra James & Mark Bierner

In memory of Karen KuykendallRobert JensenTodd JermstadEllen JockuschCraig Hella Johnson &

Phil Overbaugh Elizabeth JuddStan & Biruta KearlMarguerite Kelly

Ellen KingCecilia KittleyElinor KliewerJacqueline LainEva & Chris LaskarisElaine Doherty LeachKaren & Paul LeekeCatherine & David LightVirginia LivesayKathryn & Don LougheedChien-Chun & Hui-Lan LuCynthia LuxJerome MalekDell MarcouxManuel & Anne MartinezAmanda MastersonBradley & Elizabeth MaximJim MaxwellMarsha McCaryDavid McClellanSandra McKenzieConnie McMillanRicky McSwainVicki L. MoffattJohn & Elizabeth Hansing MoonNancy MooreJanice & Chip MorrisAndy MozisekJudith MunyonRosie & John NiemanAdrian NewcombNona NilandMargaret H. & Philip J. OverbaughJim ParrishCathie ParsleyPete & Elizabeth PaulThom PavlechkoDebbie Peden & Dean Perkins Jeff PettitAnn Phipps & Michael CannattiJim & Nicole PizzitolaAlex & Karen PopeMary PozorskiCheryl & Gary PyleKatherine RaceEdwin Ramos & Elaine SalazarGail RandallCliff ReddNina & Dean ReveringHamilton & Joanne RichardsCheryl RidallGayle & Mike Roche

In memory of Dottie WeltonGayle & Mike Roche

In memory of Miriam KayeGayle & Mike Roche

In memory of Helen LeaLeilani RoseBeverly RossDeborah RuppArthur & Donna RutherfordSafeway, Inc.Mary SangerNona & Andrew Sansom

Dennis SchaffferRhonda SchleicherThomas & Claudia SchurrDavid SchwarzMitzi ScottJoan & Lindsay SharpeMarilyn SharrattAmy & Norman ShipherdTerry ShookTed SmithJohn & Mary SommerDan SpenceD. C. (Don) & Nancy SpencerRobyn SperlingCindy & Bryan SperryMichael & Carol StehlingBarbara & Bruce StevensonVirginia StottsKeith StuckyJoe & Rose SullivanWilliam & Mary Ellen SullivanJack SwanzyMarion Lear SwaybillGayle & Thomas TolerMollie TowerNancy TownsendNicki & Scott Turman

In memory of Norma TurmanMarie Van RoekelCynthia VanderbergFred ViehwegDebra & Alan WaldropCarol WalkerJeannette G. WalkerBen WearKendra WeltonAlex & Veda WhiteMarianne & Stewart WilkinsonJean Rogers WinchellBarbara YarbroughHilary & Stan YoungJoyce Zehr & Marvin BurkeDavid Zersen

Conspirare also thanks all donors of gifts under $100 and regrets that space does not permit the listing of each name. Your support is equally appreciated.

We strive to publish an accurate donor list. If an error or omission is noticed, please let us know.

2010 SPRING fUNDRAISERhIDDEN MUSIC V

Premier Table SponsorsFran & Larry CollmannJeff & Gail Kodosky

Prime Table Sponsors & hostsWendi & Brian KushnerPamela & Scott ReichardtCarolyn & Marc SeriffGene Alice & Max ShermanSheila & Ryan Youngblood

Preferred Table Sponsors & hostsSandi Aitken Marcia & Bob BaileyRay & Karen BrimbleRobert & Pat Brueck Annette Carlozzi &

Dan BullockDavid & Janis ClaflinCrutch & Danna CrutchfieldCynthia KeeverEric Leibrock & Ellen JusticeThe Honorable Bea Ann Smith Mary StephensonCatherine & David Wildermuth

DonorsStanley & Deborah AdamsKen & Joyce Beck Bill Bednar & Flo Ann RandlePat BlackMike & Ginger BlairDuane & Barbara BoydMary & Elliott BrayAmy BumpusPaul & Toni BurnsAnn ByrdChris CavnerMike ChesserGene & Rosalie ChilesJo Anne ChristianDavid & Kathy ClemAlvin & Penny CowanMarie CraneCina CrisaraJeri DeAngelisTom Driscoll & Nancy QuinnBryan DunkinSusan & Robert EpsteinSusan FinkelsteinChris & Claire FlynnNick FoxCheryl FullerRhiannon GammillHelen & Bob HaysSusan & John HintonEric HungateCraig Hella JohnsonRobert & Trish KarliLisa Kastleman

Jeannie & Michael KleinBill & Lou Ann LasherMay & Jack LatsonJodi LazarNora LiebermanSheila LummisTom Mason & Janis MongerDebe & Kevin McKeandDavid MinterHolly MooreLouise MorseJennifer & Fred MyersJerele & Elizabeth NeeldBill Norris &

Custom Libations, Inc.Stu PhillipsForrest Preece & Linda BallK.C. Ptomey & Carol TateJulie Puentes & Bridges SolutionsLinda RamseyCliff ReddSara ReichardtNina ReveringNed RifkinThe RKGroup –

Catering by RosemaryGayle Glass & Mike RocheChristy SalinasDonna SalinasNancy ScanlanNancyellen SeidenKirk SmithMargo SmithTerry SmithAl & Kay StowellJ & Kate SulesterBernadette TasherKerry TateTen Thousand WavesSusanne Tetzlaff & Eric TiblierErich VollmerGláucia Vasconcelos WilkeyTed Wardlaw & Kay BryantMolly WearConnie & Robert WebbFrankie WestbrookEvan & Ann Hume WilsonEva & Marvin WomackTricia YostRichard Zansitis

Conspirare appreciates these 225 attendees (a new record) at Hidden Music V. Our generous table sponsors and donors (including single ticket buyers, auction bidders, and “Paddles Up” donors) raised $108,000 to support Conspirare’s world-class concerts, recordings, and educational activities.

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Austin American Statesman Austin Bella Corda – Kevin TaylorAustin Chronicle Ron Baker & Annes McCann*Bruce BiermannBlanton Museum of ArtWhit & Bette Bodman*Linda Buehlmann*Anne & Sam Byars*Ann Byrd*Julie CartersonChris CavnerChez ZeeCatherine & David Clark*Clark, Thomas & WintersFran & Larry Collmann*Vicki Dunlevy*Anne & Ray EllisonJames ElrodMichelle FisherMary GiffordKathryn GovierHelen HaysJeanne HenryEd & Sara Hill*Hornaday Design KGSR-FM – Sommer Novak, Gary WeaverKMFA-FM – Joan Kobayashi, Dianne Donovan, Jeffrey Blair, Sara Hessel, Lauren RicoKUT-FM – John AielliBill & Lou Ann Lasher*Eric LeibrockLong Center for the Performing Arts - Shaady Ghadessi, Tony Jilek, Box Office StaffEd & Eileen Lundy*Al & Leslie Martinich*Nancy MichalewiczLouise Morse*Bill Nemir* Christopher Novosad, Tiki2.comPhilip OverbaughNina & Dean Revering*St. Martin’s Lutheran Church – Thom PavlechkoSt. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Austin – Jean FullerBea Ann Smith*South Texas Money Management – Jeanie Wyatt, Josie CoinerMary Stephenson*Tarrytown United Methodist ChurchBernadette Tasher *TesCom, Inc.Texas Performing Arts at UT-AustinVeryan & Greg ThompsonVictoria Bach Festival – Nina di LeoAndrew Yates PhotographyJason & Vicki Zagrodzky*

* Special thanks to Artist Hospitality Volunteers

VICTORIA BACH FESTIVAL

Thanks to the following individuals for their help with the June 6 performance:

Most Rev. Wm. Michael Mulvey, STL, DD Lee Gwozdz, Director of Music,

Corpus Christi Cathedral/Concert Series Executive DirectorRachel Vasquez, Administrative Assistant,

Cathedral Music Ministry/Concert Series Russ Martin, KLUX RadioWilbur Collins, ConcertronicsGeorge and Joyce Matthews, AudiovisualMatthew Schneider, Stage Management

c r e at i V e t e a mCraig Hella JohnsonJoey MartinMichelle Schumann

e X e c U t i V e d i r e c t o rNina Di Leo

B o a r d o F d i r e c t o r sJohn Griffin, PresidentJohn Quitta, Vice PresidentPaula Cobler, TreasurerStella Silva, SecretaryLori BurrisCarol FoxKelly GarrettLisa HernandezAnn HerbstLucy HerreraTim HornbackDr. Deidra HudsonDr. Michael HummelRick JonesRobert KarliErnestine KidderJohn MoraidaSylvia QuilantanGeri SchroederTiffany ShafferSally StansellDr. William J. WagnerBruce A. WeiseMatt WickhamLexey Wright

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The Bach Cantata Project proudly supports the artistry of Conspirare Listen to the awe inspiring sound of Bach in The Blanton Museum’s Rapoport Atrium. Performances include a connection with an artwork in the museum’s galleries. Held the last Tuesday of selected months, the program is included with the price of admission, and free to Blanton Members and current University of Texas students, faculty, and staff. 2010-2011 performances will be announced soon.

CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

The Victoria Bach Festival musicians, board of directors, and staff extend thanks to the following underwriters for makingthe June 6 performance in the Corpus Christi Cathedral possible:

Rebecca KieschnickShelia and Rick RogersHarris & Greenwell, L.L.P.

First VictoriaWells FargoLaw Office of Perry & Haas

English & Clemons, L.L.P.Peggy Girod & Warren W. Freeman In memory of Rev. Monsignor Robert E. Freeman P.H.

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Michael Long Photography

www.MichaelLongArt.com

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PERFORMiNG NOTEConspirare has the privilege of performing in a variety of beautiful venues. We seek out acoustical and aesthetic environments that can best enhance choral performances and we are deeply grateful to our hosts. While our performing venues may represent specific traditions and the texts of some of our repertoire may also be representative of specific traditions, it is in no way intended to be exclusive of any individual whose experience or set of beliefs is not represented.

Conspirare respects and celebrates the great diversity of religious, artistic, and human experiences represented among our singers and audience members. Our shared musical experiences are intended to bring us together as we all seek to be inspired by the power of great choral music. The audience creates the space in which the music is held.

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Sing Freedom: African American Spirituals Conspirare sings some of the most popular repertoire in the ensemble’s history. Hear old favorites and new surprises, performed with Conspirare’s signature joy and artistry.

September 30, GeorgetownOctober 1-3, AustinOctober 5, Goshen, Indiana

Christmas at the Carillon Conspirare’s beloved annual collage of music for the holidays. Guest artist Patrice Pike returns by popular demand.

December 2, VictoriaDecember 3, San AntonioDecember 4-5, The Carillon, AustinDecember 6, The Long Center, Austin

(Carillon Gala)

Renaissance and Response: Polyphony Then and NowFour different programs in three days explore the evolution of polyphony – the harmonious weaving together of many voices – from the Renaissance to the present. Each concert will premiere a new work by Robert Kyr (“A Time for Life”) written in response to the early masters. An extraordinary musical journey through time.

January 21-23, Austin

Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina:A Celebration of DiversityConspirare, the Conspirare Symphonic Choir, and Victoria Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra perform the Texas premiere of the acclaimed Puerto Rican composer’s buoyant work, which received a 2009 Grammy® nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

June 11, VictoriaJune 12, Austin

Conspirare Youth ChoirsHoliday concert “Across the Pond”

December 10-11, Austin Spring concert “Awakening”

May 6-7, Austin

Tickets on sale in early summer. Order from 2010-2011 season brochure to be mailed soon, online at conspirare.org, or call 512-476-5775.

This is Conspirare2010-2011 Season