Monday Evening, January 18, 2016, at 7:00Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage

Changing Lives through the Power of Performance

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

presents

The Music of Karl JenkinsJONATHAN GRIFFITH, DCINY Artistic Director

and Principal ConductorKARL JENKINS, Composer-in-Residence

Distinguished Concerts OrchestraDistinguished Concerts Singers International

KARL JENKINS Songs of Sanctuary (for treble voices) I. Adiemus II. Tintinnabulum III. Cantus Inaequalis IV. Cantus Insolitus V. In Caelum Fero VI. Cantus Iteratus VII. Amaté Adea VIII. Kayama IX. Hymn JOANIE BRITTINGHAM, Soprano KATHERINE PRACHT, Mezzo-Soprano IRIS DERKE, Recorder

KARL JENKINS Te Deum PENNSBURY HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR PENNSBURY COMMUNITY CHORUS (PA)

Intermission

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KARL JENKINS The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace Accompanied by the film The Armed Man I. The Armed Man II. The Call to Prayers III. Kyrie IV. Save Me from Bloody Men V. Sanctus VI. Hymn Before Action VII. Charge! VIII. Angry Flames IX. Torches X. Agnus Dei XI. Now the Guns Have Stopped XII. Benedictus XIII. Better Is Peace JOANIE BRITTINGHAM, Soprano KATHERINE PRACHT, Mezzo-Soprano PETER SCOTT DRACKLEY, Tenor MICHAEL SCARCELLE, Baritone ALMEDIN JASHARI, Muezzin

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Warner Classics will host a post-concert signing with Sir Karl Jenkins in the Rose Museum immediately following the performance. Copies of his new autobiography Still With The Music, and the

accompanying CD, are available for purchase in the Carnegie Hall Bookstore.

Notes ON THE PROGRAM

Adiemus was the first project in whichKarl Jenkins combined European musicwith traditions from other cultures. Thecollection, written for voices and instru-ments, is a series of albums that startedwith the release Adiemus: Songs ofSanctuary in 1995. Unlike traditionalchoral works however, the composercreated the text using newly inventedwords. In doing this Jenkins was able tohave greater control of vocal tone with-out the restrictions of literary themesand the rules of language. The effect ispowerful and allows for the voices toact more like instruments using phonet-ics to create different sonic effects.

In the mid-1990s Delta Airlinesapproached Jenkins and asked him tocompose “something ethnic” for a com-mercial. The result was Adiemus. InAdiemus: Songs of Sanctuary the scoringdemonstrates this “ethnic” approach,particularly using sub-Sahara Africaninfluences. A feature of traditionalAfrican group singing is the incorpora-tion of large amounts of un-pitched per-cussion. The first album reflects thiswith scoring for voices, solo recorder,strings, and eight percussion parts. Therelentless drumming has a magical hyp-notic quality and serves as a wonderfulaccompaniment to the harmonizedvocal forces. From the same release, InCaelum Fero, begins with forcefulstabbed strings. This is followed by theintroduction of a number of repeated

patterns that interlock to create a com-pound-time meter, reminiscent of manydances from different cultures aroundthe world.

The second collection of works in thisproject was Adiemus II: CantataMundi (1997). The orchestra wasexpanded greatly from the previouswork, adding woodwind, a large brassensemble, and a number of non-westerninstruments from across the continentsincluding: Indian tabla, West Africanudo pot and the Brazilian pandeiro,Song of the Spirit demonstrates the larg-er forces from the outset with a power-ful brass introduction and imaginativeorchestrations throughout. Songs ofthe Plains starts with unaccompaniedvoices, very much in the style of SouthAfrican vocal traditions. The phoneticsounds of “ba, ma, ka” are much harderthan in some of the more ecclesiasticalLatin influenced texts and are closer toZulu and other sub-Saharan languages.

These excerpts from the Adiemus col-lection draw influence from a numberof different cultures, fused with westernchoral traditions to demonstrate a trulycross-pollinated compositional style.

—Program note used with kind permis-sion from Raymond Gubbay Limited.

Michael McLeish © Raymond GubbayLtd.

KARL JENKINS Songs of Sanctuary (for treble voices)Performance time: 54 minutes

The Te Deum was commissioned by theLiverpool’s European City of Culture2008 celebrations. The work was pre-miered at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool,with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Orchestra, with the composer conduct-ing on November 30, 2008. It is in onecontinuous 15-minute movement.

—Karl Jenkins

KARL JENKINS Te DeumPerformance time: 15 minutes

The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace isthe result of a special millennial commis-sion from the Royal Armouries and thelatest in a six-century-old tradition of“Armed Man” masses that take the15th-century French song L’HommeArmé as their starting point. The themethat the Armed Man must be feared,which is the message of the song, seemedpainfully relevant to the 20th centuryand so the idea was born to commissiona modern “Armed Man Mass.”

The Mass begins with the beat ofdrums, the orchestra gradually buildingto the choir’s entrance, singing the 15th-century theme tune “The Armed Man.”After the scene is set, the style and pacechange, and we are prepared for reflec-tion by first the Muslim Call to Prayers(Adhaan) and then the Kyrie. Next, to aplainsong setting, we hear words fromthe Psalms asking for God’s help againstour enemies. The “Sanctus” that fol-lows is full of menace, and has aprimeval, tribal character that adds toits power. The menace grows in the nextmovement as Kipling’s “Hymn BeforeAction” builds to its final devastatingline, “Lord grant us strength to die.”

War is now inevitable. “Charge!”opens with a seductive paean to martialglory which is followed by the

inevitable consequence—war in all itsuncontrolled cacophony of destruction,then the eerie silence of the battlefieldafter the battle and, finally, the burialof the dead. Surely nothing can beworse than this? But think again. At thevery center of the work is “AngryFlames,” an excerpt from a poemabout the horrors of the atom bombattack on Hiroshima.

The “Agnus Dei,” with its lyricalchorale theme, reminds us of Christ’sultimate sacrifice. The “Benedictus”heals those wounds in its slow and statelyaffirmation of faith and leads us to thefinal, positive climax of the work. Thisbegins back where we started in the 15thcentury with Lancelot and Guinevere’sdeclaration, born of bitter experience,that peace is better than war.

The Armed Man: A Mass For Peacereceived its world premiere in April2000 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Ina rapturous performance, by turns vis-ceral and ethereal, the Mass was “a firebomb of orchestral and human voices”(The London Times) that drew “pro-longed shouts of approval from theaudience” (The Independent).

—Guy Wilson, Master of The Armouries,

Britain’s oldest National Museum

KARL JENKINS The Armed Man: A Mass for PeacePerformance time: 63 minutes

Accompanied by the film The Armed Man Produced by Hefin Owen and Edited by Chris Lawrence

Texts and Translations

Te DeumKARL JENKINS

Te Deum laudamus:Te Dominum confitemur.Te aeternum PatremOmnis terra veneratur.Tibi omnes Angeli, Tibi Caeli et universae Potestates,Tibi Cherubim et SeraphimIncessabili voce proclamant:Sanctus: Sanctus: Sanctus:Dominus Deus Sabaoth.Pieni sunt caeli et terraMajestatis gloriae tuae.Te gloriosus Apostulorum chorus,Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus,Te Martyrum candidatusLaudat exercitus.Le per orbem terrariumSancta confitetur EcclesiaPatrem immensae majestatisVenerandum tuum verum, et unicumFilium:Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum.Tu Rex gloriae, Christe.Tu patris sempiternus es Filius.Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem,Non horruisti Virginis uterum.Tu devicto mortis aculeo, Aperuisti Credentibus regna caelorum.

We praise thee, O God;We acknowledge thee to be the Lord.All the earth doth worship thee,The Father everlasting.To thee all Angels,the Heavens, and all the Powers,The Cherubim and SeraphimProclaim without ceasing:Holy, Holy, Holy,Lord God of Hosts!The heavens and the earthAre full of the majesty of thy glory.The glorious chorus of the Apostles,The admirable company of the Prophets,The white-robed army of MartyrsPraises thee.Throughout the whole worldThe holy Church gives praise to thee,The Father of infinite majesty;They praise your admirable, true, andonly Son;And also the Holy Spirit, our Advocate.You are the King of glory, O Christ.You are the eternal Son of the Father.To deliver us, you became human,And did not disdain the Virgin’s womb.You having blunted of death sting,Opened the kingdom of heaven to all Believers.

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Songs of SanctuaryKARL JENKINS

Songs of Sanctuary is an extended choral-type work based on the European classicaltradition, but where the vocal sound is more akin to “ethnic” or “world” music. Theidea was to have some thematic unity within the work as a whole, rather than a col-lection of disparate pieces in song form.

The structure of Songs of Sanctuary are influenced, in the main, by classical form, egmodified rondo, ternary, da capo aria. This is of extra importance because of the lackof lyric message that sustains conventional song form. The text was written phonet-ically with the words viewed as instrumental sound, the idea being to maximize themelisma (an expressive vocal phrase) by removing the distraction, if one can call itthat, of words. The sound is universal, as is the language of music.

—Karl Jenkins

Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes, in gloriaPatris,Ludex crederis esse venturus.Te ergo quaesumus, tuis famulis subveni:

Quos pretioso sanguine redemisti.Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis

In gloria numerari.Salvum fac populum tuum, Dormine,Et benedic haereditati tuae.Et rege eos, et extolle illosUsque in aeternum.Per singulos dies, benedicimus te;Et laudamus nomen tuum in saeculum etIn saeculum saeculi.Dignare, Domine, die isto sinePeccato nos custodire.Miserere nostri, Domine,Miserere nostri.Fiat Misericordia tua, Domine, super nos,Quemadmodum speravimus in te.In te Domine, speravi:Non confundar in aeternum.

You sit at the right hand of God, in theGlory of The Father, you are believedto Be the Judge Who will come.Therefore, we beseech you, come to theAid of Your servants, whom you haveRedeemed by Your precious blood.Make them to be numbered with thysaintsin Glory everlasting.Save your people, O Lord,And bless your inheritance. Govern them, and extol themFrom now into eternity.Day by day, we bless thee;And we praise your name for ever, yea,For ever and ever.Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this dayWithout sin.Have mercy upon us, O Lord,Have mercy upon us.Let thy mercy be upon us, O Lord,As we have trusted in thee.In thee, O Lord, I have trusted:Let me never be confounded.

The Armed Man: A Mass For PeaceKARL JENKINS

I. The Armed ManL’Homme Armé, written 1450-64

L’homme armé doit on douter.On a fait partout crier,Que chacun se viegne armerD’un haubregon de fer.

The armed man must be feared.Everywhere it has been decreedThat every man should arm himselfWith an iron coat of mail.

II. The Call to Prayers (Adhaan)Traditional. Sung in Arabic.

Allah is the greatest.I bear Witness that there is no god but AllahI bear Witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah

Come fast to prayer. Come fast to the success.Allah is the greatest.There is no god but Allah.

IV. Save Me from Bloody MenBe merciful unto me, O God:For man would swallow me upHe fighting daily oppresseth meMine enemies would daily swallow me up,For they be many that fight against me.O thou most high.

Defend me from them that rise up against me.Deliver me from the workers of iniquityAnd save me from bloody men.The Bible, Psalm 56

III. KyrieKyrie eleison.Christe eleison.Kyrie eleison.

Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Lord, have mercy.

V. SanctusSanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus,Dominus Deus Sabaoth.Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.Hosanna in excelsis.

VI. Hymn Before ActionRUDYARD KIPLING

The earth is full of anger,The seas are dark with wrath,The Nations in their harnessGo up against our path;Ere yet we loose the legions—Ere yet we draw the blade,Jehovah of the Thunders,Lord God of Battles, aid!High lust and forward bearProud heart, rebellious browDead ear and soul uncaring,We seek they mercy now!The sinner that forswore Thee,The fool that passed Thee by,Our times are known before TheeLord grant us strength to die!

Holy, Holy HolyLord God of HostsHeaven and earth are fully of Thy glory.Hosanna in the highest.

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VII. Charge!The trumpet’s loud clangorExcites us to ArmsWith shrill notes of AngerAnd mortal AlarmsSong for Saint Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden

How blest is he who for his country diesTo the Earl of Oxford after Horace by Jonathan Swift

The double beatOf the thundering drumCries, Hark the Foes come;Charge, Charge, tis too late to retreatDrydenHow blest is he who for his country diesSwift

Charge, chargeDryden

VIII. Angry FlamesTOGI SANKICHITranslation by Richard H. Minnear

Pushing up through smokeFrom a world half darkenedBy overhanging cloud The shroud that mushroomed outAnd struck the dome of the skyBlack, Red, BlueDance in the air,Merge,Scatter glittering sparks,Already towerOver the whole city

Quivering like seaweed, the mass of flamesspurts forward.Popping up in the dense smoke,Crawling outWreathed in fire:Countless human beingsOn all fours.In a heap of embers that erupt and subside,Hair rent,Rigid in death,There smoulders a curse

IX. TorchesThe Mahábharáta

The animals scattered in all directions,screaming terrible screams.Many were burning, others were burnt.All were shattered and scattered mindlessly, their eyes bulging.Some hugged their songs, others their fathers and mothers,Unable to let them go, and so they died.Others leapt up in their thousands, faces disfiguredAnd were consumed by the Fire. Everywhere were bodiesSquirming on the ground, wings, eyes, and paws all burning.They breathed their last as living torches.

X. Agnus DeiAgnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi,miserere nobis.Angus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi,dona nobis pacem.

O Lamb of God, that takest away thesinof the world, have mercy on us.O Lamb of God, that takest away thesinof the world, grant us Thy peace.

XI. Now the Guns Have StoppedGuy Wilson

Silent, So silent, now, Now the guns have stopped.I have survived all, I, who knew I would not.But now you are not here.I shall go home, alone;And must try to live life as before,And hide my grief For you, my dearest friend,Who should be with me now,Not cold, too soon,And in your grave,Alone.

XII. BenedictusBenedictus qui venit in nomineDomini.Hosanna in excelsis.

Blessed is he that cometh in the nameof the Lord.Hosanna in the Highest.

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Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.Ring out the old, ring in the new.Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.Ring out old shapes and foul disease;Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old.Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and freeThe larger heart, the kindlier hand;Ring out the darkness of the land;Ring in the Christ that is to be.In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson

…God shall wipe away all tears…And there shall be no more deathNeither sorrow nor cryingNeither shall there be any more pain.Praise the Lord.The Bible, Revelation 21.4

L’homme armé doit on douter.On a fait partout crier,Que chacun se viegne armerd’un haubregon de fer.

The armed man must be feared.Everywhere it has been decreedThat every man should arm himselfWith an iron coat of mail.

XIII. Better Is PeaceLancelot – Better is peace than always warGuinevere – And better is peace than evermore war—Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

THE Artists

An acclaimed conductor, educator, andlecturer, Jonathan Griffith has led per-formances across North America, Europe,and Asia. Maestro Griffith is co-founderand artistic director of DistinguishedConcerts International New York(DCINY), which has brought together,under his artistic leadership, thousandsof musicians and choral singers in con-cert at prestigious venues across theUnited States, including Carnegie Hall,Lincoln Center, and Disney Hall. Thefounder and music director of theDistinguished Concerts Orchestra,Maestro Griffith also oversees DCINY’smentoring program for conductors.

He made his Carnegie Hall conductingdebut in 1989 and has since conductedwell over 65 performances at CarnegieHall and Lincoln Center combined. Inaddition to the major works of the clas-sical repertoire, conducting highlightsinclude the U.S. premieres of KarlJenkins’ Stabat Mater, The Armed Man,and Te Deum, Sergei Taneyev’s UponReading a Psalm, Miloš Bok’s MissaSolemnis, Luigi Boccherini’s Villancicos,and Eugene Goossens’ re-orchestrationof Handel’s Messiah, along with worldpremieres by Eric Funk, SeymourBernstein, and Robert Convery. Hisadditional conducting credits include theMormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt LakeCity; Manhattan Philharmonic and NewEngland Symphonic Ensemble, both atCarnegie Hall; The European SymphonyOrchestra in Spain; Bohuslava MartinPhilharmonia and Philharmonia Chorus,Virtuosi Pragensis Chamber Orchestra,Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, andDvorák Chamber Orchestra, in theCzech Republic; and the Bialystok State

Philharmonic in Poland, as well asnumerous regional orchestras and cho-ruses across the United States.

The Jonathan Griffith Singers, an ensem-ble drawn from singers across NorthAmerica and founded in 1987, has madeits mark internationally. In recent yearsDr. Griffith has led the Singers on highlyacclaimed tours to Uruguay andArgentina; to the People’s Republic ofChina, premiering Karl Jenkins’ TheArmed Man: A Mass for Peace inBeijing and Shanghai; and to Pisa, Italy.Dr. Griffith and the Jonathan GriffithSingers toured Turkey in June of 2013performing the acclaimed Turkish ora-torio Yunus Emre by A. Adnan Saygunin Istanbul with the Cemal Re it ReyOrchestra and in Ankara and Eskin ehirwith the Presidential Orchestra at theinvitation of the TURKSOY govern-mental agency. Dr. Griffith along withthe Distin guished Concerts Orchestrais the 2014 winner of the AmericanPrize in Con ducting, professionalorchestra division, and a semi-finalistin the 2015 competition.

JONATHAN GRIFFITH, DCINY Co-founder, Artistic Director,Principal Conductor

Dr. Griffith received his DMA in con-ducting from the Conservatory ofMusic/University of Missouri-KansasCity, a master’s in music education

from Wichita State University, andbachelor of music education from theUniversity of Kansas.

A recent exhaustive survey shows thatKarl Jenkins is now the most performedliving composer in the world. Educatedat Gowerton Grammar School, CardiffUniversity, and the Royal Academy ofMusic, London, The Armed Man: AMass for Peace alone has been performednearly 1,000 times in 20 different coun-tries since the CD was released while hisrecorded output has resulted in 17 goldand platinum disc awards. Renault,Volvos, C&G, Tag Heuer, Pepsi, andU.S./global campaigns for De Beers andDelta Airlines, and Bafta “gongs” for hisscores for the documentaries The Celtsand Testament. After this period as amedia composer, his return to the musicmainstream was initially marked by thesuccess of the Adiemus project. Adiemus,combining the classical with ethnic vocalsounds and percussion with an inventedlanguage, topped classical and pop chartsaround the world.

His output includes the harp concertoOver The Stone commissioned by HRHthe Prince of Wales for the RoyalHarpist, Catrin Finch; Euphonium

Concerto for David Childs; the concer-tante Quirk, commissioned by theLondon Symphony Orchestra and con-ducted by Sir Colin Davies as part of its2005 centenary season; Tlep written forvirtuoso violinist Marat Bisengaliev;and In These Stones Horizons Sing, fea-turing Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch, withthe WNO Orchestra & Chorus whichwas premiered at the Royal Gala open-ing of the Welsh Millennium Centre inthe presence of Her Majesty The Queen.

In summer of 2005 he scored the featurefilm River Queen starring Kiefer Suther -land and Samantha Morton, the sound-track of which won the Golden Gobletaward for best score at the ShanghaiFilm Festival. His CD releases on EMIClassics include Requiem; Kiri SingsKarl with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa; ThisLand of Ours with the Cory Band(world brass band champions); StabatMater; Quirk, a collection of concertoswhich includes La Folia, commissionedby Dame Evelyn Glennie; Stella Natalis;and Gloria, premiered by a chorus of2,500 at the RAH in July 2010.

In 2004 he entered Classic FM’s Hall ofFame at No. 8, the highest position for aliving composer and has since been thehighest-placed living composer, while in2006 he was named No. 4 among Britishcomposers. 2012 saw Mr. Jenkins releaseThe Peacemakers CD on EMI Classics,which reached Number One on the UKClassical Charts and after its concert per-formance debut at Carnegie Hall, wasperformed on a sell-out UK concert tourin Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff,Dublin, and London’s Royal FestivalHall with the composer conducting.

KARL JENKINS, Composer-in-Residence

Joanie Brittingham, soprano, has beennoted for her “full-bodied voice”(Tulsa World) and “vivacious stagepresence” (Greenville News), “dramaticversatility” (Opera News) and “luciddiction” (New York Times). She recentlyperformed with Riverside Theatre,IconoClassic Opera, and ChelseaOpera, and has performed with theNew Works Festival with OPERAAmerica, American Lyric Theatre,Opera Lancaster, GLOW Lyric Theatre,New York Lyric Opera, Light OperaOklahoma, Peach State Opera, andWichita Grand Opera, among others.Ms. Brittingham’s performancesinclude recitals with the Market StreetArts Festival, New York Opera on Tap,and the Creagan Arts Series. She was afinalist in the Fritz and Lavinia JensenCompetition in 2014, and a semifinalistin the International Concours de Chantde Clermont Ferrand in 2015. Ms.

Brittingham has two masters degreesfrom Baylor University, in voice per-formance and music history and litera-ture, and obtained her undergraduatedegree from West Virginia University invoice performance and theater. She isfeatured on the album Songs of RobertBurns, available on iTunes.

JOANIE BRITTINGHAM, Soprano

Mr. Jenkins is signed to DeutscheGrammophon Records and his firstrelease was a return to Adiemus, titledColores; it has a Latin theme and fea-tures performances from Rolando

Villzon, Portuguese Fado singer CucaRoseta, guitarist Milos Karadaglic,Pacho Flores trumpet, and the AdiemusSingers from Finland. Colores wasreleased in June 2013.

In the 2014–15 season mezzo-sopranoKatherine Pracht made a role debut asSharon Falconer in Elmer Gantry withFlorentine Opera, another role debut asAriel in the world premiere of JosephSummer’s The Tempest for TheShakespeare Concerts in Boston, fol-lowed by covering the role of Baroness“Nica” in Daniel Schnyder’s CharlieParker’s YARDBIRD comissioned forOpera Philadelphia, and a role debut ofFlora Bervoix in Opera Philadelphia’s Latraviata. Ms. Pracht was the Alto Solostin Verdi’s Requiem in Florence, SouthCarolina; and most recently sang

KATHERINE PRACHT, Mezzo-Soprano

Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde withthe York Symphony. Upcoming engage-ments include Lieberson’s Neruda Songswith Grand Rapids Symphony, two ArtSong concerts in Sarasota andPhiladelphia, and the role of FlorenceWilliams in a workshop of SusanKander’s new opera The News FromPoems. Highlights from previous sea-sons include Ms. Pracht’s Carnegie Halldebut as Alto Soloist in Verdi’s Requiem,Der Trommler in Der Kaiser vonAtlantis for Central City Opera with theColorado Symphony, two concerts with

the Georgia Symphony Orchestra andChorus singing John Corigliano’s FernHill and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky,her international/ Radio France debutsinging Dorabella in Così fan tutte withLyrique-en-mer Festival in Belle-ile, andher Avery Fisher Hall debut inSchumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faustwith the American Symphony Orches -tra. Ms. Pracht has been a MetropolitanOpera Competition Regional finalist inSan Antonio, Memphis, and twice inMinneapolis, where, in 2006, she wonthe Outstanding Mezzo Award.

Lauded by The Baltimore Sun as having“an impressive lyric tenor voice…sum-moning credible emotional intensity,”Peter Scot Drackley was featured onNational Public Radio’s All ThingsConsidered premiering Derrick Wang’snew opera Scalia/Ginsburg at theSupreme Court. A former student atPeabody Conservatory and currently astudent of world renowned sopranoDiana Soviero, Mr. Drackley has per-formed such operatic roles as Gerald(Lakmé), Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s

Progress), Male Chorus (The Rape ofLucretia), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), andAlfredo (La traviata), and frequentlyperforms as the tenor soloist in oratorioand symphonic works, includingBeethoven’s 9th Symphony, Handel’sMessiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, andmany others. Mr. Drackley recentlydebuted with the Utah Festival Opera &Musical Theatre in the role of Rodolfoin La bohéme and Haydn’s Creation atthe National Cathedral, as well as cov-ering Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Toscawith Skylight Music Theatre and Vassiliin Giordano’s Siberia with New YorkCity’s Teatro Grattacielo. His upcomingseason includes singing Remendado inBizet’s Carmen with New York City’sVenture Opera, Beethoven’s MissaSolemnis with the Helena Symphony,and scenes from the world premiereopera As You Like It at the StrathmoreMansion. Mr. Drackley will be anapprentice artist with Santa Fe Opera,singing Benvolio in Gounod’s Romeo etJuliette and covering Joe in La Fanciulladel West. For more information, pleasevisit www.peterscottdrackley.com.

PETER SCOTT DRACKLEY, Tenor

Described by The New York Times as“a forbidding, resonant bass-baritone,”Michael Scarcelle’s recent performancesinclude Figaro in The Marriage ofFigaro with Opera Theatre ofPittsburgh; Pedruzzi in AmericanSymphony Orchestra’s Mona Lisa atCarnegie Hall; Herrmann Augustus inCandide with Leipzig MDR SymphonyOrchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Lon -don Symphony Orchestra and DieDeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen;Papageno in Magic Flute and Pirate Kingin Pirates of Penzance with AnchorageOpera; Poo-Bah in Mikado with bothMobile Opera and Shreveport Opera;Hydrogen Jukebox with Skylight MusicTheatre; Demetrius in A MidsummerNight’s Dream with Opera Naples;Melchior in Amahl and Beaupertuis inNino Rota’s Italian Straw Hat withAmarillo Opera; Alidoro in LaCenerentola with Salt Marsh Opera;Death in Holst’s Savitri with LittleOpera Theater of New York; andElviro in Serse with Boston Baroque,for which Opera News wrote “bassMichael Scarcelle possessed an appeal-ing, charismatic stage presence and aspot-on sense of comic timing reminis-cent of a young Cary Grant.”

Mr. Scarcelle made his European debutsinging Crespel in Les Contes

d’Hoffmann with Festival lyrique inter-national de Belle-Ile en Mer andreturned as Schaunard in La bohéme.Other performances abroad includeEscamillo in Carmen and Figaro in Lenozze di Figaro with VolkstheaterRostock. Concert engagements includea return to Carnegie Hall as bass soloistfor both the Duruflé Requiem andFauré Requiem with New York CityChamber Orchestra, Händel’s Messiahwith Distinguished Concerts Intern -ational New York at Avery Fisher Hall,Bach’s Magnificat (internationally tele-vised from the National Cathedral),Messiah with Norddeutsche Philhar -monie, and Mozart’s Mass in C minorwith Yale Symphony Orchestra.www.michaelscarcelle.com

MICHAEL SCARCELLE, Baritone

PERFORMING ARTS PARTNERS

DCINY would like to thank our Performing Arts Partners, who, with their financial support,have made this performance possible.

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Ruben BanzerIris BarbaGiles BarberSue BarberPilar BarbosaChloe BarclayHarold BarnabyEthan BarrElizabeth BarrettHelen BartonFlorence BassaniniJoe BattagliaAlexandra BausingerBirgit BayerCharlotte BealeBarbara BeckerTraugott BeckerFiona BellJames BellCharlotte BendellAnnachiara BertonFrancesca BertonDavid BethellRosie BethellKirsten BinderEleanor BishopEliza Blackwell

Carl BlanchaerAbigail BlandHanna BläsiHarri BläsiLucy BlitzBenediktBlumenroederRenate BlumenroederHannah BoddyHermine BoeckmannRuediger BoeckmannKirsten BollerStefanie BollhalderAnna BondererAnna BonnerjeaMarie ThérèseBordiauxKimberley BowkerKiera BoyleStephen BoyleClaire BrascoupeValentina BrasnicHans-JochenBraunsteinThilo BräutigamMichael BrennanRachel Bresnan

Cindy BriggmanPeter BrockTyler BrownIsobel BurtonLynn ButlerAnn ButterfieldEmily CampaniniMary I. CampbellSarah CampbellPaula CandauAndrea CanoDaniel CanosaHannah CaroeTabi CaroeJoanne CarrCharlie CarterHannah CartySeraina CastelbergMaria CastroBhavinaChandramohanErica CherepkoJane Chesire-AllenJasmine ChiltonAnastasia ClaytonIsabella CoeMadeline Coles

DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONAL

Bath Spa University Choir (UK), Francis Faux, DirectorCantiChor Sargans (Switzerland), Harri J. Blaesi, DirectorCantoria Macon (France), Florence Bassanini, Vice PresidentChrist’s School Choir (UK), Philip Wilson, DirectorColeraine Grammar School Chamber Choir (UK), Richard K. McCreery, DirectorFirst Presbyterian Chancel Choir San Anselmo (CA), Daniel Canosa, DirectorGiovani Cantori dell’Accademia Vocale di Genova (Italy), Roberta Paraninfo, DirectorLincoln Choral Society (UK), Julia Woodthorpe, DirectorLucis Choir (UK), Francis Faux, DirectorOakham House Choir of Ryerson University (Canada), Matthew Jaskiewicz, DirectorPennsbury Community Chorus (PA), James D. Moyer, DirectorPennsbury High School Concert Choir (PA), James D. Moyer, DirectorPennsbury High School Women’s Ensemble (PA), Lindsey Bruno, DirectorPhilharmonischer Chor Liedertafel Neustadt an der WeinstraBe (Germany), Hans Jochen Braunstein, DirectorSt Patrick’s Academy Choir (UK), Mairéad Duffy, DirectorVoces Blancas de Valladolid (Spain), Clara de los Ojos Moral, DirectorWinscombe Community Choir (UK), Emma Worthy, DirectorWycombe High School Choir (UK), Eleanor F Honnor, DirectorAnd Individual Singers from around the globe

Andrew CollinsAlex CornelsonElizabeth CousinsShelagh CowieHolly CoxYannick CrametMorgan CraneDonat CrippaJanet CrossRiley CullenEugena CuomoUlloaSofia CurcuruJudith CurleeAlessandra D’AnconaQuinten DarlingCarolyne DaSilva-WilliamsPat DavidsonElla DaviesEmma DaviesHelen DaviesDavante DavisHeidrun DayAnna De’Luca diPietralataAlyssa DeMariaSarah DennisMichelle DeodatiKimberly DerungsMichel DeschampsSandro DetigIrene De ToniRobert DevlinCory DiamondIsabel DixonKailey DominkoMireille DonjonJudie DonovanKelly DooleySue DowningNastasha DoyleAmy DrakeRonald DreisbachMairéad DuffyAndrew DuganRiley DuganClaire DurkinCasey DursoChristine DuthieOlivia EdwardsJanina EgliMelanie EhrlichNicole EislerSchyler EllerbeeJolia Ellis-GrahamKatrina EmptageRachel EsteyLouise EtheringtonKatharina EttemeyerSamantha FallacaroMartina Famularo

Alyson FarkasLaurel FarleySarah FarringtonTim FaulknerFrancis FauxIzabella FedeleMareile FeldmannAinhoa FernándezAlicia FernándezAbisheka FernandoJayden FigueroaGiulia FilippiManuela FingerEvan FiordelisoSara FiorivantiSylvia FisherDaire FitzmauriceJenna FlahertyDorothea FogelJane Forrester-PatonBethany FosterLeire FrancésNatalie FrankStephen FrankTrevor FrantzNoémie FrauchigerKathleen FreemanRachel FriedDemi FrielRolf FrischknechtJean FyshBrian GageJacquelyn GageLindsay GangeCharlotte GalbraithAndreas GantenbeinNicolas GarcíaSofia GarcíaPhoebe GarrettZoe GarrettPeter GaskellRosemary GaskellMolly GervinChris GibbonsInes Gil FonfriaSophie GlassAnna GloverFreya GodardJosephine GodfreyLuana GodwinRachel GoldmanCarlota GonzálezMaria GonzálezMartina GoodPhilipp GoodSimon GoodHeather GoodmanJill GoodmanJan GoodwinRachel GoreckiKarissa Gornick

Megan GrantAnina GrassDavid GratrickFinlay GreenwayEmily GribbinGrace GribbinJo GriffithsJosiah GrimmerRonja GrobMichele GrossAlly GrossmanBrigitta GruberJean GunnsMaria GutiérrezLuisa HagerAmy HallsPenny HallsScarlet HaltonColin HammondZoe HarperAmelia HarrisonEsme HarrisonJacqui HartMadeleine HartRosanne HasanShelby HastingsSimon HauserPippa HaywardSibylle HeckErik HellandUrsula HellenthalIrene HemmerleOlivia HermanÁngela HernanzPaula HerreroRuth HerrlingerElaine HewsonEmma HewsonCaz HillJane HindeDavid HinkFrances HintonJulia HodgesAnja HoffmannEmily HogbinMiranda HolfordKirsten HollandKelly HolstromCelia HopkinsIsobel HouchinNyla HouserRebecca HowittDavid HoyerEllen HrivnakAnja HubmannJessica HunterOrlando HürlimannLouis IckeAlonso IglesiasÁlvaro IglesiasMatthias Indermaur

Mencía InsunzaChrista JaeckErich JahnJudith JansonAlmedin JashariStephen JenkinsAlba JiménezIsabel JiménezSarah JöhlSally JohnsonDavid JonesPauline JonesSeren JonesBrittany JowsickAlessia JuarezAnne KalteneggerEvan KashinskyTiernan KellySarah KennedySusan KennyAimee KesslerMaeve KesslerRahel KienRebecca KimockCindi KingLawrence KinnonAmy KirkhamLaura KirkhamIlse KleinTaylor KlimowiczSheila KnowltonDavid KochSamantha KrausAnina KreisEve KriegerMirjam KunzAlissia KurtzIsabel LackSophie LadenLorraine LallemantChloe LanghamGianna La ReginaSavanna LattanziAlexandra LaveryGillian LawrieWilliam LeeColette LeechRegula LehmannLaurie LeMottMorgan LesackNadine LeuzingerMadigan LeventhalJordan LewisMichelle LiebermannRebecca LillieNina LimonjelliLisa LinternBriana LoganUrsula LohaasChrista LoosMaría López

Amelia LowryPaula LozanoAlexa LuberskiHannah LynchDavid MacArthurPhilippa MacArthurLynn MacDonaldGabriella MaceraJulie MacFarlaneAodhan MackleBob MadiganLaura MagdalenoDianne MaGeeAnna MaguireVirginia MakLauren MalykMary MalykGina MarascoSusan MarrisJane MarshallLarissa MarshallJudy MarshamAlice MartinVivienne MassieJulianna MassieloMarie MatternLauren MayerMarita MayerChris MayhewEmily McConaghieJack McCuneConnor McDowellMaggie McDowellJoan McElroyPatricia McGeochHannah McGrathMadeline McGregorKatie McHenryTessa McHughShane McKearneyLeah McKittrickKathy McMahonKathryn McMullanNiamh McMullanAbigail McNeillChris McQueenSheridan McRaeCatriona McTavishLucy McVeighBrianna McWaltersRebecca MeenaghVicky MesserNaomi MessinaFranco MettlerArno MetzgerHeidi MetzgerVicky MiddletonBrenda MillarElizabeth MillerNorma MillerAlyssa Mills

Liana MinguelaHarley MintonMartina MitchardChloe MitchellIlona MoeckelSusan MooreGrace MorschauserCheyenne MosesJames D. MoyerKlaus-Juergen MuellerEna MujakanovichAnna MüllerLea MüllerJeannine MultrierJennifer MurphyMadison MurphyCelina MurrayDaniel MurrayElisabeth MurrayCorbin MyersChitra NanavatyGiulia NegroMary NesbittEmily NicholasJude NichollPaul NicholsonTanja NiedererAndreas NiedermannMonika NiedermannKris NockCarol NorrisUrsula NorrisCatherine NorthorpeRubani OberoiMary Jane O’DonnellRuby O’DonnellCiara O’HaganMichael O’HaraJon O’NeillEvan O’RourkeJulia OrtizEsther OrtolaniLauren OsbourneSpencer OstrowskyMary ParkesOlivia PashleyAngela PearceJacqui PearsonJeff PearsonCassandra PennieThomas PenningtonAnastasia PerezJuli PerriPat PerrySylvia PerryDaniela PersichilliJanet PhillipsMichaela PhilpBallie PoultonSneha PrakashLinda Price

Christa PritzlaffHelena PruszewiczGeorgina PuchowskiLiz PurdeyCassie McAvoy QuinnSamir RachideJosephine RadzinskiAbby RakesAlan RakesCarolyn RakesJulia RattundeSara RebolledoMaya Reid-CainPatricia ReineckeLindsey ReinhardNadja ReutelerSamuel RheeCarmen RibónDanielle RichAlexa RigbyCecilia RigoEmily RintsMolly RobertsDylan RobinsonRonnie RobinsonSabrina RobinsonBailey RoccoBeverly RodgersMary RogersSian RogersSarah Louisa RohrerChloe RookeGrace RosboroughKerry RossLorna RoulstonAnna Maria SachsSheelagh SaleGabriel SanchesLeonie SargeantAshley SassamanThabooja SathiapalElizabeth SaupeClaudia SavageKira ScharfNatalie SchechterHans SchmidtHanna SchönenbergerUrsula SchweickartKate ScottPatty SempellAnna SheridanJoe SheridanRebecca ShortmanNathan SiegelMolly SimpsonJulia SingerPaul SladeIrene SlamanJane SmartScott SmartDrew Smith

Joanne SmithSarah SmithAlan SmitheeKyra SnyderLauren SoraceMichela SordonMatthew SouthRahel SprecherCaroline SteadLaurel StevensonMartin StevensonMariette StijnenClaudia StolleisMarta StorerTeresa StorerPaul StrattonTami StrongCatherine SturrockClayton SulbyEmily SumnerLindsey SuttonMaryna SvitashevaSeema TaankMichaela TaralloNaomi TarrantSimon Tatton-BrownEmily TazzaEmma TeapeMairi TelfordIrene TheusingerCiera ThomasDaniel TomkoviczIrene De ToniCaitlyn TrieblBeatriz TriguerosNatalia TriguerosPatricia TriguerosPatty TrosclairAngela TroxlerRoyce TruexSandy TruexRobin TruittSarah TurturroClaire UrmstonBrigitta UtechNatasja Van DerWoudePaula VeraJacqueline VincentJanet VinyardVivian VolzSarah VorburgerVictoria VoukEmma WaceSophie WadsworthPascal WalserAlison WalshSarah WalshSpencer WalshNatalie WardTaylor Weathington

Pascal WederJulia WeinstockCatriona WheelerSandy WhiteThomas WickLeandra WildhaberLainey Wilkinson

Judith WilliClaire WilliamsonSky WillisDavid WillmottImogen WilsonLaura WilsonLyn Withers

Jens-Christian WittJulia WoodthorpeFinley WoolstonEmma WorthyMaureen WotkeDiego YáñezDaniel Yau

Eva YenovkianJunhee YoonFlorin ZaiGinevra ZanettiSelina ZanolariBernhard ZesigerUte Zinkgraf-Gauggel

Founded by Iris Derke and JonathanGriffith, DCINY is a leading producerof dynamically charged musical enter-tainment in renowned venues. With itsunforgettable, world-class concertexperiences, empowering educationalprograms, and global community of

artists and audiences, DCINY changeslives through the power of perform-ance. For more information aboutDistinguished Concerts InternationalNew York and upcoming DCINY musi-cal events around the world, pleasevisit: www.DCINY.org.

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DCINY ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and GeneralDirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder, ArtisticDirector & Principal ConductorDanuta Gross, Director of Finance &AdministrationKevin Taylor, Director of ProgramDevelopmentJames Meaders, Associate Artistic Director& ConductorJason Mlynek, Program DevelopmentJim Joustra, Program DevelopmentMark Riddles, Program DevelopmentKatie Sims, Program DevelopmentJulia Falkenburg, Program Development

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DCINY 2016 Concert SeriesPlease join us for one of our upcoming events:

Tuesday Evening, January 19, 2016, at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallRequiem for the Living: The Music of Dan ForrestForrest: In ParadisumForrest: Te DeumForrest: Psalm of AscensionForrest: Requiem for the LivingJames M. Meaders, DCINY Associate Artistic Director and ConductorJo-Michael Scheibe, Guest ConductorDan Forrest, Visiting ComposerFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Monday Evening, January 25, 2016, at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallMortals & Angels: A Bluegrass Te Deum (World Premiere)Commissioned by the DCINY Premiere ProjectJonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal ConductorCarol Barnett, Composer-in-ResidenceMarisha Chamberlain, LibrettistFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Singers International and Special Guest ArtistsDailey & Vincent

Monday Evening, February 15, 2016, at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallMozart, Mealor, Martin: Music of Joy and SorrowMozart: RequiemVance Y. George, Conductor LaureateMealor: Stabat Mater (New York Premiere)Mealor: Jubilate Deo (World Premiere)James Jordan, Guest ConductorPaul Mealor, DCINY Composer-in-ResidenceMartin: The Music of Joseph MartinJoseph Martin, Composer/ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Monday Evening, March 7, 2016, at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallBetween Heaven and EarthGjeilo: Sunrise MassJames M. Meaders, DCINY Associate Artistic Director and ConductorShelton: Music for Mixed Middle School VoicesTom Shelton, Guest ConductorBevan: Nou Goth Sonne Under WodeRichard Sparks, Guest ConductorFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

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