Chamber Choir & ConCert ChoirEric Esparza, conductor

Sunday, January 22, 2017 • 2:00 p.m.

St. Vincent de Paul Parish 1010 West Webster Avenue • Chicago

Sunday, January 22, 2017 • 2:00 p.m.St. Vincent de Paul Parish

Chamber Choir & ConCert ChoirEric Esparza, conductorMichael McElvain, pianoStephen Buzard, organ

Program

DePaul university ConCert Choir

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)Rejoice in the Lamb (1943)

Marissa Buchheit, sopranoEmma WitbolsFeugen, mezzo-sopranoSebastian Armendáriz, tenorTyler Christian Ricco, baritone

DePaul university Chamber Choir

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV Anhang 159 (c.1712)

John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558)Libera nos, salva nos (c. 1645)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)Selections from Spanisches Liederspiel (1849) V. Es Ist Verraten IX. Ich Bin Geliebt

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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)Exultate Deo (1941)

arranged by Ørjan Matre (b. 1979)Halleluja, vår strid er endt (2014)

Laura Smalley, soprano

arranged by Mark Hayes (b. 1953)Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (2004)

DePaul university ConCert Choir & Chamber Choir

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)Beati Quorum Via (1905)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)“Antiphon” from Five Mystical Songs (1911)

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Program Notes

Rejoice in the Lamb by English 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten is setting of a uniquely devotional text by Christopher Smart, an 18th-century poet who wrote the text while in an asylum. The poet manages to contemplate God in a variety of animals, plants, and other inanimate objects. Britten paints the text with interesting use of meter, imitation, and tonality.

Baroque composer J.S. Bach of Germany is considered one of the greatest composers of all time. Among his more than 1,000 compositions there are eight motets, including, Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, long erroneously attributed to his ancestor Johann Christoph Bach. The motet is scored for double SATB choirs and basso continuo. Beginning with a text from Genesis, the piece proceeds antiphonally until both choirs join for a fughetto beneath a cantus firmus which is verse three of the chorale Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz. It is unknown whether the closing chorale was intended by Bach or inserted in subsequent years.

John Sheppard was an English singer and composer during the Tudor period and became Informator Christorum of Magdalen College in Oxford where it was mandated that the antiphon Liber Nos, Salva Nos was to be recited each night. Sheppard’s musical setting was written to accomplish this with probable performance at the end of the daily office of Compline. Many of Sheppard’s Latin settings involve polyphonic writing for many voices, such as this motet for seven parts.

Robert Schuman was a German Romantic composer remembered for experimenting with new forms of music drama, and his tumultuous personal life. He composed the Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74 in 1849, setting texts by Emanuel von Geibel (1815-1884) which were translations of the works of various Spanish poets. The work is a collection of 10 songs for between one and four voices and piano. The poems are organized to

create a loose plot on the topic of love with different voices assume various ‘characters’. The two four-part choruses from this set are full of Schumann’s trademark lyricism, poetic mood, and intricate piano writing.

Francis Poulenc was a French composer famous for his lyricism and creative chromaticism, both of which are evident in Exultate Deo. While the piece begins in a simple A-major tonality, Poulenc quickly adds interest with changing meters and touches of chromaticism. As the piece continues, polytonality and more intense chromatics are used to color the psalmist’s intensifying desire to ‘sing a song to the Lord’.

Halleluja, vår strid er endt is a Norwegian folk melody arranged by Ørjan Matre in an atmospheric setting full of cluster chords and words set in overlapping imitative rhythms that start unison and cascade up and down the scale, often employing a raised fourth scale degree. The text is by a Danish priest and hymn writer named Hans Adolf Brorson, and was published in 1739 in Troens Rare Klenodie (The Rare Jewel of Faith). Matre transcribed the tune from the folk singer Ola O. Fagerheim, who only sang the last verse, typically during funerals as the coffin was lowered into the ground. The text and tune are hopeful and comforting.

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel is an American folksong recounting the vision of the prophet Ezekiel from the Hebrew Scriptures. The wheels in the vision are described as follows: “They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel...Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.” Ezekiel’s meaning has long confounded scholars, and various interpretations abound. The spiritual is perhaps most accessibly viewed through the lenses of teaching and revelation.

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Ezekiel was sent to inform the people how to lead a more godly life, and God revealed heavenly things to him. The text of the spiritual sets about discerning the difference between godly and ungodly behavior in the verses that are framed by the chorus about the wheels. Mark Hayes uses creative accompanimental rhythms and jazz harmonies in this a cappella setting.

Beati Quorum Via is from Three Motets, Opus 38 by the English composer Charles Villers Stanford. It is scored for six voices cappella and uses a rising three-note theme in longer note values as a connective motive throughout the piece, often set against faster moving notes in the accompanying parts. Stanford makes nice use of textural interplay between the three treble voices and the three bass voices.

English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs is set for baritone, choir and orchestra, although it is commonly performed with organ instead of orchestra. The set features some of Vaughan Williams lushest devotional text settings for solo voice with choral answer. The last movement, Antiphon, is an entirely choral movement with dynamic instrumental writing and heroic vocal writing meant to captures the poet’s excitement to praise God.

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BiograPhiesEric Esparza is the Director of Choral Activities and Vocal Area Coordinator at DePaul University, where he conducts the DePaul Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, and teaches courses in Choral Music. Dr. Esparza is also the Artistic Director of Windy City Performing Arts. Previously, he served on the music faculty of Sam Houston State University School as conductor of the Concert Choir, and teacher of voice, diction, and music theory. Dr. Esparza was also the Founder, Artistic Director, and Conductor of International Voices Houston, Artistic Director of the United Nations Association International Choir, and Director of Ministries at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.

Originally from San Antonio, Texas, he holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he studied with Dr. Joyce Farwell and Maestro Thomas Jaber. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Arts Administration from Florida State University where, he was a University Fellow and served as Assistant Conductor of the Florida State University Opera. Dr. Esparza earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from Boston University, where he studied with Dr. Ann Howard Jones. He remains active internationally as a singer, conductor, and music editor.

Pianist-conductor Michael McElvain has been heard on WFMT radio broadcasts, including a live cycle of the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven, contemporary music program, Relevant Tones, and the annual WFMT Membership Drive. As a soloist and collaborative artist he has performed in masterclasses led by Leon Fleisher, Emanuel Ax, Martin Katz, and David Daniels. Beyond classical music, he has toured Europe as keyboardist for celebrated progressive rock group Pavlov’s Dog. His primary teachers include Daniel Schene and Annie Sherter, a student of Vlado Perlemuter and Alfred Cortot.

Recently, Mr. McElvain led The Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis in a performance of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, acclaimed by Tom Sudholt (KFUO) as “the finest reading I have ever heard.” He has served as chorus master for The Chicago Bach Ensemble, provided music direction for several stage productions including

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CUBE Ensemble’s first-ever opera, conducted musical theatre works by Stephen Sondheim such as Sunday in the Park with George, and recently, Mary Poppins at Stage 773. Presently, Mr. McElvain serves on the faculties of DePaul University School of Music, and Italian summer voice institute, Musica nelle Marche.

Stephen Buzard is organist/choirmaster for the Cathedral Choir and principal musician of the Cathedral, responsible for leading, managing and coordinating the music program as an effective part of the Cathedral’s overall ministry. Formerly acting organist and director of music at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, Stephen is a graduate of Westminster Choir College (2010) and Yale University Institute of Sacred Music (2013). He was winner of the 2010 Arthur Poister Competition and was recently named one of the Top 20 Organists Under 30” by The Diapason Magazine. Stephen’s premier recording, “In Light or Darkness,” (Delos) has received wide critical acclaim. Stephen studied organ performance with Ken Cowan and Thomas Murray, and improvisation with Jeffrey Brillhart and Bruce Neswick. He became assistant organist to John Scott at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in 2013 and served as acting organist and director of music following Scott’s untimely death in August 2015. Buzard was organ scholar at Trinity Church Princeton, N.J., Wells Cathedral (UK) and Trinity on the Green, New Haven, Conn. He has also served as organist for the Episcopal Church at Princeton University, and for Yale University’s Marquand Chapel and Berkeley Divinity School.

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PersoNNel

DePaul Chamber ChoirDaniel Beatty*Jesse BockwinkelAshley EasonMadeline EhlingerDaina FischerJonathon FishmanAndrew GrobleAndrew HannauKristopher HansenIan HosackThomas P. Hughes*Lauren JacobOlivia LeoneMegan MagsariliEmily MargevichAlexander MarkJohn Micensky*Christopher O’BrienDaniel O’HearnBrian O’Neill*Esther RayoTyler Ricco*Daniel Rooney*Kelby Roth*Andrew Saiz*Liliana Schiller*Margaret SchlofnerLaura SmalleyElisabeth SorensenSarah Szeszol*Mary Kate vom LehnRyan Wolfe*Connor ZuberAngela Zúñiga

DePaul ConCert ChoirCharles Aiello IVKais Ali*Sebastian ArmendárizDylan BarnettJeremy BenshishFrank BiscontiClaire BlackPantelis BolarakisMarisa BuchheitDylan BurnettJack CampbellKellen CampbellSimon CiaccioJulia ClarkeLevi ClintonMaria ConsamusWebb DieterRoy Curiale*Angela De VenutoErik DohnerShannon EdlerLauren FlorekReynaldo FrancoEdgar GarciaAllison GirardJianghai HoThomas P. Hughes*Daniel IraniRadka KasparcovaShannon KennedyRobby KulikBreanna LeachMiranda LevinJessica Ley

Abagael Martin*Duncan McConnellEmma McGinnBrandon MengGeorgia PappasAmanda Patino*Pudy RosenmayerAmon SahelijoMadison SchlegelKevin SheppardDevin WesselsEmma WitbolsFeugenChristopher YoungChet ZenorFiona Zhang

*Choral staff

DePaul Choirs Eric Esparza, conductor Michael McElvain, piano

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Thursday, January 26 • 7:30 p.m.Illinois Music Education Association Conference • Peoria, ILDePaul Chamber Choir

Saturday, January 28 • 8:00 p.m.Concert HallDePaul Wind Symphony

Sunday, January 29 • 8:00 p.m.Concert HallComposers Focus Forum

Tuesday, January 31 • 8:00 p.m.Concert HallDePaul Wind Ensemble

Thursday, February 2 • 8:00 p.m.Concert HallDePaul Symphony Orchestra

Friday, February 3 • 8:00 p.m.Concert HallDePaul Concert Orchestra

Wednesday, February 8 • 5:45 p.m.Concert HallMasterclass: Thomas Gallant, oboe

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