Briar Cliff MusiC DepartMentBriar Cliff University takes pride in the important and active role of music in the University’s academic programs and campus life. With an annual schedule of more than thirty public presentations and an accomplished artist faculty whose collective teaching experience exceeds 100 years, Briar Cliff’s Music Department exemplifies the unity of musicianship and educational practice needed for success in the real world. Graduates from Briar Cliff’s Music Department make significant

contributions in their respective communities: they are teachers and administrators in private and public schools and institutions of higher education; they own and operate private studios; they work as professional concert artists, church musicians, and directors of community theatres; and they are graduate students at major research universities.

Briar Cliff University music scholarships recognize and encourage talented student musicians who are looking for a liberal arts education. The BCU Department of Music awards extensive annually renewable scholarships based upon talent and musical leadership. Regardless of major, students can literally sing for their scholarships at Briar Cliff.

If you have an interest in BCU’s music program, feel free to contact Dr. Sean Burton directly by phone at 712.279.5548 or email sean.burton@briarcliff.edu. Your musical future at Briar Cliff University will be filled with inspiration and impact.

Briar Cliff University Choral Music is supported, in part, by a grant from The Gilchrist Foundation.

aBout Briar Cliff university Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,150 students from 32 states and 11 countries. Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care, compassion and service. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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S pring Choral ConcertSchubert’s Mass in G and other works

Briar Cliff University Singers and Chamber ChoirAbu Bekr Chanters

Orchestra Pro Cantores

Dr. Sean Burton, conductorDr. Jeremy Owens, accompanist

Western Iowa Tech Community College Concert Choir William Darwin, Jr., conductor

Patti Boyle, accompanist

May 4, 2014

I

St. Paul’s Suite……………………………………………………………...………...............................…Gustav Holst

Jig Ostinato Intermezzo Finale(TheDargason)

Orchestra Pro Cantores

II

We Be Three Poor Mariners……………………….........……………………......................……..Thomas Ravenscroft

I’m Bound Away………………………………..………………….........................……Sea Shanty/arr. Donald Moore

The Morning Trumpet……………………….........……………………..................…..Sacred Harp/arr. Mack Wilberg

Who Are the Brave?…………………………...…………………….............................................………Joseph Martin

Abu Bekr Chanters

III

Sing Me to Heaven………………...……………………………………….…............................…….Daniel Gawthrop

Festival Sanctus……………………………………………….....................................................................John Leavitt

Western Iowa Tech Community College Concert Choir

IV

Hail the True Body…………………………………...…………...............................................……..Gabriel Alves ’11

Arirang………………………………..................................…………..Korean Folk Song/arr. Nathan Meendering ’14

Chaunté Pope, soprano | Nathan Meendering, baritone

Briar Cliff University Chamber Choir

V

Vox populi………………………….……………………................................................................…Giedrius Svilainis

Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord…………………….....……African-American Spiritual/arr. Undine Smith Moore

Stephen Schager, tenor | Gabriel Griesel, baritone

Briar Cliff University Singers

VI

Mass No. 2 in G Major……………..………………………………................................…............…....Franz Schubert

Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Benedictus AgnusDei

Briar Cliff University singers

Sarah AmmannErin BellefeuilleMindy Brinkerhoff*Emma BrunsEllen BucherMorgan ChartierKimberly Graff*Jenna Guy*Larissa Larson*Melanie Mergen*Emily Mallinger*Jill MoserEmily PatzJoAnn Parker*Chaunté Pope*Ashley PresthusKatherine Swanson*Sarah Wheat*

Jordan AhrenstorffLauren Bennier*Michelle DonnerStephanie EngleLindsay FerrisJessica Krager*Anne KallsenGabrielle KatesBethany LaddusawGrace McElroyJana “Joey” Myers*Jaclyn ReinschJennifer Ziegenbein

Dillon BeckmannSamuel Elbert*Shaughn HeadJohn Krager*James Merryfield*Michael McMahan*Nathan Ruehle*Austin SampsonStephen Schager*

soprano alto tenor BassPatrick CisarJames Conway*Jonathan DuffGabriel Griesel*Derek Helget*Michael Kriener*Nathan Meendering*Seth SamuelsonJames Thelen*Joshua Winters

aBU Bekr Chanters

tenor iDavid KroghDick LindblomMark McCorkindaleTom Shafer

tenor iiWalt BeckwithJoe ChopRick DarrowMike FloydJohn KiernanBruce KolbeNeal McQuistan

Baritone

Craig BainbridgePaul CrandellJeff HarrisPaul KruseJohn MayneJeremy Owens

Bass

Nathan BauerManny BikakisDoug GarwoodTom GustafsonJohn KruseRandy PetersenDon SchenkMichael Sharp

violin iBozhidar Shopov**Sonja BundySara KoellingValerie Herstatt

violin iiLisa Miedema*Jennifer FrensKristin Ortmann

viola Fei Chen*Arian SheetsShari Boone

Cello

Stephanie March*John MayneAndrew Travers

Bass

John Casey*Mark Haar

Western ioWa teCh CommUnity College ConCert Choir

soprano

Kasey BergEmily BreitbarthRiley ByersCarlee Miller

alto

Angela BrownKali KanwarDeisy NimajaRebekah PotterDakota Steen

tenor

Brendan HardyAlex KaufmannMark SawyerJerret Spink

Bass

Cordell LinesRob Strub

orChestra pro Cantores

**Denotes concertmaster*Denotes principal

*Denotes member of Chamber Choir

Shannon Salyards, soprano | Clint Johnson, tenor | William Darwin, Jr., baritone | Briar Cliff University Singers Western Iowa Tech Community College Concert Choir | Orchestra Pro Cantores | Jeremy Owens, organ | Sean Burton, conductor