The Philharmonic Society of Arlington83rd/84th season

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Philharmonic Society of Arlington [Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra (APO) ; Arlington-Belmont Chorale (ABC);

Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus (ABCC)]

Board of Directors

www.psarlington.org

Design: Arch MacInnes Cover: Godefroy Engelmann II, Lute and Other Iinstruments, 1862

Photography: Jack Connors, Ed Ginsberg, John Hecker, Ed Keith, Rick Montross, Fred Moses

Printing provided in part by Flagship Press, North Andover, Massachusetts

OFFICERSPresident: Jack Connors, ABC

Vice President: Hagop Hagopian, ABCTreasurer: Chris Jensen, APO

Clerk: Alice Adler, ABCLibrarian: Larry Kyrala, APO

ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE MEMBERSAdam Dixon, APO • Abigail Gertner, ABC

Kristin McAdams, ABC • Lynne Montross, ABCFred Moses, ABC • Sandy Reismann, APO • Pam Ross, APO

Gary Seligson, APO • Eleanor Smith, APO

PUBLIC MEMBERSJean Nagle • Ernest Sabine Stacy Webber • John Taylor

Musical leadershipOrlando Cela, APO Music Director and Conductor

Barry Singer, ABC and ABCC Music Director and ConductorSarah Telford, ABC Assistant Conductor

Michael Becker, ABC AccompanistDaniel Padgett, ABCC Accompanist

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ANGEL

Anonymous

Alice Adler and Edw. Ginsberg

CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Yuan and Mary Liang in honor of

Mabel Liang for thirty years of singing with

the Arlington-Belmont Chorale

Lisa D. Mitchell

Fred Moses

Robert and Marjorie Olson

Anne and Bob Selman

Mark Stapp

Carol Walsh

BENEFACTOR

Jim Battell

Julie Belock and Rob Leoni in memory of

Robert E. Leoni, Jr.

Jane Dougan and Roger Matthews

Peter and Robin Haffenreffer

Joan and Jean-Francois Louis

Dr. John Rhoads and Dr. Susan Bean

Bill and Deirdre Schuette

David Schwartz

Matthew Selman and Renee Ridgeley

in honor of Anne Selman

Margaret Sudbury in memory of

Phyllis Spence and Roger Sudbury

SUSTAINING MEMBER

Peter Ambler and Lindsay Miller

Rachel Barton

Christine Bird in memory of

Phyllis Spence and Barbara Wood

Sandra Canzanelli

Linda Cundiff

Jean Fuller Farrington in memory of

Turtle Farrington

Jim Hall

Haig Iskenderian

Margaret R. Loss and Charles W. Dewing

Larisa and Charles Miller

Rockland Trust

Eleanor Smith

PATRON

Anonymous

Lynne Davis and Michel Jackson

Adam Dixon

Peter E. Fritze in memory of Emily Fritze

GEI Consultants, Inc.

Harriet Griesinger

Julia Harper in memory of

Dr. Elizabeth Marino

John and Virginia Hecker

Virginia M. Hutchinson in memory of

Phyllis Spence and James Powers

Chris Jensen

Milling Kinard

John Kohl and Susan Goetcheus

Lula Kopper

SPONSORS 2016-2017

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Lynne and Richard Montross

Dorothea Rees

Amy and Gary Seligson

Elizabeth O. Waagen in memory of

John Howard Otto

Jim Whipple

Lenore and Howard Winkler

Carl Witthoft

SPONSOR

Anonymous

Nancy Casner Babcock

The Berger Family

Dr. Richard E. Caliri

Jack B. Dennis

David and Miriam Horton in honor of

Walter Pavasaris

Peter and Jane Howard

Louis F. Licht, III

Arch MacInnes and Emily Soltanoff

Tara Mitchell

Jean Spence Nagle

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. B. Nodine

Paul Peterson

Sandy Reismann and Nanu Brates

Mary B. Robinson

Cathleen Russell

Janet Sand and Peter Lawner

George Silvis

Janice and Fred Sophis

Gayle and Mort Speck

Kathleen Tuscano in honor of

Beatrice Guilbault

FRIEND

Emily Asher

Bettie Connors

Naomi and Weldon Nelson

Susan L. Rack

Mimi Rubin in honor of Julie Goldberg

Ayelet Schuster

Bill Whitney

YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION

Julie Goldberg in honor of Jim Knudson

Nina Tannenwald

LEONARD D. WOOD SCHOLARSHIP

Arlington Pediatric Associates

Barbara Wood Bretas

Linda Johnson

BAVICCHI FUND

Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus

Jean Fuller Farrington

Jim Hall

Joan and Jean-Francois Louis

Lynne and Richard Montross

Anthony and Doreen Puttick

Anne and Bob Selman

Kate and Richard Stanley

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ADVERTISERS

All Newton Music SchoolAltos of the Arlington-Belmont ChoraleArlington/Belmont Chamber ChorusArlington Community Media Inc.Arlington Historical SocietyArlington House of PizzaBonton Rug CleansersCentral Square TheaterCitySide Suburu, Inc. East Cambridge PianoThe Eye StoreFirst Violin Section of the PSARussell L. Forman, DMDFresh Pond Market Gardening by MabelBeatrice GuilbaultHandel and Haydn SocietyThe Henry Frost Children’s Program, Inc.il Casale RestaurantsJT Jewelry

Yuan and Mary Liang for Mabel Liang Magnolia Wine CompanyMount Auburn Athletic ClubTom PedullaThe Play TimePleasant Car CareRonald RieszRoad Warrior Moving and StorageRush-Kent Insurance AgencySecond Violins of the PSAShort, Williamson & DiamondSopranos of the Arlington-Belmont ChoraleThe Spirited GourmetSunbug SolarViola Section of the PSAWatertown Savings BankJudy Weinberg, RemaxWinchester Community Music SchoolWinters Hardware The Woodwind Section of the PSA

We wish to thank Not Your Average Joe’s in Arlington for its support of our fundraising efforts through the Not Your Average Cause program and for offering our concert goers a dining

discount on the days of our concerts.

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Did you know ... that the Philharmonic Society of Arlington comprises three performing groups?

The Arlington-Belmont Chorale

The Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus

The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra

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THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT CHAMBER CHORUS

Since 1975, the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, composed of about twenty members auditioned from within the Chorale, has dedicated itself to performing smaller scale choral works than those performed by the Chorale. While continuing full participation in the Chorale, Chamber Chorus singers rehearse regularly in the homes of members and present two concerts annually, as well as part of a joint concert with the Chorale.

Did you know...? A special tradition of the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus is its annual commissioning and premiere performance of a new choral work by a local, national, or international composer. This practice was initiated by John Bavicchi, the Chamber Chorus’s founder, first Conductor, and until his death in 2012, Music Director Emeritus of the Philharmonic Society of Arlington, and continues under the Chamber Chorus’s second Conductor, Barry Singer. In 1998, the Philharmonic Society of Arlington established the John Bavicchi Fund to support this extremely valuable enterprise.

NEW MUSIC COMMISSIONED AND PREMIERED BY THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT CHAMBER CHORUS

1976 Richard St. Clair: Ascension

1977 Peter Hazzard: Te Deum

1981 Ross Lee Finney: Spherical Madrigals

1981 Matthew Marvuglio: Songs of Night

1982 Jeffrey Bishop: Summer Nights

1983 Frank Warren: Missa Brevis

1984 Dennis Leclaire: Songs of Diana

1985 Pasquale Tassone: Alleluia

1986 David Owens: The Shores of Peace

1987 David Cleary: Four Clark Coolidge Poems

1988 Alain Caron: A Slice of Cathedral

1989 Tsuneyuki Ohsaki: A Fragment of Anything You Like

1990 Jeffrey Bishop: More Time For Snoozing

1991 Christophe Chagnard: Le Mystere engendrant

1992 Barry Singer: Three Times We Parted

1993 John Bavicchi: Talk To Me, Op. 103

1994 Louis Stewart: Three Landscapes

1995 Brian Packham: Israfel

1997 Frank Warren: Missa Brevis No. 2

1998 James Russell Smith: Day Dreamers

1999 Brian Packham: Universe Mirror I

2000 Christos Koulendros: Insula Felix

2001 Dwight Mikkelsen: De Profundis

2002 Ariel Blumenthal: Peace Poems

2003 Rosey Mei-Kuei Lee: Prayer For The Universe

2004 Felipe Lara: Requiem

2005 Jeffrey Brody: Planetarium

2006 Barry Singer: For I Know Well The Spring

2007 Pasquale Tassone: Choric Sketches

2008 Michael Veloso: Executive Orders

2009 Christopher Haynes: Singing in Tongues

2010 Kenneth Seitz: Three Poems of L. M. Montgomery

2011 John Kramer: Three Thoughts on Love

2012 John Murphree: In The Animals’ Court

2013 Malcolm Hawkins: Martha and Lazarus

2014 James Russell Smith: Fireflies

2015 Christopher Charig: A June Night

2016-17 Pamela Marshall: Songs from a Quaker Heart

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YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION

Did you know ... that the Young Artist Competition of the Philharmonic Society of Arlington has been in existence for more than 50 years? The half-century-and-still-counting mission of this remarkable competition is to identify and encourage promising young musicians. We are honored to be able to continue to give these superb young instrumentalists and vocalists the opportunity to audition in front of an adjudication panel and to provide the winners with further public exposure and experience.

The 2017 Young Artist Competition will be held Saturday, May 6, from 9 AM to 5 PM at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, MA. For further information, see the Young Artist Competition section of our website, www.psarlington.org. Any musician aged 29 or under may apply. Up to 30 applicants are chosen each year to compete for six awards in this one-day event. Many past winners have gone on to win national and international acclaim. The $1,000 First Place Peter Tannenwald Performance Award includes a solo performance at a PSA concert. Second and Third Place awards of $650 and $350, are also given. Participants aged 19-29 are eligible for the Tannenwald Performance Awards, which are funded through the generosity of the estate of Peter Tannenwald, a long-time member of the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra and one of the greatest and most dedicated supporters of our Young Artist Competition.

The family of Leonard D. Wood, the first conductor of the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, provides three additional awards of $500, $350, and $150 given to the top three performers aged 18 or younger. These awards are intended to recognize excellence in our younger contestants and to encourage them to continue to compete. The first place winner in this category may also be given the opportunity to perform at a concert. Penelope Davis Hart Honorable Mentions ($100 each) are awarded at the discretion of the judges.

Soprano Abigail Krawson was chosen by the judges as the winner of the 2016 Peter Tannenwald

Performance Award, and she performed with the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra to open the 2016-17 season. Ms. Krawson is Boston-based lyric soprano, who is originally from Canton OH and who graduated from the New England Conservatory. She was a young artist with the Boston Early Music Festival in 20011 and took third place in The American Prize Vocal competition in 2013. Ms. Krawson recently performed as Zerbinetta in the Lowell House Opera production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. She is also co-director of Opera on Tap. Second Place was awarded to Pianist Sun-A Park and Third Place to Mezzo-soprano Courtney Miller. The judges awarded Honorable Mentions to Soprano Kelly Glyptis and Baritone Jacob Sharfman.

Cellist Haley Kwoun of Belmont was the recipient of the 2016 First Place Wood Award. At the time of the competition, Haley was a 14-year-old freshman at the Winsor School. She plays with the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at New England Conservatory Prep School. Second Place went to violinist Keila Wakao, who was 10 years old at the time of the competition and is from Chestnut Hill, while Third Place was awarded to violinist Ethan Fisher-Chaves, then 12 years old, from Worcester.

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The members of theArlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus

extend their warmest and most enthusiastic appreciation to all our wonderful PSA conductors,

accompanists, fellow singers and players,board members, sponsors, advertisers,

and audience members for all they do to support themaking and sharing of music

in our extended community! THANK YOU!

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Did you know…? that of all the amateur musical organizations in the Boston area, the Philharmonic Society of Arlington is the only one that maintains both Orchestral and Choral libraries? The PSA owns, uses, stores, and lends full sets of more than 800 choral works and the full instrumental parts for over 400 orchestral works. Though maintaining a library is not unusual for orchestras, it is very uncommon for choral groups, which generally require their members to purchase their own music. Having our own libraries helps keep membership costs relatively low for our singers and players, a commitment that, as a community arts organization we work to honor. Our libraries are also a means of community outreach (and a small source of revenue), as the PSA lends music for a small stipend to organizations such as local church choirs, the Masterworks Chorale, the Paul Madore Chorale, and the Powers Music School for summer sings, open readings, etc.

Over the decades our music has been stored in many places. Until fairly recently, our orchestral library was in a trombonist’s spare room and our choral library in half of a trumpeter’s two-car-garage. The next stop for the peripatetic libraries was in a great, climate-controlled facility provided by Big Foot Moving and Storage Company in Arlington Heights. In 2016, with the relocation of Big Foot outside of the Arlington area, the libraries and their custom shelving were moved once again. All of the music is now housed at Road Warrior Moving and Storage in Arlington. The Orchestra and Chorale Librarians are grateful to the owners of Road Warrior for providing a safe, convenient, and economical place to preserve our collections for future use.

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THE AMY AND LEONA POWERS FUND

Did you know ...? Many of the vocal soloists heard in PSA concerts since 1984 have been provided in part by a fund established to honor two of its former members, Amy (Mrs. James R. Powers, Sr.) and daughter Leona. Both were members of the Mystic Valley Chorus when the Community Symphony Orchestra of Arlington was founded in 1933. When the two groups combined in 1940 to form the Philharmonic Society of Arlington, for some seventeen years they participated not only as singers under Conductor Leonard Wood but also on the Board of Directors, Leona as Chorus Chairman as well. The Powers family connection also included sons Paul, a talented boy soloist, and James R., Jr., an original member of the Orchestra who remained involved with the PSA until his death in 2008.

The purposes of the Powers Fund are:

1. To help provide competent soloists for major choral compositions.

2. To provide playing scholarships for advanced students of stringed instruments who may reinforce the Orchestra.

The availability of scholarships can provide the orchestra with talented players, while giving the students experience in a responsible position. It is hoped that the support given by the Powers Fund will continue to nurture the Society and to continue this family’s generous role in the cultural life of the Arlington community which was its home for so many years.

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Did you know...? Members of the PSA come from over 30 neighboring cities and towns to rehearse and perform in Arlington and Belmont! Here are the ones we know about as we go to press, this season.

Arlington

Bedford

Belmont

Billerica

Boston

Bourne

Brighton

Brookline

Burlington

Cambridge

Canton

Chelmsford

Chestnut Hill

Concord

Hyde Park

Lexington

Malden

Maynard

Medford

Natick

Newton

Quincy

Revere

Rochester

Saugus

Somerville

South Orleans

Stoneham

Sudbury

Waltham

Watertown

Westford

Winchester

MEMBERSHIP

The Philharmonic Society of Arlington is a distinctive community organization providing an Orchestra, Chorale, and Chamber Chorus to Arlington and its surrounding towns. Membership in the Chorale is open to all singers without an audition. Auditions for membership in the Chamber Chorus are open to members of the Chorale. Membership in the Orchestra is open to all instrumentalists without an audition. Placement is subject to the requirements of the music and the determination of the conductor. Come sing and play with us!

• Chorale rehearsals are held Monday evenings at 7:45 pm at Park Avenue Congregational Church, 50 Paul Revere Road, corner of Park Avenue, Arlington.

• Orchestra rehearsals are held Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm at the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, 630 Massachusetts Ave, in Arlington Center.

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Arlington House of Pizza787 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02476 • 781.646.5016

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THE CITRUS FUNDRAISING PROJECT

Did you know...? In addition to providing our community with at least nine wonderful concerts per season, several times a year the PSA also sells juicy, flavorful oranges and grapefruit shipped immediately after being picked. Every late fall, winter, and early spring we take orders from friends, neighbors, family members, and co-workers, and then a huge refrigerated truck arrives at a suburban garage with fruit that was on the tree just a few days earlier. PSA volunteers unload the 20-pound boxes of fruit and turn the chore into a party, complete with breakfast or lunch – notice the smiles in the photo! Then we each take the remarkably fresh and delicious fruit we’ve ordered and deliver it to our friends at a price that is less than what it costs for inferior supermarket fruit that has been in cold storage or on the shelves for weeks or even months.

So every winter, when you need vitamin C and the bursting flavor of health and sunshine, ask anyone in the Orchestra or Chorale about this great treat and bargain! (And if you ask all your friends, too, they will end up thanking you!) The Citrus Fundraising Project was the brainchild of Ginny Hutchinson and Dr. David Singer. It remains the legacy of Dr. Singer, a longtime bass in the Chorale, who initiated the project more than 10 years ago, and a group of PSA volunteers carries on the tradition. It is not only a highly successful fundraiser, but also a wonderful and nutritious way to drive away the winter blues! Try it – you’ll like it!

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Did you know ... that the Philharmonic Society of Arlington now presents nine concerts each season? The final concert of this 2016-2017 Season will be our Strawberry Festival and POPS concert at the Arlington Town Hall on Friday, June 9, the Festival beginning at 6:30 and the Concert at 7:45! Come celebrate the arrival of summer with

the PSA!

The Philharmonic Society of Arlington’s Complete 2017-2018 Concert Season

Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:30 pm Orchestra

Fall Concert UU

Sunday, December 3, 2017, 3:30 pm Chamber Chorus

Holiday Concert PP

Sunday, December 10, 2017, 3:30 pm Chorale/Orchestra

Not-Quite Winter Concert UU

Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 7:30 pm Orchestra

Somerville Concert (new) SA

Sunday, March 4, 2018, 3:30 pm Orchestra

Family Concert UU

Sunday, March 11, 2018, 3:30 pm Chorale/Chamber Chorus

Almost Spring Concert UU

Sunday, April 29, 2018, 3:30 pm Chorale/Orchestra

Sponsors’ Concert UU

Friday, May 11, 2018, 8:00 pm Chamber Chorus

Music for a Spring Evening UU

Friday, June 8, 2018, 6:30 pm Chorale/Orchestra

Strawberry Festival and POPS Concert TH

(Dates subject to change)

UU = First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, Arlington, MA

PP = Payson Park Church, Belmont, MASA = The Center for Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA

TH = Arlington Town Hall

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The Woodwind Section

Top row L-R: Nancy Skolos,

Adam Dixon, Julie Goldberg;

Bottom row L-R: Hannah Gotwals,

Karen Brouady, Pamela Ross;

Not pictured: Diane Gardner,

Virginia Hecker, Jennifer Lauer,

Gary Seligson, and Molly Soiffer. 

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MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR OF

THE ARLINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Orlando Cela joined the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra as conductor and music director

in 2016. His experience includes launching the orchestral department at Ningbo University in

China and conducting the inaugural concert of the Ningbo City

Symphony Orchestra. In the US, his conducting positions include

work with orchestras and choruses at Randolph College (VA) and

UMass Dartmouth (MA). Guest conducting credits include the

Marquette Symphony Orchestra (MI), the Northern Michigan

State University Orchestra (MI), and the Brandeis New Music

Ensemble (MA).

Besides being the music director of the Arlington Philharmonic,

he is also the conductor of the orchestra of the North Carolina

Governor’s School Orchestra, with which he recently received

second place in the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award of the American Prize - for excellence in the

performance of American music, for his renditions of music by Charles Ives, Libby Larsen, and

John Luther Adams, among others.

A dedicated music educator, Mr. Cela is known for his dynamic workshops and lecture

demonstrations. Popular and effective as a guest lecturer and clinician, he has presented sessions

on contemporary music topics at New England Conservatory, Tulane University, Berklee

College of Music, and Brandeis University, as well as at the Central Conservatory of Music in

China, the Staatliche Hochschulle Fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Germany),

and the Charlotte New Music Festival (NC). Mr. Cela has also lectured on general performance

practice issues at flute festivals in Ithaca and Syracuse and at Dulwich College (Beijing) and

Shanghai Normal University.

As a flute player, Mr. Cela has performed at venues such as the National Portrait Gallery of the

Smithsonian (Washington, DC), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), and the Center for

New Music and Technologies at UC Berkeley. His credits abroad include concerts at the Zentrum

Danziger (Berlin), the Espace des Femmes (Paris), and at the Central Conservatory of Music (China).

As a collaborative artist, Mr. Cela has concertized with flutist Paula Robison, tabla player Samir

Chatterjee, harpsichordist John Gibbons, and shen (mouth organ) virtuoso Hu Jianbing. 

Mr. Cela received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University and holds two master’s

degrees (flute and conducting) from New England Conservatory. This past January he won

second place in the London Classical Soloists Conducting Competition for his performances of

Beethoven’s Symphonies 7 and 8, as a guest conductor with this orchestra.

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MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR OF THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT

CHORALE AND THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT CHAMBER CHORUS

Barry Singer has been the Conductor of the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus since 1994,

was named Conductor of the Arlington-Belmont Chorale in 2004, and is now Music Director

and Conductor of both.

In addition to his work with the Philharmonic Society of Arlington, Mr. Singer serves as Chorus Master

for Concord’s Opera51, a post he has held since 2013. He also has been serving as choral conductor for

the Appalachian Mountain Club Mountains and Music program.

Mr. Singer has been a guest conductor for the Carlisle Chamber

Orchestra, Paul Madore Chorale Summer Sing Series, and

the M.I.T Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Musical Theatre is

of particular interest to Mr. Singer, and he has been active in

this area for many years. Recently he was music director for

the TCAN Players production of The 25th Annual Putnam

County Spelling Bee. Other past music directorships include

the Arlington Friends of the Drama, the Oktoberfest Theater

of Marlborough, and the Sudbury Savoyards, the First Parish

Church in Needham, and Congregation Shalom in Chelmsford. In addition, he was a founder,

member, and co-leader of Serious Fun, an award-winning contemporary a cappella group.

A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist since childhood, Mr. Singer maintains a very active

musical performing career aside from his conducting duties. On the instrumental side,

Mr. Singer received flute and piano lessons from an early age, and added saxophone, clarinet,

and electric bass while in his teens. Currently, Mr. Singer is an active piano accompanist, on staff

at the Concord-Carlisle and Arlington Public School systems, and for many years has been the

summer musician at St. Peter’s Church in Weston. Other current performing activities include

frequent work as a keyboard and woodwind player for area theatre groups, as a freelance jazz

pianist, as keyboard/sax/flute player with the popular Boston-area dance band Firefly, and as a

piccoloist and sax player with the Boston Windjammers, a professional marching band.

Mr. Singer first began singing in high school, and studied voice while at Berklee. From 1983-

1998 he sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus in numerous

performances and recordings with the BSO and Boston Pops Orchestra. Mr. Singer served as

baritone soloist with the Congregation Shirat Hayam of the North Shore from 2002-2010, and

for many years he was the baritone soloist and section leader at St. Peter’s Church in Weston.

Mr. Singer received his degree in Music Composition from Berklee College of Music where he

studied composition with John Bavicchi and Jeronimas Kacinskas, and conducting with George

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Monseur. The PSA has premiered three of his choral compositions: Three Times We Parted

(1992) and For I Know Well The Spring (2006) written for the Chamber Chorus and Lux

Aeterna (2002) for the Chorale and Orchestra. Most recently, Mr. Singer composed the music for

the off-Broadway play, Looking for Billy Haines, which ran in New York in 2010.

Mr. Singer is on the faculty at the Music Maker School in Acton, and he maintains a private

studio in Arlington where he teaches piano and music theory and provides audition coaching.

He and his family have lived in Arlington, MA since 1989.

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR OF THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT CHORALE

Sarah Telford joined the Chorale as Assistant Conductor in spring 2015, while completing

coursework in conducting at the School of Music at Boston University. Sarah has sung in the

Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus for over twenty years, frequently

serving as French diction coach for the group, and has directed

HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, and Die Fledermaus for Friends of the

Performing Arts in Concord, now known as Opera51. Sarah is also

familiar to MetroWest audiences for performances with the Concord

Players and the Sudbury Savoyards, as well as freelance concert work,

including the soprano solos in Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Stéphane

Mallarmé with the Concord Chamber Ensemble, Faure’s Requiem with

the Arlington-Belmont Chorale, and Orff’s Carmina Burana at a PSA Open Summer Sing. As

pianist, she served as accompanist in the Sudbury Public Schools from 2008 – 2012, and with the

Sudbury Savoyards 2003 – 2010. Equally at home in the world of pop music, Sarah fronted the

dance band Firefly for twelve years as lead singer and keyboardist, performing throughout New

England at weddings, functions, and clubs.

ACCOMPANIST OF THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT CHORALE

Michael Becker has been the Accompanist of the Arlington-Belmont

Chorale of the Philharmonic Society of Arlington since January 2007.

He is on the piano faculty of the All Newton Music School and is a staff

pianist at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. Michael is

also on the faculty of the Vocal Arts Program of the Handel and Haydn

Society, serving as pianist for the Young Women’s Chorus and Young

Women’s Chamber Choir.

Michael is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he earned a Master

of Music degree in Collaborative Piano. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Music

in Piano Performance from Towson University in Maryland, with additional studies at the

Eastman School of Music and the Longy School of Music Piano Pedagogy Institute.

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ACCOMPANIST OF THE ARLINGTON-BELMONT CHAMBER CHORUS

Daniel Padgett enjoys an active and varied career in music. He is frequently sought after as an

accompanist and collaborative pianist throughout New England and beyond. Daniel has had the

pleasure of collaborating with notable musical figures such as composer

John Harbison, drummer Jason Marsalis, singer Ronan Tynan of

the Irish Tenors, Seattle Opera director Stephen Terrell and many

others. He is a member of the progressive chamber music ensemble

Cordis, led by Richard Grimes, considered by many to be the world’s

premier player of the electric cimbalom. Daniel’s original compositions

and recordings of contemporary classical music can be found on

numerous podcasts, iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, Soundcloud and all other streaming platforms. He

looks forward to continued involvement with the wonderful folks of the Arlington-Belmont

Chamber Chorus!

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE PSA

• During the 2016-17 season Orlando Cela and the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra initiated

a new annual concert in Somerville, MA. The concert is held in early March and expands the

PSA’s outreach efforts to a new community.

• The Arlington-Belmont Chorale also experienced a first in the 2016-17 season, when they

were joined by the Ottoson Middle School Select Chorus for a presentation of Carl Orff’s

Carmina Burana. This was the first collaboration between the two choruses.

Did you learn ...? (A short yearbook quiz ... answers at the bottom of page 35)

1. How many conductors has the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus had in its history?

2. Who won the 2016 Young Artist Competition Tannenwald Award?

3. Where are the PSA libraries currently stored?

4. What does the PSA sell to raise money each year?

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Quiz answers: 1. Two 2. Abigail Krawson 3. Road Warrior Moving & Storage 4. Citrus fruit

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SPONSORSHIP

Help support the Philharmonic Society of Arlington through sponsorship at any time or by

advertising or placing a personal message in the Yearbook, published annually and distributed

at all concerts and events. Sponsorship levels and advertising rates (all tax deductible) are:

o Leonard D. Wood Scholarship - to support the awards given the winners of the 18 and under

category of the Young Artist Competition (Any amount)

o In support of the Young Artist Competition (Any amount)

o Bavicchi Fund - to commission new compositions (Any amount)

Indicate on the line below how you would like your sponsorship contribution listed, in your

name or “in memory of” or “in honor of” another person: (Print name clearly, check one only)

o Your Name o In Memory of o In Honor of o Other

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Make your check payable to Philharmonic

Society of Arlington and send it to:

Philharmonic Society of Arlington

c/o Ms Christine Bird

995 Massachusetts Ave. #305

Arlington, MA 02476-4524

If you have any questions about sponsorship

or advertising in the yearbook contact:

president@psarlington.org.

We appreciate your support of music for

Arlington, Belmont, and some

50 neighboring communities.

INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS

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o Benefactor $250

o Sustaining Member $150

o Patron $100

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