Master Chorale Dianne Brumley, Conductor

Master Chorale
Dianne Brumley, Conductor
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Music
Dr. Sue Zanne Williamson-Urbis, Chair
present the
Master Chorale
Dianne Brumley, Conductor
Robert Cruhm, Associate Conductor and Accompanist
Jesus Guillermo Morales, Accompanist
Thursday, February 10, 2011 • 8 p.m.
Texas Music Educators Association
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom A
San Antonio, Texas
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The Virtue of Song
Program
Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg
from Cantata No. 149
So fahr Ich hin
No. 10: Supreme Virtue
from the Tao te Ching
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Contre Qui, Rose
from Les Chansons des Roses
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750
Heinrich Schütz
1585-1672
Mark Adamo
b. 1962
Morten Lauridsen
b. 1943
Robert Cruhm, conductor
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A Message from the President
On behalf of our university community, I extend my thanks to the Texas Music Educators
Association for inviting our Master Chorale to perform at the 2011 TMEA Clinic/Convention.
Music transcends time and generations, and Texas’ musical history is rich. Our Department of
Music attracts bright, highly motivated young people who contribute to Texas’ unique place in
music education. We are grateful to TMEA for preserving and promoting excellence in music
education for the past 90 years. Your success has been marked, as the event has grown to
become the largest music conference in the world.
We are proud of our Master Chorale students, their director, Dianne Brumley, and their
accompanists as they present this concert for your enjoyment. They bring with them our
warmest South Texas wishes for a wonderful conference.
Juliet V. García, Ph.D.
President
Under the Willow Tree
from Vanessa
Samuel Barber
1910 – 1981
Evening Wind
J.A.C. Redford
b. 1953
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Canciones Populares
La Llorona
La Sandunga
Ramon Noble
1925-1999
Thomas Raines, marimba
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Softly and Tenderly
William L. Thompson
1847-1909
Rene Clausen, arr.
b. 1953
Sinner Man
Howard Roberts, arr.
b. 1924
Alfonso Gonzales, tenor
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Let Me Be the Music
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David Friedman
b. 1950
Anne Albritton, arr.
b. 1940
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The Virtue of Song
Program Notes and text
So fahr Ich hin
Sam Fox Publishing – CM 27
Heinrich Schütz published his Geistliche Chor-music in 1648 as a set of instructive motets in the prima
practica style. As Schütz wrote in the preface of the publication, “I have composed a few slight
works without basso continuo...” Twenty-nine motets form his Geistliche Chor-music, including So
fahr Ich hin, which speaks to life everlasting.
Henry David Thoreau penned:
Give me good laboring folk
Who love their work.
Whose virtue is song
To cheer God along.
Thus I journey to Jesus Christ;
I stretch out my arm,
So I fall asleep and rest gently,
No one can awaken me,
For Jesus Christ, God’s Son
Will open the gate of heaven,
To lead me to eternal life.
As music educators, it seems most of our days are spent pursuing the virtue of song with “good
folk.” What better pursuit? The music for tonight’s concert explores themes through which
mankind can seek and find virtue: joy, hope, sorrow, longing, life, love, spirituality, heritage
and, finally, the virtue of music itself. Thus, The Virtue of Song…
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No. 10: Supreme Virtue
Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg
Carus Verlag – CV 31.149/03
from Cantata No. 149
The opening chorus of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata 149, Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg, is a
suitably stirring call to hope and rejoicing. A martial work, it was composed for the Feast of St.
Michael and All Angels in 1728. The text is taken from Psalm 118:15-16.
There are joyful songs of victory in the tents of the righteous:
the right hand of the Lord claims the victory,
the right hand of the Lord is exalted,
the right hand of the Lord claims the victory!
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G. Schirmer – with permission from the composer
from the Tao te Ching
We are privileged to have in our audience tonight New York composer of choral and operatic
works Mark Adamo. He was commissioned by The Dale Warland Singers to compose No. 10:
Supreme Virtue from the Tao te Ching of Lao-tsu (Stephen Mitchell, translator). This verse of the Tao te
Ching is a series of moral challenges, all beginning with the words “Can you?” The composer
employs quasi-instrumental vocal gesture with marimba-like repeated notes, wind sounds and
horn-like interruptions leading to a melodic meditation followed by bright harmonies and
jubilant rhythms that spin the work to closure.
Can you coax your mind from its wanderings
and keep to the original oneness?
Can you let your body become
supple as a child?
Can you cleanse your inner vision
until you see nothing but the light?
Can you love people and lead them
without imposing your will?
Can you deal with the most vital matters
by letting events take their course?
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Can you step back from your own mind
and thus understand all things?
Giving birth and nourishing,
having without understanding;
acting with no expectation,
leading without trying to control;
this is the supreme virtue.
Under the Willow Tree
from Vanessa
The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Vanessa paired the music of 20th century American composer
Samuel Barber with the text of Gian Carlo Menotti. From the opera comes a unique love song,
a lyrical chorus of passionate intensity, Under the Willow Tree.
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Contre Qui, Rose
Under the willow tree two doves cry.
Oh! Where shall we sleep, my love,
Whither shall we fly?
Southern Music – 0041256
The wood has swallowed the moon,
The fog has swallowed the shore,
The green toad has swallowed the key to my door.
from Les Chansons des Roses
It is said that Morten Lauridsen is the most published and performed American choral composer
of modern times. In his vocal cycle, Les Chansons des Roses, his delicate and distinctive musical
language perfectly reflects the poignant language of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry. In Contre Qui,
Rose, the second in the vocal cycle, each musical phrase ends on a half cadence reflecting the
unresolved nature of love’s unanswered questions. The composer writes of Contre Qui, Rose,"I
think it is my favorite piece that I have composed."
Against whom, rose,
have you assumed
these thorns?
Is it your too fragile joy
that forced you
to become this
armed thing?
But from whom does it protect you,
this exaggerated defense?
How many enemies have I
lifted from you
who do not fear it at all?
On the contrary, from summer to autumn
you wound the affection
that is given you.
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G. Schirmer – 10861
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Evening Wind
Plough Down Sillion Press
Hailing from the American West Coast, J.A.C. Redford is an accomplished composer of music
for the concert hall as well as music for theater, television and film. Redford has composed
numerous choral works, including Evening Wind, a work that employs harmonies and textures to
expressively paint the text of Marjorey W. Avery’s poetry of love and longing.
Evening wind, from over the blue black darkness of the sea,
Your sighs are as a spoken word to me,
Wafted in quietness, as on a flight of angel wings,
Soft as a word whispered, caressingly, in the night,
A word from my Beloved brought by you, O evening wind.
“Come home,” I hear you whisper.
“Your Beloved calls you home.”
Evening wind, my soul has been waiting long for this great flight.
Beyond the twinkling circlet of the night,
Between portals of time and space, I go to Him.
Above the swirling breakers of the galaxies,
Crested with spume of cosmic dust,
There, at the margin of created space, my Beloved waits for me.
I see His face, and I am home at last.
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Canciones Populares
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Ricordi Americana – Buenos Aires
BA 12217 & BA 12219
Ramon Noble, a prolific composer/arranger from Hidalgo, Mexico, studied at the University of
Hidalgo and the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City. Many of his works use themes,
dances and rhythms from his native country, as evidenced in his arrangements of the folk songs
La Llorona and La Sandunga. With texts steeped in the traditions of Hispanic lore, each is a waltz
influenced by the jota musical style.
Softly and Tenderly
Boston Conservatory of Music trained hymnist Will Lamartine Thompson wrote the beloved
Softly and Tenderly in 1880. Rene Clausen’s gentle 21st century arrangement pays homage to
Thompson’s original hymn.
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
calling for you and for me.
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling, O sinner, come home.
Come home, come home,
You who are weary, come home.
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
calling, O sinner, come home.
La Llorona
As you were leaving the temple, Weeping Woman,
that is when I saw you.
You were wearing such a lovely huipil, Weeping woman,
I mistook you for the Virgin Mary.
Weeping Woman dressed in sky blue.
People say I know no sorrow, Weeping Woman,
Because they never see me weep.
Some deaths occur in silence, Weeping Woman,
yet the grief they cause is greater than most would realize.
Weeping Woman dressed in sky blue.
La Sandunga
Oh, Sandunga!
Sandunga dear, for heaven’s sake!
Sandunga do not be ungrateful,
darling love of my heart.
Yes my darling.
Darling love of my heart!
Two nights ago I went to your house.
Three times I knocked at your door.
You are no good for loving,
for you sleep too heavily.
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Mark Foster Music MF 2151
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Sinner Man
Lawson-Gould – LG51571
This traditional, American spiritual, arranged by Howard A. Roberts, considers man’s free will
and the virtue of spiritual preparedness.
O sinner man,
where you gonna run to?
O sinner man,
where you gonna run to all on that day?
Run to the rock!
Rock, won’t you hide me all on that day?
Lord said: “Sinner man,
the rock’ll be a meltin’.”
Run to the sea!
Sea, won’t you hide me all on that day?
Lord said: “Sinner man,
the sea will be a-boilin’.”
O Lord, won’t you hide me?
Lord, won’t you hide me all on that day?
And then the Lord said: “Sinner man,
You should a-been a prayin’.”
Won’t you hide me?
Won’t you hide me now?
Satan said: “Just step right in.”
All on that day!
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Master Chorale
Personnel
Let Me Be the Music
Shawnee Press – A 2117
Dianne Brumley, Conductor
The marriage of David Friedman’s music and text are supported by Anne Allbriton’s lush
arrangement extolling the virtue of a life filled with music. We dedicate this to all music educators
past and present who have enriched our lives with the gift of music.
Seasons come and seasons go,
and somehow they were meant to show
that life and love are never really gone.
So when my journey here is through,
I’m certain there is just a new hello;
And so when I travel on,
Let me be the music,
Let me be the music of love I have known;
Let me be the melodies in the wind and the trees
that sing to the lost and alone.
Let me be the sweet refrain
in the sound of the rain or a rippling stream.
Let me be the lullabies
that close the eyes of children when they dream.
For music has no wall or bars, it bridges time and space;
it only asks the senses to surrender.
It sweeps us to the stars and makes us one in its embrace;
It has no fences, it has no gender.
So let me be the music,
the beautiful music of love.
Let me be the voices of spring
that rejoice in the things that blossom and grow.
Oh, let me be the music,
to come again as music,
the beautiful music of love when I go.
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Robert Cruhm, Associate Conductor and Accompanist
Jesus Guillermo Morales, Accompanist
Soprano
Tenor
Catarina Cabrera
Laredo, Texas
Meagan Contreras
Corpus Christi, Texas
Rosie Elizalde
Brownsville, Texas
Rebecca Gamboa*
San Benito, Texas
Brittany Garza
Harlingen, Texas
Azalea Laredo
Monterrey, Mexico
Samantha Lucio
Harlingen, Texas
Jessica M. Lustenberger
Matamoros,
Mexico
Lizetty A. Medina
Matamoros, Mexico
Maria N. Loza
Puebla, Mexico
Liliana Montiel
Brownsville, Texas
Megan N. Pitcock*
San Antonio, Texas
Jessica Rosas
Puebla, Mexico
Danielle Touchet
Brownsville, Texas
Alfonso M. Gonzalez*
Adam Guillen
Edgar S. Hernandez
Christopher A. Leach
Ezequiel Lyra*
Eradio Martinez#
Gilbert Millan
Jacob Ortiz
Rubén D. Reyna
Jonathan A. Rosales
Bobby Sanchez
Cristian Torres
Alto
Gloria Alcaraz
Christina Y. Cabrera*
Dyandra Edwards
Ashley Flores
Samantha Garcia
Stephanie Garcia
Samantha Luna*
Adelaida Martinez
Analisse Mascorro
Keren E. Mascorro
Natalia Montez
Valeria Grace Ontiveros
Peggy Sue Reyna
Victoria Rodriguez
BriAnne J. Ruiz
Bree Lynn Sharpe
Sarah Trevino
Brownsville, Texas
Laredo, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Zapata, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Los Fresnos, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Donna, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Kingsville, Texas
San Benito, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
Puebla, Mexico
Bass
Manuel Castaneda IV
Francisco M. Castillo
Ricardo A. Delgado*
Israel Luis Hinojosa
Anthony Hudgins
Gerardo A. Ledesma
Daniel A. Montalvo
Ricardo Montelogo
Peter Porras
Anthony Ramirez*
Omero Reyes Jr.
Joshua Reyna
Michael A. Salinas
Albert Torruco
Jason Eric Whitney+
Harlingen, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
Burbank, Calif.
Monterrey, Mexico
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Rio Hondo, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
San Benito, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
* Section Leader
# Student Accompanist
+ Choral Office Assistant and Librarian
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Biographies
Dianne Brumley is the Director of Choral Studies and professor of music education at The
University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, where she conducts the
university Master Chorale, teaches choral conducting and choral techniques, and guides the
choral music education program. During Brumley’s eight-year tenure with UTB/TSC, the
choral music program has grown significantly, attaining international acclaim.
Master Chorale
In addition to her university activities, Brumley is the founding Conductor/Artistic Director of
the South Texas Chorale and Orchestra. She also serves as a frequent guest conductor, clinician
and adjudicator throughout Texas and the United States. Previously, Brumley served as vice
president of the Church/Community Division of TCDA and as national chairperson for Women’s
Choruses for ACDA. Additionally, she has served in numerous regional and state capacities with
TMEA and UIL.
The university Master Chorale is the premier choral ensemble at The University of Texas at
Brownsville and Texas Southmost College and has been under the direction of Dianne Brumley
since its inception in 2003. The 60 singers are all undergraduate students representing music,
music education and other academic majors. TMEA 2011 marks the first convention performance
for the Master Chorale and for the Department of Music.
Before coming to UTB/TSC, Brumley was a successful music teacher in the public schools at the
elementary, junior high and high school levels and also served as a public school fine arts
administrator. Choirs under her direction were selected for performances at state, regional and
national conventions and have won numerous competitions and awards.
Central to the training of UTB/TSC vocal students is a multifaceted choral music experience.
Choir students give numerous performances in the beautiful, new university Arts Center. In
addition, the Master Chorale garnered much acclaim at international featured performances in
Ireland and Italy in 2007 and 2009. Students also have the opportunity to work with visiting
conductors and soloists, and occasionally join forces with members of the South Texas community to prepare and perform choral masterworks with orchestra. The successes experienced by
the Master Chorale have been made possible through the collaborative efforts of many: involved
student leaders, a dedicated administration, and a knowledgeable and supportive voice faculty.
The NASM-accredited Department of Music at UTB/TSC is committed to producing graduates
properly equipped to join the ranks of professional school, church and concert musicians. As
such, many Master Chorale students serve as soloists, section leaders and directors of church
choirs, and as private voice teachers in the public schools and the Department of Music’s Music
Academy. Many Master Chorale alumni are now serving as public school music teachers, training
a new generation of choral musicians.
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Brumley has been the recipient of many civic and professional awards, including Distinguished
Graduate from the School of Music at Southwest Texas State University, the Charles B. Feldman
Arts Award and the AAUW Outstanding Women of Achievement Award. Most recently, she was
named by Texas State University as a Woman of Note and was among 100 women honored at
the dedication of the university’s permanent exhibit, Southwest Texas Women: The First Hundred Years.
Brumley holds degrees from Abilene Christian University and Southwest Texas State University
(now Texas State University at San Marcos). She has studied conducting with Dr. Kenneth Davis
and Dr. Kenneth Fulton and has done postgraduate study at the Eastman School of Music with
Professor Donald Neuen.
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VOice Faculty
Daniel Hunter-Holly, baritone, is Director of Vocal Studies at UTB/TSC. An active recitalist
specializing in American art song and French mélodie, Dr. Hunter-Holly teaches vocal pedagogy
and vocal literature in addition to applied voice lessons. He holds degrees from The Ohio State
University, University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a doctorate in vocal performance
from the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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Robert Cruhm, associate conductor and accompanist, is currently in his 40th year of music
education. He began his collegiate music studies at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas,
and received both his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music Education degrees from
Texas Christian University, having studied under Dr. B. R. Henson, Dr. Ruth Whitlock and
Ronald Shirey. During his successful public school career, he taught in the Brownsville
Independent School District (ISD), Spring Branch ISD, Pasadena ISD, Katy ISD, Northeast
ISD (San Antonio) and Deer Park ISD. He is currently in his sixth year at UTB/TSC, where he
is the associate conductor and accompanist of the Master Chorale and studio accompanist for
voice, low brass and clarinet studios.
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Carol Sachs, soprano, is the Artistic Director of the UTB/TSC Bravo Opera Company and teaches
applied voice. She holds degrees from Texas Christian University and UTB/TSC. Previously a
successful public school choral music educator, Sachs remains an active adjudicator and clinician.
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Yoonsang Lee, baritone, who captures audiences and critics with the warmth and clarity of his lyric
voice, is acclaimed as “full of appropriate gravitas” by the Austin Chronicle and “a resonant
velvet baritone” by the Houston Press. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Lee received his Bachelor of
Music degree from Seoul National University and master and doctoral degrees from The
University of Texas at Austin. He joined the voice faculty at UTB /TSC fall 2010.
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Soo-Ah Park, soprano, received her Bachelor of Music in Performance degree at the Eastman
School of Music. Park received both her master’s in opera performance and doctorate in voice
with opera emphasis at The University of Texas at Austin. She joined the UTB/TSC faculty in
fall 2010, teaching voice studio, diction class and opera studio.
Jesus Guillermo Morales, accompanist and graduate teaching assistant, is a native of Laredo, Texas,
where he graduated from The Vidal Trevino Fine Arts Magnet High School. As a solo pianist,
Morales has given performances throughout South Texas and Mexico and is a much-sought-after
accompanist. He performed with the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003 and, in the same
year, participated in the Hotchkiss Summer Portals Chamber Music Program in Lakeville, Conn.
He is a consistent prizewinner in piano competitions throughout Texas and Mexico.
Morales' previous instructors were Professor Angel Guerrero, Dr. Mary-Grace Carroll and Dr.
James R. Floyd. Morales holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from UTB/TSC and
is pursuing a master’s in music education at UTB/TSC under the tutelage of Professors Richard
Urbis and Dianne Brumley.
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marimbist
Thomas Raines, percussionist, is a senior music-education major at UTB/TSC, where he is a
percussion student of Dr. Thomas Nevill. A graduate of Brownsville ISD’s Lopez High School,
Raines was a member of the of the Lopez High School Band, which was the TMEA 4A Honor
Band in 2004. At Lopez High School, he was a percussion student of Javier Bermudez and
Blaine Locheed.
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The Arts Center
Special Thanks
Members of the Master Chorale would like to thank the following secondary public school
music directors who have contributed to their success and love of music:
Manuel Acosta, Joe Alvear, Kathleen Alvizo, Randall Ashley, Juan Francisco Batalla Bahena,
Joe Bersalona, Billie Lu Billett, Raymond Chapa, Joel Lamar Cruz, Jorge Gerardo Diaz,
Antonio Durant, Jeffery Figueroa, Paul Flinchbaugh, Paul Foster Jr., Lourdes Fraga,
Matias Garcia, Tammy-Rae Garza, David Gonzalez, Eugene Holkup, Joe Irwin, Tom Klassen,
Andrew Lenz, Ted Lyra, Rolando Martinez, Rolando Molina, Judy Moore, Richard Myler,
Jennifer Nimchan, Adrian Padilla, Denise Pitcock, Dennis Pitcock, Richard Phelps,
Craig Ramberger, Albert Salazar, Raymond Sanchez, Jorge Torres, George Treviño,
Jose Valenzuela, Charles Williams, Kyle Zeuch
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Acknowledgements
Dr. Kenneth Davis, Dr. Betsy Weber, Dr. Kenneth Fulton, Dr. Craig Hella Johnson,
Dr. Loyd Hawthorne, Joe Wier, Denise Eaton, Robert Floyd, Stephen Carrell, Alan Kerr,
Mary Jane Radford, Ray Hughston, Tudor Uhlhorn, Allan Brumley
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