PROGRAM Sonatina for Harp and Trombone Rachel Brandwein (b.1982) David Peterson, trombone

Rachel Brandwein, harp I. Buoyant II. Dolce III. Majestic

Composer’s Notes: This work was written for David Peterson. I enjoy the round, brassy, full sound of the trombone, and found that the harp to be an unusual, yet complimentary pairing. The Sonatine is intended to be a duet, or partnership between the instruments, not a harp accompaniment to a trombone melody line. I wrote the second movement first in this case, as lyrical melodies and more introverted sentiments seem to be my compositional comfort-zone. In the first movement I see shades of light green and white in circular and zig-zag patterns, perhaps a result of the mixed meter. The third lively movement incorporates motives from the first two movements, especially in the trombone cadenza.

Águas de Março Antonio Carlos Jobim (music and lyrics) (1927-1994)

Nicholas O. Raths, guitar and voice Carolyn Finley, voice

"Waters of March" (Águas de Março) is a Brazilian song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) in 1972. The English version performed tonight was also written by Jobim, however, if does not reflect all of the images in the Portuguese version. Both versions do not tell a story, but rather create images reflecting the rainy summer season in Brazil from December through March. "Águas de Março" is reputed to be the top Brazilian song in the early 1970's. One of the best-known performances of this song was a duet version by Jobim and Elis Regina .

In Rio de Janeiro, March is the rainiest month often causing flooding in many places around the city. Symbolically, the music depicts the downward flow of rain with descending musical motives. The text speaks of the debris flowing into the gutters including sticks, stones, glass, nails, liquor bottles, fishhooks, and the Portuguese version also refers to parties to repair roofs from heavy rain. The 'waters of March' can possibly be seen as a metaphor for the promise of life throughout the passing of time.

The Scandinavian Tradition arr. by Alasdair Fraser/Natalie Haas David Arnott, violin Lucia Magney, cello

Two duets from Matinee Musicale. Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)

Marcie Givens, soprano Axel Theimer, baritone Amy Grinsteiner, piano

La Gelosia - Jealousy

He: It's no use sighing or weeping for me. My life is over as my beloved is unfaithful. I will go out and enjoy a new love, more beautiful and faithful than you. She: If you've given your heart to another then I'll give mine away, too. He may not be as handsome as you, but at least he'll be more trustworthy.

L'Addio - Farewell She: I remain among my tears, abandoned and alone without even a word of hope to console me. A terrible foreboding of fate wells up in my heart. He: Let me add my bitter tears to yours in this soulful farewell. A terrible foreboding of fate wells up in my heart. Both: we lift up our soulful farewell. Life without you, my dearest, will be worse than death.

Diva Death Scenes Roger S. Keele (music and lyrics) (1954 -) Dale White, C trumpet Carolyn Finley, mezzo-soprano Edward Turley, piano

INTERMISSION

Epitaphe de Jean Harlow (1937) Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) Bruce Thornton, flute Richard Dirlam, alto saxophone Edward Turley, piano

Three duets Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Marcie Givens, soprano Axel Theimer, baritone Amy Grinsteiner, piano

Jägerlied (Opus 66/4) Hunter’s Song - dialogue Hunter, are rabbits your prey? Yes, it must be so. Hunter, what can be seen in your eyes? It is tears – it must be so. Hunter, what is it you carry in your heart? Love and sorrow – it must be so. Hunter, when will you welcome your love in your home? Never – never – it must be so.

Klánge (Opus 66/1) Earth brings forth flowers, the sun is the source of light, the heart is the source of love, but also the source of suffering which makes it break. The flowers are destined to wilt and the darkness of light follows the bright day, and love is followed by longing, which causes the heart to be filled with melancholy.

Weg der Liebe (Opus 20/1) Across the mountains, across the waves of the sea, below the graves, below the springs, across the rivers and oceans, through the deep ravines, across mountains and highlands, LOVE finds its target. In caverns, the deepest ravines, even too deep for dragons, steep crevices where no flies and gnats live, LOVE will be able to get there to be victorious! Even if we think we are safe from Amor, even though we ridicule Amor as being a child and blind and lock the door to keep him out, LOVE will find its way though sealed and locked doors. Even if you control Phoenix and the mighty eagle, if dragons and the tiger follow your command, even when the lioness does not challenge you for her catch, LOVE will find a way and conquer you!

The Comedians Op.26 (1940) arr. Rick Robinson Dimitri Kabalevsky (1904 – 1987)

Bruce Thornton, clarinet Richard Dirlam, tenor saxophone Dale White, trumpet Brian Campbell, trombone David Arnott, violin Lucia Magney, cello Terry Vermillion, percussion

Prologue Gallop March Waltz Pantomine Intermezzo Little Lyrical Scene Gavotte Scherzo Epilogue

PERFORMERS

Rachel Brandwein (harp) is delighted to be on faculty at College of St. Benedict & St. John's University, and will join the faculty at Southwest Minnesota State University next term. She has earned degrees at University of Michigan, The Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University. She has performed extensively as an orchestral, chamber music, in opera, and as a soloist; she was an invited soloist at the 2005 Ninth World Harp Congress in Ireland, and she toured China with The Juilliard Orchestra in 2008. She recently performed at the historic Orpheum Theatre with members of the Minnesota and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. Dr. Brandwein has been the recipient of many competition awards and grants from the American Harp Society, American String Teacher's Association and Mu Phi Epsilon International Music Fraternity. Rachel loves composing music and has performed several of her works in the Composer's Concerts at The Juilliard School, University of Michigan, Stony Brook University; at Kansas State University and Interlochen Center for the Arts; as well as in concerts around the country. She has performed and given harp master classes at The Juilliard School in New York City, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and at universities in Michigan and Arizona. Dr. Brandwein has taught many courses including ear training, theory, music history at the college level. Rachel is dedicated to teaching and helping each student reach their personal and professional fulfillment. Brian Campbell (trombone) teaches music theory and composition courses at CSB/SJU. Recent compositions have been performed by his faculty colleagues Carolyn Finley and Edward Turley on Pastiche concerts. He has also published or presented at conferences research papers on topics ranging from the music of Arnold Schoenberg to eighteenth-century musical aesthetics. Campbell is currently a member of Amadeus Chamber Orchestra in addition to Pastiche. Past experience as a professional trombonist includes performing with Minnesota Brassworks, the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra, and the Colorado Springs Symphony and Symphony Brass Quintet. He is a graduate of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and holds graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota. Richard Dirlam (saxophone) earned First Prizes and Medals of Honor in Saxophone Performance and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire de Musique de Bordeaux, France while in the studio of Jean-Marie Londeix. After studies in France, Richard Dirlam performed recitals, chamber music concerts, and as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, North America, and Japan, and at the same time earned a doctorate in orchestral conducting and degrees in chemistry. He performs and records with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and other venues in North America. Dirlam is a founding member of the Quatour International de Saxophones, a quartet of musicians living at the four corners of the planet, Japan, Paris, Canada and America. Each year the group performs and records around the world including concert tours in France, Belgium, Slovenia, Japan, Thailand, Canada and the USA. His discography includes the titles She Sings She Screams, Pure Saxophone, I Dig, and Sax Ascendant. Carolyn Finley (mezzo-soprano) is an active performer and adjudicator throughout the upper Midwest. She received two music degrees from the University of North Texas and her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota. A Texas native, Carolyn was a three-year member of the Houston Opera Studio where she performed leading and supporting roles in both the Studio and Main House productions. In the Midwest, she has toured with Midwest Opera Theater and Nebraska Opera, performed with the Plymouth Music Series, Duluth-Superior Orchestra, Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Thursday Musical, Schubert Club and Minnesota Center Chorale. She recently performed as the mezzo-soprano soloist in To Be Certain of the Dawn, Stephen Paulus’ holocaust oratorio, both locally and in Europe. Carolyn performs regularly with the CSB/SJU faculty chamber music ensemble Pastiche and has produced three art song CD’s with her spouse, Edward Turley (piano). Marcie Hagen Givens (soprano) is an active performer on the recital, concert and operatic stage. Notable concert credits include J.S. Bach’s Passion according to St. John with Weston Noble and the Luther College Symphony, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the CSB/SJU Symphony and Libby Larsen’s Songs from Letters with the St. Cloud State University Wind Orchestra at the CBDNA convention at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Dr. Givens recently sang the world premiere of Larsen’s Within the Circles of Our Lives with the SCSU Wind Ensemble at the American Band Association International Convention at Cal Poly University and at UCLA in March 2007. In 2008, she traveled to Manila, Philippines to teach voice, voice related courses and presented an American Art Song recital with husband Hugh Givens, bass-baritone. Honors include winner of the 2004 Minnesota NATS Artist Awards, 1997 winner of the MN NATS Advanced/ Young Professional Division, 1996 winner of the Iowa District Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards and 1996 Upper Midwest Regional Finalist of the Met Awards. Amy Grinsteiner (piano) teaches piano and Music through History classes at CSB/SJU. She holds a BM degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a MM from the Eastman School of Music, a Performer’s Diploma and L.R.A.M. Teaching Certificate from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a DMA from the University of Washington. Dr. Grinsteiner also serves as the Faculty Program Coordinator and Faculty for Session II of the Seattle Piano Institute, a summer program for aspiring young classical pianists at the University of Washington, Seattle. As a recipient of both the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar Award and the P.E.O. National Scholar Award, Dr. Grinsteiner has traveled extensively building awareness and appreciation for the arts. Lucia Magney (cello) is Assistant Principal Cellist of the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. She teaches Cello, Chamber Music and String Methods at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University where she has been a faculty member since 1990. She is a busy chamber musician, performing regularly with Music Saint Croix, Pentimento and Trio Benedicta. Her string quartet Pentimento has appeared in Theatre de la Jeune Lune's productions of Mozart's Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Magic Flute and Cosi fan Tutti and recorded incidental music for the Guthrie Theater's spring 2007 production of Merchant of Venice. Lucia attended the Bernard Greenhouse Celebration in Greensboro, NC in 2005 and the Midori Community Engagement Seminar at USC in 2007 in support of her work as an artist/teacher. She holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Manhattan School of Music where she was a student of Bernard Greenhouse.

David Peterson (guest performer – trombone). His diverse passion for music and for the trombone has afforded him opportunities to perform with the Moscow Ballet Company, the George Maurer Jazz Group, Lake Wobegon Brass Band, North Point Brass Quintet, Jake Cortez and the Recipe for Trouble, Great River Jazz Collective, among others. Notable performance venues include Blue Note Club, NY, Carnegie Hall with the Rutgers Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, as well as universities in New York, Michigan, Minnesota, and Kansas. His pursuit in the education field has currently earned him the position of Visiting Professor of Low Brass at Southwest Minnesota State University, Assistant Professor of Low Brass at St. Cloud State University, as well as Director of Education with the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Peterson is a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University, holds a Master of Music degree in Trombone Performance from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from St. Cloud State University. “I am very grateful to have the opportunity to do what I love and interact with those that share the same passion for music.” O. Nicholas Raths is a founding member of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, a nationally renowned chamber ensemble he performed across the country with for twenty-three years. He attended the University of Southern California where he studied with classical guitarist Pepe Romero and jazz guitarists Jimmy Wyble and Howard Roberts. He received his DMA from the University of Minnesota where he studied with classical guitarist Jeffrey Van. Axel Theimer (baritone) has been at CSB/SJU since 1969. He teaches applied voice, conducting and vocal pedagogy and directs the Chamber Choir and Men’s Chorus. Dr. Theimer is a native of Austria and received much of his early training in Vienna, where he was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir. He later earned a DMA in vocal performance from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Theimer is in demand as a choral and vocal clinician throughout the U.S., serves on the faculty and as Executive Director of The VoiceCare Network, is founder and music director of Kantorei and the Amadeus Chamber Symphony, and conducts the National Catholic Youth Choir. With Dr. O. Nicholas Raths, Dr. Theimer has released two CD’s, My Musical Heritage: Folk Songs from Austria and Germany and Christmas Carols from Germany and Austria. In November of 2001, the Minnesota American Choral Directors Association named him Choir Director of the Year and in 2004 he was inducted into the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame. He is the 2011 recipient of the MN-ACDA F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award. Bruce Thornton (clarinet) holds the degree of doctor of musical arts from the University of Minnesota. Well-versed in both the classical and jazz fields, he serves as soloist, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the Upper Midwest and Canada. He has appeared on numerous recordings and maintains a busy performance schedule in the Twin Cities including performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Plymouth Music Series, and in orchestras for Broadway musicals. He performs regularly in the Twin Cities with the jazz quartet “Leisure Valley” and most recently, was guest soloist with the University of Notre Dame’s Concert Band at their Carnegie Hall performance. He performs on clarinet as well as the flute, saxophone, and bassoon. Dr. Thornton is also a saxophone and clarinet clinician for the Conn/Selmer Company. Edward Turley (piano) holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Active throughout the Upper Midwest as a recitalist, soloist, accompanist, clinician and adjudicator, he has also performed on four CD recordings: "Music for Trumpet and Piano" and “Take Two” with Dr. Dale White; "The Vocal Music of Bryan Beaumont Hayes" and "Under These Skies - British and American Art Song" with spouse Dr. Carolyn Finley (mezzo-soprano) and other colleagues. He was the recipient of the Sister Mary Grell Teacher of Distinction Award in 1996 and currently serves as chair of the CSB/SJU Music Department. Dr. Terry Vermillion holds a Doctorate of Arts in Percussion Performance from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a professor at St. Cloud State University where he directs the percussion studies area and serves as department chairperson. Having an extensive performance background in drumset, world music, timpani, and concert percussion, he is in constant demand as clinician and performer throughout the region. He performs regularly as timpanist with the St. Cloud Symphony and is currently President of the MN Percussive Arts Society and is President Elect for the Minnesota Colleges and Universities Chairs in Music organization. He also hosts the David Swenson Foundation Guest Artist Series and is a member of Trio Lorca, a St. Cloud State University faculty ensemble dedicated to chamber music for voice, flute and percussion. Dale White (trumpet) teaches brass instruments, instrumental conducting, jazz history and conducts the Wind Ensemble and Brass Choir at CSB/SJU. Dr. White holds an undergraduate degree in music education from Maryville College in Tennessee, an MA in trumpet performance from Yale University, and a DMA from the University of Minnesota. Dr. White was principal trumpet of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy and has performed with the Toledo, Knoxville, and New Haven Symphonies as well as the Minnesota Orchestra. He has also performed with Paul Winter and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He recently retired from the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra where he was principal trumpet for 28 years. Dr. White is a founding member of the Riverside Brass Quintet and is an active clinician and conductor throughout the upper Midwest. Dr. White has released two CDs with Dr. Edward Turley titled “Music for Trumpet and Piano” and “Take Two.”