BEETHOVEN'SNINTH

SYMPHONY

Sunday, May 5, 19913:00 p.m.

Canada College TheatreRedwood City, California

PROGRAM

Symphony of Psalms (1930) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

I. Psalm 39 (quarter note = 92)II. Psalm 40 (eighth note = 60)

III. Psalm 150 (quarter note = 48)

THE PENINSULA MASTER CHORALECARL SITTON, Conductor

INTERMISSION

Symphony No.9 in Dminoropus 125 (1823)

Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827)

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestosoII. Molto vivace

III. Adagio molto e cantabileIV. Presto ("An die Freude")

ELLYN L. PEABODY, sopranoWILLIAM ROBERTS, tenor

MARCIA GRONEWOLD, altoMICHAEL MORRIS, baritone

THE PENINSULA MASTER CHORALEERIC KOJA WSKY, Conductor

Please remember to disarm all watches and beepers prior to the concert. Also, besure to sign the guest book in the lobby so we may send you announcements offuture concerts. We kindly ask patrons with small children to sit near the back

of the auditorium so they may take the children to the lobby if they become noisy.

Upcoming Redwood Symphony Concerts:

Berlioz: Harold in Italywith violist Stanley EvansBrahms: Symphony No.2

Sunday, June 93:00 p.m.

Canada College

Saturday, July 278:00 p.m.

Canada College

Sibelius: Violin Concertowith violinist Mischa LefkowitzTchaikovsky: Symphony No.4plus: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and other favorites!

Friday, October 118:00 p.m.

Flint Center,Cupertino

Bernstein: Concerto for Orchestra(West Coast Premiere)Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2with pianist Lea Neiman

THE ARTISTSEllyn L. Peabody, soprano, appeared with

Redwood Symphony last season in its perform-ance of Mahler's Second Symphony. Upcomingengagements include performances with PocketOpera's productions of The Secret Marriage andThe Marriage of Figaro, and she recently ap-peared in their concert version performance ofHandel's Ariodanie. Miss Peabody was heard asMimi in Amador Valley Opera Theater's La Bo-heme, and as Fiordiligi in Berkeley Opera's CosiFan Tulle. She holds degrees from the PeabodyConservatory of Music in Baltimore and was anapprentice with the Wolf Trap Opera Company.

Mezzo soprano Marcia Gronewold returnsto sing with Redwood Symphony following herperformances in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erdein March and his Second Symphony last season.Her recent appearances have included the role ofCherubino in The Marriage of Figaro withAmador Valley Opera Theater and the title role inStravinsky's Persephone with Berkeley Sym-phony. Other operatic roles she has sung includeSuzuki in Madame Butterfly with West BayOpera, and Dame Quickly in Vaughan William'sSir John in Love with Berkeley Opera. She sangthe role of Mary Heming in the premiere perform-ances of Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scotsunder the composer's baton with Spring OperaTheater. Her oratorio credits include Handel'sMessiah with the Sacramento Symphony,Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Santa

Cruz County Symphony, and FannieMendelssohn's Oratorio with the Bay AreaWomen's Philharmonic. An active recitalist andchamber music performer, she has sung at theFestival at Sandpoint and on concert series includ-ing Performances at Six, Old First Concerts, andOld St. Mary's Noontime Concerts. Miss Grone-wold has sung premiere performances of numer-ous new works, as mezzo soprano soloist with thecontemporary vocal ensemble Ariel and with theBerkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, theComposers Chamber Players, and the San Fran-cisco Contemporary Music Players. In 1989 shesang Shoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Ravel'sTrois chansons de Stephane Mallarme with an en-semble of Redwood Symphony players under thedirection of Eric Kujawsky. A native of Illinois,Miss Gronewold received training in music anddrama at University of Illinois. She holds degreesfrom San Francisco State University and the SanFrancisco Conservatory of Music.

William Roberts is one of the few helden-tenors of our day. Having sung both lyric tenorand baritone roles earlier in his career, Mr.Roberts's voice has been likened to that of LauritzMelchior. He has studied with Jess Thomas, oneof the most renowned heldentenors of all time.While studying with Thomas in 1986, Mr.Roberts was featured as Siegmund in Thomas'sstudio presentation of excerpts from Wagner'sDie Walkii.re. In 1985 Mr. Roberts was contracted

SYMPHONY OF PSALMS

PSALMUS xxxvm (VULGATE)Verses 13 and 14

Exaudi orationem meam, Domine,et deprecationem meam:Auribus percipe lacrimas meas.

Ne sileas, quoniam advena ego sum apud te,et peregrinus, sicut omnes patres mei.

Remitte mihi,ut refriger prius quam abeam,et amplius non ero.

PSALMUS XXXIX (VULGATE)Verses 2,3 and 4

Expectans expectavi Dominum,et intendit mihi.

Et exaudivit preces meas;et eduxit me de lacu miseriae,et de luto faccis.

Et scatuir super petram pedes meos;et direxit gressus meos.

Et immisit in os meum canticum novum,carmen Deo nostro.

Videbunt multi et timebunt,et sperabunt in Domino.

PSALMUS CL (VULGATE)

Alleluia.

Laudate Dominum in sanctis Ejus:Laudate Eum in firmamento virrutis Ejus.

Laudate Eum in virritibus Ejus:Laudate Eum secundum multitudinem

magnitudinis Ejus.Laudate Eum in sono tubae.Alleluia. Laudated Dominum. Laudate Eum.

Laudate Eum in tympano et choro:Laudate Eum in chordis et organo.

Laudate Eum in cymbalis bene sonantibus:Laudate Eum in cymbalis jubilationibus:Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum;omnis spiritus laudet Eum.

Alleluia; laud ate Dominum.

PSALM XXXIX (KING JAMES VERSION)Verses 12 and 13

Hear my prayer, 0 Lord,and give ear unto my cry;hold not Thy peace at my tears.

For I am a stranger with Thee,and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

o spare me,that I may recover strength,before I go hence, and be no more.

PSALM XL (KING JAMES VERSION)Verses 1, 2 and 3

I waited patiently for the Lord;and he inclined unto me,

and heard my cry.He brought me up also out of an horrible pit,out of the miry clay.

and set my feet upon a rock,and established my goings.

And He hath put a new song in my mouth,even praise unto our God;

Many shall see it, and fear,and shall trust in the Lord.

PSALM CL (KING JAMES VERSION)

Praise ye the Lord.

Praise the Lord in His sanctuary:Praise Him in the firmament of His power.

Praise Him for His mighty acts:Praise Him according to His excellent

greatness.Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet.Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise Him.

Praise Him with the timbrel and dance:Praise Him with stringed instruments and the

organ.

Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals.Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord;let everything that hath breath praise Him.

Praise ye the Lord; praise the Lord.

BEETHOVEN:

ODE AN DIE FREUDE

o Freunde, nicht diese Tone!Sondern lasst WIS angenehmere anstimmenund freudenvollere!

Freude, schoner Gotterfunken,Tochter aus Elysium,Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!Deine Zauber binden wieder,Was die Mode streng geteilt;Aile Menschen werden Bruder,Wo dein sanfter Flugel weilt.

Wem der grosse Wurf gelungen,Eines Freundes Freund zu sein,Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,Mische seinen Jubel ein!Ja, wer auch nur eine SeeleSein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehleWeinend sich aus diesem Bund.

Freude trinken aile WesenAn den Brusten der Natur;Alle Guten, alle BosenFolgen ihrer Rosenspur.Kusse gab sie uns und Reben,Einen Freund, ge pruft im Tod;Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!

Froh wie seine Sonnen fliegenDurch des Himmels pracht'gen Plan,Laufet, Bruder, eure Bahn,Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

Seid umschlungen Millionen.Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!Bruder! Uberm StemenzeltMuss ein lieber Vater wohnen.Ihr stUrzt nieder, Millionen?Ahnest du den Schopfer, Welt?Such' ihn uber'rn Stemenzelt!Uber Stemen muss er wohnen.

Friedrich von Schiller

SYMPHONY NO.9

ODE TO JOY

o friends, no more of these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs,more full of joy!

Joy, bright spark of divinity,Daughter of Elysium.Fire-inspired we treadThy sanctuary.Thy magic power re-unitesAll that custom has divided,All men become brothersUnder the sway of thy gentle wings.

Whoever has createdAn abiding friendship,Or has wonA true and loving wife,All who can call at least one soul theirs,Join in our song of praise;But any who cannot must creep tearfullyAway from our circle.

All creatures drink of joyAt nature's breast.Just and unjustAlike taste of her gift;She gave us kisses and the fruit of the vine,A tried friend to the end.Even the worm can feel contentment,And the cherub stands before God!

Gladly, like the heavenly bodiesWhich He set on their coursesThrough the splendor of the firmament;Thus, brothers, you should run your race,As a hero going to conquest.

You millions, I embrace you.This kiss is for all the world!Brothers, above the starry canopyThere must dwell a loving Father.Do you fall in worship. you millions?World, do you know your Creator?Seek Him in the heavens,Above the stars must He dwell.

to sing tenor in the San Francisco Opera's presen-tation of Wagner's Ring. However, Mr. Roberts'sfirst opera performance in California was as abaritone in the role of King Melchior in Amahland the Night Visitors in 1982. In 1983 heperformed the role of Georgio Germont in LaTraviata, and the role of Tonio in I Pagliacci in1984. In the latter performance he was describedin the San Francisco Chronic leI Examiner as "pos-sessing a warm and powerful voice." Previously,Mr. Roberts performed the leading lyric tenorroles of Manrico in Il Trovatore, the Duke inRigoletto, and FaustinFaust with the Fort Wayne,Indiana, Philharmonic Opera Company under thedirection of Carolyn Lockwood of the Santa FeOpera. In a previous season, Mr. Roberts sang therole of Rodolpho in La Boheme under the stagedirection of the late Frank St. Ledger, whosebackground included working with that opera'scomposer, Giacomo Puccini. Also in FortWayne, Mr. Roberts was soloist with the FortWayne Philharmonic Orchestra. As businessmanager of that orchestra, he produced and nar-rated three radio broadcasts each week called"Adventures in the Arts."

Baritone Michael Morris has performedover fifty leading roles in opera, operetta andmusical theater. Mr. Morris's opera credits in-clude Germont in La Traviata, Figaro in TheMarriage of Figaro, Bartolo in The Barber ofSeville, Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Alfio inCavalleria Rusticana, Escamillo in Carmen, andMarcello and Schaunard in La Boheme, with suchcompanies as the West Bay Opera, Opera SanJose, Rogue Valley (Oregon) Opera, andYosemite Valley Musicians Holidays. In thesummer of 1989 Mr. Morris spent three months inAustria and Germany where he studied at theAmerican Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS),and auditioned for German agents and operahouses. He toured northern Italy with the AIMSOrchestra. Mr. Morris has also soloed with theSan Jose Symphonic Choir, Oakland SymphonyChorus, Santa Clara Chorale, San Mateo Sym-phony and Fremont-Newark Philharmonic.Among Mr. Morris's musical theater credits areDon Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Emile DeBeque in South Pacific, and El Gallo in TheFaniasticks. Mr. Morris is also well-known as avoice teacher and music director in the Bay Area.He is currently on the music faculty at the Collegeof Notre Dame, and serves as the Music Director

of the Los Altos Conservatory Theater.The Peninsula Master Chorale, this year

celebrating its twentieth anniversary season, wasfounded in 1970 by current Music Director CarlSitton. The select fifty-voice choir is sponsoredby Caiiada College of the San Mateo CountyCommunity College District. In addition to regu-lar Bay Area performances, the critically ac-claimed chorale has completed four internationaltours: two to Europe, one ot Australia and NewZealand, where they appeared at Expo 88, and oneto Japan, where they performed on Japanese tele-vision.

Carl Sitton is known widely in the UnitedStates as a choral conductor and composer. Astudent of the French composer Darius Milhaud,his publications include both sacred and secularchoral compositions. He is currently head of thevoice and choral departments at Caiiada College,a position he has held since 1968. He is past-presi-dent of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of theNational Association of Teachers of Singing, andhe has appeared as a conductor at the nationalconvention of the American Choral DirectorsAssociation. His biography appears in Who'sWho in the West, Who's Who in AmericanEducation and Who's Who in Entertainment.

Eric Kujawsky is an instructor at CaiiadaCollege and teaches vocal and instrumental musicat James Lick High School in San Jose. A nativeof Los Angeles, he began his conducting studiesat age fourteen and made his debut at nineteen.After completing his B.A. in Music Education andM.F.A. in Conducting at UCLA. Kujawsky ac-cepted a fellowship to study conducting at Stan-ford. Dr. Kujawsky founded Redwood Sym-phony in 1985, immediately after he received hisD.M.A. in Conducting. Dr. Kujawsky has per-formed at the Aspen Music Festival as a memberof the Conducting MasterClass; his teachers haveincluded Samuel Krachmalnick, Paul Vermel andAndor Toth. He is winner of the 1987 Bay AreaTheater Critics' Circle Award and the HollywoodDramaLogue Award for his musical direction ofSondheirn's Sunday in the Park with George withTheatreWorks in Palo Alto. Dr. Kujawsky hasappeared as guest conductor with the South Val-ley Symphony, Diablo Symphony and UCLADance Company. He considers the high points inhis life to be his marriage to Valerie Sarfaty andthe birth of his son, Aaron Benjamin Sarfaty, inJune of 1990.

ABOUT THE ORCHESTRARedwood Symphony's innovative programs

over the past six years have included major twentieth-century works by Bartok, Copland, Debussy, Mahler,Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Sibelius and Stravinsky, aswell as music of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Thisambitious, contemporary programming has drawn ahigh number of volunteer professionals to RedwoodSymphony's ranks. Musicians interested in joiningRedwood Symphony may call Dr. Kujawsky at (415)366-6149.

Redwood Symphony is a non-profit organiza-tion. All contributions are tax-deductible and will beacknowledged in future programs. Donations willgladly be accepted in the lobby at intermission, or theymay be sent to: Redwood Symphony, 1031 SixteenthAvenue, Redwood City, CA 94063.

The orchestra gratefully acknowledges the fol-lowing generous contributions: Patron: GTECorporation, Fred Grauer. Benefactor: DieterBergman, Ray Dawley in memory of Mona Dawley,Robert Marcus, Carol Matthews, Daniel Swinehart.Sustainer: Chalmers Smith. Supporter: Grant and InesAnderson, Fran Hybertson.

Special thanks to Robert and Bernice Lamar, andto Mimi Cahalan, for their outstanding contributions tothe future success of the orchestra.

Join the Redwood Symphony Guild! The Sym-phony Guild assists the orchestra in many ways, includ-ing publicizing orchestra events, ushering at concerts,providing refreshments at orchestra receptions and re-hearsals, and fund-raising. In return for your efforts,youl1 receive four free tickets for each RedwoodSymphony concert. You 11also be a guest at our annualbanquet honoring Guild members and at great Sym-phony parties and fun Guild meetings. And you'll havethe satisfaction of contributing to one of the Bay Area'smost distinguished musical organizations. You canjoin the Guild by calling the orchestra at (415) 366-6149. We're XQl!Iorchestra, and we need your help!

Redwood Symphony Guild: Margaret Elliot(chairman), Lynn Baziuk, Diane Ceonzo, Griffin Der-ryberry, Eric Kujawsky, Barbara Locke, CarolMathews, Penny McPhillips, Dorothy Norman, NickiPetruzzella, Stephen Ruppenthal, Valerie Sarfaty.

Orchestra staff: Music Director: EricKujawsky. Orchestra Manager: Joanne Wright. Treas-urer: Valerie Sarfaty. Symphony Guild Chairman:Margaret Elliot. Mailings: Dorothy Norman. ProgramNote Research: Barry Guerrero. Posters & Programs:Peter Stahl, who thanks Janet Sloan for her kind help.

Board of Directors: Eric Kujawsky (chairman),Valerie Sarfaty, Peter Stahl.

PENINSULA MASTER CHORALECARL SlIT ON, Music Director

Janice LaBorde, accompanist

SOPRANOSEleanor AchuckHelen CaplanBarbara CaulfieldShirley FitzgeraldValerie FlattShari KalmanKathleen KuebelbeckVirginia LapeCarla MarrillMarie PapineauMargaret PinckardRuth SittonIrene SohmJudith Tauber-LovikRith Vines

ALTOSLinda BellDeborah BennettLosi DriesleinRuth EskenaziMarjorie GrimmRosi KurtValerie LipmanAngela LudeMary McNinchMary Belle NolanPamela SchwarzBrenda SiddallRuth Stroshane

TENORSLarry BaerMichael BellAdrian BoyerMax CapestanyEmery GordonGerard HranekReuben Moulton

BASSESJoe BoyesRobert BraunsRonald ClazieIsrael EskenzaiRichard GlendeningRonald HodgesThomas MerrillDick PoageStephen PursellDouglas StobieJeff Trabucco

The Peninsula Master Chorale and Canada Choral Ensembles will present aconcert on Saturday, May 18, at 8:00 p.m. in Canada College's Main Theatre.

REDWOOD SYMPHONYERIC KUJA WSKY, Music Director

VIOLIN I CELLO HORNLisa Zadek Carolyn McBirney* Jim MillarB

concertmaster Linda Bloomquist Mark Nakamura S

Floyd Carter Betsy Clinch Warren VanCampTruieClemo Joan Kauffman Carrie WeikFrancis DeRook Jim LeathermanBarbaralld Julian Schaffer TRUMPETHeather Katz Janet Sloan Larry BlakeKaren Kenrick Joanne Wright Patrick CollinsJoyce Malick Christine Zdunkiewicz Frank Davis B

Michael Mayr Stephen Ruppenthal S

Birgitte Moyer BASS Dan SwinehartArthur Ross Jacques Harper*John Wholahan Steve Auerbach TROMBONE

Mickey McPhillips Andre AssainteVIOLINll Nicki Petruzzella LindaNiedStuart Allen* Jeff Raby Craig Whitwell B S

Priscilla Benham Vicky ScottKevin Bernhagen TUBASusan Coyle FLUTE Barry GuerreroCarol Damerau Katherine BamardGriffin Derryberry Lynn Baziuk PERCUSSIONCatherine Habiger Patricia Harrell B Barry GuerreroCarole Nakamura Susan Sigge S Charles HolmesRebecca Patten Victor LeeRenee Stockwell OBOE David Stork

Lianne ArakiVIOLA Diane Machado HARPStanley Evans* Peter Stahl B S Elaine CoombsMargaret Elliot Maureen StoneDavid Friberg Nick Vigil PIANOPeter Haas David HowittCatherine Kiessling CLARINET Janice LabordeBarbara Locke Joan Hebert B

Dorothy Norman Richard Steinberg * principalBarbara Zimmer B principal in Beethoven

BASSOON S principal in StravinskyChuck Hinson S

Myrna KoopmanRichard Palm B