Donald F. Cook Recital Hall M.O. Morgan Building

Thursday, 30 March 2000 at 7:30p.m.

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MUN Festival Choir MUN Chamber Choir

Douglas Dunsmore, conductor

Hanacpachap 17th Century Peruvian ed. Oscar Escalada It is the early 17th century. The service at a Peruvian Church is about to begin. The singers gather together for the processional through the streets and into the church.

Gloria (from Gloria)

Sheep may Safely Graze (from Cantata BWV208)

Shakespeare Songs for Mixed Voices and Piano # 2 Full Fathom Five # 7 It was a Lover and his Lass

Conductor: Daryl Price Conductor: Sherry Andrews

Antonio Vivaldi

Johann Sabastian Bach

William Mathias

Geographical Fugue, Newfoundland Style Adaptation from E. Toch

My Spirit Sang All Day Gerald Finzi FESTIVAL CHOIR

You Are the New Day arr. Peter Knight

Dieu! qu'illa fait bon regarder! Claude Debussy

0 Clap your Hands Orlando Gibbons

Fog Song Michael C. Snelgrove

All Creatures Now are Merry Minded John Bennett CHAMBER CHOIR

INTERMISSION

The Silver Swan

All Night Vigil, Opus 37 #8 Praise the name of the Lord

As Vesta was from latmos hill descending

0 Magnum Mysterium

The Green Bushes Lukey' s Boat

0 Hear Me Prayin'

Jamaican Market Place

Shut De Do

Ezeliel saw De Wheel

Here's to Song

CHAMBER CHOIR

Soloist: Jason Noble Conductor: Daryl Price

Conductor: Sherry Andrews

Soloist: Gerald Stamp

Soloist: Andrew Dale Trio: Susan English, Nora Trask, Alana Dean

FESTIVAL CHOIR

MUN FESTIVAL CHOIR

Thomas Wee

arr. William Daw

arr. Lydia Ad

As part of the University's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1975, the Memorial University Student Glee Club and the St. John's Extension Choir combined to form a Festival Choir under the direction of D. F. Cook, for a performance of Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass. This new choir was so successful that it was decided to keep this happy combination of student and community singers as a University choral society, under the name of The Festival Choir. The Choir is dedicated to the performance of major works for choir and orchestra, and since 19 its repertoire has included: Haydn's Theresa Mass; Vivaldi's Gloria; Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzer; Schubert's MassinG; Kodaly's Missa Brevis; Vaughan Williams' MassinG minor; Bach's Christmas Oratorio; and Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.

The Choir has also been involved in performance of major works in collaboration with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and other university and community instrumental and choral groups. Such programs have included: Orffs Carmina Burana; Mozart's Requiem; Handel's Messiah; Bach's B Minor Mass; Poulenc's · Gloria; and Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem; as well as many shorter works by Healy Willan, John Rutter and Murray Schafer to name but a few.

MUN CHAMBER CHOIR

The Memorial University of Newfoundland Chamber Choir membership is comprised of students, faculty and the community at large. First formed in 1975, the choir has played a key role in the development of choral music in the community through frequent concerts and clinics at the MUN School of Music and at various other venues throughout the province. In addition to this the choir has represented Newfoundland and Memorial University in various tours throughout Canada, and served as Canadian ambassadors in two British tours and their recent highly successful appearance in the international choral event, FESTIVAL 500, in 1997. In the summer of 2000, the choir will be performing at both PODIUM, the biennial conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors, and at Music of the Spheres, the 24th biennial world conference of the International Society for Music Education, in Edmonton, Alberta.

Under the direction of its present conductor, Dr. Douglas Dunsmore, the choir has won the National Music Festival's City of Lincoln Award for mixed choirs. In addition, the choir placed first in the adult Chamber Choir category of the prestigious CBC Amateur Choir Competition (1980) and has been a finalist in the Mixed Choir category in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1998.

The choir has two recordings under its founding conductor, Dr. Donald F. Cook ... Winter's Gone and Past and MUN Chamber Choir at Exeter Cathedral on the Waterloo label. In December, 1996, the choir released a new CD TOUR '95, in conjunction with an Eastern Canadian tour with two other performing groups, the MUN Chamber Orchestra and the MUN Brass Quintet.

The MUN Chamber Choir is not mutually exclusive for music students, but welcomes participation by singers from all disciplines.

DOUGLAS DUNSMORE

Douglas Dunsmore has been a practising choral conductor since 1969. A Saskatchewan native, he worked with school, university and community choirs until his appointment at Memorial UniYersity ofNewfoundland in 1979. As a music educator, he has been active as high school music teacher, internship co-ordinator, and university professor/supervisor. He has served as clinician/adjudicator extensively throughout Canada and the United States, including several guest conducting experiences with various provincial honour choirs and choral federations. In addition to this, he has held executive posts in various choral organizations including the role of coordinator for the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors' National Youth Choir in 1986 and 1988, and again in 1999. In August 1994 he completed the degree Doctor ofPhilosophy at the University ofWisconsin.

Currently, Dr. Dunsmore is associate professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland School of Music (choral activities and voice), Choirmaster at Gower Street United Church, director ofthe NSO Philharmonic Choir, and is a founding member of the artistic steering committee for Newfoundland's Festival 500 ( 1997 & 1999).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Festival Choir rehearsal accompanists: Heather Hillier, Chris Ryan, Ian Sutherland, Katrina Thompson MUN voice faculty: Catherine Fitch, Caroline Schiller, Jane Leibel, Douglas Dunsmore Roger Whalen and the MUN Music School

MUN CHAMBER CHOIR TOUR 2000

The Memorial University of Newfoundland Chamber Choir is very proud to have been invited to perform at conferences for both the International Society of Music Educators and the Association of Canadian Conductors in Edmonton, Alberta from July 12-23, 2000. This will be a unique opportunity for our students to share performances and ideas with choirs and music educators from all over the world, while performing representative examples of our own culture. A substantial number of the works we will present have been written for and by Newfoundlanders, and will be performed in these international venues by Newfoundlanders ... a fine showcase of the depth and breadth of our musical heritage. During our stay in Alberta, we will travel north to Fort McMurray to perform a special concert for the many Newfoundlanders who live there.

We are kindly requesting your support to help lower the costs of travel and accommodations for the thirty five students involved. Any donations received will be appropriately receipted for income tax purposes.

The Chamber Choir wishes to thank the following donors who have generously given cash or "in kind" donations

$50.00- $199.00 Jeffrey Benson, Fr. Bill Browne, Fred Cahill, Bruce Chafe, David Chafe, Crossroads Pontiac, (Gander) Margaet Drover (Keyin College, Carbonear), Hotel Newfoundland, Harold and Betty Johnson, Ann Marie Lane, Markus Mak, Sean McGrath (Musically Inclined, Manuels), Stewart McKelvey (Stirling Sales), Audrey Nell, Newfoundland Light and Power, Ivan Palmer, Leonard and Margaret Payne, Jeremy and Gillian Pridham, Ernest Reid, David and DeAnne Slater, Moira Smith, Chad Stride, Jane Steele, George and Laza Sutherland, John and Yvonne Sutherland, Frances Wilkshire, Fred and Helen Wilson,and the Quidi Vidi Brewing Company.

$200-$499 Mary Queen ofPeace Knights of Columbus, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, the Delta Hotel

$500.00 or more: The Music Council of the New(oundland and Labrador Teachers' Association

Dr. Dunsmore is currently President of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors.