Notre Dame Notre Dame Women’s Liturgical Choir Women’s Liturgical Choir Greetings from Notre Dame! This year has been an incredibly music-filled year for the Women’s Liturgical Choir. The WLC sang all of the usual Basilica events including Saturday Vigil Masses, Sunday Vespers, Stations of the Cross, Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation, and Advent Lessons and Carols as well as University events such as the Opening of the School Year Mass, and Jun- ior Parents Weekend. Additionally, a few members of the WLC sang First Vespers for the Annunciation for the Center for Liturgy in Geddes Hall Chapel; the whole choir sang the Memorial Mass for Notre Dame student Lisa Yang and Palm Sunday Mass at St. Mark’s Church in Niles, MI. November was a particularly intense month for the WLC as we joined forces with the Notre Dame symphony and three other choirs to perform an all Beethoven concert in honor of the 200 th anniversary of Fr. Sorin’s birth. The combined ensemble of more than 300 musicians performed Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mass in C. This enormous un- dertaking was certainly a fitting tribute for Notre Dame’s founder who never failed to dream big! The evening of March 4, the WLC combined forces with symphony and all of the choirs from Campus Ministry and the Department of Music to sing the Memorial Tribute to Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. This event included speeches given by many dignitaries from the U.S. and diverse musical selections from Rutter’s The Lord is My Shepherd to Carter’s setting of the spiritual Steal Away to the Spanish hymn Pescador de Hombres. This year’s spring tour took us to Texas over spring break. We had a wonderful time sing- ing at the Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dallas, St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Dallas, Prince of Peace Church in Plano, St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin, and St. Anthony de Padua Church in San Antonio. We enjoyed the break from a bitter winter in South Bend to explore in the spring warmth of Texas, especially the River Walk and the Alamo in San Antonio! It is an exciting time at Notre Dame for organists and choir members with the upcoming installation of the Murdy Family Organ in the Basilica. In October of this year, we also dedicated the McCusker Family Organ. Its permanent home will be in Walton Rehearsal Hall, but will be the temporary instrument in the Basilica during the transition from the current Holtkamp instrument and the Murdy Family Organ’s installation in 2016. You can find more information about these two fantastic instruments on the website of the world- renowned Paul Fritts and Company Organ Builders, frittsorgan.com. It is an incredible honor to work with such wonderful women in this choir and with such talented graduate assistants. Both of our current graduate assistants, Joseph Ciskanik and Nicholas Mourlam, will be graduating this year. We wish them both and all of our gradu- ates all the best in their future. I continually learn from the members of this choir about their various aca- demic disciplines from engineering to languages to sociology to science to law and many more. I am grateful to all of them for their continued service to the choir and to the uni- versity community. Thanks to all of the alumnae and friends of the WLC for your support and encouragement to continue our ministry at the Basilica. We are looking forward to future projects including the possibility of a new WLC recording and an international tour. We appreciate your ongoing support of these endeavors and our ministry as a choir. Sincerely, Daniel Bayless L L ETTER ETTER FROM FROM THE THE D D IRECTOR IRECTOR N N EWSLETTER EWSLETTER 2015 2015 EDITOR : Y IJI Z HANG
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Notre Dame Notre Dame
Women’s Liturgical ChoirWomen’s Liturgical Choir
Greetings from Notre Dame! This year has been an incredibly music-filled year for the Women’s Liturgical Choir. The WLC sang all of the usual Basilica events including Saturday Vigil Masses, Sunday Vespers, Stations of the Cross, Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation, and Advent Lessons and Carols as well as University events such as the Opening of the School Year Mass, and Jun-ior Parents Weekend. Additionally, a few members of the WLC sang First Vespers for the Annunciation for the Center for Liturgy in Geddes Hall Chapel; the whole choir sang the Memorial Mass for Notre Dame student Lisa Yang and Palm Sunday Mass at St. Mark’s Church in Niles, MI.
November was a particularly intense month for the WLC as we joined forces with the Notre Dame symphony and three other choirs to perform an all Beethoven concert in honor of the 200th anniversary of Fr. Sorin’s birth. The combined ensemble of more than 300 musicians performed Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mass in C. This enormous un-dertaking was certainly a fitting tribute for Notre Dame’s founder who never failed to dream big!
The evening of March 4, the WLC combined forces with symphony and all of the choirs from Campus Ministry and the Department of Music to sing the Memorial Tribute to Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. This event included speeches given by many dignitaries from the U.S. and diverse musical selections from Rutter’s The Lord is My Shepherd to Carter’s setting of the spiritual Steal Away to the Spanish hymn Pescador de Hombres.
This year’s spring tour took us to Texas over spring break. We had a wonderful time sing-ing at the Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dallas, St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Dallas, Prince of Peace Church in Plano, St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin, and St. Anthony de Padua Church in San Antonio. We enjoyed the break from a bitter winter in South Bend to explore in the spring warmth of Texas, especially the River Walk and the Alamo in San Antonio!
It is an exciting time at Notre Dame for organists and choir members with the upcoming installation of the Murdy Family Organ in the Basilica. In October of this year, we also dedicated the McCusker Family Organ. Its permanent home will be in Walton Rehearsal Hall, but will be the temporary instrument in the Basilica during the transition from the current Holtkamp instrument and the Murdy Family Organ’s installation in 2016. You can find more information about these two fantastic instruments on the website of the world-renowned Paul Fritts and Company Organ Builders, frittsorgan.com.
It is an incredible honor to work with such wonderful women in this choir and with such talented graduate assistants. Both of our current graduate assistants, Joseph Ciskanik and Nicholas Mourlam, will be graduating this year. We wish them both and all of our gradu-
ates all the best in their future. I continually learn from the members of this choir about their various aca-demic disciplines from engineering to languages to sociology to science to law and many more. I am grateful to all of them for their continued service to the choir and to the uni-versity community.
Thanks to all of the alumnae and friends of the WLC for your support and encouragement to continue our ministry at the Basilica. We are looking forward to future projects including the possibility of a new WLC recording and an international tour. We appreciate your ongoing support of these endeavors and our ministry as a choir.
Sincerely, Daniel Bayless
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Joseph Ciskanik
studied music at an early age and began taking organ les-sons at Woodberry Forest High School with the or-ganist and choirmaster Wal-lace Hornady in Woodber-ry's St. Andrew's Chapel. He has earned a Bachelor's Mu-sic Degree in Organ Perfor-mance at Indiana Universi-ty's Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with Pro-fessors Jeffrey Smith, Bruce Neswick, and primarily Janette Fishell. During that
time, he has held church posi-tions at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Fredericksburg, VA, Broadway United Meth-odist Church in Indianapolis, IN, First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Fredericksburg, and Trinity Episcopal Church in Bloomington, IN. Joseph also enjoys playing jazz, work-ing with young learners, and singing in choirs. Currently, he is working on his Master's Degree in Sacred Music at Notre Dame University while playing organ for the Notre
Dame Women's Liturgical Choir and for First United Methodist Church in down-town South Bend.
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Certificate of both the Ameri-can Guild of Organist and the National Association of Pastoral Musician. This past summer he taught Spanish grammar and literature at St. Adalbert Catho-lic School in South Bend, Indi-ana. Currently, Nicholas is in his second year in the Master of Sacred Music program at the University of Notre Dame where he studies organ under Dr. Craig Cramer. In addition to his placement at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame, he is also the music assistant and organist of St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in South Bend, Indiana.
Nicholas Mourlam
received his undergraduate degree in organ performance and church music from the University of Kansas. During his time there he studied organ under Dr. James Higdon. In the fall of 2012 he studied abroad at Folk-wang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany with organ study under Professor Roland Stangier. Nicholas holds the Service Playing
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“I lived in Portland,
Oregon for 12 years
and had remained on
the west coast for
basically all my life.
Moving away to start
my college education was
- and still is- one of the
hardest things I’ve ever
done. I love Notre
Dame and every day
find a new reason to be
thankful for the ability
to go here, but the
transition was hard.
New place, new people,
new classes- it was easy
to feel overwhelmed. But
while everything in my
life was changing, choir
was constant. No
matter what was thrown
my way, I could always
look forward to singing
beautiful music with
wonderful people. I owe
a lot to this choir and
could not imagine my
life without it! ”
-- Sheridan Foy
8/26 Opening of School Year Mass
(with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, the Notre Dame Folk Choir, the Notre Dame Glee
Club, and the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir)
Fall 2014
8/27 Beginning of the Year Dinner
9/20 Choir Retreat
9/21 Vespers
9/28 Vespers
11/21 Sorin 200th Anniversary Concert featuring music from Ludwig van
Beethoven
(with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the Notre Dame Liturgi-
cal Choir, the Celebration Choir, and pianist Daniel Scholosberg.)
12/7 Advent Lessons and Carols
(with the Notre Dame Folk Choir, the Notre Dame Handbell Choir, the Notre Dame Liturgical
Choir, and Basilica Schola Cantorum)
Spring 2015
2/8 Vespers
2/15 Vespers
2/21 Junior Parents’ Weekend Mass
(with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, the
Notre Dame Folk Choir, the Notre Dame Glee Club, and the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir)
3/4 Memorial Tribute for Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C.
(with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, the Notre Dame Concert Band, the Notre Dame Folk Choir, Coro Primavera, Voices of Faith, the Notre Dame Chorale, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the
Notre Dame Liturgical Choir, Basilica Schola Cantorum, and the Celebration Choir)
3/6-3/11 Choir Tour : Texas!
3/24 Memorial Mass for Lisa Yang
3/25 Annunciation Mass
3/27 Stations of the Cross
3/29 Palm Sunday at St. Mark’s Church
11/15 Concession Stand
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“I absolutely love being
a part of WLC. I had
a wonderful time this
year learning beautiful
music and celebrating
Mass in the Basilica.
Learning sacred music
has deepened my faith
and given me a greater
understanding of the
psalms and scripture.
I’ve met the most
amazing and
kindhearted people, and
made some really good
friends. I love how the
choir embraces all new
comers and fosters a
sense of community and
family. ”
-- Vinolin Anbalagan
Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd (Greene)
Psalm 137: By the Waters of Babylon (Mawby)
Psalm 34: O Taste and See (Vaughan Williams)
Psalm 121: Laetatus Sum (Porpora)
III
Sing Praises, Sing Praises (Newbury)
O Praise the Lord, All Ye Nations (Purcell)
I Will Worship (Dyson)
O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord (How)
I
Ave Verum (Chant, mode VI)
Ave Verum (Fauré)
Ave Verum (Poulenc)
Ave Verum (Mozart)
II
Pie Jesu from Messe des morts (Charpentier)
Nunc tempus acceptabile (French)
Adoramus te (Rheinberger)
IV
Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree (Carter)
Loving Shepherd (Chilcott)
God Be In My Head (Rutter)
The Peace of God (Rutter)
V
Notre Dame, Our Mother (Casasanta/O’Donnell, CSC) VI
This year, WLC went to Texas for three days (Mar 7-9) during the spring break. We performed at the Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Dallas, Prince of Peace Church in Plano, St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin, and St. Anthony de Padua Church in San Antonio. Our music was composed of six themed sections. We enjoyed the music, the beautiful churches, the lovely warm weather in Texas and so much more! Espeically, we want to express our gratitude to Notre Dame Club of Austin and Notre Dame Club of Dallas for their kind help arranging home stays for us!
Greetings from the WLC President!
Hello everyone! I hope this letter finds you all in good health and good spirits, and that you are enjoying catch-ing up with the WLC. As you can see from this year’s newsletter it has been a very busy, and extremely reward-ing, year. Our membership continues to grow, and our schedule seems to get busier each year as we participate in more liturgies and concerts.
This year started out with a digital bang when we re-vamped the WLC website, as well as increased our on-line presence by launching Twitter and Instagram ac-counts, and a YouTube channel for recordings of the football masses. In addition to our usual liturgical duties we joined forces with the
Liturgical Choir, Celebra-tion Choir, Glee Club and the Notre Dame Symphony to perform Beethoven’s Mass in C Major as part of the University’s yearlong celebration of Father Sorin’s bicentennial. The choir also recently returned from a very successful tour of Texas, which included stops in Dal-las, Austin and San Antonio.
Sadly, this year the Notre Dame Family bid goodbye to Father Theodore Hes-burgh. The WLC is espe-cially indebted to Father Ted, as he encouraged and oversaw Notre Dame’s tran-sition from an all male to a co-ed campus; without him our choir may not exist. At his Memorial Tribute we joined our voices with nine other campus choirs to cele-brate and remember his in-credible life and legacy.
Thank you to all of our WLC alumnae for your con-tinued support and prayers, and please don’t hesitate to send us suggestions on how we can stay in better touch with you. We are incredibly thankful for your financial support, and look forward to seeing you in the loft come football season! God bless, Morgen Anyan
Andreasen, Katherine
Anyan, Morgen
Kolasinski, Erin
Martinez, Sarah
Manirakiza, Messina
Sherman, Mary
Wellman, Alexandria
Zhang, Yiji
Zuba, Samantha
Stone, Ben
Ciskanik, Joseph
Mourlam, Nicholas
We have 12 members who graduate this year! Let’s thank each and every one of you for your contribution to WLC!
Special thanks to our graduate assistants, Ben Stone, Joseph Ciskanik and Nicho-las Mourlam, who have been serving and helping WLC with their talents and ef-fort continuously.
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“I was never in a
liturgical choir before and
WLC broadens my
knowledge and
experience of music so
much. I even played the
organ in the Basilica
during the organ
workshop! How many
people on earth ever have
this precious opportunity!
One thing I feel sad
when I think about
graduating from Notre
Dame is the fact that I
will have to leave WLC,
but being outside the
campus also gives me the
chance to propagate our
choir. WLC is definitely
one of the best memories
in my life.”
-- Yiji Zhang
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The McCusker Family Organ, built by Tacoma organ builder Paul Fritts (Opus 38) is currently housed in Walton Rehearsal Hall in the Coleman-Morse Center will be moved to the Ba-silica to be used as the temporary instru-ment for services in the Basilica after the current Holtkamp organ is removed and the new Fritts (Opus 37) organ is being installed in the loft. After the Basilica's new organ is completed, the McCusker Family Organ will be moved back to its permanent home in Walton Rehearsal Hall.
