: August
8, 1:30 PM, Orchestra Hall
Michigan
State University Children's Choir
Garganta
Profunda
Ansan
City Choir
Michigan State University Children's Choir
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From United States of America
Mary Alice Stollak, Conductor
Judy Kabodian, Accompanist
[Announcer: Wayne Kivell, Board Membe,r WCS6 Board of Directors]
How
Can I Keep from Singing? Quaker Hymn arr. Gwyneth Walker
On
a Sunny Evening, No. 2 Marjan Helms
from "Terezinlieder"
Sing and Dance for Joy Robert Jager
My Lord, What a Morning arr. Rollo Dilworth Traditional Spiritual
Billy
and Ming Do the Bebop Thing Sunny Wilkinson/
Ron Newman, Piano; Ed Fedewa, Bass Ron Newman
Music
Down in My Soul Moses Hogan
Commissioned for the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music
A Gospel Praise Song inspired by the Spiritual "Over My Head"
Garganta Profunda
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From Brazil
Marcos Leite, Founder
[Announcer: Wayne Kivell, Board Membe,r WCS6 Board of Directors]
Lata
d'água Luiz Antônio/Jota Júnior
Isso
aqui o que é Ary Barroso
O
pato Neuza Teixeira/Jaime Silva
Mundo
melhor Pixinguinha/Vinícius de Moraes
Meditation
Tom Jobim/ Norman Gimbel
A
Violeira Tom Jobim/ Chico Buarque
O
gosto do amor Gonzaguinha
Soy
loco por ti America Gilberto Gil/Capinam
Bat
macumba Gilberto Gil/Caetano Veloso
Na
carreira Edu Lobo/Chico Buarque
Ansan City Choir
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From South Korea
Dr. Shin-Hwa Park, Conductor
[Announcer: Wayne Kivell, Board Membe,r WCS6 Board of Directors]
Gia
torna a rallegrar Luca Marenzio
The
Lamb John Tavener
Un
Soir de Neige I, III Francis Poulenc
Chungsanri
Byukesu Young-Joe Lee
The
Little Cuckoos Jung-Sun Park
Gashiri
Jung-Sun Park
Peddlers
Gun-Yong Lee
The
Peasant Song arr. Hee-Jo Kim
Jajin
Banga Taryong arr. Hee-Jo Kim .
('Swift-Mill' tune)
Arirang
arr. Hee-Jo Kim
Ongheya
(Barley Threshing) arr. Hee-Jo Kim
Biographies:
Michigan State University Children's Choir
Founded in 1993, the Michigan State University (MSU) Children's
Choir seeks to teach the love of singing with energy and joy to
its 78 members, chosen from grades five through nine. The Choir
performed at the 1999 American Choral Directors Association National
Convention in Chicago, and sang in the 2000 premiere performance
of Symphony Number Four by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen
Taaffe Zwilich. The Choir has been a guest artist with the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and
has sung with the MSU Symphony and Rochester (Michigan) Symphony
Orchestras.
The
Choir's Director, Mary Alice Stollak, is Director of Choral
Activities for the Community Music School at MSU. Each summer, she
serves as Choral Director for the National High School Music Institute's
session at Northwestern University. She received the 2001 Maynard
Klein Award for Lifetime Achievement and Dedication to the Choral
Art, presented by the American Choral Directors Association of Michigan.
Moses
Hogan, Sixth World Symposium Commissioned Composer
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Moses Hogan is a pianist, conductor
and arranger of international renown. A graduate of the New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts and Oberlin Conservatory, Hogan won first
place in the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition in New York,
and was recently appointed Artist in Residence at Loyola University
in New Orleans. Since 1993, Hogan has served as artistic director
of the acclaimed Moses Hogan Chorale, an organization evolved from
the New World Ensemble, founded by Hogan as he began his exploration
of the choral idiom in 1980. His contemporary settings of spirituals
and original compositions have become staples in the repertoires
of colleges, churches and professional choirs worldwide.
Garganta Profunda
Founded 15 years ago in Rio de Janeiro by Marcos Leite, Garganta
Profunda is comprised of four singers and a pianist. The group's
basic repertoire ranges from Brazilian popular music to the music
of the Beatles to folk and classical selections. With the ensemble,
Stage Director Peter Pablo Rangel creates a unique musical and dramatic
environment in which the performers portray various characters in
vocal quartets, trios, duets and solo performances. Boasting a broad
repertoire of around 150 songs, Garganta Profunda has presented
more than 1,000 performances in Brazil and throughout South America.
The
Symposium salutes Marcos Leite, who founded and directed Garganta
Profunda. Leite was a renowned Brazilian conductor, composer, pianist,
performer and musical theater director who died earlier this year.
His arrangements brought the essence of Brazilian urban popular
music to the vocal music universe. The Symposium is pleased to serve
as the venue for Garganta Profunda's debut in the United States.
Ansan City Choir
Beloved by many Korean musicians, the Ansan City Choir is known
as one of the best choirs in Korea. Founded in 1995, it consists
of 37 professionally-trained singers. The choir's repertoire includes
folk and pop music, spirituals and singing with dance. The Choir
performs about 40 times per year, including performances at Korea's
major concert halls, and has produced 11 CDs, which are characterized
by clarity of tone, balanced blending, and authentic interpretation
of repertoire.
Ansan
City Choir is directed by Shin-Hwa Park-a popular guest conductor
and clinician throughout the nation who also serves as Professor
at Ewha Womans University. He received his Bachelor's and Master's
degrees in Church Music and Voice from Yonsei University in Seoul,
and a D.M.A. in Choral Literature and Conducting from the University
of Colorado at Boulder. He also has taught graduate and undergraduate
studies in choral music, conducting and choral performance at five
universities.
