Opening Remarks………………………………………Betty McCollum,
U.S. Representative from the 4th District

Diana J. Leland, Secretary
WCS6 Board of Directors

I
The St. Olaf Choir
St. Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
Anton Armstrong, Conductor

O Day Full of Grace………………………………….Christoph E.F. Weyse
(1774-1842)
arr. F. Melius Christiansen
(Augsburg Fortress-11026)

The Lord Is The Everlasting God…...……………………… Kenneth Jennings
(Mark Foster Music Company-2137)

Waynápaq Taki……………………………………Eduardo Alonso-Crespo (Chant to a Young Person) (Earthsongs)
SUNG IN QUECHUA

Past Life Melodies…………………………………………... Sarah Hopkins
(Morton Music-2001)

This Little Light of Mine………………………………...arr. Moses Hogan
(Hal Leonard Publishing)

Kyrie….…………………………………………………….. Glenn McClure
(Saint Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass) (Earthsongs)

II
The Dale Warland Singers
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Dale Warland, Conductor

Snow (The King's Trumpeter)………………………………...John Muehleisen
Martin Hodel, trumpet (Colla Voce)

Hildegard Triptych………………………………………………………..Frank Ferko
O vis aeternitatis (ECS Publishing-5442)
O virtus Sapientiae (ECS Publishing 5444)

To God, "in memoriam M.B."……………………………Dominick Argento
Martin Hodel, trumpet (Boosey & Hawkes OCTB6819)

Confitemini Domino…………………………………………..Alberto Grau
World Premiere Performance (Earthsongs)
Commissioned by the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music

My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord..…………………………..Spiritual
Carol Barnett
(Colla Voce 37-21022)

III

Seventh World Symposium on Choral Music …..……Kyoto, Japan 2005
Japanese Dignitaries

Selections by Okubu and Gifu Choirs (To Be Determined)………………

IV
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Philip Brunelle, Conductor

My beloved is mine, and I am his.…………………………Chris deBlasio
from The Best-Beloved (Wayne Leupold Editions, WL110003)

Antiphon for the Virgin…………………………………… Tina Davidson
(Self-published, tdavidsn@bellatlantic.net)

Love Opened A Mortal Wound…………………………...Stephen Paulus
World Premiere Performance (Paulus Publications)
Commissioned by the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music

My River Runs to Thee……………………………………William Hawley
from Four Reveries (Self-published, wphawley@ix.netcom.com)

Gala del día (Day's Finery) ……………………………Carlos Guastavino
from Indianas #1 (Ricordi BA12751)

If There Be Sorrow……………………………………………David Baker
from Images, Shadows and Dreams: Five Vignettes
(Self-published, bakerd@indiana.edu)

El Hambo...……………………………………………… Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
(Sulasol 387)

V
Moore by Four
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sanford Moore, Conductor

Dukes Place ("C-Jam Blues")…………………….………....Katz/Ellington
(arr. Sanford Moore)
(additional lyrics by C. Evingson)

Just Squeeze Me…………………………………………...Ellington/Gaines
(arr. Sanford Moore)

Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit………………………………….. ..Traditional
(arr. Sanford Moore)

I Want To Be Ready…………………………………………... ..Traditional
(arr. Sam Davis)

Love You Madly……………………………………………..Duke Ellington
(arr. Sanford Moore)

VI
Combined Minnesota Choirs

Shenandoah……………………………………………American Folk Song
(arr. James Erb)
(Lawson Gould LG51846)

What a Mighty God………………………………...………Eric McDaniels
(arr. Michael Abels)
(Subito Music)
(Rental Only)

All delegates are invited to the Symposium Closing Reception at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) after this concert. You may meet and greet the "Minnesota Sings Farewell" conductors at this reception. Buses will begin departing from Orchestra Hall and transport delegates to the MIA reception immediately following the concert. The last buses will leave the MIA main entrance at 12:15 AM and return to Orchestra Hall.

"Minnesota Sings Farewell" Concert Personnel

the St. Olaf Choir

Throughout its history, the St. Olaf Choir has performed for capacity
audiences in the major concert halls of New York City, Washington, D.C.,
Chicago, Ann Arbor, Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis. Nearly 25,000 people attended
concerts during the 2000 East Coast tour, with 20,000 turning out for its
1999 tour to the southeastern states.

The St. Olaf Choir is acclaimed internationally, a result of 12 tours to
Europe and Asia. Last summer the St. Olaf Choir traveled to Central Europe for 21 days,
performing in France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic. The 1997 tour to New Zealand and Australia marked the St. Olaf
Choir's first tour down under and another credit to its international
reputation. The achievements of the St. Olaf Choir were recognized in 1999 when the
choir received the Wittenberg Award for distinguished service to church and
society. This presentation represented the first time that a group was
honored with the Wittenberg Award.

The St. Olaf Christmas Festival is broadcast nationally each year on public
radio stations, as well as on hundreds of commercial radio stations. It is
the longest-running festival on the same theme: a musical celebration of
the birth of Christ. More than 500 student musicians participate in the
four performances on the St. Olaf campus, which are attended by nearly
12,000 people.

Anton Armstrong, Conductor
Anton Armstrong is the Harry R. and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College and Conductor of the St. Olaf Choir, a position he assumed in 1990. He came to this position following ten years in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he served on the faculty of Calvin College and conducted the Campus Choir, the Calvin College Alumni Choir and the Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus.

Anton Armstrong is a graduate of St. Olaf College and earned a Master of Music degree at the University of Illinois and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State UniversityDr. Armstrong is widely recognized for his work in the area of youth and children's choral music. He served for over twenty years on the summer faculty of the American Boychoir School, Princeton, New Jersey and held the position of Conductor of the St. Cecilia Youth Chorale, a 75 voice treble chorus based in Grand Rapids, from 1981-1990. He has conducted the Troubadours, a 30-voice boys ensemble of the Northfield Youth Choirs since 1991. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Boychoir School. He has frequently conducted ensembles and appeared before regional and national gatherings of the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, Choristers Guild, American Guild of Organists, Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and the Orff-Schulwerk Association. In August 1996 he was featured as a clinician at the Fourth World Symposium on Choral Music in Sydney, Australia.

Anton Armstrong made his European conducting debut in 1992 at the International Band and Choir Festival in Brussels, Belgium and returned to Vienna, Austria in March 2000 to conduct the 25th anniversary concerts of this festival. He led the St. Olaf Choir on a concert tour of Denmark and Norway in 1993 which included a performance at the Bergen International Festival, Norway, and in January 1997, he conducted the ensemble in a four-week concert tour to New Zealand and Australia. In June 2001 he led the St. Olaf Choir on a three-week concert tour of Central Europe. In the summer of 2001, Dr. Armstrong conducted the World Youth Choir sponsored by the International Federation of Choral Music with concerts in Venezuela and the United States.

THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS
Now celebrating its 30th anniversary season of concerts, tours, radio broadcasts, and critically acclaimed recordings, the Dale Warland Singers is recognized as one of the world's foremost a cappella choral ensembles. The 40-voice professional choir is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

The Dale Warland Singers has earned a reputation for its commitment to commissioning and performing new choral music. The ensemble has kept the choral genre fresh and alive by commissioning works from Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen, Carol Barnett, George Shearing, Peter Schickele, Bernard Rands, Emma Lou Diemer, Alice Parker, Janika Vandervelde, Augusta Read Thomas, Aaron J. Kernis, and Frank Ferko among others. The Dale Warland Singers' Choral Ventures™ Program solicits works from emerging composers, and through this program, over $150,000 in commissions has been awarded to forty-eight talented musicians.

In 1992, the Dale Warland Singers became the first-ever recipient of the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence. The organization shares this honor only with Chanticleer and the Vancouver Chamber Choir among professional choirs. The group's extraordinary efforts on behalf of composers and new music resulted in ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1999.

DALE WARLAND-FOUNDER and MUSIC DIRECTOR
The 2002-2003 season marks founder Dale Warland's thirtieth season as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers. Warland has devoted his professional life to attaining the highest artistic level in choral singing. Through musicianship and attention to detail, he has built one of the finest choral ensembles in the United States. Under Warland's leadership, the Dale Warland Singers has thrilled choral music enthusiasts not just in its Twin Cities home, but throughout North America and Europe.

In June 2002, Dale Warland received the Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal from Chorus America at its annual conference in Boulder, CO. The award is given every other year "to an individual who through his or her work with a member ensemble of Chorus America has demonstrated innovative action and entrepreneurial zeal in developing a professional choral ensemble." In 2001, Dale Warland received the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a choral conductor, and his continued contribution to the arts in Minnesota.

In addition to his active schedule as Music Director of the Dale Warland Singers, Warland is in demand as a guest conductor, lecturer, composer and clinician. He has conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Israel's Cameran Singers. He has also rehearsed and prepared choirs for performances of major works in collaboration with notable conductors including Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. At Kryzstof Penderecki's request, Warland has prepared The Passion According to St. Luke for major choruses in Los Angeles, Caracas, Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1990, he also prepared Penderecki's Polish Requiem. Warland has served on the faculty of the All-Japan Chorus League National Competition in Fukuoka, Japan, and has lectured on American music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Most recently, he has been featured as guest conductor at Grant Park Music Festival, with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Chamber Artists, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, and was a panel member at the Tolosa Choral Festival in Spain.

The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

Founded in 1969 under the name the Plymouth Music Series, VocalEssence is recognized internationally for innovative exploration of music for voices and instruments. Each year the organization presents an engaging series of concerts featuring the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers with soloists and orchestra musicians performing newly commissioned works and rediscovering lost treasures.

The 26-voice Ensemble Singers embody the adventure and enthusiasm of VocalEssence. Chosen for their musicianship, vocal qualities and flexibility in singing many styles of music, they are the professional core of the VocalEssence Chorus. The Ensemble Singers were the first professional American chorus to perform at the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg (1994) and the first professional American chorus to sing at the prestigious Prague Spring Festival (1997). The talented group has also sung at London's Covent Garden Festival, the Foire Saint Germaine in Paris and the Flanders Festival in Belgium. Last summer they toured Europe, giving concerts in Berlin, Dresden, Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic), Bratislava and Spa Piestany (Slovak Republic), Castle Rosenburg (Austria), Paris and Tours (France). They are heard across America and around the world as frequent guests on Garrison Keillor's public radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.

Philip Brunelle, artistic director

Conductor Philip Brunelle founded VocalEssence (then known as the Plymouth Music Series) in 1969; this season marks the organization's 34th year of exploring rarely-heard and newly-commissioned works. His conducting engagements have taken him across the United States, South America and Europe. He has received honorary doctorates from St. Olaf College, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. John's University and United Theological Seminary as well as international awards, including the Kodály Medal from the government of Hungary and the Royal Order of the Polar Star from the King of Sweden. Currently, Philip serves on the Board of Regents at St. Olaf College and the Board of Directors of the Greater Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association, edits choral music for Boosey & Hawkes and Walton Music, and selects the classical music programming each month for Northwest Airlines. He is the president of the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music.

Moore By Four
Since its inception in 1986 at Ruby's Cabaret in Minneapolis, Moore By Four has been a fixture on the Twin Cities music scene. Their nine-week run at Ruby's Cabaret was a sensation, and the group went on to produce sold-out shows at local theatres and concert halls, appearing in their own television special and performing at countless special events including a Super Bowl appearance. Their holiday shows are an annual favorite drawing over 30,000 fans in fourteen years.

The sound of Moore By Four is similar to that of Manhattan Transfer, but with a broader musical range stemming from the vocalists' grounding in gospel, jazz, pop music and theatre. Moore By Four is continually expanding its repertoire by including contemporary jazz selections, original compositions and new arrangements of the great standards from Broadway, Hollywood and the Cotton Club period-all performed with Moore By Four's unique style.

Sanford L. Moore
Sanford Moore (composer, pianist, arranger, producer) is perhaps most noted as the founder, director, and arranger for the award-winning vocal jazz ensemble Moore By Four. He has traveled extensively with this ensemble conducting workshops and concerts in the US, Europe and Japan. He has shared the stage with such notable jazz artists as Joe Williams, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Connick, Jr. and the late Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae.

In addition to his work with Moore By Four, Mr. Moore is sought-after as a Musical Director and Arranger for theatrical and choral productions. He is currently Musical Director/Conductor for Hey City Theater's production of "Smokey Joe's Café. Other credits include "Fever" a tribute to Peggy Lee featuring Connie Evingson, "Dream on Monkey Mountain" (directed by Bill T. Jones), "Triumph of Love" and "As You Like It" at the Guthrie Theatre and "Black Belts" I, II and III, featuring Jevetta Steele at Mixed Blood Theater. He is also the creator (together with Director Richard T. Thompson and Choreographer Garry Q. Lewis) of an original musical review trilogy ("Always and Forever", "2-Gether" and "Living Beauty") for the Illusion Theater. Sanford's choral experience includes conducting the University of Minnesota Gospel Choir and serving as the Minister of Music for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. Other choral experience includes collaborating with the Dale Warland Singers, the Plymouth Music Series Ensemble, and the Minnesota Chorale and the Bach Society.

Sanford has extensive experience arranging for industrial and business theater productions, as well as writing and producing jingles (available upon request). He has served as producer, arranger and pianist on various recording projects, including his first upcoming solo recording entitled "My First Love", A Collection of Hymns, Gospels and Spirituals. Other recordings include Moore By Four's "Swing Fever", "Deck The Halls" and their upcoming recording "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart": A Tribute to Duke Ellington. Additional recordings include "I Have Dreamed", "Fever" and "Some Cats Know" for Connie Evingson.