Tuesday, September 23
2:30 p.m.
Florence Kopleff Recital Hall
Tenor-Bass Choir
Dr. Patrick K. Freer, conductor
Logan Kropp, graduate conductor
Josue Valdez, piano
Cantate Domino (excerpt)
Alec Schumaker (b. 1986)
Alec Schumacker is Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at Hawai‘i Pacific University where he conducts the International Vocal Ensemble and the International Chorale. He presently serves as the Vice President of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
An award-winning composer and arranger, Alec’s choral music is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Alliance Music Publications, earthsongs, and World Projects. His works have been performed around the country by all-state choruses and prestigious ensembles such as the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the New World Symphony, the University of Delaware Chorale, the Frost Chorale, the Voices of Aloha, and even at the NFL’s Pro Bowl in 2016.
Text and Translation
Chasing Visions
Don MacDonald (b. 1966)
Logan Kropp, conductor
Don Macdonald (born 1966) is an internationally recognized composer of film and choral music, and he has an eclectic musical background as a performer, producer, and educator.
Text (by Don MacDonald)
TREBLE CHOIR
Prof. Meghan Stoll, conductor
Carolyn Mielke & Rae Laury, graduate conductors
Nick Johns-Cooper, piano
Beati Quorum Via
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852-1924
Rae Laury, conductor
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor. Among his students were Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Gloria Kajoniensis
Levente Gyöngyösi | B. 1975
Carolyn Mielke, conductor
The Gloria Kajoniensis is a Gloria in three movements, with text taken from the Cantionale Catholicum. This was a Hungarian hymnbook first published in 1676 by Romanian monk János Kájoni, after which this piece is likely named.
Composer Levente Gyöngyösi (b. 1975) is himself a Romanian-born Hungarian who has published almost 80 choral works, primarily in Latin. The first movement, Gloria in excelsior deo, launches us into a lively piece befitting its celebratory text. It features exhilarating combinations of syncopated rhythms, clapping, and hypnotic melodies making it exciting and undeniably fun.
CHORAL UNION
Prof. Meghan Stoll, conductor
Aaron Cummings, Shaun Gibbons, Logan Kropp, Alex Thompson & Katie Kress, graduate conductors
Kyung-Mi Kim, piano
Hear My Prayer
Moses Hogan | 1957-2003
Moses George Hogan was an American composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his settings of spirituals. Hogan was a pianist, conductor, and arranger of international renown. His works are celebrated and performed by high school, college, church, community, and professional choirs today. Over his lifetime, he published 88 arrangements for voice, eight of which were solo pieces
Joyful, Joyful
Ludwig van Beethoven | B. 1950
arr. Emerson
Hymn of Joy (often called "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee") is a poem written by Henry van Dyke in 1907 and also the famous "Ode to Joy" melody of the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's final symphony, Symphony No. 9.