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C O L L E G E O F F I N E A R T S

Fred Fox School of Music

University Community ChorusAlyssa Cossey, conductor

Nicky Manlove, assistant conductorIna Selvelieva, collaborative pianist

Gratitude & Gluttony

A Thanksgiving Celebration

Sunday, November 17, 2019Crowder Hall

4:30 p.m.

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Gratitude & Gluttony: A Thanksgiving Celebration

University Community Chorus

Alyssa Cossey, conductorNicky Manlove, assistant conductorIna Selvelieva, collaborative pianist

Marshall Adams, pianist (Carmina Burana excerpts)

Sunday, November 17, 2019Crowder Hall

4:30 p.m.

P R O G R A M

Gratitude:

In Meeting We Are Blessed ......................................... Music by Troy Robertson Text by R. Gatshnahos & John Donne

Percussion: Ashley Sova

How Can I Keep from Singing? ......................................Quaker Hymn (c. 1800) Arranged by Gwyneth Walker

Conducted by Nicky Manlove

Hunger of the World .........................................................................Abbie Betinis Text by: Josephine Preston Peabody (1903)

Featuring the sopranos and altosConducted by Nicky Manlove

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Presentation of UCC Memorial Scholarship

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Mvt. i from Carmina Burana: O Fortuna ...............................................Carl Orff

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Gluttony:

The Seasons ........................................................................... Franz Joseph Haydn

Mvt. xxvi. Hunter’s Chorus Mvt. xxvii. Recitative: The vineyard now in clusters

Soloists: David Condit, Nicky Manlove, & Ashley Sova

Mvt. xxviii. Drunken Chorus

Mvt. xiv from Carmina Burana: In taberna quando sumus ...............Carl Orff

Featuring the tenors and basses

Mvt. xxii from Carmina Burana: Tempus et iocundum .......................Carl Orff

Soloists: Joshua Birkholz, Sara Mohr, & AJ PalubinskasRagazzi: Korie Birkholz, Maritza Brown, Cybelle Egan, Anastaisia

Gorshkova, Victoria Jones, Micah Kaufmann, Danai Martinez, Loren RuizConducted by Nicky Manlove

Mvt. xxv from Carmina Burana: O Fortuna .........................................Carl Orff

Conducted by Nicky Manlove

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Recital Choir – Members of the UA Choral Conducting StudioFebruary 6, Thursday, 3:10 p.m., Room 232, $Free

“Common Ground” – Arizona Choir & UA Symphonic ChoirMarch 1, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

Christ Church United Methodist (655 North Craycroft Road), $Free

Recital Choir – Members of the UA Choral Conducting StudioMarch 3, Tuesday, 3:10 p.m.

Room 232, $Free

Arizona Choir & UA Symphonic ChoirTucson Symphony Orchestra Event

with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and ChorusApril 3, Friday, 7:30 p.m. & April 5, Sunday, 2:00 p.m.

Tucson Music Hall, $87-$31Tickets & Info: tucsonsymphony.org, 520-882-8585

“Biosphere, Too” – University Community ChorusApril 4, Saturday, 4:30 p.m.

Crowder Hall, $12, 6

“Sacred Bodies” – Collegium MusicumApril 5, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $5

Recital Choir – Members of the UA Choral Conducting StudioApril 9, Thursday, 3:10 p.m., Room 232, $Free

“(Re)Vision” – Arizona ChoirApril 26, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (2331 East Adams Street), $Free

UA Glee ClubsMay 2, Saturday, 7:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

“War and Peace” – UA Symphonic ChoirMay 3, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

Christ Church United Methodist (655 North Craycroft Road), $Free

Coro & UA Wildcat High School Outreach ChoirMay 3, Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

Crowder Hall, $Free

Recital Choir – Members of the UA Choral Conducting StudioMay 5, Tuesday, 3:10 p.m., Room 232, $Free

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Gary Anderson*Danielle AnkrumRobert ArmendarizStephanie BaderJames BeckwithPatti BersbachAline BertelsenKorie Birkholz*Kelsie BirkholzLisa BirkholzJoshua P. BirkholzJames BirkholzMichelle BlazewiczMaritza BrownLaurel CampbellAlexis CañezHeidi CarpenterSteve ChrismanDavid ConditJeffry DavisKathleen DelaneyParth MasterCarolyn DonohueDennis K. EagarSusanna EdenCybelle EganLaurie Ellerman*Brian EllermanHayley Reagan ElliotJane FinersonSheryl ForteSean Gellenbeck*Fiona GladstoneKatie Good

University Community ChorusAlyssa Cossey, conductor

Nicky Manlove, assistant conductorIna Selvelieva, collaborative pianist

Abigail GookinAnastasia GorshkovaMagdiel HabilaJaye HardenEllis HarperFrederick W. JacksonHeidrun JohnsonVictoria JonesBernard KanavageMicah KaufmannJohn KautzJennifer KernanSusan KnittelCarrie LandauEun LeeJo Ann LittleKaleigh LittleJennifer LordmazurShari Lossou-LossaviCheryl LougeeNicky ManloveDanai MartinezSara MohrJudy MontroseAnne MorganGeoffrey MoyerDavid NixGabe NunezAJ PalubinskasJane PeppardEmily PetersElaine PowersJennifer P. RichMikah Rosanova

University Community Chorus – Spring 2020

Rehearsals:Tuesdays, 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Room 146, UA Fred Fox School of Music

Spring Semester First Rehearsal:Tuesday, January 21, 2020

For more information or pre-registration materials:Please see our website

at www.ucc.music.arizona.edu or contact

Dr. Alyssa Cosseyat

[email protected]

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Upcoming UA Choirs ConcertsPlease Join Us!

“Ars Moriendi” – Collegium MusicumNovember 17, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $5

Treble Glee Club & Vocal A Cappella GroupsNovember 24, Sunday, 4:30 p.m.

Crowder Hall, $Free

“Bloom Where You Are Planted” Coro & UA Wildcat High School Outreach Choir

November 24, Sunday, 7:30 p.m.Crowder Hall, $Free

19th Annual Holiday Card to TucsonArizona Choir; UA Symphonic Choir; University Community Chorus

Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus; Tucson Girls ChorusDecember 8, Sunday, 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

St. Augustine Cathedral (192 South Stone Avenue)Info & Reservations: uachoirs.org

Recital Choir – Members of the UA Choral Conducting StudioDecember 10, Tuesday, 3:10 p.m.

Room 232, $Free

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Loren RuizBrooke SegersonCatherine ShawRobin SilvermanValerie SmithCarol Jo SobkoviakAshley SovaJonathan StaleyJim TomlinsonClare TurnerNancy TysonRoger VoelkerRichard WilsonPaul WolfWoon-Yin Wong

* Indicates section leader

Percussion: Homero Cerón, principal Paul GibsonChristopher HermanFred MorganChristina WaltonDavid WaltonAlana Wising

Horns: Quinn Jarecki Michael Mesner

In winter’s cold a man’s blood runs cool,But it rushes hot at springs warm breath.

Oh, oh, oh,I am abloom with love!Now with love for a girl am I all ablaze!This is a new, new love I am dying of!

My maidenhood cheats me,But my innocence holds me back.


Come, my mistress, come with joy,Come, come, my beauty, for I am dying!


Thank you!

Dr. Cossey and the University Community Chorus express our heartfelt gratitude to the following

people for their service to the chorus on the board and in many capacities:

Gary Anderson, Kelsie Birkholz, Korie Birkholz, Laurie Ellerman, Sean Gellenbeck, Carrie Landau, Nicky Manlove,

Sara Mohr, Anne Morgan, Catherine Shaw.

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In Memoriam

The University Community Chorus dedicates this performance to:

Sata Hessler

Her love of choral music and participation in the chorus helped bring forth the beauty of the music and brought joy

to fellow choristers and audiences alike. She is greatly missed.

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nDirectors Note

Today’s concert examines two essential themes surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday: gratitude and gluttony. At first glance, the program is a light-hearted look at the American holiday featuring raucous and even profane selections from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons. The works conjure up images of excessive drinking, gluttonous eating, and the accompanying merriment. However, it is our hope that today’s concert also captures the more serious and arguably more important theme surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday: gratitude.

The program opens with Troy Roberston’s In Meeting We are Blessed, which prompts the singer – and hopefully the audience – to celebrate the important relationships in our lives, however fleeting. This is followed by Gwyneth Walker’s joyful setting of a Quaker hymn, How Can I Keep from Singing, which marvels at our ability to find hope and gratitude even in the darkest of times: “In prison cell, in dungeon dark, our thoughts to them are winging. When friends hold courage in their heart, how can I keep from singing?”

The University Community Chorus has examined gratitude and giving thanks in new ways this semester and at today’s concert. In addition to our usual community service projects, we have partnered with the University of Arizona Campus Pantry and will collect food donations to help provide for students in need here at UA. Tonight, we also will award the first-ever UCC Memorial Scholarship to a deserving undergraduate music education major. This is a project that was started two years ago after the sudden loss of one of our beloved singers, Frank Scoonover. Frank, like many of our members, was a life-long musician. His joyful and enthusiastic spirit was infectious, and his passion for life and dedication to both music and education were the inspiration for a new scholarship endowment for future music teachers.

Additionally, this scholarship also honors Elizabeth “Bette” Meunier. Mrs. Meunier directed the choral program at Gillett High School for 32 years and set a standard of excellence. She gave the gift of vocal music to generations in a rural Wisconsin community, and all of her students including Cybelle Egan, a current UCC member, are grateful for her talent and dedication to teaching others. Cybelle and her family gave an extremely generous match donation and, combined with more than 110 individual donations, our ensemble has already raised more than $26,000 to create this new scholarship endowment.

It is our hope that tonight’s program – and the greater acts of gratitude that inspired it – will serve as a reminder to all of us that we have so much to be grateful for this holiday season. As we sit down to our holiday feasts, perhaps we can each take a moment to express gratitude for all that we have and remember to give to others in whatever way we can.

The stay-at-home drinks, the traveler drinks,the ignorant and the learned drink!

The poor man drinks and the sick man drinks,the exile and the immigrant drink,the Bishop and the Elder!Sister drinks, brother drinks,grandma drinks, mommy drinks,she drinks, he drinks, one hundred drink, one thousand!

Fort Know doesn’t have enough goldto pay for all the beer we can hold!When we drink, there is good cheer,but there are those who carp and jeerthat we to Hell are going fast –well, we will have the best laugh at last,they’ll have each other’s company in Heaven!

xxii. Tempus et iocundum from Carmina Burana(Translation: Judith Lynn Sebesta)

Welcome is spring to you, sweet lasses!Now rejoice, you young lovers!


Each small yielding makes me yield the more,My modest refusal brings me only pain.


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About the Artists

A California native, Dr. ALYSSA COSSEY is a dynamic conductor and educator who brings a wealth of experiences and abilities to her position at the Fred Fox School of Music. Her successful record includes leadership of community and church choirs and collegiate ensembles, as well as middle school and high school groups.

Alyssa’s repertoire embraces a wide range of styles and genres, from Haydn and Brahms to Britten, and from Broadway to the great choral-orchestral masterworks of the Western canon. In addition to her own considerable concert portfolio, Alyssa has prepared choral ensembles

for performances with renowned orchestras including the Detroit Symphony and the Michigan State University Orchestra, and for notable conductors such as Grant Gershon and James Conlon. Her ensembles have participated in state and national invitational festivals (Walt Disney Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall) and concert tours throughout the United States, and have experienced consistent recruiting success, with many programs doubling in size under her leadership.

Alyssa has extensive experience as a clinician, adjudicator, guest conductor, and presenter. As a student, she was the recipient of numerous awards, scholarships, and assistantships, including the Outstanding Music Graduate and Outstanding Alumni at California Polytechnic University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education. Alyssa earned a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from California State University, Fullerton, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting at Michigan State University.

NICKY MANLOVE (they/them pronouns) is the founding artistic director of THEM Youth Ensemble, an LGBTQ+ and allied youth chorus in Tucson, AZ, and is guided by nearly a decade of experience in activism and community organizing. Having worked on issues from nondiscrimination legislation for LGBTQ youth to police brutality and the prison-industrial-complex, Nicky’s musical work seeks to grapple directly with power, oppression, and histories of domination in our complex world. Nicky completed their undergraduate studies at Seattle University, where they served as student conductor

xiv. In taberna quando sumus from Carmina Burana(Translation: Judith Lynn Sebesta)

When we’re drinking at the barThe least of all our worries areour death and fate beyond the grave.We’d rather sweat o’er the roulet tableFor as long as we are able – our money and credit we hope to save!What’s going on in herewhere a buck will get you a beer?

Some men gamble, some get boozy,others flirt with a floozy,but of those who stay with dice, some lose money, pants, and shirtwhile others (a few) hit pay dirt.All are lost in forms of vice;while they can raise a glassthey care not for what may come to pass.

First the dice decides who pays –his generosity we all do praise!Secondly we toast all in jail,Then all those who are hearty and hale.Fourth we toast all Christians good, then the faithful departed brotherhood!Sixth we toast all false nuns,then all robbers bearing guns!

Eighth for friars full of sin, ninth for those in monasteries no longer “in”!Tenth for those on broad sea sailing,eleventh for wives nagging and railing.Twelfth for all those who sins recant, thirteenth for parolee “emigrant”!Drink to the Pope! Drink to the King!Drink to them – to anything!

The wife drinks, the husband drinksthe soldier drinks, the priest drinks,he drinks, she drinks,barkeeper drinks, waitress drinks,workingman drinks, bum drinks,everyone drinks!

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nfor the Seattle University Choirs for two years. During this time, Nicky also prepared choirs for acclaimed harpsichordist and early music specialist Byron Schenkman, and sang with Seattle-based ensemble The Esoterics under the direction of Eric Banks. Nicky studied voice with tenor Ross Hauck. Recently, Nicky was appointed as the assistant conductor for the University Community Chorus for their 2019/2020 season, and was selected to co-present at World Symposium on Choral Music in Auckland, New Zealand in July 2020. Nicky is a graduate student in choral conducting at the University of Arizona with Dr. Miguel Ángel Felipe.

Bulgarian pianist INA SELVELIEVA has performed as soloist with many orchestras and has appeared in numerous solo and chamber performances in her native country, as well as in Austria, Germany, UK, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Colombia, and the United States. She has won numerous competitions both in Bulgaria and the United States, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the UW-Madison Beethoven piano competition. Her awards include the Pancho Vladigerov Competition in Bulgaria, the Grand Prix at the InternationalCompetition “Earth and People” in Bulgaria, and the Artist Presentation Society Award in St. Louis,

Missouri, among others. Under the guidance of Christopher Taylor, Ina Selvelieva earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at UW-Madison in 2007. Since then she has served on the faculty at St. Olaf College, UW-Madison, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has presented master classes throughout the world, including Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; Universidad Nacional de Colombia -Conservatorio de Música, Bogotá; Xavier University of Louisiana, San Antonio College, and Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas. Her work as a collaborative pianist has taken her to festivals and summer camps, such as the Aspen Music Festival, American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and Interlochen Arts Camp. As a rehearsal pianist, Ina has held the Sir John Fisher Foundation Junior Fellow – Repetiteur position at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. In 2015 she made her debut with the Scottish Opera as the music director and pianist of the “Opera Highlights” Tour, and as a rehearsal pianist for the premiere of the opera Pleasure by Mark Simpsons with Opera Leads, UK. She has also worked as a solo repetiteur at the Wuppertal Opera in Germany. In addition, she enjoys working as an assistant director of the Allegra Academy and Festival in Bulgaria.

Heyday, heyday, hey!All hail to the wine!

Here’s tun’d the shrill fife, and beaten the drum, and beaten, and beaten the drum.There’s scraping the fiddle, is squeezed the bag, is squeezed the bag, and droning the pipee, and droning, and droning the pipe.

See skipping the boys, and frisking, and frisking and frisking the youth!See flying the maids, in the arms of their lads, with swiftness around. Trip it, hop it, quick and gayly!

Good fellows come!Trip it, hop it, quick and nimbly!The tankards fill, the tankards fill!Trip it, hop it, quick and sprightly!The goblets drain, the goblets drain!

Merry! Let our joy break out!Heyday, and heyday, heyday, hey –in loudest strains resound!

Revel, riot, heyday, hey!Jump and gambol!Trip it cheerly hey!Laugh and carol, revel, riot!

Trip it, heyday, hey!Trip it merrily, briskly, hey!Now let us brim the parting cup, push it on, press it on, briskly hey, then let us sing, then let us singin chorus full the bright and cheerful juice of grape!Huzza, hey, push it on, hey!

All hail to the wine, old age’s friend, of care and grief the calmer sweet!By thousand voices jubilant the noble liquor praised be!Merry let our joy break out, and heyday, hey –in loudest strains resound!Hey, hey!

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Texts & Translations

In Meeting We Are Blessed

We are met together and in meeting we are blessed.Peace in coming and in going, peace in labor and in rest.

Hold on, dear brother!Hold on, dear sister!Hold on to me!

You’re not alone and you never more will be. I will be with you and I will carry you with me. Friendship endures and surelywe will prove it’s not ourselves, but our bodies that move.

How Can I Keep from Singing?

My life flows on in endless songabove earth’s lamentation. I hear the real though distant song that hails a new creation.

Through all the tumult and the strifeI hear the music ringing.It sounds an echo in my soul,how can I keep from singing?

What though the tempest loudly roars, I hear the truth, it’s living!What though the darkness round me close,songs in the night it’s giving!

No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I’m clinging.Since I believe that love abides,how can I keep from singing?

When tyrants tremble when they hearthe bells of freedom ringing.When friends rejoice both far and near,how can I keep from singing?

In prison cell, in dungeon dark,our thoughts to them are winging.When friends hold courage in their heart, how can I keep from singing?

xxvii. Recitative: The vineyard now in clusters

The vineyard now in clusters bright displays his turgent juicy grapes,and smiling calls the master’s handto gather them without delay.

Already tubs and vats below the hills are set; and from the huts around streams to the grateful taskold age and cheerful youth.

See how the mountain’s back by swarms is overrunn’d! and hear the exciting cry’s from ev’ry part resound!

The waggish joke enliv’ns the toil; from mourn to ev’n ‘tis laughing work, and then the foaming petulant mustexalt the mirth to shouts of joy.

xxviii. Drunken Chorus

Heyday, heyday, the liquor flows; the bulky tuns are fill’d. Now let our joy break out, and heyday, heyday, hey –in loudest strains resound!

Let us drink now!Raise your cups! and let us merry be!Let us sing now!Raise your voices! Let you merry be!

Heyday, heyday, hey!All hail to the wine!

Be hailed to the land,that brings it forth!Heyday, hey! all hail to the wine!

Be hailed the vat, that nurtur’s it!Heyday, hey! all hail to the wine!Be hailed the jug, where out it runs!Heyday, hey! all hail to the wine!

Come good fellows! Fill the tankards! Drain the goblets! Let us merry be!Merry, merry! Let our joy break out,and heyday, heyday, hey –in loudest strains resound!

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No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I’m clinging.Since I believe that love abides,how can I keep from singing?

Hunger of the World: A Table Grace

Hunger of the world,When we ask a grace,Be remembered here with usBy Thy vacant place.

Thirst with naught to drink,Sorrow more than mine,May God someday make you laughWith water turned to wine.

i. O Fortuna from Carmina Burana(Translation: Judith Lynn Sebesta)

O Fortune, like the moonyou are always changing, waxing now, now waning, never the same for long remaining.How can we love this hateful lifewhich pampers us, then harries us, bemusing and confusing us, always in temper humorous – poverty, prosperity, dissolving both as sun does ice?

O Luck, ill of nature, ill of will, you spin us round as dizzy rate, carrying us to high estate, then to ruin, your heart obdurate.Your profitless prosperity like mistdissolving, then again us involving,future veiling, us assailing, grace and salvation denying, To Fortune’s blows.I bare my back.

O Luck, you ruin my life my health and strength,robbing me of all confidence;I bless your presence, curse your absence,living my life in painful hesitance.

Let us all mourn togetherFor in this very hourFortune shows her power! Fortune in her whimsyoverwhelms the brave.

The Seasons

xxvi. Hunter’s Chorus

Hear, hear the clank and the noise,that make the forest ring!Oh! What clank, and what noise make all the forest ring!It is the shrilling sound of hornsthe barking of greedy hounds.

Here starts the fear aroused stag; behind runs the pack and the hunters crew. He flies, he flies! O see, what strains!Behind runs the pack and the hunters crew. O see, what bounds! O see, what strains!Lo there! the copse, and thickets he bursts,and skims o’er the fields to the deepest wood!

Now he has deceived the hounds, dispers’d they ramble and stray about. Dispersed are the hounds; they ramble and stray about. Tayo, Tayo, Tayo!

The hunters’ voice, the piercing horn have brought the pack again. Ho, ho, ho! Tayo! Ho, ho!

With ardour increased rashly pours along the track, the rejoined gang.Haloo, tayo, haloo!

Surrounded now from ev’ry side,his spirits and his vigour lost, exhausted drops the nimble deer.

His grasping agony proclaimof sounding brass the conqu’ring tune, of hunters the loud triumphant shouts: Halali, halali, halali!

‘Tis done: his final doom proclaimof sounding brass the conqu’ring tune,of hunters the loud triumphant shouts: Halali, halali, halali!

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