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Salisbury Singers present

With the Bach Consort of Worcester

Saturday April 6, 2019 Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster St., Worcester, MA

Board of Trustees

President Naome M. FearingVice President Kirk A. CarterSecretary Kathleen A. PowersTreasurer Martin J. Pellegrino

Stephen Beaton IIIDebra Leach Charles J. ManeroSamuel K. Stewart

Theodore E. Haringa, Ex OfficioBernard J. Conlin, EmeritusKathleen Martin-Estus, EmeritusJoyce Messinger, Emeritus

Founder

Malama Robbins Collinsworth

Artistic Staff

Artistic Director Michelle GravelineAssistant Conductor Bradford DumontAccompanist William NessVocal Assistant Margaret M. Tartaglia

Chorus Council

Council President Maria LavertyTreasurer/Librarian James MonroeSecretary Carolyn FarleyTicket Sales Debra LeachCommunications Dianne SmithConcert Facilitator Margaret TartagliaVenue Coordinator Andrew TomaskiMember-at-Large Kathleen Powers

Section Leaders

Chris Adams Marla HirschDonald Adams Joseph HortonMary Eichholz Janet KnowltonVictoria Heidorn

Business Staff

Graphics & Program Patricia Burns Fiore, P.S. Communications

Publicity Tyler AldersonWeb Hosting Eva Alvarez-Vigneault,

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Soloists for the Mozart Mass sponsored by a generous grant from the Fletcher Foundation

This program is funded in part by:

Even and Malama Collinsworth Advised Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

The Fred Harris Daniels FoundationGeorge E. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation

UniBankHarvard Pilgrim Health Care

Greater Worcester Community Foundation

Featuring

Salisbury Singers With The Bach Consort Of Worcester

Michelle Graveline, Artistic Director Bradford Dumont, Assistant Conductor

William Ness, Pianist

MAGNIFICENT MOZART

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From the PresidentWe welcome you tonight to share in the music of Salisbury Singers during our 45th season. Research done under the auspices of Chorus America and by leaders in the field of choral music validates the increase in choruses around United States and their important benefits to the community. No matter the size of the community, where arts programs flourish, there is a measurable economic impact as well as the ability to bring people together from diverse walks of life. We hope that the opportunities for both participants and audiences at Salisbury Singers concerts this season will create an occasion to connect with family and friends as well as others in our community through the beautiful music being performed.

Salisbury Singers continues on these many years because of the support from each of you, both financially and through your presence here tonight. Thank you for coming.

Please visit our web site at www.salisburysingers.org to learn more about us and our 45th season programs.

Naome Fearing, President

From the Artistic DirectorTonight, in addition to the professional soloists we have singing the Mass, we are pleased to showcase some of the talent within the Salisbury Singers. The four soloists for the Regina Coeli are drawn from the ranks of the chorus, and we thank them for their willingness to perform in the solo quartet.

Next month, our Assistant Conductor, Brad Dumont, will receive the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting and we congratulate him on this achievement. Salisbury Singers has been the beneficiary of his talent, skill, and passion for choral music these last two years. We look forward to continued association with him and to great performances from him in the future!

As we look forward to our final concert of the year on June 8, I’d like to point out that two days before, June 6, is the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a day so instrumental in changing the course of WWII, and a sober reminder of what we owe to our veterans. Our June 8 program, D-Day meets Broadway, will feature music from musicals that emerged at that time that helped a war-weary public escape their troubles: South Pacific, Oklahoma! and Carousel. We will also honor our veterans and servicemen and women with a musical tribute. I hope to see you there!

Michelle Graveline, Artistic Director

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SALISBURY SINGERS WITH THE BACH CONSORT OF WORCESTER

Michelle Graveline, Artistic Director

Present

MUSIC OF WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756-1791

REGINA COELI, KV276Conducted by Bradford Dumont

Soloists

Sarah Mombourquette, Soprano Brooke Mega, Mezzo-soprano

David Workman, Tenor Andrew Tomaski, Bass

BRIEF INTERMISSION

GRAND MASS IN C MINOR, KV427Conducted by Michelle Graveline

Soloists

Diana McVey, Soprano Pamela Dellal, Mezzo-soprano

Jonas Budris, Tenor James Demler, Bass

1. Kyrie eleison chorus, soprano

2. Gloria chorus

3. Laudamus te mezzo-soprano

4. Gratias chorus

5. Domine Deus soprano/mezzo-soprano duet

6. Qui tollis chorus

7. Quoniam soprano/mezzo-soprano/tenor trio

8. Jesu Christe/Cum Sancto chorus

9. Credo chorus

10. Et incarnatus est soprano solo

11. Sanctus/Osanna chorus

12. Benedictus/Osanna solo quartet/chorus

Please hold your applause until the end of the entire Mass.

This concert is being recorded for archival purposes. Please silence all electronic devices.

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TEXTS AND TRANSLTIONS

REGINA COELI

Regina coeli, laetare, alleluia. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.

Quia, quem meruisti, portare, alleluia. For he whom you merited to bear, alleluia.

Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia. He has risen, as he said, alleluia.

Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. Pray for us to God, alleluia.

MASS IN C MINOR

KYRIE KYRIE

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.

GLORIA GLORIA

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee, we glorify Thee.

Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.

We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory.

Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.

O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. O Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son! O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Who takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us.

Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram.

Who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.

Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

Who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dominus. Tu solus Altissimus,Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu,

For Thou only art holy. Thou only art Lord. Thou only,O Jesus Christ, art most high together with the Holy Ghost,

in gloria Dei Patris. Amen. in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

We invite you to join us for a Reception in Jeppson Hall after the concert.

Please visit our archives table and enjoy a retrospective of Salisbury Singers’ 45 years of performances.

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CREDO CREDO

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae, visibilum omnium et invisibillium. Credo in unum Dominium Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum. Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero. Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: per quem omnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis.

I believe in one God, the Father almighty maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages; God of God, light of light, true God of true God; begotten not made; consubstantial with the Father; by Whom all things were made. Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven;

Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine:

and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary;

Et homo factus est. and was made man.

SANCTUS SANCTUS

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts.

Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.

Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.

Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini. Osanna in excelsis.

Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

The Regina Coeli KV276 is based on a liturgical chant, one of the Marian antiphons sung at the end of Compline during the church year. This particular text with its alleluias would have been used during the Easter season. Mozart composed three settings of this text. KV276 was his last, composed in 1779 while he was still in the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and probably for use in Salzburg Cathedral. The music for the chorus and solo quartet alternates frequently throughout the piece, and each line of text ends with a full choral Alleluia. We know Mozart was studying the works of Bach and Handel during this period, and if one listens closely, one can hear a direct quote of a famous Handel work. The piece is filled with youthful exuberance and a joyful spirit.

Of all Mozart’s choral works, two stand head and shoulders above the rest: his Requiem and the great Mass in C minor. Tragically, both were unfinished. In the case of the Requiem, the completion was interrupted by Mozart’s untimely illness and death. With the C minor Mass, the reasons are less clear, since it was set aside in 1783.

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PROGRAM NOTES

For a number of years, Mozart was in the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg. During those years, the length of liturgical music was severely restricted, leading to a number of wonderful but short masses and other liturgical works. After leaving the Archbishop’s employ in 1780, Mozart did not compose many liturgical works. However, it seems that he wrote the C minor Mass either as a wedding present for his new bride, Constanze, or as thanksgiving for her recovery from an illness. We know that it was performed in Salzburg in October 1783, in its unfinished state, and that Constanze sang the beautiful and ornate Et Incarnatus solo. It is possible that the unfinished movements were filled out with plainsong settings of the Mass.

It is not known why Mozart set the Mass aside without completing it, but one can imagine that he was turning his attentions to secular works for which he had commissions. We do know that he used music from the Mass for a cantata, David Penitente.

Musically, we can see a more mature composition in the C minor Mass than in earlier masses, and evidence that Mozart was becoming more familiar with the works of Bach and Handel. This acquaintance with their works shows itself in the sophisticated contrapuntal writing in the Kyrie, Cum Sancto, and Osanna. The solo numbers easily match the difficulty of his operatic arias, and the Laudamus Te is based on a series of exercises he wrote for Constanze.

The Kyrie opens with a solemn orchestral statement and an ascending choral statement, followed by a beautiful imitative choral Kyrie. The soprano soloist takes the Christe section and the chorus returns to finish the fugal Kyrie.

The Gloria is divided into 7 sections, beginning with a dazzling choral movement reminiscent of Handel. This is followed by the Laudamus Te, one of Mozart’s most famous arias, requiring extremes of range and great agility on the part of the soloist. The chorus comes in with a short but serious Gratias Agimus Tibi, followed by a duet for the two female soloists, Domine Deus, again requiring virtuoso singing. In the Qui tollis, Mozart divides the choir into two 4-part choruses, each answering the other, with solemn music reflecting the seriousness of the text. The Quoniam is a trio for the two sopranos and tenor, with highly imitative writing. Following the trio, there is a brief adagio for the chorus on the words Jesu Christe, and then Mozart ends the Gloria with a superb fugue in C Major.

Mozart composed only two sections to the Credo, the first being a large movement in AABA form for 5-part chorus. This is followed by the Et incarnatus est, an aria for soprano that is highly operatic in character, with a cadenza for soprano and oboe at the end. The rest of the Mass consists of a declamatory Sanctus followed by a magnificent double fugue for 8-part chorus on the Osanna, and a Benedictus for solo quartet with a reprise of the end of the glorious Osanna.

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Michelle Graveline, Artistic Director

Michelle Graveline is active as a collegiate and community chorus conductor, teacher, adjudicator and clinician in Massachusetts. She has been teaching at Assumption College since 1984 and is currently Professor of Music. At Assumption College she founded the Assumption College Chorale in 1984. With the Assumption College Chorale, a select, auditioned

concert choir, and the Assumption College Community Chorus, a faculty/staff/alumni chorus, Graveline has performed numerous works for chorus and orchestra. She has led the Assumption College Chorale on 14 national and international concert tours, performing in Spain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, and Greece. The Chorale has sung at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and has twice had the distinction of performing for Pope John Paul II.

Graveline has served as President of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and has guest-conducted massed choirs at ACDA collegiate festivals, the MMEA Central District Junior Honor Choir, community chorus festivals, the American Guild of Organists Region I Convention, Worcester Consortium Colleges concerts, and the Central Mass. High School Choral Festival. She has served as an adjudicator for numerous festivals and auditions, including the MMEA Western District Vocal Auditions, the Massachusetts All-State Vocal Auditions, and a number of the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) Festivals. She has given workshops at ACDA conferences, for the Massachusetts Music Educators, and the Rhode Island Music Educators.

Graveline received the B. Mus. and M.S.M. degrees from Boston University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. She has studied with such distinguished conductors as Robert Page and Harold Farberman, and has been a conducting fellow at several prestigious conducting institutes affiliated with Chorus America, where she worked with Vance George, Margaret Hillis, Gregg Smith and Dale Warland. She has been a Fellow at the Conductors Institute at Bard College.

Graveline is in her 22nd season with the Salisbury Singers of Worcester. Under her direction the chorus has more than doubled in size and performed to critical acclaim. Works presented with orchestra in the last few years include Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Brahms Requiem, Haydn Creation, Mozart Requiem, Handel Israel in Egypt, Mendelssohn Elijah, Bach Mass In B Minor, Verdi Requiem, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, and Orff Carmina Burana, and numerous works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

She was also Music Director of the Polymnia Choral Society of Melrose from 2002-2007. She has prepared choruses for performances with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra, the Thayer Symphony Orchestra, the Melrose Symphony Orchestra, and guest-conducted at a number of Holiday Pops Concerts with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra.

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Also a noted harpsichordist and organist, Graveline has performed on the harpsichord at the Worcester Art Museum as part of their Chamber Music series, at the Bach Festival at Clark University, and on the organ at Mechanics Hall as part of the Brown Bag organ series. She gave a series of concerts during the 2009-2010 season with violinist Peter Sulski, performing the complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord of J. S. Bach as part of a sabbatical project. She is Artistic Director of the Bach Consort of Worcester, an ensemble dedicated to performing Baroque music.

Brad Dumont, Assistant Conductor

Brad Dumont is a passionate arts advocate working to create and support unique projects that contribute to cultural improvement and community-based arts education. He currently serves as the artistic administrator for the New Hampshire Music Festival, assistant conductor of the Salisbury Singers, Vice President of the New Hampshire Master Chorale, and on the artistic planning team

for the Boston-based choir VOICES 21C. He is an active singer with each of these organizations as well as with the newly formed Analog Chorale and the Brookline Consort. Additionally, he is the operations manager for Emmanuel Music in Boston, an orchestra contractor for ensembles throughout New England, and a board member for the Greater Boston Choral Consortium.

Brad has studied conducting at Boston University with Dr. James Sparks and Dr. Miguel Ángel Felipe and is currently pursuing a Master of Music to be completed in 2019. While at BU, Brad taught with Dr. André de Quadros at the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center utilizing music and wellness practices with students from across the city dealing with mental illness, as well as at institutions in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections.

Originally from Rochester, New Hampshire, Brad graduated from Plymouth State University in 2013, earning a B.S. in Music Education K-12 and a B.A. in Music: Vocal Performance and Pedagogy. He studied voice with Dr. Kathleen Arecchi while receiving a choral fellowship from Dr. Dan Perkins.

William Ness, Accompanist

William Ness was formerly the Minister of Music & Arts at First Baptist Church in Worcester. At First Baptist he conducted two singing choirs and two bell choirs from 2001 to 2015. He retired from First Baptist Church in June 2015 and was given the title Minister of Music Emeritus on his last Sunday there. Most recently for two choral seasons he was Interim Director of Music/Organist

at The First Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut ending in May 2017. He is now the Guest Musician at The First Church of Nashua, New Hampshire serving while their director is in Europe and serves as accompanist for the Salisbury Singers.

William Ness has two degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has done further study at the University of Iowa. His organ teachers have been Jennie

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Satre, Robert Speed, Robert Clark, Robert Glasgow, and Delbert Disselhorst. While at the University of Michigan he won the Graduate Concerto Competition in 1971. Mr. Ness taught at Andrews University from 1979 to 1982 as a sabbatical replacement for C. Warren Becker. Following that position he and his wife were Co-Directors of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Ottumwa, Iowa where they chaired the National Undergraduate Organ Competition. Upon moving to Massachusetts he assumed the position of Minister of Music at The College Church at Atlantic Union College, South Lancaster in fall 1987. Other churches he served during this time were Village Congregational of Whitinsville and First Baptist of Lexington. Mr. Ness has performed extensively in the Worcester area as soloist and accompanist to several choral organizations. In October 2016 he was chosen to play the opening recital of the festival week celebrating the historic 108 rank 1933 Kimball organ at the Worcester Auditorium which had not been heard in recital for nearly a quarter century. He teaches organ at Pakachoag Community Music School of Greater Worcester and privately.

Diana McVey, Soprano

Contessa - Le Nozze di Figaro—Florentine Opera “The sweetness and pliancy of McVey’s voice and the sighing quality of her singing made Dove sono do what Mozart meant it to do: Make us love the Countess and give moral weight to an opera that otherwise might be nothing but an amusing sex farce. Usually, singers take the second half of the aria as a fiery, bitter cabaletta;

McVey and Rescigno kept it sweet, gentle, nostalgic. She also sang the repeat of the opening verse pianissimo, and the big audience got so very quiet to take it in.”

Soprano, Diana McVey, is an artist whose consummate skills as both a singer and an actress have quickly made her highly visible in opera, oratorio and as soloist with symphony orchestras. She has become known for her riveting and moving portrayals of Countess Madeleine in Capriccio, Violetta in La Traviata, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. She has sung leading roles with Florentine Opera, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Opera Omaha, Opera Dubai, Opera Tampa, Opera Columbus, Lake George Opera Festival, Jacksonville Lyric Opera, Treasure Coast Opera, Opera Naples, Light Opera Oklahoma, Ocean State Lyric Opera, the Salt Marsh Opera Company, Boston Academy of Music, Rhode Island Philharmonic and Opera Providence, among others.

Recent engagements include Verdi’s Requiem, La Bohème with the Helena Symphony, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem with the RI Civic Chorale & Orchestra, a gala concert with Opera Tampa celebrating the 100th birthday of Maestro Anton Coppola, Elijah with the Idaho State-Civic Symphony, Countess Madeleine in Strauss’s final opera Capriccio with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Adina in L’Elisir d’amore and Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro with Florentine Opera, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Salisbury Singers, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro Opera Idaho, Die Zauberflöte with Opera Omaha, productions of Carmen, La Bohème, La Traviata and Lucia di

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Lammermoor with the Belleayre Music Festival, La Rondine and The Merry Widow with Opera Tampa and Maestro Anton Coppola, Faure’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the U.S. premiere of Patrick Hawes’s The Great War Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Upcoming engagements include Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Great Falls Symphony, solo appearances with the Music on the Hill Festival (RI), A Night in Italy gala concert with the Helena Symphony, and Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) and Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem in Rouen and Paris, France, and Berlin, Germany.

Pamela Dellal, Mezzo-soprano

Ms. Dellal has enjoyed a distinguished career as an acclaimed soloist and recitalist. She has appeared in Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall, and premiered a Harbison chamber work in New York, San Francisco, Boston and London. Dellal has received critical acclaim for performances of Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Handel’s

Messiah, Mozart’s C-minor Mass, and Bach’s B-minor Mass, St. Matthew and St. John Passions. Operatic appearances include leading roles in the operas Alcina, Albert Herring, Dido and Aeneas, La Clemenza di Tito, Così Fan Tutte, Vanessa, The Rape of Lucretia, and Winter’s Tale. She has been featured by the Handel and Haydn Society, Aston Magna, The Boston Early Music Festival, Tokyo Oratorio Society, Opera Company of Boston, the National Chamber Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and the Dallas Bach Society, appearing in concert in major cities in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan.

Dellal’s association with Emmanuel Music’s renowned cantata series spans her entire career, including performances of nearly every sacred work by Bach. Known for her work in historical repertoires from medieval through classical, Dellal has appeared multiple times with the Boston Early Music Festival, Ensemble Chaconne and the Musicians of the Old Post Road, and is a current member of the Blue Heron Ensemble. With Sequentia Ms. Dellal has made numerous recordings of the music of Hildegard von Bingen. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, she has premiered works by many prominent composers. Her extensive discography comprises nearly 40 recordings. As an educator, Dellal serves on the faculty at The Longy School of Music of Bard College and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. More at www.pameladellal.com.

Jonas Budris, Tenor

Tenor Jonas Budris is a versatile soloist and ensemble musician, engaging new works and early music with equal passion.

He is a featured soloist in Boston Baroque’s Grammy-nominated recording of Monteverdi’s opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and sang in Blue Heron’s album “Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5” which received the 2018 Gramophone Award

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for Early Music. As a soloist and ensemble singer, Mr. Budris enjoys performing, touring, and recording with such groups as the Handel and Haydn Society, Spire, The Thirteen, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, and Cut Circle.

On the opera stage, he has performed principal and supporting roles with numerous musical organizations, including Opera Boston, OperaHub, Guerilla Opera, and Odyssey Opera, originating such roles as John in Giver of Light and the title role of Chrononhotonthologos.

Mr. Budris recently made his debut at the Carmel Bach Festival, where he was the 2018 Tenor Vocal Fellow for the Virginia Best Adams Vocal Masterclass. He is a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow at Emmanuel Music, where he performs regularly in the Bach Cantata and evening concert series.

Originally from Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. Budris holds a degree in Environmental Sciences & Engineering from Harvard College.

James Demler, Baritone

Baritone James Demler is known for his versatile range of repertory, spanning the operatic, oratorio, concert, and popular music genres.

Mr. Demler has made debuts with Houston Grand Opera, where he appeared as Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte and Peter in Hansel and Gretel, and as soloist with the Houston Symphony, where

he sang the role of Maestro in a concert version of Salieri’s rarely performed opera Prima la musica, poi le parole. Other roles include Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Edmonton Opera, Danilo in The Merry Widow with Palm Beach Opera, and Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with Arizona Opera. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Opera Orchestra of New York as Dikson in Boieldieu’s La Dame Blanche alongside Renee Fleming, and has returned to that venue singing prominent roles in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux and Catalani’s La Wally.

He holds voice degrees from The University of New Mexico, the University of Arizona, and the Eastman School of Music. He completed his training as a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and has been a full-time member of the voice faculty of Boston University since 2005.

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Thank you!

Salisbury Singers’ programs are recorded by Nick and Bobbie Chase for future broadcast on WCUW Community Radio Worcester 91.3 FM

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Soprano

Wendy Beauregard

Rosemary DiPierro

Mary Eichholz

Carolyn Farley

Emma Farren

Naome Fearing

Marie Harrington

Maura Hovagimian

Patricia Jonason

Kathleen Kasdorf

Janet Knowlton

Debra Leach

Kimberly LiPuma

Eleanor Menard

Sarah Mombourquette

Colleen Munson

Rachel Newman

Jane Pastore

Kathleen Powers

Christine Sawicki

Tammy Swartz

Margaret Tartaglia

Margaret Twiss

Marla Zeneski

Alto

Mary Aronson

Ursala Faber

Marie Haringa

Victoria Heidorn

Marla Hirsch

Louise Hogue

Sharon Kimball

Margaret Kuipers-Sawer

Paulette LaBarre

Janet Landstrom

Margaret Macuga

Brooke Mega

Carol Pelletier

Dianne Smith

Barbara Tucker

Elizabeth York

Tenor

Chris Adams

Robert Daly

Brad Dumont

Chuck Heidorn

Austen Hypher

Richard Knowlton

Jacob Monroe

James Monroe

Daniel Murphy

David Workman

Bass

Donald Adams

Gerry Condon

Leonard Curcio

Charles Feazel

James Gaskell

Joseph Horton

Jim Kasdorf

Nicholas Keyes

Lance Lazar

AJ Leto

John McVey

Hubert Meunier

Sam Stewart

Kent Stout

Andrew Tomaski

Joseph Zeneski

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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

First violins

Peter Sulski, Concertmaster

Yulia Zhuravleva

Dimitar Krasteva

Second violins

Paola Caballero

Nadejda Krasteva

Michael Hustedde

Violas:

Jonathan Blumhofer

Susan Kirchausen

Violoncello

Ariana Falk

Double Bass

Kinnon Church

Flute

Cherie Asgeirsson

Oboes

Kirsten Lipkens

Joseph Halko

Bassoons

Tracy McGinnis

Jensen Ling

Horns in C

Alex Stening

Paige McGrath

Trumpets

Jonathan Clark

Erich Ledebuhr

Timpani

Pieter Struyk

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SSI CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS

Grand Patron $1000+

Kirk and Price CarterDr. Michelle Graveline & Kent Stout

Donna Kingman (In Memory of Rev. Perry Kingman)

Maestro $500+

Kathleen Martin-Estus

Orchestra $300+

Anonymous Paul B. & Helen J. DexterCarl M. & Susan Y. Foley

Debra Leach Samuel and Connie Stewart

Accompanist $100+

Stephen Beaton III & Naome Fearing Mrs. Monica T. GravelineTed & Marie HaringaPaul M. Jourcin

Robert & Jane LavineJoyce Messinger Frank MusciKathleen A. Powers

Soloist $50+

Simon J Chiasson, Jr.Kathleen ComerDr. Paul Holle Maria Joseph

Roland Malboeuf Mark & Ruth TornwallDavid J. & Helen C. Twiss

Performing Members

Christopher AdamsDonald AdamsGerald CondonRobert DalyRosemary DiPierroMary EichholzNaome FearingChuck Heidorn

Victoria HeidornMarla HirschLouise HogueJoseph HortonSharon KimballRichard KnowltonKimberly LiPumaDebra Leach

James MonroeChristine SawickiTammy SwartzBarbara TuckerMargaret TwissDavid WorkmanElizabeth York

Join Us!Membership is a fulfilling way to participate in the continuity of Salisbury Singers, Inc. and its contribution to music excellence in our community. Your tax-deductible contribution will not only be vital in helping sustain the organization, but will also enable the Singers to provide ever more challenging and richer musical experiences. Please join us and know that with every ovation, you made a difference. Visit www.salisburysingers.org.

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FIFTH SECTIONAnonymous

Camila Beqiri

Victoria Beqiri

Lena Cataldo

Ramona Cataldo

Jan Feazel

Emily Hogue

Sarah Hogue

Charles Leach

Susan Miller

Carole Normandin

Donald Raymond

David W. Simmerer

Phyllis Tucker

IN LOVING MEMORYVirginia & Harold Barrett

Edward C. Blair

Erika Devereaux

Charles W. Estus

John M. Faber

Michael Huckins

Rev. Perry Kingman

John W. Macuga

Genevieve & James Powers

Jacqueline D. Puliafico

Antoinette Rossetti

Alice Ann Schmidt

Keith Simons

Walter & Ruth Steinau

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Celebrate the Holidays with Salisbury Singers at Worcester Art Museum

Sun., Dec. 9, 2018 – 2:00 pm Worcester Art Museum

55 Salisbury St, Worcester, MA 01609

Ushers in the holidays with Salisbury Singers annual

Holidays at WAM concert. Free with Museum admission.

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This group is a member of the central massachusetts choral consortium, whose purpose is to promote choral activities throughout the central massachusetts region through public awareness and performance. Please see the website listed above to learn more and to see events scheduled for this season.

Member Groups Currently Include: Acton Community Chorus, Jennifer Cooper, DirectorAssabet Valley Mastersingers, Dr. Robert P. Eaton, Artistic DirectorGreater Gardner Community Choir, Diane Cushing, Music DirectorHarvard Pro Musica, Carey Shunskis, DirectorJoyful Noise, Matthew Johnsen, DirectorMaster Singers of Worcester, Ed Tyler, Artistic DirectorNashoba Valley Chorale, Anne Watson Born, Music DirectorSalisbury Singers, Dr. Michelle Graveline, Artistic DirectorShir Joy, Nan AK Gibbons, DirectorSounds of Stow Chorus & Orchestra, Barbara Jones, Artistic DirectorWestford Chorus, Jim Barkovic, Music DirectorWorcester Chorus, Christopher Shepard, Artistic Director

Sing with the Salisbury SingersConsider becoming a singer with the Salisbury Singers.

We are always looking for experienced choral singers to join us. The chorus rehearses on Monday evenings at Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester and

performs three to four times a year.

If interested, contact Artistic Director Michelle Graveline at mgraveli@assumption.edu to schedule an audition.

Do you like to sing?

Saturday, June 8, 2019 – 7:30 pm Curtis Performance Hall, Tsotsis Family Academic Center

Assumption College, Worcester, MA

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day two days previously, Salisbury Singers will feature music from musicals that emerged at that time and helped a war-weary public escape their troubles: South Pacific, Oklahoma! and Carousel. We will also honor our veterans and servicemen and women with classic patriotic and service

songs. It will be a red, white, and blue celebration!

We welcome the Burncoat High School select chorus Quadrivium as they join us for this concert.

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THE FINAL PERFORMANCE OF OUR 45TH SEASON!

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