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Folk Music, Georgia (Europe), Traditional,
Vocal Ensemble, World Music
Ensemble Basiani
NOV 4 | MCCULLOUGH THEATRE
Masterworks from the noble
choral tradition of Georgian folk
song and chant.
Upcoming Performances
Grupo Corpo
OCT 6
Love and Duty A Celebration of the Music of Brahms
NOV 9 & 11
Lost Girl A Texas Theatre and Dance Production
NOV 9–20
Spectrum Dance Theater + Donald Byrd Rambunctious
NOV 17 & 18
National Theatre of Scotland Let The Right One In
JAN 18–29
September 30 & October 1, 2016
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$10 STUDENT | $12 MILITARY TICKETS
autumn song featuring
THE
LITTLE
MATCH
GIRL
PASSION
R e d e e m e r P r e sb y t e r ia n C h u r c h
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 8PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 8PM
Craig Hella Johnson, Artistic Director & Conductor
Stefanie Moore, soprano
Kathlene Ritch, alto
Dann Coakwell, tenor
Cameron Beauchamp, bass
Thomas Burritt, percussion
guest vocalist, Wravan Godsoe
pre-concert talk each night at 7pm
post-concert reception following Friday’s performance
Season Sustaining Underwriter
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Dear Friends,
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in the 2016-2017 Conspirare season.
It is our great privilege and joy to
sing for you. We regularly boast that
we are fortunate to sing for the most
extraordinary audience members
anywhere. We experience a deep level
of engagement and participation with
Conspirare audiences to the extent that
we tangibly feel that our listeners are
an essential part of the musical circle. In our concerts, together with
you, we love to create spaces with sounds and silence that have the
potential to hold us in exquisite rapture and wonderment. Whether
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thank you for your presence and welcome to you to this new sound
realm, created by Conspirare artists and you.
Tonight’s program showcases four of our Conspirare singers in an
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a Pulitzer Prize-winning modern masterwork which, in its original
form, was composed for vocal quartet and percussion. The music calls
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sensitivity. Listen as the artists bring their full focus to these demands,
to each other, and to telling the story with a broad range of colors and
musical tools.
The second half of the program was created as a gentle musical
journey, a tapestry of songs interweaving expressions of hope,
curiosity, radiance and remembrance. It is a quiet celebration of the
human voice. We are reminded of the breadth of expression the voice
can carry. We experience vocalism which mirrors and embodies our
own human experience—strong, vulnerable, humorous, joyful, still—
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Thank you again for being here.
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PA RT O NE
The Little Match Girl Passion
Words and Music by David Lang (b.1957)
after Hans Christian Andersen, H.P. Paulli, Picander and Saint Matthew
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Come, daughter
It was terribly cold
Dearest heart
In an old apron
Penance and remorse
Lights were shining
Patience, patience!
Ah! perhaps
9. Have mercy, my God
10. She lighted another match
11. From the sixth hour
12. She again rubbed a match
13. When it is time for me to go
14. In the dawn of morning
15. We sit and cry
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PA RT TWO
SO NGS O F H O PE A ND REMEMBRA NC E to be selected from
Circle Game
Joni Mitchell (b. 1943)
(Will there really be a morning?)
Children of the Heavenly Father
Tryggare Kan Ingen Vara
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Hebrew Chants
Shefa Gold
Ubuntu
Come Now, Spirit
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Get Together
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Children Will Listen
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I Remember Sky
Stephen Sondheim
Home on the Range
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Ó Gente da Minha Terra
Tiago Machado
America the Beautiful
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
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Soul Adorn Thyself with Gladness
George Frederic Handel
Holy, Holy
J. S. Bach
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Beautiful City
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PA RT O N E
4. In an old apron
TH E L I T TLE MAT C H GI R L PAS SION
In an old apron she carried a number of matches, and had a bundle
of them in her hands. No one had bought anything of her the whole
day, nor had any one given her even a penny. Shivering with cold and
hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of
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on her shoulders, but she regarded them not.
Text by David Lang, after Hans Christian Andersen, H.P. Paulli,
Picander and the Gospel according to St. Matthew
1. Come, daughter
Come, daughter
Help me, daughter
Help me cry
Look, daughter
Where, daughter
What, daughter
Who, daughter
Why, daughter
Guiltless daughter
Patient daughter
Gone
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It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year,
and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and darkness, a poor little
girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets. It is
true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were
not of much use. They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had
belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost them in
running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along
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seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying that he could use it
as a cradle, when he had children of his own. So the little girl went on
with her little naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold.
3. Dearest heart
Dearest heart
Dearest heart
What did you do that was so wrong?
What was so wrong?
Dearest heart
Dearest heart
Why is your sentence so hard?
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5. Penance and remorse
Penance and remorse
Tear my sinful heart in two
My teardrops
May they fall like rain down upon your poor face
May they fall down like rain
My teardrops
Here, daughter, here I am
I should be bound as you were bound
All that I deserve is
What you have endured
Penance and remorse
Tear my sinful heart in two
My penance
My remorse
My penance
6. Lights were shining
Lights were shining from every window, and there was a savory smell
of roast goose, for it was New- year’s eve – yes, she remembered that.
In a corner, between two houses, one of which projected beyond the
other, she sank down and huddled herself together. She had drawn
her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she
dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take
home even a penny of money. Her father would certainly beat her;
besides, it was almost as cold at home as here, for they had only the
roof to cover them, through which the wind howled, although the
largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags.
Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold.
Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold.
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7. Patience, patience!
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Patience.
Patience!
She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a
beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated
than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the
rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green
branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the showwindows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her
hand towards them, and the match went out.The Christmas lights rose
higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then
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who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that
when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
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Ah! perhaps a burning match might be some good, if she could draw
it from the bundle and strike it against the wall, just to warm her
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It gave a warm, bright light, like a little candle, as she held her hand
over it. It was really a wonderful light. It seemed to the little girl that
she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a
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warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo!
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only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.
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its light fell upon the wall it became as transparent as a veil, and she
could see into the room. The table was covered with a snowy white
table-cloth, on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a steaming
roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried plums. And what was still
more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled
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the match went out, and there remained nothing but the thick, damp,
cold wall before her.
9. Have mercy, my God
Have mercy, my God.
Look here, my God.
See my tears fall. See my tears fall.
Have mercy, my God. Have mercy.
My eyes are crying.
My heart is crying, my God.
See my tears fall.
See my tears fall, my God.
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11. From the sixth hour
From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the
ninth hour. And at the ninth hour she cried out:
Eli, Eli.
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She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light shone round her;
in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining, yet
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burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and
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whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother
there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than
the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or
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upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was
neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.
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13. When it is time for me to go
INT E R MIS S IO N
When it is time for me to go
Don’t go from me
When it is time for me to leave
Don’t leave me
When it is time for me to die
Stay with me
When I am most scared
Stay with me
PART T WO
14. In the dawn of morning
In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks
and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to
death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose
and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of
death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was
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beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered
with her grandmother, on New-year’s day.
15. We sit and cry
We sit and cry
And call to you
Rest soft, daughter, rest soft
Where is your grave, daughter?
Where is your tomb?
Where is your resting place?
Rest soft, daughter, rest soft
Rest soft
Rest soft
Rest soft
Rest soft
You closed your eyes.
I closed my eyes.
Rest soft
SO NG S O F HO P E A ND REM EM BRA NC E
We’re marching to Zion,
Beautiful, beautiful Zion;
We’re marching upward to Zion,
The beautiful city of God.
Yesterday a child came out to wonder…
(Will there really be a morning?)
Children of the heavnly Father
Safely in His bosom gather
Nestling bird nor star in Heaven
Such a refuge e’er was given
God, His own doth tend and nourish
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From all evil things He spares them
In His mighty arms He bears them
— Karolina W. Sandell-Berg, translated by Ernst W. Olson
Hebrew chants/Ubuntu
Harchivi m’kom ohaleich
Enlarge the place of your tent (Isaiah 54:2)
Ubuntu… (I am who I am because we all are)
Ki ta’avor bamayim it’cha ani, uvan’harot uva n’harot
When you pass through the waters, I am with you, I am with you.
Ubuntu…
lo yish-t’fucha uva-n’harot, lo yisht’fucha.
I won’t let the rivers overwhelm you, I will be with you. (Isaiah 43:2)
Ubuntu…
Hein al kapayim chakotich
You are engraved on the palm of My hand. (Isaiah 49:16)
Ubuntu…
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Come Now, Spirit
Come now, Spirit, in your wisdom,
That we may we be one in you,
One in heart and soul and body;
Help us dream all we can do.
Instruments of your desiring,
Breathing peace with every breath,
Called to be at home within you,
Sheltered from the winds of death.
— Michael Dennis Browne
Get Together
Love is but a song we sing
Fear’s the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
Empathy
See this…
Hear now…
Feel…
Feel this…
Now…Feel…
You…
(do you hear what I hear?)
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Children Will Listen
How do you say to your child in the night?
How do you say to your child in the night?
Nothing’s all black, but then nothing’s all white
How do you say it will all be all right
When you know that it might not be true?
What do you do?
Careful the things you say
Children will listen
Careful the things you do
Children will see and learn
Children may not obey, but children will listen
Children will look to you for which way to turn
To learn what to be
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Children will listen
Careful the wish you make
Wishes are children
Careful the path they take
Wishes come true, not free
Careful the spell you cast
Not just on children
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you can see
And turn against you
Careful the tale you tell
That is the spell
Children will listen
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What can you say that no matter how slight
Won’t be misunderstood
What do you leave to your child when you’re dead?
Only whatever you put in its head
Things that your mother and father had said
Which were left to them too
Careful what you say
Children will listen
Careful you do it too
Children will see
And learn, oh guide them that step away
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Children will glisten
Tamper with what is true
And children will turn
If just to be free
Careful before you say
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Children will listen. . .
— Stephen Sondheim
I Remember Sky
I remember sky
It was blue as ink
Or at least I think
I remember sky
I remember snow
Soft as feathers
Sharp as thumb tacks
Coming down like lint
And it made you squint
When the wind would blow
And ice like vinyl
On the streets
Cold as silver
White as sheets
Rain like strings
And changing things
Like leaves
I remember leaves
Green as spearmint
Crisp as paper
I remember trees
Bare as coat racks
Spread like broken umbrellas
And parks and bridges
Ponds and zoos
Ruddy faces
Muddy shoes
And light and noise and
Bees and boys
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And days
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They’re a sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn’t really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
— Stephen Sondheim
Home on the Range
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
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Have I laid there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of love
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
— Dr. Brewster M. Hidley
Ó Gente da Minha Terra
É meu e vosso este fado
Destino que nos amarra
Por mais que seja negado
Às cordas de uma guitarra
Sempre que se ouve um gemido
Duma guitarra a cantar
Fica-se logo perdido
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Com vontade de chorar
Ó gente da minha terra
Agora é que eu descobri
Esta tristeza que trago
Foi de vós que recebi
E parecia ternura
Se eu me deixasse embalar
Era maior a amargura
Menos triste o meu cantar
Ó gente da minha terra . . .
— Amália Rodrigues
Oh People of My Land
This fado is mine and yours
a destiny that binds us
however it might be denied
to the strings of a guitar
Every time one hears the cries
of a singing guitar
one becomes immediately lost
with a desire to cry
Oh people from my land
it is now that I understand
this sorrow I carry
I received it from you
And it would seem like fondness
if I allowed myself to be lulled
the bitterness would be greater
my singing would be less sad
Oh people from my land . . .
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
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Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
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Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
— Katharine Lee Bates
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness . . .
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the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each
other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— Declaration of Independence
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I, Too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
— Langston Hughes
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
— Emma Lazarus
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
He’s got the whole world in his hands…
He’s got the whole wide world in his hands…
He’s got the whole world in his hands…
He’s got the little bitty baby in his hands…
He’s got the whole world in his hands…
Meine Selle Hört im Sehen
Meine seele hört im Sehen,
wie, den Schöpfer zu erhöhen,
alles jauchzet, alles lacht.
Höret nur, des erblühnden Frühlings Pracht
ist die Sprache der Natur,
die sie deutlich durchs Gesicht
allenthalben mit uns spricht.
— Barthold Heinrich Brockes
My Soul Hears By Sight
My soul hears by sight,
how, in order to exalt the Creator,
everything cheers, everything laughs.
Hear now, the blooming Spring’s splendour
is the language of nature,
that distinctly through the face,
speaks to us everywhere.
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I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi,
E celesti bellezze al mondo sole;
Tal che di rimembrar mi giova, e dole:
Che quant’io miro, par sogni, ombre, e fumi.
E vidi lagrimar que’ duo bei lumi,
Ch’han fatto mille volte invidia al sole;
Ed udì’ sospirando dir parole
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Amor! senno! valor, pietate, e doglia
Facean piangendo un più dolce concento
D’ogni altro, che nel mondo udir si soglia.
Ed era ‘l cielo all’armonia s’intento
Che non si vedea in ramo mover foglia.
Tanta dolcezza avea pien l’aer e ‘l vento.
— Francesco Petrarca
He’s got you and me brother in his hands…
He’s got you and me sister in his hands…
He’s got the whole world in his hands…
He’s got everybody here in his hands…
He’s got the whole world in his hands…
— Spiritual
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I Saw Angelic Virtue on Earth
I saw angelic virtue on earth
and heavenly beauty on terrestrial soil,
so I am sad and joyful at the memory,
and what I see seems dream, shadows, smoke:
and I saw two lovely eyes that wept,
that made the sun a thousand times jealous:
and I heard words emerge among sighs
that made the mountains move, and halted rivers.
Love, Judgement, Pity, Worth and Grief,
made a sweeter chorus of weeping
than any other heard beneath the moon:
and heaven so intent upon the harmony
no leaf was seen to move on the boughs,
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Soul Adorn Thyself With Gladness
Soul, adorn thyself with gladness,
Leave behind all gloom and sadness;
Come into the daylight’s splendor,
There with joy thy praises render
Unto Him whose grace unbounded
Hath this woundrous supper founded.
High o’er all the heavens He reigneth,
Yet to dwell with thee He deigneth.
— Johann Franck, translated by Catherine Winkworth
Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy,
One another, every one;
One another, Holy, Holy,
Holy, Holy, every one.
May we be one human Family,
May we be one only voice,
Hearing, healing one another,
Bless and listen, sing, rejoice.
— Michael Dennis Browne
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Beautiful City
Out of the ruins and rubble
Out of the smoke
Out of our night of struggle
Can we see a ray of hope?
One pale thin ray reaching for the day
We can build a beautiful city
Yes, we can; Yes, we can
We can build a beautiful city
Not a city of angels
But we can build a city of man
We may not reach the ending
But we can start
Slowly but truly mending
Brick by brick, heart by heart
Now, maybe now
We start learning how
We can build a beautiful city
Yes, we can; Yes, we can
We can build a beautiful city
Not a city of angels
But we can build a city of man
When your trust is all but shattered
When your faith is all but killed
You can give up, bitter and battered
Or you can slowly start to build
A beautiful city
Yes, we can; Yes, we can
We can build a beautiful city
Not a city of angels
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— Stephen Schwartz
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What If
You’re hiding, surviving
You’re stubborn, too.
(True.)
And you‘re frightened
not knowing your heart.
(And you?)
I’m trying to question,
the answer’s near
(Where?)
Here.
I yearn to soar,
so there has to be much more
(No.)
Yes, there has to be another way.
It’s time to
(Fly?)
That’s right.
We have to go high above
(The wall?)
of course.
(We’d fall!)
Perhaps,
but then we’d know all the things
Like wings and worlds we knew before
(You say you yearn to soar, but
we don’t have wings anymore.)
I know, but there must be another way.
What if
All this
Came true?
(Pure Bliss!)
What if
Your wings
Sailed free?
(We’d sing!)
You’d lift
The Moon
(And make it spin)
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A choir of sapphire winds
We’d sing
(What song?)
Just harmony
And we’d sing free
In perfect harmony
There must be another way.
What if
This time
Your dreams
They’d rhyme?
(Sublime!)
What if
Your voice
Sailed free?
(Rejoice!)
There must be another way.
— Eric Whitacre, David Norona
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Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
Join in a song with sweet accord
And thus surround the throne,
And thus surround the throne.
Refrain
We’re marching to Zion,
Beautiful, beautiful Zion;
We’re marching upward to Zion,
The beautiful city of God.
The sorrows of the mind
Be banished from the place;
Religion never was designed
Religion never was designed,
To make our pleasures less,
To make our pleasures less.
Refrain
— Isaac Watts
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Stefanie Moore, soprano
Stefanie Moore performs in many styles
from Bach to jazz. She received her
Master’s of Music in opera performance
from the University of Kansas and
attended the Trinity College of Music
in London. Stefanie began singing with
Conspirare in 2000, when she moved
to Austin. She stayed for six years and
also worked with San Antonio Bach,
TEMP and Texas Choral Consort. A year
in San Francisco meant work with AVE
and California Bach. Next, a resident of
Baltimore for seven years, she enjoyed
working with Bach in Baltimore, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, the NY
Phil chorus in NYC, and in DC with Third Practice, Bach Sinfonia, Chantry,
the Washington Bach Consort, and soloing in the Faure Requiem with
the National Cathedral Society. Now in Los Angeles, Stefanie is slated for
performances with Bach Collegium San Diego, Santa Fe Desert Chorale,
and Seraphic Fire. She is featured on Conspirare’s latest CD, Considering
Matthew Shepard.
Dann Coakwell, tenor
Dann Coakwell is soughtafter as a
performer of Bach, Handel, and their
contemporaries, and he specializes in
J.S. Bach’s Evangelist and the tenor roles
of Benjamin Britten. He was a soloist on
the Conpirare’s Grammy award-winning
album The Sacred Spirit of Russia.
Coakwell has performed as a soloist
internationally and nationally under
such acclaimed conductors as Helmuth
Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie,
Nicholas McGegan, Matthew Halls, John
Scott, and Craig Hella Johnson. He has
performed multiple times in New York’s Carnegie Hall, and he made his
Lincoln Center New York solo debuts at both Alice Tully Hall and Avery
Fisher Hall. Coakwell has appeared as a soloist with organizations such
as Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart in Germany, Bach Collegium
Japan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, Oregon Bach
Festival, and Conspirare.
Kathlene Ritch, alto
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such noted ensembles as the New York
Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, and the
Vienna Philharmonic. She made her solo
debut at Lincoln Center with the American
Symphony Orchestra in Listz’s Dante’s
Inferno. With that same ensemble,
she recorded a live concert version of
Die ägyptische Helena as Hermione
opposite Deborah Voigt’s Helen.
Kathlene’s true passion, musical theater,
has been a lifelong pursuit. Two of her
career highlights were performing Sweeney Todd at Lincoln Center with
George Hearn, Patti Lupone and Neil Patrick Harris, and Carousel at
Carnegie Hall with Audra McDonald and Hugh Jackman. Kathlene lives in
Santa Fe and is a professor of voice at the Santa Fe University of Art and
Design, as well as an on-air announcer for Classical 95.5 KHFM Santa Fe/
Albuquerque.
Cameron Beauchamp, bass
Cameron Beauchamp is active throughout
the country as a soloist, chamber
musician, clinician, and experimental
artist. Cameron is a founding member
of Roomful of Teeth, the artistic director
of Austin-based Convergence, and was
named best singer in the 2013-2014
Austin Critics’ Table Awards. Cameron
has been a resident performer/clinician
at numerous esteemed institutions
around the US. He’s been featured as a
soloist with the Austin, Dallas, Seattle,
and Colorado Symphonies and has
recorded on Sony Classical, Harmonia Mundi, New Amsterdam Records,
4AD, and for PBS. Pledging no allegiance to genre, Cameron has
collaborated with TuNeYaRdS, Kanye West, Holly Herndon, Sam Amidon,
The Silk Road Ensemble, Justin Sherburn, Olga Bell, Maynard Ferguson,
Glenn Kotche, and most recently Peter Sellars. He’s performed on two
Grammy Award-winning albums, ten Grammy- nominated albums, and
one Downbeat Award-winning album.
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Thomas Burritt, percussion
Thomas Burritt has built a reputation in
chamber music as a percussion soloist and
a concert marimbist active in the creation
and performance of new music. He has
performed concertos by Maki Ishii, Steve
Mackey, Joseph Schwantner, Michael
Dougherty, David Maslanka, John Mackey
and James MacMillan and has recorded
for guitarist Eric Johnson and David Byrne.
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All Times Identical –
New American Music for Marimba was
released in November 2006. His second solo
marimba recording Groundlines is available
on iTunes and at Amazon, Google Play, Rdio and Spotify. In August
2015 Burritt released his latest recording via YouTube featuring a video
album of J. S. Bach’s 5th Cello Suite performed on the marimba. With
degrees from Ithaca College School of Music (BM – Education and
Performance), Kent State University (MM) and Northwestern University
(DMA), Burrett is currently Professor of Percussion and Director of
Percussion Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dianne Donovan, pre-concert speaker
Montreal-born Dianne Donovan lives and
loves music. As midday announcer on
KMFA-Classical 89.5, she shares her joy
and passion of classical music, along with
interesting tidbits of information about the
composers and their music. Her natural
curiosity in the artistic process serves her well,
when she conducts both live interviews and
those for the show she hosts, produces, and
edits, %NCUUKECN#WUVKP A veteran broadcaster,
Dianne still produces a jazz show for CKUA,
in Canada. When she’s not talking music,
she’s singing it with: The Beat Divas, The Donovan/Watkins Duo, and
œÌ…iÀi˜Ãi“LiȘƂÕÃ̈˜°-…iÜ>Ã̅ivi>ÌÕÀi`Ș}iÀ܈̅º>ÀÞ
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toured Canada and the U.S. and has sung on numerous Canadian
television and radio programs. She has collaborated writing a theme
for a television show and an animated short. Dianne has two jazz CDs
to her credit and another in-the-making. She is a long-time fan of
Conspirare and of Craig Hella Johnson.
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program note
I wanted to tell a story.
A particular story – in fact, the
story of The Little Match Girl,
by the Danish author
Hans Christian Andersen.
The original is ostensibly for children, and it has that shocking
combination of danger and morality that many famous children’s stories
do. A poor young girl, whose father beats her, tries unsuccessfully to
sell matches on the street, is ignored, and freezes to death. Through it
all she somehow retains her Christian purity of spirit, but it is not a
pretty story.
What drew me to The Little Match Girl is that the strength of the story
lies not in its plot but in the fact that all its parts—the horror and the
beauty—are constantly suffused with their opposites. The girl’s bitter
present is locked together with the sweetness of her past memories;
her poverty is always suffused with her hopefulness. There is a kind of
naive equilibrium between suffering and hope.
There is a kind of naive equilibrium
between suffering and hope .
There are many ways to tell this story. One could convincingly tell it as
a story about faith or as an allegory about poverty. What has always
interested me, however, is that Andersen tells this story as a kind
of parable, drawing a religious and moral equivalency between the
suffering of the poor girl and the suffering of Jesus. The girl suffers, is
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what secrets could be unlocked from this story if one took its Christian
nature to its conclusion and unfolded it, as Christian composers have
traditionally done in musical settings of the Passion of Jesus.
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These responses can have a huge range—in Bach’s Saint Matthew
Passion, these extra texts range from famous chorales that his
congregation was expected to sing along with to completely invented
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…œÀÕÜviˆiÛiÀð»
The Passion format—the telling of a story while simultaneously
commenting upon it—has the effect of placing us in the middle of the
action, and it gives the narrative a powerful inevitability.
What drew me to The Little Match Girl is
that the strength of the story lies not in its
plot but in the fact that all its parts—the
horror and the beauty—are constantly
suffused with their opposites.
My piece is called The Little Match Girl Passion and it sets Hans Christian
Andersen’s story The Little Match Girl in the format of Bach’s Saint
Matthew Passion, interspersing Andersen’s narrative with my versions of
the crowd and character responses from Bach’s Passion. The text is by me,
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the story into English, in 1872), Picander (the nom de plume of Christian
Friedrich Henrici, the librettist of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion), and the
œÃ«i>VVœÀ`ˆ˜}̜->ˆ˜Ì>Ì̅iÜ°/…iܜÀ`º«>ÃȜ˜»Vœ“iÃvÀœ“
the Latin word for suffering. There is no Bach in my piece and there is no
Jesus—rather the suffering of the Little Match Girl has been substituted
for Jesus’s, elevating (I hope) her sorrow to a higher plane.
Notes by David Lang, composer
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David Lang is one of the most highly-esteemed
and performed American composers writing
today. His works have been performed around
the world in most of the great concert halls.
Lang’s simple song #3, written as part of his score for Paolo Sorrentino’s
>VV>ˆ“i`w“YOUTH, received many awards nominations in 2016,
including the Academy Award and Golden Globe.
His the little match girl passion won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music.
Based on a fable by Hans Christian Andersen and Lang’s own rewriting
of the libretto to Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, the recording of the
piece was awarded a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble
Performance. Lang has also been the recipient of the Rome Prize,
Le Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and Musical America’s 2013
Composer of the Year.
Lang’s tenure as 2013-14 Debs Chair Composer’s Chair at Carnegie
Hall saw his critically-acclaimed festival, collected stories, showcase
different modes of storytelling in music. This season Lang sees the
premiere of his chamber opera Anatomy Theatre at LA Opera, the 4th
annual performance of the little match girl passion to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the UK premieres of the national anthems with the
London Symphony and mystery sonatas at Wigmore Hall, as well as
residencies at the Strings of Autumn Festival in Prague, the Winnipeg
New Music Festival, and Baldwin-Wallace College.
Lang’s music is used regularly for ballet and modern dance around the
world by such choreographers as Twyla Tharp, Susan Marshall, Edouard
Lock, and Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed a new piece by Lang
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score for Jonathan Parker’s (Untitled), the music for the award-winning
documentary The Woodmans, and the string arrangements for Requiem
for a Dream, performed by the Kronos Quartet. His music is also on the
soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning La Grande Bellezza
>˜`̅i`ˆÀiV̜À½ÃÕ«Vœ“ˆ˜}w“]Youth. In addition to his work as a
composer he is Professor of Composition at the Yale School of Music.
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As Conspirare’s founder
and Artistic Director,
Johnson assembles some
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to form a world-class
ensemble.
Johnson is also music director of the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble
and conductor emeritus of the Victoria Bach Festival. He has served
as guest conductor with Austin Symphony, San Antonio Symphony,
Oregon Bach Festival, Harvard University and many others in Texas,
the U.S. and abroad. Through these activities, as well as Conspirare’s
many recordings on the internationally distributed [PIAS]harmonia
mundi label, Johnson brings national and international recognition to
the Texas musical community.
Beloved by audiences, lauded by critics and composers, and revered
by musicians, Johnson is known for crafting musical journeys that
create deep connections between performer and listener. Johnson
is recognized for his distinctive programming, drawing on a broad
spectrum of musical styles to create vibrant concert experiences.
The Wall Street Journal …>ëÀ>ˆÃi`œ…˜Ãœ˜½Ã>LˆˆÌÞ̜ºw˜`̅i
i“œÌˆœ˜>iÃÃi˜ViœÌ…iÀ«iÀvœÀ“iÀÜvÌi˜“ˆÃð»
œ“«œÃiÀ>˜`
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À>ˆ}½Ã>Ì̈ÌÕ`i̜Ü>À`
creating a community of artists…goes beyond technical mastery into
̅>Ìi“œÌˆœ˜>`i«Ì…>˜`ëˆÀˆÌÕ>ˆviœv̅i“ÕÈV°»œ…˜Ãœ˜Ü>Ã
Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas at Austin from
1990-2001 and remains an active educator, teaching workshops and
clinics statewide, nationally, and internationally. In fall 2012 he became
̅iwÀÃÌƂÀ̈Ã̇ˆ˜‡,iÈ`i˜Vi>Ì/iÝ>Ã-Ì>Ìi1˜ˆÛiÀÈÌÞ-V…œœœvÕÈV°
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A composer and arranger, Johnson is an editor for the Craig Hella
Johnson Choral Series, featuring specially selected composers as well
as some of his own original compositions and arrangements. His music
is also published by Alliance Music Publications. Johnson’s pieces are
in high demand by choirs across the United States who also commission his work.
œ…˜Ãœ˜½ÃwÀÃÌVœ˜ViÀ̇i˜}̅Vœ“«œÃˆÌˆœ˜Considering Matthew
Shepard was premiered and recorded by Conspirare for a 2016 CD
release. The Bay Area Reporter ÜÀœÌi\ºoˆÌ…>Ã̅iÀˆV…˜iÃÃ]`i«Ì…
and complexity to compel repeated hearing…for all the musical styles
Johnson employs…it has a unity of conception and voice that is all
Johnson’s. Considering Matthew Shepard is a deeply American
piece, performed with utter dedication by performers for whom it
was composed. But its universality lies in the fact that it could be
«iÀvœÀ“i`Lޓ>˜ÞœÌ…iÀÃq>˜`“ÕÃÌLi]vœÀ>œÕÀÃ>Žið»
Beloved by audiences, lauded by critics
and composers, and revered by musicians,
Johnson is known for crafting musical
journeys that create deep connections
between performer and listener.
Johnson’s accomplishments have been recognized with numerous
awards and honors. Notably among them, he and Conspirare won
a 2014 Grammy® for Best Choral Performance, Chorus America
granted him the Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of
the Professional Choral Art in 2015, and the Texas State Legislature
named him Texas State Musician for 2013. Other honors have included
2008 induction into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, Chorus America’s
2009 Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial
Zeal, and the 2011 Citation of Merit from international professional
music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon. Johnson studied at St. Olaf College,
the Juilliard School, and the University of Illinois, and earned his
doctorate at Yale University.
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for Best Choral Performance in 2016. The group’s recent release of Craig
Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard went straight to number
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[PIAS] harmonia mundi’s international re-release of Requiem in 2009 won
the Netherlands’ prestigious 2010 Edison Award, the Dutch equivalent of
the Grammy. Path of Miracles, 2015, was awarded the Preis der deutschen
Schallplattenkritik, a highly respected German CD award.
Conspirare received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from
the national service organization Chorus America in 2005, and in 2007 a
grant was received from the National Endowment for the Arts under its
American Masterpieces initiative. In 2010 the organization received the
Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America to fund
and premiere a new work by Eric Banks.
Conspirare is an internationally
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ensemble Conspirare is a Grammy® award-winning chamber choir of
extraordinarily talented soloists from around the country who come
together to perform an annual concert series in Texas and to tour in the
U.S. and abroad. Also comprising the organization are the Conspirare
Symphonic Choir, a large ensemble that performs works for chorus, often
with instrumental ensemble, and Conspirare Youth Choirs, an educational
program including Prelude, Kantorei, and Allegro under the direction of
Nina Revering.
Conspirare has an international recording presence. The group’s 2014
album The Sacred Spirit of Russia, released on the [PIAS] harmonia
mundi label, won the 2014 Grammy for Best Choral Performance. The
ensemble’s complete discography to date includes 12 commercial albums
and 15 self-produced live recordings of its popular holiday concerts.
/…i}ÀœÕ«½ÃwÀÃÌVœ““iÀVˆ>ÀiVœÀ`ˆ˜}]through the green fuse, was
released in 2004 and was followed in 2006 by Requiem which received
two Grammy nominations. In 2008 Threshold of Night (music by
Tarik O’Regan) also received two nominations, including Best Classical
Album. The 2009 PBS television special “A Company of Voices:
Conspirare in Concert” received the Grammy nomination for Best
Classical Crossover, and Pablo Neruda: The Poet Sings was nominated
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Conspirare represented the U.S. at the Eighth World Symposium on
Choral Music in Copenhagen in 2008, joining invited choirs from nearly
40 countries. In fall 2012, the group traveled to France for six invited
performances at the Polyfollia Festival and a public concert in Paris.
And in July 2016, Olavfestdagene presented the group to premiere
a new work at the annual festival in Trondheim, Norway.
The group’s recent release of Craig Hella Johnson’s
Considering Matthew Shepard went straight to
number four on the Billboard Traditional Classical
chart in its first week.
Conspirare has performed in New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis/
St. Paul, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, and many other U.S. cities,
including appearances as a featured choir at the American Choral
Directors Association annual conference and regional ACDA conventions.
Established in Austin, TX in 1991 as New Texas Music Festival,
Conspirare now performs a full annual season in Austin and Central
Texas where it has received ongoing recognition from local organizations
and critics, including Austin Critic’s Table. Artistic Director Craig Hella
Johnson was named Texas State Musician for 2013. In addition to offering
concerts, the group is also committed to an ongoing outreach program
which includes free community Big Sings and performances at Travis
County Correctional Facility. Conspirare became a Resident Company
of the Long Center for the Performing Arts in 2013.
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B O ARD O F DIRECTORS
Fran Collmann, Chair
Robert Harlan, Vice Chair
Larry Collmann, Treasurer
William C. Bednar, Secretary
Ken Beck
Mary Anne Connolly
Susanna Finnell
Nancy Lesch
Jerele Neeld
Ozden Ochoa
Marion Lear Swaybill
Joni Wallace
Patrick Willis
A D VIS O RY BOARD
Stephen Aechternacht
John Aielli
Sue Barnes
Mark Bierner
Ray Brimble
David Burger
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Tom Driskoll
Virginia Dupuy
Maydelle Fason
JoLynn Free
Billy Gammon
Vance George
Helen Hays
Dan Herd
William B. Hilgers
Wayne Holtzman
Judith Jellison
Bob Murphy
Lynn Murphy
Cliff Redd
Gayle Glass Roche
Nancy Scanlan
Angela Smith
Bernadette Tasher
Louann Temple
Eva Womack
Midge Woolsey
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A RT I S T I C & A DMI N I S T R AT I V E STA F F
Season Sustaining Underwriter & Performance Sponsor
Craig Hella Johnson
Artistic Director
Roland Barrera
Conspirare Concierge
Performance Sponsors
Tamara Blanken
Online Services Manager
Kelly Brownlee
Director of Foundation Relations &
Annual Giving
Rick Gabrillo
Associate Conductor
Wravan Godsoe
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Robert Harlan
Production Consultant
Wendi & Brian Kushner Jeanne & Van Hoisington
Foundation Supporters
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Rachael & Ben Vaughan Foundation Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
Keating Family Foundation Still Water Foundation
Eva & Marvin Womack Foundation
Restaurant Partners
Deborah Henderson
Conspirare Youth Choir Manager
Ben R. King
Production Assistant
Public Agency Sponsors
Supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division
of the City of Austin Economic Development Department
Meri Krueger
Artist Relations
Kathy Leighton
House Manager
Media Sponsors
Ann McNair
Acting Operations Director &
Executive Assistant to the Artistic
Director
Jane Ramirez
Business Manager
Nina Revering
Conspirare Youth Choirs Director
In-Kind Sponsors
Sessi,
Chamberlain
Outreach Partner
Meredith Thomas
Director of Development
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We thank each individual, foundation, business, government & city agency
for your investment in Conspirare and in our mission to change lives through
the power of music. This list represents gifts made between July 1, 2015 –
September 15, 2016. When we make music, we make it together.
CO N S P IRARE CIRCL E
$50,000 +
Anonymous
Ginger & Michael Blair
City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
Fran & Larry Collmann
Lynne Dobson & Greg Wooldridge
Estate of Jerry Craft
Estate of Lewis Hoffacker
Tina & Dale Knobel
The Kodosky Foundation,
Gail & Jeff Kodosky
South Texas Money Management
CO M P O S ER’S CIRCL E
$20,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
The Fetzer Institute
Lara & Robert Harlan
Wendi & Brian Kushner
Eric Leibrock
Lee Manford & Casey Blass
Gayle & Mike Roche
The Still Water Foundation
VO X CIRCL E
$10,000-$19,999
Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation
Austin Community Foundation
Joyce & Ken Beck
William C. Bednar
Dixie Camp
Factory 733
Mary Nell Frucella
HEB Tournament of Champions
Jeanne & Van Hoisington
Susan & Jack Robertson
Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts
Nancy Scanlan
Shield-Ayres Foundation
Texas Commission on the Arts
Rachael & Ben F. Vaughan Foundation
Julia & Patrick Willis
Eva & Marvin Womack
Jeanie & Bill Wyatt
CO N D UCTOR’S CIRCL E
$5,000-$9999
Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
Mary Anne Connolly
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Paula D’Arcy
Mela Sarajane Daily & Peter Bay
James K. Ferguson Foundation,
Jim Ferguson & Art Sansone
Susanna & Richard Finnell
Richard Hartgrove & Gary Cooper
Helen & Bob Hays
Jack Leifer & Carr Hornbuckle
Craig Hella Johnson &
Phil Overbaugh
Trish & Robert Karli
Keating Family Foundation
Angie & Steve Larned
Susan & Craig Lubin
Stefanie Moore & Todd Keister
Per Stirling Group
Nancy Quinn & Thomas Driscoll
Linda & Robert Ramsey
Cyndee & David Rust, Quartz Financial
Dan Seriff
Carolyn & Marc Seriff
Susanne Tetzlaff & Eric Tiblier
B EN EFA C T OR S
$2,500-$4,999
James Arth
Nancy & Randy Baden
Chris & J. Dennis Cavner
Catherine Clark
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Joanne & John Earls
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Conspirare also thanks all donors of gifts under
$100 and regrets that space does not permit listing
of each name. Your support is equally appreciated.
We strive to publish an accurate donor list. If an
error or omission is noted, please let us know.
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Conspirare Ambassadors
Julie Adams
Pat Black
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Mary Gifford
Shawn Hampton
Rod Howard
Virginia Hyde
Jaime Leighton
Henry Leighton
Beverly McCune
Patrice Peach
Tenaya Sunbury
Carol Walker
Marlene Williams
Conspirare Ambassadors volunteer as ushers,
CD sales associates, artist hosts and for other
concert functions. We invite new volunteers
who enjoy meeting the public and contributing
to Conspirare’s operations. If you are interested
in becoming part of the Conspirare team,
please contact Kathy Leighton at
[email protected] to learn more.
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Conspirare is proud to invite
youth and their families from
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this performance:
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