Meet Me at the UCA Season “Green” Sponsor Thank you for your continued support CSU Music Events Season Pass Enjoy a discount on Department of Music spring 2012 performances with the Music Flex Pass. Receive admission to all music events for just $100/adult, and $75/CSU students. With several dozen performances this spring, the pass provides tremendous savings over buying Individual tickets. Contact the UCA Ticket Office at (970) 491-2787 or in person at the window in the Griffin Lobby. event calendar • e-newsletter registration www.CSUSchooloftheArts.com Tickets: (970) 491-ARTS (2787) www.CSUArtsTickets.com Information: (970) 491-5529 Upcoming Events Event Event Date Location Time Combined Choir and Orchestra (East-West Week) 4/27 - 04/28 Griffin Concert Hall 7:30 P.M. YPO One Act Fest 04/27 - 04/29 Studio Theatre 7:30 P.M. Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band 04/29 Griffin Concert Hall 2:00 P.M. Virtuoso Series: Blue Ridge Trio 04/30 Organ Recital Hall 7:30 P.M. Collaborative Piano Recital 05/03 Organ Recital Hall 7:30 P.M. Senior Dance Showcase 5/04 - 5/05 University Dance Theatre 8:00 P.M. CSU Opera Theatre Workshop 5/04 - 5/05 Organ Recital Hall 7:30 P.M. Senior Dance Showcase 05/05 University Dance Theatre 2:00 P.M. Virtuoso Series: Thomas Murray, Organ 05/07 Organ Recital Hall 7:30 P.M. YPO Theatre: Stone Cold Dead Serious by Adam Rapp 05/04 - 05/05 2nd Floor Acting Lab 8:00 P.M. YPO Theatre: Stone Cold Dead Serious by Adam Rapp 05/04 - 05/05 2nd Floor Acting Lab 2:00 P.M. Marching Band Leadership Camp 06/24 - 06/27 UCA All Day 51st Summer Music Camp 07/08 - 07/13 UCA All Day M ee t M e at t h e U C A “Liebeslied”, op.51.no.5 ...................................................................................... Robert Schumann “Requiem”, op.90.no.7 (1810-1856) “Widmung”, op.25 From Schwanengesang D.95.7 ..................................................................................... Franz Schubert Das Fischermädchen (1797-1828) Ständchen Der Atlas “Der Hirt auf dem Felsem” op.129 ....................................................................... Franz Schubert (1797-1828) From Mörike Lieder ........................................................................................................... Hugo Wolf Verborgenheit (1860-1903) Fussreise “Selige Nacht” ................................................................................................................ Joseph Marx (1882-1964) From Spanisches Liederspiel Op.74 ....................................................................... Robert Schumann In der Nacht (1810-1856) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pause - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From Cycle of Holy Songs ...................................................................................................Ned Rorem Psalm 134 (b. 1923) Psalm 142 Psalm 148 From Il Barbiere di siviglia ...................................................................................... Gioachino Rossini "Una voce poco fa" (1792-1868) From Das Land des Lächelns ............................................................................................ Franz Lehar “Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” (1870-1948) From Der Favorit ............................................................................................................. Robert Stolz "Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein" (1880-1975) Chang Lin, violin From Don Giovanni ........................................................................................................ W.A. Mozart "Ma qual mai s'offre, o dei" (1756-1791) 马铃儿响来玉鸟唱 “Tonight” From West Side Story ......................................................................... Leonard Bernstein Virtuoso Series Concert: Todd Queen, tenor & Cao Jin, soprano with Joel Bacon & Tan Yaru, piano April 26, 2012 7:30 P.M. Organ Recital Hall Program Todd Queen, tenor Dr. Todd Queen, Associate Professor of Voice, is Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance in the Col- lege of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Todd Queen became Opera Fort Collins Artistic Director in 2004, chosen as successor by OFC Founder Elizabeth Elliott. His experience as an operatic ten- or has led to numerous credits as an opera stage director. Queen has recently cultivated those experiences in a new direction, that of arts administrator and international arts ambassador. In 2009 Queen traveled to Asia with CSU leaders to forge a partnership with East China Normal University in Shanghai, where he was named Visiting Profes- sor. He plans a similar partnership at Hansel University in Korea in 2010. In addition, in summer 2011 he will serve as Artistic and Stage Director of Opera Orvieto, a three-week intensive Italian musical experience. Queen previously served on faculty with Operafestival di Roma, where he taught voice and directed the Opera Workshop program. Dr. Queen’s voice students have been selected for prestigious young artist programs in the US and abroad, including Central City Opera Apprentice Program, AIMS in Austria, and Operafestival di Roma. Former students are currently attending top tier conservatories and graduate schools, including Eastman and Indiana University, and have placed in the district and regional finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. Todd Queen joined the CSU voice faculty in 2001 as Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Colorado State Opera. He previously taught at North Dakota State University, Alfred University, and Syracuse University. Dr. Queen earned the DMA and MM degrees from the prestigious Eastman School of Music after completing his under- graduate degree at Brigham Young University in Utah. He is a member of College Music Society, National Associa- tion of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and a former NATS Intern, chosen as one of 12 young teachers from the US and Canada to work with renowned master teachers in an 10-day intensive seminar. Queen is regularly invited as a guest judge and panelist for the Classical Singer Convention, most recently in Chicago and Brooklyn NY. Todd Queen’s credits as opera director include Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le Nozze di Figaro, a double bill of Cavellaria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Verdi’s Falstaff, Puccini’s La Bohème, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Copland’s The Tender Land, Britten’s Albert Herring, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance. Todd Queen continues an active performing career that includes faculty and guest recitals, master classes, and solo engagements with national and regional opera companies, orchestras, choruses, and concert series. His operatic roles include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, the title role Candide, Fenton in Falstaff, Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer, Male Chorus in Rape of Lucretia, Borsa in Rigoletto, El Remendado in Carmen, and St. Brioche in Merry Widow. He has sung with Sacramento Opera, Oper- afestival di Roma, Opera Fort Collins, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Lyric Artists of the West, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestral engagements in- clude tenor soloist in Carmina Burana with Cheyenne Symphony and tenor soloist in Messiah with Larimer Chorale. His oratorio roles include Lucas in Haydn’s The Seasons, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion, Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven Symphony #9, and Bach’s Magnificat. He has been a guest soloist with The Larimer Chorale, Colorado Repertory Singers, Utah Valley Chorus and Orchestra, Southwest Symphony and Chorus, Alpine Chorale, Longmont Symphony and Chorale, Cheyenne Symphony, Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and the Rochester Oratorio Society. Cao Jin, soprano Dr. Cao Jin graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the supervision of Professor Ni Chengfeng for the Bachelor degree. Later on she joined Shanghai Opera House as an opera singer. From 1998 to 2002 Dr. Cao Jin studied at the University of Art in Berlin, Germany and achieved Master Diploma in Vocal Music. In 2004 with the support of China Scholarship Council, she further studied at University of Music and Drama Art in Vienna, Austria and got the doctor degree in Vocal Music with excellence. Dr. Cao Jin has been awarded for three times in the international vocal contests and she has played the leading roles in a lot of operas, such as Turandot, Rosenkavalier, La Boheme, Die Zaubefloeter, Don Giovanni, Ariadner. 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Thornton Mr. Michael F. and Mrs. Shirley M. Thyne Una voce poco fa A voice has just echoed here into my heart my heart is already wounded and it was Lindoro who shot. Yes, Lindoro will be mine I've swore it, I'll win. The tutor will refuse, I'll sharpen my mind finally he'll accept, and happy I'll rest. Yes, Lindoro will be mine I've swore it, I'll win. I'm gentle, respectful I'm obedient, sweet, loving I let be ruled, I let be guided But if they touch where my weak spot is I'll be a viper and a hundred traps before giving up I'll make them fall You should be the emperor of my heart I know a land without boundaries I know an empire, wherein entwine a thousand tender thoughts about my love, Rosenpfad. That is the land, in where I live, that is the empire I give to you on whose throne I lift you in the free land of my heart. You, you, you should be the emperor of my heart. You, you, you should wear the purple, all alone. You, you, you should wield the scepter only you are allowed to rule there, you aspire to be a Conquerer there. Translations, ctd. If you love me, you have as payment in my heart your crown, and do as you will upon the golden throne which my love has built for you. You are the Emperor, whom I choose, and your Wishes are orders. You'll be obeyed by my soul, which I entirely entrust to you. Yours is my heart alone My whole heart is yours! Where you are not, I cannot be. Just as the flower withers when the sunshine doesn’t kiss it! My most beautiful song is yours, since it blossoms from love alone. Tell me once more, my only love, oh, tell me once more: I love you! Wherever I go, I feel your nearness. I would like to drink in your breath and fall in prayer at your feet, yours, yours alone! How wonderful is your shining hair! Fair as a dream and full of anxious longing is your bright gaze. When I hear the sound of your voice, it is just like music. ~ Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Or- chestra, etc., Dr. Cao Jin has held considerable concerts home and abroad. In 2002 Dr Cao Jin was appointed as Vocal Music discipline setter by East China Normal University. In 2007 she was promoted to be full professor and doctorate supervisor. In terms of the teaching activities, Dr. Cao Jin has di- rected quite a few students who won the awards in the significant vocal contests in Germany, Italy and China. Be- cause of the outstanding instruction, she has achieved seven teaching awards both on the level of nationwide and Ministry of Education. In the recent years, Dr. Cao Jin was invited as jury for the international vocal contests held in Germany, US, Bulgaria, Italy and China. Tan Yaru, piano Conductor for Music Department Choir of ECNU. She began to study in ECNU from 2000. In 2002, she started learning conducting with Wang Yan who is a young outstanding conductor in China. In 2004, she commenced her postgraduate study all the way through major in Orchestral Conducting learning with Prof. Hou Runyu. She ob- tained the degree of MA in 2007 and started her career in her alma mater. In 2008, she was selected as visiting schol- ar and studied in St. Olaf College for one semester. Ms. Tan was the champion of both Music “Pentathlon” and Conducting in the 2nd National Basic skill Contest for College Students Majoring in Music Education. Other awards she has obtained as a conductor include: Gold medal for the Mixed Youth in the 4th World Choir Games held in Xiamen in 2006, The first place for Vocal category in the 2nd and 3rd National Arts Exposition & Performance for University Students which is the highest level of competition promoted by the Ministry of Education in 2009 and 2012, Silver medal for Young Male Choirs in the 6th World Choir Games (championship) held in Shaoxing in 2010. Joel Bacon, piano A native of New Jersey, Dr. Joel Bacon holds degrees in mathematics and organ performance from Baylor Universi- ty in Waco, TX, where he was a student of Joyce Jones, and an artist diploma in organ from the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien (Vienna, Austria), where he studied with Michael Gailit. With a dissertation on the use of organ in select- ed orchestral works, he earned his PhD in historical musicology through a joint degree program of Vienna's Univer- sity of Music and Performing Arts and the University of Vienna. Joel Bacon has a growing reputation as a performer, teacher and scholar in North America and Europe. He has been heard in recital in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Canada, and the US, and live performances have been broadcast on Austrian Radio (Ö1) and Public Radio International. He has taught at the prestigious Oundle Interna- tional Festival (Cambridge, UK), at several "Pipe Organ Encounters" of the American Guild of Organists, and at other courses in the US and Canada. With the principal violist of the Munich Philharmonic, Albrecht Rohde, he has recorded a CD of music for viola and organ. Joel Bacon currently holds the newly established Stewart and Sheron Golden Chair in Organ and Liturgical Studies, the first endowed chair in the College of Liberal Arts. Before coming to CSU, he was assistant organist of St. Thom- as Lutheran Church, Munich-Grünwald, and served as frequent guest organist at the former Hapsburg imperial church, St. Augustine, Vienna. ~ Performer Bios Lovesong I long to open up my heart for you; hearing from yours, I long for; how pathetic the world seems to me! In my mind only lives my friend, And nobody else, not a trace of an enemy. Like a sunrise (all of a sudden) I came to the conclu- sion! In my life I will make it my topmost business to love him, I keep thinking of him, my heart's bleeding, bereaved of strength but for to love him, calmly and composed; where do we go! I want to hold him in my arms but can not. Requiem Rest from painful effort and from love's hot glow! He who longed to unite with Bliss has left for the dwelling of the Savior. For him who is just, shine bright stars in the cell of the grave; for him, who is himself like a star in the night, will they shine, when he observes the Lord in heaven's splendour. Intercede, holy souls! Holy Ghost, let solace not be lacking. Do you hear? A joyous song resounds, with festive tones, in which the beautiful angel's harp sings out: Rest from painful effort and from love's hot glow! He who longed to unite with Bliss has left for the dwelling of the Savior. Dedication Thou art my essence, thou my heart, both bliss and woe to me thou art, thou art the world that I discover, thou art the heav'n in which I hover, o thou my chest, deep in a grave To which I e'er my sorrows gave. Translations Thou art repose, my peaceful living, from heaven thou art to me given. That thou lov'st me ennobles me, thy gaze has sent me clarity, thy love lifts me above myself my loving soul, my better self. Fishermaiden You beautiful fishermaiden, Pull your boat toward shore; Come to me and sit down, We will speak of love, hand in hand. Lay your little head on my heart, And do not be too frightened; Indeed, you trust yourself fearlessly Daily to the wild sea! My heart is just like the sea, Having storms and ebb and flow, And many beautiful pearls Rest in its depths. Serenade My songs beckon softly through the night to you; below in the quiet grove, Come to me, beloved! The rustle of slender leaf tips whispers in the moonlight; Do not fear the evil spying of the betrayer, my dear. Do you hear the nightingales call? Ah, they beckon to you, With the sweet sound of their singing they beckon to you for me. They understand the heart's longing, know the pain of love, They calm each tender heart with their silver tones. Let them also stir within your breast, beloved, hear me! Trembling I wait for you, Come, please me! Atlas I, unblessed Atlas! I carry a world, the entire world of pain, I bear the unbearable, And the heart within me wants to break. Proud heart, you have wanted it thus! You wanted to be happy, eternally happy, Or eternally miserable, you proud heart, And now you are miserable. The shepherd on the rock When, from the highest rock up here, Down to the valley deep I peer, And sing, Far from the valley dark and deep Echoes rush through, in upward sweep, The chasm. The farther that my voice resounds, So much the brighter it rebounds From under. My sweetheart dwells so far from me, I hotly long with her to be O'er yonder. I am consumed in misery, I have no use for cheer, Hope has on earth eluded me, I am so lonesome here. So longingly did sound the song, So longingly through wood and night, Towards heav'n it draws all hearts along With unsuspected might. The Springtime is coming, The Springtime, my cheer, Now must I make ready On wanderings to fare. Journey on foot With my fresh-cut walking staff Early in the morning I go through the woods, Over the hills, and away. Translations, ctd. Then, like the birds in the arbor That sing and stir, Or like the golden grapes That trace their blissful spirits In the first morning light I feel in my age, too, beloved Adam's spring- and autumn-fever -- God fearing, But not discarded: The first delights of Paradise. You are not so bad, oh old Adam, as the strict teachers say; You love and rejoice, Sing and praise -- As it is eternally the first day of creation -- Your beloved Creator and Preserver. I would like to be given to this And my whole life Would be in simple wandering wonder Of one such morning stroll. Seclusion Oh, world, let me be! Entice me not with gifts of love. Let this heart in solitude have Your bliss, your pain! What I mourn, I know not. It is an unknown pain; Forever through tears shall I see The sun's love-light. Often, I am scarcely conscious And the bright joys break Through the pain, thus pressing Delightfully into my breast. Oh, world, let me be! Entice me not with gifts of love. Let this heart in solitude have Your bliss, your pain! In the Night All are sleeping, weary heart! Thou, thou only sleepless art! All this throbbing, all this aching, Evermore shall keep thee waking, For a heart in sorrow breaking Thinketh ever of its smart!