ORDWAY MUSIC THEATREThe Ordway Music Theatre is recognized asone of the top non-p-rofit performing artscenters in the nation. Dedicated to servingall segments of the community, the Ordwayprovides a home for some of the Twin Cities'most vital arts organizations; produces out-standing theatrical works and a wide array ofeducational programs; and presents the finestperjormances of theater, dance and music.

Box Office: Hours are Monday throughFriday 10 a.m, to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone lines are openTuesday through Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.,Monday 9 a.m. to 5:30 ·p.m., Saturday andSunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The box officeremains open through the first intermissionof all performances." One hour before anyperformance, the box office will handle

,v._,ticketsfor that performance only.

For Our Patrons With Disabilities:, Wheelchair seating is available in a variety

of theater sections. When ordering tickets,please indicate your special needs. For ourhearing-impaired patrons; the Ordway isequipped with an infrared listening system.Please ask an usher for assistance.

Smoking: The Ordway lobbies are entirelysmoke free.

Latecomers: Will be seated at the discretionof the management, according to the wish-es of the artists. .

Holiday 1993TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 The ChieftainsChristmas in Ireland

5 Glorious Sounds. of Christmaswith The Dale Warland Singers

15.....Canada' s Royal Winnipeg BalletNutcracker

Cameras, Recording Equipment, CellularPhones and Pagers: Are strictly prohibitedin the theater. Please check these itemswith an usher. Pagers are attended duringperformances; messages are deliveredimmediately.

Emergency Messages: Are deliveredimmediately during performances.Persons expecting emergency messagesshould leave their seat locations with thecalling party and should notify the HouseManager upon arrival at the theater.The phone number for emergencies is282-3000.

.Children Under Six: Are permitted in thetheater only for special children's events.

Ticket Information: 224-4222

Administrative Office: 282-3000

ORDWAY MUSIC THEATREEDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Valeria BrocktonJudith BrzinskiJean FossellLoretta GagnonRobin LorenzenMary Mackbee

Evie OdlandPam OlsonCheryl PaschkeAnne Rae SandersonJerald ShannonCarole Snyder'

Vicci StreichCedric StriplingThomas TrowKaren BenzBoard Liaison

Laura JohnsonDirector of Education

,Ben Johnson'Education Associate

CULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERSAdan AcostaSam ArditoKen BallengerTom BeaverDorothea BumsPedro CastilloFranklin CurbeloJim CookMarie DavisAlbert de LeonGilbert de la 0Patricia EscobarDiane Espaldon

. Juanita EspinosaLoretta GagnonArmando GutierrezJohnny IpJewelean JacksonAlberto JustinianoMary KimGloria KumagaiMargaret LaFleurDuc Q. LamLaVon LeeValerie LeeKevin Lindsey

Lawrence A. LucioLita MalicsiFernando MazolenyRonald McCurdyAl McFarlaneFran MudekPatrick MurphyJose Alfredo PanelliElsa Vega PerezLynn RamalingamCarmen RoblesRick ShiomiSamlong Inthaly Smith

Elona Street-StewartCedric StriplingSheng ThaoRick ThompsonTsuchue VangLaura WittstockHoa YoungEllis BullockBoard Liaison

Laura JohnsonJean Heyer

Staff Liaisons

2 Cover image from photo of Elizabeth Roxas, .Altnn Ailey American Dance Theater.

ORDWAY MUSIC THEATREBOARD OF DIRECTORS

Richard BensonKaren Benz"Ellis F. Bullock, Jr.Virginia CossD. Drew DavisCarl B. Drake, Jr. ,. ++Edward N. EschbachRoxanne Givens

Kenneth GoldsteinLinda HoeschlerKaren HubbardHorace H. Irvine IIRakesh KaulLeonard KeyesLoring KnoblauchDaniel Kunin

Peter A. Lefferts"Chairman

John M. Mason"c.s. MondelliJohn M. Murphy, Jr.Elizabeth W. Musser-D.P. Narayana"John G. Ordway, Jr.++

Hon. James ScheibelG. Richard Slade-William D. Slattery"

Vice ChairmanF.T. Weyerhaeuser"

OFFICERSPeter A. Lefferts"Chairman

William D. Slattery"Vice Chairman

Bill ConnerPresident

Mike BrandVice PresidentProgramming/Marketing

Frank D. Marzi telliCorporate Secretary

Christine Sags tetterTreasurer

.•Members of theExecutive Committee

+ Honorary Members++ Honorary Members

for Life

STAFFADMINISTRA TIONBill ConnerPresident

Jolene SunstenSecretary to the President

Judy Wells Durigan .Receptionist

PROGRAM/MARKETINGMichael J. Brand

Vice President,Programming/Marketing

James C. SheeleyGeneral Manager

Julie EllingboeDirector ofMarketing, Theatricals

Jean HeyerDirector of AudienceDevelopment

Chris HewittPress Representative

Patricia VogtMarketing Manager,Theatricals

Kathryn M. K. PedersonPress Assistant

Heather HeefnerGraphic Design/Marketing Assistant,Stages Season

Julie SextonGraphic Design/Marketing Assistant,Theatricals

Laura JohnsonDirector of Education

Ben JohnsonEducation Associate

DEVELOPMENTLorraine LeBlancDirector ofDevelopment

Terry HeerMember & SponsorRelations

Diane EspaldonDevelopment Writer

Dianne SchmiesingDevelopmentAssistant

FINANCEChristine SagstetterChief Financial Officer

Greg BarrettBusiness Manager

Brett LandowLead Accountant

Richard MadsenCash ManagementAccountant

Dan Ostertag.Payroll & DisbursementsAccountant

HOUSEOPERATIONSMary McCollDIrector ofHouse Operations

Rita JonesHouse Services Manager

Susan JacobsenHouse ServicesCoordinator

Brian PetersonScheduling Programmer(volunteer)

Beverly VellieuxFood & BeverageManager

Glenn GierokAssistant Food &Beverage Manager

Carol DefielHouse OperationsManager

John PflipsenOrtiz N elleumSecurity Guards

Don PetersonCarol PartlowSam NorrisLead Housekeepers

Michael VincentScott SmiensGordon SchwartzHousekeepers

Gail J. NelsonDirect Sales Manager

Bridget LeeDirect SalesAssistant Manager

Rebecca McMullenDirect SalesRepresentative

Kristin DechDirect Sales Associate

Scott BurchillSystems Manager

Lynn Von EschenBox Office Manager

David LucasBox Office OperationsManager

Pam SoukupSubscription Supervisor

Stephen PaladieEvent Supervisor

Melanie DriscollMail Order Supervisor

Addison KermathPhone Sales Supervisor

Joseph A. HausSteve MittelholtzMichael ZiegahnJennifer FrobergBox Office Associates

PRODUCTIONMichael WelchProduction Director

Albert V.B. WebsterAssociate ProductionDirector

Janet RoosStage Manager

Kevin HouleProduction Assistant

David ColbyHead Carpenter

Mark DalglishAssistant Carpenter

David A. KarlsonHead Electrician

Joseph HollowayAssistant Electrician

James M. Pfitzinger, Jr.Head Sound Engineer

Wayne WillardAssistant SoundEngineer

Mike MackinHead of Properties

Don HughesAssistant of Properties

Greg VaughnMaster Technician

Personnel of the productionstaff are represented by theInternational Alliance ofTheatrical Stage Employees.

BUILDINGENGINEERINGClark WaddellChief Engineer

Duane MorseEngineer

Personnel of the engineer-ing staff are represented bythe International Union ofOperating Engineers.

Plus more than 200 eventsupervisors, part-timeushers, doorkeepers, floorsupervisors, stage hands,housekeepers, tour guides,bartenders, box office asso-ciates, and secunty guards.

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Ionous $unds of reItristJ1laswitlt~lte :Dale Worland Singers

A CO-PRESENTATION OF THEORDWAY MUSIC THEATRE AND THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

8 p.m. December 17 and 18, 19932 p.m. December 19, 1993

Ordway Music Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota

FEATURINGThe Dale Warland Singers

The Warland Symphonic Chorus andHoliday Orchestra

CONDUCTORS:Dale Warland, Founder and Music Director,

The Dale Warland Singers

~~or-t-o..

Peter Hendrickson, Music Director, The Warland Symphonic Chorus;Assistant Conductor, The Dale Warland Singers

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I. THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS

o Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)Procession and Sing-Along

o Holy Night (Cantique de Noel)

. II. THREE MODERN CAROLS

My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord

Tomorrow Shall Be my Dancing Day

Sweet Dreams, Form a ShadeThe Dale Warland Singers

III.Gloria

I. Gloria in excelsisII. Domine Deus

III. Quoniam tu solus sanctus

INTERMISSION

IV.Christmas Trilogy

God Rest You Merry, GentlemenWhat Child is This?I Saw Three Ships

Peter Hendrickson, conductor

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Cantus Diversi(John Rutter)

Adolphe Adam(John Rutter)

Fred Prentice

English(John Rutter)

Emma Lou Diemer

John Rutter

I<;

Mark Riese

The Dale WarlandSingers & The Warland Symphonic ChoruThe Glorious Sounds of ChristmasSOPRANO IJane E. Andersen"Peg CalhoonMary DanielsonHeather M. DickMarie Spar Dymit*+Virginia EtemMarcia HagenKathy HeringNorah Long*Julie Ann Olson"Mary PattonLinda RukavinaBrenda SielaffRebecca Van

SOPRANO IIJulie BeatonLaura BoeCarrie BrutscherDiane K. CooperDebby CrokerMary FrenchWendi Gerth *Sharlene GriebenowDebra K. HarrerDina M. Humble*Janice A. Hunton"Ellen KrahnAngela Malek"Elizabeth Pauly*Cindy Settle-SandbergSandra SchoeneckerCarol White

ALTO IBetsy BenjaminBarbara ButcherHarriet CollopyWendy HalversonAnnamarie C. HillLynette R. [ohnson"Jeanne MayerAnna Mooy*Mary C. Maiden Muller

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Karen L. OnstadPatricia Thompson"Margaret WestinTeresa K. Whaley*Carolyn WhiteKaren Wilkerson"Diane Wood

ALTO IICoralie AllenSusan BarnesCarrie L. Benson*Jeanine CarlsonJoanne Halvorsen*+Shelley Kline"Kathleen McGheeMarilyn MillerPhyliss MosbyLeslie Ann QuigleyMarilyn R. SmithKathy Stuebner-HoltCarolyn SusorLisa TheisenRica Jane VanRuth WarlandMitzi Westra*Mary Bell Wolff

TENOR IPaul J. Anderson"Bob CollopyKim GriebenowThomas Larson"Michael MillerRobert W. Pontious*Randall C. Speer"Steven Staruch"

TENOR IIThomas BarthThomas J. ChervenakDavid Fischer"Bryan FisherRobert KnudtsonLee Mauk

Dean Palermo"Steve J. Sandberg" +Rick TreeceFrancis John Vogt"James Waldmann

BASS IGordon BarryDana M. DostertSteven HodulikJack JaegerDaniel P. JohnsonPaul A. [ohnson"Jin Kim*.Robert J. Miller _Ronald A. NelsonTony OlsonJerry Rubino*+ .Ron RydellDonovan SaltJames A. SampleMark Sotebeer"John R. Towler.

BASS IILeRoy AltermattPhilip N. BoeGordon DoeringRoBert C. HainlenCharles HarderJerry [ohnson"David Ryan Moberg*Chuck RisserBrad Runyan"Wes SchultzKevin M. Shannon"Mark Sheldon"Bob SimonPaul A. Theisen

* Member of The Dale-Warland Singers+Section Leader

Orchestra

VIOLIN 1Frederick Sewell, ConcertmasterDavid MickensYuri MerzhevskyRichard MassmannJoAlta Geidel

CLARINETSandra PowersShelly Hanson

BASSOONKevin CoriaCheryl Kelley

VIOLIN IIJames RiccardoAlmut Englehardt-Kachian

,Theodore 'CaronKarin Hallberg

HORNCaroline LemenThomas GilkeyCharles HodgsonLawrence Barnhart

VIOLALaurel BrowneRomona MerrittKaren McConomy

TRUMPETSylvain PineaultChristopher VolpeDavid Chapman

CELLODale NewtonDiane Tremaine

BASSMark Kausch

TROMBONESteven LundSue Ellen RobertsLee Dummer

FLUTE-

Michele FrischClaudia WhiteKathleen Kovacic

TUBARalph Hepola

TIMPANIEric Remsen

PICCOLOKathleen Kovacic

PERCUSSIONJoseph HolmquistMatt Barber

OBOEMarilyn FordJulie MaduraDyann Myers

HARPLynne Aspnes

ENGLISH HORNJulie Madura

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THE DALE WARLAND SINGERSBased in the Twin Cities, The Dale Warland Singers is recognized internation-ally as one of the world's premier professional choral ensembles. The chorushas gained countless fans from 21 years of subscription concerts, tour andfestival appearances, radio broadcasts and 16 critically acclaimed recordings.

Founded in 1972, The Singers has earned an international reputation for itscommitment to the commissioning and performance of twentieth centurychoral music. This pioneering effort has fostered a greater awareness andappreciation of contemporary choral literature and has provided vital leader-ship to foster the creation and performance of the music of our day bytoday's emerging and established composers.

With a particular focus on the works of living American composers, theorganization is committed to providing increasing opportunities forcomposers and to keeping the choral genre fresh and alive with new musicalideas. Regular commissioning projects have involved such composers asDominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, Anthony Davis, George Shearing, MaryEllen Childs, Peter Schickele, Bernard Rands, Edwin London and CarolBarnett, The Singers' current composer in residence.

The New Choral Music Reading / Commissioning / Performance Program,unique among choral organizations, encourages the writing of new choralworks by emerging composers. Funded by the Jerome Foundation andIDS Financial Services, commissions have been awarded to Mary EllenChilds, William Hawley, Alf Houkom, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Jackie T. Gabeland Janice Hamer. A recent call for scores resulted in over one hundred andthirty submissions.

In 1992 The Dale Warland Singers was the first-eve-r recipient of the .Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence. In back to backawards, 1992 and 1993, the Singers' extraordinary efforts on behalf ofcomposers and new music resulted in the ASCAP-Chorus America Awardfor Adventuresome Programming.

As one of the Twin Cities' major cultural institutions, the 36-voice DaleWarland Singers is also committed to the professional employment ofensemble singers and is the only fully-professional choral ensemble in the

( Upper Midwest. This focus has raised the awareness and appreciation ofprofessional choral performance and has created new opportunities in theTwin Cities and beyond for the growing employment of professionalchoral singers.

The Dale Warland Singers presents an annual subscription series in the TwinCities and tours extensively throughout the United States. The group has alsoconcertized internationally and most recently represented North America atthe Second World Symposium on Choral Music. Their concerts have beenbroadcast over German, Swedish and Finnish state radio. The ensemble wasoften heard on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, and hasappeared regularly on American Public Radio's St. Paul Sunday Morning.The 1992 Dale Warland Singers' Echoes of Christmas concert was carried by190 public radio stations and reached an estimated seven million listeners.

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DALE WARLANDFounder and Music Director, The Dale Warland SingersThe 1993 - 94 concert season marks founder Dale Warland's twenty-secondyear at the helm as Music Director of The Dale Warland Singers. Warland hasdevoted his professional life to attaining the highest musical level in choralsinging. Consummate musicianship and attention to detail have been histools in building one of the finest choral groups in the United States. UnderDr. Warland's leadership, the ensemble has thrilled choral music lovers, notjust in its Twin Cities home, but throughout North America and Europe.

Beyond his active schedule as Music Director of The Dale Warland Singers,Warland is in demand as guest conductor, lecturer and composer. He hasconducted such prestigious choirs as the Swedish Radio Choir, Danish RadioChoir, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, andIsrael's leading professional choir, the Cameran Singers. In August of 1990,Warland prepared the chorus for Penderecki's Polish Requiem, the culminat-ing event of The Second World Symposium on Choral Music in Finland.Warland is an active composer and a member of the American Society ofComposers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). This season he will serve onthe choral panel of the National Endowment for the Arts.

After earning academic degrees at St. Olaf College, the University ofMinnesota and the University of Southern California, he served as Professorof Music at Macalester College, St. Paul. He has been the recipient of majorgrants from the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the MinnesotaState Arts Board. Dr. Warland holds distinguished alumnus awards from St.Olaf College and the University of Southern California. In May 1992,he washonored with a Doctor of Humane Letters from Augustana College, SiouxFalls, South Dakota in recognition of his service to choral music.

PETER HENDRICKSoNMusic Director, The Warland Symphonic Chorus; Assistant Conductor,The Dale Warland SingersPeter Hendrickson joined the artistic staff of The Dale Warland Singers inJuly as Music Director of the Warland Symphonic Chorus and AssistantConductor of The Dale Warland Singers. Since that time, Hendrickson hasprepared the Symphonic Chorus for five concert programs with theMinnesota Orchestra including Bernstein's Candide and the orchestra's open-ing concert of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. As Assistant Conductor ofthe DWS, he will prepare the Singers for guest conductors and will assistwith programming, recording activities, and the development of a choral

,education program.

Hendrickson is the Director of Music and Organist of WestminsterPresbyterian Church, Minneapolis and recently served as the Music Directorof the Minnetonka Choral Society and as the Interim Director of ChoralActivities at Augsburg College. He has been on the faculties of MacalesterCollege and Columbia University. As a graduate student at both theHochschule der Kuenste and the Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, Berlin, hestudied conducting, organ, and harpsichord. He received his Doctor ofMusical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music and has performedat the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, the Bach Aria Festival inStony Brook, and the Aspen Music Festival.

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THE ORDWAY MUSIC THEATRE ANDTHE DALE WARLAND SINGERS PRESENT

THE GLORIOUSSOUNDS--OF CHRISTMAS--

December 17,1993,8 pmDecember 18, 1993,2 pm and 8 pm

December 19, 1993,2 pm

SING-ALONG TEXTS

o COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL

I, II, III. (Sung by The Warland Symphonic Chorus)

IV. (Everyone)Yea, Lord, we greet Thee,Born this happy morning:

jesu, t~ Thee be glory giv'n;Word of the Father,

Now in flesh appearing;o come, let us adore Him,o come, let us adore Him,o come, let us adore Him,

Christ the Lord.

---ANGELS WE HAVE HEARDON HIGH---

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I. (Everyone)Angels we have heard on high,Sweetly singing o'er the plains,

And the mountains in replyEchoing their joyous strains.

Gloria in excelsis Deo;Gloria in excelsis Deo.

II. (Everyone)Come to Bethlehem and see

Him whose birth the angels sing:Come, adore on bended knee

Christ, the Lord, the newborn King.Gloria in excelsis Deo;Gloria in excelsis Deo.

------- SILENTNIGHT-------

I. (Everyone)Silent night, holy night!All is calm, all is bright,

Round yon virgin mother and child!Holy infant, so tender and mild,

Sleep in heavenly peace,Sleep in heavenly peace.

II. (Everyone)Silent night, holy night!

Shepherds quake at the sight,Glories stream from heaven afar,Heavenly hosts sing: "Alleluia;

Christ the Savior is born,Christ the Savior is born."

BROADCAST NOTES

Minnesota Public Radio (locally, KS]N 99.5 FM) will broadcast TheDale Warland Singers' Echoes of Christmas concert, recorded earlierthis month at Ted Mann Concert Hall, on Thursday, December 23, at7 pm. The program will be hosted by MPR on-air personality and DWSsinger Mark Sheldon.

WCAl (89.3 FM) will present a tape-delayed broadcast of TheGlorious Sounds of Christmas on Sunday, December 26, at 2 pm.