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Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Concerts and Events 2020-2021 Concerts and Events Spring 4-2-2021 From Darkness into Light, In Thee is Gladness! Department of Music Andrews University, music@andrews.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/events-2020-2021 Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Music, Department of, "From Darkness into Light, In Thee is Gladness!" (2021). Concerts and Events 2020-2021. 8. https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/events-2020-2021/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Concerts and Events at Digital Commons @ Andrews University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Concerts and Events 2020-2021 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Andrews University. For more information, please contact repository@andrews.edu.
presents
From Darkness into Light,
In Thee is Gladness!
featuring
Andrews University Singers
Pioneer Men’s Chorus
Canta Bella
Stephen Zork, conductor
with
Kristii Rasmussen, graduate conductor
Emily Jurek, Vivian Raimundo & Beta Siriwattanakamol - undergraduate conductors
7:00 p.m. April 2, 2021,
Howard Performing Arts CenterTHE CONDUCTOR Stephen Zork, Professor of Music, has been the director of Choral Studies at Andrews University for 30 years since 1991. He oversees the graduate choral conducting program and teaches classes in choral pedagogy and literature. He has guest-conducted and presented at choral festivals, and music conferences throughout the United States, and in Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Mexico, South America, and Zimbabwe. His choirs have performed on four separate occasions at conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association. He is a member of the voice faculty, and a baritone soloist specializing in oratorio repertoire and art song. He has sung under notable choral pedagogues such as Eric Ericson, Dale Warland, and Robert Shaw. Stephen Zork is in his 29th year as director of the Chancel Choir at First Congregational Church UCC of St. Joseph, Michigan. Married to his wife Susan for over 45 years, they are blessed with four children and six grandchildren. GUEST CONDUCTOR AND PIANIST Brenton Offenback has been the Director of Music at the First Congregational Church in St. Joseph, Michigan since 2017 where he serves as organist and pianist. There at the church he also directs the Jubilate Ringers and Alleluia Ringers (hand bell choirs), leads a children's choir, and accompanies the Chancel Choir. In 2018, he began directing the Pioneer Memorial Church Choir. As an Andrews University alum, Mr. Offenback received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education in 2009 (K - 12). He completed his Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Choral Conducting in 2014. A dedicated family man, he and his wife, Rachelle, are blessed with two children; Kayleigh and Emma. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SINGERS This choir is the select touring choir of the Department of Music under the direction of Stephen Zork. Singers represents Andrews University locally, nationally and abroad through concert tours, media broadcasts and six audio recording albums. The choir’s range of music reflects the internationally diverse cultural threads that constitute the fabric of Andrews University’s celebrated multinational student-body. Under professor Zork’s leadership, University Singers has traveled on highly acclaimed international concert tours throughout Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Chile, Bahamas, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. They have performed in concert with noted musical artists such as Bobby McFerrin, jazz pianist David Benoit, and with The King’s Singers. They performed the USA premier of Bob Chilcott’s High Flight and A Thanksgiving commissioned for the King’s Singers 40th anniversary celebration. University Singers’ audio recordings are selected for the nationally syndicated radio broadcast programs Sing for Joy and With Heart and Voice, and they have been featured on the nationally televised ABC Christmas Special. University Singers can be heard regularly on radio station WAUS and viewed on Three ABN Television Broadcasts. On May 1, the Department of Music choirs will participate in a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the AUSO. PIONEER MEN’S CHORUS & CANTA BELLA were formed as alternatives to the larger University Chorale in order to accommodate smaller ensembles due to the COVID pandemic.
FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT,
IN THEE IS GLADNESS!
PSALM 23
Z. Randall Stroope
Betania Cañas, flute - Megan Case, oboe
Beta Siriwattanakamol, undergraduate conductor
NADA TE TURBE
Music by Joan Szymko
Words by Teresa de Àvila
Let nothing disturb you,
nothing frighten you,
All things are passing.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
God is enough.
Gabriel Palacios, cello
Kristii Rasmussen, graduate conductor
SONG FOR JUSTICE
Music by Kim André Arnesen
Words by Charles Anthony Silvestri
In all that we are, It is better by far
To follow our star, And sing out our truth.
When things can’t get worse, We hunger and thirst
For the last to be first; And so, we sing out our truth.
We sing for the poor. We sing for the weak.
We sing for the helpless, The hopeless, the meek.
We sing out the truth Against hunger and hate.
We sing out for justice Before it’s too late!
And in all that we do For these, and for you,
The whole dark night through We’re gonna sing out our truth!
.
Simon Luke Brown, violin I - Madeline Jordan, violin II - Sofia Oudri, viola - Jamison Moore, cello
Canta Bella
I DREAMED OF RAIN
Larry NickelCOME TO ME
Dan Forrest
Charles Lawson, bass
Jamison Moore, cello - Brenton Offenback, piano
Emily Jurek, conductor
ARISE, MY SOUL, ARISE!
Dale Wood
Brenton Offenback, conductor
Pioneer Men’s Chorus
WERE YOU THERE?
Arranged by James Whitbourn
CHRIST LAG IN TODESBANDEN - BWV 4
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ lay in death's bonds, handed over for our sins.
He is risen again, and has brought us life.
For this we should be joyful.
Praise God and be thankful to him
and sing alleluia,
Alleluia!
Simon Luke Brown, violin I - Madeline Jordan, violin II
Kristii Rasmussen, viola - Sofia Oudri, viola
Jamison Moore, cello - Gabriel Palacios, portative organ
ABENDLIED
Josef Rheinberger
Abide with us, for evening shadows darken,
And the day will soon be over.
O abide with us, for evening shadows darken.
DO NOT BE AFRAID
Philip Stopford
Annelise Burghardt, soprano
Vivian Raimundo, undergraduate conductor
PRAYER
Music by René Clausen
Words by Mother Teresa
IN THEE IS GLADNESS!
Daniel Kallman
Andrews University Singers - Stephen Zork, conductorANDREWS UNIVERSITY SINGERS
PIONEER MEN’S CHORUS
CANTA BELLA
Stephen Zork, conductor
Emily Jurek, assistant conductor
Gabriel Palacios & Emily Jurek, pianists
Beta Siriwattanakamol & Jackson Hayden, undergraduate assistants
Soprano I Tenor I
Ivanna-Marie Bermeo General Studies Julio Santana BA Theology/BMus Voice
Annelise Burghardt BA Psychology/Voice Abel Siamubi BA Religion/Voice
+Tilly Erbes AU Community *Fabio Siniscarchio MMusic Voice
Emily Jurek BMusic Piano
*Vivian Raimundo BMusic Music Education Tenor II
+Tsiry Rasamimanana MS MSDIC Abraham Binzuwah MDivinity
Safari Shyirakera BA Voice & BS Nutrition *Shane Pierre BMusic Education
+Anneliese Tessalee BS Chemistry Daniel Soochkoff-Cerna Music Education
Soprano II Baritone
Samantha Cardwell BSM Piano Performance *Jackson Hayden BMusic Voice
Lindsey Cheng BS Animal Science Raleigh Pettey BMusic Voice
Sinegugu Katenga MA-MSCID Alef Sabuin MA Business Administration
*Kaija Perry MA Music Composition Daniel Soochkoff-Cerna Music Education
Carly Weems BS Animal Science Philip Wekesa BA Music, Piano
Alto I Bass
Wilhelm Fesalbon AU Community Simon Brown BMus Violin Performance
Htee Mu BA Music, Piano *Nathan Cheng BA Music & Theology
*Beta Siriwattanakamol Music Education Nathanial Cogen MMusic Piano Performance
#Diego Duran BS Piano Performance
Alto II Charles Lawson MDivinity
+Nicole Powers Music Composition Christopher Wilson BT/Aviation
+Zoe Shiu Violin Performance
Taznir Smalling BSM Voice Performance
*Susan Zork Assistant Professor of Religion
* Section Leader
# Pioneer Men’s Chorus
+ Canta Bella
www.andrews.edu/cas/musicHOWARD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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