UPPER SCHOOL SPRING CONCERT CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA - SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 7:00 P.M. HUSS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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UPPER SCHOOL SPRING CONCERT
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 7:00 P.M.
HUSS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
UPPER SCHOOL SPRING CONCERT 2022
APRIL 23, 2022, 7:00 PM
DIRECTORS
Almut Engelhardt
Director of Orchestras
Anne Klus
Director of Choirs
Randy Reid
Wind Ensemble Conductor
Tim Kraack ’05
Collaborative Pianist and Assistant Director
of Middle School Choirs and SPA Community Chorale
THANK YOU
Bryn Roberts Matt Edens Leslie Klus
SPA Administration and Faculty Gene Swanson George Klus
Pete Kilibarda and SPA Facilities Staff Daryn Lowman Lea Moore
Eric Severson Mary Hill Bill Simenson
Melissa Douden Rebecca Miller Ami Berger
Garry Clum and Technology Staff Dawn Wickstrom Anne Odegard
Andrew Staab SPA Safety and Security Staff
Special thanks to Jack and Linda Hoeschler (grandparents of Jack O’Brien ’23 and William O’Brien ’27)
for helping to make the Academy Symphony’s and Honors Sinfonia’s presentation possible.
UPCOMING EVENTS
M/US JAZZ CABARET at Redleaf Commons
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 7 p.m.
US MUSICAL
“The Drowsy Chaperone”
Friday, May 13, 2022, 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 15, 2022, 4 p.m.
MS SPRING SHOWCASE
May 19, 2022, 6:30 p.m.
MS SPRING INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 6:30 p.m.
MS SPRING VOCAL CONCERT
Thursday, May 26, 2022, 6:30 p.m
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1 ADA compliant headsets are available at the sound table upon request.
HONORS SINFONIA
Waltz No. 2..............................................................................................................................................................Dmitri Shostakovich
From Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra Arr. by Paul Lavender
In Loving Memory of Alice Tibbetts ’16
Will Sedo, conductor
Clair de Lune..................................................................................................................................................................Claude Debussy
From Suite Bergamasque Arr. by Merle Isaac
Por Una Cabeza................................................................................................................................................................. Carlos Gardel
Arr. by Marc Garetto
Kai Sih, violin solo
ORCHESTRA WINDS
Rustic Holiday.......................................................................................................................................................................Paul Koepke
ACADEMY SYMPHONY
In the Hall of the Mountain King..................................................................................................................................Edvard Grieg
From Peer Gynt Suite Edited by Carl Simpson
Prelude...............................................................................................................................................................................Guiseppe Verdi
Act I of La Traviata Arr. by Jack Bullock
Romeo and Juliet.................................................................................................................................................. Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Arr. by Richard Meyer
***INTERMISSION***
SUMMIT SINGERS
Ad Astra.................................................................................................................................Words and Music by Jacob Narverud
Sung in Latin
To the stars through difficulties.
Look upward. Move forward.
Leave all cares behind.
SUMMIT SINGERS AND ACADEMY CHORALE SOPRANOS AND ALTOS
Light of a Clear Blue Morning............................................................................................. Words and Music by Dolly Parton
Arr. by Craig Hella Johnson and Richard Gabrillo
Vocal Soloists: Ellie Murphy, Annika Brelsford, Maggie Fried and Maddie Pierce
SUMMIT AND ACADEMY CHORALE CHAMBER SINGERS
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For..............................................................................................................Music by U2
Words by Bono and the Edge
Arr. by Deke Sharon
Vocal Soloists: Linnea Cooley, Emily Gisser, Cayenne Ramirez, Olivia Szaj, and Hannah Mann
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ACADEMY CHORALE
Somewhere.....................................................................................Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Arr. by Mac Huff
Vocal Soloist: Sarina Charpentier
SUMMIT SINGERS, ACADEMY CHORALE
AND THE SPA COMMUNITY CHORALE
Across the Vast, Eternal Sky............................................................................................................................. Music by Ola Gjeilo
Lyrics by Charles A. Silvestri
Guest Collaborative Pianist: Dr. Elizabeth Mollison Allison
String Ensemble:
Kai Sih - First Violin
Olivia Fenlon and Per Johnson - Second Violin
Gregory Forsberg and Katherine Welsh - Viola
Theo Bonin and Henry Giles - Cello
Sunlight shines on my face; This is my grace to be restored, born again, in flame!
When I was young I flew in the velvet night;
Shining by day, a firebird bathed in light!
Grey now my feathers, which once were red and gold;
My destiny to soar up to the sunlight — shines on my face.
This is my grace, to be restored, born again, in flame!
Do not despair that I am gone away; I will appear again when the sunset paints
Flames across the vast eternal sky.
In addition to being a stunning choral piece with soaring melodies and moving poetry, this piece is an appropriate choice
for a pre-retirement concert. Both the text and music convey a sense of “coming full circle” returning to your beginning,
only wiser and with a deepened sense of understanding borne of years of experience.
Enhancing this full circle experience in tonight’s performance is guest accompanist, Dr. Elizabeth Mollison Allison, my
“little sister.” In fact, I was her first piano teacher. Our mother, Norma Mollison, was a gifted singer, composer and pianist.
Our collaboration on this piece tonight adds yet another meaningful layer of connection and deepens that sense of
coming full circle, back to your beginning, this time around with wisdom and gratitude.
This Is The Small Song I Sing................................................................................................................. Music by Tim Kraack ’05
Text by Mary Logue
Commissioned by St. Paul Academy and Summit School, 2020
This is the small song I sing as day lifts off on night’s own wing.
I sing the song and walk about. I keep it low below a shout.
Not everyone can see, you know, that songs are meant for us to show.
Shout in the dark.
Not everyone can see, you know, that songs are meant for us to show
The way to others in the dark.
In composing “Small Song,” Tim Kraack combines compositional techniques from the past and the present, using
centuries-old tools from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance alongside newer techniques like Sprechstimme, vocal
slides, pointillism, and polyrhythms to create something that sounds simultaneously old and contemporary. He imagines
the piece as an “ear-worm,” a melody to be caught in the imagination as one goes about their day. Elements of the text
and melody are broken between different parts, emulating the improvisations and permutations that a melody goes
through as one might hear it in their head. In writing “Small Song,” Kraack was inspired by the poem “Song” by Mary
Logue, an award-winning poet and author with roots in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Cornerstone.....................................................................................................................................................................Shawn Kirchner
Vocal Soloists: Will Sedo, Millicent Benson, and Eleanor Smith
Choose Something Like A Star......................................................................................................Music by Randall Thompson
from Frostiana Text by Robert Frost
O Star, the fairest one in sight, we grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud — it will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn in your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn by heart and when alone, repeat.
Say something! And it says, I burn.
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend. Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid, but does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite, not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is sway’d to carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star to stay our minds on…
And be staid.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
I can’t think of a better way to close out a concert than with the SPA Choirs singing the text of Robert Frost’s
“Choose Something Like A Star.” The piece asks profound questions about our choices and our vision of the
future—the very questions I am asking myself as I look ahead to my retirement from SPA this spring. Teaching
at SPA has been my life for the past 34 years, and I have directed choirs and directed musicals for almost five
decades. I am a dinosaur! I have loved every minute of it and my joy has been working with great students and
adults throughout the years, sharing that same joy and love of singing.
I have been blessed to do what I was destined to do for my life’s work. To every one of you who have dedicated
time to singing with me, either as a student or as an adult, you are a testament to the need to come together
to make music as a community, and to lift our spirits (and YOUR spirits) with music, which often transcends the
spoken word.
To the entire SPA Community: thank you for all the encouragement and support you have given me throughout
my many years of teaching and performing, whether on the Goodrich stage, at St. Kate’s, at Carnegie Hall, or right
here on our magnificent Huss stage. SPA’s music program has grown by leaps and bounds since my first years of
teaching, thanks to my amazing music and theater colleagues. I am confident that our programs and performances
will continue to grow and prosper, challenging our students to explore the lifelong pursuit of expressing themselves
through the arts. As one parent and Community Chorale member said to me, “You are going to Intermission, and
your Second Act will start soon.” I look forward to what that Second Act will bring in my future!
With deepest gratitude,
Anne Klus
In celebration of Anne Klus’ extraordinary 34-year career, St. Paul Academy and Summit School has begun an effort to
endow a fund in her honor. The Anne Klus Choral Endowment Fund will pay tribute to the creativity and joy Anne brought
into the lives of her students and the SPA community through music making. The Klus Fund will provide
resources to further SPA’s Choral Music program and will support new initiatives such as commissions, guest
performers and conductors, workshops, touring expenses, recordings, or other programming that creates
the best possible choral experience for SPA students and inspires in them a lifelong love of singing. To make
a gift to the Klus Fund please use the QR code to visit www.spa.edu/giving/make-a-gift/anne-klus-fund or
call 651-696-1320.
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STUDENT PERSONNEL
HONORS SINFONIA
Violin 1 Violin 2 Cello Clarinet
Kai Sih u concert master Quinn Williams l u Divya Bhargava l u Sandro Fusco s
Olivia Fenlon u assistant Maggie Fields m u Clara Garner m u Avery Liu s
concert mistress Dante Gilbert u Ben Hanson u Grace Medrano s
Sonia Ross u Mukeil Rizvi u Henry Wertkin u Belle Weng s
Will Anderson u Emma Goodman Dev Kharbanda
Trumpet
Maggie Baxter u Max Shaffer Theo Bonin
Randy Reid
Spencer Bubula u Annie Hlavka McKinley Garner
Bill Simenson
Per Johnson u Tenzin Bawa Henry Giles
Sonia Ross u Audrey Leatham Connor Overgaard Trombone
Alexandra Cardwell Finn Carns Henri Peltier Carson King-Fournier
Andrea Gist Daniel Gurvich Oliver Zhu Keyboard
Solvej Eversoll Caden Burns Will Sedo l u
Bass
Lilith Greene-Friedman Jacob Colton Nolan Wagner
Ceci Watson l u
Ray Guo Nate Lam Isak Bildtsen
Rishi Bhargava m
Jack O’Brien Deling Chen
Viola Becca Richman
Henry Choi Theo Su
KK Welsh l u
Samantha Gilats Flute
Gregory Forsberg m u Annie Zhang
Rita Li Annika Lillegard l s
Nadia Degnan Percussion
Ingrid Johnson Stella Gunther s
Katharine Hanf Andy Rose l u
Humza Murad Oboe
Cerena Karmaliani Alice Duncan u
Wafa Naqvi Alexander Moore u s
Claire Kim Rio Cox
Reilly Ringness Eliza Farley s
Maik Nguyen
Ford Reedy
ACADEMY SYMPHONY
Violin 1 Violin 2 Cello Clarinet
Olivia Fenlon u concert Mukeil Rizvi l u Divya Bhargava l u Sandro Fusco s
mistress Dante Gilbert m u Clara Garner m u Avery Liu s
Sonia Ross u assistant Quinn Williams u Ben Hanson u Grace Medrano s
concert mistress Maggie Fields u Henry Wertkin u Belle Weng s
Will Anderson u Emma Goodman Dev Kharbanda
Trumpet
Maggie Baxter u Max Shaffer Theo Bonin
Randy Reid
Spencer Bubula u Annie Hlavka McKinley Garner
Bill Simenson
Per Johnson u Tenzin Bawa Henry Giles
Kai Sih u Audrey Leatham Connor Overgaard Trombone
Alexandra Cardwell Finn Carns Henri Peltier Carson King-Fournier
Andrea Gist Daniel Gurvich Oliver Zhu Keyboard
Solvej Eversoll Aarushi Bahadur Will Fenlon Will Sedo l u
Lilith Greene-Friedman Raven Glaser Madeline Kim Nolan Wagner
Ray Guo Mason Hang Ben Lorenz-Meyer Isak Bildtsen
Jack O’Brien Nicholas McCarthy Deling Chen
Bass
Henry Choi Natalie Waibel Theo Su
Ceci Watson l u
Samantha Gilats Annie Zhang
Viola Becca Richman m
Rita Li
KK Welsh l u Rishi Bhargava Percussion
Ingrid Johnson
Gregory Forsberg m u Oliver Thompson Andy Rose l u
Humza Murad
Nadia Degnan Alice Duncan u
Wafa Naqvi Flute
Katharine Hanf Rio Cox
Reilly Ringness Annika Lillegard l s
Cerena Karmaliani Dominik Polley
Caden Burns Stella Gunther s
Claire Kim
Jacob Colton Oboe
Maik Nguyen
Nate Lam Alexander Moore u s
Ford Reedy
Madelyn Moser Eliza Farley s
Ethan Peltier
u Senior l Section leader m Assistant section leader s Orchestra Wind Ensemble
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SUMMIT SINGERS
Nikola Barkwell i Maggie Fried i Amalia Laguna Poppy Ploen
Hannah Brass i Clea Gaitas Sur Eva Lutgen Georgia Ross
Annika Brelsford i u Parisa Ghavami i Isabel Lutgen u Bri Rucker
Alison Browne i Emily Gisser i u Greta Magnuson Lucy Shaffer
Val Chafee u Katharine Hanf Eliana Mann Eleanor Smith i u
Linnea Cooley i Carys Hardy Clara McKoy Olivia Stitt
Ganga Corsaro i u Sevona Hayes i u Ruth Mellin i u Olivia Szaj i u
Jamuna Corsaro i u Catherine Hooley Cassandra Overholt Helen Townley
Hadley Dobish Cerena Karmaliani Maddie Pierce
ACADEMY CHORALE
Alex Armada Marius Elias Morse Hannah Mann i u Lucy Shaffer
Clara Ann Bagnoli Raina Fawcett Zadie Martin Nora Shaughnessy
Davyd Barchuk i u Emily Gisser i u Soren Miller Joey Stolpestad
Millicent Benson i Lukas Hembre Ellie Murphy u Andy Wells i
Violet Benson Melina Kannankutty Connor Overgaard Valerie Wick i
Sarina Charpentier i u Naomi Kempcke Poppy Ploen Sam Zakaib
Linnea Cooley i Naci Konar-Steenberg i u Cayenne Ramirez i Theo Zimmerman
Delaney Devine i Sila Liljedahl i Will Sedo i u
SPA COMMUNITY CHORALE
Virginia Andres, Ellie Fuelling ’13 Cynthia Kraack, Parent Weld Ransom, Parent
Administration, Parent Barry Gisser, Parent Tom Kraack, Parent Ilse Rolf, Parent
James Ashe, Parent Bethany Gladhill, Parent ’85 Peggy Ladner, Parent Nissa Rolf ’16
Paula Beck, Parent Lori Grant, Parent, Former Buzz Lagos, Parent, Staff Diane Rucker, Parent
Sarah Scanlan Boggess ’81 Faculty Mary Lilly, Parent Dorothy Scanlan, Parent
Sherie Bosak, Parent Mary Grant ’17 Mary P. Lincoln, Retired Amy Schrank, Parent
Jason Brelsford, Parent Jean Gregg, Parent Faculty Susan Schultz, Parent
Deb Broberg, Friend of SPA Elizabeth Vanney Hadden ’04 Meredith Lis ’08 Kate Shaughnessy, Parent
Mary Buckett, Parent Erica Egge Hageman, 03 Rochelle Lockridge, Former Laura O’Brien Smith, Parent
Julia Callander, Faculty Beth Haney, Parent Faculty, Parent Andy Staab, Parent
Terry Campbell Lindeke, Parent Michael Happ, Friend of SPA Elizabeth Lorenz-Meyer, Parent Valerie Stitt, Parent
Joan Cleary, Parent Susan Heegaard, Parent Sonny Miller, Parent Maria Stitzel, Parent
Debra Cohen, Parent Zoe Hermer-Cisek ’19 John Mischke, Parent Peter Stitzel, Parent
Rob Cooley, Parent Mary Hill, Administration Lea Moore ’17 Norm Tiedemann, Parent
Rikke Dierssen-Morice, Parent Scot Hovan, Parent, Faculty Lynne Moser, Parent Karen Vanney, Parent
Leah Drury, Parent Vicki Janisch-Tri, Staff Lauren Nahurski ’04 Robert van Vliet, 89
Dorothy Elion, Parent Sarah Johnson, Staff, Parent Tracy Nordstrom, Parent Nancy OB Wagner, Parent
Liz Elliott, Friend of SPA Stuart Johnson, Parent ’91 Claire O’Brien ’13 Annie Walli ’10
Laura Findlay, Parent Shruti Joshi, Parent Joanne Opgenorth, Parent Kevin Walli, Parent
Kris Flom, Faculty, Parent ’80 Rick Juliusson, Parent Brandon Overholt, Parent Amy Sue Zakaib, Parent
Claire Flom-Staab ’13 Sarah Juliusson, Parent Mildred Overholt, Parent Jason Zimmerman, Parent
Maddie Flom-Staab ’15 Caleb Klitzke, Friend of SPA Julie Rohovit, Parent
Linda Forsberg, Grandparent Leslie Klus, Friend of SPA George Power, Parent ’63
u Senior i Chamber Singers
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CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS!
Will Anderson Maggie Baxter Davyd Barchuck Divya Bhargava Annika Brelsford
Academy Symphony Academy Symphony Academy Chorale Academy Symphony Summit Singers
Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia Chamber Chorale Honors Sinfonia Summit Chamber
Singers
Spencer Bubula Val Chafee Sarina Charpentier Ganga Corsaro Jamuna Corsaro
Academy Symphony Summit Singers Academy Chorale Summit Singers Summit Singers
Honors Sinfonia Chamber Chorale Summit Chamber Summit Chamber
Singers Singers
Alice Duncan Olivia Fenlon Maggie Fields Gregory Forsberg Clara Garner
Academy Symphony Academy Symphony Academy Symphony Academy Symphony Academy Symphony
Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia
Academy Chorale
Dante Gilbert Emily Gisser Ben Hanson Sevona Hayes Per Johnson
Academy Symphony Academy Chorale Academy Symphony Summit Singers Academy Symphony
Honors Sinfonia Summit Singers Honors Sinfonia Academy Chorale Honors Sinfonia
Chamber Chorale Chamber Chorale
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Naci Konar-Steenberg Isabel Lutgen Hannah Mann Ruth Mellin Alexander Moore
Academy Chorale Summit Singers Academy Chorale Summit Singers Academy Symphony
Chamber Chorale Academy Chorale Chamber Chorale Summit Chamber Honors Sinfonia
Singers
Eleanor Murphy Mukeil Rizvi Andy Rose Sonia Ross Will Sedo
Academy Chorale Academy Symphony Academy Symphony Academy Symphony Academy Symphony
Chamber Chorale Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia
Academy Chorale
Chamber Chorale
Kai Sih Eleanor Smith Olivia Szaj Ceci Watson KK Welsh
Academy Symphony Summit Singers Summit Singers Academy Symphony Academy Symphony
Honors Sinfonia Summit Chamber Summit Chamber Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia
Singers Singers
Jazz Ensemble
Henry Wertkin Quinn Williams
Academy Symphony Academy Symphony
Honors Sinfonia Honors Sinfonia
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