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This page includes the complete program from the February 2004 concert, "Ridiculous and Sublime".

Ridiculous and Sublime

A Choral Extravaganza

Gary D. Cannon  conductor

Overture to Guillaume Tell  1829
arr. c.1996

 Gioachino Rossini  1792–1868
arr. Linda Gingrich  b.1951		 [2] [2:35]
Holy Places
Gradual: Locus iste a Deo factus est  1869 Anton Bruckner  1824–1896 [3] [3:06]
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen  1868
from Ein deutsches Requiem		 Johannes Brahms  1833–1897
 [4]
The Heart Worships  1907
 Gustav Holst  1874–1934
arr. Channing Lefebvre		 [5] [2:46]
Sublime Creatures
Two Cat Songs, opus 54  1966
1. Two Cats — 2. Cats		 Wilfred Josephs  1927–1997
 [6] [1:28]
[7] [1:14]
De omnibus apostolis  2003
world premiere performance		 David Hahn  b.1956
 [8] [4:24]
The Clerk of Oxenford  1930
from The Canterbury Pilgrims		 Sir George Dyson  1883–1964
 [9] [6:28]
Intermission
Take me out to the ballgame  1908
arr. c. 1998		 Albert von Tilzer  1878–1956
arr. Linda Gingrich  b.1951		 [10] [2:15]
Love Songs, with a Twist
Neighbors' Chorus  1873
from La jolie parfumeuse		 Jacques Offenbach  1819–1880
 [11] [2:04]
Set me as a seal upon thine heart  1938 Sir William Walton  1902–1983 [12] [3:17]
Die Harmonie in der Ehe  c.1796 Joseph Haydn  1732–1809 [13] [2:30]
Ballad of Green Broom  1950
from Five Flower Songs		 Benjamin Britten  1913–1976
 [14] [2:44]
Serenade to Music  1938
 Ralph Vaughan Williams  1872–1958
arr. Evan Craves and Gary D. Cannon		 [15] [11:35]

 

Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
Friday, February 6, 2004 — 7:30pm

Please turn off all cellular phones, pagers, and watches that beep on the hour.

The recitalist/conductor wishes to extend his deepest appreciation
to the performers in this evening's program:

Sopranos
Mary Ann Bisio
Laura Cervinsky
Heather MacLaughlin Garbes
Suzanne Hanson
Maria Mannisto
Kristi Redman
Michelle Ross

Tenors
Mark Adrian
Adam Burdick
Orrin Doyle
Peter Garbes
Matthew Melendez
Andrew Seifert

Jennifer Christie
flute

Jessica Hall
piano		 Altos
Lorraine Burdick
Linda Gingrich
Nichola Mayes
Markdavin Obenza
Pamela Silimperi



Basses
Jason Anderson
Rob Bigley
Royal Hanson
Ron Mallory
Jeremy Matheis
Handel Shin




Andrew Seifert
piano

 

Gary D. Cannon is a dynamic young choral conductor based in Seattle, Washington. A doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of Washington, he currently directs the UW University Singers and is assistant director of the Chamber Singers. Cannon is also chorusmaster of the Northwest Mahler Festival, and choir director at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Lynnwood, Washington. While an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis, he was director of the Davis Festival Singers and the student vocal/instrumental ensemble Pulchritudina.

As a tenor, Cannon's wide experience includes singing in professional choral ensembles, as concert soloist and recitalist, and in opera. He is a regular member of The Tudor Choir, and heads the voice faculty at the Midsummer Musical Retreat. In addition to regular participation in the choirs at the University of Washington, Cannon has performed solo work with the UW Symphony Orchestra, Eastside Symphony, Issaquah Chorale, and at First Presbyterian Church in Seattle. He also premiered the role of Dennis Kearney in Jerome Rosen's opera Emperor Norton of the U.S.A. Cannon has studied with Julian Patrick, Stephanie Friedman and Lenore Turner-Heinson.

Cannon is also considered one of America's leading researchers of the music of William Walton, including serving for as webmaster of www.williamwalton.net for the past eight years. A semi-active composer, his current projects include a song-cycle on texts of Shel Silverstein for tenor, piano and percussion; a suite for small orchestra based on stories of Katherine Mansfield, and an opera on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

For more information on Gary D. Cannon, please visit www.garydcannon.net.

This concert is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting at the University of Washington.
Gary D. Cannon is a student of Geoffrey Boers and Abraham Kaplan.

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