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The AmericanRevolution Bicentennial
Steering Committee
and
. The DanburyMusicCentre, Inc.

present

MARIAN
ANDERSON
AND

ROBERT
GOLDSAND
with

The Danbury Community -Orchestra
Conductor
John F. Burnett,
and

The Danbury Community Chorus
Conductor
James E. Humphreville,
Marcia Klebanow, Accompanist

DANBURY SCHOOL
HIGH

·

AMERICANREVOLUTION
·BICENTENNIAL STEERING COMMITTEE
Jack D. Garamella,
Chairman
Nathaniel
D. Rogers, ·Vice Chairman
Joseph P. Taylor, Treasu~er
Vicky Hickey, Secretary
Morton Siegel,
Festival
Chairman
Alfred F. Zega, Music Chairman

DANBURY
MUSIC CENTRE, INC. BOARDOF DIRECTORS
Joan v. Ward, Chairman
John L. Senior, Jr.,
Vice Chairman
Therese Ellsworth,
Secretary
Horace L. Shepard, Jr., Treasurer
Doris Field
Caroline Hoyt
Oscar Karrel
Jerome R. Malino
Kathlee n McGrory
Laurence R. Nourse
Harriette
Papish

Marian Anderson
Marian Tyler Chase
Joseph A. Childs
Edwin I. Cook
Robert Courtright
. Benjamin Dasilva
Mary Deming

Honorary:
OFFICE:

Robina

c.

Clark , Margaret

Helen o. Rider
Zona Ruml
Mildred Schreiber
Mildred G. Smith
Elsie Thompson
Howard c. Williams
Alfred Francis Zega
Lynch

240 Main Street,
Danbury
Telephone 748-1716

Musical Director:
John F. Burnett
Choral Director:
James E. Humphreville
Assist~t
to the Directors:
Marcia Klebanow
Executive Director:
June K. Goodman

BICENTENNIAL CONCERTEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Jean Dalrymple
June K. Goodman
Morton Siegel

Alfred

Harriette

v.

Joan

Papish,

Ticket

Francis

Ward
Zega

Chairman

ACKNOWLEVGEMEWTS

. . . . . . •• Tirrothy D. Ward
Program Notes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marian Tyler Chase
Piano Tuned By.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elmer Sinclair
Miss Anderson's
Bouquet
. . . . . . . Courtesy of Judd's Florist
Cover Design

Public

Address

Art Exhibit

Sys_
tem

• Courtesy

. . . . . . . . . ... .

of Western Connecticut
State College

Courtesy

of James Timmins

BICENTENNIAL CONTRIBUTORS
CONCERT
SPONSORS
Betty Lou Campbell
Consolidated
Controls Corporation
Danbury Cultural
Commission
Mrs. Bernard J. Dolan Sr.
Beverly s. and John F. Green
Heli-Coil
Products,
Div. of Mite Corp.
Mesinger Manufacturing
Co., Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. ·Nahley
State National Bank of Connecticut
Van Houten Motors, Inc.
Viking Wire Company, Inc.
WIAD and WIAD-FM
Compliments of a Friend

PATRONS
The Afternoon Mus~cal Society
City National Bank of Connecticut
Danbury Savings & Loan
The Macton Corporation
Pediatric
Associates
Savings Bank of Danbury

FRIENDS
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Addessi
Bardo-Platt
Inc.
Collins
& Morrow
Danbury Junior Woman's Club .
Feinson's
Kane's Music Store
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kunkel
Stuart L. Lovequist
Music Plus
Norbert E. Mitchell
Co.
George F. O'Brien Agency
Stone's Color Center
Mrs. Rex Stout
Pearl and Amos Turk
Union Savings Bank
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Wilke

•

PROGRAM

•
William

ModernMusic

Billings

1746 - 1800

The chorus wittily
announces what and how they are going to sing,
in this appropriate
introduction
by the . first professional
composer in this country.

William

When
Jesus Wept

Billings

1746 - 1800

In strong contrast
with the preceding number, Billings
faIOOus fuguing tune, a four-part
canon.

offers

a

There is a Balmin Gilead
An arrangement

by William

L. Dawson of a well-known

spiritual.

Little Innocent Lamb
Another

spiritual,

arranged

by Marshal~

Bartholomew.

The Community Chorus
Marcia Klebanow, Accompanist

Variations on America

Charles

Edward Ives
1874 - 1954

When the famous Danbury composer was seventeen,
he wrote these
variations,
at first
for piano, and sent them to a publisher,
who
refused them. Both Ives and the cpmposition are better appreciated now. Says Thomas Willis:
"The five far from sober
variations
ranged from a tongue-in-cheek
descant through a
loping canter in 6/8 time to a polonaise
straight
from the
music hall."
In 1949 Ives collaborated
with the distinguished
organist,
E. Power Biggs, to produce a version for organ, and
this was later orchestrated
by William Schuman for performance
in 1964 for the New York Philharmonic.

Walter

Concertina for Piano and Chant>er rchestra
O
Mr. Goldsand,

Piston

189.4 -

Soloist

Piston shows a rare combination
of talents.
As a composer he is
said to favor classic
forms, but with a directness
and charm even
when he uses dissonant
harmonies and advanced techniques.
His
scholarship,
as head of the Harvard Music Department and author
of textbooks
on harmony, counterpoint
and orchestration,
did not
interfere
with his gift for fluent communication.
He has composed seven symphonies and other works in various
forms.
During the 18th and 19th centuries,
Piston writes in a textbook
on harm:my, "there is surprisingly
little
chai,,.ge in the harmonic
materials
used and in the manner of their use.
The experimental
period of the early 20th century will appear far less revolutionary when the lines of development from the practice
of older
canposers become clearer
•••
As yet, however, ·one cannot define
a 20th century common practice."
The concertino,
or short concerto,
commissioned by CBS and first
performed in 1937, is cast in a single roovement less than 15
minutes long.
It IOOves from a lively
3/4 allegro
to a woodwind
fugato in 6/8, then an adagio with an in~idental
solo for cello,
followed by a recapitulation
with fresh development and a coda.
Mr. Goldsand made his debut in Vienna at the age of
ten, and was already well known in Europe at the time
of his American debut at sixteen.
Since then he has
toured extensively
in this country and abr~ad,
appearing with major orchestras
and in recitals
in various cities
of Europe, North and South
America.
The London Times called him a "pianist
in the very first
flight".
Danbury is fortunate
to have him as a neighbor,
and doubly fortunate
that he can be here tonight.

INTERMISSION

Aaron Copland

A Lincoln Portrait

1900 -

Harian Anderson,

Narrator

says the composer about this work: "The letters
and speeches of
Lincoln supplied the text; the order and arrangement of the selections are my own •••
I worked with musical materials
of my own,
with the exception of two songs of the period:
the famous Camptown
Races and a ballad known today as Springfield
Mountain •••
In the
. opening section I wanted to suggest something of the mysterious
sense of fatality
that surrounded Lincoln's
personality
•••
also
something of his gentleness
and simplicity
of spirit.
The quick
middle section briefly
sketches in the background of the times he
lived in.
This merges into the concluding section,
where my sole
purpose was to draw a sample but impressive
frame about the words
of Lincoln himself."
here,
Marian Anderson of Danbury needs no introduction
or indeed in the United States,
or indeed in the world.
This writer,
for example, has seen Russians stop her
in the streets
of Leningrad to kiss her hand. Her
lovely contralto
singing voice pas fo-emd a new use
in narrating
the noble spoken words of Lincoln.
She has appeared with them in many parts of the
country, but not before in Danbury.

Let There Be Light
A processional

Charles

for church

Edward Ives

services.

The Riddle
A Kentucky mountain
without a stone."

folksong

that

begins

"I give my love a cherry

Lonesome ove, from the opera Down The Valley
D
In
The air of an American folksong from the Carolinas
chorus by our conductor,
James Humphreville.

)

At The River

)

A gospel

Kurt Weill
was arranged for

hymn-tune,

arranged

by Aaron Copland.

Aquarius, and Let The Sun Shine In
A popular

number from the recent

Broadway musical,

The Conrnunity Chorus

Galt

HacDermot

1928 -

!!!!!_.

THE R COMMUNITY
DY
ANBU
CHORUS
SOPRANO

BASS

Priscilla
Bannister
Virginia
Connolly
Mary-Louise Cowles
Rachel Coyne
Naomi Demby
Linda Holland
Mabel Jacobi
Suzanne Lampe
Doris Lubin
Rita Macdonald
Betty March
Joan Mead
Janet Miller
Ruth Nawyn
Elaine Pennarola
Barbara Pressmar
Kay Prusak
Gay Ramabhushanam
Margret Schemmel
Mary Schneeberger
Mildred Schreiber
Prudence Skiff
Pauline Smith
Ruth Stern

Paul Barenz
Edwin I. Cook
Bruce Henderson
Abraham Katz
Austin Meissner
Bernard Nawyn
Royal P. Skiff
Robert Wicke ·
Robert Winterhalder

TENOR
Samuel Beck
Ernest Boynton
CUrtis Forbes
Donald Sacowitz
Guenther Stubner
Joshua Wolin

ALTO
Judy Bolduc
Ann Boynton
Joan Cizik
Mildred Cole
Andrea Connolly
Kay Dolan
Doris Field
Nikki Foster
Linda Knapp
Nancy Lavers
Helen Masterson
Nancy Montes
Cathy Nawyn
Donna Paulsen
Toni Pepe
Ethel Rogers
Donna Scozzafava
Audrey Sharpe
Sara Steel
Elsie Thompson

THE
DANBURY
COMMUNITY
ORCHESTRA
VIOLINS

OBOE ENGLISHORN
8
H

Louise Brannen
Concertmaster
Joan Aureli
Richard Brooks
Marian Tyler Chase
Larry Deming
Kay Dolan
Rita Doran
Katherine Dorn
Sophie Godward
Lorna Piercy
Wendell Smith
Ival Stratford
Helen Svonkin
Saul Toder

Robert Courtright
Henry Edmundson

CLARINETS
Jolan Kovacs
Michael Ingrao

FRENCH
HORNS
George Bartlett
James E. Humphreville
Nancy Beswick

BASSOONS

VIOLAS

Charles :Gral>ert
Harry Arsenault
Jill Foster

Irma Holst
Betsy Deming
Nancy Foster
Edith Schwab

TRUMPETS
Anthony Barraco
David Holmes

VIO CELLOS
LON
TROMBONES
Howard c. Williams

Joseph Childs
Boit Bannen
Christina
Hinton
Chris Riley
Zona Ruml
Frances Ryerson

Suzanne Craven
Richard Ryerson

STRING ASS
B

Harold Proudfoot

Alfred Anderson
Robin Anderson
Russ Schrinner

TYMPANI·PERCUSSION
s

TUBA

Robin Anderson
Faith Anderson

FLUTES
Clois Ensor
Gene Lavera
Dolores MacKnight

Marcia Klebanow

PICCOLO

LIBRARIAN

Clois

Jolan

Ensor

PIANO

Kovacs

1975 - 1976

THEDANBURY CENTRE,
MUSIC
INC.
SPONSORING
PATRONS
The Barden Foundation,
Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Biggs
Mr. and Mrs. Robert c. Courtright
Mr. and Mrs. G. Vernon Eads
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Erlanger
Dr. and Mrs. Armand Guigui
Mr. and Mrs, Michael Ingrao
Special

Grant

Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar

W. Hoyt
Karrel
Mr. and.Mrs. John L. Senior,
Jr.
George A, Shepard and Sons Co.
Donald N. '!Weedy Trust
Mrs. H. D. Van Houten

from the Danbury Cultural

Commission

SUSTAINING
PATRONS
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mrs.
Mr.
Mr,

and Mrs.
and Mrs.
and Mrs.
Alfred
and Mrs.
and Mrs.

Stuart Chase
Traverse Clements
Philip
G, Ellsworth
Harcourt
Aaron Klebanow
Simon Litton

Rabbi and Mrs. Jerome R. Malino
Katherine
F. Schwab
Mr. and Mrs. William c. Ward, Jr,
Harold M. Welch
Alfred Francis Zega

CONTRIBUTING
PATRONS
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Adler
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Anderson
Robin Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Bennett
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bersi
Mr. aod Mrs. Leo J. Brancato
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cole
Connecticut
National
Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Dasilva,
Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Deming
Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Dent
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Dun
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Eagleton
Mr, and Mrs. Clois Ensor
Dr, and Mrs. Benjamin Epstein
Mr, and Mrs. Orpheus H. Fisher
Johanna-Maria
Fraenkel
Mr. and Mrs, John F. Green
John Orne Green
Dr. Ruth A. Haas
Mr, and Mrs. Allen Hermes
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Hill
Mr. and Mrs. John Hoffer
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hooper
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Humphreville
Mr. and Mrs. W. Bigelow Ives
Mrs. and Mrs. Charles A. James
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred w. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Kastuck
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Knapp, Jr.
K~istine
A. Knudsen
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kunkel
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Leroi
Margaret Lynch
The Macton Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mead, Jr.
Austin Meissner
Mesinger Manufacturing
Co,, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Nourse
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Papish
Mr. and Mrs. Saul Poliak
Dr. and Mrs .. Peter Pratt
·Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Purcell
Dr. and Mrs. Martin F. Randolph
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ratner
Dr. and Mrs. Peter Romanow
Mrs. Elmo Roper
Mr~ and Mrs. Edwin A. Rosenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Rounds
Mrs. Lois T. Ruml
Savings Bank of Danbury
Mr. and Mrs. William Schreiber
Harold F. Schwede
Union Trust Company
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Untermeyer
Jesse B. Walker
Dr. an~ Mrs. B. P. Watson

FRIENDS THE
OF
MUSIC
CENTRE
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Adams
Mrs. Carl N. Albert
Mr. and Mrs. Gemino Amlllazzalorso
Dr. and Mrs. Milton J. Aronds
Mr. and Mrs. John Atwood
Mrs. John R. Bacon
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bickman
Mr. and Mrs. A. OWens Bie:anann
Mr. and Mrs. Boit L. Brannen
Mrs~ Mary Brennan
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Burnett
Mr. and Mrs. Robert case
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Childs
Eileen Clark
David M. Coelho
Eugene T. Connolly, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin I. Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crotty
Jean Dalrymple
Kay Dolan
Mr. and Mrs. John w. Douglas
Mrs. John P. Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Ensor
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feinson
Fenste~
Dr. and Mrs. Philips.
Doris F. Field
Dr. and Mrs.~Howard Glaser
Dr. Roma Gans
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glick
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Godward
Mrs. E. I. GUJ)lkowski
Ellen w. Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. w. Edwin Harrison
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Heyman
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hinton·
Dorothy s. Holman
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Holmes
Mr. and Mrs. George Jacobi
Libby Kasimer
Mr. and Mrs. Istvan Kovacs
Jolan Kovacs
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Kretsch
Dr. and Mrs. William Lebowitz
Ruth Lupienski

John Thomas Lupienski
w. McKee
Elisabeth
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell McKerrow
Mr. and Mrs. William M. McLachlan
J. F. Moffa
Dr. Kathleen McGrory
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Munro
Mr. and Mrs. Pasquale Nappi
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nawyn
Julian Olney
Mr. and Mrs. John Patton
Thomas W. Powell
Mrs. William Pressmar
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Previdi
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Repko
Helen O. Rider
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Robinson
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Rogol
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shogren
The Siegel Agency
Mr. and Mrs. Max Sinowitz
Gertrude V. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Royal P. Skiff
Mildred G. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Abram w. Spiro
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Stone
Mr. and Mrs. Guenther Stubner
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Svonkin
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Sunderland
Mrs. Rolf J. Thal
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. James Tolan
Mr. and Mrs. John Toland
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Tomlinson
Dr. and Mrs. Amos Turk
Dr. and Mrs. Jay Weiner
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick T. Watson
Mrs. Seth Wibling
Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Williams
Carola W. Wormser
Florence A. Wyman
Dr. and Mrs. Philip J. Young

A SHORT
HISTORY
The DanburyMusic Centre was founded by Donald
Tweedymore than 40 years ago. It was his dream
"to provide an opportunity for the people of the
DanburyCommunity,regardless of race, religion
or economic status to make their ownmusic, both
choral and instrumental".
The Centre, a non-profit communityorganization
supported by voluntary contributions, sponsors
five musical groups: The DanburyCommunity
Orchestra, the DanburyCommunity
Chorus, the
DanburyLittle Symphony,a ChamberOrchestra
and the Summer
String Classes.
Its regular season concerts are presented without
admission charge, as a communityservice. All
who play or sing are volunteer musicians, both
amatue~ and professional, who rehearse under
professional direction. No auditions are held
and no fees are charged for those whowish to
participate. ·
Summer
String Classes attract 75 or more students
annually, both youngsters and adults; beginning,
intermediate and advanced students. A minimal
fee is charged. This year, classes are scheduled
to begin on July 6th~
The Centre is grateful for your support. Wehope
you will be able to participate in one or more of
our groups and enjoy our concerts as a memberof
the audience.

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