Recognized by critics and musicians alike as

“one of the world’s greatest 

choral conductors,” Joseph Flummerfelt has collaborated with such

eminent conductors as Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre 

Boulez, Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Zhubin Mehta, Ricardo Muti, Seiji

Ozawa, Wolfgang Swallisch, and Robert Shaw. Since 1977 Flummerfelt

has been one of three artistic directors for the Spoleto Festival USA in

Charleston, South Carolina, and for twenty-three years he was the

maestro del coro for the Festivo dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. He is

also the chorus master for the New York Philharmonic and founder and

director of The New York Choral Artists. As the artistic director and

principal conductor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 

Flummerfelt has earned many honors, including Le Prix du President de

la Republique from1’Academie du Disque Frangais and two Grammy 

nominations. He has received four honorary doctorates and is included in

the International Who’s Who in Music and in the Baker’s Biographical

Dictionary ofMusic and Musicians.

Nancianne Parrella is an organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and one of

the leading choral accompanists in the United States. In addition to her 

post as assistant director and accompanist of the Westminster Choir and

accompanist of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, she is the associate 

organist of the Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola in New York City. She

has collaborated with such noted conductors as Kurt Masur, Robert 

Shaw, Erich Leinsdorf, Zdenek Macal, Joseph Flummerfelt, and

Wolfgang Sawallisch, and has performed with the New York

Philharmonic, the Atlantic Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the

New Jersey Symphony, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Fort Worth 

Symphony, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others. She was the

organist for the critically acclaimed New York Philharmonic 

performances and recording of Britten’s War Requiem with the

Westminster Choir and the American Boy Choir. She was also the

organist for the United States premiere of George Katzer’s Sound House

and fora 1999 performance of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3, directed by

Kent Tritle at the Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola.

Program notes by Elmer Booze

Westminster Choir 2000-2001 The Fifty-ninth Season of

Soprano 

Kiera Duffy

Heather Fetrow

Kelliann McCullough 

Amanda Moody

Michele Oh

Jennifer Paulino 

Robyn Pruitt-Hamm 

Emily Ross-Johnson 

Lisa Straub

Danielle Talamantes

Alto

Heather Bell

Lucia Bradford 

Jan Cerrigione 

Marguerite Durant 

Daniels Holderby 

Stephanie Linney

Melanie Malinka 

Phyllis Tritto 

Terina Westmeyer 

Geoffrey Williams

Tenor

Brandon Beachamp 

Richard Fitzgerald 

Nicholas Houhoulis 

Russell Nelson 

Adam Phillips 

Amedeo Tritto 

Steven Williamson 

Steve Ziegler

Bass

Spencer Adamson 

Scott Dispensa 

Philip Gerrard 

Jeremiah Goldovitz 

Bryce Hayes

Robert Keating 

Seung Chan Lee

Douglas Millar

Jeremy Mueller

Ryan Rothchild

Aaron Smith

Patrick Walders

The use ofcameras or recording equipment during

the performance is not allowed.

For the convenience ofconcertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:30 p.m.

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2378th Concert

THE WESTMINSTER CHOIR

JOSEPH FLUMMERFELT, conductor

NANCIANNE PARRELLA, accompanist

Sunday Evening, 25 March 2001

Seven O'clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Selectionsfrom concerts at the Gallery

can be heard on the second Sunday ofeach month

at 9:00p.m. on WGMS, 103.5 FM.

Admission free
PROGRAM

I. From the Renaissance

Tomas Luis de Victoria 

(1548-1611)

Motet: O quam gloriosum et regnum 

Missa: O quam gloriosum et regnum

Kyrie

Gloria 

Agnus Dei

n. Three Settings of the Lord’s Prayer

John Tavener 

(b. 1944)

Our Father

Maurice Durufle 

(1902-1986)

Notre Pere

Igor Stravinsky 

(1882-1971)

III. Romantic Motets

Pater Noster

Anton Bruckner 

(1824-1896)

Libera me, Domine

Johannes Brahms 

(1833-1897)

Lass dich nur nichts dauren

IV. Three Twentieth-century Part-songs

Benjamin Britten

(1913-1976)

Samuel Barber 

(1910-1981)

Gian Carlo Menotti

(b. 1911)

The Evening Primrose 

To Be Sung on the Water

Twelfth Madrigal

from “The Unicom, the Gorgon,

and the Marticore”

INTERMISSION

V.

Johannes Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52

1. Rede, Madchen, allzu liebes

2. Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut

3. O die Frauen

4. Wie des Abends schone Rote

5. Die griine Hopfenranke

6. Ein kleiner, hiibscher Vogel

10. O wie sanft die Quelle

11. Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen

12. Schlosser, auf, und mache Schlosser

13. Vogelein durchrauscht die Luft

14. Sieh, wie ist die Welle klar

15. Nachtigall, sie singt so schon

VI. Three Folk Songs from Great Britain

Arr. Joseph Flummerfelt

Ralph Vaughn Williams 

(1872-1958)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Loch Lomond 

Cornin’ through the Rye

The Turtle Dove

vn.

At the River 

Long Time Ago

I Bought Me a Cat

The Promise of Living from “The Tender Land”

Nancianne Parrella and Iszumi Fugimori, piano four hands

Setting the standard for choral excellence for eighty years, the

Westminster Choir is composed of students from Westminster Choir 

College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. Under the

leadership of Joseph Flummerfelt, the choir has been the chorus-inresidence for the Spoleto Festival USA since 1977 and was the chorusin-residence for the Festivo dei due mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) in

Spoleto, Italy, for twenty-three years. During the 1999-2000 season, the

Westminster Choir undertook a two-week concert tour of the South and

Midwest, performed Poulenc’s Mass in G as part of the New York

Poulenc Festival, and sang the complete choral works of Aaron Copland 

as part of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Copland celebration. 

During the past twenty-seven years, the Westminster Choir has made

many recordings, and its most recent release, Singing for Pleasure, was

selected by the New York Times as a favorite among all existing Brahms

recordings. The choir’s newest recording, American Choral Classics,

will be released on the Newport Classics label later this season.