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All-Shore Chorus in 1979, conducted by Mr. Paul O. Grammer, Jr.
Mr. Harold R. Oyan, founder and first conductor of All-Shore Chorus
The All-Shore Chorus was created in 1963 by the choral directors from seven area high schools, in order to provide an opportunity for outstanding high school singers from Monmouth and Ocean County schools to join together and perform a challenging choral program.
The founding choral directors were:
Under the direction of Mr. Harold R. Oyan, the All-Shore Chorus performed its first concert on February 29, 1964, at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School.
On October 19, 1969, the chorus was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation. The stated purpose of All-Shore Chorus, Incorporated was
To provide opportunity and incentive for students of the member high schools to take a deeper interest in choral singing.
The organization's constitution, adopted on November 19, 1978, further states:
Through the use of good choral literature, the sound selection of singers, and a high quality of leadership, this organization shall provide for the mutual elevation of choral standards among the participating schools.
Since its founding, the All-Shore Chorus has continued to provide an exceptional vocal music experience for students, directors, and audiences.
Fredric Woodbridge Wilson is a native of the New Jersey shore area: he was born in Point Pleasant and graduated from Wall Township High School; he returned there in 1969 as a teacher, where he directed the Wall Choirs through 1981. In 1970 Mr. Wilson formed the Wall Chamber Choir, which achieved widespread notoriety under his direction, frequently presenting more than 50 concerts in a single school year. In 1978 he formed the Wall Youth Choir, an honors chorus for singers in grades 4-6, performing serious repertoire for children's voices. Mr. Wilson was also an active participant in the All-Shore Chorus: he conducted the Chorus in 1971-1972, served as President in 1978-1979, and acted as Audition Manager for many years.
Mr. Wilson received degrees in music and musicology from Lehigh University and New York University; he also studied music at Moravian College, and he has studied conducting with Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner, Helmuth Rilling, Wilhelm Ehmann, David Willcocks, and other well-known choral conductors. In 1977, Mr. Wilson was appointed conductor of the Washington Square Chorus and the graduate school Collegium Musicum at New York University; he has also conducted the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra and several other choruses, as well as many stage productions.
Mr. Wilson has had more than 50 musical works published. During the 1970's he was a regular choral arranger for Warner Brothers, and he has edited choral music for several publishers, including Roger Dean Publishing Co., Boosey & Hawkes, and Allaire Music Publications. Mr. Wilson left teaching in 1981 to assume the position of Director of Choral Publications at the New York music publisher Broude Brothers. He has been awarded four competitive first-place awards for excellence in editing Renaissance and Baroque music by the Music Publishers Association and the American Choral Directors' Association.
A specialist in unaccompanied choral music, Mr. Wilson organized the three Wall Invitational Chamber Choir Festivals in the 1970's, which featured accomplished choirs in the performance of serious a cappella music. He is known as an authority on the music of the renaissance composer Jacobus Gallus, who is renowned especially for spectacular works for multiple unaccompanied choirs; his catalogue of Gallus's works was published in Slovenia in 1991. Mr. Wilson is also committed to the promotion of contemporary choral music; the Wall Choirs commissioned, premiered, and recorded a number of original choral works from prominent composers such as Daniel Pinkham and Jonathan Elkus.
In 1981, Mr. Wilson was appointed Curator of the Gilbert and Sullivan Collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the largest collection of rare manuscripts and documents concerning Victorian music, theater, and opera. He has organized several exhibitions and academic conferences on the subject of Victorian music and theatre, including, in 1989-1990, the largest exhibition of any kind ever shown at the Morgan Library. He is the author of two books and many published articles about Gilbert and Sullivan, and he is frequently invited to serve as lecturer, advisor, and textual consultant to professional opera companies producing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Mr. Wilson is also Professor of Museum Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.
[Further information about Mr. Wilson's activities]
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
SATB divisi, accompanied
Published by Oxford University Press
13:00
Robert Lucas de Pearsall
Adieu! My Native Shore
SATB unaccompanied
2:00
Joseph Barnby
Sing a Joyous Roundelay
SATB unaccompanied
2:30
Arthur Sullivan
Oh! Leave Me Not to Pine
SATB unaccompanied
Arranged by Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Published by Roger Dean Music Publications, 1985
2:00
Claudio Monteverdi
Lætatus Sum
SATB accompanied
8:00
Jacobus Gallus (Jacob
Handl)
Pater Noster
SSAA-TTBB unaccompanied
Edited by Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Published by Allaire Music Publications
5:30
Randall Thompson
Ye Shall Have a Song
SSAA-TTBB unaccompanied
Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Co.
3:00
(Presentations)
John Lennon and Paul
McCartney
Here, There, and Everywhere
Arranged by Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Published by Warner Brothers Music, 1974
SATBB unaccompanied
2:30
Intermission
Student Solos
(All-Shore Chorus Scholarship Winners)
Gilbert and Sullivan
Trial By Jury: A Dramatic Cantata
SATB with soli, accompanied
(Complete Concert Performance)
35:00
How sweet the moonlight
sleeps upon the bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness, and the night,
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Look how the floor
of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's not the smallest orb that thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Come, ho! and wake
Diana with a hymn:
With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,
And draw her home with music.
I am never merry
when I hear sweet music.
The reason is, your spirits are attentive:
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus;
Let no such man be trusted.
Music, hark! It is
the music of the house.
Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day
Silence bestows that virtue on it,
How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection!
Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion
And would not be awaked!
Soft stillness and
the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Adieu! adieu! my
native shore
Fades o'er the waters blue;
The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar,
And shrieks the wild sea-mew.
Yon sun upon the
sea,
We follow in his flight,
Farewell awhile to him and thee,
My native land, good night!
With thee, my bark,
I'll swiftly go
Athwart the foaming brine,
Nor care what land thou bear'st me to,
So not again to mine.
Welcome, ye blue
waves,
And when ye fail my sight,
Welcome, ye deserts and ye caves,
My native land, good night!
Oh! leave me not
to pine
Alone and desolate;
No fate seemed fair as mine,
No happiness so great!
And nature, day by day,
Has sung, in accents clear,
This joyous roundelay,
"He loves thee -- he is here,
Fa-la, fa-la, fa-la."
Ah, I must leave
thee here
In endless night to dream,
Where joy is dark and drear,
And sorrow all supreme!
Where nature, day by day,
Will sing, in altered tone,
This weary roundelay,
"He loves thee -- he is gone,
Fa-la, fa-la, fa-la."
Sing a joyous roundelay,
Voices blending blithe and gay,
While the glad hours pass along,
We would stay them with a song.
Slow the shadows
gather round us,
Soon the sad night will have found us,
Be we grave or be we gay,
Swift the moments glide away.
Therefore, while
as yet 'tis day,
Sing a joyous roundelay. Fa la la.
Thought we sing or
though we sigh,
Still the fickle hours will fly;
Still the waxing moon must wane,
Morning wear to night again.
Gone the moments
ere we heed them,
Naught we do can stay or speed them,
While we count them day is done,
Ended ere it seems begun.
Therefore, while
as yet 'tis day,
Sing a joyous roundelay. Fa la la.
1.
Lætátus
sum in his quæ dicta sunt michi:
in domum Dómini íbimus.
I was glad when
they said unto me,
Let us go into the house of the Lord.
2.
Stantes erant pedes
nostri,
in átriis tuis Jerúsalem.
Our feet shall
stand
within they gates, O Jerusalem.
3.
Jerúsalem,
quæ ædificátur ut cívitas:
cujus participátio ejus in idípsum.
Jerusalem is builded
as a city
that is compact together.
4.
Illuc enim ascendérunt
tribus Dómini:
testimónium Ísrael ad confiténdum nómine
Dómini.
Whither the tribes
go up, the tribes of the Lord,
unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of
the Lord.
5.
Quia illic sedérunt
sedes in judício,
sedes super domum David.
For there are
set thrones of judgement,
The thrones of the house of David.
6.
Rogáte quæ
ad pacem sunt Jerúsalem:
et abundántia diligéntibus te.
Pray for the peace
of Jerusalem,
they shall prosper that love thee.
7.
Fiat pax in virtúte
tua:
et abundántia in túrribus tuis.
Peace be within
thy walls,
And prosperity within thy palaces.
8.
Propter fratres meos
et próximos meos,
loquébar pacem de te.
For my brethren
and companions' sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within you.
9.
Propter domum Dómini
Dei nostri,
quæsívi bona tibi.
Because of the
house of the Lord our God,
I will seek thy good.
Glória Patri,
et Fílio, et spíritui Sancto:
sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula
sæculórum.
Amen.
Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.
Amen.
Pater noster qui
es in cælis,
Our father which art in heaven,
Sanctificétur
nomen tuum,
Hallowed be thy name,
Advéniat regnum
tuum,
They kingdom come,
Fiat volúntas
tua,
Thy will be done,
Sicut in cælo
et in terra,
On earth as it is in heaven,
Panem nostrum quotidiánum
da nobis hódie,
Give us this day our daily bread,
Et dimítte
nobis d_bita nostra,
And forgive us our debts,
Sicut et nos dimíttimus
debitóribus nostris,
As we forgive our debtors,
Et ne nos indúucas
in tentatiónem,
And lead us not into temptation,
Sed líbera
nos a malo, Amen.
But deliver us from evil, Amen.
[This selection was eliminated from the program.]
Ye shall have a song,
as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;
and gladness of heart,
as when one goeth with a pipe
to come into the mountain of the Lord.
The Court Usher
[Bass]
Edwin, the Defendant
[Tenor]
The Learned Judge
[Baritone]
The Counsel for the
Plaintiff
[Baritone]
Foreman of the Jury
[Baritone]
Angelina, the Plaintiff
[Soprano]
The Jurymen, Bridesmaids,
& Spectators
[Chorus]
[Go to the complete libretto of Trial by Jury]
Note: the rehearsal schedule is subject to change in case of emergency cancellations.
This season set an All-Shore Chorus record for the most snow cancellations and the fewest rehearsals before the concert!
501 Nutswamp Road
Middletown, New Jersey 07748
Telephone (908) 671-3850
From the south, using the Garden State Parkway northbound, take exit 114. Turn right onto Red Hill Road, heading east. At the first traffic light turn right onto Dwight Road. The entrance to the high school is on the right side at the second traffic light, just before the railroad tracks.
From the north, using the Garden State Parkway southbound, take exit 114. Turn left onto Red Hill Road, heading east. At the second traffic light turn right onto Dwight Road. The entrance to the high school is on the right side at the second traffic light, just before the railroad tracks.
From the west, using County Route 537 eastbound, turn left onto Swimming River Road (Route 50). Continue about 2-1/2 miles (past Newman Springs Road and the Lincroft Inn) and turn right onto Nutswamp Road. The entrance to the high school is on the right side at the first traffic light, just before the railroad tracks.
From the south, using Route 35, turn left onto Newman Springs Road in Eatontown, a jughandle from the right lane. Continue about 3 miles and turn right onto Middletown-Lincroft Road (at a traffic light, near the Lincroft Inn). Continue about 2-1/2 miles and turn right onto Nutswamp Road (at a traffic light). The entrance to the high school is on the right side at the first traffic light, just before the railroad tracks.
From the north, using Route 35, bear right at Kings Highway just past the Sears store. Continue about 1 mile and turn right onto Church Street (by a white church). Continue about 2 miles to the second light and turn left onto Nutswamp Road. The entrance to the high school is at the first traffic light, just before the railroad tracks.
281 Elton-Adelphia
Road
Freehold, New Jersey 07726
Telephone (908) 431-8460
Freehold Township High School is on Elton-Adelphia Road near Route 9, south of the intersection of Route 9 and Route 33. It is located on the south side, just past the Marshall W. Errickson Elementary School, no. 271.
From the Route 33 intersection (at Freehold Raceway), take Route 9 southbound to the second traffic light (by the Golden Bell Diner). Turn right onto the exit ramp, and right (west) onto Elton-Adelphia Road. The school located about a mile down the road on the left side.
From the south using Route 9 northbound, turn left onto Elton-Adelphia Road (County Route 524). This light is by the Ocean Plaza (a jughandle turn from the right lane). Continue west onto Elton-Adelphia Road. The school is located about a mile down the road on the left side. (Using the Garden State Parkway northbound, take exit 97 to Interstate Route 195, going west to Route 9 north.)
From Farmingdale, take West Main Street west. This road becomes Adelphia-Farmingdale Road (County Route 524), and across Route 9 it becomes Elton-Adelphia Road. The school is located about a mile past Route 9 on the left side.
All student members of the All-Shore Chorus accepted the following rules when they returned their membership contracts after they were notified of their acceptance into the Chorus:
In the event of serious storms or other emergencies, it may be necessary to cancel or reschedule rehearsals or performances. However, because of the ambitious concert program and the short rehearsal period, rehearsals will be held if at all possible, even under inclement conditions. Any decisions about rescheduling will be made jointly by the Conductor, the President, and the choral director of the host school.
Students and choral directors should call the Hot Line below for the most up-to-date and reliable information about rehearsals and concerts. In the case of a change of schedule, information will also be telephoned to Radio Station WJLK (94.3 FM, 1310 AM). Students should never telephone the All-Shore Chorus Conductor or President themselves.
A telephone answering machine has been set up especially for the use of All-Shore Chorus student members and choral directors. There will be a recorded message giving the time and place of rehearsals and performances, and it will also be possible for students to leave messages regarding attendance. This machine will not be attended around rehearsal or performance times.
The Hot Line telephone number is (908) 223-0352.
The All-Shore Chorus has presented the following concerts since its founding in 1963:
1st Concert
February 29, 1964, at Rumson-Fair Haven High School
Mr. Harold R. Oyan, Long Branch High School, Conductor
2nd Concert
February 27, 1965
Mr. Paul O. Grammer, Jr., Rumson-Fair Haven High School,
Conductor
3rd Concert
February [date not recorded], 1966
Mr. Robert Spencer, Red Bank High School, Conductor
4th Concert
February 25, 1967
Mrs. Anne Hannah, Matawan High School, Conductor
5th Concert
March 2, 1968
Mr. Paul Eisenhart, Wall High School, Conductor
6th Concert
March 1, 1969
Mr. Richard Otey, Middletown Township High School, Conductor
7th Concert
February 28, 1970, at Marlboro High School
Mr. Frederic A. Truntz, Ocean Township High School, Conductor
Mr. Harold R. Oyan, Long Branch High School, President
8th Concert
February 20, 1971, at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School
Mrs. Ruthelaine MacIntyre, Asbury Park High School, Conductor
Mr. Jeffrey Unger, Howell High School, President
9th Concert
February 12, 1972, at Raritan High School
Mr. Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, Wall Township High School,
Conductor
Miss Judith Daugherty, Raritan High School, President
10th Concert
February 10, 1973, at Howell High School
Anne Hannah, Matawan High School, Conductor
Mr. Richard W. Schwarz, Holmdel High School, President
11th Concert
February 9, 1974, at Holmdel High School
Mr. Richard W. Schwarz, Holmdel High School, Conductor
Mr. William Starsinic, Freehold Boroughugh High School, President
12th Concert
February 8, 1975, at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School
Mr. William Starsinic, Freehold Borough High School, Conductor
Mrs. Ruthelaine MacIntyre, Howell High School, President
13th Concert
February 7, 1976, at Long Branch Junior High School
Mr. Harold R. Oyan, Long Branch High School, Conductor
Miss Elizabeth Abbatiello, Jackson Memorial High School, President
14th Concert
February 5, 1977, at Freehold Township High School
Miss Elizabeth Abbatiello, Jackson Memorial High School,
Conductor
Mr. Lee N. Weisert, Manasquan High School, President
15th Concert
February 4, 1978, at Holmdel High School
Mr. Philip R. Frowery, Raritan High School, Conductor
Mrs. Eleanor Linley, Monmouth Regional High School, President
16th Concert
February 7, 1979, at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School
Mr. Paul O. Grammer, Jr., Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High
School, Conductor
Mr. Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, President
17th Concert
February 9, 1980, at Middletown Township High School North
Mr. Lee N. Weisert, Manasquan High School, Conductor
Mr. Richard D. Ludlum, Middletown Township High School North and
South, President
18th Concert
February 7, 1981, at Holmdel High School
Mr. Richard D. Ludlum, Middletown Township High School
South, Conductor
Mrs. Alice Berman, Red Bank Regional High School, President
19th Concert
February 6, 1982, at Ocean Township High School
Mrs. Alice Berman, Marlboro High School, Conductor
Mrs. Michelle Avakian, Wall Township High School, President
20th Concert
February 5, 1983
Mr. Frederic A. Truntz, Ocean Township High School, Conductor
21st Concert
February 4, 1984
Mrs. Michele Avakian, Wall High School, Conductor
22nd Concert
February 2, 1985
Mr. Mark De Mareo, Middletown Township High School North,
Conductor
23rd Concert
February 1, 1986
Mr. Steven A. Gosewisch, Howell High School, Conductor
Mr. Steven A. Gosewisch, Howell High School, President
24th Concert
February 7, 1987
Mr. Richard Schwarz, Holmdel High School, Conductor
25th Anniversary
Concert
February 6, 1988, at Holmdel High School
Founding Conductors
Mr. Harold R. Oyan
Mr. Paul O. Grammer, Jr.
Mrs. Anne Hannah
Mr. Robert Spencer
Mr. William Starsinic
Mr. Loren D. Donley, Point Pleasant Borough High School, President
26th Concert
February 3, 1989
Mr. Loren D. Donley, Point Pleasant Borough High School,
Conductor
27th Concert
February 3, 1990
Mr. Michael Heap, Freehold Borough High School, Conductor
28th Concert
February 2, 1991
Mrs. Ruthelaine MacIntyre, Freehold Township High School,
Conductor
29th Concert
February 8, 1992
Mr. Mark Megill, Allentown High School, Conductor
30th Concert
February 6, 1993
Mr. William R. Shoppell, Freehold Regional High School
District, Conductor
31st Concert
February 5, 1994
Mr. Le Roy G. Whitehead, Jr., Matawan Regional High School,
Conductor
32nd Concert
February 4, 1995
Ms. Kayla Werlin, Middletown Township High School North,
Conductor
Mrs. Karen Olsen, Ocean Township High School, President
33rd Concert
February 4, 1996, at Freehold Township High School
Mr. Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, Conductor
Mr. Lee N. Weisert, Manasquan High School, President
The 1995-1996 All-Shore Chorus program will conclude with a concert performance of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Trial By Jury. This humorous operetta, which is about 35 minutes long, has five solo parts, each having at least one solo song in addition to parts in several ensembles. It is intended that these roles shall be sung by members of the All-Shore Chorus.
Auditions for the solo parts will be held at the first and second rehearsals of All-Shore Chorus. Only students who have been accepted into All-Shore Chorus will be eligible to sing any of the solo parts in Trial By Jury. (The entire All-Shore Chorus will constitute the chorus for the opera.) Each school may send no more than one candidate to audition for each role, the candidates to be selected by the choral director.
There is no spoken dialogue in this opera. This will be a concert performance, without a set or costumes, but there will be some stage movement by the soloists, and the soloists will either have props or some costume elements sufficient to identify them in the action. Understudies may be selected as well.
Rehearsals of the solo parts and stage business will be arranged in addition to All-Shore Chorus rehearsals, at the convenience of the conductor and accompanist and the soloists. (It is likely that these additional rehearsals will be scheduled before evening chorus rehearsals and after Saturday chorus rehearsals.) Students auditioning for these parts should be aware that they are expected to learn and memorize their music immediately after they are selected for the roles, and that they must attend these principals' rehearsals.
For the audition, singers are expected to prepare one complete selection from Trial By Jury, preferably suited to their voice parts. Students may only perform one selection in their audition, but they may indicate that they are interested in more than one of the roles. The selections do not have to be memorized for the audition, but this may be helpful. An accompanist will be provided. The roles and audition songs are:
The entire All-Shore Chorus will perform the chorus parts of the Jury, Bridesmaids, and Spectators.
All participating choral directors have been furnished with a photocopy of the five audition songs for circulation among the All-Shore Chorus members.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Lee N. Weisert
President, All-Shore Chorus 1995-1996
Manasquan High School
Broad Street
Manasquan, New Jersey 08736
Telephone: (908)
528-1601
Fax: (908) 223-8330
E-mail: viserd@soho.ios.com
All-Shore Chorus
Hot Line (outgoing announcements; leave messages)
Telephone: (908) 223-0352
This document was
updated on February 20, 1996.
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