A Concert of the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, featuring choirs, gamelan, and an original composition titled “Earth Peace” by Carol Ann Weaver, Professor Emerita of Music.
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Program
Voices for Peace Concert
Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference & Festival
Thursday, June 9, 2016, 7:30 pm
Theatre of the Arts, University of Waterloo
Grebel Balinese Gamelan, I Dewa Made Suparta, artistic director
Kwangen I Dewa Putu Berata
Kebyar Perak arranged by Wayan Gandra
University Choir, Gerard Yun, conductor
Janger Indonesian Traditional
God Will Give Orders & Sweet Child from Snow Angel Sarah Quartel
Thula Thula Mama South African Traditional
Shosholoza South African Traditional
Erin Windibank, Noah Janzen, Mohan Thomas,
Gerard Yun, percussion; Spencer Van Leeuwen, cello;
Ian VanderBurgh, piano
Earth Peace music by Carol Ann Weaver
texts (in this order): Ann Hostetler, Gus and Margie Mills,
Harold Miller, Jennifer Ball, Dorothy Jean Weaver, Reina
Neufeldt, Charity Schellenberg, Dave Klassen, Faith Eides;
all others by CAW
Intro – string quartet
Gloria (Glory to God) – choir
Hartebeest Tangle – string quartet
Wild Dog Dervish 1 – string quartet
Laudamus (We praise Thee) – choir
Wild Dog Dervish 2 – string quartet
Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant us Peace) – choir
Kyrie (Lord have Mercy) – choir
East Timor – string quartet
Wild Dog Dervish 3 – string quartet
Springbok Lamb Ode – string quartet
Lament 1 for Nigerian Girls
(Lamb of God grant us peace) – soprano, choir
Lament 2 for Shongweni
(Lux Aeterna - Grant Eternal Light) – soprano, choir
Peace to Our Planet – soprano, choir
Ring Out Peace – choir, string quartet, gamelan
University Choir - Gerard Yun, cond;
Stephanie Kramer, soprano
Factory Arts String Quartet – Andrew Chung and
Julie Baumgartel, violin; Jody Davenport, viola;
Ben Bolt-Martin, cello
Grebel Balinese Gamelan, I Dewa Made Suparta,
director
Readers: Jennifer Ball, Kevin Cardenas, Carol Ann
Weaver, Dorothy Jean Weaver
(program notes)
Grebel Balinese Gamelan is directed by Maisie Sum with I Dewa Made Suparta as artistic director and Grebel artist-in-residence. He hails from a renowned musical family, has performed and taught throughout Bali and toured internationally. Within Balinese gamelan music, Gamelan, is the Indonesian term for a set of instruments made primarily of bronze or bamboo. On the island of Bali there is a plethora of gamelan ranging from two to as many as fifty instruments, some of which date back over 700 years. Characterized by a structural framework marked by gongs, rapid-fire interlocking parts that elaborate upon a core melody, and tightly coordinated sudden shifts in tempo and dynamics, Balinese gamelan reflects the spirit of interaction and community and exemplifies the practice of mutual help (gotong royong). Grebel Balinese Gamelan performers are Andrew Beltaos, Jerry Liu, Jill Moroz-Filotiv, Hanna Negami, Mitchell Rushton, Andrew Smith, Stephen Trothen, Arie van de Ven, Alex Wharton, Linna Zheng and Christin Zhong.
University of Waterloo Choir, conducted by Gerard Yun, consists of students, staff, faculty, and community members. The choir rehearses and performs a wide variety of large-ensemble literature from western classics to cultural musics of North America, South Africa, Estonia, Senegal, Japan, China, Bali, and Europe. The group has pioneered community music collaborations with a wide variety of professional and community artists in styles ranging from bluegrass to Persian song. Active in local community, they regularly appear in KW’s annual signature community event, Sing Fires of Justice, and most recently performed with an all-star line up as part of Waterloo’s Benefit for Attawapiskat.
Soprano, Stephanie Kramer enjoys an active solo career throughout Ontario as guest performer with many groups including The Menno Singers, The Mennonite Mass Choir, The Renaissance Singers, DaCapo Chamber Choir, and Spiritus Ensemble. For many years she was a frequently featured soloist with The Elora Festival Singers and has also appeared in concert in Toronto with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. She is voice instructor and studio coordinator at Conrad Grebel University College.
Formed in 2010, the high energy Factory Arts String Quartet is the core ensemble for the music series INNERchamber held in Stratford, Ontario. Players are well known nationally and internationally (Andrew Chung and Julie Baumgartel violins, Jody Davenport, guest violist, Ben Bolt-Martin cello), and perform in festivals throughout Ontario and beyond.
Earth Peace by Carol Ann Weaver, composed and compiled in South Africa and Namibia during 2015-2016, tells global stories of conflict, pain, resolution and joy, allowing humans to be in dialogue with and learn from creatures in the natural world. All of us are part of the earth; so global peacemaking involves humans and the natural world. Choral pieces respond with mostly Latin Mass texts and English lyrics by CAW, while the string quartet plays short reflections. The writings, obtained from those who answered a call for Earth Peace stories, do not represent all regions of the globe, but represent significant parts of the larger focus of this conference. Each writer is identified by name; their writings, used by permission, occur in this order: Ann Hostetler, Gus and Margie Mills, Harold Miller, Jennifer Ball, Dorothy Jean Weaver, Reina Neufeldt, Charity Schellenberg, Dave Klassen, and Faith Eides; all others by CAW. Tonight’s performance marks the world premiere, and is generously supported by the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival.
Location Information
200 University Avenue West
Theatre of the Arts
Waterloo, ON, CA N2L 3G1