Concert Program
Large Ensemble Concert Series
NIU Choral Concert
NIU Concert Choir
NIU University Chorus
NIU Chamber Choir
Eric Johnson, director, NIU Chamber Choir and Concert Choir
Mary Lynn Doherty, director, University Chorus
Tuesday, March 3, 2025
7 p.m.
Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
Program
Chamber Choir |
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| Sechs Lieder, Op. 50 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) |
| Ruhethal (no. 5) |
| Translation When in the final rays of evening golden mountain clouds rise like Alpen peaks on high, I often ask sorrowfully: Is my own final resting-place among them? |
| Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| Chorus no. 2 Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis |
| Translation I had much affliction in my heart, but your consolations restore my soul. |
| Chorus no. 6 Was betrübst du dich, meine seele? |
| Translation Why are you distressed, my soul, and are so restless in me? Wait on God; for I shall yet thank him that I shall see him as my help and my God. |
University Chorus |
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| Tshotsholoza (Go Forward) | Traditional South African arr. by Jeffrey Ames (b. 1969) |
| Brayden Dulen and Reign Bonnewell, Soloists | |
| Translation “Go forward, go forward on those mountains; the train is coming from South Africa. You are running away on those mountains; the train is coming from South Africa.” |
| Adoramus Te | Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) |
| J’Entends le Moulin (I Hear the Millwheel) | Québecois Folk Song arr. by Donald Patriquin (b. 1938) |
| From Trois chansons folklorique | |
| Translation I hear the millwheel tique tique taque. My father is having a house built. It’s being built with three gables. There are three carpenters building it. The youngest is my darling. What do you have in your apron? lt’s a pie made of three pigeons. Let’s sit down and eat it. While sitting down they all lept up, Causing the sea and fish to tremble, and the stones on the bottom of the sea. |
| The Bird’s Lullaby | Sarah Quartel (b. 1982) |
Concert Choir |
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| Mass in G Minor | Ralp Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) |
| Translation | ||
| Kyrie | ||
| Lord have mercy on us. Christ have mercy in us. Lord have mercy on us |
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| Gloria | ||
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Glory to God in the highest. We praise Thee. We bless Thee. We Give thanks to Thee, according to thy great glory. Lord God, heavenly King, God, Father almighty. Thou who takest away the sins of the world, For thou alone are holy. With the Holy Spirit |
| Come, Sing to the Praise (from opera | Christoph Gluck (1714-1787) |
| Joseph Quaynor, soloist | |
| Mamayog Akun | Traditional courting song from Mindano, Philippines ar. Fabian Obospo (b. 1947) |
| Translation My dear Mamayog, do walk behind me Because if you walk in front of me, People will only look as you even though I am as Pretty as you. |
| Bahaari Baarish | Shruthi Rajasekar (b. 1996) |
| Ong-Hye-Ya | Folk song from Kyeong-Sang-Do province, Korea arr. Hye-Young-Cho (b. 1969) |
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Translation |
Personnel
NIU Chamber Choir
Director: Eric A. Johnson, D.M.A.
Yuxi Qui, Accompanist
| Soprano | Alto | Tenor | Bass |
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Kayla Lockhart |
Maggie Garner |
Matthew Ellis |
Daniel Chukwunyem |
NIU Concert Choir
Director: Eric A. Johnson, D.M.A.
Minjung Kim, Accompanist
| Soprano | Tenor | Alto | Bass |
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Kaylie Emmer |
Rain Anzaldua |
Serge Dulang |
Bryn Callahan |
NIU University Chorus
Director: Mary Lynn Doherty, Ph.D.
Qingyun Zheng, Accompanist
| Soprano | Alto | Tenor | Bass |
| Emily Bauer Jenessa Bowen Vanessa Carol Araceli Duran Dani Godinez Skyla Johnson Hannah Jorgensen Jocelyn Kuntz G Mayotte Chloe McKendry Lux Moone Dulce Nepomuceno Emelia Plewa Sheridan Settipani Brooke Sleigher Caileen Szostak |
Anne Bishop Talia Grzelak Isabella Jaimes Alisa James Ash Lehning Lily Owen Gracie Raab Jayda Thompson Jaylin Turner |
Chris Avila Reign Bonnewell Phoenix Brosman Bryn Callahan Brayden Dulin Gabe Greenfield Alex Hager Dave Houghton Madelyn Montiel Michael Powyszynski Blake Wiles |
Jonathan Alanis Crowler Bonomo Declan Carter Andrew Clark Colton Dean Nathan Domecki Brennyn Ford Julian Hernandez Brady Jobst Wolfgang Jones Sasha Marquez Noah Reader Lucas Smardo Morgan Tipton Frank Vyverberg Everett Wright |
Bios
Assistant Director of the School of Music
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education
Mary Lynn Doherty is the assistant director of the School of Music and the coordinator of music education at Northern Illinois University, where she teaches choral and general music methods, supervises student teachers, works with undergraduate and graduate students as well as area music educators at all levels and conducts the University Chorus.
In 2020, Doherty was awarded the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. She has also been nominated for NIU’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award four times, representing the School of Music and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Doherty has been invited to conduct ILMEA District choirs (elementary, middle and high school) eight times as well as serving as the conductor of the Rockford High School All-City Honor Choir, the Big Northern Conference Honor Choir, the Little Ten High School Choral Festival, the West Suburban Women’s Festival Choir, the North Central Junior Conference Honor Choir, the Women’s Honor Choir at the UW-Madison Summer Youth Music Camp and numerous district festival choirs.
Doherty was the director of NIU’s Community School of the Arts Children’s Choir from 2008-2016, earning grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to fund commissions and residences with internationally renowned composers and conductors. She is on the Illinois Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance Committee and serves as the NIU host of the Summer CMP Workshop. Prior to coming to NIU, she was the director of music education and associate conductor for the Choir Academy of the Chicago Children’s Choir.
Doherty’s research is on vocal health issues experienced by music teachers and she has presented her work both nationally and internationally as well as being published in The Choral Journal and the Journal of Voice. She is a member of the National Association for Music Education, the American Choral Directors Association, the National Voice Foundation and the American Organization of Kodaly Educators. She received her Master of Music degree and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Music Education degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Luther College. Her mentors include Judy Hanson, Brett Goad, Gerald Olson and Weston Noble.
Professor and Coordinator of Choral Activities
Eric A. Johnson, D.M.A., is the director of choral activities at Northern Illinois University and the founding artistic director of Cor Cantiamo. As a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Artworks grant recipient, he has been recognized for his artistic leadership, whose ensembles represent “choral artistry at its finest” (Lauridsen). He is a committed champion of contemporary choral music and dedicated to addressing social justice issues through interdisciplinary concert events. Johnson is the 2020 recipient of the Harold Decker Award, given by the Illinois American Choral Directors Association to celebrate his career of quality leadership and service to the art of choral music.
Ensembles under his direction have performed at multiple national and division conventions for the National Collegiate Choral Organization, American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference. He has served as a guest conductor at Avery Fisher Hall and the David Geffen Hall; Lincoln Center, toured internationally and prepared choruses for collaborations with professional orchestras.
Internationally, Johnson has served as a guest conductor of the Clare College Chapel Choir (Cambridge, England) and the Asian Pacific Activities Conference Choral Festival (Guangzhou, China); taught at Makumira University (Arusha, Tanzania); the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil); and directed guest choral residencies at Canterbury and Worcester Cathedrals.
As the artistic director of Cor Cantiamo, Johnson has recorded commercial CDs released on the Divine Arts and Centaur Records labels. He has collaborated with many leading composers of our time including Dominick DiOrio, Stacey Gibbs, Libby Larsen, Morten Lauridsen, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Timothy C. Takach, Sir John Tavener and James Whitbourn.
Johnson has published music with Santa Barbara Music Publishing, served as a music editor for Earthsongs Publications and has published articles in the Choral Journal. He is active nationally as a clinician and guest conductor for high school and collegiate honor choirs and regularly conducts choral/orchestral masterworks works with both collegiate and professional ensembles.