CarolFest

This popular annual program by the Chamber Singers, University Chorale, University Singers, Treble Choir, Gospel Choir, and UW Glee Club features seven conductors, six choral ensembles, five hundred singers, four graduate conductors, three choral faculty, two hours of great music, and one impressive grand finale.

Masks are required in all indoor spaces on the UW campus, and patrons must show proof of vaccination or recent (within 72 hours of the performance) negative COVID-19 test for entry to live events at Meany Hall. Enhanced sanitation measures and touchless ticketing are among other safety measures in effect for 2021-22. Details of these policies and procedures are at: https://artsevents.washington.edu/covid-protocols 

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Order of Program

GOSPEL CHOIR
(It Will Get) Better by Hezekiah Walker (b. 1962)
Total Praise by Richard Smallwood (b. 1948)

UNIVERSITY SINGERS
Fix You by Chris Martin, Will Champion, Guy Berryman, and Jonny Buckland
Anyone by Justin Bieber (b. 1994) arr. Marshell Lombard

CHORAL COHORT ENSEMBLE
Only In Sleep by Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) 

COLLEGIATE TREBLE CHOIR
Vidi Aquam by Kevin T. Padworski (b. 1987)
Sure on This Shining Night by Samuel Barber (1910–1981) arr. Jacob Naverud

GLEE CLUB
And So It Goes by Billy Joel (b. 1949) arr. Kirby Shaw
The Wellerman by New Zealand Traditional, arr. Roger Emerson

CHAMBER SINGERS
Noche de Paz by Franz Grüber (1787–1863), arr. César Alejandro Carrillo
Lao Rahal Soti  by Samih Choukeir (b. 1957); arr. Shireen Abu Khader
Cells Planets by Erika Lloyd, arr. Vince Peterson

UNIVERSITY CHORALE
If Music Be the Food of Love by David Dickau (b. 1953)
Sing my Child by Sarah Quartel (b. 1982)

COMBINED CHOIRS FINALE
I Love You/What A Wonderful World arr. Craig Hella Johnson

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Program Details

GOSPEL CHOIR
Phyllis Byrdwell, conductor

(It Will Get) Better by Hezekiah Walker (b. 1962)
Total Praise by Richard Smallwood (b. 1948)

SOPRANO Sunshine Zhao, Education, Communities & Organizations Margaret Josephson, Pre-Sciences Kyli Lora, Communications Becca Vu, Pre-Health Nicole Burnett, Communications ALTO Hayeun So, English Cathy Zerg, Cinema & Media Studies Amy Wang, Cinema & Media Studies Nicole Wong, Business Anna-Maria Peltomaeki, Finnish

TENOR James Zheng Cao, Mathematics Eric Gagliano, Civil Engineering Zhudin Zheng, Economics Jackson Brown, Information School Jeter Arellano, Computer Science Herojing “Jack” Zhang, ACMS Should Hao Quek, Pre-Sciences Boon Huish, Spanish BASS Abe Wu, Bioengineering Yining Li, Economics Adrian Dinh, Computer Science Ethan Mah, Microbiology

MUSICIANS:
Phyllis M. Byrdwell, Director & Keyboard
Anthony Brown, Percussion
Tony Mobley, Bass Guitar
Ben Hagan, Keyboard

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UNIVERSITY SINGERS

Fix You by Chris Martin, Will Champion, Guy Berryman, and Jonny Buckland,
as heard on the Coldplay album X&Y (2005), arr. George Chung
Tyler Todd Kimmel, conductor
Dominico Reyes, piano 
Marshell Lombard, cajón
Featuring UW a cappella ensemble Furmata

When you try your best, but you don't succeed When you get what you want, but not what you need When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep Stuck in reverse And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone, but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you

And high up above, or down below When you're too in love to let it go But if you never try, you'll never know Just what you're worth Tears stream down your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face, and I... Tears stream down your face I promise you I will learn from my mistakes Tears stream down your face, and I...

Anyone by Justin Bieber (b. 1994) arr. Marshell Lombard
Marshell Lombard, conductor
Tyler Todd Kimmel, piano 
Chloe Chapman and Thomas Beale, soloists

Dance with me under the diamonds
See me like breath in the cold
Sleep with me here in the silence
Come kiss me, silver and gold

You say that I won't lose you, but you can't predict the future
So just hold on like you will never let go
Yeah, if you ever move on without me
I need to make sure you know that

You are the only one I'll ever love (I gotta tell ya, gotta tell ya)
Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone (I gotta tell ya, gotta tell ya)
Lookin' back on my life, you're the only good I've ever done (Ever done)
Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone (Anyone), not anyone

Forever's not enough time to (Oh)
Love you the way that I want (Love you the way that I want)
'Cause every mornin', I'll find you (Oh)
I fear the day that I don't

You say that I won't lose you, but you can't predict the future

'Cause certain things are out of our control
Yeah, if you ever move on without me
I need to make sure you know that
You are the only one I'll ever love (Only one, I gotta tell ya, gotta tell ya)

Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone (I gotta tell ya, gotta tell ya)
Lookin' back on my life, you're the only good I've ever done (I've ever done)
Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone (It's not anyone, not anyone)

Oh-oh-oh-oh
If it's not you, it's not anyone
Oh-oh-oh, yeah, woah 

SOPRANO Margaret Caitlyn Ayers Penny Baltimore Chloe Eleanor Chapman Zoë Gabriela Cooper Geervani Daggupati Yishu Fang Christine Han Cordelia Jiang Jiayu Jin Hailey Rae Kepple Christina Lao Anne Lin Michelle Ly Charlize Anne Manzano Olive Merrie Parrish Abigail Ermengar TENOR Zaref Jame Nawaz Anderson Thomas Beale Olivia Lucille Beringer Ben Bunyatipanon  Hannah Carpenter Dominic Michael Levenseller-Watlandde Rogers Cassie Smith

ALTO Ash Larsan Baldino Ekaterina Bogdanova Kendell Braschler Emily Chua Abigail Louise Ipijan Lexi Koperski Heidi Louise Longwell Anya Danae Malhotra  Nichole Sams Phyllician Tjandra  Noelle Wenceslao  Lauren Elizabeth Whitesides Kathryn Helena Wynn Janet Yale Alice Yang Sophia Yang Amy Zhou  BASS Taylor James Buehler  Adrian Wong Cascante  Eric Huang Kevin Jiarui Wang Tianhao Yao

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CHORAL COHORT ENSEMBLE

Only In Sleep by Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) 
Poetry by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
Timothy E. Little, conductor
Virginia Elizondo and Mallory McCollum, soloists

Only in sleep I see their faces Children I played with when I was a child Louise comes back with her brown hair braided Annie with ringlets warm and wild Only in sleep Time is forgotten— What may have come to them, who can know? Yet we played last night as long ago And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair

The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces I met their eyes and found them mild— Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder And for them am I too a child?

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COLLEGIATE TREBLE CHOIR

Vidi Aquam by Kevin T. Padworski (b. 1987)
Leah Wyman, conductor
Dominico Reyes, piano primo and Dhayoung Yoon, piano secondo

Vidi aquam  Egredientem de templo, A latere dextro, alleluia:  Et omnes, ad quos pervenit aqua ista,  Salvi facti sunt,  Et dicent,  Alleluia, alleluia.

I saw water Flowing from the right side Of the temple, alleluia;  And all they to whom that water came  Were saved,  And they shall say,  Alleluia, alleluia.

Sure on This Shining Night by Samuel Barber (1910–1981) arr. Jacob Naverud
Anjali Chudasama, conductor
Dhayoung Yoon, piano

Sure on this shining night Of starmade shadows round, Kindness must watch for me This side the ground. The late year lies down the north. All is healed, all is health. High summer holds the earth. Hearts all whole.

Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder Wandering far alone Of shadows on the stars.

SOPRANO 1 Venus Feigelson Ashna Hille Irene Poon Daisy Schreiber Bifeng Xiao Kelly Sweeney SOPRANO 2 Reina Alaniz Chloe Chapman Maelynn Danke Rosaline Dou Jasmine Ershov Rebecca Fairbanks Sofia Grey Lucia Olt  Kelly Shi Kaku Cosmos Kelli Rockwell Lixin Xu

ALTO 1 Rania Awad Adrianna Ballard Julianne Browning June Fung Mary Kennelly Lea Li Dorothy Lu Cindy Mendoza Esther Strathy Linnet Toscano Noelle Sirmon Zichen Liu Isamar Chavez Quimeng Wang ALTO 2 Avi Anderson Allison Johnson Brynn Miller

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GLEE CLUB

And So It Goes by Billy Joel (b. 1949) arr. Kirby Shaw
Tyler Todd Kimmel, conductor

In every heart, there is a room A sanctuary safe and strong. To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along. I spoke to you in cautious tones, You answered me with no pretense. And still I feel, I said too much. My silence is my self-defense. And every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns. And so it goes, and so it goes, And so will you, soon, I suppose.

But if my silence made you leave, Then that would be my worst mistake. So I will share this room with you, And you can have this heart to break. And this is why my eyes are closed. It’s just as well for all I’ve seen. And so it goes, and so it goes, And you’re the only one who knows. So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes, And you’re the only one who knows.

The Wellerman by New Zealand Traditional, arr. Roger Emerson
Justin Birchell, conductor

There once was a ship that put to sea. The name of the ship was the Billy of Tea. The winds blew up, her bow dipped down, Oh, blow, my bully-boys, blow. Soon may the wellerman come, To bring us sugar and tea and rum. One day when the tonguin’ is done, We’ll take our leave and go She had not been two weeks from shore, When down on her a right-whale bore. The captain called all hands, and swore He’d take that whale in tow. Before the boat had hit the water, The whale’s tale came up and caught ‘er. All hands to the side, harpooned, and fought her, When she dived down below.

No line was cut, no whale was freed. The captain’s mind was not on greed, But he belonged to the whaleman’s creed, She took that ship in tow. For forty days or even more, The line went slack then tight once more. All boats were lost, there were only four, But still that whale did go. As far as I’ve heard, the fight’s still on, The line’s not cut, and the whale’s not gone. The wellerman makes his regular call, To encourage the captain, crew and all.

TENOR Guanyan Chen Carson Kyle Evan Ponyah Jesse Reidy Hao Shen Bryn Zeman-Witzel

BASS Zaref James Nawaz Anderson Adrian Wong Cascante Theo Lin Ryan Mauery Armand Mousavi Tony Wang Paul Yun Xiangyu Kevin Zhou

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CHAMBER SINGERS

Noche de Paz by Franz Grüber (1787–1863), arr. César Alejandro Carrillo
“Silent Night” text by Joseph Mohr (1792–1848)
Tiffany Walker, conductor 

Noche de paz, Noche de amor, Todo duerme en derredor, Entre los astros que esparcen su luz Viene anunciando al Niño Jesús. Brilla la estrella de paz, Brilla la estrella de paz.

This peaceful night, Lovely night, When everything sleeps all around, All the stars are spreading their light To announce Child Jesus’ birth. The star of peace is also shining, The star of peace is also shining.

Lao Rahal Soti 
Samih Choukeir (b. 1957)
arr. Shireen Abu Khader
Music and Text by Samih Choukeir, sung in Arabic
Tiffany Walker, soloist

If my voice departs, your throats (i.e. voices) will not
I look unto tomorrow and my heart is with you
If the singer goes (dies), the songs will remain
Bringing together the broken and suffering hearts

Cells Planets by Erika Lloyd, arr. Vince Peterson
Music and Text by Erika Lloyd (Little Grey Girlfriend)
Geoffrey Boers, conductor
Anjali Chudasama & Jessica Turner, soloists

So far away, far away, When all will shine and all will play, Hey. The stars will open up and all will be  Tiny pieces of galaxy Reflected in you and me. Cells, planets, same thing. Bright electric lights on all the leaves And everything growing from a tree; (the) water’s blood, and roots are veins.

I don’t know you, but I like you. I don’t know you, but I miss you. I don’t know you, but I need you. Smallest is the biggest thing,  And in all the world,  The love is the love from me to you Cells, planets, same thing.

SOPRANO

Kaelyn Barnes, Everett, WA; Sophomore BA, Vocal Performance
Kate Connors, Kennewick, WA; Sophomore BA, Vocal Performance
Karen Dunstan, Ypsilanti, MI; 1st Year MM, Vocal Performance
Virginia Elizondo, Houston, TX; 2nd Year MM, Vocal Performance
Caitlin Hennessy, Chicago, IL; 1st Year MM, Vocal Performance
Mallory McCollum, Warminster, PA; 1st year MM, Vocal Performance
Shalini Pullarkat, La Cañada, CA; Junior BS, General Biology
Sarah Santos, Houston, TX; 2nd year MM, Vocal Performance
Jessica Turner, Tacoma, WA; Senior BM, Music Education-Choral Emphasis

ALTO
Cee Adamson, Washington, D.C.; 1st Year DMA, Vocal Performance
Sydney Belden, San Clemente, CA; Sophomore BM/BS, Music-Voice/Environmental Studies
Lily Campbell, Olympia, WA; Sophomore BA, Public Health-Global Health
Anjali Chudasama, Upland, CA; 1st Year MM, Choral Conducting
Heather Halverson, Woodinville, WA; Sophomore BM/BA,Vocal Performance/Communications
Anna Messenger, Olympia, WA; Junior BM, Music Education
Grace Selmann, Moses Lake; Sophomore BA, Comparative History of Ideas
Emily Vaughan, Mukilteo, WA; Senior BA/BA, Music-Voice/Cinema & Media Studies
Tiffany Walker, Chino Hills, CA; 4th year DMA, Choral Conducting
Leah Wyman, Greenville, SC; 2nd year MM, Choral Conducting

TENOR
Oliver Callahan, Anaheim, CA; 1st Year BM, Music Education-Choral Emphasis
Tyler Todd Kimmel, Seattle, WA; 2nd Year DMA, Choral Conducting
Timothy Little, Pineville, LA; 3rd year DMA, Choral Conducting
Marshell Lombard, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2nd year DMA, Choral Conducting
Alexander Nguyen, Tacoma, WA; Senior BM, Music Education-Choral Emphasis
Tri Nguyen, Everett, WA; Sophomore BS, Mechanical Engineering
John O'Kane, Seattle, WA; Senior BS, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Zach Rude, Brainerd, MN; 1st Year MM, Vocal Performance
Isaac Tian, San Diego, CA; 7th Year PhD, Computer Science & Engineering

BASS
Justin Birchell, Anchorage, AK; 1st Year DMA, Choral Conducting
Frank Goess, Albany, CA; 5th year BS, Aerospace Engineering
Mikey Prince, Kirkland; Senior BM/BA, Music Education/Gender Women & Sexuality Studies
Jonathan Rizzardi, Reading, PA; 4th year PhD, Theatre History & Theory
Dario Rojas, Seattle, WA; Sophomore BA, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Zack Shafer, Camas, WA; Junior BS, Computer Science
Alec Walter, Spokane, WA; Senior BS, Electrical Engineering
Daren Weissfisch, Ridgewood, NJ; 1st Year DMA, Orchestral Conducting
Trey Wheeler, Vancouver, WA; Sophomore BM, Music Education

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UNIVERSITY CHORALE
Giselle Wyers, conductor
Serena Chin, piano
Marshell Lombard & Leah Wyman, assistant conductors

If Music Be the Food of Love by David Dickau (b. 1953)

If music be the food of love, Sing on till I am fill'd with joy For then my list'ning soul you move To pleasures that can never cloy. Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare That you are music ev'ry where.

Pleasures invade both eye and ear, So fierce the transports are, they wound, And all my senses feasted are, Tho' yet the treat is only sound, Sure I must perish by your charms, Unless you save me in your arms.

Sing my Child by Sarah Quartel (b. 1982)
Adrian Nguyen and Naomi-Hal Hoffman, soloists

Sing for the promise in each new morning. Sing for the hope in a new day dawning. All around is beauty bright! Wake in the morning and sing my child. Dance in the joy of the day unfolding. Dance as you work and dance as you’re learning. All around is beauty bright! Take in the day and dance my child.  But when troubles come, And worry is all that can be found, Gather your strength and hear your voice. Sing my child.

Laugh in the cool and the fresh of the evening. Laugh in your triumph, laugh in succeeding. All around is beauty bright! Rest in the evening and laugh my child. Peace.  But when troubles come, And worry is all that can be found, Gather your strength and hear your voice. Sing my child. Dance my child. Laugh my child. Peace my child.

SOPRANO Fern Bettinger, Renton, WA Emily Cameron, Snohomish, WA Mavis Chan, Bellevue, WA Sarah Clark, Mercer Island WA Lauren Fox, Buchanan, VA Mandy Hansen Meagan Hodgins, Seattle, WA Naomi-Hal Hoffman, Bellevue, WA Whi Jung, Seoul, Korea Claire Killian, Evergreen, CO Emma Koslosky, Castro Valley, CA Anna Kucinski, Redmond, WA Meena Kuduva, Kirkland, WA Ellen Kwon, Federal Way, WA Joely Loucks, Friday Harbor, WA Anna Messenger, Olympia, WA Chloe O'Keefe, San Francisco, CA Sophia Parker, Bothell, WA Clara Propst, Seattle, WA Caitlin Sarwono, Redmond, WA Jessica Turner, Tacoma, WA Felicia Tzeng, San Jose, CA Natalia Valvano, Seattle, WA Ruby Whelan, Melbourne, VIC TENOR Eyad Alsilimy, Mount Vernon, WA Scott Fisher Jr., Renton, WA Carson Kyle, Huntingtown, MD Karsten Lomax, Edmonds, WA Adrian Nguyen, Olympia, WA Alex Nguyen, Tacoma, WA Alejandro Hernandez, Rio Rancho, NM Will Schlott, Pullman, WA Zach Shafer, Camas, WA Ryan Singh, Redmond, WA Ethan Walker

ALTO Meher Chand, Portland, OR Anmol Kaur, Duvall, WA Ella L'Heureux, Leavenworth, KS Hannah Limb, Mountlake Terrace, WA Sophie Ma, Tokyo, Japan Cindy Mendoza  Lexie Moss, Melbourne, VIC Julia Park, Cambridge, MA Sophie Root, Kirkland, WA Jaminfaye Reduque, DuPont, WA Silvana Segura, Redmond, WA Maya Shah, Portland, OR Nelly Sunstrum, Redmond, WA Emily Vaughan, Mukilteo, WA Aliyah Wachob, Belmont, CA Akhila Narayanan, Redmond, WA BASS Lewis Back, Issaquah, WA Jason Barringer, Hood River, OR Elisha Bourassa, Sumas, WA Matthew Chao, West Linn, OR Charlie Dawson, Austin, TX Matt Hansen, Camas, WA Andrew Hoch, Burr Ridge, IL Mitch Kluesner, St. Paul, Minnesota Jonah Ladish-Orlich, Renton, WA| Ethan Nowack, Shoreline, WA Christian Rolfson, Mount Vernon, WA Cian Scheer, Vashon, WA Alec Walter, Spokane, WA Trey Wheeler, Vancouver, WA

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COMBINED CHOIRS FINALE
Geoffrey Boers & Giselle Wyers, conductor
Serena Chin, piano

I Love You/What A Wonderful World arr. Craig Hella Johnson
“I Love You” words and music by Larry Norman (1947–2008) and Randy Stonehill (b. 1952)
“What a Wonderful World” by Bob Thiele (1922–1996)  and George David Weiss (1921–2010)

We can be together now and forever; I love you, I love you.
And when I’m prayin’, I hear him sayin’ “I love you, I love you.”
People all over the world, they’re opening up, they’re comin’ around
And they’re sayin’ I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white,
Bright, blessed day and dark, sacred night;
And I think to myself, “What a wonderful world.”

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,
Are also on the faces of the people going by.
I see friends shaking hands, saying “How do you do?”
They’re really saying, “I love you.”

People all over the world, they’re openin’ up, they’re comin’ around
And they’re sayin’ I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
We can be together now and forever; I love you, I love you.

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow; 
They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know,
And I think to myself, “What a wonderful world.”

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