New Jersey All-State Chorus and Orchestra The Eighty-Fifth Annual Program
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Chorus, Orchestra and Audience Conducted by William McDevitt, President New Jersey Music Educators Association
Gregory Pritchard, Orchestra Conductor
Force of Destiny Overture................................. Giuseppi Verdi
“ Finale” from Symphony No. 1......................... Gustav Mahler Orchestra
PRESENTATION OF PINS TO THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Wendell Steinhauer, President New Jersey Education Association
Rollo Dilworth, Chorus Conductor We Dance.................................................... Dominck D’ Orio Let Their Celestial Concerts Unite...................... G. F. Handel Lamentations of Jeremiah.......................... Z. Randall Stroope Autumn........................................................... Kevin Memley Molihua( Chinese Folk Song)....................... arr. Reed Criddle Zum Gali................................................... Maurice Goldman How to Sing Like a Planet....................... Elizabeth Alexander
Chorus
Freedom’ s Plow............................................................ Rollo Dilworth Combined Orchestra & Chorus
Friday, November 11, 2016 at 8:30 p. m. Atlantic City Convention Center: Hall A Atlantic City
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Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 3:00 p. m. NJ-PAC Prudential Hall Newark, NJ
Rollo Dilworth, Chorus
Rollo Dilworth is Professor of Choral Music Education and Chair of the Department of Music Education and Therapy at Temple University’ s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, PA. He has served on the faculty since 2009. Prior to his position with Boyer College, he taught music education and was the director of choral activities for 13 years at North Park University in Chicago, where he prepared and conducted numerous extended and choral-orchestral works. Before teaching at the college level, Dilworth also taught choral and general music at the middle school level in his hometown of St. Louis, MO. Throughout his career, he has written or arranged African American spirituals, gospel songs, Broadway selections, art songs, vocal exercises, and a musical— all of which are frequently performed by school, church, community, university and professional choirs in the United States and abroad. The majority of Dilworth’ s choral scores are works commissioned by community and professional ensembles. In 2009, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and IN UNISON ® Chorus commissioned and premiered his choral-orchestral work entitled Freedom’ s Plow, which is based on the text of a Langston Hughes poem bearing the same title. In 2011, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia commissioned a three-movement choral-orchestral work entitled Rain Sequence, featuring the writings of Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dilworth is currently National Board Chair for Chorus America. He is an active life member of the American Choral Directors Association( ACDA). He also holds memberships with several other organizations, including: the National Association for Music Education( NAfME); the National Association of Negro Musicians( NANM); and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers( ASCAP).
Gregory Pritchard, Orchestra
Gregory Pritchard currently serves as the Music Director of the Gwinnett Symphony Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra in Georgia. Prior to his current post, he served as the Music Director of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra( GA) from 2005 to 2010. With a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Michigan State University Pritchard was a student of Leon Gregorian, Catherine Comet, and Elizabeth Green. He has had additional training with Gustav Meier, David Lobel, Neeme Jarvi, and Adrian Gnam as an active participant in American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductors Guild and other conducting workshops. He credits his musical sensitivity to his training in the Musin tradition with Leonid Korchmar and Peter Gribanov in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pritchard’ s technical brilliance and natural rapport with audience and orchestra alike have afforded him many opportunities over the last twenty years. Pritchard has also amassed an impressive array of awards and accolades. He has been a featured performer at the Georgia Music Educators InService Conference with three different orchestras. He has also been an adjudicator for GMEA, Music in the Parks and Festivals of Music for over eighteen years. In addition to conducting the All-State Orchestra in New Jersey this year, he has previously led the Louisiana High School All-State Orchestra twice, as well as several district honor orchestras.
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