Tour Concert and Literature Information

 

CONCERT ATTIRE

Soprano/Alto:

• White shirts/blouses that are 3/4-full length sleeves and not overly-revealing (choose a cool fabric to prepare for heat and crowds). 

• Purple and gold scarf (provided) worn over the shoulders. 

• Black pants and socks or skirt/tights that cover from waist to toe. 

• Nice looking black shoes will be required, but we will also have to walk significant distances in them. 

Tenor/Bass:

• White, button-down long-sleeve dress shirt (choose a cool fabric and we may agree about rolling sleeves up in heat), 

• Purple suspenders and bow tie (provided)

• Black dress pants, black socks. 

• Nice looking black shoes will be required, but we will also have to walk significant distances in them. 

 

MUSIC & FOLDERS

A black folder is required for your tour music (listed below).

Laulupidu song book (which likely will be used separately).

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Laulupidu Information Documents (including timelines and parade instructions)

 

REPERTOIRE

UW CHORALE (to be selected from the following)

Music of Living (Forrest)

To a Friend (Wyers)

Ya eres mia (Lauridsen)

A Quiet Moment (Higdon)

Estrellia del Sur (Peruvian Waltz, arr. Iturriaga)

Spaséñiye, sodélal (Chesnokov)

I’ll Be on my Way (Kirchner)

 

COMBINED TOUR CHOIR (to be selected from the following)

Brīnumzemē(Barisons)

Pūt, vējiņi(Latvian folk melody)

Fruit of Silence (Vasks)

Õhtul (Uusberg)

Somewhere (Bernstein)

 

UW CHAMBER SINGERS  (to be selected from the following)

The Dream Keeper(Averitt)

Mvmt. I.  The Dream Keeper

Mvmt. IV Song

Two Early Folksongs(Earnest)

            Streets of Laredo

Sweet Betsy from Pike            

Rune (Barnum)

Stomp on the Fire (Ramsey)               

Grace Before Sleep (LaBarr)   

Hands(Hagen)

Goodnight Sweetheart(arr. Shaw)       

North (Sleeping at Last, by O’Neal)

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LINK TO LATVIAN SONG FESTIVAL REPERTOIRE FOR DIKL

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Master List of Tour Personnel

 

FACULTY & STAFF

Conductors:            Geoffrey Boers & Giselle Wyers

Tour Guide:             Guntis Smidchens

Accompanists:        Serena Chin & Amy Boers

 

SINGERS

Soprano

Jenna Bellavia

Becca Cantrell

Anna Frisch

Raquel Gordon

Jada Jenkins

Elizabeth Mitchell

Kaylee Pigott

Darby Sherwood

Joslyn Thomas

Ally Witeck

Alto

Sarah Bergquist

Sam Fredman

Maddy Greenfield

Maya Hsu

Maddie Ile

Edie Myers-Powers

Joanna Noffsinger

Ainsleigh Orwin

Jennifer Rodgers

Alexa Schieche

Tiffany Walker

Nicole Whiteley (Song festival only)

 

Tenor

Justus Brown

Simon Hill

John O'Kane

Steven Santos

Gerrit Scheepers

Ryan Wong

 

Bass

Griffin Becker

Richard Carrick

Marley Crean

Finn Dewars

Luke Duroc-Danner

Jacob Finkle (Song Festival Only)

Frank Goess

John Hamann (Song Festival Only)

Ian Houghton

Riley McGinn

Paul Mitchell (Song Festival Only)

Eric Mullen (Song Festival Only, joining tour in Tallinn)

Ethan Nowack

Aidan O'Hara

Will Schlott

Forrest Timour

Byron Walker

Alec Walter

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COMPANIONS

Blake Bergquist (joining tour in Tallinn)

Scott Daniel (joining tour in Tallinn)

Katie O'Brien (joining tour in Tallinn)

Brian Walker

Eric Westergard

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Information for Non-Singing Companions

 

Land Tour (Pre-Tallinn)

Your experience will be nearly identical to the singing members of the tour, simply without a rehearsal or two and which side of the stage you are on during our 3 concerts (Riga, Dikli, and Tartu). It is important that you follow the same communication and check-in protocols as the rest of the group so that we know you are with us and safe! You will be assigned to a check-in group – for those with a UW student significant other, it will be the same one.

 

Tallinn

Once in Tallinn and for those joining us in Tallinn, our experiences will be quite different starting on July 5. Non-singing travelers will get their two festival tickets (one for Saturday evening and one for Sunday afternoon) from Jennifer Rodgers sometime before the afternoon of July 6. Click here for an agenda overview of July 5-7 for singing and non-singing travelers.

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