Program: November 18, 2001

Program About the Artists
Featuring the King of Instruments and a Minnesota Legend

Paul Niemisto, conductor and founder of the CVRO in 1979, is a
JAROMIR WEINBERGER Polka and Fugue from “Shvanda” member of the St. Olaf College music faculty. He is a graduate of the
Catherine Rodland, Organ University of Michigan and received additional conducting training at the
Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg and at the
RICHARD STRAUSS Festive Processional American Symphony Orchestra League Institute. While in Canada
Catherine Rodland, Organ during the 1970s he was a conductor of the Prince Edward Island
Symphony and the South Shore Orchestra and was a playing member of
DANIEL KALLMAN Fidelitas the CBC Halifax Orchestra. Recently, he has been a regular summer
Roger Gomoll, Narrator traveler to Finland, where he teaches courses in conducting, performs in
brass festivals, and conducts bands and orchestras. Since 1991 he has
INTERMISSION directed a Finnish-American brass ensemble, “Boys of America,” which
has traveled widely and made recordings in the U.S. and Scandinavia.
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 in C minor
Adagio–Allegro moderato Daniel Kallman has established a reputation as a composer on several
Allegro moderato–Presto–Allegro moderato– planes: composing for the young musician and youth audiences;
Presto–Allegro moderato– Maestoso–Allegro–
Piu allegro–Molto allegro composing worship music; and composing for orchestra, chorus, and
Catherine Rodland, Organ chamber ensembles. He has written music for the National Symphony
* * * Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Plymouth Music Series,
About Fidelitas and has received performances by professional, regional and community
ensembles throughout the country and abroad. He has been awarded
This work honors Joseph Lee Heywood, the substitute bank teller who grants by the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and the American
was murdered by the Jesse James gang in Northfield during the robbery Composers Forum.
125 years ago. "Fidelitas", the Latin word from which we derive the word
"fidelity," describes the noble character of a person who remains Catherine Rodland is associate professor of music at St. Olaf College,
steadfast and faithful to a calling. More broadly, the composition where she was a distinguished graduate in organ performance. She
celebrates all those qualities that we as humans can and should aspire received her MM and DMA from the Eastman School of Music in
to: honesty, faithfulness, self-sacrifice—essential elements in a society Rochester, N.Y., where she was a student of Russell Saunders.
where people live in peace and harmony with one another. Catherine is a prizewinner in several major organ performance
competitions, including the 1994 and 1998 American Guild of Organists
To set the stage for the narration, three musical themes are introduced. Young Artists Competition, and the 1994 Calgary International Organ
The third and most prominent of these is a popular Civil War song, Competition. She has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and
"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp". It was chosen to symbolize the profound impact Canada. She is also a specialist in working with children’s choirs, co-
that the war had on the Northfield raid, in which revenge by the Southern authoring a book on the subject, presenting workshops, and touring her
outlaws is believed to be a factor. choir in England.
The quotation of the Civil War tune ends in a tumult, which gradually Roger Gomoll’s career in public radio began in 1975 with Minnesota
subsides into more serene music to underscore the narration, compiled Public Radio. He served MPR for 23 years as a technician, arts reporter,
from quotations by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt classical music announcer, pledge drive director, and a station manager.
Whitman and Abraham Lincoln. Then a musical interlude introduces He left MPR in 1998 to direct Heritage Halls, a non-profit museum. In
Heywood's "theme." The more substantial middle section of narration is 2000, public radio reclaimed him, and he currently works with radio
excerpted from the eloquent discourse delivered at Heywood’s funeral by stations around the country to improve their pledge drives. Gomoll is a
the Reverend D.L. Leonard. The Heywood theme follows in a more pilot, a member of the Minnesota Soaring Club, and a tubist with the
heroic setting, leading to the final narrative, which consists of further Sheldon Theatre Brass Band and the Rochester Civic Band. He resides
statements from the same famous Americans. in Rochester.
Personnel
Violin Cello, continued Horn
Mia Carlson, Concertmaster, Mary Zoe Scott, Northfield Joan Behr, Northfield
Faribault
Lisbeth Butler, Red Wing
Susan Ward, St. Paul
Patricia Wegner, Northfield
Trish Culbert, Faribault
Tom Schnauber, Northfield TheNorthfieldArts Guild presentsThe
Rachel Fonstad, Northfield Barb Wornson, Northfield
Bob Hanson, Northfield Bass
Kenny Knight, St. Olaf
Deborah Knutson, Owatonna
Bruce Jenson, Northfield
Matthew Pollick, Carleton
Trumpet
Josh Cameron, St. Olaf
Cannon Valley Regional
Gail Nelson, Northfield
Lisa Olsen, Webster Flute and Piccolo
Drew Engquist, Northfield
Lori Schulz, Faribault Orchestra
Hannah Reitz, Northfield Cathy Penning, Northfield
Sarah Rinehart, Northfield Mary Zard, New Prague Trombone
Dave Weinhandl, Cannon
Falls Clarinet
Mary Dunnewold, Northfield
Bill Van Loh, Northfield
Paul Niemisto,Conductor
Viola
Karen Frawley, Lakeville
Kathy Szydlo, Northfield
Doug Rowe,
CatherineRodland, Organist
John Metz, Northfield Tuba
Anna Niemisto, Northfield
Jerad Parish, St. Olaf
Oboe
Cindy Breederland, Webster
Matt Pelikan, St. Olaf RogerGomoll, Narrator
Brenda Rodgers, Prior Lake Percussion
Cello Gary Iseminger, Northfield
Emily Crawford, Red Wing Bassoon Erik Kiesz, Owatonna
Kyle Jacobson, Northfield William Child, Northfield Richard Wind, Northfield
Jane Rinehart, Northfield Thea Groth, Northfield
Cathy Rodland, Northfield Piano
Mary Davis, Northfield
The Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra regrets the recent death of our
cherished member, violinist Sophie Dahle, whose musicality and spirit
were a significant part of our orchestra for many years. We dedicate our
music making today to her loving memory.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the Bethel Lutheran Church for making their sanctuary
Music for a King and a Hero
available for this concert. We extend thanks to the Northfield Community
Education and Recreation Department and the music staff at Bridgewater
Elementary School for providing rehearsal space for the CVRO. This
concert is made possible in part by grants provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota
State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Bethel Lutheran Church, Northfield
Legislature. We greatly appreciate support by the Community National Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 2:30 p.m.
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