Upcoming Events

Nov. 16, 17, 18 7:00pm Fall Play: Dorothy and Alice/The

Suessification of Romeo and Juliet

Dec. 14 6:00pm Winter Concert (Band, Orchestra,

and Choir)

I Choose Love

Special Thanks: Bosse High School Choirs

Dylan Fornshell, conductor
Sheila Huff, principal Malora Huggins, piano
Kristie Burroughs, assistant principal
Ryan Merriwether, assistant principal
Tom Bealmear, activities director
Kathy Heidorn Clara Roberts, Melanie Preston, counselors
Andrea Drury, EVSC Fine Arts/Choral specialist
Andrew Coil, department chair
Logan Barrow, director of bands
Roy Binder, director of orchestra
Secretaries
Custodial Staff
Faculty and Staff of Bosse High School

Thursday, October 26
7:30 p.m.
Benjamin Bosse High School
Evansville, IN
 PROGRAM Personnel
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Intermediate Chorus
Beginning Chorus
Sleep On…………………………………………….………Paul Mealor, arr. Roger Emerson
Soprano Alto Baritones
Jada Dodson DeAyre Bavone De’Stevion Alexander
The world out there, I whisper a prayer, Angel Farris Trinity Bruner Michael Allen
The heavens all to sleep, May your path be clear, Aysha Lindsey Baylee Claycomb Zacharia Barnes
And I am here Sleep on. Elysium Martin Makensey Heim Lamar Booker
A watch with you to keep. Keasha McCants Ebony Keeper Joshua Dodson
May you be wise Madison Pursley Jasmine Rice Austin Handley
Roxana Ramirez-Rivera Justice Spradley Jalen Kent
Sleep on, sleep on In answer to your call
Na’Yhasia Reed Isabel Tobin Jimta Luther
Sleep deep and sleep strong May you still rise Ashanti Wright Devont’e Polk
Sleep on, sleep on If ever you should fall. Jeremy Ruff
The road of life is long. -Brendan Graham
Intermediate Chorus
Elijah Rock……………………………………...Traditional Spiritual, arr. Roger Emerson
Soprano Alto Tenor Bass
Hailey Chochola Leila Denis Jeril Gregory Raquavion Cooper
Elijah rock, shout, shout! Elijah was a righteous man, Lydia Fleming Amira Donahue Lance King Jack Easterday
Elijah rock, coming up Lord. His name means “Yahweh” in the Holy Land. Amber Hardin Tyra Feltner Dillan Spence Quashawn Farris
He built an altar unto the Lord, Rilynn Harris Cassidy Houston Reid Stevens Trystan Kalichun
Satan’s a liar and a conjur too, Twelve rocks, twelve tribes for the God he Kayleigh Husk Tai’Kimber Hughes Michael McKinley
If you don’t watch out he’ll conjur you. adored. Macalyn McBaine Jessica Lord
If I could I surely would Keara Presley Nadia Smith
Stand on the Rock where Moses stood. Allyson Wilkey Skye Stone
Aysenur Yumrutepe

Advanced Chorus

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

Brittany Ball D’iasha Dixon Mason Bradley Donovan McNeal
Natalie Cronin Brittavia Dodson Logan Dailey D’Vante’ Thomas
Raquel Ealum Saray Guerrero Marcus Hostzclaw Ethan Withrow
Idazia Flemming Deasia Hines
Unique Stanfield Janiya King
Karisma Suhrkamp Trinity Logsdon-Andrecht
Karmyn Vallee Jaicyona Sandage-Shofner
Amia Tomlinson
Heidiyah Williams
 Director Advanced Chorus

Earth Song……………………………………………………………………Frank Ticheli

Missouri native Dylan Fornshell is director of vocal music at Benjamin Bosse High School
in Evansville, Indiana where he leads a comprehensive choral program. He previously was
a graduate teaching assistant at Missouri State University where he served as the Sing, Be, Live, See But music and singing
associate conductor for the Women’s Chorus and taught undergraduate choral This dark stormy hour Have been my refuge
conducting. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Missouri State University, The wind, it stirs And music and singing
where he studied with Dr. Guy B. Webb, and he earned a Master of Music from Missouri The scorched Earth cries out in vain. Shall be my light.
State University, where he studied choral conducting with Dr. Cameron LaBarr.
Oh war and power, A light of song, shining strong
As a singer, Mr. Fornshell has toured to Europe and Africa, as well as throughout the You blind and blur Hallelujah, Hallelujah
United States with the Missouri State University Chorale. Mr. Fornshell served as the The torn heart cries out in pain. Through darkness and pain and strife
Chorale’s associate conductor during the 2016-2017 academic year which was I’ll sing, I’ll be, live, see.
highlighted with a performance at the 58th Presidential Inauguration. Mr. Fornshell is
regularly contracted to sing on recordings for music publishing companies such as Walton Peace.
Music, Choristers Guild, and CORO Publishers. -Frank Ticheli

As an educator, Mr. Fornshell has published four articles with the Missouri State Music
Come to the Music…………………………………………...……………Joseph Martin
Magazine. Mr. Fornshell served as State President for the Missouri National Association
for Music Education - Collegiate as well as an advisory member of the Board of Directors
for the Missouri Music Education Association. Celebrate, celebrate, Music is the sound of creation,
Come to the music, Crashing sea and morning dove.
Come to the dance. Music is the voice of worship,
Sing alleluia, Music lifts our hearts above.
Clap your hands. Music is our common language,
Collaborative Pianist Music is the song of love.
Come to the music
Malora Huggins is the music teacher at Holy Redeemer Catholic Grade School. In 2008,
And let alleluias surround you. Gloria, Gloria sing alleluia,
she graduated cum laude from the University of Evansville with a Bachelor of Music in
Come to the music Gloria, Gloria sing to the Lord.
Music Education, where she studied piano with Anne Fiedler. She recently completed her
And let each hosanna astound you. Gloria, Gloria sing alleluia,
Master’s of Music Education degree with an emphasis in music and technology from
Gloria, Gloria sing evermore.
Boston University in May of 2016. Malora works with Mater Dei’s Marching Band,
Come hear the jubilant
Germania Maennerchor, and accompanies several instrumentalists, vocalists, and
Song of creation. Gloria, Gloria Deo.
ensembles in the tri-state area. She began playing piano at age five, and some of her
Come hear the music Alleluia,
awards include: Presser Scholar and Who’s Who Among Music Educators. Most
Which rings as a hope to the nation. Come to the music, come!
importantly she wants others to remember, “When words fail, music speaks”.
-Joseph Martin
Nda Wana………………………..…………Traditional South African, arr. Michael Barrett Program Notes

Nda wana
Nda wana vhana vha tshi khou tam ba
Vha tshi imbelela tshino ni
Vha tshi ri thungununu nemulambo
kumedza
Combined Choirs
I Choose Love………………………………………………………...…………….…Mark Miller
Jaicyona Sandage-Schofner, mezzo; Unique Stanfield, soprano
In the midst of pain, I choose love.
In the midst of pain,
Sorrow falling down like rain,
I await the sun again, I choose love.
In the midst of war, I choose peace.
In the midst of war,
Hate and anger keeping score,
I will seek the good once more,
I choose love.
I found the children playing
While the birds were singing
By the river as they resisted sleep
When my world falls down, I will rise.
When my world falls down,
Explanations can’t be found,
I will climb to holy ground, I will rise.
Where words fail, music speaks. – Hans Christian Anderson
This is a quote that one might find in various music rooms across the country, as
well as across the world. Emotions come and go with time but we have all felt emotions so
deep, so profound that words alone could not convey precisely how we feel. Music gives us
the opportunity to express those ideas and passionate feelings. This quote, and its profound
meaning, is the foundation of the concert.
Sleep On, sung by the Intermediate Chorus, states: “May your path be clear…may
you be wise in answer to your call.” Through this piece we find a stoic sense of calm and
peace. It goes on to say: “May you still rise if ever you should fall.” Here we begin to see a
theme of facing adversity and responding to it.
Through Earth Song, composer Frank Ticheli strikes the idea of music being ones
refuge and allowing expression through music being light in darkness. Come to the Music by
Joseph Martin takes this one step further. As a song evoking the celebration of Music, this
piece talks about how music is the sound of everything: the crashing dove, the song of love,
and how music is our common language.
Nda Wana is a traditional piece that comes from South Africa. I had the privilege of
traveling to South Africa in 2016 and I was fortunate to meet the arranger of this piece.
Through our conversations about this piece it came up that this particular text is from a
much longer poem set in the Venda language. The poem is about children playing while
resisting sleep. I choose this piece because I feel it shows another side of choosing love in
the face of adversity. It shows the free abandonment that one can feel, as those children did,
by choosing a more positive outlook.
I Choose Love. It is well known that we live in a society that is divided, whether
locally or globally. We are divided on so many facets: race, religion, politics, ideology, etc.
The final piece this evening, sung by all choirs, stands as a statement that in the face of
adversity, whatever that may be, we will choose a more positive outcome. All of the
selections this evening stem from the quote above and the idea of choosing a better
outcome. This final piece is presented with all of the members of the choirs singing as one
group. This is symbolic of the notion that we choose to rise above divisions and move
forward together.
Please enjoy this evening’s performance entitled I Choose Love.