# San Francisco Symphony & Chorus at Davies Symphony Hall, May 18, 2023

[San Francisco Symphony](https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/Brittens-War-Requiem) presents an Open Rehearsal featuring guest conductor [Philippe Jordan](http://www.philippe-jordan.com/), guest choral director [Joshua Habermann](https://www.sfsymphony.org/Data/Event-Data/Artists/H/Joshua-Habermann), and vocal soloists [Ian Bostridge](https://www.facebook.com/IanBostridge), [Jennifer Holloway](https://www.jennholloway.com/), and [Brian Mulligan](http://www.brian-mulligan.com/)  
with additional support from [Ragazzi Boys Chorus](https://ragazzi.org/)  
[Davies Symphony Hall](http://www.sfsymphony.org)
[201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=201+Van+Ness,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)
9:00 AM, Thursday, May 18, 2023

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## Tentative Schedule

* 9:00 AM Doors open; coffee, tea & morning treats in the lobby (until 10 AM)
* 9:10 AM Welcome remarks from in the lobby featuring Senior Director of Artistic Planning Phillippa Cole and Chorus Director Joshua Haberman
* 9:30 AM Musicians' Warm-up period
* 10 AM - 12:30 PM Edward Benjamin Britten (1913–1976): _War Requiem_, Op. 66 (1962) rehearsal led by Philippe Jordan

## Open Rehearsal

[9:51 AM] {pre-concert noodling from the orchestra}  
[9:59 AM] {Welcome from ?Rachel Kirley or ?Robin Freeman}  
[10:00 AM] {concert tuning}  
[10:00 AM] {enter PJ & male soloists}

Edward Benjamin Britten (1913–1976): _War Requiem_, Op. 66 (1962)

Section One: _Requiem Aeternam_

01. [10:01 AM] _Requiem aeternam_
02. [10:04 AM] _Te decet hymnus_
03. [10:07 AM] _Anthem for Doomed Youth_ (Wilfred Owen) AKA "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?"
04. [10:10 AM] _Kyrie eleison_  
[10:11 AM] {full stop at end of first section}  
   
Section Two: _Dies Irae_
05. [10:11 AM] _Dies irae_
06. [10:15 AM] _But I Was Looking at the Permanent Stars_ (Wilfred Owen), excerpted, AKA "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air"
07. [10:18 AM] _Liber scriptus_
08. [10:20 AM] _The Next War_ (Wilfred Owen) AKA "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death,"
09. [10:22 AM] _Recordare lesu pie_
10. [10:26 AM] _Confutatis maledictis_
11. [10:27 AM] Sonnet – "On Seeing a Heavy Piece of Artillery Brought into Action" (Wilfred Owen), excerpted, AKA "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm,"
12. [10:29 AM] _Dies irae_
13. [10:32 AM] _Futility_ (Wilfred Owen) AKA "Move him into the sun"
14. [10:35 AM] _Pie lesu Domine_  
[10:37 AM] {full stop at end of Mvt}  
   
Section Three: _Offertorium_
15. [10:37 AM] _Domine Jesu Christe_
16. [10:39 AM] _Sed signifer Sanctus_
17. [10:41 AM] _The Parable of the Old Man and the Young_ (Wilfred Owen) AKA "So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,"
18. [10:44 AM] _Hostias et preces tibi_  
[10:47 AM] {full stop at end of Mvt}  
   
Section Four: _Sanctus_
19. [10:47 AM] _Sanctus_
20. [10:49 AM] _Hosanna_
21. [10:53 AM] _The End_ (Wilfred Owen) AKA "After the blast of lighning from the East,"  
[10:57 AM] {full stop at end of Mvt}  
   
Section Five: _Agnus Dei_
22. [10:57 AM] _Agnus Dei_/_At a Calvary near the Ancre_ (Wilfred Owen) AKA "One ever hangs where shelled roads part."  
[11:01 AM] {full stop at end of Mvt}  
[11:01 AM] {dead air: UNION BREAK!}  
   
[11:23 AM] {concert tuning}  
   
Section Six: _Libera Me_
23. [11:24 AM] _Libera me_
24. [11:28 AM] _Tremens factus_
25. [11:31 AM] _Strange Meeting_ (Wilfred Owen), excerpted, AKA "It seems that out of battle I escaped"
26. [11:34 AM] _Strange Meeting_ (Wilfred Owen), excerpted, AKA "'None', said the other,'save the undone years',"
27. [11:40 AM] _Strange Meeting_ (Wilfred Owen), excerpted, AKA "Let us sleep now..." / _In paradisum_
28. [11:44 AM] _Requiescant in pace_  
[11:45 AM] {applause at end work}  
   
Follow up: additional bits of rehearsal, noted by Rehearsal Mark from the score
29. [11:47 AM] RM102 _Libera Me - Libera me_  
[11:48 AM] {brief discussion}
30. [11:48 AM] RM104 _Libera Me - Libera me_
[11:49 AM] {brief discussion}
31. [11:50 AM] RM127 _Libera Me_ - "Let us sleep"  
[11:52 AM] {more discussion}
32. [11:52 AM] RM3 _Requiem Aeternam - Te decet hymnus_  
[11:54 AM] {discussion}
33. [11:55 AM] RM28 _Dies Irae - Liber scriptus_  
[11:55 AM] {discussion}
34. [11:55 AM] RM54 _Dies Irae - Dies irae_ - "Lacrimosa, lacrimosa"  
[11:57 AM] {discussion}
35. [11:58 AM] RM63 _Offertorium - Sed signifer Sanctus_  
[11:59 AM] {discussion}
36. [11:59 AM] RM72 _Offertorium_ - "So Abram rose" - "Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps"   
[12:00 PM] {final discussion}  
[12:00 PM] {applause at end of rehearsal}

## Performers

### San Francisco Symphony & Chorus

[San Francisco Symphony & Chorus](http://www.sfsymphony.org)

* [Esa-Pekka Salonen](http://www.esapekkasalonen.com/): music director;
* [other performers vary by program](https://www.sfsymphony.org/About-SFS/SF-Symphony-Musicians).

### San Francisco Symphony Chorus

* [Joshua Habermann](https://www.sfsymphony.org/Data/Event-Data/Artists/H/Joshua-Habermann): guest choral director;

* Carolyn Alexander: alto vox;
* Terry A. Alvord: alto vox;
* Paul Angelo: tenor vox;
* Sylvia Baba: soprano vox;
* Alexis Wong Baird: soprano vox;
* Emily P. Bernier: alto vox;
* Carl Boe: tenor vox;
* Arlene Boyd: soprano vox;
* Josh Bozich: bass vox;
* Todd Bradley: tenor vox;
* Seth Brenzel: tenor vox;
* Sean Brooks: bass vox;
* Philip Buonadonna: bass vox;
* Helen Burns: soprano vox;
* Celeste Camarena: alto vox;
* Sean Casey: bass vox;
* Sara Chalk: soprano vox;
* Eric Choate: bass vox;
* Dean Christman: tenor vox;
* Adam Cole: bass vox;
* Noam Cook: bass vox;
* Carol Copperud: alto vox;
* Jim Cowing: bass vox;
* Michael Desnoyers: tenor vox;
* Scott Dickerman: tenor vox;
* Lauren Diez: soprano vox;
* Michael Dooling: bass vox;
* Thomas Ellison: tenor vox;
* Elizabeth Emigh: soprano vox;
* Christian Emigh: tenor vox;
* Elliott JG Encarnación: tenor vox;
* Abigail Farrell: alto vox;
* Samuel Faustine: tenor vox;
* Corty Fengler: alto vox;
* Michael Fields: bass vox;
* Cara Gabrielson: soprano vox;
* Malcolm Gaines: bass vox;
* Rick Galbreath: bass vox;
* Kevin Gibbs: tenor vox;
* Julia Hall: soprano vox;
* Ashley Hecht: soprano vox;
* Stacey Helley: alto vox;
* Amy L. Hespenheide: alto vox;
* Bradley Irving: bass vox;
* Kelsey Ishimatsu Jacobson: alto vox;
* Lukáš Janata: bass vox;
* Hilary Jenson: alto vox;
* Alec Jeong: tenor vox;
* Betsy Johnsmiller: soprano vox;
* Mitchell Jones: bass vox;
* Cathleen Josaitis: alto vox;
* Kate Juliana: soprano vox;
* Michele Elizabeth Kennedy: soprano vox;
* Gretchen Klein: alto vox;
* Drew Kravin: tenor vox;
* Jocelyn Queen Lambert: soprano vox;
* Ellen Leslie: soprano vox;
* Linda Liebschutz: alto vox;
* Katherine M. Lilly: alto vox;
* Joyce Lin-Conrad: alto vox;
* Margaret Lisi: alto vox;
* Benjamin Liupaogo: tenor vox;
* Benjamin Lorenzoni: tenor vox;
* Matthew Lovell: bass vox;
* Roderick Lowe: bass vox;
* Joachim Luis: tenor vox;
* Tim Marson: bass vox;
* BrieAnne Martin: alto vox;
* Andrew Paul McIver: tenor vox;
* Lane McKenna: soprano vox;
* Michael Mendelsohn: tenor vox;
* Jennifer Mitchell: soprano vox;
* Richard Mix: bass vox;
* Clayton Moser: bass vox;
* Brielle Marina Neilson: alto vox;
* Julian Nesbitt: bass vox;
* Jack O'Reilly: tenor vox;
* Kimberly J. Orbik: alto vox;
* Akane Ota: alto vox;
* Jess G. Perry: bass vox;
* Matthew Peterson: bass vox;
* Ryan S. Peterson: tenor vox;
* Michael Prichard: bass vox;
* Laura Stanfield Prichard: soprano vox;
* Aimée Puentes: soprano vox;
* Lindsay Rader: alto vox;
* Linda J. Randall: alto vox;
* Meredith Riekse: alto vox;
* Celeste Riepe: alto vox;
* Kelly Ryer: soprano vox;
* Natalia Salemmo: soprano vox;
* Peter Sargent: bass vox;
* Jeanne Schoch: alto vox;
* Tara Scown: alto vox;
* Sandy Sellin: alto vox;
* Chung-Wai Soong: bass vox;
* Meghan Spyker: alto vox;
* Storm Staley: bass vox;
* Elizabeth L. Susskind: soprano vox;
* Ben Taube: bass vox;
* Michael Taylor: bass vox;
* Connor Tench: bass vox;
* Mayo Tsuzuki: alto vox;
* Troy Turriate: tenor vox;
* Makiko Ueda: alto vox;
* David Varnum: bass vox;
* Merilyn Telle Vaughn: alto vox;
* Sarah Vig: soprano vox;
* John A. Vlahides: tenor vox;
* Heidi L. Waterman: alto vox;
* Darla Wigginton: alto vox;
* Lauren Wilbanks: soprano vox;
* Jack Wilkins: tenor vox;
* J.T. Williams: bass vox;
* Hannah Wolf: alto vox;
* Goangshiuan Ying: bass vox;
* John Paul Young: tenor vox;
* Helene Zindarsian: soprano vox;
* Jakob Zwiener: tenor vox.

### Special Guests

* [Ian Bostridge](https://www.facebook.com/IanBostridge): tenor vox;
* [Jennifer Holloway](https://www.jennholloway.com/): soprano vox;
* [Philippe Jordan](http://www.philippe-jordan.com/): conductor;
* [Brian Mulligan](http://www.brian-mulligan.com/): baritone vox.

### Ragazzi Boys Chorus

* [Ragazzi Boys Chorus](https://ragazzi.org/): Kent Jue: director;
* The boys, per SFS program notes: Andrew Altorfer; Nathan Bannister; Ian Bass; Calvin Blanford; Nick Damon; Alex Dujmovic; Kui Fine; Eli Hart; Colin Henderson; Bryant Ho; Jonah Hsu; Elliot Lee; Lyn Leonard; Ming Lim; Brandon Liu; Henry Liu; Isaac Liu; Michael Long; Albert Luo; Florian Mayssat-Basu; Darius Monstavicius; Finn Reese; Hersh Saxena; Arthur Scholom; Johan Sijp; Connor Statton; Luke Suffoletto; Alex To; Oliver To; Adrian Twomey; Iker Vahamaki; Abraham Villeda; Eshu Vinnakota; Justin Vives; Colin Xiellie; Brenden Yu; Joshua Zheng

## Notes

Without printed lyrics or notes for the Requiem, it was hard to have any sense of place as the performance progressed. Happily, they played it through just once from top to bottom, with a twenty-minute union break at the _Dona Nobis_. Once finished with that run-through, the conductor called for spot checks of a few sections, then he inquired of the strings, the woodwinds, the brass, and so on what questions they had, which resulted in a bit more rehearsal of specific parts. I was caught by surprise when the event wrapped up because it was about twenty minutes early, and from my perspective, there was nothing to indicate that they were done. Must be accomplished by invisible hand signals or something. Overall, it was an interesting way to spend the morning. And while I can't make it work this weekend, I enjoyed the rehearsal enough that someday I'll put the regular performance of Britten's piece into my agenda.

[Program Notes](https://sfsymphony.encoreplus.app/c/05-1820-brittens-war-requiem/) or {{:2023:2023-05:20230518pn.pdf|program notes}}

[Text of the War Requiem](https://www.classicfm.com/composers/britten/guides/war-requiem-the-complete-text/)

[Score of the War Requiem](https://www.boosey.com/cr/perusals/score?id=10483)

## Photos

Today's photo gallery comes from ol' squinty!

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