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MOUNTAIN LAKES
HIGH SCHOOL

Powerville Road
Mountain Lakes, NJ
07046
(973) 334-8400
www.MLSCHOOLS.org

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MOUNTAIN LAKES
HIGH SCHOOL

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2016 PERFORMANCE

TOUR
BARCELONA
GIRONA
EL VENDRELL

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MOUNTAIN LAKES

HIGH SCHOOL

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(left to right)

Row 1: J uliet Hounsell, Amanda Riley, Sara Davidson, Gabrielle Sorbo,

Aline Miller, Abigail Borin, Lindsay Wang, Kylee Blaney, Victoria Rose,
Erin Bender, Taylor Marsden, Emily OSullivan, Emma DiGiovanni,
Ali DiGiovanni, Caitlin Lesko
Row 2: K ahini Mutsuddi, Alaina Rose, Caroline Scarola, Emma Giustozzi,
Sierra Moench, Alaina Rose, Eva Lane, Julia Orlofski, Chris Stitt,
Will duTertre, Harrison Scott, Alex Laurenzi, Ryan Hatton, Nina Caldarone,
Amanda Lopez, Julie Fekete, Emily Lin, Anastasia Zorlas, Sofia Foli
Row 3: A bigail Miller, Aisha Ullah, Isabella Fiacco, Grace Chuan, Jaqui Sabino,
Ishani Mehta, Sandiya Venkatesh, David Kleiner, Dylan Lynch,
Noah Krupnick, Stephen Holt, Robby Beiermeister, Danny Menack,
Genevieve ODonnell, Morgan Headden, Alexa Czartorysky,
Amanda Mehring, Jessica Menack, Jenna Ludlam
Row 4: Emily Maute, Nicole Giordano, Jessica Novak, Mackenzie Wittig,
Karis Vecchione, Raquelle Dicksen, Peter Droggitis, Mike Riccardi,
Jared Goldfischer, Greg Michaels, Brad Deamer, Ron Mucci, Chris Bossert,
James Frank, Sarah Chapman, Tori Kotsen, Emily Holmberg,
Jacqueline Smith, Charlotte Ronan

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MOUNTAINMOUNTAIN
LAKES CHOIR
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Dr. Charles Sundquist, Director

Lois Buesser, piano

Barcelona
SANTA MARIA DEL MAR
Dilluns, 15 febrer 2016, 20.00
Girona
AUDITORI DE LA MERC
Dimecres, 17 febrer 2016, 20.00
El Vendrell
SANT SALVADOR
Divendres, 19 febrer 2016, 20.00

DILLUNS, 15 FEBRER 2016, 20.00

DIMECRES, 17 FEBRER 2016, 20.00

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR
Dr. Charles A. Sundquist, Director
Lois Buesser, Emily Lin, Piano
Alexander Laurenzi, Saxophone

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

Dr. Charles A. Sundquist, Director
Lois Buesser, Emily Lin, Piano
Alexander Laurenzi, Saxophone

CLAUDEFAULA SINGERS
Joaquim Quim Bonal Sarro, Director

TEENSOUL
Lucia Beserova, Director
The Municipal School of Music
Eixample Joan Manel Serrat

CLAUDEFAULA SINGERS

tremolo Vocal ensemble

(Selections to be Announced)

(Selections to be Announced)

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

Heilig.....................................................Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Long Time Ago....Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Hymn to the New Age.......Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)

Chamber Choir

Gaudete omnes....J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Northern Lights..........Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
Ave Maria....Javier Busto (b. 1949)
Esto les Digo.......Kinley Lang
Sara Davidson, soprano
Ive Been in the Storm So Long..arr. Jeffery Ames (b. 1998)
Morgan Headden, alto

Everytime We Say Goodbye.............Alex Laurenzi (b. 1969)

Alouette...............................................Robert Sund (b. 1942)

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

A Jubilant SongNorman Dello Joio (1913-2008)

Erin Bender, soprano

I Don Feel No Ways Tired.....trad. spiritual, arr. Stacey Gibbs

Combined Choirs

El Rossinyol......Antoni Prez Moya (1884-1964)

EL VENDRELL

SANTA MARIA DEL MAR,

BARCELONA

BARCELONA

GIRONA

AUDITORI DE LA MERC,
GIRONA

SANT SALVADOR CHURCH, EL VENDRELL

DIVENDRES, 19 FEBRER 2016, 20.00

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

Dr. Charles A. Sundquist, Director
Lois buesser, Emily Lin, Piano
Alexander Laurenzi, Saxophone
EL PETIT ESTEL & JOVES VEUS
Xavier Sol Gonzlez, Director

El Petit Estel & Joves Veus

(Selections to be Announced)

All Praise to Music....................................Ron Nelson (b. 1929)

Prelude in G Major, BWV 541....................................JS Bach (1685-1750)

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

Heilig.....................................................Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Long Time Ago...Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Hymn to the New Age.........Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)

Chamber Choir

Gaudete omnes....J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Northern Lights..........Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
Ave Maria....Javier Busto (b. 1949)
Esto les Digo......Kinley Lang
Sara Davidson, soprano
Ive Been in the Storm So Long..arr. Jeffery Ames (b. 1969)
Morgan Headden, alto
Everytime We Say Goodbye.Alexander Laurenzi (b. 1998)
Alouette...............................................Robert Sund (b. 1942)

MOUNTAIN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

A Jubilant SongNorman Dello Joio (1913-2008)

I Don Feel No Ways Tired.....trad. spiritual, arr. Stacey Gibbs
Erin Bender, soprano

Combined Choirs

El Rossinyol......Antoni Prez Moya (1884-1964)

Joaquim Quim Bonal Sarro was born in Barcelona on April the 7th
of 1967. At age six, he began his musical training at the ARC school of Barcelona.
In 1978, he began to study piano with M Teresa Albiol and lately, since 1981 with
Albert Roman. He continued in the superior conservatory of Badalona, studied with
Elisabeth Segarra, and later, with Eullia Sol. Joaquim also studied the piano music
of impressionistic and romntic composers with Josep M Colomin.

Dr. Charles Sundquist,

a native of Duluth, Minnesota, is the choral director at Mountain Lakes High School
in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Previously he was Director of Choirs at Princeton
High School for 15 years. His choirs have sung for ACDA Conventions, NYC, the
White House, and his choirs have toured to London, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg,
Leipzig, Eisenach, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Dresden, Prague and Stockholm. He
received his Doctorate in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman
School of Music while studying with David Craighead. He won a Prix dExcellence
from the Conservatoire de Rgion de Ruiel-Malmaison in France, in the class of
Marie-Claire Alain. While in Paris, he was Associate Choirmaster at the American Episcopal Cathedral, accompanist for a Paris ballet school, and coach/accompanist for members of the Paris Opera Chorus. Dr. Sundquist
was finalist in the Clarence Mader Competition, numerous AGO Regional competitions and recitalist for the AGO
Regional Convention in Pasadena, CA. He has held posts as Associate organist Pasadena Presbyterian Church,
Organ Scholar at Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City, and associate organist at St. Clements, Philadelphia. He is also currently Musical Director for McCarter Theater in Princeton, and was Associate Musical Director and pianist for their production of My Fair Lady, in conjunction with the Shakespeare Theater of Chicago.
Dr. Charles Sundquist, nascut a Duluth, Minnesota, s el director dels Cor Mountain Lakes High School de Mountain
Lakes, New Jersey. Els cors que ha dirigit han participat a ACDA Conventions, a New York i a la Casa Blanca. Amb
els seus cors ha fet gires i concerts a Londres, Paris, Mosc, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Eisenach, Berlin, Budapest,
Viena, Dresden, Praga i Stockholm. Dr. Sundquist es va doctorar en Orgue i Literatura en lEastman School of
Music on va estudiar amb David Craighead. Va guanyar el Premi dExcellncia del Conservatori Rgion de RuielMalmaison a Pars, on va estudiar amb Marie-Claire Alain. Ha estat organista associat i mestre de capella de la
Catedral Episcopal Americana, pianista de lEscola de Ballet de Pars i director i pianista del Cor de lOpera de
Pars. Dr. Sundquist va ser finalista en el concurs Clarence Mader Competition i ha fet concerts en el GO Regional
Convention a Pasadena, a Califrnia. Va ser tamb director musical associat i pianista en la producci My Fair Lady,
al Shakespeare Theatre de Chicago. Ha estat tamb organista associat en lEsglsia Prespiteriana de Pasadena,
a lEsglsia Trinity, a Wall Street, New York City, i a lEsglsia de St. Clements, a Philadelphia. En lactualitat s
director musical en el Teatre McCarter, a Princeton.

Lucia Beresova , born in Slovakia, currently living in Barcelona, is a graduate

of Presov University (Slovakia), of postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in
Bydgoszcz and of doctoral PhD studies at the Music Academy in Krakow (Poland),
all in the conducting field. She also graduated from courses of orchestral conducting
in Barcelona and Legnica. During her stay in Poland she conducted the MTM choir in
Warsaw, with which she performed in Poland and abroad. She cooperated on works
such as The Haunted Manor by Moniuszki, Gloria by Vivaldi and Mozarts Requiem,
recorded for radio and television. She currently operates in Barcelona, where she
conducts several choirs such as Tremolo Vocal Ensemble Cor Polifonic Sagrada Familia, Cor Alleluia de Tarragona, Orfeo Joventut Terrassenca, Unio Coral Centre I Energia, vocal-instrumental group
Pandamia from Universitat de Barcelona and Orchestre Tremolo. She actively performs in Spain and abroad. In
2012 she won the musical creativity award from Ateneus 2012. She lectures at the Music Academy in Krakow. She
cooperates as a soprano and conductor of REVOICE International Vocal Ensemble since 2014.

In 1992, he won a grant of la Generalitat de Catalunya for studies abroad in Paris.

With advice from the teacher, Marian Ribizcky, he studied with Ramzi Yassa, entitled teacher of l cole Normale de Musique. Since 1994, with the knowledge of Ethry Djakeli, pupil of Eduardo
del Pueyo, he studied the method and work of the pianist Marie Jall. This learning is based in the knowledge of
the human body and, especially, the education of the hand in developing a new closeness to music. Joaquim has
studied choral conducting with Josep Prats, Llus Vila, Pierre Cao, Erwin Liszt, Johann Duhick, and Lszlo Helty.
CLAUDEFAULA SINGERS was formed in 1996 and it is comprised of boys and girls from the age of 10 to 17. From the
music school where the choir belongs, we believe that the education of the voice is essential for the approach of
the child towards the music. The choir obtained the 1st Prize Cum Laude with the special congratulations from the
jury in the 54th edition of the Music Festival in Neerpelt, Belgium in May of 2006. Recently, the choir won the 2nd
Prize in the 62nd edition of International Music in Cantonigrs, singing in the Childrens category.
In august of 2010, the choir performed in Nyierghyza, (Hungary), for the 11th festival choral edition and won a
silver diplom in the competition.

Xavier Sol Gonzlez - 23 years old, is the conductor of the ensemble, El Petit
Estel. He will complete his degree in Industrial Engineering at the University this
year. Also, he is a student at the Music School Pau Casals in El Vendrell, where he
has studied conducting and specializing in piano performance.

Agns Cruanyes

Jordi Guitart, PhD

Principal in Institut Baix Peneds

Catedrtica de Llengua Grega

Catedrtic de Llengua Anglesa i Alemanya

Head of Department in Institut Baix Peneds
President de lAssociaci Musical Pau Casals

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MOUNTAIN LAKES History

Mountain Lakes High School provides grades 9th through 12th for the
communities of Mountain Lakes Borough and nearby Boonton Township.
Located in Mountain Lakes, the high
schools excellent academic reputation, coupled with strong co-curricular and sports offerings, has led to
its distinguished reputation among
New Jersey high schools. Over 70% of
the 723 member student body--which
includes about 40 hearing impaired
students from across the state-maintains an average of 3.0 and
above and approximately 95% will go
on to college. Students can choose from over 50 clubs and 23 athletic programs. School goals stress the
preparation of students for success in a global society and include the development of skills in technology, communication, collaboration and critical thinking as well as a community service component.

Developer and entrepreneur Herbert J. Hapgood established Mountain Lakes as a planned suburban
residential park in Morris County, New Jersey. The impetus for development was the completion of
railroad tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey in 1908-09 through which the Hudson and Manhattan Railway heralded a new era in the development of suburban New Jersey. With these transportation
innovations, daily commuting from New York City to more rural New Jersey locales became feasible.
Families could depend on income generated in New York City, yet enjoy the benefits of year-round
wholesome country living. Hapgood and his landscape engineer Arthur T. Holton sought to attract New
York families to their vision of a healthy middle-and upper-middle class lifestyle in a community of
large, comfortable homes situated in a natural, park-like setting that featured man-made lakes. Today
these recreational benefits continue as Mountain Lakes continues to offer lake-side beaches in summer
and ice skating on frozen lakes in winter within a setting of mature plantings featuring oak trees.
Recently having completed a planned residential park in Shoreham on Long Island, Hapgood also recognized the potential in New Jersey for a new commuter town with man-made lakes nestled among
the contours of the hills and lowlands of forest and wetlands. Within these New Jersey woodlands, first
inhabited by Lenape Indians and later settled by Europeans in the first half of the eighteenth century,
some English and Dutch homes remained from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the
Grimes Homestead that once served as a station on the Underground Railroad. By damming wetlands,
the Fox Lakes Ice Company created Birchwood, Crystal and Sunset Lakes in the late nineteenth century. In 1910 Hapgood also began using dams to create six more lakes: Olive, Shadow, Cove, Reservoir,
Mountain and Wildwood. These lakes provided scenic beauty, recreation central to community life, and

a design center around which houses were built and served to distinguish Mountain Lakes as the first
year-round lake and park community in northwestern New Jersey. From its founding in 1911, through
its incorporation in 1924 and into the present, Mountain Lakes has successfully integrated family living
with lakes, natural streams and springs, woodlands and wetlands. Thus, from its earliest years and
throughout its history, Mountain Lakes has been identified and maintained as a residential park, joining
other park suburbs established during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in England and
the United States. Dedicated parkland and undeveloped borough-owned lots contribute to spaciousness in both the Mountain Lakes Historic District and the larger Borough for forty percent of land is
Borough-owned open space. In fact, at critical junctures in its history, the Borough purchased additional
undeveloped land to protect Mountain Lakes from intrusive development and to preserve its original
design and character as a residential park. Mountain Lakes ability to regulate its growth and maintain
continuity in both landscape design and architecture has been characterized as unique in assessments
of recent American city planning. These achievements in community planning and development and
landscape design have led to the listing of the Mountain Lakes Historic District on both the National
Register of Historic Places and the New Jersey State Register of Historic Places.
Within the historic district, its original housing stock--much of which exists today--was strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. This movement first emerged in England as
a reaction to industrializations cheaply produced machine-made goods and the mechanization of production that treated workers poorly. From a design standpoint, the Arts and Crafts style also countered
the perceived excesses of the Victorian era. The Arts and Crafts Movement sought to revive the crafts
tradition and stressed simplicity of design, quality workmanship, the uplifting effects of hand labor,
the use of natural materials, and the integration of architecture with nature and the rustic environment.
Arts and Crafts architecture known as Craftsman influenced Hapgoods building designs. Hapgoods
choices for architecture and landscape design were made when the Arts and Crafts Movement was at
its peak of influence in America under the leadership of Craftsman furniture and home designer and
builder Gustav Stickley. At least several homes were based on Gustav Stickleys house designs published
in The Craftsman magazine, and establish a direct linkage between Stickley, the leading American
figure in Craftsman home design and furnishings, and historic Mountain Lakes architecture. Hapgoods
houses ranged from small bungalows to large estates and exhibited Craftsman features through their
boxy shape and functional design, extensive use of local, natural materials such as wood, stucco and
boulderstone and placement to fit the contours of the landscape. Public structures were constructed
similarly. By their location on natural rather than graded terrain, and, the use of local building materials, the Craftsman-influenced homes closely connect to nature and significantly contribute to Mountain
Lakes identity as a planned residential park and lake suburb. The current Mountain Lakes website
at www.mtnlakes.org features many original photographs of houses and early settlement, as well as
contemporary life in the Borough of Mountain Lakes.
Maria T. Iacullo-Bird, Ph.D.

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in appreciation

The Mountain Lakes Choir would like to dedicate this tour to our parents with heartfelt
thanks for their many contributions to make this experience a reality. Most importantly,
we dedicate it to them in gratitude for encouraging us in our love of music and our
pursuit in sharing our music with others around the world.

DONORS
Michael & Joan Cabassa
William & Susan Fiacco
John & Laura Fitzgerald
Ron & Nataly Frank
Dave & Whitney Fryer
Michael & Patricia Graham
Matthew Krupnick & Polly Mirsky
Mark & Margarethe Laurenzi
Michael &Tina Mehring
Ron & Anne Mucci
Lane Neiman
Kurt & Kristen Orlofski
Gregory & Jamie Pizzano
Tom & Niki Renna
Elizabeth Russ
Marc Shapiro & Ann Rappleye
James Sontag
Deborah Sorbo
Aleene Stitt
Lucie Zvaleuskas & Eddie Mager
Current list at time of printing

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dr. Anne Mucci, Superintendent
Members of the Board of Education
Mr. Jeremy Davies, Principal
Mr. Robert Downes, Dean of Students
Mr. Paul Henry, Supervisor of English and Fine Art
The staff and administration of Mountain Lakes High School

BARCELONA

Lucia Beresova, Choir Director and Organizer,

International Musical Events

GIRONA

Silvia Posa, Cultural Advisor, City Council of Girona

EL VENDRELL

Agns Cruanyes
Principal in Institut Baix Peneds
Catedrtica de Llengua Grega
Jordi Guitart, PhD
Catedrtic de Llengua Anglesa i Alemanya
Head of Department in Institut Baix Peneds
President de lAssociaci Musical Pau Casals

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Kathie Schmoll, Director, Firebird Fine Arts, Europe

Mat Schmoll, Special Consultant
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