A TIME FOR LIFE
Alexander Lingas Robert Kyr: A Time for Life Founder and Artistic Director An environmental oratorio soprano LeaAnne DenBeste Stephanie Noble
alto Tuesday Rupp Kristen Buhler, alto (A2) Part I: CREATION Part III: REMEMBERING tenor Cahen Taylor i. Prologue. [Instrumental] I. DANCE OF LIFE Mark Powell ii. Proclaiming. iii. Arriving. II. CANTICLE OF LIFE bass iv. Praising. Canticle: First Part Aaron Cain v. Trembling. i. First Soliloquy David Stutz vi. Rejoicing. ii. First Canons iii. Chorale, First Verse Part II: FORGETTING Canticle: Second Part i. Prologue. [Instrumental] iv. Second Soliloquy THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC v. Chorale, Second Verse ii. Supplication I: We Ignore Your Word vi. Second Canons Ron Blessinger iii. Witness I: Look and Behold Violin & Artistic Director Canticle: Third Part iv. Supplication II: We Devour Your Forest vii. Third Soliloquy Anna Schaum v. Witness II: Breathe and Remember viii. Chorale, Third Verse Viola ix. Third Canons vi. Supplication III: We Defile Your Oceans Hamilton Cheifetz vii. Witness III: The Survivor Canticle: Final Part Violoncello x. Final Chorale viii. Supplication IV: We Destroy Nature xi. Final Canons ix. Witness IV: Howl, You Shepherds! xii. Epilogue
x. Supplication V: We Pollute the Air xi. Witness V: The Joyless Land
xii. Supplication VI: The Dying Planet xiii. Witness VI: The Sacred Way
2 camp in 1942); and the Orthodox “Service for the Environment” that was written in 1961 by the monk Gerasimos at the monastery of the Skete of Little Anne on Mt. Athos (Greece). • Part II: Forgetting. The second part explores A TIME FOR LIFE BY ROBERT KYR humanity’s present inability to live in harmony with Program note by the composer nature as “forgetting” and makes a recurrent appeal to the Creator: “… We forget who we are. Help us to remember …” Forgetting is structured in six sections One of the most urgent issues facing the world today and each consists of two parts: a “supplication” (a is the ecological crisis caused by humanity’s inability solo followed by canons) paired with a “witness” to live in harmony with the natural world. My account (an aria, duo or trio). The sources for Part II collaboration with Cappella Romana grew out of our are: the U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program; the mutual concern about this potentially catastrophic Books of Jeremiah and Isaiah; the Chinook Psalter; situation. After many discussions, I decided to create and an Ojibway Prayer, as well as the Orthodox an environmental oratorio in order to address this “Service for the Environment.” crucial topic from a variety of perspectives. • Part III: Remembering. The third part begins with A Time for Life (2007) was created for eight of the the Dance of Life followed by the Canticle of Life. The principal singers of Cappella Romana, Alexander “dance” features a double chorus singing call-and- Lingas (its director), and the ensemble Medieval response (three women juxtaposed with three men), Strings with a later version (2008) for modern whereas the “canticle” is structured in four parts, instruments (Third Angle New Music). The work each of which contains a soliloquy (solo), a section features each of its vocalists as a soloist, a chamber of canons, and a chorale (full, eight-voice choral musician (a member of duo- and trio-formations), texture). The text sources for Part III are a Pawnee/ and a chorister (part of the full eight-voice choral Osage/Omaha Indian Song, a Navaho Chant, the texture). I know the artists of Cappella Romana Book of Ecclesiastes, and the Orthodox “Service for well and so I created the oratorio expressly for the Environment.” them so that they could explore the full range of A Time for Life is a “musical play” that traces a their abilities. In this sense, A Time for Life is a journey from the glory of Creation as it was given to musical play in which each “character” (singer or humanity (Part I) through our destructive behavior instrumentalist) performs a variety of roles. In a live as demonstrated by the current global environmental performance, this play is also enacted through both crisis (Part II: Forgetting). The potential for the music and a simple choral choreography; the destruction is total: the forest (Supplication & movement of the performers through the concert Witness II); the oceans (Supplication III); animal life space is a journey that embodies the meaning of the (Supplication IV); the air we breathe (Supplication text. V); and the entire planet itself as plagued by The composite text forA Time for Life was adapted corruption and abuse (Supplication VI). No one from a wide range of sources that explore the can escape the responsibility for the earth (“My relationship of humanity to nature. The work is people are fools,/Senseless children/Who have no structured in three large-scale parts, as follows: understanding”), especially the leaders (“No more • Part I: Creation. In the first part, the nature of will the fool be called noble,/For he speaks foolishly,/ creation is celebrated through praise for the Creator Planning evil in his heart”). The ruling class of all and through rejoicing in the pure creative force nations is particularly culpable in its folly (“Howl, of existence. The text was adapted from several you shepherds, and wail!/Roll in the dust, leaders of sources: a Sioux Prayer; an Eskimo Song; Psalm 8; the flock!/There is no flight for shepherds,/No escape An Akathist in Praise of God’s Creation (attributed to for leaders of the flock./There is no escape!”). Metropolitan Tryphon, 1934, but possibly written by The final phase of the journey (Part III: Father Gregory Petrov who died in a Soviet prison Remembering) moves towards a hopeful future in 3 which humanity serves as a responsible steward of And thus, my environmental oratorio traces our the earth and thus realigns itself with the creative journey from a state of division and separation to the forces of existence. This journey is a spiritual one way of unity and wholeness. in which we remember our true responsibility —Robert Kyr of stewardship for the earth, and through this awakening finally act[s]“ as one to preserve creation” (Part III: Final Chorale). This spiritual awakening leads to true and sustained action, as the final arc of the journey passes through three phases: “… remembering… restoring… rejoicing…” In turn, these phases lead to gratitude for all life: “Beauty before me…behind me…below me…above me…around me…In beauty it is finished…” A Time for Life is dedicated to Alexander Lingas and Cappella Romana. I believe that music and the arts have a crucial role to play in the transformation of the current energy of cynicism and destruction into the life-sustaining attitude and energy of creativity.
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White Flood (D109) Cyan Magenta Yellow Black “THE GREEN PATRIARCH,” CAPPELLA are most properly ordered by love and thanksgiving. ROMANA, AND A TIME FOR LIFE Some years ago Robert Kyr, having become aware Before climate change became a pressing item on the of and admiring the environmental initiatives of global agenda, signs of human abuse of the natural Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, approached environment had prompted efforts in religious me with the idea of composing an oratorio for communities throughout the world to recover Cappella Romana that would address some of spiritually grounded notions of human stewardship the same issues. This led to further conversations within creation. For Orthodox Christianity, this between us exploring past and present perspectives process began in earnest during the second half on the relationship between divinity, humanity of the tenure of His All-Holiness Dimitrios I as and the environment. These discussions served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1972– a background for the creation of his libretto for A 1991). Theological inquiry was succeeded by public Time for Life, in which Professor Kyr sensitively engagement in 1989 when Ecumenical Patriarch incorporates excerpts from the Bible, the worship of Dimitrios set aside September 1st, New Year’s Day Eastern Orthodoxy, and the prayers of indigenous in the liturgical calendar of Eastern Orthodox peoples. As set to music, these texts movingly render Churches, as an occasion for Christians under the loss of ancient wisdom regarding responsible his jurisdiction to offer prayers annually for the stewardship of creation, its horrific consequences for protection of the environment. our environment, and the potential offered by the September 1st was chosen as liturgically recovery of spiritual tradition for re-establishing a suitable because themes of supplication and harmonious relationship with nature. thanksgiving for creation were already present —Alexander Lingas in the existing medieval service texts for this day (albeit with emphasis on preserving the city, imperial government and church of Byzantine Constantinople). Common prayer specifically “for our environment and for the welfare of all creation” was facilitated the following year by the commissioning of a new liturgical office in Greek from Fr. Gerasimos of the Skete of Little Anne on the Holy Mountain of Athos (1905–91), a prolific poet who had been previously recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as “Hymnwriter of the Great Church.” In 1992, at the request of the World Council of Churches, Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash) made a slightly expanded English version of this new office, the full text of which is available on his personal website (www.anastasis.org.uk/environm. htm). The present Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, has made the preservation of the environment a focal point of his ministry. Described previously in this booklet by the Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, his efforts have led the international media to dub him “the Green Patriarch.” One of their recurrent themes, sounded also by other Eastern Orthodox writers, has been that maltreatment of the natural environment rests ultimately on human distortions of relationships with God and nature that
5 T2: Glory For the natural world through which A TIME FOR LIFE We live and move and have our being. An Environmental Oratorio T1: O our Mother, the Earth, hear us And give us support. Vocalists: S1 (Soprano I) T2: Glory S2 (Soprano II/Mezzo-soprano) For the flowering earth A1 (Alto I) Filled with plants and trees. A2 (Alto II) A1: O Spirit of the East, T1 (Tenor I) Send us your Wisdom. T2 (Tenor II) T2: Glory B1 (Bass I / Baritone) For the seas, vast and wide, B2 (Bass II) And all the creatures within. Textual Sources: The composite text forA B1: O Spirit of the South, Time for Life is adapted from the following sources: May we tread your path of life. a Sioux prayer; an Eskimo song; the Chinook T2: Glory Psalter; an Ojibway prayer; a Pawnee/Osage/ Omaha For all animals and living things, Indian song; a Navaho chant; the Orthodox “Service Both great and small. for the Environment”; “An Akathist in Praise A2: O Spirit of the West, of God’s Creation” (Orthodox); United Nations May we always be ready for the long journey. Environmental Sabbath Program; Psalm 8; Book of T2: Glory Jeremiah; Book of Isaiah; Book of Ecclesiastes; and For beautiful weather and flourishing seasons. original texts by the composer. B2: O Spirit of the North, purify us With your cleansing winds. Part I: CREATION T2: Glory For the breath of winds i. Prologue. [Instrumental] And the flow of waters. T2: [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”] ii. Proclaiming. The others: [Adapted, Sioux Prayer] T2: O Lord, You are the light of those in darkness, v. Trembling. And my spirit sings your praises: S1: The great sea has set me in motion, Glory for calling us into being. Set me adrift, [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”] And I move as a weed in the river. O the arch of sky iii. Arriving. And mightiness of storms T2: O Lord, Encompasses me, How wonderful is your name And I am left In all the earth! Trembling with joy. [Adapted, Psalm 8:1] [Adapted, Eskimo Song] Glory for creating the beauty of the universe; T2: O Lord, Glory for your eternity within this fleeting world; Glory to You Glory for each step in our life journey… For the joy of moving and seeing and living. [Adapted, An Akathist in Praise of God’s Creation] vi. Rejoicing. iv. Praising. [All:] Glory S2: O our Father, the Sky, hear us From age to age. And make us strong. [Adapted, An Akathist in Praise of God’s Creation]
6 Part II: FORGETTING Be as incense to thee, As I breathe and remember i. Prologue. [Instrumental] The ancient forests of earth. [Adapted, Chinook Psalter] ii. Supplication I: We Ignore Your Word S1: O God: vi. Supplication III: We Defile Your Oceans We ignore your Word S1: O Creator: Serving only ourselves. We defile your oceans, [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”] Harming and killing sea life. S1+T2: We forget who we are. T2: We forget who we are. [All:] Help us to remember. S1+T2: Help us to remember. [Adapted, U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program] vii. Witness III: The Survivor S2/A1: Woe to those who call evil good, iii. Witness I: Look and Behold And good evil; S2: My people are fools, Who change darkness into light, Senseless children And light into darkness; Who have no understanding; Who change bitter into sweet, They are wise in evil, And sweet into bitter! And do not know Woe to those who are wise in their own sight, How to do good. Who deprive the just man of his rights. I look at the earth, [Adapted, Isaiah 5:20-25] It is waste and void; No more will the fool be called noble, Look and behold: many are dying, For he speaks foolishly, Even the birds fly away! Planning evil in his heart. Look and behold: But the noble man plans noble deeds Our gardens are deserts. And by noble deeds, he survives. [Adapted, Jeremiah 4: 22-26] [Adapted, Isaiah 32: 5-8] iv. Supplication II: We Devour Your Forest viii. Supplication IV: We Destroy Nature T2: O Creator: T2: O Creator: We devour your forest, We destroy nature, Turning land into pavement. Extinguishing animal life. S1: We forget who we are. S1+T2: We forget who we are. [All:] Help us to remember. [All:] Help us to remember. v. Witness II: Breathe and Remember ix. Witness IV: Howl, You Shepherds! T1: Our garden was so diverse: T1/B1: Howl, you shepherds, and wail! Plants from so many families, Roll in the dust, leaders of the flock! So many colors, fragrances. There is no flight for shepherds, Basil, mint, lavender, No escape for leaders of the flock. God help me to remember; There is no escape! Raspberry, Apple, Rose, [Adapted, Jeremiah 25: 34-38] God fill my heart with love; “Woe to those who mislead Dill, anise, tansy, And scatter the flock of my pasture; Holy winds blow through me; You have not cared for them, Rhododendron, zinnia, And you will suffer for your evil deeds, May my prayer be beautiful. For your evil heart.” O God, may my remembrance [Adapted, Jeremiah 23: 1-4]
7 Howl, you shepherds, and wail! Teach us love, compassion, and honor, Roll in the dust, leaders of the flock! There is no flight for shepherds, So we may heal the earth. No escape for leaders of the flock. So we may heal each other. [Adapted, Jeremiah 25: 34-38] [Adapted, Ojibway Prayer] x. Supplication V: We Pollute the Air Part III: REMEMBERING A1: O Creator: We pollute your air, I. Dance of Life Spreading death and disease. S1+T2: We forget who we are. A1: A time for all seasons [All:] Help us to remember. Under heaven: [All:] A time to live xi. Witness V: The Joyless Land And a time to die; S1/A1/A2: The earth is laid waste; A time to plant Stripped and barren. And a time to harvest; The world is polluted A time to rend Because of its inhabitants, And a time to sew; Who have broken too many laws. A time to hurt They who dwell on earth turn pale, And a time to heal; And only a few good people are left. A time to seek Silent, the cheerful timbrels; And a time to lose; Ended, the cry of jubilation; A time to embrace Still is the dancing harp. And a time to reject; Broken down is the city of chaos: A time to remember Every joy has left the land. And a time to forget; [Adapted, Isaiah 24: 3-20] A time to cry And a time to laugh; xii. Supplication VI: The Dying Planet A time to love T2: O Creator: And a time to hate. Your planet is dying From our corruption and abuse. A time to give A1+B1: We forget who we are. And a time to take; [All:] Help us to remember. A time to destroy And a time to create; xiii. Witness VI: The Sacred Way A time for action T1/B1/B2: O Creator: And a time for thought; Look at our brokenness. A time for war And a time for peace; In all creation, A time to mourn Only the human family And a time to dance; Has strayed from the Sacred Way. A time for silence And a time for music— We are divided A time for life And must come back together again And only life. To walk as one in wholeness. [Adapted, Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8]
O Creator, O Sacred One:
8 II. Canticle of Life vi. Second Canons House made of dawn. Canticle: First Part House made of evening light. i. First Soliloquy House made of the dark cloud. T2: O Lord: House made of male rain. Help me to remember who I am, House made of dark mist. Guide me to preserve your creation. House made of female rain. Lead me to greater life. House made of pollen. [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”] [Adapted, Navaho Chant] ii. First Canons Canticle: Third Part [All:] Help me to remember who I am… vii. Third Soliloquy A1: O Master: iii. Chorale, First Verse Help us to remember [All:] Remember, remember The holiness of your creation. The circle of the sky: Guide us to preserve The stars and the brown eagle, The majesty of nature. The supernatural winds [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”] Breathing night and day From the four directions. viii. Chorale, Third Verse [Adapted, Pawnee/Osage/Omaha Indian Song] [All:] Remember, remember The holiness of life: Canticle: Second Part The running streams and dwellings, iv. Second Soliloquy The young within the nest, S1: O Creator: A hearth for sacred fire, Guide us to preserve your creation. The holy flame. Help us to protect the fullness of nature [Adapted, Pawnee/Osage/Omaha Indian Song] In which we live and move and have our being. Give us the breath of winds. ix. Third Canons Give us the flow of waters. Restore my feet for me. Restore my legs for me. Give us light. Restore my body for me. Restore my mind for me. [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”] Restore my voice for me. [Adapted, Navaho Chant] v. Chorale, Second Verse [All:] Remember, remember Canticle: Final Part The great life of the sun: x. Final Chorale Breathing on the earth, [All:] O Holy One: Falling upon earth, Give peace to all nations Bringing out life from the earth— And understanding in all things, Life covering the earth. So we may act as one [Adapted, Pawnee/Osage/Omaha Indian Song] To preserve your creation. [Adapted, Orthodox “Service for the Environment”]
xi. Final Canons S1, T2: Rejoicing may I walk. Rejoicing, with abundant dark clouds, may I walk. Rejoicing, with abundant showers, may I walk. Rejoicing, with abundant plants, may I walk. Rejoicing, on a trail of pollen, may I walk.
9 xii. Epilogue S1, T2: May it be beautiful before me. May it be beautiful behind me. May it be beautiful below me. May it be beautiful above me. May it be beautiful all around me. In beauty it is finished.
Beauty before me… Beauty behind me… Beauty below me… Beauty above me… Beauty around me… T2: Remember…
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10 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Camerata, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium the Christian East and West, Musicum, Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe with emphasis on early and Choral Society, University of Chicago contemporary music. The ROBERT KYR Choruses, Pacific Youth Choir, Cappella Nova (Scotland), Revalia (Estonia), ensemble is known especially Robert Kyr (b. 1952) is considered to be Putni (Latvia), Moscow State Chamber for its presentations and one of the most prolific composers of Choir (Russia), Ensemble Project Ars recordings of medieval his generation; he is also a writer and Nova, Back Bay Chorale (Boston), filmmaker. His output features a wide Byzantine chant, Greek and Oregon Repertory Singers, Pacific Youth range of music for vocal ensembles of Russian Orthodox choral Choir, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, all types, as well as twelve symphonies, works, and other sacred among many others. three chamber symphonies, three violin music that expresses the concerti, and works for diverse chamber Many foundations and institutions have historic traditions of a unified commissioned Kyr’s music, including ensembles. Luminous and sometimes Christian inheritance. Founded ecstatic in effect, Kyr’s music is basically Paul G. Allen Foundation, National tonal and modal, and he often combines Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in 1991, Cappella Romana music with other media in order to Meet the Composer, Chamber Music has a special commitment explore important intercultural themes, America, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, to mastering the Slavic and such as peace-making (conflict and Scottish Arts Council, Canada Council, Byzantine musical repertories reconciliation) and the environment Estonian Choral Society, Nagasaki Peace in their original languages, Museum, Chase Foundation (Boston), (living in harmony with nature). His thereby making accessible to Songs of the Soul was premiered by New England Foundation for the Arts, Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare's Hopkins Arts Center (Dartmouth), the general public two great Company of Voices, and hailed in the Templeton Foundation, Collins musical traditions that are Wall Street Journal as “a powerful new Foundation, Oregon’s Regional Arts and little known in the West. The achievement in American music that Culture Council, Oregon Humanities ensemble presents annual vividly traces a journey from despair to Center, and Massachusetts Council for concert series in Portland, the Arts and Humanities. transcendence.” Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Five compact discs of Kyr’s music are Kyr holds degrees from Harvard (Ph.D.), and San Francisco, California, University of Pennsylvania (M.A.), currently available: Songs of the Soul in addition to touring nationally (Conspirare); A Time for Life (Cappella and Yale (B.A.). He has held teaching Romana); Violin Concerto Trilogy positions in composition and music and internationally, most (Third Angle New Music);Unseen Rain theory at Yale, UCLA, Hartt School of recently to Hungary, Serbia, (Ensemble Project Ars Nova), and The Music, Aspen Music School, and the and the UK. Critics have Passion according to Four Evangelists Longy School of Music. Currently, he is consistently praised Cappella (Back Bay Chorale). In addition, his Philip H. Knight Professor of Music and Romana for their unusual Chair of the Composition Department music is featured on two Conspirare and innovative programming, discs on Harmonia Mundi: Samuel at the University of Oregon School Barber—An American Romantic (his of Music and Dance. In addition to including numerous world and chamber version of The Lovers) and teaching, Kyr directs the Oregon Bach American premieres. Cappella Sing Freedom! (his original spiritual, Festival Composers Symposium, the Romana has released more Freedom Song), as well as several other Music Today Festival, and the Vanguard than 20 recordings. compilation discs, including Faces of Concert Series. Robert Kyr’s website a Woman (MDG 344-1468), Celestial is www.robertkyr.com and he can be Light: Music by Hildegard von Bingen and contacted at [email protected]. cappellaromana.org Robert Kyr (Telarc CD 80456), and The Fourth River: The Millennium Revealed (Telarc CD 80534). CAPPELLA ROMANA ALEXANDER LINGAS Over the past three decades, Kyr Its performances “like jeweled Alexander Lingas, Music has received commissions from light flooding the space” (Los Director and Founder of numerous music organizations, and Angeles Times), Cappella Cappella Romana, is a from choruses and vocal ensembles Romana is a professional in particular, including Cappella Professor of Music at City, Romana (Portland/Seattle), Conspirare vocal ensemble dedicated University of London, and a (Austin), Chanticleer (San Francisco), to combining passion with Fellow of the University of Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Austin Vocal scholarship in its exploration Oxford’s European Humanities Arts Ensemble (Chorus Austin), Yale of the musical traditions of 11 Research Centre. He completed the St. Romanos the Melodist never know what is going to happen next. his doctorate on Sunday medallion of the National Third Angle. It’s anything but ordinary. matins in the rite of Hagia Forum for Greek Orthodox Third Angle New Music String Quartet Sophia at the University of Church Musicians (USA). has received rave reviews for its British Columbia and then, In 2018 His All-Holiness, performances of contemporary music. Following its recent tour of China, the with the support of a SSHRC Bartholomew I, Archbishop quartet performed the epic four-hour postdoctoral fellowship, of Constantinople-New Rome String Quartet No. 2 by Morton Feldman moved to Oxfordshire and Ecumenical Patriarch, and received the following accolade from to study theology with bestowed on him the title of Asymmetry Music Magazine in February Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. Archon Mousikodidaskalos. 2012, “I cannot imagine it [Feldman His present work embraces String Quartet No. 2] played any more beautifully or perfectly than Third Angle not only historical study THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC played it. Rich tone, perfect intonation, but also ethnography and razor-sharp ensemble, and a palpable performance. His awards Third Angle New Music pushes the love for this lovely music. No praise can include Fulbright and Onassis boundaries of the expected with be too high for this performance.” Learn grants for musical studies in the creation and performance of more at thirdangle.org. contemporary musical events, works, Greece with cantor Lycourgos and collaborations. New music is Angelopoulos, the British a form of musical storytelling that Academy’s Thank-Offering to works in harmony or dissonance with Britain Fellowship, research its environment. It’s an opportunity leave supported by the Stavros to rethink the conditions of the Niarchos Foundation, and performance itself. Being new music, you
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