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VoxDaniel MusicaI. Paulson, founder/music director

Streaming Live - February 21, 2021 welcome

Although we can’t be together at Beatnik Studios to experience this performance face-to- face, we are very excited that you are joining us in this virtual environment. For this season, we’ve worked hard to provide you with experiences that will lift you up and help to provide you balance during this time of isolation. This season has been crafted with you in mind, combining remastered favorite performances with new project offerings. In addition, each concert project includes interactive experiences with the artists, composers, distinguished guests, and myself.

From the beginning, Vox Musica has been dedicated to providing Music Worth Sharing to our community in beautiful Northern California. This year, we have the incredible opportunity to share our music beyond those borders, to people across the country and globe who are looking for something to brighten their world. I sincerely believe that music has the power to heal, to enlighten, and to change lives. I hope that our monthly concerts and performances will be a source of strength and peace for you.

I want to also take a moment to thank everyone who generously gives to our organization so that we can do the important work of sharing music with our community. As we welcome in a new year, may we continue to connect in ways that nourish our heart and soul, and keep the arts alive in our community and our lives.

Although we are streaming our performances online and we can’t be face-to-face we appreciate you joining us for our 15th concert season. We sincerely hope you enjoy our performance tonight and will continue to value our Music Worth Sharing.

Daniel Paulson, founder/music director organization VOX MUSICA 1017 L Street, # 333 • Sacramento, CA 95814 www.VoxMusica.net • 916.844.2586 • [email protected]

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Vox Musica was founded in 2006 in a niche of “The recent arrival of the choir Vox Musica untapped potential in Sacramento’s budding classical to the Sacramento music scene is also indicative of the talent moving into the music scene. Vox Musica is committed to excellence area that highly values new music.” in performance of diverse and challenging choral - American Music Center, 2007 literature for women’s voices and is dedicated to promoting new works, including many premieres “The singers and conductor Daniel and commissioned works. Through collaborations Paulson threw down a breathtaking performance of my Three Nightsongs.” with composers, conductors, choirs, and musicians - Joshua Shank, 2008 from around the world, Vox Musica’s featured concert projects have included collected works from the 18th “The ensemble breathed refreshing life century Venetian Ospedali; music from India, Persia, into three contemporary arrangements of a 15th-century hymn ‘Es Ist Ein Ros and Georgia; a concert project for Taiko Drums and Entsprungen’ .” Women’s Choir; a concert project for DJ and Women’s - Sacramento Bee, 2010 Choir; and a concert project for looping violin and “The music was effectively built from a Women’s Choir. Vox Musica has released one compact hushed austerity to the more complex disc and has been a featured artist for both the and Vox Musica drove us through the prestigious Old First Concert Series in San Francisco terrain with excellent taste and powerful and the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 emotion.” National Convention in Chicago, IL. More recently, Vox - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2015 Musica was selected as the recipient of the 2015-16 “Vox Musica undertakes the performance American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) of insanely difficult music and does so National Award for Adventurous Programming. successfully, time and again.” - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2017

Arunima Kohli, soprano I Laura McLellan, soprano II Samantha Harrison, soprano I Ema Gluckmann, alto I Rebekah Steiner, soprano I Erin Brothers, alto I Mira Huang, soprano I Jennifer Crawford, alto II Tabitha Lewis, soprano II Cat Fithian, alto II Marielle Petricevich soprano II Kate Kalthoff,alto II

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Daniel I. Paulson, founder & music director, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from Sacramento State University, a Masters of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from the Three-Summer Masters of Music degree program at California State University, Los Angeles, and is a Doctoral student in Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has been a featured conductor on the International Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, CA, the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, CA, and the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 National Convention in Chicago, IL. He is a student of Dr. William Belan, Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and Donald “Paulson has proved himself to be an astute programmer. He’s not afraid of Brinegar, Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies at Pasadena taking chances.” - Sacramento Bee, 2007 City College and former Adjunct Professor of Graduate Choral Conducting at the University of Southern California. “Paulson coaxed a multi-layered sound from the singers, whose His extended education includes studying early music with mysterious dimensions were delicately revealed.” the Western Wind Ensemble, the King’s Singers, and at the - Sacramento Bee, 2010 2013 American Bach Soloist’s Summer Academy. He was a “Paulson’s “Silent Night” was the most featured presenter at the 2013 Sacramento TEDx Conference perfect rendition that I could ever and spent the summer of 2014 teaching Choral/Vocal music imagine.” - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2017 at the University of Costa Rica. He is Professor of Voice and “Paulson consistently produces Choral Music at Sacramento City College, is a resident artist programs that thoughtfully translate with the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and serves as and provide context for the cerebral music they tackle.” Founder & Music Director for Vox Musica. - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2018

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VOX | 4 featured artists Dr. Tabitha Lewis

Soprano Dr. Tabitha Lewis is a recent transplant to California. She formerly served as Lecturer of Voice and Theory at Georgia College and State University. A frequent recitalist and concert performer, her oratorio work includes a performance of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass under the baton of Joseph Flummerfelt, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and Libby Larsen’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. On the operatic stage she has performed Rosalba (Florencia en el Amazonas), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Josephine (HMS Pinafore), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Lily (The Secret Garden), and Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance). Her love of Gilbert and Sullivan led her to make her directorial debut in 2017 with the Bloomington University Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of Patience. A frequent collaborator with composers, she has worked with Libby Larsen, Anne Hege, Mark Carlson, and countless student composers. She has sung in the choruses of Ash Lawn Opera, Music by the Lake Opera, Volti in San Francisco, and Aire Born Recording Group in Indianapolis. In 2014, she received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In 2017 she was a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles, where she performed the world premiere of Juliana Hall’s cycle When the South Wind Sings (subsequently the topic of her doctoral dissertation) and enjoyed a solo recital performance with Martin Katz. She enjoys singing and teaching a variety of styles, including classical art songs, musical theater, and jazz. She holds a Doctor of Music and a Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music from Wheaton College and is also a certified Suzuki Violin Instructor.

To learn more visit: www.tabithalewissoprano.com

VOX | 5 Marielle Petricevich

Marielle Petricevich has been a singer for as long as she can remember. According to her violin teacher, at three years old, Marielle sang every song before she learned to play them. In fact playing violin and singing go hand in hand for this artist; when a piece isn’t sitting in her voice, she knows it is time to pull out her violin. It’s only a matter of time before her repertoire is singing in hand and voice.

A graduate of California State University Fresno (2013, 2015), Marielle’s music career has been centered in and around the greater Valley of California. In addition to lending her musicianship to Vox Musica, she sings with the Modesto Jazz Duo which takes a neo-classical approach to traditional jazz standards. She maintains a regular recording studio appointment with PureJoyful Music, an entity focused on recording newly composed pieces for children’s chorus and four-part acapella works.

She is an advocate for performing new works, premiering Harry Sommer’s “Loon” in Fresno, California, developing the role of the “Abbess” in Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s opera “Secret of Luca”, and commissioning a piece from Biljana Bojovic, “Living Water” for solo voice and string quartet. However her singing is not limited to the Valley. Marielle has performed on stages from Hong Kong to India, across Europe, and in mainland China; one of her more memorable experiences was performing for the World Youth Conference as a soloist in front of 7,000 people.

She has sung in many languages other than her native English, with her most proficient languages being BCS (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian) and German. In 2018, Marielle had the honor of collaborating with local composer and cellist Biljana Bojovic, Serbian mezzo-soprano Tanja Obrenovic, and Serbian pianist Maja Rajcic to create a concert featuring Christmas songs from around the world. That same year, she was awarded a scholarship to study German Opera, History, and Vocal Pedagogy at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, in Trossingen, Germany. Her German language is kept up by singing with the Stockton Heimatchor, a German Choir part of the Pacific-Sängerbund of California, whose mission is to preserve and share German folk songs of the German diaspora.

She currently studies with American soprano Susan Mohini Kane, who is author of The 21st Century Singer: Making the Leap from the University into the World.

VOX | 6 collaborating artists Dr. Shinae Kim

Pianist Dr. Shinae Kim performs frequently across the United States and internationally. She commands a wide-ranging solo repertoire, placing special emphasis on masterpieces of the Austro- Germanic tradition. Spanning the Baroque to the present day, it includes both volumes of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the complete Beethoven sonatas, and the Schoenberg Piano Concerto.

Shinae Kim debuted with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at age 11 and has appeared as soloist with the Coro Symphony in Puerto Rico, the International Chamber Orchestra in California, and the Brevard Repertory Orchestra in North Carolina. A sought-after collaborator, she has been featured on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase with flutist Conor Nelson and has performed with ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Merkin Hall.

Dr. Kim holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory, a Master’s in Music Education from New York University, and a doctorate in piano performance from Stony Brook University. She also attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria, where she studied Lieder intensively with some of the world’s leading experts, including Elly Ameling and Helmut Deutsch.

A passionate educator, Dr. Kim has worked as an independent consultant at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and as a teaching artist at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts and Technology. She has most recently served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Hebrew Union College.

In 2017, Shinae Kim founded the non-profit organization An die Musik NYC and, as its artistic director, brought the people of New York City high-quality classical music at affordable prices, presenting internationally renowned performers alongside rising talents from the NYC community. After moving to California in the summer of 2020, she is excited to be part of the California music-making community and to be collaborating with the musicians of the West Coast.

VOX | 7 Casidhe Mcclone

Guitarist Casidhe McClone is a multi-instrumentalist living in Sacramento. His musical projects include anywhere from recording independant originals and covers, to composing and recording for movie scores. He is most recognized for his compositonal soundtrack for the 2014 documentary The Farmer & The Chef. His most recent instrumental “Late Breakfast” is available on most music platforms and features, none other than, Vox Musica’s Choral Artist, Marielle Petricevich. He enjoys writing, composing, and can be found often collaborating with artisans and musicians in the local Sacramento area.

To learn more visit: www.casdoesmusic.com

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VOX | 8 vox artists

Arunima Kohli, soprano, is thrilled to be returning for her second season with Vox Musica. Her love for choral music sparked during her high school years at Palo Alto High School, and continued through her undergraduate and medical school career at Stanford University, where she sang and toured with the Stanford Chamber Chorale for seven years. She also studied voice with Amy Schneider and Wendy Hillhouse, presenting five vocal recitals, and was heavily involved with the Stanford Light Opera Company (formerly the Stanford Savoyards). She is one of the founding members of the Bay Area’s Convivium Choir, under the direction of Eric Tuan. Arunima is currently in her third and final year of her Family Medicine Residency at UC Davis.

Rebekah Steiner, soprano, has been singing since before she could talk! Being raised in a musical family, Rebekah started playing piano at age five and fell in love with choral singing at age seven. She continued to sing in choir as well as perform in musical theatre productions, and Rebekah graduated from University of the Pacific with a degree in Music Therapy and a minor in Psychology. She is currently working as a music therapist for VITAS Healthcare serving people on hospice. When not singing, Rebekah enjoys painting, hiking, and playing with her dog! This is her second season with Vox Musica.

Samantha Harrison, soprano, is a graduate of Boston University where she received her Master’s in Historical Performance. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from CSU Stanislaus. Along with studying and performing opera, Samantha has a passion for choral and chamber music. She has performed with the CSU Stanislaus Chamber Singers and Concert Chorale, and the Early Music Chamber groups and Graduate Vocal Ensemble of Boston University. As an avid recitalist, Samantha performs collaborative recitals regularly throughout California.

Mira Huang, soprano, just completed her undergraduate degrees in Vocal Performance, Psychology, and English at UC Davis. Mira loves both early and modern music, and especially enjoys attempting to sing while accompanying herself on viola da gamba. She was the first vocalist to win the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in over a decade and is also the 2018 recipient of the Carol Lee Coss Memorial Scholarship, UC Davis’ only school-wide award dedicated to those in the arts. When she is not singing or teaching, Mira enjoys writing young- adult fiction, and has been honored with several short story publications. VOX | 9 Tabitha Lewis, soprano, is a recent transplant to the Sacramento area. Formerly, she served as Lecturer of Voice and Theory at Georgia College and State University. A frequent performer, she has performed opera roles, oratorios, and recitals spanning wide musical variety. In 2017, she was honored to be a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles, where she performed the world premiere of Juliana Hall’s cycle When the South Wind Sings (the topic of her doctoral dissertation). A frequent collaborator with composers, she has worked with Libby Larsen, Bernard Rands, Dominick DiOrio, and countless student composers. She made her directorial debut in 2017 with the Bloomington University Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of Patience. Lewis holds a DM and an MM from Indiana University and a BM from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.). Learn more about her at https://www.tabithalewissoprano.com.

Laura McLellan, soprano, is delighted to be singing amidst such talented peers in her third season with Vox. A Boston- bred Canadian American, Laura was lucky to be raised under exceptional batons, singing in choirs and playing the violin in orchestras from an early age. After receiving a degree in Environmental Studies from Brown University, she heeded the call of the West and found herself, happily, working for the State Water Resources Control Board. When she is not working or singing, Laura can be found on the water, rowing with the River City Rowing Club.

Marielle Petricevich, soprano, is excited for her second season with Vox! As a professional singer, she sings in and around the greater Sacramento area — in addition to Vox Musica, she sings with the Modesto Jazz Duo which takes a neo-classical approach to traditional jazz standards. She also maintains a regular recording studio appointment with PureJoyful Music, an entity focused on recording newly composed pieces for children’s chorus, and four part acapella works. In 2018, in association with Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen, she studied German Opera, History, and Vocal Pedagogy which rekindled her passion for professional singing.

Ema Gluckmann, alto, is excited to be starting her fifth season singing with Vox! While completing her B.S. in Biological Sciences with a minor in Spanish she sang with the University Chorus at UC Davis. Many years later she sang with the UCD alumni choir. Ema has sung with various local choirs and has even performed in some local musical theater. Her primary choral experience has been with the Congregation B’nai Israel Choir for the past 36 years! When not singing, Ms. Gluckmann’s day job as a high school chemistry teacher keeps her quite busy. VOX | 10 Allison Proffitt, alto, is honored to be performing in her first season with Vox Musica. A native of Downers Grove, Illinois, she began her musical education at age 8 in the local children’s choir. After singing in her middle and high school choirs, Allison joined the UC Davis Early Music Ensemble, where she discovered her love of oratorio. While living abroad, she performed with the prestigious Amici Musicae choirs in Zaragoza, Spain. She holds a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from UC Davis. When she is not singing, Allison loves exploring redwood forests, practicing her Spanish, and dancing.

Erin Brothers, alto, is singing in her seventh season with Vox Musica and is an inaugural member of the group. Erin has been involved in music for longer than she can remember, playing and singing in various bands and choirs. She received degrees in both Music and Psychology from McMurry University in Abilene, TX. Currently she is the Director of Music Ministry at Dixon United Methodist Church. Her husband, Jeremiah is also a great musician and together they are raising a rock band, The Brothers Brothers: Eamon, Kellan and Garrett.

Cat Fithian, alto, caught the performance bug when she sang a solo at church camp at the age of 2. Since then she’s sung in various choirs and in storytimes at the public library where she’s enjoyed a long career. When not singing in Vox, Cat is the Vice Chair of the Board of Uplift People of Elk Grove, a non-profit that builds community around people working to pull themselves out of poverty. This is Cat’s fourth season with Vox.

Jennifer Crawford, alto, is honored to be in her thirteenth season with Vox Musica. Her musical upbringing includes singing in church, school and community choirs, as well as playing , , and piano in concert bands, jazz ensembles, and woodwind quartets throughout her school career. When not singing, Jennifer can be found writing computer code, fostering kittens, or knitting.

Kate Kalthoff , alto, is new to Sacramento and is thrilled to be singing in her first season with Vox. Kate began her musical career studying piano and violin but her first love has always been voice. While working on her degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Kate became the lead singer and musical arranger for a /pop/rock band and for more than 20 years was headlining at some of that city’s most notable stages and clubs. After moving to Lake Tahoe, Kate joined Toccata Symphony and Chorus and was part of their 2017 tour in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. VOX | 11 th 15 concert SEASON VOX MUSICA

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VOX | 12 program SOLI ONE A VOCAL RECITAL OF ART SONGS & SOLO WORKS FEBRUARY 21, 2021 - STREAMING LIVE ONLINE

I. Dr. Tabitha Lewis, soprano; Dr. Shinae Kim, piano

Schöne wiege Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Tief im Herzen trag ich Pein Die Meerfee Der Himmel hat eine träne geweint Er ist’s

The Cage Charles Ives (1874-1954) Memories: A. Very Pleasant; B. Rather Sad The Things Our Fathers Loved i carry your heart John Duke (1899-1984) Where the Music Comes From Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)

Intermission (10 minutes)

II. Marielle Petricevich, soprano; Casidhe McClone, guitarist

All I Want (b1943) My Old Man Little Green Carey Blue California River The Last Time I Saw Richard

After Concert Talk

VOX | 13 program notes

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer who lived in the Romantic era. His music is influenced by a handful of sources: poetry, which during his lifetime had come into its fullest form of Romanticism; his devotion to his wife, pianist and composer Clara Schumann; and close relationships with other composers like Johannes Brahms. In addition, he was an accomplished pianist, and with the development of the piano to its modern version, he elevated the piano accompaniments of art songs to the position of equal collaborator with the voice. He wrote in many genres, but his songs are regarded as a special set of his output. Many of his songs were inspired by or dedicated to his wife. The year of their wedding, 1840, he wrote the vast majority of his art song output. Sadly, towards the end of his life he was committed to an asylum, leaving his wife Clara to support their nine children with her career as a concert pianist.

The songs presented tonight all have to do with longing for human companionship or camaraderie. The first two songs deal with loss. In true Romantic form, the poems bemoan the loss of the beloved so deeply, that the grave is considered the only logical conclusion to the pain. The third song is a whimsical story about a boy on a ship who sees a fairy and her retinue pass. The fourth song, also at sea, is an allegory of taking someone into one’s heart. The fifth song is a celebration of spring.

Schöne Wiege Op. 24, No. 5; Liederkreis; Feb. 1840 Poet: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Text: Translation: Schöne wiege meiner Leiden, Lovely cradle of my sorrows, Schönes grabmal meiner Ruh, Lovely tomb of my peace, Schöne stadt, wir müssen scheiden, Lovely town, we must part, Lebe wohl, ruf ich dir zu. I cry out “farewell” to you.

Lebe wohl, du heilge schwelle, Farewell, sacred threshold, Wo da wandelt Liebchen traut, Where my dear darling lives! Lebe wohl, du heilge schwelle, Farewell, holy place Wo ich sie zuerst geschaut. Where I first saw her.

Hätt ich dich doch nie gesehn, If only I had never seen you, Schöne Herzenskönigen! Lovely queen of my heart! Nimmer, nimmer wär es dann geschehen, It would never have happened daß ich jetzt so elend bin. Thank I should be so wretched now.

Nie wollt ich dein Herze rühren. I never tried to move your heart, Liebe hab ich nie erfleht; I never begged for your love; Nur ein stilles Leben führen I only wanted to lead a quiet life Wollt ich, Somewhere near you, wo dein Oden weht. Where I could breathe the air you breathe.

VOX | 1410 Doch du drängst mich selbst von hinnen, But you drive me away, Bittre Worte spricht dein Mund; You speak bitter words; Wahnsinn wühlt in meinen Sinnen, Madness is stirring in my senses, Und mein Herz is krank und wund. And my heart is sick and wounded.

Und die Glieder matt und träge schlepp ich, And I drag my exhausted, sluggish limbs away Schlepp ich fort am Wanderstab, With my pilgrim’s staff, Bis mein müdes haupt ich lege Till I can lay down my weary head Ferne in ein kühles Grab. In a cool grave, far away.

Translator: Beaumont Glass

Tief im Herzen trag ich Pein Op. 138, No. 2 Poet: E. Geibel

Text: Translation: Tief im Herzen trag ich Pein, Deep in my heart I bear pain, Muß nach außen stille sein, but outwardly I must appear to be calm, Den geliebten Schmerz verhehle I deeply hide my beloved pain Tief ich vor der Welt Gesicht, from the face of the world; Und es fühlt in nur, And only my soul can feel it, Nur die Seele, for my body does denn dier Leib verdient in nicht. not deserve it.

Wie der Funke, frei und licht, As the spark, free and bright, Sich verbirgt im Kieselstein. is concealed in flint, Trag ich innen, tief die Pein. so do I bear deep within me my pain.

Translator: Beaumont Glass

Die Meerfee/The Sea-Fairy, Op. 125, No. 1, July 1850 Poet: Julius Buddeus

Text: Translation: Helle Silberglöcklein klingen The bright sound of silver bells aus der Luft vom Meer; Comes ringing through the air from the sea; Leise Mädchenstimmen singen Girls’ voices fröhlich rings umher; Sing softly around. Und auf leichtem Perlenwagen In her frail coach of pearl fährt die Fee vorbei, The fairy rides by, Von der lauen Luft getragen, As the melody rises and falls, wallt die Melodei. Borne along by the sea breeze.

VOX | 15 Lichte Funken rings umglühten Lichte Funken rings umglühten Sie im heitern Spiel, Sie im heitern Spiel, Düfte, wie von Rosenblüten, Düfte, wie von Rosenblüten, Wehn vom Mast zum Kiel; Wehn vom Mast zum Kiel; Und der Knabe sieht es träumend Und der Knabe sieht es träumend An des Schiffes Bord, An des Schiffes Bord, Doch die Wellen tragen schäumend Doch die Wellen tragen schäumend Die Erscheinung fort. Die Erscheinung fort.them.

Translator: Beaumont Glass

Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint/ Heaven Shed a Tear. Op. 37, No. 1 Poet: Friedrich Rückert

Text: Translation: Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint, Heaven shed a tear that fell into the sea die hat sich ins Meer verlieren gemeint. and thought itself lost. Die Muschel kam und schloß sie ein: An oyster came and enclosed it, saying: “Du sollst nun meine Perle sein. “You shall now be my pearl. Du sollst nicht vor den Wogenzagen, You shall not be afraid of the waves, ich will hindurch dich ruhig tragen, for I shall carry you through them peacefully, O du mein Schmerz, du meine Lust, You, my sorrow and my joy, you, du Himmelsträn in meiner Brust! a tear from heaven in my breast! Gib, Himmel, daß ich in reinem Gemüte, Grant, heaven, that I may guard with den reinsten deiner Tropfen hüte.” a pure spirit the purest of your teardrops.”

Translator: Beaumont Glass

Er ist’s/It’s Spring, Op. 79, No. 24, probably April 1849 Liederbuch für Jungend. Poet: Eduard Mörike

Text: Translation: Frühling läßt sein blaues Band Spring again unfurls its blue ribbon and Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte. lets it flutter in the breeze; Süße, wohlbekannte Sweet, well-known scents Düfte streifen ahnungsvoll das Land. spread through the land a hint of what is on its way. Veilchen träumen schon, wollen balde kommen. Violets are already dreaming; they want to come soon. Horch, ein Harfenton! Frühling, ja du bist’s! Listen, the tone of a harp! Spring, yes, it is you! Dich hab ich vernommen, Frühling, ja du bist’s! I feel your approach! Yes, it is you!

Translator: Beaumont Glass

VOX | 1610 All translations (from German to English) are by Beaumont Glass, as published in: Schumann, R., & Glass, B. (2002). Schumann’s complete song texts: in one volume containing all completed solo songs including those not published during the composer’s lifetime, duets, trios, quartets. Geneseo, N.Y.: Leyerle.

Charles Ives (1874-1954) All Ives songs are set to poetry by the composer.

Charles Ives (1874 - 1954) was an American composer who is lauded as creating a characteristic American art music sound. An insurance salesman by day, he was free as a composer to experiment without needing to please an audience. He combined melodies from his childhood (hymns, marches) with a daring harmonic language, often layering more than one musical idea on top of another. His songs often deal with the feeling of nostalgia.

The Cage

A leopard went around his cage from one side back to the other side; he stopped only when the keeper came around with meat. A boy who had been there three hours began to wonder, “Is life anything like that?”

Memories: A. Very Pleasant; B. Rather Sad

We’re sitting in the opera house, the opera house, the opera house; We’re waiting for the curtain to arise with wonders for our eyes; We’re feeling pretty gay, and well we may, “O Jimmy, look,” I say, “the band is tuning up and soon will start to play.” We whistle and we hum, beat time with the drum. A feeling of expectancy, a certain kind of ecstasy, Expectancy and ecstasy, expectancy and ecstasy Sh’s’s’s! Curtain!

From the street a strain on my ear doth fall, A tune as threadbare as that “old red shawl,” It is tattered, it is torn, It shows signs of being worn: It’s the tune my uncle hummed from early morn. ‘Twas a common little thing and kind ‘a sweet. But ‘twas sad and seemed to slow up both his feet; I can see him shuffling down To the barn or to the town, A-humming.

VOX | 17 The Things Our Fathers Loved

I think there must be a place in the soul all filled with tunes, of tunes of long ago; I hear the organ on the Main Street corner; Aunt Sarah humming gospels. Summer evenings, The village band, playing in the square. The town’s Red, White, and Blue, all Red, White, and Blue, Now! Hear the songs,! I know not what are the words, But they sing in my soul Of the things our Fathers loved.

John Duke (1899-1984) was an American composer and professor. After he completed studies at Peabody, he debuted as a concert pianist, later soloing with the New York Philharmonic. He served on the faculty of Smith college from 1923 to 1967. During this time he wrote approximately 260 art songs. His biggest contribution to the genre was his use of a neo-Romantic harmonic language, especially considering that all his contemporaries were writing far more exploratory music. The song you will hear tonight is one of his best-known works, a setting of e. e. cummings’ poem i carry your heart.

i carry your heart poet: e. e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

VOX | 1810 Lee Hoiby (1926-2011) was an American composer and pianist. Hoiby’s writing is influenced by the lyricism of Samuel Barber, the lighthearted subject matter of Gian Carlo Menotti, and the union of traditional and jazz harmonies of Darius Milhaud, the latter two with whom he studied composition. Hoiby’s primary output was in opera, but he also has an oratorio and choral music. Many of his songs were premiered by soprano Leontyne Price, and a number of songs are dedicated to her.

Where the Music Comes From Poem by the composer

I want to be where the music comes from, Where the clock stops, where it’s now. I want to be with the friends around me, Who have found me, who show me how. I want to sing to the early morning, See the sunlight melt the snow; And oh, I want to grow.

I want to talk to the living spirit, Here inside me, where it lies. I want to listen till I can hear it, Let it guide me and realize That I can go with the flow unending, That is blending, that is real; And oh, I want to feel.

I want to walk in the earthly garden, Far from cities, far from fear. I want to talk to the growing garden, To the devas, to the deer, And to be one with the river flowing, Breezes blowing, sky above; And oh, I want to love.

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VOX | 19 Blue Joni Mitchell (b1943)

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-. She began her career singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, throughout western Canada, and then in Toronto, Ontario. By 1965 she moved to the United States and began touring on the east coast. She settled in Southern California, after finding success with some original songs, “”, “Both Sides, Now”. Her debut album was in 1968; Blue was written three years after in 1971 and is cited as one of the best of all time. It was selected by The New York Times in 2000 as one of the albums that represented “turning points and pinnacles in 20th century pop music and later in 2017, NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a list of the Greatest Albums Made By Women.

Mitchell’s sound expands beyond the confines of acoustic , showing influences of pop, rock and jazz; songs composed on piano became a hallmark of Mitchell’s style in her most popular era. The tune “Carey” was lushly produced using an Appalachian in the original version. Simpler rhythmic acoustic string accompaniment in other songs on the album allow for a focus on the lyrics and emotions (All I Want, A Case of You) but others with a rolling piano accompaniment (“Blue”, “River”, “The Last Time I Saw Richard”) show the beginnings of her hallmark piano style.

While some of Mitchell’s most popular songs were written on piano, almost every song she composed on the guitar uses an open, or non-standard, tuning; she has written songs in some 50 tunings, playing what she has called “Joni’s weird chords”. The use of alternative tunings allows guitarists to produce accompaniment with more varied and wide-ranging textures. In Blue, the song “Little Green” features this non-standard tuning.

Her most confessional album, Mitchell has said of Blue, “I have, on occasion, sacrificed myself and my own emotional makeup, ... singing ‘I’m selfish and I’m sad’, for instance. We all suffer for our loneliness, but at the time of Blue, our pop stars never admitted these things.” In its lyrics, the album was regarded as an inspired culmination of her early work, with depressed assessments of the world around her serving as a counterpoint to exuberant expressions of romantic love (for example, in “California”). Mitchell later remarked, “At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong.”

Mitchell’s songs often reflect on social and philosophical ideals as well as her feelings about romance, womanhood, disillusionment, and joy. She has received many accolades, including nine Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. called her “one of the greatest ever”, and AllMusic has stated, “When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century.

VOX | 2010 Sources: Crowe, Cameron (July 26, 1979). “Joni Mitchell”(reprint). Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2021. Fusilli, Jim (November 4, 2008). “A 65th Birthday Tribute to Joni Mitchell”. The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2021. Shumway, David R. (2014). Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-4214-1392-1. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved Feburary 9, 2021. Wild, David (October 31, 2002). “Joni Mitchell” (reprint). Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 31, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2021. Whitesell, Lloyd “Harmonic Palette in Early Joni Mitchell”, p. 173. Popular Music, Vol. 21, No. 2, (May 2002), pp. 173–93. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved February 15, 2021.

“All I want”

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be Oh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some Oh I love you when I forget about me

I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby Do you want to take a chance On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby Well, come on

All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you too All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again Applause, applause - Life is our cause When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws Do you see - do you see - do you see how you hurt me baby So I hurt you too Then we both get so blue

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Looking for the key to set me free Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling It’s the unraveling And it undoes all the joy that could be I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun VOX | 21 I want to be the one that you want to see I want to knit you a sweater Want to write you a love letter I want to make you feel better I want to make you feel free I want to make you feel free

“My Old Man”

My old man He’s a singer in the park He’s a walker in the rain He’s a dancer in the dark We don’t need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true My old man Keeping away my blues

He’s my sunshine in the morning He’s my fireworks at the end of the day He’s the warmest chord I ever heard Play that warm chord, play and stay baby We don’t need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true My old man Keeping away my blues

But when he’s gone Me and them lonesome blues collide The bed’s too big The frying pan’s too wide

Then he comes home And he takes me in his loving arms And he tells me all his troubles And he tells me all my charms We don’t need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my blues But when he’s gone Me and them lonesome blues collide The bed’s too big

VOX | 2210 The frying pan’s too wide My old man He’s a singer in the park He’s a walker in the rain He’s a dancer in the dark We don’t need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my lonesome blues

“Little Green”

Born with the moon in Cancer Choose her a name she will answer to Call her green and the winters cannot fade her Call her green for the children who’ve made her Little green, be a gypsy dancer

He went to California Hearing that everything’s warmer there So you write him a letter and say “Her eyes are blue” He sends you a poem and she’s lost to you Little green he’s a non-conformer

Just a little green Like the color when the spring is born There’ll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow Just a little green Like the nights when the Northern lights perform There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there’ll be sorrow

Child with a child pretending Weary of lies you are sending home So you sign all the papers in the family name You’re sad and you’re sorry but you’re not ashamed Little green have a happy ending

Just a little green Like the color when the spring is born There’ll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow Just a little green Like the nights when the Northern lights perform There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there’ll be sorrow

VOX | 23 “Carey”

The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn’t sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey But it’s really not my home My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne

Oh Carey get out your cane And I’ll put on some silver Oh you’re a mean old Daddy But I like you fine

Come on down to the Mermaid Café and I will Buy you a bottle of wine And we’ll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down Let’s have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine Let’s have another round for the bright red devil Who keeps me in this tourist town

Come on Carey get out your cane I’ll put on some silver Oh you’re a mean old Daddy But I like you

Maybe I’ll go to Amsterdam Maybe I’ll go to Rome And rent me a grand piano And put some flowers ‘round my room But let’s not talk about fare-thee-wells now The night is a starry dome And they’re playin’ that scratchy rock and roll Beneath the Matala Moon

Come on Carey get out your cane I’ll put on some silver We’ll go to the Mermaid Café Have fun tonight

The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn’t sleep Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here But it’s really not my home

VOX | 2410 Maybe it’s been too long a time Since I was scramblin’ down in the street Now they got me used to that clean white linen And that fancy French cologne

Oh Carey get out your cane I’ll put on my finest silver We’ll go to the Mermaid Café Have fun tonight I said, Oh, you’re a mean old Daddy but I like you But you’re out of sight

“Blue”

Blue songs are like tattoos You know I’ve been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in Well there’re so many sinking now You’ve got to keep thinking You can make it thru these waves Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs lots of laughs Everybody’s saying that hell’s the hippest way to go Well I don’t think so But I’m gonna take a look around it though Blue I love you

Blue here is a shell for you Inside you’ll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby There is your song from me

“California”

Sitting in a park in Paris France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won’t give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn’t want to stay here VOX | 25 It’s too old and cold and settled in its ways here Oh but California California I’m coming home I’m going to see the folks I dig I’ll even kiss a Sunset pig California I’m coming home

I met a on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh the rogue the red red rogue He cooked good omelettes and stews And I might have stayed on with him there But my heart cried out for you California

Oh California I’m coming home Oh make me feel good rock ‘n’ roll band I’m your biggest fan California I’m coming home

Oh it gets so lonely When you’re walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read Just gives you the blues Just gives you the blues So I bought me a ticket I caught a plane to Spain Went to a party down a red dirt road There were lots of pretty people there Reading Rolling Stone reading Vogue They said “How long can you hang around?” I said a week maybe two Just until my skin turns brown Then I’m going home to California

California I’m coming home Oh will you take me as I am Strung out on another man California I’m coming home

Oh it gets so lonely When you’re walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read More about the war And the bloody changes Oh will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? VOX | 2610 Will you? “This Flight Tonight”

Look out the left, the captain said The lights down there that’s where we’ll land I saw a falling star burn up Above the Las Vegas sands It wasn’t the one that you gave to me That night down south between the trailers Not the early one That you can wish upon Not the northern one That guides in the sailors

Oh starlight, star bright You’ve got the lovin’ that I like all right Turn this crazy bird around I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

You got the touch so gentle and sweet But you’ve got that look so critical Now I can’t talk to you baby I get so weak Sometimes I think love is just mythical Up there’s a heaven Down there’s a town Blackness everywhere and little lights shine Oh blackness blackness dragging me down Come on light the candle in this poor heart of mine

Oh starlight, star bright You’ve got the lovin’ that I like all right Turn this crazy bird around I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

I’m drinking sweet champagne Got the headphones up high Can’t numb you out Can’t drum you out of my mind They’re playing Goodbye baby, Baby Goodbye Ooh ooh love is blind Up go the flaps down go the wheels I hope you got your heat turned on baby I hope they finally fixed your automobile I hope it’s better when we meet again baby

VOX | 27 Starlight, star bright You got the lovin’ that I like all right Turn this crazy bird around I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

“River”

It’s coming on Christmas They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But it don’t snow here It stays pretty green I’m going to make a lot of money Then I’m going to quit this crazy scene Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I’m so hard to handle I’m selfish and I’m sad Now I’ve gone and lost the best baby That I ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Oh, I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye

It’s coming on Christmas They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on VOX | 2810 “A Case of You”

Just before our love got lost you said “I am as constant as a northern star” And I said “Constantly in the darkness Where’s that at? If you want me I’ll be in the bar”

On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada Oh Canada With your face sketched on it twice Oh you’re in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darling Still I’d be on my feet oh I would still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints I’m frightened by the devil And I’m drawn to those ones that ain’t afraid

I remember that time you told me you said “Love is touching souls” Surely you touched mine ‘Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet I would still be on my feet

I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said “Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed”

Oh but you are in my blood You’re my holy wine You’re so bitter, bitter and so sweet VOX | 29 Oh, I could drink a case of you darling Still I’d be on my feet I would still be on my feet

“The Last Time I Saw Richard”

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ‘68 And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think you’re immune Go look at your eyes they’re full of moon You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you All those pretty lies pretty lies When you gonna realize they’re only pretty lies Only pretty lies just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer and he pushed Three buttons and the thing began to whirr And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie And she said “Drink up now it’s getting’ on time to close” “Richard, you haven’t really changed” I said It’s just that now you’re romanticizing some pain that’s in your head You got tombs in your eyes but the songs you punched are dreaming Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweet When you gonna get yourself back on your feet? Oh and love can be so sweet Love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on And all the house lights left up bright I’m gonna blow this damn candle out I don’t want nobody comin’ over to my table I got nothing to talk to anybody about All good dreamers pass this way some day Hidin’ behind bottles in dark cafes dark cafes Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings and fly away Only a phase these dark café days

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