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Sunday Afternoon, June 26, 2016, at 2:00 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director presents Songs of Inspiration and Hope MARTHA SHAW , Director JUDY MASON , Assistant Director, Accompanist SPIVEY HALL CHILDREN’S CHOIR (GA) DAVID BRUNNER Psalm 150 DAVID BRUNNER The World Is Full of Poetry (from Earthsongs ) NATALIE BECKENBAUGH, Oboe arr. Rō Ogura Hotaru Koi (Japanese Children’s Song) DONALD PATRIQUIN J’entends le Moulin arr. Earlene Rentz Turtle Dove (English Folk Song) arr. Brian Tate Gate Gate (Setting of Buddhist Mantra) HOAGY CARMICHAEL & Georgia On My Mind STUART GORRELL RANDALL REESE , Saxophone Comissioned/arr . Randall Reese DANIEL STEIN , Bass CHRIS GELLA , Drums arr . Moses Hogan Music Down In My Soul (African-American Spiritual) Intermission PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. HOLLY HALL , Director LILIYA SHAMAZOV, Assistant Conductor ALESSANDRO SIMONE, Piano STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS (NY) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Chor del Engel (“Christus am Oelberge”) IRISH FOLK SONG Carrickfergus arr. Sean Ivory AARON COPLAND Zion’s Walls arr. Glenn Koponen Z. RANDALL STROOPE Amor de mi Alma (You Are the Love of My Soul) WILLIAM L. DAWSON Ain’-a That Good News! Pause LORI LOFTUS , DCINY Debut Conductor CAROL HUGHES , Piano DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONAL arr . Darla Eshelmann Come and Celebrate HEINRICH SCHUTZ Cantate Domino arr. Nancy Gundahl JAMES MCCRAY Kyrie ROBERT SCHUMANN Widmung arr. J. Muhlolland KATHY BOWEN I Believe in God CHARLES TINDLEY The Storm Is Passing Over arr. Barbara Baker SAMUEL WARD America The Beautiful arr. David Fischer Notes ON THE PROGRAM SPIVEY HALL CHILDREN’S CHOIR DAVID BRUNNER Psalm 150 In John Davies’ paraphrase of the 150th Psalm, each line of text is infused with exultation, which is echoed in the vocal fanfare figures. —Score notes DAVID BRUNNER The World Is Fully of Poetry (from Earthsongs ) This text was written by the 19th century geologist James Gates Percival and speaks of the beauty of nature. —Score notes Hotaru Koi (Japanese Children’s Song) arr. Rō Ogura A popular Japanese children’s song about fireflies. Listen at the very end for the one who is lagging behind! —R ō Ogura DONALD PATRIQUIN J’entends le Moulin The text appears to be illogical and nonsensical at times, due to its “game of rhymes” in which the final syllables of each line all rhyme with “tends” of “J’entends.” —Donale Patriquin Turtle Dove (English Folk Song) arr . Earlene Rentz The folksong Turtle Dove is both beau - loving song filled with hope and long - tiful and alluring because of its poetic ing. In the end the loving couple are imagery. It speaks of the faithfulness of compared to turtle doves who seem to love to the ends of the earth, when the moan for the loss of their loved ones. stars fall from the sky, the rocks melt and the seas dry up. It is a tender and —Earlene Rentz Gate Gate (Setting of Buddhist Mantra) arr . Brian Tate The Sanskrit text of Gate Gate which over. In Parasamgate , sam means appears at the end of the everyone, the entire community of Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, is general - beings. Everyone gone over to the other ly regarded as the essence of Buddhist shore. Bodhi is the light inside, enlight - teaching. Gate means gone. Gone from enment, or awakening. And svaha is a suffering to the liberation of suffering. cry of joy or excitement, like Gone from forgetfulness to mindful - “Halleluia!” Gone, gone, gone all the ness. Gone from duality to non-duality. way over, everyone gone to the other Gate gate means gone, gone. Paragate shore, enlightenment, svaha! means gone all the way to the other shore. Gone, gone, gone all the way —Brian Tate HOAGY CARMICHAEL & STUART GORRELL Georgia on My Mind comissioned/arr. Randall Reese Working at an investment company in “Nobody ever lost money writing New York, Carmichael was composing songs about the South.” Carmichael in his spare time and wrote Georgia on followed the advice, with Stuart My Mind at the suggestion of friend Gorrell thinking of of the title and help - and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer, ing with the lyrics. sometimes credited with being the “grandfather of modern jazz.” —Mike Hobart Supposedly Trumbauer told him, Music Down In My Soul (African-American Spiritual) arr . Moses Hogan In Music Down In My Soul , Hogan worldly meditation to a roof raising, really gives us two spirituals. The work hand-clapping finish, Hogan digs deep is not so much an arrangement of an and helps you find the “music down in old work as much as a mostly new my soul.” In 2003 Hogan died at the composition inspired by the older spir - age of 46. itual Over My Head . From a gospel chordal beginning to a flowing, other- —Jamie Spillane STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Chor del Engel (“Christus am Oelberge”) Beethoven’s first major choral work, on April 5 of that year at the Theater the oratorio Christus am Oelberge an der Wien (Vienna) where Beethoven (The Mount of Olives ), Op. 85, was had lodgings and where he held the title written in only two weeks in early of Conductor at the time. The work is 1803. The first performance took place not performed as a whole very often in modern times, but this final chorus, called the “Chorus of Angels” in the score, has rivaled even Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah in popularity over the years. The text for the oratorio is based on the Biblical description of Christ’s agony at Gethsemene. —Walter S. Collins Carrickfergus Irish, arr. Sean Ivory “Carrickfergus,” is an Irish folk song staples in the repertoire of many of the named after the town of Carrickfergus in world’s finest ensembles. Their music has Ireland. This choral arrangement by Paul been telecast on PBS and A&E and per - Caldwell and Sean Ivory beautifully fea - formed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher tures a full SSAATTBB chorus. Paul Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and Caldwell and Sean Ivory began arrang - throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. ing music together spontaneously in the early 1990s. Their works have become —http://www.caldwellandivory.com AARON COPLAND Zion’s Walls arr . Glenn Koponen The revivalist song “Zion’s Walls” was was later orchestrated by Copland. arranged by Aaron Copland and is This mixed-chorus arrangement is by found in his 2nd volume of Old Glenn Koponen. American Songs. It was originally pub - lished for voice and piano in 1952 and —Liliya Shamazov Z. RANDALL STROOPE Amor de mi Alma Spanish author Garcilaso de la Vega of great love to music, is widely known (1503-1536) wrote the poem Amor de as a conductor, lecturer and composer. mi Alma , which he called “Soneto V.” Z. Randall Stroope, who set this poem —www.waltonmusic.com WILLIAM L. DAWSON Ain’-a That Good News! Known and revered the world over, tion of such original American choral William Levi Dawson (1899-1900) was music, the Tuskegee Choir Series. one of the greatest contributors to the art Among his many compositions are the of American choral music. Deeply rooted world-famous arrangements of spiritu - in the flowering era of the American a als, including this a cappella arrange - cappella choir and African-American ment of “Ain’-a That Good News!” folk traditions, William Dawson fash - ioned the most widely performed selec - —www.kjos.com DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS INTERNATIONAL All program notes written by Lori Loftus Come and Celebrate arr . Darla Eshelmann Composed in 1997 for the American piece invites young voices everywhere Choral Directors’ Convention in to ‘Come and Celebrate’ the wonder Oklahoma, this energetic and exciting and emotion of vocal music. HEINRICH SCHUTZ Cantate Domino arr. Nancy Gundahl “Come and sing a new song to the sively for the church. He composed this Lord, for He hath done marvelous motet in 1628 for soprano, alto and things. His right hand and His holy baritone voices. Today, you hear it in arm hath gotten us the victory.” soprano I, II and alto ranges, a major Heinrich Schutz was one of the most third higher. The brilliance of counter - significant composers of the German point, along with the German text Baroque period, writing almost exclu - make it a fitting, praiseful piece. WILLIAM L. DAWSON Ain’-a That Good News! Known and revered the world over, tion of such original American choral William Levi Dawson (1899-1900) was music, the Tuskegee Choir Series. one of the greatest contributors to the art Among his many compositions are the of American choral music. Deeply rooted world-famous arrangements of spiritu - in the flowering era of the American a als, including this a cappella arrange - cappella choir and African-American ment of “Ain’-a That Good News!” folk traditions, William Dawson fash - ioned the most widely performed selec - —www.kjos.com JAMES MCCRAY Kyrie Dr. James McCray is a Professor of American Choral music. The text, Music at Colorado State University “Lord have mercy…Christ have who has composed or arranged over mercy,” from the traditional Catholic one hundred choral works. He has mass is set in beautiful, haunting and published a two-volume work on pleading melodies. ROBERT SCHUMANN Widmung arr. J. Muhlolland Widmung is a very popular German you, my grave in which so deep, my love song, from Robert Schumann’s sorrow lies for you to keep.” Written ‘Leider.’ The text speaks of a deep and in 1840, ‘Widmung’ was one of the intense love: “You are my soul, my nearly one hundred love songs Robert heart, my pain; you are my joy in sun wrote the year of his long-delayed wed - and rain.