2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board The William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Wanderer Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Jessica Lang Dance Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Choreography by Jessica Lang

DATES: Dec 3—6 at 7:30pm

LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

RUN TIME: 1hr 5min (no intermission)

Season Sponsor:

Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor

Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance

Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation.

BAM Fisher #THEWANDERER 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL The Wanderer

WORLD PREMIERE The Wanderer: Kirk Henning The Brook: Kana Kimura Artistic Director & Choreographer The Girl: Laura Mead JESSICA LANG The Hunter: Milan Misko

Assistant to the Choreographer The Others: Julie Fiorenza, Sarah CLIFTON BROWN Haarmann, John Harnage, Claudia MacPherson Music by FRANZ SCHUBERT Generous support for the creation Die schöne Müllerin of The Wanderer provided by Anonymous Donor, The Dau Family Visual Concept Foundation, Ann and Weston Hicks, JESSICA LANG and Christopher Jones and Deborah McAlister. Additional support provided Set Designer by Deborah and Charles Adelman. MIMI LIEN In-kind support provided by Judith R. Lighting Designer and Alan H. Fishman and Jill and Alan NICOLE PEARCE Resnick.

Costume Designer The Wanderer was created in part BRADON McDONALD during a Creative Development Residency with support from the Dancers Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award Initiative. JULIE FIORENZA SARAH HAARMANN The Wanderer was created in part with JOHN HARNAGE support from the Made In Wickenburg KIRK HENNING Residency Program with funding from KANA KIMURA the R. H. Johnson Foundation, The CLAUDIA MacPHERSON Del E. Webb Center for the Performing LAURA MEAD Arts, and the National Endowment for MILAN MISKO the Arts.

with This program is supported, in part, STEVEN LABRIE, Baritone by public funds from the New York TYSON DEATON, Pianist City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JESSICA LANG THE WANDERER DANCE Founded in 2011, Jessica Lang Dance A miller (the Wanderer) is journeying (JLD) is a New York City-based dance through a forest. He comes across a company dedicated to creating and Brook. The Brook leads him to a mill, performing the work of Jessica Lang. where he falls in love with the Miller’s JLD enriches and inspires global audi- daughter, the Girl. He decides to stay ences by immersing them in the beauty and work at the mill, while he ques- of movement and music. tions the Brook if she has deliberately led him to the Girl—is this his destiny? Since the company’s inception, marked by Lang’s receipt of a Joyce Theater The Girl loves the color green. Artist Residency supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JLD has made rapid success perform- As a sign of his love, the Wanderer ing at renowned venues and festivals gives the Girl his green ribbon. She throughout the country including accepts it, which he mistakes for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Ken- requited love. nedy Center Concert Hall, the Joyce Theater, New York City Center’s Fall Then, a Hunter, dressed in green, fol- for Dance Festival, and the Winspear lows the Brook’s path and comes upon Opera House in Dallas, TX, where the the mill. The Girl falls in love with the company’s performance was chosen Hunter because he is wearing green. as the best dance event of 2013. In 2014, JLD premiered Scape, commis- Tortured and tormented by everything sioned by the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra to John in nature that is the color green, the Adams’ Violin Concerto and played heart-broken Wanderer can bear no live by violinist Leila Josefowicz with more and throws himself into the Brook the NSO. JLD has received numerous and dies. The Brook sings him a lul- grants and funding from organizations laby. including the Jerome Robbins Founda- tion, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Japan Foun- dation New York, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In spring 2015, the company will undertake an 8-city tour, followed by a two week run of The Wanderer at Jacob’s Pillow, marking the company’s third Pillow season since its debut in 2012.

For a full listing of upcoming perfor- mances, visit jessicalangdance.com. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Award in the UK. Lang has received numerous grants for her work on ballet companies from organizations Who’s including the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the NEA, and the Choo San Goh Foundation. Her receipt of a 2010 Joyce Theater Artist Residency supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Who Foundation helped launch her own company, Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) JESSICA LANG in 2011. Lang’s work has also been Choreographer-Artistic Director performed by numerous educational institutions including the Juilliard Jessica Lang is a choreographer and School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the artistic director of Jessica Lang the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Dance. Hailed as “a master of visual Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY composition” by Dance magazine, Purchase College, Southern Methodist Lang seamlessly incorporates striking University, Princeton University, design elements and transforms University of Richmond, and Point classical ballet language into artfully Park University, among others. She crafted, emotionally engaging is on the faculty of American Ballet contemporary works. Since 1999, Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lang has created more than 80 School as well as a teaching artist works on companies worldwide for the Make A Ballet program. With including Birmingham Royal Ballet, her strong belief in the importance of The National Ballet of Japan at the education, Lang recently developed her New National Theatre Tokyo, Joffrey own methodology called LANGuage, a Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Cincinnati unique creative curriculum that teaches Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Ballet San individuals from all populations to Jose, Richmond Ballet, Pennsylvania cultivate the habit of creative thinking Ballet, Ailey II, ABT II, Hubbard through exercise. Lang, a graduate of Street 2, and New York City Ballet’s the Juilliard School under the direction Choreographic Institute, among many of Benjamin Harkarvy, is a former others. American Ballet Theatre has member of ’s company, presented her work at the Metropolitan THARP! Opera House, and she has received commissions from the Dallas Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum CLIFTON BROWN for its Works and Process series. For Dancer-Rehearsal Director opera, Lang received outstanding acclaim for her directorial debut and Clifton Brown began his professional choreography of Pergolesi’s Stabat career when he joined the Alvin Ailey Mater at the 2013 Glimmerglass Opera American Dance Theater in 1999. Festival. Lang is the recipient of a There he was featured in many works, prestigious 2014 Bessie Award, and named assistant rehearsal director, her ballet Lyric Pieces, commissioned and served as Judith Jamison’s and performed by Birmingham Royal choreographic assistant. While Ballet, earned a nomination for a dancing with the Ailey company he coveted 2013 Manchester Theatre was nominated in the UK for a Critics 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Circle National Dance Award for best male dancer. Brown has received a SARAH HAARMANN Bessie Award in recognition of his Dancer work with the Ailey company, as well as a Black Theater Arts Award. He Sarah Haarmann grew up in Macungie, has had the privilege of performing PA. In 2012, she earned a BFA in at the White House and for President dance from Marymount Manhattan Obama. He has also danced with College under the direction of Katie Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, Lar Langan, where she performed works Lubovitch Dance Company, and as by Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Jessica Lang, a guest artist with City Ballet, Lar Lubovitch, Larry Keigwin, Shen Rome Opera Ballet, Nevada Ballet, Wei, and Pam Tanowitz, with whom and Parsons Dance Company. He has she continues to perform. Upon made several television appearances graduation, Haarmann was selected including performing as a guest artist to participate in the Cunningham on So You Think You Can Dance and repertory workshops sponsored by the Dancing with the Stars. As a répétiteur, Merce Cunningham Trust. Haarmann he has set the work of Alvin Ailey, began working with JLD in 2012 and Earl Mosley, and Jessica Lang on joined the company in 2013. various companies. He continues to assist Lang on her creations across the globe, most recently for Birmingham JOHN HARNAGE Royal Ballet and the Glimmerglass Dancer Opera Festival. Brown is proud to be a founding member of JLD. John Harnage was raised in Miami, FL, where he trained with the Miami City Ballet School and New World JULIE FIORENZA School of the Arts. In May of 2014 Dancer he graduated from the Juilliard School under the direction of Lawrence Julie Fiorenza was born in South Korea Rhodes, where he had the privilege of and grew up in Massachussetts, where learning works by choreographers such she trained at the Academy of Dance as José Limón, Alexander Ekman, Pina Arts and the Boston Ballet School. Bausch, and Lar Lubovitch. Harnage is She earned a BFA in dance from the also a modern dance finalist from the Ailey School/Fordham University and 2010 NFAA YoungArts competition, was a member of Ailey II, Nai-Ni has worked professionally with Brice Chen Dance Company, and Adams Mousset’s Oui Danse, and performed Company Dance. Fiorenza danced at internationally at the 2012 Edinburgh the Metropolitan Opera in productions International Festival with the Juilliard of Turandot and Mark Morris’ Orfeo Dance Ensemble. Harnage began ed Euridice. She has also performed working with JLD as an apprentice in with the Mark Morris Dance Group 2014. in Romeo & Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare, The Hard Nut, and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Fiorenza is a founding member of JLD. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

various Brooklyn-based artists and KIRK HENNING collaborated with musicians in Dancer Kentucky, Vermont, and Brazil. She performed with the Mark Morris Dance Kirk Henning began his training with Group in The Hard Nut, Romeo & Watmora Casey and Avnun Yakubov. Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare, and He was a member of Dayton Ballet, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Richmond Ballet, and currently dances as well as in Morris’ production of with Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Henning Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan has performed a variety of works both Opera. MacPherson assisted Lang contemporary and classical, including at the 2013 Glimmerglass Opera Lang’s Lines Squared and To Familiar Festival and restages Lang’s work on Spaces in Dream, as well as lead roles universities for educational programs. in Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Hamlet, She is a founding member of JLD. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Romeo and Juliet, and Apollo. His many awards include the Josie Award for LAURA MEAD outstanding performer and the Movado Dancer Future Legend’s Award. Henning is a founding member of JLD. Laura Mead grew up in Austin, TX, and Berkeley, CA. She received a BFA in dance from the Juilliard School, KANA KIMURA where she performed works by Jessica Dancer Lang, Ronald K. Brown, Eliot Feld, and Paul Taylor, among others. Mead Kana Kimura was born in Hiroshima, originated the principal role of Betsy Japan, where she began her ballet in Twyla Tharp’s Broadway musical training at the age of four and studied Come Fly Away, for which she received contemporary dance with Takako an Astaire Award nomination. Mead Asakawa. After graduating from the served as dance captain on a national Juilliard School, Kimura worked with tour of Tharp’s Movin’ Out and has also Wally Cardona Quartet. She appeared performed with American Repertory in Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, and Opera, choreographed by Mark Morphoses. Mead has been a member Morris, worked on a dance video of JLD since the full company’s debut performance for Shanghai Expo, and in 2012. has also performed with Japanese Arts Organization J-Collabo in NYC. She was in the off-Broadway show The MILAN MISKO Nutcracker Rouge with Company XIV. Dancer Kimura is a founding member of JLD. Milan Misko was raised in Missouri, where he began his dance training with CLAUDIA MACPHERSON Jo Noth’s White Oak Dance Academy Dancer and the Kansas City Ballet School. He holds a BFA from the Purchase Claudia MacPherson received her College Conservatory of Dance. Misko BFA from the Ailey School/Fordham has worked with Kansas City Ballet, University. She has worked with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Merce Cunningham Dance Company/ Norsworthy, Linda Wang, Julie RUG, Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Landsman, Victoria Livengood, Othalie Theater, Adams Company Dance, and Graham, and Sherrill Milnes, among Setsuko Kawaguchi Ballet, Japan. He many others. In 2013, he conducted has created dances for Take Dance, and recorded Tom Cipullo’s Glory Bucknell University, and directed his Denied (Fort Worth), now available on first short dance film,Transportation , the Albany label. Productions of Lucia which was selected for Lincoln Center’s (Anchorage), Norma (), and Dance on Camera Festival 2013. Guillaume Tell (Wichita) rounded out Misko has been a member of JLD since the season. A champion of the music the full company’s debut in 2012. of our time, he will lead the premiere of Libby Larsen’s A Wrinkle in Time in a future season. The 2013—14 STEVEN LABRIE season included his Kennedy Baritone Center recital debut alongside tenor Matthew Grills and a term as artist- Steven LaBrie, a native of Dallas, in-residence at McGill University. TX, and a graduate of the Academy He was recently recorded with Julia of Vocal Arts (AVA) in Philadelphia, Kogan on a disc titled In Jest which is known for his beautiful timbre, will be distributed by Harmonia expressive singing, and dramatic Mundi (UK). This year is completed presence. This season LaBrie reprises by a recital tour with Matthew Worth, the role of Schaunard in La Bohème in addition to recently conducting with Washington National Opera and Le Nozze di Figaro in Memphis. Dallas Opera. Recent performances include Schaunard with New Orleans Opera, Dancaïro in Carmen at the MIMI LIEN Dallas Opera, the Secret Police Agent Set Designer in Menotti’s The Consul with Seattle Opera, and Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory Mimi Lien is a designer of sets and with Des Moines Metro Opera. During environments for theater, dance, and his AVA residency, LaBrie appeared opera. Having arrived at set design as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, from a background in architecture, her Marcello in La Bohème, Malatesta in work often focuses on the interaction Don Pasquale, and Guglielmo in Così between audience/environment and fan tutte. LaBrie’s awards include a object/performer. She is an artistic 2013 Encouragement Grant from the associate with Pig Iron Theatre George London Music Foundation and Company and the Civilians, and Second Place from the Gerda Lissner co-founder of JACK, a new art/ Foundation. performance space in Brooklyn. Her work has been presented at the Prague Quadrennial, and her sculpture was exhibited at the Storefront for Art and TYSON DEATON Architecture. Lien is a recipient of a Pianist Lucille Lortel Award, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award, Barrymore Tyson Deaton has gained attention as Award, Drama Desk nomination, Bay both a conductor and pianist having Area Critics Circle nomination, and has performed worldwide with such been a MacDowell Colony fellow. In artists as Denyce Graves, Michael 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

2012, she received an Obie Award for choreographers, her credits include 10 sustained excellence in design. works with Mark Morris (Mark Morris Dance Group, Boston Ballet, and Houston Ballet); six works with Aszure BRADON MCDONALD Barton (Nederlands Dans Theater, Costume Designer Aszure & Artists, and Hubbard Street Dance Company); six works with John Bradon McDonald has had a diverse Heginbotham (Dance Heginbotham career in both the performing arts and Ballet); No Longer Silent and design fields. Upon graduating with Robert Battle (Introdans); Blush from Juilliard in 1997, McDonald with Andrea Miller (Jacoby & Pronk); danced with José Limón Dance Episode 31 with Alexander Ekman Company for three years, and with (Joffrey Ballet); and Torrent with Brian Mark Morris Dance Group for 10 Brooks (Brian Brooks Moves). Selected years. He has choreographed operas New York theater credits include The and taught movement to opera singers American Dream and The Sandbox at companies including LA Opera, directed by Edward Albee; Beebo Bolshoi Opera, Royal Academy of Brinker Chronicles directed by Leigh Music, Houston Grand Opera, Gotham Silverman; Edgewise directed by Trip Chamber Opera, Wolftrap Opera, and Cullman; Trouble in Mind directed Tanglewood Music Festival. Twelve by Jade King Carroll; and Savage in hours after retiring from the stage, Love directed by Pam MacKinnon. McDonald began studying fashion nicolepearcedesign.com design at LA’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising where he earned two degrees in fashion design. JESSICA LANG DANCE STAFF McDonald was a top four finalist and showed a collection at New York Artistic Director and Choreographer Fashion Week on JESSICA LANG Season 12. He was both costume designer and choreographer for the Operations Manager Kurt Weill opera The Protagonist, a GRETCHEN K. WILLIAMS Beth Morrison Projects production at Fire Island Opera Festival. As well as Rehearsal Director creating couture garments for private CLIFTON BROWN clients from his studio, his signature dancewear collection, Assistant Rehearsal Director Bradon@Capezio, is available CLAUDIA MacPHERSON worldwide. Lighting Designer-Production Manager NICOLE PEARCE NICOLE PEARCE Lighting Designer Stage Manager DATHAN MANNING Previous work with Jessica Lang: 10 works including Escaping the Administrator Weight of Darkness (National Ballet JULIE FIORENZA of Japan), Crossed (Joffrey Ballet), and Lyric Pieces (Birmingham Royal Video Content Manager Ballet). A frequent collaborator of top MILAN MISKO 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

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Graphic Designer JIM LANG

Website Developer ALLAN HATTA

Music Associate to the Choreographer NATHAN TROUP

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Thank You!

The set for The Wanderer built by Paper Mâché Monkey.

Dancewear and dance shoes courtesy of Gayle Miller & Capezio NYC.

JLD would like to thank its Board of Directors and generous donors who made tonight’s program possible. by Stephanie Berger The Wanderer Photos: 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

LIBRETTO Nor who prompted me; But I too had to go down Die schöne Müllerin (Op. 25, D 795) With my wanderer’s staff. (The Fair Maid of the Mill) Down and ever onwards, By Franz Schubert (1797—1828) Always following the brook, Texts by Wilhelm Müller (1794—1827) As it babbled ever brighter Translation by Richard Wigmore And ever clearer.

1 WANDERING Is this, then, my path? O brook, say where it leads. To wander is the miller’s delight With your babbling To wander! You have quite befuddled my mind. A poor miller he must be Who never thought of wandering Why do I speak of babbling? Of wandering. That is no babbling, It is the water nymphs singing We have learnt it from the water, As they dance their round far below. From the water! It never rests, by day or night, Let them sing, my friend, let the brook But is always intent on wandering, babble, The water. And follow it cheerfully. For mill-wheels turn We can see it in the wheels too, In every clear brook. The wheels! They never care to stand still 3 HALT! But turn tirelessly the whole day long, The wheels. I see a mill gleaming Amid the alders; The stones themselves, heavy as they are, The roar of mill-wheels The stones! Cuts through the babbling and singing. They join in the merry dance And seek to move still faster, Welcome, welcome, The stones. Sweet song of the mill! How inviting the house looks, O wandering, my delight, How sparkling its windows! O wandering! Master and mistress, And how brightly the sun Let me go in peace, Shines from the sky. And wander. Now, dear little brook, Is this what you meant?

2 WHERETO? 4 THANKSGIVING TO THE BROOK I heard a little brook babbling From its rocky source, Is this what you meant, Babbling down to the valley, My babbling friend? So bright, so wondrously clear. Your singing, your murmuring, I know not what came over me, Is this what you meant? 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

To the maid of the mill! 6 THE INQUISITIVE ONE This is your meaning; Have I understood you? I ask no flower, To the maid of the mill! I ask no star; None of them can tell me Did she send you, What I would so dearly like to hear. Or have you entranced me? I should like to know this, too: For I am no gardener, Did she send you? And the stars are too high; I will ask my little brook However it may be, If my heart has lied to me. I yield to my fate: What I sought, I have found, O brook of my love, However it may be. How silent you are today! I wish to know just one thing, I asked for work One small word, over and over again. Now I have enough For hands and heart; One word is yes; Enough, and more besides. The other is no; These two words contain for me The whole world. 5 AFTER WORK O brook of my love. If only I had a thousand How strange you are. Arms to wield! I will tell no one else: If only I could drive Say, brook, does she love me? The rushing wheels! If only I could blow like the wind Through every wood, 7 IMPATIENCE And turn Every millstone, I should like to carve it in the bark of every So that the fair maid of the mill tree, Would see my true love. I should like to inscribe it on every pebble, Sow it in every fresh plot Ah, how weak my arm is! With cress seed that would quickly reveal it; What I lift and carry, I should like to write it on every scrap of What I cut and hammer – white paper: Any apprentice could do the same. My heart is yours, and shall ever remain so. And there I sit with them, in a circle, In the quiet, cool hour after work, I should like to train a young starling And the master says to us all: Until it spoke the words, pure and clear, I am pleased with your work. Until it spoke with the sound of my voice, And the sweet maid bids us all With my heart’s full, ardent yearning: Goodnight. Then it would sing brightly at her window: My heart is yours, and shall ever remain so.

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If only it shone from every flower, 9 THE MILLER’S FLOWERS If only fragrant scents could bear it to her from near and far. Many small flowers grow by the brook, Waves, can you drive only mill wheels? Gazing from bright blue eyes; My heart is yours, and shall ever remain so. The brook is the miller’s friend, And my sweetheart’s eyes are bright blue; I should have thought it would show in my Therefore they are my flowers. eyes, Could be seen burning on my cheeks, Right under her window Could be read on my silent lips; I will plant the flowers; I should have thought my every breath There you shall call to her when all is silent, would proclaim it When she lays down her head to sleep; to her; For you know what I wish to say. But she notices none of these anxious signs: My heart is yours, and shall ever remain so! And when she closes her eyes And sleeps in sweet repose, Then whisper to her as a dream: 8 MORNING GREETING Forget me not! That is what I wish to say. Good morning, fair maid of the mill! Why do you quickly turn your head away And when, early in the morning, she opens As if something was wrong? the shutters, Does my greeting annoy you so deeply, Then gaze up lovingly; Does my glance upset you so much? The dew in your eyes If so, I must go away again. Shall be the tears That I will weep upon you. O, just let me stand far off And gaze at your beloved window, From the far distance! 10 SHOWER OF TEARS Little blonde head, come out! Come forth from your round gates, We sat together in such harmony Blue morning stars. Beneath the cool canopy of alders, And in harmony gazed down Little eyes, drunk with slumber, Into the rippling brook. Little flowers, saddened by the dew, Why do you fear the sun? The moon had appeared too, Has night been so good to you And then the stars; That you close and droop, and weep They gazed down in harmony For its silent bliss? Into the silvery mirror.

Shake off now the veil of dreams I did not look at the moon, And rise up, refreshed and free, I did not look at the stars; To God’s bright morning! I gazed only at her reflection The lark is trilling in the sky And her eyes. And from the depths of the heart Love draws grief and care. I saw them nod and gaze up From the happy brook; The little blue flowers on the bank Nodded and glanced at her. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

The whole sky seemed Rest now, dear lute, here on this nail, Immersed in the brook And if a breath of air wafts over your strings, And sought to drag me down Or a bee touches you with its wings, Into its depths. I shall feel afraid, and shudder. Why have I let this ribbon hang down so Above the clouds and stars far? The brook rippled merrily, Often it flutters across the strings with a And called me with its singing and ringing: sighing sound. Friend, follow me! Is this the echo of my love’s sorrow, Or could it be the prelude to new songs? Then my eyes filled with tears And the mirror became blurred; She said: It’s about to rain, 13 TO ACCOMPANY THE LUTE’S Goodbye, I’m going home. GREEN RIBBON

“What a pity that the lovely green ribbon, 11 MINE! Should fade on the wall here; I am so fond of green!” Brook, cease your babbling, That is what you said to me today, my love; Wheels, stop your roaring! I untied it at once and sent it to you: All you merry woodbirds Now delight in green! Great and small, End your warbling! Though your sweetheart is all in white Throughout the wood, Green shall have its reward, Within it and beyond, And I, too, am fond of it. Let one rhyme alone ring out today: For our love is evergreen, My beloved, the maid of the mill, is mine! For distant hope blossoms green, Mine! That is why we are fond of it. Spring, are these all of your flowers? Sun, do you have no brighter light? Now plait the green ribbon Ah, then I must remain all alone Prettily into your hair, With that blissful word of mine, For you are so fond of green. Understood nowhere in the whole of Then I shall know where hope dwells, creation. Then I shall know where love reigns, Then I shall truly delight in green.

12 PAUSE 14 THE HUNTSMAN I have hung my lute on the wall, And tied a green ribbon around it. What does the huntsman seek here by the I can sing no more, my heart is too full, millstream? I do not know how to force it into rhyme. Stay in your own territory, defiant hunter! The most ardent pangs of my longing Here is no game for you to hunt, I could express in playful song, Here dwells only a tame fawn for me. And as I lamented, so sweetly and tenderly, And should you wish to see that gentle I believed my sorrows were not trifling. fawn, Ah, how great can my burden of joy be Leave your guns in the forest, That no song on earth will contain it? Leave your baying hounds at home, Stop that pealing din on your horn, 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

And shave that unkempt beard from your chin, Or the fawn will take fright in the garden.

But it would be better if you stayed in the forest, And left mills and millers in peace. How can fish thrive among green branches? What can the squirrel want in the blue pond? Stay in the wood, then, defiant hunter, And leave me alone with my three mill- wheels; And if you wish to make yourself popular with my sweetheart, Then, my friend, you should know what distresses her heart: Wild boars come out of the wood at night, And break into her cabbage patch, Rooting about and trampling over the field; Shoot the wild boars, heroic huntsman!

15 JEALOUSY AND PRIDE

Whither so fast, so ruffled and fierce, my beloved brook? Do you hurry full of anger after our insolent huntsman friend? Turn back, and first reproach your maid of the mill For her frivolous, wanton inconstancy. Did you not see her standing by the gate last night, Craning her neck as she looked towards the high road? When the huntsman returns home merrily after the kill A nice girl does not put her head out of the window. Go, brook, and tell her this; but breathe not a word – Do you hear? – about my unhappy face; Tell her: he has cut himself a reed pipe on my banks, And is piping pretty songs and dances for

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16 THE BELOVED COLOUR And thought she does not look out to see me, Yet I can look in. I shall dress in green, In green weeping willows: O untie the green ribbon My love is so fond of green. From your brow; I shall seek out a cypress grove, Farewell! And in parting A heath full of green rosemary; Give me your hand. My love is so fond of green.

Up, away to the merry hunt! 18 WITHERED FLOWERS Away over heath and hedge! My love is so fond of hunting. All you flowers The game I hunt is death; That she gave to me, The heath I call Love’s Torment; You shall be laid My love is so fond of hunting. With me in the grave.

Dig me a grave in the grass, How sorrowfully Cover me with green turf; You all look at me, My love is so fond of green. As though you knew No black cross, no colourful flowers, What was happening to me! Green, everything green, all around. My love is so fond of green. All you flowers How faded and pale you are! All you flowers, 17 THE LOATHSOME COLOUR Why are you so moist?

I should like to go out into the world, Alas, tears will not create Into the wide world. The green of May, If only it were not so green Nor make dead love Out there in field and forest! Bloom anew.

I should like to pluck the green leaves Spring will come, From every branch, And winter will pass, I should like to make the green grass And flowers Deathly pale with my weeping. Will grow in the grass.

O green, you loathsome colour, And flowers will lie Why do you look at me, On my grave, So proud, so insolent, so gloating; All the flowers At me, a poor white miller. That she gave me.

I should like to lie at her door And when she walks In storm and rain and snow, Past the mound And sing softly, day and night, And ponders in her heart: One single word: Farewell! His love was true. Then, all you flowers, Hark: when a hunting horn sounds in the Come forth, come forth! wood, May is here, I can hear her window. Winter is over! 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

19 THE MILLER AND THE BROOK 20 THE BROOK’S LULLABY

The Miller Rest well, rest well! Where a true heart Close your eyes! Dies of love, Weary wanderer, this is your home. The lilies wilt Here is constancy, In their beds. You shall lie with me, Until the sea drinks up all brooks. There the full moon Must disappear behind clouds, I shall make you a cool bed So that mankind On a soft pillow Does not see its tears. In this blue crystal chamber. Come, come, There angels All you who can lull, Cover their eyes, Rock and lull this boy for me! And, sobbing, sing The soul to rest. When a hunting-horn echoes From the green forest, The Brook I shall surge and roar about you. And when love Do not peep in, Struggles free of sorrow, Little blue flowers! A new star You will give my slumberer such bad Shines in the sky; dreams.

Three roses, Away, away Half-red, half-white, From the mill-path, Spring from thorny stems, Wicked girl, lest your shadow should wake And will never wither. him! Throw me And the angels Your fine shawl, Cut off their wings, That I may keep his eyes covered! And every morning Descend to earth. Good night, good night, Until all awaken, The Miller Sleep away your joy, sleep away your sor- Ah brook, beloved brook, row! You mean so well: The full moon rises, Ah, brook, but do you know, The mist vanishes, What love can do? And the sky above, how vast it is!

Ah, below, down below Is cool rest! Brook, beloved brook, Sing on! BAM Fisher