Jennifer Cutting’s OCEAN Jennifer wrote this song because she could not find Troubles of the old year past one that spoke to certain ideas, which many Burning in the oaken fire, cultures have reflected on at the Winter Solstice Making way for greater gifts; since ancient times. For one, that the Solstice is a Glowing with our hearts’ desire, turning point, a magical gateway through which we CHORUS Celtic Music for Midwinter pass into the season of the Sun’s rebirth. For Notes by Stephen D. Winick and Jennifer Cutting another, that as we give thanks for the returning Merry meet and merry part, Sun, we should give equal thanks to the season of Merry meet again, Song of Solstice cold and dark for all it has taught us, as a time of Strangers only at the start, Words2 and music by Jennifer Cutting, reflection, incubation, and gestation. Finally, that at Now are friends until the end, and © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP this season we should gather together in fellowship, Raise the song of Solstice high, Choral vocals arranged by Jennifer Cutting and to raise our spirits and sing back the sun. Through the wind and weather; Betsy Fulford Miller Jim Voorhees of the Foggy Bottom Morris Men has Welcome Yule with frost and fire Vocal and Concertina - John Roberts written a wonderful dance to this song, which the And sing we all together! (repeat) 1 Christmas Day in the Morning Vocal - Tony Barrand men now perform each year on the Winter Solstice. Trad., arr. Sue Richards Button Accordion - Jennifer Cutting ‘Tis the gateway of the year; People, Look East Fiddle - Steve Hickman Celtic Harp - Sue Richards Shortest day and darkest hour; Trad.,3 arr. John Guillory and Jennifer Cutting Fiddle, Nyckelharpa - Bruce Sagan Praises as our newborn Sun Bodhrán - Myron Bretholz Vocals - Christine Noyes Recorders - John Guillory Journeys back to its full power, This tune is associated with Friedemann Stickle, a Double Bass - Charlie Pilzer Recorders - John Guillory German sailor who was shipwrecked on Unst, in Choral vocals - singers from Washington Revels: CHORUS Lute - John Albertson the Shetland Islands, in the 1770s. Stickle Helen Fields, Joanna Franco Marsh, Cheryl Raise the song of Solstice high, Piano Accordion - Jennifer Cutting remained in Shetland, where he became a famous Lane, Jennifer Greene, Susan Hall Lewis, Through the wind and weather; Oboe - Karen Moses fiddler, and was paid to play this tune every year Gillian Penn, Marc Lewis, Mike Matheson, Welcome Yule with frost and fire Dumbek, Tombak, Daf, Riqq, Zils - Steve Bloom at Christmastime in the Hall of Buness in Unst. Milan Pavich, Mike Platt, Michael Lewallen, And sing we all together! Bodhrán - Myron Bretholz Stickle’s great-great grandson, John Stickle, was Greg Lewis, Will Wurzel, and Elizabeth Miller Blessed be the darkness deep; Double Bass - Charlie Pilzer still playing the tune into the 1950s. The Shetland (Music Director, Washington Revels) All we learned there well worth knowing. Harmony vocals - Lisa Moscatiello, Betsy fiddler, collector, and teacher Tom Anderson Additional vocals on choruses - Lisa Null, Charlie As below, the seeds’ long sleep Fulford Miller, Jennifer Cutting thought that Friedemann had composed the tune, Baum, Steve Winick, Riki Schneyer, Jim Lewis Nourished hope for springtide’s growing, The traditional melody of this song comes from a but Patrick Shuldham-Shaw, the folklorist who Bells - Foggy Bottom Morris Men: Jim CHORUS French carol in the Besançon dialect, entitled collected the tune from John Stickle, believed it Voorhees, Gus Voorhees, Bruce Sagan, “Chantans, Bargies, Noué, Noué.” Sir John Stainer was older than Friedemann’s day. Arthur Shaw, Jim Lewis, Bill Brown medieval churches. The Green Man is often (1840-1901) traced the tune to a Besançon points of the year is common in folklore, and Green Man thought of today as a spirit of spring and summer. publication of 1717, and it probably originated in reflects a universal recognition that humans and Words6 and music by Jennifer Cutting, However, midwinter has its own miraculous the 17th century. The words are modern. They the earth both have their seasons of fertility. © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP foliage, including holly, ivy and pine, which remain were written by Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965), and Choral vocals arranged by Jennifer Cutting and green while everything else is dead. In one of the first published in The Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Betsy Fulford Miller Best known in her day as a children’s author, Green Man’s most compelling medieval Farjeon is better known today as the lyricist Vocal - Steve Winick appearances, the poem Sir Gawain and the Green responsible for “Morning Has Broken,” which she Fiddle - Steve Hickman Knight, he is clearly a winter spirit. Jennifer wrote wrote, to a traditional Gaelic melody, for the 1931 Sopranino Recorder - John Guillory this melody to a Highland bagpipe scale, and made edition of the book Songs of Praise, and which Bouzouki, Acoustic and Electric Guitars - it simple enough to sing unaccompanied, or at a was a major pop hit for Cat Stevens in 1972. Zan McLeod drum circle. “Green Man” is dedicated to the 5 Quelle est cette odeur Great Highland Bagpipes - Tim Carey Beneficent Order of the Greenman (BOG). Singer agréable? [What is that Fragrance?] Bass - Rico Petruccelli and BOG Brother Steve Winick marches with the Voici La Noel [Christmas Eve is Here] Trad., arr. Jennifer Cutting and Lisa Moscatiello Drums - Daniel Schwartz Order and leads this song. Find out more about the Trad.,4 arr. Sue Richards and Jennifer Cutting Bodhrán - Myron Bretholz The melody of this song has been used for a BOG Brothers at www.bogbrothers.org Hand Drums: KIVA (Djembe - Ariana Celtic Harp - Sue Richards number of French carols. It most likely originated Lightningstorm, Tigre Cruz, and David Landis; Deep within this sacred place Glockenspiel - Jennifer Cutting in France during the 17th century, and has been Dumbek - Diana Sunday) Green Man, King of the Wood An instrumental version of a French song, which known in England since at least 1728, when John Outlines of an ancient face Choral vocals: men from Washington Revels: was published in the very first volume of the Gay used a variant for the drinking song “Fill Every Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One Glass” in The Beggar’s Opera. Nowadays, English (Greg Lewis, Marc Lewis, Mike Matheson, venerable French folklore journal Revue des Spirit of the living leaves translations of the text are popular, but we prefer Milan Pavich, Will Wurzel, Mike Platt, Traditions Populaires in 1886. It is a traditional Green Man, King of the Wood the French original, especially when it is sung so Michael Lewallen) singing-game for older children, and its theme is In his heart all Nature breathes gloriously by Lisa Moscatiello. While similar carols not really Christmas, but courting and marriage. Jennifer wrote this song about the wisdom of the Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One The narrator recounts the gifts her boyfriend will mention the music and the light emanating from Divine Masculine – nurturer and protector of all bring her when he returns from Paris, including the Christ child, this one is unusual for especially wild places – and about Nature’s wisdom, which CHORUS “the fiancée’s bouquet.” This song was sung in mentioning the baby’s fragrance, which is knows that there is no death, only transformation. Green Man, bless this wood France at Christmas, but also on Toussaint (All unparalleled by all the flowers of spring. “Green Man” is a name originally given to a Oak and ash and thorn…in Green Man’s brotherhood Hallows, an ancient seasonal festival in France), Vocal and whistle - Lisa Moscatiello pageant character in late medieval England, who All will be reborn…all will be reborn and St.-Jean (St. John’s Day, which falls within 3 Celtic Harp - Sue Richards dressed in leaves and symbolized wildness. It was days of the Summer Solstice). The association Organ - Jennifer Cutting later also applied to carvings of a face made of Man may build his castles tall between courting and these prehistoric turning Cello - Barbara Brown leaves, or surrounded by leaves, which adorn Green Man, King of the Wood I shall smile when wreaths of snow Time and tide will see them fall Time to Remember the Poor Fall, Leaves, Fall Blossom where the rose should grow; Greenman, Wild Man, Wise One Poem7 by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Late-19th-century9 English broadside; text and I shall sing when night’s decay Thrusting up through crumbling walls Music by Jennifer Cutting, music adapted and arranged by Jennifer Cutting, Ushers in a drearier day. Green Man, King of the Wood © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP Vines and ivy conquer all Vocals - Annie Haslam Vocals - Lisa Moscatiello Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One Keyboard, Samples - Jennifer Cutting Acoustic and Electric Guitars - Al Petteway CHORUS Recorder, Whistle, Sordune - Scott Reiss Keyboard, Samples - Jennifer Cutting Once bright holly Christmas Day Electric Guitar, Drums - John Jennings Bass - Rico Petruccelli Green Man, King of the Wood Bouzouki - Zan McLeod Drums - Juan Dudley Now a flow’ring branch of May Samples - Blake Althen In the 1990s, Hungry For Music founder Jeff Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One Bass - Rico Petruccelli Campbell asked Jennifer record a winter song for Soon Midsummer’s shelt’ring shade Emily Brontë’s poem “Fall, Leaves, Fall” is the a holiday compilation CD. While Jennifer was poet’s outright reveling in the death and decay of assisting a researcher in the Library of Congress’s Green Man, King of the Wood winter that others dread. It was not published in In the Bleak Midwinter American Folklife Center Archive, the book she Turns to autumn’s fiery blaze Poem8 by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One her lifetime, but preserved in a handwritten was holding, Frank Kidson’s Traditional Tunes Music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934), manuscript, dated 1837. Jennifer wrote a stately (1891), fell open to the song Time to Remember CHORUS arr. Jennifer Cutting melody for Brontë’s poem, and created a symphonic the Poor. Although she felt that the tune Kidson When we see the falling leaves arrangement that is at once lushly romantic and Vocals, whistle - Lisa Moscatiello collected was inappropriately jaunty for the Green Man, King of the Wood darkly Gothic, to echo the feeling of Brontë’s Celtic Harp - Sue Richards solemn text, she knew this song was “the one.” Nature’s brethren do not grieve words. English vocalist Annie Haslam’s soaring Violin - Cheryl Hurwitz She slowed down the tempo, changed the meter, Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One high notes will be familiar from her work with the Organ - Jennifer Cutting eliminated the tune’s chromatic flourishes, and Life and death an endless chain seminal progressive rock band Renaissance. This Originally a poem by the English poet Christina conflated several texts. Her eerie, dystopian Green Man, King of the Wood was the final recording session of the late Scott Rossetti, this piece remained unpublished until the sound canvas complements the foreboding lyrics. All that falls will rise again Reiss, a world-renowned recorder virtuoso, and a posthumous 1904 edition of her Poetic Works. To evoke the themes of this Victorian broadside Green Man, Wild Man, Wise One founder of the Folger Consort and Hesperus. Shortly thereafter, Gustav Holst set it to music as a (charity is expected of all morally upright people, and death is the great leveler), Jennifer CHORUS (2x) Here is the original text of Brontë’s poem. Christmas carol, and the setting was published in envisioned a kind of Gothic/steampunk/ Green Man, bless this wood The English Hymnal (1906). Holst’s melody has a Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; psychedelia fusion, and persuaded Grammy- Oak and ash and thorn…in quiet majesty that perfectly suits the stark, pure Lengthen night and shorten day; winning acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Al Petteway Green Man’s brotherhood snowscape of Rossetti’s first verse, and the Every leaf speaks bliss to me to pick up the electric guitar. All will be reborn…All will be simple, tender sentiment of her last. Fluttering from the autumn tree. reborn…All…will…be…re-born The ancient Celts saw the passing of time as [Hush, My Little Lamb] Light the Winter’s Dark Baloo, Lammy cyclical, and represented it by a circle or wheel. 10 1Trad.,1 arr. Sue Richards Words and music by Jennifer Cutting, This song speaks of the human life stages of birth, © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP Celtic Harp - Sue Richards growth, decline, and death, as echoed in the four Arranged by Coope, Boyes, and Simpson CHORUS “Baloo, Lammy” is a 16th-century Scottish cradle seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter), When The Prophet brought His light to Earth, Vocals - Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester song about the baby Jesus. The words were and the solstices and equinoxes that herald them. He reconciled His foes, Simpson (Coope Boyes & Simpson) originally published as “Ane Sang of the birth of Together, these represent the Celtic Wheel of the When four clans raised the Black Stone high Year. Jennifer penned this lyric in the depths of a Winter is a time when we most need light to Christ with the tune Balulalaw” in James, John, Upon His holy cloak. brutal January to reassure herself and others that sustain us – physically, mentally, and spiritually. and Robert Wedderburn's Ane Compendius Buik of the Wheel was bound to turn, and the Sun would Jennifer’s original winter song celebrates the CHORUS Godly and Spirituall Sangis (1567). The title return to warm the world. illumination brought to us by some of the world’s When The Buddha brought His light to Earth, suggests that most readers were expected to great souls, to light our way…and, no less He saw beyond love and hate; know the tune, perhaps as a secular lullaby. In summer, we dream of the harvest, important, it celebrates the light we bring to each He said, “to end all suffering, This day to you is born ane child In winter, we dream of the spring; other. Like Winter itself, the setting is stark and Each mind must be awake.” Of Marie meik and Virgin mild In darkness, we dream of the sunlight austere, the voices in Coope, Boyes & Simpson’s That blissit bairn bening and kind Painting the sheen on the dragonfly’s wing. stunning arrangement as beautifully bare as CHORUS Sall you rejoyce baith hart and mind. Youthful, we dream of adventure, winter trees. When The Lady brought Her light to Earth, Baloo, Lammy, Balulalow. Restless to start on the Quest; When Jesus brought His light to Earth, She took us to Her breast; Flying the heights of ambition, A star shone in the East Each fin and feather, hoof and horn Aching with pride to be seen with the best. By Her were brightly blessed. Summer Will Come And Wise Men journeyed from afar 12 Wondering, we dream of the answer, To hail the Prince of Peace. CHORUS ‘Round Again Words by Jennifer Cutting, Stranded, we dream of the tide; CHORUS When We all brought Our light to Earth, © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP Breathless we wait the arrival So let us all sing Jesus’ name We made it a better place. Music by Gary Wicknam, © Songs of Peer, Ltd. Of the kiss that will waken the slumbering bride. To light the winter’s dark; We loved and lost, yet loved again; Vocal, guitar, whistle - Lisa Moscatiello CHORUS And may His light grow brighter still And learned from our mistakes. Spin all your dreams on the Wheel of the Year, With each new year we mark. Bouzouki - Zan McLeod CHORUS Violin - Cheryl Hurwitz Summer will come ‘round again; When Moses brought His light to Earth, So let us sing each other’s names Piano - Jennifer Cutting Open your eyes and it’s already here, His tribe from bondage led. To light the winter’s dark; Great Highland Bagpipes - Tim Carey Freeing the fire that runs in our veins. In desert, water from the rock; And may Our light grow brighter still Bass - Rico Petruccelli Hungry, we dream of the farmlands, In wilderness, sweet bread. With each new year we mark. Drums - Danny Schwartz Rich with the seed and the root; Thirsty, we dream of the vineyard, Produced by Jennifer Cutting going above and beyond the call of duty in the Sweet with the juice of the ripening fruit. (“Fall, Leaves, Fall,” produced by Jennifer Cutting and pursuit of quality…But most of all, for bringing a Blake Althen; “Light the Winter’s Dark,” produced by great recording studio to our home town of Withered, we dream of the greening, Coope, Boyes, and Simpson with Neil Ferguson.) Takoma Park, Maryland. Weary, we dream of relief; Recorded and Mixed by Frank Marchand at To Lisa Moscatiello and Rico Petruccelli: what a joy Shivering, we dream of the sunshine, Airshow Takoma Warming the face of each strawberry leaf. it has been to make music with you for over two “Fall, Leaves, Fall” recorded by Glenn Barratt at decades…here’s to many more! To all the great CHORUS MorningStar (Spring House, PA); Eamon Loftus at C & C Studios (Sterling, VA); Larry Kolota at SunSign Studios musical souls whose light and love grace these Nodding, we dream of our young loves, (Takoma Park, MD); and Blake Althen at Human Factor songs…Thank you for believing in my work, sharing (Arlington, VA). your gifts, and co-creating this album. Bringing this Of kisses bestowed in the rain; Bonus Music Video: How rivers once frozen were melting, “Light the Winter’s Dark” recorded by Neil Ferguson at music to life with you is what I live for! Bah Humbug! Hill Top Studio (Leeds, England). Freeing the fire that ran in our veins. (performed live at Blue House) “Time to Remember the Poor” recorded by Don Zientara at This recording was made possible in part by support from the Arts and Humanities Council of CHORUS (2x) Inner Ear (Arlington, VA). Additional tracks recorded by Words by Jennifer Cutting, Blake Althen at Human Factor (Arlington, VA). Montgomery County, Maryland; and from the In summer, we dream of the harvest, © 2010 Once and Future Songs, ASCAP “Song of Solstice” recorded by Gantt Kushner at Gizmo Maryland State Arts Council. In winter, we dream of the spring; Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan (public domain) (Silver Spring, MD) and Alan Stockwell at Soundesign In darkness, we dream of the sunlight (Brattleboro, VT). Additional tracking at Airshow Takoma. Other recordings by Jennifer Cutting: Jennifer’s Christmas parody is set to the tune of “Bah, Humbug” audio and video recording by Jeff Gruber at Painting the sheen on the dragonfly’s wing; Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Tit Willow,” from their 1885 Blue House Productions (Silver Spring and Kensington, MD). HIGH TEA – The New St. George Painting the sheen on each dragonfly wing… Folk Era 1415CD operetta, The Mikado. She wrote “Bah Humbug” Mastered by Charlie Pilzer at Airshow Takoma to perform at December concerts, to express in a OCEAN: Songs for the Night Sea Journey – lighthearted way our collective frustration at some Executive Producer for “Quelle est cette odeur Jennifer Cutting’s OCEAN Orchestra of the more…ahem…irritating aspects of the agréable” – Scott Miller SunSign CD2004 holiday season (and, judging from the response of Executive Producer for “Green Man” – the studio audience in this live recording, she has Stephen D. Winick For more information on Jennifer Cutting, her surely touched a nerve!). For this live performance, Illustrations © 2010 William L. Brown, group OCEAN, and her production company she recruited bari-tenor Jase Parker of the www.wmlbrown.com (Takoma Park, MD) SunSign, go to: www.jennifercutting.com and Washington Savoyards, D.C.’s own Gilbert & Layout and design by Dan Schuman at www.oceanorchestra.com Sullivan specialists. Grab an ultra-pasteurized, Lawrence Marie, Inc. (McLean, VA) shelf-stable, non-dairy, eggnog-like soy beverage and sing along! Special thanks to Charlie Pilzer and Frank Note: This QuickTime video of “Bah Humbug” can be viewed Marchand at Airshow Takoma for wise counsel, on your computer, but not on your DVD player. tough love, superhuman patience, and always