THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

Carmina PRESENTED WITH Burana

SATURDAY NOV 23RD 7 PM CATALINA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2700 E SPEEDWAY BLVD, TUCSON THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE AND THE SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENT

PROGRAM

Carmina Burana (1936) (1895-1982)

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) Primo vere (In Springtime) Uf dem Anger (On the Green) In Taberna (In the Tavern) Cour d’amours (The Court of Love) Branziflor et Helena (Branchefleur and Helen) Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)

Alexsandra Esposito, soprano Matthew Holter, tenor Octavio Moreno, baritone

The Helios Ensemble Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Hansen, conductor PROGRAM NOTES

Carl Orff was a German composer and music educator. His Carmina Burana, written in 1936, is Orff’s most celebrated work. The composer entitled it a ‘dramatic cantata.’ It can be performed in a stage version with dancing and pantomime, but usually it is given in a concert version for solo singers, chorus and orchestra. The supporting orchestra is of the usual size and is augmented by two pianos and a large percussion section. The text is drawn from a famous 13th century collection of Goliard songs and poems that were discovered in the ancient Bavarian monastery of Benediktbeuren in 1803; hence the name Carmina Burana (Songs of Beuren). These were secular songs written in a mixture of , low German and French by minstrel poets, artists and runaway monks - people outside the respectable society of the time.”

CARMINA BURANA

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

1. O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice.

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Fate - monstrous 2. Fortune plango vulnera and empty, (I bemoan the wounds of you whirling wheel, Fortune) you are malevolent, I bemoan the wounds of well-being is vain Fortune and always fades to nothing, with weeping eyes, shadowed for the gifts she made me and veiled she perversely takes away. you plague me too; It is written in truth, now through the game that she has a fine head of hair, I bring my bare back but, when it comes to seizing to your villainy. an opportunity Fate is against me she is bald. in health On Fortune's throne and virtue, I used to sit raised up, driven on crowned with and weighted down, the many-coloured flowers of always enslaved. prosperity; So at this hour though I may have flourished without delay happy and blessed, pluck the vibrating strings; now I fall from the peak since Fate deprived of glory. strikes down the strong man, The wheel of Fortune turns; everyone weep with me! I go down, demeaned; another is raised up; far too high up sits the king at the summit - let him fear ruin! for under the axis is written Queen Hecuba.

4 Primo Vere 4. Omnia sol temperat (The sun warms everything) 3. Veris leta facies The sun warms everything, (The merry face of spring) pure and gentle, The merry face of spring once again it reveals to the world turns to the world, April's face, sharp winter the soul of man now flees, vanquished; is urged towards love bedecked in various colours and joys are governed Flora reigns, by the boy-god. the harmony of the woods All this rebirth praises her in song. Ah! in spring’s festivity Lying in Flora's lap and spring’s power Phoebus once more bids us to rejoice; smiles, now covered it shows us paths we know well, in many-coloured flowers, and in your springtime Zephyr breathes nectar- it is true and right scented breezes. to keep what is yours. Let us rush to compete Love me faithfully! for love's prize. Ah! See how I am faithful: In harp-like tones sings with all my heart the sweet nightingale, and with all my soul, with many flowers I am with you the joyous meadows are even when I am far away. laughing, Whosoever loves this much a flock of birds rises up turns on the wheel. through the pleasant forests, the chorus of maidens already promises a thousand joys. Ah!

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5. Ecce gratum Uf dem Anger (Behold, the pleasant spring) Behold, the pleasant 6. Tanz (Dance) and longed-for spring brings back joyfulness, 7. Floret silva nobilis violet flowers (The woods are burgeoning) fill the meadows, The noble woods are the sun brightens everything, burgeoning sadness is now at an end! with flowers and leaves. Summer returns, Where is the lover now withdraw I knew? Ah! the rigours of winter. Ah! He has ridden off! Now melts Oh! Who will love me? Ah! and disappears The woods are burgeoning all ice, snow and the rest, over, winter flees, I am pining for my lover. and now spring sucks at The woods are turning green all summer's breast: over, a wretched soul is he why is my lover away so long? who does not live Ah! or lust He has ridden off, under summer's rule. Ah! Oh woe, who will love me? Ah! They glory and rejoice 8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir in honeyed sweetness (Shopkeeper, give me colour) who strive Shopkeeper, give me colour to make use of to make my cheeks red, Cupid’s prize; so that I can make the young at Venus’ command men let us glory love me, against their will. and rejoice Look at me, in being Paris' equals. Ah! young men! Let me please you!

6 Good men, love 10. Were diu werlt alle min women worthy of love! (Were all the world mine) Love ennobles your spirit Were all the world mine and gives you honour. from the sea to the Rhine, ... I would starve myself of it Hail, world, so that the Queen of England so rich in joys! might lie in my arms. I will be obedient to you because of the pleasures In Taberna you afford. ... 11. Estuans interius (Burning Inside) 9. Reie (Round dance) Burning inside Those who go round and with violent anger, round bitterly are all maidens, I speak to my heart: they want to do without a created from matter, man of the ashes of the elements, all summer long. Ah! Sla! I am like a leaf Come, come, my love, played with by the winds. I long for you, If it is the way I long for you, of the wise man come, come, my love. to build Sweet rose-red lips, foundations on stone, come and make me better, the I am a fool, like come and make me better, a flowing stream, sweet rose-red lips. which in its course never changes. I am carried along like a ship without a steersman, and in the paths of the air like a light, hovering bird;

7 PROGRAM NOTES continued chains cannot hold me, I am burning fiercely on the keys cannot imprison me, pyre: I look for people like me the steward now serves me up. and join the wretches. Now I lie on a plate, The heaviness of my heart and cannot fly anymore, seems like a burden to me; I see bared teeth: it is pleasant to joke and sweeter than honeycomb; 13. Ego sum abbas whatever Venus commands (I am the abbot) is a sweet duty, I am the abbot of Cockaigne she never dwells and my assembly is one of in a lazy heart. drinkers, I travel the broad path and I wish to be in the order of as is the way of youth, Decius, I give myself to vice, and whoever searches me out unmindful of virtue, at the tavern in the morning, I am eager for the pleasures of after Vespers he will leave the flesh naked, more than for salvation, and thus stripped of his my soul is dead, clothes he will call out: so I shall look after the flesh. Woe! Woe! what have you done, vilest 12. Cignus ustus cantat Fate? (The Roast Swan) the joys of my life Once I lived on lakes, you have taken all away! Once I looked beautiful when I was a swan. Misery me! Now black and roasting fiercely! The servant is turning me on the spit;

8 14. In taberna quando nine for the dispersed monks, sumus (When we are in ten for the seamen, the tavern) eleven for the squabblers, When we are in the tavern, twelve for the penitent, we do not think how we will thirteen for the wayfarers. go to dust, To the Pope as to the king but we hurry to gamble, they all drink without restraint. which always makes us The mistress drinks, the master sweat. drinks, What happens in the tavern, the soldier drinks, the priest where money is host, drinks, you may well ask, the man drinks, the woman and hear what I say. drinks, Some gamble, some drink, the servant drinks with the maid, some behave loosely. the swift man drinks, the lazy But of those who gamble, man drinks, some are stripped bare, the white man drinks, the black some win their clothes here, man drinks, some are dressed in sacks. the settled man drinks, the Here no-one fears death, wanderer drinks, but they throw the dice in the stupid man drinks, the wise the name of Bacchus. man drinks, First of all it is to the wine- The poor man drinks, the sick merchant man drinks, the the libertines drink, the exile drinks, and the stranger, one for the prisoners, the boy drinks, the old man three for the living, drinks, four for all Christians, the bishop drinks, and the five for the faithful dead, deacon, six for the loose sisters, the sister drinks, the brother seven for the footpads in drinks, the wood, the old lady drinks, the mother Eight for the errant brethren, drinks,

9 PROGRAM NOTES continued this man drinks, that man drinks, 16. Dies, nox et omnia (Day, a hundred drink, a thousand night and everything) drink. Day, night and everything Six hundred pennies would is against me, hardly the chattering of maidens suffice, if everyone makes me weep, drinks immoderately and and often sigh, immeasurably. and, most of all, scares me. However much they cheerfully O friends, you are making fun drink of me, we are the ones whom everyone you do not know what you scolds, are saying, and thus we are destitute. spare me, sorrowful as I am, May those who slander us be great is my grief, cursed advise me at least, and may their names not be by your honour. written in the book of the Your beautiful face, righteous. makes me weep a thousand times, Cour d'amours your heart is of ice. As a cure, 15. Amor volat undique I would be revived (Cupid flies everywhere) by a kiss. Cupid flies everywhere seized by desire. 17. Stetit puella (A girl stood) Young men and women A girl stood are rightly coupled. in a red tunic; The girl without a lover if anyone touched it, misses out on all pleasures, the tunic rustled. she keeps the dark night Eia! hidden A girl stood in the depth of her heart; like a little rose: it is a most bitter fate. her face was radiant

10 and her mouth in bloom. an ineffable game begins Eia! in their limbs, arms and lips.

18. Circa mea pectora 20. Veni, veni, venias (In my heart) (Come, come, O come) In my heart Come, come, O come there are many sighs Come, come, O come, for your beauty, do not let me die, which wound me sorely. Ah! hycra, hycre, nazaza, Mandaliet, trillirivos! mandaliet, Beautiful is your face, my lover the gleam of your eye, does not come. your braided hair, Your eyes shine what a glorious creature! like the rays of the sun, redder than the rose, like the flashing of lightening whiter than the lily, which brightens the darkness. lovelier than all others, Ah! I shall always glory in you! ... May God grant, may the gods 21. In truitina (In the balance) grant In the wavering balance of my what I have in mind: feelings that I may loose set against each other the chains of her virginity. Ah! lascivious love and modesty. ... But I choose what I see, 19. Si puer cum puellula and submit my neck to the yoke; (If a boy with a girl) I yield to the sweet yoke. If a boy with a girl tarries in a little room, 22. Tempus es iocundum happy is their coupling. (This is the joyful time) Love rises up, This is the joyful time, and between them O maidens, prudery is driven away, rejoice with them,

11 PROGRAM NOTES continued young men! Blanziflor Et Helena Oh! Oh! Oh! I am bursting out all over! 24. Ave formosissima I am burning all over with first (Hail, most beautiful one) love! Hail, most beautiful one, New, new love is what I am precious jewel, dying of! Hail, pride among virgins, I am heartened glorious virgin, by my promise, Hail. light of the world, I am downcast by my refusal Hail, rose of the world, ... Blanchefleur and Helen, In the winter noble Venus! man is patient, the breath of spring Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi makes him lust. 25. O Fortuna (O Fortune) ... O Fortune, My virginity like the moon makes me frisky, you are changeable, my simplicity ever waxing holds me back. and waning; ...... Come, my mistress, with joy, come, come, my pretty, I am dying! ... 23. Dulcissime (Sweetest one) Sweetest one! Ah! I give myself to you totally!

12 ABOUT THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE The Helios Ensemble is an auditioned mixed choral ensemble based in Tucson, Arizona, founded in 2014 and directed by Benjamin J. Hansen, DMA candidate at the University of Arizona. Ben’s mission for Helios is to create fantastic sound through innovative group vocal pedagogy, to use the drama inherent in the music to improve blend and color, and to empower choristers to sing difficult music. Helios also trains young conductors through The Helios Young Conductor’s Initiative by offering conducting pedagogy and rehearsal and concert podium time.

13 THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE

SOPRANOS ALTOS Abby Alexander Eleanor Barnes Gaby Carrillo Lisa Brown Rachel Lovins Abigail Codru Emily Lyons Lauren Conger Trish Marji Melanie De Sa Naja McKenzie Chelsea Forer Lisa Muir Gitanjali Gnanadesikan Arylnne Ostlund Angela Hoover Brigitta Petty Lois Manowitz Mira Raju Jessica Pryde Mandy Ressler Kate Riley Anna Schoff Deb Ryan Ann Stephens Sam Sierra-Feldman Amy Beth Willis Kim Waigwa Erin Walker Stephanie Watson

TENORS BARITONES BASSES Thomas Alexander Neil Bauer Gary Anderson Jess Barrera Ben Cline David Gilmore Laura Couchman Bill Couchman Paul Kreuzer James Higgs Dylan Dominguez Jeff Ladderud John Isner Lee Fike John Mielke Jeff Marshall Juan Flores John Palmer John McLean Kellen Holter Jess Robinson John McMeen David Shepard Paul Stegall Mike Negrete Dave Stewart ACCOMPANIST Anne Thwaits Chia-Chun Ko

14 ABOUT THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, BENJAMIN HANSEN Benjamin Hansen is the founder and Artistic Director of The Helios Ensemble and the Director of Music at the Catalina United Methodist Church. Hansen received his BA from Yale, singing in the Yale Whiffenpoofs; his MM in voice from The Catholic University of America; and his MM in conducting from The College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He recently earned his DMA in choral conducting at the University of Arizona. Hansen has conducted such works as Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Brahms Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Howells’ Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Mass in G, and Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs. Hansen has studied conducting with Bruce Chamberlain, Elizabeth Schauer, Leo Nestor, Jerry Blackstone, Mark Gibson, Earl Rivers, Fiora Contino, and Robert Sund. Hansen was the director of choral activities at Cincinnati State College, and a Conducting Fellow at the Chorus America Conducting Symposium in 2010 in Houston, TX.

15 SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Linus Lerner, Music Director Erika Roush, Concertmaster

VIOLIN I CELLO Alison Edwards Kai Asher Jeanette Ensley Steve Bryan Tim Liu Jane Hallett Diane Ransdell Robert Hutson Ashley Roberson Paula Klein *Erika Roush Helena Pedersen Dee Schroer *Zoran Stilin Teresa Spinelli Marion Turner

VIOLIN II BASS Ellen Caldwell Lisa Brown Kathleen Duerksen Michael Geddes Lisa Heinemeier David Jaffrey Marie Hill *Georgia Taylor Susan Horn Mary James FLUTE Lillian Meriwether *Christine Harper Marybeth Schwab Alysonn Hoffmann *Tim Secomb *Susan Walker Linda Zello PICCOLO VIOLA Nancy Anderson Luis Alarcon Bill Faris OBOE Edina Hall *Sherry Jameson Donna Kreutz Paulo Sudhaus *Ana Montenegro Virginia Moyer ENGLISH HORN James Wang Janet Bostwick Richard White

16 CLARINET/E-FLAT & TROMBONE BASS CLARINET Tim McCarthy *Lucy Huestis *Jordan Robison Dominic Livigni Barry Magen BASS TROMBONE Paul Scott Dennis Foster

BASSOON TUBA April Brennan Mark Nelson *John Spence TIMPANI CONTRABASSOON Russell Turner Martin Haub PERCUSSION HORN Kevin Cross *Karen Froehlich Brian Hanner Eric Holm Gary Hodges Craig Hunt Jace Malm Loren Mayhew *Carola Murphy Mary Phillips PIANO/CELESTA TRUMPET Sheryll McManus Lorelei Conrad *Michael Kiefer LIBRARIANS Betty Scott Paul Scott Allen Tollin

* Denotes Principal

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