Ensemble Series Choirs at the Conservatory Life and Love: Spring Choral Concert the Annual Concert to Benefit Susan G
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Ensemble Series Choirs at the Conservatory Life and Love: Spring Choral Concert The annual concert to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure Thursday, March 15, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Old Mission United Methodist Church LIFE AND LOVE: SPRING CHORAL CONCERT The annual concert to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure featuring University Singers Canticum Novum PROGRAM University Singers Jacob Narverud, graduate conductor Paul Thomas, piano Let the Music Fill Your Soul (2017) .........................................................Jacob Narverud (b. 1986) text by Robert Bode Emily Schaefer, horn For a Breath of Ecstasy (2017) .........................................................Michael John Trotta 1. Wealth Enough for Me (b. 1978) 2. Peace Flows Into Me text by Sara Teasdale 3. Who Gave My Soul to Me 4. For You I Am Still 5. Spend All You Have on Loveliness 6. And I for You 7. Let Me Love —midwest premiere— Devin Morton, oboe Samuel Huang and Elaine Ng, violins En-Ting Hsu, viola Esther Seitz, cello Conservatory of Music and Dance concerts are recorded. Thank you for helping us maintain a silence in the hall that is conducive to music-making. Be sure to turn off all cell phones and paging devices. Canticum Novum Lorissa Mason, graduate conductor Paul Thomas, piano My soul has a purpose. It is to love. You (2017) ...................................................................................... James Keller (b. 1997) text by Megan Heitbrink (b. 1997) Danielle Schueller, flute “Lullaby” from Three Nocturnes (2012) .........................................................Daniel Elder (b. 1986) When Hummingbirds do Sleep (2017) ....................................................Lorissa Mason (b. 1976) text by Michael Marcades Samuel Huang and Elaine Ng, violins En-ting Hsu, viola Esther Seitz, cello Sean Sweeden, percussion Olivia Riley, soloist The Ground (2010) .............................................................................................Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) Samuel Huang and Elaine Ng, violins En-ting Hsu, viola Esther Seitz, cello The Hope of Loving (2015) ........................................................................ Jake Runestad 1. Yield to Love (b. 1986) 2. Wild Forces text by Daniel Ladinsky 3. Wondrous Creatures 4. The Heart’s Veil 5. My Soul is a Candle 6. The Hope of Loving Samuel Huang and Elaine Ng, violins En-ting Hsu, viola Esther Seitz, cello Laura Panushka, soprano Ricky Wilson, tenor Robert Riordan, baritone I Can Tell the World (1998) .............................................................. Traditional Spiritual arr. Moses Hogan TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS “Let the Music Fill Your Soul” by Robert Bode Come in, you sisters and brothers, Close your eyes and breathe together, Come in, you cousins and daughters, (Sit beside a perfect stranger) Come in, you seekers and doubters, Open to the Life around you, Let the music fill your soul. Let the music fill your soul. Come in, you seers and dreamers, Come in, you heroes and artists, Come in, you movers and shakers, Come in, you scholars and rebels, Come in, explorers and climbers, Come in, you singers and lovers, Let the music make you whole. Let the music make you whole. For a Breath of Ecstasy (Poetry from “Love Songs” by Sara Teasdale) 1. “Wealth Enough For Me” 5. “Spend All You Have on Loveliness” I have no riches but my thoughts, Life has loveliness to sell, Yet these are wealth enough for me; All beautiful and splendid things, My thoughts of you are golden coins Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Stamped in the mint of memory; Soaring fire that sways and sings, And I must spend them all in song, And children’s faces looking up For thoughts, as well as gold, must be Holding wonder like a cup. Left on the hither side of death Life has loveliness to sell, To gain their immortality. Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, 2. “Peace Flows into Me” Eyes that love you, arms that hold, Peace flows into me And for your spirit’s still delight, As the tide to the pool by the shore; Holy thoughts that star the night. It is mine forevermore, It will not ebb like the sea. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; I am the pool of blue For one white singing hour of peace That worships the vivid sky; Count many a year of strife well lost, My hopes were heaven-high, And for a breath of ecstasy They are all fulfilled in you. Give all you have been, or could be. I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies— 6. “And I For You” You are my deepening skies; The moon is a curving flower of gold, Give me your stars to hold. The sky is still and blue; The moon was made for the sky to hold, 3. “Who Gave My Soul to Me” And I for you; I gave my first love laughter, I gave my second tears, The moon is a flower without a stem, I gave my third love silence The sky is luminous; Through all the years. Eternity was made for them, My first love gave me singing, To-night for us. My second eyes to see, 7. “Let Me Love” But oh, it was my third love Until I lose my soul and lie Who gave my soul to me. Blind to the beauty of the earth, 4. “For You I Am Still” Deaf though shouting wind goes by, I sang my songs for the rest, Dumb in a storm of mirth; For you I am still; Until my heart is quenched at length The tree of my song is bare And I have left the land of men, On its shining hill. Oh, let me love with all my strength For you came like a lordly wind, Careless if I am loved again. And the leaves were whirled Far as forgotten things Past the rim of the world. The tree of my song stands bare Against the blue — I gave my songs to the rest, Myself to you. “You” by Megan Heitbrink Suspended in you like a cool and endless pool, I plunged to the bottom and drank you in, And pulled myself up to the stars, as to not waste a moment. With closed eyes, I breathed in the world, And let my lungs fill with dreams of light, Illuminated by your glow. I stood still, my stripped soul draped in silent love, The outside made a distant place by you… “Lullaby” by Daniel Elder Lullaby, sing lullaby, Close your eyes, breathe in the night; The day is far behind you. A softer bed I’ll make you. The moon sits high atop the sky, The trial is done, all danger gone; Now let sweet slumber find you. Now let far dreaming take you. Away, Away, The day is done, and gone the sun Where the ocean is lapping at a soft, pearly shore, That lit the world so brightly. And the swaying palms napping as their swinging The earth’s aglow with speckled show frond soar. Of twinkling stars so sprightly. Now the dark night approaches, Yet so soft and so mild. Away, Lullaby, sing lullaby; Where the sunlight is beaming Sleep now, my child. Through a deep, cloudless blue, And the treetops are gleaming With a fresh morning dew; Where the mountains are shining At the meadows below, In a brilliant white lining Of a new-fallen snow. “When Hummingbirds do Sleep” by Michael Marcades For Melba Christine Youngblood Marcades (Rose Cherami) -September 13, 2012: Seale, AL (a.m., on the front porch – watching the hummingbirds feed) Can’t help I but imagine, within the foliage deep, the care that God provides the hummingbird, seldom as she sleeps. I wonder if the constant flutter of tail and wings combined, Stop for e’er one second, as in darkness, yesterday unwinds. If so, now perched on branch so thin, this tiny creature rests. Surely god around her cups – His hands, a warmly nest. Its heart can finally now slow down, consuming less and less. Within God’s nest her head bows low – inside sweet dreams abound, Of others who n’er have the time, to ever sleep so sound. For they are still consumed by nothing but themselves to keep, Oblivious to the truth that warns, that what they sow – they’ll reap. Without God’s overarching hands, protecting us through All, lives will soon be torn apart and man will surely fall. How sad it is that we, so smart, a simple truth can’t see, Yet hummingbirds, with God alone, in tandem freely be. The Ground (Traditional Latin text) Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the hightest. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Dona nobis pacem. Grant us peace. The Hope of Loving (adapted from Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Vocies from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky) 1. “Yield to Love” (Rabia) 4. “The Heart’s Veil” (string quartet) I know about love the way the fields know 5. “My Soul is a Candle” (St. John of the Cross) about light, My soul is a candle that burned away the veil; the way the forest shelters us. only the glorious duties of light I now have. We are vulnerable like an infant. The soul is a candle that will burn away the darkness; We need each other’s care or we will suffer. only the glorious duties of love we will have. How will you ever find peace Tenderly, I now touch all things, unless you yield to love? knowing one day we will part.