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Body and Soul Program PRESENTS O D Y A N B D S E O U U G L A , L A P F T E E H R T COMPOSED BY MARK VOLKER PERFORMERS BODY AND SOUL, AFTER THE PLAGUE Joseph Lee, Conductor Rebekah Alexander, Soprano I Introduction John Logan Wood, Tenor II Woe to Your Flesh Ryan Cockman, Violin III Pavilions to the Sky Joshua Dent, Cello IV Debate 1 Celine Thackston, Flute V Dawn Emily Bowland, Clarinet VI Debate 2 Mark Volker, Electric Guitar VII Requiem Megan Gale, Piano VIII Debate 3 Jesse Strauss, Percussion IX The Bells of Eternity Sebastian Buhts, Percussion X Resolution Video Art: Christine Rogers Creative Advisor: Suzanne Edwards Recording Engineer, Mixing, and Mastering by Kevin Edlin Video Directed and Edited by Lauren Balthrop Assisted by James Mitchell Ryan Featherstun, Director of Photography Commissioned in part thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts I III IV V INTRO PAVILIONS TO THE SKY DEBATE 1 DAWN (Narrator) (Body) (Soul) (Body) As I lay on a winter’s night, before the dawn, in a time of feud and plague When I was young and small I never led you to misfortune. Craving pleasure, I only sought to live. I saw (there) a remarkable sight, a body, wan, I never thought I’d live as I did; The more that you lived, (Soul) its consciousness weak and vague As all the wealthy men and women have before. the more you failed. But pleasures fade. It had been a proud man who’d richly lived, sated his head and his heart I never thought I’d drink such wine; (Body) (Body) but now he’d lost the animating light, his spirit out, preparing itself to depart never smell the golden saffron. Could it be that this is my soul, I believed my joys would never end But as it moved to leave, it turned around, beholding the body from which With everything I earned I seized the greatest pleasures. that condemns me for my transgressions? Improperly it seems to me. (Soul) it came I built pavilions to the sky. My heart breaks that death struck me so. I believed you knew your joys would never end. It spoke with a sorrowful wailing sound, bemoaning its fate and I lived in shining splendor free upon the sea. I am not the first, nor shall I be the last. assigning blame. Now death has come to tear my breath away from me. There is none so clever that he is left behind. It said... Soul, you condemn me. If you have such pain, I’ve fully drunk the cup, there’s nothing I’ve declined. The proudest be you only have yourself to blame. the first to keep his tongue. II Listen closely, hear my call, I know very well that I shall rot; the proudest are the first to fall, As even Alexander and Caesar WOE TO YOUR FLESH but I won’t take the blame for all. such that no one can find a trace of them, All my catastrophes, all my desires, nor of the mothers who bore them. (Soul) you could have saved us from this all. You’re blaming me Woe to your flesh, your blood If God made you in his own image when it’s you who have failed It’s only worth despair. then why did you just let me go astray when fateful choices came to us You were once quite eager, so brazen, when alive, You could have led us both another way Your saintly judgement failed To declare false judgements, to change two for five. It’s your neglect that brought us to this day (Both) Woe to your flesh, your blood I learned to follow you, I set to serve your pleasure. We built pavilions Be silent! Look how you lie here now. to the sky. (Soul) You were wild and wanton, so filled with foolish pride. You led me to my fortunes, now we both are lost. Tis I who did enlighten you. Now you’ll find your judgement, your witness will deride you. (Body) Pretension and bluster surrounded you in life Tis I who listened to you. So now your immortal soul is bleeding from your mortal knife. (Soul) Woe to your flesh, You throw at me these vile curses, your foulest blood. yet lie there swollen as a leather bottle. As you were once so hungry, devouring all you see. (Both) So the worms now eat you and you’ve brought the pain of hell on me. For all the flaws you have brought the world did you expect peace? VI VIII IX DEBATE 2 DEBATE 3 THE BELLS OF ETERNITY (Narrator) All your castles have fallen and your vineyards plowed. (Soul) (no text) The bonds that you’re in, they’ll cast me to hell. Your fancy furs, (Body) You were warned here before, what would happen to both of us. palfreys and steeds, Would you leave me behind to count my bones You displayed everything that the world asked of you. all your wealthy goods, to dedicate them to the soil that becomes my home. I suffered you and did as I was made to. X you’ll not bear them with you wretch, where you lie. (Soul) You the master, and I the knave. (Soul) You took from the poor and drained the world. I cast all my love on you, gave you rest. RESOLUTION You’ve lived too long wrought so much pain, You didn’t care whose labor served you. You made a servant of me, imprisoned in your breast. (Soul) so erratic and false, always playing games. You welcomed wealthy men into your home (Body) When we lived in the mortal kingdom, I concealed your slides to mortal vice. You relished your lust, your carnal stings, while lower men were left to their afflictions. Do you believe you’re vindicated, that you’re blameless. Now we suffer for our mortal follies, parting sorrows, now you’ll know the true pain true passion brings. (Body) You say that I made you my servant, that’s outrageous. sadness waits for us. (Body) You’ve lived too long wrought so much pain All my defenses came from what you disclosed All our quarrels and our condemnations, pointed fingers, won’t restore these bones. Godforsaken soul, please go away! so erratic and false, always playing games. You withheld the pow’er of right and wrong leaving me alone, exposed (Both) How long will your dissenting cries go on? Maggots rule this place, You relished your lust, your carnal stings (Soul) We will part and end our sacred pairing, end our union, we’ll go on alone. their verdicts stand now you’ll know the true pain true passion brings. You put a paper shield around me in your weakness. In winter snow and frost, summer sun, and autumn showers. my dying carcass burns with their contagion. (Soul) As I confronted all your messes, you betrayed me. (Soul) I am prepared, I’m not afraid, Why did you spurn your sacred duty I did all I could to bring harmony when you had lost your way. And here you’ll lie until you drift away. my final breath will be the same. to deny the fierce passions guiding you. But you did all you could to just bring me pain. (Body) More celebrated ones than I lie here. (Body) (Body) And you will travel into darkness. I know that I shall pay for my excessive pride. Still, more painful things We share all the guilt and the sins you name You left me to wander the paths proper to only fools. It had to be this way. will rain upon you, soul. it’s a stain upon you too. You rather could have given me wisdom’s tools. Were there ever a man or woman safe from dying, clear of evil’s breath, (Soul) You had all the knowledge. (Soul) You ran wild games with savage skill All that I know I did I learned from you. Such a one would never risk their comfort. while you threatened poor men just to feel a thrill. (Soul) VII (Both) You’ll no longer live to dance and play You were taught to learn from me, but it was you who moved. Our brightest fires are sparked by the flint of death. all you buddies and mates have run away. REQUIEM You only did the things I taught not to do. (Body) (Body) (Body) (Both) When the floor is at my back, and the roof is at my nose, Turn away you wretched soul, I never stood or travelled anywhere, when not beneath your eye We’ve seen plague before, we’ve known its expectations, and I think of all the joys of life that we have known. my conduct won’t concern you anymore. (Both) stood before the graves of many men. (Soul) (Soul) Now I hear the hellhounds baying for us! Did we regard as idle speculation As we’re separated now, those memories afflict me so, Mary, Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost all that still remained to be resolved? as I’m alone. save a penitent soul from a villainous host. Requiem aeternam (Body) (Body) dona eis Domine: We will leave behind all that we have made, The venom slung at me flows down into my soul. et lux in perpetua luceat eis. all of your forms, words, songs. You’re bathing in your own corruption. Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion, (Soul) I’ll say it now with pithy prose: et tibi reddetur votum Jerusalem: We’ll have nothing more than the space beneath our heads when we are gone.
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