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Choral Union Fall 2016 Program Choral Series Choral Union Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 3pm Mary Baker Russell Music Center, Lagerquist Concert Hall Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music present Choral Series Choral Union Richard Nance, Conductor Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 3 pm Mary Baker Russell Music Center, Lagerquist Concert Hall Welcome to Lagerquist Concert Hall. Please disable the audible signal on all watches, pagers and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all electronic devices is not permitted in the concert hall. Introduction Richard Nance Last March I was fortunate to attend the Music in Worship Event at the American Choral Directors Association Northwestern Division Conference, entitled “Beyond Walls,” presented by the Gonzaga University Concert Choir, conducted by Tim Westerhaus. I was powerfully moved by the combination of movements the Berliner Messe by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and readings from poets Maya Angelou, C.K. Williams, Paulo Coelho, Rainer Maria Rilke and Wolf Biermann, all of which spoke to the hope for breaking barriers that exist between nations, races, religions, cultures, and people. This service was balm for my soul, having grown weary of terror attacks happening around the world and in our country, along with a horribly destructive and divisive political campaign. The service made such an impression on me that I approached Tim about the possibility of presenting a concert at PLU that was basically a copy of what he had put together. Tim enthusiastically endorsed the idea, and he has been incredibly helpful in many ways. He deserves a great deal of credit for the program you will hear this afternoon. Interspersed between the movements of the mass, I have chosen to use three movements of Ottorino Respighi’s Suite for Strings and Organ, These are intended as moments to reflect upon the texts used in the mass and three unaccompanied works presented by the choir, plus the afore mentioned readings, given by Choral Union member Carrie Scott. The Berliner Messe, composed by Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which occurred 27 years ago on November 9, 1989. The Wall, built in 1961, divided Germany, isolated families, and caused the deaths of hundreds of citizens as they attempted to escape across the barrier of oppression to freedom. Pärt depicts this occasion with a mournful, austere setting of the Kyrie, followed by a somber, yet somehow hopeful Gloria—perhaps reflecting the devout beliefs of people held against their will. Outside the normal frame of the Ordinary of the mass, Pärt inserts the Alleluia verses, appropriate for the Feast of Pentecost, a season of hope after longing for coming of the Holy Spirit. The Credo is joyful, and though it begins in the same austere mood of the Kyrie, the music of the Agnus Dei resolves to a warm and peaceful E major, perhaps reflecting the mood of reunification and peace the German people felt after the barrier between them was removed. Pärt’s music is simple and meditative in nature, influenced by his love of chant. He uses a technique called “tintinnabuli,” where two of the choral parts move in arpeggios of the tonic triad, while the other two move in diatonic stepwise motion. Of this style, Pärt says: "Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers – in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. The complex and many-faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity. What is it, this one thing, and how do I find my way to it? Traces of this perfect thing appear in many guises – and everything that is unimportant falls away. Tintinnabulation is like this. The three notes of a triad are like bells. And that is why I call it tintinnabulation." In addition to being an accomplished violinist and composer, Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) was a musicologist, with a particular interest in early music. He published editions and transcriptions of a number of works by Italian masters of the 16th, 17th and 18th century, and their style would influence some of Respighi’s own compositions, including the Suite for Strings and Organ (1905). Kirke Mechem (b. 1925) is a prolific American composer with a catalog of over 250 works. In his work, Island in Space (1990), Mechem uses the words of Apollo astronaut Russell Schweichart, the first human to complete an unattached spacewalk. Schweichart speaks of seeing a beautiful and fragile planet from afar, with no boundaries or borders between its people—who are “truly brothers and sisters.” Mechem blends the Latin Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace) and a fragment of a text by American poet Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) with Schweichert’s words, expressed with music of an otherworldly, shimmering quality. Jake Runestad (b. 1986) is one of America’s brightest young composers. His growing catalog features powerfully expressive works, including Let My Love Be Heard (2014), co-commissioned by Seattle’s Choral Arts and the University of Kansas City Conservatory of Music. The text, by British poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) is an outpouring of grief after the loss of a loved one. It reflects the anguish people all over the world must feel when losing members of their families to the atrocities of terrorism and war, and what many of us feel in empathy for them as we witness these events in person or through the media. In his A Drop in the Ocean (2006), Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) splits the choir into ten parts and uses several modern compositional effects: wind noise and soaring whistles, voices trailing in shadow-like fashion behind others, rapidly repeated text on single pitches, texts whispered and then spoken in alternated rhythms, aleatoric melodic patterns repeated in the women’s voices. All this musical complexity takes place during the beloved prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (“Lord, make me a channel of your peace”), which gives way to a sonorous middle section on a text from Psalm 55 (“Oh, that I had the wings of a dove, I would fly away from the storm”). This boils down to the words of Mother Theresa (“My work is nothing but a drop in the ocean, but if I did not put that drop, the ocean would be one drop the less.”), set in a simple, mantra-like fashion. About the Poetry Maya Angelou (1928-2014, United States) was a celebrated and influential poet, lyricist, civil rights activist, educator, actress and author of more than thirty bestselling books. The recipient of more than fifty honorary degrees, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010. She wrote Amazing Peace in 2005 for the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony. C.K. Williams (1936-2015, United States) tackled politics and morality in his poetry, which garnered many literary fellowships and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award. He taught creative writing at Princeton University. The New York Times commissioned him to pen Walls in 2009 in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Paulo Coelho (b. 1947, Brazil) is an author and lyricist, whose “fable-like stories turn life, love, writing and reading into pilgrimage” (Krista Tippett, On Being). His novel, The Alchemist, has been translated into over eighty languages, and he is the bestselling author of Portuguese literature. By the River Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994) depicts a young frustrated university student, who embarks on a pilgrimage through the Pyrenees. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, Austria-Hungary) was a Bohemian poet and novelist, whose German writings explore existential themes through lyrical prose and verse. Rilke wrote The Book of Hours from 1899-1903 in three parts: The Book of Monastic Life, The Book of Pilgrimage, and The Book of Poverty and Death. The poetry conveys a search for God in mystical yet immediately near imagery. Wolf Biermann (b. 1936, Germany) is a poet and songwriter who was active before the fall of the Berlin Wall as an East-German dissident. He wrote the lyrics and song Ermutigung (Encouragement) in 1968 and was stripped of East German citizenship in 1976. On November 9, 2014, he played Ermutigung in Germany’s Parliament for the official commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Der Fall der Mauer. As Tim Westerhaus put it in the introduction to his original version of this program: “Reflecting upon our local communities, a nation, and world, we may recognize walls both tangible and intangible, external and internal. May we envision a new way Beyond Walls.” BEYOND WALLS A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation Carrie Scott, Reader (Please hold applause until the end of the program) Mvt. II: Aria (from Suite in G Major for Strings and Organ, P.58) ....................................... Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Reading: Call to Peace (from Amazing Peace – 2005) ................................................................ Maya Angelou (1928-2014) Berliner Messe ............................................................................................................................................ Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) 1. Kyrie Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. 2. Gloria Glory to God in the highest. You, who takes away the sins of the world, And on earth peace to all of good will. have mercy on us. We praise you. We bless you. You, who takes away the sins of the world, We worship you. We glorify you. receive our prayer. We give thanks to you according to your You, who sits at the right hand of the Father, great glory.
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