Thursday Evening, April 5, 2018, at 7:30 The Juilliard School presents Alice Tully Vocal Arts Recital John Brancy , Baritone Peter Dugan , Piano Armistice: The Journey Home GUSTAV HOLST From The Planets for solo piano (1874–1934) Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity (arr. Peter Dugan) OLEY SPEAKS When the Boys Come Home (1874–1948) RALPH From Songs of Travel , Nos. 1–8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Vagabond (1872–1958) Let Beauty Awake The Roadside Fire Youth and Love In Dreams The Infinite Shining Heavens Whither Must I Wander? Bright Is the Ring of Words LEONARDO DUGAN I Have a Rendezvous With Death (b. 1980) World premiere, commissioned by The Juilliard School PETE SEEGER Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (1919–2014) Intermission The Juilliard School is honored to present the 20th Alice Tully Vocal Arts Recital, originally estab - lished with a gift from The Alice Tully Foundation to promote exceptionally talented Juilliard singers on the threshold of a professional career. Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts was established in 2010 by the gen erous support of Ellen and James S. Marcus. Alice Tully Hall Please make certain that all electronic devices are turned off during the performance. FRANZ SCHUBERT Der Schiffer (1797–1828) RUDI STEPHAN Am Abend (1887–1915) SCHUBERT Der Wanderer STEPHAN Memento Vivere SCHUBERT Du bist die Ruh SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Ja zhdu tebja (I Wait for Thee) (1873–1943) Zdes’ khorosho (How Fair This Spot) Vesennije Vody (Spring Waters) IRVING BERLIN Goodbye, France (1888–1989) IVOR NOVELLO The Land of Might-Have-Been (1893–1951) Shine Through My Dreams VAUGHAN WILLIAMS From Songs of Travel , No. 9 I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope Performance time: approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including one intermission The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not permitted in this auditorium. Information regarding gifts to the school may be obtained from the Juilliard School Development Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-6588; (212) 799-5000, ext. 278 (juilliard.edu/giving). About the Program Songs of Travel was composed a decade before the war, the story of a wanderer Tonight’s program opens with an invocation searching for inner peace takes on a of celestial joy. Holst composed “Jupiter” deeper, more personal meaning in light of in 1914, the year the war broke out, and it what Vaughan Williams and so many received its premiere alongside the rest of others would experience during and after The Planets in September 1918, less than the war. two months before the Armistice. Two years later Holst used the central chorale Tonight marks the world premiere of theme as a musical setting for Sir Cecil Leonardo Dugan’s setting of Alan Seeger’s Spring Rice’s poem, “I Vow to Thee, My haunting World War I poem, “I Have a Country.” The resulting hymn would Rendezvous With Death.” Seeger, a native become one of the most iconic songs of New Yorker, joined the French Foreign remembrance in the wake of World War I. Legion when war was declared in Europe While the first verse is centered on the in 1914, making him one of the first love of and duty to one’s country, the Americans to fight it. He was killed in the second verse hopes for a more peaceful Battle of the Somme in 1916, almost a kingdom, where “her ways are ways of year before the U.S. entry into the war. In gentleness, and all her paths are peace.” this song the soldier’s thoughts are bittersweet with memories of love and The jollity continues with the popular song springtime, even as he comes to terms “When the Boys Come Home,” which with his own mortality in an eerily resolute was written by American composer Oley premonition of his death on the battlefield. Speaks before the war’s conclusion. John Hay penned the poem while serving as Alan Seeger’s brother Charles Seeger, and President Lincoln’s assistant during the Charles’ first wife Constance, were on the War Between the States. (He would go on Juilliard faculty, and his nephew Pete to become secretary of state under Seeger, born just after the Armistice, Presidents William McKinley and Theodore would go on to become one of the most Roosevelt.) This song imagines the home - important contributors to American folk coming of soldiers with cheery optimism music, especially during the 1950s and and perhaps some naïveté. 1960s. A veteran of World War II, Pete Seeger remained committed to social Vaughan Williams was 41 when the war activism well into his 90s. “Where Have All broke out—old enough to avoid service— the Flowers Gone?” is a powerful call for but he volunteered nonetheless, first in the peace and asks an important question on Royal Army Medical Corps and later in the this centennial anniversary of the Armistice: Royal Artillery. Vaughan Williams was “When will they ever learn?” profoundly affected by the war and was devastated by the loss of his young friend The second half of tonight’s program George Butterworth, one of England’s opens with a special set of songs that pairs most promising composers at the time. some of Schubert’s finest lieder with two Vaughan Williams wrote to Holst, “I rarely heard songs by Rudi Stephan, a sometimes dread coming back to normal promising young German composer who life with so many gaps—especially of was killed on the Galician Front by a course George Butterworth.” Although Russian sharpshooter. Taken together, these songs suggest a story: an intrepid into poverty. He was barely 30 years old boatman seeks a life of adventure (“Der when he was drafted into the Army in Schiffer”), then realizes his own mortality 1917, and yet he had already achieved (“Am Abend”), which leaves him lost, considerable fame for “Alexander’s Ragtime lonely, and longing for a place to call home Band .” Berlin was then able to spend his (“Der Wanderer”). He remembers his service composing patriotic songs at fallen comrades as he hears a ghostly Camp Upton in New York, where his work voice reminding him to enjoy life (“Momento was inspired by the great pride he felt Vivere”). This ultimately steers him towards in the country that had taken in his love and peace (“Du bist die Ruh”). immigrant family. Although Rachmaninoff did not fight in the The Welsh composer and actor Ivor war, the political turmoil in Russia during Novello’s songwriting career took off at the that time forced him to leave his native young age of 21 after he composed his land and begin a journey towards a new touching hit “Keep the Home Fires Burning” home in America. The Rachmaninoff family shortly after the outbreak of WWI. He was estate was seized by the Bolsheviks during called to serve in the Royal Naval Air the Russian Revolution of October 1917; Service in 1916. The two songs on tonight’s he and his family fled first to Scandinavia, program, written after the war had ended, then ultimately on to New York City’s capture a longing for happier, more peace - Upper West Side in November 1918, just ful times. days after the Armistice was signed. Each of these songs might suggest a different Tonight’s program concludes fittingly with aspect of a journey home. “I’ll Wait for “I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Thee” anticipates a lovers’ reunion, “How Slope”—the final song of Vaughan Williams’ Fair This Spot” captures a sense of Songs of Travel— which was only discovered serenity, and “Spring Waters” heralds the after his death in 1958 and published in arrival of brighter days. 1960. With its final line—“And I have lived and loved, and closed the door”—the Irving Berlin’s family emigrated from wanderings and the journeys, at least Russia to New York City in 1893, but those of tonight’s stories, find their way unlike Rachmaninoff, Berlin had been born home to a gentle repose. Texts & Translations When the Boys Come Home OLEY SPEAKS Text: John Hay There’s a happy time coming when the boys come home; There’s a glorious day coming when the boys come home; We will end the dreadful story Of this treason dark and gory In a sunburst of glory, When the boys come home. The day will seem brighter when the boys come home, For our hearts will be lighter when the boys come home; Wives and sweethearts will press them In their arms and caress them, And pray God to bless them, When the boys come home. The thinned ranks will be proudest when the boys come home, And their cheer will ring the loudest when the boys come home. The full ranks will be shattered, And the bright arms will be battered, And the battle-standards tattered, When the boys come home. Their bayonets may be rusty when the boys come home, And their uniforms dusty when the boys come home. But all shall see the traces Of battle's royal graces, In the brown and bearded faces, When the boys come home. Our love shall go to meet them when the boys come home, To bless them and to greet them when the boys come home; And the fame of their endeavor Time and change shall not dissever From the nation’s heart forever, When the boys come home. From Songs of Travel , Nos. 1–8 RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS* Text: Robert Louis Stevenson The Vagabond Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, *Indicates those who served in WWI Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me.