CD3004 NDGC BOOK_4PP 6/29/12 3:47 PM Page 1 Digital Audio Producer / Engineer, Post-Production & Mastering: Frederick Hohman, Zarex HD Studio Founded in 1915, the Notre Dame Glee Club presents a wide-ranging repertory in several South Bend, Indiana, USA www.zarex.com formal campus concerts as well as in dozens of informal performances at University events. Recorded January 22, 2010, May 10, 2010, and May 23, 2011, Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, In recent years the Club has performed on tour in over 40 U.S. states and Puerto Rico; University of Notre Dame. internationally, the Club undertakes quadrennial European tours, and has performed in Canada, CD 7255 The Glee Club wishes to thank the generosity Israel, Central America, and Asia. Stereo Audio CD of Glee Club Alumni for their support of this project. The Notre Dame Glee Club Crowley Hall of Music, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5643 574.631.6352; E-mail: [email protected] Down Among the Dead Men The Rocky Road to Dublin http://gleeclub.nd.edu/ English Folk Song Irish Folk Song, arr. Randall Johnson arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Scott Boyle, bodhran Dulaman Michael McGlynn We begin our journey in London with the Joseph Edmonds, solo drinking song Down Among the Dead Men , Two other Pro Organo recordings featuring The Notre Dame Glee Club: in an arrangement by the great English Refrain: BEAUTIFUL RAIN (ITEM CD 7216) VIVE LA COMPAGNIE (ITEM CD 7164) Seaweed of the yellow cliffs, Gaelic seaweed. composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The text AVAILABLE AT WWW.PROORGANO.COM Seaweed of the ocean, Gaelic seaweed. is attributed to John Dyer (1700-1758), a “O gentle daughter, here come the wooing men. Welsh clergyman. “Dead men,” or “dead “O gentle mother, put the wheels in motion for me.” soldiers,” are empties strewn on the floor I would go to the tailor with the Gaelic seaweed, under a festive table. The original text probably “I would buy expensive shoes,” read “Here’s a health to the Queen,” in honor of said the Gaelic seaweed. Queen Anne; our presumably later version The Gaelic seaweed has beautiful black shoes, refers to King George I, and was included in the The Gaelic seaweed has a beret and trousers. 1726 volume of the popular songbook series There is a yellow gold head on the Gaelic seaweed. The Dancing Master . The tune was well- There are two blunt ears on the stately seaweed. known enough to have spawned a parody version, with quite the opposite political Avenging and Bright orientation; it appeared in James Hogg’s The Irish Folk Song, arr. David Mooney Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819), a 2 11 CD3004 NDGC BOOK_4PP 6/29/12 3:48 PM Page 2 The Long Day Closes Audio on heard in this product collection of songs supporting Stuart restoration in Liverpool is set upon by local thugs, but Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) was engineered on location in the struggle against William of Orange, who he fights them off with the aid of passers-by In addition to the enduring operettas produced with a MultiChannel DSD ® subjugated Ireland and Scotland the 1690s: who happen to be Galway countrymen. ® with librettist W.H. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan (Direct Stream Digital ) audio recorder made by “No hard fate can daunt a loyal spirit/ Ave Maria wrote instrumental works (mostly early in his Genex Audio, Inc., with analog input signals Till death shall remove our cares below; Plainchant (Liber Usualis) career) several art song collections, and a good having a full gain, in-phase bandwidth of from Then the delights that martyrs inherit/ Usurping tyrants never shall know. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. deal of sacred and secular choral music. The 0.25 Hz to 50,000 Hz, obtained from Zarex Sooner than sell our country for a pension,/ Blessed are you among women, equipment designed & developed by producer and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Long Day Closes is one of only a handful for Down among the dead men let us lie.” men’s voices; it has long been a fixture in the Glee Frederick Hohman. DSD recording offers a Holy Mary, Mother of God, intercede for us Club’s repertory. sampling rate of 2,822,400 one-bit samples per Irish composer Michael McGlynn is the founder now and in the hour of our death. Amen. of the choral group Anúna, and a founding second per channel, and offers superior Missa Ave Maria – Kyrie Notre Dame, Our Mother participant in the Riverdance production. performance compared to all existing PCM (Pulse Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553) O’Donnell/Casasanta, arr. Isele Dúlamán is his original musical setting of Code Modulation) digital audio recording Lord have mercy. The Notre Dame Victory March a traditional Irish poem on courtship that uses methods, including extended frequency response Christ have mercy. John F. Shea/Michael Shea, C.S.C. as a metaphor the practice of gathering Lord have mercy. We conclude with the two signature songs of up to 40,000 Hertz. Superior fidelity of DSD edible seaweed as a hedge against famine. Ave Maria (Angelus Domini) the University of Notre Dame. Joseph Casasanta audio is most apparent in high-definition audio Avenging and Bright is a poem by Franz Biebl (1906-2001) directed the Notre Dame Marching Band as well products such as SACD (Super Audio Compact Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Ireland’s national Scott Robinson and Dominic Go, solos as the Glee Club during his 19 years at the Disc), which uses DSD as its native audio format; poet, set to an old Irish air. Moore uses the University (1923-42); David Isele led the Glee however, DSD’s benefits are also evident to pre-Christian Gaelic legend of Deirdre and The angel of the Lord appeared to Mary Club from 1973-1979. Brothers John Shea discerning ears when multichannel DSD the betrayal of the sons of Uisnech by the King and she conceived by the Holy Spirit. (‘06/’08) (lyrics) and Michael Shea (’05) (music) recordings are mastered and distributed in a of Ulster as an allegory for George IV’s refusal Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, are the authors of the most recognizable conventional CD. to proceed with Catholic emancipation. David blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. collegiate fight song in the nation. Mooney’s inventive arrangement is full of cross-rhythms and polyphonic writing. Mary said: "Behold, the maidservant of the Lord, DSD, Direct Stream Digital. let it be done to me according to your word." Super Audio Compact Disc, Finally, on to The Rocky Road to Dublin , a Hail Mary... SACD and their logos lively 19th-century brawling song with words And the Word was made flesh, Oo are trademarks of Sony & Philips. by D.K. Gavan, the “Galway Poet”, in Randall and lived among us. Hail Mary... Johnson’s fine arrangement. A young man Holy Mary, Mother of God, intercede for us leaves home in search of his fortune, has his now and in the moment of our death. Amen. belongings pinched in Dublin, and upon arrival 10 3 CD3004 NDGC BOOK_4PP 6/29/12 3:48 PM Page 3 This most famous of Gregorian chant melodies Du du liegst mir im Herzen Die Rose stand im Tau Die Rose stand im Tau , the most familiar song was in circulation as early as the eighth century German folk song, Gebt mir zu trinken! of the collection, and the lively drinking song CE; the current form of the prayer text, with the arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw from Ritornelle in canonischen Weisen, Gebt mir zu trinken! Finally, Richard Strauss’s final petition to the Virgin (“Sancta Maria…”), You weigh on my heart, op. 65 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) five-part Traumlicht , from his late set (1935) of first appeared in print in 1495 in Girolamo you weigh on my mind. The rose stood covered with dewdrops, three men’s choruses, is a harmonically lustrous Savonarola's “Esposizione sopra l’Ave Maria,” You cause me much sorrow; they were as grey pearls. setting of a beautiful love lyric by the 18th- and was codified in the Roman Breviary of you don’t know how good I am to you. When the sun shone upon them, century poet Friedrich Rückert. Just as I love you, so love me too. 1568, but the practice of appending a petition they turned to rubies. The most tender feelings do I feel Hymns and Spirituals Give me a drink! What stands in the stars, to the main prayer in musical settings began at now for you alone. one cannot change, but one forgets this Been in the Storm least two centuries before, as musicologist Still should I trust you, in the gleam of the glass! arr. Wendell Whalum (and 1997 Glee Club alumnus) Michael you so fickle in mind? Anderson has discovered. You can rely on me. Traumlicht (Dreamlight), Garren Bryant and Harold Melia, solos You do know how good I am to you. Cristóbal de Morales, a Spanish composer who from Drei Männerchöre Farewell My Friends And when I am far away, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Attr. John G. McCurry (1842), arr. Curtis Heard spent many years in the Papal Choir in Rome, your visage appears to me. A light visited me in a dream, it had hardly Michael Clark, solo uses the chant melody both as a long-note Then fondly I wish that love unite us. cantus firmus and as a source for the imitative drawn near when it fled.