02-19 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 2/7/18 11:40 AM Page 1 Monday Evening, February 19, 2018, at 7:00 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage Celebrating DCINY’s 10th Anniversary Season! Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director presents PERPETUAL LIGHT: THE REQUIEMS OF MOZART AND DURUFLÉ DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS ORCHESTRA DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONAL JAMES M. MEADERS , DCINY Conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS Requiem, KV 626 MOZART I. Introitus II. Kyrie III. Sequenz i. Dies irae ii. Tube mirum iii. Rex tremendae iv. Recordae v. Confutatis vi. Lacrimosa IV. Offertorium i. Domine Jesu ii. Hostias V. Sanctus VI. Benedictus VII. Agnus Dei VIII. Communio MARIBETH CRAWFORD, Soprano CECELIA STEARMAN, Mezzo-soprano SHAWN MLYNEK, Tenor PATTON RICE, Bass Intermission PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. 02-19 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 2/7/18 11:40 AM Page 2 DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS ORCHESTRA DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS SINGERS INTERNATIONAL JEAN-SÉBASTIEN VALLÉE , Guest Conductor MAURICE DURUFLÉ Requiem, Op. 9 I. Introït II. Kyrie III. Domine Jesu Christe IV. Sanctus V. Pie Jesu VI. Agnus Dei VII. Lux æterna VII. Libera me IX. In Paradisum CECELIA STEARMAN, Mezzo-soprano PATTON RICE, Bass We Want To Hear From You! Use #PerpetualLight to post your post-concert and intermission photos and comments to @DCINY on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! DCINY thanks its kind sponsors in education: Artist Travel Consultants, VH-1 Save the Music, Education Through Music, High 5, and WQXR. For information about performing on DCINY’s series or about purchasing tickets, e-mail [email protected], call (212) 707-8566, or visit our website at www.DCINY.org. DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK 250 WEST 57th STREET, SUITE 1610 NEW YORK, NY 10107 (212) 707-8566 02-19 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 2/7/18 11:40 AM Page 3 Notes ON THE PROGRAM WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Requiem, KV 626 (1756 –91) (50 minutes) Mozart composed the Requiem for incomplete the last four lines of the Franz Count von Walsegg, who wanted Dies irae text—only eight measures of a special memorial in honor of his late the Lacrymosa are in Mozart’s hand. wife: a Requiem to be played annually Süßmayr, who was with Mozart at the on the anniversary of her death. Aware end, probably knew what the composer of the tremendous talent he was hiring, had intended for the completion of the von Walsegg paid well and gave Mozart Lacrymosa , and perhaps for the other free rein. The superstitious and over - unfinished movements as well. For the worked Mozart, in turn, procrastinated. Lux aeterna and Cum sanctis tuis He never managed to finish the work fugue, he reused the introit and Kyrie . and was dictating portions of it to his The work contains section after section student, Franz Xavier Süßmayr, even of high drama and grippingly poignant on the day of his death. His last act of music. Notably absent is any sense of composition was to write out the first optimism about a better life hereafter. eight bars of the Lacrymosa and gather Mozart’s unusually dark, bottom- his friends together to sing with him heavy orchestration reinforces the grim what he had written so far, but he col - message of the text. Mozart wrote for lapsed and died several hours later. After both the chorus and soloists as if the Mozart’s death, his widow Constanze future of their own souls were at stake. needed the rest of the money from the With terrifyingly accurate tone paint - unfinished commission. It was left to ing, the chorus describes the tortures of Süßmayr to finish the manuscript, after hell, at times demanding, at others a number of other composers turned it pleading for mercy and redemption. We down. Claiming to be very familiar can credit the composer with setting a with Mozart’s ideas about the work, he standard for subsequent settings of the finished the missing parts. But since no Requiem Mass, particularly for its cen - original manuscript pages of the terpiece, the spine-chilling Dies irae . Sanctus , Benedictus , and Agnus Dei The Requiem was finally performed in have been found, there remains a run - memoriam for the Countess von ning argument among scholars as to Walsegg on December 14, 1793, but where Mozart ends and Süßmayr begins. not before it had been performed in Süßmayr provided more than the end - January of the same year as a benefit ing. Mozart had skipped around in his for Constanze Mozart and her sons— composition of the piece; while we have with proper attribution. the complete autograph of the Offertory (the Domine Deus and Hostias ), he left —Joseph and Elizabeth Kahn 02-19 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 2/7/18 11:40 AM Page 4 MAURICE DURUFLÉ Requiem, Op. 9 (1902 –86) (38 minutes) French organist and composer Maurice At the end of the liturgical requiem Duruflé began his musical career in the mass, the Responsory “Libera me, choir of the cathedral of Rouen. He Domine, de morte aeterna” (“Free me composed orchestral, organ, and church from eternal death”), with its opening music, but the Requiem is considered horn blast representing the call to judg - his finest work, composed in 1947 on ment, portrays the trembling soul in commission from the French publish - judgment before God. The baritone ing company Durand. The Requiem soloist takes the role of the terrified combines the medieval chant melodies soul. Unwilling to end this gentle work with modern orchestration and harmony. on a note of terror, Duruflé, like Fauré, In his notes the composer wrote, “…I added an additional movement from have attempted to penetrate to the the burial service, the antiphon In essence of the Gregorian style, and Paradisum , which gently sets the soul have tried to reconcile as far as possible on its journey to eternal peace. the very flexible Gregorian rhythms… with the exigencies of modern notation.” —Joseph and Elizabeth Kahn Texts and Translations Requiem, KV 626 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART I. Introitus Requiem aeternam dona eis, Grant them eternal rest, Lord, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine on them. Te decet hymnus, You are praised, God, in Zion, Deus, in Sion, and homage will be paid to et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. You in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam, Hear my prayer, ad te omnis care veniet. to You all flesh will come. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Grant them eternal rest, Lord, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine on them. II. Kyrie Kyrie, eleison. Lord, have mercy on us. Christe, eleison. Christ, have mercy on us. Kyrie, eleison. Lord, have mercy on us. III. Sequenz i. Dies irae Dies irae, dies illa Day of wrath, day of anger Solvet saeclum in favilla, will dissolve the world in ashes, teste David cum Sibylla. as foretold by David and the Sibyl. Quantus tremor est futurus, Great trembling there will be 02-19 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 2/7/18 11:40 AM Page 5 quando judex est venturus, when the Judge descends from heaven cuncta stricte discussurus! to examine all things closely. ii. Tuba mirum Tuba mirum spargens sonum The trumpet will send its wondrous sound per sepulcra regionum, throughout earth’s sepulchres coget omnes ante thronum. and gather all before the throne. Mors stupebit et natura, Death and nature will be astounded, cum resurget creatura, when all creation rises again, judicanti responsura. to answer the judgement. Liber scriptus proferetur, A book will be brought forth, in quo totum continetur, in which all will be written, unde mundus judicetur. by which the world will be judged. Judex ergo cum sedebit, When the judge takes his place, quidquid latet, apparebit, what is hidden will be revealed, nil inultum remanebit. nothing will remain unavenged. Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? What shall a wretch like me say? quem patronum rogaturus, Who shall intercede for me, cum vix justus sit securus? when the just ones need mercy? iii. Rex tremendae Rex tremendae majestatis, King of tremendous majesty, qui salvandos savas gratis, who freely saves those worthy ones, salve me, fons pietatis. save me, source of mercy. iv. Recordare Recordare, Jesu pie, Remember, kind Jesus, quod sum causa tuae viae; my salvation caused your suffering; ne me perdas illa die. do not forsake me on that day. Quaerens me, sedisti lassus, Faint and weary you have sought me, redemisti crucem passus; redeemed me, suffering on the cross; tantus labor non sit cassus. may such great effort not be in vain. Juste judex ultionis, Righteous judge of vengeance, donum fac remissionis grant me the gift of absolution ante diem rationis. before the day of retribution. Ingemisco, tamquam reus: I moan as one who is guilty: culpa rubet vultus meus; owning my shame with a red face; supplicanti parce, Deus. suppliant before you, Lord. Qui Mariam absolvisti, You, who absolved Mary, et latronem exaudisti, and listened to the thief, mihi quoque spem dedisti. give me hope also. Preces meae non sunt dignae, My prayers are unworthy, sed tu, bonus, fac benigne, but, good Lord, have mercy, ne perenni cremer igne. and rescue me from eternal fire. Inter oves locum praesta, Provide me a place among the sheep, 02-19 DCINY.qxp_CH Rental 2/7/18 11:40 AM Page 6 Et ab haedis me sequestra, and separate me from the goats, Statuens in parte dextra. guiding me to Your right hand. v. Confutatis Confutatis maledictis, When the accused are confounded, flammis acribus addictis, and doomed to flames of woe, voca me cum benedictus. call me among the blessed. Oro supplex et acclinis, I kneel with submissive heart, cor contritum quasi cinis, my contrition is like ashes, gere curam mei finis.