December 16 & 17, 2016 5656 Bee Caves Road Suite B-104 Austin, TX 78746 512.732.0022 westlakepediatricdentist.com WINTER 2016 CONSPIRARE YOUTH CHOIRS Nina Revering, Artistic Director Friday, December 16, 2016 Deborah Henderson, Manager 7:30pm University Presbyterian Church Alyssa Wixson, Assistant and Arranger Austin, Texas Christy Vineis, Intern Dr. Maimy Fong, Pianist Saturday, December 17, 2016 Austin Haller, Pianist and Organist 7:30pm University Presbyterian Church Grace Youn, Violin Austin, Texas Diana Loomer, Percussion Audrey, We are so proud of your dedication, initiative, and individuality...keep on being yourself! 512.476.5775 We love you multiplied x 6!! conspirare.org/youth-choirs 1 WELCOME PROGRAM In grateful, loving memory of Lois VanLaningham & Harris Johnson Dear Conspirare supporters, friends and families, COMBINED CHOIRS In December of 2005, thirty-seven children presented God Bless the Master........................................................R. Vaughn Williams Conspirare’s first youth choir concert. At that time, we were only one ensemble. The performance lasted 35 ALLEGRO minutes, and none of the music was memorized. The Untraveled Worlds...............Text by Alfred Lord Tennyson, music by Paul Halley singers were younger, and for many of them, it was Speakers: Anna Fulton, Miles Dintzer, Lily Wendt their very first performance with a children’s choir. Grace Youn, Violin Diana Loomer, Percussion Twelve years later, we are now 110 singers strong in Frobisher Bay..................................................Text & music by James Gordon three ensembles. We introduce our newest ensemble, Cape Bretton Lullaby..............Text & music by Kenneth Leslie, Arr. Stuart Calvert Prelude, this evening! We have a sizable library of music (236 titles in over Go Where I Send Thee...............Gospel Spiritual, Arr. Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory 15 languages), with repertoire that has gradually grown in complexity since our beginning. Thinking on those inaugural members back in 2005 creates KANTOREI a joyful song in our hearts as we observe their graduating from colleges The Bells..................................Text by Edgar Allen Poe, music by John Leavitt throughout the nation and starting their adult careers, many of them in music. A La Nanita Nana...........................Mexican folksong, music by David Eddleman The Dream Keeper...............Text by Langston Hughes, music by Andrea Ramsey Over these 12 years we have traveled to perform in Washington, D.C., The Little Road to Bethlehem.......Text by Margaret Rose, music by Michael Head Hawaii, Little Rock, San Antonio, Quebec City and Montreal, and this coming Alyssa Wixson, Soprano summer we will be performing in the Tuscany International Choral Festival. Such joy! These kids are making music all over the world. COMBINED CHOIRS Let All the World in Every Corner Sing.........Text by George Herbert/Psalm 150, Tonight’s program represents some of our beloved favorites from our past music by Andrea Ramsey seasons, as well as works that are new to us. As we reflect back upon our I Sing of a Maiden......................................Traditional, music by Patrick Hadley years, we look to the future with hope and gratitude. To be engaged in the work of sharing music with these young artists and putting much-needed Song of Survival, Christmas Medley......Arr. Margaret Dryburgh & Norah Chambers beauty into our world is a gift to us at CYC. We believe in these kids. They Quartet: Sophia Lynn, Emma Morelli, Molly Snodgrass, Abigail Storm are in our hearts. PRELUDE ...................... Enjoy your evening, and your season. When Christmas Comes to Town Text & music by Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri, Arr. Alyssa Wixson Soloists: Eva Somerville, Rachelli Marcelin Nina Revering Dodi Li.................................................................Traditional, Arr. Doreen Rao Founding Artistic Director Soloists: Anna Galatzan, Devon Bhatt, Adriana Cheng Conspirare Youth Choirs Angels’ Carol........................................................Text & music by John Rutter COMBINED CHOIRS Glorious.............................Text & music by Stephanie Mabey, Arr. Masa Fukuda Soloists: Sapna Bhatt, Aniston Zabawa, Solana Ortiz, Christy Vineis, Martha Beaty, Avery Davis, Aneesa Ravula Believe.......................Text & music by Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri, Arr. Mac Huff 2 3 Untraveled Worlds, Paul Halley TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS I cannot rest from travel; I will drink God Bless the Master, R. Vaughn Williams Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those God bless the Master of this house That loved me, and alone. With happiness beside Where e’er his body rides or walks. I am a part of all that I have met; Lord Jesus be his guide. Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades God bless the mistress of this house Forever and forever when I move. With gold chain round her breast; How dull it is to pause, to make an end, Where e’er her body sleeps or wakes. To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! Lord send her soul to rest. As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life God bless your house Were all too little, and of one to me Your children too Little remains; but every hour is saved Your cattle and your store From that eternal silence, something more, The Lord increase you day by day A bringer of new things; and vile it were And send you more and more. For some three suns to store and hoard myself, and This grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Come my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heav’n, that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield! 4 5 Cape Bretton Lullaby, Kenneth Leslie, Arr. Stuart Calvert Frobisher Bay, James Gordon Driftwood is burning blue Cold is the arctic sea Wild walk the wall shadows Far are your arms from me Night winds go riding by Long will this winter be Riding by the lochie meadows Frozen in Frobisher Bay On to the ring of day Flows Mira’s stream singing “One more whale,” our captain cried “One more whale then we’ll beat the ice.” Cadil Gu La, laddie, la, laddie But the winter star was in the sky Sleep the stars away. The seas were rough the winds were high. Far on Beinn Bhreagh’s side Deep were the crashing waves Wander the lost lambies That tore our whaler’s mast away Here, there and everywhere Dark are these sunless days Everywhere their troubled mammies Waiting for the ice to break. Find them and fold them deep Fold them to sleep, singing Strange is a whaler’s fate To be saved from the raging waves Cadil Gu La, laddie, la, laddie Only to waste away Sleep the moon away. Frozen in this lonely grave. Cold is the arctic sea Daddy is on the bay Far are your arms from me He’ll keep the pot brewing Long will this winter be Keep all from tumbling down Frozen in Frobisher Bay Tumbling down to rack and ruin Pray, Mary, send him home Safe from the foam singing Cadil Gu La, laddie, la, laddie Sleep the dark away. 6 7 Go Where I Sent Thee, Arr. Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory The Bells, Text by Edgar Allen Poe, music by John Leavitt Children go where I send thee! How shall, how shall I send thee? Hear the sledges with the bells I’m gonna send thee one by one Silver bells! Silver bells! One for the little bitty baby What a world of merriment their melody foretells! The baby boy born in Bethlehem. How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of the night! Children go where I send thee! How shall, how shall I send thee? While the stars that over sprinkle, I’m gonna send thee two by two All the heavens seem to twinkle Two for Paul and Silas With a crystalline delight, with a crystalline delight. One for the little bitty baby Keeping time, time, time, The baby boy born in Bethlehem. In a sort of Runic rhyme, Children go where I send thee! How shall, how shall I send thee? To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells I’m gonna send the: From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, Six by six, six for the days when the world was fixed Hear the sledges with the bells Five for the bread they did divide Silver bells! Silver bells! Four for the gospel writers What a world of merriment their melody tells! Three for the Hebrew children From the jingling and the tinkling, Two for Paul and Silas From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. One for the little, bitty baby The baby boy born in Bethlehem. Children go where I send thee! How shall, how shall I send thee? I’m gonna send thee twelve by twelve, twelve for the twelve disciples Eleven of them singing in heaven Ten for the ten commandments Nine for the angel choirs divine Eight for the eight the flood couldn’t take Seven for the day God laid down his head Six for the days when the world was fixed Five for the bread they did divide Four for the gospel writers Three for the Hebrew children Two for Paul and Silas One for the little, bitty baby The baby boy born in Bethlehem. 8 9 A La Nanita Nana, Mexican folksong, David Eddleman The Dream Keeper, Andrea Ramsey A la nanita nana, nanita ea, nanita ea Bring me all of your dreams, Mi Jesus tiene sueno bendito, bendito sea You dreamer, A la nanita nana, nanita ea, nanita ea Bring me all your Mi Jesus tiene sueno bendito, bendito sea Heart melodies That I may wrap them Bendito sea In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Callen mientras la cuna se balancea Of the world.