School of Music
U N C G
Chamber Singers
Welborn Young, Conductor
Matthew Webb, Piano
and
University Chorale
Carole Ott, Conductor
Carey Harwood, Guitar
Pamela Kane, Piano
Sunday, April 18, 2010
3:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Chamber Singers
Sleep Eric Whitacre
(b. 1970)
Ring out, wild bells! Jonathan Dove
(b. 1959)
University Chorale
A Chant for Peace in Our Time Theodore Morrison
(b. 1938)
Grant Us Peace William Price
(b. 1971)
A Procession Winding Around Me Jeffrey Van
By the bivouacʼs fitful flame (b. 1941)
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Look down fair moon
Reconciliation
Carey Harwood, guitar
from Indianas Suite Carlos Guastavino
Gala del Día (1912-2000)
Viento Norte
Sarah Strickland, soprano; Meredith Jones, soprano;
Daniel Tolodziecki, tenor; John Peeler, bass
Quien Fuera como el Jazmin
Kiersten Holden, soprano; Miranda Freeman, mezzo-soprano
Blayne Ziegenfuss, tenor; Paolo Pacheco, baritone
Una de Dos
Hold On! Marques L. A. Garrett
(b. 1984)
Eric Whitacre:
Sleep
Text: Eric Whitacre
The evening hangs beneath the moon,
a silver thread on darkened dune.
With closing eyes and resting head;
I know that sleep is coming soon.
Upon my pillow, safe in bed,
a thousand pictures fill my head,
I cannot sleep, my minds aflight;
and yet my limbs seems made of lead.
If there are noises in the night,
a frightening shadow, Flickering light;
Then I surrender unto sleep,
where clouds of dream give second sight.
What dreams may come, both dark and
deep—
of flying wings and soaring leap?
As I surrender unto sleep.
Jonathan Dove:
Ring out, wild bells.
Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out thy mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
William Price:
Grant Us Peace
Text: Adapted from the Agnus Dei
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Grant us peace.
Jeffrey Van:
A Procession Winding Around Me
Text: Walt Whitman
From: Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
BY THE BIVOUACʼS FITFUL FLAME
BY THE bivouac's fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and
slow;—but first I note,
The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods'
dim outline,
The darkness, lit spots of kindled fire—the silence;
Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving;
The shrubs and trees, (as I left my eyes they seem to be
stealthily watching me;)
While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and
wond'rous thoughts,
Of life and death—of home and the past and loved,
and of those that are far away;
A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the
ground,
By the bivouac's fitful flame.
BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
1
BEAT! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a
force of ruthless men,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation;
Into the school where the scholar is studying:
Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must
he have now with his bride;
Theodore Morrison:
A Chant for Peace in Our Time
Text: Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Hominibus apprime utile est,
consuetudines jungere,
seseque iis vinculis astringere,
quibus aptius de se omnibus unum efficiant,
et absolute ea agere,
que firmandis amicitiis inserviunt.
Animi tamen non armis,
sed Amore et Generositate vincuntur.
A Chant for Peace in Our Time
Above all, it is useful for people to establish
relationships, to bind themselves by those
bonds which are most apt to unite them as
one, and, without exception, to do those things
which serve to strengthen friendships.
Hearts, therefore, are won not by arms, but by
love and greatness of soul.
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plowing his field or
gathering his grain;
So fierce you whirr and pound, you drums—so shrill
you bugles blow.
2
Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in
the streets:
Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses?
No sleepers must sleep in those beds;
No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or specu-lators—
Would they continue?
Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt
to sing?
Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case
before the judge?
Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder
blow.
3
Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Make no parley—stop for no expostulation;
Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer;
Mind not the old man beseeching the young man;
Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's en-treaties;
Make even the trestles to shake the dead, where they lie
awaiting the hearses,
So strong you thump, O terrible drums—so loud
you bugles blow.
LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.
LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghast-ly,
swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs, with their arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky,
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be
utterly lost,
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly
wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead,
I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw
near,
Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
coffin.
Carlos Guastavino:
from Indianas Suite
Gala del Día
Text: Arturo Vazquez
Amo la luz del albo porque te besa
y te devuelve vivay traviesa
Erguidaespigal viento del mediodia
Amo el sol que te dora madura y mía
Cuando la tarde llora su luz perdida
Amo el trino que prendes sobre mi vida
Quiero tanto a la noche que es infinita
como tu hora dulce
Ay! Corazon de la noche, gala del día
vida estoy quemando porque tu allegría.
Viento Norte
Text: Isaac Aizenberg
Desgarrado entre los montes
Sobre largos arenales
Va chillando el viento norte
Su grito en los quebrachales
Un cordaje de tacueras
De espinillos y chilcales
Borbonean la agonía
Del fuego en la roja tarde
Aire de fragua viento de fuego
Quemando leguas passa febrero El viento
brama fuego en su aliento
Tierra cuarteada hombre sediento
Y a está la tierra que madan
está herida mi esperanza
Viento norte rio bajo reseca
está la barranca
Pobre mi tierra cansada
no te cansada mis sudores
Para verte reprotado milagro
en pampa de flores
Quien fuera como el jazmin
Text: León Benarós
Quién fuera como el jazmín
Cuando empieza a florecer
Echando perfume fino
Para estar en tu poder, mi amor
Quien fuera flor
Quién fuera como la rosa
Finery of the Day
I love the light of dawn because it kisses you
and returns you alive, alive and fanciful.
Straight ear of grain in the wind of midday,
I love the sun that gilds it, ripe and mine.
When the afternoon cries for its lost light,
I love the trill you pin over my life.
I love so much the night which is infinite
like your sweet, dark, tepid hour.
O, heart of night, day's gala!
My life burns for your happiness.
Northern wind
Ripping through the wooded hills
over the dunes
the northern wind screams
its crey in the quebracho woods.
A heavy string of bamboo,
thorny bushes, and chilcales,
play the agony
of the fire in the red afternoon.
Air like the forge, winds of fire,
burning miles and miles, all through February.
The wind blows fire in its breath,
cracked land, thirsty man.
The earth is charred,
my hope is wounded,
Northern wind, low is the river
and the banks are dry.
My porr tired land!
My sweat will not be enough
to see you grow again
with the miracle of the flowering pampas.
Who could be like the jasmine…
Who could be like the jasmin
when it begins to bloom,
giving fine perfume,
To be in your possession, my love,
who could be a flower!
Who could be as the rose,
En su airosa gallardia
Alzándosé colorada con la luz del nuevo dia
Para estar en tu poder, mi amor
Quien fuera flor
Quién fuera como el clavel
El clavel disciplinado
Creciéndose de rubores
Y de blanco salpicado
Para estar en tu poder, mi amor
Quien fuera flor.
Una de Dos
Text: Juan Ferreyra Basso
A la vara del mimbre la dobla el agua
Una vara en el aire otra mojada
Como a la vara el agua tu amor dobla
Quien me ha visto en tus ojos
quien en la sombra
Una de dos me encontraran llorando
O estoy con vos
Por fijarse en el río el cielo baja
Y se lo paga el río danlole andanza
Como ese espejo al cielo qui siera verte
Al cielo que lo mira
cielo devuelve
arising, red,
with the light of the new day.
To be in your possession, my love,
who could be a flower!
Who could be as the carnation,
a variegated carnation,
growing in blushes
and sprinkled in white
To be in your possession, my love,
who could be a flower!
One or the Other
Water bends the willow stick
One stick up in the air and the other soaking.
As water to the willow, your love turns me.
Some saw me in your eyes,
some in the shadows.
One of the other: they will find me crying
or I will be with you.
When he looks at himself in the river, the sky
bends and the river rewards him tenderly.
As that mirror to the sky, I would like to watch
you. The sky watches the river, the mirror
gives back to the sky.
Chamber Singers
Soprano
Winnie Borawski
Rosa Creech
JoAnn Martinson
Chelsea Bonogura
Bryn Hagman
Rachel Snow
Alto
Kate Jackson
Katie Spaan
Eden Badgett
Morgan Soja
Diana Yodzis
Nana Wolf-Hill
Maggie Schwenker
Tenor
John Brown
Nick Daniels
Jacob Wright
Kelly Burns
Bass
Wilson Brooks
Matt Webb
Justin Hazelgrove
Garrett Saake
Carey Cannon
Jimmy Cornfoot
Shamor Peeler-Dean
University Chorale
CJ Albee
Dana Boyle
Rebekah Bray
Emily Byrne
Logan Cox
Heidi Fischer
Miranda Freeman
Carlos Fuentes
Marques Garrett
Christina Gast
Carolyn Golrick
Karen Hayden
Alice Henderson
Ryan Hendricks
Kiersten Holden
Meredith Jones
Katarina Kohari
Kate King
Amber Leeming
Kenneth Leviner
Greyson Leybourne
Kyle Melton
Anne-Claire Niver
Julia MacDonald
Jessica Mariskanish
Ciara O'Neill-Mendoza
Paolo Pacheco
John Peeler
Ethan Price
John Rainey
Rachel Roby
Wyatt Rollins
Ashlea Ross
Sarah Strickland
Daniel Tolodziecki
Kirby Treadaway
James Williams
Allison Wise
Marcus Young
Blayne Ziegenfuss
