Chamber Singers
Welborn E. Young, conductor
Liz Doebler, assistant conductor
Rich Auvil, accompanist
University Chorale
Carole Ott, conductor
Nana Wolfe-Hill, assistant conductor
Sally Todd, accompanist
assisted by:
Chris Dial, percussion
John Farrell, percussion
Sunday, October 2, 2011
3:30 pm
Recital Hall, Music Building
Program
Rytmus (1980) Ivan Hrušovský
(1927-2001)
Cantate Domino Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
(1562-1621)
The Rune of Hospitality Alf Houkom
Liz Doebler, conductor
Who Is Sylvia Matthew Harris
Sarah Taylor, solo
Hold On Eugene Thamon Simpson
(1899-1990)
Chamber Singers
Blow ye the trumpet Kirke Mechem
(b. 1925)
Le Jour Reynaldo Hahn
(1874-1947)
Nana Wolfe-Hill, conductor
Wedding Cantata Daniel Pinkham
I. Rise up, my love (b. 1923)
II. Many waters
III. Awake, oh north winds
IV. Set me as a seal
Lauren Ritch, soprano; CJ Albee, tenor
Chorale
Intermission
Remember Stephen Chatman
(1950)
Sügismaastikud Veljo Tormis
I. On hilissuvi (b. 1930)
II. Üle taeva jooksevad pilved
IV. Tul kõnnumaa kohal
VII. Karnarbik
Chorale
There Will Be Rest Frank Techili
(b. 1958)
Cloudburst Eric Whitacre
(b. 1970)
Ethan Price, baritone; Susan Adams, soprano
Chamber Singers
Ivan Hrušovský
Rytmus
Text by Ivan Hrušovský
Ave Eva fons amoris,
tu regina veustatis.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Cantate Domino
Text: Psalm 96
Cantate Domino canticum novum
cantate Domino ominis terra.
Cantate Domino, et benedicte nomini ejus.
Annuntiate de die in diem salutare ejus.
Annuntiate inter gentes gloriam ejus,
in ominbus populis mirabilia ejus.
Alf Houkum
The Rune of Hospitality
Text: From the Gaelic
I saw a stranger yestereen;
I put food in the eating place,
Drink in the drinking place,
Music in the listening place;
And in the sacred names of the Triune
He blessed me and my house,
My cattle and my dear ones.
And the lark said in her song:
Often, often, often,
Goes the Christ in the stranger’s guise.
Kirke Mechem
Blow ye the trumpet
Text adapted from a traditional hymn
Blow ye the trumpet, blow.
Sweet is Thy work, my God, my King.
I'll praise my Maker with all my breath.
O happy is the man who hears.
Why should we start, and fear to die,
With songs and honors sounding loud.
Ah, lovely appearance of death.
Rhtythm
Be greeted Eve, you source of love,
You are the queen of nobleness.
Sing To The Lord
Translation: Ron Jeffers
Sing to the Lord a new song,
Sing to the Lord all the earth.
Sing to the Lord and bless his name;
proclaim his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the nations,
his wonders among all people.
Matthew Harris
Who Is Sylvia?
Who is Silvia? What is she, that all our
swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise
is she; the heavens such grace did lend her,
that she might admired be.
Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives
with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair.
To help him of his blindness: and being
helped, inhabits there.
Then to Silvia let us sing, that Silvia is
excelling each mortal thing upon the dull
earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring.
Who is Silvia?
Reynaldo Hahn
Le Jour
Text: Théodore Faullin de Banville
Tout est ravi quand vient le Jour
Dans les cieux flamboyants d'aurore.
Sur la terre en fleur qu'il décore
La joie immense est de retour.
Les feuillages au pur contour
Ont un bruissement sonore;
Tout est ravi quand vient le Jour
Dans les cieux flamboyants d'aurore.
La chaumière comme la tour
Dans la lumière se colore,
L'eau murmure, la fleur adore,
Les oiseaux chantent, fous d'amour.
Tout est ravi quand vient le Jour.
Daniel Pinkham
Wedding Cantata
Text: Song of Solomon
I. Rise up, my love
Rise up, my love, my fair one and come
away
For lo, the winter is past
and the rain is over and gone
The clouds appear on the earth
The time for the singing of birds is come
And the voice of the turtle is heard in the
land
Whither is my beloved gone,
o thou fairest among women
Whither is thy beloved turned aside,
that we may seek him with thee
My beloved is gone down into his garden
To the beds of spices to feed in the gardens,
and to gather lilies
I am my beloved's, and he is mine
II. Many waters
Many waters cannot quench love
III. Awake O North wind
Awake O North wind and come thou South
Blow upon my garden
that the spices may flow out
Let my beloved come into his garden,
and eat his pleasant fruits.
IV. Set me as a seal
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
As a seal upon thine arm
For love is strong, Amen.
The Day
Translation: Debra Spurgeon
All is delight when day breaks
In the flaming skies of dawn.
On the flowering earth it beautifies.
Immense joy returns!
Clearly silhouetted leaves
Rustle loudly;
All is delight when day breaks
In the flaming skies of dawn.
The thatched cottage like the tower
Is tinged with light.
The water murmurs, the flower adores,
Birds sing, madly in love!
All is delight when day breaks.
Stephen Chatman
Remember
Text: Christina Rossetti
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the
hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be
sad.
Veljo Tormis
Sügismaastikud
Text: Viivi Luik
I. On hilissuvi
Ja lõnab angervaks
Ja tulilill ja ohakas
On hilissuvi
Ja pihlapuus on marjakobar,
ja männikus on kanarbik.
Ja seda suve ei tule enam.
II. Üle taeva joosevad pilved
Üle taeva joosevad pilved,
vihmajärgse hommiku lillad pilved,
See on järvelt lõõtsuv tuul,
see on kartuli vagude muld
millest su käed külmetavad.
V. Tuul Kõnnumaa kohal
Tuul kõnnumaa kohal
Tuul koolnukollase kõnnuman kohal
Teekäämul kõhinal naeris
paar surmud puud.
VII. Karnarbik
Kurb lilla kanarbik meeletult lõõskab
päikese viimane virvendus silmis.
Muidu kõik on kui ikka,
need samad on nurmed,
need samad on teed
ainunlt nende peal põleb,
maailma suurne keel.
Frank Ticheli
There Will Be Rest
Text: Sara Teasdale
There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
I will make this workd of my devising,
Out of a dream in my lonely mind,
I shall find the crystal of peace, -- above me
Stars I shall find.
Autumn Landscapes
Translations by Mimi S. Daitz, Killu Tougu,
and Velve Luuk
I. It is Late Summer
And meadowsweet is fragrant
And red-hot poker and thistle.
It is late summer.
And berry clusters are on the mountain ash
tree,
and heather is in the pinewoods,
And this summer will not return.
II. Clouds Racing Across the Sky
Clouds racing across the sky,
purple clouds of the morning after the rain.
It is the wind blowing from the lake,
it is the earth of the potato furrows
from which your hands are frozen.
V. Wind on the Wasteland
Wind on the wasteland,
Wind above the corpse-yellow wasteland,
at the bend in the road
a few dead trees were cackling.
VII. Heather
Sad purple heather is wildly flaming.
with the last heat waves of the sun in our eyes.
Otherwise everything is as usual.
the meadows are the same
the roads are the same,
only on them is burning
a flame the size of the world.
Eric Whitacre
Cloudburst
Text: Octavio Paz, adapted by Eric Whitacre
La lluvia…
Ojos de agua de sombra,
ojos de agua de pozo,
ojos de agua de sueño
Soles azules, verdes remolinos,
picos de luz que abren astros
como granada.
Dime, tierra quemada, no hay agua?
hay solo sangre, solo hay polvo,
sólo pisadas de pies desnudos sobre la
espina?
La lluvia despierta…
Hay que dromir con los ojos abiertos,
hay que sonar con les manos,
soñemos sueños activos de río buscando su
cauce,
sueños de sol soñando sus mundos,
hay que sonar en voz alra,
hay que cantar hasta que el canto eche
raíces, tronco, ramas, pájaros, astros,
hay que desenterrar la palabra perdida,
recordar lo que dicen la sangre y la marea,
le tierra y el cuerpo, volver al punto de
partida…
Eric Whitacre
Cloudburst
The rain ...
Eyes of shadow-water
eyes of well-water
eyes of dream-water.
Blue suns, green whirlwinds,
birdbeaks of light pecking open
pomegranate stars.
But tell me, burnt earth, is there no water?
Only blood, only dust,
only naked footsteps on the thorns?
The rain awakens ...
We must sleep with open eyes,
(...) we must dream aloud,
we must sing till the song
puts forth roots,
trunk, branches, birds, stars,
we must find the lost word,
and remember
what the blood, the tides,
the earth, and the body say,
and return to the point of departure...
Chamber Singers
Welborn E. Young, conductor
Liz Doebler, assistant conductor
Rich Auvil, accompanist
Soprano
Susan Adams
Liz Doebler
Mary Virginia Dunnam
Kristen Gobetz
Jessica Mariskanish
Claire Wright
Tenor
Nick Daniel
Joshua Hagstrom
Will Kelley
Jeremy Whitener
Jacob Wright
Alto
Jennifer Fijal
Lora Mitchell
Anne-Claire Niver
Sarah Taylor
Sarah Tueting
Diana Yodzis
Bass
Doohyun (David) Baek
Wilson Brooks
Harrison Bumgardner
James Keith
Ethan Price
Jayson Snipes
Maclain Thompson
University Chorale
Carole J. Ott, conductor
Nana Wolfe-Hill, assistant conductor
Sally Todd, accompanist
Soprano
Kelly Adams
Mary Beth Bulen
Shonda Devine
Meris Gadaleto
Amanda Girelli
Chelsea Knapp
Hannah Lomas
Samantha MacReynolds
Meredith Mormonn
Alaina Monts
Natalie Popovich
Natalie Pugh
Lauren Ritch
Emily Saine
Katie Skawski
Natasha Todd
Meg Weckworth
Alto
Rosalee Baily
Valerie Davidson
MacKenzie Ellis
Felicia Francois
LeBreta Johnson
Amber Leeming
Mary-Beth McNeil
Lydia Pion
Megan Raisner
Maggie Ramsey
Rachel Summers
Kirby Treadaway
Natalie Wilcox
Nana Wolfe-Hill
Tenor
CJ Albee
Anthony Ballard
Matthew Bishop
David Boyd
Brent Byhre
Patrick Kane
Davis Kelton
Dylan Koerner
Greyson Lebourne
Matthew Reese
James Smidt
Bass
Jason Barrios
William Britto
Lesly Dumé
Cole Freeman
Matthew Funigiello
Benjamin Levi Griffith
Joel Kamuabo
Mike Karkoski
Will Moss
Paolo Pacheco
John Pavik
Dan Portavana
Lucas Varsano
James Williams
Will Willis
Corey Wright
Alexander Yoshizumi
Department of Performance – Voice Area at UNCG:
Dr. Robert Bracey, Chair
Dr. Donald Hartmann
Dr. Carla LeFevre
Ms. Clara O’Brien
Ms. Levone Tobin-Scott
Dr. Nancy Walker
Dr. Robert Wells
Mr. David Holley, Director of Opera
Dr. Carol Ott, Professor of Choral Music
Dr. Welborn E. Young, Director of Choral Activities
