The Program

David Chase, Conductor
Steven Gray, Accompanist

 Sinfonia

Ron Fox, oboe
Peter Clarke, violin
Natalie Schenker, violin
Nancy Swanberg, viola
Loie Flood, viola
Max Fenstermacher, cello
Steven Gray, Organ

Order of Performance

A New Commandment - Thomas Tallis  (English, 1505-1585)

A new commandment give I unto you, saith the Lord:
That ye love one another as I have loved you.
By this shall every man know that ye are my disciples.

 O Quam Gloriosum - Tomas Luis de Victoria  (Spanish,  1548-1611)

O how glorious is the kingdom, where all the Saints rejoice with Christ!
Dressed in white robes, they follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes.  Alleluia!

 Lux Aurumque (2001) - Eric Whitacre  (USA, 1970- )

Light, warm and heavy as pure gold
And the angels sing softly to the new-born baby

 Peace Cantata (2003) - Madelyn Byrne  (USA, 1963- ) 

Movement 1                                                             

A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness.  This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.    -- Albert Einstein

Each that we lose takes a part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.    --- Emily Dickinson

Four Settings of e.e.cummings - Vincent Persichetti  (USA, 1915-1987)

          sam was a man

sam was a man, grinned his grin, done his chores, laid him down. sleep well.

           uncles

                   Alexis Grenier and Rachel Jones

my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band

          nouns

                   Tam Phan and Nathan Daum

nouns to nouns, wan too nons, and nuns, two nuns wandering in singular unknowndulous spring

           jimmie’s got a goil

jimmie’s got a goil and she coittnly can shimmie

Oboe Concerto in G Minor - G. F. Handel (1685-1759)

                   Ron Fox, oboe

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Cantata #12:  Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen  J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

          Sinfonia
          Chorus

Weeping, wailing, grieving, fearing,
Dread and need are the Christians' tearful bread,
Them the sign of Jesus bearing

          Recitative,    Lissa Supler

We must pass through great sadness that we come into God's kingdom.

          Aria,  Heather Harnish

Cross and crown are joined together, gem and conflict are made one.
Christians must at ev'ry hour have their torment and their foe,
But Christ's wounds shall be their comfort.

          Aria,  Jason Lee

I'll follow after Christ,  I will not e'er forsake him
In health and in distress,  in living and in dying.
I kiss of Christ his shame,  I'll take his cross unto me.
I'll follow after Christ,  I will not e'er forsake him.

          Aria,  Kyle Otto

Be steadfast, ev'ry pain will have but a trifle been.
After showers,  blessing flowers,
Ev'ry tempest will have passed.
Be steadfast, be steadfast.

          Chorale

What God doth, that is rightly done, To that will I be cleaving,
Though out upon the cruel road Need, Death and Suff'ring drive me,
E'en so will God, All fatherhood, Within his arms enfold me:
So I yield him all power.

Two Spiritual Songs

Shout On  -  Tommy Engler, baritone

Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit  -  Gideon Marcus, baritone

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