Spring Choral Concert

carthage music department presents

Spring Choral Concert with Senior Recognition

Friday, May 15th, 2026 | 7:30 pm A. F. Siebert Chapel Kenosha, WI

program El Grillo

Both Sides Now

Joshua Desprez (c. 1450–1521)

Joni Mitchell, arr. Tim Brent Lincoln Chamber Singers Margaret Burk, conductor

Prayer of the Children

Kurt Bestor, arr. Andrea S. Klouse

Children Will Listen

Stephen Sondheim, arr. Mark Brymer from Into the Woods (1930-2021) On Children

Ysaye M. Barnwell Layla Nemri, student conductor Voces Aquae Polly Amborn, conductor Gregory Berg, accompanist

The Storm is Passing Over

Donald Vail, arr. Adam and Matt Podd

Arrow

Jocelyn Hagen

Što mi e milo

Macedonian Folk song, arr. Daniel Hughes

Hayden Izumi, student conductor Senior Recognition Yonder Come Day

Trad. Georgia Sea Islands Melody, arr. Paul John Rudoi Vox Ignis Margaret Burk, conductor Melissa Cardamone, accompanist

How Do I Love Thee?

Nathan Christensen

Singkap Siaga Katherine Rieckmann, soloist Senior Recognition

Tracy Wong

program My Heart Be Brave

Marques L. A. Garrett

Carthage Treble Choir Polly Amborn, conductor Gregory Berg, accompanist Indlu yeGagu

Sipho Sithole, arr. Size Mondlane Transcribed by Michael Barrett

To See the Sky

Jocelyn Hagen

Past Life Melodies

Sarah Hopkins

Lincoln

Alex Berko

Senior Recognition Caledonia

Dougie MacLean, arr. Blake Morgan Carthage Choir Margaret Burk, conductor Melissa Cardamone, accompanist Chase Juster, baritone Colin Campbell, tenor

personnel lincoln chamber singers Arielle Allen Lorelai Amborn Ella Bergfeld^ Vian Caskey Alexander Clarksen Avery Conger

Rees Davies Madison Edge^ Morgan Elliott Brayden Follett Ayden Hughes-Massey^ Hayden Izumi

Chase Juster^ Trevor Milne^ Jada Moss^ Layla Nemri Annaliese Ruhs^ Liev Schiffman Ayden Wildman^

voces aquae Diana Albiter Jaci Alvarez Zalena Bradshaw Hannah Brush Ciara Church Julia DeFauw Maddie Depa Xian Ding Emma Faucault DJ Gartshore Grace Grassinger Anaya Gray Destiny Greathouse

MayaGriffin Grace Hagemeyer Raynae Hensel* Shakira Johnson Lauren Krakora Olivya Lang Rosalia Locascio Chaeylah Maldonado* Asher McHugh Norah McIntire Ally Menyes Miranda Michals

Ssanyu Nambeguya Layla Nemri Christabell Niwagaba Shannon Pasters Cartherine Penney Lottie Prather Kaylie Szczepanik Heaven Tanner Lacey Thompson* Dani Tranchita Carmen Zamudio Alfaro Ava Zepka

vox ignis Alex Benassi Aiden Benewich Samuel Bergamo Olivier Blonvia John Cargille^ Angel Cervantes Dee Drain-Majors^

Christopher Duffey Julian Ivkovich Hayden Izumi Tom Kintz Marcus Lemons Celeste Morris Davi Muller

Terrek Schjoth Trevor Sinclair Kelly Steele Marshall Taylor Jon Wainwright Ayden Wildman^ Dom Wiszowaty

personnel carthage treble choir Erin Barr Lydia Berryman Natalie Boggs Lorna Bonertz Ava Bucur Makenna Case Ella Christensen Avery Conger Hannah Covalt Julie Delgado Hannah Duda Beverly Duo Brianna Frohning Gaby George Addision Goss Alle Gourlie Morgan Gray Ella Hale Kennedy Hancock^

S. Heard Raynae Hensel Avery Jones Kiley Kennedy^ Chloe Klingsten Magdalen Kolar Ava Lea Jayde Mabin Jillian Maiers Chaeylah Maldonado* Mariel McCloud Ava McClure^ Kylene McNesse Ellis Medina Marin Miller Sam Morphew^ Layla Musich Piper Nelson*

Michelle Nguyen Maggie O'Connell Ellie Pavletich Cartherine Penney* Cassandra Rannie Katherine Rieckmann Anna Riess Cora Schaum Evy Schutter Annie Sheahan Amber Sherman Lacey Thompson Julia Urso Addison Waldo Ash Wilcox Addison Wytonick Sugar Wradislavsky Violet Zopler

carthage choir Arielle Allen Lorelai Amborn Kinsey Bakhaus Tessa Baty*^ Ella Bergfeld*^ Benjamin Breitbach^ Colin Campbell^ John Cargille^ Vian Caskey Alexander Clarksen Rees Davies Rebecca DeBoer Madison Edge+ Morgan Elliott

Skylar Farr^ Emma Faucault Brayden Follett Freya Haugen Sarah Hege Hannah Hoang Hayden Izumi*+ Chase Juster^ J.P. Lucas Trevor Milne^ Jada Moss^ Jake Muller Layla Nemri* Morgan Pickar

*Officers +Section Leaders ^Seniors

Chase Portner+ Winter Roland Maria Romero Annaliese Ruhs*^+ Andre'a Santoyo^ Aubree Simon Liev Schiffman Shiloh Wheeldon^ Ayden Wildman^

text and translations El Grillo

The Cricket

El grillo è buon cantore Che tiene longo verso Dalle beve, grillo canta Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli Come li han cantato un poco Van de fatoo in altro loco Sempre el grillo sta pur saldo Quando la maggior el caldo Alhor canta sol per amore

The cricket is a good singer Who can hold long notes After drinking, the cricket sings But he doesn't do like the other birds Once they've sung a little bit They go somewhere else The cricket instead stand firm When it's very hot out He sings only for the love of it

Both Sides Now I really don't know love I really don't know love at all Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and they snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way that you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way But now it's just another show And you leave 'em laughing when you go And if you care, don't let them know Don't give yourself away I've looked at love from both sides now From give and take and still somehow It's love's illusions that I recall I really don't know love I really don’t know clouds I really don't know love at all ~ Joni Mitchell, adapt. Tim Brent

text and translations Prayer of the Children Can you hear the prayer of the children, Abandoned in the shadow of an unknown room?

Empty eyes with no more tears to cry, turning heavenward toward the light.

Crying Jesus, help me to see the morning light of one more day.

But if I should die before I wake, I pray my soul to take.

Can you feel the hearts of the children, aching for Home, for something of their very own?

Reaching hands with nothing to hold on to, but hope for a better day.

Crying Jesus, help me to feel the love again in my own land, But if unknown roads lead away from home, give me loving arms, ‘way from harm.

Can you hear the voice of the children, softly pleading for silence in a shattered world?

Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate, blood of the innocent on their hands.

Crying Jesus, help me to feel the sun again upon my face. For when darkness clears I know you're near, bringing peace again.

Da li čujete sve dječe molitve?

(Can you hear the prayer of the children?) ~ Kurt Bestor

text and translations Children Will Listen How do you say to a child in the night, “Nothing’s all black, but then nothing’s all white?”

How do you say, “It will all be all right” when you know that it mightn’t be true? What do you do?

What do you leave to your child when you're dead?

Only whatever you put in its head.

Things that your mother and father had said, which were left to them too. Careful what you say.

Careful the things you say, children will listen Careful the things you do, children will see and learn.

Children may not obey, but children will listen.

Children will look to you for which way to turn, to learn what to be.

Careful before you say "Listen to me."

Children will listen.

Careful the wish you make, wishes are children.

Careful the path they take-wishes come true, not free.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children.

Sometimes the spell may last past what you can see, and turn against you…

Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell Children will listen ~Stephen Sondheim

text and translations On Children Your children are not your children. They are the sons and the daughters of life’s longing for itself.

They come through you, but they are not from you, and though they are with you, they belong not to you.

You can give them your love, but not your thoughts; they have their own thoughts.

You can house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in a place of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You can strive to be like them, but you can not make them just like you. ~ Kahlil Gibran

The Storm is Passing Over Have courage my soul, And let us journey on.

Though the night is dark, And I am far from home.

Thanks be to God, the morning light appears.

The storm is passing over The storm is passing over, The storm is passing over, Hallelujah! ~Charles Albert Tindley

text and translations Arrow you aim at the center of the eye you gather all landscape around that single point: if a bird-ribbon flies across the edge if a cloud teases the sun you gather all to the one point there is only one you are let go you are no longer grasped empty air surrounds you you no longer lean against the bow your hock is free you are free you are in danger remember the center all of you remembers the center you are moving along an invisible track (you make it yourself ) straight as your spine is straight ~Ruth Whitman

Što mi e milo

How nice it is to me

Koga na voda, voda mi odat so tija stomni, mamo, stomni šareni.

Lele varaj, mome, mome Kalino, so tija stomni, mamo, stomni šareni.

When they go to the water With these clay jugs, mama, colorful clay jugs Oh, hurry up, lassie Kalina With these clay jugs, mama, colorful clay jugs

Što mi e milo, milo I drago, vo Struga grada, mamo, dukjan da imam.

Lele varaj, mome, mome Kalino, vo Struga grada, mamo, dukjan da imam

Na ovoj izor, izvor studenitam da se s družki, mamo, s družki soberat.

Lele varaj, mome, mome Kalino, tam da se s družki, mamo, s družki soberat. ~Trad. Macedonian

How nice it is to me, nice and dear In Struga town, mama, that I own a shop Oh, hurry up, lassie Kalina!

In Struga town, mama, that I own a shop

At this well, cold well, there to be with friends mama, with friends they gather Oh hurry up, lassie Kalina mama, with friends they gather

text and translations Yonder Come Day Oh day, yonder come day.

Day done broke inna my soul, yonder come day.

Good mornin' day, yonder come day.

A brand new day, yonder come day.

Oh come on child.

Hush, hush, somebody's callin' my name.

Hush, somebody's callin' my name.

Hush, hush, somebody's callin' my name.

Oh my Lord, oh my Lord what shall I do?

Oh day, yonder come day.

I was on my knees, yonder come day.

When I heard him say, yonder come day.

Oh come on child, Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus.

Steal away, steal away, I ain't got long to stay here.

Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home.

Oh day, yonder come day.

Good mornin' day, yonder come day.

A brand new day, yonder come day.

Oh come on child, yonder come day.

Day done broke inna my soul, yonder come day. ~Trad. Georgia Sea Islands

text and translations How Do I Love Thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!

I love thee like the earth and sky and will throughout my days.

I love thee in the morning and I love thee in the night, and if you ask me how I feel, I’m doin’ all right.

My life is dark without you and I love you for light that seems to gather ‘round whenever you’re in sight.

I love thee from the smallest little detail of thy face, and I love thee to the greatest distance measurement can trace.

More precious than diamonds, you are my luxury, but I could never give you up; you’re my necessity.

This love I give you freely, this love I give is pure, and I love you with a passion you ain’t ever known before. ~Nathan Christensen, after Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Singkap Siaga

To open and be ever ready

Singkap siaga

To open and be ever ready (remaining text is vocables that imitate Malaysian instruments used in puppet theatre)

text and translations My heart be brave My heart be brave, and do not falter so, Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail.

Thy way is very dark and drear I know, But do not let thy strength and courage fail; For certain as the raven-winged night Is followed by the bright and blushing morn, Thy coming morrow will be clear and bright; ’Tis darkest when the night is furthest worn.

Look up, and out, beyond, surrounding clouds, And do not in thine own gross darkness grope, Rise up, and casting off thy hind’ring shrouds, Cling thou to this, and ever inspiring hope: Tho’ thick the battle and tho’ fierce the fight, There is a power making for the right. ~ James Weldon Johnson

Indlu yeGagu Indlu yegag’iyanetha Mfaz’okhulumayo Indlu yegag’ iyanetha Mfaz’ othethayo Indlu yeGagu Iyanetha Umfazi osisilumko Uyayakha indlu yakhe Kuba iyachithwa Xa izandla zesidenge

Shona Chant: Sarudza kuvaka Pane kuparara Vaka kana Kuparara Mukadzi akachenjera Anovaka imba yake Asi benzi rinoputsa Imba yaro namaoko aro

The house of the ‘expert’ has many cracks (is leaking) For she talks too much (about other people’s affairs) The house of the ‘expert’ has many cracks (is leaking) For she talks too much (about other people’s affairs) The house of the ‘expert’ has many cracks (is leaking) A wise woman Builds her own house But it (the house) is destroyed By the hands of the foolish Choose to build than to destroy Build or Destroy A wise woman builds her own house but if she is foolish, she destroys it with her own hands

text and translations To See the Sky One by one, like leaves from a tree, All my faiths have forsaken me; But the stars above my head Burn in white and delicate red, And beneath my feet the earth Brings the sturdy grass to birth.

I who was content to be But a silken-singing tree, But a rustle of delight In the wistful heart of night, I have lost the leaves that knew Touch of rain and weight of dew.

Blinded by a leafy crown I looked neither up nor down— But the little leaves that die Have left me room to see the sky; Now for the first time I know Stars above and earth below. ~Sara Teasdale

Lincoln Whose lonely soul God kindled is here remembered by a people their conflict healed by the truth that marches on (Presented in fragments) ~dedicatory inscription at Washington National Cathedral for the statue of Abraham Lincoln bidding farewell to his friends at Springfield, Illinois (1861), composed (1984) by Francis B. Sayre Jr., dean emeritus of the cathedral

text and translations Caledonia I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me In these last few days, I've been afraid that I might drift away So I've been telling old stories, singing songs that make me think about where I came from And that's the reason why I seem so far away today But let me tell you that I love you, And I think about you all the time Caledonia, you're calling me, And now I'm going home If I should become a stranger, You know that it would make me more than sad Caledonia's been everything I've ever had And I have tried and I’ve kept on trying Stolen dreams, yes, there's no denying I've traveled hard, with conscience flying Somewhere with the wind Let me tell you…

Now I'm sitting here before the fire The empty room, the forest choir The flames that couldn't get any higher Well they've withered, now they've gone But I'm steady thinking, my way is clear And I know what I will do tomorrow When the hands have shaken, the kisses flowed Then I will disappear Let me tell you that I love you And I think about you all the time Caledonia, you're calling me And now I'm going home If I should become a stranger you know it would make me more than sad Caledonia's been everything I've ever had Caledonia, you’re calling me And now I’m going home ~Dougie Maclean, adapt. Blake Morgan

upcoming events Honors Recital Saturday, May 16, 2026 • 2 p.m.

A. F. Siebert Chapel

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