Westminster Faculty Recital Series - Mark Moliterno

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Tears, Toasts and Travels: A J O U R N E Y O F WAT E R

Westminster College of the Arts UPCOMING PERFORMANCES Westminster Faculty Recital: Song Out of the Box Elise Brancheau, soprano Eugenia Forteza, soprano Sonya Headlam, soprano Lori McCann, soprano Lina Orfanos, soprano

Andrea Salazar, soprano Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone Langelihle Mngxati, baritone Martin Neron, piano

Presented in collaboration with the Federation of the Art Song

Saturday, October 9 at 3 p.m.

Gill Memorial Chapel – Lawrenceville

PIPPIN Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hinson Robin Lewis, director and choreographer Jarred Lee, music director Friday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 16 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 17 at 2 p.m.

Bart Luedeke Center Theater – Lawrenceville

Welcome Back Concert (plus a few sounds of Halloween, too) Westminster Community Orchestra Ruth Ochs, conductor Robert L. Annis Playhouse – Princeton Sunday, October 24 at 3 p.m.

Pride and Prejudice Jon Jory, author Ryanne Domingues, director Friday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 30 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 31 at 2 p.m.

Yvonne Theatre – Lawrenceville For details and information about additional performances go to rider.edu/arts.

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Tears, Toasts and Travels: A J O U R N E Y O F WAT E R

Mark Moliterno, bass-baritone Barbara González-Palmer, piano

Saturday, October 2 | 7:30 p.m.

Gill Memorial Chapel Rider University Lawrenceville, N.J.

Westminster College of the Arts WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE

The Journey Begins At the River Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Paul Bowles (1910-1999)

Cabin

Across the Western Ocean

The Spanish Ladies

Sea shanty (trad., arr. by C. Dougherty) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The Brook Speaks

Die Forelle

Das Fischermädchen

Der Neugierige

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Mein! ~ Pause ~

L’horizon chimérique (The fantastic horizon)

L’horizon chimérique

La mer est infinie

Je me suis embarqué

Diane, Séléné

Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Water’s Mysteries

Già il sole dal Gange

Gesang Weylas

L’invitation au voyage

Zueignung

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) Henri Duparc (1848-1933) Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Text Translations (by B. González-Palmer, unless otherwise noted) Die Forelle (The Trout, poem by Franz Schubert) In a bright little brook, there darted in happy pace the playful trout like an arrow.

I stood on the bank and saw in sweet peace the cheerful fish’s swim in the clear little brook.

A fisherman with his rod stood at the shore and watched it with cold blood as the little fish swam about.

As long as the clear water, so I thought, remained undisturbed, he would not be able to catch the trout with his fishing rod.

But, finally, the thief grew tired of waiting. He stirred up the brook and made it treacherously cloudy; and before I realized it, his fishing rod was twitching; the little fish thrashed there; and I, with raging blood, saw the deceived one.

Das Fischermädchen (The Fisher Maiden, poem by Heinrich Heine) You lovely fisher maiden, drift your boat to land; come and sit next to me, and we’ll cuddle, hand in hand.

Lay on my heart your little head and don’t be too afraid; You trust yourself without fear daily in the wild sea.

My heart is just like the sea, having storms and ebbs and flows; and many a lovely pearl rests in its depths.

Der Neugierige (The Inquisitive One, poem by Wilhelm Müller) I ask no flower; I ask no star; none of them can tell me what I so wish to hear.

I am also no gardener; the stars stand too high; I will ask my little brook if my heart lied to me.

O brooklet of my love, how today you are so silent!

I wish to know just one thing, one small word, over and over.

“Yes” is one of the little words; the other is “No”.

These two words contain the whole world for me.

O brooklet of my love, how wondrous you are!

I will tell no one else: tell me, brook, does she love me?

~ Please wait until the music finishes before turning the page ~

Mein! (Mine! poem by Müller) Brooklet, stop your babbling! Wheels, cease your roaring!

All you happy wood-birds big and small, end your singing!

Through the grove, out and in, Ring out today one rhyme alone: the beloved maid of the mill is mine!

Mine!

Spring, are these all your little flowers? Sun, do you have no brighter light?

Ah, then I must remain all alone with that blissful word of mine, misunderstood by the whole of creation.

L’horizon chimérique (The fantastic horizon, poetry by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont)© translated by Christopher Goldsack La mer est infinie (The sea is infinite) The sea is infinite and my dreams are mad.

The sea sings to the sun while beating the cliffs and my light dreams are no longer content to dance on the sea like drunken birds.

The vast movement of the waves carries them away, the breeze stirs and rolls them in its folds; playing in the wake, they will form an escort to the ships which my heart has followed on their flight.

Intoxicated by air and salt and burnt by the foam of the sea which consoles and which washes away the tears, they will know the open sea and its kindly bitterness; the lost seagulls will mistake them for their own.

Je me suis embarqué (I have embarked) I have embarked on a ship which dances and which rolls from side to side and pitches and swings.

My feet have forgotten the ground and its paths; the supple waves have taught me other rhythms more beautiful than the weary beat of human songs.

To live among you, alas! Had I a soul?

My brothers, I have suffered on all your continents.

I only want the sea, I only want the wind to cradle me like a child in the trough of the waves.

Out of the harbour which is now no more than a faded picture the tears of departure no longer burn my eyes.

I do not remember my last farewells...

Oh my suffering, my suffering, where have I left you?

Diane, Séléné (Diana, Selene) Diana, Selene, moon of radiant metal, who reflects towards us, by your deserted face, in the unending monotony of the sidereal calm the regret of a sun for whose loss we weep.

O moon, I begrudge you your purity harmful to the vain efforts of the poor souls, and my heart, ever weary and ever restless, longs for the peace of your nocturnal flame.

Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés (Ships, we shall have loved you) Ships, we shall have loved you to no avail; the last of you all has gone to sea.

The setting of the sun has carried away so many hoisted sails that this harbour and my heart are forever deserted.

The sea has restored you to your destiny, beyond the shore where our steps must end.

We cannot keep your spirits captive; you need distant places which I do not know.

I am one of those whose desires are on land.

The breeze which intoxicates you fills my heart with fear, but your call, in the depth of the evening, makes me despair, for I have great departures unfulfilled within me.

Già il sole dal Gange (Already, the sun from the Ganges, poem by anonymous) Already, the sun from the Ganges sparkles more brightly, And dries each drop of the dawn that weeps.

With gilded ray it bejewels each blade of grass And the stars of the sky, it paints in the field.

Gesang Weylas (Weyla’s Song, poem by Eduard Mörike) You are Orplid, my country that distantly shines; From the sea, your sunlit shore sends mists, that moisten the gods’ cheeks.

Ancient waters climb, rejuvenated, around your waist, child!

Kings, who are your guardians, bow before your divinity ~ Please wait until the music finishes before turning the page ~

L’invitation au voyage (Invitation to journey, poem by Charles Baudelaire) My child, my sister, think how sweet to travel there and live together!

To love as we please, to love and die in the land that is like you!

The moist suns of those hazy skies for my spirit have the same mysterious charms As your treacherous eyes glistening through their tears.

There - nothing but order and beauty, abundance, calm, and sensuousness.

See on those canals those vessels sleeping whose soul is to wander; To satisfy your slightest desire they come from the ends of the earth.

The setting suns clothe the fields, the canals, the entire town with hyacinth and gold; The world falls asleep in a warm light.

There - nothing but order and beauty dwell, abundance, calm, and sensuousness.

Zueignung (Dedication, poem by Hermann von Gilm) Yes, you know it, dear soul, that far from you, I’m in torment.

Love makes hearts sick – Have thanks.* Once, the freedom reveler, I held high the amethyst cup And you blessed the potion – Have thanks.

And you drove out the evil spirits, till I, as never before, Holy, holy upon your heart sank – Have thanks! *or “Be thanked”

About the Artists BASS-BARITONE MARK MOLITERNO is an artist and educator who enjoys an extensive performing career in opera, oratorio and concert singing. He has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and the Far East in leading operatic roles, and he is a frequent soloist on the concert stage in repertoire covering a wide range of musical styles and composers. He has appeared many times at Carnegie Hall as a soloist with the Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra. He has also twice appeared on the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series in Merkin Concert Hall, singing Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler’s Songs with Chamber Accompaniment. Mr. Moliterno sang the world premiere of Drum Taps, a song cycle by American composer Richard Pearson Thomas at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

Mark Moliterno is a priority adjunct associate professor of voice at Westminster Choir College. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in voice performance and opera from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with the renowned vocal pedagogue, Richard Miller. In addition to his career as a performer and educator, Mr. Moliterno is a certified yoga instructor (E-RYT500) and an IAYT-certified Yoga Therapist. He has synthesized his academic background in vocal pedagogy and performance studies with his expertise in yoga philosophy and practice to create YogaVoice® - a unique program of classical yoga practices for the singing actor/ performer (www.theyogavoice.com). Mr. Moliterno has published articles on topics related to authentic creativity and singing in The Journal of Singing and YogaLiving Magazine, and he is a co-author of The Musician’s Being and The Musician’s Breath and the primary instructor on The Musician’s Breath Yoga DVD. With YogaVoice® co-founder Kristin Roney, Mark Moliterno presents YogaVoice® workshops and retreats internationally. He is recognized as a specialist in helping people to understand and overcome physical and energetic blockages to their authentic voices.

BARBARA GONZÁLEZ-PALMER enjoys an international performing career. Holding degrees from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School, she has performed in concert with Barry Tuckwell, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Peter Damm, Richard Zeller, Michael Tree, and varied artists associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Stuttgart Opera, to name a few. She has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, International Horn Conference, and the International Congress of Voice Teachers, as well as broadcasts on New York’s premiere classical music station, WQXR. Internationally, she has collaborated with instrumentalists and singers in concert series and competitions in England, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Ecuador, Korea, China and Malaysia. Her master class accompaniment credits include Frederica von Stade, Jean Pierre Rampal, Grace Bumbry, James Galway, and Martina Arroyo, among others. Many summers have been spent in Austria on the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies and Lied Austria International. Past faculty posts include Northwestern University, University of Oregon, and the Music Academy of the West. During her 16-year directorship of Rutgers’ Collaborative Piano Program, the program received a special commendation from the National Association of Schools of Music for its quality and success. Her specialty, “The Music of Poetry,” has been transformative for the many singers she has coached that are seeking greater authenticity in their performances. Ms. GonzálezPalmer can be heard on several commercial recordings, including the Centaur and Naxos labels. She is an associate professor at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts where she serves on the keyboard and voice faculties with specialties in collaborative piano, vocal coaching and chamber music.

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