In PURSUIT of PEACE
SOUTH FLORIDA’S GRAMMY® NOMINATED VOCAL ENSEMBLE
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In PURSUIT of PEACE
Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor Hermit Songs, Op.29
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
At St Patrick’s Purgatory Church Bell at Night St. Ita’s Vision The Heavenly Banquet The Crucifixion Sea Snatch Promiscuity The Monk and his Cat The Praises of God The Desire for Hermitage
MEZZO-SOPRANO Clara Osowski
SOPRANO Rebecca Myers
TENOR Brad Diamond
PIANO Casey Rafn
PIANO Laura Jean Ward
PIANO John Robertson
The Desert Music (1982-83; chamber version 2001)* I.(Fast)
Steve Reich (b.1936) Seraphic Fire • New World Symphony
II.(Moderate) III.(Slow–Moderate–Slow) IV.(Moderate) V.(Fast)
*Seraphic Fire’s performance with the New World Symphony took place April 16, 2016 at the New World Center.
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
VIOLIN Hye Jin Koh Sarah Peters Foster Wang Yanghe Yu Christen Greer Zubaida Azezi
HORN David Raschella Anthony Delivanis
VIOLA Esther Nahm Jane Mitchell Andrew François
TROMBONE Nicholas Platoff
The New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy (NWS), prepares graduates of music programs for leadership roles in professional orchestras and ensembles. In the 33 years since its co-founding by Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas and Lin and Ted Arison, NWS has helped launch the careers of more than 1,150 alumni worldwide. A laboratory for the way music is taught, presented and experienced, the New World Symphony consists of young musicians who are granted fellowships lasting up to three years. The fellowship program offers in-depth exposure to traditional and modern repertoire, professional development training and personalized experiences working with leading guest conductors, soloists and visiting faculty. Relationships with these artists are extended through NWS’s extensive distance learning via the internet. NWS Fellows take advantage of the innovative performance facilities and state-of-the art practice and ensemble rooms of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, the campus of the New World Symphony and home of the Knight New Media Center. In the hopes of joining NWS, more than 1,500 recent music school and conservatory graduates compete for about 35 available fellowships each year. The Fellows are selected for this highly competitive, prestigious opportunity based on their musical achievement and promise, as well as their passion for the future of classical music. For more information, visit nws.edu
CELLO Kevin Kunkel Thomas Carpenter Julia Yang BASS Mary Reed Jonathan Reed FLUTE Kelly Zimba Masha Popova Annie Wu Allison Emerick
TRUMPET Aaron Norlund Joseph Brown
BASS TROMBONE Christopher Hernacki Mark Hsieh TIMPANI Alex Wadner Erich Rieppel PERCUSSION Bradley Loudis Matthew Howard Stephen Kehner Daniel Morris Jeffrey Grant Andrew Grossman Hanna Kim
KEYBOARD John Wilson Aya Yamamoto Ciro Foderé Michael Linville Soprano Megan Chartrand Estelí Gomez Margot Rood Brenna Wells ALTO Amanda Crider Virginia Warnken TENOR Patrick Muehleise Steven Soph BASS James Bass Cameron Beauchamp
Hermit Songs | Text & Translations Hermit Songs, Op.29, Samuel Barber (1910-1981) At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory, Anon., translated by Seán Ó Faoláin Pity me on my pilgrimage to Loch Derg! O King of the churches and the bells Bewailing your sores and your wounds But not a tear can I squeeze from my eyes! Not moisten an eye after so much sin! Pity me, O King! What shall I do with a heart that seeks only its own ease? O only begotten Son by whom all men were made, Who shunned not the death by three wounds, Pity me on my pilgrimage to Loch Derg And I with a heart not softer than a stone! Church Bell at Night, Anon., translated by Howard Mumford Jones Sweet little bell, struck on a windy night, I would liefer keep tryst with thee Than be with a light and foolish woman. St. Ita’s Vision, Anon., translated by Chester Kallman ‘I will take nothing from my Lord,’ said she, ‘unless He gives me His Son from Heaven In the form of a Baby that I may nurse Him.’ So that Christ came down to her in the form of a Baby and then she said: ‘Infant Jesus, at my breast, Nothing in this world is true Save, O tiny nursling, You. Infant Jesus at my breast, By my heart every night, You I nurse are not a churl But were begot on Mary the Jewess By Heaven’s light. Infant Jesus at my breast, What King is there but You who could Give everlasting good? Wherefore I give my food. Sing to Him, maidens, sing your best! There is none that has such right To your song as Heaven’s King Who every night Is Infant Jesus at my breast’.
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Hermit Songs | Text & Translations The Heavenly Banquet, Anon., translated by Seán Ó Faoláin I would like to have the men of Heaven in my own house; with vats of good cheer laid out for them. I would like to have the three Mary’s, their fame is so great. I would like people from every corner of Heaven. I would like them to be cheerful in their drinking. I would like to have Jesus sitting here among them. I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like to be watching Heaven’s family Drinking it through all eternity. The Crucifixion, Anon., translated by Howard Mumford Jones At the cry of the first bird They began to crucify Thee, O Swan! Never shall lament cease because of that. It was like the parting of day from night. Ah, sore was the suffering borne By the body of Mary’s Son, But sorer still to Him was the grief Which for His sake Came upon His Mother. Sea Snatch, Anon., translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson It has broken us, it has crushed us, it has drowned us, O King of the starbright Kingdom of Heaven! The wind has consumed us, swallowed us, As timber is devoured by crimson fire from Heaven. It has broken us, it has crushed us, it has drowned us, O King of the starbright Kingdom of Heaven! Promiscuity, Anon., translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson I do not know with whom Edan will sleep, but I do know that fair Edan will not sleep alone.
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Hermit Songs | Text & Translations The Monk and His Cat, Anon., adapted by W. H. Auden Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are Alone together, Scholar and cat. Each has his own work to do daily; For you it is hunting, for me, study. Your shining eye watches the wall; My feeble eye is fixed on a book. You rejoice when your claws entrap a mouse; I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem. Pleased with his own art Neither hinders the other; Thus we live ever Without tedium and envy. Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are, Alone together, Scholar and cat. The Praises of God, Anon., adapted by W. H. Auden How foolish the man who does not raise His voice and praise with joyful words, As he alone can, Heaven’s High King. To whom the light birds with no soul but air, All day, everywhere laudations sing. The Desire for Hermitage, Anon., translated by Seán Ó Faoláin Ah! To be all alone in a little cell with nobody near me; beloved that pilgrimage before the last pilgrimage to death. Singing the passing hours to cloudy Heaven; Feeding upon dry bread and water from the cold spring. That will be an end to evil when I am alone in a lovely little corner among tombs far from the houses of the great. Ah! To be all alone in a little cell, to be alone, all alone: Alone I came into the world alone I shall go from it.
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The Desert Music | Text & Translations The Desert Music, Steve Reich (b.1936) I. “Begin, my friend for you cannot, you may be sure, take your song, which drives all things out of mind, with you to the other world.” from Theocritus: Idyl I II. “Well, shall we think or listen? Is there a sound addressed not wholly to the ear? We half close our eyes. We do not hear it through our eyes. It is not a flute note either, it is the relation of a flute note to a drum. I am wide awake. The mind is listening.” from William Carlos Williams: The Orchestra IIIA. “Say to them: Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish.” from William Carlos Williams: The Orchestra IIIB. “It is a principle of music to repeat the theme. Repeat and repeat again, as the pace mounts. The theme is difficult but no more difficult than the facts to be Resolved.” from William Carlos Williams: The Orchestra
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The Desert Music | Text & Translations IIIC. “Say to them: Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish.” from William Carlos Williams: The Orchestra IV. “Well, shall we think or listen? Is there a sound addressed not wholly to the ear? We half close our eyes. We do not hear it through our eyes. It is not a flute note either, it is the relation of a flute note to a drum. I am wide awake. The mind is listening.” from William Carlos Williams: The Orchestra V. “Inseparable from the fire its light takes precedence over it. Who most shall advance the lightCall it what you may!” from William Carlos Williams: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
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