HODGSON SINGERS
conductor
HOPE - JUSTICE - UNITY - AFFIRMATION
UNIVERSITY CHORUS
DANIEL SHAFER, conductor
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
HODGSON CONCERT HALL
DANIEL BARA,
UGA UNIVERSITY CHORUS AND HODGSON SINGERS
Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall
UGA Performing Arts Center
University Chorus
Daniel Shafer, Conductor
Thom Dixon, Graduate Assistant
Mengyuan Li, Accompanist
Hodgson Singers
Daniel Bara, Conductor
Anna Savelyeva, Accompanist
UNIVERSITY CHORUS
What Dreams Remain
I’m Building Me a Home
Arr. Anthony Trecek-King | Text: Traditional Spiritual Soloists: Ava Bogarde, Julian Rivera
I’m building me a home. This earthly house is gonna soon decay, An’ my soul gotta have somewhere to stay.
When you hear me moanin’, I’m building me a home. When you hear me prayin’, I’m building me a home. When you hear me shoutin’, I’m building me a home.
The Dreams That Remain
By: Thomas LaVoy | Text: Sarojini Naidu
I. Song of a Dream II. In the Forest III. Transience
Song of a Dream
Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Lone in the light of that magical grove, I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth, And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth; To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
In the Forest
Here, O my heart, let us burn the dear dreams that are dead, Here in this wood let us fashion a funeral pyre Of fallen white petals and leaves that are mellow and red,
PROGRAM AND TEXTS
Here let us burn them in noon’s flaming torches of fire. We are weary, my heart, we are weary, so long have we borne The heavy loved burden of dreams that are dead, let us rest, Let us scatter their ashes away, for a while let us mourn; We will rest, O my heart, till the shadows are gray in the west.
But soon we must rise, O my heart, we must wander again Into the war of the world and the strife of the throng; Let us rise, O my heart, let us gather the dreams that remain, We will conquer the sorrow of life with the sorrow of song.
Transience
Nay, do not grieve tho’ life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her splendor for your grief, Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty To lotus blossom and Ashoka leaf.
Nay, do not pine, tho’ life be dark with trouble, Time will not pause or tarry on his way; To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter, Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces, The unspent joy of all the unborn years, Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow, And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.
Wana Baraka
Arr. Shawn Kirchner | Text: Kenyan Folk Song
Swahili
Wana baraka wale waombao
Yesu mwenyewe alisema. Alleluya!
Wana amani
Wana furaha
Wana uzima
English
They have blessings, those who pray; Jesus himself said so. Alleluia! They have peace They have joy They have well-being.
HODGSON SINGERS
Hope - Justice – Unity - Affirmation
Plaudite, Psallite
Kestutis Daugirdas (b. 1985) | From Psalms 67, 68, 69.
Clap (your hands), sing praises, make a joyful sound to God, all the earth—hallelujah.
Let all nations bless the Lord, joining in his praises—hallelujah, for the Lord has had mercy on us—hallelujah, and he has led captivity captive, estimable and venerable for (all) ages—hallelujah.
Hold Fast to Dreams
Joel Thompson (b. 1988) | Text: Langston Hughes from Harlem and Dreams
Free at last?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun
Or fester like a sore and run?
Does it stink like rotten meat
Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load
Or does it explode?
Hold fast to dreams for when dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go Life is a barren field frozen with snow.
Os Justi
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) | Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of righteous utters wisdom and his tongue speaks what is just. The law of his God is in his heart and his feet do not falter. Alleluia.
Hela Rotan (Indonesian Folk Song)
Arr. Ken Steven (b. 1993) | Traditional Maluccas (Indonesia)
Hela Rotan is a game of tug-of-war. The rope is traditionally made out of “rotan” (ROW-tahn), the vining palm from which woven furniture and other goods are made. In many Asian cultures, this game would draw two communities together for a celebration centered on a peaceable but spirited competition.
Pull, let us pull the cane
Accompanied by the sound of the Javanese drums
The cane is cut already
And both ends and meet now
Mango, mango is young and sweet
Mango, mango comes from Nila (name of a city)
A girl with a sweet sweet face
Makes me crazy
I have never loved someone
Shara Nova, arr. Nate Thatcher (b. 1974) | Text: Shara Nova
I have never loved someone the way I love you I have never seen a smile like yours
And if you grow up to be king or clown or pauper
I will say you are my favorite one in town
I have never held a hand so soft and sacred
When I hear you laugh I know heaven’s key
And when I grow to be a poppy in a graveyard, I will send you all my love upon the breeze
And if the breeze won’t blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won’t shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won’t wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you
You’re ok.
You’re ok.
And if the breeze won’t blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won’t shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won’t wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you
You’re ok.
You’re ok.
PROGRAM AND TEXTS
Yonder Come Day
Arr. Michael Engelhardt (living) | Georgia Sea Island Spiritual
Yonder come day. Day’s a-breakin’
Yonder come day, oh my soul.
Yonder come day, Day’s a-breakin’
Sun is risin’ in my soul.
SOPRANOS
Marie Banderman
Josie Bowden
Tori Branyon
Jackie Broadwell
Carina Cardoso de Araujo
Sae Cenicola
Lee Comeaux
Marilena Congi
Mackenzie Couch
Melina De la Vega
Sherry Downey
Julianna Dumas
ALTOS
Sophia Aiello
Lily Kate Akins
Mariah Arnold
Katie Boyle
Shirley Chen
Ana Correa
Audrey Cowen
Grace Deaton
Gianna DiMuzio
Ansley Dyer
Macey Dyer
Maddi Finn
Alice Gardner
TENORS
Martin Arnade
Steven Brown
Benjamin Burnham
BASSES
Benjamin Brown
Jayden Chong
Obed Hessou
Finnegan Howard
UGA
Daniel Shafer, Conductor
Thom Dixon, Graduate Assistant
Mengyuan Li, Accompanist
Jeff Fairley
Libby Grace Garrett
Kate Gottsman
Abigail Hallman
Robin Hetterly
Jasmine Jensen
Hyejun Kang
Beata Kochut
Kendall Kookogey
Natalie Kramer
Shelby Laird
Rachel Lee
Livana Lekas
Jennifer Luo
Adelaide Magnum
Maria McCranie
Claire Murphy
Caitlien Nguyen
Camilla Nivison
Maura Potvin
Madeleine Proctor
Isabelle Pruitt
Lee Rhee
Eva Rivers
Susan Garrett
Sophia Goldemund
Marjanne Gooze
Emily Grabowski
Mia Hansen
Rhonda Herring
Emma Hu
Eleanor Iskander
Maya Iyer
Emma Jackson
Soyoung Jeong
Ava Lance
Adalyn Ledbetter
Katie Leight
Beth Lewis
Morgan Loper
Molly Maney
Hannah Marston
Tessa Mauriello
Kathryn Miller
Shelby Miller
Suzanne Morrison
Laura O’Neill
Megan Ostrat
Alanna Quinn
Sophia Rhoads
Lucas Clements
Thom Dixon
Paul Downey
Aakash Joshi
Elijah Kenyon
Liam Mueller
Abel Rayo-Salazar
Ryan Hanling
Chris Herring
Henry Heydinger
Anne Rogan
Caroline Roth
Bethany Sachau
Stella Schroter
Brynn Spicer
Reese Stainbeck
Angela Stewart
Abigail Suarez
Amber Sugarman
Sarah Visser
Laura Weeks
Ava Rogers
Sneha Sharma
Angela Smith
Rebecca Smith
Audrey Ta
Jenna Vidal
Julia Warren
Avery Westlund
Karen Whelchel-Redwine
Sandy Woods
Anna Wright
Braden Rymer
Dash Sisson
Ethan Stalinescu
Aidan Thompson
Rayvon Love
Riley Sullens
Landon Vaughn
Josh Wagner
Gary Weed
Dellar Weldon
Daniel Bara, Conductor
Anna Savelyeva, Accompanist
Ava Bogarde
Zaria R. Doss
Phoebe Feibus
Hope Unger
Victoria Goodnature
Cara Jensen
Shelby Laird
Joy McCarthy
Laurel McFarland
Grace Ann Miller
Nova Senkyrick
Meera Srinivasan
Audrey Vazquez
Lillie Sims
Margaret Wilson
ALTOS
Marianna Baccus
Elle Dignam
Quinn Dillard
Sarah Dudley
Elisa Garcia-Carreras
Sydney Godfrey
Caroline Malcom
Danielle Olivares
Shayna Suddeth
De’Nasia Thomas
Audrey Raynor
Marlee Van Mullekom
Gracee Myers
Danielle Vergara
Colton Carter
Noah Colwell
Aidan Eclavea
Ian Harding
Trey Heaton
Rayvon Love
Will Pollard
SOPRANOS TENORS BASSES
Julian Riviera
Pierce Roberts
Demetreon Wells
JR Banitt
Milo Bauman
Thomas Dixon
Peter Kandra
Walter Moody
Liam Mueller
Braden Rymer
Sam Son
Liam Taylor
Josh Wagner
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7:30 p.m.
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7:30 p.m.
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