Patria Perduta (Lost Homeland)

PRESENTS

UTRGV MASTER CHORALE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 7 PM TSC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, BROWNSVILLE

PROGRAM Patria Perduta (Lost Homeland)

Va Pensiero (from Nabucco)Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Priidite, poklonimsya Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) (from All-Night Vigil) Six Chansons Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) 1. La Biche 3. Puisque tout passe 6. Verger Kiddush

Kurt Weill (1900-1950) with Ricardo Garcia-Diaz, tenor

Bogoroditse Devo (from All-Night Vigil)

Rachmaninoff

Solo Diane Walters, soprano A Rhyme for Angela (from Firebrand of Florence)

Weill

September Song (from Kninckerbocker Holiday)

Weill

Daniel Hunter-Holly, baritone Chant de Nourrice (from Poemes de Juifs)

Darius Milaud (1892-1974)

PROGRAM Patria Perduta (Lost Homeland)

La Perla

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Shayna Isaacs, soprano

Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht

(from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)

Gustav Mahler

(1860-1911)

Samantha Luna, soprano En el sendero ancho

Tania Leon (b. 1943)

UTRGV Chamber Singers Éjszaka

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Israel in Egypt George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) 11. Chorus 12. Solo and Chorus Xavier Alonzo, baritone Vzbrannoy voyevode (from All-Night Vigil)

Rachmaninof

PERSONNEL UTRGV Master Chorale Dr. Sean Taylor, conductor Dr. Juan Pablo Andrade, pianist Alexis Arce Maria Avila Preetika Bauskar Emilia Bautista Christian Briones Valentina Capistran Madelyne Cardoza Lydia Castillo Yazmin Cepeda Larissa Chavez Ramon Curzio Juan De La Torre Hector Duran Casey Edge Joanna Escobedo Miranda Gamez Xitlaly Garcia Alejandro Garcia Jonathan Gonzales Gael Gonzalez Jackie Gordillo Mia Gracia Jesse Guevara

Mariana Gutierrez Sarah Hinojosa Tristan Landgraf Angela Leal Leo Leal Rick Machuca Isaac Mancillas Ivan Melendez Julian Nino Taylor Perez Katy Quellhorst Eric Robledo-Pena Jocelyn Rocha Kristen Salinas Jennifer Sanchez Jessica Torres Gael Valdez Victoria Zamora

PROGRAM NOTES UTRGV Master Chorale with guest faculty and alumni soloists.

Choral and vocal music by composers forced to leave their home country to find peace, safety, and prosperity.

Translations Va Pensiero Fly, my thoughts, on wings of gold; go settle upon the slopes and the hills, where, soft and mild, the sweet airs of my native land smell fragrant!

Greet the banks of the Jordan and Zion's toppled towers.

Oh, my homeland, so lovely and so lost!

Oh memory, so dear and so dead!

Golden harp of the prophets of old, why do you now hang silent upon the willow? Rekindle the memories in our hearts, and speak of times gone by!

Mindful of the fate of Solomon's temple, Cry out with raw lamentation, or else may the Lord strengthen you to bear these sufferings!

PROGRAM NOTES Translations Priidite, poklonimsya Amen. Come, let us worship God, our King.

Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King and our God. Come, let us worship and fall down before the very Christ, our King and our God. Come, let us worship and fall down before Him. La Biche O thou doe: what vistas of secular forest appear in thine eyes reflected; What confidence serene affected by transient shades of fear.

Puisque tout passe And it all is borne on thy bounding course, for so gracile art thou. Nor comes aught to astound the impassive profound unawareness of thy brow.

Verger Since all is passing, Let us make a passing melody. The one that quenches our thirst Will be right for us. Let us sing what leaves us With love and art; Let us be quicker Than the quick departure. The earth is nowhere so real a presence As mid thy branches O orchard blond And nowhere so airy as here in the pleasance Of lacy shadows on grassy pond. There we encounter that which we quested, That which sustains us and nourishes life And with it the passage manifested Of tenderness undying. But at thy center the spring’s limpid waters, Almost asleep in the fountain’s heart, Of this strange contrast scarce have taught us Since of them it is so truly part.

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