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YSM Commencement Concert, May 22, 2016

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Robert Blocker, Dean

One Hundred Twenty-Third Commencement

Commencement Concert

Sunday, May 22, 2016 • 4:00 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall


One Hundred Twenty-Third Commencement

Commencement Concert Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1895–1968

Solomon Silber ’16 mm, guitar

Whisper Music (2016)

Katherine Balch ’16 mm b. 1991

levi jones ’16 mm, double bass

Muero porque no muero (1982)

Gian Carlo Menotti 1911–2007

Meechot Marrero ’16 mm, soprano Yevgeny Yontov ’14 mm, piano

Quartet (2013) dominic cheli ’16 mm, piano yevgeny yontov ’14 mm, piano jeffrey stern ’16 ad, vibraphone matthew keown ’16 mm, vibraphone

Yale School of Music · May 22, 2016 · Sunday at 4:00 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall · New Haven, CT

Steve Reich b. 1936


Mládí (1924) I. Allegro IV. Allegro animato

Leoš Janáček 1854–1928

Joanna Wu ’16 MM, flute Ron Cohen Mann ’16 AD, oboe william Bixby Kennedy ’16 MM, clarinet Kenta Akaogi ’16 MM, bass clarinet Cornelia Sommer ’16 MM, bassoon Cody Halquist ’16 MM, horn

As a courtesy to the performers and audience members, silence all electronic devices. Please do not leave the concert hall during selections. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted.


Muero Porque No Muero

I die because I do not die

Vivo sin vivir en mí, y tan alta vida espero, que muero porque no muero.

I live without living in myself, and such a high life I await, that I die because I do not die.

Vivo ya fuera de mí, después que muero de amor; porque vivo en el Señor, que me quiso para sí: cuando el corazón le di puso en él este letrero, que muero porque no muero.

I live now outside of myself for I die of love; because I live in the Lord who claimed me for himself; when I gave him my heart I put in it this sign: I die because I do not die.

Esta divina prisión, del amor en que yo vivo, ha hecho a Dios mi cautivo, y libre mi corazón; y causa en mí tal pasión ver a Dios mi prisionero, que muero porque no muero.

This divine prison of love in which I live has made God my captive, and my heart free; and to see God as my prisoner causes in me such a passion that I die because I do not die.

¡Ay, qué larga es esta vida! ¡Qué duros estos destierros, esta cárcel, estos hierros en que el alma está metida! Sólo esperar la salida me causa dolor tan fiero, que muero porque no muero.

Oh, how long is this life! How hard these exiles, this jail, these iron bars in which the soul is put! Just awaiting my departure causes in me such a pain, that I die because I do not die.

¡Ay, qué vida tan amarga do no se goza el Señor! Porque si es dulce el amor, no lo es la esperanza larga: quíteme Dios esta carga, más pesada que el acero, que muero porque no muero.

Oh, how bitter this life where one does not enjoy the Lord! For if love is sweet, long waiting is not. God, take this burden from me, more heavy than steel, for I die because I do not die.

Sólo con la confianza vivo de que he de morir, porque muriendo el vivir me asegura mi esperanza; muerte do el vivir se alcanza, no te tardes, que te espero, que muero porque no muero.

I live only with the confidence that I have to die, because upon dying, my hope assures me of life. Death, where living extends itself, do not delay, for I await you, for I die because I do not die.

Mira que el amor es fuerte; vida, no me seas molesta, mira que sólo me resta, para ganarte perderte. Venga ya la dulce muerte, el morir venga ligero que muero porque no muero.

See that love is strong, life, be not bothersome to me; see that the only thing that is left for you to gain is to lose yourself. Let sweet death come now, death come swiftly, for I die because I do not die.

Aquella vida de arriba, que es la vida verdadera, hasta que esta vida muera, no se goza estando viva: muerte, no me seas esquiva; viva muriendo primero, que muero porque no muero.

That life above is the true life; until this life dies, one doesn’t savor being alive. Death, don’t evade me; live dying first, for I die because I do not die.

Vida, ¿qué puedo yo darle a mi Dios que vive en mí, si no es el perderte a ti, para merecer ganarle? Quiero muriendo alcanzarle, pues a él solo es al que quiero, que muero porque no muero.

Life, what can I give my God, who lives in me, if not the losing of you, to enjoy him more? I want to attain him dying, for so much do I love my Lover, that I die because I do not die.

Text by Santa Teresa de Ávila (1515–1582)

English translation by Fr. Paul Ward


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