The Promise of Living: Spring Choral Concert 2024

The Promise of Living: Spring Choral Concert
Saturday, April 27, 7:30 pm King Center Concert Hall
University Treble Choir & University Basso Choir
MB Krueger & Brian Stone, conductors
Rosanna Patrona-Aurand, pianist
Mogami Gawa Funa Uta
Japanese folk song, arr. Osamu Shimuzu
[The boatmen cheer as they row against wind and current]
I’m going to the port of Sakata - Take care of yourself. Be sure not to catch a cold.
It is hard to bid farewell; the tail wind is pushing the boat from the shore.
Don’t resent me, resent the wind.
It’s for her - no matter how much I earn, it is not enough.
Nuit d’Etoiles
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Night of stars, Beneath your veils, beneath your breeze and fragrance,
Sad lyre That sighs, I dream of bygone loves.
Serene melancholy Now blooms deep in my heart,
And I hear the soul of my love Quiver in the dreaming woods. Night of stars...
Once more at our fountain I see Your eyes as blue as the sky;
This rose is your breath And these stars are your eyes.
Night of stars... - Translation © Richard Stokes
Serenade Italienne
Ernst Chausson (1855-1899)
Let us set out in a boat over the sea to pass the night beneath the stars;
see, just enough air is blowing to fill the canvas of the sails.
The old Italian fisherman and his two sons who steer us
listen, but understand nothing of the words that our lips speak.
On the sea, calm and dark, see: we can exchange our souls,
and none but the night, the sky and the waves will understand our voices. - © translated by Christopher Goldsack
Ikan Kekek
Malay folk song, arr. Yu Hang Tan
The ponyfish, the soldier croakerfish;
Wait a second, my dear younger sibling, let’s go home together.
There is herring, its body is long and striped. There are more bones than flesh.
It takes good if it is cooked in the style of pindang.
How Can I Keep From Singing?
American folk hymn, arr. Gwyneth Walker
Lily and the Boys
Lily Timmons, Luis Murillo Rodarte, Sahi McPhee, Nev Foley, Ben Howard
Never Know Your Love
Stephan Carlson
Bumble Bee
The Real Group/Anders Edenroth
Coney Island Baby/We All Fall
Les Applegate, Joe Goodwin, George W. Meyer
MSU Denver Chorale
MB Krueger, conductor
I. ILLUMINATION
Hail, Gladdening Light
Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Greek hymn of the early Christian church, translated by John Keble (1792-1866)
Lux Aurumque (2001)
Eric Whitacre
Edward Esch (b. 1970), translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri
Light - Warm and heavy as pure gold - And the angels sing softly to the newborn babe.
DJ Fierro, soprano
II. INSPIRATION
Rest (2021)
Robert Cohen
George William Russell (1867-1935)
Darcy Naugle, Theron Chagollan, Celine Spears, Zoë Jenkins, sopranos
Zephyr Rounds (2010)
Robert Vuichard
John 3:8
Sahi McPhee and Luis Murillo Rodarte, percussion
III. COMPASSION
Crucifixus .
Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
Traditional text from the Latin mass
He was crucified also for us, under Pontius Pilate he suffered and was buried.
Indodana (2014)
Traditional South African song, arr. Michael Barrett and Ralf Schmitt
Traditional isiXhosa
The Lord has taken his son who lived among us, The son of the Lord God was crucified. Hololo, Father Jehovah, Zjem zja father.
Combined Choirs
The Promise of Living
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Combined Choirs