Repertoire

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Repertoire

We will be choosing from the following music for our fall concerts.

Hail, Gladdening Light
Charles Wood
1866-1926

Ϲвете тиӽий (Gladsome Light)
from Al-Night Vigil, opus 37
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873-1943

Gladsome Light of the holy glory of the Immortal One - the Heavenly Father, holy and blessed-
Now that we have come to the setting of the sun, and behold the light of evening,
We praise the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - God.
Thou art worthy at every moment to be praised in hymns by reverent voices.
O Son of God, Thou art the Giver of Life; therefore all the world glorifies Thee.

Ave Maris Stella
Trond Kverno
b. 1945

Ave Maris Stella
Edvard Grieg
1843-1907

Hail, Star of the Sea, Loving Mother of God, and Virgin immortal, Heaven's blissful portal!
Receiving that "Ave" from the mouth of Gabriel, reversing the name of "Eva," establish us in peace.
Break the chains of sinners, Bring light to the blind, Drive away our evils, and ask for all good things.
Show thyself to be a mother that, through thee, He may accept our prayers,
He who born for us chose to be your soon.
O incomparable Virgin, meek above all others, free us from our faults, meek and chaste.
Keep our life pure. Make our journey safe. So that, seeing Jesus, we may rejoice together forever.
Let there be praise to God the Father, and glory to Christ the most High,
And to the Holy Spirit, and to the three be one honor. Amen

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Abendlied
Johannes Brahms
1833-1897

Night and day are engaged in peaceful struggle as if they are able to dampen or to dissolve.
Are you asleep, Grief, who depressed me? What was it then, my heart, that made me happy?
Both joy and sorrow, I feel, melted away, but gently they introduced the slumber.
And, while evermore floating upward, life itself appears to me like a lullaby.

O Schöne Nacht
Johannes Brahms
1833-1897

Oh beautiful night!
The moon is shining in its fabulous splendor in the sky;
Around it, sweet company of little stars.
Oh beautiful night!
The dew is shimmering brightly on the green blades of grass;
The nightingale sings ardently in the lilac bush, and
The boy steals softly to his lover
Oh beautiful night!

Lux Arumque
Eric Whitacre
b. 1970

Light, warm and heavy as pure gold...
And the angels sing softly to the new-born baby.

Lark
Aaron Copland
1900-1990

from Three Australian Bush Songs
Iain Grandage

I. Dawn
II. Birds