Colorado State University / Spring Choral Showcase / We Are the Music Makers / 03.05.24

CHAMBER CHOIR

CONDUCTED BY JAMES KIM

CONCERT CHOIR CONDUCTED BY DR. NATHAN PAYANT

UNIVERSITY CHORUS CONDUCTED BY NICOLE CECILIANI MARCH

WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS

WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS

Chamber Choir

Dr. James Kim, conductor

Dr. Hyeji Seo, collaborative pianist University Chorus

Nicole Ceciliani, conductor

Dr. Jooyeon Chang, collaborative pianist Concert Choir

Dr. Nathan Payant, conductor

Dr. Hsin-Hsuan Lin, collaborative pianist

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

7:30 PM

Griffin Concert Hall

CHAMBER CHOIR PROGRAM

This is the Day (from Easter Cantata)

Christ lag in Todes Banden – BWV 4

1. Sinfonia

2. Chorus

3. Duet S, A

4. Aria T

5. Chorus

6. Aria B

7. Duet S, T

8. Chorale

Soprano

Jaelyn Burch

Maddie Flanagan

Emma Lee

Alexa Parker

Kristy Shuck

Riley Welsh

Violin I – Byron Hitchcock, Adrienne Short

Violin II – Heejung Kim

Viola I – Phillip Stevens

Viola II – Leah Kovash

Cello – Sarah Biber

Double Bass – Forest Greenough

Organ – Dr. Joel Bacon

Alto

Personnel

Nicole Ceciliani

Leah Dunphey

Susanna Jacobson

Kailey Jeffs

Hayley Price

Tenor

Drew Bradley

River Brooks

Brianna Dene

Luke Marshall

Jackson Steinke

Daniel Pinkham (1923–2006)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Bass

Devy Ballard

Nick Brown

Eric Davern

Alec Mendez

Reece Moellenhoff

Chandler Peveto

Chamber Choir Texts & Translations

2. Christ lag in Todes Banden

Für unsre Sünd gegeben, Er ist wieder erstanden

Und hat uns bracht das Leben.

Des wir sollen fröhlich sein, Gott loben und ihm dankbar sein

Und singen alleluja, Alleluja!

Christ lay in death’s bonds, Given for our sins;

He is risen again

And has brought us life.

Of this we should be joyful, Praise God and be thankful to him

And sing hallelujah. Hallelujah.

3. Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt

Bei allen Menschenkindern;

Das macht’ alles unsre Sünd, Kein Unschuld war zu finden.

Davon kam der Tod so bald

Und nahm über uns Gewalt, Hielt uns in seinem Reich gefangen. Alleluja!

Nobody could overcome death

Among all the children of humankind;

Our sin made all that so;

No innocence was to be found.

As a result, death came immediately

And seized power over us, Held us captive in his kingdom. Hallelujah.

4. Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn, An unsre Statt ist kommen

Und hat die Sünde weggetan, Damit dem Tod genommen

All sein Recht und sein Gewalt; Da bleibet nichts denn Tods Gestalt, Den Stachel hat er verloren.  Alleluja!

Jesus Christ, God’s son, Has come in our place

And did away with our sins, Thereby taking from death

All its privilege and its power.

There remains nothing but death’s shape; It has lost its sting. Hallelujah.

5. Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg, Da Tod und Leben rungen;

Das Leben (da) behielt den Sieg, Es hat den Tod verschlungen. Die Schrift hat verkündig(e)t das, Wie ein Tod den andern frass, Ein Spott aus dem Tod ist worden.

It was a wondrous battle,

Where death and life struggled;

Life won the victory, It has swallowed up death.

Scripture has proclaimed this: How one death devoured the other, And a mockery was made of death.

6. Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm,

Davon Gott hat geboten, Das ist hoch an des Kreuzes Stamm In heisser Lieb gebraten, Das Blut zeichnet unser Tür, Das hält der Glaub dem Tode für, Der Würger kann uns nicht mehr schaden.

Alleluja!

Here is the proper Easter lamb

That God has offered

Which is, up on the cross’s trunk, Roasted in ardent love, Whose blood marks our door, with which faith rebukes death; The Destroyer Angel can no longer harm us.

Hallelujah!

7. So feiern wir das hohe Fest

Mit Herzensfreud und Wonne, Das uns der Herr scheinen lässt, Er ist selber die Sonne, Der durch seiner Gnaden Glanz

Erleuchtet unsre Herzen ganz, Der Sünden Nacht ist verschwunden.

Alleluja!

Thus we celebrate the high feast With joy of heart and gladness that the Lord lets shine upon us; He himself is the sun, Who through his luster of grace Illumines our hearts entirely; The night of sin has vanished. Hallelujah.

8. Wir essen und leben wohl

In rechten Osterfladen, Der alte Sauerteig nicht soll Sein bei dem Wort der Gnaden, Christus will die Koste sein

Und speisen die Seel allein, Der Glaub will keins andern leben.

Alleluja!

We eat and live well

On the right Easter flatbread; The old sourdough shall not Be with the word of grace. Christ will be the nourishment

And alone feed the soul; Faith will live by no other. Hallelujah.

UNIVERSITY CHORUS PROGRAM

Non Nobis, Domine Rosphanye Powell

The Old Mill Kenneth Riggs

Sing We and Chant It

Thomas Morley (1557–1602)

arr. Russell Robinson

Dies Irae Ryan Main

We are the Music Makers Reginal Wright

Soprano

Laila Alkholy

Sydney Ambrosia

Aislynn Barkley-Griggs

Cailee Chapman

KJ Christensen

MaKaila Connell

Alanna Finch

Anna Gould

Gwen Healer

Quinn Jenkins

Kailey Kinney

Katie Lambert

Meagan Osnes

Allie Parker

Hanna Recker

Bella Reitano

Elise Renner

Marshall Roelofs

Maddy Share

Sarah Shehigian

Kelly Su

Katalina Ugarte

Nicolette Wilks

Personnel

Alto

Aundrea Dugas

Scarlett Garsombke

Shannon Glynn

Lauren Jones

Eleanor Lee

Avin Lo

Margaret Lonborg

Chloe Martin

MaryKatherine McCarthy

Bat MacCarty

Alexa Nelson

Rene Padilla

Sarah Parrott

Emma Rieger

Tirzah Rowe

Josephine Schell

Tenor

Ash Bartlett

Nathan Crane

Hannah Howison

Rey Tadlock

Ryan Torrez

Bass

River Brooks

Nicolo Cammarano

Kodi Holt

Joel Johnson

Ayden Perkins

Chace Silvey

University Chorus Texts & Translations

Non Nobis, Domine

Rosphanye Powell

Non nobis, Domine, tuo da gloriam.

Sed nomini tuo da gloriam.

Non nobis, Domine, tuo da gloriam.

Not unto us, O Lord, give thy glory.

But to your name be the glory.

Not unto us, O Lord, give they glory.

Dies Irae

Ryan Main

Dies Irae! Dies Illa!

Solvet Saeclum in favilla:

Teste David cum Sibylla!

Quantus tremor est futurus, Quando judex est venturus, Cuncta stricte discussurus!

Day of wrath! O Day of mourning!

See fulfilled the prophets’ warning, Heaven and Earth in ashes burning. Oh, what fear man’s bosom rendeth, When from heaven the Judge descendeth, On whose sentence all dependeth.

CONCERT CHOIR PROGRAM

Lobe den Herren (Chorale from BWV 57)

Lobe den Herren, Op. 6, No.2

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Hugo Distler (1908–42)

Hymn to the Eternal Flame

Stephen Paulus (from To Be Certain of The Dawn) (1949–2014)

Kaitlyn Riley, soprano

Angelus ad pastores ait

LUX: The Dawn From On High

III. The Sun Never Says

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)

Dan Forrest

Barbara Thiem, cello

Camden Krumholz & Riley Welsh, descant

IV. Gloria in excelsis

They Are Mother

Jennifer Lucy Cook

Elisabeth Beckerink, Kam Carlson, Audrey Farrar, Anna Morris, Maya Parker, Emma Rieger, & Freya Underwood, solo group

Soprano

Laurel Ave

Elisabeth Beckerink

Olivia Berg

Kam Carlson

Eliza Domingos

Amanda Dulle

Patience Eitel

Alexandra Englert

Jenny Henry

Kailey Jeffs

Camden Krumholz

Ella Marshall

MG Phillips

Kaitlyn Riley

Alyssa Schaefer

Sophie Scholl

Freya Underwood

Riley Welsh

Personnel

Alto

Maria Biske

Quinn Campbell

Olivia Colón

Anna Dunn

Cara Fabian

Audrey Farrar

Kyra Kauffman

Anna Morris

Maya Parker

Halley Peecher

Gemma Petrucci

Nina Redding

Emma Rieger

Tirzah Rowe

Amaya Ruiz

McKenna Selby

Emma Simpkins

Caylin West

Hayley Wood

Annabel Xiong

Tenor

Brett Abrahamson

Bryce Anderson

River Brooks

Jackson Carlson

Bee Garduno

Hunter Luedtke

Luke Marshall

Alec Mendez

Bass

Devy Ballard

Angel Bustillos

Eric Davern

Caleb Green

Soren Gulsrud

Nathan Messina

Mateo Novoa

Michael Spacone

Artemio Tamayo

Michael Watkins

Gabriel Weldon

Concert Choir Texts & Translations

Lobe den Herren J.S. Bach (1685–11750) and H. Distler (1908–42)

Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, meine geliebete Seele, das ist mein Begehren. Kommet zuhauf, Psalter und Harfe wacht auf, lasset den Lobgesang hören!

Lobe den Herren, der alles so herrlich regieret, der dich auf Adelers

Fittichen sicher geführet, der dich erhält, wie es dir selber gefällt; hast du nicht dieses verspüret?

Praise to the Lord! the Almighty, the King of creation!

O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!

All ye who hear, Now to His temple draw near, Join me in glad adoration!

Praise to the Lord! who o’er all things so wondrously reigneth, Shelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth: Hast thou not seen

How thy desires have been Granted in what He ordaineth? – Joachim Neander (1650–1680)

Hymn to the Eternal Flame

Stephen Paulus (from To Be Certain of The Dawn) (1949–2014)

Every face is in you, every voice, Every sorrow in you.

Every pity, every love,

Every memory, woven into fire.

Every breath is in you, every cry, Every longing in you.

Every singing, every hope,

Every healing, woven into fire.

Every heart is in you,

Every tongue, every trembling in you,

Every blessing, every soul,

Every shining, woven into fire.

Angelus ad pastores ait

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)

Angelus ad pastores ait:

annuntio vobis gaudium magnum, quia natus est vobis hodie Salvator mundi. Alleluia.

The angel said to the shepherds: “I bring you tidings of great joy, for the Savior of the world has been born to you today.” Alleluia.

– from Luke 2:10-12

LUX: The Dawn From On High

Dan Forrest

III. The Sun Never Says

Even After

All this time

The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe Me.”

Look

What happens

With a love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.

–Daniel Ladinsky, from “The Gift”

IV. Gloria in excelsis

Gloria in excelsis Deo, Et in terra pax.

Glory to God in the highest, And on earth, peace.

– from Luke 2:14

They Are Mother

What shall I call this force I know

Who do I come to when I wonder

The space that holds me when I’m low

More than a parent, friend, or lover

They are Mover

They are Maker

They are Mother, mm

They are Mother, mm

Jennifer Lucy Cook

They are the breath I see in cold

The ready muscle in the sprinter

They are the glitter and the gold

The steady heat lamp in the winter

They are Mover

They are Maker

They are Mother, mm

They are Mother, mm

They nod and know

They need nothing

They’re god and grow

They bleed blessings

They nod and know

They need nothing

They’re god and grow

They bleed blessings

They are solitude

They are multitude

They are gratitude

Gratitude

Laugh lines around the all-seeing eye

And I can lean into the sky

Laugh lines around the all-seeing eye

And I can lean into the sky

What shall I call this force I know

Who do I come to when I wonder

They are Mover

They are Maker

They are Mother, mm

They are Mother, mm

They are Mother, mm

They are Mother, mm

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