Carols for Quire from the Old & New Worlds8th annual

December 2, 3 & 4, 2016akron & cleveland

ross w. duffinartistic director

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Welcome to the 8th annual presentation of Carols for Quire from the Old & New Worlds. Since 2009, it has been a favorite event for both audiences and artists, brightening the holiday season with music that inspires and intrigues, and sometimes makes you laugh! You get to hear the earliest AND the latest choral music in repertoire dating from the 12th century to the 21st. The composers we’ve presented are too numerous to list. But it’s worthy of note that our concerts have featured music from these countries/regions:

AmericaAustriaCanadaCatalonia EnglandFinland

FlandersFranceFrench Canada (Quebec)GermanyItalyLatvia

MexicoNorwayPortugalSloveniaSpainSweden

and sung in these languages (including three* that are new in this program):Abenaki*Afro-Portuguese*EnglishFinnishFrench

GermanHebrewItalianLatinLatvian

Mohawk* NorwegianOld DanishSpanishWendat

We’re hope that this year’s incarnation of Carols for Quire makes your holiday season more harmonious. Do mark your calendars for our final concert of the season, The St. Matthew Passion by Richard Davy. The Passion is set to the exquisite harmonies of the late 15th century — meaningful and moving to listeners of all faiths and beliefs. There’s a concert at St. Bernard Parish in Akron on Saturday, April 8, 2017, and two performances on Sunday, April 9: afternoon at Historic St. Peter Church and evening at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.In addition, we invite YOU to join in the Quire — sing in the shower; hum around the house; croon in the car; warble at work; yodel in the yard; belt at the bar; harmonize with humanity — and always keep a song in your heart!

Beverly SimmonsExecutive Director & Alto

Carols for Quire from the Old & New Worlds(8th annual)

December 2, 2016 December 3, 2016Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron

December 4, 2016Historic St. Peter Church, Cleveland

PROGRAM

Cum natus esset Jesus Christoph Thomas Walliser (1568–1648)

A Northern ChristmasLapsed caicki laolacatt Anon. 16th-century Finnish, arr. Ross W. DuffinIloidcam ja remuidcam Anon. 16th-century Finnish, arr. RWDMeklētāja ceļš (The Christmas Rose) Andrejs Jansons (b.1938)

A Spanish Christmas “Salad”La Trulla Bartolomé Carceres (fl.ca.1550)

intermission

Magi veniunt ab oriente Jacobus Clemens non papa (ca.1510–1555)

Mission to the IndiansIes8s ahatonnia (The Huron Carol) St. Jean de Brébeuf (ca.1647), arr. RWDJoseph k8riritenes (Joseph est bien marié) Abenaki noël (ca.1700), arr. RWD8i8 satannitenrascon (Conditor alme siderum) Mohawk hymn (ca.1700), arr. RWD

Africans in PortugalSã aqui turo zente pleta Anon. Portuguese/African (ca.1650)

Revolutionary AmericaJudea (A Virgin unspotted) William Billings (1746–1800)Shiloh (Methinks I see a heavenly host) Billings

English ClassicsThe Lamb (1927) Charles Wood (1866–1926)In the bleak midwinter (1906) Gustav Holst (1874–1934)Benedicamus Domino (1918) Peter Warlock (1894–1930)

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Ross W. Duffin, Artistic Director

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ABOUT QUIRE CLEVELAND

Quire Cleveland is a professional chamber choir established in 2008 to explore the vast and timeless repertoire of choral music over the last 9 centuries. Quire’s programs introduce our audiences to music not heard in the modern era — including modern premieres of works newly discovered or reconstructed — breathing life into the music of our shared heritage.With highly-trained professional musicians — who collectively represent 500 years of choral singing — the ensemble has earned both popular and critical acclaim. Quire contributes to the artistic life of our community in unique ways, including collaborations with such organizations as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Composers Guild, Music & Art at Trinity, CityMusic Cleveland, Summit Choral Society, and The Cleveland Foundation.Now in its ninth season, Quire Cleveland has presented more than 60 concerts and produced six CDs of music from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Artistic Director Ross W. Duffin, a prize-winning musicologist, creates unique editions for Quire, and plans programs that are appealing and accessible, showcasing the beauty of the music and the glorious sound of voices raised in harmony.In addition to live and recorded broadcasts on classical radio, Quire has also recorded music for Oxford University Press. An education program, initiated in 2014, offers free workshops and lectures.With concert videos posted on YouTube, Quire Cleveland’s reach has indeed been world-wide, attracting over half a million views from 210 countries.

Soprano: Donna Fagerhaug, Megan Kaes Long, Angela Mitchell, Elena Mullins, Lisa Rainsong, Gail West

Alto: Merav Elden, Joseph Schlesinger, Beverly Simmons, Jay White Tenor: Evan Bescan, Nathan Dougherty, Bryan Munch, Tyler Skidmore Bass: Ian Crane, Daniel Fridley, Nathan Longnecker, Brian MacGilvray,

Michael McKay

Thank you for coming! Performing for you gives us joy in singing.

But we have these small requests:

• Please turn off cell phones & other noisemakers.

• Please refrain from photography and audio/video recording.

• If you’re suffering from a cough, DO help yourself to the cough drops available from the

ushers and DON’T sit near a microphone.

Quire’s founding Artistic Director, Ross W. Duffin, is an award-winning scholar, specializing in the performance practice of early music. Director since 1978 of the nationally recognized Historical Performance Practice Program at Case Western Reserve University, where he is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, he has trained and nurtured some of today’s leading performers and researchers in the field. His weekly radio show, Micrologus: Exploring the World of Early Music, was broadcast on 140 NPR stations throughout the United States. His books, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) and Shakespeare’s Songbook (both published by WW Norton), have gained international renown.

In addition to many of the works on this concert, Ross has edited Cantiones Sacræ: Madrigalian Motets from Jacobean England (A-R Editions), which Quire recorded complete as Madrigalian Motets (qc103); A Josquin Anthology; the St. Matthew Passion by Richard Davy, which will be performed by Quire in April 2017; and A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music. He has sung with Apollo’s Fire since its inception in 1992.

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NOTES

Carols for Quire VIII is a mix of old and new, both in the sense that we sing music spanning five centuries, and that some of the pieces are new to Quire Cleveland and some are “old familiars.” In the midst, there are some very unusual selections that we hope you will enjoy.The program opens with Cum natus esset Jesu, a double-choir motet by the Alsatian composer, teacher, and music director, Christoph Thomas Walliser. This lively and varied work, for a choir of high voices pitted against a choir of low voices, was published in Strasbourg in 1611, as part of an enormous international anthology entitled Promptuarii Musici. Although Walliser’s father-in-law was the publisher, the delightful Cum natus certainly deserved to be there alongside works by Gabrieli, Marenzio, Hassler, and others.The next set includes music from the Baltic and Nordic regions of Europe. Last year Quire premiered my reconstruction of Iloidcam ja remuidcam, a Finnish version of the anonymous Piæ Cantiones work, Gaudete, which we had also sung previously. Piæ Cantiones was published initially in 1582, but without place of publication. That mystery was solved with the printing of a new edition in 1616, with the exact same collection, including the original Latin titles, but this time with Finnish lyrics. I have now reconstructed the Finnish piece Lapsed caicki laolacatt, a translation of Personent hodie from Piæ Cantiones. Those works are followed by another favorite from last year: Latvian composer, Andrejs Jansons’s Meklētāja ceļš (The Christmas Rose), in which echoes of Slavic and eastern European folksongs can be heard.The first half of the progam concludes — what!? It seems like we just started, right? — with a very long Spanish ensalada, a musical “salad,” entitled La Trulla, which means something like “The Hubbub.” It was published by Matheo Flecha in Las Ensaladas in 1581. Ensaladas usually involve some kind of narrative, and allow the singing of popular songs with linking dialogue. Virtually all of the ensaladas in the 1581 print are by Flecha’s uncle (also named Matheo Flecha), but this one is by Bartolomé Carceres, who was active in the middle of the sixteenth century, but about whom very little is known. In this ensalada, the scene is a village near the Nativity — but somehow magically in Spain — where the villagers call upon one another in succession to sing and celebrate Mary and her infant son.The second half of the concert begins with Magi veniunt ab oriente, a sumptuous motet for low voices by Jacobus Clemens non papa which we loved so much when we sang it last year that we brought it back! The text, from the Gospel of Matthew, is a responsory for the feast of Epiphany.Next is a set of three Christmas works in North American Indian languages. The first, Jes8s ahatonnia, is a carol whose lyric was written in the Wendat language by Fr. Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary to the Huron Indians, who was martyred in 1649. My reconstruction of this carol was sung on our very first Carols program in 2009. In the years since, I’ve been fascinated by the fact that Brébeuf apparently used for the tune a well-known French noël — a popular French Christmas song — and I eventually ran across some other examples, which I have now reconstructed for Quire to sing. Joseph K8riritenés is a noël in the language of the Abenaki Indians of Québec and Maine, and it survives with music notation, making clear that it is an aboriginal version of the noël we have sung previously as Joseph est bien marié. The third piece is 8i8 satannitenrascon, a Mohawk version of the Gregorian hymn Conditor alme siderum, which survives in a manuscript now at Georgetown University. The common thread in all of these seems to be Jesuit missionaries, who shared the Christmas music of their homeland with their flocks, after translating the pieces into the local native languages.

Sã aqui turo zente pleta is a 17th-century Christmas song in Afro-Portuguese. At that time in Portugal, were many people from Guinea, West Africa, who had been brought there as slaves. This piece is apparently an attempt to portray the kind of singing they did. It is in the voice of Chritianized Africans, but almost certainly was not composed by a slave. Still, if it imitates the kind of singing practiced by the Guinea natives, it is a fascinating document of their culture.The rest of the program includes pieces Quire has sung in years past and wanted to share with you again. First are two carols by the most famous American composer of the late 18th century, William Billings. Judea is from Billings’s Singing Master’s Assistant, of 1778, and features a lively dance-like refrain, “Then let us be merry.” Shiloh is from his Suffolk Harmony of 1786. Again, the tempo is lively and the feeling joyous. The harmonies, so reminiscent of shape-note singing, are uniquely American: “primitive” perhaps, by European standards of the time, but heartfelt and effective, and a pleasure to sing.We close with three favorite 20th-century English carols. The Lamb is a lovely 1927 setting by Charles Wood, an Anglo-Irishman from Armagh. The lyric is a poem from Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) by William Blake, which plays on the multiple identifications of a lamb as a baby sheep, a young child, and Jesus, the “Lamb of God.” Quire sang this in Carols for Quire V. The second English carol is In the bleak midwinter, by Gustav Holst. It is a 1906 setting of a Christmas poem by Christina Rossetti (sister of the artist/poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti), published originally in Scribner’s Monthly magazine in January 1872. We sang this lovely piece on our second Carols program in 2010, and the YouTube performance has been viewed 50,000 times — our single most popular video! Finally, Peter Warlock (the nom de plume of Philip Heseltine) was a regrettably short-lived, Anglo-Welsh composer who developed a keen interest in English historical music. While known for his songs in the Renaissance lutesong tradition, his Benedicamus Domino shows an awareness of even earlier English styles, with passages in the distinctive parallel first-inversion chords of 15th-century fauxbourdon (or faburden, as the English called it), along with some more up-to-date harmonies and a splendid ending! All three of these pieces appear on the CD Carols for Quire, vol. 3; the Holst is on Carols for Quire, vol. 2 CD, as well.With this collection of old & new music from the old world and the new, we wish you and yours a very happy holiday season and a harmonious new year!

—Ross W. Duffin

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Tenor Evan Bescan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, along with a Methodology Diploma from the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary. He currently resides in Grafton, Ohio, and is a full-time music teacher at Elyria Community Elementary

School. Evan is a chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and is also a consultant of the Freda Joyce Brint Foundation, using music to enhance learning and life in people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Bass Ian Crane currently teaches music at Cuyahoga Falls High School, and spent five years as instructor of bagpipes at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, sung with

Bobby McFerrin and Contrapunctus, and performed as both vocalist and instrumentalist with Apollo’s Fire. Ian earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Cleveland State and a master’s in conducting from Kent State. He resides in Lakewood with his wife, Tricia, and children, Phoebe and Alexander.

Tenor Nathan Dougherty recently be-gan his D.M.A in Historical Performance Practice at Case Western Reserve University. In the summer of 2016, he completed a master’s degree in Early Music Performance at the University of Southern California, where he sang with the Baroque Sinfonia

and Collegium. In 2012, Nathan graduated with Music Department Distinction from St. Olaf College, with a de-gree in Vocal Performance. He also performed with the Lyric Theater Department, with roles including Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro.

Mezzo-soprano Merav Eldan, a na-tive Israeli, made her American début at the Cleveland Institute of Music as the Princess in Puccini’s Sister Angelica. She is in her first year of CIM’s Artist Diploma program, studying with Mary Schiller. Eldan has been a soloist in Mozart’s

Requiem and in the world premiere of Bardanashvili’s Rabbi Shimon’s Bar Yochai Passion with Israel Camerata Jerusalem. Her collaboration with the Israeli composer Oded Zehavi includes Bagina, a mono-drama about a

homeless woman, for brass quintet and mezzo-sopra-no. Next spring, she will sing arias with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Soprano Donna Fagerhaug holds a Master of Arts degree in Church Music from Trinity Lutheran Seminary and a Bachelor of Music from the Conservatory at Capital University, both in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to Quire, she sings with Apollo’s Singers and Contrapunctus, and is soprano soloist at Lakewood Congregational Church. Donna also works as a vocal coach in the Rocky River City Schools. She lives in Rocky River with her husband and three children.Daniel Fridley, bass-baritone, is a sec-ond-year master’s student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Dean Southern. His roles there have includ-ed Figaro in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Don Pedro in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict. He also performed the Speaker of the Temple in Opera Circle Cleveland’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Recently, he has performed in masterclasses for Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey, and oth-ers. Daniel has a passion for early music, and performs with the CWRU Historical Performance Practice ensem-bles, as well as with the Apollo’s Singers.Megan Kaes Long holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory from Yale University and a B.A. in Music from Pomona College. She teaches music theory and aural skills at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and is a scholar of secular choral music and music theory of the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries. Prior to joining Quire, Megan sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum, where she collaborated with the New York Philharmonic, Juilliard 415, and the Bach Collegium Japan. She lives in Oberlin with her husband.Nathan Longnecker, bass, stud-ied voice and organ, has sung with the University Circle Chorale, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Apollo's Fire, Cleveland Opera Chorus, Cantores Cleveland, Contrapunctus, as well as di-recting a few church choirs. He lives in North Collinwood, and when he is not singing, he tends gardens as The Quiet Gardener.

SINGERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Baritone Brian MacGilvray is a mu-sicology Ph.D. candidate at Case Western Reserve University whose research focuses on early modern France. He holds degrees in voice from Northwestern University and the University of Kentucky. His cho-ral experience includes Chicago Music of

the Baroque, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Grant Park Symphony Chorus, Church of the Ascension (Chicago), and Trinity Cathedral (Cleveland).

Michael McKay, baritone, is office manager in the Performing Arts, Music, and Film department at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Having studied voice with Noriko Paukert and organ with Margaret Scharf, he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of music from Cleveland

State University. He has performed with Apollo’s Fire, Old Stone Singers, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Choir, and CWRU Early Music Singers, as well as in various Cleveland-area chamber ensembles. He served as associ-ate organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist from 1998 to 2012. He resides in Cleveland with his wife and two children.

Angela Mitchell has performed with Cleveland Opera Theater, French Creek Theatre, Lorain Community Music Theater, Opera in the Heights, Kingwood Summer Opera, Lonestar Lyric Opera, and the Moores Opera Center. Her recent roles include Cinderella in Into the Woods,

Emma in Jekyll & Hyde, Musetta in La bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, and Mademoiselle Silberklang in The Impresario. Angela holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Minnesota. She is Host/Announcer for WCLV Classical 104.9 ideastream©. angelamitchellsoprano.com

Elena Mullins, soprano, has wide-rang-ing interests in the field of early music. She has sung with The Newberry Consort, Apollo’s Fire, Three Notch’d Road, Generation Harmonique, and Quire Cleveland, and is currently the director of the Case Western Reserve University Early

Music Singers. In 2013, Elena co-founded Alkemie, an ensemble specializing in medieval music for voices and instruments. A voice student of Ellen Hargis, she holds a DMA in Historical Performance Practice from

CWRU and a BA in Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music. In addition to singing and conduct-ing, Elena is an avid performer and teacher of baroque dance, and served on the faculty of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute last summer.

Bryan Munch received his engineer-ing degree and M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, where he participated in many vocal groups in-cluding Early Music Singers. When he is not playing with his kids, he plays with data at Progressive Insurance.

Soprano Lisa Rainsong’s musical life integrates composition, education, vocal performance, and natural history. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music and is a member of CIM’s Music Theory faculty. A certified naturalist, Lisa has developed a music-based approach to teaching classes on bird song and insect song identification and is in demand statewide as a speaker. In addition, she does field recording and research on “singing insects” — crickets and katydids — and in-service training for naturalists. listeninginnature.blogspot.com

Joseph Schlesinger, countertenor, began his musical education playing prin-cipal trumpet in the Augustana College Symphony, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Finance and Asian Studies. After earning his Masters in Music from DePaul University, he received a Netherlands-America/Fulbright Fellowship to study Baroque Music at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. His repertoire includes baroque, opera, and contemporary repertoire. Upon returning to the United States, he is delighted to have joined Quire Cleveland, Apollo’s Fire, and Contrapunctus in Cleveland, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Seattle Pro Musica, and the Madison Bach Musicians.

Beverly Simmons is a mezzo-soprano, graphic designer, and Executive Director of Quire Cleveland. She earned a doc-torate in early music at Stanford University, before moving to Cleveland in 1978. Her career has included stints as a CWRU mu-sic professor, WCLV radio announcer, international artist manager, concert producer, and mother of two.

She founded the CWRU Early Music Singers and has sung with Apollo’s Fire, as well as with the Cleveland Opera Chorus, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and Temple Tifereth-Israel. Bev is also half of the cabaret duo, Rent-a-Yenta.

Tyler Skidmore, tenor, is an active mu-sic educator and performer. At Medina High School, he directs six choirs and teaches music appreciation and theory; he also serves as adjudicator in the Ohio Music Education Association. A life mem-ber in the American Choral Directors

Association, he currently serves on the state board. Tyler has sung with Apollo’s Fire, Contrapunctus, Opera Cleveland, and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Music director at the Wadsworth Church of the Nazarene, he also enjoys presenting music whenever possible with his wife, Melina, a violinist. Soprano Gail West has worked with such eminent artists as Julianne Baird, Emma Kirkby, Suzie LeBlanc,

Paul Hillier, and Benjamin Bagby. Currently a voice student of Ellen Hargis, she has been a member of Apollo’s Fire since its founding. Gail has been a member of CWRU’s Early Music Singers for over 20 years and is a soprano soloist at Church of the Good Shepherd. She lives in Cleveland Heights with her husband and three children.Countertenor Jay White sang 8 seasons with the internationally acclaimed en-semble Chanticleer, recording 14 albums and garnering two Grammy Awards. As an interpreter of medieval, Renaissance, and baroque repertoire, he has appeared at festivals worldwide and has been fea-tured on national and international radio. Trained at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute and the University of Maryland, he taught at the University of Delaware and DePauw University. Jay is now Associate Professor of Voice at Kent State University.

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TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS

Cum natus esset Jesus in Bethlehem Judae, pastores erant in regione eadem. Et ecce angelus Domini stet iuxta illos, et subito facta est cum angelo multitudo militiae caelestis laudantium Deum et dicentium: “Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.” Et factum est ut discesserunt ab eis angeli in cælum pastores loquebantur. “Ad invicem transeamus usque Bethlehem et videamus hoc verbum quod factum est, quod fecit Dominus et ostendit nobis.” Et venerunt festinantes et invenerunt Mariam et Joseph et infantem positum in præsepio.

Iloidcam ja riemuidcam Christus on ilmandun Ilo virsii veisadcam Neidzest on hän syndyn. 1. Käsis on armon aika Jota halan olem: Jumalan pyhä Poika Alas astui puolem. 2. Jumal tullu ihmisex Vastan luonon juoxuu Se Engeleill on ihmex Mailman pudhistuxex 3. Ezechjelin suljett ovi Jo nyt läpidz käedhän Siit valkius uloslevi Josta autuns saadhan. 4. Siis meidhän cocouxem herrall veisat mahta Andain ain ylistuxen Cuin cukin meist taita.

1. Lapsed caicki laolacatt Tänäpän tantzacatt Kiitos virttä veisadcatt Sill quin meille synnyi Jonga Jumal annoi Ja neidzen –zen –zen cohtuinen Puhdhas tänne cannoi.2. Mailmaan synnytettin Capaloiin käärittin Sitt soimeen lastettin Aasin valjun vajan Hallidzia taevan Cadhotti –ti –ti saalins niin Päämies pimiän vallan.3. Viisad coht culkevat Lahjoii cans candavat Synynytt edzivät Täjdhen uudhen leidzain: Lasta löyttyy cumartain Ja culdaa –aa –aa pyhä sauu Myrr hemit myös andain.4. Veyoised veisadcatt Piltised paohadcatt Piicaised laolacatt Kiitos Pyhän Pojan Tulemastans mailmaan Lackamat –at –at sis olkan Cunnja corkjan Luojan.

Meklētāja ceļš ir galā, Vakars metas, tālu iets. Baltā ziemā, svešā malā Sārtu uzplaukst blāzmas zieds. Vaitur ziemas, svētku roze Debess dārzos ziedus ver? Brīnumaino krāsu kvēli Acis atdezerdamās dzer. Mana de biškīgā roze, maigo roku dēsts: Jaukā bērnu dienu gaisma, Brīnišķīgā Kristus vēsts. Zinu tavā sirdī Šonakt Kristus roze zied, Untu izej ziemas laukā klausīties kā zvaignes dzied.

—Kārlis Skalbe

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea, there were, in the same country, shepherds. And the angel of the Lord came upon them, and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another “Let us go now even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.” And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

Rejoice, rejoice, Christ is born of the Virgin Mary, rejoice.

1. The time of grace is present, the truth for which we hoped, devoutly render songs of joy. Rejoice.

2. God has become man, astounding nature, the world is renewed by the reign of Christ. Rejoice.

3. Ezechiel’s closed gate is traversed, whence light arose, salvation is found. Rejoice.

4. Therefore, friends, sing now in the light, bless the Lord, salvation through our King. Rejoice.

1. On this day earth shall ring with the song children sing to the Lord, Christ our King, born on earth to save us; him the Father gave us, from the virgin’s womb was he procreated.

2. He is born in this world, in swaddling clothes is he furled, in a manger doth abide, ox and ass by his side ruler of the heavens. Thus was lost all the spoils of the prince of darkness.

3. Wise Men three to him led, to lay their gifts by his bed, seek the child from afar, following a little star, only him adoring. Frankincense, gold, and myrrh were their offerings for him.

4. All the clerics there be, all the children with thee sing like angels that he by the world unbounded praises now be sounded. Let there be to our God glory in the highest.

—Jane M. Joseph/R. Duffin

Day is done and I am weary, walking on these lonely roads; suddenly a blazing flower in the wintry sky unfolds. Lo, behold the Rose of Christmas blooming brightly at heaven’s door. Oh, drink to its wondrous beauty and to yearn for more and more! Christmas purest flower, sweetest childhood melody, beautiful enchanted hour when my mother sang of thee. I do know the Rose of Christmas blooms for you tonight; and for you the heaven glistens peacefully, in perfect light.

—Vīlnis Baumanis

La Trulla1. ¡Levanta Gil, and’ acá! – ¿Qué quieres, Bras de Lerena? – Mira qué trulla que suena, que la virgen parió ya. – Si d’eso me hazes cierto, levantarme yo en un salto. – And’ acá, levanta presto. Verás misterio tan alto. Llégate, no miras nada, mira que linda donzella relumbrante como estrella, madre y virgen preservada. Canta, pues, por amor d’ella una canción entricada. – ¿Qué queréis que os traiga, Virgen delicada? ¿Qué queréis que os traiga? Llegastes a Bethlem, paristes vos a quien es Dios y hombre también, Virgen sagrada. ¿Qué queréis que os traiga? ¿Sí queréis mantillas, queso y mantequillas, puchero y papillas, leche y quajada? ¿Qué queréis que os traiga? – También yo, por mi fé, pañales os traeré, bellotas os daré de mi majada. ¿Qué queréis que os traiga? – Pues migas yo haré con buena ajada. ¿Qué queréis que os traiga, Virgen delicada? ¿Qué queréis que os traiga, – Cante agora Antón Loçano en fiesta tan preciosa – yo quiero tomar la mano. Canta por tu vida hermano en honra de la hermosa que es de Dios hija y esposa, pues l’eterno y soberano nos da visible y humano, y pariolo en esta hora.2. – Dame del tu amor, señora, siquiera una rosa. – Dame el bien de nuestro mal nascido en este portal, pues de culpa original sois de puras la hermosa.

– Siquiera una rosa. Dame del tu amor, señora, siquiera una rosa. Dame del tu amor, galana, siquiera una rama. – Cante ya Gilot García, por vida de su muger. – No se cantar ni tañer, mas un poco jugaría. – Canta ya con alegría con nuestro cura Bartolo.3. – Solo, solo, ¿cómo lo haré yo todo? – Don abad, a mi casa yredes. Mi muger, vos, la visitaredes.

La mi gente, vos, me la manternedes. Mis hijuelos, vos, me los criaredes.

– ¿Yo? – ¡Ala he! Vos! – ¿solo? – ¡solo! – ¿todo? – ¡todo! – Solo, solo, ¿cómo lo haré yo todo? – El comer esté aparejado, con sazón lo cozido y assado, y el corral bien barrido y regado. Y si hay falta vos habréis

mal recaudo. – ¿Yo? … Solo, solo, ¿cómo lo haré yo todo? – Pues que tan bien as cantado, respóndate Bras Llorente en portugués entricado un cantar que nos contente. – Queyrolo fazer de grado. Alto, pues, que prestamente responderá Pero Gay.

1. Arise, Gil, come here! – What do you want, Bras de Lerena? – Listen to the hubbub, that the virgin gave birth already. – If you can confirm it for me, I will jump for joy! – Let’s go, get up, come on, to see the great mystery. Come on, let nothing stop you, see how fair is the maiden glittering like a star, mother and still a virgin. Sing, then, for her sake a well-written song. – What can I bring you, delicate Virgin? What can I bring you? When you arrived in Bethlehem, you gave birth to him who is both God and man, O, holy Virgin. What can I bring you? Do you want swaddling clothes, some cheese and butter, porridge or stew, milk or cheese curd? What can I bring you? – Well, for my faith, I will bring honeycombs, I shall give you acorns from my sheepfold. What can I bring you? – I myself will bring a sauce with crumbs & good garlic. What can I bring you, delicate Virgin? What can I bring you? – Anton Locano sings now on such lovely holiday – It is now my turn. Sing, I beg you, my brother, in honor of that beauty who is

God’s daughter & wife, because the eternal & sovereign gives him to us, visible & human, & born in this hour.

2. – Give your love, lady, even if it be but a rose. – Give us the remedy for our ills, he who has just been born

in this crib, pure and free of original sin, you are, my lady, most beautiful.

– Even if it be but a rose Give your love, lady, even if it be but a rose Give me your love, gallant one, even if it be but a branch. – Let Gilot Garcia sing now, for the life of his wife. – I can’t sing or play, but can have a little fun. – Sing joyfully with our priest Bartolo.3. – Alone, alone, how do I do it? – Lord abbot, go to my house. My wife, you will visit there.

My family, you will support. My children, you will bring them up.

– I? – Aye! You! – Alone? – Alone! – Completely? – Completely! – Alone, alone, how do I do it? – Let the meal be well prepared, with seasoning will you

cook & roast, and the yard well swept and watered. And if it is badly done, there will be a reckoning.

– Me? … Alone, alone, how do I do it? – Since you have sung so well, let Bras Llorente respond, in

his best Portuguese, with a song that pleases us. – With pleasure will I do it! High and loud for Pero Gay will

reply nimbly.

4. – My mother will not let me marry, so let us celebrate. We were three sisters of Lisbon. Father found a good match

for my two sisters, but wanted me to be a nun. – So let us celebrate. – My mother will not let me marry, so let us celebrate. – O, what a fine song! – By God, everything in it is not good! – Sing you, then, in Gascon, praising that boy who delivered

us from our woes.5. – What a pretty boy, la durundena, this Jesus, what a pretty

child. – So little and so sweet, he was born this night. Lucifer will

be sorry, and hell will suffer much. – What a pretty boy ... – The angels have great joy to see our wishes fulfilled, for

heaven will resound, this new year song, in Gascon! – What a pretty boy ... – O Jesus, how he looked! at the angels dancing up above,

nothing fell in the sky, nor wobbled on the earth. – What a pretty boy ... – With their superb angelic voices they intone matins, and

play the organ while they sing together in a loud voice. – What a pretty boy ... – They sound in one accord, rebecs & monochords, voices

high, strong, and loud, for the dance, high & serene. – What a pretty boy ... – Let’s all celebrate together on this pleasant night, before the

Virgin giving birth, releases the world from its chains. – What a pretty boy ...

4. – Nam me quer casar miña may, ora folgay. Tres hermanas de Lisboa eramos, enhoraboa, y as duas casar

com loa y a mí monja querer mon pay, – ora folgay – y también o quer miña may, ora folgay. – ¡O qué fidalga canción! – ¡Par Di, pas en tot es bona! – Canta tú, pues, en gascón alabando aquel garçón que a todos libró de pena.5. – Tau garço la durundena, tau Jesú la durundó, e tau hillot, la

durundó. – Tan chiquet e tan polit com t’és nat aquesta nit, Lucifer serà scarnit, tot l’infern n’aurà gran pena. – Tau garçó… – Los àngeus n’an gran plausir vent complit nostre desir que’l alt cel s’à de fornir de gascons per bella strena. – Tau garçó… – O Iesús, e com miràveu! Los àngeles baylaven, daut en l’ayre no tombaven ni cayen en l’arena. – Tau garçó… – Y ab ses veus tan angelines raussona ven les maytines, e tocaven les orguines, tots cantant ab veu gran plena. – Tau garçó… – E sonaven tots acors ab rebicus e monacors, y ab veus autes, grans e forts dansaven l’auta serena. – Tau garçó… – Tots ensemps fasan la xiera, en esta nit plazentiera, davant la Virgen partiera que trau lo món de cadena. – Tau garçó…

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– Pues que es noche de alegría todos tienen de cantar. – Cante pues Joancho Ochandría, alabando a la sin par que parió la luz del día. – ¿Quieres cantión, vizcayno? – Sí, que muy mejor será, que aunque vienes de camino a todos agradará.6. – María Ochandrea hene pecatarea. Un chiquito tan bonica, María, lo as parida, y entre la buey y el mulica angeles loa cantará. – María Ochandrea… – Estás, niño Dios del cielo, hombre chica en pobre suelo. Tienes mucha terciopelo, no creas que vestirá.

– María Ochandrea… – En noche tan plazentera cantemos muchos cantares, pues nos quita los pesares la Virgen qu’está partera. – ¿Quién ha de tomar la mano? – Cante Bras en valentiano una breve cancioneta.7. – Lleva’t en l’albeta, Peret chiquet, Michalotet, lleva’t en l’albeta. Veuràs la Vergeneta en una barraqueta. Peret chiquet… Que’l seu fillet alleta, tot nu sens camiseta, com dona molt

probeta. Peret chiquet… Y entre’l bou y muleta veuràs en carn perfeta divinitat secreta. Peret chiquet… – ¡Baste ya! Sus, no cantemos, no sea todo cantar. – ¿Pues qué quieres? Que baylemos? – Plázenos sin más tardar. Bras de Lerena podrá baylar la

gallarda nueva. – ¡Mi fe, yo haré la prueba! – Veamos si agradará. Mas primero, es cosa buena, que

a la Virgen soberana, pues nos dió tan buena estrena, comencemos la pavana.

Tantarlantan, falalalanta, tatatara… – ¡Sus, sus, sus, sus, no mas dormir! Cantemos aquí lohores sin par de quien meresció tal Hijo

parir, que el daño de Adán vino a remediar, que, sin ygual soberana, fue tan gentil y galana que a Dios supo enamorar.

– Reyna sagrada, pues paristes al Redemptor que en braços tenéis, dezidnos ¿cómo concebistes, pues madre y virgen permanecéis?

– On this night of joy, all must sing. – Joancho Ochandría will praise the one who, without equal,

has given birth to the light of day. – Do you want a song of Biscay? – Yes, that would be much better, and even if you’re just

passing through, it would please us all.6. – O, Holy Mary, intercede for my sins. A child so cute, Mary, you have brought into the world, &

between the ox & the mule, the angels will sing his praise. – O, Holy Mary ... – He is there, the infant God of heaven, a little man in a poor

world. No matter how much velvet you have, do not think that he will wear it.

– O, Holy Mary ... – This pleasant night, let us sing many songs, for we have no

more burdens, thanks to the Virgin who is giving birth. – Who will now sing his refrain? – Let Bras sing in Valencian a short little song.7. – Get up at dawn, my little Peret, Michalotet, get up at dawn. You will see the Virgin pure in a poor hovel. My little Peret ... Her child she suckles, quite naked and undressed, just like

the poorest woman. My little Peret ... And between the ox and the ass you will see in perfect

flesh a secret divinity. My little Peret ... – That’s enough! Let’s sing no more, lest all be songs. – What do you want, then? Shall we dance? – So let it be without delay. Bras de Lerena can dance the galliard. – In faith, I will try! – Let’s see if you like it, but first, it is meet that for the

sovereign Virgin, we should offer a fine New Year’s gift, so let us begin with the pavane.

Tantarlantan, falalalanta, tatatara ... – Get up, sleep no more! And let us here sing of the

unequaled virtue of the one who has deserved to give birth to such a son, who has come to remedy the fault of Adam, of the one who, a queen without equal, was so lovely and so gentle that she knew how to enamor God himself

– Holy Queen, since you have borne the redeemer that in your arms you hold, tell us: how did you engender him, since you remain Mother and Virgin?

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– Como el sol por la vidriera lo veis passar, de tal manera tomó en mí carne el Dios que veis. – ¿Como podeis siendo criatura, señora, parir al que es

Criador, pues siendo vos su propia hechura el os es Padre y superior?

– La divinal inmensidad hizo en mi tal novedad por me hazer tan gran favor.

– ¡Sus, sus, sus, sus, no mas dormir!… – ¿Avemos todos cantado? Avemos todos baylado? Ya an

cantado cuantos son. – ¿Todos avemos cantado? – No la madre del garçón, que siempre nos a escuchado. – Pues cantad, reyna del mundo, por complir el regozijo con vuestro Hijo iocundo, que nos librará de afán.8. – ¿Qué de mí qué de vos, mi hijo qué de mí, qué de vos dirán? Que os amé y que me amastes, que os crié y que me criastes.

¿Qué de mí…? A mí, vuestra hija y madre, a vos, mi Hijo y mi Padre.

¿Qué de mí…? De vos, que tembláis de frío, sin pañales, Hijo mío. ¿Qué de mí…? Que os baxé y me subistes, que os serví y me servistes.”

¿Qué de mí…? Diránme mil benditiones todas las generationes: Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est et sanctum nomen ejus.9. – Si dixeren, digan, Madre mía, si dixeren, digan. – A los que dixeren que bien nos queremos, ayan buenas

Pascuas y los años buenos. – Madre mía, si dixeren, digan… Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in secula saeculorum. Amen.

Magi veniunt ab Oriente Ierosolymam, quaerentes et dicentes: “Ubi est qui natus est, Rex Iudaeorum, cujus stellam vidimus?” Et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.

1. Estennia,on de tson8e Ies8s ahatonnia Onn’a8ate8a d’oki n’on,8andask8aentak Ennonchien sk8atrihotat n’on,8andi,onrachatha Ies8s ahatonnia, ij

2. A,oki onkinnhache eronhia,eronnon iontonk ontatiande ndio sen tsatonnharonnion 8arie onna8ak8eton ndio sen tsatonnharonnion Ies8s ahatonnia, ij

3. Achink ontahonrask8a d’hatirih8annens Tichion ha,onniondetha onh8a achia ahatren Ondaiete hahahak8a tichion ha,onniondetha Ies8s ahatonnia, ij

4. Tho ichien stahation tethotondi Ies8s ahoatatende tichion stan chi teha8ennion Aha,onatorenten iatonk atsion sken Ies8s ahatonnia, ij

– Like the sun passing through a window, so God has taken flesh in me, as you see.

– How being a creature, could you, lady, give birth to one who is the Creator? for by him you were created, he is your Father and superior?

– Divine infinity makes in me something so strange, to treat me with such great favor.

– Get up, sleep no more! ... – We have all sung and all danced as much as we can.

– All have sung? – No, not the mother of the child, who has always listened to us. – So, sing, Queen of the world, to complete the celebration

with your joyful son, who has freed us from our woes.8. – What about me, what about you, my son, what will they say? That I loved you and that you loved me, that I raised you

and you raised me. What about me ...? To me, your daughter and mother, to you, my Son and my

Father. What about me ...? About you, that tremble with cold, without swaddling, my Son. What about me ...? That I made you come down, and you made me go up, that

I served you and you served me. What about me ...? All the generations will forever bless me, For he that is mighty hath magnified me: and holy is his Name.9. – If they speak, let them speak, my Mother. – To those who will say that we love each other well, we wish

good celebrations and Happy New Years. – If they speak ... Glory to the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and forever, world without end. Amen.

—Tr. Frank Dobbins

The wise men come from the east to Jerusalem, seeking and saying: “Where is he who was born, the King of the Jews, whose star we see?” And they come with gifts to adore the Lord.

1. Have courage, you who are humans, Jesus, he is born Behold, the spirit who had us as prisoners has fled Do not listen to it, as it corrupts our minds Jesus, he is born.2. They are spirits with a message for us, the sky people they are coming to say, “Rejoice” “Marie, she has just given birth. Rejoice.” Jesus, he is born. 3. Three have left for such a place, those who are elders A star that has just appeared over the horizon leads them

there. He will seize the path, he who leads them there Jesus, he is born. 4. As they arrived there, where he was born, Jesus, the star was at the point of stopping, he was not far past it. Having found someone for them, he says, “Come here” Jesus, he is born.

5. Onne ontahation chiahona,en Ies8s Ahatichiennonniannon kahachia handia,on Te honannonronk8annnion ihontonk oerisen Ies8s ahatonnia, ij

6. Te hek8atatennonten ahek8achiendaen Te hek8annonronk8annion de son,8entenrande 8to,eti sk8annonh8e ichierhe akennonhonstha Ies8s ahatonnia, ij

1. Joseph K8riritenés K8ririthighé mannés Ni8esk8 assanredian Mari nis adzannedian K8an8é8èssanbé mannès 8tsi k8riritenès.

2. 8a ga 8enitzannitsir k8ésih8sk8adzasantsir k8é8èssi arèr meghénar kenéna8aghi meghénar k8é8èssaghi meghenés 8tsi k8riritenés.

3. papan8i namih8sa éd8tsi-ki8ighesa nsinské-gaten-anbadiég8 k8éni na 8ita8édiég8 k8é8éssi kèssinninés 8tsi k8riritenés

4. é8ansis8ina8at kétsini8és k8érmat ési éramikka8adé mam 8ssantzi-8adzémadé k8é8éssi tehansinés 8tsi k8riritenés

5. naighe kéd8naredé néban8ri k8ansixadé io séghé 8andama8iég na ékighé 8anganiég k8ri saghé 8sinés 8tsi k8riritenés.

6. 8ighi 8é8eisimerég 8éririt-èrinereg 8tsi 8itzokkemieghé 8è8tska8anbadaméghé k8e8èss apitamenés tè ni k8riritenés.

1. 8i8 satannitenrascon yonnehrag8at tag8anonwes ayong8atedsiratonge sk8ariwasserag8ennire.

2. Wahonnisse dsig8arhare dsi g8ascanex g8ayatisacs ayawen ayosnoreenne nenaontasg8en tenrane.

3. G8ennitta ne Scwenniyo ontas g8en nageratire asseyateg8atenotcon sonha assewenniyoge.

4. Ontasatsnent garonhiage ontasc8arionniennire ne dsi hag8a nayeyere a ontagariwayerige.

5. 8nen t8 atonhongano yategagont tzarch or [canex] ne garihwaxenx8e ago vonh8annigonraxatai8a.

6. Ne thennon aet8atsterist ne nag8a rariwanonwes negarihwigo naha8ten ronh8annigonrayerilsta.

Sã aqui turo zente pleta, he, he, turo zente de Guiné, he, he, tambor flauta y casaeta y carcavena sua pé.

Vamoso fazer huns fessa o menino Manué, he, he! Canta Bacião, canta Thomé, cantu tu, canta Flanciquia, canta

Caterija, cantu tu. Canta tu Flunando, canta tu Resnando, canta tu!

Oya, oya! Turo Neglo hare cantá! Ha cantamo y bayamo que forro ficamo. Ha tanhemo y cantamo, ha frugamo y tanhemo, ha tocamo pandero, ha flauta y carcavé, ha dizemo que biba, biba mia siola y biba Zuzé. Anda tu Flancico borimo esse pé, biba, biba, esse menino que mia Deuza, he, he, biba Manué, he, he.

Nacemo de huns may donzera huns Rey que mia Deuza he, que has de forra zente pleta, pleta que cativo he, dar sua vida por ella que su Amigo até more.

Vamoso fazer huns fessa o menino Manué, he.

5. Behold, they have arrived there and have seen Jesus, They praised many times, saying “Hurray, he is good in

nature.” They greeted him with reverence, saying “Hurray” Jesus, he is born.

6. “We will give to him praise for his name. Let us show reverence for him as he comes to be compassionate to us. It is providential that you love us and wish, ‘I should adopt them.’” Jesus, he is born.

—John Steckley1. Joseph is well married to a girl of Jesse’s line. It’s something new to be a mother and girl. God made it happen: Joseph is well married.2. And when this was at the beginning that God wanted to save

us. He made descend to earth his only son, Jesus, to take human form in Mary: Joseph is well married.

3. When Joseph had perceived that the woman had conceived, He was not a happy husband, was angry with Mary, and wanted her to go away: Joseph is well married.

4. But the angel said unto him: Joseph, don’t be spiteful. Your saintly wife, Mary, is pregnant with the fruit of life. She has conceived without sin: Joseph is well married.5. The angels came there to see the redeemer Jesus. With a very beautiful chorus, then with loud and pretty

voices, “Gloria,” they sang: Joseph is well married.6. Now pray we devotedly with good heart and humbly, that peace, joy, and good life to implore lady Mary to our necessity: Joseph is well married.

—R.W. Duffin

1. O bountiful creator of the stars, eternal light of believers, Christ, redeemer of all: hear the prayers of your supplicants.

2. You, sorrowing that the world should be destroyed by death, did save it in its illness, providing a cure for sinners.

3. In the declining evening of the world, like a groom from the bridal chamber, you emerged from the undefiled womb of the virgin mother.

4. At whose great power, every celestial and terrestrial knee is bent, all confessing with bowed head.

5. We pray you, O holy judge of the world to come, to save us now from the sword of our treacherous enemy.

6. Praise, honor, power, glory be to God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever.

Here we are all back people, all people from Guinea, he, he, he! Drum, flute, and castanets and rattles on our feet.

We are going to celebrate the Child Emanuel. Sing, Bastian! Sing, Thomas! Sing, Francisca! Sing, Catherina!

Sing, Ferdinand! You sing, Reinaldo!

Listen, listen! All we black folk will sing! We sing and dance because we are free! Playing and singing, joyfully playing! We play the tambourine, flute and rattle! We shout, long live Our Lady and long live Joseph! Go on, Francisco, let’s shake our feet! Long live that baby who is my God; long live Emanuel!

Born of a maiden is the King who is my God, who will free he blackpeople who are captive, and will give his life for his friends, until the death.

We are going to celebrate the Child Emanuel.

Judea1. A Virgin unspotted ye Prophet foretold, Should bring forth a Saviour which now we behold To be our Redeemer from Death,

Hell, and Sin, Which Adam’s transgression involved us in. Then let us be merry, put sorrow away, Our Saviour Christ Jesus was born on this day.

2. Through Bethlehem’s city, in Jewry it was, That Joseph and Mary together did pass, And for to be taxed when thither they came, Since Caesar Augustus commanded the same. Then let us…

3. But Mary’s full time being come, as we find, She brought forth her first born to save all mankind, The inn being full, for this heavenly guest, No place there was found where to lay him to rest. Then let us…

4. But Mary, blest Mary, so meek and so mild, soon wrapt up in swadlings this heavenly child: Contented he laid him where oxen do feed; The great God of nature approved of the deed. Then let us…

5. Then presently after, the shepherds did spy vast numbers of angels to stand in the sky; so merrily talking, so sweet they did sing, all glory and praise to our heavenly king. Then let us…

6. To teach us humility all this was done, then learn we from thence haughty pride for to shun; A manger his cradle who came from above, the great God of mercy, of peace and of love. Then let us…

Shiloh1. Methinks I see an heav’nly Host of Angels on the Wing; Methinks I hear their cheerful notes, so merrily they sing. Let all your

Fears be banish’d hence. Glad tidings I proclaim. For there’s a Saviour born today, and Jesus is His name.2. Lay down your crooks, and quit your Flocks, to Bethlehem repair; And let your wand’ring steps be squared by yonder shining

Star. Seek not in Courts or Palaces; Nor Royal curtains draw; But search the Stable, see your God extended on the Straw.3. Then learn from hence, ye rural Swains, the meekness of your God, Who left the boundless Realms of Joy, to ransom you with

blood. The master of the inn refus’d a more commodious place; Ungen’rous Soul of savage mold, and destitute of Grace.4. Exult ye Oxen, low for joy, ye Tenants of the Stall, Pay your obeisance; on your knees unanimously fall. The Royal guest you

entertain is not of common Birth, but second to the Great I Am; the God of heav’n and earth.5. Then suddenly a Heav’nly Host around the Shepherds throng. Exulting in the threefold God, and thus address their song. To

God the Father, Christ the Son, and Holy Ghost accord; The first and last, the last and first, Eternal praise afford.

The Lamb1. Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life and bade thee feed by the stream and o’er the

mead, Gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing wolly bright, Gave thee such a tender voice, making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

2. Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee, Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee: He is called by thy name, for he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb, God bless thee, Little Lamb, God bless thee.

—William Blake (1789)

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Choral Arts is devoting its 42nd musical season to the environmental seasons with Haydn's oratorio The Seasons as the focal point. Movements of the oratorio will be presented throughout 2016-2017 along with selected companion pieces by composers such as Bob Chilcott, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill. The Seasons movements will be accompanied by orchestra with soloists Marian Vogel, soprano, Timothy Culver, tenor, and John Watson, bass. The Seasons “Autumn” movement: Sunday, November 20, 2016 The Seasons “Winter” movement:Sunday, February 26, 2017

The Seasons “Spring” and “Summer” movements: Sunday, May 7, 2017

All performances are at 7:30 p.m. at Disciples Christian Church, 3663 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights 44121

Benedicamus domino1. Procedenti puero, Eya, novus annus est! Virginis ex utero, Gloria laudis;

Deus homo factus est, et immortalis. 2. Sine viri semine Eya, novus annus est!

natus est de virgine. Gloria laudis; …3. Sine viri copia Eya, novus annus est!

natus est ex Maria. Gloria laudis; …4. In hoc festo determino, Eya, novus annus est!

Benedicamus Domino. Gloria laudis; …

1. To the boy proceeding, Rejoice, this is a new year! From the virgin’s womb, Give glory of praise; God is made man, and immortal.

2. Without the seed of man, Rejoice … He is born of a virgin. Give glory …

3. Without the agency of man, Rejoice … He is born of Mary. Give glory …

4. In this feast, I declare, Rejoice … Let us bless the Lord. Give glory …

1. In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago.2. Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away when he comes to reign: In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.3. Enough for him, whom cherubim, worship night and day, A breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay; Enough for him, whom angels fall down before, The ox and ass and camel which adore.4. Angels and archangels may have gathered there, Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air; But only his mother, in her maiden bliss Worshipped the beloved with a kiss.5. What can I give Him, poor as I am? — If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb, If I were a wise man, I would do my part,— Yet what I can I give him,— give my heart.

—Christina Rossetti (1872)

Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm

Rock Around the Clock

Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 7:30 pm

There’s No Place Like Home

Highlighting influential musicians from the Renaissance to the Rock & Roll era.

The Many Moods of Christmas

Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm

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2016-17 SEASON

OF CLEVELAND

At the Breen Center for the Performing Arts2008 W. 30 St. & Lorain Ave.

Songs and stories from yesterday and today.

Music to ring in the season.

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QBoard of DirectorsRichard Rodda, ph.d., PresidentJohn McElliott, Secretary Gerald P. Weinstein, ph.d., cpa, TreasurerDiane S. Schwartz, Development Fr. Robert Kropac, Community Outreach Ross W. Duffin, d.m.a., Artistic Director Beverly Simmons, d.m.a., Executive Director

Box Office Manager: Ann LevinRecording Engineer: Michael Bishop

c Quire Cleveland a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Quire Cleveland is grateful to Music & Art @ Trinity, The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, Dean, and Todd Wilson, Director of Music; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron, The Rev. Mark Pruitt, Rector, and Daniel Fortune, Organist-Choirmaster; and to Historic St. Peter Church, Fr. Robert Kropac, Pastor, for hosting Quire Cleveland. We also wish to thank our generous donors:Magister $2,500+Billow Funeral HomesCuyahoga Arts & CultureOhio Arts CouncilSimmons/Duffin Family Fund

of the Dayton Foundation

Cantus $1,000–$2,499Janet Curry & Richard RoddaJohn McElliottElva RustDiane & Lewis SchwartzGerald P. Weinstein

Altus $500–$999Arthur V. N. BrooksShannon CanavinMichael Anne JohnsonBrenda Logan

in memory of Thomas KnabDr. Alan Rocke & Cristine RomSarah Steiner

Tenor $250–$499John & Laura Bertsch Becky Bynum & Phil Calabrese Jim & Jenny MeilE. William PodojilLarry Rosche & Judy Semroc

in honor of Dr. Lisa Rainsong

Bassus $100–$249AnonymousEdward AlixBonnie BakerJoanne BlazekLloyd Max Bunker & Anthony Bianchi Terry BoyarskyLucy Chamberlain Drs. Virginia & Matthew CollingsDr. Roman & Dr. Diana Dale

Peter & Mary Gerhart David & Loraine HammackRichard & Bernice JefferisUrsula KorneitchoukAlexander Kuszewski Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Mahoney Geraldine McElliottJean M. Minnick

in honor of Donna FagerhaugDr. Jenifer NeilsRussell OberlinElizabeth & David RothenbergMr. & Mrs. William E. SpatzKathryn WestlakeContratenor up to $99Anonymous (6)Christa AckerDavid C. CarverLucy ChamberlainAnne CookGayle CrawfordBruce GrasserMaureen & Francis GreiciusCharles GriffithByron & Elizabeth HaysLiz HuffDonald J. JacksonGale & Jim JacobsohnEric & Sue KischSarah & Michael KnoblauchClayton KoppesDorothy LungmusArlene & J. Adin Mann, Jr.Michael Miller Antoinette S. MillerNancy M. MillerPaula Mindes & George GilliamDon NashCarolyn & Perry Peskin

Joanne PoderisGay & Quentin QuereauJane RichmondLinda RoyerCynthia SeamanDean & Judith SieckShirley SimmonsNancy Stemmer & Laura SimsDaniel & Andrew Singer-SordsElizabeth SnyderRichard SnyderKent & Nancy SpelmanSarah SteinerNancy Stemmer & Laura SimsPhilip & Sarah TaylorNancy TuttleBancroft TwaddellMary WarrenRichard WeberSara Rouse WotmanJen & Chad WrightSheila WyseEdith YergerDoreen A. ZiskaThanks also to Paul Cauthen, Paul- André Dubois, Ives Goddard, Leon Hooper, Visa A. J. Kurki, John Lipski, Marianne Mithun, Mathieu O’Bomsawin, Conor Quinn, Arne Spohr, and Scott Taylor, for help with sources, texts, and translations. And to 104.9 WCLV; 90.3 WCPN; WKSU 89.7; Ωort∞simo design; Micrologus Music Press; Spunmonkey Design; Beth Segal Photography.The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Donors listed from the current seasons. Please let us know of any errors or omissions in attribution.

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