반 윌리엄즈 탄생 150주년 합창공연 1부/Vaughan Williams

 

11월 12일 합창공연 포스터

 

 

리처드 이튼 싱어즈의 2022-23년 시즌 첫 합창공연이

2022년 11월 12일 저녁 7시 30분에

에드먼턴 심포니 오케스트라와 두 독창자들과 함께

윈스페어 뮤직센터에서 열렸다.

 

이 공연은 1872년에 영국에서 태어난

Ralph Vaughan Williams/랄프 반 윌리엄즈 탄생 150주년을 

기념하는 의미 있는 무대였다.

 

그리고 공연 하루 전날인 11월 11일은 Remembrance Day 이어서

전쟁터에서 숨진 모든 군인들을 잊지 않고 추모하는 뜻깊은 날이기에

공연 2부에 미국 남북 전쟁을 주제로 월트 휘트만이 쓴 시 작품들과

구약 성경 구절을 토대로 작곡가 반 윌리엄즈가 쓴

칸타타 'Dona Nobis Pacem'/주여 평화를 주소서 작품을 무대에 올렸다.

 

공연 2주 전부터 독감이 걸려서 몸이 안 좋은 상태에서

다행히 80% 정도 회복이 되어서

무사히 감동적이고 뜻깊은 공연에 참가할 수 있어서

어느 공연보다 뿌듯하고 감사한 마음이 든 공연이었다.

 

2022년 11월 11일 저녁에 윈스피어 뮤직센터에서 오케스트라와 연습 시작 전에...

PROGRAM 

1부
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Mystical Songs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Benedicite

INTERMISSION

 

2부

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona Nobis Pacem


ARTISTS:

Leonard Ratzlaff, Conductor and RES Music Director
Jolaine Kerley, Soprano
Roderick Bryce, Baritone
Richard Eaton Singers
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

 

2022년 11월 11일 저녁

 

 

Five Mystical Songs

 

1. Easter
   – from Herbert's Easter

Rise heart; thy Lord is risen.
Sing his praise without delayes,
Who takes thee by the hand,
that thou likewise with him may'st rise;
That, as his death calcined thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and much more, just.

Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part with all thy art.
The crosse taught all wood to resound his name, who bore the same.
His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key
Is the best to celebrate this most high day.

Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song pleasant and long;
Or since all musick is but three parts vied and multiplied.
O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part,
And make up our defects with his sweet art.

2. I Got Me Flowers
    – from the second half of Easter

I got me flowers to strew thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st thy sweets along with thee.

The Sunne arising in the East.
Though he give light, and th'East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy arising, they presume.

Can there be any day but this,
Though many sunnes to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we misse:
There is but one, and that one ever.

3. Love Bade Me Welcome
– from Love (III)

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back.
Guiltie of dust and sinne.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack'd anything.

A guest, I answer'd, worthy to be here:
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkinde, ungrateful? Ah, my deare,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?

Truth Lord, but I have marr'd them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.
And know you not, sayes Love, who bore the blame?
My deare, then I will serve.
You must sit down, sayes Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.

4. The Call
from The Call

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:
Such a Way, as gives us breath:
Such a Truth, as ends all strife:
Such a Life, as killeth death.

Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength:
Such a Light, as shows a feast:
Such a Feast, as mends in length:
Such a Strength, as makes his guest.

Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart:
Such a Joy, as none can move:
Such a Love, as none can part:
Such a Heart, as joyes in love.

5. Antiphon
 from Antiphon (I)

Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing:
My God and King.
The heavens are not too high,
His praise may thither flie;
The earth is not too low,
His praises there may grow.

Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing:
My God and King.
The Church with psalms must shout,
No doore can keep them out;
But above all, the heart
Must bear the longest part.

Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing:
My God and King.

 

 

 

 

 

Benedicite/베네다이시티**  

 

O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord:

    praise him and magnify him for ever.

O ye Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord:

    praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Heavens, bless ye the Lord:

O ye Waters, bless ye the Lord:

O all ye Powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord:

    praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Sun and Moon, bless ye the Lord;

O ye Stars of Heaven, bless the Lord:

O he Showers and Dew, bless ye the Lord:

O ye Winds of God, Fire and Heat, less ye the Lord:

O Winter and Summer O he Dews and Frosts, bless ye the Lord:

O ye Frost and Cold, O ye Ie and Snow, bless ye the Lord:

Nights and Days, Light and Darkness, Lightning and Clouds, bless the Lord.

 

O let the Earth bless the Lord:

    yea, let it praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O all ye Green Things upon the Earth, bless the Lord:

    praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Mountains, O ye Hills, O ye Wells, bless ye the Lord:

    praise him, and magnigy him for ever.

O ye Seas, O ye Floods, and all that move in the Waters:

O all ye Fowls of the Air, O all ye Beasts and Cattle, bless ye the Lord:

    praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Children of Men, bless ye the Lord:

O let Israel bless the Lord:

O ye Priests, bless ye the Lord:

    priase him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Servants of the Lord, bless the Lord:

O ye Spirits and Souls of the Righteous,

O ye holy and humbble Men of Heart,

O let the Earth bless the Lord:

    yea, let it praise him and magnify him for ever.

 

 

Hark, my sould, how everything

Strives to serve our bounteous King:

Each a double tribute pays,

Sings its part, and then obeys.

 

Call whole nature to thy aid;

Since 'twas he whole nature made;

Join in one eternal song,

Who to one God all belong.

 

Live for ever, glorious Lord!

Oive by all thy works adored,

One in Three, and Three in One,

Thrice we bow to thee alone.

 

Bless ye the Lord: 

praise him and magnify him for ever.

 

O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord;

    praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O all ye Powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord:

    praise him, and magnify him for ever.

O let the Earth bless the Lord:

    yea, let it praise him, and magnify him for ever.

 

 

**: 성경의 외경(Apocrypha)인 다니엘서의 구절인

"O all ye Works of the Lord"/오 주님이 만드신 모든 것들이여, 주님을 축복하라'

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