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Gibbs is well-known for his prolific output of traditional spirituals, while Kirchner is a beloved arranger of early-American songs and hymns. It is a stream of consciousness outpouring of the sights, sounds, and bustle of the city; the choir’s cacophonous conversation stops suddenly as we gaze upon a couple seemingly unaware of all that is circling around them—they are in love.
She serves as the newly appointed School of Music's designated Diversity Liaison. University Chorale’s latest CD, Chasing Daybreak, will begin streaming in January 2024 on Apple Music and Spotify. These timeless words offer necessary comfort.
Dara la note il sol is a madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi. The Chamber Singers present …the love from me, to you, with songs by Blake Henderson, Claudio Monteverdi, Samih Choukeirl, and Matthew Hazzard.
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Apart from being emotionally attached to Ukrainian people because I spent my music school years in the capital, Kyiv, I have the best memories of them as educated, kind, civilized, and peaceful people.
SYRIAWISE: You see that the political bodies that were created to represent the different factions of the Syrian opposition have not succeeded so far and you have called for a “national initiative to achieve a new representative body that embodies the aspirations of Syrians for freedom and dignity.” What are the obstacles you face?
2000)
conducted by Alexander Nam Nguyễn
Freedom comes,
Only when love has won,
That’s the day freedom comes.
Music rings,
Only when kindness sings,
That’s the day music rings. Vince Peterson
Music and Text by Erika Lloyd (Little Grey Girlfriend)
Anjali Chudasama and Jessica Turner, soloists
So far away, far away,
When all will shine and all will play,
Hey.
The stars will open up and all will be
Tiny pieces of galaxy
Reflected in you and me.
Cells, planets, same thing.
Bright electric lights on all the leaves
And everything growing from a tree;
(the) water’s blood, and roots are veins.
I don’t know you, but I like you.
I don’t know you, but I miss you.
I don’t know you, but I need you.
Smallest is the biggest thing,
And in all the world,
The love is the love from me to you
I don’t know you, but I like you.
I don’t know you, but I miss you.
I don’t know you, but I need you.
Cells, planets, same thing.
No Color
Stacey V.
Gibbs (b. 1953)
Text by Henry Heveningham (1651–1700)
If music be the food of love,
Sing on till I am fill'd with joy
For then my list'ning soul you move
To pleasures that can never cloy.
Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare
That you are music ev'ry where.
Pleasures invade both eye and ear,
So fierce the transports are, they wound,
And all my senses feasted are,
Tho' yet the treat is only sound,
Sure I must perish by your charms,
Unless you save me in your arms.
Song is the Infinite Time of Times
Giselle Wyers
Text by Michel Khalil Helayel
conducted by Leah Wyman
Through out time,
Song is the infinite time of times.
Through out time,
Song bears the suffering and joy of its time.
In each place, in each life,
Song is already there.
Song has a Bird for Rhythm
Giselle Wyers
Text by Michel Khalil Helayel
Song has a bird for rhythm,
Song lives in blue sky.
Birds never abandon song.
Song birds who carry,
Story lines from our hands.
Birds who record their symphonies,
In the seeds of days to come.
Song is the rhythm of the wind
Song birds who carry,
Story lines from our hands.
Birds who record their symphonies,
In the seeds of days to come.
The high seas of nostalgia, Ah.
Asimbonanga (Mandela)
(South African freedom song)
Johnny Clegg (1953–2019) and Savuka (South African band formed in 1986)
arr.
1983)
Text by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Charm me asleep, and melt me so
With thy delicious numbers,
That, being ravish’d, hence I go
Away in easy slumbers.
Ease my sick head,
And make my bed.
Thou Pow’r canst sever from me this ill,
And quickly still,
Though thou not kill
My fever.
Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers,
Which, by the peep of day, do strew
A baptism o’er the flowers.
Melt, melt my pains
With thy soft strains;
That, having ease me giv’n,
With full delight
I leave this light,
And take my flight
For Heaven
Dará la notte il sol
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Text by Scipione Agnelli (1586–1653)
Italian text Nel sol d’alti sospir, di pianto, | English translation Nor will the beasts or heaven be alone |
Lao Rahal Soti
Samih Choukeir (b.
Otherwise, the emerging political vacuum is a gift we present to the dictator for the rehabilitation of his dilapidated regime. Do you see that the Ukrainian issue is facing global betrayal, as happened in the Syrian issue, according to what was said in your statement? Wyers is the newly appointed director of Concord Chamber Choir, an adult community chorus within the Columbia Choirs community.
Choukeir left Syria in 2010 in protest of the censorship imposed by the Assad regime on all free thinkers and artists. This offers a quiet gift of hope to those who carry on the struggle, with the hope that (the song) “brings together broken and suffering hearts.”
Cells Planets is a love song, to one, to all of us. Further, it has led to numerous UW choral students winning awards and scholarships to travel, study, and work in the Baltic countries.
Giselle Wyers
Giselle Wyers (she/her/hers) is the Donald E.
Petersen Endowed Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington, where she conducts the award-winning University Chorale and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in choral conducting and music education. In 2021-22, she served as composer-in-residence for the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium's annual festivities celebrating the return of in-person singing (her appearance was sponsored by Consortio).
Together they created No Color to be a statement of unity. That fact that you are now in France has not prevented you from exercising your art and uniting your free voice with those of the demonstrators calling for the toppling of the Assad regime. Giselle Wyers, conductor
Serena Chin, collaborative pianist
Leah Wyman and Marshell Lombard, assistant conductors
String Quartet: Christine Chu, violin; 1 Selina Siow, violin 2; Eugene Chin, viola; Youngbin Kim, cello
Join in Gathering
Giselle Wyers (b.
Perhaps the silver-lining of all of this is that we treasure community and relationship all the more, nothing is taken for granted.
The theme of the story we tell tonight was brought to mind as I entered our rehearsal space on just another ordinary day. I believe that a new, credible body must be born. Written in the early 1600’s, it is Shakespearean in its language as it speaks of comfort in our last days, and beauty in the process of death.
voices) will not
I look unto tomorrow and my heart is with you
If the singer goes (dies), the songs will remain
Bringing together the broken and suffering hearts
Cells Planets
Erika Lloyd, arr.