ACC Music
ACC Choir Presents:
Soundscapes
Directed by Dr. Stephen White
With Elizabeth Wirtz and Dr. Jae Eun Baek
Friday, April 19th
7:30 PM
Highland Recital Hall
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Program
Program
Hlohonolofatsa
South African Greeting Song arranged by Daniel Jackson
Bless Everything
In the name of the Father
Breaths
Adapted from a poem by Birago Diop
Music by Ysaye M. Barnwell
Listen more often to things than to beings.
Listen more often to things than to beings.
‘Tis the ancestors breath
When the fire’s voice is heard
‘Tis the ancestors breath
In the voice of the waters
Those who have died have never, never left
The dead are not under the earth.
They are in the rustling trees.
They are in the groaning woods.
They are in the crying grass.
They are in the moaning rocks.
The dead are not under the earth.
Those who have died have never, never left
The dead have a pact with the living.
They are in the woman’s breast.
They are in the wailing child.
They are with us in the home.
They are with us in the crowd.
The dead have a pact with the living.
TaReKiTa
Lyrics & Music: Reena Esmail
TaReKiTa is a vibrant joyful piece in a rāga (an Indian classical melodic framework) called “Jog”, which incorporates both major and minor modalities into a single scale. The text syllables are onomatopoeic vocalizations of the sounds produced by Indian instruments.
The Prow
From The Ocean Between Us
Poetry by Jonathan Talberg from Ocean Poems
Music by Matthew Lyon Hazzard
The Prow, the best place on the boat for a seat.
Wind whipping, salt spraying, sun shining,
Dolphins playing above darkness and creeps in the deep,
Gliding o’er brilliance
Sea air, cracking of sails,
No one can catch us,
Not even the whales!
A Magical Machine
By Stephen Chapman
A spinning machine.
A magical bright machine.
Spinning and bright.
Flashing, buzzing, spinning, humming
Deep River
Traditional Spiritual
Arranged by Roy Ringwald
Deep river, my home is over Jordan
Deep river, Lord,
I want to cross over into campgroun’
Oh, don’t you want to go to that gospel feast,
That promised land where all is peace?
Deep river, Lord,
I want to cross over into campgroun’
Selene’s Boat
Text by Allison Girvan
Music by Don Macdonald
Lifting hopeful eyes to the darkening skies,
I look for signs the moon is nigh.
Finding mountain paths through the brown-skinned night,
I leave the beach so soon I might.
Reach for the moon.
Harvest the moonlight. Gather the moonlight.
And I hold lunar nectar in my trembling hand.
Shifting moonlight to pockets,
I make my way back to the strand.
Down the path once more,
Back onto the sand to where my boat is trapped on land.
Summoning the bright
Soul of satellite: “Speak to the sea! Call in the tide!”
Guided by moon. Counselled by moon.
Lead by the moonlight. Governed by moonlight.
And I empty my pockets onto the shore,
And the water floods in, where only sand was there before.
There was a Time
Poetry by William Wordsworth
Music by Elaine Hagenberg
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparell'd in celestial light,
The glory of a dream.
The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
ACC College Choir
Steven Behnke
Joshua Braun
Cody Childers
Harper Collier
Rebecca Delgado
Lydia Fleming
JD Folks
Daniel Garcia
Sheryl Gilchrist
Francisco Gonzales
Sojung Kim
Tatiana Martinez
Benjamin Medina
Paola Melo
Aaron Moeller
Layla Nishman
Mario Olivo
Paul Pena
Sarvin Safari
Christian Swint
Amanda Theilen
Sara Thenuqwara
Infinity Vallejos
Kalina Vangelov
Andrew Vano
Madison Whitaker
ACC Chamber Singers
Ovan Arnold
Aleah Burden
Liam Burritt
Keaton Casper
Raine Collier
Jalen Easley
Ana Flores
JD Folks
Katerina Hopp
Kayleigh Hungerford
Harlow Hurley
Aidan Inglish
Aaron Moeller
Selah Sparks
Sarah Urias
Andrew Vano
Bianca Youngblood
Special Thanks:
Dr. Shane Anderson
ACC Music Department Chair
Dr. Blythe Cates
ACC Music Department Assistant Chair
Elizabeth Wirtz and Dr. Jae Eun Baek
Collaborative Pianists
Professor Christina Montgomery and the ACC Drama Costume Shop
James Brooks and the ACC Percussion Department
Upcoming ACC Choral/Vocal Events:
ACC Jazz Choir and Jazz Ensemble I present: Spring Swing Thing
7:30pm Saturday, April 20th
ACC Highland Recital Hall
ACC Opera presents: “1950s in Two Short Operas”
7:30pm Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27
ACC Highland Recital Hall
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