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A Drop in the Ocean (2006)...........Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)

commemorating the 76th anniversary of
the year Mother Teresa took her vows
Erin Matthews, soprano
Madelaine Martinez, Erin Persick, Claire Choquette, Molly Clementz, readers

Jerry McCoy, conductor

Readings
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love."

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But, the ocean would be less because of that drop."
-- Mother Teresa

A Drop in the Ocean Translation:
Our Father, who is in heaven,
Holy is your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
As it is in heaven and on earth.
Give us today our daily bread,

And forgive our debts
As we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation
But liberate us from evil.
Amen.

Lord, make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon.
Where there is discord, let me sow harmony.
Where there is error, I may bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith.
Where there is despair, let me sow hope.
Where there is darkness, I may bring light.
(Where there is sadness), I may bring joy.
--attrib. St. Francis of Assisi (13th century)

Oh that I had the wings of a dove!
I would fly away.
I would flee far away and be at rest.
I would find my place far from the tempest
and storm.
Ah, Jesus, you are my God.
You are my Spouse.
Jesus my life, my love, my all in all.
--Song of the Sisters of the Calcutta Mission

My work is nothing but a drop in the ocean;
But if I did not put that drop, the ocean would be one drop the less.
--Mother Teresa


"Blessed Are They..." Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the A Cappella Choir
Recorded Live, November 19, 2013
Winspear Hall, College of Music
University of North Texas

http://music.unt.edu/choral

Triptych (2005).............Tarik O'Regan (b. 1978)

Threnody

As We Remember Them
Michelle Perez, soprano (Denton)
Susannah Woodruff, soprano (Dallas)

From Heaven Distilled A Clemency
Emily Poulsen, mezzo-soprano (Denton)
Kathryn Butler, mezzo-soprano (Dallas)

UNT Percussion Ensemble • Mark Ford, director
Benji Baker, Shelby Blezinger, Brockton Conwell, AJ Covey,
Tim Feerst, Makana Jimbu, Scott Radock, Raychel Taylor

Jerry McCoy, conductor

Triptych Translations:

Threnody
When death takes off the mask, (we) will know one another,
Though diverse liveries (we) wear here make us strangers.
--William Penn (1644-1718)
from Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflection and Maxims (1682)
Tremblest thou when my face appears to thee?
Wherefore thy dreadful fears?
Be easy, friend; 'tis thy truest gain to be far away from the sons of men.
I offer a couch to give ease:
Shall dreamless slumber so much displease?
--Muhammad Rajib Al-Bayoumi (dates unknown)
from Death Speaks, trans. by Arthur Arberry (1950)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
--William Blake (1757-1827)
from Auguries of Innocence (1808)

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for (people) to dwell together in unity.
--Psalm 133, King James Version (1611)


"Blessed Are They..." Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the A Cappella Choir
Recorded Live, November 19, 2013
Winspear Hall, College of Music
University of North Texas

http://music.unt.edu/choral

Take him, Earth, for Cherishing (1963).......Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Jerry McCoy, conductor

commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the death of John F. Kennedy
Tucker Bilodeau, Nate Mattingly, Tyler Reece, readers

Readings
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
--from A Strategy of Peace, American University, June 10, 1963

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner'."
-- West Berlin, June 26, 1963

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country... My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America can do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
-- Inauguration, January 20, 1961

Text:
Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
Take him, earth, for cherishing
To thy tender breast receive him.
Body of a man I bring thee,
Noble even in its ruin.

Once was this a spirit's dwelling,
By the breath of God created.
High the heart that here was beating,
Christ the prince of all its living.

Guard him well, the dead I give thee,
Not unmindful of His creature
Shall He ask it: He who made it
Symbol of His mystery.

Comes the hour God hath appointed
To fulfill the hope of men,
Then must thou, in very fashion,
What I give, return again.

Body of a man I bring thee.
Not though ancient time decaying
Wear away these bones to sand,
Ashes that a man might measure
In the hollow of his hand:

Not though wandering winds and idle,
Drifting through the empty sky,
Scatter dust was nerve and sinew,
Is it given to man to die.

Once again the shining road
Leads to ample Paradise;
Open are the woods again,
That the Serpent lost for men.

Take, O take him, mighty Leader,
Take again thy servant's soul.
Grave his name, and pour the fragrant
Balm upon the icy stone.

Take him, earth, for cherishing,
To thy tender breast receive him.
Body of a man I bring thee,
Noble even in its ruin.

By the breath of God created.
Christ the prince of all its living.
Take him, earth, for cherishing.
--from Hymnus circa Exsequias Defuncti
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (c.348-413)
Trans. Helen Waddell


"Blessed Are They..." Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the A Cappella Choir
Recorded Live, November 19, 2013
Winspear Hall, College of Music
University of North Texas

http://music.unt.edu/choral