Libertad!Holy Cross College Choir and Chamber Singers

Matt Jaskot, accompanist Laurel Mehaffey, vocologistDavid Harris, director

Va Pensiero

Lux Aeterna

Demos Gracias Abe Ross, conductor

Some NightsCarley Buckley and Diana Hurtado, solos

Soneto IXColby Baker, piano

Swingle Song

Suscipe

TelescopeCarley Buckley, Rose Fusco,

Christian Hirsh, Mike Dunbar, solos

Reminiscence

Walking on the Green Grass

Uptown FunkBlaze Hilario, vocal percussion

Shenandoah

Make Our Garden Grow

O Freedom

Giuseppi Verdi (1813-1901)

Fernando Moruja (1960-2004)

Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)

Nate Ruess (b. 1982)

Colby Baker (b. 1991)

Darmon Meader (b. 1962)

Normand Gouin (b. 1970)

Mike Dunbar (b. 1991)

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Michael Hennagin (1936-1993)

Brunot Mars (b. 1985)

arr. James Erb (1926-2014)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

arr. David Harris (b. 1974)

The story of music in the western hemisphere shares many common threads. When forced together, the previously defined Indigenous, European, and African cultures blended to create a wealth of new art forms including a musical cannon unique to this side of the Atlantic. Arts in the Americas are like the sea of wildflowers that sprung up after a disastrous flood. They reveal that even amongst the turmoil of conquest, forced migration, political redesign, and overzealous zeitgeist, people come together to create beauty from diversity, borrowing on one another’s strengths.

This year in the arts at Holy Cross, we have focused on the theme of Time, Memory, and Identity through our Arts Transcending Borders. The identity of the Americas has always been a shared one, spread across a vast melting pot of traditions, unified through a diefied belief in freedom. Freedom, though manifest through different political structures across the hemisphere, undergirds the spirit of the Americas, and is woven like gold thread through the patchwork of our music. The music of the Americas, whether heard in the ever-moving swung rhythms of jazz, the undulating current of Argentinian folk dances, the reaching fifth-based harmonies favored by American classicists, the earth-grounded/heaven-bound phrases of the Spirituals, or pop music’s perpetual teen-aged hopefullness, rings with freedom. We share this identity with the people of all countries and nationalities who claim their home in the western hemisphere, even while acknowledging the differences that allow for stunning diversity.

On this concert we have the pleasure of presenting compositions by five different Holy Cross composers. Colby Baker and Mike Dunbar, both of whom have given countless energy to the music department in their four years here, have created exciting new additions to the repertoire. Norm Gouin, our new Chapel Choir director, wrote Suscipe in honor of the class of 2018, Osvaldo Golijov’s Demos Gracias from his powerful St. Mark Passion embodies the concert theme through his own life and work, and we end with my own arrangement of O Freedom. This year, Holy Cross Choirs have also had the unique opportunities to create six major concerts, with the help of several celebrities have learned to sing in several different styles and at the end of May will embark upon the first international tour in nearly a decade. We have also seen incredible support from alumni and parents this year, and are enthusiastic for the future. Next year we’ll add a major work onto our list, and are discussing our next tour location. Libertad! is certainly a mantra that describes the Holy Cross Choir experience!

Va Pensiero

Hasten thoughts on golden wings.Hasten and rest on the densely wooded hills,

where warm and fragrant and softare the gentle breezes of our native land!

The banks of the Jordan we greetand the towers of Zion.

O, my homeland, so beautiful and lost!O memories, so dear and yet so deadly!

Golden harp of our prophets,why do you hang silently on the willow?Rekindle the memories of our hearts,

and speak of the times gone by! Or, like the fateful Solomon,draw a lament of raw sound;

or permit the Lord to inspire usto endure our suffering!

~Temistocle Solera

Soneto IX

There where the waves shatter on the restless rocksthe clear light bursts and enacts its rose,

and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds,to one drop of blue salt, falling.

O bright magnolia bursting in the foam,magnetic transient whose death blooms

and vanishes — being, nothingness — forever:broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea.

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,

collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:

because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,galloping water, incessant sand,

we make the only permanent tenderness.~Pablo Neruda

Demos Gracias

We give thanks unto the Lord;because his mercy endureth forever.

We give thanks to the LordAnd glorify his name,Praise we the Lord,

Whose goodness is eternal.He is the Savior.

Even while the earth tremblesGive thanks to the Lord,

For his goodness is eternal.He is the Savior

That reigns in Heaven.When death comes and captures me,

And I am held in its noose,When I am a prisoner

of fear and painand anguish touches me

I sing to the Lord.Tremble, tremble, earth....

For though the earth tremblesAnd death comes to find me

I sing to the LordAnd give praise

to the LordWe

give thanks, O Lord

Lux Aeterna

Let perpetual light shine upon them, O Lord,With your saints forever,

For you are merciful.

SopranoGabby AtwellJuliana Brandao *Alison Christovich *Melanie Collins *Rose Fusco * ∞ ‡Judy GaoHannah MooreJulia Palmerino * ∞Allison Rancourt * ∞ ‡Sarah SlipekAlyssa WhiteXinyi Zeng

AltoCarley Buckley * ‡Sloane Burns ∞Nicole Costa * ∞Julia Dunn * ∞Casey FangHannah Gabriel * ∞ ‡Emma GarabanElise HoyDiana Hurtado * ∞Melody LinKatelyn LyonsRenata NdahayoAna-Sophia ReyesNina Robertson *Caroline TozerEmily Vecchiarelli

TenorJeremy Berry *Christopher FernandezNick Jorgensen *Max Lies *Phillip Losquadro *Adam Ouellet * ∞ ‡Abe Ross * ‡

BassAdam BullockMike Dunbar *Blaze Hilario * ‡Christian Hirsch *Tyler MacDonaldTed O’Neill * ‡Tim Rice * ∞Alex Simrell *Choir Leadership

Abe Ross, Assistant ConductorJulia Dunn, Board ChairAdam Ouellet, Chair ElectDiana Hurtado, Secretary/Treasurer

* Chamber Singers ∞ E Board ‡ Section Leader

The Holy Cross College Choir and Chamber Singers

TenorJeremy Berry *Christopher FernandezNick Jorgensen *Max Lies *Phillip Losquadro *Adam Ouellet * ∞ ‡Abe Ross * ‡

BassAdam BullockMike Dunbar *Blaze Hilario * ‡Christian Hirsch *Tyler MacDonaldTed O’Neill * ‡Tim Rice * ∞Alex Simrell *

Wednesday, April 22 7:30 PMHoly Cross Chamber OrchestraBrooks Concert Hall

Thursday, April 23 8:00 PMSpring ConcertHoly Cross Jazz EnsembleBrooks Concert Hall

Saturday, April 25 4:00 PMSenior RecitalArthur Joseph Dalton, trumpetBrooks Concert Hall

Tuesday, April 28 4:00 PMStudent/Faculty RecitalBrooks Concert Hall

Wednesday, April 29 7:30 PMMusic of Brahms & Baker ‘15Brooks Concert Hall

Friday May 1 8:00 PMBrentano String Quartet7:00 PM-Pre-concert talk by Jessica Waldoff, Associate Professor of Music at Holy CrossBrooks Concert Hall

Saturday, May 2 8:00 PMGamelan Gita SariBrooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Music Department Concerts

Congratulations and Thanks to our Seniors!

Sloane Burns has been in the choir and on the choir board this year. She is a double major in Religion and Psychology and will be a St. Joseph Worker next year at the Carondolet Center in Los Angeles.

Melanie Collins has sung with the choir throughout her time at Holy Cross, and joined the Chamber Singers this year. She is a Biology major on the Ecological/Environmental track, and plans to work in conservation.

Nicole Costa has sung with the College Choir and Chamber Singers throughout her time at Holy Cross. She is a Political Science major with a Peace and Conflict Studies concentration, and plans to work in the non-profit sector.

Mike Dunbar is an English and Music double major with a minor in Catholic Studies who joined the College Choir and Chamber Singers this year. He’ll be spending the next chapter of his life writing music and performing, and you can follow him at suitcaseandguitar.com.

Valerie Kisselback has sung with the choir throughout her time at Holy Cross. She is a Religion major with a Peace and Conflict concentration who will be performing a year of service with the Capuchin Franciscan Youth and Family Ministries Program next year.

We adopted Colby Baker because he’s written several pieces for us. He is a music major and plans to pursue future composition study and music performance.