the seattle university choirs mission statement

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY CHOIRS

THE SEATTLE UNIVERSITY CHOIRS MISSION STATEMENT
The primary purpose of the Seattle University Choirs is to foster the growth of the person and to
enhance the enjoyment of music through its study and performance. We aim to bring more love
into the world, support each other in our growth as human beings and musicians, and enrich our
own lives and those of our audiences through the outstanding performance of great music.
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, founded in 1891, is the largest independent university in the Pacific
Northwest and one of the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities. Nearly 8,000 students
are enrolled in 61 undergraduate, 33 graduate, and 21 certificate programs, including doctoral
programs in education and law.
Now celebrating one hundred and twenty years of service (2011), Seattle University is dedicated
to its mission of commitment to teaching and learning, education for values, preparation for
service, and growth of persons.

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY CHOIRS
The Seattle University Choirs, under the direction of
Dr. Joy Sherman, have grown not only in number, but
also in stature in the greater Seattle area. The choirs,
composed of students, staff, faculty, and alumni of
Seattle University, are Men’s Chorale, Women’s Chorale,
University Chorale, and Chamber Singers.
The unique character of the Seattle University Choirs
is derived from the diversity and dedication of its
members. While some of the student members pursue
a fine arts major or a music minor, the majority of
singers represents all colleges and departments of
the university.
The Seattle University Choirs perform their Christmas
and Spring Concerts at St. Joseph Church on Capitol
Hill in Seattle, plus a Family Weekend Concert and a
Lenten Prayer concert in the Chapel of St. Ignatius on
the Seattle University campus. Audience members
have offered such rave reviews as, “…an incomparable
evening of music and enjoyment!”; “Thank you for a
magical, moving, and uplifting night of music”; and
“The conducting was superb, the singing
was awesome.”
As representatives of the University, the Choirs have
also performed at significant University-affiliated
events off-campus, among them the OPUS
humanitarian awards at Benaroya Hall (2008) and the
“Women in the World” breakfast sponsored by the
Seattle International Foundation (2010).
The Seattle University Choirs are proud to live
the Jesuit mission by providing developmental
opportunities, service to the community, and praise
of God through song.
DIRECTOR:
Dr. Joy Sherman joined the Faculty at Seattle University in 1991 as Director of Choral
Activities. Dr. Sherman has taught choral music at all levels in public schools and at four
universities. She earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, where she received the Teaching Excellence Award and was granted membership
in the national music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda.
Dr. Sherman has served as an adjudicator and clinician for honor choirs and choral festival
throughout the United States conducting the California Women’s All-State Choir in 1995
and the Saratoga Springs, New York area All-State Choir in 1997. Dr. Sherman presented a
lecture at the 1995 national convention of the American Choral Directors Association. She
has also published music with Santa Barbara Music Publishing and articles in the Choral
Journal, the national journal of the American Choral Directors Association.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Lee Peterson has a DMA in piano performance from Michigan State University and
was Assistant Professor of Piano at Baylor University for six years before coming to
Seattle in 1994. An ordained minister, Dr. Peterson earned the MATS (Master of Arts in
Transforming Spirituality) at Seattle University in 2003. Currently Assistant Director of
Choral Music at SU, Lee has been with the SU choirs since 1999, serving as accompanist,
assistant conductor, rehearsal assistant, composer, and arranger/transcriber. She has also
collaborated with other faculty as an accompanist and performed solo piano recitals on
and off-campus. Lee Peterson’s Missa Anime, commissioned by the Choirs, was premiered
in its entirety at the SU Choirs Festival of Christmas concerts in 2006.

My spirit sang all day
text by Robert bridges,
music by Gerald Finzi
oxford university press
My spirit sang all day
O my joy.
Nothing my tongue could say,
Only my joy!
My heart an echo caught
O my joy
And spake, Tell me thy thought,
Hide not thy joy.
My eyes gan peer around,
O my joy
What beauty hast thou found?
Shew us thy joy.
My jealous ears grew whist;
O my joy
Music from heaven is’t,
Sent for our joy?
She also came and heard;
O my joy,
What, said she, is this word?
What is thy joy?
And I replied, O see,
O my joy,
‘Tis thee, I cried, ‘tis thee:
Thou art my joy.
Incenerite spoglie
text by Scipione Agnelli,
music by Claudio
Monteverdi
choral public domain library
(sung in Italian)
O ashes of my beloved, the stingy
tomb lit by my earthly sun is now
my heaven. Alas, I grieve.
I come to bury you in the earth.
My heart is buried with thee, as
my love is buried within my breast.
Night and day, Glauco lives in tears
– in fire, in pain, in bitterness and
torment.
See the chariot at
hand
text by Ben Jonson, music by
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
oxford university press
See the chariot at hand here of
Love,
Wherein my Lady rideth!
Each that draws is a swan or a dove,
And well the car Love guideth.
As she goes, all hearts do duty
Unto her beauty;
And enamour’d, do wish, so they
might
But enjoy such a sight,
That they still were to run by her
side,
Through swords, through seas,
whither she would ride.
Do but look on her eyes, they
do light
All that Love’s world compriseth!
Do but look on her hair, it is bright
As Love’s star when it riseth!
Do but mark, her forehead’s
smoother
Than words that soothe her:
And from her arched brows, such
a grace
Sheds itself through the face,
As alone there triumphs to the life
All the gain, all the good of the
elements’ strife.
Have you seen but a bright lily grow
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall of
the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?
Have you felt the wool of the
beaver?
Or swan’s down ever?
Or have smelt o’ the bud of the
briar?
Or the nard in the fire?
Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
Oh so white! Oh so soft! Oh so
sweet is she!
Salut printemps
text by Anatole de Ségur,
music by Claude Debussy
edition choudens
soloist:
Mackenzie Cobb
(Sung in French)
Hail, Spring, season of youth! God
gives to all the fields a bright crown.
The ardent sap flows, breaking from
its prison. The broom doth gild
the green hillside, the hawthorne
pours forth its snowy bloom. All is
freshness, love and light; and the
song and scent pour forth from
earth’s fertile bosom. Greetings,
Spring! Hail, Spring!
Lied vom Winde
text by Eduard Mörike,
music by Hugo Distler
bÄrenreiter-verlag bmi
soloists:
Kait McDougal and Ali Fragoso
(Sung in German)
Whistling wind! Stormy wind! There,
over here! Tell me, where’s your
home? Child, we have traveled for
years, many years across the wide
world wishing to know, chasing the
answer – asking mountains, the
seas, heaven’s musical multitudes.
These, all these, never know. If
you’re wiser than they, pray, tell us.
Out, out of the way, don’t detain
us! Let’s go, let’s go! There’ll be
others – try asking again. Hold on!
Slow down, just for a bit! Tell me,
where does love have its home,
its beginning, its end? Who would
know that! Little mischief, you
– love is like the wind. Swift and
lively, never at rest, but it is forever
- though not always constant. Out,
out of the way! Let’s go, let’s go! If

I see your sweetheart, I’ll give him
your love. Adieu! Adieu…!
She Weeps over
Rahoon
text by James Joyce, music
by Eric Whitacre
walton music corp.
Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly
falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly
calling,
At grey moonrise.
Love, hear thou
How soft, how sad his voice is ever
calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark
rain falling,
Then as now.
Dark too our hearts, O love, shall
lie and cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under the moon grey nettles, the
black mould
And muttering rain.
An Immorality
text by Ezra Pound, music
by Aaron Copland
boosey & hawkes, inc.
soloist:
Micaela Treanor
Sing we for love and idleness,
Naught else is worth the having.
Though I have been in many a land,
there is naught else in living.
And I would rather have my sweet,
though roseleaves die of grieving,
Than do high deeds in Hungary to
pass all men’s believing.
Weep, o mine eyes
text and music by John
Bennet
choral public domain library
sung by alumni of the seattle
university choirs
Weep, o mine eyes, and cease
not. Alas, these your spring tides
methinks increase not. O when
begin you to swell so high that I
may drown me in you?
Fancie
text by William
Shakespeare, music by
Benjamin Britten
boosey & hawkes, inc.
Tell me, tell me, where is Fancie
bred – is it in the heart or in the
head?
How begot, how nourished? Replie,
replie, replie!
It is engendered in the eyes, with
gazing fed; and Fancie dies in the
cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring Fancie’s knell; Ile
begin it. Ding, dong bell.
Summer Again
text by Alfred Lord
Tennyson, music by Ernst
Krenek
rongwen music
Fairies’ Song
text by William
Shakespeare, music by
Ernst Krenek
rongwen music
Lee Peterson Conductor
“Summer is coming, summer is
coming,
I know it, I know it, I know it.
Light again, leaf again, life again,
love again,”
Yes, my wild little poet.
Sing the new year in under the blue,
Last year you sang it as gladly,
“New, new, new, new!” Is it then
so new
That you should carol so madly?
“Love again, song again, nest again,
young again,”
Never a prophet so crazy!
And hardly a daisy as yet, little
friend,
See, there is hardly a daisy.
“Here again, here, here, here, happy
year!”
O warble unchidden, unbidden!
Summer is coming, is coming,
my dear,
And all the winters are hidden.
You spotted snakes with double
tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no
wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Never harm, nor spell nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So, good night, with lullaby.
Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legg’d spinners,
hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
Come again, sweet
Love doth now invite
John Dowland, arranged by
Jessie Oberreuter
Come again:
Sweet love doth now invite,
Thy graces that refrain,
To do me due delight,
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss,
to die,

With thee again in sweetest
sympathy.
All the day
The sun that lends me shine
By frowns doth cause me pine
And feeds me with delay:
Her smiles, my springs that make
my joys to grow,
Her frowns, the winter of my woe.
Amo, Amas
18th century English glee,
arranged by Marshall
Bartholomew
mercury music corporation
Amo, amas, I love a lass as a cedar
tall and slender!
Sweet cowslips’ grace is her
nominative case,
And she’s of the feminine gender.
Rorum, corum, sunt divorum!
Harum, scarum Divo!
Tag rag, merry derry, periwig and
hatband,
Hic hoc, horum genetivo!
Can I decline a nymph divine? Her
voice as a flute is dulcis –
Her oculus bright, her manus white,
And soft, when I tacto, her pulse is!
O how bella my puella, I’ll kiss
secula seculorum;
If I’ve luck, sir, she’s my Uxor! O dies
benedictorum!
I am the Rose of
Sharon
text from The Song of
Solomon, music by William
Billings
choral public domain library
I am the Rose of Sharon and the
lily of the valley. As the lily among
the thorns, so is my love among
the daughters. As the apple tree
among the trees of the wood, so is
my beloved among the sons. I sat
down under his shadow with great
delight, and his fruit was sweet
to my taste. He brought me to
the banqueting house, His banner
over me was Love. Stay me with
flagons, comfort me with apples,
for I am sick of love. I charge you, O
ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the
roes and by the hinds of the field,
that you stir not up nor awake my
love till he please. The voice of my
beloved: behold, he cometh, leaping
upon the mountains, skipping upon
the hills. My beloved spake and
said unto me: Rise up, my love, my
fair one, and come away – for lo,
the winter is past, the rain is over
and gone.
No mark
text by Thomas Hornsby
Ferril, music by Cecil
Effinger
g. schirmer, inc.
Lee Peterson Conductor
Corn grew where the corn was
spilled
In the wreck where Casey Jones
was killed,
Scrub-oak grows and sassafras
Around the shady stone you pass
To show where Stonewall Jackson
fell
That Saturday at Chancellorsville,
And soapweed bayonets are steeled
Across the Custer battlefield.
But where you die the sky is black
A little while with cracking flak,
Then ocean closes very still
Above your skull that held our will.
O swing away, white gull,
Evening star, be beautiful.
La nuit en mer
text by Théodore Botrel,
music by Henk Badings
annie bank: “la nuit en mer” from trois
chansons bretonnes by henk badings
(1907-1987), copyright by annie bank edition, the
netherlands, www.anniebank.com.
used by permission
(Sung in French)
The breeze swells our sails / Here,
the first star shines over the wave
that rocks us. / Friends, let us sail
in silence through the night. / All
noises have ceased; it is as if all on
earth have died: people and things,
birds and roses, all sleep. / But the
sea, it is a living thing, an immensity,
always moving, assaulting the
jetties, disdainful of nights and
days. / Except for it, nothing exists
but the big lighthouse and its sad
reflection.
At the best place, my friends, let
us quickly throw the net. / Then,
wrapped in our sails, our faces
naked to the stars, let us sleep. /
Let us dream in the profound peace
of all those we love here below.
/ Let us sleep in our schooners
like children in a bassinet / and
tomorrow at high tide, we will
return to the coast triumphant!
El grillo
text from Petrucci’s “Tertio
de Frottole”, music by
Josquin Des Prés
handlo music
Lee Peterson Conductor
(Sung in Italian)
The cricket is a good singer
He can sing very long -
He sings all the time.
But he doesn’t act like the birds.
If they’ve sung a little bit
They go somewhere else
The cricket remains where he is
If the month of May is warm
Because he sings out of love.

I have had singing
text by Fred Mitchell, music
by Ron Jeffers
earthsongs
Singing, singing, oh the singing!
There was so much singing then!
We all sang, and this was my
pleasure too. The boys in the fields,
the chapels were full of singing,
always full of singing. Here I lie: I
have had pleasure enough. I have
had singing.
Two Bosnian Songs
Traditional texts and music
collected by jim hoath; introduced
by klapadoowopella quartet
Ernest Piper IV Student conductor
(sung in Bosnian)
The eagles and falcons have
quarreled above Zepech on the
Yelleck Mountains. The eagles claim,
“This is our mountain” but the
falcons say “This is our homeland!”
How they have hotly fought and
muddily roiled the waters.
Hey! Little tiny steps. Hey! Winding,
dancing, on into the night. Hey!
Who is dancing, who is weaving
the little steps? Let the dance
weave on. Hey, I am dancing, Hey,
I am weaving, Hey, I shall weave
the dance.
Sea Fever
text by John Masefield,
music by Nancy Hill Cobb
santa barbara music publishing, inc.
I must down to the seas again, to
the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star
to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s
song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face,
and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for
the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that
may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the
white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown
spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to
the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s
way where the wind’s like a whetted
knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a
laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream
when the long trick’s over.
The Lake Isle of
Innisfree
text by William Butler
Yeats, music by David L.
Brunner
boosey & hawkes, inc.
I will arise and go now, and go to
Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of
clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a
hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud
glade.
And I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the
morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and
noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s
wings.
I will arise and go now, for always
night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low
sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on
the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
I hear America singing
Traditional text, music by
André J. Thomas
heritage music press
I hear America singing of its
greatness, I hear America singing
strong – I hear America singing of
its beauty, I hear America singing
today. Oh, walk together children,
don’t you get weary. Walk together
children, don’t you get weary.
Talk together children, don’t you
get weary. There’s a great camp
meeting in the Promised Land.
Sing together children, don’t you
get weary. Sing together children,
don’t you get weary. Shout together
children, don’t you get weary.
There’s a great camp meeting in the
Promised Land. We’re going to sing
of truth and love. Walk together
hand in hand, together in peace.
We’re going to sing and never
tire. Great camp meeting, America
singing – great camp meeting,
Promised Land!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
seattle university:
Stephen V. Sundborg, SJ
President
Timothy P. Leary,
Executive Vice President
Isiaah Crawford
Provost
David Powers
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Joseph Venker, SJ
Chair Fine Arts Department
Rosa Joshi
Chair, Perfoming Arts Division
Quinton Morris
Director, Chamber and Instrumental Music
Luke Ware
Copyright Coordinator, Reprographics
Bill Blauvelt
and Facilities Crew
Nick Coffman, G De Castro, and
Bill McNamara
Campus Ministry
Faculty and staff
Fine Arts Department
Sue & Jim Hogan, Jessie Oberreuter,
and Bil Weis
Friends of Seattle University Choirs
Mary Kay McClure Metcalfe
With deep gratitude for years of visionary support
st. joseph church:
John Whitney, SJ
and the wonderful staff
at St. Joseph Church:
Bob McCaffery-Lent, Dennis Gentele,
Renee Leet, Randy Novak,
Greg McNabb, and Anne Moran
Rick Boyle
Academic Vice Principal & Choral Director
layout & design:
Michael Alcantara
assisted by:
Joe Clark
photography:
Lindsey Wasson
Cover and booklet images

THE 2010-2011 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
CHORALE AND CHAMBER SINGERS
SOPRANOS AND ALTOS
Kayli Ammen
Carly Bennett
Megan Blass
Erica Boling
Bonnie Bowie
Cordula Brown
Shelley Brunkan
Maddie Cary
Ashley (Kat) Catlett
Susie Chinisci
Mackenzie Cobb
Kellie Cox
Margaret Debelius
Rosalyn DiLillo
Soonja Doyle
Jennifer Elstrott
Ali Fragoso
Jacqueline Frye
Ashley Gamble
Olivia Ghersen
Irma Gomez
Michelle Good
Elizabeth Granger
Amanda Haecker
Victoria Hanohano-
Hong
Heather Hanson
Maddy Heinrich
Audrey Hudgins
Rima Kaboul
Amy Kangas
Paulette Kidder
Sarah Kilcline
Anna Klutho
Kristine Lam
Erin Lashway
Emily Le
Michelle Leberknight
Jennifer Leehey
Julia Leitman
Hila Lenz
Lin Lin
Vicki Lomnicky
Lina Ma
Zoe Maltzer
Emma McAleavy
Kait McDougal
Mary Kay McClure
Metcalfe
Sr. Maria Gorreth
Nassali
Cecille Nazareno
Jessie Oberreuter
ChrisTiana Obey
Alex Ozanich
Gabriela Park
Maria Carmela Principe
Amanda Quan
Tiana Quitugua
Carli Redfield
Jessica Richter
Allison Sidor
Susan Sommer
Lucy Spicer
Alaina Stocker
Kathryn Sweeney
St. Antony Tebitendwa
Micaela Treanor
Sarah Treseler
Amy Truong
Maria Vega
Nicole Vukonich
Amanda Wade
Meghan Walker
Halina Werner
Rachel Whitcomb
Hana Wilder
TENORS, BARITONES AND BASSES
Finn Anderson
Matthew Bagayas
Clinton Carl
Daniel Carr
Daniel Choi
David Chow
Joe Clark
Sean Clavere
John Conway
Shane Dir
Angelo Domitri
Daniel Dovinh
Daniel Dunn
Alexander Dvorsky
Cameron Ellis
Cyrus Fiene
Andrew Harris
Connor Hartling
Grant Hendrix
Thad Higa
Thomas Johnson
David Julian
Daniel Kelly-Petersen
Dane Larsen
Gareth Lim
Ken Linder
Chez Liu
Bill McNamara
Jimmy Messina
Brandon Moss
Adrian Munger
Jessie Oberreuter
Ethan Oddy
Omar Ongoco
Richmond Park
Ernie Piper
Eric Reames
Yishai Reno
Des Richardson
Justin Russell
Jerrold Simms
Chris Spain
Tommy Strawn
Nathaniel Tamayo
Michael Topping
Peter VanNuland
Mark Vega
Ryan Weinman
CHAMBER SINGER
SECTION LEADER
MANAGEMENT TEAM
CREW
graduating senior
ALUMNUS
student conductor:
Ernie Piper
student accompanist:
Nathaniel Tamayo
office assistant:
Connor Hartling
business manager:
Lina Ma
librarian & crew head:
Andrew Harris
assistant librarian:
Finn Anderson
publicity:
Madeline Heinrich
instrumentalists:
Daniel Dovinh, drums
Daniel Dunn, Alto saxophone
Kathryn Sweeney, bass
Sean Clavere, guitar
John Dimond, oboe, English horn

1. MY SPIRIT SANG ALL DAY 2. INCENERITE SPOGLIE 3. SEE THE CHARIOT AT HAND 4. SALUT PRINTEMPS
5. LIED VOM WINDE 6. SHE WEEPS OVER RAHOON 7. AN IMMORALITY 8. WEEP, O MINE EYES 9. FANCIE
10. SUMMER AGAIN/FAIRIES’ SONG 11. Come again, sWEET LOVE DOTH NOW INVITE 12. AMO, AMAS
13. I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON 14. NO MARK 15. LA NUIT EN MER 16. EL GRILLO 17. I HAVE HAD SINGING
18. TWO BOSNIAN SONGS 19. SEA FEVER 20. THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE 21. I HEAR AMERICA SINGING
Recorded on April 29 & May 1, 2011 at St. Joseph Church,
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