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A30 A2 Program 2012 Program Notes, Book 2 Notes Friday, June 29 and Saturday, June 30, 2012 leidis soost terakse taime, finding seedling steel in swampland raua rooste lauka’alta. rusty iron in a boghole. Nii kõneles suuri surma, Then great death began to utter, taudi tappaja tähendas: killer plague began intoning, mäe alla männikussa, in a pinegrove on a hillside, põllulla küla päralla, in a field behind the village, talu aitade tagana: far beyond the farmer’s granges. siin saab surma sepipada, Here will be the fateful forging! siia ahju ma asetan, Here a furnace I will fashion, siia tõstan lõõtsad laiad, mighty fanning bellows anchor! hakkan rauda keetamaie. Here I’ll set the iron boiling! raua roostet lõõtsumaie, Blast the rusty ore to flaming! rauda tampima tigedaks. Pound the iron full of fury! Rauda, vaene mees, värises, Iron quaked and iron quivered, jo värises, jo võbises. quaked and quivered, tossed and trembled, kuulis kui tule nimeda, when he heard the call for fire, tule kurja kutsumista. heard the iron’s angry summons. Ohoi sinda, rauda raiska! Ohoi cursed evil iron! Ei sa siis veel suuri olnud, Then you were not high and mighty, ei veel suuri, ei veel uhke, not so mighty, not so haughty! kui sa ääsilla ägasid. Moaning in the blazing furnace, vingusid vasara alla. whining under beating anvils. Taat see ahjuita ärises, Droned the old man on the oven, halliparda vommi päälta: groaned the greybeard from the furnace: Rauda rasvana venikse, “Iron stretches out like tallow, ila kombel valgunekse, dripping down like oozing spittle, veerdes alla ääsilta, flowing from the blazing furnace, voolates valululesta. seeping from the scalding fire. Veel sa rauda pehmekene, Yet the iron, soft and gentle, miska sind karastatakse, must be toughened, must be tempered, terakseksi tehtanekse? turned into steel defiant. Toodi ussilta ilada, Get the spittle from a serpent! musta maolta mürgikesta. Bring the venom from a viper! Ei see raud kuri olekski Iron would not harbor evil, ilma usside ilata, if it had no serpent spittle mao musta mürkideta. had no murky viper venom.” Taat see ahjuita ärises, Droned the old men on the oven, halliparda vommi päälta: groaned the greybeard from the furnace: Varja nüüd vägeva Looja, “Shelter us, Supreme Creator! kaitse kaunike Jumala, Grant us safety, God Almighty, et ei kaoks see mees koguni, Changing eras, modern deities. hoopistükkis ema lapsi, Cannons, airplanes, tanks, armed warfare. Looja loodusta elusta. Cannons, tanks, airplanes. Jumala alustatusta. so that mankind will not perish, Uued ajad. Uued jumalad. future children be protected Kahurid, lennukid, New steel and iron, tankid, kuulipildujad. transformed into precise Uus raud ja teras, evil, powerful killers uhiuued, targad, armed with automated guiding devices, täpsed, vägevad tapjad, armed with nuclear warheads aulomaatsete sihtimisseadmetega useless against all defenses. tuumalaengut kandvad, from destruction, from extinction, tõrjerelvadele kättesaamaiud raketid. ever part of God’s creation.” Noad, odad, Knives spears, axes, kirved, taprid, saablid, halberds, sabers,
Friday, June 29 and Saturday, June 30, 2012 lingud, tomahawkid, bumerangid. slings, tomahawks, boomerangs, ammud, nooled, kivid, kaikad, bows and arrows, rocks and clubs, küüned, hambad, luv ja sool, claws and teeth, sand and salt, tuhk ja tõrv, napalm ja süsi. dust and tar, napalm and coal. Uus ja kõige kaasaegsem tehnika Innovations, far-reaching, technical, elektroonika viimne sõna, electronic, ultimate... valmis liikuma igasse punkti. Ready to fly in any direction, kõrvalekaldumatult sihti tabama, stay undeflected, striking target forcefully. peatama, rivist välja lööma, Annihilate, knocking out of action, hävitama, obliterate, render hopelessly impotent, võitlusvõimetuks tegema, render hopelessly impotent, haavama, leadmata kaotama. Killing, killing, with steel and iron! tapma, tapma raua, terase, Killing, steel and iron, chromium, kroomi, titaani, uraani, plutooniumi, titanium, uranium, plutonium, and ja paljude teiste elementidega. multitudes of elements. Ohoi sinda, rauda kurja. Ohoi cursed, evil iron! mõõka sõja sünnitaja, Sword, begetter of all warfare! rauda rähka, kulda kilpi, Golden guardian of the swamp ore, sina leras, nurja tõugu! steel that’s kith and kin to evil. Hurjuh sinda, rauda raiska! Fie upon you, evil iron! Oleme ühesta soosta, You and I are from the same seed, ühest seemnest me siginud, from the same earth we have sprouted. sina maasta, mina maasta, From the same good soil we hearken, musta muida me mõlemad. you and I, we share this planet, Ühe maa pääl me elame, bound to share the earth together, ühe maa sees kokku saame, earth that will us all recover, maad meil küllalt sus mõlemal. earth enough for all, forever. carMINa buraNa, caNTIoNES proFaNaE (1935-1936; arranged 1956) Carl Orff (1895-1982) Arranged by Wilhelm Killmayer (born in 1927) About thirty miles south of Munich, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, is the abbey of Benediktbeuren. In 1803, a 13th-century codex was discovered among its holdings that contains some 200 secular poems that give a vivid, earthy portrait of Medieval life. Many of these poems, attacking the defects of the Church, satirizing contemporary manners and morals, criticizing the omnipotence of money, and praising the sensual joys of food, drink and physical love, were written by an amorphous band known as “Goliards.” These wandering scholars and ecclesiastics, who were often esteemed teachers and recipients of courtly patronage, filled their worldly verses with images of self-indulgence that were probably as much literary convention as biographical fact. The language they used was a heady mixture of Latin, old German and old French. Some paleographic musical notation appended to a few of the poems indicates that they were sung, but it is today so obscure as to be indecipherable. This manuscript was published in 1847 by Johann Andreas Schmeller under the title, Carmina Burana (“Songs of Beuren”), “carmina” being the plural of the Latin word for song, “carmen.” Carl orff encountered these lusty lyrics for the first time in the 1930s, and he was immediately struck by their theatrical potential. Like Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson in the United States, orff at that time was searching for a simpler, more direct musical expression that could immediately affect listeners. orff’s view, however, was more Teutonically philosophical than that of the Americans, who were seeking a music for the common man, one related to 2012 Program Program Notes, Book Notes 2 A31 A3
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