Program - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Ubi caritas
Music by Maurice Duruflé
Text from a traditional hymn
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exultemus, et in ipso jucundemur.
Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Amen.
Épithalame
Music by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur
Text from Veni sponsa Christi and The Song of Songs
Veni sponsa Christi,
accipe coronam quam tibi Dominus
praeparavit in aeternum.
Where Charity Is
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Christ’s love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.
Where charity and love are, God is there. Amen.
Wedding Poem
Come, Bride of Christ,
accept the crown which the Lord
has prepared for you forever.
Le mien est sien:
Fi de tristesse,
Vive liesse,
Puis qu’en amours j’ai tant de biens!
Quand je la veux servir et honorer,
Quand par écrits veux son nom décorer,
Quand je la vois, et visite souvent,
Les envieux n’en font que murmurer;
Mais notre amour n’en saurait moins durer:
Autant ou plus en emporte le vent.
Malgré envie,
Toute ma vie
Je l’aimerai
Et chanterai:
«C’est la première,
C’est la dernière,
Que j’ai servie, et servirai.»
Mine is hers:
Fie to sadness,
Long live merriment,
Because I have such riches in love!
When I wish to serve and honor her,
When with fine scripts I want to decorate her name,
When I see her, and visit her often,
envious people just murmur about it;
But our love will endure nonetheless:
The rest is idle chatter.
Despite envy,
All my life
i shall love her
And I shall sing:
“She is the first,
She is the last,
Whom I have served, and will serve always.”
Pose-moi comme un sceau sur ton coeur
Comme un sceau sur ton bras
Car l’amour est fort comme la mort
La jalousie est dure comme l’enfer
L’amour ses traits sont de feu
Une flamme de Yahvé!
Les grandes eaux n’ont pu éteindre l’amour
Les fleuves ne le submergeront pas!
Alleluia.
Tant que vivray
Music and text by Claudin de Sermisy
Set me like a seal on your heart
Like a seal on your arm
For love is as strong as death
Jealousy is as cruel as the grave
its flashes are flashes of fire
The very flame of the Lord!
Many waters cannot quench love
neither can the floods drown it!
Alleluia.
As Long as I Am
Toutes les nuits
Music and text by Clément Janequin
Toutes les nuits tu m’es présente
Par songe doux et gracieux.
Mais tous les jours tu m’es absente
Qui m’es regret fort ennuyeux.
Puis donc que la nuit me vaut mieux
Et que je n’ai bien que par songe.
Dormez de jour, Ô pauvres yeux!
Afin que sans cesse je songe.
Every Night
every night you show yourself to me
in sweet and graceful dreams.
But every day you are gone from me,
Which is a most troublesome regret.
it is therefore why I treasure more highly the night
And that I only do well by dreaming.
Sleep away the day, oh my poor eyes!
So that I may forever dream.
Tant que vivray, en âge florissant,
Je servirai d’Amour le dieu puissant,
En faits, en dits, en chansons et accords.
Par plusieurs jours m’a tenu languissant,
Mais après dueil m’a fait réjouissant,
Car j’ai l’amour de la belle au gent corps.
Son alliance,
C’est ma fiance:
Son coeur est mien,
As long as I am in the prime of life,
i shall serve the powerful god of Love,
in all I do and say, in all my songs and harmonies.
For many days he made me languish,
But after mourning he made me rejoice,
Because I have the love of a shapely woman.
Her betrothal,
it is pledged to me:
Her heart is mine,
Revoici venir du printemps
Music and text by Claude Le Jeune
Revoici venir du printemps
L’amoureuse et belle saison.
Le courant des eaux recherchant
Le canal d’été s’éclaircit;
Et la mer calme de ces flots
Ammolit le triste courroux.
Le canard s’égai’ se plongeant,
Here Again Comes the Spring
Here again comes the spring,
the amorous and fair season.
The current of water that seeks
the canal in summer becomes clearer;
and the calm sea
soothes the waves’ sad anger.
The duck, elated, dives,
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