FALL MUSIC FESTIVAL

Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses) MORTON LAURIDSEN (b.1943)
Abandon entouré d’abandon, Abandon surrounding abandon,
tendresse touchant aux tendresses... tenderness touching tenderness…
C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse Your oneness endlessly
se caresse, dirait-on; caresses itself, so they say;
se caresse en soi-même, self-caressing
par son propre reflet éclairé. through its own clear reflection
Ainsi tu inventes le theme Thus you invent the theme
du Narcisse exaucé. of Narcissus fulfilled. – Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
trans. Barbara and Erica Muhl
Kelly Hanenburg, student conductor
El Hambo JAAKKO MÄNTYJÄRVI (b.1963)
“El Hambo” is the second installment in a rather loosely defined series that I have decided to call
Justly Forgotten People. The hambo is a Swedish folk dance in 3/4 time. This augmented hambo
in 5/4 time is something of a tribute to those folk musicians whose enthusiasm much exceeds their
sense of rhythm, and the increasingly desperate punctuations should be interpreted as an attempt to
keep the performance in some sort of metrical shape. Sources of inspiration for this piece include,
surprisingly, genuine Norwegian folk song arrangements (the first three chords of the piece are
actually violin tunings) and of course the Swedish Chef in The Muppet Show. The text is, or is
supposed to be, completely meaningless.” – Jaakko Mäntiyärvi
In My Life JOHN LENNON AND PAUL MCCARTNEY
ARR. ROGER EMERSON
There are places I’ll remember all my life, though some have changed.
Some forever, not for better; Some have gone and some remain.
All these places had their moments with lovers and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living, In my life I’ve loved them all.
But of all these friends and lovers there is no one compares with you.
And these mem’ries lose their meaning when I think of love as something new.
Tho’ I know I’ll never lose affection for people and things that went before,
I know I’ll often stop and think about them, In my life I love you more. – Lennon and McCartney
Jonathon Shaffstall, tenor solo
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