Concert Choir, October 19, 2021

Baylor University's Concert Choir presents
"Laus Trinitati: To the Sound and Life and Creativity Within ALL Life"
Lynne Gackle, conductor
Jon Snyder, graduate associate conductor
Holden Miller, graduate associate conductor
Shawna Hartman, accompanist

PROGRAM

"Laus Trinitati Antiphon (incipit)"
Hildegard von Bingen (c. 1098-1179)
Sydney Shell, mezzo-soprano

"Laus Trinitati"
Faith Morgan Zimmer (b. 1997)
Inspired by von Bingen’s antiphon
Praise to the Trinity—the sound and life
and creativity of all within their life,
the praise of the angelic host
and wondrous, brilliant splendor hid,
unknown to human minds,
it is, and life within all things.

"Exultate Deo"
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 1594)
Jon Snyder, conductor
Sing joyfully to God our strength; sing loud unto the God of Jacob!
Take the song, bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp, and the viol.
Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed for our feast day.

"Alleluia"
Fredrik Sixten (b. 1962)
Jon Snyder, conductor

"Verdurõn"
Randy Haldeman (b. 1967)

"I Should Be Glad"
Susan LaBarr (b. 1981)
Text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
I should be glad of loneliness and hours that go on broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired heart and the unchanging ache of things,
If I could make a single song as lovely and as full of light,
As hushed and brief as a falling star on a winter’s night.
I should be glad.

"Rytmus (Rhythm)"
Ivan Hrušovský (1927-2001)
Be greeted, Eve,
You source of love,
You are the queen of nobleness.

"Amazing Grace"
Robert T. Gibson (b. 1989)
Text by John Newton (1725-1807)
Johann Rajdurai, tenor
Jackson Vaughn, tenor
Holden Miller, conductor
Sadie Hamrin, violin
Ellie Meinershagen, cello

"There Was a Time"
Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979)
Text by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality (from Recollections of Early Childhood)
There was a time when meadow, grove and steam,
The earth, and every common sight to me did seem
Apparell’d in celestial light,
The glory of a dream.
The rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where’er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find, strength in what remains behind.

"Rockin’ Jerusalem"
Traditional Spiritual
arr. Stacy Gibbs (b. 1962)
Emma Shearer, soprano