Summer Rain - Toivo Tulev (Yale Recital Chorus, Matthew Cramer)

A live performance of Toivo Tulev's "Summer Rain" by the Yale Recital Chorus under the direction of Matthew Cramer. Presented as part of a graduate conducting recital.

December 12th, 2016. Marquand Chapel, New Haven, CT.


Rorate caeli desuper // Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above
Et nubes pluant justum. // And let the clouds rain the just one.

The arithmetic of pain,
Calculation of destruction.

Rorate caeli desuper
Et nubes pluant justum.

The arithmetic of pain,
Of death, of children killed,
Of endless hatred.

Rorate caeli desuper
Et nubes pluant justum.

Calculation of destruction,
Of buried and of the unburied,
Of rain, endless rain,
Of death, of destruction,
Of pain
Pain of the born and of the unborn.

Be not angry, O Lord,
And remember no longer our iniquity:
Behold the city of thy sanctuary (Sitio)
Is become a desert.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem is desolate.

Rorate caeli desuper
Et nubes pluant justum (Sitio)

Be not angry, O Lord,
And remember no longer our iniquity:
Behold we have sinned
And we are become as one unclean,
And we have all fallen as a leaf;
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
Thou hast hid thy face from us,
And has crushed us
By the hand of our iniquity. (et nubes)

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above,
pluant justum
And let the clouds rain the Just One.
Sitio, sitio, sitio
Pain,
Pain of the born and the unborn.

Drop down dew, ye heavens,
Drop down dew.

Text: Advent hymn Rorate caeli, Gospel of St. John (Jesus: I am thirsty, “Sitio”), and Toivo Tulev