Saturday, September 25, 2021

ARMERDING CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTSGrand CelebratiGrand Celebratioonn

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program

Pre-concert music Community School of the Arts Cello Choir Carol Ourada, director

Ellacombe (Hosanna, Loud Hosanna) Gesangbuch der Herzogl, Würtemberg Brass Ensemble (1784) Douglas Yeo, conductor Arr. Dennis C. Klophaus

Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy The audience will stand to sing

An Evening for Celebration Michael Wilder, Dean of Conservatory, Arts, and Communication

Prayer of Thanksgiving Philip Ryken, Wheaton College President

O Clap Your Hands (From Psalm 47) Ralph Vaughan Williams Women’s Chorale, Men’s Glee Club, Concert Choir Mary Hopper, conductor Edward Zimmerman, organ

The Storm is Passing Over Charles Albert Tindley Women’s Chorale, Men’s Glee Club, Arr. Barbara W. Baker Concert Choir, Gospel Choir Tanya Egler, conductor Donté Ford, piano

A Word of Thanks Kirk Farney, Vice President for Advancement, Vocation, and Alumni Engagement

On a Poem by Miho Nonaka: Harvard Square Shawn Okpebholo Jennie Oh Brown, flute

“Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson George Frideric Handel Olivia Doig Skaff, soprano Nyela Basney, piano

Celebrating the Taylor and Boody Organ Edward Zimmerman, organ

Now Thank We All Our God Nun danket alle Gott Percussion Ensemble Arr. Kathleen Kastner Kathleen Kastner, conductor

A Conversation with Sculptor Liviu Mocan

Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”) Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro vivace e con brio (1770-1827) Soh-Hyun Park Altino, violin Leonardo Altino, cello Daniel Paul Horn, piano

Hymn: Lift High the Cross The audience will stand and sing

program notes

On a Poem by Miho Nonaka: Harvard Square On a Poem by Miho Nonaka: Harvard Square is a work for the virtuoso flutist, requiring the musician to perform various extended flute techniques, including bamboo tones, residual tones, pizzicato, jet whistle, tongue ram, multiphonics, singing while playing, key clicks, and flutter tonguing. It was not my intention to text paint each word of the poem; rather, I tried to evoke the essence of the poem’s meaning. (Shawn Okpebholo)

HARVARD SQUARE

Like all leaves turned into birdsovernight. Waking to their voicefrom the wet branches of a treemarked with so many scars.

Walking to the square andits promise of dripping coffee, street musicians and peoplereduced to speaking only

with their hands, wrappedin unreliable mist. Whose soulis made of crumbs? Thereare those who play chess

at Au Bon Pain rain or snow,keep playing despite the clutterof words exchanged all around,gossips, dirty jokes, grades given

and received. Across the streetsits a bagel in a puddle, a bloated island for a flock of sparrows, chattering and pecking busily

the diminishing kingdomof their own. I like how they payno attention to my hungry gaze—how, having no individual names,

they deepen my convictionof being a trifle. Such a reliefit is to squat down beside themand their bumpy island, which is no

beehive, neither production norsymphony, just the giddy chaosand appetite of chiming peeps. Even a bucket makes music

when raindrops fall in.The question isn’t whether youare in a good place or a bad place. You happen to be in the right place.

Miho Nonaka

Holy, Holy, Holy!Words by Reginald HeberMusic by John B. Dykes

Lift High Th e CrossWords by G. W. Kitchin & M. R. NeboltMusic by Sydney Nicholson

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