Choral Explorations II with Michael ZauggLIGHT TRANSFORMING

8pm FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018Dunbar Ryerson United Church

with Vancouver Chamber Choir | Michael Zaugg, conductor

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Honoured with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence by Chorus America, the Vancouver Chamber Choir has to its credit countless performances and broadcasts, over 30 recordings and numerous awards. Foremost supporters of Canadian music, Jon Washburn and the Choir have commissioned and premiered more than 250 Canadian choral compositions. Over the years they have sung nearly 3,000 performances of 350 pieces by 120 Canadian composers in addition to their extensive international repertoire.

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In 2001 Mr. Washburn was named a Member of the Order of Canada (the nation’s highest civilian honour) and in 2002 received Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his lifetime contribution

to Canadian choral art. Mr. Washburn received a Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors in the spring of 1996 and the Louis Botto Award from Chorus America in June 2000, in recognition of “innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in the development of a professional choral ensemble of exceptional quality.” He was given the Friends of Canadian Music Award 2000 by the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and the Canadian League of Composers in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Canadian composers’ music. In the fall of 2009, he was named a CMC Ambassador and in 2010 received a star on the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame’s Starwalk. In 2012 Mr. Washburn received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In June 2014 he received the Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art, presented by Chorus America.

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Emily CheungChristina CichosKrista Pederson

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VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIRMICHAEL ZAUGG,GUEST CONDUCTOR

LIGHT TRANSFORMINGChoral Explorations II with Michael Zaugg

Die erste Elegie Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)

Christina Cichos, soprano Dolores Scott, alto

Morgenlied (Morning Song from Op. 69) Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)

Lux aurumque (Golden Light) Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

Emily Cheung, soprano

Flame and Shadow David Archer (b. 1985)

Calme des nuits (Stillness of the Night) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Lux æterna (Eternal Light) Edward Elgar (arr. John Cameron) (1857-1934)

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From the Ninth Elegy Elizabeth Knudson (b. 1981)

Santiago (from Path of Miracles) Joby Talbot (b. 1971)

Hilary Ison, alto

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Swiss native Michael Zaugg has distinguished himself on the Canadian stage as an innovative and versatile conductor, pedagogue and clinician. In his sixth season as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the professional chamber choir Pro Coro Canada in Edmonton, Mr. Zaugg previously led other notable Canadian choirs including, in Montreal, the St. Lawrence Choir (2008-2013), and voces boreales (2006-2015), and the Cantata Singers of Ottawa (2005-2014).As Chorus Master of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (2006-2011), he successfully prepared groups of up to 1,500 singers for OSM Artistic Director Kent Nagano, including the award-winning production Saint François d’Assise by Messiaen. He also prepared the Cantata Singers of Ottawa for their appearances with the National Arts Centre Orchestra under conductors such as Franz-Paul Decker, David Lockington, Trevor Pinnock, Helmuth Rilling and Paul Goodwin.Active as guest conductor, Mr. Zaugg has worked with Canadian groups including the National Youth Choir of Canada, Halifax Camerata Singers, musica intima, the Nova Scotia and Ontario Youth Choirs, Thirteen Strings as well as the Longueuil Symphony Orchestra. Overseas he has appeared with the Danish National Youth Choir, the Academic Chamber Choir of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and the International Choir of the Zimriya Festival in Israel. In Switzerland, he was Chorus Master of the Symphonic Chorus Regiochor. He appears regularly as guest conductor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His US debut was with the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street in New York.Originally an accomplished tenor, Mr. Zaugg became the first Swiss conductor to be accepted to the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden in its prestigious post-graduate Diploma for Professional Choir Conducting. Through this program, he worked weekly with singers of the world-renowned Swedish Radio Choir and had the opportunity to guest conduct Sweden’s gems - the Adolf Fredrik’s Girls Choir and the Mikaeli Chamber Choir. Mr. Zaugg holds degrees in voice and music education from the University of Basel and was recently awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music by King’s College, University of Aberdeen in Scotland.A passionate pedagogue, Mr. Zaugg is strongly committed to his work not only with choirs, but also with emerging conductors. He is the Program Director of CHORAL ART: for singers, composers and conductors at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. His work with and support of emerging Canadian composers is presented through Pro Coro Canada’s Choral Series, distributed by the Leading Note in Ottawa.

M I C H A E L Z A U G G , G U E S T C O N D U C T O R

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N O T E S F R O M T H E C O N D U C T O R

I’d like to tell you some of the thoughts that have gone into creating today’s concert. Th e concept for this concert takes its inspiration from Rautavaara’s Die erste Elegie and the fourth movement,  Santiago,  from Path  of Miracles by Joby Talbot. These two works bring to life an awe-inspiring  moment of transformation – in the fi rst, the  passing of an angelic body into  eternity, and in the second, the transformation of a human by way of a  pilgrimage. While the fi rst story is told from the perspective of an  observer,  a person not worthy of being in the presence of an angel, the second is the account of people travelling and experiencing the wonders of transformation  themselves. Further, in the fi rst half we fi nd three aspects of light, somewhat placed as three pillars: fi rst, the White Light of the Angel (Rautavaara), then  the Golden Light at the moment of birth (Whitacre), and fi nally, the Eternal Light (Elgar). Th rough the music by Rheinberger, Archer and Saint-Saëns, we experience the Light again, this time in a more natural way: the rising and setting of the sun, and of the moon and stars.

Die erste Elegie, using a selection of the fi rst elegy by Rilke, is 25 years old. Th e work comes across as expressive and lush, quite surprising given the fact that the  composer employs a  twelve-tone concept. At the very end, when we have questioned the existence of this angelic body, the music shifts into a homophonic section, arriving in a brilliant and blinding C-Major chord; the transcendence of the angel.

We hear of the fading stars and rising morning light in the work by Rheinberger. His  Morgenlied, the oldest work on the program from 1858, is the fi rst in the set of three  that includes the well-known Abendlied (evening song). Its pastoral scene is a very fi tting continuation from the words by Rilke. A golden light – Lux aurumque – is experienced through the music by American composer Eric Whitacre. His familiar style is to lavishly embellish simple chord progressions with “colouring” notes, which then creates a warm and shimmering eff ect. Th e poem talks about the moment of the birth of Jesus and of the angels softly singing drenched in warm light.

Moving us from morning to  evening is Canadian composer David Archer with his Flame and Shadow. Th e text by Teasdale – Stars – is set in a strophic form, each repetition becoming

slightly richer and wider in range. Th e initial melody portrays perfectly the lyrics “alone in the night on a dark hill”  and the successful harmonization of the continuation creates an awe-inspiring  moment. Archer’s composition leads nicely into Calme des nuits by Camille Saint-Saëns. Th e music seems to come to a standstill in this quiet, dark yet light-fi lled night. Th e French composition is written in 1883, and is the fi rst of a set of two. Dating back to the same period is Lux æterna, arranged by J. Cameron. Th e listener will recognize the melody easily as Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations from 1898/99. In fact, the music you’ll hear is exactly what is written for the orchestra, but this version for a cappella choir, with the text Lux æterna, shines a new perspective on Elgar’s composition.

Our second half starts with a composition by local composer Elizabeth Knudson. She also employs a  selection from the Duineser Elegy by Rilke, this time From the Ninth Elegy. It speaks of the transient stage of being “earthly”, and the irrevocable fact of having existed on this earth. Th is poem connects us back to the work by Rautavaara. Knudson’s music, written in 2008, starts with fl eeting sounds – whispered and spoken – before letting a male voice sing the fi rst section of the poem. When we then move to the collective “us”, more and more voices add their sung lines with text. Th e work ends transparent and resolved.

Th e British composer  Joby Talbot wrote Path of Miracles(four movements) after having undertaken the  pilgrimage to Santiago himself, and the music relates texts and musical bits he collected on the road. Th e fi nal movement we present today tells about the arrival at the resting place of St. James. The listener is witnessing the travel of  pilgrims, their physical hardship and triumph over it, and their dealing with forces of nature. While it  is a colourful and vibrant work, moving through many motives, we  fi nd a moment  of quiet refl ection on a single note at the end, an inner light of guidance and comfort. Th e journey comes to the “edge of the world” (the known world at that time), where “we cast our clothes in the sea at Finisterre”. Th e wonders  experienced on the path have brought the pilgrims to a transformation, and their standing “where the walls of heav’n are thin as curtains” refl ects Rilke’s words from Die erste Elegie, “the godly youth had suddenly stepped into eternity”.

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T E X T S & T R A N S L A T I O N S

Einojuhani Rautavaara Die erste Elegie (The First Elegy)

Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Who, if I shouted, among the hierarchy of Ordnungen? und gesetzt selbst, es nähme angels would hear me? And supposing one of einer mich plötzlich ans Herz: ich verginge von seinem them took me suddenly to his heart, I wouldstärkeren Dasein. Denn das Schöne ist nichts perish before his stronger existence. For als des schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen, beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorund wir bewundern es so, we can just barely endure, and we admire it so weil es gelassen verschmäht, uns zu zerstören. because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich. Every angel is terrible.

Ach, wen vermögen Ah, whom can we use then?wir denn zu brauchen? Engel nicht, Menschen nicht, Not angels, not men and the shrewd animals und die findigen Tiere merken es schon, notice that we’re not very much at homedaß wir nicht sehr verläßlich zu Haus sind in the world we’ve expounded.in der gedeuteten Welt. Es bleibt uns vielleicht Maybe on the hill-slope some treeirgend ein Baum an dem Abhang, daß wir ihn täglich or other remains for us, so that we see itwiedersähen; es bleibt uns die Straße von gestern. every day; yesterday’s street is left for us.

O und die Nacht, die Nacht, wenn der Wind Oh, and the night, the night, when the windvoller Weltraum uns am Angesicht zehrt -, full of space feeds on our faces — wem bliebe sie nicht, die ersehnte, for whom wouldn’t it stay, yearned for, sanft enttäuschende, welche dem einzelnen Herzen gently disappointing night that wearily mühsam bevorsteht. confronts the solitary heart.

Ja, die Frühlinge brauchten dich wohl. Yet, the springs needed you.Es muteten manche Sterne dir zu, daß du sie spürtest. And many stars expected you to feel them. Es hob sich eine Woge heran im Vergangenen, oder A wave rose toward you in the past;da du vorüberkamst am geöffneten Fenster, or as you walked by an open window,gab eine Geige sich hin. a violin yielded itself to someone.

Stimmen, Stimmen. Höre, mein Herz, wie sonst nur Voices, voices. Listen, my heart, as hitherto Heilige hörten: daß sie der riesige Ruf only saints have listened, so that the mighty aufhob vom Boden; Es rauscht call lifted them from the earth; they sweepjetzt von jenen jungen Toten zu dir. toward you now from those who died young.

Freilich ist es seltsam, die Erde nicht mehr zu bewohnen, True, it is strange to live no more on earth,kaum erlernte Gebräuche nicht mehr zu üben, no longer follow the folk ways scarcely learned;Rosen, und andern eigens versprechenden Dingen not to give roses and other especiallynicht die Bedeutung menschlicher Zukunft zu geben; auspicious things the significance of a human; und selbst den eigenen Namen future to be no more what one was in infinitelywegzulassen wie ein zerbrochenes Spielzeug. anxious hands, and to put aside even one’s Und alles so lose im Raum flattern zu sehen. name like a broken plaything.

Aber Lebendige machen alle den Fehler, But the living all make the mistakedaß sie zu stark unterscheiden. of too sharp discrimination.Engel (sagt man) wüßten oft nicht, ob sie unter Often angels (it’s said) don’t know if they moveLebenden gehn oder Toten. Die ewige Strömung among the quick or the dead. The eternal reißt durch beide Bereiche alle Alter current hurtles all ages along with it foreverimmer mit sich und übertönt sie in beiden. through both realms and drowns their voices in both.

Ist die Sage umsonst, Is the legend in vain, daß einst in der Klage um Linos that once in the lamentation for Linos, wagende erste Musik dürre Erstarrung durchdrang; the daring first music pierced the barren numbness, daß erst im erschrockenen Raum, dem ein beinah and only then in frightened space, which göttlicher Jüngling plötzlich für immer enttrat, an almost godlike youth suddenly forsook forever, das Leere in jene Schwingung geriet, the void began to feel that vibration die uns jetzt hinreißt und tröstet und hilft. which now enraptures, consoles and helps us?

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Duineser Elegien (The Duino Elegies)

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Josef Gabriel RheinbergerMorgenlied (Morning Song)

Die Sterne sind erblichen Th e stars have fadedmit ihrem güldnen Schein, with their golden glow,bald ist die Nacht entwichen, soon will the night be past,der Morgen dringt herein. [and] the morning will arrive.

Noch waltet tiefes Schweigen Now deep silence reignsim Tal und überall. in the valley and over all.Auf frischbetauten Zweigen On freshly-bedewed branchessingt nur die Nachtigall. sings only the nightingale.Sie singet Lob und Ehre She sings praise and glory

dem hohen Herrn der Welt, to the exalted Lord of the worldder über’m Land und Meere who over land and seadie Hand des Segens hält. holds the hand of blessing.Er hat die Nacht vertrieben, He has banished the night,

ihr Kindlein fürchtet nichts; fear nothing, you children;stets kommt zu seinen Lieben always comes to those whom he lovesder Vater alles Lichts. the Father of all lights.

Text by H.H. Hoff mann von Fallersleben

Eric WhitacreLux aurumque (Golden Light)

Lux Light calida grovisque pura velut aurum warm and heavy as pure goldet canunt angeli molliter and the angels sing softly modo natum. to the new-born babe.

Th e original English poem by Edward Esch was translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri.

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David ArcherFlame and Shadow

Alone in the night On a dark hillWith pines around me Spicy and still,

And a heaven full of stars Over my head,White and topaz And misty red;

Myriads with beating Hearts of fi reTh at aeons Cannot vex or tire;

Up the dome of heaven Like a great hill,I watch them marching Stately and still,

And I know that I Am honored to beWitness Of so much majesty.

A poem entitled Stars by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) from the collection Flame and Shadow (1920).

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Camille Saint-SaënsCalme des nuits (Stillness of the Night)

Calme des nuits, fraîcheur des soirs, Stillness of the night, cool of the evening,vaste scintillement des mondes, Vast shimmering of the spheres,grand silence des antres noirs Great silence of black vaultsvous charmez les âmes profondes. Deep thinkers delight in you.L’éclat du soleil, la gaité, The bright sun, merriment,le bruit plaisent aux plus futiles; And noise amuse the more frivolous;le poète seul est hanté Only the poet is possessedpar l’amour des choses tranquilles. By the love of quiet things.

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Edward ElgarLux æterna (Eternal Light)

Lux æterna luceat eis Domine: Let eternal light shine upon them, O Lord:cum sanctis tuis in æternum, quia pius es. with Thy saints for ever, for art merciful.Requiem æternam dona eis Domine, Grant them eternal rest, O Lord,et lux perpetua luceat eis. and may light perpetual shine on them,Cum sanctis tuis in æternum: in the company of Thy saints for evermore,quia pius es. because Thou art merciful.

From the liturgy for the Requiem Mass

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Elizabeth KnudsonFrom the Ninth Elegy

But because being here means so much, and becauseall of the transient things that are hereseem to need us...They need us — us, the most transient. Oncefor each thing, just once. Once and no more.Just once for us too... But having beenearthly just this once, even thoughit was only once, seems irrevocable.

From The Ninth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), translated by Graham Good

Joby TalbotSantiago (from Path of Miracles)

The road climbs through changing land. Northern rains fallOn the deepening green of the slopes of the valley, Storms break the summer’s heat;At Foncebadón a pass can be lost,In one night, to the snow.

The road climbs for days through the highlands of Bierzo, To the grassland and rocks Of the Valcarce valley.White broom and scrub-oak,Laburnum and gorseMark the bare hills Beside the road.

At O Cebreiro, mountains.The road follows the ridgetopBy meadows of fern, by fields of rye.By Fonfría del Camino, by Triacastela. Towns are shadowsThe road leaves behind.It moves over the slate hillsPalas do Rei. Portomarín. The names are shadows.

Then, from the stream at LavacollaTo the foot of Monte de Gozo, A morning;From the foot of Monte de GozoTo the summit of Monte de GozoThe road climbs,Before the longed-for final descent to Santiago.

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Peter R. Allen The Banks of Newfoundland

Peter R. Allen, who was born and educated in Wales, came to Canada in 1969. He has a Doctorate in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa, has taught music at universities in four provinces and was active for many years as an adjudicator across Canada. Since 1987 he has been based in Ontario, but this arrangement of The Banks of Newfoundland from 1980 is one of several written around the time he spent teaching at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

The springtime of the year is come,Once more we must away;Out on the stormy Banks to go,In quest of fish to stay.

Where seas do roll tremendously,Like mountain peaks so high;And the wild seabirds around us,In their mad career go by.

Out there we spend our summer months,Midst heavy fog and wind;And often do our thoughts go back,To the dear ones left behind.

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We hope to see you again this spring!

And when those summer toils are o’er,We return with spirits light;To see our sweethearts and our wives,Who helped us in the fight.

From where the wild sea billows foam,There by cold breezes fanned;Out on the stormy billows,On the Banks of Newfoundland.

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Peter R. Allen The Banks of Newfoundland

Peter R. Allen, who was born and educated in Wales, came to Canada in 1969. He has a Doctorate in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa, has taught music at universities in four provinces and was active for many years as an adjudicator across Canada. Since 1987 he has been based in Ontario, but this arrangement of The Banks of Newfoundland from 1980 is one of several written around the time he spent teaching at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

The springtime of the year is come,Once more we must away;Out on the stormy Banks to go,In quest of fish to stay.

Where seas do roll tremendously,Like mountain peaks so high;And the wild seabirds around us,In their mad career go by.

Out there we spend our summer months,Midst heavy fog and wind;And often do our thoughts go back,To the dear ones left behind.

CALLING STUDENTS OF ANY AGE!

For only $15, you can enjoy some of Canada’s finest choral concerts when you purchase rush tickets to Vancouver Chamber Choir regular season performances.

All students and youth (26 and under) are welcome.

Tickets are available one hour in advance of this year’s Dunbar Ryerson United Church and Orpheum concerts.

Thank you, John and Leonora Pauls

The Vancouver Chamber Choir appreciates your support of printing

tonight’s concert programand for attending

We hope to see you again this spring!

And when those summer toils are o’er,We return with spirits light;To see our sweethearts and our wives,Who helped us in the fight.

From where the wild sea billows foam,There by cold breezes fanned;Out on the stormy billows,On the Banks of Newfoundland.

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Herr Santiagu Holy St. JamesGrot Sanctiagu Great St. JamesEultreya esuseya Onward and upward (Pilgrim greetings)Deius aia nos. God help us.

Ver redit optatum cum gaudio, Longed-for spring returns, with joy, flore decoratum purpureo; adorned with shining flowers.aves edunt cantus quam dulciter, The birds sing so sweetly, the woods burst into leaf,cantus est amoenus totaliter. there is pleasant song on every side (Carmina Burana)

Jacobo dat parium omnis mundus gratis The whole world freely gives thanks to James;ob cuius remedium miles pietatis through his sacrifice, he, the warrior of godliness,cunctorum presidium est ad vota satis. is a great defence to all through their prayers.

O beate Jacobe virtus nostra vere O blessed James, truly our strength,nobis hostes remove tuos ac tuere take our enemies from us and protect your people,Ac devotos adibe nos tibi placere. and cause us, your faithul servants, to please you.

Jacobo propicio veniam speramus? James, let us hope for pardon through your favour,Et quas ex obsequio merito debemus and let us give the worthy praise,Patri tam eximio dignes laudes demus. which we rightfully owe to so excellent a father.

At the Western edge of the worldWe pray for our sins to fall from usAs chains from the limbs of penitents.We have walked out of the lives we hadAnd will return to nothing, if we live,Changed by the journey, face and soul alike.

We have walked out of our livesTo come to where the walls of heavenAre thin as a curtain, transparent as glass,

Where the Apostle spoke the holy words,Where in death he returned, where God is close, where saints and martyrs mark the road.

Santiago, primus ex apostolis,Defender of pilgrims, warrior for truth,Take from our backs the burdens of this life,What we have done, who we have been;Take them as fire takes the clothThey cast into the sea at Finisterre.

Holy St James, great St. James, God help us now and evermore.

Quotes in various archaic languages from medieval sources,woven in with contemporary poetry by Robert Dickinson.

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018 7:30PM Christ Church Cathedral , 690 Burrard St. Vancouver

tickets available at vancouvercantatasingers.com

60KANTATEFEIER! A CANTATA CELEBRATION

Paula Kremer, Artistic Director

Douglas and Teri Loughran,

the Vancouver Chamber Choir

greatly appreciates your support for tonight’s guest conductor,

Michael Zaugg, through the Artistic Future Fund.

Thank you.

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C H A N C E N T R E F O R T H E P E R F O R M I N G A R T SCelebrate the innovative music of Canada's preeminent composer, R. Murray Schafer, in recognition

of his 85th birthday. Jon Washburn leads the singers and soloists of the Vancouver Chamber Choir

and the Vancouver Chamber Orchestra in three major works. The evening will also feature filmed

interviews with the honoured composer and his long-time musical colleague, Jon Washburn.

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