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SOLI ONE:A Vocal Recital of Art Songs & Solo Works

Streaming Live - February 21, 2021

Daniel I. Paulson, founder/music directorVox Musica

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Although we can’t be together at Beatnik Studios to experience this performance face-to-face, we are very excited that you are joining us in this virtual environment. For this season, we’ve worked hard to provide you with experiences that will lift you up and help to provide you balance during this time of isolation. This season has been crafted with you in mind, combining remastered favorite performances with new project offerings. In addition, each concert project includes interactive experiences with the artists, composers, distinguished guests, and myself.

From the beginning, Vox Musica has been dedicated to providing Music Worth Sharing to our community in beautiful Northern California. This year, we have the incredible opportunity to share our music beyond those borders, to people across the country and globe who are looking for something to brighten their world. I sincerely believe that music has the power to heal, to enlighten, and to change lives. I hope that our monthly concerts and performances will be a source of strength and peace for you.

I want to also take a moment to thank everyone who generously gives to our organization so that we can do the important work of sharing music with our community. As we welcome in a new year, may we continue to connect in ways that nourish our heart and soul, and keep the arts alive in our community and our lives.

Although we are streaming our performances online and we can’t be face-to-face we appreciate you joining us for our 15th concert season. We sincerely hope you enjoy our performance tonight and will continueto value our Music Worth Sharing.

Daniel Paulson, founder/music director

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Executive Director: Suzi Horowitz

Founder/Music Director: Daniel I. Paulson

Production Manager: Spencer Timmons

Vox Musica was founded in 2006 in a niche of untapped potential in Sacramento’s budding classical music scene. Vox Musica is committed to excellence in performance of diverse and challenging choral literature for women’s voices and is dedicated to promoting new works, including many premieres and commissioned works. Through collaborations with composers, conductors, choirs, and musicians from around the world, Vox Musica’s featured concert projects have included collected works from the 18th century Venetian Ospedali; music from India, Persia, and Georgia; a concert project for Taiko Drums and Women’s Choir; a concert project for DJ and Women’s Choir; and a concert project for looping violin and Women’s Choir. Vox Musica has released one compact disc and has been a featured artist for both the prestigious Old First Concert Series in San Francisco and the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 National Convention in Chicago, IL. More recently, Vox Musica was selected as the recipient of the 2015-16 American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) National Award for Adventurous Programming.

Arunima Kohli, soprano ISamantha Harrison, soprano IRebekah Steiner, soprano IMira Huang, soprano ITabitha Lewis, soprano IIMarielle Petricevich soprano II

Laura McLellan, soprano IIEma Gluckmann, alto IErin Brothers, alto IJennifer Crawford, alto IICat Fithian, alto IIKate Kalthoff, alto II

“The recent arrival of the choir Vox Musica to the Sacramento music scene is also indicative of the talent moving into the area that highly values new music.”

- American Music Center, 2007

“The singers and conductor Daniel Paulson threw down a breathtaking performance of my Three Nightsongs.”

- Joshua Shank, 2008

“The ensemble breathed refreshing life into three contemporary arrangements of a 15th-century hymn ‘Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen’ .”

- Sacramento Bee, 2010

“The music was effectively built from a hushed austerity to the more complex and Vox Musica drove us through the terrain with excellent taste and powerful emotion.”

- Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2015

“Vox Musica undertakes the performance of insanely difficult music and does so successfully, time and again.”


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Daniel I. Paulson, founder & music director, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from Sacramento State University, a Masters of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from the Three-Summer Masters of Music degree program at California State University, Los Angeles, and is a Doctoral student in Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has been a featured conductor on the International Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, CA, the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, CA, and the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 National Convention in Chicago, IL. He is a student of Dr. William Belan, Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and Donald Brinegar, Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies at Pasadena City College and former Adjunct Professor of Graduate Choral Conducting at the University of Southern California. His extended education includes studying early music with the Western Wind Ensemble, the King’s Singers, and at the 2013 American Bach Soloist’s Summer Academy. He was a featured presenter at the 2013 Sacramento TEDx Conference and spent the summer of 2014 teaching Choral/Vocal music at the University of Costa Rica. He is Professor of Voice and Choral Music at Sacramento City College, is a resident artist with the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and serves as Founder & Music Director for Vox Musica.

“Paulson has proved himself to be an astute programmer. He’s not afraid of taking chances.”


“Paulson coaxed a multi-layered sound from the singers, whose mysterious dimensions were delicately revealed.”


“Paulson’s “Silent Night” was the most perfect rendition that I could ever imagine.”


“Paulson consistently produces programs that thoughtfully translate and provide context for the cerebral music they tackle.”


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featured artistsDr. Tabitha Lewis

Soprano Dr. Tabitha Lewis is a recent transplant to California. She formerly served as Lecturer of Voice and Theory at Georgia College and State University. A frequent recitalist and concert performer, her oratorio work includes a performance of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass under the baton of Joseph Flummerfelt, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and Libby Larsen’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. On the operatic stage she has performed Rosalba (Florencia en el Amazonas), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Josephine (HMS Pinafore), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Lily (The Secret Garden), and Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance). Her love of Gilbert and Sullivan led her to make her directorial debut in 2017 with the Bloomington University Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of Patience. A frequent collaborator with composers, she has worked with Libby Larsen, Anne Hege, Mark Carlson, and countless student composers. She has sung in the

choruses of Ash Lawn Opera, Music by the Lake Opera, Volti in San Francisco, and Aire Born Recording Group in Indianapolis. In 2014, she received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In 2017 she was a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles, where she performed the world premiere of Juliana Hall’s song cycle When the South Wind Sings (subsequently the topic of her doctoral dissertation) and enjoyed a solo recital performance with Martin Katz. She enjoys singing and teaching a variety of styles, including classical art songs, musical theater, and jazz. She holds a Doctor of Music and a Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music from Wheaton College and is also a certified Suzuki Violin Instructor.

To learn more visit: www.tabithalewissoprano.com

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Marielle Petricevich

Marielle Petricevich has been a singer for as long as she can remember. According to her violin teacher, at three years old, Marielle sang every song before she learned to play them. In fact playing violin and singing go hand in hand for this artist; when a piece isn’t sitting in her voice, she knows it is time to pull out her violin. It’s only a matter of time before her repertoire is singing in hand and voice.

A graduate of California State University Fresno (2013, 2015), Marielle’s music career has been centered in and around the greater Valley of California. In addition to lending her musicianship to Vox Musica, she sings with the Modesto Jazz Duo which takes a neo-classical approach to traditional jazz standards. She maintains a regular recording studio appointment with PureJoyful Music, an entity focused on recording newly composed pieces for children’s chorus and four-part acapella works.

She is an advocate for performing new works, premiering Harry Sommer’s “Loon” in Fresno, California, developing the role of the “Abbess” in Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s opera “Secret of Luca”, and commissioning a piece from Biljana Bojovic, “Living Water” for solo voice and string quartet. However her singing is not limited to the Valley. Marielle has performed on stages from Hong Kong to India, across Europe, and in mainland China; one of her more memorable experiences was performing for the World Youth Conference as a soloist in front of 7,000 people.

She has sung in many languages other than her native English, with her most proficient languages being BCS (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian) and German. In 2018, Marielle had the honor of collaborating with local composer and cellist Biljana Bojovic, Serbian mezzo-soprano Tanja Obrenovic, and Serbian pianist Maja Rajcic to create a concert featuring Christmas songs from around the world. That same year, she was awarded a scholarship to study German Opera, History, and Vocal Pedagogy at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, in Trossingen, Germany. Her German language is kept up by singing with the Stockton Heimatchor, a German Choir part of the Pacific-Sängerbund of California, whose mission is to preserve and share German folk songs of the German diaspora.

She currently studies with American soprano Susan Mohini Kane, who is author of The 21st Century Singer: Making the Leap from the University into the World.

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collaborating artistsDr. Shinae Kim

Pianist Dr. Shinae Kim performs frequently across the United States and internationally. She commands a wide-ranging solo repertoire, placing special emphasis on masterpieces of the Austro-Germanic tradition. Spanning the Baroque to the present day, it includes both volumes of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the complete Beethoven sonatas, and the Schoenberg Piano Concerto.

Shinae Kim debuted with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at age 11 and has appeared as soloist with the Coro Symphony in Puerto Rico, the International Chamber Orchestra in California, and the Brevard Repertory Orchestra in North Carolina. A sought-after collaborator, she has been featured on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase with flutist Conor Nelson and has performed with ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Merkin Hall.

Dr. Kim holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory, a Master’s in Music Education from New York University, and a doctorate in piano performance from Stony Brook University. She also attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria, where she studied Lieder intensively with some of the world’s leading experts, including Elly Ameling and Helmut Deutsch.

A passionate educator, Dr. Kim has worked as an independent consultant at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and as a teaching artist at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts and Technology. She has most recently served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Hebrew Union College.

In 2017, Shinae Kim founded the non-profit organization An die Musik NYC and, as its artistic director, brought the people of New York City high-quality classical music at affordable prices, presenting internationally renowned performers alongside rising talents from the NYC community. After moving to California in the summer of 2020, she is excited to be part of the California music-making community and to be collaborating with the musicians of the West Coast.

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Casidhe Mcclone

Guitarist Casidhe McClone is a multi-instrumentalist living in Sacramento. His musical projects include anywhere from recording independant originals and covers, to composing and recording for movie scores. He is most recognized for his compositonal soundtrack for the 2014 documentary The Farmer & The Chef. His most recent instrumental album “Late Breakfast” is available on most music platforms and features, none other than, Vox Musica’s Choral Artist, Marielle Petricevich. He enjoys writing, composing, and can be found often collaborating with artisans and musicians in the local Sacramento area.

To learn more visit: www.casdoesmusic.com

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Rebekah Steiner, soprano, has been singing since before she could talk! Being raised in a musical family, Rebekah started playing piano at age five and fell in love with choral singing at age seven. She continued to sing in choir as well as perform in musical theatre productions, and Rebekah graduated from University of the Pacific with a degree in Music Therapy and a minor in Psychology. She is currently working as a music therapist for VITAS Healthcare serving people on hospice. When not singing, Rebekah enjoys painting, hiking, and playing with her dog! This is her second season with Vox Musica.

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Mira Huang, soprano, just completed her undergraduate degrees in Vocal Performance, Psychology, and English at UC Davis. Mira loves both early and modern music, and especially enjoys attempting to sing while accompanying herself on viola da gamba. She was the first vocalist to win the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in over a decade and is also the 2018 recipient of the Carol Lee Coss Memorial Scholarship, UC Davis’ only school-wide award dedicated to those in the arts. When she is not singing or teaching, Mira enjoys writing young-adult fiction, and has been honored with several short story publications.

Arunima Kohli, soprano, is thrilled to be returning for her second season with Vox Musica. Her love for choral music sparked during her high school years at Palo Alto High School, and continued through her undergraduate and medical school career at Stanford University, where she sang and toured with the Stanford Chamber Chorale for seven years. She also studied voice with Amy Schneider and Wendy Hillhouse, presenting five vocal recitals, and was heavily involved with the Stanford Light Opera Company (formerly the Stanford Savoyards). She is one of the founding members of the Bay Area’s Convivium Choir, under the direction of Eric Tuan. Arunima is currently in her third and final year of her Family Medicine Residency at UC Davis.

Samantha Harrison, soprano, is a graduate of Boston University where she received her Master’s in Historical Performance. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from CSU Stanislaus. Along with studying and performing opera, Samantha has a passion for choral and chamber music. She has performed with the CSU Stanislaus Chamber Singers and Concert Chorale, and the Early Music Chamber groups and Graduate Vocal Ensemble of Boston University. As an avid recitalist, Samantha performs collaborative recitals regularly throughout California.

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Tabitha Lewis, soprano, is a recent transplant to the Sacramento area. Formerly, she served as Lecturer of Voice and Theory at Georgia College and State University. A frequent performer, she has performed opera roles, oratorios, and recitals spanning wide musical variety. In 2017, she was honored to be a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles, where she performed the world premiere of Juliana Hall’s cycle When the South Wind Sings (the topic of her doctoral dissertation). A frequent collaborator with composers, she has worked with Libby Larsen, Bernard Rands, Dominick DiOrio, and countless student composers. She made her directorial debut in 2017 with the Bloomington University Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of Patience. Lewis holds a DM and an MM from Indiana University and a BM from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.). Learn more about her at https://www.tabithalewissoprano.com.

Laura McLellan, soprano, is delighted to be singing amidst such talented peers in her third season with Vox. A Boston-bred Canadian American, Laura was lucky to be raised under exceptional batons, singing in choirs and playing the violin in orchestras from an early age. After receiving a degree in Environmental Studies from Brown University, she heeded the call of the West and found herself, happily, working for the State Water Resources Control Board. When she is not working or singing, Laura can be found on the water, rowing with the River City Rowing Club.

Marielle Petricevich, soprano, is excited for her second season with Vox! As a professional singer, she sings in and around the greater Sacramento area — in addition to Vox Musica, she sings with the Modesto Jazz Duo which takes a neo-classical approach to traditional jazz standards. She also maintains a regular recording studio appointment with PureJoyful Music, an entity focused on recording newly composed pieces for children’s chorus, and four part acapella works. In 2018, in association with Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen, she studied German Opera, History, and Vocal Pedagogy which rekindled her passion for professional singing.

Ema Gluckmann, alto, is excited to be starting her fifth season singing with Vox! While completing her B.S. in Biological Sciences with a minor in Spanish she sang with the University Chorus at UC Davis. Many years later she sang with the UCD alumni choir. Ema has sung with various local choirs and has even performed in some local musical theater. Her primary choral experience has been with the Congregation B’nai Israel Choir for the past 36 years! When not singing, Ms. Gluckmann’s day job as a high school chemistry teacher keeps her quite busy.

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Kate Kalthoff , alto, is new to Sacramento and is thrilled to be singing in her first season with Vox. Kate began her musical career studying piano and violin but her first love has always been voice. While working on her degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Kate became the lead singer and musical arranger for a blues/pop/rock band and for more than 20 years was headlining at some of that city’s most notable stages and clubs. After moving to Lake Tahoe, Kate joined Toccata Symphony and Chorus and was part of their 2017 tour in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague.

Jennifer Crawford, alto, is honored to be in her thirteenth season with Vox Musica. Her musical upbringing includes singing in church, school and community choirs, as well as playing flute, oboe, and piano in concert bands, jazz ensembles, and woodwind quartets throughout her school career. When not singing, Jennifer can be found writing computer code, fostering kittens, or knitting.

Cat Fithian, alto, caught the performance bug when she sang a solo at church camp at the age of 2. Since then she’s sung in various choirs and in storytimes at the public library where she’s enjoyed a long career. When not singing in Vox, Cat is the Vice Chair of the Board of Uplift People of Elk Grove, a non-profit that builds community around people working to pull themselves out of poverty. This is Cat’s fourth season with Vox.

Erin Brothers, alto, is singing in her seventh season with Vox Musica and is an inaugural member of the group. Erin has been involved in music for longer than she can remember, playing and singing in various bands and choirs. She received degrees in both Music and Psychology from McMurry University in Abilene, TX. Currently she is the Director of Music Ministry at Dixon United Methodist Church. Her husband, Jeremiah is also a great musician and together they are raising a rock band, The Brothers Brothers: Eamon, Kellan and Garrett.

Allison Proffitt, alto, is honored to be performing in her first season with Vox Musica. A native of Downers Grove, Illinois, she began her musical education at age 8 in the local children’s choir. After singing in her middle and high school choirs, Allison joined the UC Davis Early Music Ensemble, where she discovered her love of oratorio. While living abroad, she performed with the prestigious Amici Musicae choirs in Zaragoza, Spain. She holds a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from UC Davis. When she is not singing, Allison loves exploring redwood forests, practicing her Spanish, and dancing.

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I.Dr. Tabitha Lewis, soprano; Dr. Shinae Kim, piano

Schöne wiege Robert Schumann (1810-1856)Tief im Herzen trag ich PeinDie MeerfeeDer Himmel hat eine träne geweintEr ist’s

The Cage Charles Ives (1874-1954)Memories: A. Very Pleasant; B. Rather SadThe Things Our Fathers Lovedi carry your heart John Duke (1899-1984)Where the Music Comes From Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)

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II.Marielle Petricevich, soprano; Casidhe McClone, guitarist

All I Want Joni Mitchell (b1943)My Old ManLittle GreenCareyBlueCaliforniaThis Flight TonightRiverA Case Of YouThe Last Time I Saw Richard

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programSOLI ONE

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer who lived in the Romantic era. His music is influenced by a handful of sources: poetry, which during his lifetime had come into its fullest form of Romanticism; his devotion to his wife, pianist and composer Clara Schumann; and close relationships with other composers like Johannes Brahms. In addition, he was an accomplished pianist, and with the development of the piano to its modern version, he elevated the piano accompaniments of art songs to the position of equal collaborator with the voice. He wrote in many genres, but his songs are regarded as a special set of his output. Many of his songs were inspired by or dedicated to his wife. The year of their wedding, 1840, he wrote the vast majority of his art song output. Sadly, towards the end of his life he was committed to an asylum, leaving his wife Clara to support their nine children with her career as a concert pianist.

The songs presented tonight all have to do with longing for human companionship or camaraderie. The first two songs deal with loss. In true Romantic form, the poems bemoan the loss of the beloved so deeply, that the grave is considered the only logical conclusion to the pain. The third song is a whimsical story about a boy on a ship who sees a fairy and her retinue pass. The fourth song, also at sea, is an allegory of taking someone into one’s heart. The fifth song is a celebration of spring.

Schöne Wiege Op. 24, No. 5; Liederkreis; Feb. 1840Poet: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Text:Schöne wiege meiner Leiden,Schönes grabmal meiner Ruh,

Schöne stadt, wir müssen scheiden,Lebe wohl, ruf ich dir zu.

Lebe wohl, du heilge schwelle,Wo da wandelt Liebchen traut,Lebe wohl, du heilge schwelle,

Wo ich sie zuerst geschaut.

Hätt ich dich doch nie gesehn,Schöne Herzenskönigen!

Nimmer, nimmer wär es dann geschehen, daß ich jetzt so elend bin.

Nie wollt ich dein Herze rühren.Liebe hab ich nie erfleht;

Nur ein stilles Leben führenWollt ich,

wo dein Oden weht.

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Translation:Lovely cradle of my sorrows,Lovely tomb of my peace,Lovely town, we must part,I cry out “farewell” to you.

Farewell, sacred threshold,Where my dear darling lives!Farewell, holy place Where I first saw her.

If only I had never seen you, Lovely queen of my heart!It would never have happenedThank I should be so wretched now.

I never tried to move your heart,I never begged for your love;I only wanted to lead a quiet lifeSomewhere near you, Where I could breathe the air you breathe.

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Doch du drängst mich selbst von hinnen,Bittre Worte spricht dein Mund;

Wahnsinn wühlt in meinen Sinnen,Und mein Herz is krank und wund.

Und die Glieder matt und träge schlepp ich,Schlepp ich fort am Wanderstab,

Bis mein müdes haupt ich legeFerne in ein kühles Grab.

Translator: Beaumont Glass

Tief im Herzen trag ich Pein Op. 138, No. 2Poet: E. Geibel

Text:Tief im Herzen trag ich Pein,Muß nach außen stille sein,

Den geliebten Schmerz verhehleTief ich vor der Welt Gesicht,

Und es fühlt in nur,Nur die Seele,

denn dier Leib verdient in nicht.

Wie der Funke, frei und licht,Sich verbirgt im Kieselstein.Trag ich innen, tief die Pein.


Die Meerfee/The Sea-Fairy, Op. 125, No. 1, July 1850Poet: Julius Buddeus

Text:Helle Silberglöcklein klingen

aus der Luft vom Meer;Leise Mädchenstimmen singen

fröhlich rings umher;Und auf leichtem Perlenwagen

fährt die Fee vorbei,Von der lauen Luft getragen,

wallt die Melodei.

But you drive me away,You speak bitter words;Madness is stirring in my senses, And my heart is sick and wounded.

And I drag my exhausted, sluggish limbs awayWith my pilgrim’s staff, Till I can lay down my weary headIn a cool grave, far away.

Translation:Deep in my heart I bear pain, but outwardly I must appear to be calm,I deeply hide my beloved pain from the face of the world;And only my soul can feel it, for my body does not deserve it.

As the spark, free and bright, is concealed in flint, so do I bear deep within me my pain.

Translation:The bright sound of silver bellsComes ringing through the air from the sea;Girls’ voicesSing softly around.In her frail coach of pearlThe fairy rides by,As the melody rises and falls,Borne along by the sea breeze.

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Lichte Funken rings umglühtenSie im heitern Spiel,

Düfte, wie von Rosenblüten,Wehn vom Mast zum Kiel;

Und der Knabe sieht es träumendAn des Schiffes Bord,

Doch die Wellen tragen schäumendDie Erscheinung fort.


Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint/ Heaven Shed a Tear. Op. 37, No. 1Poet: Friedrich Rückert

Text:Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint,

die hat sich ins Meer verlieren gemeint.Die Muschel kam und schloß sie ein:

“Du sollst nun meine Perle sein.Du sollst nicht vor den Wogenzagen,

ich will hindurch dich ruhig tragen,O du mein Schmerz, du meine Lust,

du Himmelsträn in meiner Brust!Gib, Himmel, daß ich in reinem Gemüte,

den reinsten deiner Tropfen hüte.”


Er ist’s/It’s Spring, Op. 79, No. 24, probably April 1849 Liederbuch für Jungend.

Poet: Eduard Mörike

Text:Frühling läßt sein blaues Band

Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte.Süße, wohlbekannte

Düfte streifen ahnungsvoll das Land.Veilchen träumen schon, wollen balde kommen.

Horch, ein Harfenton! Frühling, ja du bist’s!Dich hab ich vernommen, Frühling, ja du bist’s!


Lichte Funken rings umglühtenSie im heitern Spiel,Düfte, wie von Rosenblüten,Wehn vom Mast zum Kiel;Und der Knabe sieht es träumendAn des Schiffes Bord,Doch die Wellen tragen schäumendDie Erscheinung fort.them.

Translation:Heaven shed a tear that fell into the sea and thought itself lost.An oyster came and enclosed it, saying: “You shall now be my pearl. You shall not be afraid of the waves, for I shall carry you through them peacefully,You, my sorrow and my joy, you, a tear from heaven in my breast!Grant, heaven, that I may guard with a pure spirit the purest of your teardrops.”

Translation:Spring again unfurls its blue ribbon and lets it flutter in the breeze;Sweet, well-known scents spread through the land a hint of what is on its way.Violets are already dreaming; they want to come soon. Listen, the tone of a harp! Spring, yes, it is you!I feel your approach! Yes, it is you!

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All translations (from German to English) are by Beaumont Glass, as published in:Schumann, R., & Glass, B. (2002). Schumann’s complete song texts: in one volume containing all completed solo songs including those not published during the composer’s lifetime, duets, trios,

quartets. Geneseo, N.Y.: Leyerle.

Charles Ives (1874-1954)All Ives songs are set to poetry by the composer.

Charles Ives (1874 - 1954) was an American composer who is lauded as creating a characteristic American art music sound. An insurance salesman by day, he was free as a composer to experiment without needing to please an audience. He combined melodies from his childhood (hymns, marches) with a daring harmonic language, often layering more than one musical idea on top of another. His songs often deal with the feeling of nostalgia.

The Cage

A leopard went around his cage from one side back to the other side;he stopped only when the keeper came around with meat.

A boy who had been there three hours began to wonder, “Is life anything like that?”

Memories: A. Very Pleasant; B. Rather Sad

We’re sitting in the opera house, the opera house, the opera house; We’re waiting for the curtain to arise with wonders for our eyes;We’re feeling pretty gay, and well we may, “O Jimmy, look,” I say,

“the band is tuning up and soon will start to play.” We whistle and we hum, beat time with the drum.A feeling of expectancy, a certain kind of ecstasy,

Expectancy and ecstasy, expectancy and ecstasy Sh’s’s’s! Curtain!

From the street a strain on my ear doth fall,A tune as threadbare as that “old red shawl,”

It is tattered, it is torn, It shows signs of being worn:

It’s the tune my uncle hummed from early morn.‘Twas a common little thing and kind ‘a sweet.

But ‘twas sad and seemed to slow up both his feet;I can see him shuffling downTo the barn or to the town,

A-humming.

The Things Our Fathers Loved

I think there must be a place in the soul all filled with tunes, of tunes of long ago;

I hear the organ on the Main Street corner;Aunt Sarah humming gospels.

Summer evenings,The village cornet band,

playing in the square.The town’s Red, White, and Blue,

all Red, White, and Blue,Now! Hear the songs,!

I know not what are the words,But they sing in my soul

Of the things our Fathers loved.

John Duke (1899-1984) was an American composer and professor. After he completed studies at Peabody, he debuted as a concert pianist, later soloing with the New York Philharmonic. He served on the faculty of Smith college from 1923 to 1967. During this time he wrote approximately 260 art songs. His biggest contribution to the genre was his use of a neo-Romantic harmonic language, especially considering that all his contemporaries were writing far more exploratory music. The song you will hear tonight is one of his best-known works, a setting of e. e. cummings’ poem i carry your heart.

i carry your heartpoet: e. e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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Lee Hoiby (1926-2011) was an American composer and pianist. Hoiby’s writing is influenced by the lyricism of Samuel Barber, the lighthearted subject matter of Gian Carlo Menotti, and the union of traditional and jazz harmonies of Darius Milhaud, the latter two with whom he studied composition. Hoiby’s primary output was in opera, but he also has an oratorio and choral music. Many of his songs were premiered by soprano Leontyne Price, and a number of songs are dedicated to her.

Where the Music Comes FromPoem by the composer

I want to be where the music comes from, Where the clock stops, where it’s now.

I want to be with the friends around me, Who have found me, who show me how.

I want to sing to the early morning, See the sunlight melt the snow;

And oh, I want to grow.

I want to talk to the living spirit,Here inside me, where it lies.

I want to listen till I can hear it, Let it guide me and realize

That I can go with the flow unending, That is blending, that is real;

And oh, I want to feel.

I want to walk in the earthly garden, Far from cities, far from fear.

I want to talk to the growing garden, To the devas, to the deer,

And to be one with the river flowing, Breezes blowing, sky above;

And oh, I want to love.

Intermission (10 minutes)

Blue Joni Mitchell (b1943)

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She began her career singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, throughout western Canada, and then in Toronto, Ontario. By 1965 she moved to the United States and began touring on the east coast. She settled in Southern California, after finding success with some original songs, “Chelsea Morning”, “Both Sides, Now”. Her debut album was Song to a Seagull in 1968; Blue was written three years after in 1971 and is cited as one of the best albums of all time. It was selected by The New York Times in 2000 as one of the albums that represented “turning points and pinnacles in 20th century pop music and later in 2017, NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a list of the Greatest Albums Made By Women.

Mitchell’s sound expands beyond the confines of acoustic folk music, showing influences of pop, rock and jazz; songs composed on piano became a hallmark of Mitchell’s style in her most popular era. The tune “Carey” was lushly produced using an Appalachian dulcimer in the original version. Simpler rhythmic acoustic string accompaniment in other songs on the album allow for a focus on the lyrics and emotions (All I Want, A Case of You) but others with a rolling piano accompaniment (“Blue”, “River”, “The Last Time I Saw Richard”) show the beginnings of her hallmark piano style.

While some of Mitchell’s most popular songs were written on piano, almost every song she composed on the guitar uses an open, or non-standard, tuning; she has written songs in some 50 tunings, playing what she has called “Joni’s weird chords”. The use of alternative tunings allows guitarists to produce accompaniment with more varied and wide-ranging textures. In Blue, the song “Little Green” features this non-standard tuning.

Her most confessional album, Mitchell has said of Blue, “I have, on occasion, sacrificed myself and my own emotional makeup, ... singing ‘I’m selfish and I’m sad’, for instance. We all suffer for our loneliness, but at the time of Blue, our pop stars never admitted these things.” In its lyrics, the album was regarded as an inspired culmination of her early work, with depressed assessments of the world around her serving as a counterpoint to exuberant expressions of romantic love (for example, in “California”). Mitchell later remarked, “At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong.”

Mitchell’s songs often reflect on social and philosophical ideals as well as her feelings about romance, womanhood, disillusionment, and joy. She has received many accolades, including nine Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone called her “one of the greatest songwriters ever”, and AllMusic has stated, “When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century.

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Sources: Crowe, Cameron (July 26, 1979). “Joni Mitchell”(reprint). Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2021. Fusilli, Jim (November 4, 2008). “A 65th Birthday Tribute to Joni Mitchell”. The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2021. Shumway, David R. (2014). Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-4214-1392-1. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved Feburary 9, 2021. Wild, David (October 31, 2002). “Joni Mitchell” (reprint). Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 31, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2021. Whitesell, Lloyd “Harmonic Palette in Early Joni Mitchell”, p. 173. Popular Music, Vol. 21, No. 2, (May 2002), pp. 173–93. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved February 15, 2021.

“All I want”

I am on a lonely road and I am travelingTraveling, traveling, traveling

Looking for something, what can it beOh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some

Oh I love you when I forget about me

I want to be strong I want to laugh alongI want to belong to the living

Alive, alive, I want to get up and jiveI want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me babyDo you want to take a chance

On maybe finding some sweet romance with me babyWell, come on

All I really really want our love to do

Is to bring out the best in me and in you tooAll I really really want our love to do

Is to bring out the best in me and in youI want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you

I want to renew you again and againApplause, applause - Life is our cause

When I think of your kisses my mind see-sawsDo you see - do you see - do you see how you hurt me baby

So I hurt you tooThen we both get so blue

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling

Looking for the key to set me freeOh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling

It’s the unravelingAnd it undoes all the joy that could be

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I want to be the one that you want to seeI want to knit you a sweater

Want to write you a love letterI want to make you feel better

I want to make you feel freeI want to make you feel free

“My Old Man”

My old manHe’s a singer in the parkHe’s a walker in the rainHe’s a dancer in the dark

We don’t need no piece of paperFrom the city hall

Keeping us tied and trueMy old man

Keeping away my blues

He’s my sunshine in the morningHe’s my fireworks at the end of the day

He’s the warmest chord I ever heardPlay that warm chord, play and stay baby


Keeping us tied and trueMy old man

Keeping away my blues

But when he’s goneMe and them lonesome blues collide

The bed’s too bigThe frying pan’s too wide

Then he comes home

And he takes me in his loving armsAnd he tells me all his troublesAnd he tells me all my charms


Keeping us tied and trueNo, my old man

Keeping away my blues But when he’s gone

Me and them lonesome blues collideThe bed’s too big

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The frying pan’s too wideMy old man

He’s a singer in the parkHe’s a walker in the rainHe’s a dancer in the dark


Keeping us tied and trueNo, my old man

Keeping away my lonesome blues

“Little Green”

Born with the moon in CancerChoose her a name she will answer to

Call her green and the winters cannot fade herCall her green for the children who’ve made her

Little green, be a gypsy dancer

He went to CaliforniaHearing that everything’s warmer there

So you write him a letter and say “Her eyes are blue”He sends you a poem and she’s lost to you

Little green he’s a non-conformer

Just a little greenLike the color when the spring is born

There’ll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrowJust a little green

Like the nights when the Northern lights performThere’ll be icicles and birthday clothes

And sometimes there’ll be sorrow

Child with a child pretendingWeary of lies you are sending home

So you sign all the papers in the family nameYou’re sad and you’re sorry but you’re not ashamed

Little green have a happy ending

Just a little greenLike the color when the spring is born

There’ll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrowJust a little green

Like the nights when the Northern lights performThere’ll be icicles and birthday clothes

And sometimes there’ll be sorrow

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“Carey”

The wind is in from AfricaLast night I couldn’t sleep

Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here CareyBut it’s really not my home

My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feetAnd I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne

Oh Carey get out your caneAnd I’ll put on some silver

Oh you’re a mean old DaddyBut I like you fine

Come on down to the Mermaid Café and I will

Buy you a bottle of wineAnd we’ll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down

Let’s have a round for these freaks and these soldiersA round for these friends of mine

Let’s have another round for the bright red devilWho keeps me in this tourist town

Come on Carey get out your cane

I’ll put on some silverOh you’re a mean old Daddy

But I like you

Maybe I’ll go to AmsterdamMaybe I’ll go to Rome

And rent me a grand pianoAnd put some flowers ‘round my room

But let’s not talk about fare-thee-wells nowThe night is a starry dome

And they’re playin’ that scratchy rock and rollBeneath the Matala Moon

Come on Carey get out your caneI’ll put on some silver

We’ll go to the Mermaid CaféHave fun tonight

The wind is in from AfricaLast night I couldn’t sleep

Oh you know it sure is hard to leave hereBut it’s really not my home

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Maybe it’s been too long a timeSince I was scramblin’ down in the street

Now they got me used to that clean white linenAnd that fancy French cologne

Oh Carey get out your cane

I’ll put on my finest silverWe’ll go to the Mermaid Café

Have fun tonightI said, Oh, you’re a mean old Daddy but I like you

But you’re out of sight

“Blue”

Blue songs are like tattoosYou know I’ve been to sea before

Crown and anchor meOr let me sail away

Hey Blue, here is a song for youInk on a pin

Underneath the skinAn empty space to fill in

Well there’re so many sinking nowYou’ve got to keep thinking

You can make it thru these wavesAcid, booze, and ass

Needles, guns, and grassLots of laughs lots of laughs

Everybody’s saying that hell’s the hippest way to goWell I don’t think so

But I’m gonna take a look around it thoughBlue I love you

Blue here is a shell for you

Inside you’ll hear a sighA foggy lullaby

There is your song from me

“California”

Sitting in a park in Paris FranceReading the news and it sure looks bad

They won’t give peace a chanceThat was just a dream some of us had

Still a lot of lands to seeBut I wouldn’t want to stay here

It’s too old and cold and settled in its ways here

Oh but CaliforniaCalifornia I’m coming home

I’m going to see the folks I digI’ll even kiss a Sunset pig

California I’m coming home

I met a redneck on a Grecian isleWho did the goat dance very well

He gave me back my smileBut he kept my camera to sell

Oh the rogue the red red rogueHe cooked good omelettes and stews

And I might have stayed on with him thereBut my heart cried out for you California

Oh California I’m coming home

Oh make me feel good rock ‘n’ roll bandI’m your biggest fan

California I’m coming home

Oh it gets so lonelyWhen you’re walking

And the streets are full of strangersAll the news of home you read

Just gives you the bluesJust gives you the bluesSo I bought me a ticket

I caught a plane to SpainWent to a party down a red dirt road

There were lots of pretty people thereReading Rolling Stone reading Vogue

They said “How long can you hang around?”I said a week maybe two

Just until my skin turns brownThen I’m going home to California

California I’m coming homeOh will you take me as I amStrung out on another manCalifornia I’m coming home

Oh it gets so lonely

When you’re walkingAnd the streets are full of strangers

All the news of home you readMore about the war

And the bloody changesOh will you take me as I am?

Will you take me as I am?Will you?

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“This Flight Tonight”

Look out the left, the captain saidThe lights down there that’s where we’ll land

I saw a falling star burn upAbove the Las Vegas sands

It wasn’t the one that you gave to meThat night down south between the trailers

Not the early oneThat you can wish upon

Not the northern oneThat guides in the sailors

Oh starlight, star bright

You’ve got the lovin’ that I like all rightTurn this crazy bird around

I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

You got the touch so gentle and sweetBut you’ve got that look so critical

Now I can’t talk to you babyI get so weak

Sometimes I think love is just mythicalUp there’s a heavenDown there’s a town

Blackness everywhere and little lights shineOh blackness blackness dragging me down

Come on light the candle in this poor heart of mine

Oh starlight, star bright

You’ve got the lovin’ that I like all rightTurn this crazy bird around

I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

I’m drinking sweet champagneGot the headphones up high

Can’t numb you outCan’t drum you out of my mind

They’re playing Goodbye baby, Baby GoodbyeOoh ooh love is blind

Up go the flaps down go the wheelsI hope you got your heat turned on babyI hope they finally fixed your automobile

I hope it’s better when we meet again baby

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Starlight, star brightYou got the lovin’ that I like all right

Turn this crazy bird aroundI shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

“River”

It’s coming on ChristmasThey’re cutting down treesThey’re putting up reindeer

And singing songs of joy and peaceOh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But it don’t snow here

It stays pretty greenI’m going to make a lot of money

Then I’m going to quit this crazy sceneOh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long

I would teach my feet to flyI wish I had a river I could skate away on

I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help meYou know, he put me at easeAnd he loved me so naughtyMade me weak in the knees

Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I’m so hard to handleI’m selfish and I’m sad

Now I’ve gone and lost the best babyThat I ever had

I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Oh, I wish I had a river so longI would teach my feet to fly

I wish I had a riverI could skate away on

I made my baby say goodbye

It’s coming on ChristmasThey’re cutting down treesThey’re putting up reindeer

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“A Case of You”

Just before our love got lost you said“I am as constant as a northern star”

And I said “Constantly in the darknessWhere’s that at?

If you want me I’ll be in the bar”

On the back of a cartoon coasterIn the blue TV screen light

I drew a map of CanadaOh Canada

With your face sketched on it twiceOh you’re in my blood like holy wine

You taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darlingStill I’d be on my feet

oh I would still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painterI live in a box of paints

I’m frightened by the devilAnd I’m drawn to those ones that ain’t afraid

I remember that time you told me you said

“Love is touching souls”Surely you touched mine

‘Cause part of you pours out of meIn these lines from time to time

Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wineYou taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darling

And I would still be on my feetI would still be on my feet

I met a woman

She had a mouth like yoursShe knew your life

She knew your devils and your deedsAnd she said

“Go to him, stay with him if you canBut be prepared to bleed”

Oh but you are in my blood

You’re my holy wineYou’re so bitter, bitter and so sweet

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Oh, I could drink a case of you darlingStill I’d be on my feet

I would still be on my feet

“The Last Time I Saw Richard”

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ‘68And he told me all romantics meet the same fate somedayCynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café

You laugh he said you think you’re immuneGo look at your eyes they’re full of moon

You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell youAll those pretty lies pretty lies

When you gonna realize they’re only pretty liesOnly pretty lies just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer and he pushed

Three buttons and the thing began to whirrAnd a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie

And she said “Drink up now it’s getting’ on time to close”“Richard, you haven’t really changed” I said

It’s just that now you’re romanticizing some pain that’s in your headYou got tombs in your eyes but the songs you punched are dreaming

Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweetWhen you gonna get yourself back on your feet?

Oh and love can be so sweet Love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skaterAnd he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolatorAnd he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on

And all the house lights left up brightI’m gonna blow this damn candle out

I don’t want nobody comin’ over to my tableI got nothing to talk to anybody about

All good dreamers pass this way some dayHidin’ behind bottles in dark cafes dark cafes

Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings and fly awayOnly a phase these dark café days

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