2021–2022
MUSIC@ EMORY
This concert is presented by the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. 404.727.5050 | schwartz.emory.edu | boxoffice@emory.edu
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Design and Photography Credits
Cover and Program Design: Lisa Baron | Cover Photo: Mark Teague
Acknowledgment
The Schwartz Center gratefully acknowledges the generous ongoing support of Donna and Marvin Schwartz.
2021–2022
MUSIC@ EMORY Daybreak Emory Concert Choir Spring Concert Eric Nelson, director Jonathan Easter, piano
Sunday, April 10, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Emerson Concert Hall Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Program Heilig Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory, Hosanna in the highest.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
M. Thomas Cousins (1914–1972)
Glorious Everlasting
Glorious, everlasting. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing unto thee among the nations. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let thy glory be above all the earth. Glorious, everlasting. Amen. —Psalm 57: 11, 14
Os Justi The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide. —Psalm 37:30-31
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Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Earth Teach me Quiet (2013)
Eriks Esenvalds
Scott Pollard, marimba Earth teach me quiet as the grasses are still with light. Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory. Teach me humility as blossoms are humble with beginning. Teach me caring as mothers nurture their young. Teach me courage as the tree that stands alone. Teach me limitation as the ant that crawls on the ground. Earth teach me freedom as the eagle that soars in the sky. Earth teach me acceptance as the leaves that die each fall. Teach me renewal as the seed that rises in the spring. Teach me to forget myself as the melted snow forgets its life. Teach me caring as mothers nurture their young. Teach me courage as the tree that stands alone. Earth teach me to remember kindness as dry fields weep with rain. —Prayer of the Ute of North America (present day Utah, Colorado)
The Same Sun Shine (2007)
Bob Chilcott
Swallows travel to and fro and the great winds come and go, And the steady breezes blow bringing perfume, bearing love. Breezes hasten, swallows fly, towered clouds forever ply, And at noonday you and I see the same sun shine above. Dew and rain fall everywhere, harvests ripen, flowers are fair, And the whole round earth is bare to the moonshine and the sun; And the live air, fanned with wings, bright with breeze and sunshine brings Into contact distant things, and makes all the countries one. —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
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I Believe (2012)
Mark Miller Jess Ferguson, soprano I believe in the sun Even when it’s not shining. I believe in love Even when I don’t feel it. I believe in God Even when God is silent. —Anonymous Jewish poem, found at the end of WWII written on a basement wall in Cologne.
Traditional Spiritual arr. Moses Hogan
My God is So High Andrew Johnson, tenor
My God is so high you can’t get over Him, He’s so low you can’t get under Him, He’s so wide you can’t get ‘round Him, You must come in by and through the Lamb. One day as I was walkin’ along the heav’nly road, My Savior spoke unto me and He filled my heart with His Love. I’ll take my gospel trumpet and I’ll begin to blow, And if my Savior helps me I’ll blow wherever I’ll go.
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Yonder Come Day with a medley of traditional spirituals
Georgia Sea Islands Spiritual arr. Paul John Rudoi
O day, yonder come day. Day done broke inna my soul, Good morning’ day; A brand new day. Hush, somebody’s callin’ my name. O my Lord what shall I do? O day, yonder come day. Day done broke inna my soul, I was on my knees when I heard him say, Steal away to Jesus. Steal away, I ain’t got long to stay here. Swing low, sweet chariot, Comin’ for to carry me home. O day, yonder come day. Day done broke inna my soul, Yonder come day!
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Emory Concert Choir The Concert Choir is Emory’s select chamber choir. The singers in the ensemble come from across the country and around the world. All are students at the university with a wide variety of academic majors. The choir sings sacred and secular repertoire from the Middle Ages to the present, from chant to new commissions. The choir has sung at both the southern and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, an honor reserved for the nation’s finest choral ensembles. It has toured internationally and has sung at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the Vatican in Rome, and the Alhambra in Seville.
Eric Nelson, director Eric Nelson is director of choral studies at Emory University and artistic director of Atlanta Master Chorale. Nelson’s choirs have performed throughout the world, including in London, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Seoul, Carnegie Hall, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, and the Sydney Opera House. He has conducted choirs at eight American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conventions, including Atlanta Master Chorale’s performance at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis and Emory Concert Choir’s performances at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and Lincoln Center in New York City. Nelson’s ensembles are characterized by their variety of repertoire and for their ability to fuse technical precision with warmth of musical expression. He appears regularly as clinician, lecturer, and guest conductor for honor choirs, conventions, symposiums, workshops, and all-state choral festivals. He is also past president of the Georgia chapter of the ACDA. Nelson’s choral compositions and arrangements are sung regularly by ensembles throughout the United States. He is the editor of the Atlanta Master Chorale Choral Series, a division of Morningstar Music Publishers and EC Schirmer. His compositions are also published by Colla Voce and Augsburg Fortress. Nelson has degrees in voice and conducting from Houghton College, Westminster Choir College, and Indiana University.
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Jonathan Easter, piano Jonathan Easter is a graduate of Emory, where he studied with Timothy Albrecht and Eric Nelson and earned a double master’s degree. Easter now serves as director of fine arts and organist at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in midtown Atlanta, where he oversees a program of adults, children, handbells, brass, and drama. In addition to his responsibilities at St. Mark’s, Easter also works throughout the Emory music community accompanying the Emory University Chorus and Concert Choir and serving as the accompanist for the Atlanta Master Chorale under the direction of Eric Nelson. Recent highlights include co-conducting the featured ensemble for the Atlanta Rolling Stones concert; accompanying Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano, for recitals at All Saints’ Episcopal Church; serving as worship service organist for the Southeastern Regional Convention of the American Choral Directors Association; and serving as an accompanist and co-presenter at the American Guild of Organists convention in Charlotte. Easter has an undergraduate degree from Shorter College where he studied with Peter Dewitt and Helen Ramsaur.
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Spring 2022 | Emory Concert Choir Soprano 1 Uma Alappan Jordan Averett Greta Franke Jess Ferguson Alexa Schwartz Hannah Soloff Rachel Warhaftig
Columbus, GA Buford, GA Tower Lakes, IL Omaha, NE New York, NY Montgomery, AL Hingham, MA
Biology Business and Music Music (Pre-Med) Human Health and Sociology Music and Psychology Biology and Music Undeclared
Soprano 2 Rachael Berkoff Commack, NY Fiona Jones Sugar Hill, GA Ella Jane Reinhard Frederick, MD Evelyn Sload Darien, CT Andrea Snoddy Chester, VA
Psychology and Business Music and English Nursing Music, English Minor Anthropology and Human Biology, WGSS Minor
Alto 1 Darcy Caracciolo Emma Chatson Alexandra Fulford Isabel Packard LuLu Scully
Long Valley, NJ North Andover, MA Overland Park, KS Columbus, GA Denver, CO
Biology Psychology, French Minor Nursing Anthropology, Philosophy Minor PPL and Music
Boston, MA Frederick, MD St. Louis, MO Chongquing, China Taipei, Taiwan
Creative Writing and Anthropology Linguistics Psychology and Music Biology NBB and Music
Alto 2 Sophia Bereaud Jacqueline Hubbard Karyn Lisker Livia Peng Claire Wei
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Spring 2022 | Emory Concert Choir Tenor 1 Zeaven Hoxie Andrew Johnson Hunter Kief Gheric Lindberg Ammar Ul Haq
Braselton, GA Memphis, TN Crassville, TN Cincinatti, OH Dubai, UAE
NBB and Music Business and Music Computer Science and Music Philosophy, Politics, Law NBB and Theater Studies
Loganville, GA Glenview, IL Shenzhen, China
Biology and Theater Studies Music and PPL Biology and Music
Deerfield, MA Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA Milwaukee, WI Columbia, SC
Biology and Economics Undeclared Political Science and History Sociology (Pre-Med) PPL, Music Minor
Tenor 2 Matthew Nails Lev Sheinfeld Davy Song
Bass 1 Eric Albanese Austin Beale Alex Moss Taral Jella Cameron Obioha
Bass 2 Sam Blocker Cleveland, OH Declan Edwards Irvine, CA Sam Ellis Atlanta, GA Ian Hogben Decatur, GA Samuel Hulsey Athens, GA Yvette Lapeza Cordele, GA Peter Petrakis Long Island, NY Avery Rose Dallas, TX
Political Science, QSS Minor Biology and English Undeclared Mathematics Biology Linguistics and Music Finance, Marketing Minor (Pre-Business) Political Science NBB: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology PPL: Philosophy, Politics, Law QSS: Quantitative Sciences
WGSS: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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