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CONCERT: SATAN’S FALL

2021-2022 SEASON

SPECIAL THANKS

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Chris and Kelly Gulbrandson and the Apple Autos Team Larry Brandts Tim Brunelle Robb Burnham Central Lutheran Church

Mark Kieffer

Peter Nycklemoe Ilaria Faleschini Dave Groth Katie Johnston Steve Kumagai Mall of America

Meri Ryan Pam McFerrin Matthew Mehaffey Jake Nyberg Moema Parrott Dean Phillips Lowell Pickett Natalia Romero Arbeláez Peter Rothstein

SATAN’S FALL

Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 4 PM Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

FEATURING: VocalEssence Chorus VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Jamie Chamberlain, soprano Nathan Granner, tenor Mary Jo Gothmann, piano Chamber Orchestra Peter Rothstein, stage director Philip Brunelle, conductor G . Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor

2021-2022 SEASON SPONSORS

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

VocalEssence Chorus

In the Beginning

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee

My Beloved is Mine, and I am His from The Best-Beloved

VocalEssence Chorus

Set Me as a Seal Upon Thine Heart Paul Schulz, clarinet

string orchestra

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

a blue true dream of sky

Jennifer Bevington, soprano solo Robin Helgen and Kristina Rodel Sorum, alto duet

Deo Gracias from A Ceremony of Carols

A Golden Day Mary Jo Gothmann, piano

VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers

Ye Shall Have a Song from The Peaceable Kingdom

INTERMISSION

Kyle Pederson (2018)

Jean Berger (1959)

Chris DeBlasio (1990)

Adolphus Hailstork (1979)

Judith Weir (2003)

Benjamin Britten (1942)

Patrick Vu (2020)

Randall Thompson (1936)

Satan’s Fall Stewart Copeland (2019)

IN THE BEGINNING

Kyle Pederson In the beginning, God moved. And God spoke creation into being. And of the new creation God declared it good. Good were the earth and the waters. Good were the evening and the day. Good were all living things that first drew breath, and good were the creatures made in God’s image.

And in the beginning was the Word; the Word would become flesh, the Word would dwell among us. In Him was light, in Him was life. The light was given for us, it overcame the darkness. In Him was grace and truth. And we have seen His glory.

Emmanuel —Kyle Pederson, b. 1971, based on Genesis 1 and John 1

THE EYES OF ALL WAIT UPON THEE

Jean Berger The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. —Psalm 145:15-16

MY BELOVED IS MINE, AND I AM HIS from The Best-Beloved

Chris DeBlasio

E’en like two little bank-dividing brooks, That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, And having ranged and search’d a thousand nooks, Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames, Where in a greater current they conjoin: So I my Best-belovèd’s am; so He is mine.

E’en so we met; and after long pursuit, E’en so we joined; we both became entire; No need for either to renew a suit, For I was flax, and He was flames of fire: Our firm-united souls did more than twine; So I my Best-belovèd’s am; so He is mine.

If all those glittering Monarchs, that command The servile quarters of this earthly ball, Should tender in exchange their shares of land, I would not change my fortunes for them all: Their wealth is but a counter to my coin: The world’s but theirs; but my Belovèd’s mine. —Francis Quarles, 1592-1644

SET ME AS A SEAL UPON THINE HEART

Adolphus Hailstork Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; For love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. Flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. For love is strong as death. Set me as a seal upon thine heart. —The Song of Solomon 8:6-7

a blue true dream of sky

Judith Weir

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any—lifted from the no of all nothing—human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) —e.e. cummings, 1894-1962

DEO GRACIAS from A Ceremony of Carols

Benjamin Britten Adam lay ibounden, bounden in a bond; Four thousand winter thought he not to long. And all was for an appil, an appil that he took, As clerkès finden written in their book.

Ne had the appil taken ben, the appil taken ben, Ne haddè never our lady a ben hevenè queen. Blessed be the time that appil takè was. Therefore we must singen: Deo gracias! —Anonymous 15th century poem

A GOLDEN DAY

Patrick Vu

I found you and I lost you,

All on a gleaming day. The day was filled with sunshine,

And the land was full of May.

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