Two Motets Claudio Monteverdi Adoramus Te (1567–1643) Cantate Domino

Dark Night of the Soul Ola Gjeilo(b. 1978)

Sing Me to Heaven Daniel E. Gawthrop (b. 1949) Text by Jane Griner

Be Thou a Smooth Way Ralph M. Johnson (b. 1955)

Do Not Be Afraid Philip W. J. Stopford(b. 1977)

Text by Gerard Markland

Flight Song Kim André Arnesen(b. 1980)

Text by Euan Tait(b. 1968)

Ner Ner Jake Runestad(b. 1986)

Amazing Grace John Newton(1725–1807)

arr. Keith McCutchen

—Program to be selected from the following—

Saturday, March 107:00 p.m. Concert

Orchard Lake Community Church

Sunday, March 1110:30 a.m. Worship Service

Orchard Lake Community Church

Calvin College

CapellaPearl Shangkuan, conductor

Linda Hoisington, accompanist

Mini-Tour 2018

The Capella of Calvin CollegePearl Shangkuan, conductor

Linda Hoisington, accompanist

The concert choir of Calvin College, The Capella, is composed of advanced singers from different disciplines. Rehearsing one hour each day, four times a week, The Capella gives a major concert each semester in addition to annual tours and participation in area church services. The Capella was founded by Seymour Swets in 1935 and later conducted by Howard Slenk, Merle Mustert, and Joel Navarro. Pearl Shangkuan was appointed the choir’s fifth conductor in 2014. The Capella toured Europe in May 2008 and earned a pair of third-place medals in an international choral competition in Tours, France. The choir has been featured in several ACDA state conventions and is frequently invited to sing for professional symphony orchestras in Michigan. In January 2012, The Capella traveled to churches and international schools in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Manila, and Singapore. In May 2016, the choir embarked on a very successful concert tour to Spain and Portugal.

SopranoErica Buursma, Grand Rapids, MIEmma DeWitt, Grand Rapids, MIEmily Fisher, Pfafftown, NCJennifer Randall, Grand Rapids, MIKalina Reese, New Paris, IN

+Aleca Stewart, Hamilton, MI+Jessica Vos, Pella, IANaomi Vroegop, Caledonia, MI

*Kendra Walters, Grand Rapids, MI

AltoAlison Bouman, Holland, MIAraceli Eikenberry, Muskegon, MI

+Grace Hoffman, Holland, MISarah Hughes, Martinsburg, WVHeather Milks, Budapest, Hungary

*Erica Norman, Grand Rapids, MI +Kelsey Norman, Byron Center, MIEva Maxwell, Berlin, Germany

+Katie Sarb, Ada, MISaara Spitzer, Palatine, IL

TenorJonathan Boer, Lansing, IL Brian Bolton, Kentwood, MINathan DeWindt, Hudsonville, MIJason Entingh, Hudsonville, MIShin Han, Anyang, South KoreaGarrett Hilbelink, Zeeland, MIConnor Kuipers, Holland, MIBryan Lutke, Zeeland, MI Michael Merz, Spring Lake, MIOliver Weesner, Caledonia, MI

BassLuke Enders, Muskegon, MI Josiah Enos, Warwick, RIDan Ermer, Hudsonville, MIJansen Gontjes, Caledonia, MIJason Hanse, Pompton Plains, NJ

*+Benjamin Mohr, Jenison, MIKyle Reitsma, Ada, MIA.J. Samdal, Caledonia, MIJoshua Shoemaker, Dorr, MI Micah Van Rijs, Hudsonville, MI

+Denotes Choir Officer

*Denotes Section Leader

The ConduCTor

Dr. Pearl Shangkuan is a sought after conductor, lecturer and clinician across the United States and internationally. Director of Choral Activities and professor of Music at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she is also chorus master of the Grand Rapids Symphony, a Grammy-nominated professional orchestra. Her conducting and teaching engagements have taken her to Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Europe and all across Asia. Shangkuan has a signature choral series with earthsongs and is the music editor of the Calvin Choral series, published by GIA. In 2013, Michigan ACDA honored her with their Maynard Klein Choral Award for “artistic

excellence and lifetime leadership in choral music.” Her choirs have performed at ACDA national, division and state conferences and for other professional music organizations. She has conducted ACDA division honor choirs, all states, honor choirs and festivals in numerous states and internationally, and has headlined several ACDA state conferences. She has also served on the jury of several international choral competitions and has been a guest faculty for programs in the United States such as the Chorus America conducting masterclasses and the University of Michigan Choral Conducting Symposium among many others. She served as president of ACDA Central Division and Michigan ACDA, and has commissioned and premiered numerous choral works by composers that are performed in concert halls around the world.

The aCCoMpanisT

Linda Gerig Hoisington is Staff Accompanist, Coordinator of Accompanists, and Instructor of Piano for the Department of Music at Calvin College. She enjoys playing collaboratively with numerous vocalists, instrumentalists, and choirs, and has toured with musical ensembles nationally as well as in Asia and Europe. She holds a BM from Wheaton College Conservatory and a MM from the University of Wisconsin and previously taught Music Theory and Piano at Wheaton College. An active collaborative pianist and teacher, she accompanies the Calvin Oratorio Society, has played for the Bach Chorale of

Grand Rapids, and is regularly involved with the Grand Rapids Piano Teachers’ Forum and the Musician’s League of Grand Rapids. She and her husband Michael live in Kentwood.

TexT & TranslaTions

TWO MOTETS Claudio MonteverdiAdoramus Te

Cantate Domino

Adoramus te Christe, et benedicimus tibi:Quia per sanguinem tuum pretiosum,Redemisti mundum,Miserere nobis.

We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you:Because with your precious blood,You have redeemed the world,Have mercy on us.

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL Ola GjeiloBased on a poem by St. John of the Cross, 1542-1591

One dark night,fired with love’s urgent longingsAh, the sheer grace!I went out unseen,my house being now all stilled.

In darkness, and secure,by the secret ladder, disguised,in darkness and concealment,my house being now all stilled.Ah, the sheer grace!

On that glad night, in secret, for no one saw me,ah, the sheer grace!nor did I look at anything,with no other light or guidethan the one that burned in my heart.Dark Night of the Soul

Kendra Walters, soloist

SING ME TO HEAVEN Daniel E. GawthropText by Jane Griner

In my heart’s sequestered chambers lie truths stripped of poet’s gloss.Words alone are vain and vacant and my heart is mute.

Cantate Domino canticum novum,Cantate et benedicite nomine ejus,Quia mirabilia fecit:Cantate et exultate et psallite,Psallite in cythara et voce psalmi:Quia mirabilia fecit.

Sing to the Lord a new song,Sing and speak good of his name,Because of the wonders he has done:Sing and exult and play,Play on the lyre and let the voices sing:Because of the wonders he has done.

In response to aching silence memory summons half-heard voices,and my soul finds primal eloquence and wraps me in song.

If you would comfort me, sing me a lullaby.If you would win my heart, sing me a love song.If you would mourn me and bring me to God, sing me a requiem,Sing me to heaven.

Touch in me all love and passion, pain and pleasure, touch in me grief and comfort; love and passion, pain and pleasure.

Sing me a lullaby, a love song, a requiem.Love me, comfort me, bring me to God:Sing me a love song, sing me to heaven.

BE THOU A SMOOTH WAY Ralph M. JohnsonBe thou a smooth way before me,be thou a guiding star above me,be thou a keen eye behind me,this day, this night, forever.

I am weary, and I am forlorn.Lead thou me to the land of the angels.

If only thou, O God of life,be at peace with me, be my support,be to me as a star, be to me as a helm, in peace to my rising anew.

DO NOT BE AFRAID Philip W. J. StopfordText by Gerard Markland

Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you.I have called you by your name;you are mine.

When you walk through the waters, I’ll be with you;you will never sink beneath the waves.When the fire is burning all around you,you will never be consumed by the flames.When the fear of loneliness is looming,then remember I am at your side.

When you dwell in the exile of a stranger,remember you are precious in my eyes.

You are mine, O my child,I am your father,and I love you with a perfect love.

FLIGHT SONG Kim André ArnesenText by Euan Tait

All we are, we have found in song:you have drawn this song from us.Songs of lives unfoldingfly overhead, cry overhead:longing, rising from the song within.

Moving like the rise and fall of wings,hands that shape our calling voiceon the edge of answersyou’ve heard our cry, you’ve known our cry:music’s fierce compassion flows from you.

The night is restless with the sounds we hear,is broken, shaken by the cries of pain:for this is music’s inner voice,saying, yes, we hear you,all you who cry aloud,and we will fly, answering you:so our lives sing, sing, wild we will fly,wild in spirit we will fly.

Like a feather falling from the wing,fragile as a human voice,afraid, uncertain,alive to love, we sing as love,afraid, uncertain,yet our flight begins as song.

NER NER Jake Runestad

AMAZING GRACE John Newtonarr. Keith McCutchen

Amazing grace, how sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now I’m found;Was blind, but now I see.

Through many dangers, toils and snares,I have already come;‘Twas grace that brought me safe thus far,And grace will lead me on.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,Bright shining as the sun,We’ve no less days to sing God’s praiseThan when we first begun.

—Program Notes compiled by Pearl Shangkuan

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Please note these performances are subject to change date, time, and location. Visit our website for the latest concert information.

Calendar of Events 2017 – 2018

MARCH10 Calvin Community Symphony, 3 p.m., CFAC Auditorium15 Wind Ensemble & Forest Hills Northern High School, 7:30 p.m., CFAC Auditorium

APRIL7 Student Recital: Brian Bolton, saxophone, 5 p.m., Recital Hall 7 * Choral Masterworks, 8 p.m., CFAC Auditorium15 Gospel Choir, 3 p.m., CFAC Auditorium21 Piano & Friends, 1 p.m., Recital Hall 21 * Cello Cabaret, 5 p.m., Recital Hall24 New Music from Calvin, 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall26 Chamber Music Recital, 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall27 Student Recital: Amy Lee, soprano, 7 p.m., Recital Hall27 Women’s Chorale, 8 p.m., Calvin Chapel28 Student Recital: Sarah (Sung Kyung) Shin, piano, 1 p.m., Recital Hall28 Student Recital: Joshua Parks, violin, 3 p.m., Recital Hall28 Student Recital: Emmy Lukers, soprano & Erica Norman, mezzo, 5 p.m., Recital Hall28 Calvin Orchestra, 8 p.m., CFAC Auditorium29 * Alumni Choir, 3 p.m., First United Methodist Church

MAY3 Jazz Band, 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall4 Capella, 8 p.m., Calvin Chapel5 Student Recital: Benjamin Mohr, violin & Kati Pohler, viola, 1 p.m., Recital Hall5 Student Recital: Yo Han Kim, piano, 3 p.m., Recital Hall5 Student Recital: Kalina Reese, soprano & Christine Vermeer, violin, 5 p.m., Recital Hall5 Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., CFAC Auditorium6 Campus Choir, 3 p.m., CFAC Auditorium9 Symphonic Band, 7:30 p.m., CFAC Auditorium

Calendar of Events 2018 – 2019

2018-2019 events are still being scheduled. Dates and times are subject to change.

SEPTEMBER13 Notes at Noon: TBA, 12:30 p.m., Recital Hall20 Notes at Noon: TBA, 12:30 p.m., Recital Hall27 Notes at Noon: TBA, 12:30 p.m., Recital Hall

OCTOBER6 * Late Night with Capella, 9 p.m., CFAC Auditorium12 Faculty Recital: Forrest Wakeman, piano, 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall