coda spring program 2016 president’s message · blowin’ in the wind / america arranged by len...

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William LaubersteinCODA PresiDent

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Tonight we welcome spring with a program of poetry and music. Joelle, ever seeking to inspire and challenge the chorus, and bring peace and joy to the greater Winthrop area, has put together a festival of poetry set to music.

The chorus is delighted that you have chosen to join us in this festival and, perhaps, find as Gustave Flaubert said: “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” We welcome you to take tonight’s program with you and take some time to enjoy the poems upon which tonight’s music is based. In addition, please join us in welcoming several of Maine’s poets, who will be sharing with us poems of their choosing for this special program.

In large part, the success of the chorus can be attributed to the on-going generous sup-port of our corporate sponsor, Kennebec Savings Bank, whose support enables us to attract such talented professionals as Joelle Morris, our director, and Rebecca Caron, our accompanist. We also ask that you join us in thanking the many advertisers that appear in the program and who help make this concert and the work of the chorus possible. Finally we wish to express our gratitude to the Winthrop United Methodist Church, which provides a place for us to rehearse and to house our library, and to Hope Baptist Church, which offers this splendid venue for our concerts.

We hope you enjoy this evening’s performance. For ourselves, we will try to sing like angels, ignoring all frontiers.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

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Rebecca Caron— A c c o m p A n i s t —

Joëlle Morris— m u s i c D i r e c t o r —

sOPrAnOs Diann BaileyPati CarlsonMarsha Giglio Patricia Griffin Penny GuyazBarbara HaskellSue HinkleyRuth LundLinda McKeeGale MetteyDebbie MilesKay MorrisAnn StinsonLinda Washburn

ALtOsKimberley AustinJoan ChandlerStephanie CoteLee GilmanRuth HertzJudy JohnstonBrenda LakeStephanie Leet Debbie MaddiKelly MilesRita Moran Sue OlmstedBev PetellKathy Petersen Donna RadovichShelley ReedJoanie SteihlerLillian StresserCandace SykesKim TessariCherie WenzelBetty Wilkins

Originally from Evian, France, Joëlle Morris is a singer, actor, choir conductor and voice teacher. Recognized for her warm mezzo voice and her ability to sparkle on stage, she is admired for her versatility, from the concert stage to the operatic arena, in intimate jazz settings and French caba-ret or simply sharing her gifts as voice teacher and coach. An active recitalist, Joëlle has sung across the United States, France and Switzerland and has performed in an array of opera and musi-cal theater shows. Aside from conducting CODA chorus, Joelle teaches private voice lessons at Colby College, UMF and in her home studio lo-cated in Winthrop, Maine. She can be reached via her website at https://joellemorris.com.

CODA CHORUS m e m B e r s

tenOrsBarbara Busch Michael ConleyLynn Izzi Christopher LansleyBill LaubensteinAlfred LundMary Simpson Don SmithDan SorensonRebecca StanleyJeff Woolston

BAssesKen Bell Scott BenningtonBrad HowardKevin KaneLloyd KenfieldDavid LewisMike Lund Franklin MacKenzieDuane PrughSean SiragusaPeter ThompsonAndy Tolman Dave Twitchell

Rebecca is a music director and pianist who plays for theaters, schools, and choruses from Bangor to Portland and everywhere in between. She’s been involved in theater in many different capacities over the years - performer, choreographer, puppeteer, house manager, light board operator - but music is her passion. She played her first show at age 16 and hasn’t looked back - since then, she has worked on over 40 productions. Selected ME credits include ‘Patience’, ‘The Sorcerer’ (Theater at Monmouth), ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ (Waterville Opera House), ‘9 to 5’, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ (Community Little Theatre), ‘Cabaret’, ‘Grey Gardens’ (Monmouth Community Players) and ‘A Funny Thing Happened...Forum’ (Lyric Music Theatre).


CODA OffiCers

William Laubenstein PresiDent

Andy TolmanViCe PresiDent

Kelly MilesseCretAry

Stephanie CotetreAsurer

Scott BenningtonBrenda Lake

Sean SiragusaLillian Stresser

DireCtOrs

Penny Guyaz

HistOriAn

Gale Mettey PrOGrAM/POster

The Board is always looking for volun-teer help from within the chorus and from without. If you would like to con-tribute your time and skills to further the work of the chorus, please contact us from our website, codachorus.com

ABOUT CODA CODA Chorus began as an interfaith non-profit choral group with 50 members, and gave its first concert in 1967. CODA is an acronym for Community Organists and Directors Association. Over the years CODA Chorus has evolved into a community chorus, open to all.

We welcomed Joëlle Morris as Music Director in September 2012 and Rebecca Caron as Accompanist in November 2012. They bring their considerable talents and love of music to inspire us (see page 6).

Every year CODA gives a music scholarship to a student from Maranacook, Monmouth, or Winthrop High Schools. In this way we encourage our youth to continue their studies of music (see page 28).

JOiN CODA CHOrUsWe welcome any community members, high school age and older, to join us. Previous choral experience or music-reading skills are not required, but are, of course, welcomed.

CODA holds 2 concerts per year, early December for Christmas and late April/early May for Spring.

Rehearsals are held Tuesdays, 7 to 9 PM, at the Winthrop United Methodist Church, beginning after Labor Day for our fall season and mid-January for our spring season. New members are welcome through the second rehearsal of each season. Membership dues are $35.00 for each season.

CONTACT iNfO CODA Chorus • P.O. Box 146 • Winthrop, ME 04364

[email protected] • codachorus.com

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THANK YOUA very special thank you to everyone who has

supported CODA with their generous donations.

Mark your calendar

CODA CHRISTMAS

CONCERTDecember 10, 2016

at the Hope Baptist church


O, to Make a Jubilant song Music by Sherri Porterfield • Text by Walt Whitman

Poem page 20

High school Memory Poetry reading by ruth Bookey

Bio page 14

O My Luve’s Like a red, red rose Music by René Clausen • Text by Robert Burns

Poem page 13

Piping Down the Valleys Wild Music by David C. Dickau • Text by William Blake

Poem page 13

if Music Be the Food Of Love Music by David C. Dickau • Text by Henry Heveningham

Flute: Christopher Lansley • Poem page 19

Harmony Poetry reading by Claire Hersom

Bio page 15

Will there really Be a Morning? Music by Victor C. Johnson • Text by Emily Dickinson

Poem page 17

evening star Music by Victor C. Johnson • Text by Edgar Allen Poe

Poem page 20

the road not taken Music by Randall Thompson • Text by Robert Frost

Poem page 18

Choose something Like a star Music by Randall Thompson • Text by Robert Frost

Poem page 18

Bad Cat Poetry reading by ted Bookey

Bio page 14

sam was a man Music by Vincent Persichetti • Text by E.E. Cummings

Poem page 16

i Dream a World Music by André J. Thomas • Text by Langston Hughes

Poem page 19

Blowin’ in the Wind / America Arranged by Len Thomas • Text & Music by Bob Dylan

Poem page 17

A House Full Poetry reading by Craig Hickman

Bio page 15

Caged Bird Text by Maya Angelou • Music by Daniel Kallman

Soloist: Jeff Woolston • Flute: Christopher Lansley

Poem page 12


Piping Down the Valleys Wild by William BlakePiping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child. And he laughing said to me.

Pipe a song about a Lamb; So I piped with merry chear, Piper pipe that song again— So I piped, he wept to hear.

Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe Sing thy songs of happy chear, So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear

Piper sit thee down and writeIn a book that all may read— So he vanish’d from my sight. And I pluck’d a hollow reed.

And I made a rural pen,And I stain’d the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear

MAyA AnGeLOuMaya Angelou was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiog-raphies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, ...

Born: April 4, 1928, St. Louis, MODied: May 28, 2014, Winston-Salem, NC

WiLLiAM BLAKEWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life-time, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Born: Nov. 28, 1757, Soho, London, UKDied: August 12, 1827, Westminster, UK

Caged Birdby Maya Angelou

A free bird leapson the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breezeand the trade winds soft through the sighing treesand the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawnand he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

A Red, Red Roseby robert BurnsO my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June;O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare thee weel awhile!And I will come again, my luve, Though it were ten thousand mile.

rOBert BurnsRobert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire and various other names and epi-thets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

Born: January 25, 1759, Alloway, UKDied: July 21, 1796, Dumfries, UK

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TED BOOKEY~ Bad Cat ~

Ted Bookey hails originally from New York where he taught English in public schools and at Long Island University. He has a degree in English Literature. For the past fifteen years he has conducted poetry workshops in the Senior College program at the University of Maine in Augusta as well as in other Maine venues. Ted is the author of five books of poems: Mixty Motions, Language As A Second Language, Lostalgia, With (a Hole in One) and, with his wife Ruth, translations from the German poems of Erich Kästner.

After over forty years of teaching at Senior College and an attempt at retirement, Ted Bookey returned to the classroom at UMA and was happily surprised to discover that this was the most fulfilling teaching experience of his life –“The rewards come from my students consistent energy, surprise, intelligence and life-wisdom”. Mr. Bookey marvels and is inspired by the level of enthusiasm, experience, and openness to creativity in his classroom. He prizes the words of the student who wrote: “I have found great pleasure in the courses at Senior College at University of Maine, Augusta. (If you don’t know about that and are of appropriate vintage, find out. Try it. You’ll like it!) It was there, three years ago, that I took a poetry course from Ted Bookey entitled ‘The Joy of Poetry’. I thought we would be reading poetry and nearly went into shock when I discovered we’d be writing it as well. That association turned out to be a fortunate one. I recovered and have been finding joy in poetry ever since”. Another has written that Senior college has expanded his horizons to include dabbling in poetry, for him “unthinkable in years gone by.” Ted is married to singer, painter, poet Ruth Bookey.

RUTH BOOKEY ~ High school Memory ~

Ruth Bookey was born in Germany and left (because of Hitler) for the United States with her parents and sister in the late thirties. Eventually the family landed in Bangor, Maine. Ruth graduated from Bangor High School and UMO where she majored in English and studied art with vincent Hartgen. Later, she attended night school at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and continued hands-on art studies while working as a cataloger in the John Hay Library at Brown University.

Ruth has been involved with music and art for many years. She sang with CODA for 12 years, and was a concert soloist with the Kennebec Chorus and Colby College Chorus under con-ductor Peter Re. She also was a soloist at the Unitarian church and other churches in the Augusta area.

Ruth taught Kindergarten for 24 years in West Gardiner. More recently she came to poetry. She’s been teaching Beginning Hands on Art at Senior College in Augusta for 12 years. Moon Pie Press published her poetry chap book, “Life Class”, in 2007. Ruth is married to Ted Bookey, poet and teacher.

CRAIG HICKMAN~ A House Full ~

Craig Hickman, organic farmer, poet, chef, and co-owner of Annabessacook Farm in Winthrop, is serving his second term in the Maine House of Representatives. He is House chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, where he has championed food sovereignty, food security and other efforts to protect Maine’s small family farms and promote rural economic de-velopment. Inspired by his father, a World War II veteran, and his wise mother, Hickman has spent most of his life serving his community and feeding people. He is currently chair of the Winthrop Area Rotary Foundation, Secretary of the Win-

throp Hot Meal Kitchen, and serves on the boards of the Annabessacook Lake Improvement Association, Winthrop Area Chamber of Commerce, Winthrop Conservation Commission, and Theater at Monmouth. A National Poetry Slam Champion and award-winning author, Hickman has also received a Spirit of America Foundation Award for Community Service and an Angels in Adoption Award for his work on adoption is-sues in Maine and around the country.

CLAIRE HERSOM ~ Harmony ~

Claire Hersom is a native Mainer whose work appears in several poetry journals including Yankee Magazine. Her book, Drowning: A Poetic Memoir, (Moon Pie Press) was supplemental text for UMS Rockland campus. In 2011, she received an Emerging Artist Grant in Literature from Boston’s St. Botolph Club Founda-tion. She serves on the Board of Directors for Maine Equal Justice Partners, and volunteers in local schools giving poetry ‘workshops’. Claire teaches ABE English at Monmouth/Winthrop Adult Community Education and under that umbrella, also organizes an 8 week session for Family Literacy, ages 3-5, at the Bailey Public Library. She is one of three organizers for the Hallowell poetry venue, The Bookey Readings at the Harlow Gallery. Her poem, October Moon was recently anthologized in the second edition of Wes McNair’s laure-ate project, More Poems from Maine, Take Heart.

In 2015 Ted and Ruth Bookey, after 20 dedicated years of leading poetry readings at the Harlow Gallery, stepped down from organizing what is now called The Bookey Readings at the Harlow. They passed the ‘baton’ on to fellow poets and friends Bob MacLaughlin, Claire Hersom, and Jay Franzel. The poetry series runs from April through November.

The Bookey Readings at the Harlow are held mid-month on a Friday night at 7pm at the Harlow Art Gallery, Water Street in Hallowell. For featured readers and exact dates, please check the Harlow Gallery’s calendar at harlowgallery.org

THE BOOKEy READiNGS AT THE HARLOW


Will There Really Be a Morning? by Emily Dickinson Will there really be a “Morning”?Is there such a thing as “Day”?Could I see it from the mountainsIf I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like Water lilies?Has it feathers like a Bird?Is it brought from famous countriesOf which I have never heard?

Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!Oh some Wise Men from the skies!Please to tell a little PilgrimWhere the place called “Morning” lies!

e. e. CuMMinGsEdward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cum-mings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cum-mings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

Born: October 14, 1894, Cambridge, MADied: September 3, 1962, North Conway, NH

sam was a man by E.E. Cummings rain or hailsam donethe best he kintill they digged his hole

sam was a man

stout as a bridgerugged as a bearslickern a weazelhow be you

(sun or snow)

gone into whatlike all them kingsyou read aboutand on him sings

a whippoorwill;

heart was bigas the world aint squarewith room for the deviland his angels too

yes,sir

what may be betteror what may be worseand what may be cloverclover clover

(nobody’ll know)

sam was a mangrinned his grindone his choreslaid him down.

Sleep well

EMiLy DiCKiNSONEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted.

Born: Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, MADied: May 15, 1886, Amherst, MA

Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob DylanHow many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man ?How many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand ?Yes, how many times must the cannon balls flyBefore they’re forever banned ?The answer my friend is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain existBefore it’s washed to the sea ?Yes, how many years can some people existBefore they’re allowed to be free ?Yes, how many times can a man turn his headPretending he just doesn’t see ?The answer my friend is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look upBefore he can see the sky ?Yes, how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear people cry ?Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knowsThat too many people have died ?The answer my friend is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the wind.

BOB DyLAn Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer/poet. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

Born: May 24, 1941, Duluth, MN

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rOBert FrOstRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his real-istic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

Born: March 26, 1874, San Francisco, CADied: January 29, 1963, Boston, MA

the road not takenby robert FrostTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Henry HeVeninGHAM“If Music Be the Food of Love” is the well-known opening verse from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Poet Henry Heveningham used this opening line to set the stage for his lovely poem. Three times the poem was composed by Henry Purcell as solo songs. Later contemporary composer David Dickau wrote the choral version which CODA will perform tonight.

Born: January 5, 1651, UKDied: November 26, 1700, UK

If Music Be The Food Of Love by Henry HeveninghamIf music be the food of love,sing on till I am fill’d with joy;for then my list’ning soul you movewith pleasures that can never cloy,your eyes, your mien, your tongue declarethat you are music ev’rywhere.

Pleasures invade both eye and ear,so fierce the transports are, they wound,and all my senses feasted are,tho’ yet the treat is only sound.Sure I must perish by our charms,unless you save me in your arms.

LAnGstOn HuGHesJames Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and col-umnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.

Born: Feb. 1, 1902, Joplin, MODied: May 22, 1967, New york City, Ny

i Dream a Worldby Langton HughesI dream a world where manNo other man will scorn,Where love will bless the earthAnd peace its paths adorn.I dream a world where allWill know sweet freedom’s way,Where greed no longer saps the soulNor avarice blights our day.A world I dream where black or white,Whatever race you be,Will share the bounties of the earthAnd every man is free,Where wretchedness will hang its headAnd joy, like a pearl,Attends the needs of all mankind--Of such I dream, my world!

Choose something Like a starby robert FrostO Star (the fairest one in sight),We grant your loftiness the rightTo some obscurity of cloud—It will not do to say of night,Since dark is what brings out your light.Some mystery becomes the proud.But to be wholly taciturnIn your reserve is not allowed.Say something to us we can learnBy heart and when alone repeat.Say something! And it says, ‘I burn.’But say with what degree of heat.Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.Use language we can comprehend.Tell us what elements you blend.It gives us strangely little aid,But does tell something in the end.And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite,Not even stooping from its sphere,It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.







eDGAr ALLen POeEdgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

Born: Jan. 19, 1809, Boston, MADied: Oct. 7, 1849, Baltimore, MD

Evening Star by edgar Allan Poe

‘Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;

And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro’ the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,‘Mid planets her slaves,Herself in the Heavens,Her beam on the waves.

I gazed awhileOn her cold smile;

Too cold- too cold for me-There pass’d, as a shroud,

A fleecy cloud,And I turned away to thee,

Proud Evening Star,In thy glory afar,

And dearer thy beam shall be;For joy to my heartIs the proud part

Thou bearest in Heaven at night,And more I admire

Thy distant fire,Than that colder, lowly light.

WALt WHitMAnWalter “Walt” Whitman was an American poet, es-sayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and real-ism, incorporating both views in his works.

Born: May 31, 1819, West Hills, NyDied: March 26, 1892, Camden, NJ


O, To Make a Jubilant Song from A song of Joys by Walt Whitman

O to make the most jubilant song! Full of music-full of manhood,

womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments-

full of grain and trees.

O for the voices of animals- O for the swiftness and

balance of fishes! O for the dropping of raindrops in a song!

O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song!O the joy of my spirit-it is uncaged-it

darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe

or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

O the engineer’s joys! to go with a locomotive! To hear the hiss of steam,

the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!

To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.




“Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia’ horse,

and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod”.

Herman Melville

“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

It seems to infuse strength into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort,

when I am filled with music.”

George eliot

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

Carl sandburg

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses Between notes--ah, there is where the art lies.”

Artur schnabel

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

Victor Hugo

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

Albert einstein

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

Aldous Huxley

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

Charles Darwin

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”

Leonard Bernstein

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one’s nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

Oscar Wilde

Music & Poetry ~ QUOTes TO PONDer ~


KENNEBEC SAVINGS BANK thank you for being a corporate sponsor.

WINTHROP UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

thank you for the use of your practice space.

MANCHESTER HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH thank you for the use of your

performance space.

WINTHROP PRO-MENDER BODy SHOP

WINTHROP CONGREGATIONAl CHURCH

WINTHROP MINI-MART thank you for the use of your parking lots during practice.

A Very Special

to


“Bright star, would i were stedfast as thou art”

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art – Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

And watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike task

Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors –No – yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,

Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,And so live ever – or else swoon to death.

John Keats

in the poem, above, John Keats speaks of “nature’s patient sleepless Eremite.” The reference is to an unidentified star which, like a hermit, sits apart from the world. Robert Frost, in “Choose Some-thing Like a Star” (page 18) refers to the steadfastness of “Keats’ Eremite.”

28 CODA SPRING PROGRAM 2016

Every year, to promote the study of music, CODA Chorus awards the Jeanette Cumber Music Scholarship to a deserving student from Winthrop, Monmouth, or Maranacook Schools, on a rotating basis.

This past year, Winthrop High School awarded scholarships to two students, Lilly Beauregard and Teresa Easterbrooks. The next scholarship will be awarded in May/June of this year.

The JeaneTTe Cumber musiC sCholarship

Lilly Beauregard & Teresa Easterbrooks

~ We think music is important! ~

~ Mark your calendars ~

CODA CHRISTMAS CONCERTDecember 10, 2016 • Hope Baptist Church, Manchester

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