December 4 ,5 & 6, 2015

Trinity CathedralHistoric St. Peter’s

downtown cleveland

7th Annual

Carols for Quirefrom the Old &

New Worlds

ross w. duffinartistic director

Deck the Hall with Quire for Christmas!fa la la la la . . . quirecleveland.org

Save the dates! May 20–21, 2015England’s Phœnix: William Byrd

Glorious Motets & Anthems nestled around his magisterial Mass for 5 Voices

with Pre-concert Lectures by Byrd’s biographer, Dr. Kerry McCarthy

Welcome to the 7th annual production of Carols for Quire from the Old & New Worlds! Since our second season, Quire Cleveland has celebrated the holidays with music from around the globe (well, Europe & North America), spanning centuries from the Middle Ages to the present day.

These concerts not only celebrate the multi-cultural community that is Northeast Ohio, but they also provide opportunities to collaborate with other artists. Through the Cleveland Composers’ Guild, we held a competition for a brand new work; last year, we engaged the best baroque instrumentalists in Cleveland (who also rank among the best in the world); and we’ve reached out to choral organizations throughout the region.

Quire Cleveland programs are also a platform for modern-day premieres — exquisite and fascinating music that has lain dormant for centuries is reconstructed and/or edited for Quire by our artistic director, Ross Duffin. So you get to hear the earliest AND the latest in choral music!

Music’s effect on the brain proves how essential singing is to humankind. Publications like This is Your Brain on Music (Daniel Levitin, 2006), The Music Instinct (Philip Ball, 2010), The Power of Music: Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song (Elena Mannes, 2011), and Imperfect Harmony (Stacy Horn, 2013) show how both singing and listening to song produce satisfying and therapeutic sensations and even improve one’s neurochemistry. According to Civil Rights historian Bernice Johnson Reagon, singing is as elemental as eating or breathing, “because we are a singing people and that’s in the culture. ... It is that essential to your strength and your sanity.”

We hope that YOU will join in the Quire — sing in the shower; hum around the house; croon in the car; warble at work; yodel in the yard; belt at the bar; harmonize with humanity — and always keep a song in your heart!

Beverly SimmonsExecutive Director

7th Annual Carols for Quire from the Old & New Worlds

December 4, 2015 Trinity Cathedral December 5 & 6, 2015 Historic St. Peter Church

PROGRAM

Once in royal David’s city Henry John Gauntlett (1805–1876) (arr. Ross W. Duffin) Gail West, solo trebleJoyMake we joy now in this fest Anon. 15th-century English (arr. RWD)Iloidcam ja remuidcam Anon. 16th-century Finnish (arr. RWD)Gaudete in Domino Giaches de Wert (1535–1596)Make we joy now in this fest William Walton (1902–1983)ShepherdsQuem vidistis, pastores? Richard Dering (ca.1580–1630)Anthem from Luke Joseph Stephenson (1723–1810)Il s’en va loin de la terre, from L’Enfance du Christ Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)FlowersAve rosa sine spinis Ludwig Senfl (ca.1486–1542/3)Meklētāja ceļš ir galā Andrejs Jansons (b.1938)There is a flow’r John Rutter (b.1945) Margaret Carpenter, solo soprano

IntermissionChristmas DayChriste, Redemptor omnium Guillaume DuFay (ca.1397–1474)Hodie Christus natus est Cipriano de Rore (1515–1565)Arise and hail the sacred day StephensonTomorrow shall be my dancing day William Sandys (1792–1874) (arr. David Willcocks)Following a StarMagi veniunt ab Oriente Jacobus Clemens non papa (ca.1510–1555)A un niño llorando al yelo Francisco Guerrero (1528–1599)I wonder as I wander American traditional (arr. Andrew Carter)Twelfth NightReges de Saba venient Anon. 16th-century English (arr. RWD)Die zwölf heiligen Zahlen Anon. 16th-century German (arr. RWD)Twelve days of Christmas Anon. 18th-century English (arr. Ian Humphris)

QuireCleveland

Ross W. Duffin, Artistic Director

ABOUT QUIRE CLEVELAND

Quire Cleveland is a professional chamber choir established in 2008 to explore the vast and timeless repertoire of choral music over the last 9 centuries. Quire’s programs introduce audiences to music not heard in the modern era — including modern premieres of works newly discovered or reconstructed — breathing life into the music of our shared heritage.With highly-trained professional musicians — who collectively represent 500 years of choral singing — the ensemble has earned both popular and critical acclaim. Quire contributes to the artistic life of our community in unique ways, including collaborations with such organizations as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Composers Guild, Music & Art at Trinity, CityMusic Cleveland, The Cleveland Foundation, and many choirs and choral organizations.Now in its eighth season, Quire Cleveland has presented more than 50 concerts and produced five CDs of music from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Artistic Director Ross W. Duffin creates unique editions for Quire, and plans programs that are appealing and accessible.In addition to live and recorded broadcasts on classical radio, Quire recordings have been included in the Oxford Recorded Anthology of Western Music (OUP) and Listening to Music (Schirmer). An education program, initiated in 2014, offers free workshops and lectures.With concert videos posted on YouTube, Quire Cleveland’s reach has indeed been world-wide, attracting over 400,000 views from 198 countries.

Soprano: Margaret Carpenter, Donna Fagerhaug, Gabrielle Haigh, Lisa Rainsong, Malina Rauschenfels, Gail West

Alto: Megan Kaes Long, Joseph Schlesinger, Beverly Simmons, Jay WhiteTenor: Evan Bescan, Kevin Foster, Bryan Munch, Van Parker, Corey ShotwellBass: Ian Crane, José Gotera, Nicolas Haigh, Nathan Longnecker, John McElliott,

Michael McKayOrgan: Nicolas Haigh

kQuire’s founding Artistic Director, Ross W. Duffin, is an award-winning scholar, specializing in the performance practice of early music. Director since 1978 of the nationally recognized Historical Performance Practice Program at Case Western Reserve University, where he is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, he has trained and nurtured some of today’s leading performers and researchers in the field. His weekly radio show, Micrologus: Exploring the World of Early Music, was broadcast on 140 NPR stations throughout the United States. His books, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) and Shakespeare’s Songbook, have gained international renown. In addition to many of the carols in this concert, Ross has edited Cantiones Sacræ: Madrigalian Motets from Jacobean England (A-R Editions), which Quire recorded complete as Madrigalian Motets (qc103), A Josquin Anthology, the St. Matthew Passion by Richard Davy, and A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music. He has sung with Apollo’s Fire since its inception in 1992.

NOTES

Quire Cleveland’s seventh annual holiday program begins with the piece used annually by King’s College, Cambridge, to open their renowned Lessons & Carols service. My arrangement is based on the original by Henry George Gauntlett, but adds some harmonies and a new descant for the final verse. Continuing the King’s tradition, we invite you to join in singing the melody for verses 4 through 6.The rest of the program pairs old and new pieces on the same or related texts (as we recorded in the 3rd CD volume of Carols for Quire), using sets of related pieces from a wide range of time periods and places of origin. The first set, Joy, begins with a 15th-century English carol. The original survives with only two voice parts, to which I have added a third voice in the style of other pieces from the same source. That same lyric is used also for the last piece in the set, by William Walton. In between are a Finnish version of Gaudete, from Piæ Cantiones (sung in Latin on the CD Carols for Quire, volume 2). That 1582 collection was republished with Finnish versions of the lyrics in 1616, though no music was included. I’m not aware of any setting of the Finnish lyrics to the music of the Latin original, so this may be a premiere of sorts. The third piece of the set is a short motet by the great Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Giaches de Wert.Next we focus on the role of the Shepherds in the Christmas story. Because of his Catholic faith, the English Renaissance composer Richard Dering spent many years working on the continent, but returned to become musician to Henrietta Maria, the Catholic bride of Charles I, in 1625. His motet contrasts the high-voice questioner against the lower voices of the shepherds in a charming dialogue. The composer of the next piece, Joseph Stephenson, lived and worked in England, but his music so suited American taste that much of it was republished in this country and, indeed, it sounds a lot like home-grown shape-note music. The final piece of the set is the shepherds’ farewell to the Holy Family as they leave Bethlehem, from L’Enfance du Christ by Hector Berlioz.Our Flowers set begins with the extraordinary Ave rosa sine spinis by the Swiss composer Ludwig Senfl. He spent a good part of his career at the Bavarian court in Munich, as music director to the court of Duke Albrecht. His “rose” motet is a trope — a verbal expansion — of the prayer Ave Maria, which you can see embedded in all caps in the text. This work is followed by Meklētāja ceļš (The Christmas Rose), by the Latvian composer Andrejs Jansons, in which echoes of Slavic and Eastern European folksongs can be heard. The first half of the program ends with John Rutter’s There is a flower. His setting of an early 15th-century poem by John Audelay was a commission from the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1986. Beginning the Christmas Day set is Christe redemptor by the early Renaissance master, Guillaume DuFay. Here the famous Christmas hymn is presented in Gregorian chant in the odd-numbered verses, and in DuFay’s three-voice polyphony — including lots of fauxbourdon sonorities — in the even-numbered ones. Christe redemptor is one of the first chants heard on Christmas Day, being the hymn for First Vespers. One of the last Christmas chants is Hodie Christus natus est, the Magnificat antiphon for Second Vespers, which we sing in a glorious setting by Cipriano de Rore, who, like DuFay and Wert, was a Flemish composer working in Italy. This is followed by another piece by Stephenson, Arise and hail the sacred day, a 3-part carol first published in The Musical Companion in

1771. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day is thought to be traditional, but it was first printed in 1833 by William Sandys. The text is unusual in having Jesus relate his own life story and call on those who love him to dance, a metaphor that reappears in the modern hymn, Lord of the dance. Arranged by many famous composers like Holst, Stravinsky, and Rutter, we present the lovely setting by David Willcocks, long-time Music Director at King’s College, Cambridge, who died this past September.Following a Star begins with Magi veniunt ab oriente, a sumptuous motet for low voices by Clemens non Papa. The text, from the Gospel of Matthew for the feast of Epiphany, is not a lyric found in the Gregorian chant repertoire, where most motets originate. Next is A un niño llorando by Francisco Guerrero, long-time music director at Seville Cathedral, with a lively devotional piece from his Canciones y villanescas espirituales of 1589. The set concludes with I wonder as I wander, purportedly a traditional Christmas song collected by John Jacob Niles in Murphy, North Carolina, in 1933, and recomposed by him. We sing an arrangement by the contemporary English composer, Andrew Carter.Our final set is devoted to pieces related to Twelfth Night, the traditional end of the Christmas season at Epiphany, and a frequent occasion for music-making and theatrics. The first piece is an anonymous 15th-century lyric from British Library MS Sloane 2593 that I have set to a 16th-century English tune. The second song will sound familiar to many who have attended a Seder, as related to the Passover counting game, “Who knows one?” In this case, the German text is clearly Christian, rather than Jewish, and seems to date back to the 15th or 16th century. In fact, it is not clear whether the Hebrew song (which was first recorded in an Ashkenazic Haggadah in the 16th century) or the German song came first. The melody used for this setting was current in Vienna in the 18th century, and may have been the one used earlier. Finally, we offer the famous Twelve days of Christmas, in a delightful arrangement by Ian Humphris.

— Ross W. DuffinArtistic Director

Thank you so much for coming! Performing for you gives us joy in singing.

But we have these small requests:

• Please turn off cell phones and other noisemakers.

• Please refrain from photography and audio/video recording.

• If you’re suffering from a cough, DO help yourself to the cough drops available from the

ushers and DON’T sit near a microphone.

Tenor Evan Bescan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, along with a Methodology Diploma from the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary. He is currently a full-time elementary music teacher at Elyria Community Elementary School in Cleve-

land and a chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Evan is also a consultant of the Freda Joyce Brint Foundation, using music to enhance learning and life in people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Soprano Margaret Carpenter was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, where she completed the M.Mus. in Choral Studies. She has been fea-tured on the Easter at King’s College Concert Series, was soloist in the Monteverdi Vespers alongside His Majestys Sagbutts

and Cornetts, and co-founded L’Académie du Roi Soleil with British organist and continuo player Nicolas Haigh. She has toured widely under Timothy Brown; performs with Apollo’s Fire and the South Dakota Chorale, in ad-dition to Quire; and is currently undertaking her DMA in Historical Performance Practice at Case Western Reserve University. Margaret also enjoys perform-ing contemporary works and recently sang David Del Tredici’s An Alice Symphony with the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra. margaretcarpenter.com

Bass Ian Crane currently teaches music at Cuyahoga Falls High School, and spent five years as instructor of bagpipes at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, sung with

Bobby McFerrin and Contrapunctus, and performed as both vocalist and instrumentalist with Apollo’s Fire. Ian earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Cleveland State and a master’s in conducting from Kent State. He resides in Lakewood with his wife, Tricia, and children, Phoebe and Alexander.Soprano Donna Fagerhaug holds a Master of Arts degree in Church Music from Trinity Lutheran Seminary and a Bachelor of Music from the Conservatory at Capital University, both in Columbus, Ohio. In addition

to Quire, she sings with Apollo’s Singers and Contrapunctus, and is soprano solo-ist at Lakewood Congregational Church. Donna also works as a vocal coach in the Rocky River City Schools. She lives in Rocky River with her husband and three children.Kevin S. Foster, tenor, studied piano and voice at Ohio Wesleyan University (BM), and choral conducting at Bowling Green State University. Kevin’s time is presently divided between his role as a stay-at-home dad and his musical endeav-ors as a composer, vocal coach, and oc-casional voiceover artist. He remains in high demand as an accompanist and as a tenor soloist. His gift for connecting with people of all ages has earned him re-spect as a conductor and clinician, as well. Composer of nearly 30 songs (many published through Santa Barbara Music), including several commissioned pieces, Kevin continually receives accolades from performers and au-diences alike for his expressive, sensitive text settings. www.kevinsfoster.comJosé Gotera began singing at the age of eight at St. Michael’s Choir School in Toronto. He completed degrees in Human Biology and Music History at the University of Toronto and sang with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir. In Cleveland, José was an artist-in-residence with Cleveland Opera on Tour, and has also performed with Opera Circle, Opera per Tutti, and the West Shore Chorale. He com-pleted an M.A. in Early Music from Case Western Reserve University. José can be heard on recent releases by Apollo’s Fire and Quire Cleveland. At present, he is a voice instructor at Cleveland State University.Soprano Gabrielle Haigh complet-ed her Classics degree at Cambridge University in 2014, and she is currently pursuing a Masters in Publishing. She was a Choral Scholar in the Clare College Choir, and has recorded with them for Harmonia Mundi. She has performed as a soloist with the Canton Symphony, Apollo’s Fire, and the European Union Baroque Orchestra. Recent roles include Alcibiade in Eric Satie’s Socrate, Carlotta in

SINGERS BIOGRAPHIES

Phantom of the Opera, and Julia Jellicoe in The Grand Duke at the Harrogate International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, where she won the UNIfest “Best Female Performer” award. In Cleveland, she sings with the Trinity Cathedral Choir and Chamber Singers, as well as Quire Cleveland.

Nicolas Haigh is currently Associate Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland, and a doctoral student in the Historical Performance Program at Case Western Reserve University. He has held organist positions at New College, Oxford, and York Minster.

He was a student at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in musicology and held the Sir William McKie Organ Scholarship at Clare College. A recipient of the Limpus Prize for the high-est marks in the Fellowship examinations from the Royal College of Organists, he has performed in the St Alban’s International Organ Festival. His teachers have included Malcolm Archer, Clive Driskill-Smith, James McVinnie, and Douglas Hollick.

Megan Kaes Long holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory from Yale University and a B.A. in Music from Pomona College. She teaches music theory and aural skills at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and is a scholar of secular choral music and mu-sic theory of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Prior to joining Quire, Megan sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum, where she collaborated with the New York Philharmonic, Juilliard 415, and the Bach Collegium Japan. She lives in Oberlin with her husband.

Nathan Longnecker studied voice with Irvin Bushman and Deltrina Grimes and organ with Karl Stahl. In addition to Quire Cleveland, this past year he has sung with Apollo’s Fire, Bobby McFerrin, and Contrapunctus.

John McElliott, countertenor, John McElliott, countertenor, holds under-graduate degrees in voice and organ per-formance from the University of Akron. He spent a year abroad as a choral schol-ar at Winchester Cathedral in the UK. John is a soloist/section leader at Trinity

Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland and sings with sev-eral choral ensembles in Northeast Ohio, including Apollo’s Fire, and the Trinity Chamber Singers. He is also president of Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc., where he manages concert careers for many of the world’s great concert organists and choirs. A versatile vocal-ist, he sings alto, tenor, and baritone parts in Quire and serves as the organization’s Secretary.Michael McKay, baritone, is office manager in the Performing Arts, Music, and Film department at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Having studied voice with Noriko Paukert and organ with Margaret Scharf, he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of music from Cleveland State University. He has performed with Apollo’s Fire, Old Stone Singers, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Choir, and CWRU Early Music Singers, as well as in various Cleveland-area chamber ensembles. He served as associ-ate organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist from 1998 to 2012. He resides in Cleveland with his wife and two children.Bryan Munch received his engineer-ing degree and M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, where he participated in many vocal groups in-cluding Early Music Singers. When he is not playing with his kids, he plays with data at Progressive Insurance.Van Parker holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. A horn player by profession, he is a member of the Firelands Symphony Orchestra (Sandusky, OH), the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra (Charleston, SC), Cleveland Winds, and in recent seasons has ap-peared in performance with the Akron, Ashland, Mansfield, and Youngstown Symphonies. Van also per-forms frequently on historic brass instruments, most notably in a performance of Niccolò Piccini’s 18th-century opera, La Buona Figliuola, at the Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival. Van has been a member of the choir at Old Stone Church, where he also served as an organ scholar for 2015.

Soprano Lisa Rainsong’s musical life integrates com-position, education, vocal performance, and natural

history. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music and is a member of CIM’s Music Theory faculty. She performs with Quire Cleveland and Ensemble Lautenkonzert, among others. A certified naturalist, Lisa has developed a music-based

approach to teaching classes on bird song and insect song identification and is in demand as a speaker. In addition, she does field research on “singing insects” — crickets and katydids — and in-service training for naturalists. listeninginnature.blogspot.com

Malina Rauschenfels is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist trans-planted to Cleveland after 11 years in New York City. She is executive director and co-founder of the emerging ensemble Burning River Baroque, with whom she sings and plays baroque cello. She is also artistic di-

rector of hūmAnómali, which incorporates “extra-musical affairs,” such as dance, gesture and theatricality, into the collaboratively structured ensemble featuring music performed in a historically informed manner from the antiquity to the present. She attended the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School for her B.M. and M.M. in cello performance and composition. malinarauschenfels.com

Joseph Schlesinger, countertenor, began his musical education playing principal trumpet in the Augustana College Symphony, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Finance and Asian Studies. After earning his Masters in Music from DePaul University, he re-

ceived a Netherlands-America/Fulbright Fellowship to study Baroque Music at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. His repertoire includes baroque, opera-tive, and contemporary repertoire. Upon returning to the United States, he is delighted to have joined Quire Cleveland, Apollo’s Fire, and Contrapunctus in Cleveland, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Seattle Pro Musica, and the Madison Bach Musicians.Tenor Corey Shotwell is celebrated for his perfor-mance of music from the 17th and 18th centuries. He earned praise for his Evangelist in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion and another Bach Evangelist in the modern-era premiere of C. P. E. Bach’s St. Luke Passion of 1775.

His operatic credits include recent per-formances with the Haymarket Opera Company in Chicago and the Boston Early Music Festival. He has been a Young Artist Apprentice with Apollo’s Fire, and sings with Opera Circle, as well as Quire Cleveland. Recent concert soloist en-gagements include appearances with the Newberry Consort, Bella Voce, Bach Collegium-Fort Wayne, and Chicago Bach Ensemble. A native of Michigan, he is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Western Michigan University. coreyshotwell.com Beverly Simmons is a mezzo-soprano, graphic designer, and Executive Director of Quire Cleveland. She earned a doctorate in early music at Stanford University, before moving to Cleveland in 1978. Her career has included stints as a CWRU music professor, WCLV radio an-nouncer, international artist manager, concert produc-er, and mother of two. She founded the CWRU Early Music Singers and has sung with Apollo’s Fire since its inception, as well as with the Cleveland Opera Chorus, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and Temple Tifereth-Israel. Bev is also half of the cabaret duo, Rent-a-Yenta.Soprano Gail West has worked with such eminent artists as Julianne Baird, Emma Kirkby, Suzie LeBlanc, Paul Hillier, and Benjamin Bagby. Currently a voice stu-dent of Ellen Hargis, she has been a mem-ber of Apollo’s Singers since its founding. Gail has been a member of CWRU’s Early Music Singers for over 20 years and is a soprano soloist at Church of the Good Shepherd. She lives in Cleveland Heights with her husband and three children.Countertenor Jay White sang 8 seasons with the internationally acclaimed ensem-ble Chanticleer, recording 14 albums and garnering two Grammy Awards. As an in-terpreter of medieval, Renaissance, and ba-roque repertoire, he has appeared at festivals worldwide and has been featured on nation-al and international radio. Trained at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute and the University of Maryland, he taught at the University of Delaware and DePauw University. Jay is now Associate Professor of Voice at Kent State University.

TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS

1. Once in royal David’s city stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby, in a manger for his bed: Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

2. He came down to earth from heaven, who is God and Lord of all, and his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall; with the poor, and mean, and lowly, liv’d on earth our Saviour holy.

3. And, through all his wondrous childhood, he would honour and obey, love and watch the lowly maiden in whose gentle arms he lay: Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as he.

The audience is invited to join with the Quire in singing verses 4–6:4. For he is our childhood’s pattern, day by day like us he grew; he was little,

weak and helpless, tears and smiles like us he knew, and he feeleth for our sadness, and he shareth in our gladness.

5. And our eyes at last shall see him, through his own redeeming love; for that Child who seem’d so helpless is our Lord in heav’n above; and he leads his children on to the place where he is gone.

6. Not in that poor lowly stable, with the oxen standing round, we shall see him; but in heaven, set at God’s right hand on high; when like stars his children crown’d, all in white shall wait around.

Make we joy now in this fest,in quo Christus natus est; Eya.1. A patre unigenitus

Thro’ a maiden is come to us: Sing we to her and say Welcome, veni, redemptor gencium. Make we joy …

2. Agnoscat omne seculum, a bright star three kings made come, for to seek with their presence, Verbum supernum prodiens. Make we joy …

3. A solis ortus cardine so mighty a lord was none as he; for to our kind he hath give gryth, Adam parens quod polluit. Make we joy …

4. Maria ventre concepit, the Holy Ghost was ay her with. In Bethlehem yborn he is, Consors paterni luminis. Make we joy …

5. O lux beata Trinitas: He lay between an ox and ass. Thou mother and maiden free; Gloria tibi, Domine. Make we joy …

on which Christ was born, indeed.Only begotten of the father

come, redeemer of the world.Let all the world acknowledge you,

The word of God made manifest.From the rising of the sun

Adam, our parent, did pollute.Conceived in Mary’s womb

Consort of the paternal light.O blessed light of the Trinity

Glory to you, o Lord.

Iloidcam ja riemuidcam Christus on ilmandun Ilo virsii veisadcam Neidzest on hän syndyn. 1. Käsis on armon aika Jota halan olem:

Jumalan pyhä Poika Alas astui puolem. 2. Jumal tullu ihmisex Vastan luonon juoxuu

Se Engeleill on ihmex Mailman pudhistuxex 3. Ezechjelin suljett ovi Jo nyt läpidz käedhän

Siit valkius uloslevi Josta autuns saadhan. 4. Siis meidhän cocouxem herrall veisat mahta

Andain ain ylistuxen Cuin cukin meist taita.

Gaudete in Domino semper, iterum dico, gaudete.

Quem vidistis, pastores, dicite, et annuntiate nobis, in terris quis apparuit?Natum vidimus et choros angelorumcollaudantes Dominum, Alleluia.

Anthem from LukeBehold I bring you glad tidings, glad tidings of joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you, unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a saviour who is Christ the Lord. Glad tidings, glad tidings of joy, which shall be to all people. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the babe wrapt in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heav’nly, and praising God and saying: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men. Hallelujah.

1. Il s’en va loin de la terre Où dans l’étable il vit le jour. De son père et de sa mère Qu’il reste le constant amour, Qu’il grandisse, qu’il prospère Et qu’il soit bon père à son tour.

2. Oncques si, chez l’idolâtre, Il vient à sentir le malheur, Fuyant la terre marâtre, Chez nous qu’il revienne au bonheur. Que la pauvreté du pâtre Reste toujours chère à son cœur.

3. Cher enfant, Dieu te bénisse! Dieu vous bénisse, heureux époux! Que jamais de l’injustice Vous ne puissiez sentir les coups. Qu’un bon ange vous avertisse Des dangers planant sur vous.

Rejoice, Christ is born of the Virgin Mary, rejoice.

1. The time of grace is present, the truth for which we hoped, devoutly render songs of joy. Rejoice.

2. God has become man, astounding nature, the world is renewed by the reign of Christ. Rejoice.

3. Ezechiel’s closed gate is traversed, whence light arose, salvation is found. Rejoice.

4. Therefore, friends, sing now in the light, bless the Lord, salvation through our King. Rejoice.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.

Whom did you see, shepherds, say, tell us: who has appeared on earth?The newborn we saw, and choirs of angelspraising the Lord, alleluia!

1. He goes far from the land where, in the stable, he saw the day. Of his father and his mother, may he remain the constant love, may he grow, may he thrive and may he be a good father in his turn.

2. If ever, among the idolatrous, he comes to feel unhappiness fleeing from the stepmother land, may he return home to happiness. May the poverty of the shepherd always remain dear to his heart.

3. Dear child, God bless you! God bless you, happy couple! May you never never feel the blows of injustice. May a good angel warn you of the dangers hovering over you.

AVE rosa sine spinis,Te quam Pater in divinisMajestate sublimavit,Et ab omni væ servavit.MARIA stella dicta maris,Tu a Nato illustrarisLuce clara deitatis,Qua præfulges cunctis datis.GRATIA PLENA: te perfecitSpiritus Sanctus dum te fecitVas divinæ bonitatisEt totius pietatis.DOMINUS TECUM: miro pactoVerbo in te carne factoOpere trini conditoris:o quam dulce vas amoris.BENEDICTA IN MULIERIBUS:Hoc testatur omnis tribus;Cœli dicunt te beatamEt super omnes exaltatam.ET BENEDICTUS FRUCTUS VENTRIS TUI,Quo nos semper dona fruiPer prægustum hic æternumEt post mortem in æternum: Amen.

Meklētāja ceļš ir galā, Vakars metas, tālu iets. Baltā ziemā, svešā malā Sārtu uzplaukst blāzmas zieds. Vaitur ziemas, svētku roze Debess dārzos ziedus ver? Brīnumaino krāsu kvēli Acis atdezerdamās dzer. Mana de biškīgā roze, maigo roku dēsts: Jaukā bērnu dienu gaisma, Brīnišķīgā Kristus vēsts. Zinu tavā sirdī Šonakt Kristus roze zied, Untu izej ziemas laukā klausīties kā zvaignes dzied.

—Kārlis Skalbe

There is a flow’r sprung of a tree, the root thereof is called Jesse; A flow’r of price; There is none such in Paradise.1. This flow’r is fair and fresh of hue: It fadeth never, but ever is new; the blessed branch this flow’r on grew was Mary mild

that bare Jesu. A flower of grace, against all sorrow it is solace!2. The seed hereof was Goddes sand [gift], that God himself sowed with his hand, in Nazareth, that holy land; amidst her

arbour a maiden found. This blessed flow’r sprang never but in Mary’s bower.3. When Gabriel this maid did meet, with “Ave Maria” he did her greet; between them two this flow’r was set, and safe was

kept, no man should wit; Till on a day in Bethl’em it could spread and spray.4. When that flow’r began to spread, and his sweet blossom began to bed [bud], Then rich and poor of ev’ry land they

marvelled how this flow’r might spread, till kinges three that blessed flower came to see.5. Angels there came from heaven’s tower to look upon this freshly flow’r, How fair he was in his colour, and how sweet in

his savour; and to behold how such a flow’r might spring in gold. There is a flow’r … —John Audelay (ca.1426)

1. Christe, redemptor omnium, ex Patre, Patris unice, solus ante principium natus ineffabiliter,

1. Christ, the Father’s only Son, Whose death for all redemption won, Before the worlds, of God most high Begotten all ineffably,

HAIL, rose without thorns,You whom the heavenly Fatherelevated in majestyand preserved from all suffering.MARY, known as the star of the sea,Thanks to your Son, you shine forthwith a clear, godly lightwhich falls on all creatures.The Holy Spirit made you FULL OF GRACE when He transformed youinto a vessel of divine goodnessand boundless mercy.THE LORD BE WITH YOU: the word became flesh in you through a wondrous pactby the action of the Creator who is three in one.O, how sweet is the vessel of love.BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN:all peoples bear witness to this.The heavens call you blessedand high above all others.AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMBthrough whom we ever enjoy giftsas a foretaste hereand after death, eternally. Amen.

— Tr. M. Swithinbank

The Christmas Rose Day is done and I am weary, walking on these lonely roads; suddenly a blazing flower in the intry sky unfolds. Lo, behold the Rose of Christmas blooming brightly at heaven’s door. Oh, drink to its wondrous beauty and to yearn for more and more! Christmas purest flower, sweetest childhood melody, beautiful enchanted hour when my mother sang of thee. I do know the Rose of Christmas blooms for you tonight; and for you the heaven glistens peacefully, in perfect light.

— Tr. Vīlnis Baumanis

2. Tu lumen, tu splendor Patris, tu spes perennis omnium, intende quas fundunt preces tui per orbem famuli.

3. Memento salutis auctor, quod nostri quondam corporis, ex illibata Virgine nascendo, formam sumpseris.

4. His præsens testatur dies, currens per anni circulum, quod a solus sede Patris mundi salus adveneris;

5. Hunc cælum, terra, hunc mare, hunc omne quod in eis est, auctorem adventus tui laudat exsultans cantico.

6. Nos quoque, qui sancto tuo redempti sumus sanguine, ob diem natalis tui hymnum novum concinimus.

7. Jesu, tibi sit gloria, qui natus es de Virgine, cum Patre et almo Spiritu, in sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Hodie Christus natus est: Hodie Salvator apparuit:Hodie in terris canunt Angeli, lætantur ArchangeliHodie exsultant justi, dicentes:Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia.

1. Arise and hail the sacred day, cast all low cares of life away, and thoughts of meaner things: This day to cure thy deadly woes, the Son of righteousness arose, with healing in his wings.

2. If angels, on the sacred morn the Son of righteousness was born, pour’d forth their seraphs’ songs, How should all people then on earth, triumph in honour of his birth: the praise to him belongs!

3. Then let us with the angels join and praise his glorious name divine, with hallelujahs high; With endless thanks to God above, in showing forth his boundless love to all eternity.

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; I would my true love did so chance To see the legend of my play, To call my true love to my dance; Sing, oh! my love, oh! my love, my love, my love, This have I done for my true love.In a manger laid, and wrapped I was, so very poor, this was my chance Betwixt an ox and a silly poor ass to call my true love to my dance. Tomorrow …

Magi veniunt ab Oriente Ierosolymam, quærentes et dicentes: “Ubi est qui natus est, Rex Iudæorum, cujus stellam vidimus?”Et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.

A un niño llorando al yelo van tres Reyes a adorarporque el niño puede dar Reinos, vida, gloria y cielo.1. Nace con tanta bajeza aunque es poderoso Rey

Porque nos da ya por ley abatimento y pobreza. Por ello llorando al hielo van tres Reyes …

2. Alma, venid también vos a adorar tan alto nombre Veréis que este niño es hombre y mayorazgo de Dios. Y aunque pobre y pequeñuelo le van Reyes …

2. The Father’s light and splendor, thou, Their endless hope to thee that bow, Accept the prayers and praise today That through the world thy servants pay.

3. Salvation’s Author, call to mind How, taking form of humankind, Born of a Virgin undefiled, Thou in man’s flesh becam’st a child.

4. Thus testifies the present day Through every year in long array, That thou, salvation’s source alone, Proceedest from the Father’s throne.

5. Whence sky and stars and earth’s abyss, And sea, and all that therein is, Shall still, with laud and carol meet, The Author of thine advent greet.

6. And we, who by thy precious blood From sin redeemed are marked for God, On this the day that saw the birth, Sing the new song of ransomed earth.

7. Glory to thee, eternal Lord, Born into time as Virgin’s son, And to Father and to Holy Ghost In eternity’s timeless now. Amen.

Today Christ is born: Today the Savior appeared:Today on Earth the Angels sing, Archangels rejoice:Today the righteous rejoice, saying:Glory to God in the highest. Alleluia.

The wise men come from the east to Jerusalem, seeking and saying: “Where is he who was born, the King of the Jews, whose star we see?” And they come with gifts to adore the Lord.

Three kings go to adore a child crying in the cold, Because the child can give Kingdoms, life, glory and heaven.1. He is born with such lowliness Although he is a powerful

king, Because he is lawfully giving us humbleness and poverty. To him crying in the cold …

2. Come, too, my soul, to adore such a high name. You will see that this child is man and the firstborn son of God. And though he is poor and very small, Kings go to adore …

1. I wonder as I wander out under the sky, how Jesus the Savior did come for to die. For poor or’n’ry people like you and like I... I wonder as I wander out under the sky.

2. When Mary birthed Jesus all in a cow’s stall, came wise men and farmers and shepherds and all. But high from God’s heaven a star’s light did fall, and the promise of ages it then did recall.

3. If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing, a star in the sky, or a bird on the wing, Or all of God’s angels in heav’n for to sing, he surely could have it, for he was the King.

4. I wonder as I wander …

Reges de Saba venient; Aurum, tus, myrram offerent; The Kings from Sheba will come; Gold, incense, and myrrh Alleluia. will they offer. Alleluia.1. Now is the Twelfth Day y-come, the Father and Son together are come; the Holy Ghost, as they were one, so dear; God

send us a good New Year!2. I will you sing with all my might, of a Child so fair in sight, a maiden him bore this endernight, so still; as it was his will.3. Three kinges out of Galilee came into Bethlehem, that city, for to go into that See by night; it was a full fair sight.4. When they came into the place where Jesu with his mother was, they made offering with great solace, not fear, with gold,

incense and myrrh.5. When they came to their home country, blithe and glad they were all three, of the sights that they had seen, by night, Jesu

and Mary bright.6. Almighty God in majesty, in one God persons three, bring us to thy bliss that is so free, so dear; and send us a good New

Year!

Die zwölf heiligen ZahlenLieber Freund, ich frage dich.“Liebster Freund, was fragst du mich?” Sag mir, was ist Eins [etc.]? 1. Eins und Eins ist Gott der Herr, der da lebt und

der da schwebt im Himmel und auf Erden. 2. Zwei sind Tafeln Mosis … 3. Drei sind Patriarchen … 4. Vier sind Evangelisten … 5. Fünf sind Wunden Christi … 6. Sechs sind Krug mit rothem Wein, die der Herr

geschenket ein zu Cana in Galiläa. 7. Siebn sind Sacramente … 8. Acht sind Seligkeiten … 9. Neun sind Chör der Engel … 10. Zehn Gebote Gottes … 11. Eilf tausend Jungfraun … 12. Zwölf sind Apostel …

Twelve days of ChristmasOn the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.On the second … two turtledoves …On the third … three French hens …On the fourth … four calling birds …On the fifth … five gold rings …On the sixth … six geese a-laying …On the seventh … seven swans a-swimming …On the eighth … eight maids a-milking …On the ninth … nine ladies dancing …On the tenth … ten drummers drumming …On the eleventh … eleven lords a-leaping …On the twelfth … twelve pipers piping …

The twelve sacred numbersDear friend, I ask you.“Dearest friend, what ask you?”Tell me, what is one [etc.]? 1. One and one is God the Lord, who lives and inhabits

both heaven and earth. 2. Two are the tablets of Moses … 3. Three are the Patriarchs … 4. Four are the Evangelists … 5. Five are the wounds of Christ … 6. Six are the jugs of red wine, of which the Lord bestowed

one in Cana in Galilee. 7. Seven are the sacraments … 8. Eight are the beatitudes … 9. Nine are the choirs of angels … 10. Ten are the commandents of God … 11. Eleven thousand virgins … 12. Twelve are the Apostles …

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSQuire Cleveland is grateful to Music & Art at Trinity Cathedral, Todd Wilson, Director of Music, The Very Rev. Tracy Lind, Dean; and Historic St. Peter Church, Fr. Robert Kropac, Pastor, for hosting Quire Cleveland. We also wish to thank our generous donors:

Magister $2,500+Cuyahoga Arts & CultureOhio Arts CouncilSimmons/Duffin Family Fund

Cantus $1,000–$2,499Janet Curry & Richard RoddaJohn McElliottElva RustGerald P. Weinstein

Altus $500–$999Arther V. N. BrooksShannon CanavinEllen HargisDr. Alan Rocke & Cristine Rom

Tenor $250–$499GE FoundationDr. & Mrs. Stephen MahoneyJim & Jenny MeilE. William PodojilKempton & Nancy King SmithDr. & Mrs. Ronald Strauss

Bassus $100–249Edward AlixBonnie BakerClurie BennisJoanne BlazekLloyd Max Bunker & Anthony Bianchi Mary R. Bynum & J. Philip CalabreseDrs. Virginia & Matthew CollingsDr. Roman & Dr. Diana DaleDavid & Loraine Hammack

Richard & Bernice JefferisUrsula KorneitchoukBrenda LoganGeraldine McElliottJean M. Minnick

in honor of Donna FagerhaugRussell OberlinElizabeth & David RothenbergDiane & Lewis SchwartzMr. & Mrs. William E. Spatz

Contratenor up to $99Anonymous (3)Christa AckerJulie Andrijeski & Tracy Mortimore

in memory of Seymour Simmons, Jr.David C. CarverLucy ChamberlainAnne CookGayle CrawfordRuth E. FenskeBruce GrasserMaureen & Francis GreiciusDr. Jeremiah HeilmanGale & Jim JacobsohnKatherine KarasLou KeimEric & Sue KischMichael KnoblauchClayton KoppesDorothy LungmusArlene & J. Adin Mann, Jr.Nancy M. MillerPaula Mindes & George GilliamCarolyn & Perry Peskin

Joanne PoderisGay & Quentin QuereauJane RichmondLinda RoyerWilma SalisburyCynthia SeamanRev. Dianne ShireyDean & Judith SieckShirley SimmonsDaniel & Andrew Singer-SordsRichard SnyderKent & Nancy SpelmanSarah SteinerNancy TuttleBancroft TwaddellMary WarrenRichard WeberKathryn WeiseEdith YergerDoreen A. Ziska

Thanks also to Visa A. J. Kurki for help on the Finnish pronunciation and to Andrei Streliaev for help on the Latvian pronunciation; all the ushers; Loganberry Books; HeightsArts; 104.9 WCLV; 90.3 WCPN; WKSU 89.7; Ωort∞simo design; Micrologus Music Press; Spunmonkey Design; Beth Segal Photography.

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Board of DirectorsRichard Rodda, ph.d., President

Fr. Robert Kropac, Community Outreach John McElliott, Secretary

Gerald P. Weinstein, ph.d., cpa, TreasurerRoss W. Duffin, dma, Artistic Director

Beverly Simmons, dma, Executive Director

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Recording Engineer: Thomas Knab

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