Enchantment Fire, Fire, My Heart ……………………….…………………………………………. Thomas Morley (1557—1602)

Boy Around The Corner ………………………………………………………… G. Madsen/R. Greene (The Bobs) duet: Kris Bryan, Jeff Pierce

I Love My Love ………………………………………….. Cornish folk song, arr. Gustav Holst (1874—1934)

Bell’angioletta ……………………………………………………………………… Don Carlo Gesualdo (1566—1613)

O, Mio Babbino Caro (from “Gianni Schicchi”)………………………… Giacomo Puccini (1858—1924) solo: Shannon Fix

Adoration Five Hebrew Love Songs …………………………………….………………………………… Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

flute: Louise Baldwin i. Temuná (A Picture) ii. Kalá Kallá (Light Bride) iii. Lárov (Mostly) v. Rakút (Tenderness)

She Moved Through The Fair ………….……………………..……………. Traditional Irish, Padraic Colum solo: Maria Burnham Arr. Herbert Hughes

Come Fly With Me ……………… Sammy Cahn (1913—1993) and Jimmy Van Huesen (1913—1990) solo: Chris Meierding Arr. Dave Barduhn

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Conflict My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth ………………..……………………………………… P.D.Q. Bach (1807—1742?)

Love Lost ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Paul Sjolund i. One Perfect Rose ii. When You’re Away iii. Careless Talk iv. Your Little Hands

Lush Life ….………………………………....………………………..……………………. Billy Strayhorn (1915—1967) solo: Frank Trujillo

Do You Love Me? (from “Fiddler on the Roof”)……………………………. Jerry Bock (1928—2010) and Sheldon Harnick (b. 1924)

duet: Maria Bayer, Jeff Pierce

Reconciliation Set Me As A Seal …………………….………………………………..….……………………. Richard Nance (b. 1955)

horn: Maya DeGasperi

Sull’Aria (from “Le Nozze di Figaro”)………………………..Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—1791) duet: Maria Burnham, Karen Swanson

Make Our Garden Grow (from “Candide”)…………………………….. Leonard Bernstein (1918—1990) Arr. Robert Page

When I’m 64 …………………………………. Paul McCartney (b. 1942) and John Lennon (1940—1980) Arr. Paul Hart

elcome to the Bellevue Chamber Chorus’ presentation of “Seasons of Love”.

Love…we never tire of talking about it or singing about it. Many of us remember the song that we danced to with our first crush. We spend hours carefully picking out the per-fect music for our weddings and the momentous “1st dance.” Songs on the radio help us through a bad break-up or relive a magical moment in a relationship. Music, especially cho-ral music, speaks when mere words fall short. Today’s concert celebrates the many facets of romantic love, from the enchantment of first love in Gesualdo’s “Fire, Fire, My Heart”, to the adoration of Whitacre’s “Light Bride”, to the conflict and estrangement of Sjolund’s “Love Lost”, and finally, to reconciliation in Nance’s “Set Me As A Seal.” We close with the won-derful sentiment that, in spite of love’s trials, we continue to love and be loved when we reach the age of sixty-four and more. Enjoy!

(program notes by Wendy Moy)

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Program Notes

Fire, Fire, My Heart

Fire, fire! My heart! My heart! O, help! O, help! Alas, O, help!

Ah me! Ah me! I sit and cry me, and call for help, alas, but none comes nigh me.

Fa la la la la la.

Boy Around the Corner

I Love My Love

Texts and Translations

Boy around the corner! Very shy He never says hello, but He's the guy I wanna be with

Boy is kind of funny! Doesn't speak His legs are skinny, not a good physique—and yet I love him

Boy around the corner, Better than the boy next door! The boy around the corner's Never been in love before. Tonight, right after dinner, he's comin' by — I won't be shy! I'm gonna tell him I love him so Never let go

Boy is kind of crazy! Doesn't care if all the girls are laughing at his hair; That's why I love him!

Boy around the corner, All day at school he looks my way... Every day, walks me home... Never speaks when we're alone! Boy around the corner...talk to me!

Boy is kind of funny! Doesn't speak His legs are skinny, not a good physique—and yet I love him

Boy around the corner! Very shy He never says hello, but He's the guy I wanna be with

Abroad as I was walking, one evening in the spring,

I heard a maid in Bedlam so sweetly for to sing; Her chains she rattled with her hands,

and thus replied she: "I love my love because I know my love loves me!

“O cruel were his parents who sent my love to sea, And cruel was the ship that bore my love from me;

Yet I love his parents since they're his although they've ruined me:

I love my love because I know my love loves me!

“With straw I'll weave a garland, I'll weave it very fine

With roses, lilies, daisies, I'll mix the eglantine; And I'll present it to my love when he returns from sea.

I love my love because I know my love loves me!”

Just as she there sat weeping, her love he came on land,

Then, hearing she was in Bedlam, he ran straight out of hand;

He flew into her snow white arms, and thus replied he:

I love my love because I know my love loves me!

She said: "My love don't frighten me; are you my love or no?"

"O yes, my dearest Nancy, I am your love, also Also I am return'd to make amends for all your injury;

I love my love because I know my love loves me!

So now these two are married, and happy may they be Like turtle doves together, in love and unity.

All pretty maids with patience wait that have got loves at sea;

I love my love because I know my love loves me!

Bell’angioletta

O, Mio Babbino Caro (from “Gianni Schicchi”)

Five Hebrew Love Songs

Bella angioletta, da le vaghe piume, Prestane al grave pondo Tanto che io esca fuor di questo fondo O possa in qualche ramo Di te cantando dire: “io amo”.

Pretty little angel, lend your light feathers To my heavy weight, So much that I may rise from this depth Or in some way, Singing, say to you: “I love”.

O mio babbino caro, mi piace, è bello bello, vo’andare in Porta Rossa a comperar l’anello!

Si, si, ci voglio andare! E se l’amassi indarno, andrei sul Ponte Vecchio ma per buttarmi in Arno!

Mi struggo e mi tormento, O Dio! Vorrei morir! Babbo, pietà, pietà! Babbo, pietà, pietà!

Oh my dear father, I like him, he is very handsome. I want to go to Porta Rossa to buy the ring!

Yes, yes, I want to go there! And if my love were in vain, I would go to Ponte Vecchio and throw myself in the Arno!

I am pining and I am tormented, Oh God! I would want to die! Daddy, have mercy, have mercy! Daddy, have mercy, have mercy!

Temuná Temuná belibí charutá; Nodédet beyn ór uveyn ófel: Min dmamá shekazó et guféch kach otá, Usaréch al paná'ich kach nófel.

Kalá kallá Kalá kallá, kulá shelí. U'vekalút tishák hí lí!

Laróv "Laróv," amár gag la'shama'im, "Hamerchák shebeynéynu hu ad; Ach lifnéy zman alu lechán shna'im, Uveynéynu nishár sentiméter echád."

Rakút Hu hayá malé rakút Hi haytá kashá Vechól káma shenistá lehishaér kach, Pashút, uvlí sibá tová, Lakach otá el toch atzmó, Veheníach Bamakóm hachí, hachí rach.

A Picture A picture is engraved in my heart; Moving between light and darkness: A sort of silence envelopes your body, And your hair falls upon your face just so.

Light Bride Light bride, she is all mine, And lightly she will kiss me!

Mostly "Mostly," said the roof to the sky, "the distance between you and I is endlessness; but a while ago two came up here, and only one centimeter was left between us."

Tenderness He was full of tenderness; She was very hard. And as much as she tried to stay thus, He took her into himself And set her down in the softest, softest place.

She Moved Through The Fair

Come Fly With Me

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My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth

My bonnie lass, she smelleth, Making the flowers jealouth. (Fa la la...)

My bonnie lass dismayeth Me; all that she doth sayith: (Fa la la...)

My bonnie lass she looketh like a jewel, And soundeth like a mule.

My bonnie lass she walketh like a doe, And talketh like a crow. (Fa la la...)

My bonnie lass liketh to dance a lot; She’s Guinevere and I’m Sir Lancelot. (Fa la la...)

My bonnie lass I need not flatter; What she doth not have doth not matter. (Oo la la...)

My bonnie lass is so fine; Oh, if she were only mine. (Fa la la...)

My love said to me “My Mother won't mind And my Father won't slight you For your lack of kind,” And she stepped away from me and this she did say: “It will not be long, love ‘til our wedding day.”

She stepped away from me and she went thro’ the fair, And fondly I watched her move here and move there. And then she went homeward with one star awake, as the swan in the evening moves over the lake.

Last night she came to me, she came softly in So softly she came that her feet made no din. And she laid her hand on me, and this she did say: “It will not be long love ‘til our wedding day.”

Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away If you can use some exotic booze

There's a bar in far Bombay Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru In llama land there's a one-man band

And he'll toot his flute for you Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue

Once I get you up there where the air is rarified We'll just glide, starry-eyed

Once I get you up there I'll be holding you so near You may hear angels cheer 'cause we're together

Weather-wise it's such a lovely day Just say the words and we'll beat the birds

Down to Acapulco Bay It's perfect for a flying honeymoon, they say

Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away

Love Lost

Lush Life

I. One Perfect Rose

A single flow’r he sent me since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose;

Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the flow’ret; “My fragile leaves,” it said

“His heart enclose.” Love long has taken for his amulet

One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose?

Ah no… It’s always just my luck to get

One perfect rose.

II. When You’re Away When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely

Wretched, bored, dejected; Only here’s the rub, my darling dear,

I feel the same when you are near.

III. Careless Talk Bill was ill. In his delirium He talked about Miriam.

This was an error As his wife was a terror

Known as Joan.

IV. Your Little Hands Your little hands, your little feet,

Your little mouth — My dear, how sweet! Your little nose, your little ears,

Your eyes that shed such little tears. Your little voice, so soft and kind, Your little soul, your little mind!

I used to visit all the very gay places Those come what may places Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life To get the feel of life From jazz and cocktails.

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces With distant gay traces That used to be there — you could see where they'd been washed away By too many through the day Twelve o'clock tales.

Then you came along with your siren song To tempt me to madness! I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness Of a great love for me...

Ah yes! I was wrong... Again, I was wrong.

Life is lonely again, And only last year everything seemed so sure. Now life is awful again, A trough full of hearts could only be a bore. A week in Paris will ease the bite of it, All I care is to smile in spite of it.

I'll forget you, I will While yet you are still burning inside my brain. Romance is mush, stifling those who strive; I'll live a lush life in some small dive... And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest Of those whose lives are lonely, too..

Do You Love Me? (from “Fiddler on the Roof”)

Set Me As A Seal Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Sull’Aria (from “Le Nozze di Figaro”)

TEVYE: Do you love me?

GOLDE: Do I what?

TEVYE: Do you love me?

GOLDE: Do I love you? With our daughters getting married And this trouble in the town, You're upset, you're worn out. Go inside, go lie down! Maybe it's indigestion...

TEVYE: Golde, I'm asking you a question. Do you love me?

GOLDE: You're a fool.

TEVYE: I know… But do you love me?

GOLDE: Do I love you? For twenty-five years I've washed your clothes, Cooked your meals, cleaned your house, Given you children, milked the cow! After twenty-five years, why talk about love right now?

TEVYE: Golde, the first time I met you Was on our wedding day. I was scared...

GOLDE: I was shy…

TEVYE: I was nervous...

GOLDE: So was I…

TEVYE: But my father and my mother Said we'd learn to love each other, And now I'm asking, Golde: Do you love me?

GOLDE: I'm your wife!

TEVYE: I know… But do you love me?

GOLDE: Do I love him? For twenty-five years I've lived with him Fought with him, starved with him Twenty-five years my bed is his If that's not love, what is?

TEVYE: Then you love me?

GOLDE: I suppose I do...

TEVYE: And I suppose I love you too.

TEVYE and GOLDE: It doesn't change a thing But even so, After twenty-five years It's nice to know.

"Canzonetta sull'aria"

Che soave zeffiretto questa sera spirerà

sotto i pini del boschetto. Ei già il resto capirà.

"A little song on the breeze" (the title)

What a gentle little Zephyr this evening will sigh

under the pines in the little grove. And the rest he'll understand.

Make Our Garden Grow (from “Candide”)

When I’m 64

You've been a fool and so have I, But let’s be man and wife. And let us try, before we die, To make some sense of life. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow.

I thought the world was sugar cake For so our master said. But, now I'll teach my hands to bake Our loaf of daily bread. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow.

Let dreamers dream what worlds they please Those Edens can't be found. The sweetest flowers, the fairest trees Are grown in solid ground. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow!

When I get older, losing my hair, Many years from now,

Will you still be sending me a Valentine? Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out ‘til quarter to three

Would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four?

You'll be older, too. And if you say the word

I could stay with you

I could be handy mending a fuse When your lights have gone.

You can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday morning go for a ride.

Doing the garden, digging the weeds, Who could ask for more?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I'm sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear. We shall scrimp and save. Grandchildren on your knee; Vera, Chuck, and Dave.

Send me a postcard, drop me a line Stating point of view. Indicate precisely what you mean to say, Yours sincerely, wasting away. Give me your answer, fill in a form, Mine for evermore. Will you still need me, will you still feed me, Please say you’ll need me, hope you’ll still feed me. Feed me, feed me, need me, baby, Need me, need me, feed me, baby.

Will you need me when I reach the age of sixty-four?

About The Director Ms. Wendy K. Moy is a conductor, educator, soloist, and nonprofit

founder residing in Seattle, Washington. She recently was appointed the Di-rector of Choral Music at Tacoma Community College and the Director of the Bellevue Chamber Chorus for the 2012-2013 season. A doctoral candidate in the Conducting Program at the University of Washington, Ms. Moy di-rected the Women's Choir for the past two years. Her dissertation focuses on the culture of singing communities and the factors that contribute to suc-cessful choral organizations. This past year, she also served as adjunct faculty at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and conducted the Chamber Singers in their annual program of "Sacred Sounds of Christmas" at Benaroya Hall. Equally at home in the orchestral world, she is the chamber music co-ordinator and an assistant conductor with the Cascade Youth Symphony Or-ganization.

A strong advocate for collaboration in the arts, Ms. Moy has spearheaded numerous projects with composers, dancers, visual artists, and community music organizations. While at the UW, she com-missioned and premiered “We Have Not Long to Love” by James Blachly for women's chorus and bar-itone solo. A highlight of the year was conducting the newly formed Chorosynthesis Singers in a ben-efit presentation of the Brahms Requiem in collaboration with the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, St. Mark's Cathedral, and First Free Methodist Church.

Ms. Moy has had the honor of working with some of the most highly respected pedagogues and conductors from around the world. She was selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Bach Institute in Germany, the Conductors Retreat at Medomak with Maestro Ken Kiesler, the Westminster Chamber Choir with Dr. Joe Miller, Tallis Scholar Summer School with Pe-

ter Phillips, the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute/Transient Glory Symposium with Francisco Nunez, and the Yale/Norfolk Cham-ber Choir under the direction of Simon Carrington. Ms. Moy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from SPU and a Master of Music Education with an emphasis in choral music from Westminster Choir College. She is a frequent clini-cian and guest conductor with ensembles of all levels. Ms. Moy is also the President and co-founder (with Jeremiah Selvey) of Chorosynthesis, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the culture of American choral music by raising awareness of the need for collaboration, sustainability, innovation, and excellence in the choral art.

Bellevue Chamber Chorus consists of professional and avocational musicians of diverse backgrounds, performing choral literature with varied accompani-ment from all musical periods. Throughout its 29-year history, the Chorus has col-laborated with other vocal and instrumental musicians of all ages, as well as dance troupes and visual artists, to present major works or unusual repertoire, includ-ing specially commissioned pieces by local composers such as Alan Hovhaness and John Muehleisen. In the past, Bellevue Chamber Chorus has joined with the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra for a Baroque cham-ber-style performance of Handel’s complete Messiah

during the holiday season. The Chorus has also performed at other community activities such as the Bellevue Magic Season tree lighting ceremony, the Bellevue Family 4th of July celebration, and on the Argosy Christmas Ship. The Chorus has performed twice at the Leavenworth Choral Festival, and was selected as one of the regional participants in the American Masterpieces Choral Festival in Seat-tle in 2007. In July 2008, the Chorus was awarded first prize in the Adult Mixed Choir division at the prestigious Kathaumixw International Choral Festival in Powell River, B.C., and has since returned to Kelowna, B.C. in 2010 and 2012 to perform by invitation of the Okanagan Choral Society. Other per-formances include New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg, Austria Church Music Festival, the Inter-national Choral Festival in Sydney, Australia, and festival concerts in spectacular venues in Switzer-land, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic. The Chorus has released two CDs: "Timeframes” and “Retrospective”, and is currently in production for a third CD of music to encompass winter and Christmas favorites from previous seasons, to be released for our 30th anniversary season next year!

The Bellevue Chamber Chorus is a nonprofit organization, which receives its support from the generous donations of people interested in fine musical experiences on the Eastside.

Bellevue Chamber Chorus

Tenor Mike Grube

* Lee Huffman Mark Liebendorfer

Jeff Pierce David Williams

* Denotes Section Leader ** Denotes Board Member

Soprano * Maria Bayer

** Kristine Bryan Maria Burnham

Dana Cardon ** Debra Defotis ** Shannon Fix Kara Huntley

** Kathie Patten

Alto Mindy Freeland * Melanie Grube

Kira Haller Lori Hardow

** Susan Liechty Karen Swanson Pam Younghans

Bass ** Allan Chartrand

** Bill Freeland James McTernan Chris Meierding

** Pat Rice ** Frank Trujillo

PERSONNEL

Kristine Anderson, piano: Kristine Anderson graduated with a music degree from the University of Montana at Missoula. She is well-known in the Puget Sound region for her artistic and sensitive work with singers as well as instrumentalists ranging from tuba to piccolo. Equally at home with jazz, pop, and classical, she can adjust her style from Sondheim to Gershwin to Strauss. Her clients include winners in local and national competitions, including the Seattle Young Artist Music Festival, Metropolitan Opera semifinals, and concerto contests. Kristine also serves as accompanist for the Flute and Piccolo Forum, hosted by Seattle Symphony flutist Zart Dombourian Eby. In the fall of 2010, Kristine accompanied a former Flute Forum attendee Justin Lee on his Western Washington tour, after he won the Ladies Musical Club contest. In addition to holding two church-pianist posi-tions in Seattle, she was music director for the Seattle Musical Theater, formerly known as Civic Light Opera, during their production of High Society, and the pianist for the Seattle Opera Guild’s Preview shows, currently rehearsing for presentations of the upcoming production of Rossini's La Cenerentola. She has been the accompanist for Bellevue Chamber Chorus for the past five seasons.

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Assistant Director ...................................................................................................... Frank Trujillo

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Score Management/Music Librarian ....................................................................... Kathie Patten

Sound Engineer & Recording ........................................................................................ Kim Hofer

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Bellevue Chamber Chorus’ Annual Fundraising Gala!

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with special guests The Andy Carr Trio! Pre-registration available now; email info@bellevuechamberchorus.org to

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“Eastside Sings!” Singers of all abilities are again invited to join four established Eastside choirs this summer

in the thrill of singing great choral music! This annual event is a great way to experience

choral masterworks such as W.A. Mozart’s “Coronation Anthem”, J.S. Bach’s “Jesu”,

and others. Tuesdays July 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2013, from 7 to 9:30 pm

at the First Presbyterian Church in Bellevue.

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Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 pm East Shore Unitarian Church, Bellevue

Saturday, May 18, 2013, 7:30 pm St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina

Save the Date !Save the Date !Save the Date !

IN TRIBUTE to the musical genius of some of the great choral composers through the ages, we close our season with a program inspired by famous “Choral Masters.”

Experience a cornucopia of choral treasures: sacred offerings from Palestrina, Handel, and Bruckner; and rousing opera choruses from Verdi and Wagner in celebration of their 200th

anniversary years. Also included are secular gems by Randall Thompson, Morten Lauridsen, Benjamin Britten in commemoration of his 100th anniversary, and many more.

Don’t miss this showcase of choral classics!