With Craig Hella Johnson, Conductor & Pianist Conspirare & Conspirare Symphonic Choir
Mitch Watkins, Guitar Thomas Burritt, Percussion
Premiering Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 5:30 pm Central and Streaming through January 6, 2021
Program Booklet with Lyrics
TABLE OF CONTENTS O Christmas Tree, Traditional (page 1) O Come, All Ye Faithful, Tune: Tune: ADESTE FIDELES, Text: John Francis Wade; Translator: Frederick Oakeley (1841; alt) (page 1) Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Music: Felix Mendelssohn, Text: Charles Wesley (page 1) La Primera Navidad, Traditional (page 1) It Singeth Low, Traditional Scottish Tune, Text: John White Chadwick (page 1) Enduring Peace, Music: John Yarrington, Text: John Thronburg (page 2) Al Shlosha, Music: Allan Naplan, Text: Pirkel Avot (page 2) Rudolph the Red Noised Reindeer, Music and Lyrics: Johnny Mark (page 2) Feliz Navidad, Music and Lyrics: José Feliciano (page 2) If I Had a Hammer, Music and Lyrics: Lee Hays and Pete Seeger (page 2) Give me Your Tired, Your Poor, Music and Lyrics: Irving Berlin (page 3) America the Beautiful, Music: Samuel Ward, Text: Katharine Lee Bates (page 3) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), Music and Lyrics by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells (page 3) Angels We Have Heard on High, Traditional French Carol (page 3) Silent Night, Tune: STILLE NACHT, Text: Joseph Mohr; Translator (Sts. 1, 3): J. Freeman Young (page 3) Hallelujah Chorus, Music and Text: G. F. Handel (page 4) Program Note: Enduring Peace will become part of Conspirare's Songs of Connection project. Born out of the desire to transcend the global crisis we are all experiencing, Songs of Connection aspires to create a new repertoire of songs that fuels a song movement. Stay tuned for more songs in 2021! From the songwriter: My Friend, the Rev. John Thornburg, has sent me a number of texts. I looked through all of them and kept coming back to "Enduring Peace.'" I felt that it was the right text for the collection and wrote a simple melody to go with it. The Holiday Big Sing at Home is available for viewing through January 6. Please share it with a friend.
O Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging;
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging;
Not only green when summer's here,
But also when 'tis cold and drear.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Much pleasure can'st thou give me;
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Much pleasure can’st thou give me;
How often has the Christmas tree
Afforded me the greatest glee!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Much pleasure thou can'st give me.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy candles shine so brightly!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy candles shine so brightly!
From base to summit, gay and bright,
There's only splendor for the sight.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy candles shine so brightly!
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and
triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him, born the King of
angels;
O come, let us adore Him, /O come, let us
adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him, / Christ the
Lord.
Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation;
O sing, all ye citizens of heaven above!
Glory to God, all glory in the highest;
O come, let us adore Him, /O come, let us
adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him, / Christ the
Lord.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Hark the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled.
Joyful, all ye nations, rise
Join the triumph of the skies;
With the angelic host proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem!
Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn King!
Hail the Heaven born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Risen with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die.
Born to raise the son of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn King!
La Primera Navidad
La primera Navidad un coro se oyó;
a pastores humildes el cielo cantó,
y un ángel les habló rodeado de luz,
anunciando la Natividad de Jesús.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
Hoy ha nacido el Rey de Israel.
It Singeth Low
It singeth low in every heart,
We hear it each and all;
A song of those who answer not,
However we may call.
They throng the silence of the breast;
We see them as of yore;
The kind, the true, the brave, the sweet,
Who walk with us no more.
’Tis hard to take the burden up,
When these have laid it down;
They brightened all the joy of life,
They softened every frown.
But, Oh, ’tis good to think of them
When we are troubled sore;
Thanks be to God that such have been,
Although they’re here no more.
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More home-like seems the vast unknown
Since they have entered there;
To follow them were not so hard,
Wherever they may fare.
They cannot be where God is not,
On any sea or shore;
Whate’er betides, Thy love abides,
Our God, forevermore.
Enduring Peace
Please see sheet music on page 5 Enduring peace, within our home on our
street,
Where neighbors talk and children meet.
Enduring peace, where neighbors talk
and children meet.
Enduring peace for trusted friend, for
hated foe
The hard-to-love, the hard-to-know.
Enduring peace those hard-to-love, and
hard to know.
Enduring peace in city square and
country lane
On craggy peak and grassy plain.
Enduring peace on craggy peak, and
grassy plain. Enduring peace across the
globe, from east to west,
And in between the world at rest.
Enduring peace, from east to west, the
world at rest.
Al Shlosha
Al shlosha d'varim haolan kayam.
Al haemet v'al hadin v'al
hashalom.
Translation: The world is sustained by
three things, by truth, by justice, and by
peace.
Rudolph the Red Noised Reindeer
You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose,
And if you ever saw it,
You would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names;
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say,
Rudolph with your nose so bright,
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
You'll go down in history.
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad / Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad / Prospero Año y Felicidad.
Feliz Navidad / Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad / Prospero Año y Felicidad.
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.
If I Had a Hammer
If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land,
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out the love between,
My brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.
If I had a bell,
I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening,
All over this land,
I'd ring out danger,
I'd ring out a warning,
I'd ring out the love between
My brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.
If I had a song
I'd sing it in the morning 2
I'd sing it in the evening
all over this land
I'd sing out danger
I'd sing out a warning
I'd sing out the love between
my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.
Well, I've got a hammer
and I've got a bell,
and I've got a song to sing
all over this land!
It's the hammer of justice;
It's the bell of freedom;
It's a song about love between my
brothers and my sisters,
all over this land!
Give me Your Tired, Your Poor
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming
shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming
shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting
on an Open Fire)
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping at your nose,
Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.
Everybody knows a turkey
and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright.
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know that Santa's on his way;
He's loaded lots of toys
and goodies on his sleigh.
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer
really know how to fly.
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two:
Although it's been said
many times, many ways
“Merry Christmas to you.”
Angels We Have Heard on High
Angels we have heard on high,
Sweetly singing o'er the plain;
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.
Gloria, In excelsis Deo.
Come to Bethlehem and see,
Him whose birth the angels see;
Come adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, our newborn king.
Gloria, In excelsis Deo.
Silent Night
Silent night, holy night!
All is calm, all is bright.
Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child.
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace
Silent night, holy night!
Son of God love's pure light.
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth
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Hallelujah Chorus
Please see sheet music on page 6
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah:
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah:
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
CREDITS: Virtual Choir Audio & Video: Sean Taylor
Please see closing credits for complete list of artists, crew & Ambassadors
Conspirare thanks our family of Board Members, Artists, Staff, Patrons,
Ambassadors, and Listeners.
Performing Note: Conspirare has the privilege of performing in a variety of
beautiful venues that best enhance choral performances. While our performing
venues and the text of some of our repertoire may be representative of specific
traditions, it is in no way intended to exclude any individual whose experience or
set of beliefs is not represented. Conspirare respects and celebrates the great
diversity of religious, artistic and human experiences represented among our
singers and audience members. The audience creates the space in which the
music is held.
Image Credits and Licensing Info:
O Christmas Tree
Extra Snowy Trees / Ruth Hartnup
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
Snowy Trees / Sharon Mollerus
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
Snowy Trees / Ruth Hartnup
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
If I Had a Hammer
Josh Harding attends George Floyd protest in California /
Josh Harding
Wikimedia Commons
Free Hugs / Sayamindu Dasgupta
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Group Hug / Raya Sharbain
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
International
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
Statue of Liberty National Monument STLI2261 /
National Park Service Digital Archives
Public Domain
New York City (New York, USA), Statue of Liberty -- 2012
-- 6660 / Dietmar Rabich
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
America the Beautiful
BBL_SUNSET_1-16-16-2 / Big Bear Cabins
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
International
Silent Night
Starry Sky / Sayamindu Dasgupta
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
Summer Cottage, Starry_Skies - panoramio / Tomi
Mäkitalo
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Tree on a starry sky (Unsplash) / Brandon Morgan
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain
Dedication
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Enduring PeaceJohn YarringtonJohn Thornburg
Public Domain
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En du ring peace, with in our home and on our street, where neigh bors talk and- - - -
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child ren meet. En dur ring peace, where neigh bors talk and child ren meet.- - - - -
Enduring peace for trusted friend, for hated foeThe hard-to-love, the hard-to-know.Enduring peace those hard-to-love, and hard to know.=Enduring peace in city square and country laneOn craggy peak and grassy plain.Enduring peace on craggy peak, and grassy plain.=Enduring peace across the globe, from east to west,And in between the world at rest.Enduring peace, from east to west, the world at rest.
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