Dr. Reed Criddle, conductor
Translation
Let’s go to the baths of Niš where we shall kiss, kiss, kiss.
Michael Duffin, Ian Larsen, Cael Crosby, Aaron Walker,
Matthew Noall, Grant Croshaw, Thayne Larson, spirits
Ethan Stemmons, Garrett Bills, Sean Crist-Edelen, Tyler Law, Joseph Blomberg, Travis Lunt, Aaron Walker & Reed Criddle, continuo section
Translation
Part I (chorus):
The god Phoebus had still to light the great fires of the dawn
When the nymph left her dwelling.
Her face a pale temple in its ruins of grief;
Her cries - a heart, rending.
Hither and thither she went, stumbling through flowers.
Grieving the love she had lost.
Part II (aria):
“O Love, hear me!” she begged the heavens.
What happened to that traitor’s vow: ‘Togetherness and trust?’
I just want him back, but as he was before.
If you cannot - then kill me; I cannot bear the agony.
No more will I listen to his sighs, unless we are separated by a thousand seas.
No! No longer will I martyr myself for this.
I am destroying myself because of him, and the worse it is,
The more gorged, the more satisfied he seems.
If I were to flee from him, perhaps then he might come begging?
That woman’s eyebrows may be arched more perfectly than mine,
But sealed within my breast, O Love, lives a faithfulness still fairer.
And that woman’s mouth will never open to give such kisses as I can give
(Hush! Say nothing - you know only too well…)
Part II (chorus):
With these cries she cast her anguish to the heavens.
And so it is that in the heart of every lover burns love’s flame and ice.
Kelly DeHaan, conductor
Rod Freudenberg, banjo
Field Behrens, string bass
Kiera Whitaker and Sam Brown, percussion
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Conner Leavitt, tenor
Lori Weiss, piano
Translation
The flower that you threw to me, stayed with me in my prison.
Though withered and dry, that flower kept its sweet fragrance.
And during every hour while my eyes were closed,
that fragrance intoxicated me.
And in the night, I would see you!
I began to curse you, detest you, to say to myself:
Why must destiny put her in my path.
Then I accused myself of blasphemy,
and I didn't feel myself.
I felt nothing but one desire, a single hope:
that I would see you again, Carmen, yes, that I would see you again.
For you wouldn't have had but to appear,
but to toss a glance towards me,
to take control of my entire being.
Oh Carmen! And I would be yours!
Carmen, I love you!
Translation
Our name is Legion
For we are many.
Translation
Madly, in your name I called
All the names, all the adored women,
All the flowers of the forest, all the goddesses,
All the women in the world,
In the books of history
And in all of the paintings,
All of the lovers of the poets,
Madly, I was calling God.
My love is bigger than me,
Bigger than this world.
The poor lovers crowined me king of vision
And imam of banishment and exile.
Madly, in your name, I was calling God.
Andra Johnson, soloist
Kelly DeHaan, piano
Amelia Phelon, drumset
Reed Criddle, conductor
Dr. Reed Criddle
conductor
|
Tenor 1 Ryan Black Tenor 2 Jacob Chrisman + Assistant Conductor |
Baritone Grant Croshaw Bass 2 Joseph Blomberg |
Kelly DeHaan
conductor
|
Soprano Aubrey Andersen ALTO
|
TENOR bass Brigham Bennion |
Dr. Reed Criddle
conductor
|
Soprano 1 Megan Benson Soprano 2 Katherine Cox alto 1 Marlie Krogh alto 2 Hannah Boyack + Assistant conductor |
Tenor 1 Jordan Conover + Tenor 2 Logan Bishop bass 1 Ryan Call bass 2 Braden Johnson * |
Dr. Cherilyn Worthen
conductor
|
Soprano 1 Ellie Barry Soprano 2 Emma Carbine |
alto Caryn Allen
+ Assistant conductor |
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JEFFREY O'FLYNN
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Chamber Choir/Deep Green
REED CRIDDLE
Emerald Singers
CHERILYN WORTHEN
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DEMAREE BROWN
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ISAAC HURTADO
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REED CRIDDLE
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