THREE MADRIGALS
Fa Una Canzona

Orazio Vecchi  (b.1580)

Translation:
Sing me a song without a note of sadness!
When all the pain of love drives me to madness:
Sing me to sleep with a sweet serenading,
Oh, so gently, Oh so gently from sound to silence fading.
Sing me a song to cool a lover’ s burning!
When to my heart the anguish keeps returning:

 

Now Is the Month of Maying
Thomas Morley  (b.1557)

 

Il est bel et bon
Pierre Passereau  (b.1509)

Translation:
He is handsome and good, dear, my husband.
There were two women, both from the same area,
Saying one to another,  “got a good husband?”
He doesn’t abuse me or beat me either.
He does housework,
He gives food to the poultry
And I take my pleasure.
Dear, it’ll make you laugh to hear the cries of the poultry.
You little charmer, what’s this?

 

Mystery
Jennifer Lucy Cook (b. 1981)

Heidi Rodeback, piano

 

Senior Spotlight
Kiera Whitaker

 

Chantez
Jules Massenet (b.1842)

Heidi Rodeback, piano

Translation:
Sing everything as you like,
Little birds with light voices,
Sing of springtime splendors,
Sing of love and of pleasure!
When you will have sung again
For thousands of evenings and dawns,
You still would never have sung enough
Of the divine work and its beauty.

 

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Traditional

Arranged by Jamie Ray (b. 1991)

 

Senior Spotlight
Hannah Boyack

 

A Grass-Green Pillow
From Color Madrigals

Joshua Shank (b.1980)

 

Lullaby
From Three Nocturnes
Daniel Elder (b. 1986)

Vanessa Melena, Student Conductor
Heidi Rodeback, piano

 

Senior Spotlight

Katrina McNiven

Salseo
Oscar Galian (b. 1960)

 

Till There Was You
Meredith Willson (b. 1902)

 

I Got a Key
Traditional Spiritual

Arranged by Joni Jensen (b. 1973)