School of Performing Arts Events

Yo le canto todo el día

David Brunner (b.1953)

Spanish
Ya me voy de corazon
Ya me voy con un tambor
Yo le canto todo el dia
Con carino y alegria
Con carino y emocion.

English
So I am moving with my heart
So I am leaving with a drum
I sing to you all day long
With affection and joy
With affection and emotion.

I Wanna Be Ready
Alora Rude & Kilee Borchers, solos

Traditional Spiritual
arr. Rosephanye Powell (b.1962)

I wanna be ready
to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
My feet stand steady
to walk in Jerusalem just like John.

John said that Jerusalem was foursquare.
I hope, good Lord, to meet you there.
If you get to heaven before I do,
tell all of my friends I’m coming too.

O John, O John, now didn’t you say
that you’d be there on that great day.
Now some came crippled and some came lame,
and some came walking in Jesus’ name.

Power. Courage. Resolve.
Keziah Quanbeck, piano
Annika Lukken, bongos

Michael J. Johnson (b.1990)

Power.
Courage.
Resolve.

Do you have the required resolve
to seek difficult answers
to uncomfortable questions?
Have you courage enough to love?
Did someone give you the power to change?
Or was it always yours to claim?

No Time

Traditional Camp Meeting Songs
arr. Susan Brumfield

Rise, oh fathers rise,
let's go meet ‘em in the skies,
we will hear the angels singing
in that morning.

Oh I really do believe that
just before the end of time,
we will hear the angels singing
in that morning.

Rise, oh mothers rise...

No time to tarry here,
no time to wait for you,
no time to tarry here,
for I’m on my journey home.

Brothers, oh fare ye well,
for I'm on my journey home.
Sisters, oh fare ye well,
For I’m on my journey home.

When She Loved Me

Words and Music by Randy Newman
Arr. Philip Lawson

When somebody loved me
Everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together
Lives within my heart

And when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
And when she was happy, so was I
When she loved me

Through the summer and the fall
We had each other, that was all
Just she and I together
Like it was meant to be

And when she was lonely
I was there to comfort her
And I knew that she loved me

So the years went by
I stayed the same

But she began to drift away
I was left alone
Still, I waited for the day
When she'd say, "I will always love you"

Lonely and forgotten
Never thought she'd look my way
And she smiled at me and held me
Just like she used to do
Like she loved me

When she loved me

When somebody loved me
Everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together
Lives within my heart

Higher and Higher

Words and Music by Gary Jackson,
Carl Smith, and Raynard Miner
Arr. Kirby Shaw

Your love keeps lifting me higher
Than I’ve ever been lifted before
So keep it up, and quench my desire
And I’ll be at your side forever more

Your love keeps lifting me
Keeps on lifting me
Your love keeps lifting me higher and higher

Now once, I was downhearted;
Disappointment was my closest friend,
But then you came,
And it soon departed,
And he never showed his face again.

Moon River

Music by Henry Mancini
Arranged by Steve Zegree
Words by John Mercer

Moon River wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
Old dream make
You heart breaker
Wherever your going I'm going your way

Two drifters off to see the world
Theres such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbows end
Waiting round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon River and me

The Word was God
text from John 1:1-3 (adapted from KJV)

Rosephanye Powell (b.1962)

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made
that have been made.
Nothing was made
he has not made.
All things were made by Him.

Gloria (first two movements)
Jean Hellner, organ
Tom Strait, trumpet

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Traditional Latin

1. Gloria in excelsis deo
2. Et in terra pax
   hominibus bonae voluntati

English

1. Glory to God in the highest
2. And on earth, peace,
   good will toward men

Ubi caritas et amor deus ibi est

Traditional Gregorian Chant

Ubi caritas et amor
deus ibi est
Congregavit nos in unum
Christi amor
Exsultemus et in ipso
jucundemur
Timeamus et amemus
deum vivum

Where charity and love are,
there God is.
The love of Christ has gathered us into one.
Let us exult, and in Him
be joyful.
Let us fear and let us love
the living God.

Love is Love is Love is Love

Abbie Betinis (b.1980)

Love is love is love is love.

Sorry Into Song

Christine Donkin (b.1976)

Like barley bending
In low fields by the sea,
Singing in hard wind
Ceaselessly;

Like barley bending
And rising again,
So would I, unbroken,
Rise from pain;

So would I softly,
Day long, night long,
Change my sorrow
Into song.

– Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Ain’a That Good News

Traditional Spiritual
arr. William Dawson (1899-1990)

I’ve got a crown up in the Kingdom,
I’ve got a harp up in the Kingdom,
I’ve got a robe up in the Kingdom,
I’ve got a Savior in the Kingdom,
Ain’t that good news.

I’m going to lay down this world,
Going to shoulder up my cross.
Going to take it home to my Jesus,
Ain’t that good news.

The Long Day Closes

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

No star is o'er the lake,
Its pale watch keeping,
The moon is half awake,
Through grey mist creeping,
The last red leaves fall round
The porch of roses,
The clock hath ceased to sound,
The long day closes.
Sit by the silent hearth
In calm endeavour,
To count the sounds of mirth,
Now dumb for ever.
Heed not how hope believes
And fate disposes:
Shadow is round the eaves,
The long day closes.
The lighted windows dim
Are fading slowly.
The fire that was so trim
Now quivers lowly.
Go to the dreamless bed
Where grief reposes;
Thy book of toil is read,
The long day closes.

– Henry Chorley (1808-1872)