Tucson Masterworks Chorale

OUR FALL CONCERT ". . OF GRIEF AND HOPE"
Saturday, November 22, 5PM
Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Tsen Brider: Joshua Jacobson
As time passes we face a pardoxical circumstance with respect to our historical understanding of the Holocaust. The number of survivors who were direct witnesses continues to dwindle. On the other hand, there is an outpouring of new information and research. Among those is the poignant effort among concentration camp victims, individuals trapped in hiding, and those rounded up in the organized ghettoes of Eastern Europe to sustain some dimensions of meaning, hope, and even normalcy.

Lass Dich Nur Nichts Nicht Dauren: Johannes Brahms
Let nothing grieve thee, distress thee, nor fret thee; heed God's good will, my soul, be still, compose thee. Why do you want to worry today about tomorrow? Tomorrow will bring thee God's help and grace sublime in mercy. Be true in all endeavor and ever ply bravely; what God decrees brings joy and peace. He will stay thee. Amen.

God's Gone Up With a Shout: Gerald Finzi
Now the ascension of our Lord declares the mystery that the eternal Son of God who came down to this earth, not simply to visit us, but to bear our sins away and to deliver us from those sins, now He in our place is gone up . . . And having now triumphed completely over them, He has gone up with a shout.

Dona Nobis Pacem: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams compiled this text as a scrapbook of quotations (scriptures, mass, Whitman) relevant to all that he had seen about the senseless violence of war during World War I. It was intended as a warning at a time when Europe was moving toward another major war. It is a work of enormous passion, overtly honest, thrilling, uplifting, yet filled with Vaughan Williams' depth of feeling for the futility of war. Three contrasting Whitman poems are framed by words from the Latin Mass, the Old Testament prophets, and the famous House of Commons speech made during the Crimean War by John Bright.