What a Wonderful World

April 23, 2023 - 2:00 PM
St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiʻi

John Rowehl, Artistic Director and Conductor
Lotus Dancer, piano

with guests

Seabury Hall Upper School Chorus
Molly Schad, Conductor
and
Peter Della Croce, percussion

Complete phone-friendly program is below (scroll down)
There is also a downloadable PDF Program

Program

(texts and translations below)

We Are the Music Makers
Reginal White

Bawo Thixo Somandla
Mxolisi Matyila
arr. Sidumo Nyamazele, transc. Scott Tucker

Tshotsholoza
(Seabury)
trad. Nguni song
arr. Jeffery Ames
Kristian Lloyd Roque and Jack Bendon, soloists

Journey Home
Abbie Betinis
Lenita Witherspoon and Craig Bode, soloists

Love Is Love Is Love Is Love
Abbie Betinis

Can We Sing the Darkness to Light?
Kyle Pederson

We Shall Not Be Moved
trad. Spiritual
arr. Adam and Matt Podd

Peace Is
Fred Small
arr. J. David Moore

INTERMISSION

Come Away
Mark Hayes
Tracey Bloser, soloist

Sing Gently
Eric Whitacre

The Times They Are A-Changin’
Bob Dylan
arr. Adam Podd
Lisa Porter, soloist

Beautiful City
Stephen Schwartz
arr. Mac Huff

Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World
arr. Roger Emerson
Bill Kepler, soloist

Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell
arr. Greg Gilpin
Katy Weeks, soloist

Earth Song
(Seabury)
Frank Ticheli

Hope Lingers On
Lissa Schneckenburger
arr. Andrea Ramsey

Let the River Run
Carly Simon
arr. Craig Hella Johnson

Texts and Translations

We Are the Music Makers (text: Arthur O’Shaughnessy, from “Ode”)

We are the music makers,
and we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
and sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
on whom the pale moon gleams.
We are the movers and shakers.
We are the dreamers of dreams

Bawo Thixo Somandla (text: Mxolisi Matyila)

Bawo Thixo Somandla
Buy nto n’ubugwenxa bam
Azisenzen’ ebusweni Benkosi
Bawo Thixo Somandla
Azisenzeni na Nkosi yam kuwe Bawo Thixo Somandla

Emhlaben sibuthwel’ ubunzima
Bawo Thixo Somandla

Mayi ndlule lendebe
Ndinesingqala enthliziweni yam
Ndisoloko ndisithi, yhi mncu!
Mayi ndlule lendebe

Father, God Almighty, What have I done wrong?
What have we done in your eyes, God?
What have we done to you my Lord, Father, God Almighty?

On this earth we carry a heavy burden.

Let this be over. (Thy will be done.)
My heart is guilty.
I vow forever!
Let this be over. (Thy will be done.)

Tshotsholoza (text: traditional South African, Ndebele and Zulu words)

Tshotsholoza
Tshotsholoza
Kulezo ntaba
Stimela siphume South Africa
Tshotsholoza
Kulezo ntaba
Stimela siphume South Africa
Wen' uyabaleka
Kulezo ntaba
Stimela siphume South Africa

Go forward
Go forward
from these mountains
on this train from South Africa
You are running away
from those mountains
on this train from South Africa

Journey Home (text: Erik Halvorson, adapted by composer)

Spoken

Un logar … un hogar …. nuestro hogar.
Un logar que podemos llamar el nuestro, hacer el nuestro.
Un lugar para vivir, crecer, y ser.
Un pedazo de lo nuestro que compartimos con el mundo.
Un trozo de nuestros corazónes que traemos a la comunidad.
Un mundo de consuelo, y un mundo de calma.
Un mundo … de amor.

A place … a home … our home.
A place we can call our own, make our own.
A place to live, grow, and be.
A piece of us we share with the world.
A piece of our hearts we bring to the community.
A world of comfort, and a world of calm.
A world … of love.

Song

A place, a place to live, to grow, and be.
A place, a place to hope, to dream, and love …
An end to a journey,
but still we're just beginning:
A place with you, a place to start anew.
A home, a home is our own,
yet so much more,
a world …
A world, a world we'll learn
a world we'll bring,
and share …
A world of comfort, of calm,
the hope of our family,
a place of love, of wonder from above …
A place, a place we'll grow, we'll learn, and share.
A place … to call our own, to make our own …

Love Is Love Is Love Is Love
(text compiled by composer)

Love is love is love is love

Love, love, love. All we need is love, love, love.

Ubi caritas et amor [where there is charity and love], where there's love, love is love.

Can We Sing the Darkness to Light?
(text: Kyle Pederson)

What if instead of more violence
We let our weapons fall silent?
No more revenge or retribution
No more war or persecution.
It could be beautiful.

What if instead of our judgment
We soften our hearts that have hardened?
Instead of certainty and pride
We love and sacrifice.
It could be beautiful.

Can we see the other as our brother?
Can we sing the darkness to light?
Sounding chords of compassion and grace
Set the swords of judgment aside
Let mercy's eyes
See the other human face

We Shall Not Be Moved (text: traditional Spiritual)

We shall not, we shall not be moved
Just like a tree that's planted by the water
we shall not be moved.

We're fighting for our future,
…

We're young and old together
…

The whole world is watching
…

Peace Is (text: Fred Small)

Peace is the bread we break
Love is the river rolling
Life is a chance we take
When we make this earth our home
Gonna make this earth our home.

Feel the cool breeze blowing through the smoke and the heat
Hear the gentle voices and the marching feet
Singing call back the fire, draw the missiles down
And we'll call this earth our home.

Peace is …

We have known the atom, the power and pain
We've seen people fall beneath the killing rain
If the mind still reasons and the soul remains
It shall never be again.

Peace is …

Peace grows from a tiny seed
As the acorn grows into the tallest tree
Many years ago I heard a soldier say
When people want peace, better get out of the way.

Peace is …

Come Away (text: Song of Solomon 2:13–13, 8:6–7)

Arise, my love, my fair one
and come away
Arise, my love so beautiful
and come away.
For lo the winter is past.
The rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth.
The time for singing has come!

The voice of the turtledove
is heard in our land.
The fig trees are bursting with buds
and the promise of fruit.
The grapevines are fragrant with blossoms.
How delicious they smell!
Spring is here and my heart is filled with love!

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm.
For love is as strong as death
and passion, fierce as the grave.
Many waters cannot quench love.
All the world's riches cannot buy love.

Arise, my love …

Sing Gently (text: Eric Whitacre)

May we sing together, always
May our voice be soft
May our singing be music for others
And may it keep others aloft
Sing, sing gently, always
Sing, sing as one (as one)
May we stand (may we stand) together, always
May our voice be strong
May we hear the singing and
May we always sing along (along)
Sing, sing gently, always
Sing, sing as one (as one)
Singing gently as one

The Times They Are A-Changin' (text: Bob Dylan)

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
And you better start swimming
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-chang’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

Beautiful City
(text: Stephen Schwartz)

Out of the ruins and rubble
Out of the smoke
Out of our night of struggle
Can we see a ray of hope?
One pale thin ray
Reaching for the day

We can build
A beautiful city
Yes we can
Yes we can
We can build
A beautiful city
Not a city of angels
But we can build a city of man

We may not reach the ending
But we can start
Slowly but truly mending
Brick by brick
Heart by heart
Now maybe now
We start learning how

We can build
A beautiful city …

When your trust
Is all but shattered
When your faith
Is all but killed
You can give up
Bitter and battered
Or you can slowly start to build

A beautiful city …

Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World (text: adapted by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole)

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dream of
Once in a lullaby

Oh, somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dream of
Dreams really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops, that's where
You'll find me

Oh, somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dare to
Oh why, then, oh why can't I?

Well, I see trees of green and
Red roses too
I'll watch them bloom for
Me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Well, I see skies of blue and I see
Clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow,
so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying, "I, I love you"

I hear babies cry and I watch them grow

They'll learn much more
Than we'll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world, world

Big Yellow Taxi (text: Joni Mitchell)

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
…

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
…

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go
…

Earth Song (text: Frank Ticheli)

Sing. Be. Live. See.
This dark stormy hour,
The wind, it stirs.
The scorched earth
Cries out in vain:
O war and power,
You blind and blur,
The torn heart
Cries out in pain.
But music and singing
Have been my refuge,
And music and singing
Shall be my light.
A light of song
Shining Strong: Alleluia!
Through darkness, pain, and strife, I'll
Sing, Be, Live, See...
Peace.

Hope Lingers On (text: Lissa Schneckenburger)

My mother, when love is gone
In our darkest hour hope lingers on
My father, when peace is gone
In our darkest hour hope lingers

I will not hate, and I will not fear
In our darkest hour, hope lingers here

My sister, when equality’s gone
In our darkest hour hope lingers on
My brother, with tolerance gone
In our darkest hour hope lingers on

I will not hate, and I will not fear
In our darkest hour, hope lingers here

My love, when honor is gone
In our darkest hour hope lingers on
My country, when justice is gone
In our darkest hour hope lingers on

I will not hate, and I will not fear
In our darkest hour, hope lingers here

Let the River Run (text: Carly Simon)

Let the river run
Let all the dreamers wake the nation
Come, the New Jerusalem

Silver cities rise
The morning lights the streets that lead them
And sirens call them on with a song

It's asking for the taking
Trembling, shaking
Oh, my heart is aching
We're coming to the edge
Running on the water
Coming through the fog
Your sons and daughters

Let the river run …

Maui Choral Arts Association

Soprano

Virginia Cantorna
Megan Larcher
Kaitlin Loughran
Bonnie Newman
Irena Nickels
Debra Merrill
Nicole Ottersen
Airielle Pearson
Karli Rose
Molly Schad (guest)
Mimi Tilley
Leah Tinkleman
Jeanie Vance
Penny Wakida
Annie Wu

Alto

Judy Anderson
Lehua Barboza
Tracey Bloser
Susan Bradford
Eva Daniells
Joanne Dennis
Kim Dolan
Molli Fleming
Elizabeth Leavitt
Jane Lovell
Lisa Porter
Emma Statton
Katy Weeks
Joanna Williams
Lenita Witherspoon

Tenor

Alfred Cantorna
Emily Engh
Marion Haller
Mary Johnson
William Kepler
Cheryl Lindley
Deanna Pennington
Derek Reynolds
Sandy Shiner
Russ Taft
Loren Tilley

Bass

Brian Beach
Craig Bode
Michael Brown
David Kay
Matthew Kohm
William Love
Jerry Piller
Jay Slaughter

Seabury Hall Upper School Chorus

Daisy Barnard ‘24
Jack Bendon ‘25
Daniel Birkholz ‘23
Zachary Brunner ‘23
Kayla Bush ‘23
Freya Carlsen ‘26
Misaki Chun ‘26
Maehani Cleveland ‘26
Sean Cortez ‘24
Alex Frampton ‘26
Jadyn Gurley ‘23
Catherine Hampe ‘25
Elizabeth Hampe ‘23
Josh Hyman ‘24
Teah Jerman ‘25
Chris Joiner ‘23
Zella Kofron ‘25
Ruby Mackie ‘25
Lily McCann ‘26
Max McManus ‘24
Thi Mevis-Teuber ‘24
Lilly Mills ‘25
Zoe Mounts ‘25
Ai Ohira ‘25
Elena Parente ‘2
Alexander “Wolf” Pell ‘25
Natashya Peterson ‘25
Maya Phillips ‘25
Natalie Proctor ‘26
Harmony Powers ‘24
Liam Romanchak ‘25
Kristian Lloyd Roque ‘23
Ali Smith ‘26
Sydney Smith ‘23
Emily Stafford ‘24
Emma Wasson ‘25
Oliver White ‘23
Roam Yan ‘24

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