Arcadian notes - Fall 2022


​Greetings!
For each concert season, you will find various resources on this site
and on this page to assist with our rehearsals, including
links to PDFs of scores and audio/video of various works. 

NOTE: PDFs of scores can be found ONLY at Chorus Connection.
They are downloadable, and can be printed as you prefer.

Audio/Video links are below.

Let's keep our joy alive---sing every day!

Marina
Also see these pages for helpful info
Resources
Vocal Warm-Ups
Welcome as Arcadian Chorale rehearses
for our 
Fall 2022 Program,
​
"LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
REPERTORY and RESOURCES for FALL 2022
All score PDFs and audio/video links for the pieces listed below
are now available at Arcadian Chorale's
Chorus Connection site.

After logging in, click on MUSIC, and then Fall 2022 - Let There Be Light

Clicking on each individual piece will display the FILES and LINKS available there.
AUDIO/VIDEO LINKS
REHEARSAL TRACKS -- please NOTE that you can make any SCORE VIDEO blow go into FULL SCREEN mode by clicking on the diagonal arrow in the lower right corner of the video.
To return to your normal screen, just hit the ESC key on your keyboard.
TEXTS
Please NOTE that since we are singing some pieces from editions I have created,
sometimes the TEXT can be different from what you see in the examples below.
from The Creation: 2. In the beginning - Franz Joseph Haydn
Handel and Haydn Society
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2V7q9Gc-k

Choir of New College, Oxford · The Academy Of Ancient Music Chorus · Academy of Ancient Music · Christopher Hogwood, conductor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCO6wZEKN5E
Illumina le tenebre - Joan Szymko
Click on arrows to advance score.
Audio - NOTE: "Play" button is at bottom left of screen
sbmp.com/STM.php?CatalogNumber=861
Dark Night of the Soul - Ola Gjeilo
Central Washington University Chamber Choir (Gary Weidenaar, director)
joined by Ola Gjeilo on the piano and the Kairos String Quartet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjlmnqDJvio&t=1s

USC Thornton Chamber Singers -- Jo-Michael Scheibe, conductor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBuLU5sdys
ABOUT THRE POEM
Lyrics: St. John of the Cross
(c. 1577 - 1579)

One dark night,
fired with love’s urgent longings
-- ah, the sheer grace!  --
I went out unseen,
my house being now all stilled.

In darkness, and secure,
by the secret ladder, disguised,
-- ah, the sheer grace! --
in darkness and concealment,
my house being now all stilled.
​
On that glad night,
in secret, for no one saw me,
nor did I look at anything,
with no other light or guide
than the one that burned in my heart.
The poem of St. John of the Cross, in 8 stanzas of 5 lines each, narrates the journey of the soul to mystical union with God. The journey is called "The Dark Night" in part because darkness represents the fact that the destination -- God -- is  unknowable…
Verse I:
-- that is, the body and the mind, with their natural cares, being stilled. St. John wrote:
"In this first verse, the soul tells the mode and manner in which it departs, as to its affection, from itself and from all things, dying through a true mortification to all of them and to itself, to arrive at a sweet and delicious life with God."

[A journey in 3 steps:]

There are several steps in this night, which are related in successive stanzas of the poem. The thesis of the poem is the joyful experience of being guided to God, in which the only light in this dark night is that which burns in the soul, which St. John describes as a guide more certain than the mid-day sun…..St. John describes this light as leading the soul engaged in the mystical journey to divine union.
The "nights" which the soul experiences are the two necessary purgations on the path to divine union: the first purgation is of the sensory or sensitive part of the soul, the second of the spiritual part….
Such purgations comprise the first of the three stages of the mystical journey, 
​followed by those of illumination and then union.

Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul
REHEARSAL TRACKS
NOTE: If you click on the 3 dots to the right of each track,
you can adjust the SPEED of the playback
SOPRANO 1
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1ss1.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: Sopranos enter at m.156] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2ss1.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 [Unison with Sop. 2] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3ss.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4ss1.mp3
SOPRANO 2
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1ss2.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: Sopranos enter at m.156] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2ss2.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 [Unison with Sop. 1] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3ss.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end​ www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4ss2.mp3
ALTO 1
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1as1.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: Altos enter at m.156] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2as1.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3as1.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4as1.mp3
ALTO 2
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1as2.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: Altos enter at m.156] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2as2.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3as2.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4as2.mp3
TENOR 1
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1ts1.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: T+B are featured thru m. 155] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2ts1.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3ts1.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4ts1.mp3
TENOR 2
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1ts2.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: T+B are featured thru m. 155] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2ts2.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3ts2.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4ts2.mp3
BASS 1
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1bs1.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: T+B are featured thru m. 155] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2bs1.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3bs1.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4bs1.mp3
BASS 2
Meas. 1 - 130 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-1bs2.mp3
​Meas. 131 - 195 [NOTE: T+B are featured thru m. 155] www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-2bs2.mp3
Meas. 196 - 219 www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-3bs2.mp3
Meas. 221 - 332 end www.choralia.net/gj04mp3/gj04-4bs2.mp3
from The Creation: 13. The Heavens Are Telling - Franz Joseph Haydn
King's College, Cambridge
​With scrolling score.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwqqfbinUDY
INDIVIDUAL REHEARSAL TRACKS
SOPRANO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTJWyG16_8
ALTO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIY38stYNU
TENOR
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnZeTciJGY4
BASS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlbEP5aCAA
from The Christmas Oratorio II: 
12. ​Break forth, O beauteous morning light - J.S. Bach

​Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, Ton Koopman, conductor
Sung in German -- with scrolling score
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFoGxfOyyk
​
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota - with scrolling score
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Oi-YrBffY
INDIVIDUAL REHEARSAL TRACKS
SOPRANO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXC9Ft0tD_w
TENOR
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKPAQLG2ho
ALTO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNrekX8lPyw
BASS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHj9hGNywSA
from Elijah: 43. And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth - Felix Mendelssohn

​New Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus -  Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos​, conductor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7XARj0FD9E
​
​Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus -  Robert Shaw​, conductor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XY52GOIHQ
INDIVIDUAL REHEARSAL TRACKS
SOPRANO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkFb1nUAReE
TENOR
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN31bRmJk4M
With scrolling score: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4m2mW7gg-s
ALTO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e0RNh2edgs
BASS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXz59K9al4
Pure Light Beyond Light - Elizabeth Alexander
NOTE: recordings at the links below vary in voicing:
some are SATB, some are SSAA
Movement #1 - Hear Us, O Never-Failing Light
www.elizabethalexander.com/works/hear-us-o-never-failing-light/
Movement #2 - Luminous Awakening
www.elizabethalexander.com/works/luminous-awakening/
Movement #3 - Holy One, Source of Radiance and Reason
www.elizabethalexander.com/works/holy-one-source-of-radiance-and-reason/
Das Volk, so im Finstern wandelt - Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Omnes de Saba venient - Joseph Eybler

​West German Radio Chorus & Symphony -  Lenneke Ruiten​, conductor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKEAPRBdBHc&t=9s
Celebration of Light - Joseph Martin

​Audio
(this is NOT the complete piece, but a good & helpful excerpt): 
www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&productID=10364479&type=audio
The Light of Christmas - Joel Raney

Audio: www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&productID=10275300&type=audio