Stopping By Woods on a Snowy EveningTo the Townspeople of Amherst, Massachusetts (1759-1959)

Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it’s queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there’s some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. (Text by Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963)

The PastureTo the Townspeople of Amherst, Massachusetts (1759-1959)

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long. You come too.

I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue. I sha’n’t be gone long. You come too.(Text by Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963)

A Walt Whitman Sampler

Plough throughWoo freeGrow clawBow low

Flee shyThrow glowTry frayKnow flow

See nowCry gleeDie highTrue be(Text by Will Graham)

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Jameson N. Marvin, conductor

Recorded on 10/22/1993

Recorded on 3/11/2004

Recorded on 4/06/2001

Texts and Translations

that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

(Luke 2:25-35, KJV)

Dulcis Amor - “Ad amicum absentem suspiria”

Dulcis amor lacrimis absentem plangit amicumquem longinqua negat terra videre oculis.Rara fides hominum caros effecit amicos,milia multa cient, pectore solus erit.Argento melior, fulvo pretiosior auro,omnibus et gazis clarior iste nitet,quem cupit et quaerit mentis sibi tota voluntasut habeat, teneat, diligat atque colat.Iste eris ecce mihi magno coniunctus amore,tu requies mentis, tu mihi dulcis amor.Te deus aeterno conservat tempore semper,tu me memor semper ubique vale.

Sweet love weeps tears for absent love,Long distant land denies my eyes sight of him.Rare the faithfulness among men which creates dear friendsInnumerable those who cry, the heart remains alone.Better than silver, more precious than yellow gold,All this and royal treasure are nothing compared to this oneWho is coveted and sought for by the heart with its whole desiringSo that it may have, hold, esteem, and care for him.This is therefore my great bond of love,You are the quiet of the heart, you my sweet love.May God protect you through all time;Remember me always wheresoever you go, farewell.

(Text by Alcuin, c. 735-804)

Nunc Dimittis

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout,

waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost,

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Jameson N. Marvin, conductor, for the 125th anniversary of its founding; Recorded on 5/06/2000

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Jameson N. Marvin, conductorRecorded in 2004 at Mission Dolores, San Francisco

Almighty Father

Almighty Father, incline Thine ear:Bless us and all those who have gathered here.Thine angel send usWho shall defend us all.

And fill with graceAll who dwell in this place.Amen.

(Text by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein)

Shall I Compare Thee?

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

(Text by William Shakespeare, Sonnet #18)

Psaume 121 (Psalm 121)

Je me suis fondu de joie ences choses qui m’ont été dites:Nous irons dans la maison du Seigneur nos pieds se sont trop atardés en ces lieux qui te précédent Jérusalem.Jérusalem qui est édifiée comme une ville don’t la participation est en elle même c’est là que sont montées les tribus en triomphe les tribus du Seigneur ont montéCélébration qui est Israel pour rendre témoignage au Seigneur.Là ces trônes en une grande assise au dessus de la de meure de David.Qui votre priére soit la paix qu’il y a dans Jérusalem!Et l’abondance à ceux qui l’aiment!Que la paix soit dans ta vertu et l’abondance dans la couronne de tes tours.A cause de tes frères et de tous ceux qui m’approchent je parlais de toi, Pacifique.A cause de la demeure du Seigneur votre Dieu j’ai cherché le bonheur en Toi.

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.

(Psalm 121, text translated by Paul Claudel)

Ave Dulcissima Maria

Ave, dulcissima Mariavera spes et vita,dulce refrigerium!

Hail, sweetest Mary,true hope and life,sweet refreshment!

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Jameson N. Marvin, conductorRecorded on 4/26/2003 at Mt. Holyoke College

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Archibald T. Davison, conductor

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Jameson N. Marvin, conductor, for the 150th anniversary of its founding; Recorded on 11/19/2004

So fair a fancy few would weaveIn these years! Yet, I feel,If someone said on Christmas Eve,“Come; see the oxen kneel“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb

Our childhood used to know,”I should go with him in the gloom,Hoping it might be so.(Text by Thomas Hardy, 1840 – 1928)

The Sea Is Awash with Roses

The sea is awash with roses O they blowUpon the landThe still hills fill with their scentO the hills flow on their sweetnessAs on God’s hand

O love, it is so little we know of pleasurePleasure that lasts as the snowBut the sea is awash with roses O they blowUpon the land(Text by Kenneth Patchen)

Quis multa gracilis

Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosaperfusus liquidis urget odoribus grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? cui flauam religas comam, simplex munditiis? Heu quotiens fidemmutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora uentis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea,qui semper uacuam, semper amabilem sperat, nescius aurae fallacis. Miseri, quibus intemptata nites. Me tabula saceruotiua paries indicat uuida suspendisse potenti uestimenta maris deo.

What slender youth, besprinkled with perfume,Courts you on roses in some grotto’s shade? Fair Pyrrha, say, for whom Your yellow hair you braid,So trim, so simple! Ah! how oft shall heLament that faith can fail, that gods can change, Viewing the rough black sea With eyes to tempests strange,Who now is basking in your golden smile,And dreams of you still fancy-free, still kind, Poor fool, nor knows the guile Of the deceitful wind!Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloudUntried! For me, they show in yonder fane My dripping garments, vow’d To Him who curbs the main.(From the Fives Odes by Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Recorded on 5/06/2000

The Oxen

Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in hearthside ease.

We pictured the meek mild creatures whereThey dwelt in their strawy pen,Nor did it occur to one of us thereTo doubt they were kneeling then.

Recorded at the Church of the Advent

O Maria, flos viginum,ora, pro nobis, Jesum, O Maria.

Alleluia. Amen.

O Mary, flower of all virgins,pray for us to Christ, O Mary.

Alleluia. Amen.

Pretty Little Horses

Hush you by,Don’t you cry,Go to sleepy little baby.When you wake,You shall have,All the pretty little horses.Blacks and bays,Dapples and grays,Coach and six-a litte horses.Blacks and bays,Dapples and grays,Coach and six-a little horses.Hush you bye,Don’t you cry,

Go to sleepy little baby,When you wake,You’ll have your cake,and all the pretty little horses.A brown and a gray and a black and a bay and a Coach and six-a little horses.A brown and a bay and aCoach and six-a little horses,and six-a little horses.Hush you bye,Don’t you cry,Oh you pretty little baby.Oh you pretty little baby.(Arrangement by Raymond Wilding-White, 1922 – 2001)

Cantantes Eamus

Cantantes licet usque eamus.Cantantes licet, licet usque eamus,eamus (minus via laedet.)Cantantes licet usque eamus,Cantantes eamus, eamus cantantes, cantantes.

Let us go forth singing. (Text by P. Virgilius Maro, 70 – 19 B.C., from Eclogue IX)

Jerboa

Jaculus jaculus,Nothing miraculous:Rat of a sort,Front legs too short,Hind legs too long;All rather wrong.

Small kangaroo,But not for the zoo.Hard now to class him:Mind if we pass him?(Verse by David McCord, 1897 – 1997)

Recorded on 6/06/1993

Commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, Jameson N. Marvin, conductor, for the 125th anniversary of its founding; Recorded on 3/18/1983

Composed for the Harvard Glee Club, G. Wallace Woodworth, conductor, for the 100th anniversary of its founding Recorded on 9/04/1986

Little Man

Little man(in a hurryfull of animportant worry)halt stop forget relax

wait

(little childwho have tried

who have failedwho have cried)lie bravely down

sleep

big rainbig snowbig sunbig moon(enter us)(Text by e.e. cummings)

Recorded in 2000

And then I knew my love was dead,Lowlands, lowlands, away, my John.And then I knew my love was dead,My dollar and a half a day.

Lowlands, lowlands, away, my John,My dollar and a half a day.

(American Sea Shanty)

Gentle Annie

Thou wilt come no more, Gentle Annie.Like a flow’r, thy spirit did depart;Thou art gone alas! like the manyThat have bloom’d in the summer of my heart.Shall we nevermore behold thee,Never hear thy winning voice again,When the springtime comes, Gentle Annie,When the wild flowr’s are scatter’d o’er the plain.Ah! the hours grow sad while I ponder,

Near the silent spot where thou art laid,And my heart bows down when I wanderBy the streams and the meadows where we strayed.Shall we nevermore behold thee,Nevere hear thy winning voice again,When the springtime comes, Gentle Annie,When the wild flow’rs are scatter’d o’er the plain.

Lowlands

Lowlands, lowlands, away, my John,O, my old mother, she wrote to me,My dollar and a half a day.She wrote to me to come home from sea.A dollar a day is a Hoosier’s pay,Lowlands, lowlands, away, my John.All in the night, my true love came,

Lowlands, lowlands, away, my John.All in the night, my true love came,My dollar and a half a day.She came to me all in my sleep,Lowlands, lowlands, away, my John.She came to me all in my sleep,My dollar and a half a day.

Clam (or Whoose Oooze)

There’s always the clam:He’s not what I am,I’m not what he is.Gee whiz – Not mentally!But incidentally,Damme,I come from the clammyCold seaSame as he.My chassis is classic,His is Jurassic.

I did what he does,He is what I was.I got ahead,He stayed in bed.I made the break,He the mistake.So I don’t give a damnFor the clam!I’m choosy:He’s oozy.(Verse by David McCord, 1897 – 1997)

Composed for the Harvard Glee Club, G. Wallace Woodworth, conductor, for the 100th anniversary of its founding Recorded on 9/04/1986

All Through the Night

Sleep my child and peace attend thee,All through the nightGuardian angels God will send thee,All through the nightSoft the drowsy hours are creepingHill and vale in slumber steeping,I my loving vigil keepingAll through the night.

While the moon her watch is keepingAll through the nightWhile the weary world is sleepingAll through the night

Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,Hill and vale in slumber steeping,I my loving vigil keepingAll through the night.

Sleep my child and peace attend thee,All through the nightGuardian angels God will send thee,All through the nightSoft the drowsy hours are creepingHill and vale in slumber steeping,I my loving vigil keepingAll through the night. (Text attributed to H. Boulton)

Arranged by Jameson Marvin for the Harvard Glee Club, 2007Recorded on 11/17/2006

H A R V A R D G L E E C L U B The sixty-voice Harvard Glee Club is Harvard’s internationally celebrated men’s chorus and the oldest college chorus in America. March 2008 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Harvard Glee Club, which was founded by students in 1858 to sing college songs and glees. It was not until 1912, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Archibald T. Davison, that the Glee Club developed a repertoire of distinction and gained a national reputation. Throughout its distinguished history, the Glee Club has drawn its repertoire from six centuries and has demonstrated particular expertise in the performance of contemporary American music, sacred repertory of the Renaissance, Eastern European music, and folk songs of the world. Summer tours of North America (1954, ’64, ’78), Asia (’61, ’67, ’82, ’93), Europe (’21, ’56, ’73, ’87, ‘05), Australia (’98), and Scandinavia (2002); eighty-five annual spring tours within the United States; and fifty years of collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra illustrate the quality of the Glee Club’s remarkable tradition. The Glee Club has had five conductors during the past century: Archibald T. Davison, G. Wallace Woodworth, Elliot Forbes, F. John Adams, and Jameson Marvin. Under the direction of Jameson Marvin since 1978, the Harvard Glee Club has enhanced its reputation as one of America’s premier collegiate choruses. Performances at five National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, six international tours, concerts with Erich Leinsdorf and Marilyn Horne in Lincoln Center and Symphony Hall (Boston), memorial concerts for Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, and an appearance at the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors are among the many achievements of the past thirty years.

Jameson Marvin, Conductor Jameson Marvin is Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University. He conducts the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and the Harvard Glee Club. Under his direction since 1978, these ensembles have risen to be among the premier collegiate choruses in the United States. Dr. Marvin has expanded a choral environment rich enough to attract thousands of students over the past thirty years, from the beginning singer to the advanced musician. Over the course of his career, Dr. Marvin has conducted some eighty symphonic-choral works. His mastery of the choral art is reflected by his distinguished national reputation as a conductor, teacher, author, performance scholar, editor, arranger, and composer. Dr. Marvin received a BA in Music Theory/History and Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an MA in Choral Conducting and Early Music Performance from Stan-ford University, and a DMA degree in Choral Music from the University of Illinois. The Boston Globe calls Dr. Marvin “a musician of consummate mastery.”

Today there are over 500 students singing in choral ensembles at Harvard. Seven facultydirected choruses are part of a collegiate environment that includes six orchestras, five bands, and some thirty-five vocal and instrumental chamber ensembles. Nearly 300 stu-dents sing with sixty student-led operatic and theatrical productions per year, numer-ous chamber choirs and madrigal societies, and various close-harmony ensembles.

CHORAL MUSIC AT HARvARD UNIvERSITY

Many of the foremost composers of the twentieth century have penned works for the Harvard Glee Club, including Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Gustav Holst, Randall Thompson, and Irving Fine. Since 1978, the Glee Club has commissioned new works for male chorus by Toru Takemitsu, John Harbison, and virgil Thomson, and has commissioned a series of men’s choral pieces, including works by Sir John Tavener, Morten Lauridsen, Stephen Paulus, Carol Barnett, Steven Sametz, Paul Moravec, and Dominick Argento leading up to its 150th anniversary in 2008. Over the past twenty years, the ensemble has released seven new recordings, hosted twelve Men’s Chorus Festivals, and performed major symphonic-choral works for men’s chorus to critical acclaim: Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, and Dominick Argento’s The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.

Choral singers are drawn from the diverse array of undergraduate and graduate disciplines at Harvard. Almost all of the singers are headed for non-musical professions, although many are talented and experienced musicians. Each fall, about 180 men and 240 women audition for the faculty-directed choruses. All auditionees are accepted into at least one chorus. A good ear, a voice with reasonable amplitude and accuracy, and some ability to sight-read form the composite criteria for acceptance into one or more of the select ensembles. Prior secondary-school choral experience is quite beneficial, but not required; many students with only previous instrumental experience are accepted to sing. Over the past twenty years, there has been a 300% increase in the number of arts organizations at Harvard, and today our choral ensembles are but a small part of the panorama of musical offerings.

Conductor: Jameson N. MarvinAssociate Conductor: Kevin Leong *Assistant Conductor: Michael McGaghie

Recording Engineers: Tom Stephenson and Bruce HumphreyDigital Mastering: Tom Stephenson of Emmanuel Audio RecordingCD Manufacturing and Printing: Susan Bush of Albany RecordsDesign: Alan H. Baik ‘08

Produced by Walker C. Stanvosky ‘07

All live recordings from Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, unless otherwise noted.* Conductor of the following pieces: Shall I Compare Thee?, The Oxen, and The Sea Is Awash with Roses

The production of this compact disc has been made possible by a grant from the Harvard Glee Club Foundation.

Contact the Harvard Glee Club:Mail: Holden Chapel Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone: (617) 495-5730Fax: (617) 496-5166E-mail: manager@harvardgleeclub.orgWeb: www.harvardgleeclub.org

Other Available Recordingsfeaturing the Harvard Glee Club

Long Way From Home: A Collection of Songs from Around the WorldReleased: 2002

Christmas with the Harvard Glee ClubReleased: 1998

The Archive Collection: Vol. 1Released: 1993

Tour of East AsiaReleased: 1993

Music of the Past and PresentReleased: 1992

American Choral Music for Male Choruspresented by the Harvard Glee Club

Jameson Marvin, Conductor

5. Almighty Father (1971) LeonardBernstein(1918–1990) fromChorale from Mass, 1971 arr.DarylMillard

13. Pretty Little Horses (1965) AaronCopland(1900–1990) Lullaby from the American South arr.RaymondWilding-White

17. McCord’s Menagerie - Four Vivariations for Male Voices (1957) IrvingFine(1914–1962) IV. Clam (or Whose Ooze)

16. McCord’s Menagerie - Four Vivariations for Male Voices (1957) IrvingFine(1914–1962) II. Jerboa

19. Gentle Annie (1960) StephenFoster(1826–1864) arr.AliceParker&RobertShaw

3. A Walt Whitman Sampler (2000) CharlesFussell(b.1938)4. Nunc Dimittis (1980) JohnHarbison(b.1938)

9. Ave Dulcissima Maria (2004) MortenLauridsen(b.1943)10. The Oxen - To the Meads (1986) RodneyLister(b.1951)

20. All Through the Night (2006) WelshFolksong,ArHydyNos arr.JamesonMarvin

8. Psaume 121 - Psalm 121 (1921) DariusMilhaud(1892–1974)

18. Lowlands (1963) AmericanSeaShanty arr.AliceParker&RobertShaw

7. Shall I Compare Thee? (2002) StephenPaulus(b.1949)

14. Little Man (1999) KirstinaRassmusen(b.1977)

6. Dulcis Amor (2003) StevenSametz(b.1953)

2. The Pasture (1959) RandallThompson(1899–1984) fromFrostiana

12. Quis multa gracilis (1932) RandallThompson(1899–1984)

11. The Sea is Awash With Roses (2000) ChrisTrapani(b. 1980)

1. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (1959) RandallThompson(1899–1984) fromFrostiana

15. Cantantes Eamus (1982) VirgilThomson(1896–1989)

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