This

Little Light

The Campanile Consort
Conducted by Kate Barry


Friday 16th December 2016
8pm
Trinity College Chapel

Conductors Welcome
As conductor of the choir and behalf of our singers, I would like
to warmly welcome you here tonight to our end of term concert.
This Little Light presents music of 20th/21st Century choral
composers. The theme of tonights concert is the advent of
Christmas and the celebration of singing.
We are delighted to have the opportunity to sing for you this
evening. Thank you all for coming and I hope you enjoy our
performance!

Kate Barry


The Campanile Consort

The Campanile Consort is a chamber choir for students of the
department of music in Trinity College, Dublin. It was founded in
2007 via a student initiative, supported by the then head of
department. The first concert took place that December, the
choir now gives two concerts per year.

The group operates under the supervision of an experienced
artistic advisor. Discussion of issues that may have arisen in
rehearsal takes place afterwards in private conversation
between the advisor and the conductor, and it is the latter who
always retains ultimate authority for decisions concerning
artistic policy, discipline and music-making. The conductor for
each term is chosen from the choir by the conductors peers
the singersand the final decision must be approved by the
artistic advisor.

The methods are modelled on those of a professional choir. The
conductor retains responsibility for choosing the repertoire, for
scheduling rehearsals, for the printed programme, and for
ensuring that all members of the group understand their
responsibilities. The choirs ethos is established on its founders
convictions about the value of peer-led music-making. Singers
learn their notes before rehearsals, to allow them to aspire to
higher possible standards; both in technical achievement and
artistic imagination.

Programme



Will Todd

My Lord Has Come

Always Singing


Dale Warland


Locus Iste



Paul Mealor


Battle of Jericho


Moses Hogan


O Magnum Mysterium

Morten Lauridsen


Bethlehem Down

Peter Warlock


See Dat Babe


arr. By Stacey V. Gibbs



This Little Light Of Mine
arr. By Moses Hogan


Once In Royal Davids City arr. By Thomas Hewitt Jones

Text and Translations

My Lord Has Come

Will Todd (b. 1970)

Shepherds, called by angels, called by love and angels:

No place for them but a stable.
My Lord has come.
Sages, searching for stars, searching for love in heaven;
No place for them but a stable.
My Lord has come.
His love will hold me, his love will cherish me,
love will cradle me.
Lead me, lead me to see him, sages and shepherds and angels;
No place for me but a stable.
My Lord has come.
Always Singing

There was such a lot of singing,

And this was my pleasure, too.
The boys all sang in the fields
And at night we all sang.
The chapels were full of singing.
It was singing, singing all the time.
I have had pleasure.
I have had singing.

Dale Warland (b. 1932)


Locus Iste

This place was made by God,

Inaestimabile sacramentum,

a priceless sacrament;

Irreprehensibilis est.

it is without reproach.

Locus Iste a Deo factus est,

Paul Mealor (b. 1975)

Battle of Jericho



Moses Hogan (1957-2003)
Joshua fit the battle, the battle of Jericho.
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,


And the walls come tumbling down.
Joshua fit the battle, the battle of Jericho.

Talk about your kings of Gideon,
Talk about your men of Saul,
But none like good old Joshua
And the battle of Jericho.
That morning Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,
And the walls come tumbling down.

Right up to the walls of Jericho
He marched with spear in hand,
Go blow that ram horn, Joshua cried,
Cause the battle am in my hand.

God almighty then the lamb ran sheep horn begin to blow,
And the trumpets began to sound,
And Joshua commanded the children to shout!
And the walls come a tumbling down.
Oh Lord, you know that Joshua fir the battle of Jericho,
The walls come tumbling down.


O Magnum Mysterium


Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)
O Magnum Mysterium,

O great mystery,
Et admirabile sacramentum

And wonderful sacrament

Ut animalia viderent Domimun natum, That animals should see the
new-born Lord,
Jacentem in praesepio!

Lying in a manger!

Beata Virgo, cujus viscera

Blessed is the Virgin whose

womb
Was worthy to bear
Our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Alleluia!

Meruerunt portare

Dominum Jesum Christum.

Alleluia!





Bethlehem Down



Peter Warlock (1894-1930)

When he is King we will give him the Kings gifts,
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown,
"Beautiful robes," said the young girl to Joseph,
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down.

Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight,
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold,
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.

When he is King they will clothe him in grave-sheets,
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown,
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary,
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down.

Here he has peace and a short while for dreaming,
Close-huddled oxen to keep him from cold,
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.

See Dat Babe

arr. Stacey V. Gibbs (b. 1985)
See dat Babe in the lowly manguh,
He gon take all my sin away,
He gon reign with my God in glory
One of dese days, one of dese days.
He was born of the Virgin Mary
To bring peace to a weary lan.
He come down from the God in heaven,
oh behol the Son of Man.

See dat Babe, oh, see dat Babe.

He was wrapped in swaddlin clothes an
He was born in a manguh hay.
See dat Babe, oh, see dat Baby Jesus,
See dat Babe, oh, see the King,.
See dat Baby, see dat Baby, oh, see dat Baby Jesus,
See dat Babe, oh, see the King. See dat Babe, oh, see my Lawd.
Yes, one of dese days, O yes,
He gon reign one of dese days!


This Little Light Of Mine

arr. by Moses Hogan (1957-2003)

This little light of mine,

Im gonna let it shine.
Let it shine, let it shine.
All through the night,
Im gonna let it shine.
Let it shine, let it shine.
My God gave it to me,
Im gonna let it shine,
Children, my God gave it to me,
Im gonna let it shine.
In my home,
All over the world,
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.


Once In Royal Davids City

arr. by Thomas H. Jones (b. 1984)

Once in royal Davids city, stood a lowly cattle shed,

Where a mother laid her baby, in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

He came down to earth from heaven, who is God and Lord of all,
And his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall:
With the poor and meek and lowly, lived on earth our Saviour holy.

And our eyes at last shall see him, through his own redeeming love,
For that child so dear and gentle, is our Lord in heaven above:
And he leads his children on to the place where he is gone.

Not in that poor lowly stable, with the oxen standing by,
We shall see him but in heaven, set at Gods right hand on high.
When like stars His children crowned, all in white shall wait around.

The Campanile Consort


Sopranos





Altos

Eilis Dexter





Naoise Whearity
Emma-Jane Stoker Phelan


Shauna Donnelly
Katie Smyth




Aine Gell
Liz Gleeson





Anne-Marie Bell
Fianna Rossiter
Sinead Alari


Tenors





Basses

Ciaran Fennelly




Adam Behan
Justin Arandt




Eoin Howley
Michael McCartan



Paul Prior




Acknowledgements

The Campanile Consort would like to thank:

Orla Flanagan for her role as artistic advisor.

Martin Adams for his help and encouragement.
The staff of House 5 for rehearsal spaces and their unyielding
support.
Simon Trezise for photography.
Cormac Bennett for recording.
Father Brunn and the Chaplains Committee for use of the
chapel.

The Campanile Consort would like to wish you a very

Merry Christmas!