Taylor Festival Choir Rob Taylor, conductor

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Dr. Robert Taylor

Founder & Director

Taylor Music Group, Taylor Festival Choir

Director of Choral Activities at the College of Charleston, the Founding Artistic Director and President of the Taylor Festival Choir (TFC) and Taylor Music Group (TMG), and the Director of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Singers.

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The Healing Journey Program & Translations

Caritas Abundat — Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Caritas
habundat in omnia,
de imis excellentissima
super sidera
atque amantissima
in omnia,
quia summo regi osculum pacis
dedit.

Love
abounds in all,
from the depths exalted and excelling
over every star,
and most beloved
of all,
for to the highest King the kiss of peace
she gave.

Libera Nos — John Sheppard (1515-1558)

Libera nos, salva nos, justifica nos, O beata Trinitas.

Free us, save us, defend us, O blessed Trinity

Jubilate Deo — Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)

Jubilate Deo omnis terra,
quia sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum.
Deus Israel conjungat vos
et ipse sit vobiscum,
mittat vobis auxilium de sancto
et de Sion tueatur vos.
Benedicat vobis Dominus ex Sion,
qui fecit caelum et terram.
Servite Domino in laetitia

Let every land praise God,
as the man who fears the Lord is blessed.
May the God of Israel bind you together
and himself be with you,
may he send you help from his holiness
and watch over you from Sion.
The Lord blessed you out of Sion,
he who made heaven and earth.
Serve the Lord with joy!

Ave Verum Corpus — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1792)

Ave verum corpus, natum
de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine
cuius latus perforatum
fluxit aqua et sanguine:
esto nobis praegustatum
in mortis examine.

O Jesu dulcis, O Jesu pie,
O Jesu, fili Mariae.
Miserere mei. Amen.

Hail, true Body, born
of the Virgin Mary,
having truly suffered, sacrificed
on the cross for mankind,
from whose pierced side
water and blood flowed:
Be for us a foretaste [of the Heavenly banquet
in the trial of death!

O sweet Jesus, O holy Jesus,
O Jesus, son of Mary,
have mercy on me. Amen.

O Salutaris Hostias — Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)
Nini Marchesi, soprano; Kori Miller, soprano

O salutaris Hostia,
Quae caeli pandis ostium:
Bella premunt hostilia,
Da robur, fer auxilium.
Uni trinoque Domino
Sit sempiterna gloria,
Qui vitam sine termino
Nobis donet in patria.
Amen.

O saving Victim,
Who expandest the door of heaven,
Hostile armies press,
Give strength; bear aid.
To the One and Triune Lord,
May there be everlasting glory;
who life without end
gives us in the homeland.
Amen.

Laudate Dominum — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1792)
Grace Kahl, soprano

Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
Laudate eum, omnes populi
Quoniam confirmata est
Super nos misericordia eius,
Et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper.
Et in saecula saeculorum.
Amen

Praise the Lord, all nations;
Praise Him, all people.
For He has bestowed
His mercy upon us,
And the truth of the Lord endures forever.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever,
and for generations of generations.
Amen.

Komm Jesu Komm — J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Komm, Jesu, komm, Mein Leib ist müde,
Die Kraft verschwindt je mehr und mehr,
Ich sehne mich Nach deinem Friede;
Der saure Weg wird mir zu schwer!
Komm, ich will mich dir ergeben;
Du bist der rechte Weg,
die Wahrheit und das Leben.

Drum schließ ich mich in deine Hände
Und sage, Welt, zu guter Nacht!
Eilt gleich mein Lebenslauf zu Ende,
Ist doch der Geist wohl angebracht.
Er soll bei seinem Schöpfer schweben,
Weil Jesus ist und bleibt
Der wahre Weg zum Leben.

Come, Jesus, come
My body is weary,
My strength fails me more and more,
I am longing
For your peace ;
The bitter way is becoming too difficult for me!
Come,I shall give myself to you;
You are the right way, the truth and the life.

Therefore I put myself in your hands
And bid goodnight to the world!
If my life’s course hastens onto the end,
My soul is then well-prepared.
It will rise up to be with its creator
For Jesus is and remains
The true way to life.

Intermission

Fleeting, god — Tarik O’Regan (b. 1978)

Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you,
Everything is fleeting,
God alone is unchanging.
Patience will obtain everything.
The one who possesses God
Wants for nothing.
God alone suffices.

Stay with Me Lord — Will Todd (b. 1970)

Stay with me, Lord, for you are my life, my strength and my faith, my passion and light.
Lord, stay lest I forget you, abandon you, fall in the dark.
O Lord, my soul is poor, but let it be a home for you.
Stay with me, Lord, that I may see your will.
Stay with me, O my Lord, that I may hear your voice.
Stay with me, that I may love you.
Stay with me, Lord, that I may be true.
Stay, Jesus, stay, for the day is late, and night comes quickly.

Judgment and death, eternity come; Lord,
strengthen me.
I fear the dark, the Cross, the sorrows, Lord, temptation.
O Jesus, I need you to hold me in this night of exile.
I ask no comfort but your staying, your love, your will, your light, your spirit.
I ask no other consolation. I ask no other gift but love.
Let me perceive you as your disciples in the breaking of bread.
May your Eucharist be the breaking of the day, the joy of my heart.
Lord, end this night of exile, and at my death stay with me, if not in bread, in grace and love.

O Nata Lux — Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
O Nata Lux — Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

O nata lux de lumine,
Jesu redemptor saeculi,
dignare clemens supplicum
Laudes preces que sumere.
Qui carne quondam contegi
Dignatus es pro perditis.
Nos membra confer effici
Tui beati corporis.

O light born of light,
Jesus, Redeemer of the world,
mercifully deign to hear our prayers
and supplications which we raise.
You who once did accept
the covering of flesh
for the sake of the lost,
grant that we may become members
of your blessed body.

Let My Love be Heard — Jake Runestadt (b. 1986)

Let My Love Be Heard
Angels, where you soar
Up to God’s own light
Take my own lost bird
On your hearts tonight;
And as grief once more
Mounts to heaven and sings
Let my love be heard
Whispering in your wings

There Will be Rest — Frank Ticheli (b. 1958)

There will be rest, and sure stars shining
There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops, crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
There will be rest
There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops, crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low. Holy and low

I will make this world of my devising, of my devising
I will make this world of my devising
Out of a dream, out of a dream, out of a dream
In my lonely mind.
I shall find the crystal of peace
I shall find the crystal of peace
I shall find the crystal of peace
Above me
Above me
Above me
Stars, Stars I shall find.
Stars I shall find.
I shall find the crystal of peace.
Stars I shall find.

Lord, Thou hast been our Refuge — Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
semi chorus
Kori Miller, Leah Durham, soprano
Mary Ott, Kiri Taylor, alto
Josh Overby, Bates O’Neal, tenor
Stephen Hanna, Cody Muller, bass

Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.
Before the mountains were brought forth
or ever the earth and the world were made,
Thou art God from everlasting and world without end.
Thou turnest man to destruction; again Thou sayest:
Come again, ye children of men.
For a thousand years in Thy sight are
but as yesterday; seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

O God our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come.
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.

As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep,
and fade away suddenly like the grass.
In the morning it is green and groweth up,
but in the evening it is cut down and withered.
For we consume away in thy displeasure,
and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.
For when thou art angry, all our days are gone,
we bring our years to an end, as a tale that is told.
The days of our age are threescore years and ten:
and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years,
yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow.
So passeth it away, and we are gone.
Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last.
Be gracious unto thy servants.
O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon.
So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.
Before the mountains were brought forth
or ever the earth and the world were made,
Thou art God from everlasting and world without end.

And the glorious Majesty of the Lord be upon us.
Prosper Thou, O prosper Thou the work of our hands upon us.
O prosper Thou our handy work.