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PROGRAM NOTES:

Carmina amoris -- choral symphony in six movements. Premiered May 4, 2001 by Lehigh University Choral Arts at Lehigh University, Zoellner Arts Center. Steven Sametz, conductor; Carmen Pelton and Debra Field, sopranos; John Aler, tenor.

The six movement choral symphony sets epigrams, marginalia, and love letters by clerics and nuns from the 4th-13th centuries found in the The Latin Anthology (6th c.), Carmina cantabrigiensa (11th c.) and Carmina Burana (13th c.).

I. "Quo fugis, amabo?" ("Where do you flee?")
Soprano and Tenor soloists, chorus
The restless youth (tenor solo) longs for his love by the waves on the shore. Across the moonlit sea, his distant love (soprano solo) answers: "let this light be a pledge of our love." Both the chant motive and the symphony's motto ("But do we believe that those who love create dreams for themselves?), which are developed throughout the work, are introduced.



TEXT:

CHORUS
Quo fugis, amabo, cum te dilexerim?
Miser quid faciam cum te non viderim?
Dura materies ex matris ossibus
creavit homines iactis lapidibus,
ex quibus unus est iste puerulus,
qui lacrimabiles no curat gemitus.
Cum tristis fuero gaudebit emulus
ut cerua rugio cum fugit hinnulus.
Arcos te protegat, Veneris idolum
qui stellas et polum
fecit maria condidit et solum.

TENOR SOLO
Nam languens amore tuo
consurrexi diluculo
perrexi que pedes nuda
per nives et frigora
atque maria rimabar mesta
ai forte ventiuola vela cenerem
aut frontem navis conspicerem.

TENOR AND CHORUS
Credimus an,
qui amant ipsi sibi somnia fingunt?

CHORUS
Saluto puerum non per ipotesim
sed firmo pectore, deprecor Lachesim.

SOPRANO
Cum splendor lunae fulgescat
ab aethere purae,
tu sta sub divo cernens
speculamine miro,
qualiter ex luna splendescat
lampade pura
et splendore suo caros
amplectitur uno,
corpore divisos
sed mentis amore legatos.

CHORUS
Si facies faciem spectare
Nequivit amantem,
hoc saltim nobis lumen
sit pignus amoris
Hos tibi versiculos
Fidus transimisit amicus.

Quo fugis amabo...?

TENOR
Nam languens....

TENOR AND CHORUS
Arcos te protegat...

CHORUS
Si facies faciem...
Si parte tua fidei stat fixa catena,
Nunc precor, ut valeas
Felix per saecula cuncta.

SOPRANO
Cum splendor lunae fulgescat....

TENOR
Nam languens...

CHORUS
Credimus an...

Hos tibi versiculos
Fidus transimisit amicus.

SOPRANO
Amore ligatos...

TENOR
Quo fugis amabo...?

CHORUS
Credimus?



TRANSLATION:

CHORUS
Where do you flee, I would like to know, since I loved you?
Miserable now, what shall I do since I cannot see you?
Hard matter from mother earth's bones
once created men when stones were thrown.
One sprung from these is this young boy
who heeds not my fearful moans.
When I am sad my rival rejoices.
I cry out like the doe when her fawn flees.
May the Almighty protect you, idol of venus,
He who made the stars and sky
and founded the seas and land.

TENOR SOLO
Languishing for love of you
I arose at dawn
and made my way bare-footed
across the snows and cold,
and searched the desolate seas
to see if I could find sails flying in the wind,
or catch sight of the prow of a ship.

TENOR AND CHORUS
Do we believe this,
or do those who love create dreams for themselves?

CHORUS
I wish you well, boy, not with feigned concern
but with steadfast heart, I pray to Lachesis.

SOPRANO
When the splendor of the unclouded moon
shines from the sky,
stand under the heavens and see with
a wondering gaze
how the moon shines
like a clear torch
and how with its single spelndor
it embraces loved ones
divided in body
but joined in spirit by love.

CHORUS
If face cannot gaze
on loving face,
at least let this light
be our pledge of love.
These little verses
are sent to you by a faithful friend.

Where do you flee...?

TENOR
I languish...

TENOR AND CHORUS
God protect you...

CHORUS
If face cannot gaze on loving face...
If on your side the bond of faith stands firm,
now I bid you farewell.
Be happy forever.

SOPRANO
When splendor of the unclouded moon...

TENOR
I languish...

CHORUS
Do we believe...?

These little verses
are sent to you by a faithful friend.

SOPRANO
We are bound in love

TENOR
Where do you flee?

CHORUS
Do we believe?