CMVA Board
C. Michael Porter, Doug Rinard, and Corrina Steinbach

Special Thanks
First Presbyterian Church staff

CMVA Sponsors

Merri & Willis Carr 
Melissa Dodworth 
Norman & Bonnie Hollenbeck 
Dr. Michael Porter
Esther Simplot 
Michael & Janice Tancredi 
Stacey Trenteseaux & Jeremiah Johnson 

About Critical Mass Vocal Artists
Critical Mass Vocal Artists (CMVA) represents the finest in chamber choir performance in Southern Idaho. Its mission is to establish and maintain a tradition of choral excellence, to be a vital part of the arts in Idaho, and to enrich our communities through choral music, education, and performance. The singers of CMVA represent the Treasure Valley’s finest singers and choral educators, and who seek to inspire and engage their audience with a diverse repertoire and choral excellence.

Soir sur la pleine
Music by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Text by Albert Samain (1858-1900) 
Amanda Gardner, Nathan Phipps, Colin Cho

Vers l'occident, là-bas, le ciel est tout en or;
Le long des prés déserts où le sentier dévale
La pénétrante odeur des foins coupés s'exhale,
Et c'est l'heure émouvante où la terre s'endort. 

La faux des moissonneurs a passé sur les terres,
Et le repos succède aux travaux des longs jours;
Parfois une charrue, oubliée aux labours,
Sort, comme un bras levé,
 des sillons solitaires.

 La nuit à l'orient verse sa cendre fine;
Seule au couchant s'attarde une barre de feu;
Et dans l'obscurité qui s'accroît peu à peu
La blancheur de la route à peine se devine.

 Puis tout sombre et s'enfonce en la grande unité.
Le ciel enténébré rejoint la plaine immense ...
Écoute! ... un grand soupir traverse le silence...
Et voici que le coeur du jour s'est arrêté!

Evening on the Plain
There towards the west, the sky is all in gold; 
Along the empty fields where the path drops away 
Breathes the pungent scent of cut hay, 
And now is the tender moment  when the earth falls asleep. 

 The harvesters’ scythe has gone over the fields, 
And rest follows the long day’s labor; 
Here and there a plow, abandoned in the field, 
Stands out, like an uplifted arm,
 from the lonely furrows. 

 Night dusts the east with soft ash; 
Only a band of light remains of the sunset; 
And little by little in the growing dusk 
The whiteness of the road is lost to view. 

 Then all sinks and merges into a great oneness. 
The twilight sky meets the endless plain … 
Listen! … a deep sigh breaks through the silence… 
And now the day’s heartbeat has ceased! 

Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans
Music by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) 
Text by Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465) 

1. Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder

Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder,
La gracieuse bonne et belle!
Pour les grans biens que sont en elle,
Chascun est prest de la loüer.

Qui se pourroit d'elle lasser?
Tousjours sa beauté renouvelle.
Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder,
La gracieuse bonne et belle! 

Par de ça ne de là, la mer
Ne scay dame ne damoiselle
Qui soit en tous bien parfais telle;
C'est ung songe que d'i penser.
Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!

Translation
God, how good it is to look upon her, 
So graceful, good, and beautiful! 
For the great goodness that is hers,  
Everyone is ready to praise her. 

 Who could grow tired of her? 
Her beauty constantly renews itself. 
God, how good it is to look upon her, 
So graceful, good, and beautiful! 

 On neither side of the ocean 
Do I know any woman or girl  
Who is in all virtues so perfect; 
It is a dream just to think of her. 
God, how good it is to look upon her!

2. Quand j’ai ouï le tambourin 
Karen Mang Kennedy 

Quant j'ai ouï la tabourin
Sonner, pour s'en aller au may,
En mon lit n'en ay fait affray,
Ne levé mon chief du coissin.

En disant: “il est trop matin,
Ung peu je me rendormiray.”
Quant j' ay ouy le tabourin
Sonner pour s'en aller au may,

 Jeunes gens partent leur butin:
De nonchaloir m'accointeray,
A lui je m'abutineray;
Trouvé l'ay plus prouchain voisin…

Translation
When I hear the tambourine 
Sound to call us to May,
In my bed I am not frightened, 
Nor do I lift my head from the pillow. 

 Saying: “it’s too early in the morning, 
I’ll go back to sleep for a little while.” 
When I hear the tambourine 
Sound to call us to May. 

 Young folk divide their spoils: 
I will make a friend of lethargy, 
I will plunder it; 
I have found it to be my closest neighbor… 

3. Hiver, vous n’êtes qu’un vilain! 
Alana Seacord, Hannah Lee, Jim Jirak, Colin Cho

Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain;
 Esté est plaisant et gentil,
 En tesmoing de may et d’avril,
 Qui l’accompaignent soir et main.
 
 Esté revest champs, bois et fleurs,
 De sa livrée de verdure,
 Et de maintes autres couleurs,
 Par l’ordonnance de nature.
 
 Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plain
 De nège, vent, pluye et grézil;
 On vous deust banir en éxil.
 Sans point flater, je parle plain.

Translation 
 Winter, you are nothing but a rogue;
Summer is pleasant and kind,
As May and April can testify,
Accompanying it each eve and morn.

 Summer clothes fields, woods and flowers,
With his verdant livery,
And many other colours too,
As nature commands. 

But you, Winter, you exude
Snow, wind, rain and hail;
You ought to be exiled.
Winter, you are nothing but a rogue. 

— Intermission —

Requiem Op. 48
Music by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Text from the traditional Latin Requiem Mass

1. Introït et Kyrie

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.

 Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion,
et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem.
Exaudi orationem meam,
 ad te omnis caro veniet.

 Kyrie eleison,
Christe eleison,
Kyrie eleison 

Translation
Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord, 
And let light perpetual shine upon them. 

 A hymn befits thee, O god, in Zion,  
And to Thee a vow shall be fulfilled in Jerusalem. 
Hear my prayer,
 for unto thee all flesh shall come.  

 Lord have mercy, 
Christ have mercy, 
Lord have mercy. 

2. Offertory
Colin Cho

O Domine Jesu Christe, rex gloriae,
libera animas defunctorum
de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu. 

O Domine Jesu Christe, rex gloriae,
libera animas defunctorum de ore leonis;
ne absorbeat Tartarus.

 O Domine Jesu Christe, rex gloriae,
ne cadant in obscurum. 

Hostias et preces tibi, Domine,
 laudis offerimus.
tu suscipe pro animabus illis
quarum hodie memoriam facimus.
Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam.
Quam olim Abrahae promisisti
 et semini eius. 

Translation
O Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, 
Liberate the souls of all the departed 
From the pains of hell, and from the deep pit. 

O Lord, Jesus Christ, King of Glory, 
Deliver them from the Lion’s mouth; 
Let not hell swallow them up.  

 O Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, 
Let them not fall into darkness.  

Sacrifices and prayers of praise, O Lord,
 we offer to Thee. 
Receive them, Lord, on behalf of those souls  
We commemorate this day. 
Grant them, O Lord, to pass from death unto life. 
Which once Thou promised to Abraham
 and to his seed. 

3. Sanctus

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis. 

Translation
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts.  
Heaven and earth are full of your glories. 
Hosanna in the highest.   

4. Pie Jesu
Jerusha Baker

Pie Jesu, Domine, 
Dona eis requiem, sempiternam requiem.

Translation
Gentle Lord Jesus,  
Grant them rest, eternal rest.

5. Angus Dei

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem. 

Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine
Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,quia pius es. 

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Translation
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Grant them rest. 

May eternal light shine on them, O Lord
With thy saints for ever, because you are merciful. 

Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord, 
And let light perpetual shine upon them.

6. Libera me
Greg Watts

Libera me, Domine,
de morte aeterna,
in die illa tremenda.
Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra
dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Tremens factus sum ego, et timeo,
dum discussio venerit,
at que ventura ira.|
Dies illa, dies irae,
calamitatis et miseriae,
dies magna et amara valde. 

Requiem aeternam, dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis. 

Translation
Deliver me, O Lord,
from eternal death,
on that fearful day
when the heavens are moved and the earth
when you come to judge the world through fire.
I am made to tremble, and I fear,
when the desolation shall come,
and also the coming wrath.
That day, the day of wrath,
calamity, and misery,
that terrible and exceedingly bitter day.

Rest eternal grant them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them. 

7. In paradisum 

In paradisum deducant te angeli;
in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres,
et perducant tein civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.

Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere,
aeternam habeas requiem. 

Translation
May the Angels lead you into paradise; 
May the martyrs welcome you upon your arrival,  
And bring you into the holy city Jerusalem.

May a choir of angels welcome you, 
And, with poor Lazarus of old,
may you have eternal rest. 

Soprano
Jerusha Baker
Anne Dickau
Kyla Heller
Madeline Jorgenson
Kylie Kohl
Vicki Kreimeyer
Rebecca Presson
Julia Rundberg
Stephanie Santos-Owens
Alana Seacord
Angela Sprague

Alto
Aubrey Balfour
Ainsley Boan
Jillian Denham
Leigh Falconer
Amanda Gardner
Karen Mang Kennedy
Hannah Lee
Isabelle Mills
Deanna Pond
Laura Schneider
Savannah Stame

Tenor
Justin Holland
Jim Jirak
Nathan Phipps
Doug Rinard
Hubert Schwarthoff
Ben Weaver

Bass
Dawson Bonde
Jack Bonde
Colin Cho
Greg Watts
Michael Kohntopp
Erik Noyce
Bruce Yang

Dr. C. Michael Porter is the Artistic Director of Critical Mass Vocal Artists—Idaho’s semi-professional chamber choir. Michael held conducting positions at Brevard College and Bloomsburg University, and has conducted choirs in South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. Michael has extensive experience conducting operatic and musical theater works. He has conducted such works as L’Orfeo, Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, Trouble in Tahiti, Brundibár, Into the Woods, and A Little Night Music; and was the music director for All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. 

Michael has garnered much recognition for his performance and scholarship of J. S. Bach. He studied with Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival conducting masterclasses and has conducted numerous works by Bach: including the Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Mass in G, and seventeen cantatas. Michael has been awarded grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the American Bach Society for his biannual concert series on Bach’s sacred cantatas—Universal Ties: Diverse Perspectives in Bach’s Sacred Cantatas. 

Michael presents often on J. S. Bach: most recently “Parody Techniques in J.S. Bach’s Pfingstag Cantatas,” and “Speaking Volumes: Finding Connections Through J. S. Bach in Ingmar Bergman’s Silence.” His reviews of recordings and performance editions of Bach’s music can be found in the Choral Journal and the Choral Scholar.