RivertreeSingers.org/lux - Download the playbill with texts, translations, and personnel. Rivertree Singers & Friends performance, June 23, 2018, conducted by Warren Cook (Details and texts are below.)
I. Illuminare (0:03)
II. Lux in Tenebris (13:06)
III. The Sun Never Says (20:56) (text copyright Daniel Ladinsky, 1999)
IV. Gloria in Excelsis (25:49)
V. Creator of the Stars of Night (30:33)
Soloists: Nikki Eoute, soprano Jason Rush, tenor
Texts:
I. Illuminare
Per viscera misericordiae
Dei nostri
in quibus visitavit
nos oriens ex alto
illuminare his qui in tenebris
et in umbra mortis sedent
ad dirigendos pedes nostros
in viam pacis.
Lux ex alto,
veni nos illuminare.
(By the mercy of our God
the dawn from on high
will break upon us,
to give light to those
who sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet
into the way of peace.
Light from on high,
come illumine us.)
(based on Luke 1:78-79)
Lux de luce apparuisti Christe,
cui Magi munera offerunt,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
(You appeared as Light from light,
O Christ, to whom
the Magi offered gifts,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.)
(Antiphon for Epiphany, 14th c.)
II. Lux in Tenebris
Lux fulgebit hodie super nos,
quia natus est nobis Dominus.
(A light will shine on us today,
for the Lord is born unto us.)
(Introit for Christmas Dawn, 10th c.)
Lux in tenebris lucet
et tenebrae eam non superaverunt.
(The light shines in darkness;
and the darkness has not overcome it.)
(John 1:5)
III. The Sun Never Says
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe
Me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.
(Daniel Ladinsky, from "The Gift",
©1999, used by permission)
IV. Gloria in Excelsis
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
et in terra pax.
(Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth, peace.) (from Luke 2:14)
V. Creator of the Stars of Night
Creator of the stars of night,
Thy people's everlasting Light,
O Christ, Thou Savior of us all,
now hear Thy servants when they call.
Creator alme siderum
aeterna lux credentium
Christe redemptor omnium
exaudi voces supplicum.
O Blest Creator of the light,
Who made the day with radiance bright,
and o'er the newborn world did call
the light from darkness first of all.
(Optional Advent/Christmas Text)
(When the whole world drew on toward night,
Thou camest, not in splendor bright
as sovereign, but the humble Child
of Mary, virgin mother mild.)
To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honor, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally. Amen.
(7th c. chant, various translations)
(... It lights the Whole Sky ...)
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