Carolina Vocal Arts Ensemble
Stephen Field, Director

*****Program*****

Joan Gilbert, piano
Barbara McKenzie, piano
Elisabeth MacKay Field, soprano
Julie Freeman, mezzo-soprano
David Anderson, tenor
David Williams, bass

Barbara McKenzie, piano

*****Intermission*****

Candace Williams, organ

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard
is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
~~Johannes Brahms

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain, of strength and freedom.
The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love.
The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”  
~~Benjamin Britten

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
~~Ludwig Von Beethoven

The Alleluia is a very sad piece. The word "Alleluia" has so many possible interpretations. The music in my particular Alleluia cannot be made to sound joyous. It is a slow, sad piece, and...here it is comparable to the Book of Job, where it is written, "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
~~Randall Thompson

“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”
~~Handel’s reply on being asked what his feelings were while writing the Hallelujah Chorus.