The Program

Brian Williams, director

Peter DeMets, collaborative pianist

Ndandihleli

Traditional isiXhosa Love Song

Arr. by Charlotte Botha

Soon I Will Be Done*

Spiritual

Arr. by Marques L. A. Garrett

Great God Almighty

A Traditional Spiritual

Arr. Stacey V. Gibbs

Underneath the Stars*

by Kate Rusby

Arr. for SATB by Jim Clements

Bridget Godfrey, soloist

Flight

Music & Lyric by Craig Carnelia

Arr. for SATB by Anita Cracauer

Inveniam Viam

Ryan Main

Ilus Hääl*

Music by Margrit Kits

Arr. by Laura Jēkabsone

The Awakening

Words and Music by Joseph M. Martin

*Performed by the Robbinsville High School Chamber Choir

Ndandihleli

Traditional isiXhosa Love Song

Arr. by Charlotte Botha

Ndandihleli emyameni

Ndandicinga ulavi wam

Ndazula iyo ulavi wam

I was sitting in the dark

Missing my beloved

Searching (my thoughts) for my beloved

Soon I Will Be Done

Spiritual

Arr. by Marques L. A. Garrett

Soon I will be done-a with the troubles of the world,

Going home to live with God.

No more weeping and a-wailing,

I’m going to live with God.

I want to meet my mother,

I want to meet my father,

I want to meet my Jesus,

I’m going to live with God.

Great God Almighty

A Traditional Spiritual

Arr. by Stacey V. Gibbs

Great God Almighty.

Ridin’ in a hurry, ridin’ like he angry,

Bullwhip in one han’, cowhide in de othuh,

Singing Great God Almighty,

Cap'ain went to yel'un’,

“Take off yo’ shirt now ‘cause I’m gonna kill ya!”

No! Great God Almighty.

Hear de cap’ain comin’, ridin’,

Won’ be no mo’, runnin’ an’ hidin'.

O hear my cry, O Lawd,

Please hear my plea, O Lawd

Bully went to pleadin’ have mercy.

Please don’ you kill me cap’ain don’ you kill me!

No, stop! I’m fightin’ till my death.

I’m gonna keep on a-runnin’ till my ver’ last breath shoutin’

Great God Almighty!

Underneath the Stars

By Kate Rusby

Arr. for SATB by Jim Clements

Bridget Godfrey, soloist

Underneath the stars I’ll meet you,

Underneath the stars I’ll greet you,

And there beneath the stars I’ll leave you

Before you go of your own free will;

Go gently.

Underneath the stars you met me,

Underneath the stars you left me,

I wonder if the stars regret me.

At least you’ll go of your own free will;

Go gently.

Here beneath the stars I’m landing,

And here beneath the stars not ending

Oh, why on earth am I pretending?

I’m here again, the stars befriending

They come and go of their own free will.

Go gently.

Underneath the stars you met me,

Underneath the stars you left me;

I wonder if the stars regret me,

I’m sure they’d like me if they only met me.

They come and go of their own free will.

Go gently.

Flight

Music & Lyric by Craig Carnelia

Arr. Anita Cracauer

Let me run through a field in the night,

Let me lift from the ground ’til my soul is in flight.

Let me sway like the shade of a tree,

Let me swirl like a cloud in a storm on the sea.

Wish me on my way through the dawning day,

I wanna flow, wanna rise, wanna spill.

Wanna grow in a grove on the side of a hill.

I don’t care if the train runs late, if the checks don’t clear,

If the house blows down.

I’ll be off where the weeds run wild, where the seeds fall far

From this earth bound town.

And I’ll start to soar, watch me rain ‘till I pour.

I’ll catch a ship that’ll sail me astray, get caught in the wind,

I’ll just have to obey ‘til I’m flying away.

Let me leave behind all the clouds in my mind,

I wanna float like a wish in a well,

Free as the sound of the sea in a shell.

I don’t know but maybe I’m just a fool.

I should keep to the ground, I should stay where I’m at.

Maybe everyone has hunger like this

And the hunger will pass, but I can’t think like that.

All I know is somewhere through a clearing

There’s a flickering of sunlight on a river long and wide.

And I have such a river inside.

Let me run through a field in the night,

Let me lift from the ground ‘til my soul is in flight.

Let me sway like the shade of a tree,

Let me swirl like a cloud in a storm on the sea.

Wish me on my way through the dawning of day.

Wanna flow, wanna rise, wanna spill

Wanna grow on the side of a hill

Wanna shift like a wave rollin’ on,

Wanna drift from the path I’ve been traveling upon

Before I am gone.

Inveniam Viam

Aut viam inventam aut faciam

Incertum est semita, futuras est obscurus

Libet mea

Libet terminum meum, libet viam meam

Find a way

I will either find a way, or make one

The path is unclear, and the future unknown

I will choose

I will choose my limits, I will choose my path

Ilus Hääl

Beautiful Voice

Music and Lyrics by Margaret Kits

Arr. Laura Kēkabsone (b.1985)

Helisege headed metsad

Hüüdke vast hütikesed

Minu kauni heale vastu

Lahedama laulu vastu

Kus mu healta kuuldaneksi

Kus mu laulu laksuneksi

Seal kōik mensa murduneksa

Ilma rara rabamata

Ring out, generous forests

Shout back the huts

In return for my graceful voice

In return for my wonderful song

Where my voice is heard

Where my song is sung

There all forests will fall

Even without striking iron

The Awakening

Words and Music by Joseph M. Martin

I dreamed a dream, a silent dream.

I dreamed a dream of a land not far away.

Where no bird sang, no steeples rang and teardrops fell like rain.

I dreamed a dream, a silent dream.

I dreamed a dream of a land so filled with pride that every song,

Both weak and strong, withered and died.

I dreamed a dream, no alleluia, not one hosanna, no song of love, no lullaby.

And no choir sang to change the world. No pipers played; no dancers twirled.

I dreamed a dream, a silent dream.

Silent.

Awake! Awake!

Soli Deo Gloria

Awake, awake, my soul, and sing!

The time for praise has come.

The silence of the night has passed;

A new day has begun.

Let music never die in me!

Forever let my spirit sing!

Wherever emptiness is found,

Let there be joy and glorious sound.

Let music never die in me!

Forever let my spirit sing!

Let all our voices join as one

to praise the Giver of the song.

Awake! Awake!

Let music live!

Robbinsville High School

Concert Choir

Tarren Allen, Mahi Amin , Paras Anand, Sana Anand, Prithvi Raaj Arumugam, Ava Blando, Katherine Blando, Angie Brown, Leah Caiola, Shankha Chaudhuri , Gianna Ciccia, Elizabeth Davis, Sidney Davis, Daniel Delate, Melina Fusco, Bridget Godfrey, Hailey Harrison, Alyce Heller, Summer Heyburn, Felicity Holt, Kara Huang, Daniela Kamel, Anya Kawlekar, Patrick Koryat, Naishada Kotagiri, Brianna Krail, Elliora Liebmann, Ria Mahajan, Abigail Moir, Nida Mubaraki, Sandhya Muthukumaran, Anusha Nandan, Amelie Perez, Ivy Rizzo, Jonathan Ronen, Jonathan Roy, Maxim Rychkov, Shreya Savur, Abby Scatena, Ashley Semmel, Brianna Semmel , Ethan Shaev, Eric Steinberg, Yatin Tadiparthi, Addis Tafesse, Kaitlynne Tighue, Hailey Tkacs, Aanya Tummala, Brianna VanNest, Isha Veerubhotla, Natalie Villegas, Akshaya Vinod, Olivia Walker, Olivia Wint, Allyson Wolochuk, Sivapriya Yallapragada, Ava Yen

Robbinsville High School

Chamber Choir

Ava Blando, Daniel Delate, Bridget Godfrey,

Summer Heyburn, Nida Mubaraki, Anusha Nandan, Shreya Savur, Abby Scatena,

Ethan Shaev, Addis Tafesse, Olivia Walker, Allyson Wolochuk

Robbinsville High School

Molly Avery, Principal

Dr. Nicole Rossi, Assistant Principal

Tom Brettell, Assistant Principal

Matthew Dalessio, Assistant Principal of Athletics

Robbinsville Public Schools

Superintendent of Schools

Brian Betze

Secondary Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Dr. Stephen Wisniewski

School Business Administrator

Nick Mackres

Robbinsville Board of Education

Mr. Richard Young, President

Ms. Tanya Lehmann, Vice President

Mr. Vito Galluccio

Mr. Jai Gulati

Mr. Dilip Kovuri

Mr. Raghu Nandan

Mr. Peter Oehlberg

Dr. Jeffrey Pierro

Mr. Scott Veisz