The NC State Department of Music presents
NC State Choirs Holiday Concert
Chamber Singers, University Singers and State Chorale
Dr. Nathan Leaf, conductor
Ariadna Nacianceno, piano
Brass and Percussion:
Niko Ayers, Matthew Farmer, Joshua Fesmire, Gage Fringer, Samer Issa,
Bennett Petzold, Rose Schenstrom, Carter Thunes, Eelco Tinga, Evan Villani
Program
Combined Choirs
Personent Hodie
arr. Hoggard
University Singers
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Pola, arr. Billingsley
Kuumba
Zanaida Robles
Sleigh Ride
Anderson, arr. Ades
Audience Carol: Deck the Halls
Deck the hall with boughs of holly
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
‘Tis the season to be jolly,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Don we now our gay apparel,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Troll the ancient yuletide carol.
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Fast away the old year passes,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Hail the new, ye lads and lasses,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Laughing, quaffing, all together
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Heedless of the wind and weather
Fa la la la la, fa la la la
Chamber Singers
Christmastime is Here
arr. Alexander
We Three Kings
arr. Meador
State Chorale
O Radiant Dawn
MacMillan
Little Tree
Heitzeg
Let There Be Peace on Earth
arr. Courtney
Jingle, Bells
arr. Willcocks
Audience Carol:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glowed
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say (hey Rudolph)
Rudolph, with your nose so bright,
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight
Then how the reindeer loved him,
As they shouted out with glee:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You’ll go down in history
Combined Choirs
The Many Moods of Christmas
arr. Bennett/Shaw
Welcome and Notes on the Program
Welcome to our annual Holiday Choral Concert, back for the first time since December of 2019. It’s a festive time of year, and we’re glad to have you with us. Please raise your voices and join with us in singing the audience carols.
Kuumba, which represents creativity, is the sixth principle of Kwanzaa, a holiday which celebrates family, community, and culture.
The students who are wearing corsages are graduating this December. We are proud to honor their academic achievement and wish them well as move to the next phase of their professional lives.
State Chorale
Soprano
Sharanya Ananth
Patricia Costes
Lindsey Cox
Sofia Leander
Margaret Lucas
Maddie Martin
Emily Morris
Anna Muchukot
Mollie Powell
Kaitlyn Riley
Mary Schrader
Jade Vogelsong
Alto
Kathryn Adams
Francesca Balestrieri
Elise Boorom
Lily Campbell
Sonia Dubiansky
Sammie Graff
Nizhoni Henry
Katherine Hunt
Liz Marsh
Charmaine Pereira
Tsedey Pretto
Lily Rowland
Zoë Smith
Day Steed
Sara Trimesh
Tenor
Michael Clark
Drew Colven
Justin Farmer
Dylan Magistrado
Devon Olds
Mason Sluder
Samuel Tucker
Bass
Niko Ayers
Kevin Ballesteros
Jack Bishop
Ryan Bishop
Coltan Compton
Ryan Faucette
Parker Klinck
Trevor Libner
Ian McGregor
Noel Osagie
Landon Perry
Radim Ptak
Benjamin Radspinner
Alex Yoshizumi
University Singers
Soprano
Janet Brock
Rebecca Brown
Kat Caughron
Abby Dayton
Hayden Driver
Charlotte Edwards
Katie Farrell
Sam Hayes
Emma Johnson
Varsha Karuturi
Natascha Kraus Feld
Sara Lafortune
Kaitlyn Lincoln
Alicia Marrero
Cadence Olszeski
Julia Reinbold
Maddie Saltzman
Sarah Savage
Olivia Smith
Katie Thompson
Emily Vera
Alto
Alyssa Allen
Tessa Bowers
Zofia Cavalli
Preethi Coulter
Novi de Britto
Maria Diaz
Rachel Falkowski
Alexandra Fountain
Kayden Foyles
Kira Hageness
Jolie-Dean Hipps
Sloane Hovey
Dani Huston
Hannah King
Niasha Kodzai
Katie Krull
Sheena Perdiz
Anna Russell
Cecilia Shaw
Eva Vestal
Ruthie Wainwright
Carynne White
Tenor
Jacob Cassell
Howard Jacobs
Jack Medlock
Kyle Setzer
Ty Smoak
Logan Tyler
Amar Woodrow
Yanzee Zhang
Bass
Christopher Bacogeorge
Parker Bolton
Graham Otten
Bennett Perry
Sadie Reese
Ben Rutledge
Michael Voight
Chamber Singers
Kathryn Adams, mezzo soprano
Sharanya Ananth, soprano
Francesca Balestrieri, mezzo soprano
Parker Klinck, baritone
Dylan Magistrado, tenor
Maddie Martin, soprano
Anna Muchukot, soprano
Devon Olds, tenor
Charmaine Pereira, contralto
Landon Perry, baritone
Samuel Tucker, tenor
Translations
Personent Hodie
Latin
Personent hodie voces puerulae,
laudantes jucunde
Qui nobis est natus, summo Deo datus,
Et de virgineo ventre procreatus.
In mundo nascitur, pannis involvitur
praesepi ponitur
Stabulo brutorum, rector supernorum.
Perdidit spolia princeps infernorum.
Magi tres venerunt, parvulum inquirunt,
parvulum inquirunt,
Stellulam sequendo, ipsum adorando,
Aurum, thus, et myrrham ei offerendo.
Omnes clericuli, pariter pueri, cantent ut
angeli:
Advenisti mundo,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
English
On this day youthful voices sing aloud,
joyful praising Him
who was born for us,
given by God, born of a virgin.
Born into the world, wrapped in
swaddling clothes,laid in a manger
in an animals’ stable, Ruler of all,
The Prince of Hell is robbed of his spoils!
Three Magi came and offered their gifts.
They sought the child,
following a star, in adoration
offering gold, incense and myrrh.
All clerks and choristers sing with angels:
“You have come into the world;
Glory to God in the Highest!”
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