Sueños
A Cantata for Justice and Peace
By Arturo Márquez
The Westminster Choir and Orchestra of Montview
Adam Waite, Minister of Music and Conductor
Yinying Luo, Associate Minister of Music
Heidi Shriver, Music Ministry Administrator
Ella Logan, Narrator
Zeky Nadji, Baritone
Kali Paguirigan, Mezzo-Soprano
Erika Neale, Narrator
April 21, 2024 | 7 pm
Welcome
Rev. Ian Cummins, Co-Pastor
Sinfonia India
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978)
Sueños
Arturo Márquez (b. 1950)
A Cantata for Justice and Peace
Es un Sueño Todavía (It is still a dream)
Text by Guillermo Velazquez
I dreamed that I was dreaming
A dream that I dreamed,
And in the dream I woke up
Dreaming that I was not dreaming;
And although in dreaming I sobbed,
Because in my dream I wanted
That the dream I had
Was a happy contemplation
The dream of my country
Is still a dream.
Sin Lamento (No Regrets)
Text by Chief Seattle
The compassioned tears of our fathers
Are dry with sky of the centuries
The dreams of our forefathers are alive
In the hearts of our people.
Despite the dark night awaiting for the native,
And nothing shining in the horizon
I will not regret
I will not regret and will never cry
Because in part the fault is ours.
However, my words are stars that do not change
The sad voice of the winds moan in the distance.
The day is clear, but tomorrow might be full of clouds.
Wherever I go
I will hear the steps of my cruel executioner
I will await the destiny
Like the wounded doe listens closely to its hunter.
I will not regret
I will not regret and will never cry
Because in part the fault is ours.
How can you buy the land?
How can you buy the sky?
Why buy the sky, the drizzle
Why buy the wind that whispers
Why buy the earth and its fragrances,
The buffalo and the eagle,
If we share with the trees and the birds
the air that we breathe?
If the forests and the pines
All of them are sacred trees
Through their veins
The nectar flows like a fertile river.
How can one buy the earth,
How can one buy the rain,
How can one buy the whispering wind?
How can one buy the forests,
How can one buy the flowers,
How can one buy the earth and its fragrances.
How can one buy the rivers,
How can one buy the streams,
How can one buy the sky and the earth?
The sky and the earth are not things one can purchase,
Nor necklaces that can be exchanged for objects.
I do not understand when someone values
And cherishes more a smoke machine
I just don’t understand the meaning of life
If I cannot hear the singing of the birds.
Why buy the sky, the drizzle
Why buy the wind that whispers
Why buy the earth and its fragrances,
The buffalo and the eagle?
The sky and the earth are not things
That one can purchase just like that.
The sky and the earth
cannot be purchased or exchanged,
They are genuine and vital like our hearts.
How can one buy the suffering,
How can one buy the pain.
How can one buy substance and existence?
How can one buy the anguish,
How can one buy the plagues,
How can one buy tenderness,
How can one buy a kiss,
How can one buy the fertile happiness?
Desires are not things for sale
There is no price attached to our longings
I don’t understand.
It is not possible to deserve such a future
Without having an utopia.
What would be the meaning of life
Without a clean and noble dream in our hearts?
When the last native departs
His memory will convert into a myth,
And the invisible presence of my tribe will remain.
The dead have eternal power,
Because death does not exist,
Except for an exchange into another world.
I will not regret
I will not regret and will never cry
For this ruin
Because in part the fault is ours.
We are part of the earth
And the earth is part of us.
The earth does not belong to men;
Men belong to the earth.
Aforismos (Aphorisms)
Text by Mahatma Gandhi
What is obtained with violence can only be maintained with violence.
Violence is the fear of truth; of the noble ideals for the peace of others.
We must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Truth is an inner state. One should not look for it outside of oneself, or by fighting with violence against external enemies.
Golden shackles are much worse than the ones of steel.
Nonviolence is the virtue; and cowardice a major vice.
A life without love leads to death.
An impure action leads to impure ends.
For truth as humble as dust must be and liberty becomes mockery when its price is to destroy.
Truth will never hurt. Truth does not harm a just cause.
Truth is an inner state.
There is no possible way to peace because peace is always the way.
If there is no way to peace, peace is the way.
Tengo un Sueño (I Have A Dream)
Text by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream
The dignified dream of freedom
To dream about freedom and justice
Years dreaming
Of eliminating chains,
Lives torn apart.
Dream…
children…
free…
strong…
happy…
equal to the others.
To dream about equality
Such a luminous path
And always respected
Always fighting for freedom
Fighting for peace in the world
Fighting for my land
Fighting for the peace within me
For the solid rock that fosters brotherhood.
I have a dream
The dignified dream of freedom
A hundred years dreaming
A hundred years fighting
To dream about freedom and justice.
Let’s act immediately
Since the urgency of the moment
Shakes the foundations of the nation.
Children, unite your fraternal hands
Keep dreaming.
Brothers, when the ending arrives
We will know what it is to keep dreaming
We will realize that the fight was the dream,
We will know that the spirit is strong.
Majestic in its height,
Hope is carved in the mountain
The hope that always rings
As the persistent voice of freedom.
I have a dream
The dignified dream of freedom
An entire life
Dreaming of dispensing with the chains
Fighting for finally being respected
Sharing with all
Negro girls and white girls
Negro boys and white boys
Like brothers
I have a dream
That one day in this earth
We will have a place
Where we will unite the hands
Of all the races
For the peace in the world
For the peace in my land
I have a dream
A beautiful dream
To continue dreaming.
Westminster Choir
Soprano I
Diana Arrieta*
Phoebe Bawmann
Shelley Goldberg
Gail Jacobs*
Sheryl Kamicar*
Kimberly Kirkwood
Ella Logan
Anne Lopez*
Bonnie Mustoe*
Erika Neale
Char Spade-Goldstein*
Nancy Thompson
Barbara Wollan
Soprano II
Carolyn Benoit
Erica Blum-Barnett*
Paula Bolz
Janet Cartwright
Laura Kennedy
Rebecca Leavenworth
Sarah McDowell
Kelly McMullen
Emily Musser
Elizabeth Prudlo*
Carol Tierney
Mary Treska*
Alto I
Lorraine Alcott
Lisa Ann Boyum
Donna Frederickson
Janine Haugen
Marilyn Hemp*
Kathy Hoy-Gipe
Beth Hulac
Catherine Hupp*
Stephani Hyatt*
Katie Kenkel*
Carol Lingenfelter
Peg Logan
Debra Lovell
Sue Norman
Ellen Oakes
Susie Phillips
Ellie Roberts
Marti Sutterlin
Alto II
Marilyn Craft
Juli Davidson
Nancy Getzinger
Peggy Gonder
Mary Hanson
Vivian Showalter
Heidi Shriver
Lucinda Waldron
Tenor I
Jim Bock
Martha Borgstede
Dan Bowles
Kae Fink*
Brian Haugen
James Jensen*
Tenor II
Paul Barrett
Jay Mead
Ben Meyerhoff
Nathan Neale
John Thompson
Bass I
Lee Bonsall
Ryan Bramhall*
Richard Cornelius
Jim Craft
John Goerner
Michael Hardy*
Ryan Hulac-Wolfer
Paul Lingenfelter
Todd Rembe*
Bill Summerhill
Bass II
Dennis Cole
Richard Angel
John Gallagher*
Pete Hulac
Steve Hulac
John Wollan
* denotes guest singer
The Orchestra of Montview
Violin I
Byron Hitchcock, concertmaster
Angela Dombrowski
Myroslava Bartels
Takanori Sugishita
Margaret Gutierrez
Zach Ragent
Violin II
Leena Waite, principal
Karen Kinzie
Mary Evans
Heejung Kim
Erik Peterson
Robyn Sosa
Viola
Phillip Stevens, principal
Leah Kovach
Koko Dyulgerski
Margaret Dyer-Harris
Cello
Charles Lee, principal
Jody Redhage Ferber
Erin Patterson
Sarah Biber
Bass
Mary Reed, principal
Logan Nelson
Flute
Cathy Peterson, principal
Alison Gioscia
Masumi Yoneyama, piccolo
Oboe
Lauren Blackerby, principal
Miriam Kapner, english horn
Clarinet
Anna Brumbaugh, principal
Tom Wilson
Michelle Orman
Bassoon
Franklin Delgado, principal
JJ Sechan
Horn
Patrick Hodges, principal
DeAunn Davis
Lauren Robinson
David Smalley
Trumpet
Noah Lambert, principal
Ian Sawyer
Shane Endsley
Trombone
Paul Naslund, principal
Bron Wright
Greg Harper
Tuba
Adam Snider
Timpani
Valarie Smalley
Percussion
Nena Lorenz, principal
Mark Foster
Sean Case
Elizabeth Van Wirt
Harp
Tonya Jilling
Piano
Yinying Luo
Manager
Bron Wright
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