(Music) (Music) >>Cresswell: HELLO, I M BRAD CRESSWELL, AND I M STANDING IN THE SANCTUARY OF EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HERE IN TOLEDO.

THIS IS WHERE WE CAPTURED MASTERWORKS CHORALE S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SHOW DURING IT S 46TH SEASON, AND THE THEME FOR THE SEASON IS CHIAROSCURO.

AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TIM CLOETER DESCRIBES IT, THE WORD CHIAROSCURO WHICH LITERALLY MEANS BRIGHT-DARK IN ITALIAN MAY HAVE BEEN COINED TO DESCRIBE RENAISSANCE PAINTING BUT SUCH INTERPLAY OF LIGHT AND SHADOW ALSO DESCRIBES LIFE.

IT S EXPRESSED IN THE CONCEPT OF YIN AND YANG, IT UNDERLIES THE TERM BITTERSWEET, IT PRODUCES THE SAYINGS ABOUT CLOUDS WITH SILVER LININGS AND WINDOWS THAT ARE OPENED WHEN DOORS ARE CLOSED.

SORROW AND JOY, DESPAIR AND HOPE, ALL ARE INTERWOVEN.

OUR EXPERIENCE IS A MIX OF LIGHT AND DARK.

IT S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT CHRISTMAS IS NOT JUST THE STORY OF WARM LOVE THAT WE CELEBRATE AT THE DARKEST TIME OF YEAR, BUT ITS ALSO A STORY OF GRACE AND REDEMPTION, BRIGHTENING THE DARKEST PLACES OF OUR LIVES.

I LL BE SPEAKING MORE WITH TIM CLOETER LATER ON.

WE LL DISCUSS MORE OF THE BACKGROUND OF THIS PROGRAM, AND THE REASONS BEHIND HIS ARTISTIC CHOICES, BUT FOR NOW, PLEASE ENJOY THIS PRESENTATION OF MASTERWORKS CHORALE: RADIANT MIDNIGHT.

(Bells) (Bells) (Bells) (Bells) (Bells) (Bells) (Bells) (Bells) >>Singers: OH COME OH COME EMMANUEL, AND RANSOM CAPTIVE ISRAEL.

THAT MOURNS IN LONELY EXILE HERE UNTIL THE SON OF GOD APPEARS.

REJOICE, REJOICE EMMANUEL SHALL COME TO THEE O ISRAEL.

O COME THOU DAY SPRING COME AND CHEER.

OUR SPIRITS BY THINE ADVENT HERE.

DISPERSE THE GLOOMY CLOUDS OF NIGHT AND DEATH S DARK SHADOWS PUT TO FLIGHT.

REJOICE, REJOICE, EMMANUEL SHALL COME TO THEE O ISRAEL (Bells) >>Singers: O COME THOU KEY OF DAVID COME AND OPEN WIDE OUR HEAVENLY HOME.

MAKE SAFE THE WAY THAT LEADS ON HIGH AND CLOSE THE PATH TO MISERY.

REJOICE, REJOICE EMMANUEL SHALL COME TO THEE O ISRAEL.

(ORGAN) (ORGAN) >>Singers: FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN, A SON IS GIVEN.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL.

COUNSELLOR.

THE MIGHTY GOD.

THE EVERLASTING FATHER.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND HIS NAME, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL.

COUNSELLOR.

THE MIGHTY GOD.

THE EVERLASTING FATHER.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE, SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE, SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL.

COUNSELLOR.

THE MIGHTY GOD.

THE EVERLASTING FATHER.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

UNTO US, A SON IS GIVEN.

AND THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE, UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE, UPON HIS SHOULDER.

AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL.

AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL.COUNSELLOR.

COUNSELLOR.

THE MIGHTY GOD.

THE EVERLASTING FATHER.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

THE EVERLASTING FATHER.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE.

(Organ) (Organ) (Organ) (Organ) (Organ) >>Rohm: A READING FROM THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 2.

WHEN THE MAGI HAD GONE, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM.

GET UP, HE SAID.

TAKE THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER AND ESCAPE TO EGYPT.

STAY THERE UNTIL I TELL YOU FOR HEROD IS GOING TO SEARCH FOR THE CHILD TO KILL HIM.

SO HE GOT UP, TOOK THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER DURING THE NIGHT AND LEFT FOR EGYPT WHERE HE STAYED UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD.

AND SO WAS FULFILLED WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID THROUGH THE PROPHET.

OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON.

WHEN HEROD REALIZED THAT HE HAD BEEN OUTWITTED BY THE MAGI, HE WAS FURIOUS AND HE GAVE ORDERS TO KILL ALL THE BOYS IN BETHLEHEM AND ITS VICINITY WHO WERE TWO YEARS OLD AND UNDER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIME HE HAD LEARNED FROM THE MAGI.

THEN WHAT WAS SAID THROUGH THE PROPHET JEREMIAH WAS FULFILLED.

A VOICE IS HEARD IN RAMA WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING.

RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN, AND REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED BECAUSE THEY ARE NO MORE (Music) (Music) (Music) >>Singers: I WONDER AS I WANDER OUT UNDER THE SKY, HOW JESUS MY SAVIOUR DID COME FOR TO DIE, FOR POOR ORNERY PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND LIKE I. I WONDER AS I WANDER OUT UNDER THE SKY.

WHEN MARY BIRTHED JESUAS TWAS IN A COW S STALL.

WITH WISE MEN AND FARMERS AND SHEPHERDS AND ALL.

BUT HIGH FROM GOD S HEAVEN A STAR S LIGHT DID FALL THE PROMISE OF AGES IT THEN DID RECALL.

(music) IF JESUS HAD WANTED FOR ANY WEE THING, A STAR IN THE SKY OR A BIRD ON A THE WING, OR ALL OF GOD S ANGELS IN HEAVEN FOR TO SING, HE SURELY COULD HAVE, CAUSE HE WAS THE KING.

(oboe solo) (oboe solo) (oboe solo) (oboe solo) I WONDER AS I WANDER OUT UNDER THE SKY, HOW JESUS MY SAVIOUR DID COME FOR TO DIE, FOR POOR ORNERY PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND LIKE I. I WONDER AS I WANDER OUT UNDER OUT UNDER THE SKY.

>>Singers: LULLAY LULLAY, LULLAY LULLAY, LULLAY LULLAY, MY LITTLE TINY CHILD BY-BY LULLAY LULLAY , LULLAY LULLAY MY LITTLE TINY CHILD BY-BY, LULLAY LULLAY.

OH SISTERS TO HOW MAY WE DO FOR TO PRESERVE THIS DAY?

THIS POOR YOUNGLING FOR WHOME WE DO SING BY-BY, LULLAY LULLAY.

HEROD THE KING IN HIS RAGING CHARGED HE HATH THIS DAY.

HIS MEN OF MIGHT IN HIS OWN SIGHT ALL YOUNG CHILDREN TO SLAY.

THEN WOE IS ME POOR CHILD FOR THEE AND EVER MOURN AND SAY.

FOR THEY PARTING NOR SAY NOR SING BY-BY, LULLAY LULLAY.

LULLAY LULLAY.

LULLAY LULLAY.

OH LITTLE TINY CHILD BY-BY LULLAY LULLAY.

NOW LITTLE TINY CHILD.

BY-BY, LULLAY LULLAY.

BY-BY, LULLAY LULLAY.

BY-BY LULLAY LULLAY.

(Chimes) (Chimes) (Chimes & oboe) >>Seeright: HOW STILL THE CHILD RESTS IN A QUIET SPLENDOR.

HOW PEACEFULLY HE LIES IN THE MANGER SO BARE.

>>Singers: HE RESTS IN PEACE WHILE THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN SING GLORY TO GOD ON THE NIGHT OF HIS BIRTH.

(Music) >>Singers: SLEEP ON, SLEEP ON, OH INFANT DIVINE.

HOW QUIET THE NIGHT, SLEEP, SLEEP, OH SLEEP, LITTLE CHILD, SLEEP ON.

(Music) OH HOLY CHILD, OH HOLY CHILD, SON OF GOD, SON OF GOD, HEAR US PRAISE THEE.

OUR HEARTS SING WITH JOY, SING WITH JOY, ON THIS NIGHT OF YOUR BIRTH.

STILL HE RESTS.

HOW STILL HE RESTS >>Seeright: HOW STILL HE RESTS.

HOW STILL HE LIES.

HOW STILL.

(Music) >>Singers: HOW STILL.

SLEEP.

>>Singers: SEE WHAT JOY HAS COME TO US.

SEE WHAT JOY AND KINDNESS.

SON IS BORN FOR US, HE DISPELS OUR SADNESS.

PRAISE THE LORD OF AARON WHO RESTORES HIS PEOPLE AND ETERNAL BLESSING NOW FOR THEM AS ONE.

GOD IS EVER POWERFUL, FULL OF UNDERSTANDING.

SEE A SPOTLESS MAIDEN BARES HIS ONLY SON.

ALL THE EARTH WAS FULL OF WOES, BY OUR SIN WERE LADEN.

THERE CAME A ROSE THROUGH A SPOTLESS MAIDEN.

HOLY IS THE MOTHER CHOSEN BY THE FATHER.

PEACE AND HEALING NOW SHE BRINGS TO EVERYONE.

GOD IS EVER POWERFUL, FULL OF UNDERSTANDING.

SEE A SPOTLESS MAIDEN BARES HIS ONLY SON.

THEN HE TOOK UPON HIMSELF ALL OUR TRIBULATIONS.

BY HIS DEATH UPON THE CROSS GAVE FOR US SALVATION.

LED US TO A HOUSE OF EVERLASTING.

SO THAT WITH HIM MAY WE TOO MIGHT PRAISE OUR LORD.

GOD IS EVER POWERFUL, FULL OF UNDERSTANDING.

SEE A SPOTLESS MAIDEN BARES HIS ONLY SON.

(Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) (Music) >>SINGERS: GENTLE MARY LAID HER CHILD LOWLY IN A MANGER.

THERE HE LAY THE UNDEFILED, TO THE WORLD A STRANGER.

SUCH A BABE IN SUCH A PLACE, CAN HE BE THE SAVIOR.

ASK THE SAVED OF ALL THE RACE WHO HAVE FOUND HIS FAVOR.

ANGELS SANG ABOUT HIS BIRTH, WISE MEN SOUGHT AND FOUND HIM.

HEAVEN S STAR SHONE BRIGHTLY FORTH GLORY ALL AROUND HIM.

SHEPHERDS SAW THE WONDROUS SIGHT, HEARD THE ANGELS SINGING.

ALL THE PLAINS WERE LIT THAT NIGHT, ALL THE HILLS WERE RINGING.

(music) GENTLE MARY LAID HER CHILD LOWLY IN A MANGER.

HE IS STILL THE UNDEFILED BUT NO MORE A STRANGER.

SON OF GOD IN HUMBLE BIRTH, BEAUTIFUL THE STORY.

PRAISE HIS NAME IN ALL THE EARTH.

HAIL THE KING OF GLORY.

(Music) >>Schmidbauer: A READING FROM THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER TWO.

SO JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM THE TOWN OF NAZARETH IN GALILEE TO JUDEA TO BETHLEHEM THE TOWN OF DAVID BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO THE HOUSE AND LINE OF DAVID.

HE WENT THERE TO REGISTER WITH MARY WHO WAS PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO HIM AND WAS EXPECTING A CHILD.

WHILE THEY WERE THERE THE TIME CAME FOR THE BABY TO BE BORN AND SHE GAVE BIRTH TO HER FIRST BORN, A SON.

SHE WRAPPED HIM IN CLOTHS AND PLACED HIM IN A MANGER BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN AND THERE WERE SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE FIELDS NEARBY KEEPING WATCH OVER THE FLOCKS AT NIGHT AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO THEM AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHOWN AROUND THEM, AND THEY WERE TERRIFIED.

BUT THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, DO NOT BE AFRAID.

I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY THAT WILL BE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE.

TODAY IN THE TOWN OF DAVID, A SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN TO YOU.

HE IS CHRIST THE LORD.

THIS WILL BE A SIGN TO YOU.

YOU WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN CLOTHS AND LYING IN A MANGER.

>>Singers: O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM, ET ADMIRABILE SACRAMENTUM, UT ANIMALIA VIDERENT DOMINUM NATUM, JACENTEM IN PRAESEPIO.

O BEATA VIRGO, CUJUS VISCERA MERUERUNT PORTARE DOMINUM JESUM CHRISTUM.

ALLELUIA.

>>Singers: O BEATUM ET SACROSANCTUM DIEM, IN QUA DOMINUS NOSTER DE VIRGINE MARIA PRO NOBIS NASCI DIGNATUS EST.

GUADEAT ITAQUE UNIVERSUS ORBIS, ET CANTEMUS ILLI IN SONO TUBAE, CITHARA, PSALTERIO, ET ORGANO.

CONGRATULEMUR CUM MULTITUDINE ANGELORUM EXERCITUS, SEMPER SUAS LAUDES CANTANTIBUS; NOE, NOE.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

NOEL, NOEL.

>>Singers: AND GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

SUN, MOON, AND STARS OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

SUN, MOON, AND STARS OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

SHINE, SHINE, SHINE.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS.

SHINE, SHINE, SHINE.

FOREVER AND EVER.

SHINE, SHINE, SHINE, SHINE, SHINE, OH SHINE.

FOREVER MORE.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

THERE CAME A STAR OF THE JACOB RISING.

THERE WAS A SETTLER OF ISRAEL.

THERE CAME A STAR OF THE JACOB RISING.

AND THE STAR WAS JESUS.

EMANUEL.

THERE CAME A STAR OF THE JACOB RISING.

THERE WAS A SETTLER OF ISRAEL.

THERE CAME A STAR OF THE JACOB RISING.

THERE WAS A SETTLER OF ISRAEL.

AND THE VOICE OF THE SETTLER THEY SANG TOGETHER.

AND THE ANGELS SHOUTED.

THEY SHOUTED FOR JOY.

AND THE VOICE OF THE SETTLER THEY SANG TOGETHER.

AND THE SON WAS BORN.

THE SON WAS GOOD.

AND THE SON WAS GOOD.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS SHINING.

AND THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

(applause) (applause) >>Cresswell: HI THERE, BRAD CRESSWELL HERE AGAIN, AND I HOPE YOU HAVE BEEN ENJOYING THIS PRESENTATION OF THE MASTERWORKS CHORALE CHRISTMAS CONCERT, RADIANT MIDNIGHT.

NOW THERE S MUCH MORE TO COME, BUT FIRST WE WANTED TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY AND TALK WITH THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF MASTERWORKS CHORALE, AND THIS IS TIM CLOETER.

WELCOME TIM.

>>Cloeter: GLAD TO BE HERE.

>>Cresswell: WE RE SITTING HERE IN EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WHERE THE CONCERT TOOK PLACE.

WONDERFUL CONCERT.

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.

AND THE TITLE OF THE PROGRAM IS REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE IT S CALLED RADIANT MIDNIGHT, WHICH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SEEMS LIKE AN OXYMORON, RIGHT?

>>Cloeter: INTENTIONALLY SO.

>>Cresswell: WELL TELL US WHERE THAT TITLE COMES FROM.

>>Cloeter: WELL, IT COMES, IT GROWS OUT OF THE SEASON THEME, WHICH IS CHIAROSCURO, IN ITALIAN BRIGHT AND DARK.

AND OUR GOAL WITH THIS SEASON IS REALLY TO EXPLORE ALL SIDES OF LIFE.

EVEN AT THE HOLIDAYS, IT S NOT JUST BRIGHT AND SHINY.

THERE ARE SOME DARK PARTS THAT, THAT MAKE THOSE BRIGHT AND SHINY THINGS MORE MEANINGFUL.

>>Cresswell: WELL, THAT S AN IMPORTANT POINT THAT YOU CAN T HAVE THE LIGHT WITHOUT A LITTLE BIT OF THE DARK.

>>Cloeter: THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE.

>>Cresswell: SOMETIMES.

NOW, BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC, BECAUSE I WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT S COMING UP IN THE SECOND HALF, LET S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE READINGS THAT YOU HAVE IN BETWEEN PIECES OF MUSIC AND THE CAROL SING ALONGS.

UH, DURING THE FIRST HALF WE HEARD SOME SCRIPTURE, WE HEARD SOME GOSPEL READINGS, AND IN THE SECOND HALF, YOU HAVE SOME INTERESTING POEMS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE READING.

>>Cloeter: RIGHT.

THIS, UH, CONCERT IS PATTERNED AFTER LESSONS AND CAROLS.

BUT IT S REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT WE DRAW READINGS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES, NOT JUST SACRED SOURCES.

AND SO IN THE SECOND HALF WE HAVE SARA TEASDALE S POEM ABOUT WINTER STARS.

UH, WHICH IN ITSELF, AGAIN, HAS BOTH THAT BRIGHT AND DARK IN IT.

SHE TALKS ABOUT SORROW, UH, THAT IS, UH ALLEVIATED WHEN SHE LOOKS TO THE SKIES AND SEES ORION THAT SHE HAS SEEN ALL HER LIFE.

ALSO, UH ANOTHER POEM BY VACHEL LINDSAY ABOUT STARS, AND THE FINAL ONE BY LANGSTON HUGHES ABOUT POVERTY AND KINGLY GLORY COEXISTING IN THAT STABLE.

>>Cresswell: WHICH HAS, >>Cloeter: YEAH.

>>Cresswell: DEFINITELY THAT DARK AND LIGHT.

>>Cloeter: YEAH.

>>Cresswell: AND SPEAKS TO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, AND THE SEASON.

>>Cloeter: INDEED YEAH.

>>Cresswell: AND YOU RE DOING THAT WITH MUSIC ALSO.

I MEAN, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO HEAR IN THIS SECOND HALF?

>>Cloeter: WELL, AS YOU HEARD, THE FIRST HALF OF THE PROGRAM STARTED IN A PRETTY DARK PLACE.

UH, AND THE SECOND HALF STARTS VERY BRIGHT.

WE HAVE NOEL, AN ARRANGEMENT OF AN AFRICAN TUNE WITH AFRICAN PERCUSSION BY BRAD HOLMES, WHICH IS VERY ENERGETIC.

IT INCLUDES SOME CHOREOGRAPHY FROM THE CHOIR.

IT IS A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO START THIS SECOND HALF IN A BRIGHT AND EXUBERANT WAY.

UM, IN THE SECOND HALF, I M ALSO ESPECIALLY FOND OF A PIECE IN THE SECOND SET, A NEW ARRANGEMENT BY DAN FORREST OF O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM FOR OBOE AND PIANO AND CHOIR.

AND WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT OBOIST WITH US HERE, UH, THIS EVENING.

DR. NERMIS MIESES, UH, FROM BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, AND SHE S JUST A JOY OT WORK WITH AND REALLY MAKES THAT PIECE COME ALIVE.

>>Cresswell: OH, THAT S GREAT.

WELL, YOU HAVE MUSIC THAT ILLUSTRATES THE DARK AND THE LIGHT, AND YOU HAVE THESE WONDERFUL POETRY READINGS, BUT NONE OF THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITHOUT THE SINGERS MAKING IT HAPPEN.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR SINGERS, YOUR PERFORMERS, WHERE THEY COME FROM, WHAT THE OVERALL PHILOSOPHY OF THE GROUP IS?

>>Cloeter: SURE.

UH, THIS IS A COMMUNITY CHORUS THAT HAS EXISTED FOR FORTY-SIX YEARS NOW.

AND UH, THE MISSION OF THE GROUP IS TO CONNECT LIVES THROUGH CHORAL MUSIC.

AND UH, IT S CLEAR THAT THIS SET OF PEOPLE IS AIMED AT EXCELLINCE IN PERFORMANCE.

IT IS NOT JUST AN OUTLIET FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED, BUT A REAL ARTISTIC ENDEAVOR.

AND WE PRESENT THREE CONCERTS A YEAR, AND AIM TO CONNECT EACH OTHER AND CONNECT OUR AUDIENCES TO US AND TO THIS MUSIC.

AND I THINK IT IS A REMARKABLY WARM GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT IS DOING THAT, ARTFUL PRODUCING.

>>Cresswell: WELL, AND A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY TOO, AND FOR EVERYBODY THAT COMES AND SEES THOSE CONCERTS, AND TO PARTAKE IN THAT WAY WHICH MANY PEOPLE ARE DOING, AND EVERYBODY WHO IS WATCHING US RIGHT NOW IS ABLE TO TAKE PART IN THAT MISSION AS WELL.

>>Cloeter: RIGHT.

>>Creswell: NOW YOU VE BEEN WITH THE GROUP FOR FOUR YEARS?

>>Cloeter: YES.

>>Cresswell: NOW, SO LET S GO WITH THE THEME OF LIGHT AND DARK.

START WITH THE DARK, WHAT S BEEN THE MOST CHALLENGING THING FOR YOU IN LEADING THIS GROUP?

>>Cloeter: I THINK, UH, A GROUP THAT REHEARSES ONLY ONCE A WEEK IS A SPECIAL CHALLENGE.

LOTS OF MY EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN IN ACADEME, WHERE YOU SEE THOSE STUDENTS ALMOST DAILY IN SOME CHOIRS.

AND SO, IT S A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEARNING CURVE TO WORK FOR A WEEK AND THERE S THIS BIG SPACE BETWEEN.

AND SO, UH, THAT S A LITTLE BIT CHALLENGING.

I THINK IT CAN BE CHALLENGING TOO, TO WORK WITH THE WIDE VARIETY OF BACKGROUNDS AND WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCES.

SOME OF THESE MEMBERS WILL USE THEIR EARS MORE TO LEARN, AND SOME WILL USE THEIR EYES MORE TO LEARN MUSIC, THAT SORT OF THING.

AND YOU HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO INCLUDE EVERYONE'S UH, WHEELHOUSES IN THE LEARNING, YOU KNOW?

>>Cresswell: AND THE CHIARO FOR YOU, THE CLEAR, THE LIGHT, THE BRIGHT SIDE OF, OF RUNNING THIS GROUP?

>>Cloeter: OH IT S THE GREAT WARMTH OF THE PEOPLE.

AND, AND, AND AGAIN TO COMPARE TO ACADEMIC TEACHING, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE REALLY EXPERIENCED LIFE.

SO THEY LL UNDERSTAND THE POETRY OF PIECES IN DEEPER WAYS THAN MY KIDS, AND I LOVE THEM, THAN THEY CAN.

AND SO, THAT S VERY REWARDING TO HAVE THAT KIND OF CONNECTION AND DEEPER UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHAT IT IS WE RE DOING.

AND I THINK TOO THAT THE MORE EXPERIENCED SINGERS FROM THE COMMUNITY LIKE THIS, THEY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF IT.

THIS IS, UH, A RARE KIND OF OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AT A HIGH LEVEL AND USE YOUR VOICE, WHICH IS AN INSTRUMENT THAT S IN YOU, YOU KNOW, IT IS YOU, TO CREATE THINGS WITH OTHER PEOPLE.

I MEAN THAT IS, THAT S EXTREMELY POWERFUL.

>>Cresswell: TIMOTHY CLOETER IS, UH, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF MASTERWORKS CHORALE AND THE CONDUCTOR OF THE PROGRAM.

IF FOLKS WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MASTERWORKS, WHAT S THE WEBSITE?

>>Cloeter: YEAH, MASTERWORKSTOLEDO.COM.

YOU SHOULD VISIT.

>>Cresswell: THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WELL WE HOPE YOU RE ENJOYING THIS PROGRAM.

THERE S LOTS MORE TO COME FROM MASTERWORKS CHORALE.

I M BRAD CRESSWELL HERE WITH TIM CLOETER, AND THANKS FOR WATCHING.

WE RE GOING TO RETURN NOW TO MASTERWORKS CHORALE RADIANT MIDNIGHT.

>>Kramp: NOEL!

NOEL!

>>Sheehan: NOEL!

NOEL!

>>Kramp: JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

>>Kramp and Docis: NOEL!

NOEL!

>>Sheehan and Tramer: NOEL!

NOEL!

>>Kramp and Docis: JESU ME KWISAKU ZINGA TI BETO.

>>Singers: A MA MA A.

A MA MA A.

A MA MA A.

A MA MA A.

A MA MA A.

A MA MA A.

A MA MA A.

A MA MA A. NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

KANGA NGE ZOLA KU ZABA MWANA.

NGE FWITI KWISA KU FUKAMA.

KANGA NGE ZOLA KU ZABA MWANA.

NGE FWITI KWISA KU FUKAMA.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM OH MUM.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

KANGA NGE ZOLA KU ZABA MWANA.

NGE FWITI KWISA KU FUKAMA.

KANGA NGE ZOLA KU ZABA MWANA.

NGE FWITI KWISA KU FUKAMA.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

NOEL!

NOEL!

JESU ME KWISA KU ZINGA TI BETO.

(applause) (applause) >>Puffer-Israel: WINTER STARS BY SARA TEASDALE.

I WENT OUT ALONE; THE YOUNG BLOOD FLOWING BEYOND THE SEA SEEMED TO HAVE DRENCHED MY SPIRITS WINGS.

I BORE MY SORROW HEAVILY.

BUT WHEN I LIFTED UP MY HEAD FROM THE SHADOWS SHAKEN ON THE SNOW, I SAW ORION IN THE EAST BURN STEADILY AS LONG AGO.

FROM WINDOWS IN MY FATHER S HOUSE, DREAMING MY DREAMS ON WINTER NIGHTS, I WATCHED ORION AS A GIRL ABOVE ANOTHER CITY's LIGHTS.

YEARS GO, DREAMS GO, AND YOUTH GOES TOO.

THE WORLD S HEART BREAKS BENEATH ITS WARS.

ALL THINGS ARE CHANGED, SAVE IN THE EAST THE FAITHFUL BEAUTY OF THE STARS.

(Music) (Music) >>Singers: PEOPLE, LOOK EAST.

THE TIME IS NEAR OF THE CROWNING OF THE YEAR.

MAKE YOUR HOUSE FAIR AS YOU ARE ABLE, TRIM THE HEARTH AND SET THE TABLE.

PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, AND SING TODAY; LOVE, THE GUEST IS ON THE WAY.

(Music) FURROWS BE GLAD.

THOUGH EARTH IS BARE, ONE MORE SEED IS PLANTED THERE; GIVE UP YOUR STRENGTH THE SEED TO NOURISH, THAT IN COURSE THE FLOWER MAY FLOURISH.

PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, AND SING TODAY; LOVE, THE ROSE, IS ON THE WAY.

(Music) BIRDS THOUGH YOU LONG HAVE CEASED TO BUILD, GUARD THE NEST THAT MUST BE FILLED.

EVEN THE HOUR WHEN WINGS ARE FROZEN GOD FOR FLEDGING TIME HAS CHOSEN.

PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, AND SING TODAY: LOVE, THE BIRD, IS ON THE WAY.

(Music) STARS, KEEP WATCH.

WHEN NIGHT IS DIM ONE MORE LIGHT THE BOWL SHALL BRIM, SHINING BEYOND THE FROSTY WEATHER, BRIGHT AS SUN AND MOON TOGETHER.

PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, AND SING TODAY: LOVE, THE STAR, IS ON THE WAY.

(Music) ANGELS, ANNOUNCE WITH SHOUTS OF MIRTH CHRIST WHO BRINGS NEW LIFE TO EARTH.

SET EVERY PEAK AND VALLEY HUMMING WITH WORD THE LORD IS COMING.

PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, PEOPLE, LOOK EAST, AND SING TODAY: LOVE, THE LORD, IS ON THE WAY.

LOVE, THE LORD, IS ON THE WAY.

(Music) (Singers humming) >>Singers: (vocalizing) STAR OF WONDER.

STAR OF WONDER.

WE THREE KINGS OF ORIENT ARE BEARING GIFTS WE TRAVERSE AFAR.

FIELD AND FOUNTAIN, MOOR AND MOUNTAIN, FOLLOWING YONDER STAR.

STAR OF WONDER.

STAR OF WONDER.

STAR OF WONDER IN THE HEAVENS, ARE YOU JUST A SHINING STAR, OR SHOULD I BORROW YOU TONIGHT?

STAR OF WONDER.

STAR OF WONDER.

I AM JUST A LONELY SHEPHERD WATCHING FROM A DISTANT FIELD.

WHY DO YOU APPEAR TO ME?

STAR OF WONDER.

STAR OF WONDER.

STAR OF WONDER.

O STAR OF WONDER, STAR OF NIGHT.

STAR OF WONDER.

STAR WITH ROYAL BEAUTY BRIGHT.

STAR OF WONDER.

WESTWARD LEADING STILL PROCEEDING, GUIDE US TO THEY, STAR OF WONDER, SHINING BRIGHT.

(Music) >>Singers: WHEN ALL THE STARS ARE SOWN ACROSS THE NIGHT BLUE SPACE, WITH THE IMMENSE UNKNOWN, WITH THE IMMENSE UNKNOWN.

IN SILENCE, IN SILENCE, IN SILENCE FACE TO FACE.

(Music) WE STAND IN SPEECHLESS AWE WHILE BEAUTY MARCHES BY, AND WONDER AT THE LAW WHICH WEAR SUCH MAJESTY.

(Music) HOW SMALL A THING IS MAN IN ALL THAT WOULD SOWN VAST, THAT HE SHOULD HOPE OR PLAN, THAT HE SHOULD HOPE OR PLAN OR DREAM HIS DREAM COULD LAST?

(Music) O DOUBTER OF THE LIGHT, CONFUSED BY FEAR AND WRONG, LEAN ON THE HEART OF NIGHT AND LET LOVE MAKE THEE STRONG.

THE GOOD THAT IS THE TRUE IS CLOTHED WITH BEAUTY STILL.

LO, IN THEIR TENT OF BLUE, THE STARS, THE STARS, THE STARS ABOVE THE HILL!

(Music) (Music) >>Singers: SING THIS NIGHT, FOR A BOY IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM.

CHRIST OUR LORD IN A LOWLY MANGER LIES.

BRING YOUR GIFTS, COME AND WORSHIP AT HIS CRADLE.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) SEE HIS STAR SHINING BRIGHT IN THE SKY THIS CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

FOLLOW ME, JOYFULLY.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) ANGELS BRIGHT, COME FROM HEAVEN S HIGHEST GLORY.

BEAR THE NEWS, WITH ITS MESSAGE OF GOOD CHEER.

SING WITH JOY FOR A KING IS COME TO SAVE US.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) SEE HIS STAR SHINING BRIGHT IN THE SKY THIS CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

FOLLOW ME, JOYFULLY.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) SEE HE LIES IN HIS MOTHER S TENDER KEEPING.

JESUS CHRIST, IN HER LOVING ARMS ASLEEP.

SHEPHERDS POOR COME TO WORSHIP AND ADORE HIM, OFFER THEIR HUMBLE GIFTS BEFORE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) SEE HIS STAR SHINING BRIGHT IN THE SKY THIS CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

FOLLOW ME, JOYFULLY.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) LET US ALL PAY OUR HOMAGE AT THE MANGER.

SING HIS PRAISE ON THIS JOYFUL CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

CHRIST HAS COME BRINGING PROMISE OF SALVATION.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

(Music) SEE HIS STAR SHINING BRIGHT IN THE SKY THIS CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

FOLLOW ME, JOYFULLY.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

HURRY TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THE SON OF MARY.

>>Sheehan: STAR OF MY HEART BY VACHEL LINDSAY.

STAR OF MY HEART, I FOLLOW FROM AFAR.

SWEET LOVE ON HIGH, LEAD WHERE SHEPHERDS ARE, WHERE TIME IS NOT, AND ONLY DREAMERS ARE.

STAR FROM OF OLD, THE MAGI KINGS ARE DEAD AND A FOOLISH SAXON SEEKS THE MANGER BED.

O LEAD ME TO JEHOVAH S CHILD ACROSS THIS DREAMLAND LONE AND WILD.

THEN WILL I SPEAK THIS PRAYER UNSAID, AND KISS HIS LITTLE HALOED HEAD.

MY STAR AND I, WE LOVE THEE, LITTLE CHILD.

EXCEPT THE CHRIST BE BORN AGAIN TONIGHT IN DREAMS OF ALL MEN, SAINTS AND SONS OF SHAME, THE WORLD WILL NEVER SEE HIS KINGDOM BRIGHT.

STARS OF ALL HEARTS, LEAD ONWARD THROUGH THE NIGHT, PAST DEATH BLACK DESERTS, DOUBTS WITHOUT A NAME, PAST HILLS OF PAIN AND MOUNTAINS OF NEW SIN TO THAT FAR SKY WHERE MYSTIC BIRTHS BEGIN, WHERE DREAMING EARS THE ANGLE SONG SHALL WIN.

OUR CHRISTMAS SHALL BE RARE AT DAWNING THERE AND EACH SHALL FIND HIS BROTHER FAIR, LIKE A LITTLE CHILD WITHIN: ALL HEARTS OF THE EARTH SHALL FIND NEW BIRTH AND WAKE NO MORE TO SIN.

(Music) >>Singers: O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM, HOW STILL WE SEE THEE LIE.

ABOVE THEY DEEP AND DREAMLESS SLEEP, THE SILENT STARS GO BY.

YET IN THEY DARK STREETS SHINETH THE EVERLASTING LIGHT.

THE HOPES AND FEARS OF ALL THE YEARS ARE MET IN THEE TONIGHT.

(Music) FOR CHRIST IS BORN OF MARY, AND GATHERED ALL ABOVE WHILE MORTALS SLEEP, THE ANGELS KEEP THEIR WATCH OF WONDERING LOVE.

O MORNING STARS TOGETHER PROCLAIM THE HOLY BIRTH AND PRAISES SING TO GOD THE KING AND PEACE TO MEN ON EARTH.

HOW SILENTLY, HOW SILENTLY THE WONDROUS GIFT IS GIVEN.

SO GOD IMPARTS TO HUMAN HEARTS THE BLESSINGS OF HIS HEAVEN.

NO EAR MAY HEAR HIS COMING BUT IN THIS WORLD OF SIN WHERE MEEK SOULS WILL RECEIVE HIM STILL THE DEAR CHRIST ENTERS IN.

(Music) O HOLY CHILD OF BETHLEHEM DESCEND TO US, WE PRAY.

CAST OUT OUR SIN AND ENTER IN, BE BORN TO US TODAY.

WE HEAR THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS THE GREAT GLAD TIDINGS TELL.

(Music) O COME TO US, ABIDE WITH US OUR LORD EMMANUEL.

(Music) >>Singers: LUX, LUX.

LUX, LUX.

LUX, LUX.

LUX, LUX.

CALIDA CALIDA GRAVISQUE GRAVISQUE GRAVISQUE PURA PURA VELUT VELUT AURUM ET CANUNT ANGELI ET CANUNT ET CANUNT ANGELI CANUNT CANUNT CANUNT MOLLITER NATUM NATUM NATUM MODO NATUM.

>>Singers: (Vocalizing) >>Puffer-Israel: THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE.

>>Singers: (Vocalizing) >>Tittl: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE.

>>Singers: (Vocalizing) MY GOD GAVE IT TO ME, O CHILDREN, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE, O CHILDREN, MY GOD GAVE IT TO ME, LORD, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE, HALLELUJAH CHILDREN, MY GOD GAVE IT TO ME, OH CHILDREN, I M GONNA LET IT SHINE.

>>Puffer-Israel: IN MY HOME.

>>Singers: LET IT SHINE >>Tittle: ALL OVER THE WORLD.

>>Singers: LET IT SHINE.

LET IT SHINE.

SHINE.

SHINE.

LET IT SHINE.

>>Cloeter: THE CHRISTMAS STORY BY LANGSTON HUGHES.

TELL ME AGAIN THE CHRISTMAS STORY.

CHRIST IS BORN IN ALL HIS GLORY.

BABY BORN IN MANGER DARK, LIGHTING AGES WITH THE SPARK OF INNOCENCE THAT IS THE CHILD TRUSTING ALL WITHIN HIS SMILE.

TELL ME AGAIN THE CHRISTMAS STORY WITH THE HALO OF HIS GLORY.

HALO BORN OF HUMBLENESS BY THE BREATH OF CATTLE BLESSED.

BY THE POVERTY OF STALL WHERE A BED OF STRAW IS ALL.

BY A DOOR CLOSED AT THE INN, ONLY MEN OF MEANS GET IN.

BY A DOOR CLOSED TO THE POOR.

CHRIST IS BORN ON EARTHEN FLOOR IN A STABLE WITH NO LOCK.

YET KINGDOMS TREMBLE AT THE SHOCK OF A KING IN SWADDLING CLOTHES AT AN ADDRESS NO ONE KNOWS BECAUSE THERE IS NO PAINTED SIGN.

NOTHING BUT A STAR DIVINE.

NOTHING BUT A HALO BRIGHT ABOUT HIS YOUNG HEAD IN THE NIGHT.

NOTHING BUT THE WONDROUS LIGHT OF INNOCENCE THAT IS THE CHILD TRUSTING ALL WITHIN HIS SMILE.

MARY S SON A GOLDEN STAR.

WISE MEN JOURNEY FROM AFAR.

MARY S SON IN MANGER BORN.

MUSIC OF THE ANGEL S HORN.

MARY S SON IN STRAW AND GLORY, WONDER OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY.

(Music) >>Singers: SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT.

ALL IS CALM, ALL IS BRIGHT.

ROUND YON VIRGIN MOTHER AND CHILD.

HOLY INFANT SO TENDER AND MILD.

SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE.

SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE.

SILENT NIGHT HOLY NIGHT.

SHEPHERDS QUAKE AT THE SIGHT.

GLORIES STREAM FROM HEAVEN AFAR.

HEAVENLY HOSTS SING ALLELUIA.

CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN.

CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN.

SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT.

SON OF GOD, LOVE S PURE LIGHT.

RADIANT BEAMS FROM THY HOLY FACE WITH THE DAWNING OF REDEEMING GRACE.

JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH.

JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH.

STILLE NACHT, HEILIGE NACHT, ALLES SCHLAFT, EINSAM WACHT.

NUR DAS TRAUTE HOCH HEILIGE PAAR.

HOLDER KNABE IM LOCKIGEN HAAR, SCHLAF IN HIMMLISCHER RUH SCHLAF IN HIMMLISHER RUH .

>>Singers: IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, FROSTY WIND MADE MOAN.

EARTH STOOD HARD AS IRON, WATER LIKE A STONE.

SNOW HAD FALLEN, SNOW ON SNOW, SNOW ON SNOW.

IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, LONG AGO.

ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS MAY HAVE GATHERED THERE, CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM THRONGED THE AIR.

BUT ONLY HIS MOTHER IN HER MAIDEN BLISS WORSHIPPED THE BELOVED WITH A KISS.

WHAT CAN I GIVE HIM, POOR AS I AM?

IF I WERE A SHEPHERD, I WOULD BRING A LAMB.

IF I WERE A WISE MAN, I WOULD DO MY PART.

YET WHAT I CAN I GIVE HIM.

GIVE MY HEART.

(applause) (applause) (applause) (applause) (applause) (applause) (applause) (applause) (applause)