Grant Park Music Festival 2018: Book 2

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Yit’yats’vu malchei erets,

The kings of the earth set themselves,

V’roznim nos’du yahad,

And the rulers take counsel together

Al Adonai v’al m’shiho.

Against the Lord and against

His anointed.

N’natkah et mos’roteimo,

Saying, let us break their bonds

asunder,

V’nashlichah mimenu avoteimo. And cast away their cords from us.

Yoshev bashamayim

He that sitteth in the heavens

Yis’hak, Adonai

Shall laugh, and the Lord

Yil’ag lamo!

Shall have them in derision!

III.

Psalm 131, entire:

Adonai, Adonai,

Lord, Lord,

Lo gavah libi,

My heart is not haughty,

V’lo ramu einai,

Nor mine eyes lofty,

V’lo hilachti

Neither do I exercise myself

Big’dolot uv’niflaot

In great matters or in things

Mimeni.

Too wonderful for me.

Im lo shiviti

Surely I have calmed

V’domam’ti,

And quieted myself,

Naf’shi k’gamul alei imo,

As a child that is weaned

of his mother,

Kagamul alai naf’shi.

My soul is even as a weaned child.

Yahel Yis’rael el Adonai

Let Israel hope in the Lord

Me’atah v’ad olam.

From henceforth and forever.

Psalm 133, verse 1:

Hineh mah tov,

Behold how good,

Umah nayim,

And how pleasant it is,

Shevet ahim

For brethren to dwell

Gam yahad.

Together in unity.

Ēriks Ešenvalds

(born in 1977)

THE PLEIADE

(2018)

Scored for:

triple woodwinds, four horns, three trumpets,

three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, strings

and chorus.

Performance time:

28 minutes

World Premiere

Commissioned by the Grant Park Music Festival

riks Ešenvalds, one of his generation’s leading choral composers, was born

in 1977 in the rural Latvia town of Priekule, 30 miles east of the Baltic coast

and 120 miles west of the capital, Riga, where he earned his baccalaureate

at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary and his master’s degree in