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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, DC

www.nga.gov

COVER: Paul Stevenson Oles, Sketch ofthe East Building Exterior, 1971,

National Gallery ofArt Archives, Gift of I. M. Pei and Partners

The Sixty-ninth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,844th Concert

Texas Children’s Choir

Anne-Marieke Evers, mezzo-soprano

Patrick Walders, baritone and countertenor

Ruth van Baak Griffioen, recorders

Tina Chancey, gamba

Vera Kochanowsky, virginal

Presented in honor of Gabriel Meisu, 1629-1667

June 12, 2011

Sunday, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfree
Program

Performed without intermission

Introduction

Traditional Netherlands folk tune

Slaat op de trommele

Episode Leiden i: Gabriel Metsu’s youth

Adriaan Valerius (c. 1575-1625)

G ’lijk den grootsten Rapzak

Episode Leiden 11: Metsu joins the guild ofJan Steen

Traditional Netherlands folk tune

Gildebroeders maakt plezieren

Episode Utrecht 1: Metsu moves to Utrecht

Valerius

De vogel werd gelokt, gefluit

Roxburghe Ballad Collection 

English Nightingale

Jacob van Eijk (c. 1590-1657)

Engels Nachtegaaltje (Recorder solo)

Episode Utrecht 11: Metsu decides to leave Utrecht

Valerius

Heere Keere van ons af

John Dowland (1563-1626)

Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part

Episode Amsterdam 1: Metsu moves to Amsterdam

Slaat op de trommele

Van Eijck

Malle Symen (Gamba solo)

Zeg Buurman—tweespraak Valerius

Simple Simon

Episode Amsterdam 11: Metsu marries Isabella de Wolff

Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)

Psalm jo

Psalm 42

Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

Dixit Dominus

Andrea Walker, soprano soloist

Episode Amsterdam ill: Metsu becomes a famous society painter

Van Eijk

Toen Daphne

Leningrad MS (c. 1650)

Courante Daphne (virginal solo)

Episode Amsterdam iv: Metsu’s death

Sweelinck

Vanitas vanitatum

Traditional Netherlands folk tune

Ik zeg adieu

Finale

Slaat op de trommele
The Musicians

TEXAS CHILDREN’S CHOIR

Founded in 1992, the Texas Children’s Choir performs for diverse audiences

in the San Antonio, Texas, area and has toured in other parts ofthe United

States as well as in France. The choir provides guidance to young singers

through community service and a challenging choral experience that is

entertaining, uplifting, and inspiring. Honored by invitations to sing at 

the sixtieth anniversary observance of D-day in Normandy in 2004 and the

Texas Music Teachers Association Convention in 2009, the choir performed

with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on one ofits worldwide broadcasts.

Texas Children’s Choir director Thomas G. Hardaway has conducted and

accompanied children’s choirs for thirty-eight years. He studied choral and

organ music and composition while he was a chorister at the Washington

National Cathedral, where his first compositions were sung by the Cathedral

Choir when he was fourteen. In 1967 his family moved to Frankfurt, Germany, 

where he took his first organ lessons from Stephen Ackert, currently head of

the music department ofthe National Gallery ofArt, who was at the time a

Fulbright scholar in Frankfurt. Hardaway majored in organ performance at

the University ofTexas in Austin and began teaching children’s choral music

while still in college. He founded the Texas Children’s Choir in 1989.

Associate director Bethany Hill earned a bachelor ofscience degree in

elementary education from the University ofTexas at Austin and a master

ofscience degree in educational administration. A veteran oftwenty-four

years ofmusic teaching at the elementary through junior college levels, she

has conducted school and church choirs and taught voice, piano, and guitar. 

She is presently the director ofthe choral music program at Alamo Heights

Junior High School in Alamo Heights, Texas.

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Introduction

Adriaan Valerius (Nedcrlandtsche

Gedenck-Clanck, 1626)

Slaat op den trommele van dirredomdeine

Slaat op den trommele van dirredomdoes

Slaat op den trommele van dirredomdeine

Gabriel Metsu is nu de loes

Episode Leiden 1

Valerius

G’lyck den grootsten Rapsack,

Vloot den Speck verbaest,

Als een wind die blaest.

Siet hem met zijn knapsack,

Loopen in der haest, Als een hond die raest.

O ghy stad van Leyden!

Dit stuck bemerck;

En laet toch verbreyden,

Gods wonder werck.

Wilt Gods eer verbreyen,

Die nu kleyn en groot,

Vry maeckt vande doot

En naer droevig schreyen

U dus sent in noot, overvloedig broot.

Lof dan, prys en eere

Moet syn geseyt 

God, ons aller Heere,

In eeuwigheyt.

Episode Leiden 11

Netherlands Folk Song

Gildebroeders maak plezieren

Met muziek vroeg en de laat

Laat ons nu de jaarfeest vieren

Van de maagd Cecilia

Beat the drum, dirredomdeine,

Gabriel Metsu is the slogan.

Like the biggest Rapsack

The Spanjards fled, like a blasting wind.

Look at him with his knapsack

While walking with haste,

Like a raging dog.

Oh, you city of Leiden 

Watch this piece.

And tell everybody about

The wonders of God’s work

Spread God’s honor,

Who frees big and small from death.

And gives bread after

you have shed many tears.

Laud, praise and honor

Must be given 

To God our Lord

For ever and ever.

Members ofthe guild,

enjoy music early in the morning until dawn.

Let us celebrate

the annual feast of Saint Cecilia.

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Refrain:

Zingt speelt ter ere van dees maged

La sol fa mi re ut

Fa sol la Cecilia

Komt de liefde te vermind’ren,

Laat ons maar standvastig staan: 

Genen nijd en kan ons hind’ren,

Onze gild’ zal nooit vergaan!

Episode Utrecht i

Valerius

De Vogel wert gelockt gefluyt,

Des Vangers pyp geeft soet geluyt,

Tot dat hy’t dierken heeft int net,

‘tWelck hy dan naer syn handen set,

En brengtet in al sulck bedwang,

Dat‘t pypen moet naar zynen sang.

Refrain:

Sing and play to honor the virgin Cecilia.

La sol fa mi re ut.

Fa sol la Cecilia

When love diminishes, let us stand firm.

No envy can hold us back.

Our guild will never cease to exist.

The bird was trapped by the sweet sound of

the catcher’s flute. It sounded until the

poor bird was caught in the net.

The catcher can do with the poor bird

whatever he wants, and he tries to keep it in 

control so that it does everything he wants.

English Nightingale

Jacob van Eijck (c. 1590-1657)

English nightingale,

You gallants that resort

to Hyde Park or Totnam Court,

To recreate and to elevate

your senses when they’re out of date,

Come listen to my song,

which doth belong to the nightingale’s

sweet tongue.

Tis musicke rare to heare this little pretty

dulcet dainty Philomel

How she makes the woods for to ring.

Sweet, jug, the nightingale doth sing.

The courtiers in their pride,

Walking by the greene wood side,

They doe much admire,

When they heare the quire,

Oflittle birds whose notes aspire,

Above all the rest,

They fancie best,

The nightingale’s sweet breast.

For she doth straine

Her little pretty, dulcet, dainty, pleasant throat, 

With musicke fit for a king.

Sweet, jug, the nightingale doth sing.

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Episode Utrecht 11

Adriaan Valerius

Here, kere van ons af

uw vertorend aangezicht,

en door deez’ verdiende straf

ons verblind verstand verlicht!

Dat uw vriendelijk gelaat

lichtend over ons mag staan,

en uw uitverkoren zaad

eens toch mag met vrede gaan.

Toom en breidel ‘s vijands macht,

die ‘t al in beroeren stelt.

Heer, verschijn eens zo met kracht,

dat hij ruimen moet het veld,

en uw volk na zulk een werk

veilig eenmaal opgaan mag

in uw lieve, heil’ge Kerk,

uteloven nacht en dag.

Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part

John Dowland (1563-1626)

Now, O now, I needs must part,

Parting though I absent mourn.

Absence can no joy impart,

Joy once fled cannot return.

While I live I needs must love;

Love lives not when Hope is gone. 

Now at last Despair doth prove

Love divided loveth none.

Sad despair doth drive me hence;

This despair unkindness sends.

Ifthat parting be offence,

It is she that then offends.

Lord, turn away your angry face

And because ofthe punishment we went through

May it enlighten our minds.

That your friendly appearance

May shine upon us

And your chosen people

May depart in peace.

Keep in control the power ofthe enemy, 

Who unsettles everything.

Lord, appear in power

So that he may run away.

And your people may safely

Make their way to your holy Church

To sing your praises night and day.

Dear, if I do not return,

Love and I shall die together;

For my absence never mourn,

Whom you might have joyed ever.

Part we must, though now I die, 

Die I do to part with you.

Him Despair doth cause to lie,

Who both lived and dieth true.

Sad despair doth drive me hence;

This despair unkindness sends.

Ifthat parting be offence,

It is she that then offends.

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Episode Amsterdam I

Introduction

Slaat op den trommele van dirredomdeine

Gabriel Metsu is nu de loes

‘tEngels Malsims, metten Bas: zynde op cm

twee-spraeck gestelt

Traditional English Nursery Rhyme

Simple Simon met a pieman,

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

“Let me taste your ware.”

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

“Show me first your penny;”

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

“Indeed, I have not any.”

Episode Amsterdam II

Psalm 30

Domine Deus meus clamavi ad te

et sanasti me.

Domine eduxisti ab inferno animam meam,

Salvasti me ad descendentibus in lacum.

Psallite Domino sancti eius, et confitemini

Memoriae sanctitatis eius.

Psalm 42

Quare tristis es anima mea, et quare

conturbas me?

Spera in Deum,

quoniam ad hue confitebor illi,

Salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.

Beat the drum, dirromdeine,

Gabriel Metsu is the slogan.

Dialogue between two neighbors about the

situation in the Netherlands during the

Spanish occupation.

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and

you have healed me. O Lord, you have 

brought up my soul from Sheol; you

restored me to life from among those who

go down to the pit. Sing praises to the Lord,

O you his saints, and give thanks to his

holy name.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and

why are you in turmoil within me? 

Hope in God;

For I shall again praise him,

my salvation and my God

Dixit Dominus, Domino meo sede a

dextris meis

Donee ponam inimicos tuos, Scabellum

pedum tuorum.

Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex

Sion Dominare in medio,

In medio inimicorum tuorum.

Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae

in splendoribus sanctorum,

Ex utero ante luciferum, ante lucererum

genuite.

Juravit Dominus, juravit, juravit,

Et non, non poenitebit eum,

Tue sacerdos in aeternum,

In aeternum secundum ordinem

Melchisedech.

Dominus a dextris tuis,

Dominus a dextris tuis confregit,

Congregit in die erae suae reges.

Judicabit in nationibus implebit ruinas,

Conquassabit in terra multorum.

De terrente in via bibet, propterea exaltabit 

caput.

Gloria patri, gloria filio, gloria et spiritui

sancto,

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et simper et

in saecula et in saecula saeculorum, Amen.

Episode Amsterdam itt

Toen Daphne (When Daphne from

Fair Phoebus Did Fly)

Jacob van Eijck

Verse 1 (Sung in English)

When Daphne from fair Phoebus did fly,

the West wind most sweetly

did blow in her face.

Her silken scarfscarce sheltered her eyes.

The god cried, O pity! And held her in

chase.

Dixit Dominus (Psalm no)

The Lord said unto my Lord: sit thou on my

right hand, until I make thine enemies thy

footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod ofthy power

out of Sion: be thou ruler, even in the midst

among thine enemies.

In the day ofthy power shall the people

offer thee free-will offerings with holy 

worship:

thy birth is ofthe womb ofthe morning.

The Lord swore and will not repent: Thou

art a Priest for ever after the order of

Melchisedech.

The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound

even kings in the day of his wrath.

He shall judge among the heathen; he shall 

fill the places with the dead bodies: 

and smite in sunder the heads over diverse

countries.

He shall drink ofthe brook in the way:

therefore shall he lift up his head.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to

the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever

shall be: world without end. Amen.

Verse 2 (Sung in Dutch)

Noyt word ich oud, stage blijfick jon, 

Mijn hayr en vergrijst noyt;

maer blijft even geel,

En dat mijn stem; wanneer ick song

By de negen Musen,

en ‘t spel van mijn Veel

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Stay, nymph, stay, nymph, cried Apollo,

tarry, and turn thee, sweet nymph, stay,

lion or tiger doth thee follow;

Turn thy fair eyes and look this way.

O turn, O pretty sweet 

and let our red lips meet:

O Pity me, Daphne, pity me.

Episode Amsterdam rv

Round: Vanitas vanitatum et

omnia vanitas

J.P. Sweelinck 

Ik zeg adieu

Traditional Netherlands Folk Song

Ik zeg adieu, wij twee wij moeten scheiden,

Tot op een nieuw, zo wil ik troost verbeiden.

Ik laat bij u dat herte mijn,

Want waar gij zijt, daar zal ik zijn.

‘t Zij vreugd of pijn,

Altoos wil ik u vrij eigen zijn.

lie dank u, lief, rein minlijk lief geprezen,

Voor alle grief, zo wil mij toch genezen

Benijders fel met haar venijn,

Zij hebben belet ons blijde aanschijn.

Op dit termijn,

Altoos wil ik u eigen zijn.

Finale

Slaat op den trommele van dirredomdeine

Gabriel Metsu is nu de loes

U (O mijn Daphne!) mocht komen ter

ooren,

Dat ghy soo lang u loopen eens liet,

‘t Sou buyten twijffel u hartje bekoren,

Om my te helpen uyt mijn verdriet.

Och hoe gerustjes wou,

Ick dan met kusjes jou

Liefjen onthalen al seen Goddin!

Nu Daphne staet,

Daphne hoord doch na mijn min.

Vanity ofvanities, all is vanity.

I say goodbye; the two of us must part

until the next time I have to look for comfort.

With you I leave my heart,

because where you are, I will be there also;

In joy and pain I will always be yours.

I thank you my Love, who with sweet words

will cure me from all sorrow.

Envious, venomous people

prevent the lovely appearance

at this time.

I will always be yours.

Beat the drum, dirredomdeine,

Gabriel Metsu is the slogan.

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Sunday concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

resume on Sept. 18, 2011.