PLAY — program

​Nightingale Vocal Ensemble & The Fourth Wall Ensemble present:

PLAY

a playful exploration of what it means to compose and imagine sound, featuring 3rd graders at Williams Elementary School

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Program:

Silly Symphony
led by C. Neil Parsons & Rose Hegele

Pure Imagination
Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
arr. Ben Bram & Tehillah Alphonso, The Fourth Wall

Toccata & Fugue in D minor
J.S. Bach
arr. The Fourth Wall

Draw Me A Bucket of Water
Traditional
​arr. Eric Ritter

Graphic Score #50
Richard Carrick

Vocal Patterns
Yaya Vasquez-Lopez

Onomatopoeia
Ramón Castillo

“Epilogue” from In Windsor Forest
Ralph Vaughan Williams
arr. The Fourth Wall

We’ll Go Away Now
​Nicole DeMaio

Texts:
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Pure Imagination
Lyrics by Anthony Newley

Come with me and you'll be
In a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you'll see
Into your imagination

We'll begin with a spin
Traveling in the world of my creation
What we'll see will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There's nothing to it

There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There's nothing to it

There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be


Draw Me A Bucket of Water
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Draw me a bucket of water
For my only daughter 
Got one in the bunch and two out the bunch
You go under, Sister Sally 

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Epilogue
Text by Thomas Campion & Philip Rossetter 

Whether men do laugh or weep,
Whether they do wake or sleep,
Whether they die young or old,
Whether they feel heat or cold,
There is underneath the sun
Nothing in true earnest done.

All our pride is but a jest.
None are worst and none are best.
Grief and joy and hope and fear
Play their pageants ev'rywhere.
Vain opinion all doth sway,
And the world is but a play.

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We’ll Go Away Now
Text by Nicole DeMaio

We’ll Go Away Now. 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
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Thank you to:

• The Fourth Wall Ensemble for a wonderful collaboration
• Williams Elementary School & Angier After School Program for hosting our concert and workshops
• Eric Ritter for making possible a collaboration with Williams 3rd grade music students
• Melanie Donnelly for facilitating our workshop at Angier 
• Yaya Vasquez-Lopez, Richard Carrick, and Nicole DeMaio for guiding our interpretations of your pieces
• Our donors, without whom this season wouldn't be possible
• All of you for attending!

​This season, Nightingale is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Our season is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.