Program
| Antoine BRUMEL (c. 1460 – c. 1520) | Kyrie from Et ecce terrae motus (The Earthquake Mass) (c. 1495) |
| David LANG (b. 1957) | “the truths we know” from sun-centered (2022, Cal Performances Co-commission) |
| BRUMEL | Gloria from Et ecce terrae motus |
| LANG | “we find it hard” from sun-centered |
| BRUMEL | Credo from Et ecce terrae motus |
INTERMISSION
| LANG | “hymn to the sun” from sun-centered |
| BRUMEL | Sanctus and Benedictus from Et ecce terrae motus |
| LANG | “the republic” from sun-centered |
| BRUMEL | Agnus Dei from Et ecce terrae motus |
| LANG | “and yet it moves” from sun-centered |
Texts & Translations
| Kyrie from Et ecce terrae motus (The Earthquake Mass) Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison. |
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. |
| “the truths we know” from sun-centered [words by David Lang, after Galileo] some years ago, as your serene highness well knows I saw many things in the heavens that had never been seen before the novelty of these things stirred up against me a large number of opponents as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands more devoted to their own opinions than to the truth they sought to deny and disprove these new things which their own senses would have demonstrated to them if they had only cared to see for themselves the passage of time has revealed to everyone the truths that I uncovered those who were open to science were persuaded as soon as they received my message but some possess some strange interest in remaining hostile not just toward the things in question but also toward their discoverer they know I hold the sun to be placed motionless in the center of the universe while the earth revolves around the sun the reason they condemn the truth that the earth moves and the sun stands still is that in many places in the bible one may read that the sun moves and the earth stands still but nature cannot be stopped nature cannot be changed nature cannot transgress the laws imposed upon it nature cannot care whether its hidden reasons are understandable to us god is not any less revealed in nature’s actions than in any sacred writing I do not believe that the same god who has endowed us with senses, with reason and with intellect has intended us to forego their use the truths we know are very few compared with those we do not know we cannot be satisfied with those opinions that have become common we cannot be satisfied with those opinions that please other people best it is not in our power to make things true or false this belongs to their own nature and to the facts to their own nature and to the truth over which no one has power |
Brumel
| Gloria from Et ecce terrae motus Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te; benedicimus te; adoramus te; glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe; Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram; qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus; tu solus Dominus; tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen. |
Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill towards men. We praise thee; we bless thee; we worship thee; we glorify thee. We give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly king, God the Father almighty.
O Lord the only-begotten Son, Jesu Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us; thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art Holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art Most High in the glory of God the Father. Amen. |
| “we find it hard to find” from sun-centered [words by David Lang, after Francis Bacon] we find it hard to believe anything that doesn’t put us in the center of the universe it is our nature to measure everything against ourselves even if that makes us into mirrors that distort and disfigure what they seewe find it hard to believe anything that goes against anything that we already know that goes against the authority acquired by those we reverence and admire even if that makes us variable and confused as if actuated by chance we find it hard to believe anything we find it hard to believe anything we believe the things that make us feel |
| Credo from Et ecce terrae motus Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deum de Deo; Lumen de Lumine; Deum verum de Deo vero; genitum, non factum; consubstantialem Patri; per quem omnia facta sunt.Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis, et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto, ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato; passus et sepultus est. Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas; et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris; et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos et mortuos; cuius regni non erit finis. Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre Filioque procedit; qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur; qui locutus est per prophetas; Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. Confiteor unum baptisma in |
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds. God of God; Light of Light; very God of very God; begotten, not made: being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made.
Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. |
| “hymn to the sun” from sun-centered [words by David Lang, after Psalm 19:6] the sun’s rising is from one end of the heavens the sun rises at one end of the heavens there is nothing hidden from its heat nothing is hidden from its heat nothing is deprived of its warmth nothing hides from its heat nothing can hide from its heat nothing can escape its heat it travels all the way across the sky it starts at one end of the sky its rising is from the end of the heavens its rising is from one end of the heavens its rising is from one end of heaven its circuit is from one end of the sky to the other it rises from one end of the heavens it rises at one end of the heavens it emerges from the distant horizon it circles around to the other his going out is from the end of heaven, his going forth is from the extremity of heaven his going forth is from the end of the heavens his going forth is from the end of the heaven his circuit to its ends from the end of the heavens is his going out and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof and there is nothing hidden from its heat and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat and runs its circuit to the other and nothing is hid from his heat and nothing is hidden from its heat and no one shall be hidden from his heat and makes its circuit to the other and makes him recline upon the ends of the heavens and its circuit to the other end of them and its circuit to the other end and its circuit to the end of them and his revolution is to their ends and his revolution is unto their ends and his circuit unto the ends of it and his circuit to the other end of heaven and his circuit even to the end thereof and goes from one end of the sky to the other and goes across to the other and from the ends of the heavens he brings him out and follows its course to the other end and circles to their other end |
| Sanctus & Benedictus from Et ecce terrae motus Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. |
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Blessed is he that cometh in name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. |
| “the republic” from sun-centered [words by David Lang, after Plato] we are here, in the darkness we are here, in the dark we have lived here, in the dark, forever we are in chains we have always been in chains we cannot move we have never moved we cannot see what is behind us we have never seen what is behind us we cannot see what is beside us we have never seen what is beside us we can only see what is in front of us we see the shadows of things, as they pass by they flicker on the wall before us they are all that we can see they are all that we have ever seen we watch these things as they pass by we hear these things as they pass by we name these things as they pass by this is our world, our only world, our whole world this is our truth, our only truth, our whole truth this is everything we know this is everything that we have ever known and we have always known itif one of us were forced to leave if one of us were forced to see what we cannot to go where we cannot and then return to tell us things that we don’t know to tell us stories about the things we’ve never seen a star, a moon, a sun would we believe it? |
| Agnus Dei from Et ecce terrae motus Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem. |
O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace. |
| “and yet it moves” from sun-centered [words by David Lang, after Galileo] and yet it moves |