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A Better World

A Concert Honoring Larry and Jill Sandberg

A Better World tribute concert

Thursday, May 26, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA

Music affords us a vision of a harmonious world even in times of conflict and uncertainty—a world filled with compassion, logic, beauty, and resolution. For our spring concert, in honor of longtime Zamir members Larry and Jill Sandberg, we present “A Better World,” featuring a wide-ranging program of uplifting music, including Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom and the U.S. premiere of Yehezkel Braun’s “Vehayah Be’akharit Ha-yamim” (In Days to Come).

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SPONSORS

Conductor’s Circle

Larry and Jill Sandberg

Sustainer

Henry Bodzin
The Harold and Evelyn R. Davis Memorial Foundation
Phyllis Hammer
Gilbert and Jill Schiffer

Benefactor

Joyce and Michael Bohnen
Peter Bronk and Susan Axe-Bronk
Nancy and Peter Finn
Renee and Steven Finn
Joshua and Ronda Jacobson
Mati and Vivian Lazar
Robert and Myra Snyder
Robert Weiss and Susan Chadick

Donor

Dr. Herbert Birnbaum and Ruth Birnbaum Pernick
Mady and Bruce Donoff
Marcia Solkoff Eskin
Barbara Gaffin and Doug Cahn
Francine M. Gordon
Sheri and Eli Gurock
Susie and Fred Jacobs
Cantor Jeff Klepper
Levine Chapels
Cantor Riki Lippitz
Brian Mayer
Martin Oppenheimer and Dr. Deborah Platek
Naomi and Keith Osher
Jeff Rosenberg and Marcia Cooper
Drs. Francene and Rav-Hazzan Scott Sokol
Cantor Louise and Rick Treitman
Michael and Serene Victor

Friend

Hillery and Daniel Bauman
Freddie Brooks
Bruce and Susan Creditor
Bobbie Sue Daitch
Joel Davidson
Heather and Richard Forrest
Rabbi Daniel Freelander
Elyse and Sanford Friedman
Caroll Goldberg
Cantor Shayna Postman
Dawn Ringel
Jay and Daphnah Sage
Joel and Iris Sandberg
Hazzan Linda Sue and Dr. Richard Sohn
Carol Kozak Ward and Seth Ward
Dan and Susan Wulf

PROGRAM NOTES

Di Reyd Funm Novi (The Words of the Prophet)

Music by Lazar Weiner (1897–1982)
Poem by Leibush Lehrer (aka “Magister”) (1887–1965)
Choral arrangement by Joshua Jacobson
Daniel Fortine, soloist

These are the words of the prophet to his people, and to all peoples:
The heavens declare God’s words, the earth listens to their meaning.
Comfort ye, comfort ye, ye people, my people.
A light will sprout from the desert,
and will bring to life the wild forms from their slumber,
and the golden sun-rays will warm the trees in the forests
and the fruit in the gardens and the blossoms growing in the field.
and will bring to life the wild forms from their slumber,
and the golden sun-rays will warm the trees in the forests
and the fruit in the gardens and the blossoms growing in the field.
So enemies will become friends, and friends will become comrades,
and comrades will become brothers and sisters.
And children will tell legends that once upon a time…
there was poverty on earth, and the hungry folk begged for a morsel of bread,
and people died before their time from illnesses, and innocent blood flowed like a river.
We’ll tell these horrible tales, but no one, no one will believe them.
So let us create a memorial and build a monument for eternity!

The Peaceable Kingdom (excerpts)                                                                                              

Music by Randall Thompson (1899–1984)
Lyrics from the Book of Isaiah
Hal Katzman and Anne Levy, soloists

1 — Contrasting the just man and the wicked man
Say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

2 — Punishment for evil men, hypocrites, egotists, drunkards, selfish
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope!
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight!
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink!
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue till night, till wine inflame them!
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of His hands.
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas!
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

5 — Isaiah’s oracle against Egypt
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

6 — Joy is for the righteous  
But these are they that forsake the LORD, that forget My holy mountain.
For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

7 — Introduction to the prophecy
Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

8 — Celebration of the righteous
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD.

Anu Sharim (We Sing)                                                                                                                   

Music and lyrics by Nick Page (b. 1952)
Translation to Hebrew by Joshua Jacobson, Yishai Sered, and Marilyn Bentov
Anne Levy, Betty Bauman, Hal Katzman, soloists

We sing!
When sadness mounts, we sing.
When tears stream from our eyes, we sing.
When rage grows, we sing.
When, from the ashes, a flower blooms, we sing.
When children laugh, we sing.
Forever sun!
Forever moon!
Forever light!
Forever life!
Forever now!
We sing!

Vehaya Be’akharit Ha-yamim (In Days to Come)                                                                        

Music by Yehezkel Braun (1922–2014)
Lyrics from the Book of Isaiah
Daniel Fortine, soloist

1. Vehaya Be’akharit Ha-yamim
In the days to come,
The Mount of the LORD’S House
Shall stand firm above the mountains
And tower above the hills.
And all nations shall come streaming to it.
And many peoples shall go and say:

2. Lekhu Vena’aleh
“Come, let us go up to the Mount of the LORD,
To the House of the God of Jacob;
That He may instruct us in His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”

3. Ki Mi-tsiyon
For teaching shall go forth from Zion,
The word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4. Veshafat Beyn Ha-goyim
Thus He will judge among the nations,
And arbitrate for the many peoples.
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not take up weapons against nation;
They shall never again learn war.

5. Mah Navu Al He-harim
How beautiful on the mountains
are the footsteps of the one bearing good news,
announcing peace.

Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace                                                                               

Music by M. Roger Holland II (b. 1964)

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury—pardon.
Where there is doubt—faith.
Where there is despair—hope.
Where there is darkness—light.
And where there is sadness—joy.
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console.
To be understood—as to understand,
to be loved—as to love.
For it’s in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
And it’s in dying that we are reborn to eternal life.

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor                                                                                                    

Music by Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
Lyrics by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me;
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Somewhere Over the Rainbow                                                                                                    

Music by Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
Lyrics by Yip Harburg (1896-1981)
Arranged for chorus by Roger Emerson
Sharon Goldstein, soloist

When all the world is a hopeless jumble
And the raindrops tumble all around,
Heaven opens a magic lane.

When all the clouds darken up the skyway,
There’s a rainbow highway to be found,
Leading from your window pane
To a place behind the sun,
Just a step beyond the rain.

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
And the dreams that you dream of
Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
really do come true.
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops,
That’s where you’ll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow,
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why, oh, why can’t I?

Uk’ratem Dror (Proclaim Liberty)                                                                                                

Music by Benjie Ellen Schiller (b. 1958)
Lyrics from the Book of Leviticus and the Book of Amos
Carolina Cooper, soloist

Proclaim liberty throughout the land
To all its inhabitants.
Justice shall roll down like the water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream!

Gonna Get Through This World                                                                                                   

Music by Lisa Gutkin
Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (1912–1967)
Arranged for chorus by Nick Page

Well, I’m gonna get through this world[DS4] the best I can, if I can.
And I’m gonna get through this world, and I think I can.
Well, I’m gonna work in this world the best I can, if I can.
And I’m gonna work in this world, and I think I can.
I’m gonna get through this world the best I can, if I can.
I’m gonna work in this worldthe best I can, if I can.I
‘m gonna get through this world the best I can.

Well, I’m gonna walk in this world the best I can, if I can.
And I’m gonna walk in this world, and I think I can.
I am gonna talk in this world the best I can, if I can.
And I’m gonna talk in this world, and I think I can.
I’m gonna walk in this world the best I can, if I can.
I am gonna talk in this world the best I can, if I can.
I’m gonna get through this world the best I can.

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