Text by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963); music by Aubrey Nelson

Kayla Fore, soprano
Allison Espada, soprano
Aubrey Nelson, mezzo-soprano

Aubrey Nelson's Junior Recital
The University of South Carolina School of Music, Columbia SC
March 3, 2015

Mad Girl's Love Song (Nelson) - second performance

"Vignette" by Aubrey Nelson, for solo tuba and piano

David Nelson, tuba
Yoko Yamada, piano

DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
June 3, 2015

Vignette for tuba and piano (Nelson)

"Love bade me welcome", for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir
Music by Aubrey Nelson (b. 1994); text by George Herbert (1593-1633)

Kayla Fore and Anna Young, soprano 1
Alexa Cotran and Samantha Crandall, soprano 2
Tess Hartis and Michelle Story, alto 1
Hannah Fakoury and Katie MacLeod, alto 2
Aaron Cates, tenor 1
Jimmy Gatch and Cameron Harvard, tenor 2
Stuart Brown and Michael Lu, bass 1
Erik Potteiger, bass 2
Aubrey Nelson, conductor

Text:
"Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
 
A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?
 
Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.
And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?
My dear, then I will serve.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat."

Love bade me welcome (Nelson)

"There is no rose"
Setting by Aubrey Nelson (b. 1994); traditional text

Katie Gatch and Sarah Moncer Wahl, soprano
Tess Hartis and Aubrey Nelson, alto
Stuart Brown and Jimmy Gatch, tenor
Matt Archer and Peppie Calvar, bass
Aubrey Nelson, conductor

Choral Prelude to the 2015 Midnight Christmas Eve Mass, Saint Peter's Catholic Church, Columbia, SC
Mark Husey, organist/choirmaster

Text:
"There is no rose of such virtue as is the rose that bare Jesu.
Alleluia.
For in this rose contained was Heaven and Earth in little space.
Res miranda. (Miraculous thing.)
By that rose we may well see there be one God in persons three.
Pares forma. (Equal in form).
The angels sung the shepherds to, Gloria in excelsis Deo! (Glory to God in the highest!)
Gaudeamus! (Let us rejoice!)
Then leave we all this worldly mirth and follow we this joyful birth!
Transeamus! (Let us cross over!)"

There is no rose (Nelson)

"Ubi Caritas" for unaccompanied SATB choir
Music by Aubrey Nelson (b. 1994); traditional sacred Latin text
Audio mastered by Erik Potteiger

Kayla Fore, soprano
Aubrey Nelson, alto
Aaron Cates, tenor
Erik Potteiger, bass

Text:
"Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur.
Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero."

Ubi Caritas (Nelson)

"No one worth possessing" for mezzo-soprano and piano
Music by Aubrey Nelson (b. 1994); text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Madeline Beitel, mezzo-soprano
Claudio Olivera, piano

Text:
"No one worth possessing 
Can be quite possessed; 
Lay that on your heart, 
My young angry dear; 
This truth, this hard and precious stone, 
Lay it on your hot cheek, 
Let it hide your tear. 
Hold it like a crystal 
When you are alone 
And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. 
Long, look long and you will be blessed: 
No one worth possessing 
Can be quite possessed."

-"Advice to a Girl", Sara Teasdale, 

No one worth possessing (Nelson)

Composer, conductor, mezzo-soprano, and flutist based in Baton Rouge, LA. || Currently pursuing my Master of Music in Choral Conducting at LSU. || I  love sounds and ideas, and I love to discover new meeting points between the two.

Aubrey J. Nelson

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