From the stage play directed by Stephen Shane at UNC-Pembroke. Incidental music. Based on the novel by Michael Ende.

Overture from "The Neverending Story"

for three voices, ATB 
secular, English
madrigal composed by Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623)

Tomorrow is the marriage day
of Mopius and fair Philliday!
Come, shepherds! Bring your garlands gay!

O, do not weepe fair Bellamour,
though he begone, there's many more,
for love hath many loves in store!

(MADRIGAL) Tomorrow is the marriage day

Text from Lamentations 1:12
TTBB Latin
written and performed by Graeme Mitchell Taylor

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LATIN:
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam
Attendite! Attendite et videte:
Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.

Attendite, universi populi 
et videte dolorem meum!

Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.


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TRANSLATION:
O, look, all of you walking the road
Attend! Attend and see:
There is no other sorrow like my sorrow.

Attend, all in the universe
and look upon my pain!

There is no other sorrow like my sorrow.

(CHORAL) O Vos Omnes

Original music from the stage play directed by Stephen Z. Shane. From the novel by Michael Ende.

Artax Sinks In the Swamp

The Childlike Empress

An arrangement of a popular spiritual in the 18th century American shape-note style.
arr. G. M. Taylor

REFRAIN:
Hush! Hush! Somebody's calling my name...
Hush! Hush! Somebody's calling my name...
Hush! Hush! Somebody's calling my name!
O, my Lord! O, my Lord! What shall I do?

It was Jesus calling me out by name...
O, my Lord! What shall I do? 
(REFRAIN)

I thought Death was creeping outside my door...
O, my Lord! What shall I do?
(REFRAIN)

I'm so glad that troubles don't last always!
O, my Lord! What shall I do?
(REFRAIN)

(SHAPE NOTE) Somebody's Calling My Name

Morning Sun by S.M. Denson, 1911

Youth, like the spring, will soon be gone
by fleeting time or conquering death.
Your morning sun may set at noon
and leave you ever in the dark.

Your sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks
must wither like the blasted rose.
The coffin, earth and winding sheet
will soon your active limbs enclose.

(SHAPE NOTE) Song Of Death

Charles Wesley, 1744

Come, Thou long expected Jesus
Born to set Thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in Thee.
Israel's strength and consolation,
Hope of all the earth Thou art;
Dear desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.

Born Thy people to deliver,
Born a child and yet a King,
Born to reign in us forever,
Now Thy gracious kingdom bring.
By Thine own eternal Spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone;
By Thine all sufficient merit,
Raise us to Thy glorious throne.
By Thine all sufficient merit,
Raise us to Thy glorious throne!

(SHAPE NOTE) Hyfrydol

Psalm 133:1
arr. G. M. Taylor

הִנֵּה מַה טוֹב וּמַה נָּעִים
 שֶׁבֶת אָחִים גַּם יַחַד

"Hine ma tov uma naim
shevet achim gam yachad."

"How good and how pleasant it is
that brothers dwell together."

(SHAPE NOTE) Hine Ma Tov

from The Pennsylvania School Journal, 1877

Deck the halls with boughs of holly,
Fa la la la la la la la la!
'Tis the season to be jolly,
Fa la la la la la la la la!
Don we now our gay apparel,
Fa la la la la la la la la!
Troll the ancient Christmas carol,
Fa la la la la la la la la!

See the blazing yule before us,
Strike the harp and join the chorus.
Follow me in merry measure,
While I tell of Christmas treasure,

Fast away the old year passes,
Hail the new, ye lads and lasses!
Sing we joyous all together,
Heedless of the wind and weather,

Val Humphrey soprano, alto
Graeme Mitchell Taylor tenor, bass

Deck The Halls (Val Humphrey and Graeme Mitchell Taylor)

Anonymous, c. 15th century
(first published 1891)

REFRAIN
Nowell sing we both all and some
Now Rex Pacificus is icum.
(x2)

Exortum est in love and lysse.
Now Christ His grace He gan us gysse,
And with His body us bought to bliss,
Both all and some.
REFRAIN

De fructu ventris of Mary bright,
Both God and man in her alight,
Out of disease He did us dight,
Both all and some.
REFRAIN

Puer natus to us was sent,
To bliss us bought, fro bale us blent,
And else to woe we had ywent,
Both all and some.
REFRAIN

Gloria tibi ay and bliss,
God unto His grace He us wysse,
The rent of heaven that we not miss,
Both all and some.
REFRAIN (x2)

(CAROL) Nowell sing we

adapted from a traditional spiritual
arr. by G. M. Taylor

REFRAIN
Who was Mary?
Who was Mary?
Who was Mary?
May was the Queen of Galilee!

Mary rode to Bethlehem...
Mary was the Queen of Galilee!
There she wrought the holy Lamb...
Mary was the Queen of Galilee!
To a stable she did go...
Mary was the Queen of Galilee!
Laid Him in a manger low...
Mary was the Queen of Galilee!
REFRAIN

Wise men came from all around...
There they worshipped what they found...
They brought gifts for Him and her...
Gold and frankincense and myrrh...
REFRAIN

From her womb there came a Light...
There the Light would save mankind...
Let all people here on earth...
...celebrate this wond'rous birth...
REFRAIN (x2)

(SHAPE NOTE) Queen Of Galilee

Charles Wesley, 1744

Come, Thou long expected Jesus
Born to set Thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in Thee.

Israel's strength and consolation,
Hope of all the earth Thou art;
Dear desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.

Born Thy people to deliver,
Born a child and yet a King,
Born to reign in us forever,
Now Thy gracious kingdom bring.

By Thine own eternal Spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone;
By Thine all sufficient merit,
Raise us to Thy glorious throne.

Amen.

(SHAPE NOTE) Stuttgart

Traditional carol
arr. G. M. Taylor

The boar's head in hand bear I
bedeck'd with bays and rosemarie
and I pray ye, my masters, be merry
Quot estis in convivio!

REFRAIN
Caput apri defero reddens laudes Domino!
Caput apri defero reddens laudes Domino!

The boar's head I understand
is the rarest dish in all the land
which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
Let us servire cantico!
REFRAIN

Our steward hath provided this
in honor of the King of Bliss
which on this day to be served is
in Reginensi atrio!
REFRAIN

GraemeMitchellTaylorComposer

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