Elaine Hagenberg
Her compositions are performed worldwide and frequently featured at American Choral Directors Association conferences, All-State festivals, Carnegie Hall, and other distinguished international concert halls throughout Europe, Australia, South America, and Asia.
Winner of the ACDA Brock Competition for Professional Composers, she has composed new music for the American Choral Directors Association, professional choirs, colleges and universities, community choirs, high schools, and churches.
Illuminare is Elaine’s first extended work, consisting of five movements for SATB chorus and chamber orchestra. Using lesser-known sacred Latin, Greek, and English texts, the piece takes us through a season of beauty and goodness that has been disrupted by darkness and confusion. But as Light gradually returns, hope is restored, illuminating our future and guiding us in peace.
1 Splendor (Saint Ambrose, 340 – 397)
Splendor paternae gloriae,
de luce lucem proferens,
lux lucis et fons luminis,
diem dies illuminans.
Splendor of God’s glory,
brings forth light from light,
light of light, light’s living spring,
Day, all days illuminates.
2 Caritas (Hildegard von Bingen, 1098 – 1179)
Caritas abundat in omnia,
de imis excellentissima
super sidera,
atque amantissima in omnia,
Quia summo regi
osculum pacis dedit.
Love abounds in all,
from the depths most excellent
to beyond the stars,
and loving toward all,
she has given the highest king
the kiss of peace.
3 Nox (Traditional Greek and Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, 343 – 413)
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison.
Nox et tenebrae et nubila,
confusa mundi et turbida
Caligo terrae scinditur
percussa solis spiculo
Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy.
Night and darkness and fog,
confused world and turmoil
dark gloom tears the earth
beats and stabs the sun
4 Munera Pacis (Pope Gregory, 540 – 604 and John 14:27)
Ecce jam noctis tenuatur umbra,
Lux et auroae rutilans coruscat:
Supplices rerum Dominum canora
Voce precemur:
Ut reos culpae miseratus, omnem
Pellat angorem, tribuat salutem,
Donet et nobis bona sempiternae
Munera pacis.
Behold, already night and shadows taper off
Light and dawn sparkle and quiver
We humbly beg the Lord through song
Our voices pray:
Though we are guilty, view us with compassion
Banish anguish, bestow health
Grant us everlasting goodness
Give us peace.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
5 Illuminare His (Canticle of Zechariah, Luke 1:68-79)
Illuminare his qui in tenebris
et in umbra mortis sedent:
ad dirigendos pedes nostros in viam pacis.
Illuminate those in darkness
and in the shadow of death are seated
direct our footpath in the way of peace.