KUSI Performance

Valhalla High School Advanced Womens Ensemble

Director, Paul Infantino
Accompanist, Rodney Girvin
This Little Babe
Benjamin Britten
This little babe so few days old,
Is come to rifle Satans fold;
All hell doth at his presence quake,
Though he himself for cold do shake;
For in this weak unarmed wise
The gates of hell he will surprise.
With tears he fights and wins the field,
his naked breast stands for a shield.
His battering shot are babish cries,
His arrows looks of weeping eyes.
His martial ensigns Cold and Need,
and feeble flesh his warrior's steed.
His camp is pitched in a stall,
his bulwark but a broken wall;
The crib his trench, haystalks his stakes,
of shepherds he his muster makes.
And thus as sure his foe to wound,
the angels' trumps a larum sound
My soul with Christ
join thou in fight;
stick to the tents
that he hath pight.
Within his crib
is surest ward;
this little Babe
will by thy guard.
If thou wilt foil thy
foes with joy, then
flit not from this
heavenly boy!

Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

Traditional French Carol
Arr. Donna Gartman Schultz
Un flambeau,
Jeanette, Isabelle
Un flambeau,
courons au berceau
Cest Jesus,
bonnes gens du hameau
Le Christ est ne
Marie appel le
Ah! Ah!
Que la mere est belle
Ah! Ah! Ah!
Que lenfant est beau
Bring a torch
Jeannette, Isabella
Bring a torch to the stable run!
It is Jesus, good folk of the village;
Christ is born
and Marys calling,
Ah! Ah!
Beautiful is the mother,
Ah! Ah!
Beautiful is her child!
It is wrong when the child is sleeping,
It is wrong to talk so loud;
Silence, all,
as you come near the cradle,
Lest your noise shall waken Jesus;
Hush! Hush!
See how fast he slumbers,
Hush! Hush!
see how fast he sleeps

Softly to the little stable,

softly for a moment come;
Look and see
how charming is Jesus
Shining bright as yonder star
Hush! Hush!
See how the child is sleeping,
Hush! Hush!
see, he smiles in his dreams

Eatnemen Vuelie (Fairest Lord Jesus)

Music by Frode Fjellheim & Silesian Folk Melody
Na nan a heia na
Hani jaa naa
Na hei-a hei-a na ja noa
Ha na hei o no a na
Deilig er jorden
Prektig er Guds himmel
Sknn er sjelenes pilgrimsgang
Gjennom de fagre
Riker p jorden gr vi til paradis med sang