Presents

Frog Corps & Friends

Featuring the

TCU Frog Corps

and

Smithfield Middle School Varsity Tenor-Bass Choir

October 19, 2021 ED LANDRETH AUDITORIUM

Fort Worth, TX

PROGRAM

TCU Frog Corps Star Spangled Banner arr. Russell Mauldin

Smithfield Middle School Star of Light Laura Farnell Fillimiooriay arr. Lon Beery

TCU Frog Corps Cantate Domino Giovanni Croce, arr. Christopher Aspaas

Annika Stucky, conductor

Steal Away arr. Brazeal W. Dennard Janson Guillen, conductor

Invictus Reginal Wright I’m Still Standing Elton John, arr. Nicholas Wright TCU Alma Mater and Fight Song Sammis, arr. Mike Davis

Combined Choirs Oba Se Je (Here Comes the King!) arr. Christopher Aspaas

TEXT & TRANSLATIONS

Cantate Domino

Cantate Domino canticum novum Cantate Domino omnis terra

Cantate Domino et benedicite nomini ejus

Annuntiate de die in diem de die salutare ejus

O sing unto the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord, all the earth Sing unto the Lord, and praise his name be telling of his salvation from day to day. - Psalm 96, vv. 1-2

Steal Away

Steal away, steal away,

Steal away to Jesus. Steal away, steal away home. I ain’t got long to stay here.

My Lord calls me.

He calls me by the thunder. The trumpet sounds within a my soul;

I ain’t got long to stay here.

Green trees a bending. Poor sinner stands a trembling.

The trumpet sounds within a my soul; I ain’t got long to stay here.

My Lord calls me.

He calls me by the lighting. The trumpet sounds within a my soul;

I ain’t got long to stay here.

Steal away, steal away, Steal away to Jesus.

Steal away, steal away home. I ain’t got long to stay here.

- Wallace Willis

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,

I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

- William Ernest Henley

I’m Still Standing

You could never know what it’s like. Your blood like winter freezes just like ice.

And there’s a cold and lonely night that shines from you. You’ll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use.

And did you think this fool could never win.

Well, look at me, I’m coming back again. I got a taste of love in a simple way.

And if you need to know while I’m still standing you just fade away.

Don’t you know I’m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid.

And I’m still standing after all this time. Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind.

I’m still standing (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Once I never could have hoped to win.

You’re starting down the road and leaving me again. The threats you made were meant to cut me down.

And if our love was just a circus, you’d be a clown by now.

Don’t you know I’m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid.

And I’m still standing after all this time. Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind.

I’m still standing (yeah, yeah, yeah)

- Elton John

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THANKS to the faculty and staff that daily contribute to our students' success:

The TCU College of Fine Arts, Dr. Richard Gipson, Dean

The TCU School of Music, Dr. Sean Atkinson, Director

The TCU School of Music Administration, Faculty, and Staff

The TCU School of Music Vocal Faculty, Angela Turner-Wilson, Division Chair

SMITHFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL VARISTY TENOR-BASS CHOIR

North Richland Hills, TX

Jennie Crawford, Director Taylor White, Assistant Director

Debby Barkey, collaborative pianist Private Voice Instructor, Mona Sinclair

Principal, Kyle Pekurney Assistant Principal, Gina Spurlock Assistant Principal, Jason Turner

Director of Fine Arts, Danny Detrick

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

Frog Corps

Christopher Aspaas, conductor Annika Stucky & Janson Guillen, assistant conductors

Lindsay Bastian, collaborative pianist

Carson Alfonzo Isaiah Allen

Landon Bradley Coby Canale Eric Carter

Peter Christopherson Javen Delance Victor Doan John Dubois

Coleton Evans Spencer Fries Luca Gailloux

G. G. Nathan Gepanaga

Eduardo Guerrero Janson Guillen Josh Haupert Jack Johnson

Christian Lackey Dayne Love

Matthew Lovelace Lucas Lynn

Janson Guillen Casey McEvoy Isaak McGuire

Charlie Nelson Francisco Ortiz Evan Pallanes

Hayden Ponder Daniel Salazar-Harper

Rigo Santillan Carson Scott

Jun Seo Tristen Smith Andy Stellar

Wesley Vaughan Patrick Vu

Andrew Walters

THE VOCAL ARTS AT TCU

MISSION To educate and empower students of the Vocal Arts

to perform at the highest level in their art and in their lives

VISION

To take our place as a leading center of excellence in Vocal Arts: regionally, nationally, and globally

GOALS

To emphasize collaboration To instill professional and personal integrity

To encourage diversity of thought, skills, and musical expression To enrich the TCU community and beyond

UPCOMING CHORAL EVENTS:

Fall Concert: O Guiding Night, O Perfect Love TCU Concert Chorale

Arborlawn United Methodist Church, Ft. Worth, TX 7pm October 25th

Fall Concert

University Singers & Cantiamo PepsiCo Recital Hall

7pm October 28th

Fall Concert Purple, White, & Blues Vocal Jazz Ensemble

PepsiCo Recital Hall 7pm November 12th

Winter Concert University Singers PepsiCo Recital all 7pm December 3rd

Winter Concert: The Marvel of This Night

TCU Concert Chorale Arborlawn United Methodist Church, Ft. Worth, TX

7pm December 5th

Winter Concert TCU Frog Corps & Cantiamo

PepsiCo Recital Hall 7pm December 7th

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