Offering for the Earth: A Biorhythmic Celebration of Hildegard Von Bingen

Created and performed by Alexandra Palting
Produced by Colleen Eberhardt
Featuring Laura Hill, Isaiah Shim, and the St. Louis Treble Choir (conducted by Paul Heinemann)

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Program

AUTUMN

All of our actions affect the elements, and are in turn disturbed and influenced by the elements. Do not reject these secrets, but make yourselves green with the juice of sweetness, a branching root and a soaring leaf. May you never tire on the path to justice. - Hildegard Von Bingen

O Frondens Virga / Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Hildegard Von Bingen / Greek Liturgy of St. James (translated by Gerard Moultrie)

  • O blooming branch,
    you stand upright in your nobility,
    as breaks the dawn on high:
    Rejoice now and be glad,
    and deign to free us, frail and weakened,
    from the wicked habits of our age;
    stretch forth your hand
    to lift us up aright.

  • O frondens virga,
    in tua nobilitate stans
    sicut aurora procedit:
    nunc gaude et letare
    et nos debiles dignare
    a mala consuetudine liberare
    atque manum tuam porrige
    ad erigendum nos.

My Soul in Stillness Waits

Marty Haugen

If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion. We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice.

Earth Melodies / O Virigissima Virga

Ekaterina Shelakovna / Hildegard Von Bingen

  • O most noble Greenness, rooted in the sun,
    And who shines in bright serenity upon the wheel,
    Nothing on earth can comprehend you,
    You are encircled in the arms of divine mysteries.
    You are radiant as the dawn and burn as the flame of the sun.

  • O nobilissima viridatas, quad radicas in sole et quad in candida serenitate luces in rota, quam nulla ternewa excellentia comprehendit, tu circumdata eś amplexibus divinorum mysteriorum. Tu rubes ut aurora et ardes ut solis flama

WINTER

O Viriditas Digiti Dei / Dust and Ashes

Hildegard Von Bingen / Dave Malloy (from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812)

  • O fresh viridity of God’s creative finger, 
    How glorious you are!

  • O viriditas digiti Dei, 
    Tu gloriosa


Christmas Lullaby

Jason Robert Brown (from Songs for a New World, arranged by Mac Huff)

INTERMISSION

During intermission, we encourage you to interact with the plants and technology for yourself!