Brendan Vavra - Sic Infit

Описание: Performers: Chun-Ming (Jimmy) Chen, Conductor; Samantha Free, Laura Proctor, soprano; Jennifer Fishback, Krizia Nelson, alto; Michael Kallgren, Michael Radzwilla, tenor; Aidan Boardman, Brendan Vavra, bass; Joshua Oxford, piano; Andrew Thomson, bass drum

This piece (in four ataca movements) features a (relatively) original Latin text about the choir warning the audience about the inevitable zombie horde that will eventually enslave humanity.

Latin Text (Literal English translation can be found in annotations):

I. Cave

Cave
Chao ab ordo
De profundis, hostis humani generis
(Natura Contristatur)
Solus vivo ipse, (Ex oblivione) cetera desunt
Scio non mors incerta
Dis aliter visum
Credite me, Haud ignota loquor

II. Mortuis Vivum

(Rigor mortis, Algor mortis, Livor mortis)
Sublimis ex humus
Vivant memor leti
Non impediti ratione congitatonis
(corpos, dementiae, disjecta membra)
Deliriant, erga omnes, mortuis vivum
Mens insanit in corpore mortua
(Integer mors)
Propter vitam vivendi perdere causas
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
In os venenum
(Ad oculos)

III. Bellum Omnium

Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius
Fiat iustitia aut pereat mundus
In girum imus nocte et consumimur mortuis
Deledant est
Si vis pacem para bellum
(Bellum omnium contra omnes)
Si caditis, sic omnis terra

IV. Praemonitus

Alea iacta est
Libera te tutemet ex inferis
Ego non
Diem perdidi, non sum qualis eram
(Aut pax aut bellum)
Non omnis moriar, graviora manent
(Aut vincere aut mori)
Praemonitus praemunitus
Servo permaneo bovis provestri
Aut quad eris sum
Mors mea
(Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina)
Vita tua
(Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur)
Dixi

Performed on my senior composition recital at the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen School of Music at Ithaca College on March 31st, 2010.