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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Dear faculty and staff:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Please consider this your cordial invitation to tomorrow’s Noon Hour Concert and CD Release Concert,
<b><i>Paraguay Primeval<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></i></b>at Conrad Grebel chapel, 12:30 pm, featuring the music of Grebel’s<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>own Carol Ann Weaver, born out of her own experiences in the Chaco nearly three years ago as well as the literary expressions of various writers about the Mennonites’ experience in Paraguay. Come prepared to buy one of Carol’s brand-new CDs. Hope to
see you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Paraguay Primeva</span>l</i></b> (texts indicated at each song) all music by Carol Ann Weaver<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Asunci</span></b><b>ó</b><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">n to Chaco</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [soundscape of CAW</span>’<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">s
recordings, Paraguay, 2009.</span> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> Photos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> of Asunci</span>ó<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">n and Chaco by Myra Weaver, Dorothy Jean Weaver and CAW]
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Puerto Casado</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [text: Dora Dueck,
<i>Under The Still Standing Sun</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (trek from Russia to Chaco via Puerto Casado contains doubts
<i>but also</i> joy for the new </span>“<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Promised Land</span>”<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">)</span> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Well Water</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [text: Lenchen Klassen Esau in
<i>Schoenbrunn Chronicles</i>, tr. Henry & Esther Regehr]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (extreme Chaco heat causes well water to remain
</span>“<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">hardly drinkable</span>”<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Uncle Hans</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [text</span><span style="color:black">: Marlene Derksen in
<i>Schoenbrunn Chronicles</i></span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (Uncle Hans is lowered into a well to remove sand. Complicated consequences make him a hero.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">November Eleven</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [</span><span style="color:black">text: Johann Regehr in
<i>Schoenbrunn Chronicles</i></span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (Typhoid fever tragically claims members of the Harms family in Schoenbrunn Colony)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Women's Village</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [</span><span style="color:black">text: Herta Franz in
<i>Schoenbrunn Chronicles</i>]</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> (</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Freidensheim</span><span style="color:black"> village was settled by women who lost their husbands in Russia during Stalin years)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Tango
</span></b><b><i>–</i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> If They</span></i></b><b><i>’</i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">d Have Tangoed</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
(maybe these Mennonites <i>did</i> tango like the Latinos; we</span>’<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">re not sure!,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> but here</span>’<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">s a tango in
</span>“<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">3</span>”<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> for the Trinity, and also to remind them of German waltzes!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Der Mond (The Moon)</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [</span><span style="color:black">text: Agnes Balzer in
<i>Schönbrunn Geschichten</i>, the original source]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (original text of
</span>“<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Chacoheimat</span>”<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> lauds the moon, crickets and nightingale in the new homeland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Chaco Christmas</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [text: Rudy Wiebe,
<i>Blue Mountains of China</i>]</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (Christmas in the dead of Chaco summer with still, hot air, dramatic lightening, and German carols)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Lengua Women</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [text: Rudy Wiebe,
<i>Blue Mountains of China</i>]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> (indigenous Lengua women walk like
</span>“<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">stallions in spring</span>”<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> while Mennonite women stoop with humility)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif"">Chaco Spring</span></b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""> [</span><span style="color:black">text: Agnes Balzer in
<i>Schoenbrunn Chronicles</i>]</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> (“springtime is at the door . . . and the whole world is a singing choir!” – Balzer)</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanMS","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Julie Nash, Assistant<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">University of Waterloo Department of Music<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Conrad Grebel University College<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">140 Westmount Rd., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(519) 885-0220 ext. 24226 Rm. 1104<o:p></o:p></p>
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