The Julian Chin Trio - May 1st, 2021

livestreamed from Pianoforte, Chicago IL
presented by Music@Bethel

Julian Chin - piano

Ben Dillinger - bass

Andrew Green - drums

Yearnin’

from The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961)
music by Oliver Nelson

Another Hundred People

from Company (1970)
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Another hundred people just got off of the train
And came up through the ground
While another hundred people just got off of the bus
And are looking around
At another hundred people who got off of the plane
And are looking at us
Who got off of the train
And the plane, and the bus
Maybe yesterday

It's a city of strangers
Some come to work, some to play
A city of strangers
Some come to stare, some to stay
And every day
The ones who stay

Can find each other in the crowded streets and the guarded parks
By the rusty fountains and the dusty trees with the battered barks
And they walk together past the postered walls with the crude remarks

And they meet at parties through the friends-of-friends, who they never know
"Will you pick me up, or do I meet you there, or shall we let it go?
Did you get my message? 'Cause I looked in vain
Can we see each other Tuesday if it doesn't rain?
Look, I'll call you in the morning, or my service'll explain."
And another hundred people just got off of the train

It's a city of strangers
Some come to work, some to play
A city of strangers
Some come to stare, some to stay
And every day
Some go away...

Or they find each other in the crowded streets and the guarded parks
By the rusty fountains and the dusty trees with the battered barks
And they walk together past the postered walls with the crude remarks

And they meet at parties through the friends-of-friends, who they never know
"Will you pick me up, or do I meet you there, or shall we let it go?
Did you get my message? 'Cause I looked in vain
Can we see each other Tuesday if it doesn't rain?
Look, I'll call you in the morning, or my service'll explain."

And another hundred people just got off of the train
And another hundred people just got off of the train
And another hundred people just got off of the train
And another hundred people just got off of the train
Another hundred people just got off of the train

Losing My Mind

from Follies (1971)
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

The sun comes up, I think about you
The coffee cup, I think about you
I want you so
It's like I'm losing my mind
The morning ends, I think about you
I talk to friends, I think about you
And do they know
It's like I'm losing my mind

All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left
Not going right

I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved . . me
Or were you just being kind
Or am I losing my mind?

Remember?

from A Little Night Music (1973)
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

The old deserted beach that we walked, Remember?
The café in the park where we talked, Remember?
The tenor on the boat that we chartered, belching “The Bartered Bride,”
Ah, how we laughed!
Ah, how we cried!
Ah, how you promised and ah, how I lied.

That dilapidated inn, Remember, darling?
The proprietress’s grin, also her glare.
Yellow gingham on the bed, Remember, darling?
And the canopy in red, needing repair…
I think you were there.

The funny little game that we played, Remember?
The unexpected knock of the maid, Remember?
The wine that made us both rather merry and oh-so-very frank.
Ah, how we laughed!
Ah, how we drank!
You acquiesced and the rest is a blank.

What we did with your perfume, Remember, darling?
The condition of the room when we were through…
Our inventions were unique, Remember, darling?
I was limping for a week, you caught the flu…

I think it was you.

No Intention

from Bitte Orca (2009)
music and lyrics by David Longstreth

The renegade feeling satisfied
You blinked and closed your eyes
You like the feeling of Saturday
You love the danger in the night

The restless corpse is collapsing wind
The breath is daffodil
What won't be coming is lapsing
Into the universal fill

Or maybe just no intention
Or maybe just no intention

When I am full with endeavor
Nothing can stop gestalt
The freshness of my reality
Makes me feel tingly and hot

When you wake up shouting “Idea!”
Is that a punishment?
You represent saying "I'm real!"
But is that what you meant?

Maybe you meant no intention
Maybe you meant no intention

So What

from Cabaret (1966)
music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?

When I was a girl,
My summers were spent by the sea.
So what?
And I had a maid
Doing all of the house-work, not me.
So what?
Now I scrub all the floors
And I wash down the walls
And I empty the chamber pot.
If it ended that way,
Then it ended that way,
And I shrug and I say:
So what?

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?

So once I was rich
And now all my fortune is gone,
So what?
And love disappeared
And only the memory lives on,
And so what?

If I've lived through all that
(And I've lived through all that)
Fifty marks doesn't mean a lot.
If I like that you're here
(And I like that you're here)
Happy New Year, my dear,
So what?

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?

Hymn to Freedom

from Night Train (1962)
music by Oscar Peterson, lyrics by Harriette Hamilton

When every heart
Joins every heart
And together yearns for liberty,
That’s when we’ll be free.

When every hand
Join every hand
And together molds our destiny,
That’s when we’ll be free.

Any hour,
Any day,
The time soon will come
When all will live in dignity,
That’s when we’ll be free.

When everyone joins in our song,
And together sings in harmony,
That’s when we’ll be free.

That’s The Way Of The World

from That’s The Way Of The World (1975)
music and lyrics by Maurice White, Charles Stepney, and Verdine White

Hearts afire
Creates love desire
Take you high and higher
To the world you belong

Hearts afire
Creates love desire
High and higher
To your place on the throne

We've come together on this special day
Sing a message loud and clear
Looking back, we've touched on sorrowful days
Future, past, they disappear

[Bridge]
You will find
Peace of mind
If you look way down
In your heart and soul
Don't hesitate
'Cause the world seems cold
Stay young at heart
Ahh, 'cause you're never
Never old at heart

That's the way
Of the world
Plant your flower
And you grow a pearl
Child is born
With a heart of gold
Way of the world
Makes his heart so cold