PROGRAM

Selections from Sechs Lieder Op. 17………………………………………………..Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
von Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack
No. 2 – Ständchen
No. 5 – Nur Mut!
No. 6 – Barkarole

Vier Lieder Op. 27………………..………………………………………………..………..Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
No. 4 – Morgen

Clairières dans le ciel……………………………………………………………………..Lili Boulanger (1893 – 1918)
No. 4 – Un poète disait
No. 7 – Nous nous aimerons tant
No. 8 – Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme
No. 9 – Les lilas qui avaient fleuri

A Marechiare…………………………………………..………………………………………….Paolo Tosti (1846 – 1914)

From ‘Three’ by E.E. Cummings………….…………………………………………………………John Gruen (1926 – 2016)
Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand
Lady will you come with me into
(John Gruen’s works are provided courtesy of his daughter, Julia Gruen, to whom his Cummings cycle is dedicated.)

The Arrow and the Song (from Six Songs on Poems of Henry W. Longfellow)….Lowell Liebermann (1961 – )

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening……………………………………………..Ned Rorem (1923 – )

I Rise When You Enter …………………………………………..……………………Theodore Chanler (1902 – 1961)

The Children and Sir Nameless ………………………………..……………………..Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
The Last Rose of Summer
The Choirmaster’s Burial (from Winter Words)

Nature Boy (Nat King Cole)……………………………………..…..………………..Eden Ahbez (1908 – 1995)

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)…………………………………..Harold Arlen (1905 – 1986)

Hallelujah, I Love Her So………………..……………………………………………Ray Charles (1930 – 2004)

ENCORES

Maria (from West Side Story)………………………………………………………………..Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)

Orange Colored Sky………………………………………………………………………………Nat King Cole (1919 – 1965)

Photography by Gayna Bassin