directed by Dr. Fredrick Lokken

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April 2008: The Poet Sings

Narration by John Vavrek

 The Classic Italian Poets

Quel augellin che canta (Giovanni Boccaccio)……….…Claudio Monteverdi  (1567-1643)

Vita de la mia vita (Torquato Tasso)…………………….………...William Hawley  (b. 1950)

Zefiro torna (Francesco Petrarch) ……………………………...Luca Marenzio  (1553-1599)

Io son la primavera (Tasso)…………………….………….…………………………….Hawley

The German Romantics

 Die Nachtigall (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)………..… Felix Mendelssohn (1809- 1847)

Abschied von Wald (Joseph von Eichendorff)……....….....………….………. Mendelssohn

Liebe (Friedrich Schiller)..……………………………………….. Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Der Abend (Schiller)………………………..……..…….……. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Kristine Anderson, piano

The English Romantics

 There Is Sweet Music Here…………....………………….……..Stephen Chatman (b. 1950)

I.  There Is Sweet Music Here – Alfred Tennyson

II.  Music, When Soft Voices Die – Percy Bysshe Shelley

III.  Song of the Laughing Green Woods – William Blake

Brent Hages, oboe

INTERMISSION

Poems of Sacred Ecstasy  

 Nigra sum (from Song of Songs)……………………………….….Pablo Casals (1876-1973)

Kristine Anderson, piano

Your Fragrance (Jalal al-din Rumi) …………………...……… Edward Henderson (b. 1952)

Kristine Bryan, soloist

Modern Hispanic Poets

Water Night (Octavio Paz)……..……………………………………….Eric Whitaker (b. 1970)

Malagueña (from Suite de Lorca) (Federíco García Lorca) …………. Einojuhani

Rautavaara (b. 1928)

American Icons   

Monotone (Carl Sandburg).………….……..………….….. Normand Lockwood (1921-1996)

Spring Grass (Sandburg)…………………………….....………..….…..Philip Glass (b. 1937)

Choose Something Like a Star (Robert Frost)……....…...Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

 (from Frostiana)                                 Kristine Anderson, piano