Summer Song Festival
Free Noon-time Concerts
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ death at the age of 86. His output covered practically everything: chamber music, symphonies, operas, incidental music for the theater and film, choral and band music. Americans probably know (and love) his orchestral works the best: The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Fantasia on Greensleeves; and choral groups regularly program his Five Mystical Songs. However, for a composer who wrote songs throughout his life and turned particularly to song at the end of his fertile career, his songs are sadly under-performed in our country. Anyone who loves English poetry, English folk song, and the uniquely pastoral sound which Vaughan Williams epitomized, will discover a composer of fine literary taste, a great sense of humor, surprising musical imagination, and a magical grasp of human emotion.
Date |
Title |
Location |
Price |
| Monday, June 9 |
Michael Jorgensen, bass baritone
Sonja Thompson, piano
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12 pm
Landmark Center |
Free |
The Lark in the Morning
Songs of Travel (poetry of R.L. Stevenson)
The Vagabond
Let Beauty Awake
The Roadside Fire
Youth and Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens
Whither must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Buonaparty |
Date |
Title |
Location |
Price |
| Tuesday, June 10 |
Maria Jette, soprano
Young Nam Kim, violin
|
12 pm
Landmark Center |
Free |
Two folk songs with violin
Searching for lambs
The Lawyer
Along the Field (poetry of John Housman)
We’ll to the Woods no more
The half-moon westers low
In the morning, in the morning
The sigh that heaves the grasses
Goodbye
Fancy’s Knell
With rue my heart is laden
Two Poems by Seumas O’Sullivan
The Twilight People
The Piper
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Date |
Title |
Location |
Price |
Wednesday,
June 11 |
Dan Dressen, tenor
Timothy Lovelace, piano
Kathryn Greenbank, oboe
|
12 pm
Landmark Center |
Free |
Claribel (poetry of Alfred Tennyson)
Four poems by Fredegond Shove
Motion and Stillness
Four Nights
The New Ghost
The Water Mill
Ten Blake Songs (poetry of William Blake)
Infant Joy
A Poison Tree
The Piper
London
The Lamb
The Shepherd
Ah! Sunflower
Cruelty has a human heart...
The Divine Image
Eternity
The Splendor Falls (poetry of Alfred Tennyson) |
Date |
Title |
Location |
Price |
| Thursday, June 12 |
Emily Lodine, mezzo soprano
Sonja Thompson, piano
|
12 pm
Landmark Center |
Free |
Boy Johnny (poetry of Christina Rossetti)
The House of Life (poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Lovesight
Silent noon
Love’s minstrels
Heart’s haven
Death-in-Love
Love’s last gift
Three Shakespeare Songs
Take, o take these lips away
When icicles hang by the wall
Orpheus with his lute |
Date |
Title |
Location |
Price |
| Friday, June 13 |
Grand Finale Concert!
Maria Jette, soprano
Emily Lodine, mezzo
Dan Dressen, tenor
Michael Jorgensen, bass baritone
Timothy Lovelace, piano
|
12 pm
Landmark Center |
Free |
All:
Now Let Us Praise Famous Men (unison vsn)
Michael Jorgensen:
Three Poems by Walt Whitman
Nocturne
A Clear Midnight
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
Dressen & Jorgensen; Jette & Lodine:
Two Duets
Dirge for Fidele
It was a lover and his lass
Dan Dressen:
See the Chariot at Hand
The Sky Above the Roof
The Winter’s Willow
Jette, Dressen & Jorgensen:
O who is that that raps at my window?
Emily Lodine:
Four Last Songs
Procis
Tired
Hands, eyes and heart
Menelaus
Lodine & Jorgensen; Jette & Dressen:
Two Duets
Adieu
Think of me
Maria Jette:
Dream-land
L’Amour de moy
Linden Lea
All:
Greensleeves |
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