Music for English horn and British and American songs

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When:
Saturday, January 7, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
2017-01-07T14:00:00-08:00
2017-01-07T14:15:00-08:00
Where:
Frye Art Museum
704 Terry Ave
Seattle, WA 98104
USA
Cost:
Free

 

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Lithograph caricature of Thomas Arne, from a painting by Francesco Bartolozzi

 

A Little English by Burnet Tuthill (1888-1982)
Variations on So ben mi ch’a bon tempo by Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605), arr. Vittoria Rieti (1898-1994)
Quietude by Luther Trowbridge (1892-1978)

Gail Perstein, English horn & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

O Come, O Come, My Dearest by Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
If music be the food of love by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
“O sleep, why dost thou leave me?” from Semele by G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
“So shall the lute and harp awake” from Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63)by G.F. Handel

Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

Ballade voor Althobo en Piano Op. 90 (1981) by  Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)
Fantasia per Corno Inglese e Pianoforte by Antonio Pasculli (1842-1924) Amelia – Un pensiero del Ballo in maschera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Gail Perstein, English horn & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

My Life’s Delight by Roger Quilter (1877-1953), poem by Thomas Campion
Do not go, my love by Richard Hageman (1881-1966), poem by Rabindranath Tagore
Sleep   (poem by John Fletcher) by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
i carry your heart by John Duke (1899-1984), poem by e.e. cummings
Love’s Philosophy by Roger Quilter, text by Percy Shelle

Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano & Asta Vaicekonis, piano