Scenes from La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart

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Titus Caesar

“Come ti piace imponi” (Whatever you wish)

Malya Muth as Vitellia     Katie Stevenson (guest artist) as Sesto

“Deh si piacer mi vuoi” (If you would like to please me)

Malya Muth as Vitellia

“Deh prendi un dolce amplesso” (Accept this heartfelt embrace)

Emily Riesser as Annio   Katie Stevenson (guest artist) as Sesto

“Ah perdona al primo affetto questo accento sconsigliato;” (Forgive this rashness born of my affection)

Emily Riesser as Annio     Leslie Stark as Servilia

“Ah, se fosse intorno al trono ogni cor cosi sincero” (Ah, if about a throne every heart were so sincere)

Tenor (guest artist) TBA as Tito

“Tu fosti tradito” (You were betrayed)

Emily Riesser as Annio

“Deh, per questo istante” (Ah, for just this moment)

Katie Stevenson as Sesto

Se all’impero, amici Dei, necessario e un cor severo!” (If a hard heart is necessary to a ruler, ye benevolent gods)

Tenor (guest artist) TBA as Tito

“S’altro che lacrime per lui non tenti” (If you do nothing but shed tears for him)

Leslie Stark as Servilia

“Ecco, il punto, o Vitellia…Non più di fiori” (Now is the moment, Vitellia…Flowers no more)

Malya Muth as Vitellia

“Ma, che giorno è mai questo?” (But what a day this is!)

Tenor (guest artist) TBA as Tito

“Tu è ver, m’assolvi” (You forgive me)

Tutti

Stage Direction, Tom Sunderland (guest artist)

Orchestra
Violins, Candice Chin & Ann Rackl
Viola, Carolyn Wyman
Cello, Terry Cook
Piano, Joan Lunquist
Conductor, TBA

Bach violin sonata & soprano vocal recital

Solo violin sonata No. 1 in G minor                 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Angie Kam, violin

“I have dreamt” from Wuthering Heights by Bernard Hermann
Les berceaux by Gabriel Faure
Apres un reve by Gabriel Faure
L’invitation au voyage by Henri Duparc
Morire by Giacomo Puccini
A te by Giacomo Puccini
“In quelle trine morbide” from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

Music by Villa-Lobos and American composers

Five Preludes, W. 419 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (composition year: 1940

  1. Andantino expressivo in E minor
  2. Andantino in E major
  3. Andante in A mino
  4. Lento in E minor
  5. Poco animato in D major

Hilary Field, guitar

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 W 391 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (composed 1938), arr. Hilary Field

Ária (Cantilena, A minor)

Joyce Allison, soprano Hilary Field, guitar

 Lucy Wenger, piano

A Slice of Americanaamericana-barn

“I Wish It So” from Juno by Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964)
“Simple Gifts” from Old American Songs, Set I by Aaron Copland(1900-1990)
“Laurie’s Song” from The Tenderland by Aaron Copland
“I Bought Me a Cat” from Old American Songs, Set I by Aaron Copland

Prelude No. 2 by George Gershwin (1898-1937)

“Blah Blah Blah” from East is West by George Gershwin
“By Strauss” from The Show is on/An American in Paris by George Gershwin

Graceful Ghost Rag by William Bolcolm (b. 1938)

Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise by William Bolcolm

Joyce Allison, soprano     Lucy Wenger, piano

Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39 and piano music by D. Scarlatti & Albéniz

Liederkreis Op. 39 by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

  1. In der Fremde (In foreign parts)Moonlit night
  2. Intermezzo (Intermezzo)
  3. Waldesgespräch (Conversation in the forest)
  4. Die Stille (The quiet woman)
  5. Mondnacht (Moonlit night)
  6. Schöne Fremde (Beautiful foreign land)
  7. Auf einer Burg (In a castle)
  8. In der Fremde (In foreign parts)
  9. Wehmut (Melancholy)
  10. Zwielicht (Twilight)
  11. Im Walde (In the woods)
  12. Frühlingsnacht (Spring night)

Ya-Li Lee, soprano & Johanna Mastenbrook, piano

Sonata in D minor, K. 444 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Sonata in B-flat major, K. 440

Sonata in D minor, K. 459

Suite española, Op. 47 by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

  1. Granada
  2. Cataluña
  3. Sevilla
  4. Cuba

Yuliya Minina, piano

Bach violin sonata and the art of German folksong

Solo violin sonata No. 1 in G minor by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

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Johann Sebastian Bach
  1. Adagio
  2. Fuga
  3. Siciliana
  4. Presto

Angie Kam, violin

 

The Art of German Folksong

Horch, was kommt von draußen rein – Folksong 19th century
Auf, auf zum fröhlichen Jagen – Folksong, text: Gottfried B. Hancke 1724
Schwesterlein, wann gehn wir nach Haus – Wilhelm v. Zuccalmaglio (1803-1869)Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit – Wilhelm v. Zuccalmaglio 1840
Feinsliebchen, du sollst mir nicht barfuß gehn – Folksong, German text Wilhelm v. Zuccalmaglio (1803-1869)
Am Brunnen vor dem Tore – Franz Schubert, text: Wilhelm Müller 1822
Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß – Folksong 18th century
Sah ein Knab’ ein Röslein stehn’ – Heinrich Werner (1800-1833), text: Johann W. von Goethe (1749-1832)
Guter Mond, Du gehst so stille – Folksong 19th century, text: Karl Enslin (1819-1875)
Der Kuckuck und der Esel – Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832), text: Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1789-1874)
Alle Vögel sind schon da – Folksong, text: Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1789-1874)
Geh aus mein Herz und suche Freud – Agustin Harder (1775-1813), text: Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676)
Bunt sind schon die Wälder – J.F. Reichardt (1752-1814), t: Johann G. von Salis-Seewis (1762-1834)
Ach bittrer Winter- Folksong 17th century
Es klappert die Mühle am rauschenden Bach – Folksong 19th century, text: Ernst Anschütz 1824
Hab’ mein’ Wage vollgelade – Folksong 17th century Amsterdam, 10th century Germany
Freut Euch des Lebens – Hans G. Nägli (1773-1936), text: Johann M. Usteri (1793)

Christine Menschner, soprano

Brian Minnick (guest artist), tenor

Hilary Field, guitar