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Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Heitor Villa-Lobos c. 1922
Heitor Villa-Lobos (c. 1922)

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 minor
  4. Lento in E minor
  5. Poco animato in D major

Hilary Field, guitar

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, W 264 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (composed 1930-41)

Lucy Wenger, piano

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

  1. Ária (Cantilena, A minor)

Joyce Allison, soprano & Hilary Field, guitar
Paige Smith, cello (guest artist) & Lucy Wenger, piano

Celebrating Song and Dance

Danza Danza by Francesco Durante (1685-1755)
Let Us Dance, Let Us Sing by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
“Hark, the echoing air” from The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell
If Music Be the Food of Love by Henry Purcell
“Và godendo”(Go pleasure) from Serse by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
“Come and Trip It” from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 by G. F. Handel

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Allemande from French Suite in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Gigue by J.S. Bach

Lucy Wenger, piano

Claire de lune  (Moonlight) by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Mandoline by Gabriel Fauré

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Mazurka in B flat major Op 7 #1 by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64 #2 by Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A flat major by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Lucy Wenger, piano

Serenade by Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Odeon (Tango) by Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)
Ferranmenta (Tango) by Ernesto Nazareth

Lucy Wenger, piano

A cantar a una nina (To sing to a doll) by Latin American Folk song, Arr. by Bruce Trinkley
El tra la la y el punteado (The tra la la and the picking) by Enrique Granados

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Danza Triste by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Zambra by Enrique Granados

Lucy Wenger, piano

Blah blah blah by George Gershwin (1898-1937)
By Strauss by George Gershwin

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

LMC Opera presents Italian and German Opera, 1780-1840

A pivotal time in opera history, the German and Italian schools grew into distinctly different styles between 1780 and 1840.
“Che soave zephiretti” (The letter duet) from Le nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
“Ach, ich fuhls” from Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart
“Le faccio un inchino Contessa garbata” (Trio) from Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
“O Nume Tutelar” from La Vestale by Gaspare Spontini (1744-1851)
“O wär ich schon mit dir vereint” from Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
“Glöcklein im Thale” from Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
“Wehe mir! Wohin ist es mit mir gekommen?” from Hans Heiling by Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861)
“Non si dà follia maggiore” from Il Turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
“Bei raggi lucenti, bell’aure beate” from La Favorita by Gaetano Donizetti

Katie Hochman, Heather Mullin, Breanna Hanson, Ki-Jung Jun, sopranos

Joan Lundquist, piano

LMC Opera presents scenes from Falstaff by Verdi

LMC Opera presents scenes from Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Falstaff and his page
Portrait of Sir John Falstaff and his page

Act I, Part II – “Fulgida Alice, amor t’offro….Quell’otre! quell tino” (Radiant Alice, I offer my love…That wineskin!  That tub!)

Act II, Part II  – “Gaia comari di Windsor” (Merry Women of Windsor)

Act II, Part II  – “Sarai la Fata Regina delle Fate” “You will be Queen of the Fairies”

Act III – “Dal labbro il canto estasiato” (From my lips an ecstatic song flies)
“Sul fil d’un soffio estasio” (On the breath of an etesian breeze)

Cast of Characters

Alice Ford sung by Meg Daly, soprano
Meg Page sung by Claudia Kester, mezzo-soprano
Nanetta Ford sung by Ya-Li Lee, soprano
Mistress Quickly sung by Victoria Chaussee, mezzo-soprano
Fenton sung by Cary Lee, tenor
Piano by Lucy Wenger
Stage Direction & Commentary by Regina Thomas

An evening of strings

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Plan of La Rotonda by the architect, Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), whose design in harmonious proportions inspired the composition, Palladio by Jenkins.

Palladio Concerto grosso for string orchestra (1st Movement) by Karl Jenkins (b. 1944)

Serenade in E Major Op.22 by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Serenade for Strings Op.20 by Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Waltz from Serenade in C Major, Op.48 by P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Candice Chin, violin

Eun Hee Cho, conductor