‘Sing of Spring’ Program Notes
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PROGRAM
Im kühlen Maien – Hassler
O süsser Mai – Brahms
Io mi son giovinetta – Monteverdi
II. Of Roses and Thorns
Contre qui, rose (from Les Chansons des Roses, 1993) – Morten Lauridsen
Go, lovely rose (1942) – Stevens
III. The Birds and the Bees
Sweet Suffolk Owl – Vautor
Sweet honey-sucking bees – Wilbye
IV. Five Centuries of Spring (1968) – Mechem
- Spring – Nash
- From You Have I Been Absent – Shakespeare
- Laughing Song – Blake
- Loveliest of Trees – Housman
- Spring – Millay
INTERMISSION
V. Scenes of Nature
Ecco mormorar l’onde – Monteverdi
Linden Lea – Vaughan Williams
Loch Lomond – Vaughan Williams
VI. Choral Dances from “Gloriana” (1954) – Benjamin Britten
- Time
- Concord
- Time and Concord
- Country Girls
- Rustic and Fisherman
- Final Dance of Homage
VII. Then and Now
We Shepherds Sing – Weelkes
We Shepherds Sing (after Weelkes, 2005) – Peter Rutenberg
