March 2, 2024
- Guest Recital: Stephen Swanson, baritone & David Gompper, piano (U. of Iowa)
- Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Location: COFAC Recital Hall
- Description:
This performance is free and open for general seating.
SWANSONGS: The Last Recital
Celebrating 60 Years of Professional Singing
PROGRAM
I – SINGING
If music be the food of love (3rd Version, 1695)
Words by Henry Heveningham (1651-1700)
Music by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Realized by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Wie Melodien zieht es mir, op. 105, no. 1 (1886)
Words by Klaus Groth (1819-1899)
Music by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
How can I keep from singing? (1869)
Words by Robert Lowry; revised by Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
With new text (1950) by Doris Plenn (1917-1999)
Music by Robert Lowry (1826-1899)
The Roadside Fire (Songs of Travel, 1905)
Words by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
II – CYCLE OF LOVE
Heimliche Aufforderung, op. 27, no. 3 (1893)
Words by John Henry Mackay (1864-1933)
Music by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Nachtgang, op. 29, no. 3 (1895)
Words by Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910)
Music by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Morgen!, op. 27, no. 4 (1893)
Words by John Henry Mackay (1864-1933)
Music by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Allerseelen, op. 10, no. 8 (1882)
Words by Hermann von Gilm (1812-1864)
Music by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
III – AGING
Try to Remember (The Fantasticks, 1960)
Words by Tom Jones (1928-2023)
Harvey Schmidt (1929-2018)
Sunrise, Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof, 1964)
Words by Sheldon Harnick (1924-2023)
Music by Jerry Bock (1928-2010)
When I’m Sixty-Four (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
Words and music by Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
With additional lyrics by John Lennon (1940-1980)
Get Up and Go (1954)
Words collected and adapted and set to original music by Pete Seeger
Old Friends (Bookends, 1968)
Words and music by Paul Simon (b. 1941)
The Dutchman (1968)
Words and music by Michael Peter Smith (1941-2020)
IV – SWANS
Le Cygne (Histoires naturelles, 1906)
Words by Jules Renard (1864-1910)
Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
The Crucifixion, op. 29, no. 5 (Hermit Songs, 1953)
Words from the Speckled Book, 12th century
Translated by Howard Mumford Jones
Music by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
En Svane, op. 25, no. 2 (1876)
Words by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Music by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
The Swan (2024)
Words by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Translation from the German by Nikolaus Loening (b. 1975)
Music by David Gompper (b. 1954)
ILLINOIS PREMIERE
In memory of Stefan Loening (1939-2021)
V – REPRISE
Get Up and Go
With new words (2023) by Stephen Swanson (b. 1945)
- Related Web Site: WIU SCHOOL OF MUSIC
- Contact Information:
Joanie Herbert
Phone: 309-298-1843
Email: JE-Herbert@wiu.edu - Source: School of Music
