2006 - 2007 Season

Spring Program

Liebeslieder Waltzes

by

Johannes Brahms

plus

Madrigals & Love Songs,

Old and New

Friday, June 1, 2007 7:30 PM

Grace Lutheran Church

Cleveland Hts., OH

Featuring

The Western Reserve Chorale

Danny Call, Music Director

Virginia Wieland-Mast, Assistant Director

Joanne Poderis, accompanist

Maribeth Katt and Bonnie Svetlik guest accompanists

• Now is the Month of Maying (from Madrigals for Spring) - Thomas Morely (1595)

• Sing We and Chant It - Thomas Morely (1595)

• Homeward Bound - Marta Keen, arr. Jay Althouse (2001) (men's voices)

• The Gartan Mother's Lullaby (traditional Irish folk melody) - arr. Neil Ginsberg (2000) Bonnie Svetlik, flute

• Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (a poem by Robert Frost) - Ruth Artman (1983) (women's voices)

• Danny Boy (traditional Irish folk melody (Londonderry Air)) arr. Darmon Meader (2004)

• A Red, Red Rose (from Four Robert Burns Ballads) - James Mulholland (1980)

• Liebeslieder Waltzes - Johannes Brahms (1868)

  (the texts for these Love Song Waltzes come from a collection of translations and imitations of folk poetry - mostly Russian, Polish and Magyar)

  • Answer Maiden

  • Deep in thunder roars the tide

  • Oh, these women (tenors & basses)

  • Like the evening sunset's rapture (soprano & alto duet - Joan McVeen and Elizabeth Gockel)

  • The tender hopvine wanders

  • There was a tiny, pretty bird

  • How dear alas, was life together (alto solo - Diane Klein)

  • When your eyes so fondly seek

  • On Danube's border

  • Oh, how calm the river flows

  • No, I will not listen to them

  • Locksmith, go and bring me padlocks

  • Ev'ry bird that soars the sky (soprano duet - Alice Bewie and Sheryl Brodsky)

  • See how bright the fountain gleams (tenors & basses)

  • Nightingale, you sing so sweet

  • My love is a well

  • Don't wanter, my light (tenor solo - James Njui)

  • Each tender leaf is trembling

   

  Maribeth Katt and Joanne Poderis - Pianists