i Mercoledì del Conservatorio

Mercoledì 10 dicembre 2014
“American Songs”
Shirley Close, Soprano
Silvano Zabeo, Pianoforte
Sala Tartini, ore 20.30
Ingresso libero su prenotazione tel. 040 6724911

 Concerto realizzato in collaborazione con Florida State University.

Amy Beach                 The Year’s at the Spring – op. 44 n. 1

(1867 − 1944)               I Send my Heart up to Thee – op. 44 n. 3

Charles Wakefield   Cadman Four American Indian Songs – op. 45:

(1881 − 1946)              From the Land of the Sky-blue Water

                     White Dawn is Stealing

                                     Far Off I Hear a Lover’s Flute

                                     The Moon Drops Low

Margaret Bonds                     Three Dream Portraits:

(1913 − 1972)                                Minstrel Man

                                  Dream Variation

                                                   I, Too

Leonard Bernstein             da “I Hate Music”: I Hate Music

(1918 − 1990) 

Aaron Copland                 da “Old American Songs”:

(1900− 1990)                            Simple Gifts

                                              I Bought me a Cat (Children’s Song)

Samuel Barber                     O Boundless, Boundless Evening  op. 45 n. 3

(1910 − 1981)

Richard Pearson Thomas    da “The Cabaret Songs”:

(1957)                                       My German Boyfriend

Ned Rorem                          The Lordly Hudson

(1923)

Tom Cipullo                     da “Another Reason Why I don’t’ Keep a Gun in the House”:

(1956)                                    Embrace                                

                                             Another Reason Why I don’t Keep a Gun in the House