Reid Lunch-hour Concert

Date: 
Tuesday, December 7, 1999
Time: 
1.10 pm
Season/No: 
1999-2000
Participant(s): 

The Fairer Six

Juliet Bigley - soprano
Lis Murphy - soprano
Merit Stephanos - mezzo-soprano
Polly May - mezzo-soprano
Judith Kerr - mezzo-soprano
Lucy Walker - alto
with
Morley Whitehead - organ

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Tota pulchra es Maria ... Maurice Duruflé (1929-1986)

Ave verum corpus ... Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Six Elizabethan Lyrics ... Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
  Flourish (Thomas Nashe) 
  Dirge (Ben Johnson)
  Madrigal (John Fletcher)
  Canon (William Shakespeare)
  Nocturne (Thomas Middleton)
  Fanfare (Thomas Heywood)

from Manuale op. 79 ... Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
  Fantasia
  Cantabile
  Fuga

III and II from 'Mountain Nights' ... Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
  Songs without words for  women's voices
  (Hegyi Ejszakák)

Litanies à la Vierge Noir ... Poulenc

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Instrument / Organ Specification: 

Performance Type:

Programme: 
Single sheet A4 salmon, typed both sides
Programme Notes: 

No programme notes.  
Short paragraph about the Fairer 6 and short biography of Morley Whitehead.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Admission free
[Reid] Professor: 
Printer(s): 
Faculty of Music
Notes: 

The Fairer 6 was established in October 1998 and comprises five students from the Faculty of Music and one from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Edinburgh.