Reid Chamber Concert

Date:

Thursday, March 3, 1977

Time:

7.30 pm

Season/No:

1976-1977

Venue:

Reid Concert Hall

Participant(s):

Josephine Nendick - mezzo-soprano
Robert Sherlaw Johnson - piano

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s):

Programme

Music for awhile ... Purcell (1659-1695)
If music be the food of love ... Purcell
Happy the man ... Blow (1649-1708)
Vallee d'Obermann ... Liszt (1811-1886)

Songs of Bilitis ... Debussy (1862-1918)
(A new version for reciter and piano, arranged by Robert Sherlaw Johnson and Josephine Nendick.
Poems by Pierre Louys, translated into English by Nigel Wilkins)

INTERVAL

Slow March ... Charles Ives
Ann Street ... Ives
Feldeinsamkeit ... Ives
The Cage ... Ives
General William Booth enters heaven ... Ives
Tom sails away ... Ives
December ... Ives

Three Songs, op. 25 ... Webern (1883-1945)
1. (Wie bin ich froh! - What great delight)
2. (Des Herzens Purpurvogel - the heart's purple eagle)
3. (Sterne - stars)

Piano Sonata no. 3 ... Robert Sherlaw Johnson (b. 1932)

Histoires naturelles ... Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Paon (The Peacock)
Le Grillon (The Cricket)
Le Cygne (The Swan)
Le Martin-Pêcheur (The Kingfisher)
La Pintade (The Gineafowl)

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