A Midsummer Night’s Sing

Saturday, May 14th, 2016
Wash Park Center for Music and the Arts

Music of the Spheres (from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice)) Brian Holmes
Rest, Sweet Nymphs Francis Pilkington
The Fairies’ Lullaby (from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Felix Mendelssohn
Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre
Sung All Ye Joyful (from Tolkien’s The Hobbit) Kirke Mechem

Three “Night Songs” by Johannes Brahms
In stiller Nacht
Der Gang zum Liebchen
​Der Abend

Le Chanson des Oiseaux Clement Janequin

Ballade to the Moon Daniel Elder
The Isle is Full of Noises (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest) Paul Ayres
Kravitor Gunter Schuller

Intermission

Song of Purple Summer (from Spring Awakening) Duncan Sheik
Summer of ’42 (The Summer Knows) Michel Legrand
When Daffodils Begin to Peer Matthew Harris

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star arr. Daniel Elder
There are Stars Klepper/Freelander
Stars are for the Voyager Eleanor Daley

Only the Moon has Secrets David Hamilton
Buffalo Gals arr. Alice Parker
Mummers Dance Loreena McKennitt