PROGRAM

Part 1: In a Time of Plague | London, 1665

Set 1: Crowded City

HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)

We the spirits of the air from The Indian Queen

Amanda Powell & Ashlee Foreman, sopranos

Chacony in G Minor

Hornpipes from King Arthur

Set 2: The Plague is Among Us

JOHN DOWLAND (1563-1626)

Fortune My Foe

Dr. Daniel Shoskes, lute (special guest)

The Earle of Essex Galliard

Gye Fiane (Wild Geese)/Scotch Mary – traditional British Isles

Kathie Stewart, Irish flute

Set 3: Quiet City

If I were a Blackbird – trad. Scottish

Brian Kay, vocals & lute

THOMAS TOMKINS (1572-1656)

Sad Paven for these Distracted Times

The Death of Queen Jane – traditional British ballad (Child #170), arr. J. Sorrell

Amanda Powell, soprano

PURCELL

The Queen’s Funeral March from Funeral Music for Queen Anne

– Pause 10’ –

Part 2: We Shall Rise Again | Americans in the Civil War, 1865

Set 4: On the Plantation

Ways of the World/Cluck Old Hen/Dusty Miller

traditional Kentucky fiddle tunes, arr. R. Schiffer & J. Sorrell

Go March Along/Death Come to my House/Oh Freedom

traditional Southern spirituals

Amanda Powell & Ashlee Foreman, sopranos

Wade in the Water – traditional Negro spiritual & code song

Set 5: Resilience

What Wondrous Love is This – The Sacred Harp, 1844

Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom/Poplar Bluff – traditional Old Time/Appalachian

READINGS TAKEN FROM:

Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year published in 1722 but describing the London Plague of 1645

The Great Plague of London & The Great Fire of London, 1665-66 Diary of Samuel Pepys (1603-1733)

Civil War Diary of Mary Chesnut (1823-1886) wife of a plantation owner in South Carolina

Writings of Frederick Douglass (1818-1896), Harriet Tubman (c.1822-1913), and Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) former slaves who became the leading abolitionists of the 19th century