RIDER UNIVERSITY
Westminster Choir College presents
This Life Waxes and Wanes: Prayers, Dreams and Departures Songs & Arias in English and German
JULY 15 | 7:30 P.M. I.
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From On This Island Let the florid music praise Olivia LaPointe, soprano
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Er ist’s Madison Hammel, soprano
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Die Mainacht
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
From The Ballad of Baby Doe Silver Aria Lizzy Schroeder, soprano
Douglas Moore (1893–1969)
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Ein Traum James Harris, baritone
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Tom Cipullo (b. 1956)
Nacht und Träume
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Carol Jarrett, mezzo-soprano From Sea Pictures Sea Slumber Song Madison Bowling, contralto From Glory Denied My darling, Jim Mary Fetterman, soprano
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II. A Far Shore
Kamala Sangram (b. 1978)
Syona Ayyankeril, soprano From The Tender Land Laurie’s Song
Shannon Lally, mezzo-soprano
Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
You lay so still in the sunshine Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) Sarah Van Ells, mezzo-soprano
Michael Head (1900–1976)
I want to die while you love me Undine Smith-Moore (1904–1989) Lillie Judge, soprano
Carol Jarrett, mezzo-soprano From Eugene Onegin Olga’s Aria
The Silver Swan Mary Galstian, soprano
Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
Madison Hammel, soprano Sweet Chance
Harrison Heard, tenor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
From Dido and Aeneas When I am laid in earth Corinna Brueckner, mezzo-soprano From Our Town Emily’s Aria Apurva Jolepalem, soprano
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Rorem