Natalia Rubis, soprano, April 23, 2017

Robert Blocker, Dean

master of musical arts degree recital

Natalia Rubis soprano

April 23, 2017 • Sunday at 4:30 pm Morse Recital Hall

Master of Musical Arts Degree Recital

Natalia Rubis soprano April 23, 2017 • Morse Recital Hall jill brunelle piano

Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953

Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27 I. The sun has filled my room II. True tenderness III. Memory of the sun IV. Greetings!

V. The king with grey eyes

Anna Akhmatova

Francis Poulenc 1899–1963

La courte paille, FP 178 I. Le sommeil II. Quelle aventure!

III. La reine de cœur IV. Ba, be, bi, bo, bu V. Les anges musiciens VI. Le carafon VII. Lune d’avril

Maurice Carême

Jean Sibelius 1865–1957

Norden, Op. 90, No. 1

J. L. Runeberg

Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte, Op. 37, No. 5

Runeberg

Demanten på marssnön, Op. 36, No. 6

Josef Julius Wecksell Ernst Josephson

Svarta rosor, Op. 36, No. 1 intermission

Yale School of Music

Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951

Vier Lieder, Op. 2 I. Erwartung II. Jesus bettelt III. Erhebung IV. Waldsonne

Richard Dehmel Dehmel Dehmel Johannes Schlaf

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893

To forget so soon (1970)

Aleksey Apukhtin

Sleepless nights, Op. 60, No. 6

Apukhtin

Why? Op. 6, No. 5

Lev Mey

Cradle song, Op. 16, No. 1

Apollon Maykov

Was I not a little blade of grass?

Op. 47, No. 7

Ivan Surikov

Does the Day Reign? Op. 47, No. 6

Apukhtin

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