ELENA GRECO - Music Salon's Past Programs

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The Music Salon's Past Programs

December 14, 2008
November 9, 2008
October 12, 2008
September 14, 2008
August 10, 2008
July 13, 2008
June 8, 2008
May 11, 2008
April 13, 2008

December 14, 2008

Federico Longas, "Ronda"
Amilcare Ponchielli, "Stella del marinar" (from La Gioconda)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Unexpected Song" (from Song and Dance)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Gluck, "Addio, addio miei sospiri" (originally from Berton's Tancredi,
   interpolated into Gluck's Orfeo e Euridice)
Johannes Brahms, Lieder, Op. 91
   No. 1, "Gestillte Sehnsucht"
   No. 2, "Geistliches Wiegenlied"

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Enrique Granados, "Allegro de Concerti"
Richard Rodney Bennett, "Excursions"

Erika Dohi, piano

Harry T. Burleigh, "A New Hiding Place" (arr. of "My Lord What a Morning")
George Gershwin, Three Preludes
    1. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (in Bb)
    2. Andante con moto e poco rubato ("Blues Lullaby")
    3. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso ("Spanish Prelude")
Rafael Landestoy, "Romantico" and "Vals Criollo"

Alexander Wu, piano

Davy Graham, "Anji"
Heitor Villa-Lobos, "Prelude No. 1"

Anthony Purdy, guitar

Traditional, "The Water Is Wide"

Elena Greco, vocals; Anthony Purdy, guitar

November 9, 2008

Giacomo Puccini, "Tu il cuor mi strazi" (from Edgar)
Amilcare Ponchielli, "Stella del marinar" (from La Gioconda)
Henry Purcell, "Dido's Lament" (from Dido and Aeneas)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Heitor Villa-Lobos, "Preludes No. 1 and No. 5"

Anthony Purdy, guitar

Traditional, "The Water Is Wide"
Traditional, "Hanukía" (Sephardic Hanukkah song)
Traditional, "Los peces en el río" (South American Christmas song)

Elena Greco, vocals; Anthony Purdy, guitar

October 12, 2008

Giacomo Puccini, "Tu il cuor mi strazi" (from Edgar)
Leigh/Darion, "The Impossible Dream" (from Man of La Mancha)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Elena Greco, "Pauline Viardot" (animated slideshow)

Pauline Viardot-García, "Habañera" (duet)
Leonard Bernstein, "Never-Land" (from Peter Pan)

Hayden DeWitt and Elena Greco, mezzo-sopranos; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Johann Strauss, "Chacun à son goût" (from Die Fledermaus)

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Richard Strauss, "Befreit"
Enrique Granados, "La maja dolorosa I"

Youtha Franklin, soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Johann Strauss, "Mein Herr Marquis" (from Die Fledermaus)
Douglas Moore, "The Willow Song" (from The Ballad of Baby Doe)
Gaetano Donizetti, "O luce di quest' anima" (from Linda di Chamounix)

Evelyn Thatcher, soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Traditional, "The Water Is Wide"

Elena Greco, vocals; Anthony Purdy, guitar; Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

Robert deVisee, Suite in D Minor

Anthony Purdy, guitarist

Various Poems

Anthony Purdy, poet

Guillermo Cardenas, Pandeiro Deluxe

Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

September 14, 2008

Federico Longas, "Ronda"
Peter Tchaikovsky, "Adieu, forêts" (from Jeanne d'Arc)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (from Evita)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Leonard Bernstein, "Never-Land" (from Peter Pan)

Hayden DeWitt and Elena Greco, mezzo-sopranos; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Ishmael Wallace, selections from The Realm of You (song cycle)
  "The Kiss" (lyrics by Sara Teasdale)
  "A Quoi Bon Dire" (lyrics by Charlotte Mew)
  "Our Share" (lyrics by Emily Dickinson)

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Peter Tchaikovsky, "Tatyana's Letter Scene" (from Eugene Onegin)

Michelle Trovato, lyric coloratura soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Richard Wagner, "Dich, teure Halle" (from Tannhäuser)
Francesco Cilea, "Io son l'umile ancella" (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Kathy Geary, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Selections from Equator Poems by Anthony Purdy

Anthony Purdy, poet

Joaquin Malats, "Serenata Española"

Anthony Purdy, guitar

Maury Yeston, "Unusual Way" (from Nine)
Cole Porter, "So In Love"

Courtney Graves, vocalist; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Guillermo Cardenas, Tamora Suite

Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

Traditional, "The Water Is Wide" (bolero style)
Susan Plant/Bernardo Palombo, "Luna Guajira"

Elena Greco, vocals; Ishmael Wallace, piano; Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

August 10, 2008

Charles Gounod, "O ma lyre" (from Sapho)
Antonio de la Cruz, "Serenata"
Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Unexpected Song" (from Song and Dance)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Reynaldo Hahn, "Mozart's Aria" (from Mozart)
Jacques Offenbach, "Violin Aria" (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Francesco Cilea, "Io son l'umile ancella" (from Adriana Lecouvreur)
Alfredo Catalani, "Ebben, n'andro lontana" (from La Wally)
Uzee Brown, Jr., "This River"

Youtha Franklin, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Lili Boulanger, Clairières dans le ciel (lyrics Francis Jammes)
No. 1 "Elle etait descendue au bas de la prairie"
No. 7 "Nous nous aimerons tant"

Kristi Kelly, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Louiguy/Piaf, "La Vie en Rose"
Ruggero Leoncavallo, "Stridono Lassu" (from I Pagliacci)

Evelyn Thatcher, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Jacques Offenbach, "Barcarolle" ("Belle nuit") (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

Evelyn Thatcher, soprano; Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Leo Brouwer, "Berceuse"
Heitor Villa-Lobos, "Prelude No. 5"

Anthony Purdy, guitar

José Feliciano, "Pegao"

Anthony Purdy, guitar; Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

Orlando Brito, "Angustia"
Isolina Carrillo, "Dos Gardenias"

Elena Greco, vocals; Ishmael Wallace, piano; Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

Guillermo Cardenas, "Dance of the Bongoes"

Guillermo Cardenas, percussion

July 13, 2008

Charles Gounod, "O ma lyre" (from Sapho)
Federico Longas, "Ronda"
Henry Purcell, "Dido's Lament" (from Dido and Aeneas)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, "I Don't Know How to Love Him"
(from Jesus Christ Superstar)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

Harold Arlen, "Over the Rainbow" (lyrics by E.Y. Harburg)
Lerner/Lowe, "I Could Have Danced All Night" (from My Fair Lady)
Giocomo Puccini, "O mio babbino" (from Gianni Schicchi)
Giocomo Puccini, "Quando m'en vo" (from La Bohème)
Wolfgang Mozart, "Porgi, amor" (from Don Giovanni)
Wolfgang Mozart, "Ach, ich fühl's" (from Die Zauberflöte)
Giacomo Puccini, "Tu che di gel sei cinta" (from Turandot)
Franz Lehar, "Vilja" (from The Merry Widow)

Evelyn Thatcher, soprano; Eric Sedgwick, piano

June 8, 2008

Traditional Appalachian, "Wondrous Love"
Rafael Taboada y Mantilla, "Desengaño"
Francisco Barbieri, "Lo que está de Dios"
Isolina Carrillo, "Dos Gardenias"

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Erzherzog Rudolph von Österreich (1788-1831), Variations per Pianoforte
   avec accompagnato d'un Czakan*
     * The Czakan was a novelty instrument, a combination recorder
        and walking stick.

Orfeo Duo: Vita Wallace, violin; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Ishmael Wallace, From the Rubaiyat
(text by Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald)

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Vita Wallace, violin; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Giacomo Puccini, "Mi chiamano Mimì" (from La Bohème)
Giacomo Puccini, "Donde lieta" (from La Bohème)
Harold Arlen, "Over the Rainbow" (lyrics by E.Y. Harburg)
Wolfgang Mozart, "Porgi, amor" (from Don Giovanni)

Evelyn Thatcher, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Charles Strouse, "It Would Have Been Wonderful" (from Annie Warbucks)
Charles Strouse, "Night Song" (from Golden Boy)

Courtney Graves, vocalist; Ishmael Wallace, piano

May 11, 2008

Francisco Barbieri, "Lo que está de Dios"
Isolina Carrillo, "Dos Gardenias"

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Joyce Hope Suskind, "Music I Heard" (Aiken)
Joyce Hope Suskind, "I Made This World, Johnny" (Blau)

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Francisco Roldán, guitar

Rafael Landestoy (Dominican Republic)
   "Criolla en La"
   "Pueblerino"
   "Prelude No. 2"
   "Sencillo"
   "Ritmo Brasilero"
   "Fantasía"

Francisco Roldán, guitar

Giacomo Puccini, "Mi chiamano Mimì" (from La Bohème)
Giacomo Puccini, "Donde lieta" (from La Bohème)
Wolfgang Mozart, "Ach, ich fühl's" (from Die Zauberflöte)
Norbert Glanzberg, "Mon manège à moi"

Evelyn Thatcher, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Handel, "Sommi Dei" (from Radamisto)
Mozart, "Il capro e la capretta" (Marcellina's aria) (from Marriage of Figaro)

Youtha Franklin, soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Ishmael Wallace, Ich und du (song cycle)
   "Liebeslied" (Rilke)
   "Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme" (George)
   "Opfer" (Rilke)
   "Auch noch das Entzuecken" (Rilke)
   "Die Beiden" (Hofmannsthal)
   "Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern, Maria" (Novalis)
Robert Schumann, "Widmung"

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Jos voisin laulaa / If I Could Sing (based on a Finnish folk song)
Bulerias: El alma de los vientos / The Soul of the Winds
(based on Flamenco traditions)

Ulla Suokko, flute, voice; Carlos Revollar, guitar

April 13, 2008

Federico Longas, "Ronda"
Henry Purcell, "Dido's Lament" (from Dido and Aeneas)
Camille Saint-Saëns, "Amour, Viens Aider" (from Samson et Dalila)
Traditional, "The Water Is Wide"

Elena Greco, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Ishmael Wallace, Hymns to the Eternal Feminine (lyrics by Goethe)
   Songs for mezzo, violin and piano
   1 Allgegenwaertige (Her Omnipresence)
   2 Dem Aufgehenden Vollmonde (To the Rising Full Moon)
   3 Bin so in Lieb zu ihr versunken (Plunged so deep in Love)
   4 Chorus Mysticus (Mystic Chorus; the last verses of Faust, Part Two)

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Vita Wallace, violin; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Reynaldo Hahn, "Mozart's Aria" (from the operetta Mozart)

Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano; Ishmael Wallace, piano

Ferdinand Ries, Sonata in C Major, Op. 16
   1 Allegro
   2 Andantino
   3 Rondo, Allegro

Orfeo Duo: Vita Wallace, violin; Ishmael Wallace, piano

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The image is "St. Cecilia and the Angel" by Carlo Saraceni (Italian Baroque).