Donor’s list for Arts and Humanities

Proudly presents

In a recital

Mary Jackson, Soprano

(Candidate for the Bachelor of Music in Music Education Degree)
 From the studio of Dr. Holly Bewlay
And

John Smith, Baritone

(Candidate for the Bachelor of Arts in Music Degree)
From the studio of Prof. Evan Drummond

Assisted by

Michael Johnson, Piano

March 14, 2015
2:00pm
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall
Rockwell Hall

This program partially fulfills requirements for the

Bachelor in Music Education for Mary Jackson,
and Bachelor in Arts for John Smith

Program

Da quel ferro che ha svenato ​ ​ ​ Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

from Il Farnace
​ ​ ​
Minnelied ​ ​ ​ ​ Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Waldeinsamkeit ​ ​ ​ ​ Max Reger (1873-1916)

Lydia ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Sylvie ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Après un Rêve ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
The Daisies ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Sure On This Shining Night ​ ​ ​ ​
The Monk And His Cat ​ ​ ​ ​ Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Mary Jackson, Soprano

Intermission

Deh vieni alla finestra ​ ​ ​ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791)

​ ​ ​ ​from Don Giovanni

Payage Triste ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
La Bonne Chanson ​ ​ ​ ​ Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Love’s Philosophy ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Now sleeps the crimson pedal ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Fill a glass with wine ​ ​ ​ ​ Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

John Smith, Baritone

 Translations
Da quel ferro che ha svenato (From that sword which has killed)

From that sword which has killed, my unfortunate husband

dear husband, beloved husband.
I learned cruelty.
Seeing a son dead and bathed with my blood.
I forgot pity.

Minnelied (Love song)

How the spring so lovely sounds and the tender flowers it kisses,
how the finch in the shadows sings and the nearby sweetheart greet!
How the lights tremulously move and the grass in its green rejoices,
how the fir trees out far reach and the lime tree blooms strews!
In the lime tree’s sweet fragrance, in the fir’s rustling sounds,
in the play of the summer air shines she as the spring’s-bride.
But forest sound, birdsong, fragrance of the flowers,
stop then, light, darken, never be successful can it you, her equal to be!

Waldeinsamkeit (Wood’s solitude)

Last evening in the peaceful quiet

I sat in the woods watching a blackbird;
and, as I sat there, completely engrossed in my thoughts,
my beloved came silently up to me and kissed me.
As many leaves as there are on the Linden tree
that is how many thousand times he kissed me;
and I must confess, no one saw us there,
for as the blackbird can attest,
we were alone.

Lydia

Lydia, on your pink cheeks, and on your neck so fresh and white,
rolls sparkling the liquid gold that you untie.
The day that shines is the best; let us forget the eternal tomb.
Let your dovelike kisses sing on your flowering lips.
A hidden lily unceasingly disperses a divine fragrance from within your breast:
Delights without number emanate from you, young goddess!
I love you and die, oh my love!
Your kisses have stolen my soul!
Oh Lydia, give back to me my life, that I may die again and again!

Sylvie

If you wish to know my beauty, where it flies off in a flutter of wings,

the bird who sang on the elm, I you it will tell my beauty,
it flies to the one who calls it, to the one there who will love it!
If you wish to know my fair one, why on earth, and on the sea
the night all thing brings alive and unites?
I you it will tell my fair one, it is that there is one hour in the world
where, far from day, love stands watch!
If you wish to know Sylvia, why I love to the madness
your eyes bright and languorous?
I you it will tell Sylvia, it is that without you in the life
all in my heart is nothing but sadness!

Après un rêve (After a dream)

In a slumber that was charmed by your image

I dreamt of the happiness, passionate illusion,
your eyes were more soft, your voice pure and rich,
you shone like a sky lit by the dawn.
You called me and I left the earth
to fly with you toward the light,
the skies for us opened up their clouds,
splendors unknown, lights divine we glimpsed.
Alas! Alas! Sad awakening from dreams
I call you, oh night, give back to me your lies
Return, return, radiant one, return oh night mysterious!