Songs of Shakespeare

Songs of ShakespeareSunday, June 8, 2008
3:00 pm
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito
Solana Beach, CA

PROGRAM

It Was a Lover And His Lass
    (As You Like It 5:3)

Thomas Morley (1558-1603)
arr. Norman Greyson

Come Unto These Yellow Sands
    (The Tempest 1:2)

Henry Purcell (1658-1695)
arr. H Clough-Leighter

Six Songs for Two Voices, from Shakespeare

    1. Tell Me, Where Is Fancy Bred
        (The Merchant of Venice 2:3)
    2. A Poor Soul Sat Sighing
        (Othello 4:3)
    4. Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
        (Measure for Measure 4:1)

Mary Carmichael (1851-1935)

Fancie
    (The Merchant of Venice 2:3)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

La Mort d’Ophélie
    adapted from Hamlet

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
orchestral reduction by Philip Legge

Lied von Shakespeare
    (Twelfth Night 2:4)

Johannes Brahms (1564-1616)
German version by A. W. von Schlegel (1826)

Dirge for Fidele
    (Cymbeline 4:2)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Sigh No More, Ladies
    adapted from the opera Sir John in Love
    (Much Ado About Nothing 2:3)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

INTERMISSION

Double Trouble
    from Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter
    and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    (Macbeth 4:1)

John Williams (b. 1932)
arr. Teena Chin

Under the Greenwood Tree
    (As You Like It 2:5)

David Willcocks (b. 1919)

It Was a Lover And His Lass
    (As You Like It 5:3)

David Willcocks (b. 1919)

Three Songs from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    1. I Do Wander Everywhere
        (2:1)
    2. Philomel With Melody
        (2:2)
    3. I Will Wind Thee In My Arms
        (2:2)

Cary Ratcliff (b. 1953)

Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
    (As You Like It 2:7)

Joan Szymko (b. 1957)

How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps
    (The Merchant of Venice 5:1)

Robert H. Young (b. 1923)

Shall I Compare Thee?
    (Sonnet XVIII)

Clifton J. Noble (b. 1961)