Karen Leigh-Post, mezzo soprano
Tad Hardin, piano
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
April 5, 2009, 8:00 pm

 

From Otello (1816)                                                                                           Goachino Rossini    
            Assisa pié d’un salice (F. Berio di Salsa after W. Shakespeare)            (1792-1868)

Sieben frühe Lieder (1905-08)                                                                          Alban Berg
            1. Nacht (Carl Hauptmann)                                                                   (1885-1935)
            2. Schilflied (Nikolaus Lenau)
            3. Die Nachtigall (Theodor Storm)
            4. Traumgekrönt (Rainer Maria Rilke)
            5. Im Zimmer (Johannes Schlaf)
            6. Liebesode (Otto Erich Hartleben)
            7. Sommertage (Paul Hohenberg)

From Ariadne auf Naxos (1911-12)                                                                  Richard Strauss
            Sein wir wieder gut… (Hugo von Hofmannstahl)                                (1864-1949)

                      
From Trouble in Tahiti (1951)                                                                          Leonard Bernstein
            There is a Garden… (Bernstein)                                                           (1918-1990)

An American Collection           
            Berceaux (1900)                                                                                   Charles Ives
              (C. Ives)                                                                                              (1874-1954)
            Evening Hours (1975)                                                                          Richard Hundley
              (James Purdy)                                                                                     (b. 1931)
            She Tells Her Love (1952)                                                                   Lee Hoiby
              (Robert Graves)                                                                                  (b. 1926)
            Sleep Now, Op. 10, No. 2 (1935)                                                        Samuel Barber
              (James Joyce)                                                                                     (1910-1981)
            A Birthday (1956)                                                                                Ned Rorem
              (Christina Rossetti)                                                                             (b. 1923)
            Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957)                                               Ned Rorem
                (Paul Goodman)
            Music, when soft voices die                                                                 Richard Faith
              (Percy Bysshe Shelley)                                                                      (b. 1926)
            Heart, we will forget him (1950)                                                          Aaron Copland

              (Emily Dickenson)                                                                             (1900-1990)