Randall Love is a member of the Duke University music faculty where he teaches piano and fortepiano.
He has been heard in this country as a soloist and chamber player in events ranging from performances on
period instruments to contemporary concerts featuring North Carolina composers. He has performed at
the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the
Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has collaborated with “Ensemble Courant” (UNC-Chapel Hill)
in numerous programs featuring romantic music on original instruments. Love has recorded solo works
of Vorísek for the Titanic label. He has also collaborated with Capitol Chamber Artists of Albany, NY, in
concerts and a recording of Haydn’s London Symphonies in a chamber version by Johann Salomon.
A native of Colorado, Randall Love received his music training from the Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.) and
the New England Conservatory (M.M. with honors). His teachers were Sanford Margolis and Patricia
Zander. While living in the Boston area, he concertized extensively on the fortepiano. A two-year period
of study in Amsterdam followed during which he earned a soloist diploma with honors from the Sweelinck
Conservatory. His teacher there was Edith Lateiner-Grosz. His performances in Holland included two
recordings made for Dutch radio.
Randall Love’s awards include being a finalist in the Erwin Bodky Early Keyboard Competition (1983) and
a finalist in the Jaques Vonk Prijs Piano Competition in Amsterdam (1984).
Lewis Moore began his music studies at the piano in Brooklyn, New York. In 1988, he began studying
organ with David Hurd at General Theological Seminary. In 1989 he moved to North Carolina where he
attended UNC-Charlotte. While pursuing his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, he continued his organ study
with Andre Lash at St. John’s Baptist Church. Moore was invited to sing in the church choir and after a
brief stint as first tenor, a new choir director moved him to second bass. He began studying as a bassbaritone with Jane Dillard and later with Frances Shafter. He performed in opera workshops at the
UNC-Charlotte and won several voice competitions.
Duke University Libraries
& DUMIC
Rare Music Series, 2008-2009
Co-sponsored by DUMIC & Duke University Libraries
Echoes of the Past: Sounds of the American Civil War
Penelope Jensen, soprano
Caryl Thomason Price, mezzo-soprano
Michael Hirata, tenor
Lewis Moore, baritone
Don Eagle, cornet & keyed bugle
Randall Love, square piano
Mr. Moore joined the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, which is where he came to love singing oratorio. After
graduating in 1994, he moved to Raleigh to attend graduate school at NC State. There he joined the NC
State University Chamber Singers and the Raleigh Oratorio Society Symphonic and Chamber choirs.
Today, Mr. Moore continues to sing in the Chamber Choir of the North Carolina Master Chorale
(formerly the Raleigh Oratorio Society) and Schola Cantorum of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina.
He has performed as soloist on many occasions including performances of the Messiah and the Creation.
He resides in Durham, North Carolina and is Minister of Music at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Raleigh.
Caryl Thomason Price, mezzo-soprano, has been singing almost all of her life. Since moving to Chapel
Hill in 1988, she has performed regularly as a soloist in the area. She made her debut with Long Leaf
Opera Company in Durham in 2004, when she captured the role of Maria Callas in Michael Daugherty’s
Jackie O. In October of 2005 she once again appeared with Long Leaf, singing the role of Juno in Lee
Hoiby’s The Tempest. In 2006, Ms. Price performed in the world premiere of Twelfth Night by Joel Feigin,
and the following year appeared in another world premiere as Alma Dean in Chandler Carter's Strange
Fruit. She has also performed locally with Isabella, a women’s solo vocal ensemble.
Ms. Price has been guest soloist with several groups, including the Chapel Hill Carrboro Community
Chorus. Her appearances there include Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, and
Bach’s Magnificat, as well as others. In addition, she has been the alto soloist in the Chapel Hill
Community Christmas sing-along of Handel’s Messiah, and has given numerous recitals across the state,
as well as in other US cities. Other performances include the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors,
Sonia in Godspell, and Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Most recently, Ms. Price has become interested in jazz, especially the 40’s standards. Thus began her
journey into this new genre, which she performs regularly at various clubs and venues in the area. In 2004
she released her first CD, You Go to My Head. She holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Furman
University, and is a student of Penelope Jensen.
September 12, 2008
4:00 pm
Duke University Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Program
About the Artists
Janie Morris, Research Services Librarian in Duke's Special Collections Library,
will speak about the Civil War Music Exhibit and the library's Civil War sheet music.
The Bonnie Blue Flag
The Captain with his Whiskers
Willie has Gone to the War
The Battle of Roanoke Island
Harry McCarthy
(1834-1874)
arr. C. L. Peticolas
(pub. 186-?)
music by Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864)
words by George Cooper (1838-1927)
Charles Grobe
(c.1817-1879)
Break it Gently to my Mother
Frederick Buckley
(1815-1864)
Just before the Battle Mother
George Frederick Root
(1820-1895)
Tell me of my Darling Boy
or the Mother's Reply to" Just before the Battle"
The Patriot Mother's Prayer
The "Contraband" of Port-Royal
Brother's Fainting at the Door
Cuffee's War Song
The Reply to the Bonnie Blue Flag
Coming Home or "The Cruel War is Over"
Harry Buckline
(pub. 1864)
J. P. Webster
(1819-1875)
Arthur Foote as Ferdinand Mayer
(1853-1937)
music by P.B. Isaacs (pub. 1863)
words by E. Bowers
L. B. Starkweather
(pub. 1863)
music by H.M. Frank (pub. 1862)
Words by Mrs. C. Sterett
Charles Carroll Sawyer
(1833-?)
The Rare Music series would like to thank the Vice Provost for the Arts, Friends of DUMIC,
Rob Musser/VoChor Incorporated, the staff of Bennett Place, and David Spindler (AAU).
In Duke University Libraries, we would like to thank Andy Armacost, Zach Elder, Will Hansen,
John Mayrose, Linda McCurdy, Janie Morris, and Beth Doyle.
In the Department of Music, we extend thanks to Wayne Lail, John Santoianni, & Elizabeth Thompson.
Don Eagle is a native of Raleigh, NC. He has lived and worked in this area except for military service
which he spent at the Naval School of Music in Little Creek, VA and subsequently as principal trumpet for
the 82nd Airborne Division Band. Following this service he attended UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was
principal trumpet in various ensembles as well as a member of the faculty brass quintet. During this study
he was a winner of the university’s annual concerto competition. Mr. Eagle left UNC to pursue a freelance
career and has become a fixture in many of the leading ensembles in the area including the North Carolina
Symphony, the St. Stephen’s Chamber Orchestra, and the Crown Chamber Brass Quintet at UNC-CH.
Prior orchestra experience includes concerts with the Greensboro Symphony, Charlotte Symphony,
Winston-Salem Symphony, Raleigh Symphony, and Durham Symphony as well as principal trumpet for
the North Carolina Chamber Players. Mr. Eagle has appeared as soloist with the North Carolina Chamber
Players, the Raleigh Symphony, the Raleigh Civic Symphony, the North Carolina Bach Festival, the Elon
University Chamber Orchestra, the North Carolina State University Band, and the Triangle Brass Band.
He is also active as a studio teacher with students at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Meredith College,
and Barton College.
Mr. Eagle was the recipient of an Emerging Artist grant by the City of Raleigh in 1994.
Michael Hirata is an undergraduate senior in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. He is majoring in
Evolutionary Anthropology as a candidate for graduation with distinction and is planning a second major
in Biology. For his honors thesis, he is investigating the application of bone mineral density as a
morphological signal to the determination of habitual physical activity.
Michael was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but attended secondary school at Mount Vernon High School in
Alexandria, Virginia. He studied the cello for almost 10 years but did not continue playing in college.
Michael joined the Duke University Chorale his sophomore year and began taking private voice lessons
with Wayne Lail at the beginning of his junior year. He remains an active member of the Duke University
Chorale and also participates in the Chamber Choir of this choral group.
Additionally, Michael works part-time for Residence Life and Housing Services as an event manager, he is
the treasurer of a student community service organization called Partners for Learning, and he volunteers
in the outpatient clinic of the Duke Cancer Patient Support Program.
Soprano Penelope Jensen, whose performances include a wide range of appearances with symphony
orchestras, chamber music groups, and in recital, is acclaimed for her impeccable and communicative
musicianship, as well as the clarity and beauty of her voice.
She has been soloist with major orchestras across the country including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Denver and
North Carolina symphonies. She recorded the Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria with Robert Shaw
conducting the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus, and was asked by Mr. Shaw to be soloist in the Carnegie
Hall celebration of the 250th anniversary of the first performance of Handel's Messiah.
Known for her stylistic interpretation, Jensen is often asked to perform with original instruments, and has
sung with Ars Musica and conductor Nicolas McGegan, with the Bach Ensemble and Joshua Rifkin, and
with the Smithsonian Players and Ensemble Courant. She has recorded for Gasparo Records with the
Cleveland Baroque Soloists and with the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute where she is a member of
the faculty. Jensen was awarded the Franz Schubert Prize for excellence in the singing of German art song
by the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Austria.
Jensen is Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University. She performs frequently in the
area in recital and as soloist with the Duke University Chapel Choir, Duke Chorale, The Choral Society of
Durham, UNC Chorus, and Mallarmé Chamber Players.