We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
From Ode
by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
THE NUT POINT CENTRE
Classical Series
February 25, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Life in a Moment
Songs of Frank Bridge (1879 – 1941)
Program
“Love Went a Riding” words by Mary E. Coleridge
“Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur
by Francesco Cilèa
“Come to Me in My Dreams”
Songs of Aaron Copeland (1900 – 1990)
- words by Emily Dickinson
words by Matthew Arnold
“Strew No More Red Roses”
"Why do they shut me out of Heaven?"
words by Matthew Arnold
"The world feels dusty"
“Mantle of Blue” words by Padraic Colum
"Heart, we will forget him"
Lieder of Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
“Von ewiger Liebe” words by Wentzig
The Cabaret Songs by Benjamin Britten
(1913 – 1976) - words by W. H. Auden
“Tell Me the Truth About Love”
“Funeral Blues”
“Vergebliches Ständchen” words by unknown
“Meine Liebe ist grűn” words by Felix Schumann
“Johnny”
“Ain’t it a pretty Night?” from Susannah
by Carlisle Floyd
“Therese” words by Keller
“Schön war, das ich dir weihte” words by Daumer
“Feldeinsamkeit” words Almers
Margot Button, Soprano
Chris Archer, Piano