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Echoes of Musto with Graham Johnson and The Composer SongFest 2008 Raitt Recital Hall, Pepperdine University Within the context of the German, French, and English repertoires TWO BY FROST: (Robert Frost) Nothing Gold can stay Schubert: Alte Liebe rostet nie (Mayrhofer) Schubert: Erster Verlust (Goethe) The Rose family (Eugene O'Neill) Schumann: Meine Rose (Lenau) Schubert: Die Rose (Schlegel) CANZONETTAS Western Wind Schubert: Suleika II (Marianne von Willemar) All Night by the Rose Peter Warlock: The Bailey beareth the bell away (trad.) The Silver Swan (Orlando Gibbons) Schubert: Schwanengesang (Senn) SHADOW OF THE BLUES (Langston Hughes) Silhouette Litany Wolf: Gebet (Mörike) Island Schubert: Selige Welt (Senn) Gounod: Ou voulez-vous aller? (Gautier) Berlioz: L'ile inconnue (Gautier) Could be Debussy: Spleen (Verlaine) RECUERDO (Edna St. Vincent Millay) Last Song (Louise Bogan) Wolf: Lebewohl (Mörike) DOVE STA AMORE (Carl Sandburg) Sea Chest Fauré: Les Berceaux (Sully Prudhomne) How many Little Children Sleep Schumann: Muttertraum (Andersen/Chamisso) ENOUGH ROPE (Dorothy Parker) The Sea Fauré: Au cimetière (Richepin) QUIET SONGS Intermezzo Schumann: So wahr die Sonne scheinet (Rückert) Quiet Song (Eugene O'Neill) Schubert: Der Winterabend (Leitner) A Christmas Carol (Edna St Vincent Millay) Debussy: Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons Palm Sunday: Naples John Ireland: 'Santa Chiara, Palm Sunday, Naples' (Symons) Lullaby Benjamin Britten: The Nurse's Song (Phillip) PENELOPE (Denise Lanctot) Prologue Duparc: Au pays où se fait la guerre (Gautier) Weaving Song Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade (Goethe) Schumann: Spinnerlied Fauré: Dans le pènombre (Van Lerberghe) Noel Coward: Spinning Song Epithalamium Schumann: Der Nussbaum (Mosen) VIVA SWEET LOVE Rome: In the Café Argento: Rome (Virginia Woolf) You came as thought Schubert: Sehnsucht (Seidl) Schumann: Mein schöner Stern (Rückert) I stop writing the Poem (Tess Gallagher) Walton: Wapping Old Stairs (trad.) LAMENT (Edna St Vincent Millay) Schumann: Nun hast Du mir den ersten Schmerz getan (Chamisso) OLD PHOTOGRAPH Fauré: Soir (Samain) Dans la Nymphée (Van Lerberghe)

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