A Banquet of Songs to Feed the Soul
A concert of songs that remind us of our better selves, bring us together, and speak to the heart with hope, balance, strength, innocence, and maturity. These are songs we can heed and ponder…songs to live by.
Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano
Davis Feeley, Oboe
Program
- How Can I Keep from Singing? – Robert Lowry, Arr. Pete Seeger
- ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple – American Shaker Hymn, Arr. Alice Parker
- At the River – Robert Lowry, Arr. for chorus by R. Wilding White, adapted by Aaron Copland
- Four Blake Songs (from “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake )- Karl Korte
- Piping Down the Valleys
- Infant Joy
- A Cradle Song
- Spring
- Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf! (Sleep, baby, sleep!) from “13 Kanons fur Frauenstimmen” – Johannes Brahms
- How Can I keep from Singing? – Robert Lowry
- Der Bräutigam (The Bridegroom) – Johannes Brahms
- Variations on a Theme by Rilke – Joan Szymko
- Eternity (from “Ten Blake Songs”) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram ((Sad love is always the same,from “13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen”) – Johannes Brahms
- Love is a Terrible Thing – Kirke Mechem
- We Are – Ysaye M. Barnwell
- To Be Sung on the Water – Samuel Barber
- As Emily Dickinson Mosaic – Daniel Pinkham
- The Brain – is wider than the Sky
- The Heart is the Capital of the Mind
- The Mind lives on the Heart
- To Be Alive
- Exhilaration Is the Breeze
- The Piper (from “Ten Blake Songs”) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- You Say there is No Love (from “The Winged Joy”) – Kirke Mechem
- So lange Schönheit wird bestehn (So long as beauty exists, from “13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen”) – Johannes Brahms
- An’s Auge des Liebsten (on the eye of the loved one, from “13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen”) – Johannes Brahms
- To My Old Brown Earth – Pete Seeger
- Gracias a la Vida (Thanks be to life) – Violeta Parra
- Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down – Traditional Spiritual, Arr. Paul Caldwell/Sean Ivory