Program notes by John Harbison about his song cycles North and South & Flashes and Illuminations, as well as the song texts for these cycles

Programs, texts, and translations for the following concerts:

-“A Welcoming Air” (various art songs)
-“Our Marvelous Native Tongue” (classic and contemporary American art song)

Program listings for the following concerts:

-J. S. Bach Cantatas
-“The Naked Aria: Adapting Opera to the Concert Stage” (various opera arias)
-“Classic American Voices” (classic American art song)
-“Franz Schubert” (several concerts by this title)
-“Actus Interruptus!: Recitatives Without Their Arias”
-“Women Composers”
-“German Romantic Lieder”
-“American Song” (several concerts by this title)
-“Sentimental Songs”
-“Sensible/Sensitive/Sensical Singing: Finding an Emotional Core”
-“Hugo Wolf: In Memoriam”
-“Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
-“American Song: Portrait of a Composer” (John Harbison)
-“Robert Schumann”
-“American Music Theater: The Classic Composers” & “American Music Theater: The Recent Years”

Biographies of the artist faculty members

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