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SongFest Program 2006

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The SongFest 2006 program booklet contains the following:

Program notes for:
John Harbison‘s “Prayer” and several other Harbison cycles (included in the 2005 SongFest program)
Jake Heggie‘s “Winter Roses” and the song cycles The Deepest Desire, The Faces of Love, Rise and Fall, and Here and Gone

Listings of songs performed in classes about German, French, Russian, American, and Spanish art song, as well as Bach cantatas, aria, and opera classes

Program listings for the following concerts:
-Composer’s Choice concerts (curated by John Harbison)
-several concerts of Jake Heggie’s songs
Langston Hughes (settings by Ricky Ian Gordon)
-Whose Art Song is it Anyway?
Samuel Barber (several)
-Franz Schubert (several)
-Folk Songs
-New Voices (new American art song)
-Living Legacies (contemporary American composers)
-Robert Schumann (several)
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Charles Ives
-Claude Debussy (several)
-Francis Poulenc
-Hugo Wolf
-Pianists: Creativity at the Keyboard
-Playing Arias
-John Harbison: Mottetti di Montale/J.S. Bach: Oratorio
-Richard Strauss
-Strophic Songs
-American Classics – 20th Century
-A Song Sampler

Biographies of performing artist and artist faculty members, including John Harbison, Jake Heggie, and Ricky Ian Gordon
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© SongFest, used here with permission

A special thanks to Rosemary Hyler Ritter and SongFest

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