The SongFest 2008 program booklet contains the following:
Program Notes for the following concerts:
–The Book of Uncommon Prayer (song cycle by John Musto)
–A Visit With Emily (song cycle by Tom Cipullo)
–North and South (John Harbison)
Listings of songs performed in classes about German, French, Russian, Spanish, English, and American art song, as well as Bach cantata, aria, auditioning and opera classes
Program listings for the following concerts:
-Echoes of Musto (The Songs of John Musto within the Context of German, French, and English Repertoires)
-J. S. Bach: Sacred Cantatas
-American Song is Alive and Well
-French Mélodies
-German Romantic Lieder
-Debussy/Fauré
-Franz Schubert (several)
-Sacred and Secular Arias – 18th Century
-German Lieder 19th Century
-Richard Hundley
–Wilhelm Meister
-American Voices
-Francis Poulenc
–Zápisník zmizelého (Text: Ozef Kalda) (The diary of one who vanished) by Leos Janácek (1854-1928)
-American Classics
–Mélodies sur les poèmes de Paul Verlaine
-American Voices
-Benjamin Britten
-France in the 20th Century
–Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (Schumann)
-Hugo Wolf’s Poets
–Liederkreis, Op. 39 (Schumann)
-Germany in the 20th Century (several)
-Women Composers (several)
-Richard Strauss
-Creativity at the Keyboard: The Accompanist as Composer
–Romanser: The Art Song of Scandinavia
Biographies of performing artist and artist faculty members
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A special thanks to Rosemary Hyler Ritter and SongFest