Program notes and song listings for the following concerts:
-“Traveling Mercies”
–A Tribute to William Bolcom and Jane Kenyon, including the world premiere of William Bolcom’s new setting of Kenyon’s poem “Gettysburg: July 1, 1863”

Listings of songs performed in classes about Spanish, American, Italian, French, Russian and German art song

Program listings for the following concerts:
-Barbar and Friends: Music by Children by Francis Poulenc
-New Voices in American song (several)
-A Night at the Opera
-The Marc and Eva Stern Fellows with Martin Katz
-The Marc and Eva Stern Fellows with John Musto
–The Book of Uncommon Prayer (John Musto)
-Songs of Jake Heggie
-Songs of Libby Larsen
-Songs of William Bolcom
-Songs of John Musto
-Song Sampler (several)
-Francis Poulenc
-Goethe’s Women
–Samuel Barber (several)
-Musical Theatre Classics
-Claude Debussy
-Emily Dickinson
-Comparative Texts
-Women Poets
-Ophelia
-Britten Folk Songs
-For Men Only
-Opera Composers in Song
-Strophic Songs
–Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (Robert Schumann)
-“If Fiordiligi and Dorabella had been Lieder Singers!”
-“A Circle of Love: Robert, Clara and Johannes”
–John Harbison
-Henry Purcell
–Romanser: The Art of Scandinavia
-Germany in the 20th Century
-“A Lieder Capriccio”
–Langston Hughes
–Walt Whitman and Charles Ives
-Living Legacies
–Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart
–Fêtes Galantes
-Gabriel Fauré
-Folks Songs From Around the World
-J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel
-France in the 20th Century
-¡Espana! in France and Germany
-Lieder by Gustav Mahler
–Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 138 (Robert Schumann)
–Lieder von Franz Schubert (several)
–Six Chansons de Théâtre
-My Garden
-Our Marvelous Native Tongue
-Scenes of Winter
–Mélodies sur des poèmes de Paul Verlaine
–Gedichte von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
–Lieder von Robert Schumann
-Cabaret Songs

Biographies of artist faculty members, including pianist Tomasz Lis, vocal pianist Margo Garrett, pianist/composer John Musto and composers Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, and William Bolcom as well as biographies of the Stern Fellows and other participating performers.

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