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Jane Austen’s Music – October 11, 2002 | Hilton Hotel Ballroom, Toronto
Music from the collections of Jane Austen

date: October 11, 2002

This was an enhanced version of a programme originally commissioned by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, in 1984 and entitled An Afternoon with Jane Austen.  It was repeated the next year at the Guelph Spring Festival in Ontario, then enlarged and performed as Jane Austen’s Music for the Jane Austen Society of North America in Chicago (1988) and in our own Sunday Series (1991).  This performance in 2002 was again at the invitation of JASNA, whose annual conference that year was in Toronto and who dedicated the concert to the memory of Joan Austen-Leigh (who had died almost exactly a year previously).  She (a great-great-granddaughter of Jane Austen’s brother, James Edward Austen-Leigh) was crucial in our original project and became a great friend of the Artistic Directors.  Having been asked by the ROM to prepare a Jane Austen concert, we found that this descendant of the family was living in Victoria, B.C.  While on a concert tour there, Bruce Ubukata visited Joan and, amid the energetic conversation which soon developed, discovered not only that she had spent schoolgirl years in Aldeburgh (where she recalled meeting the youthful Benjamin Britten) but that she had a cousin, Henry Jenkyns, who was still living there and who had an equally direct descent from the 19th century Austens.  Mr Jenkyns possessed some volumes of Jane Austen’s collection and it was from these, and from the collection in the Jane Austen Museum in Chawton, Hampshire, that the repertoire for this concert was drawn.

Song	Artist	Composer	Poet
Little Jack Horner	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano	anon.	anon.
To Fair Fidele’s Grassy Tomb, with variations	Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano	anon.	anon.
The Soldier’s Adieu (The Wags, or The Camp of Pleasure)	Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano	Dibdin, Charles	anon.
The Duke of York’s New March	Ralls, Stephen, piano	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	n/a
Captivity	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ralls, Stephen, piano	Storace, Stephen	Dibden, J.
Lotharia	Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano	Arne, Thomas	Hill, Aaron
A Pastoral Song	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano	Haydn, Franz Joseph	Hunter, Anne
Recollection	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano	Haydn, Franz Joseph	Hunter, Anne
She never told her love	Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano	Haydn, Franz Joseph	Shakespeare, William
Rondo Pastoral (Grand Concerto, Op.33)	Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano	Steibelt, Daniel	n/a
Andante with variations, K501	Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	n/a
William	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ralls, Stephen, piano	Haydn, Franz Joseph	anon.
The Yellow-Hair’d Laddie	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano	Scottish folksong	Ramsay, Allan
The Irishman	Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano	anon.	anon.
Robin Adair, with variations	Ubukata, Bruce, piano	Kiallmark, George	n/a
The Match Girl	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano	anon.	anon.
Begone, dull care!	Cleland, Rachel, soprano; Ainsworth, Colin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano	anon.	anon.