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Discovery Series – November 11, 2008 | Walter Hall, Toronto
Discovery Series – November 11, 2008 | Walter Hall, Toronto
Songs and duets for Remembrance Day
date: November 11, 2008
In our Discovery Series, we presented three young artists in a collection of songs, the first half English, the second half German, to mark Remembrance Day. We began with three fine songs by the little-known W.Denis Browne, killed in 1915 at Gallipoli at the age of 26.
| Song | Artist | Composer | Poet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diaphenia | Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Browne, W.Denis | Constable, Henry |
| Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey, a Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel | Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Browne, W.Denis | Jonson, Ben |
| To Gratiana Dancing and Singing | Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Browne, W.Denis | Lovelace, Richard |
| Orpheus with his lute | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Shakespeare, William |
| When icicles hang by the wall | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Shakespeare, William |
| Silent Noon (The House of Life) | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel |
| The New Ghost (Four Poems by Fredegond Shove) | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Shove, Fredegond |
| The Water Mill (Four Poems by Fredegond Shove) | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Shove, Fredegond |
| When I set out for Lyonesse, Op.15/2 (Earth and Air and Rain) | Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Finzi, Gerald | Hardy, Thomas |
| June on Castle Hill, Op.13a/5 (To a Poet) | Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Finzi, Gerald | Lucas, Frank Lawrence |
| Channel Firing, Op.16/5 (Before and After Summer) | Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Finzi, Gerald | Hardy, Thomas |
| Rollicum-rorum, Op.15/6 (Earth and Air and Rain) | Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Finzi, Gerald | Hardy, Thomas |
| Fussreise (Mörike-Lieder) | Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Wolf, Hugo | Mörike, Eduard |
| Verlor’ne Müh (Lieder aus “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”) | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Mahler, Gustav | anon. (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) |
| Aus! Aus! | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Mahler, Gustav | anon. (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) |
| Der Tambour (Mörike-Lieder) | Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Wolf, Hugo | Mörike, Eduard |
| Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Lieder aus “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”) | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Mahler, Gustav | anon. (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) |
| Nachtgang, Op.29/3 | Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Strauss, Richard | Bierbaum, Otto Julius |
| Morgen! Op.27/4 | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Strauss, Richard | Mackay, John Henry |
| Heimliche Aufforderung, Op.27/3 | Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Strauss, Richard | Mackay, John Henry |
| In Flanders Fields – ENCORE | Fortunata, Aviva, soprano; Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ludwig, Jeremy, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Hewlett, William H. | McCrae, John |